I am sure that there are various unscrupulous companies out there, jsut waiting for something like this to reach critical mass. When that happens, BAM. 3rd world telemarketers start to pester the everloving crap out of you.
Regulation, for good or ill, is there for a reason. The restrictions that are in place just as much protect the consumer as it is to restrict their choice. And while we are all too aware of the restrictions, we take the protection for granted. Take those regulations away, and the abuse will not only be rampant, it will be in our face. If you think spam is bad, imagine getting non stop phone calls from 3rd world telemarketers pushing cheap crap and the promise of millions of dollars in illict monies is war torn Nigeria.....
It is ironic that I was going to mention the UPS in my original post, but figured that it would have made it too wordy.
The main point I was making was the VoIP is a nice alternative for the technically minded, but it is not in any way shape or form a replacement for traditional telephony nor is it a product ready for the ignorant masses. There are too many things which must be implemented on the users side in order to make it almost as stable as a traditional phone line. It is nowhere near 'idiot proof'.
1) When your power goes out, the phone still works. Your computers (and VoIP phone) do not. 2) When your Network connection flakes out (as it is known to do periodically), your VoIP phone goes silent. 3) When your ISP starts to block or throttle back VoIP calls which are not routed through their own VoIP service, your VoIP phone is almost useless. You can thank the lack of regulations for this.
The VoIP industry is very much in bubble mode right now. It will burst, and when it does, I think that VoIP will finally have the opportunity to mature into a product which is actually useable for joe average.
I work in telecom. I find the 6 grand price tag humorous. If you want a soft PBX (which has been done in the past, with mixed results), by all means go for it. You can converge IP with telephony so you will require multi disciplined support staff to keep it running. But don't think even for a moment that you can set up your own phone service provider for $6000. Try multiplying it by 10 and that will be a good start. Then keep dumping money into it for the next 2 years because you sure as hell won't be making a profit until you reach critical mass, AND learn how to balance userbase vs hardlines.
Pit the US courts against the French ones, and see who wins. While I loathe to ever recommend legal action, especially civil, this is one such instance where legal bullying could prove to be societally beneficial.
virtual world plagued by virtual virus. Should we be virtually worried? Will the virtual police come and arrest the virtual hackers as they spread their virtual malware? Will it become a virtual catastrophe, or a comedy of virtual proportions?
Not to mention "Tank". It was like you were in a real tank battle in a big, yet strangely symmetrical, urban environment.
Using ones imagination does not mean you have to imagine those blinky blobs as being part of some real, fantasy world. It means you have to exercise, or in your case, create, your abstraction layer between what you see on the screen and what you interpret it as being.
Ones "imagination" is far more encompassing than your limited interpretation.
Back in the bronze and silver age of arcade games, we did not have the technology to create "realistic" games, so we made fun games where ones imagination was required. This level of abstraction made games fun and entertaining without the (argueably) negative societal consequences.
Today, kids engage in auto thefts, mass murder, and first person real time role playing where they can be anyone they choose to be (be it good or evil). There is no longer any need to exercise ones imagination, as that has been replaced by stunning graphics which is slowly approaching a level of realism which will make any differentiation between the real world and the arcade world difficult.
That is why there will always be a special place in my heart for the classics. They encouraged my sense of imagination. Todays games lack that.
Don't ask us. You know the client better than us, and should be able to determine what the best tool for the job is based on the application you are writing, as well as the environment which you are installing it in. Don't make the decision based on what everyone else is using, base it on what will work the best.
regarding the power consumption, I made reference to the power required to hold the bits, not read or write. I am pretty sure that, while SRAM requires more power to read or write, holding those bits requires little power.
If you can shrink SRAM down to a size equivalent to DRAM, then it CAN serve as an effective replacement, and here is why:
1) No fancy control logic. DRAM needs to be refreshed on a regular basis. SRAM is a straight "chip select, read/write" type of ram. 2) low power. Because it is not being constantly refreshed, it can hold those bits with far less power. Thats why you see NVSRAM and don't see NVDRAM. Imagine having 1 gig of RAM that is battery backed up? 3) One can argue that without the control logic, it will be theoretically faster.
