you could argue, though, that 'good' saves you time in the long run because you don't have to patch and patch and patch and eventually scrap it and redesign.
Try arguing that to the CEO, who is seeing his marketshare drop by 25% to his competitors, because his development team needs 2 extra months to ensure the security is top-notch. The reality is until the market and customer start demanding that security be a priority, there isn't going to much of a change from the status quo.
That is part of the reason why Microsoft is so successful, they listen to what the customers want. Up until now their customers wanted features, features, and more features. Now their customers have started to realize that security can have a significant impact on their bottom line. So they are wising up to the situation and demanding that software vendors (not just Microsoft) start making security a priority too.
The whole point of a metric is to be a standard of measurement. But is no standard for what determines a single decision. Real business decisions have all sorts of little assumptions and decisions built into them. Having vendors going around selling systems on their ability to perform x number of decisions in a day would be pointless, since it is an entirely subjective thing.
People have tried to take a stab at this. Thats what the TPC benchmarks are for. But as almost everyone in IT knows, those benchmarks don't mean squat in a normal implementation.
10 years: Private enterprises are making regular orbital flights, including docking at the ISS and doing crew transfers for various governments. Medium lift (~10 ton to LEO) launch vehicles in test phases. Private probes to Moon, Mars to search for raw materials for harvest or colony support; Cost for suborbital flight: $15K; to LEO: $1 million
I think 10 years is a bit premature, but perhaps in 15-20 years this will happen. Except for the ISS, that thing is going to get canned before 2020.
25 years: First private space station, specializing in $20,000/night hotel rooms and microgravity research. ISS abandoned, parts sold to private industry. NASA has a probe orbiting Pluto; Lunar colonies in planning stations, private rovers on Mars. Deliveries using suborbital craft are now regular (for when it absolutely, postively has to be there yesterday). Many people confused about time zones.
More likely closer to 50 years. It took about 50 years for cars to become cheap enough for a lot of people to own them. Until that time, a private space station hotels won't happen.
50 years: I move off the mudball to Mars for retirement. Private citizens now moving into Lunar and Mars colonies. Private industry exploring asteroid belt. Suborbital flight as common as airline flight; Cost to LEO: $15K. Space tether under construction at several points around the globe; Nairobi is a major spaceport.
200-300 years is a liberal estimate. There is no value in colonizing Mars until we find something there that's worth setting up bases for. And people will be stuck inside of bubbles, until they figure out how to terraform Mars. That won't happen for another 500-1000 years.
No. They will force all the blockbusters (and even small shops) to get the disposable ones. They simply won't sell regular DVDs to video rental stores.
And watch their revenues from rental sales plummet downward? I don't think so. Consumers will never fall for it. Even though the studios would love to cut down on piracy, they aren't going to do it at the expense of their biggest source of revenue. If this were actually mandated, and even managed to cut piracy by 50%, I could easily see it turning away 1 in 10 people from a rental. A drop in revenues of even 10% would be enough to send most studios running for the hills as fast and far away as possible from this technology.
Yes, and that it means it is stored in 2 locations. So when you want to look up 2 different parts of the game data, you can delegate each task to a separate drive, instead of one drive doing the read for both.
The credits file is not a listing of every single developer who has ever contributed a line of code or more. It is a list of those who have made significant contributions, and few who made relatively minor.
Just because IBM set up a Linux lab in India, does not mean that lab is contributing in any significant way to the codebase of Linux, though they might be helping in other ways such using Linux at IBM.
It is still very popular on the server-side for writing enterprise/business applications in managed code. In that regard I consider it a success. True, it hasn't lived up to Sun's ideals of a write-once, run-anywhere programming language, but that's no reason to simply disregard it as a complete failure. It is a good competitor to.Net, and in the future the majority of applications will be written to either Java running on Linux, or.Net running on Windows. And they will talk to each other using web services.
Btw, this is coming from someone who doesn't use Java, I personally prefer C#/.Net. But I know that Java has it's good sides, and it will be around for a while.
The parent post you replied to, never mentioned factoring prime numbers, he said large numbers.
That is the whole issue with quantum computing, once it becomes easy to factor large numbers, it is much easier to figure out which numbers cannot be factored and are therefore primes. Thus much of today's encryption techniques will not stand up against a quantum computing device.
Because you don't pay Income Tax on your gross sales (revenue), you pay it on your net profits (income). So when companies are looking for write-off's, it means they are trying to find ways to reduce their net profits on paper, so as to to pay less taxes.
So does this mean when the first 128-bit based virus debuts we can expect 4 posts about it?:)
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Because the ITU falls under the control of the UN. At the UN, both the US and Europe have much less influence and control. By handing 'control of the Internet' over to the UN, the developed nations would run the risk of less developed nations using their new found control as a bargaining chip against the US/Europe in other matters.
