If you really thing that the integrated Intel graphics in the i3/i5/i7 chipset even compares to the 320M, you need to either (1) actually compare them, or (2) read any analysis by anyone that actually has done so. The 320M might not be the best graphics package out there right now (indeed, it clearly is not!) but it blows the pants off the IntelHD stuff.
Seriously...read some benchmarks and analysis before you post such crap. The crappyness of the integrated video is one of the primary reasons to stay with the C2D w/ 320M instead of moving to the i3 or i5 with Intel HD instead in the 13" MBP.
You're confusing hardware platforms with instruction set architectures (ISAs). There is a lot more to a hardware platform (chipset, BIOS/EFI, etc) then the type of microprocessor that powers it.
Some folks value hundreds of thousands of human lives more than the dream of creating artificial intelligence. If you feel that the creation of an intelligent computer is more important than saving hundreds of thousands of human lives, people who live every day afraid of death due to a disease that does not exist in the US, then you're entitled to your opinion. And I'm entitled to my opinion that your priorities are way out of whack.
Bill Gates just gave a HUGE amount of money to tackeling diseases that kill thousands of people per year. Not potential people or some statistics on a population map, but alive, breathing, suffering people. This could potentially save thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of lives. And he just gave this ridiculous amount of money away to this end. And the people on/. are talking about patents, Microsoft money, etc.
This is a good, noble, and amazing act. Show some goddamn respect. What have you done that could change the lives of that many people? Acknowledge a noble and selfless act...the world would be a much better place if more people not only committed them, but acknowledged them and derive inspiration from them.
The Droid is marketed to manly men. No proper feminine woman would be caught dead with a cell phone that bristles widgets like a Swiss Army Knife, and looks like a killer space weapon.
My wife was the first person I know to get a Droid. She loves it, especially the widgets and the retro, hard-edge, look of the phone. I am, truly, the luckiest man alive.:)
If you buy a Verizon Wireless US-only (CDMA/1xEVDO) phone, then you are correct; that phone will not have GSM capability and will, therefore, not have a SIM card. However, if you buy a world-capable phone from Verizon Wireless, it will most certainly have a VZW SIM card in it and that SIM will work just fine when you are traveling internationally and using the GSM radios. The function is one of the (only) things I like about my BB Storm...the international capabilities of it are wonderful (and MUCH cheaper than I ever expected, at least when traveling to London last year).
This also brings up an interesting question. The Nexus One will be on Verizon Wireless in the US in the spring. That means it will have a CDMA/1xEVDO capability it in. Will that version of this phone also include the GSM radios and function internationally, as the current world-capable BlackBerrys do? If so, that would be a great feature. Google said during the Q&A at their press event yesterday they are pursuing international-capable phones, so that may be a good indication that the VZW-capable version of the Nexus One will be a world phone. If it is, count me in.
Verizon uses a version of CDMA technology known as CDMA-2000. There are multiple ways you can deploy this and Verizon currently uses 1xEVDO (Evolution - Data Only). This means you can only have the data (1xEVDO) or voice channel in use at one time There is also 1xEVDV (Evolution - Data & Voice), which could put both voice and data on the same channel. I don't know of any deployments of 1xEVDV technology.
This is exactly what one of the five kickoff programs (National Lab Day) is about. It's about getting scientists and engineers into the classroom, designing hands-on lessions, arranging trips and leading them, and more. It's about getting kids excited about tinkering (direct from the website!). Science is fun; learning it in school is not. That's why it's important to show kids (actually, no....better to get them to find it out for themselves!) that science and engineering is fun!
I volunteered for the National Lab Day programs. I'll be very excited to help schools design programs, lessons, etc, that show this. Slashdot is full of scientists and engineers who feel concern that this does not happen in school. So do the same and volunteer. Let's fix this!
The TPM contains the encryption keys used to protect the drive. Remove the TPM, remove the keys and the computer cannot decrypt the drive and therefore cannot run.
u in binary (yeah, I know what you meant):
1010 0101
Incorrect.
u's ASCII encoding in binary -> 1010 0101
Alot of modern systems use Unicode for text processing too, so you may instead see 0000 0000 1010 0101 being written. Or 1010 0101 0000 0000, depending on byte ordering.
Bah. The skills, techniques, and tools for management have changed little in a thousand years because good management fundamentally requires people skills, and people don't change.
