That's the irony though. Apple did exactly the same thing. There's no innovation there. MP3 players? There were many before the iPod existed. Desktop computers? Even computers with a GUI. Those existed. Microsoft had been pushing tablet computers for years before the iPad came out. Smart phones running Windows Mobile were out there.
So what did Apple do? They created, in the words of the grandparent post, "polished implementations of other people's well proven ideas."
If the attention is just looking and perhaps verbal comments. Yes, if a women dresses in a way to attract male attention, she shouldn't be complaining about the attention she's attracting. She's got to know she's going to get the attention of all the unwanted men as well as whoever she was looking to impress.
The same for men of course. If a man is out walking on the street in his Conan the Barbarian leather harness, he has to expect to attract attention. Likewise if he's wearing a $10,000 suit and a Patek Phillipe watch.
$1,000 is about the minimum price for a decent PC. $250 for the GPU, $300 for the CPU and system board. $50 for RAM. $200 for storage. You also need a decent case, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers or headphones and a copy of Windows (for most people).
The "common folk" buy the cheapest thing they can find and wonder why it's such crap.
If you were trying to filter a 100 Gbps stream you would certainly use a server cluster, a blade rack, or custom ASIC hardware. The problem is scalable so it can be solved by throwing money at it.
1 millisecond is 1,000 microseconds or 1,000,000 nanoseconds. A 2 GHz CPU runs at least one instruction every nanosecond and usually more like 6-12 instructions. As you say, the DRAM fetch is significant, but a well-designed B-tree database already loaded in RAM reduces the impact because of good algorithm design.
It's like an eternity in CPU time.
Of course, you can't write the code in Python, Perl or Ruby. You have to use C++.
When did Linux desktops decide to start catering to people who can't be bothered to write correct applications? If they want a 20 pixel font, then that is what they should ask for. Asking for a 10 point font should be a 10 point font, the same size on a 300x300 DPI display as on a 75x75 display.
If the font system can't handle providing fonts in pixels and percentage of screen size, then fix that. Don't try to redefine what a point is.
The browsers have maybe got this correct, finally, by providing a virtual pixel size. A much better solution than redefining terms that already have meaning.
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I use Firebug quite a lot to get around this because I run NoScript. Hello noscript tag or large obnoxious div blocking me from your mostly usable web site. Your visibility is now set to false.
Those are special host names used for IPv6. What they're going to do next is instead of www.v6.facebook.com, www.facebook.com will have an IPv6 address. And instead of ipv6.google.com, it will be just google.com. Both will still have IPv4 addresses, of course.
I don't know what remote access program he was using but it had a virtual mouse that was easy to turn on when using a program that didn't work with touch. Then you dragged the mouse around. It had a pointer and three virtual buttons hanging off the bottom of the pointer. Very easy to use.
A friend of mine got an iPad 2 for Christmas. By New Years he had it on his corporate VPN, administrating his Oracle RAC and vSphere from my living room while we watched movies. The Windows remote desktop programs are very good. So are the Microsoft Office document readers.
If all you are finding are toy apps, you're not looking hard enough or you're limiting yourself to the free stuff.
The courts routinely dismiss GPS tracking data on phones used as evidence that the driver wasn't speeding because the device isn't meant to be used for that, and isn't precise enough anyway. An officer's radar gun, however, is.
Interesting how my phone's GPS speed reporting matches up far more accurately with measured time between mile posts than those road-side radar signs (Your speed is: ). If that's the same "precise" radar gun technology police use, I'd rather trust the GPS.
Just guessing here, but maybe Oracle has contracts that force them to continue to support software on Itanium systems as long as the hardware is being supported? This might be Oracle trying to weasel out of some contracts.
You cannot prevent user's from doing stupid things with their own files.
The best you can do is a versioned filesystem with continuous local and cloud backup. This will prevent loss of data and unwanted changes and it can also track who did what when. It does nothing to protect against identity theft though.
One method right off the top of my head would be for the shell (command-line or graphical) to add the files being manipulated to the application's sandbox. It would also need to be allowed to write new files. That would work for a compression program.