The OP is mistaken when they say that it will never serve as an effective replacement to DRAM. On the contrary, it will be an awesome repleacement.
On the other hand, a good number of tropical honeybees haven't changed a lot in 65 million years and a great deal is known about modern tropical honey bees' tolerances to heat and cold. What's more, amber-preserved specimens of the oldest tropical honey bee, Cretotrigona prisca, are almost indistinguishable from - and are probably the ancestors of - some modern tropical honeybees like Dactylurina, according to other studies cited by Kozisek.
While physically they may not have changed much, they know little about the temperature tolerances of the bees from 65 million years ago and the bees of today. Furthermore, both wasps and bees survive and hibernate in sub zero temperatures quite nicely, using their wings as a means of maintaining a constant temperature within the hive during those darker months when food is scarce. Just look at the bees in the more northern parts of North America. They survive quite nicely in areas which only have flowering plants 6 months of the year. Nuclear winter could have very well introduced equatorial temperature and light levels equivalent to the temperature and light levels which aer experienced in the more norther climates, climates which support a healthy bee and wasp population.
Right now, there's a restricted architecture to the way our brains work. The brain uses electrochemical signaling for information processing, and that's a million times slower than electronic circuits. You can make only about 100 trillion connections in there. That may seem like a big number, but the way in which we store information is inefficient, so that a master of an area of knowledge can really remember only about 100,000 chunks of knowledge. If you use Google, you can already see the power of what machines can do. In the future, we will be able to expand the 100 trillion connections we have with new, virtual ones. Once nonbiological intelligence gets a foothold in our brains, it will grow exponentially. As we get to the 2030s, human beings will have biological brains enhanced with more powerful nonbiological thought processes.
He belittles the human mind and its "limitations", and yet we are nowhere close to even emulating even a fraction of it.
Its nice to have a vision, but this guy is talking out of his ass.
What better way to evangelize IE than to encourage its own rabid userbase to try out competing browsers? They will try it out, get turned off by the minor differences (such as tabs), and then switch back to IE and be able to say "I've tried the alternate browers, and they are CRAP".
I'm not trying to stereotype microsoft users, I am merely presenting a "devils advocate" viewpoint.
Even the suggestion that they should migrate to linux instead of flattening and reinstalling is premature, and horribly ignorant. A migration to another OS would take a company of that size months, and possibly years to do. Yes it would reduce the TCO, yes few viruses are written for it (so far), but to even suggest that linux would SOLVE their immediate problem is an idiotic proposal.
When releasing "cutting edge" technology, sometimes they have to cut corners. What may have been a dual core processor could possibly be nothing more than an overglorified dual processor system in a single chip. Any advantages of a dual core chip (shared cache, faster interprocessor communications) would have been negated by the fact that they had to rely on older, proven technology to hobble together that dual core chip.
well shit, my terminology is crap. I always thought it was mac address level routing, but it seems that all the tech sites call it it mac filtering. I must've gotten a few memories merged together over the last 8 years.
I am mistaken, it is not routing, it is mac filtering.
If you have a proper switch, then sniffing should not be a problem, as the traffic on the network will not reach the infected computer (unless it is also a server). Sadly, I fear that alot of the consumer "switches" on the market do not do proper routing, and have insufficient mac routing tables.
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If we can whitelist sites, and reduce the total number of advertisments cluttering the search, the existing search algorithms would work quite nicely.
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It is a pipe dream, I know.
Greed always wins.
I am sure that there are various unscrupulous companies out there, jsut waiting for something like this to reach critical mass. When that happens, BAM. 3rd world telemarketers start to pester the everloving crap out of you.