Bah. Managing a group of people selling used cars is much different than managing a group of people working on an assembly line. Those groups of people want, and need, different things in order to succeed. And those business functions require very different care and feeding to continue to succeed and very different adaptations to continue to grow and thrive. Take an assembly line manager and put him into the car dealership...your results will not be very good unless that manager is good enough to adapt his skills, techniques, and tools to the new environment.
Happens in technology too. The skills required to manage a group of people, all co-located and working on a single project, are vastly different than managing a geographically-dispersed group of people, working on multiple projects. The skills required to keep telecommuters on-track and performing to the level they can are vastly different than the skills required to keep on-site employees working hard and successful. No two management jobs are the same (just like no two technology projects are the same). Trying to put the same set of skills to play in every situation means you're doing it wrong. One of the main issues with MBA programs (since you mention them) is that they traditionally have taught that anyone with management "skills" can manage anything, if they know the underlying business function or not. Many programs have realized the error of that idea and have changed to stress that such assumptions are not true at all and adaptation and business/task specific knowledge is key to successful management.
If you are hiring consultants to perform security-related functions, you're being negligent by not doing background checks and such on them. Any security-related processing you are doing on full-time employees should be done on contractors as well if they are doing similar jobs. If you're not doing that, you're doing it wrong.
I'm disappointed, Slashdot reader/commenter. Everyone here should know that the meaning of the word "hacker" has changed over time and evolved to mean, most of the time, what "cracker" means. Word definitions change over time and this word has been assimilated with a new definition, accepted by the majority of the English-speaking world.
If you want to hang on to the cracker vs hacker definitions, feel free. But most people have moved beyond this.
Plus, your definition of "hacker" is off anyway. In the classical sense, "hacker" means someone who experiments and gets something to do something it was not intended to do. Doesn't have to be code, doesn't have to be a computer, doesn't have to be anything in particular. The original targets/subjects of the earliest "hacking" (largely out of MIT) was the phone system, not programs or computers.
PuTTY is a standalone executable (no installation needed; just the EXE) that provides a powerful and easy-to-use SSH client. For X clients, Mac OSX and Linux laptops include them and for Windows, there is Cygwin and Microsoft Services for Unix, both of which are free and install with little complication.
Please, please, look things up before you comment on them. The thirty seconds to spend on Google more than pays off.
Many people here are arguing that computer labs are useful so students can use software that is not typically installed on their own computers (Matlab, etc) or to interact with high-end lab equipment such as "cluster computers, clustered database servers and so on."
That is what remote access (RDP, ssh, X, etc) is for. A university can stand up many systems that run this software and provide access to them (the "server" resources) without a physical computer lab with the "client" access portions (thin clients, PCs running ssh or X software, etc).
Everyone has their own client-side computers now. The server/services can be provided by the university without needing to provide the client piece.
This article is an amazing summary of 25 pieces of technology (HW, SW, services) that are still around but are (almost) completely forgotten by everyone. Good read.
Configure the virtual machine with a non-persistent disk. Everytime you turn it on, it will boot into the same state and anything that happens to it while it is running (changes to the OS, infections, saved data to the VHDD, are lost).
Ummm....the CIA and the FBI are not under the same agency now. The FBI is an agency of the Department of Justice and the CIA is an independent agency that quasi-reports to the Director of National Intelligence.
The other agencies mentioned, the NSA and the police, are also not part of DHS. NSA is an agency of the Department of Defense and policing is a local function, run by any number of local agencies.
But by all means, keep talking about things you obviously don't know anything about and cannot be bothered spending ten seconds on Google to confirm.:)
I'm surprised GEB took this long to be mentioned.
Highly recommend. It is not "math" purely, but really, nothing is. For high school level kids with a serious interest in math and a serious interest in applying what they learn to other topics and really, *really*, understanding what may be going on in the world, GEB cannot be beat.
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If you really thing that the integrated Intel graphics in the i3/i5/i7 chipset even compares to the 320M, you need to either (1) actually compare them, or (2) read any analysis by anyone that actually has done so. The 320M might not be the best graphics package out there right now (indeed, it clearly is not!) but it blows the pants off the IntelHD stuff.
Seriously...read some benchmarks and analysis before you post such crap. The crappyness of the integrated video is one of the primary reasons to stay with the C2D w/ 320M instead of moving to the i3 or i5 with Intel HD instead in the 13" MBP.
Unibody (unopenable) case: BOO
You can open it. From the bottom, which makes for very easy access to the RAM, unlike the previous design.
