It's not that motherboards won't support it, it's that Windows (even 7) won't support it. You CANNOT boot Windows from a disk with GPT. You also CANNOT boot Windows (7) on most EFI systems.
That was slowly getting resolved with the latest development bits of OpenSolaris. However since the Oracle takeover there haven't been any updates (whereas before the schedule was weekly or bi-weekly 'unstable' releases).
As the article mentions, you need to do 'special' stuff to get >100mA out of a USB port (as the USB specification requires). Besides, they are using batteries to recharge the other device which can't give 1A for a very long time which is what the iPhone requires. As the article mentions, you don't want to put in a chip to negotiate the requirements ($$$) so you mess around with voltage dividers on the data busses to negotiate what your charging device can provide. You also don't want to pull out more than a charger can provide or you will kill it. USB ports were never meant to be charging at high current in the first place.
There's nothing 'secret' about it as the poster of the Slashdot article makes it out to be. You can reverse engineer all of this for any number of devices, you'll be hard pressed to find any manufacturers that actually provide specs for charging devices through USB ports. The fact that Apple does it in a better way than just connecting 5V and GND and ignoring the USB specs and just drawing a great amount of current is not evil, the fact that others (Samsung) take out my USB port everytime their 'USB charger' is used is evil.
Expensive? We just bought one of those 120Hz movie-theater projectors where I work (for research purposes) - $50k, that's it and that includes installation and lenses. It's not extremely expensive, bidding on the content to show in those theaters probably costs them more.
I looked at the image and the cosmic rays seem to be lacking only in a small area of the whole measurement. Maybe somebody in a galaxy far far away is blocking the cosmic rays en masse with a bunch of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere (as in colonization of one or multiple galaxies).
- Blazing fast storage using NetApp (or similar vendors) - $4/GB/year (limited to 16TB) - The same performance from a 16TB ZFS app - $1.50/GB/year - High-end HA storage (50-500TB in a rack, SSD caches) - $1/GB/year - Low-end backup storage (40TB per appliance) - $0.30/GB/year
Exactly. Many corporations don't even care about those costs, they'll pay any invoice they get under a certain threshold ($1000 for most small- to midsize companies). It's that kind of accounting problem we have at this moment - we cancelled a lease with Xerox but they never got it processed so they've been invoicing us for a couple of months now, accounting has paid every month and every month we have complained about it.
It's because people are too stupid. I recently got somebody's computer with some kind of AntiVirus Pro 2010 on it (or something like that). I deleted it, cleaned up the computer, gave free antivirus. Got a call a few hours later: - Where is my antivirus. - Well, it's right there, it's called... - No I had AntiVirus Pro, I don't want that free crap - Well, AntiVirus Pro is a scam program, it doesn't do anything and only prevents other antivirus from working and probably steals your bank information. The one I put on there is free too and actually works so no worries. - I pay $120 for that (no kidding), I want it back. - Well it's a scam, call your bank and cancel those payments because you've been scammed. - blablabla... I want it back... why would you think it's a scam, I paid for that - *click*
She has had her card information misused several times, she keeps getting a new card number but then has to renew AntiVirus Pro.
The point of ZFS is to get it out of the proprietary controllers and into a more flexible software-based (in-kernel) solution. With ZFS you can mix and match cheap and expensive hardware to fit your needs.
The problem with RAID controllers these days is that they can't work together in the same system (try creating a single volume over 4 different controllers) or can't interchange controllers (or controller brands). Next to that, common hardware is faster and cheaper than an ASIC these days.
The solution is for the end users to encrypt with their own personal keys between two trusted parties. Cell phones in most instances are already encrypted over the air (albeit weakly) as well as most WiFi connections these days. However it's the hardwired stations in between two parties that are always going to be suspect and susceptible to attack.
In this world, anyone with any type of money or any type of electronics/soldering skills and a computer can intercept any form of communication that is not encrypted end-to-end, not just law enforcement.
The sad thing is that a generic, easy-to-use public key exchange is not at all available or widely used.
You seem to be describing ZFS with it's ARC (RAM Read Cache), L2ARC (Usually SSD Read Cache), ZIL (Usually SSD or BBU RAM Write Cache), DDT (Disk De-duplication Tables in ARC/L2ARC) all of which are high-speed caches of what's usually on the actual storage medium all with systems and checks in place to make sure that the spinning media as well as the caches are always consistent, correct and in sync.
If they want to, they can teach religion in the religious classes or if they don't have that in the US, the place where they should go with their children: their places of worship (church, mosque, synagogue). Keep their version of creationism out of science classes. Next thing you know we'll also have to teach Hindu, Muslim, Native American etc. etc. versions of it. Will you be happy then School Boards?
