I not so sure, it was not all that long ago most of us who even had a computer were working on an 80x86 or 80x88 with a 512k of memory, connected to a 80x25 character monocrome display, with no network interface, and primary storage consisting of a box next to the unit filled with 360k floppy disks.
You know what we were like pigs in s**t happy too. I have cell phone, not a facy smart phone. I just use it I don't think about it. I charge it Sunday night before I go to bed and I talk and text on it as much as I want to all week long. The batter never goes flat over that time frame.
I had a smart phone for a little while. It could not even stand by all day. I had to go back because I was afraid I might miss SMS alerts from critial systems because the things battery went flat.
I would be very happy with a device that was inexpensive enough to leave on the back seat of my car for weeks on end that would be just there if I needed it and ready to go. Something that could connect to the internet wireless-ly and run lynx and those kinda of apps would be just perfect, even if the screen refresh was slow an e-ink based. Things like e-mail would be very doable as well. We don't live in the same world that 80x86 lived in. There is all kind of infrastructure around, let the POP or IMAP server do the thinking, just add a command like TXTPLZ to the protocols that would instruct the server to render messages sent in other formats out as plain characters. Get send html no problem
becomes 13 and 10. Hell use libcacca to render images as ascii art.
The software you need to write and run on the device could do allot by simply offloading the thinking to the oh lord dare I say it? cloud...
Either that or be contented with the mere fact it exists and is connected in some way with all the rest of the digital world, no matter how it is displayed.
Editing video should work fine out of page file. Even the oldest of paging prediction algorithms should do a good job with keeping the working set in memory for such a sequential task. Unless your are doing your editing on a system you have badly mis-configured in your own ignorance.
All resent versions of Windows 2000 or later should do a great job of memory management for video editing with the default automatic settings; irrespective of if you have 4 gigs of memory or 40.
And according to a radio article I listened to yesterday, its hard to even find internet service for your home in Italy; which is the friggin seat of modern western civilization. Perhaps different cultures just have different priority's maybe the internet is more important the Japanese than to Americans who like to dedicate their resources to big wide roads, spacious housing and lawns. Who cares? People and groups of people should do what they want.
Just because that router of yours has a gigabit cut through switch in the back of it does not mean that it can do routing at speeds like that; and chances are its slower still if you are asking it to do anything with those packets, like NAT translation. I would be surprised to see even the newest home routers doing speeds beyond 50 to 60Mbps throughput doing anything beyond the simplest use case.
I think the thing here is this is a copyright treaty, they talk about secrecy being required for national security and I just don't see how debate about copyright law being public could possibly pose a clear and present danger.
The opacity of this whole process is proof enough that its not expected to be a popular body of law and probably is does not promote the general welfare but rather those of specific few. I don't think we need to see whats in to be opposed.
Perhaps if their intent was to give it to you; but more than likely just plan to use it as a carrot you will never quite get. Poker is really the best representation of daily life in game form. You really are better off the less the other players *know* about your hand be it strong or week.
I am sorry but the while the documentation for windows might still be lacking the information that is available on Technet is far and away better than just about anything else in industry anything modern anyway. Man pages are good, info pages, such and neither exist for large numbers of apps, were at the most you get so doxygen generated crap that saves little if anytime over just reading the code. The commercial software scene is even worse; there you get typical get little or no API documentation at all and and some crappy knowledgebase web application with information that is largely wrong.
I know you are trying but I sometimes wonder if its even worth answering the partisan hate mongers on both sides. Neo-Conservatives generally get more guff for not listening to the other side; but frankly I wonder if that has to do with the fact the uber-liberals seem to find the more amazing heights of hypocrisy and unfounded claims.
The Obama team last week was particularly impressive, after campaigning on how the Bush wiretapping program violated civil liberties they sent their lawyers to argue that they should be able to listen to celluar calls and collect geographic data from them without warrants.
