Yeah, it's actually better than most. It encrypts the PDF and (depending on settings) requires you to be logged into an authentication server to view the document. Also, clears out the display ram so aside from sniffing the video to the monitor or taking pics you're secure. I'm sure the encryption could be broken, or as we use on most docs, you can check out the document for 72 hours, which is plenty to go off-line and sniff the video or simply photograph your notebook screen at home.
Again the user is usually the weakest link. Also, AFAIK our IS staff was given access to the source and an in-depth archecture review (with a hell of an NDA of course). -nB
I'd say it depends on your stuff. I have a 3.4GHz prescott, and I've got to be one of the few people that can actually make it sing. In my case advanced branch prediction and an absurdly deep pipeline are pluses, DDR2 memory maxed out is GoodEnough(tm) that the hypertransport actually doesn't buy me anything in speed.
That said, I want hypertransport because I want a two socket system with a spartan FPGA in the second socket as a co-processor. Intel's platform can't do that, and even if it could the FSB would run out of steam in that application.
I appreciate the avoidance of a flame war, and that wasn't my point either. Thing is Intel's got AMD on the ropes for the next year at least. Whether they step on their dick again or not will determine whether AMD gets the lead back now or later. -nB
So AMD is joining the cores race rith RISC cores? Still joining the Core race, just giving it a fancy name. IIRC Intel is not making a ton of CISC cores either. That 80 core monster (I want one), was like two CISC cores and 78 mixed FPU/RISC cores. Very ASIC like. This is just a Me TOO!!1!1 from AMD, sorry fanbois. That's not to say AMD doesn't innovate, I love hypertransport and really wish Intel would go do that... Just for now all AMD can do is a me too press releaase. -nB
I wonder if you could contract with the US mint to mint new coins as you remove old ones from circulation. Pull Cu pennies and mint Zn ones;) Arbatroge baby! -nB
"Nuclear fusion has already been used for thousands of years to desalinate seawater for irrigation -- it's called the water cycle."
Really? I thought we were talking about molecular fusion at best, and mechanical evaporation for 99.9% of the water cycle.
Also, surprised I have not seen it yet, but the most common form of hydrogen today (lab grade, fuel grade, whatever) comes not from water, but from OIL!, yup, steam cracked methane is the number one source of H2 in the industrial world.
It's the only economical way to do it. Why do you think the OIL companies killed the electric car, and keep an insane tariff on ethanol coming in from Brazil, but back H2 tech? 'Cause it's already their product! Get with it people! There is not a single way in the world that cracking water will be used for H2 production till the oil dries up! It's just too damned expensive.
sorry 'bout the rant, but I really hate all the H2 FUD, and dis-information out there. -nB
"I suspect, though I don't know for sure, that the ones on race cars probably have a very short lifespan"
They do, about one race. Also, they use tear strips on the F1's helmets rather than cleaning them, and boy does it suck when you run out of tear strips! Fairly sure some of the Nascar guys use them on their windshields too.
15min/hour on cal is the pay ration at my office, so you're paid 2 hours for an 8 hour on-call shift (if nothing happens). Call in's net an additional min 2 hours. -nB
My spouse is chronically mis-construing what I say since I say what I mean in boolian logic. if this not that this and that she now understands.
neuron's start popping when I go or, xor, xnor, and to some extent nand. The problem is that in "plain 'ol english" the word or is often interpreted as xor. Really a parser error. Anyone got the wife.parser.1.1b patch? -nB
While we all in fact know that the MS is a defence play for pity and is honestly underhanded as it really has no bearing on the case, what the RIAA did is perjury. They lied about the letter flat out. Not only should the case be tossed, but the lawyer that lied should be dis-barred &&|| the non-lawyer that lied should be fined & jailed for 20 days.
[sarcasm]They cheated alright, but due to a bug with a misplaced decimal or something ("I always do that") they found that they had $300 grand more than planned and thew Dems got the votes.[/sarcasm]
realistically though if you were to cheat you would want it to me hard to detect, maybe if they did the algorithm just needs more tweaking?:-)
I dunno, I simply hope for the big backlash to put indys in office. I bet if Ross Perot ran now he'd take it by a landslide. -nB
My first thought was simple: WTF? Better crack than the mods at./ apparently. But you and the GP seem to fit Occam's Razor better, so I think it's likely to be true. Sadly.
Actually they shot on video tape (betacamSP IIRC), but they could not move the tapes anywhere, so they jerry-rigged a sort of "video Fax" and sent the film that way. -nB
I for one have been stomped on so hard by not aggressively protecting myself (not with guns per se.) that I refuse to be an absolute pacifist. I understand your philosophy and I genuinely wish you the best of luck. -nB
I've tried. No luck. Best I've found was a flat rate at $40/month with unlimited anytime minutes to the three local area codes. To make up for it they rape you for LD and roaming. There was one silver lining: They don't support data, but the phone does and the network doesn't stop you from using it. Basically if you have problems you're on your own, but unmetered data is actually vastly more useful to me than voice. -nB
You hit it on the head. Get the marketing dept to think it is a good idea then you have your own marketing department working to market your idea to the bosses:-) -nB
And basically I agree with you on most all your points. There is a WalMart phenomena about product quality, however. WalMart pressures its vendors on price so much that they often have a second line to run WalMart's product. This product is made as cheaply as possible. Case in point (and to prove a point) I bought two DVD players, one at BestBuy and one at WalMart. Both were the same brand (LG), both had the same feature set, both had the same front panel.
