Maybe they need to deploy g-locked memory, it's in a car after all. Too many jolts and bumps and it gets the bits all jostled up! Think of the children!
Maybe you could. Maybe I could too. But would you want to do that job? It's like you'd be the president of the internet.
When some bureaucrat in washington gets a fake antivirus on their "secured" system, you'd get the blame.
"That onyxruby guy just isn't doing a good job. I've got a virus. I thought he was the cybersecurity czar. What does he do all day? Why isn't he protecting my hard drive? How could this happen? I'm going to write a scathing letter. He's been in office for three months now. How hard can it be? My nephew knows computers, he gets on that iTunes all the time and downloads those songs. He says all I need to do is go to Walmart and buy superduberspywareblaster for 10.99 and download that to my hard drive and take care of that virus. Now, there's this elected offical CZAR of all things, and I get me a virus on my hard drive. I can't play my Euchre now, I've got 39 trojans and 15 keyloggers and it says a hacker is stealing my passwords and credit cards. What is he going to do about it?"
Do you want that job? Besides, I don't think he actually does much on a computer at all, I think he's in conference rooms most of the day. Anyone have his credentials and background? Who's on his team? Does he have a team? What's the real purpose of that office, just generating policy? Is he just a posturing politician that knows how to spell TCP/IP? If you know something about "hacking" perhaps you'd be overqualified for the job!
Cold war, nuclear war, chemical war, biological war, conventional war.... cyber war. If a foreign government is sponsoring a coordinated attack against our assets, isn't that a "war"?
Just because it's waged with scripts, bots and other digital means and not with guns and bombs doesn't mean it can't be CALLED a war. Perhaps a cyber cold war.
Do you think that our government ISN'T working on digital defensive and offensive efforts???
Perhaps the federal cyber czar would call it a war if someone actually got in and did some noticeable damage....
yeah, and 90% of the time the ISP bundled "protection" is McAfee, which does nothing, slows the computer, and eventually messes it up having to be forcibly removed. MSE all the way.
Hey, now, they could have figured out the nature of the alien technology and figured out how the systems worked and figured out flaws and weaknesses in the ships systems and then figured out how to implement a virus to disrupt those systems and figured out how to make the mac interface with the ship.
He had plenty of time! Maybe he did it when he was drunk.
Or, maybe he downloaded a trojan toolkit from the interwebs. Probably found it on limewire, that's where all the other viruses are!
When Mr. Reagan went back into the matrix, he's sitting there eating the steak with the agent, and he says something like "I know the steak isn't real, but I don't care"
With windows 7, the perceived performance boost over vista may not be "real" but.... I dont care! (And nor does anyone else, except maybe those people whose laptop batteries bite the dust once they put on 7)
That's true, win7 has quite a lot of drivers included. Not so for vista, xp, and earlier ones. But, you should know, 7 doesn't have ALL the drivers in the whole universe. It's not that good.
In my experience, when the typical user says "I didn't do anything, it just happened" that means that they did something, twice, and they aren't telling you.
When they say it was a "brand new battery that was working fine and it just died" it's really an old battery, they never really used the laptop unplugged before, and they're using the lappy unplugged much more now since win7 is so kewl, so they just noticed it's toast. (just a guess)
Also, if this was a winXP laptop, it's ENTIRELY possible that the hardware is, oh, maybe, WORKING HARDER now that they just threw on Win7??!?? Sure, win7 is "way faster" than vista, but it certainly is a different animal than xp and could certainly be taxing a laptops HD and video and ram more than a typical XP installation on the same hardware. If it's got 1GB of ram maybe it hardly ever swapped before, and now it's swapping occasionally, drawing way more watts on average - especially if the HD isn't able to spin down.
I threw win7 onto a XP netbook with 1GB ram and I haven't noticed any battery life changes yet - but I'm not using it any differently either. I will keep an eye on it tho.
However, since installing win7, my netbook fell out of my car once and dinged up the corner. I think Microsoft should investigate that too.
having a spare drive in the chassis is smart, it compliments raid either by being a hot spare or an "in-the-box" backup. HD's are cheap, downtime is not.
