Well, maybe having lots of perks will attract more rich students, who they can heavily tax with fees to dump back into the aid pool, thus offering more services and better financial aid to all.
(I know it doesn't work that way, but we can dream)
Uhhh, if you make a run of parts and 300 good parts come off of it instead of 200. Just throw 100 of the good ones away, and the problem is solved. Sure it means you have more of them to put thru the rest of the processing, but I'm guessing increasing the number of good wafers is an easy problem to have.
Exactly. Or, you could just do fewer runs later in the quarter! They must have a target for the number of chips they should produce. Once they hit those targets, they should shift to more R&D, etc, instead of just churning out chips.
I wonder if, perhaps, Intel used to be able to sell just about every chip it was able to make, so they just made as many as possible. Now they can't do that.
1. Don't let the laptop out of your sight unless you have to, unless it's locked behind a private door (i'm serious). 2. Since you will have to, buy insurance on it. It's about $75 a year for $5k of coverage and that covers everything in the room, including your clothes.
I had someone walk into my room, and steal my camera from me while my roommates weren't looking (I was gone at the time). There isn't much you can do to stop that, except buy a safe.
Second, try something like stuffbak.com (I haven't used it myself, but i hear good things). If you leave it somewhere and a good person happens to find it first, you get it back, and they get a reward.
Re:... and 20 years later, it's meaningless.
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Except that American Pie and Scary Movie are both rated R...
Thats an excellent idea, but recording the voice and picture of the lecturer requires permission, which isn't always easy to get, not to mention a flash during a lecture would be very irritating for everyone. (My History Prof specifically banned anyone from recording his lectures in a class announcemnt, although I don't know if he would have made an exception in the submitter's case.)
So we all complain that SP2 is taking far too long to come out. Then we complain it's far too complicated to deploy, so we don't install it. Then once we do, we immediately complain it's not good enough.
If it's not good enough, why didn't we all complain during the last 14 or so months when it was still in development.
FWIW, the built in firewall is better than the firewall in my router, in that it can open ports based on program, instead of statically keeping them open. Neither have outbound protection. Since most home users have only the router, if that, I'd say it's a step in the right direction.
Also, keep in mind that adding a full featured ZA-style firewall might risk more anti-trust lawsuits.
Reverse Firewall? As far as I know, a wall of fire would be flaming on both sides.
All kidding aside, all capable firewalls do have outbound protection built into them. Consumer software firewalls monitor which programs are allowed to access the internet, for example, and enterprise-level firewalls allow you to define heuristics to block certain traffic patterns.
So, basically, the article is just suggesting a new name for an old concept. Really, the author wants consumer networking devices to have more capable firewalls.
He's missing something: home PCs aren't spam-generators, they are spam relays. The spam has to be getting in somehow, and that is something a normal firewall should be able to stop. On top of that, they have downloaded a trojan or been hit by a worm to turn them into relays in the first place, which is something a firewall + AV should prevent.
Also, it's probably just as easy to educate 75% of the people how not to become a spam relay as it is to get 75% of the people to buy something with a reverse firewall and then train them how to use it (most people I know just put their computers into the DMZ when they play games because they don't know how to forward ports).
Sure, layered security is a good thing, but I see this as likely to generate many headaches with not much benefit
I have 3000/512 service through an SBC leased line, and I get it at the same price as SBC-yahoo users, but I get 4 static IPs and excellent customer service. (They've called me thrice- once to insure I had thing setup okay, and twice to make sure a problem was fixed to my satisfaction)
I can thing of 3 other ISPs available to me who have the same qualities.
If the CIO is going to do a company-wide roll out of beta software and call it a "test", the CIO is already breaking the company.
The idea is, you build a small test lab, see what has changed and what won't work, then you create new group policy objects to handle it. You then disable the GPO until you create a new GPO that deploys SP2 to the machines. Both GPO's go live automatically, and you've covered your ass. Geez, maybe I should be CIO.
A real pro would use those screws that have two ramps on the head, so you can tighten them easy, but if you try to loosen them the bit just slides up the ramp in circles.
I read the attached link. So, now, when you buy a domain it can take 12-18 hours for it to show up in Verisign's DNS servers. But in the future, it will show up in 5 minutes.
The same seems to be true with making DNS changes (new IP address, etc). However, doesn't that mean they will have to adjust the TTL value of the domains all the way down to 5 minutes, which will raise the number of queries skyhigh compared to what they are at now? (Thanks to caching)
That's not the point of PID validation. If you have 30 PKey's, then you must have 30 Retail Keys, and therefore have to activate them. If it activates, the key is considered valid.
PID disqualification applies to corporate VLK's, which run on versions of XP that don't need to be activated (can you imagine activating 10000 copies during a deployment of XP). Those copies are, of course, ripe for pirating. Apparently, valid VLK's only generate a subset of possible valid PIDs, so they can tell if you are using a bad key (read: keygen'ed key) by the PID and you won't be able to use WU.
You aren't going to get audited with only 30 XP licences. The cost of the audit far outweighs the cost they could hope to make from you. It's like the IRS auditing a 16 year old kid who makes $1500 yearly at a part time job.