They also had the Vice President saying the Iraq was going to be one of the administration's great accomplishments, while they continue to claim they inherited the economic problems. Its plain to any thinking person that lots more economic policy changes have been enacted under the current administration than mission changes in Iraq and that even if some of the measures are working they have not had the effects that were advertised. I can sound positions giving Obama credit for both or neither but I really can't how he can take credit for one and not the other. It looks like a outrageous attempt to be responsible for the successes and continue to blame Bush for the failures.
At least the Neo-Con crowd consistently denies the same realities. Deficits don't matter, You're with us or your Against us, Evolution, etc, etc.
I actually used to do in something similar in an interpreted language (I won't name names).
This: For i=32767, i=i+1, i 32767
{statements} EndFor
would run much faster than this: While True
{statements} EndWhile
The token check to evaluate True took the interpreter longer than adding 1 to i which would overflow each time i reached 32767 and checking it was less than 32767.
Right but outside the fire safes you get at home center most safes and strongboxes are designed such that they are difficult to remove from the site. They may be very heavy requiring equipment to move fastened from the inside etc etc. In the case of laptops and phones virtually any situation in which this sort of attack will be used is one where the units whereabouts are not know to the owner. Which makes it pretty hard to respond to. The big sell point on TPM was if your device goes missing its brick to whomever finds it; this sorta makes that untrue.
Yes you make your laptop useless to the typical thief but as far as corporate espionage, government records leaking etc etc; this makes TPM a pretty poor defense. Yes I realize its supposed to be one line of defense bu when things like the keys to your disk encryption are stored there those remaining lines are not much of a hurdle.
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So he did this by access the information in the chips protected storage. Now that he has done this does it let us get at the set of possible keys or anything that would allow a software solution to defeating these things?
I am going to call BS on that statement. If all the only major barrier to increasing the clock speeds for AMD64 chips from Intel or AMD right now heat sinks I'd be buying different servers. None of the credible server manufacturers HP,IBM,DELL? use heat sinks looking anything like the ones attached to a retail packaged microprocessors. None of these guys are shy when it comes to noise and fans either.
Customers want as much power from a single chip as they can get with the virtualization targeted products. The system builders would simply say to Intel and AMD "Give us the 5ghz chips and tell our engineers how much heat they have to dissipate and a how fast they will find a way."
Price / Performance is not all that matters. If it was we would probably be running tens of di-shrunk 486 cores in PCs today. Complexity matters as well. Nobody wants to deal with hardware nonsense in software. In the PC world you can't even get people to write threaded apps; and you're going to tell me its ok to ask developers to deal with 2x as many cores to get the same amount of computing done? That is going to complicate you application a great deal!
So patching my ssh client and server to use rot13 was a bad idea? I figured since everyone else was using AES that it would gain me some security through obscurity.
That being said using and actually good scheme like blowfish would probably not be a bad idea; just so you are different and perhaps your implementation is not vulnerable to the same buffer over flow or stack bug everyone's is.
Who cares which way it works if you want to identify depressed individuals then correlation alone is useful. You know the population of heavy internet and tv users will be a good place to search out depressed individuals. These are characteristics easy to spot and easy to survey. You then spend your time doing more analysis on the people in the group to find the specific target. It is going to be alot more efficient than searching the general population.
Please explain to me how the government agreeing to take on most or all of the risk financing a business is not a subsidy. It might not be a subsidy for the power industry but it sure is for the financial industry. Its socializing loss and risk, while leaving profits private. Its exactly the kinda thing that is currently gutting our treasury.
Second I am sorry but there is not good proof for global warming and with all the other problems we face we should not make energy one of them. There is a 800 year supply of domestic coal in this country. Perhaps a little less if we move to an electric vehicle fleet powered down the line by coal. We simply have no need for an alternative power source. I think as a basic policy matter we should stop worrying about carbon BS and stop wasting our limited resources developing alternative energy. Instead we should focus on our much more immediate crises. We have unfunded social programs, mounting debt which at any moment could be come more problematic to roll over, terrible unemployment, a disasterous health care problem on the horizon even though I oppose socializing it there is a need for political intervention, there are many states facing bankruptcy, and the list goes on.
We should wait for someone elsewhere in the world to solve the energy and green problem. When the technology is ready then we can just use it. Let Europe or Asia figure it out first.