If these pirates continue doing their thing, then merchants will (I would assume?) begin hiring mercenaries (Ahem - security consultants, pardon me) to escort their shipments. "Security Consultants" aren't cheap, of course, and the merchants will be perfectly happy to pass along the costs to the manufacturers shipping costs and that will eventually get passed on to consumers.
Reminds me of a brilliant (original) Bloom County cartoon where (IIRC) Opus was involved in trafficking drugs and the DEA seized one of their shipments. Opus said "We've lost 0.001% of our shipments!" and the other guy yells "Raise prices 0.001%!!"
Yes, cursive should die. There is no point, it is about as relevant as how to use a fountain pen and how to do Calligraphy. Kids should be taught how to print proper letters so they can communicate without any digital gadgets like phones, pda's, IMs and email. They should also be taught grammar and spelling so they don't sound like idiots to people over 30 (or grammar nazis on the intertubes).
But cursive? Besides it being useless, different schools within the same COUNTY in my state can't agree on the SAME STYLE of cursive. I think it's continued existence is just to satisfy tenured English teachers who haven't retired yet.
I've actually made a video in Cinellera once, and it isn't the crashing I remember. It's the fact that compared to a program like Sony Vegas, editing in Cinellera is like flossing with barbed wire. If you try hard enough you can get the job done, but it really hurts.
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Maybe they need to deploy g-locked memory, it's in a car after all. Too many jolts and bumps and it gets the bits all jostled up! Think of the children!
thanks for clearing that up. D+H is a good vendor, good prices to integrators, etc.
someone said these came from D+H. Never hand any trouble with them b4....
Sounds like you think you could do a better job?
Maybe you could. Maybe I could too. But would you want to do that job? It's like you'd be the president of the internet.
When some bureaucrat in washington gets a fake antivirus on their "secured" system, you'd get the blame.
"That onyxruby guy just isn't doing a good job. I've got a virus. I thought he was the cybersecurity czar. What does he do all day? Why isn't he protecting my hard drive? How could this happen? I'm going to write a scathing letter. He's been in office for three months now. How hard can it be? My nephew knows computers, he gets on that iTunes all the time and downloads those songs. He says all I need to do is go to Walmart and buy superduberspywareblaster for 10.99 and download that to my hard drive and take care of that virus. Now, there's this elected offical CZAR of all things, and I get me a virus on my hard drive. I can't play my Euchre now, I've got 39 trojans and 15 keyloggers and it says a hacker is stealing my passwords and credit cards. What is he going to do about it?"
Do you want that job? Besides, I don't think he actually does much on a computer at all, I think he's in conference rooms most of the day. Anyone have his credentials and background? Who's on his team? Does he have a team? What's the real purpose of that office, just generating policy? Is he just a posturing politician that knows how to spell TCP/IP? If you know something about "hacking" perhaps you'd be overqualified for the job!
Cold war, nuclear war, chemical war, biological war, conventional war .... cyber war. If a foreign government is sponsoring a coordinated attack against our assets, isn't that a "war"?
Just because it's waged with scripts, bots and other digital means and not with guns and bombs doesn't mean it can't be CALLED a war. Perhaps a cyber cold war.
Do you think that our government ISN'T working on digital defensive and offensive efforts???
Perhaps the federal cyber czar would call it a war if someone actually got in and did some noticeable damage....
yeah, and 90% of the time the ISP bundled "protection" is McAfee, which does nothing, slows the computer, and eventually messes it up having to be forcibly removed. MSE all the way.
Hey, now, they could have figured out the nature of the alien technology and figured out how the systems worked and figured out flaws and weaknesses in the ships systems and then figured out how to implement a virus to disrupt those systems and figured out how to make the mac interface with the ship.
He had plenty of time! Maybe he did it when he was drunk.
Or, maybe he downloaded a trojan toolkit from the interwebs. Probably found it on limewire, that's where all the other viruses are!
