It'll be one of the production models (not sure which). But they are going to be sending us info on or around June 15 (when everyone else gets them) with a voucher or something. We aren't getting them today.
I think you're missing something important with this.
It's $20/month/user for K12 and College, and $28/month/user for businesses. With this you get an auto-upgrading OS, warrenty and support, and hardware upgrades as the hardware gets old. So in 2-3 years when your current laptops are old, they will send you new ones for all your users. Because everything is stored online, the upgrade is nearly seamless for the users.
As well, this includes "domain" management for all the laptops you buy this way. As an IT admin, you manage all the laptops you get this way, setting up users, policies, and other junk that IT admins have to deal with.
This is a lot more than a stand alone laptop.
(Note: I'm at Google IO right now and I'm getting one of these things for free, so I may be influenced by the magic).
XScale wasn't all that bad, it was a standard ARM processor. We used it for a SAN box for our low end systems. It got the job done, but with all the fun of the ARM instruction set.
It all depends on how the Hijacking works. All this (DNSSEC) does is validate that the DNS information (IP address) for a given hostname is correct. This will stop rogue DNS servers from reporting an incorrect IP address for a give hostname.
From my understand of the ISP hijacking of web traffic, they are doing deep inspection of the packet data, looking for requests that are HTTP, and inserting data (be it a redirect or ads). They are performing a man-in-the-middle attack on unencrypted data.
The only way to stop ISP hijacking is to use https everywhere. Even with that, ISPs could use man-in-the-middle and inject a new SSL cert, but it probably wouldn't be signed by a trusted source (so the user would get an evil warning message from their browser).
So I used to work at LSI, the company that holds the Linked List patten. We actually had one of our patent lawyers give us a presentation talking about patents and showed us that specific patent and the grief it caused when it was granted. The lawyer made it clear to us that the title and abstract mean crap in patents, you should never base any judgement of a patent off of either of those fields. As a patent writer, you can basically have garbage in those 2 fields that have little relation to the Background, Claims, and Summary/Description.
The LSI patent is about a 1-direction Linked List that has auxiliary pointers that order the items of the Linked List differently. This actually makes inserting in the middle of the list almost impossible without full traversal.
The LSI patent is also almost unenforceable without having the source code available.
This patent takes an existing concept and makes a small modification to have the aux pointer (that isn't exactly a doublely linked list). If someone took them to court over it, I'm sure it could be invalidated the "next logical step" or as prior art. But I doubt they will ever flex that patent at anyone.
But version numbers have nothing to do with features. Google threw a lot of money at Chrome to get it where it is today. Firefox moving to the Chrome version scheme is a marketing move only.
I don't believe you understand how their IPTV actually works. The lines from your house to the nearest node are capable of doing somewhere in the 50Mbit or 100Mbit/s range (download), and this is assuming you are using standard telephone twisted pair. These connect to a node that act as re-broadcasters for IPTV. Meaning if 20 people on that node are all watching NBC, that node will only receive one stream of NBC and re-broadcast it to all the boxes connected to it that are currently watching NBC. This means saturation from IPTV will be at max 1 of all stations they support for a given node.
On the other hand, there is no local "node" for internet traffic, meaning everything has to go out over the net, meaning AT&T has to pay for that bandwidth.
The cost probably doesn't have anything to do with overloading their last mile lines or connections from their nodes and deeper into their network, it probably has to do with their connects at IPX's and interconnects throughout the country.
Agreed, this has been one of my bigger complaints about Android. There is no unified payment system. But it looks like Google wants to fix this.
For those too lazy to read, Google plans to.... * Add in-app purchases Q1 2011. * Add Carrier Billing - app purchases charged to your cell phone bill. * Expand the app validation team.
Carrier billing may help with the unified payment system, but I'm not sure it's ideal. As long as it is dead simple to setup (or setup by default), it should help android get more app sales.
Apple (like any company) wants to minimize how often their customers call support and how often a customer takes advantage of their warrant coverage. If they can stop people from taking their phone apart, even it's only 20% of their customers base, it's going to save them a lot of money.
