And your company violated US law, specifically something called 'export controls' by doing so. Do the research, you and your company are in for a whopping hell of a fine once they find out.
A damned 'Engineer' in all the title's glory developed my car, and yet half the time a warning light comes on, I'm told to turn the car off, wait a minute, turn it back on and hope it doesn't show up again.
And the 'Engineer' that designed our local highway, forgot about this thing called 'grade' and why it's important to have water run off the road rather than pooling in the middle of it. Many millions of dollars later in court, it was verified that the Engineer f'ed up the plans and the construction crews were not at fault.
So care to tell me about the 'rigours' of this so called Engineer?
Now Apple has the technology to support flash based player of HD content in a year or two, once the price of this drops. 832 Gigs should be enough for at least 50 HD movies.
Fixing the genes of 'broken' viruses that clearly have the ability to infect us seems pretty damned stupid. Spanish flu, Avian flu, 30,000 BC flu... Here comes the next pandemic.
While we're at fixing 'broken' viruses in our DNA, let's fix other viruses while we're at it... Why don't we just fix that part where they're drug resistant? Oh... we can't do that? Then what the hell makes them think we have enough knowledge to 'fix' the ones in our DNA?
Simple, 53cr3TPa55W@rD is still a word. One of the simplest steps in password cracking is taking a list of english words and common passwords and then substituting symbols and numbers for the letters. Secretpassword is a bunch of commonly used words. Now Fgpyyih804423 would have to be hit by random trial and error. So the likely hood of secretpassword being cracked is way higher than random characters.
He said software firewalls, not protection from viruses, data-loss and identity theft and a firewall. The McAfee firewall for instance uses around 4mb of memory and barely registers for CPU load, the whole suite however is obviously larger. Norton's is harder to isolate since it's more tightly bundled with all their other 'services'. Heck even the Vista advanced firewall isn't resource intense...
Get a job at RIM, gain access to the Radio/network APIs, dump whatever info you want.
Back in the days of the 957 when I worked at RIM, there was a key combo you could type in the network screen that showed you all the tower IDs that it saw and which one was active... I have no idea how to get that info to display on the latest blackberries, but I'm sure it's in there.
Actually, ask anyone that knows how cell towers work, and your real explanation would become evident. Cell phones try to communicate with as many towers at once as possible, this is required so that you can walk from one cell's coverage to another's without dropping your call... a typical phone sees anywhere from 3 to 6 towers at once depending on geography and density of cell towers. Throw that phone up a few thousand feet, and I've personally seen my blackberry connect to 40+ towers at once. This eats up valuable bandwidth at each cell tower, not to mention the fact that you come in and out of a cell's coverage area so fast that it's impossible for your calls to be handed off properly between the cells.
Oh, and good luck with the E911 crap... In the course of a minute, you've gone from the east end of a major city to the west end according to the cells.
It's called the CAPS structure, and DirectX has had it for as many versions as I can remember. You check to see what Capabilites the card supports and decided what features you'll use. The OpenGL extensions are the same damned thing, except there you enumerate a big string list, while on the DirectX side you have all extensions visible and most available in software emulation mode, with the CAPS structure telling you what was hardware accelerated.
Besides, how do you think pixel shaders and vertex shaders got to where they are today? It certainly wasn't because graphics card manufacturers decided to write extensions to OpenGL for the hell of it... It was DirectX specs that pushed them forward. And it's those same DirectX specs that allow developers to write games in parallel with the hardware development cycle, so that when the latest card comes out, there are already games ready to use it.
If developers had to wait for a card to come out with some OpenGL extension before being able to experiment, understand, and then use it (and only on one brand of card), do you think anything would be adopted in any reasonable amount of time?
I by no means love DirectX, it's got it's issues... but the OpenGL extension concept is in NO WAY helping innovation in the hardware arena.
Call me crazy, but didn't Microsoft sign some sort of deal that they wouldn't enter the chip market a decade or so ago? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
The real story is that Microsoft claimed to have made their Kernel completely secure... nobody can touch anything inside... so that means anything that goes wrong with it will be totally their fault. After mulling over it for a while, they then realised that they'd have nobody to blame when some malicious code got up in there and did some hefty damage. So in a genius PR move, they decided to expose an API for security vendors to be able to hook into the kernel. Now when something goes wrong in their kernel they can claim that someone leaked their API or it was exploited by hackers, and that's the reason Vista is just as insecure as previous windows... and had they not been forced to expose the API (due to anti-trust crap in from the EU) this never would have happened.