There simply allot more you have to know today to get to the really important stuff than you needed in Ancient Greece. To that end your point about preparing a certain amount of basic material is correct. We need to make sure though that what we present by preaching is strictly facts and skills. If there is debate about an issue we need to go back to the Socratic method, that is if we want free thinkers.
Teaching the algebra the way most primary schools do it - Good Teaching history the way most primary schools today do it - Very Very bad.
Well that is a sadly distorted view that unfortunately many of those in government and running our corporations share. Capitalism was supposed to be about individuals using their resources according to rational self interest. If companies were say run but their actual owners or even CEOs who planned to be around longer than 18mo it would be perfectly clear that not alienating the government, their customers, their workers and re-investing in product development and tooling for the future is the best path. Instead you're type of thinking has lead to the current how much can I milk it this quarter thinking.
I don't think we need china like conditions and china like wages to compete. The British empire proved plenty competitive while they engaged in trade with what we would call third world nations today. What eventually took them down was the great war and the debt they incurred there; it was not the economics of their trade network.
Your argument assumes that a worker in china produces the same output as a working in the use. If it costs me $15 an hour in wages in other compensation for a US worker and $5 for a working in china its not problem at all to hire the US worker if (s)he is better than three times more productive.
Our problem is not one of workers and wages its one of management and tooling. We need management that lets workers use their minds. We have better educated workers we need to capitalize on that asset. If workers can improve process, or product they need to be listened to, mangement needs to not be so pretentious and drop the not invented here crap and the workers are just wage slave mentality. We also need to recognize that short term profit is not always long term gains. Companies need to stop being so focused on next quarter and start looking at next year maybe next decade, and reinvest. They need to build and buy better tooling than China has and do the research and develop technology that sets us apart again.
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I not so sure, it was not all that long ago most of us who even had a computer were working on an 80x86 or 80x88 with a 512k of memory, connected to a 80x25 character monocrome display, with no network interface, and primary storage consisting of a box next to the unit filled with 360k floppy disks.
You know what we were like pigs in s**t happy too. I have cell phone, not a facy smart phone. I just use it I don't think about it. I charge it Sunday night before I go to bed and I talk and text on it as much as I want to all week long. The batter never goes flat over that time frame.
I had a smart phone for a little while. It could not even stand by all day. I had to go back because I was afraid I might miss SMS alerts from critial systems because the things battery went flat.
I would be very happy with a device that was inexpensive enough to leave on the back seat of my car for weeks on end that would be just there if I needed it and ready to go. Something that could connect to the internet wireless-ly and run lynx and those kinda of apps would be just perfect, even if the screen refresh was slow an e-ink based. Things like e-mail would be very doable as well. We don't live in the same world that 80x86 lived in. There is all kind of infrastructure around, let the POP or IMAP server do the thinking, just add a command like TXTPLZ to the protocols that would instruct the server to render messages sent in other formats out as plain characters. Get send html no problem
becomes 13 and 10. Hell use libcacca to render images as ascii art.
The software you need to write and run on the device could do allot by simply offloading the thinking to the oh lord dare I say it? cloud...
Either that or be contented with the mere fact it exists and is connected in some way with all the rest of the digital world, no matter how it is displayed.
Editing video should work fine out of page file. Even the oldest of paging prediction algorithms should do a good job with keeping the working set in memory for such a sequential task. Unless your are doing your editing on a system you have badly mis-configured in your own ignorance.
All resent versions of Windows 2000 or later should do a great job of memory management for video editing with the default automatic settings; irrespective of if you have 4 gigs of memory or 40.
Yes to the point where its sometimes faster to edit the config files than it is to try and find what you want in the GNOME UI.
And according to a radio article I listened to yesterday, its hard to even find internet service for your home in Italy; which is the friggin seat of modern western civilization. Perhaps different cultures just have different priority's maybe the internet is more important the Japanese than to Americans who like to dedicate their resources to big wide roads, spacious housing and lawns. Who cares? People and groups of people should do what they want.