The uncertainty is definitely frustrating. They are trying to make a lot of changes to java (this being the latest) but we aren't being given all the facts.
Thing is, I don't think it's time to jump ship just yet. Oracle hasn't done anything terribly stupid yet, they are just setting themselves up to do something stupid. It's possible they will see the public nervousness and thrown us a bone... but who knows.
Intel did it to fire someone
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If remember the McAfee bug from a few months back, Intel was hit by this bug and shutdown their network. Maybe Intel is forking over the cash to fire whoever screwed up at McAfee and caused this problem.
Flash has a lot of nice development tools around it that allows designers to create fancy looking sites without the need to understand the quirks of HTML and browser differences. These tools are much easier to deal with than the HTML authoring tools out there.
For HTML5 to really take over, I think we need a nice suite of authoring tools to create the content that clients want and need.
On the side of Javascript and HTML5 when it comes to speed, it can be just as slow and power-hungry as flash. I've deployed 1 decent size GWT based application on the web that did some really naughty stuff in the browser (hurray for 600MB of memory usage in IE) and it was so slow that we had to add a processing window to let the user name that this may take a while. (trust me, it wasn't an engineering decision to do what we did). It spiked the CPU and used a ton of memory.
If HTML5 and Javascript based applications become more popular on the web, you can bet that there will be crappily coded sites out there that will give HTML/JS just as bad of a rep as Flash gets.
I use a PO Box for my domains and don't put my real name on anything I register. It at least keeps away most crap. For email, I always just list a GMail address now and they do a pretty good job filtering out any spam I may get through it.
I work for a company that does medium to large business SAN boxes (dedicated block level RAID storage). We've had serial ports on our storage for a very long time and it will continue that way. It is extremely easy to get a serial port up and running from the firmware/bios for a machine that we can start outputting information to it very early in a boot process. Trying to output this type of boot data to ethernet or USB relies on too many other devices and chips coming online first.
Serial is ease to start up with little overhead and is reliable. There is no real tech out there that can do what serial ports can do for low-level board/firmware interaction.
As many people I've talked to about this feature has brought this up as well, I'm guessing Blizzard has already thought of this. Maybe Blizzard will specially encrypt maps that you had to pay for so you can't distributed or edit them. I'm pretty sure it's been thought of, but we'll have to see the protection method when the game goes into beta/live.
The summary rambled on about bug fixes and other things that tend not to matter to the end product of FF3.6. Most of the people that read slashdot understand the release process for software. You releases a beta/RC, fix some bugs, release the pre-release. If all is good, you release the final product.
It would have been more useful to cover new features and things that would interest the end-user. At least that's my point of view on the topic...
Useful info from the article:
Among the new features in Firefox 3.6 are built-in support for the scaled-down browser skins dubbed "Personas;" warnings of out-of-date plug-ins; support for new CSS, DOM and HTML 5 technologies; support for full-screen video embedded with the video HTML tag; and support for the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).
TraceMonkey has also been refreshed to boost JavaScript performance, something Mike Shaver, Mozilla's chief engineer, bragged about last week on Twitter. "I am excited about upcoming JS [JavaScript] engine work, and I don't care who knows it," Shaver tweeted.
I wish I had mod points to get you up to 5. I actually don't mind ads when they aren't full page or something very annoying. It's a way for those marketing people to tell me about new and exciting products. Context specific, un-obtrusive ads have their place.
I know my company has looked into this somewhat. Thinking about putting an inverter at the rack level and supply DC power to all of the systems on the rack (we make hardware). This would move the power supplies out of individual system to the rack.
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It'll be one of the production models (not sure which). But they are going to be sending us info on or around June 15 (when everyone else gets them) with a voucher or something. We aren't getting them today.
I think you're missing something important with this.
