All of the Linux and Windows people are going to say, "I told you so," about this little episode in security breaches. But, when microsoft has to release patches on a monthly basis. Linux, well, lets just talk about Windows right now... There are only 3% that use Mac, myself included, who cares if there is a trojan out for it. There are thousands out for Windows. 1 every few years is much much better than a few every day.
At nearly $14,000, I don't see this catching on to the independent consumer. Mostly just recreation dive companies, and resorts. I like the idea, however, the battery lasts 1.5 hours, and the air only lasts 1 hour. I think I would like the air to last longer than the battery, you know, just in case something catastrophic happens.
Also, I worry about the company's legitimacy, have you been to their website. That is the worst photoshop work I have ever seen. Plus, they repeat what is on the front page on all of the their pages. Which, if you were counting, for individuals like myself, is only 3 pages total. I WANT MORE INFORMATION
It is the same as Kevin Mitnick once said. There isn't a security hole if nobody knows about it. If you know about it, it is a security flaw, but to your friends that don't know about it, it is a secure machine.
Mostly businesses have gotten attacked before the patch was released, but you don't hear about them because they don't release that information to let others know that they in fact have a security flaw.
Microsoft finds their flaws in a number of ways, businesses that report them, and white hat hackers they do this for a living.
But to answer your question a little better. If you look back at the flaws in IE, consumers, not businesses, were the ones that got attacked before the patches were out. Again, because it was a person, it is hard to track down the exact problem that occured to them. IE has the flaws that were exploited before the patches came out. Phishing scams from the address bar.
This little guy is impressive. I couldn't get a lot of information from the website, but it looks to be controlled by computer. But, how autonomous is it? Im sure it won't look as good as the programmable, but I would like to see if it can do all of these things as an autonomous robot. As long as the slashdot effect isn't immediate, you should view the videos of the robot picking up the ball and throwing it overhanded, also, the one of him doing a handstand is incredible. Why can't asimo do all of this yet?
The earth is a mass-energy. According to General Relativity, as a mass-energy, it should create a little dimple in the local space-time fabric. It is also theorized that the daily rotation of the earth causes a twisting of the local space-time fabric.
This effect is known as frame dragging and it should manifest itself as a force that pushes a gyroscope's axis out of alignment as it orbits the Earth. [GP-B will be using four small, incredibly precise gyroscopes as its main tool for detection of relativistic effects on the local space-time fabric.] Gravity Probe B will attempt to measure the force, gravitomagnetism, giving scientists an important insight into how it might affect objects that are much larger than ping pong balls, such as black holes. At the same time, the gyroscopes will experience a much bigger force - the geodetic effect - which is a result of the warping of space-time predicted by Einstein. This force will tend to push their axes in a direction perpendicular to the frame-dragging effect which allow it to be measured separately. The geodetic effect is hundreds of times bigger than frame dragging and the experiment should measure its size with an accuracy of 0.01 per cent the most severe test of general relativity ever undertaken.
The slightest bit of interference could deem it unusable data with as much precision the gyroscopes will be operating. I have a feeling that even interference they are not thinking about (who am I kidding, this is nasa) such as solar radiation, and the magnetic north shift (which as of late, has been about 10 miles a year) will alter the results of this test dramaticly.
I like the idea, but I worry that about speed regardless of what they say will occur. To me, it would be better to have to package load onto the HDD, and if there are any missing libraries, have that go and fetch them as well. This just seems like a waste of internet traffic to me.
Isn't this already being done with apt_get? I just think Linux needs a more user friendly updating service. I hate to say it, but windows is much better at taking completely computer stupid people and having them screw up their own pc's, instead of having to call a family member to do it for them.
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Sorry, I am still wardriving in my VW Rabbit with my Commodore 64.
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This is a fantastic idea, assuming you can afford the cost of an LCD screen (you will probably want touch capability) and a cheap pc. (Most likely something based on the Mini-ITX board because space in a car doesn't come cheap.)
Another site with a plethora of information on doing this is MP3car.com If you have the time, I recommend going through the site. Tons of information about the kind of power supply you will need (obviously a DC~DC converter).
A joint operation between mirosoft and sun? Sun is the backbone of internet operations. I suppose this means the end of quality products, design, and innovation from sun. I have a feeling they only did this for the money, as they have been falling on hard times lately.
I agree with you on that, however, if the writer is good, they can land a job at another production. Voice actors are usually only good for one production. After that it is retirement. if you were one of the voice actors on the simpsons wouldn't you want as much money as you could get before the show went off air and you had to live off that money for the rest of your life?
