The coward is right with his typo: there is one reasonable way anyone can use their 250GB/mo 105Mb/s service, to download one uncompressed hd video in four hours. There are no two reasonable ways, once you have used up your one reasonable way for the month, you are SOL.
You don't comprehend how much heat high-density server installations produce. If a 1U processing server uses 200 watts, a 30 space rack of them would use and have a heat output of 6000 watts, which is about what most residential electric furnaces put out. Put four of those in a small room. That uses 200A @ 120v, which, by the way, is more power than most residential power drops can deliver. Now how much air conditioning do you need to keep that room at a constant temperature? The answer is a lot.
Now you take that heat, transmit it into fluid, and it goes through a big outdoor radiator that is occasionally spritzed with sprinklers for evaporative cooling. You are running a few 500 watt pumps vs running 20,000 watts of AC.
Who do you use for IT staff, fish? Since it sounds like your joke describes air, unless the flavor is chlorine gas, the fire risk indicates there is enough oxygen for humans.
You have to jailbreak the phone in order to install a custom theme?
The Scion theme not only changes colors and wallpaper, but also has different icons. User-created themes could potentially extend their changes to a very different UI experience. This could complicate customer support for Apple 'geniuses' and phone support, as customers can no longer be walked through a consistent menu chain.
The other explanation is that nothing goes on an iPhone without Apple getting a cut of the profits. This would challenge the business model of a future iTunes theme store (remember, Apple is the company that would sell music you already purchased back to you as a ring tone)
It would be more effective to DDOS their retail locations. Start with Sony stores and then move to the Best Buys. Leaflet campaign anyone approaching a Sony retail location, informing the potential customer of the multiple transgressions by Sony against it's customers (root kit, remote removal of features, lawsuits against it's customers and publishers). Guy Fawkes mask optional.
Sell it. Do not use or keep the PS3. If there is a flood of used PS3s on the market, nobody that wants one will need to pay Sony money for a new one anymore.
Granted, Sony was already selling the consoles under their cost (where's the federal dumping sanction?), knowing that anyone that owns a PS3, used or not, may buy other Sony products such as games. OtherOS was a promised selling feature, but now they brick PS3s so you can only run their purchased games.
If you own a PS3, then you are a Sony customer; a group also known as potential lawsuit defendants. It's probably better to just destroy the damned device rather than let it report your IP address back to Sony or encourage anyone else to pay another cent for Sony product for it.
Earthquake tremors travel from the epicenter at slower speeds than one might expect. The fastest P seismic waves travel at a speed around 5km/s, with the slower and more significant S waves following at about 60% that speed. Tokyo didn't begin feeling the earthquake until about 60 seconds after the event, enough time for early warning systems to go off on tv screens and cel phone broadcasts. Early earthquake reports like this may be in error since the event time, location, and magnitude needs to be compiled from multiple seismometers after the event has finished, and the propogation delay means that different sensors will experience the quake at different times.
Wasn't there a recent article on/. explaining how it was almost impossible to delete the data from flash ram?
I have proof there wasn't.
The entire flash storage on these devices is encrypted. The keys used to decrypt the drive on the fly, also stored on flash, can be overwritten quickly. Everything else on the drive looks like random numbers and 0s after the crypto keys are wiped.
Blackberry also securely wipes all user data if an incorrect unlock password is entered 10 (or fewer; configurable) times. The data leakage problem is mostly non-smart phones, where no mechanism is provided to wipe all the data. Not only contacts, but notes, calendar dates, and other PDA-type personal information can be entered into these phones. One would have to go into every application and manually delete every individual appointment, etc. to resell, and then you just hope you found everything.
How many people that have computer lockups on this relatively new Apple computer actually have the technical acumen to recognize and reproduce the symptom, recognize it as being a serious design flaw, and also find that particular thread on that particular forum on this particular Internet, register for the forum and post their experiences? I'm guessing the ratio is about 1:1000 or so...
If you want another idea of how Apple stonewalls and denys a manufacturing defect in a product line, have a look at this forum. 128 pages of posts about delaminating yellowing LCD screens on 27" and 21.5" iMacs. Apply similar logic: How many grandma computer owners actually recognize their computer screen isn't supposed to be tinged pink and yellow and would go to that particular internet forum and not just read but also register and post there?
Does it not strike you as disconcerting that the manufacturer of a product pushes a $349(!!) extended warranty for their own product before you get out the door of their company store either?