It's $20/month/user for K12 and College, and $28/month/user for businesses. With this you get an auto-upgrading OS, warrenty and support, and hardware upgrades as the hardware gets old. So in 2-3 years when your current laptops are old, they will send you new ones for all your users. Because everything is stored online, the upgrade is nearly seamless for the users.
As well, this includes "domain" management for all the laptops you buy this way. As an IT admin, you manage all the laptops you get this way, setting up users, policies, and other junk that IT admins have to deal with.
This is a lot more than a stand alone laptop.
(Note: I'm at Google IO right now and I'm getting one of these things for free, so I may be influenced by the magic).
XScale wasn't all that bad, it was a standard ARM processor. We used it for a SAN box for our low end systems. It got the job done, but with all the fun of the ARM instruction set.
We are both correct. I wish I could update my other post saying that you added the more common case (and easier to do for ISPs).
In my post, I was talking about the shit Mediacom has been doing.
It all depends on how the Hijacking works. All this (DNSSEC) does is validate that the DNS information (IP address) for a given hostname is correct. This will stop rogue DNS servers from reporting an incorrect IP address for a give hostname.
From my understand of the ISP hijacking of web traffic, they are doing deep inspection of the packet data, looking for requests that are HTTP, and inserting data (be it a redirect or ads). They are performing a man-in-the-middle attack on unencrypted data.
The only way to stop ISP hijacking is to use https everywhere. Even with that, ISPs could use man-in-the-middle and inject a new SSL cert, but it probably wouldn't be signed by a trusted source (so the user would get an evil warning message from their browser).
location data isn't currently deleted when location services are disabled. That's a coming feature.
So I used to work at LSI, the company that holds the Linked List patten. We actually had one of our patent lawyers give us a presentation talking about patents and showed us that specific patent and the grief it caused when it was granted. The lawyer made it clear to us that the title and abstract mean crap in patents, you should never base any judgement of a patent off of either of those fields. As a patent writer, you can basically have garbage in those 2 fields that have little relation to the Background, Claims, and Summary/Description.
The LSI patent is about a 1-direction Linked List that has auxiliary pointers that order the items of the Linked List differently. This actually makes inserting in the middle of the list almost impossible without full traversal.
The LSI patent is also almost unenforceable without having the source code available.
This patent takes an existing concept and makes a small modification to have the aux pointer (that isn't exactly a doublely linked list). If someone took them to court over it, I'm sure it could be invalidated the "next logical step" or as prior art. But I doubt they will ever flex that patent at anyone.
But version numbers have nothing to do with features. Google threw a lot of money at Chrome to get it where it is today. Firefox moving to the Chrome version scheme is a marketing move only.
I don't believe you understand how their IPTV actually works. The lines from your house to the nearest node are capable of doing somewhere in the 50Mbit or 100Mbit/s range (download), and this is assuming you are using standard telephone twisted pair. These connect to a node that act as re-broadcasters for IPTV. Meaning if 20 people on that node are all watching NBC, that node will only receive one stream of NBC and re-broadcast it to all the boxes connected to it that are currently watching NBC. This means saturation from IPTV will be at max 1 of all stations they support for a given node.
On the other hand, there is no local "node" for internet traffic, meaning everything has to go out over the net, meaning AT&T has to pay for that bandwidth.
The cost probably doesn't have anything to do with overloading their last mile lines or connections from their nodes and deeper into their network, it probably has to do with their connects at IPX's and interconnects throughout the country.
Wrapped up? Joss Whedon loves to kill off main characters. He probably would have killed off at least 1 of those people if he had a second season.
I'm guessing SourceFire?
http://www.sourcefire.com/security-technologies/snort
Agreed, this has been one of my bigger complaints about Android. There is no unified payment system. But it looks like Google wants to fix this.
For those too lazy to read, Google plans to....
* Add in-app purchases Q1 2011.
* Add Carrier Billing - app purchases charged to your cell phone bill.
* Expand the app validation team.
Carrier billing may help with the unified payment system, but I'm not sure it's ideal. As long as it is dead simple to setup (or setup by default), it should help android get more app sales.
