You are arguing "because it's there". Why did someone do it? Because they could. Or, go to back to the mountain climbing roots of the original quote, because then others would know it can be done (and you've done it).
It doesn't take an example to show it can be done, thanks. Believe it or not, even Microsoft understands software is mutable.
A simple explanation is plenty.
As to your comment that the people we really need to worry about won't even be affected by this: history has shown this not to be true.
Apparently the attackers aren't awesome programmers because history has shown that the real danger comes after a sample exploit is made, not when the info becomes known.
Again, I just don't see why someone would need to make the most evil version of this possible and distribute the source code.
I can understand spreading the fact that the exploit exists. I could maybe argue whether or not you should spread info on the exploit. I can barely see why one would make an example exploit.
But why would someone make a program specifically designed to make an undetectable/untraceable version of the exploit?
I can only see harm coming from this.
And I'm sorry, but "because it's there" doesn't work when you know there's only negative outcomes of what you do.
They totally could use USB cartridge readers. I already have one for the Gamecube that reads GBA games.
But really, I think you have to look at the profit motive here. They'd rather sell you (again) 5 old games at $5 each with very little actual cost to them than sell you a card reader for $25.
I was just thinking, there's no HD in Revolution. So they either store games in flash or have to use card readers. I wonder which they'll do.
I can't wait to get a Revolution, at the very least because it'll take up a lot less space than Gamecube.
Additionally, DVD drives are so cheap now that even if you were boned, it wouldn't be that big a deal. I wonder of the region coding people ever thought that drives would be come so cheap that people could just keep 6 drives around (the number of region codes settable) for about $100 and bypass all the region coding stuff anyway.
Before weather satellites went up in the sixties, we probably missed a lot of storms. I know we had boats all over the Atlantic, but there's plenty of reason to think we could have missed a couple. And of course, we didn't have pressure readings for most of them over most of their existence. Consistent pressure readings probably didn't come until we started flying planes into hurricanes (in the 70s? 60s?).
So although this year was quite busy, we probably can't really say it is the definitely the busiest since 1933 for sure. And we surely can't say there never was a storm with a lower recorded pressure either, since we didn't start recording those well until very recently.
As I said, part of it isn't mandated, but is due to companies wanting to look better in the IIHS tests. That's how the hundreds of pounds added to the Ford F150 came about.
The F150 got about 500lbs heavier largely due to the additon of metal for the crash protection. It weighed perhaps 3,000lbs before. That's 16%, not 0.4%.
And as to 0.4% cost, I just can't imagine. It costs several hundreds of dollars to replace the airbags after 8 years. You're either paying for that or it comes out of your depreciation. My car has 6 (8?) airbags, surely it'll cost at least $2K to replace them. That's 5% of the cost of the car.
That's a very thorough report. But I find an increase in weight added to cars for safety equipment of 8X over 25 years a concern. It went from 18lbs to 125lbs.
And this stuff doesn't count the voluminous airbags added after 2001.
Xbox 360 is already water cooled as it comes from the factory.
And to those who said "I thought it was the power supply was the problem", why not just not comment at all until you have one? The power supply doesn't get hot enough on its own to shut down. It may be more sensitive to heat than the main unit (at least some of them may be), but it doesn't generate much heat on its own.
Finally, the Xbox 360 doesn't have an overheating problem unless you put it in an enclosed space. If you do, the sheer amount of heat will cause the entire enclosed space to heat up. This unit will not change that. You need to get the heat outside of the enclosed space.
A simple fan in the enclosure will be 100X more effective than this thing. Or just not putting the 360 in an enclosure.
I had hoped wider availability would make it so more people understood what was going on simply through experience.
Do not buy this thing. If your 360 is not in an enclosed space, it doesn't need it. And if it is in an enclosed space, this will make it overheat even faster.
"AMD64 scales extremely well - with DDR2, faster HT, 65nm, and higher clocks, F stepping will have no problem remaining compeitive with inte's NGA."
Slashdot dogma is that Intel is so far behind that they can't even see the same continent as AMD's performance levels. Now you're saying "new Intel stuff isn't all that, AMD will have no problem keeping up". Can't you see the difference that is? You are even saying now that you expect them to be neck and neck.
That's a big chance, one which really could influence the market and people's buying habits.
Additionally, now we have AMD proponents (such as yourself) saying how AMD will keep up with "higher clocks". The shoe really is on the other foot now!