Yup, been there. I recently tossed out 'direct to metal' CD versions of Descent, Tomb Raider, Motocross Madness, and many others, that were chipset-specific, made for architectures like the Rendition Vérité, 3dFX Voodoo, S3 Virge, etc. Not because they aren't great games, or because I couldn't run them on a DOS virtual machine or boot to a DOS environment, but because I don't have the video card they were written for, or even a slot to plug one into. However, the majority of Windows DirectX 3 games from ~1996 are install-and-play on even Windows 7. ATI (nee AMD) and NVidia were the graphics chipset makers that rode on DirectX instead of a native hardware API, and are the winners. It's too bad that a cross-platform and cross-vendor platform like OpenGL didn't come out ahead also.
BTW, I worked for Diamond Multimedia (there's a Diamond card in each Wikipedia reference above) during the graphics good times of six-month upgrade cycles, and got to play with bleeding-edge 3D hardware while the public was still looking at a replica card in a CES glass box.
Right now it appears that Apple is using every advantage they have to keep the pricing low...
Hi, my name is Steve, welcome to the Apple store and thanks for purchasing the iPad. In order to use your device, you'll need to register with iTunes to ensure a constant flow of money to Apple for apps, music, media, ebooks, etc. Don't worry, e-magazines and such will still be the same price as other websites if they want to get their stuff on your tablet (don't worry that we are taxing your media companies 30% for the privilege of getting through the gatekeeper to your DRM'd locked down device...) Which credit card would you like to register with?
Netware got it right two decades ago. When files are deleted, they are gone from the file system tree and the file space is returned as free disk space. However, you can open a recovery utility, Salvage, and recover the files if the disk space of the file data hasn't been overwritten.
An improved version could be done with modern OSes and versioning file systems - no more recycle bin metaphor: In the OS you would launch a deleted file recovery utility to view recoverable deleted files. With proper FIFO and under-the-hood defragmentation techniques, the entire free space of a hard drive could be deleted files (and/or older versions). On top of having all the "free space" be recoverable deleted files (but still completely available, i.e. you can still fill up the hard drive and use the file space of deleted files), you could have a control panel applet where you can configure a recycle-bin like "mandatory minimum" for recoverability: you could set the number, size, or age of recoverable files to keep (or set any/all of these criteria), and the drive space of these deleted files wouldn't be returned to the free space pool until the safety criteria for the deleted files expired. This would also be where you configure your deleted file wiping parameters, like deleted files are recoverable for a week, then the disk space and file names are securely wiped to be never recoverable.
I suppose a prudent question: when you do an IMAP sync, does it wipe off the local copies just when the remote copy has been flagged deleted, or does it also go further: if you sync to a "reset" remote account, would Tbird's IMAP recognize the local emails no longer exist at the remote and toast your local folders? Will IMAP sync easily upload a whole gmail mailbox back up to a reset account? Time to look at IMAP protocol a little more closely, since we can't 'reset' our own gmail accounts this way to test recovery techniques.
Backing up your local profiles regularly to recover against a "gmail wiped all my emails" or even a "hacker deleted all my emails" scenario would seem a reasonable precaution.
Oh noes! Google might have recorded an unencrypted packet or two of someone checking gmail while they were driving through a neighborhood! They are clearly guilty of receiving and recording electromagnetic signals IN A FREQUENCY THAT IS PUBLIC AND UNLICENSED, by devices that were advertising their SSID and transmitting unencrypted data. Guilty of doing something completely legal and completely trivial.
I trust Google with my personal contacts and emails, documents, schedule, voice mail, etc. I do not trust and never authorized the State of Connecticut to have access to any data of mine, and neither should you. Go away extortionist attorney general.
What, you are kidding, right? Slashcode was finally implemented only after years of architecture analysis and specification refinement. Here's the original UML diagram to prove my assertion!
It is so advanced that now you can even markup your post with EMs instead of underscores!
As for TFA, the reason they probably think it is "just a programmer" is thanks to offshoring that is how pretty much ALL IT is treated today. Experience and education don't mean jack when they can hire a guy from Bangalore for $15k a year. So they are just thinking like future CEOs and looking at the programmers as "just the help" which sadly is the way many are treated in this crap economy.
That's what a former (now out of business) employer thought when they outsourced the development and coding for a labor scheduling system for a 1900 store video rental chain to Bangalore. After getting as far as deploying (and messing up the basic operations) in several beta stores, the whole thing was scrapped to the tune of half a million.
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duh, here?
That anology doesn't quite work though. Modern OS's and applications don't leave the door open.
Really? That's like saying my 12 year old won't get raped because she has a hymen.
You mean, it's kind of like buying the world's fastest production car, and then only being able to drive it 2500 miles a year.
