Ah, unix configuration files are readable. Thank you for telling us that.
What I do see is a hell of a lot configuration files, all using their own syntax, all at different locations. About the only thing that has been standardized is the '#' character for comments. Some programs have a check option to actually check for errors before use, some don't. Some can be used for subsequent versions of programs, some don't. Some can be overwritten in an application specific manner (file in/home/user), some don't.
The unix command parameters are at least a bit more structured, but that's about it. Some things, like using ls * does only work for so many files because of how parameter substitution works. There are many more problems with the currect CLI. Yes, it is way better than the Windows situation, but that's the whole point of the article.
If Microsoft creates a much better, OO interface, I would not be the first to *bash* it into submission with arguments like this.
XORring is more difficult to get right than just a simple library call. Or buying a solution. A XOR is very, very easy to crack, even if you use CBC (chaining) mode. You could probably put it under obscurity versus security. Somebody who would find the package is unlikely to see what's inside. Then again, most people don't have tape units either.
As long as you don't throw away the references objects, you can get memory leaks. Well, actually, they are more like object instance leaks, but it amounts to the same thing. That's the way garbage collection normally works - it checks which objects are referenced, if there are no references, the object is thrown away.
Also, many garbage collectors only recycle memory if they get to a certain memory usage. With Java for instance, it looks at the maximum heap size. That is, unless it is triggered by the program or the user (see Java console) etc. JavaScript probably works the same way.
I have not seen too many JavaScript problems though. I do see very high processor usage with the flash plugin though. Running a game togetter with a running flash thingy is horrendous.
Smoking is probably not a great idea if you are poor. Then again, most people smoke to get rid of stress, or when idling. This is probably more common with poor people than with rich people. The choice of drugs is also important; rich people tend to use different (much more expensive) drugs. Even if this was not the case, you are still generalizing poor people. A lot of poor people spend their money wisely.
The point that the author was trying to make is that the library, and the hiring of books should be low-entrance. Your argument does not change that rather valid point. Obviously, the idea that you can go to the library to read the book *does* make a difference.
That sounds almost right, so we'll have to take this appart one sentence at a time (for those not interested in these kind of politics; leave *now*:):
Whenever something goes bad in Europe, European leaders are running around saying "America this", or "America that".
Do they? Gosh! Maybe that's all thats filtered by CNN and the like.
It's not America's fault that Europe cannot both have a cradle to the grave welfare state with guaranteed social stability and a dynamic capitalist society at the same time. It's not America's fault that France and Germany have huge unemployment rates.
According to the numbers we are almost as productive as the US, while the riches are spread much more evenly. Anyway, large parts of the US also have high unemployment rates.
All of our transatlantic problems are because of that simple quandry. Europe sees that America's trade policies are trashing its way of life.
Oh? That's certainly news to me. Ok, when you put 40% on the import of steel, then there are problems, and Europe does not like the way you treat genetically modified food, but that's about it.
But Europe doesn't have to follow them. Europe doesn't have to have giant economic growth and doesn't have to try and become a unified alternative to America. Those are European decisions, not American ones. IF Europe wants to have a slower economy and fall behind economically but have more social stability, then let it.
Well, yes, exactly.
What I hate is blanket statements. Americans are a bunch of heathens that should be more integrated with the world. Americans don't understand foreign countries. Americans are stupider than their more civilized European counterparts. I mean, America has more people in more countries, both in businesses and in the military, then no nation in the world has ever had. America leads in many areas of research, has a robust economy, and yet, we're "stupid".
I really cannot see the connection between the last two sentences and the sentences before that one. Is that meant to rate success? Does Europe think Americans are stupid? Or do we just not agree with their foreign policy?
Look at how much Europeans trash Texas. I'm no fan of that whole Southern Texas thing, but, if Texas were a country, it would be comparable to many European States in terms of economic activities. It's certainly larger!
As a European I don't care about how large it is. And I certainly don't care about the scale of economic activities. I do care about the *kind* of economic activities (input, waste and produce), and I'm not sure that I like that part that much.
No, it was not just math. Were you expecting a cure that consisted of reciting numbers, or calculating 2+2 inside the head? Math pretty much is non-physical. Cancer pretty much is.