Anyway, AMD is 6 months behind getting to DDR2 and they'll be 6 months behind getting to 65nm. That indicates how much advantage Intel has if they just get their act together architechturally. Well, I have bad news for AMD, it looks like they have. We're going to have a interesting horse race. AMD is going to be trailing on performance/Watt for several months.
Of course, your comment is that Intel has to actually ship parts to make all this real. And you're right. Unfortunately for you, you'll only be right on that point for about 14 days more.
This post was typed on an AMD A64 X2 4200+, while my Intel P4 3.0GHz/800MHz hums along right beside it (taking more power and with less performance, but then again, it is about 3 years old).
I've scratched iPods, I believe you about the iMac mini. But I've had 2 iBooks over 4 years, and I can tell you scratching is not a problem. iBooks are the most durable laptops I've ever had. They might scratch, I dunno. But due to the milky color, you can't tell. Unless you pull out a loupe, they look near to brand-new for years.
This is in stark contrast to the Powerbooks, which dent quite easily.
I do have to agree with the other posters, if Apple's stuff didn't look so cool, you wouldn't care about the scratches. My two PC towers next to me have various scars and labels on them, and I don't really notice because they weren't something great to look at even when I got them. And they're both Antec Sonata cases, which are considered quite good-looking as far as cases go.
The new Mustang does get better mpg than the 1964, but only on the highway. If the 1964 had a 5 or 6 speed tranny like the 2005 does, it would probably get the same mpg.
The airbags in most cars will never deploy before the car is scrapped. All they do during that time is add weight. Given this, are they really adding as much safety as better brakes or stability control, both of which would be used a couple times a year?
Anyway, there are no two ways about it. These modern safety systems add weight. And adding weight increase friction, which raises fuel consumption. Additionally, unless you have 100% effective regenerative braking, you also lose noticable energy (from the fuel) into the brakes each time you slow down.
As to if it's worth it, that's a personal decision I guess. I think it's probably not worth it. Heck, I don't even think the loss of mpg due to carrying a spare tire is worth it for most people. I've been driving for 20 years now across 3 cars and never used a spare tire. I certainly would have saved up enough to pay for a tow by now and then some.
If you just use genes, then humans have largely similar DNA to mice.
Basically, the problem is that your has no standard against which to measure. For example, how about "there is X% as much variation across all humans as across all dogs". It still doesn't tell people too much, since they don't really know how much genetic variation is in dogs. But at least they know dogs do have much more varying appearances than humans.
Honestly, there's just no way to make a machine as complex as a console anymore without being able to issue updates. Heck, even the launch GAMES are buggy as crap (PGR3 awarded me -250,000CR for winning a series just last night). So you're going to have to have online capability for the consoles. And you're going to have to be able to send out code over it.
The stuff they did is just an extension of that. Once you can download code and content, why not put some stuff up for free publicity? Once you already sell "track packs" (see PGR2 on Xbox), why not sell entire micro games?
You're gonna want to update the "BIOS" on the machine to thwart modchips anyway...
All this came more by necessity than anything else, and so I fully expect you'll see similar stuff from Sony, who isn't otherwise known for being keen on online. Heck, they'll have to send out patches to fix their BluRay video player ability, since it's going to be just about the first one of its kind and complex as heck (it uses Java!).
We also expect Nintendo is going to do this too, since they said the "Revolution will be infinitely backwards-compatible". They meant that it will play NES, SNES and N64 games. Well, it doesn't have 3 cartridge slots on it, so where will the game ROM images come from? Answer, they'll sell them to you again over the internet.
It's just business in today's world. MS isn't really striking out much or taking much of a gamble.
I tried the feature of Windows that lets you run a program with restricted privileges. Firefox doesn't even launch.
The latest version of IE will launch! I went to cnn.com with it. It gets slightly weird at times, it apparently cannot access many files on the disk. Maybe I'll try this a while.
You mention that why run code with more permissions than it really needs.
That kind of functionality was part of Multics, with its multiple privelige rings. Unix doesn't have this capability, in fact, the name Unix comes from Multics, with "Multi-" switched to "Uni-" to indicate it has only one user privelige level.