I'm totally convinced this is the card MS is playing... Anyone who's ever worked in the security field knows that there will always be something that sneaks through... MS is just covering their ass, and setting up the ability for them to pass blame for any issues that come up when their kernel is owned yet again.
It'd be more along the lines of GM still leaving exhausts that only last 3 weeks on the car, but changing the design enough so that no current aftermarket exhausts can be installed. Also, a special tool that is not available to any aftermarket dealers is required to remove and install the exhaust system.
That would be a fitting analogy! Nobody told Microsoft not to enter the security market, but they are attempting to actively prevent others from being able to compete with their offering on level ground.
IE doesn't work... but hey, only a quarter of you use it! Screw that attitude! Most of the people on here want Linux support, fight tooth and nail to try and get mainstream support for things like video card drivers... and I can assure you that nowhere near 25% of people use Linux as their OS, and those compaines are jerks for not supporting the 5% at most market. Yet hey, the most popular web browser out there need not be supported...
This type of elitist bullshit attitude is why Open source companies aren't mainstream... it's the old, "Help me, help me, I'm little... but screw you if you want me to do something in exchange"...
If you think slashdot can survive with lack of IE support, that sounds like a pretty stupid business decision. You're throwing away 25% of your readers... Real smart! Do you people even know how to run a business?
Bah... these are the real terrorists... You don't agree with what someone is doing, then sue them... that's the american way... and if that fails, then try and get a law passed to make it illegal... starting your own personal war based on your morals is no different than the actions of those the US is currently calling terrorists. But hey, this is in the country who's government doesn't believe in teaching evolution anymore...
Times like these I'm happy to live in a country where the worst thing activists do is slow down traffic, and hold marches.
At this point, why would you want to stay at your present job if you need a lawyer to keep it... even if you are successful, why would you want to stay, it's obvious you won't be liked by management, since they're trying to get rid of you... Or am I missing something?
Zehrs (a local supermarket chain in southern ontario) attempted to use software to schedule employee shifts back in the late 90's while I was lucky enough to work there. It ended up being a massively confusing schedule with no logic to it, and was constantly over/under staffing shifts. No software out there is capable of predicting work conditions as well as someone who has experience.
All the past data and statistics will not prepare you for the shopping frenzy that occurs when a thunderstorm hits. I recall 20-30% increase in customer volume when the weather was poor. That's just one outside factor... the software maybe able to account for that by checking the weather forecast, but it can't account for other factors like a show being canceled on TV, or a construction detour increasing or decreasing customer volume.
I say it didn't work in 1998, I highly doubt it'll work in 2006. The problem cannot be defined as a formula, and until it can, no computer will be able to solve it.
It is good news that nothing major went wrong... but somehow lately when I hear of the space shuttle making a journey, I'm reminded of my first car... towards the end of its life, I was quite happy as well to make a long road trip without major problems... But unlike with Nasa, that didn't mean I was eager to go on a long road trip again, just because I got lucky... I knew not to trust push my luck...
Only in America would your logic make any sense...
In countries like Japan, or even most of europe, pornography is available to the masses, kids included, as are alcohol and tabacoo. Violent movies are shown to teenagers in Europe without any concern for schools being shot up, etc...
It's not the media that's the problem, it's the lack of parenting... and this country is a sore example of the total lack of parenting... Kids lack any and all maturity, not because they saw a gang-bang in a movie, but because they have no one to discuss it with after they see it.
If this is happening due to many humans being in even smaller spaces, why the hell does the insect need color vision, and the ability to smell humans from even FARTHER away? I don't see how that need could have evolved to be beneficial... the speed thing I can see... I'm truly confused as to why such a feature would evolve with seemingly no benefit.
No, most likely the french government will require that iTunes stores in other EU countries check the IP, do some geomapping to determine that it is coming from France and prevent access, otherwise they will still be charged with violating this new 'you must share your propriatery encryption' law.
I'm sorry, I'm not a scientist and perhaps that's why I can't graps how the hell they came to this genius conclusion.
Let's sample a sphere at two pinpoint locations, and make all sorts of conclusions on the shape of an entire hemisphere of it...??? It rained today, and it was sunny yesterday, so that means that there's a 50% chance of it raining? Insufficient data...
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And your company violated US law, specifically something called 'export controls' by doing so. Do the research, you and your company are in for a whopping hell of a fine once they find out.
