iPhone's and other iDevices take automatic backups on every sync so next time they plug it into a computer they get everything back. The remote data wipe is intended for loss or theft of the device, not to wipe remote systems at the administrator's whim.
The primary reason these technologies exist is for theft or loss of company property aka encryption. They are not going to prevent intentional data theft. If a company wants to connect using Exchange with these features, they should give company property to do so. In all other cases use IMAP or so.
Most of those ships are not registered in the US or Europe or any 1st world country. They are registered in Panama, Aruba or wherever there are no taxes and no regulations. And you can't really stop them coming into your harbors without affecting the local or even global economy.
On the other hand, how much pollution would it generate to bring those products in on more smaller ships or on trucks through a series of tubes in the ocean.
It's the transition period from most people working through some people working to no people working that is the main problem. It was the same problem with Communism why would you work hard if the rest of the population doesn't have to work hard and still gets paid.
The fast can be achieved by more/better hardware. A filesystem shouldn't have 'fast' or 'faster than ye' as it's primary focus anyway. If it's very fast but not 100% trustworthy it's not a good file system (eg. ReiserFS).
Some features that make ZFS a bit slower are thought up by people that have years of experience in large SAN and other storage solutions. Writing metadata multiple times over different spindles might seem overkill for most but that is until you lose a N+1 spindles (or just get r/w errors on the N+1'th spindle while the others are recovering) and in a typical situation this means the whole file system is hosed but ZFS can sometimes recover a lot of and will be able to tell which files it could not fix which is nice when your system has many TB's and takes days to restore from a full backup.
ZFS solves the fast by allowing frequently accessed data to be in memory or faster disks (like SSD's) and have small sync writes hit an intent log while optimizing async writes before putting them on-disk. Give ZFS more memory than your average desktop and you'll be a lot faster in reads, give it a small SLC SSD and see it hit 10k stable write IOPS.
Alternatively you can just get along with Mac OS X. Apple machines are not any more expensive than Dell's (for the 5 year it investment path) and it's much easier to maintain than either Linux or Windows. Even the server side is easy as pie. You'll also get MS Office and Adobe as well as Quark in case you ever need it as well as all open source productivity software.
For file services, I would recommend Linux or Nexenta.
An address book with a decent search engine works just as well. To keep in contact send them an e-mail. No need to outsource this to some company that may or may not abuse the information that is in their proprietary e-mail system.
No, what happened is: 1) Some reporter(s) asked Microsoft PR what this meant. 2) They consulted with their legal team that has a boiler plate message saying: you can't mess with our software or hardware or we'll sue you (which is true for most of their products) 3) Somebody at the Kinect group saw this and talked to their boss. 4) They had lots and lots of meetings about this (the original response is about a week or 2 old now) 5) They came to the conclusion that this might not be such a bad idea since the Kinect doesn't sell very well to existing XBox users (who are expecting a newer design by now) 6) They said: We intended it to be an open controller, feel free to buy some to integrate in your robot gear. Between the lines you can read: Nobody's buying this sh*t, please go and get some off our hands.
I actually still like the little plastic blocks. I think that's what started or at least cultivated many an engineer's interest in the trade. Just get them a box with mixed blocks and they'll keep it for their kids when they grow up. My parents gave me 1 small kit when I was young (back when they had less custom blocks - the newer series are actually going back to those roots it seems) and then whenever I got some cash or gifts for good report cards I would expand until by 16 years old I got a whole city that took up the whole attic.
What limits are you hitting. And why are you mentioning but one of the many solutions to your problem one which is probably mighty expensive compared to the other solutions.
If you're genuinely hitting a limit, you're doing it wrong. You're probably not Google so most likely you're having issues scaling your proprietary and expensive SQL database (Oracle, MSSQL) but don't want to buy more $10-20k licenses. Most likely you can fix it by simply throwing better and more hardware at it (SSD, more hard drives and RAM) and while you're at it changing to a cheaper database solution (MySQL or PostgreSQL) which you can scale further for less money.
Pisano is INcorrect in saying "the First Amendment was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means". The First Amendment was/is intended as a shield for any US Citizen irrespective of their means. The First Amendment still applies to people that have committed a crime.
They went from roughly 3TB/day to 78TB/day over their nationwide network and they can't handle it? That means that on average, each of their customers used barely 1MB/day. Even if 1% of their customer base uses the data network, that is still only 100MB/day.
An ISP that cannot handle their customers getting 100MB/day is not worth being named an ISP imho.