Under Multics, you could run tasks with less priveliges than you have normally. Those could then run tasks with even less privelige. Basically, back when CPU time cost money, a teacher could blow all their alloted CPU time by running a student's program that looped forever. There were also issues with the students perhaps sneaking something in there to read files that only the teacher could read (as they were run as the teacher). Although that kind of thing probably didn't happen much, there wasn't really much malicious software at that time.
In terms of allocating priveliges on a "need to know" basis, ironically, Windows is a lot better than Unix. Unix really only has two privelige levels, user and root. If you need to elevate your privelige to get the ability to kill a task or open a restricted port, you also get priveliges to read and write any file on the machine or even create setuid files. Windows has a lot finer-grained permissions allocations, although most users don't use it. Unix also has a few hacks like the "nobody" account which increase security a bit more, but not as much as a system like Windows' or Multics'.
Really, what is needed is MS needs to modify IE so it can run as a restricted user even when the user running it is an admin (privileged) one. This capability is in Windows XP, but most MS programs (like Outlook) won't run when set this way. Does Firefox?
Big asterisk here. Although multiple privilege levels was specifically removed as a feature of UNIX in the beginning, some people/companies have hacked some of it back in. Maybe it'll make it into mainline distros someday. Additionally, AFS (Andrew File System) doesn't automatically recognize uid 0 as a privileged user.
Lets see, just during my lifetime: Seatbelts became mandatory in cars (early 70s). Antilock brakes became widely available (80s). Airbags became available (80s). Passive restraint systems became mandatory (airbag or auto seatbealts) (80s). Traction control systems became available (80s). Side impact standards were greatly raised (90s). Stability control systems became available (90s).
So we went from "most cars will have a safety system (seatbelts)" to "all cars will have a passive safety system active at all times".
And that's before you count the obsession (in the media) with the insurance company crash tests which led to voluntary improvements by companies (like the 700lbs of steel Ford added to the F150 make it get worse mpg than ever).
All these safety systems, by the way, has added a lot to the cost of cars and reduce the mileage they get by adding weight.
Additonally, drunk driving standards dropped from about 0.14 in most states to 0.08 (which is too low, IMHO).
So people are very out of whack over lots of things, both terrorist-related and non.
I honestly never fell in with the "kill your television" crowd.
You know what helps kids develop? Attention. Help kids find an interested in investigating the world around them.
But you don't have to kill your TV (or anything else) to do it. Just find the right time for them. If it takes killing the TV, then do it, but honestly it just seems like the only reason to have to do so is as a replacement for self-control. And electricity doesn't cancel out attention either.
As to his daughter being wise, I'm sorry, it's impossible to actually be wise at 7. Heck, I might even agree if you said it was impossible to be wise at age 18 (thus bolstering your argument that she could be as wise as some "adults"). Note that kids at that age just basically want to please their parents. And they're smart enough to know what their parents want. It's pretty easy to mistake doing what will make their parents happy for actual consideration of consequences.
If I thought doing something would help my kids development, I'd strongly consider it. Of course the net effect has to be considered. If I'd lose my ability to earn money and thus support them, then no, I wouldn't do it. This might preclude moving to the Mojave Desert in my case.
Gold is the name of the version of Live which allows you to play against other people online on 360. On Xbox, It was just called "Live". When J Allard said "Live" would be free on 360, he meant Live Silver, which just basically allows you to download updates to buggy games and buy stuff with micropayments.
Live Gold is not free, just making J Allard's comments technically correct but completely misleading. Anyone hearing the comments would assume that the thing that came free would do what Live allowed you to do, which is play against others online.
A $50 12 month (actually 13) Gold subscription card is the cheapest way to get Live Gold on 360. There are also 3 month Live Gold subscription cards too, I think they are $20, making it $80/year. You can also get Live Gold month to month, but I think it is $10/mo or some other nonsensical cost.
The emitter of the signal decides the pixel clock. The emitter in this case has to meet the HDTV spec.
The HDTV spec is how it is because it had to work with CRT displays too. CRT displays need porch time to "wrap" the electron beam back from right to left or bottom to top. So the analog HDTV signal had to have those timings. And since DVI doesn't change the temporal characteristics of the signal (only digitizes the analog level on a fixed clock), that meant DVI/HDMI had to have those timings.
Frankly, given that the FCC/ATSC didn't specify 1080p/60 ahead of time, they could have changed the porch sizes for just it and just said "CRTs will never do 1080p/60", because they likely won't anyway. I don't know why that option wasn't taken. Perhaps someone else knows.
