We have been bombed by the Irish quite a lot for 40 years, so we take bomb threats seriously. In this case there was no problem at all, and an hour seems very quick (you don't rush when you think you have a bomb, just in case it is one). It's a funny story because it wasn't a bomb it was a prop, but it could have been different it's safer not to take a chance. But then I feel safer with British police around, I really didn't when I was in New York on the subway with 20 cops in the same car.
I think the point is that because this is a privaledged area it can do anything to any system it is running on. So it can add malicious code or change what is already there, because this is more privaledged than root on any system which it has compromised. Which is particularly nasty as exploits go. Not that I've read the article or anything but that was my understanding of this issue. There are things which might make this difficult to exploit in the first place, but once it is there you have no idea what it could have done.
I leave mine open for days with >30 tabs open at any one time. It's fine, although there are some pages which do cause FF to suck a bit, but then once I've worked out which page it is I don't usually need to have it open so close it and everything is fine again.
That's nice you haven't even read the summary, this is about Firefox 3.1 (or is that 3.5?), ie. the NEW version. It's nice for you to include the safari beta though just to make the comparison even less valid...
maybe I'm missing something but it looks like for £150 you get 200GB of HDD space and 1GiB of RAM, they both seem to have 9400M graphics, I can't see how much VRAM they have but then you did used to get the black MacBook for £100 for 40GB of HDD (compared with the top spec white one) so apple do tend to ass-rape you if you buy their shit.
(I don't care what it runs, if I can do what I need it doesn't bother me what system it runs)
You forget in Europe we include the sales tax (VAT) in the headline price, in the states they don't do that. I think (but have no accurate figures so am probably wrong, but by less than 5% either way I'd venture) that sales taxes in the states are about 10%, so you are looking at 660 - 750, which is still more but then you expect that from apple, at lest we do in the uk...
But still only 2 cores, I push a quad core running vista and my apps, I'd like to do that in a VM but you just don't get enough cores in the iMac to make it possible.
Feet and Inches, for your own height, Miles, Furlongs (horse racing), Chains (cricket), Acres. But mostly we know that if we're sharing numbers use the SI units and in Engineering we almost entirely use metric becasue it's oh so much easier on the head.
RAID is not a backup and unless you have oodles of cash to go for very fast flash RAID-0 7k2 disks are probably the fastest drives you can get in a laptop. and for some people (not many) speed and 'portability' is what they need.
I haven't done this maths so this might all be wrong.
But if you spend more time waiting for the Atom to do stuff do you get more usable time out of the Atom or Nano, rather than waiting for it to computer something. So your 8 hours might be something like 6 with 2 hours waiting for the computer to catch up.
Ah but you can sell a vanilla OS and a method to install it on whatever hardware you choose. I don't know if this is the case or not but I can see that as a way of getting round the copyright issue.
But how many of Dell, Acer, HP nowadays use non-standard parts or connectors, with the exception of power supply bricks. Apple introduces new ports as a matter of course rather than using the standards to which everyone else conforms, it's not like they use a different signaling system, they just use non-standard connectors.
And joining these two pieces of information leads to Intel needing some licenses on GPU technology, I would guess that nVidia probably have quite a lot of that, mayhap there might be some bargaining going on between the two over cross licensing agreements.*
*I actually have no idea but this seems plausible to me.
It's all from the audio CD days, being as they were forced to use CLV for those drives they didn't develop the technology to read CAV so it's easier to use what you already make and will have to continue to make rather than having two separate designs, as most computer CD players also play music CDs, one of which would have to understand both types of data transfer.
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We have been bombed by the Irish quite a lot for 40 years, so we take bomb threats seriously. In this case there was no problem at all, and an hour seems very quick (you don't rush when you think you have a bomb, just in case it is one). It's a funny story because it wasn't a bomb it was a prop, but it could have been different it's safer not to take a chance. But then I feel safer with British police around, I really didn't when I was in New York on the subway with 20 cops in the same car.