Whether or not you believe in evolutionism, it's tenets do belong in a science class or at least in a (scientific) philosophy/methods class for now since they are based on the scientific method (whether or not you believe their hypothesis are wrong). Once the scientific method has disproved the theory and if then a lot of people still adhere to it's teachings (like the flat-earth people) then you can get it to a religious status because the rest of the world debunked it and you are still adhering to the reasoning of it. Pure Darwinism is an example of something that should be getting classified as a religion as science has proved that the systems of life are a bit more involved than purely survival of the strongest but I doubt there are still a lot of adherents of the original theories.
They're losing market share quickly though. On campusses across the world students are chosing Apple machines with Mac OS X over comparable or even cheaper Windows models. Any geek worth it's salt is either dual-booting or exclusively Linux. They lost the tablets, they lost the next generation of netbooks and unless Windows 7 on Phones is a lot better than either version 5, 6 or Kin they are going to lose the phone market as well. It's not necessarily market share but the way the market is going. Sure, they're entrenched in companies worldwide which gives them the market share but they're slowly, and in some niches quickly, losing the market mind (we wish we could convert to something else except for this...) as well as the market share.
Another reason why Apple is raking in the customers is because of their concise, dedicated and friendly support staff. With Dell unless you spend ungodly amounts on a so-called Gold Technical Support you're going to be stuck with a dude in India that probably never even saw the computer you just bought.
At some point the amount of processors becomes insignificant because of the overhead and costs it will introduce. A Tesla C1060 costs ~$700 for these types of projects and has 240 processors designed to efficiently process this type of data, compare this to the cost and maintenance of a half-rack cluster this would take in generic processors.
Banks do people that find ways to get in their vault legally. They hire people to penetrate (har, har) their security in any way possible, they work with law enforcement and sometimes even criminals to secure both their physical as well as their virtual systems.
What Microsoft needs is first of all a restructuring of the organization - it's hemorrhaging cash, talent and image. Then they need to rewrite Windows and have a transition period where the old is virtualized much like Apple did with Mac OS X a decade ago. Sure it will take them some time but if they're candid enough about it, it will boost their image, people will want to work for them and in the long term it will save them cash. Ballmer is one of the last dinosaurs in that organization that thinks a VMS-based operating system is still up-to-date, just about anyone else in the industry has gone through major rewrites of their systems.
Yes you can, the GPL only talks about distribution. The thing is the moron copied and pasted WP source code and then went ahead and charged for it. Besides that, PHP include and require makes the files part of it's own program and then compiles it - it becomes a single program. If you don't like that, use exec or system. It would be the same as releasing a GPL program written in C++ but then not releasing the header files under the GPL.
If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins. This means the plug-ins must be released under the GPL or a GPL-compatible free software license, and that the terms of the GPL must be followed when those plug-ins are distributed.
If I add a module to a GPL-covered program, do I have to use the GPL as the license for my module? The GPL says that the whole combined program has to be released under the GPL. So your module has to be available for use under the GPL.
So basically it comes down to whether or not WordPress and share code or data structures. If calls functions from WordPress and shares the data structures (which is kinda the default in PHP if they are using includes or requires) then it should be released under the GPL.
Unless you can take and make it work by itself (which could be possible if all it is doing is generating a file with CSS in it), it's going to be covered by the GPL. Otherwise they are boned. What they could do is release the next version of with a skeleton plugin that is released under the GPL that handles all the calls and then forwards them to a daemon or program that returns custom data structures. This would severely impact performance though and I doubt a lot of people would keep using it.
Because then you could copy the card and put it on another phone having effectively multiple phones with the same number. I don't know how the network handles that but I think at least chaos ensues.
So you want to get rid of both Democrats and Republicans then? Seriously, there is no left party in the US. Maybe if the Pirate Party gets enough clout that they can be put on the ballot, you may be able to see a centrist party but all the rest (Current Ruling Party, Previously Ruling Party and Independents) have been respectively fascist/nationalistic, far right and right.
Oh yes, because I would much rather view forced ads every so often than pay the $5 per machine it costs to volume license Snow Leopard. Even if you're only buying one, it's only $29 for an upgrade or $169 for Leopard, iWork and iLife or $229 for 5.
People keep saying that Microsoft needs to regression test each language and version of their operating system. That is not true. A well-designed program operates independently from it's translation files. All that is necessary in a well-designed program is to catch all instances of "translate ('english string')" and create a library out of it. In most software packages and even operating systems you can drop in and out of different languages even on a per-user basis.