So, to go to your last sentence, HP can't fix this problem.
You assumed 1080p is 1080p/30? That was pretty stupid. It's not. People want a single format that both 720p(/60) and 1080i(60 fields per second) can be uprezzed to without loss of spatial or temporal resolution. That is why 1080p is coming around, and why it is 1080p/60.
As to single link, it is enough for 1920x1200, for example, Apple sells 23" single-link monitors that do 1920x1200. But, depending on the size of the front and back porches (both horizontally and vertically), a signal with less spatial payload resolution may not fit on single link DVI/HDMI. For example, the first 1920x1200 analog LCD panels used signal timing that could not be represented on DVI single link. It is my understanding that 1080p doesn't fit in the DVI single link spec either.
My understanding is that with the inactive areas, 1080p is 2240x1126*59.97fps. This is a pixel clock of 151MHz. The HDMI spec is (or was) max 150MHz (DVI is 165MHz). I believe the 165MHz for HDMI you mention is this later stretching of the standard to accomodate 1080p.
As to HDMI being equal to DVI, except for that I didn't know dual-link existed, I believe I also said HDMI was the equal of DVI plus sound, except that I mentioned that HDMI doesn't have the lines that DVI-A uses for analog video.
Why teach them to rely on GPS to know where they are? Why not give them maps and waypoints and have them take pictures of them? They can ask "which direction are we heading?" every once in a while, and unless you're in California, they can read the mile markers for distance.
My brother and I read books in the car when we travelled (and it was a lot). That turned out very well, we're both quite successful. We used to have a large collection of books that we bought at the library's old books sale. I had a thing for science and the future, so a large number of books were 50s books about what the future was going to be like. Lots of pneumatic subways and multi-mode transportation hubs. Although the real revolutions in transportation turned out to be cargo transportation, containerized shipping and air shipping (and containerized air shipping).
Anyway, it may be difficult to believe, but at one time, people managed to keep themselves entertained without any devices that needed batteries or plugged in. If your kids can learn that skill, perhaps their comparatively long attention spans will help them learn and go far.
HDMI is a subset of DVI plus audio. In making the HDMI connector much smaller (and cheaper), they removed a lot of conductors, like DVI-A (analog) and the ability to have dual-link.
Without dual-link, HDMI is useless for computers in the future. The most expensive (and thus highest revenue and profit) panels already use dual-link DVI. Additionally, technically, 1080p cannot even be carried on HDMI or single-link DVI because the bandwidth is too high. However, companies are stretching the spec to make HDMI (and HDCP) work at 1080p. I don't think this stretching can be done to cover the larger (30") computer panels that are already in use.
You've only listed the players in the 3.5" and 2.5" markets. Toshiba is a big player in the 1.8" market. MagicStor makes a decent amount of ATA drives in the 1.0" market. I guess you could also count Cornice in the 1.0" market, although they don't make ATA drives, they use a proprietary interface.
You also missed 1989 - Seagate buys Imprimis. Before that purchase, Seagate's drives were reliable and affordable but also low performance and loud.
There are also other companies that no longer make drives, like Rodime, Micropolis and JTS. But tracking down those, they seem to not have been folded into any other storage company, they just disappeared. What ever happened to Fujitsu as a drive maker?
The M-1 (I presume you mean Abrams tank) is fine. It's massively oversized, but if you can get it to the field of battle, the survivability is very appreciated.
But forget that, we have had some incredible tools for our forces. Like the M2 machine gun.
John Browning was a brilliant man. The 1911 is 100 years old now, and still an incredible piece of work. And you can own one (well, a replica) for a very affordable price. Any engineer could learn a lot from a study of this invention. (And I don't even own any guns)
When Saudi Arabia teaches religion in school curriculum, we have a fit. We cannot sink to that level.
All learning isn't done at school. If people want to know about a theory of evolution that explains everything by explaining nothing, let them do so outside of science class and outside of school.
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You are arguing "because it's there". Why did someone do it? Because they could. Or, go to back to the mountain climbing roots of the original quote, because then others would know it can be done (and you've done it).
It doesn't take an example to show it can be done, thanks. Believe it or not, even Microsoft understands software is mutable.
A simple explanation is plenty.
As to your comment that the people we really need to worry about won't even be affected by this: history has shown this not to be true.
