The console analogy is a horribly flawed one. the look of a console apart from size has little to no effect on its use or function, The size and shape of a phone or tablet directly affect their functionality and use, tablets and phones have changed very little asthetically in the last 5 to 10 years, they are still the same basic shape and size they were long before samsung and apple came up with their designs. disgusted though I am to suggest it, a better analogy would be cars where the size and shape also affect its function and many people also struggle with telling car brands apart.
Xbox has been turning a profit now for the last few years. They lost a lot on the first one, some on the 360 for the first 1-2 years, since then it has turned in a profit every quarter.
I'd like to see them get rid of restrictive rules, like no more than X m^2 of solar. I always thought it would be cool to drag a solar trailer behind a solar EV. +10-20% weight but +100% power.
Of course those numbers are for a real car. I don't know how much lighter a trailer would be than a solar challenge car.
I think that would be an incredibly BAD idea. This isn't just a race, The solar challenge is about efficient and effective design. The restrictive rules on solar panel size is one of the main drivers for them to innovate around effective energy management. Forcing them to think about ways to come up with more and more efficient designs rather than saying FUCK IT lets put a V8 equivalent in it and drag 200 m^2 of panels to drive it, removal of the restrictions would make this a pointless race and probably kill it completely.
I don't see many practical cars on a formula 1 track or a speedway track either. I guess all those cars and inovations from them are also not very useful?
These cars are the very definition of useful, they are specifically designed to meet a requirement, to prove their technology is the best by using it to win a 3000k race.
There is a big difference between someone having a beef with your website resulting in your ISP capitulating and an ISP that makes it their policy to protect those that actively are violating the laws and rights of others. What really needs to happen here is the Law needs to grow a back bone and do something about businesses like CyberBunker so that the legitimate rights to privacy are not impinged by future crusades looking to shut down scum like them.
consoles are locked down for a reason, the cost of the hardware is deeply subsidised with the expectation on making profit from the software. For Apple To create a more open platform they couldn't really afford to subsidise the hardware as you no longer have the guarenteed software sales and would therefore need to compete with a significant price disadvantage, current gen consoles retail for under $300 and when they were initially released both the ps3 and the xbox were selling at a loss. What sort of alternative system could anyone realistically create from scratch at this point that could compete in the already crowded market at a price that would allow it to take off without taking an absolute hammering from the losses to enter the market.
I don't know about you, but when I was first out of school I did plenty of reading up on how to perform in an interview including what questions to ask. Also he isn't just out of school he says he has been doing it for 5 years, while yes that doesn't make him a veteran it should have been more than enough to have learnt enough about software development to ask basic questions about the environment he was going to be joining.
If only they would let us mod these idiotic summaries into oblivion. It doesn't even deserve a rating as high as troll. People like mikejuk who post FUD like this should just be prevented from submitting or posting in future.
but lesser publications and individuals have been sued for libel for this sort of thing when it affects the stock price...
umm lesser publications? what could possibly pass as a lesser publication when it comes to financial information than/.? seriously if anything EVER said on here was used for stock decisions then the moron making said decisions was going to lose his money from the next guy that tried to sell him a bridge anyway.
The payback on normal solar panels is already in the 10-15+ year category for most installs. This tech costs 150% more on an output basis, so 25-40 year ROI? of windows are also far more prone to being broken then a solar panel installed on your roof hmmm think I will give this one a pass.
although i'm waiting for the creative bot net that puts a self destruct in - wiping the box if it can't contact the C&C for an extended time (say 2 weeks) so that the security people get stuck with the possibility of destroying peoples data.
maybe i shouldn't give them any ideas.