Personally, I don't really want to see the Internet become an issue that gets rolled into trade negotiations. The Europeans don't want to see ICANN folded into under the wings of the ITU. But they are fed up with the ways things are being run at ICANN, and holding up funding is just a temporary tactic designed to try and bring about some change at ICANN.
But in the article it also states they are requesting a lot more money for the IANA. Twenty times more in fact. With the RIRs and LIRs taking over more of the duties with respect to number assignment in IPv6, I don't see why the IANA needs so much more money.
Somebody at ICANN needs to wise up, and stop trying so many power grabs. They should be delegating as much as possible to the regional/country authorities. Instead they seem to be on a crusade to be the ultimate ruling body on all matters relating to the Internet. And yet, they have shown they barely have the strength to stand up to a company like VeriSign.
He'll probably still avoid it. Unless the URL is visible on the front page, not that many people are going to be visiting it, unless they are viewing the comments.
There is one big difference. There is a lot more money involved in the drug trade. It is one thing to risk jail time, when you can rake in the cash by the billions. But it becomes a different story when you are only able to make a few million. Yes, there will always be somebody, but if you destroy the economic incentive enough for the majority then you will have made a major breakthru in the battle against spam.
According to some sources, there is really just a core group of about 200 people responsible for most of the spam. If even half of those people are thrown in jail, it will have a major effect on spam. And most of the remaining ones will get out of the business, simply out of fear of going to jail. It is true that spam is a money making business for some, but the level of profits would have be a lot higher to make it worthwhile for someone to take on a real increased risk of spending time in a federal prison.
Of course there will be some that set up shop in other countries, but they would have to physically move there to be beyond the reach of authorities here. I am willing to bet, most spammers are not willing to give up the good lifestyle that is provided for them in the US (or other Western developed countries), and will simply get out of the spam business and find other employment. Or maybe spam will simply get outsourced to India..
If this is the case, hopefully the fight continues on for many years. Not in the courtroom, but on a technical level. Competition among operating systems is nothing but good news for consumers. I would hate to see either side 'win' over the other, because the winning side could become complacent over time and we would not see the same level of innovation and development.
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you could argue, though, that 'good' saves you time in the long run because you don't have to patch and patch and patch and eventually scrap it and redesign.
Try arguing that to the CEO, who is seeing his marketshare drop by 25% to his competitors, because his development team needs 2 extra months to ensure the security is top-notch. The reality is until the market and customer start demanding that security be a priority, there isn't going to much of a change from the status quo.
That is part of the reason why Microsoft is so successful, they listen to what the customers want. Up until now their customers wanted features, features, and more features. Now their customers have started to realize that security can have a significant impact on their bottom line. So they are wising up to the situation and demanding that software vendors (not just Microsoft) start making security a priority too.
The whole point of a metric is to be a standard of measurement. But is no standard for what determines a single decision. Real business decisions have all sorts of little assumptions and decisions built into them. Having vendors going around selling systems on their ability to perform x number of decisions in a day would be pointless, since it is an entirely subjective thing.
People have tried to take a stab at this. Thats what the TPC benchmarks are for. But as almost everyone in IT knows, those benchmarks don't mean squat in a normal implementation.
10 years: Private enterprises are making regular orbital flights, including docking at the ISS and doing crew transfers for various governments. Medium lift (~10 ton to LEO) launch vehicles in test phases. Private probes to Moon, Mars to search for raw materials for harvest or colony support; Cost for suborbital flight: $15K; to LEO: $1 million
I think 10 years is a bit premature, but perhaps in 15-20 years this will happen. Except for the ISS, that thing is going to get canned before 2020.
25 years: First private space station, specializing in $20,000/night hotel rooms and microgravity research. ISS abandoned, parts sold to private industry. NASA has a probe orbiting Pluto; Lunar colonies in planning stations, private rovers on Mars. Deliveries using suborbital craft are now regular (for when it absolutely, postively has to be there yesterday). Many people confused about time zones.
More likely closer to 50 years. It took about 50 years for cars to become cheap enough for a lot of people to own them. Until that time, a private space station hotels won't happen.
50 years: I move off the mudball to Mars for retirement. Private citizens now moving into Lunar and Mars colonies. Private industry exploring asteroid belt. Suborbital flight as common as airline flight; Cost to LEO: $15K. Space tether under construction at several points around the globe; Nairobi is a major spaceport.
200-300 years is a liberal estimate. There is no value in colonizing Mars until we find something there that's worth setting up bases for. And people will be stuck inside of bubbles, until they figure out how to terraform Mars. That won't happen for another 500-1000 years.
Well hopefully it is not in beta for as long as Froogle was. That service wasn't upgraded from beta status for at least a year or so.
ActionScript is JavaScript/ECMAScript repurposed for the server-side.
No. They will force all the blockbusters (and even small shops) to get the disposable ones. They simply won't sell regular DVDs to video rental stores.