Also, other programs that are part of the Windows suite (Internet Explorer, Windows Media) should be able to be patched, updated, replaced without the operating system hanging. They're freaking applications that shouldn't need administrator privileges to run so they shouldn't be able to touch the vital parts of the system. Unless you're fixing/replacing vital parts of the system (certain vital linked libraries like glibc on Linux or user32.dll on Windows) you don't really have to do a whole lot of testing - the application should run independently from the rest of the system. Why do you think Linux users can switch between Gnome and KDE? Or choose not to use SELinux?
Of course this is Microsoft we're talking about who has integrated both Windows Media and Internet Explorer into the kernel of the system (or at least that's what they claimed in court). If they would've just kept with a fully functional Windows version for a fixed price and not gone with Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise, Starter N, Home Basic N, Home Premium N, Professional N, Ultimate N, Enterprise N, Starter K, Home Basic K, Home Premium K, Professional K, Ultimate K, Enterprise K, Starter KN, Home Basic KN, Home Premium KN, Professional KN, Ultimate KN, Enterprise KN, Starter E, Home Basic E, Home Premium E, Professional E, Ultimate E, Enterprise E there would've been a whole lot less testing needed. Apple does it right - Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. Windows has more versions from the same vendor than there are mainstream Linux distro's. And then there are vendors that modify Windows to distribute for their own appliances and we haven't talked about Windows Server yet.
It may not be developed on very actively but that's because it doesn't need to be. It does everything it needs to do and for the rest, the community and any capable sysadmin can make their own rules. At some point the product is finished and all you can do is bugfix it. Adding features makes stuff bloated and is only necessary if you need to sell the stuff in a commercial setting. That's the power of open source, once a product is finished, it's done with. Eventually somebody will rewrite it (if the code is really bad) or make it run better (if architectures change) but a well-written program won't need either in the near future.
Look at the rsync library. The only thing that was fixed recently is a 64-bit handle to allow for files larger than 4GB to be handled. I don't believe the original programmer is even around anymore to fix stuff on it since the 4GB patch is not included in the official rsync distribution. But it's still widely used without any problems, works as intended and isn't going away soon.
I think you might have some more issues with your computer then. I have never seen any intrusive ads on Slashdot, definitely no popup ads. Actually, at this point I don't have any ads.
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It's not that motherboards won't support it, it's that Windows (even 7) won't support it. You CANNOT boot Windows from a disk with GPT. You also CANNOT boot Windows (7) on most EFI systems.
That was slowly getting resolved with the latest development bits of OpenSolaris. However since the Oracle takeover there haven't been any updates (whereas before the schedule was weekly or bi-weekly 'unstable' releases).
As the article mentions, you need to do 'special' stuff to get >100mA out of a USB port (as the USB specification requires). Besides, they are using batteries to recharge the other device which can't give 1A for a very long time which is what the iPhone requires. As the article mentions, you don't want to put in a chip to negotiate the requirements ($$$) so you mess around with voltage dividers on the data busses to negotiate what your charging device can provide. You also don't want to pull out more than a charger can provide or you will kill it. USB ports were never meant to be charging at high current in the first place.
There's nothing 'secret' about it as the poster of the Slashdot article makes it out to be. You can reverse engineer all of this for any number of devices, you'll be hard pressed to find any manufacturers that actually provide specs for charging devices through USB ports. The fact that Apple does it in a better way than just connecting 5V and GND and ignoring the USB specs and just drawing a great amount of current is not evil, the fact that others (Samsung) take out my USB port everytime their 'USB charger' is used is evil.
Expensive? We just bought one of those 120Hz movie-theater projectors where I work (for research purposes) - $50k, that's it and that includes installation and lenses. It's not extremely expensive, bidding on the content to show in those theaters probably costs them more.
I looked at the image and the cosmic rays seem to be lacking only in a small area of the whole measurement. Maybe somebody in a galaxy far far away is blocking the cosmic rays en masse with a bunch of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere (as in colonization of one or multiple galaxies).
- Blazing fast storage using NetApp (or similar vendors) - $4/GB/year (limited to 16TB)
- The same performance from a 16TB ZFS app - $1.50/GB/year
- High-end HA storage (50-500TB in a rack, SSD caches) - $1/GB/year
- Low-end backup storage (40TB per appliance) - $0.30/GB/year
Exactly. Many corporations don't even care about those costs, they'll pay any invoice they get under a certain threshold ($1000 for most small- to midsize companies). It's that kind of accounting problem we have at this moment - we cancelled a lease with Xerox but they never got it processed so they've been invoicing us for a couple of months now, accounting has paid every month and every month we have complained about it.