Regulation, for good or ill, is there for a reason. The restrictions that are in place just as much protect the consumer as it is to restrict their choice. And while we are all too aware of the restrictions, we take the protection for granted. Take those regulations away, and the abuse will not only be rampant, it will be in our face. If you think spam is bad, imagine getting non stop phone calls from 3rd world telemarketers pushing cheap crap and the promise of millions of dollars in illict monies is war torn Nigeria.....
It is ironic that I was going to mention the UPS in my original post, but figured that it would have made it too wordy.
The main point I was making was the VoIP is a nice alternative for the technically minded, but it is not in any way shape or form a replacement for traditional telephony nor is it a product ready for the ignorant masses. There are too many things which must be implemented on the users side in order to make it almost as stable as a traditional phone line. It is nowhere near 'idiot proof'.
1) When your power goes out, the phone still works. Your computers (and VoIP phone) do not.
2) When your Network connection flakes out (as it is known to do periodically), your VoIP phone goes silent.
3) When your ISP starts to block or throttle back VoIP calls which are not routed through their own VoIP service, your VoIP phone is almost useless. You can thank the lack of regulations for this.
The VoIP industry is very much in bubble mode right now. It will burst, and when it does, I think that VoIP will finally have the opportunity to mature into a product which is actually useable for joe average.
I work in telecom. I find the 6 grand price tag humorous. If you want a soft PBX (which has been done in the past, with mixed results), by all means go for it. You can converge IP with telephony so you will require multi disciplined support staff to keep it running. But don't think even for a moment that you can set up your own phone service provider for $6000. Try multiplying it by 10 and that will be a good start. Then keep dumping money into it for the next 2 years because you sure as hell won't be making a profit until you reach critical mass, AND learn how to balance userbase vs hardlines.
Pit the US courts against the French ones, and see who wins. While I loathe to ever recommend legal action, especially civil, this is one such instance where legal bullying could prove to be societally beneficial.
Why spend upwards of 2 bucks for a crap ringtone when we could (assuming it supports this feature) use actual song snippets
Can it throw a bone in the air when it spots a black obilisk?
virtual world plagued by virtual virus. Should we be virtually worried? Will the virtual police come and arrest the virtual hackers as they spread their virtual malware? Will it become a virtual catastrophe, or a comedy of virtual proportions?
That is an excellent way to cause a stack overflow, or peak the CPU to 100%.
Not to mention "Tank". It was like you were in a real tank battle in a big, yet strangely symmetrical, urban environment.
Using ones imagination does not mean you have to imagine those blinky blobs as being part of some real, fantasy world. It means you have to exercise, or in your case, create, your abstraction layer between what you see on the screen and what you interpret it as being.
Ones "imagination" is far more encompassing than your limited interpretation.
Back in the bronze and silver age of arcade games, we did not have the technology to create "realistic" games, so we made fun games where ones imagination was required. This level of abstraction made games fun and entertaining without the (argueably) negative societal consequences.
Today, kids engage in auto thefts, mass murder, and first person real time role playing where they can be anyone they choose to be (be it good or evil). There is no longer any need to exercise ones imagination, as that has been replaced by stunning graphics which is slowly approaching a level of realism which will make any differentiation between the real world and the arcade world difficult.
That is why there will always be a special place in my heart for the classics. They encouraged my sense of imagination. Todays games lack that.
Don't ask us. You know the client better than us, and should be able to determine what the best tool for the job is based on the application you are writing, as well as the environment which you are installing it in. Don't make the decision based on what everyone else is using, base it on what will work the best.
regarding the power consumption, I made reference to the power required to hold the bits, not read or write. I am pretty sure that, while SRAM requires more power to read or write, holding those bits requires little power.
If you can shrink SRAM down to a size equivalent to DRAM, then it CAN serve as an effective replacement, and here is why:
1) No fancy control logic. DRAM needs to be refreshed on a regular basis. SRAM is a straight "chip select, read/write" type of ram.