If that did that I think it would be a blessing, the people infected with these bots have become that way due to their own irresponsible or uneducated behaviour and are a danger to themselves and others, it is far better they are forced to do something about their machine than continue to live in ignorance, perhaps it might teach them that downloading untrustworthy shit is a stupid idea (I doubt it, but one can hope)
Software flawes are a fact of life in the software industry, it isn't just lazy developers (though they certainly rack up more than their share). Writing software is an incredibly complex task where many unforeseen security incidents or bugs can occur, hell you can end up the victim of a bug because of the compiler you use. Even being liable for just the cost of the software sold would massively increase the price for a lot of work as the risk involved would mean huge liability insurance or massive risk on the part of the vendor, though what you will find in many contracts even today for custom software is that vendors already accept a limited liability for the cost of the software. Add in the fact that most custom software is built under extreme time and finance pressure from the customer, try telling customers sorry we now have to add 60% to cover liabiliy and take an extra 6 months so we can cover every possible obscure bug you will encounter and they will tell you to go take a flying F@#$.
So what the law is actually proposing is a way to punish commercial companies while letting open source developers off. I would love to see better security from everyone (open source developers included), but idiotic laws like these wold just drive up costs of development to ridiculous levels.
Bullshit. If you have to do nothing but CLICK on the email, there is something wrong. Obviously, you can't prevent people from running dodgy executables without locking down the system entirely (requiring cryptographically signed executables, etc.), but that doesn't mean you have to make it easy for them either. This kind of thing is utterly impossible in Linux, and only happens in Windows because of the idiotic idea that you should allow arbitrary code to be executed directly from a website or email.
You seem to be utterly clueless on the common infection paths on both the windows and linux front. The vast majority is not getting infected by simply viewing emails or browsing to a website, they are being socially engineered into runing malware. Users are EXECUTING files that promise to provide them with various free goodies or access to all sorts of stuff. For instance the Kelihos botnet required you to open a link in a browser, then download and execute a program which it tried to disguise as a greeting card, last time I checked both windows and linux could perform this task of downloading a program and then running it, if you think otherwise then you are probably a perfect candidate for their target audience.
Bullshit. If you can just click on an email and this leads to your system being rooted, there's something fundamentally wrong with the software architecture. Same goes for ads on websites. There should never be any way of executing arbitrary code from an email or web site.
No their isn't anything fundamentally wrong with the software architecture. A vast majority of users are morons, the OS can prompt you to say what you are doing is dangerous, stupid (as windows already does) and users will STILL say yes show me that naked photo of XYZ by running dodgy.exe for me. You simply can't patch stupidity unless you create a highly controlled environment where the user doesn't have the right to run whatever they want.
To be fair they did come to this realisation several years ago now. products like Exchange, DPM and even many windows commands are only fully accessible through CLI/powershell and current versions of win server can run headless for many tasks.
bingo! dial-up was "fine," but without future-minded broadband infrastructure (as we know it today), we'd never have had services like netflix, last.fm, pandora, or skype.
if you build a road just for the number of cars that would travel it today, you'll have a road that is too small by the time that it is done.
Dial-up most definitely was NOT fine. As a user of dialup from my first 300 baud modem all the way through to 56k dialup it was always god aweful, you spent most of your time waiting, even something as simple as a relatively low res photo was torture over dialup. Now though just about everything I do on the web I can happily do with the current speeds, stream movies, voip, download games or just browse the web. Would I like gigabit, sure, is it currently worth it, not even close.
If you build a road 100 lanes wide your still not going to have more people driving on it than you would on a 10 lane highway, at some point their is diminishing returns and at least for the next 10 years that is far less than gigabit to the home.
You are incorrect, their primary business is BUYING up domains to park them, he OWNS hundreds of thousands of them, he has even stated publically he does this as "its better than realestate". He may also act as a middle man, but primarily he is a leech on the system that steals time from users with misleading links and search results. Even those that are using him as a middle man are hardly better,If you want to park a domain then park it, don't screw internet users over with garbage just to feather your pockets. sewer scum is if anything a mild term to descibe these people.
And guess what if I decided to use one of my house blocks (you know real realestate) as a garbage tip or even as a block to host a thousand ad billboards on you can damn well be sure the government/council/police will step in and put a stop to it, it is just sad there is not something similar on the internet for this.
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The point at the time was that Tesla was spruking it as a sports car, so top gear drove it as one.
The console analogy is a horribly flawed one. the look of a console apart from size has little to no effect on its use or function, The size and shape of a phone or tablet directly affect their functionality and use, tablets and phones have changed very little asthetically in the last 5 to 10 years, they are still the same basic shape and size they were long before samsung and apple came up with their designs. disgusted though I am to suggest it, a better analogy would be cars where the size and shape also affect its function and many people also struggle with telling car brands apart.