Still Core2 instead of i5/i7: BOO
Same reason the 13" MBP is still Core2Duo. Try to put a discrete graphics chip in that form factor without losing any of the other features.
You're confusing hardware platforms with instruction set architectures (ISAs). There is a lot more to a hardware platform (chipset, BIOS/EFI, etc) then the type of microprocessor that powers it.
Some folks value hundreds of thousands of human lives more than the dream of creating artificial intelligence. If you feel that the creation of an intelligent computer is more important than saving hundreds of thousands of human lives, people who live every day afraid of death due to a disease that does not exist in the US, then you're entitled to your opinion. And I'm entitled to my opinion that your priorities are way out of whack.
Wow, these comments. suck.
/. are talking about patents, Microsoft money, etc.
Bill Gates just gave a HUGE amount of money to tackeling diseases that kill thousands of people per year. Not potential people or some statistics on a population map, but alive, breathing, suffering people. This could potentially save thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of lives. And he just gave this ridiculous amount of money away to this end. And the people on
This is a good, noble, and amazing act. Show some goddamn respect. What have you done that could change the lives of that many people? Acknowledge a noble and selfless act...the world would be a much better place if more people not only committed them, but acknowledged them and derive inspiration from them.
The Droid is marketed to manly men. No proper feminine woman would be caught dead with a cell phone that bristles widgets like a Swiss Army Knife, and looks like a killer space weapon.
My wife was the first person I know to get a Droid. She loves it, especially the widgets and the retro, hard-edge, look of the phone. I am, truly, the luckiest man alive. :)
Depends on the phone.
If you buy a Verizon Wireless US-only (CDMA/1xEVDO) phone, then you are correct; that phone will not have GSM capability and will, therefore, not have a SIM card. However, if you buy a world-capable phone from Verizon Wireless, it will most certainly have a VZW SIM card in it and that SIM will work just fine when you are traveling internationally and using the GSM radios. The function is one of the (only) things I like about my BB Storm...the international capabilities of it are wonderful (and MUCH cheaper than I ever expected, at least when traveling to London last year).
This also brings up an interesting question. The Nexus One will be on Verizon Wireless in the US in the spring. That means it will have a CDMA/1xEVDO capability it in. Will that version of this phone also include the GSM radios and function internationally, as the current world-capable BlackBerrys do? If so, that would be a great feature. Google said during the Q&A at their press event yesterday they are pursuing international-capable phones, so that may be a good indication that the VZW-capable version of the Nexus One will be a world phone. If it is, count me in.
You can't do that with a digital copy.
Actually, yes you can. Annotation is a key feature on the Kindle and it works pretty well, actually.
Verizon uses a version of CDMA technology known as CDMA-2000. There are multiple ways you can deploy this and Verizon currently uses 1xEVDO (Evolution - Data Only). This means you can only have the data (1xEVDO) or voice channel in use at one time There is also 1xEVDV (Evolution - Data & Voice), which could put both voice and data on the same channel. I don't know of any deployments of 1xEVDV technology.
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution-Data_Optimized
Wikipedia has a good summary of this
I'm glad I never became an engineer, I love tinkering too much. I'm also glad my parents instilled a love of learing and a healthy curiosity in me.
I applaud your parents. But you're wrong. You may not have a degree, but based on your comments, you are an engineer.
This is exactly what one of the five kickoff programs (National Lab Day) is about. It's about getting scientists and engineers into the classroom, designing hands-on lessions, arranging trips and leading them, and more. It's about getting kids excited about tinkering (direct from the website!). Science is fun; learning it in school is not. That's why it's important to show kids (actually, no....better to get them to find it out for themselves!) that science and engineering is fun!
I volunteered for the National Lab Day programs. I'll be very excited to help schools design programs, lessons, etc, that show this. Slashdot is full of scientists and engineers who feel concern that this does not happen in school. So do the same and volunteer. Let's fix this!
National Lab Day webpage
The TPM contains the encryption keys used to protect the drive. Remove the TPM, remove the keys and the computer cannot decrypt the drive and therefore cannot run.
Interesting how your argument is that Apple considers the iPhone a CONSUMER device, but markets it, also, as a BUSINESS/ENTERPRISE device.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/
It's odd that Apple would get a pass on not properly securing their CONSUMER phone that is also marketed as "the best phone for business."
u in binary (yeah, I know what you meant): 1010 0101
Incorrect.
u's ASCII encoding in binary -> 1010 0101
Alot of modern systems use Unicode for text processing too, so you may instead see 0000 0000 1010 0101 being written. Or 1010 0101 0000 0000, depending on byte ordering.