It seems to be rather out of date. Exploits may already have surfaced. It is probably a better idea to create your own one and put some commercial information on your shop on it. You might want to provide the source as well on your website, otherwise you might breach some stuff. And include the licenses, of course. Problem is that people will contact you for support, even though it clearly states that you won't get it.
Yeah, but the human brain functions better at lower temperatures, and your employees tend to become angry over time if you put the heater up to 25 celcius. Maybe employers should listen to their employees instead of idiot studies like these.
The remaining stems have been plucked to ensure its DNA at least survives. Scientists hope to revive the plant at a later date, when full cloning from one strand of DNA is made feasible.
850 GB? It's nowhere near enough! Just like the audio freaks wanting 24 bit 9600 herz audio, video freaks will like to have full, uncompressed video at decent framerates and resolutions. Lets say 1600 x 900, 24 bit color, 50 frames per second, 3 hour video. Here we go:
That's 2.3 terrabyte for the minimal specifications, never mind 32 bit color encoding or really high resolutions at 100 Herz. Mind you, (9.1 channel, uncompressed) audio is missing as well. Then think 16 camera's, 50 languages, 150 subtitles...
So for the guys that think that unlimited data recording is just around the corner, think twice:)
Even though I plan to put my MP3 collection on a raid drive, I do not think my music counts as irreplacable. Of course, if you bought them from Apple or Sony at 1 dollar a pop, you might think differently.
Of course, the problem with current PDA's is their ability to be networked, which makes it a pretty untrustworthy device. Actually, it might be less secure than your average desktop PC. Even if you encrypt your password, who's going to secure your input/output?
It might be an idea to write down a difficult 8 character password, and keep it in your wallet. Then extend this difficult to crack password with a more easily remembered one. This prevents anyone from logging into your PC if they find your secure password, and it keeps network hackers from guessing your simple one. Of course, one could brute force your simple password using the network if they found out your secure one, but this is not such a likely scenario. And it's all about mitigating risks...
Uh, yeah. A dutch magazine studying the reliability of flash drives (the USB kind) actually put a few in a washing machine. Most of them survived. What kind of freak accident are you talking about? WW3? I mean, the chance of me dropping a harddrive and experiencing a head crash (try to recover *that*) is much much (much) more probable. Even if you experience problems, you would just loose a sector, not the complete drive. Oh, and flash != EEPROM afaik.
No, only the "write" life. The initial price will probably be very steep, but with the flash prices going the way they are currently going, this will not be a very big problem for long. The techniques to create large flash chips has been there for some time now. It's the market that is trying to create a long product life that keeps prices up, nothing else.
The key question is how much this will cost. The fact that its aimed at laptops suggests that it will be significantly more expensive than a HDD.
Not necesarilly so. Laptop drives are much slower than their desktop counterparts. And power consumption is much more of an issue here. As is ruggedness. Oh, and they are a lot smaller as well. Normally you would use 2,5" drives in laptops. Actually, it makes a *lot* of sense to put this in laptops first. But the first ones will probably be pretty expensive, I'll give you that.
Because it behaves like one. Language sucks. I mean, why even call it a drive? It's not like it is driving anything around. But flash "drives" are all around. You've lost the battle...lay down your weapons.
Actually, if I read correctly, some flash memory does take quite a long time to start reading from a certain point, whilst throughput is ok. There was some difference between NAND and NOR based cache here. But please correct me, since I am probably wrong about this at one point or another. Seek times on HDD's will probably be worse though.
You must have met the management team of the company I work for. Avoid confusion and do not use the word "showstopper". Actually, I would not use "mayor wholes" either, but that might have been a typo.
Main Entry: showstopper
Pronunciation: -"stä-p&r
Function: noun
1 : an act, song, or performer that wins applause so prolonged as to interrupt a performance
2 : something or someone exceptionally arresting or attractive <the gold crown was the showstopper of the exhibition>
That contract will be a contract to be employed for as long as the employee sees fit. It's pretty hard to fire people when the company is running fine in the Netherlands, as in many European countries, and it should be. Currently if you have been one year employed, you'll get a full contract.
It can be pretty hard for employees to find a new job, especially when they are older. Companies are required to be looking for the best of their employees, not just profits. Fortunately in Europe companies still exist as benefits to the people instead of the other way around. We should be on guard to keep it that way.
