In the long term, all of our current methods of producing electricity is dead. Just depends on what your definition of long is, and just because it is not the perfect solution for eternity doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile until we discover something better.
I mean really how hard would it be to simply hire someone to check the ads first?
As most ads are written in flash and the advertisers only get the flash blob, it would actually be pretty difficult. I guess you could say that all advertisers should demand the flash source, but then you'd need someone to go over all the flash source in detail which would be prohibitively expensive to do.
By an attack that requires the victim's phone to first actually be on (NFC deactivates when the screen is off), within a very small number of centimeters aligned at just the right place with the attacker's device, in communication for an extended period of time, have NFC actually on at all, and the user to be totally oblivious as a stranger who both miraculously is on the ball enough to strike at just the right moment and takes advantage of all of these variables being perfectly aligned for him to do his dirty work. Um, yeah. Maybe I should play the numbers too since I'm apparently the recipient of the cosmos' so ridiculously contrived you can still smell the glue statistical outlier joke of the day award. Or I'll just have a shirt printed saying "The Universe hates me and all I got was this lousy t-shirt".
Or maybe you should actually try and think. How difficult would it be to place a NFC skimmer next to or on top of that Mcdonald's payment console? Your device would be on, and within range. Oh, yes, I'm sure no one could do that, that hasn't been done before. I think you should get a shirt printed, but choose another slogan.
Reading comprehension isn't your thing apparently. If that is all it was, they wouldn't defend their second answer. They consciously know the changed question and they answer they gave to it even though it is completely different than a question they were just asked 10 minutes ago.
And none of that changes the fact that there is, and will continue to be, a lot of NFC enabled android phones out there that are vulnerable -- basically forever. Android has now become the new windows XP; Vulnerable with patches taking years to get to end users, and millions of users who don't patch their systems even when they are available.
Not sure why you think you need a separate server just to host the repo. Just host it on the same machine.
Sure at the office we have a server that hosts the repo, but at my house, I have the repo running on the same machine I develop on. Of course the repo is on a RAID-6, and my local copy I develop on is on a RAID-0, but I didn't need to buy another machine just to host the repo.
Let me start by saying IANAL, however, if I remember correctly, for a patent to be violated, all of its claims must be true.
A cursory examination of the actual patent, there are 67 claims, I read the first 10 and stopped. Claim #2 is not applicable to iMessage -- iMessage has no user preferences. Claim #7 is not applicable -- the transfer is not in response to activating an application on the receiver. Claim #8 is not applicable -- the transfering is not in response to activation an application on the sender. I don't believe claim #10 is applicable either, but it's hard to read patentese.
I stopped after that point an realized this is a publicity stunt and the judge is going to throw this out faster than you can say patent trolling.
If portability isn't a concern, you can easily stripe 3 standard HDD's and get near the same performance as an SSD
It is still not even close in typical usage. 3 HDD's striped together will have the same response time (7-13ms), while a single SSD will have a response time measured in ns. The amount of I/Os you can do per second aren't even remotely the same, especially if they are random access. Just two vastly different technologies. Yes, if all you do is copy massive files (video) to and from that media, then the performance between them may be similar, but you'd be surprised by just how much the typical machine does random IO vs sequential, even just "copying files" on the desktop.
There was just a survey done that was published a couple weeks ago and recarried on CNN that said 53% of android users were switching phones, the majority of them that were switching to iPhones, and another very significant portion of current android users who want an iPhone but bought the droid only because it was cheaper -- not better.
Perhaps, but I already know what I needed to in order to justify the purchase.
It will play my 1080p encoded videos that my 4 wouldn't. It has twice the memory capacity my 4 had (64gb vs 32gb).