Your ideas about keeping more space on the road are sound, but if everyone were to do that (which, in my estimating and own experience is about twice as much space as most people give) the density of traffic would be much lower so fewer cars could fit on the roadway at a time.
why not an iPod? 10000 songs, just put it on repeat and shuffle, and off you go.
On a side note- muzak is intended to be calming for everyone. Instead it's annoying. All other music is written for a specific audience, so no matter what you play, someone won't like it. i say load the iPod with some of everything.
I looked at the site, but wasn't able to find anything related to SMP-enabled computers. One of the major downsides of SETI classic was, in my opinion, the fact that it wasn't multi-threaded or SMP aware. Thus, on my dual processor machine, I had to run 2 copies at the same time in order to use both CPUs. That also meant I had to fix each process to a CPU, which doesn't lend itself to the most efficient thread management by the OS.
So, is BOINC multi-threaded? Can it use more than one CPU effectively?
While you might be right, I hardly believe that a large number of users are running their computers 24/7 just to appear on a semi-obscure top 100-list.
Also, I followed your link and I like the new system much better- it awards credits based on CPU time/clock rate instead of just number of work units completed. Thus one credit will be more uniform across all platforms. What's wrong with that?
disclaimer: I didn't RTFA, so maybe it's addressed in there.
88/100 of a second? as in.0088 seconds? I'm sure the typical driver will keep his foot on the brake on the same turn with a variance of more than plus/minus.0088 seconds each lap. Assuming a 500 lap race, the car would finish 4.4 seconds faster. One bad pitstop erases that advantage.
What about the weather? Did they include that into the calculation? Or is each of the 68 settings optimized for humidity and temperature? (One set of settings for each weather condition)
Yes, it's cool that they applied genetic algorithms to the car, but I think that the advantage is so slim that you'd be better off getting a better driver than paying to see exactly what you should set the 68 parameters to. -Ryan
Well, the image isn't to scale. Actually, the solar panels on the spacecraft are 100's of 1000's of meters long so the earth and moon are just illuminated by the reflecting sunlight.
Come on, you remember that day when is was light all around the world don't you?
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Well, maybe having lots of perks will attract more rich students, who they can heavily tax with fees to dump back into the aid pool, thus offering more services and better financial aid to all. (I know it doesn't work that way, but we can dream)
Uhhh, if you make a run of parts and 300 good parts come off of it instead of 200. Just throw 100 of the good ones away, and the problem is solved. Sure it means you have more of them to put thru the rest of the processing, but I'm guessing increasing the number of good wafers is an easy problem to have.
Exactly. Or, you could just do fewer runs later in the quarter! They must have a target for the number of chips they should produce. Once they hit those targets, they should shift to more R&D, etc, instead of just churning out chips.
I wonder if, perhaps, Intel used to be able to sell just about every chip it was able to make, so they just made as many as possible. Now they can't do that.
The scariest thing is that the parent was modded "informative"
1. Don't let the laptop out of your sight unless you have to, unless it's locked behind a private door (i'm serious).
2. Since you will have to, buy insurance on it. It's about $75 a year for $5k of coverage and that covers everything in the room, including your clothes.
I had someone walk into my room, and steal my camera from me while my roommates weren't looking (I was gone at the time). There isn't much you can do to stop that, except buy a safe.
Second, try something like stuffbak.com (I haven't used it myself, but i hear good things). If you leave it somewhere and a good person happens to find it first, you get it back, and they get a reward.
Except that American Pie and Scary Movie are both rated R...
Thats an excellent idea, but recording the voice and picture of the lecturer requires permission, which isn't always easy to get, not to mention a flash during a lecture would be very irritating for everyone. (My History Prof specifically banned anyone from recording his lectures in a class announcemnt, although I don't know if he would have made an exception in the submitter's case.)
So we all complain that SP2 is taking far too long to come out. Then we complain it's far too complicated to deploy, so we don't install it. Then once we do, we immediately complain it's not good enough.
If it's not good enough, why didn't we all complain during the last 14 or so months when it was still in development.
FWIW, the built in firewall is better than the firewall in my router, in that it can open ports based on program, instead of statically keeping them open. Neither have outbound protection. Since most home users have only the router, if that, I'd say it's a step in the right direction.
Also, keep in mind that adding a full featured ZA-style firewall might risk more anti-trust lawsuits.
Reverse Firewall? As far as I know, a wall of fire would be flaming on both sides.
All kidding aside, all capable firewalls do have outbound protection built into them. Consumer software firewalls monitor which programs are allowed to access the internet, for example, and enterprise-level firewalls allow you to define heuristics to block certain traffic patterns.
So, basically, the article is just suggesting a new name for an old concept. Really, the author wants consumer networking devices to have more capable firewalls.
He's missing something: home PCs aren't spam-generators, they are spam relays. The spam has to be getting in somehow, and that is something a normal firewall should be able to stop. On top of that, they have downloaded a trojan or been hit by a worm to turn them into relays in the first place, which is something a firewall + AV should prevent.