Walmart unit: snap together case BestBuy Unit: snap together case with Screws
Walmart unit: lots of jumper wires on PCB assy BestBuy unit: lots of ferrites on same PCB assy
Walmart unit: AV I/O connectors glued and heat melted into place (space for screws present) BestBuy unit: screws.
What finally did it for me was a cheapie bookshelf bought at Walmart that was un-assembleable. It literally fell apart under it's own assembly weight. I tossed it in the dumpster and went to target. Same brand same shelf size/number of shelves etc. Build procedure: identical. Build quality: vastly superior (holes drilled to correct depth, spare fasteners included, etc.)
While this is just two items it is a sound example for other products as well. Snapper declined to sell mowers at WalMart because the price pressure would have virtually forced a quality compromise that the CEO did not wast associated with the brand name.
Given a choice, I'd still get rid of them. Most of them are so annoying that they get on my "I won't buy this shit. Ever. Even if the competing product is cheaper."
Funny, my list is like your's except that mine is the "I won't buy this shit. Ever. Even if the competing product is costlier."
Same goes for WalMart and such. I finally was fed up with the overall quality sucking, so I've quit shopping there. It's not some altruistic reason like wages, Chinese labor, etc. just tired of the crap quality. -nB
Yeah, but there's nothing like an annoying Doppler buzzer to get you to back off:-)
I can see a select few racer geek hybrids trying to see how high a pitch they could get though, so maybe a non-doppler annoying buzzer would be better. -nB
You're a bit slower. If that car you're following hits a brick wall (or a stopped armored car, rig, whatever) then you have the time the GP post stated + the added time to cover the ground opened up by the elastic deformation of the car in front of you and whatever it hit, which while >0, is still essentially trivial. -nB
"I've seen people at 0.04 seconds. That is less than half a second," he said.
That was a gem. No shit 4 hundredths of a second is less than half a second. I really hope that was a typo and was meant to be 0.4, even then no shit on the math part. -nB
I read it right and am at work... clicked on it anyway... While the URL looked safe the content of the page was decidedly NSFW, though I'm sure the amazon url will not engage the "you surfed pr0n" filter. -nB
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Yeah, it's actually better than most. It encrypts the PDF and (depending on settings) requires you to be logged into an authentication server to view the document. Also, clears out the display ram so aside from sniffing the video to the monitor or taking pics you're secure. I'm sure the encryption could be broken, or as we use on most docs, you can check out the document for 72 hours, which is plenty to go off-line and sniff the video or simply photograph your notebook screen at home.
Again the user is usually the weakest link.
Also, AFAIK our IS staff was given access to the source and an in-depth archecture review (with a hell of an NDA of course).
-nB
I'd say it depends on your stuff.
I have a 3.4GHz prescott, and I've got to be one of the few people that can actually make it sing. In my case advanced branch prediction and an absurdly deep pipeline are pluses, DDR2 memory maxed out is GoodEnough(tm) that the hypertransport actually doesn't buy me anything in speed.
That said, I want hypertransport because I want a two socket system with a spartan FPGA in the second socket as a co-processor. Intel's platform can't do that, and even if it could the FSB would run out of steam in that application.
I appreciate the avoidance of a flame war, and that wasn't my point either. Thing is Intel's got AMD on the ropes for the next year at least. Whether they step on their dick again or not will determine whether AMD gets the lead back now or later.
-nB
we use authentica and love it. excellent security for PDF's
-nb
So AMD is joining the cores race rith RISC cores?
Still joining the Core race, just giving it a fancy name. IIRC Intel is not making a ton of CISC cores either. That 80 core monster (I want one), was like two CISC cores and 78 mixed FPU/RISC cores. Very ASIC like. This is just a Me TOO!!1!1 from AMD, sorry fanbois. That's not to say AMD doesn't innovate, I love hypertransport and really wish Intel would go do that... Just for now all AMD can do is a me too press releaase.
-nB
I wonder if you could contract with the US mint to mint new coins as you remove old ones from circulation. Pull Cu pennies and mint Zn ones ;)
Arbatroge baby!
-nB
ME, point, head, airspace. got it.
Rant stands about the whole H2 form oil thing though.
-nB
"Nuclear fusion has already been used for thousands of years to desalinate seawater for irrigation -- it's called the water cycle."
Really?
I thought we were talking about molecular fusion at best, and mechanical evaporation for 99.9% of the water cycle.
