Comparing the "number of vulnerabilities" is irrelevant to me. How many of them have actually been exploited in the wild? How many of them have caused users to lose data or unintentionally host malware? How many have resulted in people's identities being stolen?
This study shows me nothing useful. Given the fact that all software is buggy, there are many more people looking at the source for Firefox than for IE, so it's inevitable more issues will be found. The more that are found the more that can be fixed before they're a problem.
IE has improved over the years, and will improve further with v7. Doubtless Firefox's progress is at least partially driving that. But the noddy users (hi Dad!) that I've given Firefox or Opera to have had far fewer malware problems than those who insist on sticking with IE.
..but there are a few problems with your Iranian problem.
You are the only country to have used nukes. You are the country that supported and funded Osama, while his dirty work suited your purposes. You are the country that funded and supported Saddam while he suited your purposes, then killed over 100,000 innocent civilians to oust him from power, justifying the slaughter with obviously blatant lies. You are the ones preaching to the rest of the world about freedom, democracy and due process of law, when you have things like Guantanamo Bay camp and the death penalty, and you can't even hold verifiably free and open elections in your own country. You have a leadership which is in the top rank of science-ignoring religious fundamentalists on the planet. You ignore the UN when the resolutions are against you or Israel, but you're happy to use the UN when it suits you. Talking of Israel, they secretly develop nukes, are frequently over-agressive to their neighbours which puts your 'gas' prices up and detabilise a big part of the planet - but because they are white(ish) and speak English with American accents, you unquestioningly back them up (if there's a better explanation I'd love to hear it). You're the worst polluters on the planet, by a long stretch. You're the biggest debtors on the planet, despite being the so-called richest country. You spend more on the military than the rest of the world, when no-one is truly a threat to you, and your weapons kill innocents the world over every day. You wave the flag and declare 'war on terroism', and then do more to change your way of life because of the terrorists than anyone else - while at the same time twice the number of people killed on 9/11 die every day from easily-preventable causes.
On a different front, you are pushing on us the RIAA, MPAA, fast food, subsidised tobacco, your twisted patent, copyright and IP protection laws, DMCA, the most obnoxious tourists (I live in a big tourist city and Americans are consistently the most rude, inconsiderate and disrespectful). You ignore history in a bewilderingly inconsistent way - take those "cheese-eating surrender-monkeys" who helped you gain independance, for example.
Seriously, why should we (being the rest of the world) follow your example or listen to anything you have to say?
I just read the FA, and it makes only a token mention of quantum computing at the end.
It seems to be a (very simple) discussion of using a superconductor to make faster transistors....
What have I missed here?
My worst ever computing moment was in about 1989 when I got home from 2 weeks on holiday. My father was literally standing at the front door waiting for me, face like thunder. He looked ready to kill, and it quickly became apparent it was me he was ready to kill.
He was so angry it took him a few minutes to give me the gist of the problem - I had used his PC before going on holiday (BBS stuff), and he'd had to struggle for two whole weeks with an unusably slow PC - driving him insane. As I'd been the last to use it, it must be my fault.
I was in a real panic, I genuinely couldn't think what I might have done to cause it. I went to his study, and from across the room I saw what he problem was. I walked up to the PC, hit the turbo button and Lo! it was fine.
The turbo button actually had an LED which was lit when the PC was running at reduced speed.For two weeks he's been rebooting, uninstalling things, reinstalling things, and underneath his monitor next to the floppy drive he used frequently was a light telling him what the problem was!
I must have had a quick game of 'Level 42' which was unplayably fast on PCs faster than about 25 MHz...
That evening, I opened his PC and disconnected the turbo button from the motherboard, preventing any repeats.
Really? If everyone 'woke up' tomorrow and started ordering Operons (and in the 2P market that really isn't going to happen now the Xeon 5100 series is out), would AMD have the fab capacity to actually supply that demand?