Also, it's probably just as easy to educate 75% of the people how not to become a spam relay as it is to get 75% of the people to buy something with a reverse firewall and then train them how to use it (most people I know just put their computers into the DMZ when they play games because they don't know how to forward ports).
Sure, layered security is a good thing, but I see this as likely to generate many headaches with not much benefit
Not if they do co-hosting like they do with DSL.
I have 3000/512 service through an SBC leased line, and I get it at the same price as SBC-yahoo users, but I get 4 static IPs and excellent customer service. (They've called me thrice- once to insure I had thing setup okay, and twice to make sure a problem was fixed to my satisfaction)
I can thing of 3 other ISPs available to me who have the same qualities.
so, MUM's the word?
If the CIO is going to do a company-wide roll out of beta software and call it a "test", the CIO is already breaking the company.
The idea is, you build a small test lab, see what has changed and what won't work, then you create new group policy objects to handle it. You then disable the GPO until you create a new GPO that deploys SP2 to the machines. Both GPO's go live automatically, and you've covered your ass. Geez, maybe I should be CIO.
Read the EULA. You paid for x copies of retail XP, not corporate XP.
Since nobody has torx screwdrivers, I bet nobody knows what a torx screw is either.
Apparently those are what i call 'star head' screws: Site with a few pics of torx screws, thanks to google
A real pro would use those screws that have two ramps on the head, so you can tighten them easy, but if you try to loosen them the bit just slides up the ramp in circles.
I see this as a good thing, personally. The more stupid DMCA lawsuits, the closer it is to being overturned/ruled unconstutional.
I read the attached link. So, now, when you buy a domain it can take 12-18 hours for it to show up in Verisign's DNS servers. But in the future, it will show up in 5 minutes.
The same seems to be true with making DNS changes (new IP address, etc). However, doesn't that mean they will have to adjust the TTL value of the domains all the way down to 5 minutes, which will raise the number of queries skyhigh compared to what they are at now? (Thanks to caching)
That's not the point of PID validation. If you have 30 PKey's, then you must have 30 Retail Keys, and therefore have to activate them. If it activates, the key is considered valid.
PID disqualification applies to corporate VLK's, which run on versions of XP that don't need to be activated (can you imagine activating 10000 copies during a deployment of XP). Those copies are, of course, ripe for pirating. Apparently, valid VLK's only generate a subset of possible valid PIDs, so they can tell if you are using a bad key (read: keygen'ed key) by the PID and you won't be able to use WU.
You aren't going to get audited with only 30 XP licences. The cost of the audit far outweighs the cost they could hope to make from you. It's like the IRS auditing a 16 year old kid who makes $1500 yearly at a part time job.
Your ideas about keeping more space on the road are sound, but if everyone were to do that (which, in my estimating and own experience is about twice as much space as most people give) the density of traffic would be much lower so fewer cars could fit on the roadway at a time.
Why didn't you just disable the messenger service? Then they can command prompt all they want.
why not an iPod? 10000 songs, just put it on repeat and shuffle, and off you go.
On a side note- muzak is intended to be calming for everyone. Instead it's annoying. All other music is written for a specific audience, so no matter what you play, someone won't like it. i say load the iPod with some of everything.
I looked at the site, but wasn't able to find anything related to SMP-enabled computers. One of the major downsides of SETI classic was, in my opinion, the fact that it wasn't multi-threaded or SMP aware. Thus, on my dual processor machine, I had to run 2 copies at the same time in order to use both CPUs. That also meant I had to fix each process to a CPU, which doesn't lend itself to the most efficient thread management by the OS.
So, is BOINC multi-threaded? Can it use more than one CPU effectively?
While you might be right, I hardly believe that a large number of users are running their computers 24/7 just to appear on a semi-obscure top 100-list.
Also, I followed your link and I like the new system much better- it awards credits based on CPU time/clock rate instead of just number of work units completed. Thus one credit will be more uniform across all platforms. What's wrong with that?
root post is made irrelevant by the math error corrected in the reply.
disclaimer: I didn't RTFA, so maybe it's addressed in there.
.0088 seconds? I'm sure the typical driver will keep his foot on the brake on the same turn with a variance of more than plus/minus .0088 seconds each lap. Assuming a 500 lap race, the car would finish 4.4 seconds faster. One bad pitstop erases that advantage.
88/100 of a second? as in
What about the weather? Did they include that into the calculation? Or is each of the 68 settings optimized for humidity and temperature? (One set of settings for each weather condition)
Yes, it's cool that they applied genetic algorithms to the car, but I think that the advantage is so slim that you'd be better off getting a better driver than paying to see exactly what you should set the 68 parameters to.
-Ryan
I can't believe you chose to compare UT to Quake 3 in terms of gameplay content.
That's like saying the plot of a newspaper is better than than of the dictionary.
Well, the image isn't to scale. Actually, the solar panels on the spacecraft are 100's of 1000's of meters long so the earth and moon are just illuminated by the reflecting sunlight.
Come on, you remember that day when is was light all around the world don't you?