When Mr. Reagan went back into the matrix, he's sitting there eating the steak with the agent, and he says something like "I know the steak isn't real, but I don't care"
.... I dont care! (And nor does anyone else, except maybe those people whose laptop batteries bite the dust once they put on 7)
With windows 7, the perceived performance boost over vista may not be "real" but
That's true, win7 has quite a lot of drivers included. Not so for vista, xp, and earlier ones. But, you should know, 7 doesn't have ALL the drivers in the whole universe. It's not that good.
this is very insightful... and interesting ... but I've no mod points today.
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This one word invalidates not only your entire post, but all of your other posts as well. Here at Slashdot and elsewhere.
Also, if your children have any posts those are invalidated as well.
awwwwwwww.... come on....
In my experience, when the typical user says "I didn't do anything, it just happened" that means that they did something, twice, and they aren't telling you.
When they say it was a "brand new battery that was working fine and it just died" it's really an old battery, they never really used the laptop unplugged before, and they're using the lappy unplugged much more now since win7 is so kewl, so they just noticed it's toast. (just a guess)
Also, if this was a winXP laptop, it's ENTIRELY possible that the hardware is, oh, maybe, WORKING HARDER now that they just threw on Win7??!?? Sure, win7 is "way faster" than vista, but it certainly is a different animal than xp and could certainly be taxing a laptops HD and video and ram more than a typical XP installation on the same hardware. If it's got 1GB of ram maybe it hardly ever swapped before, and now it's swapping occasionally, drawing way more watts on average - especially if the HD isn't able to spin down.
I threw win7 onto a XP netbook with 1GB ram and I haven't noticed any battery life changes yet - but I'm not using it any differently either. I will keep an eye on it tho.
However, since installing win7, my netbook fell out of my car once and dinged up the corner. I think Microsoft should investigate that too.
Dollars per year was probably about the same for him (or less) than buying 3 cheap-o laptops in 10 years...
Come on, it's not Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is dead. The new password MUST be Jack Bauer.
having a spare drive in the chassis is smart, it compliments raid either by being a hot spare or an "in-the-box" backup. HD's are cheap, downtime is not.
2nd analogy is funner tho.
That's a great idea, except for the TOS of the DSL and the horrid upload speeds even good DSL typically has.
Ok Mr Yetihehe is now on a list somewhere.
--snip-- It wasn't that hard - --snip--
That's easy for you to say.
Inflation.
The cost goes up - the price of things goes up.
If these pirates continue doing their thing, then merchants will (I would assume?) begin hiring mercenaries (Ahem - security consultants, pardon me) to escort their shipments. "Security Consultants" aren't cheap, of course, and the merchants will be perfectly happy to pass along the costs to the manufacturers shipping costs and that will eventually get passed on to consumers.
Reminds me of a brilliant (original) Bloom County cartoon where (IIRC) Opus was involved in trafficking drugs and the DEA seized one of their shipments. Opus said "We've lost 0.001% of our shipments!" and the other guy yells "Raise prices 0.001%!!"
I don't recall MS ever saying win7 was immune to malware even when no anti-malware software was installed.
I dont recall seeing MS claim win7 was virus proof...
Yes, cursive should die. There is no point, it is about as relevant as how to use a fountain pen and how to do Calligraphy. Kids should be taught how to print proper letters so they can communicate without any digital gadgets like phones, pda's, IMs and email. They should also be taught grammar and spelling so they don't sound like idiots to people over 30 (or grammar nazis on the intertubes).
But cursive? Besides it being useless, different schools within the same COUNTY in my state can't agree on the SAME STYLE of cursive. I think it's continued existence is just to satisfy tenured English teachers who haven't retired yet.
I thought windows home server resolved this issue a while ago. Their non-raid multi disk approach is well documented regarding it's function as well as philosophy. http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+home+server+doesn't+use+raid
I was suspicious of this at first but reading up on it, it sounds pretty good.
I've actually made a video in Cinellera once, and it isn't the crashing I remember. It's the fact that compared to a program like Sony Vegas, editing in Cinellera is like flossing with barbed wire. If you try hard enough you can get the job done, but it really hurts.