I agree that synthetic CPU benchmarks are not the way to go - most CPU time is wasted waiting for user input, so a more responsive UI (which the Win7 builds have absolutely had) is a much better benchmark. But the "compare it to XP" test isn't a good usability benchmark either.
Users hate change. To get anything done, you need to shove it down their throats and anger them - hence the anger at the move to Vista and, among other things, a true multi-user security model. But even in pure UI terms, a lot of people will complain because "it doesn't work exactly the way it did in XP". That's too bad. It's called progress. The UI is more responsive and more intuitive, and yet people will continue to complain. (See: Office 2007)
While this could no doubt lead to some more interesting shooter games (a welcome change since it's been a while since an FPS not made by Valve has really struck me as top-grade), I'd personally be more curious to see the difference in engagement across genres - FPS, RTS, RPG, etc. I know that I personally get much more engaged into RPGs.
Do you really believe that nothing like this exists on Mac or Linux? Not necessarily this specific exploit, but something of this severity. Neither Apple nor the various Linux/OSS developers have anywhere near the testing unit that Microsoft has to uncover these flaws, nor do they have anywhere near the level of real-world users testing their software.
It's not possible to write software of this level and complexity 100% bug-free. It's a matter of how much time and testing it takes to find such bugs.
You'd have to be pretty crazy and/or desperate to risk using the provided bandwidth at DefCon (or any hacker con) for that matter. Regardless of how much faith you may have in the people running the network, you're surrounded on all sides by people who would like nothing more than to steal your information. While at DefCon, stay away from the ATMs and if at all possible stay away from the network entirely.
Former House Speaker, you mean. Even though it might not seem like it at times, the House is in fact controlled by Democrats and thus Pelosi is the Speaker.
No one can get rid of them because the US gives them billions of dollars in foreign aid each year. A huge drain on our economy and on our image in the Middle East, and we get nothing in return. Cut off the handouts and let nature take its course.
Not for me to deny it, it's your assertion so it's up to you to prove it. Give it your best shot.
First off, his support for a return to the gold standard implies a complete lack of understanding of modern macroeconomics. Fiat money isn't perfect, but it's a necessary evil. It's what made our massive economic growth in the later half of the 20th century possible.
Second, the man is for the abolishing of things like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. Some things have been proven to not work when trusted to corporations. See: Blackwater, the long history of pollution. et. al
He supports isolationist policies - anyone who can look at the modern world and even joke that that's feasible has mental issues.
He opposes the separation of Church and State.
And on and on. I can provide more examples if you like.
Where does the full article say that this procedure would be any riskier to the babies' health than regular sex? Assuming you're not reproducing with yourself, and that you're using sperm from some OTHER woman's bone marrow, DNA is still getting spread around.
Because TCP and UDP headers aren't of fixed sizes and as such are incredibly difficult to handle in hardware. Hardware switching has been tried - ATM for instance - but it's not that simple. TCP/IP was designed as a software protocol, and it's an unfortunate reality that some protocols are easily handled in hardware and others are not.
IPv6 makes some steps towards having simpler hardware handling, but as long as IPv4 is still around, we won't see hardware switching become commonplace.
Actually, although the media didn't report on it much, there were many suspicious things going on in the Ohio counting and voting in the 2004 election - a state that would have given Kerry the victory. This is made all the more unusual by the fact that in violation of federal law almost 2/3 of Ohio's counties have destroyed records from that election.
http://www.alternet.org/story/58328/
OS/360 (and everything that it eventually evolved into) was nothing short of revolutionary. For 20-30 years, IBM was the company to turn to for reliable software.
Pain, lack of bass/increase in treble, and lack of range are the telltale signs of an improper fit. Try other sleevs, such as foams (it's much easier to get a quality fit with them).
The report's claims must be using incredibly cheap phones. Any decent pair of canalphones (see: Shure, Etymotic, Ultimate Ears) will isolate much better than any other pair of headphones out there, allowing the use of lower volumes and an overall reduction of hearing damage/loss. Even the lousy iPod headphones provide better isolation than most cheap headphones in their pricerange nowadays. Will they isolate as well as a Sennheiser HD-280 or a pair of canalphones? No. But they hardly isolate "much worse" than other phones.
The Article Summary quoted is completely misleading. The most important graph is the final one on page 12, Compression Efficiency, where gzip is once again the obvious king. Sure, WinRK may be able to compress decently, but it takes an eternity to do so and is impractical for every-day use, which is where routines like gzip and ARJ32 come in - incredible compression for the speed in which they can operate. Besides - who really needs that last 54MB in these days of 4.9GB DVDs and 160GB Hard Drives?