If IBM is willing to fire so many people when they still maintain profits, they should pay, and pay dearly. Especially if they haven't looked at alternatives, though I imagine that would be cumbersome for such a number.
And as said, going on strike is actually a right that has been secured ages and ages ago. It's frequently used in Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands. You might discover this if you travel to Europe - public transport is known to exercise the right slightly too many times (since it has a big impact, and unions are strong in those quarters).
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Ah, unix configuration files are readable. Thank you for telling us that.
/home/user), some don't.
What I do see is a hell of a lot configuration files, all using their own syntax, all at different locations. About the only thing that has been standardized is the '#' character for comments. Some programs have a check option to actually check for errors before use, some don't. Some can be used for subsequent versions of programs, some don't. Some can be overwritten in an application specific manner (file in
The unix command parameters are at least a bit more structured, but that's about it. Some things, like using ls * does only work for so many files because of how parameter substitution works. There are many more problems with the currect CLI. Yes, it is way better than the Windows situation, but that's the whole point of the article.
If Microsoft creates a much better, OO interface, I would not be the first to *bash* it into submission with arguments like this.
XORring is more difficult to get right than just a simple library call. Or buying a solution. A XOR is very, very easy to crack, even if you use CBC (chaining) mode. You could probably put it under obscurity versus security. Somebody who would find the package is unlikely to see what's inside. Then again, most people don't have tape units either.
As long as you don't throw away the references objects, you can get memory leaks. Well, actually, they are more like object instance leaks, but it amounts to the same thing. That's the way garbage collection normally works - it checks which objects are referenced, if there are no references, the object is thrown away.
Also, many garbage collectors only recycle memory if they get to a certain memory usage. With Java for instance, it looks at the maximum heap size. That is, unless it is triggered by the program or the user (see Java console) etc. JavaScript probably works the same way.
I have not seen too many JavaScript problems though. I do see very high processor usage with the flash plugin though. Running a game togetter with a running flash thingy is horrendous.
Smoking is probably not a great idea if you are poor. Then again, most people smoke to get rid of stress, or when idling. This is probably more common with poor people than with rich people. The choice of drugs is also important; rich people tend to use different (much more expensive) drugs. Even if this was not the case, you are still generalizing poor people. A lot of poor people spend their money wisely.
The point that the author was trying to make is that the library, and the hiring of books should be low-entrance. Your argument does not change that rather valid point. Obviously, the idea that you can go to the library to read the book *does* make a difference.
from Longhorn. Although I doubt that this one will be missed. Somehow I always implicitly knew that it was *my* computer, containing *my* pictures.
Do they? Gosh! Maybe that's all thats filtered by CNN and the like.
According to the numbers we are almost as productive as the US, while the riches are spread much more evenly. Anyway, large parts of the US also have high unemployment rates.
Oh? That's certainly news to me. Ok, when you put 40% on the import of steel, then there are problems, and Europe does not like the way you treat genetically modified food, but that's about it.
Well, yes, exactly.
I really cannot see the connection between the last two sentences and the sentences before that one. Is that meant to rate success? Does Europe think Americans are stupid? Or do we just not agree with their foreign policy?
As a European I don't care about how large it is. And I certainly don't care about the scale of economic activities. I do care about the *kind* of economic activities (input, waste and produce), and I'm not sure that I like that part that much.
No, it was not just math. Were you expecting a cure that consisted of reciting numbers, or calculating 2+2 inside the head? Math pretty much is non-physical. Cancer pretty much is.
I don't. If I read the book correctly, it was pretty old. Then again, we could not go by the script and safe a few souls by eating it early.
It seems to be rather out of date. Exploits may already have surfaced. It is probably a better idea to create your own one and put some commercial information on your shop on it. You might want to provide the source as well on your website, otherwise you might breach some stuff. And include the licenses, of course. Problem is that people will contact you for support, even though it clearly states that you won't get it.
Yeah, but the human brain functions better at lower temperatures, and your employees tend to become angry over time if you put the heater up to 25 celcius. Maybe employers should listen to their employees instead of idiot studies like these.
I can see only one fan on the motherboard. I hope that will be enough to cool the nuclear power plant.
The remaining stems have been plucked to ensure its DNA at least survives. Scientists hope to revive the plant at a later date, when full cloning from one strand of DNA is made feasible.