To be honest, everything else is just cake. 4.0" screen? If it still had the 3.5" I still would have bought it. Siri? I doubt I'll be using siri at all. I've seen it, but it is a novelty -- not a really useful feature -- yet. Faster memory? The faster memory is very nice, I definitely will like the faster app load times, but again, I didn't need it. New connector? Yeah, I wish I could skip that one unless it actually does USB 3.0 speeds, which I'm doubting but some are claiming. Faster WIFI? Yes, that will be nice, but again not a deal maker/breaker. LTE? Maybe. AT&T 3G is bad in many places for me, so I am hoping LTE will be better especially the first few days before it becomes saturated. IOS 6? I could put that on my iPhone 4, so that didn't make any difference to me. It is more of a reason I like the iPhone line, not any iPhone version in particular. Camera? I'm not a photographer, so the iPhone 4 camera was adequate enough for my needs. Battery? This rarely plays any role in my day to day. I have charging cables at both my house and work, so the battery only needs to last for 2-3 hours of video/talk time. On the weekends, it needs 2 days for standby with light usage -- for when I don't make it back to my own house until the next morning. Brighter colors? I'll have to see. I was satisfied with the iPhone 4 color saturation. As long as it is as good as the iPhone 4 screen, it's good enough for me.
Just to clarify, the iPhone 5 isn't available yet, so the first two weeks for comparison doesn't start until 9/21. Pre-orders are considered "sold" on 9/21 and will be wrapped into "first day" sales I believe. I'm not exactly sure how preorders that won't ship until weeks 1-3 are counted. Are they "sales" on 9/21, or the date they ship? I'd guess 9/21, because they will word it however they need to so that they have the biggest number on launch day.
The single cycle part of your post is inaccurate, but I'd mod you up for the rest of it if I had mod points left.
Today's intel processors have combined the best parts of both the RISC and CISC worlds, and really can't be classified as being completely either type architecture. Externally it's CISC, but internally it acts much more like a RISC processor.
I'm not aware of any successful implementation of a pure RISC processor at the high end. If there is one, please point it out because I'd like to learn about it. And it sure doesn't look like the PPC chips are very comparable today.
Ditto, but I've also spent 15yrs on the other side of town... swinging a mop
Do I even need to comment?
You seem to think that unions are there to protect lazy people?
Yes, and your comment just proves it more.
Have you have actually tried raising a family while wearing a blue color?
No, I haven't. Have you tried raising a family while wearing a green color? Me either, just thought I would ask.
Do you have callouses on your hands from all your "hard work"?
No, were you diagnosed with carpel tunnel before there was even a name for it -- while you were a teenager?
Do realize that when people call you a "suit", it's not a sign of respect?
I don't let others decide how I view my own worth. Although I don't think anyone has called me a "suit". I don't wear a suit in my daily work -- with the exception of a couple times a year. Do you realize that when people call you a "shit shoveler", it's not a sign of respect?
If it is set to 1 by default, then all the DNT header means is you are a typical user who doesn't want to be tracked.
There, fixed that for you.
You are so blind that you can't even see the stupidity of your own statements. You believe people should be able to be tracked unless they explicitly say otherwise. While the rest of the world sees the issue as you should not be able to be tracked unless you explicitly say otherwise. It really isn't that hard of a concept, and I feel sorry that you can't understand it.
Because from everywhere that I've seen, union shops typically force down stupid metrics for how people get paid. Like seniority over skill. If you are bad at your job, or lazy, or definitely both then you benefit from a union. If you are one of the best at your job, then you typically suffer under a union because the pay range available for that position is very small.
Since I am neither bad, nor lazy, I often make a considerable amount more than my coworkers. Even those who supposedly have the same title and more seniority. If I don't like the job, the environment, or my boss, I can always leave and go somewhere else.
On top of that, unions usually keep pushing wages up even for those that don't deserve it until a company is financially strapped and uncompetitive.
Microsoft isn't destroying the standard/convention. It just sounds like you want uninformed users (the majority) to default to being able to be tracked instead.
Oh well. Your tough luck. Personally, I don't mind being tracked usually. I'd rather have advertisements come up for buying things I'm actually interested in (sports cars, computers, yachts, computer games) that say, tampons, cramp cures, and weight loss pills.
