2. Long-term reliability and replacement costs of hybrid system (especially the batteries)
Well, Toyota seems so confident in the long-term realiability of the Prius that they give (at least in Europe) 10 years guarantee on the batteries, 8 years on the engines and 3 years for the whole car.
However, there are ways of immigrating to this country legally, and anyone who has a sincere desire to become an American can do it.
Right. And all those people who go to trouble of illegally crossing the border are doing so because...? They can't be bothered to go in legal way? Their desire to go to the US is not sincere?
Even if you are honest, an xBox is hardly worth the time/effort you'll spend doing this.
Unless your time & effort generally isn't worth anything. In other words, you're in school/college.
Which means that this challenge will only test the site against the best of script kiddie attacks. That may not be much, but I imagine that is also a vast majority of attacks out there (unless you're a Fortune500 company or something like that). And probably the maximum threat level most of admins will ever face. Makes perfect sense for an article in an IT magazine.
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What I want to know is if this site is running a DEFAULT INSTALL.
As far as I can tell, they got a plain win2k3 box and IIS6.0 patched up with the latest patches using standard windows tools. Later they are adding ASP & SQL Server to the mix. Specific tweaks will be revealed at the end of the contest, in a magazine article.
Of course, anyone holding a new & unknown IIS exploit won't give it up for an XBox. But, every script kiddie will jump at a chance of getting one. The challenge, IMHO, is to prove that you can defend your MS-based web site from script kiddies.
You can't become Chinese. I can't become Chinese. But there are Americans who were born in China.
What? I can't become an American. Millions of illegal emigrants in the US can't either. Vigilante groups watch the Mexico border making sure none of the Mexicans enter. US coast guard turns back Cubans on rafts trying to come to the US.
You seem to have missed it, but the days of 'Give us your poor...' are long gone. Now it's 'You can visit, but you cannot stay'. And even that only if you don't object to fingerprinting and background checks. And you don't come from a wrong part of the world, or have the wrong kind of skin.
Sure it's due more to viral marketing than anything else, but Opera could have been there too and isn't.
Personally, as a Opera user since v6 or thereabouts, I'm rather happy with how it turned out. I wouldn't want Opera to be number #1 (or even #2) browser on the planet. I like it the way it is, an alternative browser.
Having a small market share means significantly less chance of Opera being a target of a spyware/virus/worm of some sorts. IE is, of course, the prime target. With increased visibility and market share, Firefox/Mozilla is bound to be up next (sorry, but being open source doesn't grant a SW shield of immunity). I seriously doubt anyone considers Opera a viable attack vector. Which suits me fine.
Interesting. I don't recall praising MS for stunning security stance when they decided to deliberately break some functionality for the sake of security with the release WinXP SP2. Funny thing, it was spun a bit differently, IIRC...
Can other commercial OS vendors (how many are there:) adopt a similar stance?
Indeed they should. So we can bash or praise them for it, depending on wether they are MS or not.:-)
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That's why we use high-voltage AC to distribute electric power, and even higher-voltage AC to transmit power over long distances--by transmitting at high AC voltages, you don't lose quite as much power as you otherwise would.
I don't thnk so. We transmit at high voltages because that yields higher power througput at same current levels. P=U*I, right? If you lowered the voltage on major powerlines, they would have to conduct much higher current levels, and that would mean thicker wires, superconducting or not. A single wire can conduct a limited amount of current, AC or DC. So, high voltage power lines are not going to go away.
Lower voltages could be used, which would be safer (less chance of electrocuting people), and connectors (plugs, receptacles) designed with lowe voltages in mind would be cheaper to produce and certify.
Same here. All the appliances would then need to pull higher currents. Again, not desirable, and nothing to do with AC vs DC.
And, BTW, Tesla (AC) vs. Edison (DC) happened at the end of the 19th century. Tesla won, game over.:-)
Why does every coder that writes a Windows app think it has to run at sartup?
Mostly for two reasons, both objectionable.
First, there's commercial reason. Apps like to advertise themselves to the user, and the best way is to be in your face, by putting up a banner during system startup. Many also like to be in your face the whole time, by residing in your system tray.