And watch their revenues from rental sales plummet downward? I don't think so. Consumers will never fall for it. Even though the studios would love to cut down on piracy, they aren't going to do it at the expense of their biggest source of revenue. If this were actually mandated, and even managed to cut piracy by 50%, I could easily see it turning away 1 in 10 people from a rental. A drop in revenues of even 10% would be enough to send most studios running for the hills as fast and far away as possible from this technology.
Yes, and that it means it is stored in 2 locations. So when you want to look up 2 different parts of the game data, you can delegate each task to a separate drive, instead of one drive doing the read for both.
The runtime is still free as far as I know. But it is not the same as the SDK for it.
The credits file is not a listing of every single developer who has ever contributed a line of code or more. It is a list of those who have made significant contributions, and few who made relatively minor.
Just because IBM set up a Linux lab in India, does not mean that lab is contributing in any significant way to the codebase of Linux, though they might be helping in other ways such using Linux at IBM.
And the Canadian Forces would do that too, if we could afford the bullets.
Java has not failed.
.Net, and in the future the majority of applications will be written to either Java running on Linux, or .Net running on Windows. And they will talk to each other using web services.
It is still very popular on the server-side for writing enterprise/business applications in managed code. In that regard I consider it a success. True, it hasn't lived up to Sun's ideals of a write-once, run-anywhere programming language, but that's no reason to simply disregard it as a complete failure. It is a good competitor to
Btw, this is coming from someone who doesn't use Java, I personally prefer C#/.Net. But I know that Java has it's good sides, and it will be around for a while.
The parent post you replied to, never mentioned factoring prime numbers, he said large numbers.
That is the whole issue with quantum computing, once it becomes easy to factor large numbers, it is much easier to figure out which numbers cannot be factored and are therefore primes. Thus much of today's encryption techniques will not stand up against a quantum computing device.
Because you don't pay Income Tax on your gross sales (revenue), you pay it on your net profits (income). So when companies are looking for write-off's, it means they are trying to find ways to reduce their net profits on paper, so as to to pay less taxes.
Has there ever been a non-beta version of ICQ?
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Yup, remember 99 alpha?
The longest bathroom break of your life.
I think you are confused. The article summary never stated he was British. He's an English student.. you know, BA Major in English?
So does this mean when the first 128-bit based virus debuts we can expect 4 posts about it? :)
Because the ITU falls under the control of the UN. At the UN, both the US and Europe have much less influence and control. By handing 'control of the Internet' over to the UN, the developed nations would run the risk of less developed nations using their new found control as a bargaining chip against the US/Europe in other matters.
Personally, I don't really want to see the Internet become an issue that gets rolled into trade negotiations. The Europeans don't want to see ICANN folded into under the wings of the ITU. But they are fed up with the ways things are being run at ICANN, and holding up funding is just a temporary tactic designed to try and bring about some change at ICANN.
But in the article it also states they are requesting a lot more money for the IANA. Twenty times more in fact. With the RIRs and LIRs taking over more of the duties with respect to number assignment in IPv6, I don't see why the IANA needs so much more money.
Somebody at ICANN needs to wise up, and stop trying so many power grabs. They should be delegating as much as possible to the regional/country authorities. Instead they seem to be on a crusade to be the ultimate ruling body on all matters relating to the Internet. And yet, they have shown they barely have the strength to stand up to a company like VeriSign.
They are 4,294,967,296 times more powerful.
So by RIAA math logic, this means that the virus writers are really causing $429,496,729,600,000,000 worth of damage!
Actually, both virii and viruses are now generaly considered to be accepted definitions for the plural of virus.
He'll probably still avoid it. Unless the URL is visible on the front page, not that many people are going to be visiting it, unless they are viewing the comments.
There is one big difference. There is a lot more money involved in the drug trade. It is one thing to risk jail time, when you can rake in the cash by the billions. But it becomes a different story when you are only able to make a few million. Yes, there will always be somebody, but if you destroy the economic incentive enough for the majority then you will have made a major breakthru in the battle against spam.
According to some sources, there is really just a core group of about 200 people responsible for most of the spam. If even half of those people are thrown in jail, it will have a major effect on spam. And most of the remaining ones will get out of the business, simply out of fear of going to jail. It is true that spam is a money making business for some, but the level of profits would have be a lot higher to make it worthwhile for someone to take on a real increased risk of spending time in a federal prison.
Of course there will be some that set up shop in other countries, but they would have to physically move there to be beyond the reach of authorities here. I am willing to bet, most spammers are not willing to give up the good lifestyle that is provided for them in the US (or other Western developed countries), and will simply get out of the spam business and find other employment. Or maybe spam will simply get outsourced to India..
If this is the case, hopefully the fight continues on for many years. Not in the courtroom, but on a technical level. Competition among operating systems is nothing but good news for consumers. I would hate to see either side 'win' over the other, because the winning side could become complacent over time and we would not see the same level of innovation and development.