It's because people are too stupid. I recently got somebody's computer with some kind of AntiVirus Pro 2010 on it (or something like that). I deleted it, cleaned up the computer, gave free antivirus. Got a call a few hours later: ... ... why would you think it's a scam, I paid for that
- Where is my antivirus.
- Well, it's right there, it's called
- No I had AntiVirus Pro, I don't want that free crap
- Well, AntiVirus Pro is a scam program, it doesn't do anything and only prevents other antivirus from working and probably steals your bank information. The one I put on there is free too and actually works so no worries.
- I pay $120 for that (no kidding), I want it back.
- Well it's a scam, call your bank and cancel those payments because you've been scammed.
- blablabla... I want it back
- *click*
She has had her card information misused several times, she keeps getting a new card number but then has to renew AntiVirus Pro.
Dupe! This was covered a couple of days ago.
The point of ZFS is to get it out of the proprietary controllers and into a more flexible software-based (in-kernel) solution. With ZFS you can mix and match cheap and expensive hardware to fit your needs.
The problem with RAID controllers these days is that they can't work together in the same system (try creating a single volume over 4 different controllers) or can't interchange controllers (or controller brands). Next to that, common hardware is faster and cheaper than an ASIC these days.
The solution is for the end users to encrypt with their own personal keys between two trusted parties. Cell phones in most instances are already encrypted over the air (albeit weakly) as well as most WiFi connections these days. However it's the hardwired stations in between two parties that are always going to be suspect and susceptible to attack.
In this world, anyone with any type of money or any type of electronics/soldering skills and a computer can intercept any form of communication that is not encrypted end-to-end, not just law enforcement.
The sad thing is that a generic, easy-to-use public key exchange is not at all available or widely used.
You seem to be describing ZFS with it's ARC (RAM Read Cache), L2ARC (Usually SSD Read Cache), ZIL (Usually SSD or BBU RAM Write Cache), DDT (Disk De-duplication Tables in ARC/L2ARC) all of which are high-speed caches of what's usually on the actual storage medium all with systems and checks in place to make sure that the spinning media as well as the caches are always consistent, correct and in sync.
If they want to, they can teach religion in the religious classes or if they don't have that in the US, the place where they should go with their children: their places of worship (church, mosque, synagogue). Keep their version of creationism out of science classes. Next thing you know we'll also have to teach Hindu, Muslim, Native American etc. etc. versions of it. Will you be happy then School Boards?
Whether or not you believe in evolutionism, it's tenets do belong in a science class or at least in a (scientific) philosophy/methods class for now since they are based on the scientific method (whether or not you believe their hypothesis are wrong). Once the scientific method has disproved the theory and if then a lot of people still adhere to it's teachings (like the flat-earth people) then you can get it to a religious status because the rest of the world debunked it and you are still adhering to the reasoning of it. Pure Darwinism is an example of something that should be getting classified as a religion as science has proved that the systems of life are a bit more involved than purely survival of the strongest but I doubt there are still a lot of adherents of the original theories.
They're losing market share quickly though. On campusses across the world students are chosing Apple machines with Mac OS X over comparable or even cheaper Windows models. Any geek worth it's salt is either dual-booting or exclusively Linux. They lost the tablets, they lost the next generation of netbooks and unless Windows 7 on Phones is a lot better than either version 5, 6 or Kin they are going to lose the phone market as well. It's not necessarily market share but the way the market is going. Sure, they're entrenched in companies worldwide which gives them the market share but they're slowly, and in some niches quickly, losing the market mind (we wish we could convert to something else except for this...) as well as the market share.
Another reason why Apple is raking in the customers is because of their concise, dedicated and friendly support staff. With Dell unless you spend ungodly amounts on a so-called Gold Technical Support you're going to be stuck with a dude in India that probably never even saw the computer you just bought.
At some point the amount of processors becomes insignificant because of the overhead and costs it will introduce. A Tesla C1060 costs ~$700 for these types of projects and has 240 processors designed to efficiently process this type of data, compare this to the cost and maintenance of a half-rack cluster this would take in generic processors.
Banks do people that find ways to get in their vault legally. They hire people to penetrate (har, har) their security in any way possible, they work with law enforcement and sometimes even criminals to secure both their physical as well as their virtual systems.
What Microsoft needs is first of all a restructuring of the organization - it's hemorrhaging cash, talent and image. Then they need to rewrite Windows and have a transition period where the old is virtualized much like Apple did with Mac OS X a decade ago. Sure it will take them some time but if they're candid enough about it, it will boost their image, people will want to work for them and in the long term it will save them cash. Ballmer is one of the last dinosaurs in that organization that thinks a VMS-based operating system is still up-to-date, just about anyone else in the industry has gone through major rewrites of their systems.
