Thanks for the link! From Anandtech, Dell has a U2412M display that features 1920x1200 on a 24” panel. It uses eIPS to keep the price around $329. Reviews on it look great too.
I just looked again at Dell's website. Even the "Dell Precision M6600 Mobile Workstation" at $2400 "On Sale" comes with a 17 inch screen with 1600x900 screen. For only $300 more, I can upgrade to 1920x1080 but no option for 1200 exists any more.
The first two are above $2K though, and I have no idea about the third.
I paid less than $1500 about 3 years ago for my wife's Dell with a 17 inch 1920x1200 display. Now, the best laptop with 17 inch screen I can get for $1700 from Dell is 1600x900! That's not progress. Thanks for the suggestions on some other units though. They are just too expensive.
You can still buy 27" monitors with good resolution. Check the Dell U2711, or the Apple LED monitor.
I looked at the Dell U2711 on their website. It looks like a good unit but it's $999! I paid $269 each for our 24" 1920x1200 Samsung monitors. They are fully adjustable, beautiful bright images and I bought FOUR of them at Costco 2 years ago for the same price as one monitor now with comparable resolution.
My wife and I have 1920x1200 screens on our desktops and laptops. The laptops are getting old and have become almost impossible to replace unless we want to step into the "mobile CAD workstation" market of laptop at 3 times the cost we paid for her Dell. Even desktop screens have all moved down from 1200 vertical lines to 1080 "HD". I had hoped my 24 to 27 inch screens would have bumped up to 2560x1600 by now but it's going the opposite direction.
Good question and thank you kind AC for pointing it out. I guess it happened because my fingers don't willingly type misspelled words and I type 'query' about a million times more often than I type qwerty.
So QUERTY becomes "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". I'm guessing in many cases that the picture itself would suggest how it was to be interacted with.
The White House can increase the threshold to receive a response at any time. The threshold on the 'Take these petitions seriously" petition is 25,000 signatures in the next 2 weeks. Other petitions which have NOT been taken seriously had much lower thresholds of 5,000 signatures. So.. a petition to not ignore the 5,000 signatures requires 25,000 signatures. Nice.
People tell me every damn time we leave the house how friendly and polite my kids are and that typically kids "their age" are not as comfortable or articulate talking with adults. Other people say my kids are less safe because they are comfortable talking to strangers adults in public. I think it's just the opposite because they are not conditioned to respect someone and follow their instructions just because they are grown up. My daughter would put you right in your place if you tried anything inappropriate with her. Don't we all have to talk to strangers every time we go to a store or anywhere in public? They have friends who are older and younger and the teasing and bullying that happens in schools are things they are going to miss out on.
If you have kids, I strongly encourage you to consider homeschooling or other alternatives to public school if it's within your means.
Just this month, Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for taking a $1 million bribe from the builder of a pair of juvenile detention centers in a case that became known as "kids for cash.". http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/11/national/main20091371.shtml
This can happen to your kids too! I am so sick of all of the "unique snowflake" crap from people on here saying the schools and state should be able to do whatever they want to my kids to get them "in line". We homeschool all of our kids, are extremely respectful to all of them and treat them with the same respect and dignity I want for myself. I will never send them off to be harassed by the state and turned into a tool for the elites or a cog in the wheel. They live their lives along with us in the "real world" and are charting their own course rather than the one defined by the government, political, religious and corporate sponsors of education.
In 2007, they were saying intel would have 80-core CPU's in 2011.
It's 2011 now, where can I buy one?
Intel showed a working 80 core research processor in 2007. Maybe that's what you heard about? It was used by researchers in the fields of distributed and parallel computing to develop new programming and compiler optimizations and operating system enhancements.
Intel has since released a second generation research processor for distributed computing and cloud research called SCC, formerly know as Rock Creek. It is also available to universities and researchers but not a consumer product.
Disclaimer: I am an Intel employee but the statements and opinions here are my own based on the referenced link(s).