The coward is right with his typo: there is one reasonable way anyone can use their 250GB/mo 105Mb/s service, to download one uncompressed hd video in four hours. There are no two reasonable ways, once you have used up your one reasonable way for the month, you are SOL.
You don't comprehend how much heat high-density server installations produce. If a 1U processing server uses 200 watts, a 30 space rack of them would use and have a heat output of 6000 watts, which is about what most residential electric furnaces put out. Put four of those in a small room. That uses 200A @ 120v, which, by the way, is more power than most residential power drops can deliver. Now how much air conditioning do you need to keep that room at a constant temperature? The answer is a lot.
Now you take that heat, transmit it into fluid, and it goes through a big outdoor radiator that is occasionally spritzed with sprinklers for evaporative cooling. You are running a few 500 watt pumps vs running 20,000 watts of AC.
Who do you use for IT staff, fish? Since it sounds like your joke describes air, unless the flavor is chlorine gas, the fire risk indicates there is enough oxygen for humans.
No, Fred Norris was being called home...
The Scion theme not only changes colors and wallpaper, but also has different icons. User-created themes could potentially extend their changes to a very different UI experience. This could complicate customer support for Apple 'geniuses' and phone support, as customers can no longer be walked through a consistent menu chain.
The other explanation is that nothing goes on an iPhone without Apple getting a cut of the profits. This would challenge the business model of a future iTunes theme store (remember, Apple is the company that would sell music you already purchased back to you as a ring tone)
It would be more effective to DDOS their retail locations. Start with Sony stores and then move to the Best Buys. Leaflet campaign anyone approaching a Sony retail location, informing the potential customer of the multiple transgressions by Sony against it's customers (root kit, remote removal of features, lawsuits against it's customers and publishers). Guy Fawkes mask optional.
Sell it. Do not use or keep the PS3. If there is a flood of used PS3s on the market, nobody that wants one will need to pay Sony money for a new one anymore.
Granted, Sony was already selling the consoles under their cost (where's the federal dumping sanction?), knowing that anyone that owns a PS3, used or not, may buy other Sony products such as games. OtherOS was a promised selling feature, but now they brick PS3s so you can only run their purchased games.
If you own a PS3, then you are a Sony customer; a group also known as potential lawsuit defendants. It's probably better to just destroy the damned device rather than let it report your IP address back to Sony or encourage anyone else to pay another cent for Sony product for it.
Earthquake tremors travel from the epicenter at slower speeds than one might expect. The fastest P seismic waves travel at a speed around 5km/s, with the slower and more significant S waves following at about 60% that speed. Tokyo didn't begin feeling the earthquake until about 60 seconds after the event, enough time for early warning systems to go off on tv screens and cel phone broadcasts. Early earthquake reports like this may be in error since the event time, location, and magnitude needs to be compiled from multiple seismometers after the event has finished, and the propogation delay means that different sensors will experience the quake at different times.
I have proof there wasn't.
The entire flash storage on these devices is encrypted. The keys used to decrypt the drive on the fly, also stored on flash, can be overwritten quickly. Everything else on the drive looks like random numbers and 0s after the crypto keys are wiped.
Blackberry also securely wipes all user data if an incorrect unlock password is entered 10 (or fewer; configurable) times. The data leakage problem is mostly non-smart phones, where no mechanism is provided to wipe all the data. Not only contacts, but notes, calendar dates, and other PDA-type personal information can be entered into these phones. One would have to go into every application and manually delete every individual appointment, etc. to resell, and then you just hope you found everything.
How many people that have computer lockups on this relatively new Apple computer actually have the technical acumen to recognize and reproduce the symptom, recognize it as being a serious design flaw, and also find that particular thread on that particular forum on this particular Internet, register for the forum and post their experiences? I'm guessing the ratio is about 1:1000 or so...
If you want another idea of how Apple stonewalls and denys a manufacturing defect in a product line, have a look at this forum. 128 pages of posts about delaminating yellowing LCD screens on 27" and 21.5" iMacs. Apply similar logic: How many grandma computer owners actually recognize their computer screen isn't supposed to be tinged pink and yellow and would go to that particular internet forum and not just read but also register and post there?
Does it not strike you as disconcerting that the manufacturer of a product pushes a $349(!!) extended warranty for their own product before you get out the door of their company store either?
I'm guessing Control Panel -> All control Panel Items -> Programs and Features...