Then again, as a webmaster who is often forced to install tracking crap all over the place, often by multitudes of different places, I fully understand the whole issue of how it can significantly slow down your web browsing experience, and I will sometimes/often use ADP to totally kill trying to even request that crap. Same thing for social media crap. Yes, I'm looking at you facebook like. Your servers suck ass and are slow as crap. I have a permanent ban on everything that tries to go out to you, cause I'm tired of seeing 1-2 connection threads tied up for 1-2 seconds on every page request just so I can see how many losers like the page.
Off the top of my head: Opacity (real opacity, including opacity on PNGs with an alpha channel). Being able to define colors using RGBA CSS3 transforms Fully supporting @font-face for real web fonts HTML5 video support with H.264/MPEG4 so we can drop flash video players finally WOFF font support instead of the EOT (IE-only font format) Box shadows multiple backgrounds on a single object CSS3 selectors (:last-child,:nth-child, etc)
Stuff even IE9 doesn't support: text-shadows 3d transforms aync on script tags web sockets Filereader API (Smarter upload buttons) CSS3 transitions CSS3 gradients HTML5 form elements (date picker, range, integer, etc)
Yes, those are all things that we use on our web site, or wanted to use and either had to write custom fallbacks just for IE, rewrite to use a different (more difficult, less efficient, larger) technique, or just let IE look like crap.
Please show me the advertisement that says, well... anything. A spokesman saying something is not an advertisement.
Intel is colluding with Microsoft
Really? Where did you learn this from? Oh, you just made that up. I see. Never mind, I'm sure that will hold up in a court of law. Dear Judge, I present irrefutable evidence that Intel and Microsoft were colluding... Khyber said so. I rest my case.
FALSE ADVERTISING IS STILL ILLEGAL AND AN ANTITRUST ISSUE WHEN A CONVICTED MONOPOLIST IS INVOLVED.
Yes, false advertising is illegal. No, false advertising doesn't become an antitrust issue, ever. There is no such thing as a "convicted monopolist", at least as how you intend to use it. Being a monopoly is not illegal, so you can not be convicted of it.
If you can explain the logical difference between why it is legal to give one of these URLs out, and not the other because one is "lock"ed and the other is not, I'd love to hear it: http://{hard to guess string with colon in it}@host and http://host/{hard to guess string that may have colon in it}
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And they also don't get to collect more when they retire either. SS isn't a tax really, it's a forced retirement fund.
In fairness,
2002 Pontiac Trans AM WS6 actual range = 224 mi/tank
2012 Tesla Roadster EPA estimated range (Per Wikipedia): 244 mi/charge
In the long term, all of our current methods of producing electricity is dead. Just depends on what your definition of long is, and just because it is not the perfect solution for eternity doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile until we discover something better.
flashblock works fine. Every once in a while I want something that requires flash, but 95% of the time it's garbage.
I mean really how hard would it be to simply hire someone to check the ads first?
As most ads are written in flash and the advertisers only get the flash blob, it would actually be pretty difficult. I guess you could say that all advertisers should demand the flash source, but then you'd need someone to go over all the flash source in detail which would be prohibitively expensive to do.
By an attack that requires the victim's phone to first actually be on (NFC deactivates when the screen is off), within a very small number of centimeters aligned at just the right place with the attacker's device, in communication for an extended period of time, have NFC actually on at all, and the user to be totally oblivious as a stranger who both miraculously is on the ball enough to strike at just the right moment and takes advantage of all of these variables being perfectly aligned for him to do his dirty work. Um, yeah. Maybe I should play the numbers too since I'm apparently the recipient of the cosmos' so ridiculously contrived you can still smell the glue statistical outlier joke of the day award. Or I'll just have a shirt printed saying "The Universe hates me and all I got was this lousy t-shirt".
Or maybe you should actually try and think. How difficult would it be to place a NFC skimmer next to or on top of that Mcdonald's payment console? Your device would be on, and within range. Oh, yes, I'm sure no one could do that, that hasn't been done before. I think you should get a shirt printed, but choose another slogan.
Reading comprehension isn't your thing apparently. If that is all it was, they wouldn't defend their second answer. They consciously know the changed question and they answer they gave to it even though it is completely different than a question they were just asked 10 minutes ago.
