What? $2000/$400 per year= 5 years (but years are stupid, it's cost per mile and expected vehicle or ownership life that matter). Beyond that I don't WANT to be forced into a higher tier package just to purchase a diesel (yes, please charge me $1200 for a GPS with worse capabilities than my $150 smartphone and worse audio than a $200 aftermarket head unit).
The cost of a modern direct injected diesel already adds ~$5000 to the price of a vehicle over a "comparable" gas engine, at $4/gallon gas and $4.50/gallon diesel that works out to ~200k miles to break even. Now you add the cost of the hybrid components and you will never recoup the cost. GM's approach with eAssist is much better, add ~$1,500 to the cost of every vehicle sold but improve fleet economy by ~30%, you have a larger economic and environmental impact by taking the incremental approach.
Buy an x86 tablet or ultrabook with a secureboot implementation that is required to be unlocked. The only reason the ARM based tablets will have a locked boot loader is that they will be sold through telco's that demand the lockdown in order to sell or support the devices.
Well, this isn't "proof" but when I worked at Cisco I know we used a thermal pad for the extended range products because it had superior transfer properties to the available paste compounds. The pad used was kind of a big deal because it was a) expensive, and b)single source which was a major no-no at Cisco requiring executive VP level signoff.
Here, read this paper if you think ASLR on 32bit architectures is worth much of anything....
I'll give you a hint from the Abstract We conclude that, on 32-bit architectures, the
only benet of PaX-like address-space randomization is a
small slowdown in worm propagation speed.
I wouldn't call it extremely high end, the 82359 memory controller supported 32MB and it was available on workstation class machines in 1992. I bought a 486 SX-25 around Christmas 1993 and we got it with 4MB, by the next christmas it was upgraded to 16MB.
Milwaukee was added to the fall 2012 Network Vision roadmap along with Cleveland back in April. We're technically third round but we'll be the first two third round cities and will be started before the later second round cities are finished.
There IS a rush to transition to LTE, handset availability and the fact that Clear has been a horrible partner that never met the coverage or speed targets that were originally planned. Sprint thought they would build out their 4G network cheaply and quickly by piggybacking on a network that was already being built out, but it never really worked out. I've had a 4G handset for the last 18+ months and almost never get 4G coverage even though I live in a launch market (hell the store where I bought my phone doesn't have coverage). If it wasn't for the fact that Sprint is the only carrier to have SMS coverage in every part of my house there's no way I would have stayed with them. I'm on call 1 out of every 4 weeks, my previous solution was UMA with T-Mobile but the initial UMA for Android sucked horribly and it still left me with the fact that no home internet meant no coverage or way to connect into work which Sprint gives me with tethering.
On 32bit processors ASLR is rather pointless IMHO and since AMRv7 (all current chips) is 32bit logical you're not going to to gain much if any real protection.
Are you joking? Are you really implying Oracle does something here that Postgres doesn't?
Yes, block checksumming, the fact that if you want Connection Pooling,Load Balancing, and Query Partitioning with PostgreSQL you have to use a middleware layer instead of just the RDMS, and integration with every industry standard tool for backups is not something that PostgreSQL can claim.
It very much depends on the kind of data warehouse. If it's a financial data warehouse I think using NoSQL is insane (we report to the SEC out of our data warehouse, transactional integrity is important!). If your data warehouse is just trying to answer the question "what do users of my social media site find interesting" then sure, go at it with a NoSQL solution. Ultimately with NoSQL you're trading data integrity for performance/scalability, which is fine as long as you understand what the tradeoff is.
Not on Vista/7/8, on modern Windows Chrome runs as a low integrity processes so there's no ownage unless there's another unpatched privileged escalation attack (which would have to work just as well against any normal user). Firefox addons are a bit vulnerable since Firefox runs as a medium security process but it still doesn't have your admin token.
Not only were the machines unevenly distributed, and possibly rigged, but a huge number of them were simply broken. After 2004 we switched to scantron ballots which make by far the most sense to me.
The five above the US aren't really countries, more like large cities (Norway has some land mass but at 5M people there are more than 50 cities in the world with larger populations).
Yep, that was the conclusion Cuyahoga County reached after the disaster we had with the electronic voting machines in 2004. We now use simple scantron paper ballots which everyone can understand and which provide a nice verifiable paper trail that can be easily recounted by both different machines and by hand if necessary.
Voter fraud is such a red herring. Outside of a few instances of organized fraud like in Chicago it's statistical noise and much, much less of an issue than voter disenfranchisement.
The ones that had been there the longest and thus cost the most for the company. Just like Circuit City when they were circling the drain, cut your best people because they are "expensive".
They just don't allow you to randomly "take exams" (same as most US universities) - you have to take the *classes* to get the units, so it's self-limiting based on how many you take per quarter.
That's not true at all, most colleges and universities will allow you to take a course by exam. Generally there's a limit to between 20 and 25% of total credit hours, but that's generally not a problem. I know my mom finished her teaching degree by taking two of her classes by exam while she was doing her student teaching, 18 hour days were the norm for her during that semester!
Huh? GPS units have had GB's of map data for almost a decade, it's not like in the 90's where you had to load a new map set if you were traveling more than a few hundred miles. Compared to the full map set for say North America the list of radio/cellphone towers and locations is trivially small (although the cellphone ones do change somewhat regularly so you'd want a way to update the database).
Slashdot Mirror
What? $2000/$400 per year= 5 years (but years are stupid, it's cost per mile and expected vehicle or ownership life that matter). Beyond that I don't WANT to be forced into a higher tier package just to purchase a diesel (yes, please charge me $1200 for a GPS with worse capabilities than my $150 smartphone and worse audio than a $200 aftermarket head unit).
