But if you have malware on your computer, it's likely acting as a keylogger, so keeping your Credit card numbers encrypted would not help very much. Next time you typed it in, it would record it. Also, smart malware would read the values from all the text boxes appearing in your browser to try an capture values where were already stored by autocomplete. If it's displaying it on the screen, it's in memory somewhere unencrypted. It would just have to wait for the browser to make a call to it's unencryption algorithm, and then take the number.
I believe the peanut butter sandwich patent is #6,874,409. Which is actually a patent on Smucker's crustless PB&J sandwiches. Premade peanut butter sandwiches sound a little lazy to me, crustless or otherwise. But at least they're selling the product. I'm not sure what the patent is on putting toys out for kids to play with, although I'm sure it's something to do with putting toys out for kids to play with while in the waiting room at the doctor's/dental offices so they don't get bored. I hope this patent is real old, because I remember my dentist doing it in 1985.
And what's to stop people from wiping the hard drives and installing Linux, thereby using the computer without seeing the targetted advertising? Unless they used their own proprietary hardware, it would probably be pretty easy to run any software you wanted to on them (ala XBox). If they used anything too specialized, the extra costs created from the custom hardware would defeat being able to sell it at a reduced cost compared to regular PC hardware.
I think this is the problem. One of the major points of open source is that you can fix it yourself, or pay someone else to, when the original coders either decide to stop supporting it, or go out of business. If they block you in hardware from actually running that fixed code, then you might as well be running closed source. This is especially true for specialized hardware like routers. If you're just using regular PC's because you can get the hardware anywhere, so it's not such a big deal. It's all great to say here's the code, go make your own changes, but that's kind of useless when you have no hardware to run it on.
How exactly do you certify ethics? I mean, you can learn about ethics and probably pass quite a few tests on ethics without actually being an ethical person. Granted, it's nice to know how to "hack" since knowing the possible security holes that exist in systems is a great way to ensure high security in your own work. Case in point. I knew a "network admin" who didn't think it was possible to change the MAC address. Invalid assumptions such as this can lead to people assuming their system is secure when it really isn't. Knowing the pitfalls of other systems, security related or not, is of great importance when designing new systems.
As far as IT and computers go, i'm not sure I know anybody who can really learn by anything other than sitting down and actually doing it. I myself can learn high level concepts pretty well from just listening, or reading about the material, but when it comes to actually sitting down and applying what you know, you have to have some hands on experience before you can really use your knowledge. I learned pretty well in school about all the concepts I needed to pass the test, just from listening to the professors, however, the assignments usually required actual hands on learning in order to actually get them done correctly.
This really is a good idea. $500 could buy you quite a few good books, and would give employees an incentive to go and read them. I've never known an organization to do that though. I was a coop student once and they sent me on a week long course, because they still had a bunch of training vouchers left that they hadn't used. It was a nice course, but probably nothing I couldn't have learned from buying a $75 book and spending the week reading and doing my own learning. No matter what level of course you take, from beginner to expert, you'll probably spend about half your time going over stuff you already know.
I realize what you're saying, but at the end of the day, the router connecting say, the web servers to the database server is usually much faster than it needs to be. Most of the time it can handle the traffic going back and forth with no problem, and the slowest part is actually getting the database to return the results. I'm not saying that specialized hardware for routers isn't a good thing, but rather wondering why we don't see this technique used on other machines in the datacentre. What makes the routers so special. It doesn't make much difference if the network takes 10 ms or.5 ms to return the results when the database takes 100 ms to run the query.
Can you please tell me why businesses are still running Databases on General purpose boxes with a general purpose OS then? It seems to me that something as resource intensive, time critical, specialized, and expensive as your typical enterprise level database server should be run on specific hardware and a specific OS geared towards running a database. Why do you put your data files on top of a file system that's designed to be general purpose, when you could probably get better performance by dedicating a raw partition or device straight to the database. Wouldn't it be nice if your processor had a Join instruction, or special instructions used for searching large amounts of data. Why are routers the only place where we get specialized hardware and OSes, even though they are rarely the bottleneck.
I guess it depends on the type of recumbent you have. Most that i've seen place your head (which is the highest thing on the bike) at about the same level as the bottom of the window of a typical sedan. Way below where the driver of an SUV or other truck would be able to see you. You still can't see beyond the cars if they happen to get in your way, and many cars won't notice you. I realize that even when you are riding a normal bike they often don't see you, but I think a regular bike gives you a much better chance.