The second reason, is the percieved app startup time. If you load all your libraries and initialise executables at system startup, then the user percieves it as system starup time. Then, when you start the app, it can be ready faster it's already half-loaded.
Both practices waste resources (screen, RAM and startup time), and programs that insist on them without the option of disabling, should be considered Evil(tm).
If there were an accident, the device could be read via a scanner and report the actual conditions at the time of the crash.
Most modern cars do that already. It's used in air bags and other active safety systems. These devices record the last couple of seconds of data from various engine and drivetrain systems.
I believe it's only a matter of time while those are legal for police (and insurance companies?) to use as evidence.
Recording GPS data will probably come automatically when GPS receivers become commonplace in cars.
But if you had a single high-effeciency AC/DC converter in your basement (or better yet got DC from the grid), you could eliminate all the crappy inneficient adapters in your house.
I believe the crowd here is missing the importance of this series.
IMHO, the importance is not the actual thematic of the series. Of course it doesn't stack up to the real warez scene. Any expert in a field that's the subject of a particular show will be able to point out to numerous incosistencies, inacurate portrayals and things like that. It's only to be expected.
The major point that should give this show due attention is the fact that this show is produced exclusively for online distribution, shunning TV/cable/satellite and other 'push', passive formats. This could show could probably mark the point when the first crack in the TV bussiness appeared. This might well be the first step in transition from the 'channel' format to the free, pick-what-you-like format that will wipe pre-selected and rigid TV/cable/satellite channels out of existence, in favour of RSS+BT-esque show distribution without the middle-man that decides what goes and what doesn't.
And that's why I'm hoping that this show is a success, however they decide to measure that. I'm even willing to forgive the 'product placement' element that is obvious in the show. After all, the producers have to have some way of making money off of it, otherwise it won't exist.
So, be sure to DL this, if for nothing else, then just so that it validates the 'proof of concept' of the whole thing.
This is a problem with some developers they get too comfortable and don't want to learn anything new, and they don't want to loose their job.
No, this is people who would rather be doing their job, instead of being forced to spend _valuable_time_ on something else, for no other justifiable reason than because Microsoft feels they should do it.
VB for them is just a tool. A tool they learned how to use efficiently and successfully. A tool which is now arbitrarily deemed obsolete. I say, more power to them. They can't be expected to tear down a building a start anew each time Microsoft discovers a better brick.
Yes, yes, I know, they asked for it, proprietary systems yada yada yada... >/dev/null please.
For instance, who thinks about the 8 parts of your mouth when brushing you teeth.
What do you think about? Nothing? You just stand there and practice a vacant look?
The way I look at it: you're there, for five minutes, brushing. The brain is also there, and if it's not doing anything worthwile, why shouldn't you employ it to think about what you're doing, how you're doing it, to what end and with which results?
Well, even after 25+ years of brushing, I'm still improving upon my technique. Not to mention the fact that they change the toobrush design every so often, so you have to adapt to a new one. Sometimes weeks pass before I feel I've mastered it.
Man, I'm telling you, brushing teeth, it's a wild ride!:-)
And, furthermore, it's the game guy that wrote The Bible Of Networking (Computer Networks, Prentice Hall). If you did networking courses in college, chances are high that you studied from his book. He _is_ one of the greatest authorities, living or dead, in the field.
So, when he has something to say regarding networking, you better listen up.
Besides, he was right. Monolithic kernels are obsolete technology. Linux success has nothing to do with it. Would you argue that Windows is cutting-edge technology, simply because it's successful?
"The new format is no format" is a meaningless piece of marketing fluff uttered by someone who has no clue of what he's saying.
Or, possibly, it could mean that the _physical_ format of the music is no format. As in, you buy the album, but get nothing physical in return? As opposed to getting a vinly, cassette, CD, 8-track or whatever.
I don't know about jumping the sharks, but the old Slashdot tradition of not reading or comprehending TFA has definitely proven to be alive.:-)
Doesn't the article read just like your typical Star Trek plot?