And none of that changes the fact that there is, and will continue to be, a lot of NFC enabled android phones out there that are vulnerable -- basically forever. Android has now become the new windows XP; Vulnerable with patches taking years to get to end users, and millions of users who don't patch their systems even when they are available.
Great, and how long do you think it will be until all of them are upgraded to the "current version"? a year? 2 years? Never is my guess.
Not sure why you think you need a separate server just to host the repo. Just host it on the same machine.
Sure at the office we have a server that hosts the repo, but at my house, I have the repo running on the same machine I develop on. Of course the repo is on a RAID-6, and my local copy I develop on is on a RAID-0, but I didn't need to buy another machine just to host the repo.
Let me start by saying IANAL, however, if I remember correctly, for a patent to be violated, all of its claims must be true.
A cursory examination of the actual patent, there are 67 claims, I read the first 10 and stopped.
Claim #2 is not applicable to iMessage -- iMessage has no user preferences.
Claim #7 is not applicable -- the transfer is not in response to activating an application on the receiver.
Claim #8 is not applicable -- the transfering is not in response to activation an application on the sender.
I don't believe claim #10 is applicable either, but it's hard to read patentese.
I stopped after that point an realized this is a publicity stunt and the judge is going to throw this out faster than you can say patent trolling.
If portability isn't a concern, you can easily stripe 3 standard HDD's and get near the same performance as an SSD
It is still not even close in typical usage. 3 HDD's striped together will have the same response time (7-13ms), while a single SSD will have a response time measured in ns. The amount of I/Os you can do per second aren't even remotely the same, especially if they are random access. Just two vastly different technologies. Yes, if all you do is copy massive files (video) to and from that media, then the performance between them may be similar, but you'd be surprised by just how much the typical machine does random IO vs sequential, even just "copying files" on the desktop.
There was just a survey done that was published a couple weeks ago and recarried on CNN that said 53% of android users were switching phones, the majority of them that were switching to iPhones, and another very significant portion of current android users who want an iPhone but bought the droid only because it was cheaper -- not better.
Perhaps, but I already know what I needed to in order to justify the purchase.
It will play my 1080p encoded videos that my 4 wouldn't. It has twice the memory capacity my 4 had (64gb vs 32gb).
To be honest, everything else is just cake.
4.0" screen? If it still had the 3.5" I still would have bought it.
Siri? I doubt I'll be using siri at all. I've seen it, but it is a novelty -- not a really useful feature -- yet.
Faster memory? The faster memory is very nice, I definitely will like the faster app load times, but again, I didn't need it.
New connector? Yeah, I wish I could skip that one unless it actually does USB 3.0 speeds, which I'm doubting but some are claiming.
Faster WIFI? Yes, that will be nice, but again not a deal maker/breaker.
LTE? Maybe. AT&T 3G is bad in many places for me, so I am hoping LTE will be better especially the first few days before it becomes saturated.
IOS 6? I could put that on my iPhone 4, so that didn't make any difference to me. It is more of a reason I like the iPhone line, not any iPhone version in particular.
Camera? I'm not a photographer, so the iPhone 4 camera was adequate enough for my needs.
Battery? This rarely plays any role in my day to day. I have charging cables at both my house and work, so the battery only needs to last for 2-3 hours of video/talk time. On the weekends, it needs 2 days for standby with light usage -- for when I don't make it back to my own house until the next morning.
Brighter colors? I'll have to see. I was satisfied with the iPhone 4 color saturation. As long as it is as good as the iPhone 4 screen, it's good enough for me.
Just to clarify, the iPhone 5 isn't available yet, so the first two weeks for comparison doesn't start until 9/21. Pre-orders are considered "sold" on 9/21 and will be wrapped into "first day" sales I believe. I'm not exactly sure how preorders that won't ship until weeks 1-3 are counted. Are they "sales" on 9/21, or the date they ship? I'd guess 9/21, because they will word it however they need to so that they have the biggest number on launch day.
It's all really marketing.
when you have 2 kids things like this matter. not rooting and tooting and staying up all night getting excited...