(yeah, I know what you meant)
Bah. The skills, techniques, and tools for management have changed little in a thousand years because good management fundamentally requires people skills, and people don't change.
Bah. Managing a group of people selling used cars is much different than managing a group of people working on an assembly line. Those groups of people want, and need, different things in order to succeed. And those business functions require very different care and feeding to continue to succeed and very different adaptations to continue to grow and thrive. Take an assembly line manager and put him into the car dealership...your results will not be very good unless that manager is good enough to adapt his skills, techniques, and tools to the new environment.
Happens in technology too. The skills required to manage a group of people, all co-located and working on a single project, are vastly different than managing a geographically-dispersed group of people, working on multiple projects. The skills required to keep telecommuters on-track and performing to the level they can are vastly different than the skills required to keep on-site employees working hard and successful. No two management jobs are the same (just like no two technology projects are the same). Trying to put the same set of skills to play in every situation means you're doing it wrong. One of the main issues with MBA programs (since you mention them) is that they traditionally have taught that anyone with management "skills" can manage anything, if they know the underlying business function or not. Many programs have realized the error of that idea and have changed to stress that such assumptions are not true at all and adaptation and business/task specific knowledge is key to successful management.
If you are hiring consultants to perform security-related functions, you're being negligent by not doing background checks and such on them. Any security-related processing you are doing on full-time employees should be done on contractors as well if they are doing similar jobs. If you're not doing that, you're doing it wrong.
I'm disappointed, Slashdot reader/commenter. Everyone here should know that the meaning of the word "hacker" has changed over time and evolved to mean, most of the time, what "cracker" means. Word definitions change over time and this word has been assimilated with a new definition, accepted by the majority of the English-speaking world. If you want to hang on to the cracker vs hacker definitions, feel free. But most people have moved beyond this.
Plus, your definition of "hacker" is off anyway. In the classical sense, "hacker" means someone who experiments and gets something to do something it was not intended to do. Doesn't have to be code, doesn't have to be a computer, doesn't have to be anything in particular. The original targets/subjects of the earliest "hacking" (largely out of MIT) was the phone system, not programs or computers.
Cloak and Dagger
IMDB link
Then you're completely wrong.
PuTTY is a standalone executable (no installation needed; just the EXE) that provides a powerful and easy-to-use SSH client. For X clients, Mac OSX and Linux laptops include them and for Windows, there is Cygwin and Microsoft Services for Unix, both of which are free and install with little complication.
Please, please, look things up before you comment on them. The thirty seconds to spend on Google more than pays off.
Many people here are arguing that computer labs are useful so students can use software that is not typically installed on their own computers (Matlab, etc) or to interact with high-end lab equipment such as "cluster computers, clustered database servers and so on."
That is what remote access (RDP, ssh, X, etc) is for. A university can stand up many systems that run this software and provide access to them (the "server" resources) without a physical computer lab with the "client" access portions (thin clients, PCs running ssh or X software, etc).
Everyone has their own client-side computers now. The server/services can be provided by the university without needing to provide the client piece.
This was a really good article.
It comes along at the same time as this one:
http://technologizer.com/2009/03/26/whatever-happened-to/
This article is an amazing summary of 25 pieces of technology (HW, SW, services) that are still around but are (almost) completely forgotten by everyone. Good read.
Configure the virtual machine with a non-persistent disk. Everytime you turn it on, it will boot into the same state and anything that happens to it while it is running (changes to the OS, infections, saved data to the VHDD, are lost).
Should be exactly what you need.
Ummm....the CIA and the FBI are not under the same agency now. The FBI is an agency of the Department of Justice and the CIA is an independent agency that quasi-reports to the Director of National Intelligence. The other agencies mentioned, the NSA and the police, are also not part of DHS. NSA is an agency of the Department of Defense and policing is a local function, run by any number of local agencies. But by all means, keep talking about things you obviously don't know anything about and cannot be bothered spending ten seconds on Google to confirm. :)
I'm surprised GEB took this long to be mentioned. Highly recommend. It is not "math" purely, but really, nothing is. For high school level kids with a serious interest in math and a serious interest in applying what they learn to other topics and really, *really*, understanding what may be going on in the world, GEB cannot be beat.
Citrix has some good ideas and technology. The implementation however is usually very bad. It's the Peoplesoft of virtualization.
This is, without a doubt, the most true statement I have ever read on Slashdot.