You have a noble experiment: Nanoscientists dream of developing a quantum computer, a device the size of a grain of sand that could be faster and more powerful than today's PCs. So, after they have blasted the quantum dots with light to create the quantum mechanical state they encounter the problem: they couldn't consistently control that state So, the science officers get the work and after some time the find out the cause of the problem: the wetting layer caused interference, instead of allowing the light to enter the dot and trigger the quantum state
And, after some hard thinking Wesley Crusher... suggests that scientists could tweak the process by re-focusing the beam of light or changing the duration of the light pulses to negate the effects of the wetting layer!
Do you think the traditional music album is dying out because of advances in technology?
Nope. As long as artists that have something substantial to say exist, there will be albums.
If one's only source of new music is MTV and crap like that, one may think that the albums are a thing of the past. But, that's about the same as eating only in McDonald's and thinking that traditional gourmet cuisine is dying out.
Market for music is much, much bigger than Top40. In fact, if anything, advances in technology, enabling the Long Tail phenomenon (http://www.thelongtail.com/) will do just the opposite. When everyone can trivially access every bit of music ever recorded, albums will have a much easier time finding an audience.
Sure, some forms of music will never be strong on albums (dance, club oriented music), but again, they don't represent the majority of music out there.
creationism provides a better explanation of the beginning of the world than does evolution
Well, if I were to speculate that creationism is right, knowing what I know, I would rather expect God not to be this all-powerfull all-wise being. I'd place my bets on God being this kid running SimUniverse on his 'computer'. That would surely explain a lot of goings on around here...
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... much higher contrast ration (10,000:1 is quoted and measured from working screen!)...
How is this good? 500:1 LCDs have too much contrast for my taste. Try playing a FPS with those. You can't see a thing in the dark areas.
Maybe graphic designers could use that much contrast (why?), but I sure as hell don't.
2. Long-term reliability and replacement costs of hybrid system (especially the batteries)
Well, Toyota seems so confident in the long-term realiability of the Prius that they give (at least in Europe) 10 years guarantee on the batteries, 8 years on the engines and 3 years for the whole car.
However, there are ways of immigrating to this country legally, and anyone who has a sincere desire to become an American can do it.
Right. And all those people who go to trouble of illegally crossing the border are doing so because...? They can't be bothered to go in legal way? Their desire to go to the US is not sincere?
Dude, wake up.
Even if you are honest, an xBox is hardly worth the time/effort you'll spend doing this.
Unless your time & effort generally isn't worth anything. In other words, you're in school/college.
Which means that this challenge will only test the site against the best of script kiddie attacks. That may not be much, but I imagine that is also a vast majority of attacks out there (unless you're a Fortune500 company or something like that). And probably the maximum threat level most of admins will ever face. Makes perfect sense for an article in an IT magazine.
What I want to know is if this site is running a DEFAULT INSTALL.
As far as I can tell, they got a plain win2k3 box and IIS6.0 patched up with the latest patches using standard windows tools. Later they are adding ASP & SQL Server to the mix. Specific tweaks will be revealed at the end of the contest, in a magazine article.
Of course, anyone holding a new & unknown IIS exploit won't give it up for an XBox. But, every script kiddie will jump at a chance of getting one. The challenge, IMHO, is to prove that you can defend your MS-based web site from script kiddies.
What good is broadband if your government censors nearly everything?
:-)
It doesn't censor downloading of warez, pr0n, movies and mp3s. What else could you possibly need from your broardband connection?
You can't become Chinese. I can't become Chinese. But there are Americans who were born in China.
What? I can't become an American. Millions of illegal emigrants in the US can't either. Vigilante groups watch the Mexico border making sure none of the Mexicans enter. US coast guard turns back Cubans on rafts trying to come to the US.
You seem to have missed it, but the days of 'Give us your poor...' are long gone. Now it's 'You can visit, but you cannot stay'. And even that only if you don't object to fingerprinting and background checks. And you don't come from a wrong part of the world, or have the wrong kind of skin.
Got it?
Nope.
What's really happening is that the USA is finally taking its rightful place among the economic powers of the world.
;-)
Yeah. But, I believe that the idea od the US as a 3rd or 4th economic power in the world is going to be a hard sell for the american people.