It doesn't limit the innovation of anything. Nobody is saying that you can't build a recumbent, or that you aren't allowed to experiment with new bicycle designs. All their saying is that you can't ride them in that specific race. It would be like allowing Formula 1 Cars to race against NASCAR. Or using metal bats in the major leagues. Or using an NFL football in the CFL. There's just certain thing that they limit in sports in order to make it more about the person competing, and not about severe differences in equipment.
I imagine that something with a fixed crank would require much different gearing than a regular bicycle. Going down big hills would be a problem because when I ride, I often have to pedal extremely fast if I want to have any effect on the speed of the bike. Also, this seems like it would be a lot of wasted effort, and you would probably have the wheel pushing your legs about as often as you would have you legs pushing the wheel. Maintaining an exact zero equilibrium would be hard. You would either end up speeding up continuously, or having your legs work against the wheel when you are slowing down.
So, if a car is travelling along beside you on the left (assuming you are on the right side of the road), then how good is the driver's situational awareness about you? How much can you actually see what's going on. I ride my regular bike to work, and I feel like having the extra height even above most cars really helps to let me see what all the crazy drivers are doing. I can't imagine seeing much, or having the drivers notice me if I was on a recumbent bicycle.
It's called a database abstraction layer. You have to build your own objects that support saving themselves to the database. It's not as much work as it sounds like, and will actually save you a lot of trouble in the long run.
Yeah, but it's not like the have any contract with the users about how much uptime they will get. They lose money from lost advertising revenue, but they don't really have anybody to answer to except themselves. It's not as if the users are just going to head elsewhere because they were down for a couple days. I also don't think they make enough money, or host valuable enough content to bother having a second datacentre doing nothing just in case something goes wrong in the first place. We see this all the time with free services. If I had a dollar for every time my Yahoo Mail/Hotmail/Geocities/Tripod accounts have been down over the years, I'd probably be able to buy a Nintendo Wii.
It really depends on how often you plan on buying a new video card. Myself, I buy a new video card about as often as I buy a new processor/mainboard/ram/everything else. However I shy away from onboard video because it sucks pretty bad. If they could through together a decent onchip GPU it would have super low latency, and could have a lot of extra advantages.
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I use the same layout for my panels. The one on the bottom is 2 high so that you can have 2 rows in the taskbar. On the right side I have vertical panel that houses a bunch of icons for quick launching all the applications I regularly use. I don't have it hidden though. I have a 19 inch flat panel, and find that I have more than enough screen real estate even with the extra space taken up on the side.
This is an unfair question, as it only applies when you actually stop playing and turn the thing off. I don't know about you, but I don't ever plan to stop playing my Wii once I get it.
It would be nice to have a file that said what volume the movie sound track should be at each point. Using the same volume throughout the entire movie or manually switching it yourself would be a real pain. Plus, if they're selling these tracks, it would give a more professional appeal to them. It wouldn't really be much to complain about for fan made commentaries that your download for free, but for something they expect to charge for, it would be a nice feature.
Yeah, I remember some artists saying that the production companies were still taking their share for breakage, shipping, and a multitude of other things that don't apply to digitally distributed music. Also, artists like Weird Al, (let's not argue about whether or not he's an artist), were actually even getting a smaller cut per song/album when it was sold digitally. Sucks to him for signing the contract, but the record companies are being quite underhanded in their dealings. I seriously hope there's a large number of artists who form some kind of revolution and dump their production companies. They could probably sell tracks for 50 cents each and make more money then they are now with their current deals.
Are the Americans seriously going to elect another republican president after 8 years of what bush has given them. I guess in this case its a good thing they can only be elected twice, since I never thought they'd elect him the second time. Even with an "approval rating" of 30%, it wouldn't surprise me if he got elected again (if he could run). In canada we switched sides because of a little payoff to friends of the liberals, nothing even close to as bad as denying our constitutional rights to privacy.
What we really need is a special media player that can play the comentary track on top of the DVD in your computer, so that the sounds will be synced properly. Also, you would need a little threatre seat outline at the bottom of the screen overlayed on the video to add to the full effect. It might be nice to include a file that would turn the sound of the actual movie up or down to accomodate hearing the commentary during noisy parts of the movie, without cutting out all the sound to the movie. This could be a great concept, and a nice break from the director commentary we are used to seeing.
