Not a bad idea. But I wonder how much at 10 m is affected by walls. I also wonder how much it's affected by interference from cordless phones and other wireless devices. Usually when they say the range is 10m, the actual usable distance is half that, and only when there's no walls.
Really the problem is with stuff like VarChar(4000) and columns like that, where you could specify that your row could hold more than 8K, and then only to have it fail one day when somebody decides to actually fill up those columns. Take a typical table to hold contact information. You have First Name, Last Name, Company Name, Department Name, Email, Telephone, Fax, Address Line 1, Address Line 2, City, State, Country. Assuming you assign 256 bytes per column (average), you are already up to 3K. And that's just for storing a list of contacts. Take an ordering system where you have to store a shipping and billing contact, and now you have 6K of data, just for the contact info. Sure you could create an extra table for the shipping info, along with another table for the billing info, but now you have 3 tables instead of 1. 256 bytes might seem a bit large for some of these fields, but if you're using nvarchar, remember, that's only 128 characters. Also, Varchar(Max) only works in SQL server 2005. When you go outside the 8K limit, it puts the data on another page. So while you can do all the usual operations you would normally do on a varchar field, your performance does take a bit of a hit.
Also, wouldn't they already have documents on file formats and APIs? What kind of operation are they running that they don't even have API docs handy? Sure some work may need to be done to clean them up for external use, but I hardly doubt that they would be working from scratch on most of these documents.
There's already laws against shooting people. Doesn't stop it from happening. Patent law also says that patents can't be obvious. It doesn't stop obvious things from being patented.
Probably because of the fact that when you ask the OS for a chunk of memory, you don't get to specify what it's address is. With virtual memory systems, you likely wouldn't even know the real physical address of the memory you're writing to. Also, by the time you have booted into your favourite OS, that memory segment is probably being used for something else.
Which is why you should alway unmount your encrypted volumes before you powerdown/hibernate/standby which would ideally clear the contents of memory which contained the key. This would only work in a surprise attack where the user had enough time to poweroff the machine.
If you can manage to steal it while it's still on, and decrypted, then there's no reason for any other kind of attack. Just ensure that you keep the machine powered on, and that there isn't any kind of time-out mechanism on the decryption, so that the key is lost. What you would actually require this attack for, is for if you go to steal the laptop, and someone cuts the power so that it's decrypted. Then, in a rush, you turn it back on and boot up into your special OS, hope that it doesn't overwrite the memory where the key was stored. However, once the machine in powered back on, whatever data managed to be in memory would probably stay there until overwritten, or until the machine was powered off.
Yeah, but what can you really do about it. They probably forged the Caller-ID anyway. There's no way of knowing who actually called. Good luck calling your phone company and getting them to trace it. They have better things to do with their time.
But that's what came on the computer. I didn't buy Vista separately. I know better, I never planned on using Vista, I just wanted a Linux box. But to those people who are less computer savvy, I would say that it's highly misleading. To sell a computer with those specs with Vista pre-installed is misleading the consumer. I would expect that if you're selling a computer with a certain configuration, that it should run reasonably well under that configuration. I'm convinced they got kick backs from Microsoft for increasing the Vista computer count by releasing an extremely cheap laptop which had Vista installed.
Firstly, yes, terrorists can get passports. They will probably be able to get any ID card you create. Also, it doesn't take six months to get a passport in Canada. About 1 month is more likely. If you want to pay extra, you can get it rushed and get it in a couple days. There's nothing specific about the process that requires it to take a long time.
And thanks to $50 Million salaries, it costs $150 for decent seats at the hockey game. The money to pay them is coming from regular joes anyway. Why not just let the regular joes keep their money?
The whole point of the ID cards is so that we wouldn't have to use our passports to cross the US border. If the US wasn't so keen on beefing up border security, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Personally, I don't see the need. If you want to travel to another country, just use your passport. It's not that hard to obtain one.
It does run with all the Eyecandy. Using an Intel GMA 950. Sometimes I turn on the rain just for the fun of it. It doesn't seem to slow the machine down at all.
Yep, it sure is a screamer. I'm running Mandriva 2008 with Compiz and KDE 3.5.8. Flies. I have no problem doing web development and some simple graphic editing (for the web, no 30 MPixel images here) on this computer. It really is amazing what you can do on a computer when you install an OS that is actually attempts to be efficient.
Yeah, but even with Aero disabled, Vista is unbearably slow. I have a laptop which came preinstalled with Vista. 512 MB of RAM, and Celeron 1.7 GHz. Even with all unnecessary services turned off, it still runs extremely slow. XP on a similarly powered machine would run just fine. Good thing I run Mandriva 99% of the time. That allows me to have all the eyecandy using Compiz, and still lets my computer run very quickly.
I thought there was some efforts by third parties to get directX 10 running on Windows XP. Does anybody know if any progress has been made on that front?
That's why dualcore processors are nice. If you limit the malware to only running on one processor, the user would probably never figure it out. I think that most malware authors try not to monopolize the resources. The problem is that if you have one piece of malware, you probably have a whole bunch of it installed. Once you get lots of malware, that's when you're machine really starts to slow down.
I'm wondering why one would need a theme at all. Just edit the style sheets. If you look at what the people from CSS Zen Garden do with just CSS changes, you'll wonder why you would ever need to change the HTML to create a new theme.
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Not a bad idea. But I wonder how much at 10 m is affected by walls. I also wonder how much it's affected by interference from cordless phones and other wireless devices. Usually when they say the range is 10m, the actual usable distance is half that, and only when there's no walls.
Which OS would that be?
