It seems ATI/AMD's new professional graphics cards are going to perform a lot better than Nvidia's current offerings. They would need good Linux drivers for these cards to eat into NV's pro/workstation market share.
I firmly believe the only reason that Microsoft still has dominance in the desktop OS market is because people are comfortable with the software that runs on their OS, and they stick with it.
Microsoft still forces PC makers to only selling Windows PCs. If they try to sell PCs with non-Windows OS they are denied any discounts on MS products. This lowers the profit margins on a PC by a lot.
Unless you're up for government mandating that all citizens stop using MS Office, or playing games on their computers, I don't see Microsoft's market share changing very rapidly.
That is exactly what the government should do. If a company is abusing a monopoly, they should be made to suffer financially until their behaviour changes. Steps should be taken to break the monopoly and give customers more choice. If MS doesn't like it they should stop their anti-competitive behaviour.
The technique takes the clearer portions from many images and merges them. The article says that some portions are less smeared than others but doesn't say if the atmoisphere was also magnifying the target or not. I know astronomers have used gravity from intervening distant objects to magnify other distant objects so couldn't a similar technique be used there?
Amateur Lucky Imaging is popular because the technique is so cheap and effective. The low cost means that we could apply the process to telescopes all over the world."
can't they use the same techniques with the HST itself?
These devices could also be used to identify and track people. For example, suppose you participated in some sort of protest or other organized activity. If police agencies sprinkled these tags around, every individual could be tracked and later identified at leisure, with powerful enough tag scanners.
To help, they could offer a 10% discount to all their loyal implanted customers to start with and when almost all their customers are implanted, require it to get into the store;-)
They already do that in some ways. Its called a store loyalty card.
RFC2131 states:
A client that cannot receive unicast IP datagrams until its protocol
software has been configured with an IP address SHOULD set the
BROADCAST bit in the 'flags' field to 1 in any DHCPDISCOVER or
DHCPREQUEST messages that client sends. The BROADCAST bit will
provide a hint to the DHCP server and BOOTP relay agent to broadcast
any messages to the client on the client's subnet. A client that can
receive unicast IP datagrams before its protocol software has been
configured SHOULD clear the BROADCAST bit to 0.
RFC1542 States
3.1.1 The BROADCAST flag
Normally, BOOTP servers and relay agents attempt to deliver BOOTREPLY
messages directly to a client using unicast delivery. The IP
destination address (in the IP header) is set to the BOOTP 'yiaddr'
address and the link-layer destination address is set to the BOOTP
'chaddr' address. Unfortunately, some client implementations are
unable to receive such unicast IP datagrams until they know their own
IP address (thus we have a "chicken and egg" issue). Often, however,
they can receive broadcast IP datagrams (those with a valid IP
broadcast address as the IP destination and the link-layer broadcast
address as the link-layer destination).
If a client falls into this category, it SHOULD set (to 1) the
newly-defined BROADCAST flag in the 'flags' field of BOOTREPLY
messages it generates. This will provide a hint to BOOTP servers and
relay agents that they should attempt to broadcast their BOOTREPLY
messages to the client.
If a client does not have this limitation (i.e., it is perfectly able
to receive unicast BOOTREPLY messages), it SHOULD NOT set the
BROADCAST flag (i.e., it SHOULD clear the BROADCAST flag to 0).
DISCUSSION:
This addition to the protocol is a workaround for old host
implementations. Such implementations SHOULD be modified so
that they may receive unicast BOOTREPLY messages, thus making
use of this workaround unnecessary. In general, the use of
this mechanism is discouraged.
If XP can receive unicast IP datagrams. why cant Vista? Either MS broke Vista or the TCP/IP stack is less functional than before. Either way, use of the broadcast flag is discouraged.
Doesn't Vista encrypt some of it's data in RAM (DRMd media etc)? If Apache was modified to set the memory used for logs to be DRMd, would this make the data inaccessible?
