Tell your bosses that allowing your customers SQL access to your database could allow them to input inefficient queries that could grind your whole system to a halt. Then none of your customers will have access to the DB.
You could also say that if a security vulnerability is present in your DB vendor's product, it will be much more easily exploitable through direct SQL.
I think IBM is doing taking the NetBurst approach - a long pipeline to get to high frequencies.
Actually, since they're only allowing in-order execution it saves them lots of pipeline size. According to the Wikipedia article, the pipeline is only 6 cycles (13 steps) vs 20 for NetBurst and 31 for Pentium 4[*].
The part that I find the most intriguing is the new Decimal math unit. This should be great for financial and scientific calculations since you can specify (and stick to) whatever precision you want and not have to worry about some of the precision losses you get with floating point as your numbers get larger. I'm sure there's libraries out there that do this (like the bc command) but now they can be hardware accelerated.
Of course some will just ask if it will help you run Crysis. Probably not:)
/silly So, I have this idea for a great movie. It's about two gnomes who find a bracelet of power, and they have to take it to the Burning Steppes and cast it into the Cauldron. They form the Brotherhood of the Bracelet. Along the way they're trailed by a murloc named Gottom, who's obsessed with the bracelet, and nine bracelet bogeymen. It could be a three-parter, called 'Ruler of the Bracelet'. The first part would be called 'The Brotherhood of the Bracelet', followed by 'A Couple of Towers', with the climactic ending called 'Hey, the King's Back!'
Hard disk drives defintely do NOT write simple binary waveforms to the disk. They use encodings specialized for magnetic media, such as Extended PRML. This is coupled with error correcting algorithms like Viterbi (same as CDMA).
When you give your computer to a tech along with your username and password so they can fix it, I believe you're pretty much giving away the keys to your house. If you gave your garage code to a repairman and he came into your house and saw some kiddie pr0n, you'd be in the same situation. I've heard that some repair companies run a scanner for kiddie pr0n whenever they service computers.
Also, when you remove your computer from your house, I'd say it could be argued that it's "on public display" and can be searched by police without a warrant, like your car.
On my vista x64 box, I changed from the nForce4 drivers that came with vista to the ones from nVidia. That alone, with no hardware changes, forced a re-validation. I had to sit on hold with someone from India until they finally issued me a new key. Lots of fun.
True, raytracing by itself will not make gameplay any better, nor animation better. However, it should make some visual effects that are hard today (shadows, reflections) simple. Hopefully, this will free up developers to work on other things instead of 'getting the shadows right'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytracing#Advantages_of_ray_tracing
I also run my own domain, and have seen many dictionary attacks come through. Like many here, when I signed up for Ameritrade, I created the alias [myname]-ameritrade@[mydomain].com. (this was in early 2006). Shortly afterwards, I started receiving stock spam to the ameritrade address, and ONLY stock spam. I eventually got fed up with it and changed the email address to another unique alias. Again, shortly afterwards the stock spam started up again.
Either someone inside Ameritrade is leaking their customers' addresses or they're selling the information to a 3rd party who is compromised. What's worse is Ameritrade's ignoring the problem and allowing it to continue. I hate the fact that they know my SSN, but if they're compromised, it's already too late...
That's what I had to do. A little electrical tape works wonders. My new ViewSonic monitor had a blindingly bright blue LED on the power button. I mean, yeah, there's an image on the screen. It's freakin' on, I get it!
For the computer, I do happen to like the hard disk light for those times when you think, "is this app doing anything?". But MORE BLINDING BLUE LEDs! AAAhhh, my eyes!!! In this case, I found that regular masking tape worked well to attenuate the light but not block it out completely.
Ah yes, I think I did that quest last night. Was it 8 eel meat fillets in Zangarmarsh (right by the hydras)? I hate those damn eels... stupid electric skin.
Much better though than the drop quests in Silithus. Those took me like 2 hours each and there were something like 3 of them in a row. So far, there have been only a couple frustrating droprates... Most were close to 100%.