The total data volume over the nationwide network went from 1 billion megabytes per year to 30 billion megabytes per year. Or from roughly 900TB/365days or 2.4TB/day to 28,610TB/365days or 78TB/day.
Divide that by their 100 million customers and on average each customer uses not even 1MB/day.
If you want to be an ISP and you cannot carry more than 1MB/day, you should not be an ISP.
1) Don't turn off your computer, my laptop wastes less than 1W in standby and since I use it every day, it's probably cheaper and definitely more convenient to leave it in standby. My iDevice lasts even longer and hardly has an option to turn it off.
2) Use a decent website or a dedicated application to look up numbers. Mac OS X has great applications in the Dashboard for it (2 clicks) and even Google understands , , and returns a phone number.
The amount of pure water under regulated conditions that fits in a cubic decimeter. The meter is derived from the speed of light in a vacuum (Wikipedia or Google the exact amount).
You guys really needed to have paid better attention in your 4th grade physics classes, this is quite basic (a good question for "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"). Oh, you're American, never mind then.
Windows 7 is seen as an expensive Windows Vista Service Pack. It doesn't run well on older machines, it requires a lot of change in how people work and it still isn't intuitive to use. I would even dare say it's downright clunky compared to the age-old Windows way. People stay with Windows XP because it works well or they go to Mac or even Linux if they need to change anyway.
Windows 7 is only a hit because it's better than Vista and all computers in the last 4 years have come either with Vista or 7. But even so, most corporate users as well as a lot of home users still decide to downgrade to XP which most 7 licenses except for retail allows you to do. So actually the count for sold licenses is high but a bunch of them have downgraded again.
XBox 360 is old and everybody has been waiting for the new one for at least 2 years now. Sure it sold a lot of consoles only because Sony was priced too high and Wii seemed downright juvenile. XBox 360 is cheap enough for most gamers older than 12 to get one but afaik the division has been making a loss ever since the inception. However the RROD, the issues with EA stopping to host older games and a bunch of other issues have given a lot of gamers no incentive to buy any further into the XBox (Kinect has flopped) and instead wait on the next generation. The only thing that keeps XBox sales up imho is Rock Band.
Windows 7 Phone - at this point I think you're being sarcastic. Nobody has a Windows 7 phone, nobody wants a Windows phone. The 5 and 6 versions have forever poisoned the user base (and you thought Mac fans were frothing at the mouths, you should've seen Windows smartphone fans 5 years ago). Most people here where I work (where Windows phone was kinda the only choice 2-3 years ago) are heavily lobbying to get permission and some infrastructure for the iPhone with some already getting through. It is plain out buggy, crashes and is very very complicated (Who has place and the precision to use a start menu drop down & multi-paged, multi-tabbed configuration menu on a 3" screen). To enable Bluetooth on one of these phones you literally have to tap through 3 levels of crap you don't need and about 9 clicks + the menu's are super redundant in naming. Is Bluetooth in connectivity, networking or wireless
I'm pretty sure that 'replacing hardware' was included in 'how much does it cost to get this to do stuff faster'. I'm also pretty sure that Microsoft got included at first when the LSE came and said that it needed to go faster.
The problem was that Windows/.NET/SQL Server couldn't perform under this high load with predictable latency and either Microsoft gave up on them or they gave up on Microsoft. As any web hoster will tell you, SQL Server just craps out if there is too much unpredictable (random) load..NET has very unpredictable load responses especially when many applications share the host and is not close enough to the bare metal like C or C++ is to get better performance out of it (it's like Java, but not cross-platform). Windows has no low-latency or real-time anything especially not in combination with.NET and the TCP/IP stack is really bad as well.
Apparently it was cheaper to just build a new system than to upgrade their hardware, software and/or developers. Management people know how to get most of their stuff done for cheap even if they don't understand the technical issues behind it.
I work on a campus and actually, year over year the sales and network usage of Mac-based computers has increased even this year while the share of PC's (any) has decreased. I think it's 60/40 now up from 90/10 5 years ago. Linux has also increased if you look at the OS-side.
I saw a lot of Netbooks last year when they were all the hype but recently support request, sales and visibility have decreased. Mainly because they are heavily underpowered. It may be good for a junior but as soon as you hit the second or third year and you have classes requiring you to run heavy MATLAB or R calculations those little machines just don't keep up (or literally melt their plastic).