Apparently the attackers aren't awesome programmers because history has shown that the real danger comes after a sample exploit is made, not when the info becomes known.
Again, I just don't see why someone would need to make the most evil version of this possible and distribute the source code.
Or did a Holocaust denier just get modded (5, Informative)?
Don't get me wrong, I would jail the guy for thinking or saying this, but I wouldn't mod him up either.
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I can understand spreading the fact that the exploit exists. I could maybe argue whether or not you should spread info on the exploit. I can barely see why one would make an example exploit.
But why would someone make a program specifically designed to make an undetectable/untraceable version of the exploit?
I can only see harm coming from this.
And I'm sorry, but "because it's there" doesn't work when you know there's only negative outcomes of what you do.
They totally could use USB cartridge readers. I already have one for the Gamecube that reads GBA games.
But really, I think you have to look at the profit motive here. They'd rather sell you (again) 5 old games at $5 each with very little actual cost to them than sell you a card reader for $25.
I was just thinking, there's no HD in Revolution. So they either store games in flash or have to use card readers. I wonder which they'll do.
I can't wait to get a Revolution, at the very least because it'll take up a lot less space than Gamecube.
It says there are limited switches when you are asked to switch it.
RPC2 was made to stop you from doing what you are doing. So of course it's a pain.
That being said, the chance that you are boned now is tiny. Go to rpc1.org and remove the rpc2 lock from your drive once and for all.
http://rpc1.org/
Additionally, DVD drives are so cheap now that even if you were boned, it wouldn't be that big a deal. I wonder of the region coding people ever thought that drives would be come so cheap that people could just keep 6 drives around (the number of region codes settable) for about $100 and bypass all the region coding stuff anyway.
Before weather satellites went up in the sixties, we probably missed a lot of storms. I know we had boats all over the Atlantic, but there's plenty of reason to think we could have missed a couple. And of course, we didn't have pressure readings for most of them over most of their existence. Consistent pressure readings probably didn't come until we started flying planes into hurricanes (in the 70s? 60s?).
So although this year was quite busy, we probably can't really say it is the definitely the busiest since 1933 for sure. And we surely can't say there never was a storm with a lower recorded pressure either, since we didn't start recording those well until very recently.
As I said, part of it isn't mandated, but is due to companies wanting to look better in the IIHS tests. That's how the hundreds of pounds added to the Ford F150 came about.
The F150 got about 500lbs heavier largely due to the additon of metal for the crash protection. It weighed perhaps 3,000lbs before. That's 16%, not 0.4%.
And as to 0.4% cost, I just can't imagine. It costs several hundreds of dollars to replace the airbags after 8 years. You're either paying for that or it comes out of your depreciation. My car has 6 (8?) airbags, surely it'll cost at least $2K to replace them. That's 5% of the cost of the car.
That's a very thorough report. But I find an increase in weight added to cars for safety equipment of 8X over 25 years a concern. It went from 18lbs to 125lbs.
And this stuff doesn't count the voluminous airbags added after 2001.
Xbox 360 is already water cooled as it comes from the factory.
And to those who said "I thought it was the power supply was the problem", why not just not comment at all until you have one? The power supply doesn't get hot enough on its own to shut down. It may be more sensitive to heat than the main unit (at least some of them may be), but it doesn't generate much heat on its own.
Finally, the Xbox 360 doesn't have an overheating problem unless you put it in an enclosed space. If you do, the sheer amount of heat will cause the entire enclosed space to heat up. This unit will not change that. You need to get the heat outside of the enclosed space.
A simple fan in the enclosure will be 100X more effective than this thing. Or just not putting the 360 in an enclosure.
I had hoped wider availability would make it so more people understood what was going on simply through experience.
Do not buy this thing. If your 360 is not in an enclosed space, it doesn't need it. And if it is in an enclosed space, this will make it overheat even faster.
"AMD64 scales extremely well - with DDR2, faster HT, 65nm, and higher clocks, F stepping will have no problem remaining compeitive with inte's NGA."
Slashdot dogma is that Intel is so far behind that they can't even see the same continent as AMD's performance levels. Now you're saying "new Intel stuff isn't all that, AMD will have no problem keeping up". Can't you see the difference that is? You are even saying now that you expect them to be neck and neck.
That's a big chance, one which really could influence the market and people's buying habits.