Just because that router of yours has a gigabit cut through switch in the back of it does not mean that it can do routing at speeds like that; and chances are its slower still if you are asking it to do anything with those packets, like NAT translation. I would be surprised to see even the newest home routers doing speeds beyond 50 to 60Mbps throughput doing anything beyond the simplest use case.
I think the thing here is this is a copyright treaty, they talk about secrecy being required for national security and I just don't see how debate about copyright law being public could possibly pose a clear and present danger.
The opacity of this whole process is proof enough that its not expected to be a popular body of law and probably is does not promote the general welfare but rather those of specific few. I don't think we need to see whats in to be opposed.
What makes them think the mines will explode? I mean its not like these things were engineered to last 60 years.
Perhaps if their intent was to give it to you; but more than likely just plan to use it as a carrot you will never quite get. Poker is really the best representation of daily life in game form. You really are better off the less the other players *know* about your hand be it strong or week.
Its not ROM just a partition; if you don't like just go into computer management and remove it.
I am sorry but the while the documentation for windows might still be lacking the information that is available on Technet is far and away better than just about anything else in industry anything modern anyway. Man pages are good, info pages, such and neither exist for large numbers of apps, were at the most you get so doxygen generated crap that saves little if anytime over just reading the code. The commercial software scene is even worse; there you get typical get little or no API documentation at all and and some crappy knowledgebase web application with information that is largely wrong.
Comcast - leads on even unfamiliar with the brand to assume they have something to do with communications.
Xfinity - ??? Who could even guess
Names apparently have to be useless now.
I know you are trying but I sometimes wonder if its even worth answering the partisan hate mongers on both sides. Neo-Conservatives generally get more guff for not listening to the other side; but frankly I wonder if that has to do with the fact the uber-liberals seem to find the more amazing heights of hypocrisy and unfounded claims.
The Obama team last week was particularly impressive, after campaigning on how the Bush wiretapping program violated civil liberties they sent their lawyers to argue that they should be able to listen to celluar calls and collect geographic data from them without warrants.
They also had the Vice President saying the Iraq was going to be one of the administration's great accomplishments, while they continue to claim they inherited the economic problems. Its plain to any thinking person that lots more economic policy changes have been enacted under the current administration than mission changes in Iraq and that even if some of the measures are working they have not had the effects that were advertised. I can sound positions giving Obama credit for both or neither but I really can't how he can take credit for one and not the other. It looks like a outrageous attempt to be responsible for the successes and continue to blame Bush for the failures.
At least the Neo-Con crowd consistently denies the same realities. Deficits don't matter, You're with us or your Against us, Evolution, etc, etc.
I actually used to do in something similar in an interpreted language (I won't name names).
This:
For i=32767, i=i+1, i 32767
{statements}
EndFor
would run much faster than this:
While True
{statements}
EndWhile
The token check to evaluate True took the interpreter longer than adding 1 to i which would overflow each time i reached 32767 and checking it was less than 32767.
Right but outside the fire safes you get at home center most safes and strongboxes are designed such that they are difficult to remove from the site. They may be very heavy requiring equipment to move fastened from the inside etc etc. In the case of laptops and phones virtually any situation in which this sort of attack will be used is one where the units whereabouts are not know to the owner. Which makes it pretty hard to respond to. The big sell point on TPM was if your device goes missing its brick to whomever finds it; this sorta makes that untrue.
Yes you make your laptop useless to the typical thief but as far as corporate espionage, government records leaking etc etc; this makes TPM a pretty poor defense. Yes I realize its supposed to be one line of defense bu when things like the keys to your disk encryption are stored there those remaining lines are not much of a hurdle.
So he did this by access the information in the chips protected storage. Now that he has done this does it let us get at the set of possible keys or anything that would allow a software solution to defeating these things?
I am going to call BS on that statement. If all the only major barrier to increasing the clock speeds for AMD64 chips from Intel or AMD right now heat sinks I'd be buying different servers. None of the credible server manufacturers HP,IBM,DELL? use heat sinks looking anything like the ones attached to a retail packaged microprocessors. None of these guys are shy when it comes to noise and fans either.