In one of the classes I support, Windows users have to run Linux in a VM which is unbearable on those things (5 minutes to start the OS). Some students just went out and bought a MacBook Pro instead (under $1000 once you get the student discount). Dell has been heavily lacking in power/$ for the last two or three years unless you invest heavily in their overpriced upgrades. Sure they can get you a $500 15" laptop but again, P4 tech or early Core2Duo is not good enough.
Netbooks are great if you just need a laptop with 5 year old tech to browse around. But single cores without a decent GPU, RAM or hard drive in any somewhat advanced environment simply don't cut it these days.
Actually, the iDevices kinda forced the market to adopt open standards and lo-and-behold everybody profits from having an open (or at least a non-single-vendor) standard. If Steve had allowed Flash on the iDevices, we would've never seen HTML5 being adopted like this by the big players.
Heck, even obscure porn sites are beginning to offer HTML5 video options besides Flash, the only ones not doing it are the TV networks full episode players.
I'm definitely seeing the result on my Nokia N800 and older Pentium 3/4 and PowerPC machines. Flash usually brought those machines to their knees, now I'm enjoying 480p or even 720p where available with acceptable CPU usage.
It's the guys PhD dissertation. Nobody important (in his or your life) will ever read it and all it is going to do is sit pretty on his CV for a couple of years. When somebody is hiring him, they will see 'The history and culture of Wikipedia', if they have any interest at all they will read the synopsis and whether or not they agree with it doesn't matter.
That's how it goes with most research papers though. Nobody ever reads it, the synopsis or only some graphs are used to prove or disprove a point in their own research papers. Only when it is or becomes really important or if they're being investigated for fraud in their research projects will somebody actually read it but that's maybe 0.1% of the papers that ever make it that far.
I think that is a security feature and not a code-signing feature. Off course a random application shouldn't be able to just pierce through a firewall. If you really have problems with it, run an ipfw command (as root) to open the port for all traffic, distribute the certificate or turn off the firewall if you feel your testing network is protected enough by other measures.
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iPhone's and other iDevices take automatic backups on every sync so next time they plug it into a computer they get everything back. The remote data wipe is intended for loss or theft of the device, not to wipe remote systems at the administrator's whim.
Or how about flash drives etc.
The primary reason these technologies exist is for theft or loss of company property aka encryption. They are not going to prevent intentional data theft. If a company wants to connect using Exchange with these features, they should give company property to do so. In all other cases use IMAP or so.
Most of those ships are not registered in the US or Europe or any 1st world country. They are registered in Panama, Aruba or wherever there are no taxes and no regulations. And you can't really stop them coming into your harbors without affecting the local or even global economy.
On the other hand, how much pollution would it generate to bring those products in on more smaller ships or on trucks through a series of tubes in the ocean.
It's the transition period from most people working through some people working to no people working that is the main problem. It was the same problem with Communism why would you work hard if the rest of the population doesn't have to work hard and still gets paid.
The fast can be achieved by more/better hardware. A filesystem shouldn't have 'fast' or 'faster than ye' as it's primary focus anyway. If it's very fast but not 100% trustworthy it's not a good file system (eg. ReiserFS).
Some features that make ZFS a bit slower are thought up by people that have years of experience in large SAN and other storage solutions. Writing metadata multiple times over different spindles might seem overkill for most but that is until you lose a N+1 spindles (or just get r/w errors on the N+1'th spindle while the others are recovering) and in a typical situation this means the whole file system is hosed but ZFS can sometimes recover a lot of and will be able to tell which files it could not fix which is nice when your system has many TB's and takes days to restore from a full backup.
ZFS solves the fast by allowing frequently accessed data to be in memory or faster disks (like SSD's) and have small sync writes hit an intent log while optimizing async writes before putting them on-disk. Give ZFS more memory than your average desktop and you'll be a lot faster in reads, give it a small SLC SSD and see it hit 10k stable write IOPS.
Try a RAID-10 array of /dev/null's - it's even faster.
Alternatively you can just get along with Mac OS X. Apple machines are not any more expensive than Dell's (for the 5 year it investment path) and it's much easier to maintain than either Linux or Windows. Even the server side is easy as pie. You'll also get MS Office and Adobe as well as Quark in case you ever need it as well as all open source productivity software.
For file services, I would recommend Linux or Nexenta.
He intentionally misspelled some words to confuse cryptographers and not make it too simple.
An address book with a decent search engine works just as well. To keep in contact send them an e-mail. No need to outsource this to some company that may or may not abuse the information that is in their proprietary e-mail system.