A damned 'Engineer' in all the title's glory developed my car, and yet half the time a warning light comes on, I'm told to turn the car off, wait a minute, turn it back on and hope it doesn't show up again. And the 'Engineer' that designed our local highway, forgot about this thing called 'grade' and why it's important to have water run off the road rather than pooling in the middle of it. Many millions of dollars later in court, it was verified that the Engineer f'ed up the plans and the construction crews were not at fault. So care to tell me about the 'rigours' of this so called Engineer?
Now Apple has the technology to support flash based player of HD content in a year or two, once the price of this drops. 832 Gigs should be enough for at least 50 HD movies.
My HiDef Digital Cable box PVR reboots every 10 days or so. 30 Days on a machine that doesn't ONLY do HiDef recording is impressive.
Fixing the genes of 'broken' viruses that clearly have the ability to infect us seems pretty damned stupid. Spanish flu, Avian flu, 30,000 BC flu... Here comes the next pandemic. While we're at fixing 'broken' viruses in our DNA, let's fix other viruses while we're at it... Why don't we just fix that part where they're drug resistant? Oh... we can't do that? Then what the hell makes them think we have enough knowledge to 'fix' the ones in our DNA?
So where exactly do I have to drive the nail into my head to finally end these suicidal thoughts?
Simple, 53cr3TPa55W@rD is still a word. One of the simplest steps in password cracking is taking a list of english words and common passwords and then substituting symbols and numbers for the letters. Secretpassword is a bunch of commonly used words. Now Fgpyyih804423 would have to be hit by random trial and error. So the likely hood of secretpassword being cracked is way higher than random characters.
He said software firewalls, not protection from viruses, data-loss and identity theft and a firewall. The McAfee firewall for instance uses around 4mb of memory and barely registers for CPU load, the whole suite however is obviously larger. Norton's is harder to isolate since it's more tightly bundled with all their other 'services'. Heck even the Vista advanced firewall isn't resource intense...
Get a job at RIM, gain access to the Radio/network APIs, dump whatever info you want. Back in the days of the 957 when I worked at RIM, there was a key combo you could type in the network screen that showed you all the tower IDs that it saw and which one was active... I have no idea how to get that info to display on the latest blackberries, but I'm sure it's in there.
Actually, ask anyone that knows how cell towers work, and your real explanation would become evident. Cell phones try to communicate with as many towers at once as possible, this is required so that you can walk from one cell's coverage to another's without dropping your call... a typical phone sees anywhere from 3 to 6 towers at once depending on geography and density of cell towers. Throw that phone up a few thousand feet, and I've personally seen my blackberry connect to 40+ towers at once. This eats up valuable bandwidth at each cell tower, not to mention the fact that you come in and out of a cell's coverage area so fast that it's impossible for your calls to be handed off properly between the cells.
Oh, and good luck with the E911 crap... In the course of a minute, you've gone from the east end of a major city to the west end according to the cells.
Sure... and I'm comfortable driving a car with no airbags! Doesn't mean that everyone doesn't want an airbag!
Oh please!
It's called the CAPS structure, and DirectX has had it for as many versions as I can remember. You check to see what Capabilites the card supports and decided what features you'll use. The OpenGL extensions are the same damned thing, except there you enumerate a big string list, while on the DirectX side you have all extensions visible and most available in software emulation mode, with the CAPS structure telling you what was hardware accelerated.
Besides, how do you think pixel shaders and vertex shaders got to where they are today? It certainly wasn't because graphics card manufacturers decided to write extensions to OpenGL for the hell of it... It was DirectX specs that pushed them forward. And it's those same DirectX specs that allow developers to write games in parallel with the hardware development cycle, so that when the latest card comes out, there are already games ready to use it.
If developers had to wait for a card to come out with some OpenGL extension before being able to experiment, understand, and then use it (and only on one brand of card), do you think anything would be adopted in any reasonable amount of time?
I by no means love DirectX, it's got it's issues... but the OpenGL extension concept is in NO WAY helping innovation in the hardware arena.
Call me crazy, but didn't Microsoft sign some sort of deal that they wouldn't enter the chip market a decade or so ago? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
nah... that's not the real story...
The real story is that Microsoft claimed to have made their Kernel completely secure... nobody can touch anything inside... so that means anything that goes wrong with it will be totally their fault. After mulling over it for a while, they then realised that they'd have nobody to blame when some malicious code got up in there and did some hefty damage. So in a genius PR move, they decided to expose an API for security vendors to be able to hook into the kernel. Now when something goes wrong in their kernel they can claim that someone leaked their API or it was exploited by hackers, and that's the reason Vista is just as insecure as previous windows... and had they not been forced to expose the API (due to anti-trust crap in from the EU) this never would have happened.