Apple (like any company) wants to minimize how often their customers call support and how often a customer takes advantage of their warrant coverage. If they can stop people from taking their phone apart, even it's only 20% of their customers base, it's going to save them a lot of money.
I wish I had some points to mod you up with.
The uncertainty is definitely frustrating. They are trying to make a lot of changes to java (this being the latest) but we aren't being given all the facts.
Thing is, I don't think it's time to jump ship just yet. Oracle hasn't done anything terribly stupid yet, they are just setting themselves up to do something stupid. It's possible they will see the public nervousness and thrown us a bone... but who knows.
If remember the McAfee bug from a few months back, Intel was hit by this bug and shutdown their network. Maybe Intel is forking over the cash to fire whoever screwed up at McAfee and caused this problem.
Flash has a lot of nice development tools around it that allows designers to create fancy looking sites without the need to understand the quirks of HTML and browser differences. These tools are much easier to deal with than the HTML authoring tools out there.
For HTML5 to really take over, I think we need a nice suite of authoring tools to create the content that clients want and need.
On the side of Javascript and HTML5 when it comes to speed, it can be just as slow and power-hungry as flash. I've deployed 1 decent size GWT based application on the web that did some really naughty stuff in the browser (hurray for 600MB of memory usage in IE) and it was so slow that we had to add a processing window to let the user name that this may take a while. (trust me, it wasn't an engineering decision to do what we did). It spiked the CPU and used a ton of memory.
If HTML5 and Javascript based applications become more popular on the web, you can bet that there will be crappily coded sites out there that will give HTML/JS just as bad of a rep as Flash gets.
Yup, this drastically cut down the brute force on my server.
I use a PO Box for my domains and don't put my real name on anything I register. It at least keeps away most crap. For email, I always just list a GMail address now and they do a pretty good job filtering out any spam I may get through it.
I work for a company that does medium to large business SAN boxes (dedicated block level RAID storage). We've had serial ports on our storage for a very long time and it will continue that way. It is extremely easy to get a serial port up and running from the firmware/bios for a machine that we can start outputting information to it very early in a boot process. Trying to output this type of boot data to ethernet or USB relies on too many other devices and chips coming online first.
Serial is ease to start up with little overhead and is reliable. There is no real tech out there that can do what serial ports can do for low-level board/firmware interaction.
For those wondering: http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/
Blender 2.5.0 has a new GUI layout.
As many people I've talked to about this feature has brought this up as well, I'm guessing Blizzard has already thought of this. Maybe Blizzard will specially encrypt maps that you had to pay for so you can't distributed or edit them. I'm pretty sure it's been thought of, but we'll have to see the protection method when the game goes into beta/live.
The summary rambled on about bug fixes and other things that tend not to matter to the end product of FF3.6. Most of the people that read slashdot understand the release process for software. You releases a beta/RC, fix some bugs, release the pre-release. If all is good, you release the final product.
It would have been more useful to cover new features and things that would interest the end-user. At least that's my point of view on the topic...
Useful info from the article:
Among the new features in Firefox 3.6 are built-in support for the scaled-down browser skins dubbed "Personas;" warnings of out-of-date plug-ins; support for new CSS, DOM and HTML 5 technologies; support for full-screen video embedded with the video HTML tag; and support for the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).
TraceMonkey has also been refreshed to boost JavaScript performance, something Mike Shaver, Mozilla's chief engineer, bragged about last week on Twitter. "I am excited about upcoming JS [JavaScript] engine work, and I don't care who knows it," Shaver tweeted.
I wish I had mod points to get you up to 5. I actually don't mind ads when they aren't full page or something very annoying. It's a way for those marketing people to tell me about new and exciting products. Context specific, un-obtrusive ads have their place.
You should get the IBM DS3200, I hear it's way better.
I know my company has looked into this somewhat. Thinking about putting an inverter at the rack level and supply DC power to all of the systems on the rack (we make hardware). This would move the power supplies out of individual system to the rack.