Really the problem is with stuff like VarChar(4000) and columns like that, where you could specify that your row could hold more than 8K, and then only to have it fail one day when somebody decides to actually fill up those columns. Take a typical table to hold contact information. You have First Name, Last Name, Company Name, Department Name, Email, Telephone, Fax, Address Line 1, Address Line 2, City, State, Country. Assuming you assign 256 bytes per column (average), you are already up to 3K. And that's just for storing a list of contacts. Take an ordering system where you have to store a shipping and billing contact, and now you have 6K of data, just for the contact info. Sure you could create an extra table for the shipping info, along with another table for the billing info, but now you have 3 tables instead of 1. 256 bytes might seem a bit large for some of these fields, but if you're using nvarchar, remember, that's only 128 characters. Also, Varchar(Max) only works in SQL server 2005. When you go outside the 8K limit, it puts the data on another page. So while you can do all the usual operations you would normally do on a varchar field, your performance does take a bit of a hit.
Yeah, sure would be nice to be able to have more than 8K of data in a single row.
Also, wouldn't they already have documents on file formats and APIs? What kind of operation are they running that they don't even have API docs handy? Sure some work may need to be done to clean them up for external use, but I hardly doubt that they would be working from scratch on most of these documents.
There's already laws against shooting people. Doesn't stop it from happening. Patent law also says that patents can't be obvious. It doesn't stop obvious things from being patented.
Probably because of the fact that when you ask the OS for a chunk of memory, you don't get to specify what it's address is. With virtual memory systems, you likely wouldn't even know the real physical address of the memory you're writing to. Also, by the time you have booted into your favourite OS, that memory segment is probably being used for something else.
Which is why you should alway unmount your encrypted volumes before you powerdown/hibernate/standby which would ideally clear the contents of memory which contained the key. This would only work in a surprise attack where the user had enough time to poweroff the machine.
If you can manage to steal it while it's still on, and decrypted, then there's no reason for any other kind of attack. Just ensure that you keep the machine powered on, and that there isn't any kind of time-out mechanism on the decryption, so that the key is lost. What you would actually require this attack for, is for if you go to steal the laptop, and someone cuts the power so that it's decrypted. Then, in a rush, you turn it back on and boot up into your special OS, hope that it doesn't overwrite the memory where the key was stored. However, once the machine in powered back on, whatever data managed to be in memory would probably stay there until overwritten, or until the machine was powered off.
Yeah, but what can you really do about it. They probably forged the Caller-ID anyway. There's no way of knowing who actually called. Good luck calling your phone company and getting them to trace it. They have better things to do with their time.
Exactly. Just look at what happened with the "private" myspace pictures. If you don't want the information getting out, don't post it on the internet.
But that's what came on the computer. I didn't buy Vista separately. I know better, I never planned on using Vista, I just wanted a Linux box. But to those people who are less computer savvy, I would say that it's highly misleading. To sell a computer with those specs with Vista pre-installed is misleading the consumer. I would expect that if you're selling a computer with a certain configuration, that it should run reasonably well under that configuration. I'm convinced they got kick backs from Microsoft for increasing the Vista computer count by releasing an extremely cheap laptop which had Vista installed.
The M is for mobile. So it's essentially a low power processor. It would probably run about the same speed as the 2 GHz Pentium 4.
Just imagine if the cables were cut to that one computer.
Firstly, yes, terrorists can get passports. They will probably be able to get any ID card you create. Also, it doesn't take six months to get a passport in Canada. About 1 month is more likely. If you want to pay extra, you can get it rushed and get it in a couple days. There's nothing specific about the process that requires it to take a long time.
And thanks to $50 Million salaries, it costs $150 for decent seats at the hockey game. The money to pay them is coming from regular joes anyway. Why not just let the regular joes keep their money?
The whole point of the ID cards is so that we wouldn't have to use our passports to cross the US border. If the US wasn't so keen on beefing up border security, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Personally, I don't see the need. If you want to travel to another country, just use your passport. It's not that hard to obtain one.
It does run with all the Eyecandy. Using an Intel GMA 950. Sometimes I turn on the rain just for the fun of it. It doesn't seem to slow the machine down at all.
Yep, it sure is a screamer. I'm running Mandriva 2008 with Compiz and KDE 3.5.8. Flies. I have no problem doing web development and some simple graphic editing (for the web, no 30 MPixel images here) on this computer. It really is amazing what you can do on a computer when you install an OS that is actually attempts to be efficient.
I'm one of those people. Except I'm running Mandriva. The plus side is that I was able to get a really nice Linux laptop for $CDN 500.
Yeah, but even with Aero disabled, Vista is unbearably slow. I have a laptop which came preinstalled with Vista. 512 MB of RAM, and Celeron 1.7 GHz. Even with all unnecessary services turned off, it still runs extremely slow. XP on a similarly powered machine would run just fine. Good thing I run Mandriva 99% of the time. That allows me to have all the eyecandy using Compiz, and still lets my computer run very quickly.
I thought there was some efforts by third parties to get directX 10 running on Windows XP. Does anybody know if any progress has been made on that front?
That's why dualcore processors are nice. If you limit the malware to only running on one processor, the user would probably never figure it out. I think that most malware authors try not to monopolize the resources. The problem is that if you have one piece of malware, you probably have a whole bunch of it installed. Once you get lots of malware, that's when you're machine really starts to slow down.
I'm wondering why one would need a theme at all. Just edit the style sheets. If you look at what the people from CSS Zen Garden do with just CSS changes, you'll wonder why you would ever need to change the HTML to create a new theme.
I'm assuming you mean perimeter and not circumference. Also, as someone else pointed out, how would you define diameter of a polygon?