Additionally, now we have AMD proponents (such as yourself) saying how AMD will keep up with "higher clocks". The shoe really is on the other foot now!
Anyway, AMD is 6 months behind getting to DDR2 and they'll be 6 months behind getting to 65nm. That indicates how much advantage Intel has if they just get their act together architechturally. Well, I have bad news for AMD, it looks like they have. We're going to have a interesting horse race. AMD is going to be trailing on performance/Watt for several months.
Of course, your comment is that Intel has to actually ship parts to make all this real. And you're right. Unfortunately for you, you'll only be right on that point for about 14 days more.
This post was typed on an AMD A64 X2 4200+, while my Intel P4 3.0GHz/800MHz hums along right beside it (taking more power and with less performance, but then again, it is about 3 years old).
I've scratched iPods, I believe you about the iMac mini. But I've had 2 iBooks over 4 years, and I can tell you scratching is not a problem. iBooks are the most durable laptops I've ever had. They might scratch, I dunno. But due to the milky color, you can't tell. Unless you pull out a loupe, they look near to brand-new for years.
This is in stark contrast to the Powerbooks, which dent quite easily.
I do have to agree with the other posters, if Apple's stuff didn't look so cool, you wouldn't care about the scratches. My two PC towers next to me have various scars and labels on them, and I don't really notice because they weren't something great to look at even when I got them. And they're both Antec Sonata cases, which are considered quite good-looking as far as cases go.
Also, you'd be surprised, the cars you speak of just weren't that heavy.
1964 Mustang curb weight: 2850lbs.
2005 Mustang curb weight: 3450lbs.
The new Mustang does get better mpg than the 1964, but only on the highway. If the 1964 had a 5 or 6 speed tranny like the 2005 does, it would probably get the same mpg.
The airbags in most cars will never deploy before the car is scrapped. All they do during that time is add weight. Given this, are they really adding as much safety as better brakes or stability control, both of which would be used a couple times a year?
Anyway, there are no two ways about it. These modern safety systems add weight. And adding weight increase friction, which raises fuel consumption. Additionally, unless you have 100% effective regenerative braking, you also lose noticable energy (from the fuel) into the brakes each time you slow down.
As to if it's worth it, that's a personal decision I guess. I think it's probably not worth it. Heck, I don't even think the loss of mpg due to carrying a spare tire is worth it for most people. I've been driving for 20 years now across 3 cars and never used a spare tire. I certainly would have saved up enough to pay for a tow by now and then some.
What criteria are you using?
If you just use genes, then humans have largely similar DNA to mice.
Basically, the problem is that your has no standard against which to measure. For example, how about "there is X% as much variation across all humans as across all dogs". It still doesn't tell people too much, since they don't really know how much genetic variation is in dogs. But at least they know dogs do have much more varying appearances than humans.
Honestly, there's just no way to make a machine as complex as a console anymore without being able to issue updates. Heck, even the launch GAMES are buggy as crap (PGR3 awarded me -250,000CR for winning a series just last night). So you're going to have to have online capability for the consoles. And you're going to have to be able to send out code over it.
The stuff they did is just an extension of that. Once you can download code and content, why not put some stuff up for free publicity? Once you already sell "track packs" (see PGR2 on Xbox), why not sell entire micro games?
You're gonna want to update the "BIOS" on the machine to thwart modchips anyway...
All this came more by necessity than anything else, and so I fully expect you'll see similar stuff from Sony, who isn't otherwise known for being keen on online. Heck, they'll have to send out patches to fix their BluRay video player ability, since it's going to be just about the first one of its kind and complex as heck (it uses Java!).
We also expect Nintendo is going to do this too, since they said the "Revolution will be infinitely backwards-compatible". They meant that it will play NES, SNES and N64 games. Well, it doesn't have 3 cartridge slots on it, so where will the game ROM images come from? Answer, they'll sell them to you again over the internet.
It's just business in today's world. MS isn't really striking out much or taking much of a gamble.
I tried the feature of Windows that lets you run a program with restricted privileges. Firefox doesn't even launch.
The latest version of IE will launch! I went to cnn.com with it. It gets slightly weird at times, it apparently cannot access many files on the disk. Maybe I'll try this a while.
Score one for MS here I guess.
You mention that why run code with more permissions than it really needs.