One thing I don't get is how he managed 41.61% CPU utuilization while transferring a file
4.4% to draw the moving file animation (it re-reads it every time the anim loops). 3.8% to report to MS about the file you're copying. 2.1% is wasted on old code that constantly scans memory for pictures of rabbits (Balmer is scared of them) 1% is needed for WGA. 2.5% because Vista constantly swaps all application code in and out of the first 640k. Bill still believes its enough. 1.7% to actually copy the file.
the rest is just wasted to make CPU graphs look pretty.
Tom Wood, a Year 10 student, probably 15 - 16 years old has cracked the federal government's $84-million internet porn filter in just 30 minutes. He can deactivate the filter in several clicks in such a way that the software's icon is not deleted which will make his parents believe the filter is still working. Tom says it is a matter of time before some computer-savvy kid puts the bypass on the Internet for others to use. "It's a horrible waste of money," he said. "They could get a much better filter for a few million dollars made here rather than paying overseas companies for an ineffective one."
Australian communications Minister Helen Coonan said the government had anticipated kids would find their ways around the NetFilter. Yes Minister but 30 minutes for a teenager to crack a 84 million dollar filter is simply ridiculous.
I don't care if it is one or not. My point of this article is that the SecuROM service doesn't need to be included in the demo if we don't have to activate it.
Using "rootkit" brings the traffic. It's all about the SEO, and is why this article is on top in Google.
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"Only in a repeal" Damon Killian
It seems ATI/AMD's new professional graphics cards are going to perform a lot better than Nvidia's current offerings.
They would need good Linux drivers for these cards to eat into NV's pro/workstation market share.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42127
http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?38812
a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system
The Flying Spaghetti Monster was making meatballs gets my vote.
Hopefully this will be the start of a trend..
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http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200612/19/eng20
They should use USB chargers for all portable devices (assuming USB has enough juice to charge it).
Why they're doing it... because linux can get around this??
d =20275301?
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=273419&ci
There are a lot of legal bittorrent downloads. Most linux distros are available this way as well as a large number of public domain movies.
http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/
http://www.starwreck.com/download.php
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
I firmly believe the only reason that Microsoft still has dominance in the desktop OS market is because people are comfortable with the software that runs on their OS, and they stick with it.
Microsoft still forces PC makers to only selling Windows PCs. If they try to sell PCs with non-Windows OS they are denied any discounts on MS products. This lowers the profit margins on a PC by a lot.
Unless you're up for government mandating that all citizens stop using MS Office, or playing games on their computers, I don't see Microsoft's market share changing very rapidly.
That is exactly what the government should do. If a company is abusing a monopoly, they should be made to suffer financially until their behaviour changes. Steps should be taken to break the monopoly and give customers more choice. If MS doesn't like it they should stop their anti-competitive behaviour.
The technique takes the clearer portions from many images and merges them. The article says that some portions are less smeared than others but doesn't say if the atmoisphere was also magnifying the target or not. I know astronomers have used gravity from intervening distant objects to magnify other distant objects so couldn't a similar technique be used there?
Amateur Lucky Imaging is popular because the technique is so cheap and effective. The low cost means that we could apply the process to telescopes all over the world."
can't they use the same techniques with the HST itself?
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=939
From the article...
These devices could also be used to identify and track people. For example, suppose you participated in some sort of protest or other organized activity. If police agencies sprinkled these tags around, every individual could be tracked and later identified at leisure, with powerful enough tag scanners.
To help, they could offer a 10% discount to all their loyal implanted customers to start with and when almost all their customers are implanted, require it to get into the store ;-)
They already do that in some ways. Its called a store loyalty card.
Fortunately, the Orwellian future isn't here...yet.
If you wait until the Orwellian future is here then it will be too late to do anything about it.
RFC2131 states:
A client that cannot receive unicast IP datagrams until its protocol
software has been configured with an IP address SHOULD set the
BROADCAST bit in the 'flags' field to 1 in any DHCPDISCOVER or
DHCPREQUEST messages that client sends. The BROADCAST bit will
provide a hint to the DHCP server and BOOTP relay agent to broadcast
any messages to the client on the client's subnet. A client that can
receive unicast IP datagrams before its protocol software has been
configured SHOULD clear the BROADCAST bit to 0.