Paywall to download, but here is the original publication. At my work, we have a site subscription to many journals including this one. There may be a free source out there but I couldn't find it.
http://download.cell.com/neuron/pdf/PIIS0896627311001607.pdf
It looks like from older sources that the CEO was traveling with a technician who actually installed the patch. The technician has since thought that it was an unusual thing to be doing.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11717105/robert_f_kennedy_jr__will_the_next_election_be_hacked/2
"We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from Urosevich. It was very unusual that a president of the company would give an order like that and be involved at that level."
Why doesn't Diebold allow for open source code? What could possibly be proprietary about code that essentially says "choose A, B, C" and counts up the totals? Are there some super-efficient algorithms for that they don't want to get out?
The source could be freely distributed, compiled and signed by a 3rd party as unmodified and genuine. It doesn't prevent other monkey business from going on in the machines, but the secrecy is crazy.
Jeez. We're supposed to be techies here, not a clueless advertising department.
There are proper terms for this:
- If the AI provides energy to make the circuitry of the camera run, it's POWERing it.
- If the AI provides processing to control the camera's operation and/or reducing the data it produces, it's DRIVing it.
So unless this camera has a REALLY SMART power supply the headline is flat-out bogus.
Metaphorically speaking, the power of a camera is in the images it captures and the power provided by those images (ability to prosecute a crime typically). So in a sense, the AI would be giving the camera its power or increasing its power.
If some manufacturer could sell a 1GHz CPU for $5, it would blow away everything else on that price/performance chart but would not run most modern applications. There are only a half-dozen of the high-end desktop processors anyone should even consider purchasing for a new PC. Intel and AMD both have processors in that category, and apparently AMD is ahead in the price/performance metric. In all of the purely performance-based reviews however, Intel has held most of the top spots.
You are right that a "One Time Pad" provides provably perfect secrecy. It is however just a "One Time" pad. This means that if you use sneaker-net to install a 100 MB pad into your wireless router (via USB perhaps), you can only transmit 100 MB of data before your pad has been used "One Time". Also, using a OTP to XOR your data would be devastating to the security of something like a network packet. For any message with predictable field placement and size, a OTP with XOR does nothing for integrity or authenticity of your data. It becomes trivial to XOR out expected value fields (like MAC) and XOR in the desired value with no need whatsoever to know the OTP key material.
"They would give software access to information about cache misses..."
Yeah that ought to help significantly with side-channel attacks against crypto software.
For the extra cost of water cooling and sound insulation, why not just make the switch to a solid state drive? You can then eliminate the risks of mechanical failure which are now compounded by this water cooling apparatus. If you want quiet and are willing to pay more for it then go with an SSD and get reliability and much lower latency thrown in at no extra cost.
There is not really any known plaintext on the disk. If The disk is 40GB, and the O/S is 1GB, how exactly will you know which bits of ciphertext correspond to which bits of operating system? You wouldn't. Any block of the O/S could be in any block of the disk, possibly fragmented, possibly random data in slack space at the ends of files, different package and kernel versions, etc.
Known plaintext is when someone tells you here are is 64 bits of ciphertext (i.e. from DES), and then also gives you the 64 bits input to generate the ciphertext. This is the known plaintext. If I five you 128 bits of ciphertext and only 64 of those bits actually even correspond to the input plaintext, well then your job just got about 2^64 times harder.
A student at a college which subscribes to Turnitin.com put a copyright statement on his essay, saying that his work couldn't be uploaded to any WWW site and archived. This meant that it couldn't be submitted to Turnitin.com (or a service such as Plagiserve.com, a free alternative to Turnitin.com that also archives submitted papers), which archives papers and adds them to the database that submissions are checked against.
The college checked with their lawyers, and with Turnitin.com on what to do if a student puts a copyright on their own work expressly forbidding their paper to be co-opted by a for profit service such as Turnitin.com. Below is Turnitin.com's reply to the matter of student copyright (They don't think much of it.).
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Thanks for the link! From Anandtech, Dell has a U2412M display that features 1920x1200 on a 24” panel. It uses eIPS to keep the price around $329. Reviews on it look great too.