Customers want as much power from a single chip as they can get with the virtualization targeted products. The system builders would simply say to Intel and AMD "Give us the 5ghz chips and tell our engineers how much heat they have to dissipate and a how fast they will find a way."
Price / Performance is not all that matters. If it was we would probably be running tens of di-shrunk 486 cores in PCs today. Complexity matters as well. Nobody wants to deal with hardware nonsense in software. In the PC world you can't even get people to write threaded apps; and you're going to tell me its ok to ask developers to deal with 2x as many cores to get the same amount of computing done? That is going to complicate you application a great deal!
So patching my ssh client and server to use rot13 was a bad idea? I figured since everyone else was using AES that it would gain me some security through obscurity.
That being said using and actually good scheme like blowfish would probably not be a bad idea; just so you are different and perhaps your implementation is not vulnerable to the same buffer over flow or stack bug everyone's is.
Who cares which way it works if you want to identify depressed individuals then correlation alone is useful. You know the population of heavy internet and tv users will be a good place to search out depressed individuals. These are characteristics easy to spot and easy to survey. You then spend your time doing more analysis on the people in the group to find the specific target. It is going to be alot more efficient than searching the general population.
Please explain to me how the government agreeing to take on most or all of the risk financing a business is not a subsidy. It might not be a subsidy for the power industry but it sure is for the financial industry. Its socializing loss and risk, while leaving profits private. Its exactly the kinda thing that is currently gutting our treasury.
Second I am sorry but there is not good proof for global warming and with all the other problems we face we should not make energy one of them. There is a 800 year supply of domestic coal in this country. Perhaps a little less if we move to an electric vehicle fleet powered down the line by coal. We simply have no need for an alternative power source. I think as a basic policy matter we should stop worrying about carbon BS and stop wasting our limited resources developing alternative energy. Instead we should focus on our much more immediate crises. We have unfunded social programs, mounting debt which at any moment could be come more problematic to roll over, terrible unemployment, a disasterous health care problem on the horizon even though I oppose socializing it there is a need for political intervention, there are many states facing bankruptcy, and the list goes on.
We should wait for someone elsewhere in the world to solve the energy and green problem. When the technology is ready then we can just use it. Let Europe or Asia figure it out first.
Yes all hail the All Alloy Twin Cam Hemi! Go Alfa Go!
There simply allot more you have to know today to get to the really important stuff than you needed in Ancient Greece. To that end your point about preparing a certain amount of basic material is correct. We need to make sure though that what we present by preaching is strictly facts and skills. If there is debate about an issue we need to go back to the Socratic method, that is if we want free thinkers.
Teaching the algebra the way most primary schools do it - Good
Teaching history the way most primary schools today do it - Very Very bad.
Well that is a sadly distorted view that unfortunately many of those in government and running our corporations share. Capitalism was supposed to be about individuals using their resources according to rational self interest. If companies were say run but their actual owners or even CEOs who planned to be around longer than 18mo it would be perfectly clear that not alienating the government, their customers, their workers and re-investing in product development and tooling for the future is the best path. Instead you're type of thinking has lead to the current how much can I milk it this quarter thinking.
I don't think we need china like conditions and china like wages to compete. The British empire proved plenty competitive while they engaged in trade with what we would call third world nations today. What eventually took them down was the great war and the debt they incurred there; it was not the economics of their trade network.
Your argument assumes that a worker in china produces the same output as a working in the use. If it costs me $15 an hour in wages in other compensation for a US worker and $5 for a working in china its not problem at all to hire the US worker if (s)he is better than three times more productive.
Our problem is not one of workers and wages its one of management and tooling. We need management that lets workers use their minds. We have better educated workers we need to capitalize on that asset. If workers can improve process, or product they need to be listened to, mangement needs to not be so pretentious and drop the not invented here crap and the workers are just wage slave mentality. We also need to recognize that short term profit is not always long term gains. Companies need to stop being so focused on next quarter and start looking at next year maybe next decade, and reinvest. They need to build and buy better tooling than China has and do the research and develop technology that sets us apart again.