A lot of folks on the ole/. seem to think replacements and less money is okay. I would usually tend to agree. But the simple fact that there are so many people that know the simpsons and so many people that can hear the voice of the characters in their head when somebody says a famous line, to me, is all the more reason to pay these guys more.
I think a lot of us forget that the simpson's, in many other's opinions is what saved fox. They are the reason Fox is still on today.
Has the show gotten worse? No! It has only got better and wittier with time. They deserve every penny of the raise they are asking for.
This is in no way related to the FCC. The FCC is just doing the job they were assigned to do. Because of the media involvement as of late, they have to be a little more strict, else lose all respect in the industry.
In America, we can show nudity, have "foul" language, and just about anything else on TV. Just not Frequency Broadcasted television. Do you have HBO? There is a clear moral difference. I am not saying I completely agree with what is going on, but I do feel this has absolutely nothing to do with the chinese government banning information from the public.
If you want to see tits, turn on cinemax and hbo, if you want access to pertinent information, don't live in china.
Does anybody know how they go about blocking "unwanted" internet site from the public? I am sure there is a way around it. I mean, unless they don't have any lines to the outside world (and yes, they do have lines to the outside world) it would be impossible for them to absolutely block content.
What I meant to say was...
More crosschecking databases. These things are going to be huge. I guess we can start to see more RAM purchases from the government.
I don't see not having a roadmap as a barrier. Just because you don't have something written down to provide as a goal to reach towards does not make this a barrier. This leaves room for innovation.
People seem to take innovation for granted. I think the true innovators aren't doing it to reach a goal, they are doing it to make things easier for themselves. In the process, they just happen to make something many people like. Think BitTorrent.
While I think of M$ as a car on a road, I think of OpenSource as an offroad vehicle that can go anywhere it pleases, not just where the road tells it to go.
You make a good point. Unless they know when the security compromise happened, and the backup is not wired. Then again, what is the point of a back up if it too can be hacked?
So what if it isn't released tomorrow? I would rather have a code that works than worry about a compromise. If only Microsoft would learn from this. Then again, they have Updates (aka bug fixes)
What ticks me off about this is that microsoft will deffinately put this as the default search EVERYWHERE in Windows. How many people do you know use Internet Explorer? Sure there are many other better options out there, but nobody cares for these because the majority of web surfers just use what is on the OS. This is why IE is so big, and unfortunately, it will probably transend to search engines as well.
Well if you think about, even if they did take into effect of the curvature of the earth, it sure is funny how the schools and museums just so happened to be where the planets are to be placed for this model!!!
What really fumes me about this project is that it will have the planets as artistic inspirations. I want to see how big the damn red storm on Jupiter is, of course, I guess they wouldn't be that acurate. But hell, at least make it as acurate, not an art exhibit.
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All of the Linux and Windows people are going to say, "I told you so," about this little episode in security breaches. But, when microsoft has to release patches on a monthly basis. Linux, well, lets just talk about Windows right now... There are only 3% that use Mac, myself included, who cares if there is a trojan out for it. There are thousands out for Windows. 1 every few years is much much better than a few every day.
Also, I worry about the company's legitimacy, have you been to their website. That is the worst photoshop work I have ever seen. Plus, they repeat what is on the front page on all of the their pages. Which, if you were counting, for individuals like myself, is only 3 pages total. I WANT MORE INFORMATION
It is the same as Kevin Mitnick once said. There isn't a security hole if nobody knows about it. If you know about it, it is a security flaw, but to your friends that don't know about it, it is a secure machine.
Microsoft finds their flaws in a number of ways, businesses that report them, and white hat hackers they do this for a living.
But to answer your question a little better. If you look back at the flaws in IE, consumers, not businesses, were the ones that got attacked before the patches were out. Again, because it was a person, it is hard to track down the exact problem that occured to them. IE has the flaws that were exploited before the patches came out. Phishing scams from the address bar.
This little guy is impressive. I couldn't get a lot of information from the website, but it looks to be controlled by computer. But, how autonomous is it? Im sure it won't look as good as the programmable, but I would like to see if it can do all of these things as an autonomous robot. As long as the slashdot effect isn't immediate, you should view the videos of the robot picking up the ball and throwing it overhanded, also, the one of him doing a handstand is incredible. Why can't asimo do all of this yet?