I'm totally convinced this is the card MS is playing... Anyone who's ever worked in the security field knows that there will always be something that sneaks through... MS is just covering their ass, and setting up the ability for them to pass blame for any issues that come up when their kernel is owned yet again.
Wrong analogy...
It'd be more along the lines of GM still leaving exhausts that only last 3 weeks on the car, but changing the design enough so that no current aftermarket exhausts can be installed. Also, a special tool that is not available to any aftermarket dealers is required to remove and install the exhaust system.
That would be a fitting analogy! Nobody told Microsoft not to enter the security market, but they are attempting to actively prevent others from being able to compete with their offering on level ground.
IE doesn't work... but hey, only a quarter of you use it! Screw that attitude! Most of the people on here want Linux support, fight tooth and nail to try and get mainstream support for things like video card drivers... and I can assure you that nowhere near 25% of people use Linux as their OS, and those compaines are jerks for not supporting the 5% at most market. Yet hey, the most popular web browser out there need not be supported...
This type of elitist bullshit attitude is why Open source companies aren't mainstream... it's the old, "Help me, help me, I'm little... but screw you if you want me to do something in exchange"...
If you think slashdot can survive with lack of IE support, that sounds like a pretty stupid business decision. You're throwing away 25% of your readers... Real smart! Do you people even know how to run a business?
Why the hell would we steal brown bag lunches? Now if it was some sort of fast food... we'd be all over it...
Bah... these are the real terrorists... You don't agree with what someone is doing, then sue them... that's the american way... and if that fails, then try and get a law passed to make it illegal... starting your own personal war based on your morals is no different than the actions of those the US is currently calling terrorists. But hey, this is in the country who's government doesn't believe in teaching evolution anymore...
Times like these I'm happy to live in a country where the worst thing activists do is slow down traffic, and hold marches.
At this point, why would you want to stay at your present job if you need a lawyer to keep it... even if you are successful, why would you want to stay, it's obvious you won't be liked by management, since they're trying to get rid of you... Or am I missing something?
Zehrs (a local supermarket chain in southern ontario) attempted to use software to schedule employee shifts back in the late 90's while I was lucky enough to work there. It ended up being a massively confusing schedule with no logic to it, and was constantly over/under staffing shifts. No software out there is capable of predicting work conditions as well as someone who has experience.
All the past data and statistics will not prepare you for the shopping frenzy that occurs when a thunderstorm hits. I recall 20-30% increase in customer volume when the weather was poor. That's just one outside factor... the software maybe able to account for that by checking the weather forecast, but it can't account for other factors like a show being canceled on TV, or a construction detour increasing or decreasing customer volume.
I say it didn't work in 1998, I highly doubt it'll work in 2006. The problem cannot be defined as a formula, and until it can, no computer will be able to solve it.
It is good news that nothing major went wrong... but somehow lately when I hear of the space shuttle making a journey, I'm reminded of my first car... towards the end of its life, I was quite happy as well to make a long road trip without major problems... But unlike with Nasa, that didn't mean I was eager to go on a long road trip again, just because I got lucky... I knew not to trust push my luck...
Only in America would your logic make any sense...
In countries like Japan, or even most of europe, pornography is available to the masses, kids included, as are alcohol and tabacoo. Violent movies are shown to teenagers in Europe without any concern for schools being shot up, etc...
It's not the media that's the problem, it's the lack of parenting... and this country is a sore example of the total lack of parenting... Kids lack any and all maturity, not because they saw a gang-bang in a movie, but because they have no one to discuss it with after they see it.
If this is happening due to many humans being in even smaller spaces, why the hell does the insect need color vision, and the ability to smell humans from even FARTHER away? I don't see how that need could have evolved to be beneficial... the speed thing I can see... I'm truly confused as to why such a feature would evolve with seemingly no benefit.
No, most likely the french government will require that iTunes stores in other EU countries check the IP, do some geomapping to determine that it is coming from France and prevent access, otherwise they will still be charged with violating this new 'you must share your propriatery encryption' law.
I'm sorry, I'm not a scientist and perhaps that's why I can't graps how the hell they came to this genius conclusion.
Let's sample a sphere at two pinpoint locations, and make all sorts of conclusions on the shape of an entire hemisphere of it...??? It rained today, and it was sunny yesterday, so that means that there's a 50% chance of it raining? Insufficient data...