I live in an area with bad reception from nearly all cell carriers. I switched from sprint to att after a friend's phone (a Siemens GSM phone) seemed to work much better at my house. So, my first ATT phone was a NEC 520, but I could hardly keep a call for more than 5 minutes. Eventually, I upgraded to a RAZR V3, and my reception has vastly improved. So, yes, there are huge differences in handset reception, but I haven't seen any qualitative comparisons between handsets.
Keep in mind that all the "extra" cores are special-purpose cores that can only execute code specifically written for them. They are not general-purpose cores so you can run 16 applications simultaneously. Also consider that the CPUs for the new consoles are targeted at consoles and not multitasking operating systems with lots of context switching. There's also the roadmap issue. Sure, this one processor will be available, but what about speed bumps and future generations?
Seriously... you have a toolbox, the toolbox contains many languages. There is no 'best' language. Use the one that fits your project's requirements best.
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Yeah, I'm surprised there aren't alot of posts here from mainframe guys... or maybe they ignored the post because they just don't worry about this kind of stuff:)
I really liked Burnout 3. With burnout 4, they've managed to improve most aspects (traffic checking is nice-- you don't crash from every little nick in traffic). Load times are down too (especially in crash mode) but there are a few things that stood out for us when playing:
- The loading screen is annoying with the three blocks that keep slamming together. - The 'rewind' when restarting a crash is awfully annoying, especially on some of the longer courses. You can't skip it! Reminds me of the limit breaks in FF 8 that couldn't be skipped:P - The totalling up of damage in the crash isn't nearly as exciting now since you get the realtime update during the crash. In my mind, waiting for the total until after everything was done added to the suspense of "did I get it!!?!"
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And the treatment for PTSD after a bad girlfriend? Virtual Valerie!
Yep, all they have to do is bring up a copy of Emacs with them. Just hope they don't use psychoanalyze-pinhead :)
Sounds like a Twitter Shitter to me.
ROFL. That's exactly what I was thinking of. Not only could you tell everyone that you're shitting but WHERE!
Tell your bosses that allowing your customers SQL access to your database could allow them to input inefficient queries that could grind your whole system to a halt. Then none of your customers will have access to the DB.
You could also say that if a security vulnerability is present in your DB vendor's product, it will be much more easily exploitable through direct SQL.
Actually, since they're only allowing in-order execution it saves them lots of pipeline size. According to the Wikipedia article, the pipeline is only 6 cycles (13 steps) vs 20 for NetBurst and 31 for Pentium 4[*].
The part that I find the most intriguing is the new Decimal math unit. This should be great for financial and scientific calculations since you can specify (and stick to) whatever precision you want and not have to worry about some of the precision losses you get with floating point as your numbers get larger. I'm sure there's libraries out there that do this (like the bc command) but now they can be hardware accelerated.
Of course some will just ask if it will help you run Crysis. Probably not
You're too late! Someone already dropped a parking page there via godaddy.
/silly
So, I have this idea for a great movie. It's about two gnomes who find a bracelet of power, and they have to take it to the Burning Steppes and cast it into the Cauldron. They form the Brotherhood of the Bracelet. Along the way they're trailed by a murloc named Gottom, who's obsessed with the bracelet, and nine bracelet bogeymen. It could be a three-parter, called 'Ruler of the Bracelet'. The first part would be called 'The Brotherhood of the Bracelet', followed by 'A Couple of Towers', with the climactic ending called 'Hey, the King's Back!'
Well, at least it can only form sharp, stabbing weapons. I just hope they're creating another robot to save us from it.
Hard disk drives defintely do NOT write simple binary waveforms to the disk. They use encodings specialized for magnetic media, such as Extended PRML. This is coupled with error correcting algorithms like Viterbi (same as CDMA).
When you give your computer to a tech along with your username and password so they can fix it, I believe you're pretty much giving away the keys to your house. If you gave your garage code to a repairman and he came into your house and saw some kiddie pr0n, you'd be in the same situation. I've heard that some repair companies run a scanner for kiddie pr0n whenever they service computers.
Also, when you remove your computer from your house, I'd say it could be argued that it's "on public display" and can be searched by police without a warrant, like your car.
IANAL, YMMV.