That kind of functionality was part of Multics, with its multiple privelige rings. Unix doesn't have this capability, in fact, the name Unix comes from Multics, with "Multi-" switched to "Uni-" to indicate it has only one user privelige level.
Under Multics, you could run tasks with less priveliges than you have normally. Those could then run tasks with even less privelige. Basically, back when CPU time cost money, a teacher could blow all their alloted CPU time by running a student's program that looped forever. There were also issues with the students perhaps sneaking something in there to read files that only the teacher could read (as they were run as the teacher). Although that kind of thing probably didn't happen much, there wasn't really much malicious software at that time.
In terms of allocating priveliges on a "need to know" basis, ironically, Windows is a lot better than Unix. Unix really only has two privelige levels, user and root. If you need to elevate your privelige to get the ability to kill a task or open a restricted port, you also get priveliges to read and write any file on the machine or even create setuid files. Windows has a lot finer-grained permissions allocations, although most users don't use it. Unix also has a few hacks like the "nobody" account which increase security a bit more, but not as much as a system like Windows' or Multics'.
Really, what is needed is MS needs to modify IE so it can run as a restricted user even when the user running it is an admin (privileged) one. This capability is in Windows XP, but most MS programs (like Outlook) won't run when set this way. Does Firefox?
Big asterisk here. Although multiple privilege levels was specifically removed as a feature of UNIX in the beginning, some people/companies have hacked some of it back in. Maybe it'll make it into mainline distros someday. Additionally, AFS (Andrew File System) doesn't automatically recognize uid 0 as a privileged user.
Lets see, just during my lifetime:
Seatbelts became mandatory in cars (early 70s).
Antilock brakes became widely available (80s).
Airbags became available (80s).
Passive restraint systems became mandatory (airbag or auto seatbealts) (80s).
Traction control systems became available (80s).
Side impact standards were greatly raised (90s).
Stability control systems became available (90s).
So we went from "most cars will have a safety system (seatbelts)" to "all cars will have a passive safety system active at all times".
And that's before you count the obsession (in the media) with the insurance company crash tests which led to voluntary improvements by companies (like the 700lbs of steel Ford added to the F150 make it get worse mpg than ever).
All these safety systems, by the way, has added a lot to the cost of cars and reduce the mileage they get by adding weight.
Additonally, drunk driving standards dropped from about 0.14 in most states to 0.08 (which is too low, IMHO).
So people are very out of whack over lots of things, both terrorist-related and non.
I honestly never fell in with the "kill your television" crowd.
You know what helps kids develop? Attention. Help kids find an interested in investigating the world around them.
But you don't have to kill your TV (or anything else) to do it. Just find the right time for them. If it takes killing the TV, then do it, but honestly it just seems like the only reason to have to do so is as a replacement for self-control. And electricity doesn't cancel out attention either.
As to his daughter being wise, I'm sorry, it's impossible to actually be wise at 7. Heck, I might even agree if you said it was impossible to be wise at age 18 (thus bolstering your argument that she could be as wise as some "adults"). Note that kids at that age just basically want to please their parents. And they're smart enough to know what their parents want. It's pretty easy to mistake doing what will make their parents happy for actual consideration of consequences.
If I thought doing something would help my kids development, I'd strongly consider it. Of course the net effect has to be considered. If I'd lose my ability to earn money and thus support them, then no, I wouldn't do it. This might preclude moving to the Mojave Desert in my case.
Gold is the name of the version of Live which allows you to play against other people online on 360. On Xbox, It was just called "Live". When J Allard said "Live" would be free on 360, he meant Live Silver, which just basically allows you to download updates to buggy games and buy stuff with micropayments.
Live Gold is not free, just making J Allard's comments technically correct but completely misleading. Anyone hearing the comments would assume that the thing that came free would do what Live allowed you to do, which is play against others online.
A $50 12 month (actually 13) Gold subscription card is the cheapest way to get Live Gold on 360. There are also 3 month Live Gold subscription cards too, I think they are $20, making it $80/year. You can also get Live Gold month to month, but I think it is $10/mo or some other nonsensical cost.
The emitter of the signal decides the pixel clock. The emitter in this case has to meet the HDTV spec.
The HDTV spec is how it is because it had to work with CRT displays too. CRT displays need porch time to "wrap" the electron beam back from right to left or bottom to top. So the analog HDTV signal had to have those timings. And since DVI doesn't change the temporal characteristics of the signal (only digitizes the analog level on a fixed clock), that meant DVI/HDMI had to have those timings.