Xbox has been turning a profit now for the last few years. They lost a lot on the first one, some on the 360 for the first 1-2 years, since then it has turned in a profit every quarter.
I'd like to see them get rid of restrictive rules, like no more than X m^2 of solar. I always thought it would be cool to drag a solar trailer behind a solar EV. +10-20% weight but +100% power.
Of course those numbers are for a real car. I don't know how much lighter a trailer would be than a solar challenge car.
I think that would be an incredibly BAD idea. This isn't just a race, The solar challenge is about efficient and effective design. The restrictive rules on solar panel size is one of the main drivers for them to innovate around effective energy management. Forcing them to think about ways to come up with more and more efficient designs rather than saying FUCK IT lets put a V8 equivalent in it and drag 200 m^2 of panels to drive it, removal of the restrictions would make this a pointless race and probably kill it completely.
I don't see many practical cars on a formula 1 track or a speedway track either. I guess all those cars and inovations from them are also not very useful?
These cars are the very definition of useful, they are specifically designed to meet a requirement, to prove their technology is the best by using it to win a 3000k race.
If you lower the rate you remove the incentive to take the profits offshore. 25% of a billion dollars is a lot more than 35% of nothing.
There is a big difference between someone having a beef with your website resulting in your ISP capitulating and an ISP that makes it their policy to protect those that actively are violating the laws and rights of others. What really needs to happen here is the Law needs to grow a back bone and do something about businesses like CyberBunker so that the legitimate rights to privacy are not impinged by future crusades looking to shut down scum like them.
Drop Bears are struggling to maintain numbers nowadays, the hoop snakes have killed most of them off.
consoles are locked down for a reason, the cost of the hardware is deeply subsidised with the expectation on making profit from the software. For Apple To create a more open platform they couldn't really afford to subsidise the hardware as you no longer have the guarenteed software sales and would therefore need to compete with a significant price disadvantage, current gen consoles retail for under $300 and when they were initially released both the ps3 and the xbox were selling at a loss. What sort of alternative system could anyone realistically create from scratch at this point that could compete in the already crowded market at a price that would allow it to take off without taking an absolute hammering from the losses to enter the market.
I don't know about you, but when I was first out of school I did plenty of reading up on how to perform in an interview including what questions to ask. Also he isn't just out of school he says he has been doing it for 5 years, while yes that doesn't make him a veteran it should have been more than enough to have learnt enough about software development to ask basic questions about the environment he was going to be joining.
If only they would let us mod these idiotic summaries into oblivion. It doesn't even deserve a rating as high as troll. People like mikejuk who post FUD like this should just be prevented from submitting or posting in future.
but lesser publications and individuals have been sued for libel for this sort of thing when it affects the stock price...
umm lesser publications? what could possibly pass as a lesser publication when it comes to financial information than /.? seriously if anything EVER said on here was used for stock decisions then the moron making said decisions was going to lose his money from the next guy that tried to sell him a bridge anyway.
The payback on normal solar panels is already in the 10-15+ year category for most installs. This tech costs 150% more on an output basis, so 25-40 year ROI? of windows are also far more prone to being broken then a solar panel installed on your roof hmmm think I will give this one a pass.
Actually I am in Aus and I am confused, spring has just started, summer is still 2 months away.
It is as good as most of the competitors products, plus its free and doesn't bog down the system or constantly nag you with useless information.
although i'm waiting for the creative bot net that puts a self destruct in - wiping the box if it can't contact the C&C for an extended time (say 2 weeks) so that the security people get stuck with the possibility of destroying peoples data.
maybe i shouldn't give them any ideas.