The earth is a mass-energy. According to General Relativity, as a mass-energy, it should create a little dimple in the local space-time fabric. It is also theorized that the daily rotation of the earth causes a twisting of the local space-time fabric. This effect is known as frame dragging and it should manifest itself as a force that pushes a gyroscope's axis out of alignment as it orbits the Earth. [GP-B will be using four small, incredibly precise gyroscopes as its main tool for detection of relativistic effects on the local space-time fabric.] Gravity Probe B will attempt to measure the force, gravitomagnetism, giving scientists an important insight into how it might affect objects that are much larger than ping pong balls, such as black holes. At the same time, the gyroscopes will experience a much bigger force - the geodetic effect - which is a result of the warping of space-time predicted by Einstein. This force will tend to push their axes in a direction perpendicular to the frame-dragging effect which allow it to be measured separately. The geodetic effect is hundreds of times bigger than frame dragging and the experiment should measure its size with an accuracy of 0.01 per cent the most severe test of general relativity ever undertaken.
The slightest bit of interference could deem it unusable data with as much precision the gyroscopes will be operating. I have a feeling that even interference they are not thinking about (who am I kidding, this is nasa) such as solar radiation, and the magnetic north shift (which as of late, has been about 10 miles a year) will alter the results of this test dramaticly.
Isn't this already being done with apt_get? I just think Linux needs a more user friendly updating service. I hate to say it, but windows is much better at taking completely computer stupid people and having them screw up their own pc's, instead of having to call a family member to do it for them.
Sorry, I am still wardriving in my VW Rabbit with my Commodore 64.
Another site with a plethora of information on doing this is MP3car.com If you have the time, I recommend going through the site. Tons of information about the kind of power supply you will need (obviously a DC~DC converter).
I want one myself!
A joint operation between mirosoft and sun? Sun is the backbone of internet operations. I suppose this means the end of quality products, design, and innovation from sun. I have a feeling they only did this for the money, as they have been falling on hard times lately.
I agree with you on that, however, if the writer is good, they can land a job at another production. Voice actors are usually only good for one production. After that it is retirement. if you were one of the voice actors on the simpsons wouldn't you want as much money as you could get before the show went off air and you had to live off that money for the rest of your life?
I think a lot of us forget that the simpson's, in many other's opinions is what saved fox. They are the reason Fox is still on today.
Has the show gotten worse? No! It has only got better and wittier with time. They deserve every penny of the raise they are asking for.
How many site online now do you know of that have as much volume as Google? Wouldn't just about every site out there be a lower volume site?
I agree though. I wouldn't mind having that setup for my own site. It would probably run faster than the crap I have it on now.
This is in no way related to the FCC. The FCC is just doing the job they were assigned to do. Because of the media involvement as of late, they have to be a little more strict, else lose all respect in the industry.
In America, we can show nudity, have "foul" language, and just about anything else on TV. Just not Frequency Broadcasted television. Do you have HBO? There is a clear moral difference. I am not saying I completely agree with what is going on, but I do feel this has absolutely nothing to do with the chinese government banning information from the public.
If you want to see tits, turn on cinemax and hbo, if you want access to pertinent information, don't live in china.
Does anybody know how they go about blocking "unwanted" internet site from the public? I am sure there is a way around it. I mean, unless they don't have any lines to the outside world (and yes, they do have lines to the outside world) it would be impossible for them to absolutely block content.
What I meant to say was... More crosschecking databases. These things are going to be huge. I guess we can start to see more RAM purchases from the government.
More crosschecking databases. These things are going to be huge. I guess we can start to see more RAM purchases from the government.
I don't see not having a roadmap as a barrier. Just because you don't have something written down to provide as a goal to reach towards does not make this a barrier. This leaves room for innovation.
People seem to take innovation for granted. I think the true innovators aren't doing it to reach a goal, they are doing it to make things easier for themselves. In the process, they just happen to make something many people like. Think BitTorrent.
While I think of M$ as a car on a road, I think of OpenSource as an offroad vehicle that can go anywhere it pleases, not just where the road tells it to go.
You make a good point. Unless they know when the security compromise happened, and the backup is not wired. Then again, what is the point of a back up if it too can be hacked?
So what if it isn't released tomorrow? I would rather have a code that works than worry about a compromise. If only Microsoft would learn from this. Then again, they have Updates (aka bug fixes)
Well, I don't know about stuped m$ related results, but I do know that Microsoft banned certain linux and open source related searches.
What ticks me off about this is that microsoft will deffinately put this as the default search EVERYWHERE in Windows. How many people do you know use Internet Explorer? Sure there are many other better options out there, but nobody cares for these because the majority of web surfers just use what is on the OS. This is why IE is so big, and unfortunately, it will probably transend to search engines as well.
Well if you think about, even if they did take into effect of the curvature of the earth, it sure is funny how the schools and museums just so happened to be where the planets are to be placed for this model!!!
What really fumes me about this project is that it will have the planets as artistic inspirations. I want to see how big the damn red storm on Jupiter is, of course, I guess they wouldn't be that acurate. But hell, at least make it as acurate, not an art exhibit.