No, what happened is:
1) Some reporter(s) asked Microsoft PR what this meant.
2) They consulted with their legal team that has a boiler plate message saying: you can't mess with our software or hardware or we'll sue you (which is true for most of their products)
3) Somebody at the Kinect group saw this and talked to their boss.
4) They had lots and lots of meetings about this (the original response is about a week or 2 old now)
5) They came to the conclusion that this might not be such a bad idea since the Kinect doesn't sell very well to existing XBox users (who are expecting a newer design by now)
6) They said: We intended it to be an open controller, feel free to buy some to integrate in your robot gear. Between the lines you can read: Nobody's buying this sh*t, please go and get some off our hands.
I actually still like the little plastic blocks. I think that's what started or at least cultivated many an engineer's interest in the trade. Just get them a box with mixed blocks and they'll keep it for their kids when they grow up. My parents gave me 1 small kit when I was young (back when they had less custom blocks - the newer series are actually going back to those roots it seems) and then whenever I got some cash or gifts for good report cards I would expand until by 16 years old I got a whole city that took up the whole attic.
What limits are you hitting. And why are you mentioning but one of the many solutions to your problem one which is probably mighty expensive compared to the other solutions.
If you're genuinely hitting a limit, you're doing it wrong. You're probably not Google so most likely you're having issues scaling your proprietary and expensive SQL database (Oracle, MSSQL) but don't want to buy more $10-20k licenses. Most likely you can fix it by simply throwing better and more hardware at it (SSD, more hard drives and RAM) and while you're at it changing to a cheaper database solution (MySQL or PostgreSQL) which you can scale further for less money.
Pisano is INcorrect in saying "the First Amendment was not intended as a shield for those who steal, irrespective of the means". The First Amendment was/is intended as a shield for any US Citizen irrespective of their means. The First Amendment still applies to people that have committed a crime.
They went from roughly 3TB/day to 78TB/day over their nationwide network and they can't handle it? That means that on average, each of their customers used barely 1MB/day. Even if 1% of their customer base uses the data network, that is still only 100MB/day.
An ISP that cannot handle their customers getting 100MB/day is not worth being named an ISP imho.
The total data volume over the nationwide network went from 1 billion megabytes per year to 30 billion megabytes per year. Or from roughly 900TB/365days or 2.4TB/day to 28,610TB/365days or 78TB/day.
Divide that by their 100 million customers and on average each customer uses not even 1MB/day.
If you want to be an ISP and you cannot carry more than 1MB/day, you should not be an ISP.
That's because you're doing it wrong.
1) Don't turn off your computer, my laptop wastes less than 1W in standby and since I use it every day, it's probably cheaper and definitely more convenient to leave it in standby. My iDevice lasts even longer and hardly has an option to turn it off.
2) Use a decent website or a dedicated application to look up numbers. Mac OS X has great applications in the Dashboard for it (2 clicks) and even Google understands , , and returns a phone number.
The amount of pure water under regulated conditions that fits in a cubic decimeter. The meter is derived from the speed of light in a vacuum (Wikipedia or Google the exact amount).
You guys really needed to have paid better attention in your 4th grade physics classes, this is quite basic (a good question for "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"). Oh, you're American, never mind then.
Wine runs IE6 perfectly fine. In packages like CodeWeavers CrossOver you can 'bottle' the Wine environment and distribute it.
Off course, you'll need to convert to Mac or Linux but that's a feature and it's a lot cheaper.
Windows 7 is seen as an expensive Windows Vista Service Pack. It doesn't run well on older machines, it requires a lot of change in how people work and it still isn't intuitive to use. I would even dare say it's downright clunky compared to the age-old Windows way. People stay with Windows XP because it works well or they go to Mac or even Linux if they need to change anyway.
Windows 7 is only a hit because it's better than Vista and all computers in the last 4 years have come either with Vista or 7. But even so, most corporate users as well as a lot of home users still decide to downgrade to XP which most 7 licenses except for retail allows you to do. So actually the count for sold licenses is high but a bunch of them have downgraded again.
XBox 360 is old and everybody has been waiting for the new one for at least 2 years now. Sure it sold a lot of consoles only because Sony was priced too high and Wii seemed downright juvenile. XBox 360 is cheap enough for most gamers older than 12 to get one but afaik the division has been making a loss ever since the inception. However the RROD, the issues with EA stopping to host older games and a bunch of other issues have given a lot of gamers no incentive to buy any further into the XBox (Kinect has flopped) and instead wait on the next generation. The only thing that keeps XBox sales up imho is Rock Band.