Yup, been there. I recently tossed out 'direct to metal' CD versions of Descent, Tomb Raider, Motocross Madness, and many others, that were chipset-specific, made for architectures like the Rendition Vérité, 3dFX Voodoo, S3 Virge, etc. Not because they aren't great games, or because I couldn't run them on a DOS virtual machine or boot to a DOS environment, but because I don't have the video card they were written for, or even a slot to plug one into. However, the majority of Windows DirectX 3 games from ~1996 are install-and-play on even Windows 7. ATI (nee AMD) and NVidia were the graphics chipset makers that rode on DirectX instead of a native hardware API, and are the winners. It's too bad that a cross-platform and cross-vendor platform like OpenGL didn't come out ahead also.
BTW, I worked for Diamond Multimedia (there's a Diamond card in each Wikipedia reference above) during the graphics good times of six-month upgrade cycles, and got to play with bleeding-edge 3D hardware while the public was still looking at a replica card in a CES glass box.
... and Chiggers.
Hey, only we can use that word!
Right now it appears that Apple is using every advantage they have to keep the pricing low...
Hi, my name is Steve, welcome to the Apple store and thanks for purchasing the iPad. In order to use your device, you'll need to register with iTunes to ensure a constant flow of money to Apple for apps, music, media, ebooks, etc. Don't worry, e-magazines and such will still be the same price as other websites if they want to get their stuff on your tablet (don't worry that we are taxing your media companies 30% for the privilege of getting through the gatekeeper to your DRM'd locked down device...) Which credit card would you like to register with?
Here's a link to the original article with teardown pictures. Beware blatant product placement of ifixit tools.
Looks like Apple wasn't happy enough putting proprietary tamper-resistant fasteners on this device though, the iPad 2 is glued together.
#1 was already done on NOVA
I think that's just the prop people's idea of the Internet version of a 555 phone number. You want them to use a 192.168.0.0 instead?
Netware got it right two decades ago. When files are deleted, they are gone from the file system tree and the file space is returned as free disk space. However, you can open a recovery utility, Salvage, and recover the files if the disk space of the file data hasn't been overwritten.
An improved version could be done with modern OSes and versioning file systems - no more recycle bin metaphor: In the OS you would launch a deleted file recovery utility to view recoverable deleted files. With proper FIFO and under-the-hood defragmentation techniques, the entire free space of a hard drive could be deleted files (and/or older versions). On top of having all the "free space" be recoverable deleted files (but still completely available, i.e. you can still fill up the hard drive and use the file space of deleted files), you could have a control panel applet where you can configure a recycle-bin like "mandatory minimum" for recoverability: you could set the number, size, or age of recoverable files to keep (or set any/all of these criteria), and the drive space of these deleted files wouldn't be returned to the free space pool until the safety criteria for the deleted files expired. This would also be where you configure your deleted file wiping parameters, like deleted files are recoverable for a week, then the disk space and file names are securely wiped to be never recoverable.
I suppose a prudent question: when you do an IMAP sync, does it wipe off the local copies just when the remote copy has been flagged deleted, or does it also go further: if you sync to a "reset" remote account, would Tbird's IMAP recognize the local emails no longer exist at the remote and toast your local folders? Will IMAP sync easily upload a whole gmail mailbox back up to a reset account? Time to look at IMAP protocol a little more closely, since we can't 'reset' our own gmail accounts this way to test recovery techniques.
Backing up your local profiles regularly to recover against a "gmail wiped all my emails" or even a "hacker deleted all my emails" scenario would seem a reasonable precaution.
Oh noes! Google might have recorded an unencrypted packet or two of someone checking gmail while they were driving through a neighborhood! They are clearly guilty of receiving and recording electromagnetic signals IN A FREQUENCY THAT IS PUBLIC AND UNLICENSED, by devices that were advertising their SSID and transmitting unencrypted data. Guilty of doing something completely legal and completely trivial.
I trust Google with my personal contacts and emails, documents, schedule, voice mail, etc. I do not trust and never authorized the State of Connecticut to have access to any data of mine, and neither should you. Go away extortionist attorney general.
What, you are kidding, right? Slashcode was finally implemented only after years of architecture analysis and specification refinement. Here's the original UML diagram to prove my assertion!
It is so advanced that now you can even markup your post with EMs instead of underscores!
As for TFA, the reason they probably think it is "just a programmer" is thanks to offshoring that is how pretty much ALL IT is treated today. Experience and education don't mean jack when they can hire a guy from Bangalore for $15k a year. So they are just thinking like future CEOs and looking at the programmers as "just the help" which sadly is the way many are treated in this crap economy.
That's what a former (now out of business) employer thought when they outsourced the development and coding for a labor scheduling system for a 1900 store video rental chain to Bangalore. After getting as far as deploying (and messing up the basic operations) in several beta stores, the whole thing was scrapped to the tune of half a million.