RFC1542 States
3.1.1 The BROADCAST flag
Normally, BOOTP servers and relay agents attempt to deliver BOOTREPLY
messages directly to a client using unicast delivery. The IP
destination address (in the IP header) is set to the BOOTP 'yiaddr'
address and the link-layer destination address is set to the BOOTP
'chaddr' address. Unfortunately, some client implementations are
unable to receive such unicast IP datagrams until they know their own
IP address (thus we have a "chicken and egg" issue). Often, however,
they can receive broadcast IP datagrams (those with a valid IP
broadcast address as the IP destination and the link-layer broadcast
address as the link-layer destination).
If a client falls into this category, it SHOULD set (to 1) the
newly-defined BROADCAST flag in the 'flags' field of BOOTREPLY
messages it generates. This will provide a hint to BOOTP servers and
relay agents that they should attempt to broadcast their BOOTREPLY
messages to the client.
If a client does not have this limitation (i.e., it is perfectly able
to receive unicast BOOTREPLY messages), it SHOULD NOT set the
BROADCAST flag (i.e., it SHOULD clear the BROADCAST flag to 0).
DISCUSSION:
This addition to the protocol is a workaround for old host
implementations. Such implementations SHOULD be modified so
that they may receive unicast BOOTREPLY messages, thus making
use of this workaround unnecessary. In general, the use of
this mechanism is discouraged.
If XP can receive unicast IP datagrams. why cant Vista? Either MS broke Vista or the TCP/IP stack is less functional than before. Either way, use of the broadcast flag is discouraged.
An anal probe is not sex... hmmm... unless a cream bun is some new lingo for sex.
Doesn't Vista encrypt some of it's data in RAM (DRMd media etc)? If Apache was modified to set the memory used for logs to be DRMd, would this make the data inaccessible?
One thing I don't get is how he managed 41.61% CPU utuilization while transferring a file
4.4% to draw the moving file animation (it re-reads it every time the anim loops).
3.8% to report to MS about the file you're copying.
2.1% is wasted on old code that constantly scans memory for pictures of rabbits (Balmer is scared of them)
1% is needed for WGA.
2.5% because Vista constantly swaps all application code in and out of the first 640k. Bill still believes its enough.
1.7% to actually copy the file.
the rest is just wasted to make CPU graphs look pretty.
Dont forget to add the cost of the lightsabre itself. It sold on Ebay a while back for around $25,000.
I'm assuming this is the same one.
It wouldn't surprise me if the hard drives, or at least some of the components are constructed or assembled in China anyway.
Tom Wood, a Year 10 student, probably 15 - 16 years old has cracked the federal government's $84-million internet porn filter in just 30 minutes. He can deactivate the filter in several clicks in such a way that the software's icon is not deleted which will make his parents believe the filter is still working. Tom says it is a matter of time before some computer-savvy kid puts the bypass on the Internet for others to use. "It's a horrible waste of money," he said. "They could get a much better filter for a few million dollars made here rather than paying overseas companies for an ineffective one."
Australian communications Minister Helen Coonan said the government had anticipated kids would find their ways around the NetFilter. Yes Minister but 30 minutes for a teenager to crack a 84 million dollar filter is simply ridiculous.
I'd be prepared to shoot teens for the sake of morality.
It was the 3rd comment on the page.
From the author's comments...
I don't care if it is one or not. My point of this article is that the SecuROM service doesn't need to be included in the demo if we don't have to activate it.
Using "rootkit" brings the traffic. It's all about the SEO, and is why this article is on top in Google.
I can just imagine the headlines.. "Steve Balmer suspected of a drive-by chairing"
Yeah, the internet is just a fad.
I've been lobbying my government to get the law of gravity repealed.