McVeigh's blast was against a building - a strong building as buildings go, but still mostly air (and in Oklahoma City, BTW), and a tunnel is surrounded by actual solid rock, which is way, WAY harder to break up - if it was easy with a truck bomb, tunneling in general would be a lot easier, cheaper and faster than it is.
The majority of the blast of a car bomb in a tunnel would just go out of the ends, surely? You need very carefully shaped charges deep in holes in the rock to blast it, and someone might notice you setting something like that up.
Are you talking about the same United States that guarantees free speech in the constitution (which is NOT typically guranteed in Europe)
See articles 9 and 10 here, which applies everywhere in the EU. And we can all have a much better discussion about human rights and freedoms when you bastards have either released or properly trialled everyone at Guantanamo - I agree with you on the mindless anti-americanism, but Bush has made it so much easier to be insightfully anti-american.
Seems the crowd here would rather have a Bush-bashing robot than a beer-pouring one.
In a word, yes. I can pour and drink my own beer quite happily, but Bush-bashing is a much-needed and highly valuable service which I don't have the tools to do myself.
I'd like to know more about the science. I don't really if an individual poster likes or dislikes Bush.
Sorry, unless this is your first visit to/., what the hell did you expect? A solid record for ignoring, delaying, banning and otherwise disrespecting science, on top of the dangerous idiocy of his foreign policies, makes for a lot of anger when this dickhead's mentioned.
You want to read about the awards and the science? Try to RTFA and maybe hit a science site - or maybe the one that is connected to the awards.
...it makes it a little more obvious when you copy the mistakes.
I read this last night and dismissed it as the usual dumbed-down BBC tech story as soon as I got to the bit where they called them Duo Core and Solo Core, when the branding is very much Core Duo and Core Solo - they even had a picture in the story with the name the right way round!
And then it gets copied into a blurb on the front page of/. - I thought if you just copied from the article you were supposed to say so?
Hmm, just read your article, and interesting though it is, there was such a big glaring mistake in your calculations (the first one I glanced at) I can't agree with your conclusions based on what you said.
You say 18 months ago the fastest Flash drive you found in an Anadandtech article was 9 MB/sec, and that nowadays 23 MB/sec write and 30 MB/sec read is available. You then conclude this is a 300% improvement in 18 months!
23 is only 2.56x9, and 30 is only 3.33x9, and that means the improvement is only 156% on write speeds and 233% on read speeds - impressive, but not 300% by a long stretch.
FWIW, of course longer term spinning disks will be replaced, but I think it will be gradual. More and more machines are being built today without them, things like iPod nanos, HTPC machines which boot on flash to access media elsewhere, etc. and this will continue, as cameras, PDAs, phones and MP3 players all lose the need for spinning disks.
At some point soon there will be useful-capacity flash drives which will become cheap enough to be attractive. I personally disable swap on all machines I own, so as soon as solid-state drives get to 20-30 GB or so, they will be great for simple machines. It will be a *lot* longer before the large storage servers I run are replaced by solid state, even through I'd love to.
20 or 30 GB Flash at a reasonable price will happen within 3-4 years or so I imagine, and at that point laptops, office desktops and so on can use them. But replacing dozens of 146 GB and 300 GB uber-reliable SCSI drives? It will take a long, long time. Power and noise of hard drives don't matter in servers, as even very high-end drives burn 12 watts (I just had a quick look at a 146 GB 15,000 rpm one as a high-end example), and that is insignificant compared to 150W+ processors, dozens of fans, networking kit, KVMs, redundant PSUs, UPSes and so on.
I know digital zoom is crap compared to optical zoom - I happen to have digital zoom disabled on my camera. We are NOT talking about 10x zoom here, I don't know the maths but 23-37 mm isn't a huge way.
If you're geniunely bothered by digital zoom to that degree, then either don't use it (the default on that camera) or get a DSLR with proper lenses.
10x digital zoom is a ludicrously extreme example which doesn't apply here, even though I agree the results would be awful. For a USD500 camera you can't (yet) expect the world.