The cost of a modern direct injected diesel already adds ~$5000 to the price of a vehicle over a "comparable" gas engine, at $4/gallon gas and $4.50/gallon diesel that works out to ~200k miles to break even. Now you add the cost of the hybrid components and you will never recoup the cost. GM's approach with eAssist is much better, add ~$1,500 to the cost of every vehicle sold but improve fleet economy by ~30%, you have a larger economic and environmental impact by taking the incremental approach.
There's 4 major carriers, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile with the size being in that order.
I don't believe there are going to be any RT native apps other than Office, RT will only run Metro apps.
Buy an x86 tablet or ultrabook with a secureboot implementation that is required to be unlocked. The only reason the ARM based tablets will have a locked boot loader is that they will be sold through telco's that demand the lockdown in order to sell or support the devices.
Well, this isn't "proof" but when I worked at Cisco I know we used a thermal pad for the extended range products because it had superior transfer properties to the available paste compounds. The pad used was kind of a big deal because it was a) expensive, and b)single source which was a major no-no at Cisco requiring executive VP level signoff.
Here, read this paper if you think ASLR on 32bit architectures is worth much of anything....
I'll give you a hint from the Abstract
We conclude that, on 32-bit architectures, the only benet of PaX-like address-space randomization is a small slowdown in worm propagation speed.
Yep, basically all midrange networking gear is PPC, the very high end today is generally a combination of ASIC's and x86, the low end is all ASIC.
Wait, 3.5 is supposed to be stable? Did Linus change something and now odd minor numbers are going to be stable instead of development branches?
I wouldn't call it extremely high end, the 82359 memory controller supported 32MB and it was available on workstation class machines in 1992. I bought a 486 SX-25 around Christmas 1993 and we got it with 4MB, by the next christmas it was upgraded to 16MB.
Milwaukee was added to the fall 2012 Network Vision roadmap along with Cleveland back in April. We're technically third round but we'll be the first two third round cities and will be started before the later second round cities are finished.
There IS a rush to transition to LTE, handset availability and the fact that Clear has been a horrible partner that never met the coverage or speed targets that were originally planned. Sprint thought they would build out their 4G network cheaply and quickly by piggybacking on a network that was already being built out, but it never really worked out. I've had a 4G handset for the last 18+ months and almost never get 4G coverage even though I live in a launch market (hell the store where I bought my phone doesn't have coverage). If it wasn't for the fact that Sprint is the only carrier to have SMS coverage in every part of my house there's no way I would have stayed with them. I'm on call 1 out of every 4 weeks, my previous solution was UMA with T-Mobile but the initial UMA for Android sucked horribly and it still left me with the fact that no home internet meant no coverage or way to connect into work which Sprint gives me with tethering.
On 32bit processors ASLR is rather pointless IMHO and since AMRv7 (all current chips) is 32bit logical you're not going to to gain much if any real protection.
data security, replication, backup
Are you joking? Are you really implying Oracle does something here that Postgres doesn't?
Yes, block checksumming, the fact that if you want Connection Pooling,Load Balancing, and Query Partitioning with PostgreSQL you have to use a middleware layer instead of just the RDMS, and integration with every industry standard tool for backups is not something that PostgreSQL can claim.
Because PostreSQL still isn't competitive with MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise for availability features let alone SQL 2012 or Oracle.
It very much depends on the kind of data warehouse. If it's a financial data warehouse I think using NoSQL is insane (we report to the SEC out of our data warehouse, transactional integrity is important!). If your data warehouse is just trying to answer the question "what do users of my social media site find interesting" then sure, go at it with a NoSQL solution. Ultimately with NoSQL you're trading data integrity for performance/scalability, which is fine as long as you understand what the tradeoff is.
Not on Vista/7/8, on modern Windows Chrome runs as a low integrity processes so there's no ownage unless there's another unpatched privileged escalation attack (which would have to work just as well against any normal user). Firefox addons are a bit vulnerable since Firefox runs as a medium security process but it still doesn't have your admin token.
Number of times the US has threatened to use nukes against civilians :1
Number of times Iran has threatened to remove Isreal from the earth:countless
Not only were the machines unevenly distributed, and possibly rigged, but a huge number of them were simply broken. After 2004 we switched to scantron ballots which make by far the most sense to me.
The five above the US aren't really countries, more like large cities (Norway has some land mass but at 5M people there are more than 50 cities in the world with larger populations).
Yep, that was the conclusion Cuyahoga County reached after the disaster we had with the electronic voting machines in 2004. We now use simple scantron paper ballots which everyone can understand and which provide a nice verifiable paper trail that can be easily recounted by both different machines and by hand if necessary.
Voter fraud is such a red herring. Outside of a few instances of organized fraud like in Chicago it's statistical noise and much, much less of an issue than voter disenfranchisement.
The ones that had been there the longest and thus cost the most for the company. Just like Circuit City when they were circling the drain, cut your best people because they are "expensive".
They just don't allow you to randomly "take exams" (same as most US universities) - you have to take the *classes* to get the units, so it's self-limiting based on how many you take per quarter.
That's not true at all, most colleges and universities will allow you to take a course by exam. Generally there's a limit to between 20 and 25% of total credit hours, but that's generally not a problem. I know my mom finished her teaching degree by taking two of her classes by exam while she was doing her student teaching, 18 hour days were the norm for her during that semester!
Huh? GPS units have had GB's of map data for almost a decade, it's not like in the 90's where you had to load a new map set if you were traveling more than a few hundred miles. Compared to the full map set for say North America the list of radio/cellphone towers and locations is trivially small (although the cellphone ones do change somewhat regularly so you'd want a way to update the database).