"Using a tool that can track zombie machines, CipherTrust found that 26 per cent of them were hosted in European countries, with most of them in Germany (six per cent), France (five per cent) and the UK (three per cent)."
so now the article establied that the *most* infected country is Germany, with is 6%. now the immediate next paragraph:
"The company's ZombieMeter found that hackers were hijacking around 172,009 computers every day. Approximately 20 per cent of those machines were based in the United States, and 15 per cent were found in China. CipherTrust did not provide details of where the attackers resided."
and US account for TWENTY percent compare to Germany's SIX percent. Even China's FIFTEEN percent is higher. I don't mind it do a country by country comparation, or even a continent by continent. I wonder what's the overall percentange if you really compare it continent to continent. I wonder what's the overall percentage of Americas, Europe, and Asia is...
but IMHO grouping Europe all together and compare it against nations like US and China is just wrong.
I've been trying to find a good quality CRT monitor in case my trustworthy CTX 19" (Trinitron tube) dies. but so far I haven't find any good replacement in 17"-19" range, ever since Sony stop producing Trinitron tube:(
but there are still a few 21"+ that uses good tube, except they might be too big for my personal use.
IMHO although CRT has the disadvantege of big size and huge power consumption, it still beats staring at the LCD (YMMV of course). the quality of the image is still unbeatable *yet*
although CPU probably derived from the same core (PPC?) but each final product is very different from each other. on the top of that, the GPU is totally different, and for console, CPU and GPU are tightly coupled (almost to the point both could be consider CPU IMHO). Sony also use Cell processor... What does Revolution use for GPU?(I have no clue)
all 3 console might be using the same instruction set, but it doesn't mean cross platform will be easier.
well, for Intel, the whole Ghz thing is more of marketing spin then the actual performance gain. since P4 were *designed* to achieve higher Mhz rapidly so Intel can sell more CPUs (in which they are very successful). AMD, on the other hand, don't have a good marketing department from the start. (and they lack of a good software team to write compiler too). so they have to spin things differently. at least K8 is a pretty solid design, until it's bottleneck is reached..
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Sadly it's true.. I've been wanting a game with good AI for years (turn based strategy, or RTS), but so far I've seen there's nearly nothing has good AI. either the computer cheats by peeking at what you are doing, or it's simply have more resource then you do. but the modern processor do have a lot of processing power to implement a good AI. just that no coder willing to spend the resource/time/money to do it right.
but if you look at the AI topics/articles/publishing around the net and library.. most of them only center around a few topics (chess come to mind, and chess's AI isn't really true AI anyway, more of exhausted searches). Maybe it's time for programming to head to a new direction.....
Anand's has a much better review/first look article then the one submitted, of course, he is trying to promote his site through/. after all. and there are people fall for it everytime.
I totally agree. even if the script is good, it doesn't mean the final product is what we expected.
IMHO, the entertainment itself has changed over the years drastically. what we expect to be entertaining might not be what others perceive to be. or what the publisher/producer want the public to have. What I like in a movie is a good storyline, but a lot of people like special effects and movie stars over a good story line, they think entertaiment means lots of special effects and lots of TnA... who knows?
and the same can be applied to a lot of things. Movies, Novels, and computer games all heading to the directly of commercialization (hey, this is business afterall.) and there are enough people/luser/suckers willing to pay the money and get entertained. unless people's show it otherwise, it's going to continue the same trend... until there's no money left to make.
what start out as hobby/art/special talent, all comes down to business now, it become a tool of making money.
a good system will be given limited time access to customers who purchase at the store. therefor lock out the squatters. (maybe even implement a system where customer can order it via their wifi device. this way they don't need to even leave the chair and place order )
the biggest challenge I see on those place is the implementation. a mom and pop place will not have the resource to implement a rated wifi service. so it's probably free or nothing design you see that's common everywhere.
but again, this might come down to a culture/society issue.. why do people flock to free wifi spots? we are at the age that almost everyone has internet access in many places(home, work, school)why does it have to be a coffee shop? what does it provide that you can't get at home or other places? (for squatters, it certainly is NOT food/drinks) is it the *IN* thing to do?
After reading the article, I am not sure why I even bother going to hothardware anymore.. TFA sounds just like your regular Intel's marketing speech. I'm not sure why/. keep posting article about this website.. there are many other good hardware review sites with good articles. but it seems like this one get chosen much more frequently. I'm also very wary that when the submitter of the article is the one that operate the website (you always wonder if there's a *motive* behind the article submission)
well, it reallly depends on what kind of games you want to play, and what availble for each platform. most gamers has multiple consoles at home already. (and most big titles are availible on multiple platforms too). so the important question will be: if you can only buy ONE console, which one will you buy, and why?
both Sony and Microsoft is trying to place their nextgen console as an entertainment hub, so it might come down to not just gaming hardware/software, rather then it's overall functionality too.
you buy games do you? most of the games are commercial, but not many people refuse to buy/use it because it cost money.. besides, you can use opera free in ad mode. free/open source not necessarily means it's the only choice.
Exactly, they are abusing the trust of their customers when they are trying to exploit this. (well, again there are many software company do that as well).