I just looked again at Dell's website. Even the "Dell Precision M6600 Mobile Workstation" at $2400 "On Sale" comes with a 17 inch screen with 1600x900 screen. For only $300 more, I can upgrade to 1920x1080 but no option for 1200 exists any more.
The first two are above $2K though, and I have no idea about the third.
I paid less than $1500 about 3 years ago for my wife's Dell with a 17 inch 1920x1200 display. Now, the best laptop with 17 inch screen I can get for $1700 from Dell is 1600x900! That's not progress. Thanks for the suggestions on some other units though. They are just too expensive.
You can still buy 27" monitors with good resolution. Check the Dell U2711, or the Apple LED monitor.
I looked at the Dell U2711 on their website. It looks like a good unit but it's $999! I paid $269 each for our 24" 1920x1200 Samsung monitors. They are fully adjustable, beautiful bright images and I bought FOUR of them at Costco 2 years ago for the same price as one monitor now with comparable resolution.
My wife and I have 1920x1200 screens on our desktops and laptops. The laptops are getting old and have become almost impossible to replace unless we want to step into the "mobile CAD workstation" market of laptop at 3 times the cost we paid for her Dell. Even desktop screens have all moved down from 1200 vertical lines to 1080 "HD". I had hoped my 24 to 27 inch screens would have bumped up to 2560x1600 by now but it's going the opposite direction.
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How the hell do you typo QWERTY?
Good question and thank you kind AC for pointing it out. I guess it happened because my fingers don't willingly type misspelled words and I type 'query' about a million times more often than I type qwerty.
So QUERTY becomes "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". I'm guessing in many cases that the picture itself would suggest how it was to be interacted with.
The White House can increase the threshold to receive a response at any time. The threshold on the 'Take these petitions seriously" petition is 25,000 signatures in the next 2 weeks. Other petitions which have NOT been taken seriously had much lower thresholds of 5,000 signatures. So.. a petition to not ignore the 5,000 signatures requires 25,000 signatures. Nice.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/10/19/android-engineer-ice-cream-sandwich-aosp-source-code-will-be-released-but-not-before-galaxy-nexus-goes-on-sale/
People tell me every damn time we leave the house how friendly and polite my kids are and that typically kids "their age" are not as comfortable or articulate talking with adults. Other people say my kids are less safe because they are comfortable talking to strangers adults in public. I think it's just the opposite because they are not conditioned to respect someone and follow their instructions just because they are grown up. My daughter would put you right in your place if you tried anything inappropriate with her. Don't we all have to talk to strangers every time we go to a store or anywhere in public? They have friends who are older and younger and the teasing and bullying that happens in schools are things they are going to miss out on.
If you have kids, I strongly encourage you to consider homeschooling or other alternatives to public school if it's within your means.
Just this month, Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for taking a $1 million bribe from the builder of a pair of juvenile detention centers in a case that became known as "kids for cash.". http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/11/national/main20091371.shtml
This can happen to your kids too! I am so sick of all of the "unique snowflake" crap from people on here saying the schools and state should be able to do whatever they want to my kids to get them "in line". We homeschool all of our kids, are extremely respectful to all of them and treat them with the same respect and dignity I want for myself. I will never send them off to be harassed by the state and turned into a tool for the elites or a cog in the wheel. They live their lives along with us in the "real world" and are charting their own course rather than the one defined by the government, political, religious and corporate sponsors of education.
In 2007, they were saying intel would have 80-core CPU's in 2011.
It's 2011 now, where can I buy one?
Intel showed a working 80 core research processor in 2007. Maybe that's what you heard about? It was used by researchers in the fields of distributed and parallel computing to develop new programming and compiler optimizations and operating system enhancements.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Teraflops_Research_Chip
Intel has since released a second generation research processor for distributed computing and cloud research called SCC, formerly know as Rock Creek. It is also available to universities and researchers but not a consumer product.