I think the point is that because this is a privaledged area it can do anything to any system it is running on. So it can add malicious code or change what is already there, because this is more privaledged than root on any system which it has compromised. Which is particularly nasty as exploits go. Not that I've read the article or anything but that was my understanding of this issue. There are things which might make this difficult to exploit in the first place, but once it is there you have no idea what it could have done.
That should have been 9, curse me for being an idiot.
or 8pm UTC for those of us in proper countries...
I leave mine open for days with >30 tabs open at any one time. It's fine, although there are some pages which do cause FF to suck a bit, but then once I've worked out which page it is I don't usually need to have it open so close it and everything is fine again.
That's nice you haven't even read the summary, this is about Firefox 3.1 (or is that 3.5?), ie. the NEW version. It's nice for you to include the safari beta though just to make the comparison even less valid...
But if you pay £4 000 000 for a mouse you'd want it to work, especially as it's sooo pretty...
maybe I'm missing something but it looks like for £150 you get 200GB of HDD space and 1GiB of RAM, they both seem to have 9400M graphics, I can't see how much VRAM they have but then you did used to get the black MacBook for £100 for 40GB of HDD (compared with the top spec white one) so apple do tend to ass-rape you if you buy their shit.
(I don't care what it runs, if I can do what I need it doesn't bother me what system it runs)
You forget in Europe we include the sales tax (VAT) in the headline price, in the states they don't do that. I think (but have no accurate figures so am probably wrong, but by less than 5% either way I'd venture) that sales taxes in the states are about 10%, so you are looking at 660 - 750, which is still more but then you expect that from apple, at lest we do in the uk...
But not workstation class graphics, no QuadroFX or FireGL cards there...
But still only 2 cores, I push a quad core running vista and my apps, I'd like to do that in a VM but you just don't get enough cores in the iMac to make it possible.
Feet and Inches, for your own height, Miles, Furlongs (horse racing), Chains (cricket), Acres. But mostly we know that if we're sharing numbers use the SI units and in Engineering we almost entirely use metric becasue it's oh so much easier on the head.
Be fair the UK only really got rid of traditional measures in the last 40 years (decimilisation was 1971)...
As long as it has a whiteboard or equilivalent program...
RAID is not a backup and unless you have oodles of cash to go for very fast flash RAID-0 7k2 disks are probably the fastest drives you can get in a laptop. and for some people (not many) speed and 'portability' is what they need.
The GP was attempting to be funny, because even here in sunny old England, a torch is also a flaming device, such as the Olympic torch.
I haven't done this maths so this might all be wrong.
But if you spend more time waiting for the Atom to do stuff do you get more usable time out of the Atom or Nano, rather than waiting for it to computer something. So your 8 hours might be something like 6 with 2 hours waiting for the computer to catch up.
So what about the micro-DVI or the mini-DisplayPort?
Ah but you can sell a vanilla OS and a method to install it on whatever hardware you choose. I don't know if this is the case or not but I can see that as a way of getting round the copyright issue.
But how many of Dell, Acer, HP nowadays use non-standard parts or connectors, with the exception of power supply bricks. Apple introduces new ports as a matter of course rather than using the standards to which everyone else conforms, it's not like they use a different signaling system, they just use non-standard connectors.
Sorry when were the days when eyeballs and fingers _were_ hard to remove?
Only for about 10-15 years, after the monopoly courts have forced intel to license their technology to others.
And joining these two pieces of information leads to Intel needing some licenses on GPU technology, I would guess that nVidia probably have quite a lot of that, mayhap there might be some bargaining going on between the two over cross licensing agreements.*
*I actually have no idea but this seems plausible to me.
Or just ignore what I said, shows me for not reading enough about a subject. Sorry.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cd/constSpindle-c.html
It's all from the audio CD days, being as they were forced to use CLV for those drives they didn't develop the technology to read CAV so it's easier to use what you already make and will have to continue to make rather than having two separate designs, as most computer CD players also play music CDs, one of which would have to understand both types of data transfer.