"...is no way to take a picture with an equivalent focal length between 23mm and 37mm (a difference of 25 degrees in angle of view)."
A quick R of TFA shows this to be not quite true - it has a mode where it can zoom between the 23mm and 37mm. OK, it does it digitally which isn't ideal, but it does do it.
I don't understand why someone would have a problem with that. What? You're not patriotic?
No, mainly because I'm in the majority of people who aren't American. And it's that lack of understanding that is amongst the biggest causes of anti-americanism around the world.
FM radio reception is built in to most phones available for sale here now (England). It uses (gasp) the radio waves that are already going through me and my phone already, and works well for me as I wear a hands-free stereo earphone set a lot of the time anyway. It seems to have a very small effect on my battery life, too. I can even choose commerical or non-commercial stations.
This new service sounds awful - a handful of genres, using the cellular network to send the music meaning battery life is going to be murdered, and simply a way of trying to push ringtones and CDs on users.
I mean if they put half the money they put into the netburst into the P6 designs of late they'd already have a 2.5Ghz P6 core that would give AMD a run for their money.
They did and they have, and they sell shedloads of them. It's called the Pentium M, dual-core 65 nm versions of which will be available next quarter. The currently-available single-core Dothan version performs pretty awesomely, matching FX-55 and P4 EE even at gaming, and all at less than a third the CPU power consumption of the Pentium 4.
Not only that, but they overclocked it to 2.5 GHz as you suggest, and this was back in May.
Can't someone make a decent camera-phone with mp3 functionality and 4GB of memory built in, and put it in a reasonable-sized package? Where's the culprit in preventing this? Bad engineering? Cell-phone carriers? Sony not wanting to damage their digital camera business?
I've been looking into the same area recently, and you haven't got long to wait (except if you're in North America);
Samsung SGH-I300 announced over 6 months ago, with a 3 GB hard drive. Nokia N91 available very soon, with 4 GB storage. SonyEricsson W900i with up to 2 GB, and designed to be a 'walkman'. SonyEricsson P990i with a Memroy Stick Duo slot, again expandable to 2 GB. This is probably my next phone, it has the 3G video calling I want to play with, the full Symbian-based PDA functions, and enough storage to take a load a music. It also has wifi, VPN software and Blackberry functionality. This means it replaces my current phone, PDA, Blackberry, camera and MP3 player, in one unit. One charger to take way from home, one headset when I'm driving.... lovely.
But my last couple of phones have had a Memory Stick slot and an MMC slot, as well as having decent cameras. They've even been great as phones...
Interestingly (or not, as the case may be) the discoverer of "aluminium" decided to call it "aluminum" but the British Chemical Naming Commission (or whatever they're called) insisted that all metals end in "ium" so they overrode him.
Speaking as an Englishman myself, that makes sense. So what's going on with platinum then, apart from the fact that 'platinium' sounds lame...
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This study shows me nothing useful. Given the fact that all software is buggy, there are many more people looking at the source for Firefox than for IE, so it's inevitable more issues will be found. The more that are found the more that can be fixed before they're a problem.
IE has improved over the years, and will improve further with v7. Doubtless Firefox's progress is at least partially driving that. But the noddy users (hi Dad!) that I've given Firefox or Opera to have had far fewer malware problems than those who insist on sticking with IE.
Thus proving my point exactly. I'm English not French, and we have submarines full of nukes ready to glass your faat arses if you tried it.
..but there are a few problems with your Iranian problem.