Disclaimer: I am an Intel employee but the statements and opinions here are my own based on the referenced link(s).
Paywall to download, but here is the original publication. At my work, we have a site subscription to many journals including this one. There may be a free source out there but I couldn't find it. http://download.cell.com/neuron/pdf/PIIS0896627311001607.pdf
It looks like from older sources that the CEO was traveling with a technician who actually installed the patch. The technician has since thought that it was an unusual thing to be doing. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11717105/robert_f_kennedy_jr__will_the_next_election_be_hacked/2 "We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from Urosevich. It was very unusual that a president of the company would give an order like that and be involved at that level."
The source could be freely distributed, compiled and signed by a 3rd party as unmodified and genuine. It doesn't prevent other monkey business from going on in the machines, but the secrecy is crazy.
Jeez. We're supposed to be techies here, not a clueless advertising department.
There are proper terms for this:
- If the AI provides energy to make the circuitry of the camera run, it's POWERing it. - If the AI provides processing to control the camera's operation and/or reducing the data it produces, it's DRIVing it.
So unless this camera has a REALLY SMART power supply the headline is flat-out bogus.
Metaphorically speaking, the power of a camera is in the images it captures and the power provided by those images (ability to prosecute a crime typically). So in a sense, the AI would be giving the camera its power or increasing its power.If some manufacturer could sell a 1GHz CPU for $5, it would blow away everything else on that price/performance chart but would not run most modern applications. There are only a half-dozen of the high-end desktop processors anyone should even consider purchasing for a new PC. Intel and AMD both have processors in that category, and apparently AMD is ahead in the price/performance metric. In all of the purely performance-based reviews however, Intel has held most of the top spots.
You are right that a "One Time Pad" provides provably perfect secrecy. It is however just a "One Time" pad. This means that if you use sneaker-net to install a 100 MB pad into your wireless router (via USB perhaps), you can only transmit 100 MB of data before your pad has been used "One Time". Also, using a OTP to XOR your data would be devastating to the security of something like a network packet. For any message with predictable field placement and size, a OTP with XOR does nothing for integrity or authenticity of your data. It becomes trivial to XOR out expected value fields (like MAC) and XOR in the desired value with no need whatsoever to know the OTP key material.
"They would give software access to information about cache misses..." Yeah that ought to help significantly with side-channel attacks against crypto software.
For the extra cost of water cooling and sound insulation, why not just make the switch to a solid state drive? You can then eliminate the risks of mechanical failure which are now compounded by this water cooling apparatus. If you want quiet and are willing to pay more for it then go with an SSD and get reliability and much lower latency thrown in at no extra cost.
There is not really any known plaintext on the disk. If The disk is 40GB, and the O/S is 1GB, how exactly will you know which bits of ciphertext correspond to which bits of operating system? You wouldn't. Any block of the O/S could be in any block of the disk, possibly fragmented, possibly random data in slack space at the ends of files, different package and kernel versions, etc.
Known plaintext is when someone tells you here are is 64 bits of ciphertext (i.e. from DES), and then also gives you the 64 bits input to generate the ciphertext. This is the known plaintext. If I five you 128 bits of ciphertext and only 64 of those bits actually even correspond to the input plaintext, well then your job just got about 2^64 times harder.
"The question we need to ask ourselves is is our children learning?" -W http://www.amazon.com/x/dp/0743214781
A student at a college which subscribes to Turnitin.com put a copyright statement on his essay, saying that his work couldn't be uploaded to any WWW site and archived. This meant that it couldn't be submitted to Turnitin.com (or a service such as Plagiserve.com, a free alternative to Turnitin.com that also archives submitted papers), which archives papers and adds them to the database that submissions are checked against.
The college checked with their lawyers, and with Turnitin.com on what to do if a student puts a copyright on their own work expressly forbidding their paper to be co-opted by a for profit service such as Turnitin.com. Below is Turnitin.com's reply to the matter of student copyright (They don't think much of it.).
See link for full text of turnitin response:
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/workshop s/fullcopyright.htm