Frankly, given that the FCC/ATSC didn't specify 1080p/60 ahead of time, they could have changed the porch sizes for just it and just said "CRTs will never do 1080p/60", because they likely won't anyway. I don't know why that option wasn't taken. Perhaps someone else knows.
So, to go to your last sentence, HP can't fix this problem.
You assumed 1080p is 1080p/30? That was pretty stupid. It's not. People want a single format that both 720p(/60) and 1080i(60 fields per second) can be uprezzed to without loss of spatial or temporal resolution. That is why 1080p is coming around, and why it is 1080p/60.
As to single link, it is enough for 1920x1200, for example, Apple sells 23" single-link monitors that do 1920x1200. But, depending on the size of the front and back porches (both horizontally and vertically), a signal with less spatial payload resolution may not fit on single link DVI/HDMI. For example, the first 1920x1200 analog LCD panels used signal timing that could not be represented on DVI single link. It is my understanding that 1080p doesn't fit in the DVI single link spec either.
My understanding is that with the inactive areas, 1080p is 2240x1126*59.97fps. This is a pixel clock of 151MHz. The HDMI spec is (or was) max 150MHz (DVI is 165MHz). I believe the 165MHz for HDMI you mention is this later stretching of the standard to accomodate 1080p.
As to HDMI being equal to DVI, except for that I didn't know dual-link existed, I believe I also said HDMI was the equal of DVI plus sound, except that I mentioned that HDMI doesn't have the lines that DVI-A uses for analog video.
Why teach them to rely on GPS to know where they are? Why not give them maps and waypoints and have them take pictures of them? They can ask "which direction are we heading?" every once in a while, and unless you're in California, they can read the mile markers for distance.
My brother and I read books in the car when we travelled (and it was a lot). That turned out very well, we're both quite successful. We used to have a large collection of books that we bought at the library's old books sale. I had a thing for science and the future, so a large number of books were 50s books about what the future was going to be like. Lots of pneumatic subways and multi-mode transportation hubs. Although the real revolutions in transportation turned out to be cargo transportation, containerized shipping and air shipping (and containerized air shipping).
Anyway, it may be difficult to believe, but at one time, people managed to keep themselves entertained without any devices that needed batteries or plugged in. If your kids can learn that skill, perhaps their comparatively long attention spans will help them learn and go far.
HDMI is a subset of DVI plus audio. In making the HDMI connector much smaller (and cheaper), they removed a lot of conductors, like DVI-A (analog) and the ability to have dual-link.
Without dual-link, HDMI is useless for computers in the future. The most expensive (and thus highest revenue and profit) panels already use dual-link DVI. Additionally, technically, 1080p cannot even be carried on HDMI or single-link DVI because the bandwidth is too high. However, companies are stretching the spec to make HDMI (and HDCP) work at 1080p. I don't think this stretching can be done to cover the larger (30") computer panels that are already in use.
You've only listed the players in the 3.5" and 2.5" markets. Toshiba is a big player in the 1.8" market. MagicStor makes a decent amount of ATA drives in the 1.0" market. I guess you could also count Cornice in the 1.0" market, although they don't make ATA drives, they use a proprietary interface.
You also missed 1989 - Seagate buys Imprimis. Before that purchase, Seagate's drives were reliable and affordable but also low performance and loud.
There are also other companies that no longer make drives, like Rodime, Micropolis and JTS. But tracking down those, they seem to not have been folded into any other storage company, they just disappeared. What ever happened to Fujitsu as a drive maker?
The M-1 (I presume you mean Abrams tank) is fine. It's massively oversized, but if you can get it to the field of battle, the survivability is very appreciated.
But forget that, we have had some incredible tools for our forces. Like the M2 machine gun.
John Browning was a brilliant man. The 1911 is 100 years old now, and still an incredible piece of work. And you can own one (well, a replica) for a very affordable price. Any engineer could learn a lot from a study of this invention. (And I don't even own any guns)
And especially not in science class.
When Saudi Arabia teaches religion in school curriculum, we have a fit. We cannot sink to that level.
All learning isn't done at school. If people want to know about a theory of evolution that explains everything by explaining nothing, let them do so outside of science class and outside of school.