Yeah, blast Google and Apple's phone OSes because developers just love symbian! http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/6856C375-FE4E-4BC8-B753-B48AF3BD8B30.html
Our company employs some Symbian developers and I've never heard them say anything good about it.
On my vista x64 box, I changed from the nForce4 drivers that came with vista to the ones from nVidia. That alone, with no hardware changes, forced a re-validation. I had to sit on hold with someone from India until they finally issued me a new key. Lots of fun.
True, raytracing by itself will not make gameplay any better, nor animation better. However, it should make some visual effects that are hard today (shadows, reflections) simple. Hopefully, this will free up developers to work on other things instead of 'getting the shadows right'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytracing#Advantages_of_ray_tracing
I also run my own domain, and have seen many dictionary attacks come through. Like many here, when I signed up for Ameritrade, I created the alias [myname]-ameritrade@[mydomain].com. (this was in early 2006). Shortly afterwards, I started receiving stock spam to the ameritrade address, and ONLY stock spam. I eventually got fed up with it and changed the email address to another unique alias. Again, shortly afterwards the stock spam started up again.
Either someone inside Ameritrade is leaking their customers' addresses or they're selling the information to a 3rd party who is compromised. What's worse is Ameritrade's ignoring the problem and allowing it to continue. I hate the fact that they know my SSN, but if they're compromised, it's already too late...
That's what I had to do. A little electrical tape works wonders. My new ViewSonic monitor had a blindingly bright blue LED on the power button. I mean, yeah, there's an image on the screen. It's freakin' on, I get it!
For the computer, I do happen to like the hard disk light for those times when you think, "is this app doing anything?". But MORE BLINDING BLUE LEDs! AAAhhh, my eyes!!! In this case, I found that regular masking tape worked well to attenuate the light but not block it out completely.
Ah yes, I think I did that quest last night. Was it 8 eel meat fillets in Zangarmarsh (right by the hydras)? I hate those damn eels... stupid electric skin. Much better though than the drop quests in Silithus. Those took me like 2 hours each and there were something like 3 of them in a row. So far, there have been only a couple frustrating droprates... Most were close to 100%.
I live in an area with bad reception from nearly all cell carriers. I switched from sprint to att after a friend's phone (a Siemens GSM phone) seemed to work much better at my house. So, my first ATT phone was a NEC 520, but I could hardly keep a call for more than 5 minutes. Eventually, I upgraded to a RAZR V3, and my reception has vastly improved. So, yes, there are huge differences in handset reception, but I haven't seen any qualitative comparisons between handsets.
Keep in mind that all the "extra" cores are special-purpose cores that can only execute code specifically written for them. They are not general-purpose cores so you can run 16 applications simultaneously. Also consider that the CPUs for the new consoles are targeted at consoles and not multitasking operating systems with lots of context switching. There's also the roadmap issue. Sure, this one processor will be available, but what about speed bumps and future generations?
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Seriously... you have a toolbox, the toolbox contains many languages. There is no 'best' language. Use the one that fits your project's requirements best.For those wondering, it's an extension on the RDP protocol used by Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection. Audio and Video are sent in sideband channels: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/medctrsdk/htm/mediacenterextenders. asp
Oh my God, I just noticed that my car has DENTS! I better sue them too! I feel "irreprably damaged!". They should make these cars so they don't dent!
Hey, my cell phone has some scratches on it. I guess I better run out and sue Motorola too!
Yeah, I'm surprised there aren't alot of posts here from mainframe guys... or maybe they ignored the post because they just don't worry about this kind of stuff :)
I really liked Burnout 3. With burnout 4, they've managed to improve most aspects (traffic checking is nice-- you don't crash from every little nick in traffic). Load times are down too (especially in crash mode) but there are a few things that stood out for us when playing:
:P
- The loading screen is annoying with the three blocks that keep slamming together.
- The 'rewind' when restarting a crash is awfully annoying, especially on some of the longer courses. You can't skip it! Reminds me of the limit breaks in FF 8 that couldn't be skipped
- The totalling up of damage in the crash isn't nearly as exciting now since you get the realtime update during the crash. In my mind, waiting for the total until after everything was done added to the suspense of "did I get it!!?!"