But, then again, americans also seem to think that they are the biggest, oldest and the most advanced democracy in the world.
Sure it's due more to viral marketing than anything else, but Opera could have been there too and isn't.
Personally, as a Opera user since v6 or thereabouts, I'm rather happy with how it turned out. I wouldn't want Opera to be number #1 (or even #2) browser on the planet. I like it the way it is, an alternative browser.
Having a small market share means significantly less chance of Opera being a target of a spyware/virus/worm of some sorts. IE is, of course, the prime target. With increased visibility and market share, Firefox/Mozilla is bound to be up next (sorry, but being open source doesn't grant a SW shield of immunity). I seriously doubt anyone considers Opera a viable attack vector. Which suits me fine.
That being said, off to DL page I go.
Apple's security stance is stunning.
:) adopt a similar stance?
:-)
Interesting. I don't recall praising MS for stunning security stance when they decided to deliberately break some functionality for the sake of security with the release WinXP SP2. Funny thing, it was spun a bit differently, IIRC...
Can other commercial OS vendors (how many are there
Indeed they should. So we can bash or praise them for it, depending on wether they are MS or not.
That's why we use high-voltage AC to distribute electric power, and even higher-voltage AC to transmit power over long distances--by transmitting at high AC voltages, you don't lose quite as much power as you otherwise would.
:-)
I don't thnk so. We transmit at high voltages because that yields higher power througput at same current levels. P=U*I, right? If you lowered the voltage on major powerlines, they would have to conduct much higher current levels, and that would mean thicker wires, superconducting or not. A single wire can conduct a limited amount of current, AC or DC. So, high voltage power lines are not going to go away.
Lower voltages could be used, which would be safer (less chance of electrocuting people), and connectors (plugs, receptacles) designed with lowe voltages in mind would be cheaper to produce and certify.
Same here. All the appliances would then need to pull higher currents. Again, not desirable, and nothing to do with AC vs DC.
And, BTW, Tesla (AC) vs. Edison (DC) happened at the end of the 19th century. Tesla won, game over.
Why does every coder that writes a Windows app think it has to run at sartup?
Mostly for two reasons, both objectionable.
First, there's commercial reason. Apps like to advertise themselves to the user, and the best way is to be in your face, by putting up a banner during system startup. Many also like to be in your face the whole time, by residing in your system tray.
The second reason, is the percieved app startup time. If you load all your libraries and initialise executables at system startup, then the user percieves it as system starup time. Then, when you start the app, it can be ready faster it's already half-loaded.
Both practices waste resources (screen, RAM and startup time), and programs that insist on them without the option of disabling, should be considered Evil(tm).
If there were an accident, the device could be read via a scanner and report the actual conditions at the time of the crash.
Most modern cars do that already. It's used in air bags and other active safety systems. These devices record the last couple of seconds of data from various engine and drivetrain systems.
I believe it's only a matter of time while those are legal for police (and insurance companies?) to use as evidence.
Recording GPS data will probably come automatically when GPS receivers become commonplace in cars.
But if you had a single high-effeciency AC/DC converter in your basement (or better yet got DC from the grid), you could eliminate all the crappy inneficient adapters in your house.
Yeah! Back to the 19th century we go!
A few that I find very useful:
F2 - rename an object
alt-enter - open properties tab
Disconnections from my University network pushed me to give GNU/Linux an earnest try.
Being ignorant on Windows is not much different than being ignorant on Linux.
I believe the crowd here is missing the importance of this series.
IMHO, the importance is not the actual thematic of the series. Of course it doesn't stack up to the real warez scene. Any expert in a field that's the subject of a particular show will be able to point out to numerous incosistencies, inacurate portrayals and things like that. It's only to be expected.
The major point that should give this show due attention is the fact that this show is produced exclusively for online distribution, shunning TV/cable/satellite and other 'push', passive formats. This could show could probably mark the point when the first crack in the TV bussiness appeared. This might well be the first step in transition from the 'channel' format to the free, pick-what-you-like format that will wipe pre-selected and rigid TV/cable/satellite channels out of existence, in favour of RSS+BT-esque show distribution without the middle-man that decides what goes and what doesn't.