What really disturbs me is that USB Forums is able to do the sneaky *rename* of the USB standards under the radar for quite sometime before various sites pick it up. Right now this news is just start to making it on big sites. The manufactures (especially notebooks) are keeping it quiet so they can use the older, slower USB ports but with a new "USB 2.0" name.
It's too bad only SLR uses the sensor is Sigma SD9. and since SD9 lenses uses Sigma's own SA mount, it's not a very popular choice. hopefully in the future some other SLR or consumer digital camera can use the X3 sensors.
A while ago Pretec announced 3GB and 6GB CF card, while 3GB is out, 6GB capacity CF is still no where in sight yet. but the competition from 4GB card surely will start driving the price down.
Tom's is not really biased either way, but their benchmark doesn't really reflect the actual strength of the particular hardware either. What really annoys me and stops me going their is the quality of their articles and reviews has been steadily decline to the point that it's unacceptable (sometimes badly translated, sometimes it's not understanding the benchmarks, sometimes it's just stupid reviews.. like their digital cameras)
but if you just want some quick numbers on the benchmark for reference (like how does this piece of hardware compare to the others on Q3 640x480).. and form your own analysis.. Tom's is still worth check out..
you can get multiple rebates on the same address? I have a similar setup, except I use SCSI-IDE bridge to use my SCSI adapters with IDE drives. so I can scale up to 15 drives in one array if I have to. it still beats a full blown SCSI RAID system in price but a lot. and I'm using the Sony DRU500A as my primary backup source as well. DVD-R cost about $1 per disc. so it's not too bad. (Ritek DVD-R). I need a bigger case in the future to scale to more drives.
for the people who has SCSI already, it's a cheap way to add extra storage, or RAID.. $100 for the converter, $150 for 120GB 8MB cache WD drive.. not too bad. it's cheap to build a large RAID array this way (if you don't mind the performance compare to a 15K rpm storage array)
I have been using similar product for almost a year now.. from Acard Technology they are the one that produce the chipset for Addonics I think. I don't have any problem with it so far.
That's exactly what I'm doing right now.. The full backup is always the biggest problem. and finding a good way to catalog/document the backup CDs. and since I went through so many dead HDs, I preferbly have backup on CDs.
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from TFA:
"Using a tool that can track zombie machines, CipherTrust found that 26 per cent of them were hosted in European countries, with most of them in Germany (six per cent), France (five per cent) and the UK (three per cent)."
so now the article establied that the *most* infected country is Germany, with is 6%. now the immediate next paragraph:
"The company's ZombieMeter found that hackers were hijacking around 172,009 computers every day. Approximately 20 per cent of those machines were based in the United States, and 15 per cent were found in China. CipherTrust did not provide details of where the attackers resided."
and US account for TWENTY percent compare to Germany's SIX percent. Even China's FIFTEEN percent is higher. I don't mind it do a country by country comparation, or even a continent by continent. I wonder what's the overall percentange if you really compare it continent to continent. I wonder what's the overall percentage of Americas, Europe, and Asia is...
but IMHO grouping Europe all together and compare it against nations like US and China is just wrong.
I've been trying to find a good quality CRT monitor in case my trustworthy CTX 19" (Trinitron tube) dies. but so far I haven't find any good replacement in 17"-19" range, ever since Sony stop producing Trinitron tube :(
but there are still a few 21"+ that uses good tube, except they might be too big for my personal use.
IMHO although CRT has the disadvantege of big size and huge power consumption, it still beats staring at the LCD (YMMV of course). the quality of the image is still unbeatable *yet*
although CPU probably derived from the same core (PPC?) but each final product is very different from each other. on the top of that, the GPU is totally different, and for console, CPU and GPU are tightly coupled (almost to the point both could be consider CPU IMHO). Sony also use Cell processor... What does Revolution use for GPU?(I have no clue)
all 3 console might be using the same instruction set, but it doesn't mean cross platform will be easier.
I know it's probably expensive, but does anyone has the exact figure of how much are the FPGA chips cost? like those Xilinx Virtex4-FX?
well, for Intel, the whole Ghz thing is more of marketing spin then the actual performance gain. since P4 were *designed* to achieve higher Mhz rapidly so Intel can sell more CPUs (in which they are very successful). AMD, on the other hand, don't have a good marketing department from the start. (and they lack of a good software team to write compiler too). so they have to spin things differently. at least K8 is a pretty solid design, until it's bottleneck is reached..
Sadly it's true.. I've been wanting a game with good AI for years (turn based strategy, or RTS), but so far I've seen there's nearly nothing has good AI. either the computer cheats by peeking at what you are doing, or it's simply have more resource then you do. but the modern processor do have a lot of processing power to implement a good AI. just that no coder willing to spend the resource/time/money to do it right.
but if you look at the AI topics/articles/publishing around the net and library.. most of them only center around a few topics (chess come to mind, and chess's AI isn't really true AI anyway, more of exhausted searches). Maybe it's time for programming to head to a new direction.....
Anand's has a much better review/first look article then the one submitted, of course, he is trying to promote his site through /. after all. and there are people fall for it everytime.
someone need to change the mod on this... this is clearly a troll. Moderators need to read the post in full before spending your points.