2) low power. Because it is not being constantly refreshed, it can hold those bits with far less power. Thats why you see NVSRAM and don't see NVDRAM. Imagine having 1 gig of RAM that is battery backed up?
3) One can argue that without the control logic, it will be theoretically faster.
The OP is mistaken when they say that it will never serve as an effective replacement to DRAM. On the contrary, it will be an awesome repleacement.
I meant to say that they know little of the temperature tolerances of bees from 65 million years ago, as opposed to the bees of today. My mistake.
On the other hand, a good number of tropical honeybees haven't changed a lot in 65 million years and a great deal is known about modern tropical honey bees' tolerances to heat and cold. What's more, amber-preserved specimens of the oldest tropical honey bee, Cretotrigona prisca, are almost indistinguishable from - and are probably the ancestors of - some modern tropical honeybees like Dactylurina, according to other studies cited by Kozisek.
While physically they may not have changed much, they know little about the temperature tolerances of the bees from 65 million years ago and the bees of today. Furthermore, both wasps and bees survive and hibernate in sub zero temperatures quite nicely, using their wings as a means of maintaining a constant temperature within the hive during those darker months when food is scarce. Just look at the bees in the more northern parts of North America. They survive quite nicely in areas which only have flowering plants 6 months of the year. Nuclear winter could have very well introduced equatorial temperature and light levels equivalent to the temperature and light levels which aer experienced in the more norther climates, climates which support a healthy bee and wasp population.
Right now, there's a restricted architecture to the way our brains work. The brain uses electrochemical signaling for information processing, and that's a million times slower than electronic circuits. You can make only about 100 trillion connections in there. That may seem like a big number, but the way in which we store information is inefficient, so that a master of an area of knowledge can really remember only about 100,000 chunks of knowledge. If you use Google, you can already see the power of what machines can do. In the future, we will be able to expand the 100 trillion connections we have with new, virtual ones. Once nonbiological intelligence gets a foothold in our brains, it will grow exponentially. As we get to the 2030s, human beings will have biological brains enhanced with more powerful nonbiological thought processes.
He belittles the human mind and its "limitations", and yet we are nowhere close to even emulating even a fraction of it.
Its nice to have a vision, but this guy is talking out of his ass.
What better way to evangelize IE than to encourage its own rabid userbase to try out competing browsers? They will try it out, get turned off by the minor differences (such as tabs), and then switch back to IE and be able to say "I've tried the alternate browers, and they are CRAP".
I'm not trying to stereotype microsoft users, I am merely presenting a "devils advocate" viewpoint.
Bloody hell, the ignorance and linux centric zealotry is simply astounding.
Even the suggestion that they should migrate to linux instead of flattening and reinstalling is premature, and horribly ignorant. A migration to another OS would take a company of that size months, and possibly years to do. Yes it would reduce the TCO, yes few viruses are written for it (so far), but to even suggest that linux would SOLVE their immediate problem is an idiotic proposal.
Cripes, set your zealotry aside and think.
When releasing "cutting edge" technology, sometimes they have to cut corners. What may have been a dual core processor could possibly be nothing more than an overglorified dual processor system in a single chip. Any advantages of a dual core chip (shared cache, faster interprocessor communications) would have been negated by the fact that they had to rely on older, proven technology to hobble together that dual core chip.
well shit, my terminology is crap. I always thought it was mac address level routing, but it seems that all the tech sites call it it mac filtering. I must've gotten a few memories merged together over the last 8 years.
I am mistaken, it is not routing, it is mac filtering.
Switches route the information from port to port based not on IP address, but MAC address.
Routing can and does occur at several levels. It is obvious that your understanding of routing does not encompass all those levels.
If you have a proper switch, then sniffing should not be a problem, as the traffic on the network will not reach the infected computer (unless it is also a server). Sadly, I fear that alot of the consumer "switches" on the market do not do proper routing, and have insufficient mac routing tables.