Yes you can, the GPL only talks about distribution. The thing is the moron copied and pasted WP source code and then went ahead and charged for it. Besides that, PHP include and require makes the files part of it's own program and then compiles it - it becomes a single program. If you don't like that, use exec or system. It would be the same as releasing a GPL program written in C++ but then not releasing the header files under the GPL.
If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins. This means the plug-ins must be released under the GPL or a GPL-compatible free software license, and that the terms of the GPL must be followed when those plug-ins are distributed.
If I add a module to a GPL-covered program, do I have to use the GPL as the license for my module?
The GPL says that the whole combined program has to be released under the GPL. So your module has to be available for use under the GPL.
So basically it comes down to whether or not WordPress and share code or data structures. If calls functions from WordPress and shares the data structures (which is kinda the default in PHP if they are using includes or requires) then it should be released under the GPL.
Unless you can take and make it work by itself (which could be possible if all it is doing is generating a file with CSS in it), it's going to be covered by the GPL. Otherwise they are boned. What they could do is release the next version of with a skeleton plugin that is released under the GPL that handles all the calls and then forwards them to a daemon or program that returns custom data structures. This would severely impact performance though and I doubt a lot of people would keep using it.
Because then you could copy the card and put it on another phone having effectively multiple phones with the same number. I don't know how the network handles that but I think at least chaos ensues.
So you want to get rid of both Democrats and Republicans then? Seriously, there is no left party in the US. Maybe if the Pirate Party gets enough clout that they can be put on the ballot, you may be able to see a centrist party but all the rest (Current Ruling Party, Previously Ruling Party and Independents) have been respectively fascist/nationalistic, far right and right.
Oh yes, because I would much rather view forced ads every so often than pay the $5 per machine it costs to volume license Snow Leopard. Even if you're only buying one, it's only $29 for an upgrade or $169 for Leopard, iWork and iLife or $229 for 5.
People keep saying that Microsoft needs to regression test each language and version of their operating system. That is not true. A well-designed program operates independently from it's translation files. All that is necessary in a well-designed program is to catch all instances of "translate ('english string')" and create a library out of it. In most software packages and even operating systems you can drop in and out of different languages even on a per-user basis.
Also, other programs that are part of the Windows suite (Internet Explorer, Windows Media) should be able to be patched, updated, replaced without the operating system hanging. They're freaking applications that shouldn't need administrator privileges to run so they shouldn't be able to touch the vital parts of the system. Unless you're fixing/replacing vital parts of the system (certain vital linked libraries like glibc on Linux or user32.dll on Windows) you don't really have to do a whole lot of testing - the application should run independently from the rest of the system. Why do you think Linux users can switch between Gnome and KDE? Or choose not to use SELinux?
Of course this is Microsoft we're talking about who has integrated both Windows Media and Internet Explorer into the kernel of the system (or at least that's what they claimed in court). If they would've just kept with a fully functional Windows version for a fixed price and not gone with Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise, Starter N, Home Basic N, Home Premium N, Professional N, Ultimate N, Enterprise N, Starter K, Home Basic K, Home Premium K, Professional K, Ultimate K, Enterprise K, Starter KN, Home Basic KN, Home Premium KN, Professional KN, Ultimate KN, Enterprise KN, Starter E, Home Basic E, Home Premium E, Professional E, Ultimate E, Enterprise E there would've been a whole lot less testing needed. Apple does it right - Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. Windows has more versions from the same vendor than there are mainstream Linux distro's. And then there are vendors that modify Windows to distribute for their own appliances and we haven't talked about Windows Server yet.
It may not be developed on very actively but that's because it doesn't need to be. It does everything it needs to do and for the rest, the community and any capable sysadmin can make their own rules. At some point the product is finished and all you can do is bugfix it. Adding features makes stuff bloated and is only necessary if you need to sell the stuff in a commercial setting. That's the power of open source, once a product is finished, it's done with. Eventually somebody will rewrite it (if the code is really bad) or make it run better (if architectures change) but a well-written program won't need either in the near future.
Look at the rsync library. The only thing that was fixed recently is a 64-bit handle to allow for files larger than 4GB to be handled. I don't believe the original programmer is even around anymore to fix stuff on it since the 4GB patch is not included in the official rsync distribution. But it's still widely used without any problems, works as intended and isn't going away soon.
I think you might have some more issues with your computer then. I have never seen any intrusive ads on Slashdot, definitely no popup ads. Actually, at this point I don't have any ads.