You are the only country to have used nukes. You are the country that supported and funded Osama, while his dirty work suited your purposes. You are the country that funded and supported Saddam while he suited your purposes, then killed over 100,000 innocent civilians to oust him from power, justifying the slaughter with obviously blatant lies. You are the ones preaching to the rest of the world about freedom, democracy and due process of law, when you have things like Guantanamo Bay camp and the death penalty, and you can't even hold verifiably free and open elections in your own country. You have a leadership which is in the top rank of science-ignoring religious fundamentalists on the planet. You ignore the UN when the resolutions are against you or Israel, but you're happy to use the UN when it suits you. Talking of Israel, they secretly develop nukes, are frequently over-agressive to their neighbours which puts your 'gas' prices up and detabilise a big part of the planet - but because they are white(ish) and speak English with American accents, you unquestioningly back them up (if there's a better explanation I'd love to hear it). You're the worst polluters on the planet, by a long stretch. You're the biggest debtors on the planet, despite being the so-called richest country. You spend more on the military than the rest of the world, when no-one is truly a threat to you, and your weapons kill innocents the world over every day. You wave the flag and declare 'war on terroism', and then do more to change your way of life because of the terrorists than anyone else - while at the same time twice the number of people killed on 9/11 die every day from easily-preventable causes.
On a different front, you are pushing on us the RIAA, MPAA, fast food, subsidised tobacco, your twisted patent, copyright and IP protection laws, DMCA, the most obnoxious tourists (I live in a big tourist city and Americans are consistently the most rude, inconsiderate and disrespectful). You ignore history in a bewilderingly inconsistent way - take those "cheese-eating surrender-monkeys" who helped you gain independance, for example.
Seriously, why should we (being the rest of the world) follow your example or listen to anything you have to say?
I just read the FA, and it makes only a token mention of quantum computing at the end. It seems to be a (very simple) discussion of using a superconductor to make faster transistors.... What have I missed here?
This would have told you in plenty of time, for instance - I think it was there before the end of my work-day on Wednesday.
Unfortuntately it's been way too cloudy here (NE England) to see anything, after 2 months of cloudless skies....
The turbo button - happy memories!
My worst ever computing moment was in about 1989 when I got home from 2 weeks on holiday. My father was literally standing at the front door waiting for me, face like thunder. He looked ready to kill, and it quickly became apparent it was me he was ready to kill.
He was so angry it took him a few minutes to give me the gist of the problem - I had used his PC before going on holiday (BBS stuff), and he'd had to struggle for two whole weeks with an unusably slow PC - driving him insane. As I'd been the last to use it, it must be my fault.
I was in a real panic, I genuinely couldn't think what I might have done to cause it. I went to his study, and from across the room I saw what he problem was. I walked up to the PC, hit the turbo button and Lo! it was fine.
The turbo button actually had an LED which was lit when the PC was running at reduced speed.For two weeks he's been rebooting, uninstalling things, reinstalling things, and underneath his monitor next to the floppy drive he used frequently was a light telling him what the problem was!
I must have had a quick game of 'Level 42' which was unplayably fast on PCs faster than about 25 MHz...
That evening, I opened his PC and disconnected the turbo button from the motherboard, preventing any repeats.
Really? If everyone 'woke up' tomorrow and started ordering Operons (and in the 2P market that really isn't going to happen now the Xeon 5100 series is out), would AMD have the fab capacity to actually supply that demand?
McVeigh's blast was against a building - a strong building as buildings go, but still mostly air (and in Oklahoma City, BTW), and a tunnel is surrounded by actual solid rock, which is way, WAY harder to break up - if it was easy with a truck bomb, tunneling in general would be a lot easier, cheaper and faster than it is.
The majority of the blast of a car bomb in a tunnel would just go out of the ends, surely? You need very carefully shaped charges deep in holes in the rock to blast it, and someone might notice you setting something like that up.
In a word, yes. I can pour and drink my own beer quite happily, but Bush-bashing is a much-needed and highly valuable service which I don't have the tools to do myself.
Sorry, 2 bottles of red wine after a hard work week made me do it.
Sorry, unless this is your first visit to /., what the hell did you expect? A solid record for ignoring, delaying, banning and otherwise disrespecting science, on top of the dangerous idiocy of his foreign policies, makes for a lot of anger when this dickhead's mentioned.
You want to read about the awards and the science? Try to RTFA and maybe hit a science site - or maybe the one that is connected to the awards.