850 GB? It's nowhere near enough! Just like the audio freaks wanting 24 bit 9600 herz audio, video freaks will like to have full, uncompressed video at decent framerates and resolutions. Lets say 1600 x 900, 24 bit color, 50 frames per second, 3 hour video. Here we go:
:)
> echo "1600 * 900 * 3 * 50 * 3 * 60 * 60" | bc
2332800000000
That's 2.3 terrabyte for the minimal specifications, never mind 32 bit color encoding or really high resolutions at 100 Herz. Mind you, (9.1 channel, uncompressed) audio is missing as well. Then think 16 camera's, 50 languages, 150 subtitles...
So for the guys that think that unlimited data recording is just around the corner, think twice
Even though I plan to put my MP3 collection on a raid drive, I do not think my music counts as irreplacable. Of course, if you bought them from Apple or Sony at 1 dollar a pop, you might think differently.
Of course, the problem with current PDA's is their ability to be networked, which makes it a pretty untrustworthy device. Actually, it might be less secure than your average desktop PC. Even if you encrypt your password, who's going to secure your input/output?
It might be an idea to write down a difficult 8 character password, and keep it in your wallet. Then extend this difficult to crack password with a more easily remembered one. This prevents anyone from logging into your PC if they find your secure password, and it keeps network hackers from guessing your simple one. Of course, one could brute force your simple password using the network if they found out your secure one, but this is not such a likely scenario. And it's all about mitigating risks...
Uh, yeah. A dutch magazine studying the reliability of flash drives (the USB kind) actually put a few in a washing machine. Most of them survived. What kind of freak accident are you talking about? WW3? I mean, the chance of me dropping a harddrive and experiencing a head crash (try to recover *that*) is much much (much) more probable. Even if you experience problems, you would just loose a sector, not the complete drive. Oh, and flash != EEPROM afaik.
No, only the "write" life. The initial price will probably be very steep, but with the flash prices going the way they are currently going, this will not be a very big problem for long. The techniques to create large flash chips has been there for some time now. It's the market that is trying to create a long product life that keeps prices up, nothing else.
Not necesarilly so. Laptop drives are much slower than their desktop counterparts. And power consumption is much more of an issue here. As is ruggedness. Oh, and they are a lot smaller as well. Normally you would use 2,5" drives in laptops. Actually, it makes a *lot* of sense to put this in laptops first. But the first ones will probably be pretty expensive, I'll give you that.
Because it behaves like one. Language sucks. I mean, why even call it a drive? It's not like it is driving anything around. But flash "drives" are all around. You've lost the battle...lay down your weapons.
Actually, if I read correctly, some flash memory does take quite a long time to start reading from a certain point, whilst throughput is ok. There was some difference between NAND and NOR based cache here. But please correct me, since I am probably wrong about this at one point or another. Seek times on HDD's will probably be worse though.
You must have met the management team of the company I work for. Avoid confusion and do not use the word "showstopper". Actually, I would not use "mayor wholes" either, but that might have been a typo.
Main Entry: showstopper
Pronunciation: -"stä-p&r
Function: noun
1 : an act, song, or performer that wins applause so prolonged as to interrupt a performance
2 : something or someone exceptionally arresting or attractive <the gold crown was the showstopper of the exhibition>
That contract will be a contract to be employed for as long as the employee sees fit. It's pretty hard to fire people when the company is running fine in the Netherlands, as in many European countries, and it should be. Currently if you have been one year employed, you'll get a full contract.
It can be pretty hard for employees to find a new job, especially when they are older. Companies are required to be looking for the best of their employees, not just profits. Fortunately in Europe companies still exist as benefits to the people instead of the other way around. We should be on guard to keep it that way.
If IBM is willing to fire so many people when they still maintain profits, they should pay, and pay dearly. Especially if they haven't looked at alternatives, though I imagine that would be cumbersome for such a number.
And as said, going on strike is actually a right that has been secured ages and ages ago. It's frequently used in Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands. You might discover this if you travel to Europe - public transport is known to exercise the right slightly too many times (since it has a big impact, and unions are strong in those quarters).
Bet you aint 50 yet.
Yeah, and at least you can reset them when you're growing tired of them.