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I agree that synthetic CPU benchmarks are not the way to go - most CPU time is wasted waiting for user input, so a more responsive UI (which the Win7 builds have absolutely had) is a much better benchmark. But the "compare it to XP" test isn't a good usability benchmark either.
Users hate change. To get anything done, you need to shove it down their throats and anger them - hence the anger at the move to Vista and, among other things, a true multi-user security model. But even in pure UI terms, a lot of people will complain because "it doesn't work exactly the way it did in XP". That's too bad. It's called progress. The UI is more responsive and more intuitive, and yet people will continue to complain. (See: Office 2007)
While this could no doubt lead to some more interesting shooter games (a welcome change since it's been a while since an FPS not made by Valve has really struck me as top-grade), I'd personally be more curious to see the difference in engagement across genres - FPS, RTS, RPG, etc. I know that I personally get much more engaged into RPGs.
Do you really believe that nothing like this exists on Mac or Linux? Not necessarily this specific exploit, but something of this severity. Neither Apple nor the various Linux/OSS developers have anywhere near the testing unit that Microsoft has to uncover these flaws, nor do they have anywhere near the level of real-world users testing their software. It's not possible to write software of this level and complexity 100% bug-free. It's a matter of how much time and testing it takes to find such bugs.
You'd have to be pretty crazy and/or desperate to risk using the provided bandwidth at DefCon (or any hacker con) for that matter. Regardless of how much faith you may have in the people running the network, you're surrounded on all sides by people who would like nothing more than to steal your information. While at DefCon, stay away from the ATMs and if at all possible stay away from the network entirely.
Former House Speaker, you mean. Even though it might not seem like it at times, the House is in fact controlled by Democrats and thus Pelosi is the Speaker.
No one can get rid of them because the US gives them billions of dollars in foreign aid each year. A huge drain on our economy and on our image in the Middle East, and we get nothing in return. Cut off the handouts and let nature take its course.
Not for me to deny it, it's your assertion so it's up to you to prove it. Give it your best shot.
First off, his support for a return to the gold standard implies a complete lack of understanding of modern macroeconomics. Fiat money isn't perfect, but it's a necessary evil. It's what made our massive economic growth in the later half of the 20th century possible.
Second, the man is for the abolishing of things like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. Some things have been proven to not work when trusted to corporations. See: Blackwater, the long history of pollution. et. al
He supports isolationist policies - anyone who can look at the modern world and even joke that that's feasible has mental issues.
He opposes the separation of Church and State.
And on and on. I can provide more examples if you like.
Where does the full article say that this procedure would be any riskier to the babies' health than regular sex? Assuming you're not reproducing with yourself, and that you're using sperm from some OTHER woman's bone marrow, DNA is still getting spread around.
Because TCP and UDP headers aren't of fixed sizes and as such are incredibly difficult to handle in hardware. Hardware switching has been tried - ATM for instance - but it's not that simple. TCP/IP was designed as a software protocol, and it's an unfortunate reality that some protocols are easily handled in hardware and others are not.
IPv6 makes some steps towards having simpler hardware handling, but as long as IPv4 is still around, we won't see hardware switching become commonplace.
So U.S. Citizens are a sworn enemy of the US now? That says a lot.
Actually, although the media didn't report on it much, there were many suspicious things going on in the Ohio counting and voting in the 2004 election - a state that would have given Kerry the victory. This is made all the more unusual by the fact that in violation of federal law almost 2/3 of Ohio's counties have destroyed records from that election. http://www.alternet.org/story/58328/
OS/360 (and everything that it eventually evolved into) was nothing short of revolutionary. For 20-30 years, IBM was the company to turn to for reliable software.
Pain, lack of bass/increase in treble, and lack of range are the telltale signs of an improper fit. Try other sleevs, such as foams (it's much easier to get a quality fit with them).
The report's claims must be using incredibly cheap phones. Any decent pair of canalphones (see: Shure, Etymotic, Ultimate Ears) will isolate much better than any other pair of headphones out there, allowing the use of lower volumes and an overall reduction of hearing damage/loss. Even the lousy iPod headphones provide better isolation than most cheap headphones in their pricerange nowadays. Will they isolate as well as a Sennheiser HD-280 or a pair of canalphones? No. But they hardly isolate "much worse" than other phones.
The Article Summary quoted is completely misleading. The most important graph is the final one on page 12, Compression Efficiency, where gzip is once again the obvious king. Sure, WinRK may be able to compress decently, but it takes an eternity to do so and is impractical for every-day use, which is where routines like gzip and ARJ32 come in - incredible compression for the speed in which they can operate. Besides - who really needs that last 54MB in these days of 4.9GB DVDs and 160GB Hard Drives?