I totally agree. even if the script is good, it doesn't mean the final product is what we expected.
IMHO, the entertainment itself has changed over the years drastically. what we expect to be entertaining might not be what others perceive to be. or what the publisher/producer want the public to have. What I like in a movie is a good storyline, but a lot of people like special effects and movie stars over a good story line, they think entertaiment means lots of special effects and lots of TnA... who knows?
and the same can be applied to a lot of things. Movies, Novels, and computer games all heading to the directly of commercialization (hey, this is business afterall.) and there are enough people/luser/suckers willing to pay the money and get entertained. unless people's show it otherwise, it's going to continue the same trend... until there's no money left to make.
what start out as hobby/art/special talent, all comes down to business now, it become a tool of making money.
IMHO, this is more of a marketing spin then a feature.. but of course, you can't underestimate the power of marketing.
and what are the complications if CPU/MB died and you need to replace it? (well. almost same as software based DRM, but harder to do).
a good system will be given limited time access to customers who purchase at the store. therefor lock out the squatters. (maybe even implement a system where customer can order it via their wifi device. this way they don't need to even leave the chair and place order )
the biggest challenge I see on those place is the implementation. a mom and pop place will not have the resource to implement a rated wifi service. so it's probably free or nothing design you see that's common everywhere.
but again, this might come down to a culture/society issue.. why do people flock to free wifi spots? we are at the age that almost everyone has internet access in many places(home, work, school)why does it have to be a coffee shop? what does it provide that you can't get at home or other places? (for squatters, it certainly is NOT food/drinks) is it the *IN* thing to do?
After reading the article, I am not sure why I even bother going to hothardware anymore.. TFA sounds just like your regular Intel's marketing speech. I'm not sure why /. keep posting article about this website.. there are many other good hardware review sites with good articles. but it seems like this one get chosen much more frequently. I'm also very wary that when the submitter of the article is the one that operate the website (you always wonder if there's a *motive* behind the article submission)
well, it reallly depends on what kind of games you want to play, and what availble for each platform. most gamers has multiple consoles at home already. (and most big titles are availible on multiple platforms too). so the important question will be: if you can only buy ONE console, which one will you buy, and why?
both Sony and Microsoft is trying to place their nextgen console as an entertainment hub, so it might come down to not just gaming hardware/software, rather then it's overall functionality too.
you buy games do you? most of the games are commercial, but not many people refuse to buy/use it because it cost money.. besides, you can use opera free in ad mode. free/open source not necessarily means it's the only choice.
Exactly, they are abusing the trust of their customers when they are trying to exploit this. (well, again there are many software company do that as well).
Belkin is on my banned list now.
What really disturbs me is that USB Forums is able to do the sneaky *rename* of the USB standards under the radar for quite sometime before various sites pick it up. Right now this news is just start to making it on big sites. The manufactures (especially notebooks) are keeping it quiet so they can use the older, slower USB ports but with a new "USB 2.0" name.
Fast works for a small team. but I was wondering why they took the forum offline? to prevent the server being overloaded? prevent flaming?
and I still don't like the phoning home feature.. seems only the paying customer of Trillian Pro 2.0 gets screwed over for this.
It's too bad only SLR uses the sensor is Sigma SD9. and since SD9 lenses uses Sigma's own SA mount, it's not a very popular choice. hopefully in the future some other SLR or consumer digital camera can use the X3 sensors.
A while ago Pretec announced 3GB and 6GB CF card, while 3GB is out, 6GB capacity CF is still no where in sight yet. but the competition from 4GB card surely will start driving the price down.
Tom's is not really biased either way, but their benchmark doesn't really reflect the actual strength of the particular hardware either. What really annoys me and stops me going their is the quality of their articles and reviews has been steadily decline to the point that it's unacceptable (sometimes badly translated, sometimes it's not understanding the benchmarks, sometimes it's just stupid reviews.. like their digital cameras)
but if you just want some quick numbers on the benchmark for reference (like how does this piece of hardware compare to the others on Q3 640x480)..
and form your own analysis.. Tom's is still worth check out..
you can get multiple rebates on the same address? I have a similar setup, except I use SCSI-IDE bridge to use my SCSI adapters with IDE drives. so I can scale up to 15 drives in one array if I have to. it still beats a full blown SCSI RAID system in price but a lot. and I'm using the Sony DRU500A as my primary backup source as well. DVD-R cost about $1 per disc. so it's not too bad. (Ritek DVD-R). I need a bigger case in the future to scale to more drives.
for the people who has SCSI already, it's a cheap way to add extra storage, or RAID.. $100 for the converter, $150 for 120GB 8MB cache WD drive.. not too bad. it's cheap to build a large RAID array this way (if you don't mind the performance compare to a 15K rpm storage array)
I have been using similar product for almost a year now.. from Acard Technology they are the one that produce the chipset for Addonics I think. I don't have any problem with it so far.
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That's exactly what I'm doing right now.. The full backup is always the biggest problem. and finding a good way to catalog/document the backup CDs. and since I went through so many dead HDs, I preferbly have backup on CDs.