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But if you have malware on your computer, it's likely acting as a keylogger, so keeping your Credit card numbers encrypted would not help very much. Next time you typed it in, it would record it. Also, smart malware would read the values from all the text boxes appearing in your browser to try an capture values where were already stored by autocomplete. If it's displaying it on the screen, it's in memory somewhere unencrypted. It would just have to wait for the browser to make a call to it's unencryption algorithm, and then take the number.
I didn't lose any of my bookmarks. Is this a known problem? because I didn't experience it.
I believe the peanut butter sandwich patent is #6,874,409. Which is actually a patent on Smucker's crustless PB&J sandwiches. Premade peanut butter sandwiches sound a little lazy to me, crustless or otherwise. But at least they're selling the product. I'm not sure what the patent is on putting toys out for kids to play with, although I'm sure it's something to do with putting toys out for kids to play with while in the waiting room at the doctor's/dental offices so they don't get bored. I hope this patent is real old, because I remember my dentist doing it in 1985.
And what's to stop people from wiping the hard drives and installing Linux, thereby using the computer without seeing the targetted advertising? Unless they used their own proprietary hardware, it would probably be pretty easy to run any software you wanted to on them (ala XBox). If they used anything too specialized, the extra costs created from the custom hardware would defeat being able to sell it at a reduced cost compared to regular PC hardware.
I think this is the problem. One of the major points of open source is that you can fix it yourself, or pay someone else to, when the original coders either decide to stop supporting it, or go out of business. If they block you in hardware from actually running that fixed code, then you might as well be running closed source. This is especially true for specialized hardware like routers. If you're just using regular PC's because you can get the hardware anywhere, so it's not such a big deal. It's all great to say here's the code, go make your own changes, but that's kind of useless when you have no hardware to run it on.
How exactly do you certify ethics? I mean, you can learn about ethics and probably pass quite a few tests on ethics without actually being an ethical person. Granted, it's nice to know how to "hack" since knowing the possible security holes that exist in systems is a great way to ensure high security in your own work. Case in point. I knew a "network admin" who didn't think it was possible to change the MAC address. Invalid assumptions such as this can lead to people assuming their system is secure when it really isn't. Knowing the pitfalls of other systems, security related or not, is of great importance when designing new systems.
As far as IT and computers go, i'm not sure I know anybody who can really learn by anything other than sitting down and actually doing it. I myself can learn high level concepts pretty well from just listening, or reading about the material, but when it comes to actually sitting down and applying what you know, you have to have some hands on experience before you can really use your knowledge. I learned pretty well in school about all the concepts I needed to pass the test, just from listening to the professors, however, the assignments usually required actual hands on learning in order to actually get them done correctly.
This really is a good idea. $500 could buy you quite a few good books, and would give employees an incentive to go and read them. I've never known an organization to do that though. I was a coop student once and they sent me on a week long course, because they still had a bunch of training vouchers left that they hadn't used. It was a nice course, but probably nothing I couldn't have learned from buying a $75 book and spending the week reading and doing my own learning. No matter what level of course you take, from beginner to expert, you'll probably spend about half your time going over stuff you already know.
I'm currently using 34 Megs of RAM for 6 tabs. I don't know how people get firefox to use so much memory.
I realize what you're saying, but at the end of the day, the router connecting say, the web servers to the database server is usually much faster than it needs to be. Most of the time it can handle the traffic going back and forth with no problem, and the slowest part is actually getting the database to return the results. I'm not saying that specialized hardware for routers isn't a good thing, but rather wondering why we don't see this technique used on other machines in the datacentre. What makes the routers so special. It doesn't make much difference if the network takes 10 ms or .5 ms to return the results when the database takes 100 ms to run the query.
Can you please tell me why businesses are still running Databases on General purpose boxes with a general purpose OS then? It seems to me that something as resource intensive, time critical, specialized, and expensive as your typical enterprise level database server should be run on specific hardware and a specific OS geared towards running a database. Why do you put your data files on top of a file system that's designed to be general purpose, when you could probably get better performance by dedicating a raw partition or device straight to the database. Wouldn't it be nice if your processor had a Join instruction, or special instructions used for searching large amounts of data. Why are routers the only place where we get specialized hardware and OSes, even though they are rarely the bottleneck.
I guess it depends on the type of recumbent you have. Most that i've seen place your head (which is the highest thing on the bike) at about the same level as the bottom of the window of a typical sedan. Way below where the driver of an SUV or other truck would be able to see you. You still can't see beyond the cars if they happen to get in your way, and many cars won't notice you. I realize that even when you are riding a normal bike they often don't see you, but I think a regular bike gives you a much better chance.