And that's why I'm hoping that this show is a success, however they decide to measure that. I'm even willing to forgive the 'product placement' element that is obvious in the show. After all, the producers have to have some way of making money off of it, otherwise it won't exist.
So, be sure to DL this, if for nothing else, then just so that it validates the 'proof of concept' of the whole thing.
This is a problem with some developers they get too comfortable and don't want to learn anything new, and they don't want to loose their job.
No, this is people who would rather be doing their job, instead of being forced to spend _valuable_time_ on something else, for no other justifiable reason than because Microsoft feels they should do it.
VB for them is just a tool. A tool they learned how to use efficiently and successfully. A tool which is now arbitrarily deemed obsolete. I say, more power to them. They can't be expected to tear down a building a start anew each time Microsoft discovers a better brick.
Yes, yes, I know, they asked for it, proprietary systems yada yada yada... >/dev/null please.
For instance, who thinks about the 8 parts of your mouth when brushing you teeth.
:-)
What do you think about? Nothing? You just stand there and practice a vacant look?
The way I look at it: you're there, for five minutes, brushing. The brain is also there, and if it's not doing anything worthwile, why shouldn't you employ it to think about what you're doing, how you're doing it, to what end and with which results?
Well, even after 25+ years of brushing, I'm still improving upon my technique. Not to mention the fact that they change the toobrush design every so often, so you have to adapt to a new one. Sometimes weeks pass before I feel I've mastered it.
Man, I'm telling you, brushing teeth, it's a wild ride!
I have a patent on triangular tires.
I have a patent on triangle. Expect a call from my lawayer.
Yup, that's him.
And, furthermore, it's the game guy that wrote The Bible Of Networking (Computer Networks, Prentice Hall). If you did networking courses in college, chances are high that you studied from his book. He _is_ one of the greatest authorities, living or dead, in the field.
So, when he has something to say regarding networking, you better listen up.
Besides, he was right. Monolithic kernels are obsolete technology. Linux success has nothing to do with it. Would you argue that Windows is cutting-edge technology, simply because it's successful?
"The new format is no format" is a meaningless piece of marketing fluff uttered by someone who has no clue of what he's saying.
:-)
Or, possibly, it could mean that the _physical_ format of the music is no format. As in, you buy the album, but get nothing physical in return? As opposed to getting a vinly, cassette, CD, 8-track or whatever.
I don't know about jumping the sharks, but the old Slashdot tradition of not reading or comprehending TFA has definitely proven to be alive.
Doesn't the article read just like your typical Star Trek plot?
You have a noble experiment:
Nanoscientists dream of developing a quantum computer, a device the size of a grain of sand that could be faster and more powerful than today's PCs.
So, after they have
blasted the quantum dots with light to create the quantum mechanical state
they encounter the problem:
they couldn't consistently control that state
So, the science officers get the work and after some time the find out the cause of the problem:
the wetting layer caused interference, instead of allowing the light to enter the dot and trigger the quantum state
And, after some hard thinking Wesley Crusher...
suggests that scientists could tweak the process by re-focusing the beam of light or changing the duration of the light pulses to negate the effects of the wetting layer!
And the day is saved.
Do you think the traditional music album is dying out because of advances in technology?
Nope. As long as artists that have something substantial to say exist, there will be albums.
If one's only source of new music is MTV and crap like that, one may think that the albums are a thing of the past. But, that's about the same as eating only in McDonald's and thinking that traditional gourmet cuisine is dying out.
Market for music is much, much bigger than Top40. In fact, if anything, advances in technology, enabling the Long Tail phenomenon (http://www.thelongtail.com/) will do just the opposite. When everyone can trivially access every bit of music ever recorded, albums will have a much easier time finding an audience.
Sure, some forms of music will never be strong on albums (dance, club oriented music), but again, they don't represent the majority of music out there.
creationism provides a better explanation of the beginning of the world than does evolution
Well, if I were to speculate that creationism is right, knowing what I know, I would rather expect God not to be this all-powerfull all-wise being. I'd place my bets on God being this kid running SimUniverse on his 'computer'. That would surely explain a lot of goings on around here...