It'll be interesting. Most server applications are integer-only and never touch the floating point units. That should mean that Bulldozer designs work close to the full core count in contrast to the poor benchmarking results it puts out in Photoshop filters and video encode.
To fix this, we abandon public/private key entirely.
Instead, your bank, or Facebook, or any entity that you do business with sends you a USB storage stick with 16 GB of random OTP (One Time Pad). This can be sent through postal mail or by secure courier or exchanged in person.
Once you've sent and received 16 GB of data you need to get a new OTP.
There should be no way to break OTP encryption except by having a copy of the OTP or if the OTP was generated by non-random methods, or if the attacker was nearby and could recover most of the OTP random noise during generation. The most likely way to break the OTP would be to attack the client or server computer system to install spyware or to break in physically and make a copy of the OTP.
You are missing all of the little Webkit based mobile browsers. The iOS browser is not exactly Safari and the Android browser is not exactly Chrome. I believe the browser that the Nokia N900 runs is a Webkit based not-Chrome, not-Safari browser too.
Valve's Steam client uses Webkit, built right into Steam.
The next big version of the Evolution email client is using Webkit for HTML mail rendering.
Then there was KHTML and GTKHTML. GTKHTML always kind of sucked, but it did display web pages. And we all know what happened to KHTML. It turned into Webkit, the base code for pretty much every good web browser except IE, Firefox and Opera.
Yep. You can probably get better, faster, cheaper medical care from a veterinarian, paying cash without insurance.
You just have to watch out that they don't forget and do a bonus neutering on the side. Plus, those plastic neck things to keep you from chewing on the scab are super annoying.
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S3TC is covered by a patent. It may or may not be a good patent, but there is one.
That's the irony though. Apple did exactly the same thing. There's no innovation there. MP3 players? There were many before the iPod existed. Desktop computers? Even computers with a GUI. Those existed. Microsoft had been pushing tablet computers for years before the iPad came out. Smart phones running Windows Mobile were out there.
So what did Apple do? They created, in the words of the grandparent post, "polished implementations of other people's well proven ideas."
If the attention is just looking and perhaps verbal comments. Yes, if a women dresses in a way to attract male attention, she shouldn't be complaining about the attention she's attracting. She's got to know she's going to get the attention of all the unwanted men as well as whoever she was looking to impress.
The same for men of course. If a man is out walking on the street in his Conan the Barbarian leather harness, he has to expect to attract attention. Likewise if he's wearing a $10,000 suit and a Patek Phillipe watch.
$1,000 is about the minimum price for a decent PC. $250 for the GPU, $300 for the CPU and system board. $50 for RAM. $200 for storage. You also need a decent case, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers or headphones and a copy of Windows (for most people).
The "common folk" buy the cheapest thing they can find and wonder why it's such crap.
If you were trying to filter a 100 Gbps stream you would certainly use a server cluster, a blade rack, or custom ASIC hardware. The problem is scalable so it can be solved by throwing money at it.
1 millisecond is 1,000 microseconds or 1,000,000 nanoseconds. A 2 GHz CPU runs at least one instruction every nanosecond and usually more like 6-12 instructions. As you say, the DRAM fetch is significant, but a well-designed B-tree database already loaded in RAM reduces the impact because of good algorithm design.
It's like an eternity in CPU time.
Of course, you can't write the code in Python, Perl or Ruby. You have to use C++.
Totally agree on the DPI issues.
When did Linux desktops decide to start catering to people who can't be bothered to write correct applications? If they want a 20 pixel font, then that is what they should ask for. Asking for a 10 point font should be a 10 point font, the same size on a 300x300 DPI display as on a 75x75 display.
If the font system can't handle providing fonts in pixels and percentage of screen size, then fix that. Don't try to redefine what a point is.
The browsers have maybe got this correct, finally, by providing a virtual pixel size. A much better solution than redefining terms that already have meaning.
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I use Firebug quite a lot to get around this because I run NoScript. Hello noscript tag or large obnoxious div blocking me from your mostly usable web site. Your visibility is now set to false.
You'll be reading 32 web pages at the same time with your 32 cores.
And some of those web pages will be using Javascript worker threads to run the AI logic for the HTML5 WebGL first person shooter you're playing.