It doesn't limit the innovation of anything. Nobody is saying that you can't build a recumbent, or that you aren't allowed to experiment with new bicycle designs. All their saying is that you can't ride them in that specific race. It would be like allowing Formula 1 Cars to race against NASCAR. Or using metal bats in the major leagues. Or using an NFL football in the CFL. There's just certain thing that they limit in sports in order to make it more about the person competing, and not about severe differences in equipment.
I imagine that something with a fixed crank would require much different gearing than a regular bicycle. Going down big hills would be a problem because when I ride, I often have to pedal extremely fast if I want to have any effect on the speed of the bike. Also, this seems like it would be a lot of wasted effort, and you would probably have the wheel pushing your legs about as often as you would have you legs pushing the wheel. Maintaining an exact zero equilibrium would be hard. You would either end up speeding up continuously, or having your legs work against the wheel when you are slowing down.
So, if a car is travelling along beside you on the left (assuming you are on the right side of the road), then how good is the driver's situational awareness about you? How much can you actually see what's going on. I ride my regular bike to work, and I feel like having the extra height even above most cars really helps to let me see what all the crazy drivers are doing. I can't imagine seeing much, or having the drivers notice me if I was on a recumbent bicycle.
It's called a database abstraction layer. You have to build your own objects that support saving themselves to the database. It's not as much work as it sounds like, and will actually save you a lot of trouble in the long run.
Great. Now when are they going to support AMD in their Desktop and Workstation models.
Yeah, but it's not like the have any contract with the users about how much uptime they will get. They lose money from lost advertising revenue, but they don't really have anybody to answer to except themselves. It's not as if the users are just going to head elsewhere because they were down for a couple days. I also don't think they make enough money, or host valuable enough content to bother having a second datacentre doing nothing just in case something goes wrong in the first place. We see this all the time with free services. If I had a dollar for every time my Yahoo Mail/Hotmail/Geocities/Tripod accounts have been down over the years, I'd probably be able to buy a Nintendo Wii.
It really depends on how often you plan on buying a new video card. Myself, I buy a new video card about as often as I buy a new processor/mainboard/ram/everything else. However I shy away from onboard video because it sucks pretty bad. If they could through together a decent onchip GPU it would have super low latency, and could have a lot of extra advantages.
I use the same layout for my panels. The one on the bottom is 2 high so that you can have 2 rows in the taskbar. On the right side I have vertical panel that houses a bunch of icons for quick launching all the applications I regularly use. I don't have it hidden though. I have a 19 inch flat panel, and find that I have more than enough screen real estate even with the extra space taken up on the side.
This is an unfair question, as it only applies when you actually stop playing and turn the thing off. I don't know about you, but I don't ever plan to stop playing my Wii once I get it.
It would be nice to have a file that said what volume the movie sound track should be at each point. Using the same volume throughout the entire movie or manually switching it yourself would be a real pain. Plus, if they're selling these tracks, it would give a more professional appeal to them. It wouldn't really be much to complain about for fan made commentaries that your download for free, but for something they expect to charge for, it would be a nice feature.
Yeah, I remember some artists saying that the production companies were still taking their share for breakage, shipping, and a multitude of other things that don't apply to digitally distributed music. Also, artists like Weird Al, (let's not argue about whether or not he's an artist), were actually even getting a smaller cut per song/album when it was sold digitally. Sucks to him for signing the contract, but the record companies are being quite underhanded in their dealings. I seriously hope there's a large number of artists who form some kind of revolution and dump their production companies. They could probably sell tracks for 50 cents each and make more money then they are now with their current deals.
Are the Americans seriously going to elect another republican president after 8 years of what bush has given them. I guess in this case its a good thing they can only be elected twice, since I never thought they'd elect him the second time. Even with an "approval rating" of 30%, it wouldn't surprise me if he got elected again (if he could run). In canada we switched sides because of a little payoff to friends of the liberals, nothing even close to as bad as denying our constitutional rights to privacy.
What we really need is a special media player that can play the comentary track on top of the DVD in your computer, so that the sounds will be synced properly. Also, you would need a little threatre seat outline at the bottom of the screen overlayed on the video to add to the full effect. It might be nice to include a file that would turn the sound of the actual movie up or down to accomodate hearing the commentary during noisy parts of the movie, without cutting out all the sound to the movie. This could be a great concept, and a nice break from the director commentary we are used to seeing.