I read this last night and dismissed it as the usual dumbed-down BBC tech story as soon as I got to the bit where they called them Duo Core and Solo Core, when the branding is very much Core Duo and Core Solo - they even had a picture in the story with the name the right way round!
And then it gets copied into a blurb on the front page of /. - I thought if you just copied from the article you were supposed to say so?
Bah.
Can you tell I ran out of coffee today?
Yeah, yeah - who do you think you are, some kind of frickin' brain surgeon?
oh. Erm, the dark side's not actually dark... except for the TV, radio, light and RF from Earth...
oh.
Worse? Speaking from the Eastern side of the Atlantic and having been to Glasgow a few times, I have to disagree! When can we get this done?
You say 18 months ago the fastest Flash drive you found in an Anadandtech article was 9 MB/sec, and that nowadays 23 MB/sec write and 30 MB/sec read is available. You then conclude this is a 300% improvement in 18 months!
23 is only 2.56x9, and 30 is only 3.33x9, and that means the improvement is only 156% on write speeds and 233% on read speeds - impressive, but not 300% by a long stretch.
FWIW, of course longer term spinning disks will be replaced, but I think it will be gradual. More and more machines are being built today without them, things like iPod nanos, HTPC machines which boot on flash to access media elsewhere, etc. and this will continue, as cameras, PDAs, phones and MP3 players all lose the need for spinning disks.
At some point soon there will be useful-capacity flash drives which will become cheap enough to be attractive. I personally disable swap on all machines I own, so as soon as solid-state drives get to 20-30 GB or so, they will be great for simple machines. It will be a *lot* longer before the large storage servers I run are replaced by solid state, even through I'd love to.
20 or 30 GB Flash at a reasonable price will happen within 3-4 years or so I imagine, and at that point laptops, office desktops and so on can use them. But replacing dozens of 146 GB and 300 GB uber-reliable SCSI drives? It will take a long, long time. Power and noise of hard drives don't matter in servers, as even very high-end drives burn 12 watts (I just had a quick look at a 146 GB 15,000 rpm one as a high-end example), and that is insignificant compared to 150W+ processors, dozens of fans, networking kit, KVMs, redundant PSUs, UPSes and so on.
If you're geniunely bothered by digital zoom to that degree, then either don't use it (the default on that camera) or get a DSLR with proper lenses.
10x digital zoom is a ludicrously extreme example which doesn't apply here, even though I agree the results would be awful. For a USD500 camera you can't (yet) expect the world.
This new service sounds awful - a handful of genres, using the cellular network to send the music meaning battery life is going to be murdered, and simply a way of trying to push ringtones and CDs on users.
They did and they have, and they sell shedloads of them. It's called the Pentium M, dual-core 65 nm versions of which will be available next quarter. The currently-available single-core Dothan version performs pretty awesomely, matching FX-55 and P4 EE even at gaming, and all at less than a third the CPU power consumption of the Pentium 4.
Not only that, but they overclocked it to 2.5 GHz as you suggest, and this was back in May.
I've been looking into the same area recently, and you haven't got long to wait (except if you're in North America);
Samsung SGH-I300 announced over 6 months ago, with a 3 GB hard drive.
Nokia N91 available very soon, with 4 GB storage.
SonyEricsson W900i with up to 2 GB, and designed to be a 'walkman'.
SonyEricsson P990i with a Memroy Stick Duo slot, again expandable to 2 GB. This is probably my next phone, it has the 3G video calling I want to play with, the full Symbian-based PDA functions, and enough storage to take a load a music. It also has wifi, VPN software and Blackberry functionality. This means it replaces my current phone, PDA, Blackberry, camera and MP3 player, in one unit. One charger to take way from home, one headset when I'm driving.... lovely.
But my last couple of phones have had a Memory Stick slot and an MMC slot, as well as having decent cameras. They've even been great as phones...
Speaking as an Englishman myself, that makes sense. So what's going on with platinum then, apart from the fact that 'platinium' sounds lame...