A dozen tabs huh? Okay, I get a dozen tabs open, including Facebook, G+, a few Amazon pages and Slashdot. I've got NoScript and Firebug installed.
My Firefox 9.0.1 is using 1.3 GB of virtual, but only 514 MB of real, actual memory.
Double check what the title of the column is where you're reading the memory usage from. Or try looking at about:memory in Firefox.
Those are special host names used for IPv6. What they're going to do next is instead of www.v6.facebook.com, www.facebook.com will have an IPv6 address. And instead of ipv6.google.com, it will be just google.com. Both will still have IPv4 addresses, of course.
I don't know what remote access program he was using but it had a virtual mouse that was easy to turn on when using a program that didn't work with touch. Then you dragged the mouse around. It had a pointer and three virtual buttons hanging off the bottom of the pointer. Very easy to use.
Toys?
A friend of mine got an iPad 2 for Christmas. By New Years he had it on his corporate VPN, administrating his Oracle RAC and vSphere from my living room while we watched movies. The Windows remote desktop programs are very good. So are the Microsoft Office document readers.
If all you are finding are toy apps, you're not looking hard enough or you're limiting yourself to the free stuff.
You were doing so well until the gratuitous insult at the end.
Get out of school and do some actual work. Someday you'll be able to produce work as nice as mine.
The courts routinely dismiss GPS tracking data on phones used as evidence that the driver wasn't speeding because the device isn't meant to be used for that, and isn't precise enough anyway. An officer's radar gun, however, is.
Interesting how my phone's GPS speed reporting matches up far more accurately with measured time between mile posts than those road-side radar signs (Your speed is: ). If that's the same "precise" radar gun technology police use, I'd rather trust the GPS.
Just guessing here, but maybe Oracle has contracts that force them to continue to support software on Itanium systems as long as the hardware is being supported? This might be Oracle trying to weasel out of some contracts.
You cannot prevent user's from doing stupid things with their own files. The best you can do is a versioned filesystem with continuous local and cloud backup. This will prevent loss of data and unwanted changes and it can also track who did what when. It does nothing to protect against identity theft though.
One method right off the top of my head would be for the shell (command-line or graphical) to add the files being manipulated to the application's sandbox. It would also need to be allowed to write new files. That would work for a compression program.
Maybe...
It'll be interesting. Most server applications are integer-only and never touch the floating point units. That should mean that Bulldozer designs work close to the full core count in contrast to the poor benchmarking results it puts out in Photoshop filters and video encode.
To fix this, we abandon public/private key entirely.
Instead, your bank, or Facebook, or any entity that you do business with sends you a USB storage stick with 16 GB of random OTP (One Time Pad). This can be sent through postal mail or by secure courier or exchanged in person.
Once you've sent and received 16 GB of data you need to get a new OTP.
There should be no way to break OTP encryption except by having a copy of the OTP or if the OTP was generated by non-random methods, or if the attacker was nearby and could recover most of the OTP random noise during generation. The most likely way to break the OTP would be to attack the client or server computer system to install spyware or to break in physically and make a copy of the OTP.
IE version 9 is an excellent browser.
And in their day, IE 4 and 5 beat Netscape like a red headed step child.
Microsoft needs pressure from competition: then they produce good stuff.
You are missing all of the little Webkit based mobile browsers. The iOS browser is not exactly Safari and the Android browser is not exactly Chrome. I believe the browser that the Nokia N900 runs is a Webkit based not-Chrome, not-Safari browser too.
Valve's Steam client uses Webkit, built right into Steam.
The next big version of the Evolution email client is using Webkit for HTML mail rendering.
Webkit gets used in a lot of places.
Yeah. Everyone was writing web browsers.
Then there was KHTML and GTKHTML. GTKHTML always kind of sucked, but it did display web pages. And we all know what happened to KHTML. It turned into Webkit, the base code for pretty much every good web browser except IE, Firefox and Opera.
Yep. You can probably get better, faster, cheaper medical care from a veterinarian, paying cash without insurance.
You just have to watch out that they don't forget and do a bonus neutering on the side. Plus, those plastic neck things to keep you from chewing on the scab are super annoying.
Cross compilers. Same thing as building it on a Xeon. Neither one is an ARM.