If that did that I think it would be a blessing, the people infected with these bots have become that way due to their own irresponsible or uneducated behaviour and are a danger to themselves and others, it is far better they are forced to do something about their machine than continue to live in ignorance, perhaps it might teach them that downloading untrustworthy shit is a stupid idea (I doubt it, but one can hope)
Software flawes are a fact of life in the software industry, it isn't just lazy developers (though they certainly rack up more than their share). Writing software is an incredibly complex task where many unforeseen security incidents or bugs can occur, hell you can end up the victim of a bug because of the compiler you use. Even being liable for just the cost of the software sold would massively increase the price for a lot of work as the risk involved would mean huge liability insurance or massive risk on the part of the vendor, though what you will find in many contracts even today for custom software is that vendors already accept a limited liability for the cost of the software. Add in the fact that most custom software is built under extreme time and finance pressure from the customer, try telling customers sorry we now have to add 60% to cover liabiliy and take an extra 6 months so we can cover every possible obscure bug you will encounter and they will tell you to go take a flying F@#$.
So what the law is actually proposing is a way to punish commercial companies while letting open source developers off. I would love to see better security from everyone (open source developers included), but idiotic laws like these wold just drive up costs of development to ridiculous levels.
whooosh!
Bullshit. If you have to do nothing but CLICK on the email, there is something wrong. Obviously, you can't prevent people from running dodgy executables without locking down the system entirely (requiring cryptographically signed executables, etc.), but that doesn't mean you have to make it easy for them either. This kind of thing is utterly impossible in Linux, and only happens in Windows because of the idiotic idea that you should allow arbitrary code to be executed directly from a website or email.
You seem to be utterly clueless on the common infection paths on both the windows and linux front. The vast majority is not getting infected by simply viewing emails or browsing to a website, they are being socially engineered into runing malware. Users are EXECUTING files that promise to provide them with various free goodies or access to all sorts of stuff. For instance the Kelihos botnet required you to open a link in a browser, then download and execute a program which it tried to disguise as a greeting card, last time I checked both windows and linux could perform this task of downloading a program and then running it, if you think otherwise then you are probably a perfect candidate for their target audience.
Bullshit. If you can just click on an email and this leads to your system being rooted, there's something fundamentally wrong with the software architecture. Same goes for ads on websites. There should never be any way of executing arbitrary code from an email or web site.
No their isn't anything fundamentally wrong with the software architecture. A vast majority of users are morons, the OS can prompt you to say what you are doing is dangerous, stupid (as windows already does) and users will STILL say yes show me that naked photo of XYZ by running dodgy.exe for me. You simply can't patch stupidity unless you create a highly controlled environment where the user doesn't have the right to run whatever they want.
To be fair they did come to this realisation several years ago now. products like Exchange, DPM and even many windows commands are only fully accessible through CLI/powershell and current versions of win server can run headless for many tasks.
bingo! dial-up was "fine," but without future-minded broadband infrastructure (as we know it today), we'd never have had services like netflix, last.fm, pandora, or skype.
if you build a road just for the number of cars that would travel it today, you'll have a road that is too small by the time that it is done.
Dial-up most definitely was NOT fine. As a user of dialup from my first 300 baud modem all the way through to 56k dialup it was always god aweful, you spent most of your time waiting, even something as simple as a relatively low res photo was torture over dialup. Now though just about everything I do on the web I can happily do with the current speeds, stream movies, voip, download games or just browse the web. Would I like gigabit, sure, is it currently worth it, not even close.
If you build a road 100 lanes wide your still not going to have more people driving on it than you would on a 10 lane highway, at some point their is diminishing returns and at least for the next 10 years that is far less than gigabit to the home.
Explain why you need a gigabit connection for only streaming 4 or 5 movies? even 100 megabit is overkill for that.
You are incorrect, their primary business is BUYING up domains to park them, he OWNS hundreds of thousands of them, he has even stated publically he does this as "its better than realestate". He may also act as a middle man, but primarily he is a leech on the system that steals time from users with misleading links and search results. Even those that are using him as a middle man are hardly better,If you want to park a domain then park it, don't screw internet users over with garbage just to feather your pockets. sewer scum is if anything a mild term to descibe these people.
And guess what if I decided to use one of my house blocks (you know real realestate) as a garbage tip or even as a block to host a thousand ad billboards on you can damn well be sure the government/council/police will step in and put a stop to it, it is just sad there is not something similar on the internet for this.