Also, surprised I have not seen it yet, but the most common form of hydrogen today (lab grade, fuel grade, whatever) comes not from water, but from OIL!, yup, steam cracked methane is the number one source of H2 in the industrial world.
It's the only economical way to do it. Why do you think the OIL companies killed the electric car, and keep an insane tariff on ethanol coming in from Brazil, but back H2 tech? 'Cause it's already their product! Get with it people! There is not a single way in the world that cracking water will be used for H2 production till the oil dries up! It's just too damned expensive.
sorry 'bout the rant, but I really hate all the H2 FUD, and dis-information out there.
-nB
"I suspect, though I don't know for sure, that the ones on race cars probably have a very short lifespan"
They do, about one race. Also, they use tear strips on the F1's helmets rather than cleaning them, and boy does it suck when you run out of tear strips!
Fairly sure some of the Nascar guys use them on their windshields too.
Also, can't you be re-tried if new material evidence comes up?
-nB
15min/hour on cal is the pay ration at my office, so you're paid 2 hours for an 8 hour on-call shift (if nothing happens). Call in's net an additional min 2 hours.
-nB
My spouse is chronically mis-construing what I say since I say what I mean in boolian logic.
if this not that
this and that
she now understands.
neuron's start popping when I go or, xor, xnor, and to some extent nand.
The problem is that in "plain 'ol english" the word or is often interpreted as xor. Really a parser error. Anyone got the wife.parser.1.1b patch?
-nB
While we all in fact know that the MS is a defence play for pity and is honestly underhanded as it really has no bearing on the case, what the RIAA did is perjury. They lied about the letter flat out. Not only should the case be tossed, but the lawyer that lied should be dis-barred &&|| the non-lawyer that lied should be fined & jailed for 20 days.
Sadly, this will not happen.
-nB
[sarcasm]They cheated alright, but due to a bug with a misplaced decimal or something ("I always do that") they found that they had $300 grand more than planned and thew Dems got the votes.[/sarcasm]
:-)
realistically though if you were to cheat you would want it to me hard to detect, maybe if they did the algorithm just needs more tweaking?
I dunno, I simply hope for the big backlash to put indys in office. I bet if Ross Perot ran now he'd take it by a landslide.
-nB
My first thought was simple: WTF? Better crack than the mods at ./ apparently.
But you and the GP seem to fit Occam's Razor better, so I think it's likely to be true. Sadly.
-nB
Actually they shot on video tape (betacamSP IIRC), but they could not move the tapes anywhere, so they jerry-rigged a sort of "video Fax" and sent the film that way.
-nB
Then to each their own.
I for one have been stomped on so hard by not aggressively protecting myself (not with guns per se.) that I refuse to be an absolute pacifist. I understand your philosophy and I genuinely wish you the best of luck.
-nB
That was awesome, thanks ;)
I've tried.
No luck. Best I've found was a flat rate at $40/month with unlimited anytime minutes to the three local area codes. To make up for it they rape you for LD and roaming. There was one silver lining: They don't support data, but the phone does and the network doesn't stop you from using it. Basically if you have problems you're on your own, but unmetered data is actually vastly more useful to me than voice.
-nB
You hit it on the head. Get the marketing dept to think it is a good idea then you have your own marketing department working to market your idea to the bosses :-)
-nB
WalMart pressures its vendors on price so much that they often have a second line to run WalMart's product. This product is made as cheaply as possible. Case in point (and to prove a point) I bought two DVD players, one at BestBuy and one at WalMart. Both were the same brand (LG), both had the same feature set, both had the same front panel.
What finally did it for me was a cheapie bookshelf bought at Walmart that was un-assembleable. It literally fell apart under it's own assembly weight. I tossed it in the dumpster and went to target. Same brand same shelf size/number of shelves etc. Build procedure: identical. Build quality: vastly superior (holes drilled to correct depth, spare fasteners included, etc.)
While this is just two items it is a sound example for other products as well. Snapper declined to sell mowers at WalMart because the price pressure would have virtually forced a quality compromise that the CEO did not wast associated with the brand name.
-nB
Same goes for WalMart and such. I finally was fed up with the overall quality sucking, so I've quit shopping there. It's not some altruistic reason like wages, Chinese labor, etc. just tired of the crap quality.
-nB
Yeah, but there's nothing like an annoying Doppler buzzer to get you to back off :-)
I can see a select few racer geek hybrids trying to see how high a pitch they could get though, so maybe a non-doppler annoying buzzer would be better.
-nB
You're a bit slower.
If that car you're following hits a brick wall (or a stopped armored car, rig, whatever) then you have the time the GP post stated + the added time to cover the ground opened up by the elastic deformation of the car in front of you and whatever it hit, which while >0, is still essentially trivial.
-nB
That was a gem. No shit 4 hundredths of a second is less than half a second. I really hope that was a typo and was meant to be 0.4, even then no shit on the math part.
-nB
I read it right and am at work... clicked on it anyway... While the URL looked safe the content of the page was decidedly NSFW, though I'm sure the amazon url will not engage the "you surfed pr0n" filter.
-nB