Windows 7 Phone - at this point I think you're being sarcastic. Nobody has a Windows 7 phone, nobody wants a Windows phone. The 5 and 6 versions have forever poisoned the user base (and you thought Mac fans were frothing at the mouths, you should've seen Windows smartphone fans 5 years ago). Most people here where I work (where Windows phone was kinda the only choice 2-3 years ago) are heavily lobbying to get permission and some infrastructure for the iPhone with some already getting through. It is plain out buggy, crashes and is very very complicated (Who has place and the precision to use a start menu drop down & multi-paged, multi-tabbed configuration menu on a 3" screen). To enable Bluetooth on one of these phones you literally have to tap through 3 levels of crap you don't need and about 9 clicks + the menu's are super redundant in naming. Is Bluetooth in connectivity, networking or wireless
Nah, they recorded these data on punch cards. However they quickly noticed the buffer overflow created by using only 8 bits.
I'm pretty sure that 'replacing hardware' was included in 'how much does it cost to get this to do stuff faster'. I'm also pretty sure that Microsoft got included at first when the LSE came and said that it needed to go faster.
The problem was that Windows/.NET/SQL Server couldn't perform under this high load with predictable latency and either Microsoft gave up on them or they gave up on Microsoft. As any web hoster will tell you, SQL Server just craps out if there is too much unpredictable (random) load. .NET has very unpredictable load responses especially when many applications share the host and is not close enough to the bare metal like C or C++ is to get better performance out of it (it's like Java, but not cross-platform). Windows has no low-latency or real-time anything especially not in combination with .NET and the TCP/IP stack is really bad as well.
Apparently it was cheaper to just build a new system than to upgrade their hardware, software and/or developers. Management people know how to get most of their stuff done for cheap even if they don't understand the technical issues behind it.
I work on a campus and actually, year over year the sales and network usage of Mac-based computers has increased even this year while the share of PC's (any) has decreased. I think it's 60/40 now up from 90/10 5 years ago. Linux has also increased if you look at the OS-side.
I saw a lot of Netbooks last year when they were all the hype but recently support request, sales and visibility have decreased. Mainly because they are heavily underpowered. It may be good for a junior but as soon as you hit the second or third year and you have classes requiring you to run heavy MATLAB or R calculations those little machines just don't keep up (or literally melt their plastic).
In one of the classes I support, Windows users have to run Linux in a VM which is unbearable on those things (5 minutes to start the OS). Some students just went out and bought a MacBook Pro instead (under $1000 once you get the student discount). Dell has been heavily lacking in power/$ for the last two or three years unless you invest heavily in their overpriced upgrades. Sure they can get you a $500 15" laptop but again, P4 tech or early Core2Duo is not good enough.
Netbooks are great if you just need a laptop with 5 year old tech to browse around. But single cores without a decent GPU, RAM or hard drive in any somewhat advanced environment simply don't cut it these days.
Actually, the iDevices kinda forced the market to adopt open standards and lo-and-behold everybody profits from having an open (or at least a non-single-vendor) standard. If Steve had allowed Flash on the iDevices, we would've never seen HTML5 being adopted like this by the big players.
Heck, even obscure porn sites are beginning to offer HTML5 video options besides Flash, the only ones not doing it are the TV networks full episode players.
I'm definitely seeing the result on my Nokia N800 and older Pentium 3/4 and PowerPC machines. Flash usually brought those machines to their knees, now I'm enjoying 480p or even 720p where available with acceptable CPU usage.
It's the guys PhD dissertation. Nobody important (in his or your life) will ever read it and all it is going to do is sit pretty on his CV for a couple of years. When somebody is hiring him, they will see 'The history and culture of Wikipedia', if they have any interest at all they will read the synopsis and whether or not they agree with it doesn't matter.
That's how it goes with most research papers though. Nobody ever reads it, the synopsis or only some graphs are used to prove or disprove a point in their own research papers. Only when it is or becomes really important or if they're being investigated for fraud in their research projects will somebody actually read it but that's maybe 0.1% of the papers that ever make it that far.
I think that is a security feature and not a code-signing feature. Off course a random application shouldn't be able to just pierce through a firewall. If you really have problems with it, run an ipfw command (as root) to open the port for all traffic, distribute the certificate or turn off the firewall if you feel your testing network is protected enough by other measures.