That is how you got the 2 kids if I am not mistaken.
The single cycle part of your post is inaccurate, but I'd mod you up for the rest of it if I had mod points left.
Today's intel processors have combined the best parts of both the RISC and CISC worlds, and really can't be classified as being completely either type architecture. Externally it's CISC, but internally it acts much more like a RISC processor.
I'm not aware of any successful implementation of a pure RISC processor at the high end. If there is one, please point it out because I'd like to learn about it. And it sure doesn't look like the PPC chips are very comparable today.
Ditto, but I've also spent 15yrs on the other side of town... swinging a mop
Do I even need to comment?
You seem to think that unions are there to protect lazy people?
Yes, and your comment just proves it more.
Have you have actually tried raising a family while wearing a blue color?
No, I haven't. Have you tried raising a family while wearing a green color? Me either, just thought I would ask.
Do you have callouses on your hands from all your "hard work"?
No, were you diagnosed with carpel tunnel before there was even a name for it -- while you were a teenager?
Do realize that when people call you a "suit", it's not a sign of respect?
I don't let others decide how I view my own worth. Although I don't think anyone has called me a "suit". I don't wear a suit in my daily work -- with the exception of a couple times a year. Do you realize that when people call you a "shit shoveler", it's not a sign of respect?
If it is set to 1 by default, then all the DNT header means is you are a typical user who doesn't want to be tracked.
There, fixed that for you.
You are so blind that you can't even see the stupidity of your own statements. You believe people should be able to be tracked unless they explicitly say otherwise. While the rest of the world sees the issue as you should not be able to be tracked unless you explicitly say otherwise. It really isn't that hard of a concept, and I feel sorry that you can't understand it.
Because from everywhere that I've seen, union shops typically force down stupid metrics for how people get paid. Like seniority over skill. If you are bad at your job, or lazy, or definitely both then you benefit from a union. If you are one of the best at your job, then you typically suffer under a union because the pay range available for that position is very small.
Since I am neither bad, nor lazy, I often make a considerable amount more than my coworkers. Even those who supposedly have the same title and more seniority. If I don't like the job, the environment, or my boss, I can always leave and go somewhere else.
On top of that, unions usually keep pushing wages up even for those that don't deserve it until a company is financially strapped and uncompetitive.
Microsoft isn't destroying the standard/convention. It just sounds like you want uninformed users (the majority) to default to being able to be tracked instead.
Oh well. Your tough luck. Personally, I don't mind being tracked usually. I'd rather have advertisements come up for buying things I'm actually interested in (sports cars, computers, yachts, computer games) that say, tampons, cramp cures, and weight loss pills.
Then again, as a webmaster who is often forced to install tracking crap all over the place, often by multitudes of different places, I fully understand the whole issue of how it can significantly slow down your web browsing experience, and I will sometimes/often use ADP to totally kill trying to even request that crap. Same thing for social media crap. Yes, I'm looking at you facebook like. Your servers suck ass and are slow as crap. I have a permanent ban on everything that tries to go out to you, cause I'm tired of seeing 1-2 connection threads tied up for 1-2 seconds on every page request just so I can see how many losers like the page.
Off the top of my head: :nth-child, etc)
Opacity (real opacity, including opacity on PNGs with an alpha channel).
Being able to define colors using RGBA
CSS3 transforms
Fully supporting @font-face for real web fonts
HTML5 video support with H.264/MPEG4 so we can drop flash video players finally
WOFF font support instead of the EOT (IE-only font format)
Box shadows
multiple backgrounds on a single object
CSS3 selectors (:last-child,
Stuff even IE9 doesn't support:
text-shadows
3d transforms
aync on script tags
web sockets
Filereader API (Smarter upload buttons)
CSS3 transitions
CSS3 gradients
HTML5 form elements (date picker, range, integer, etc)
Yes, those are all things that we use on our web site, or wanted to use and either had to write custom fallbacks just for IE, rewrite to use a different (more difficult, less efficient, larger) technique, or just let IE look like crap.
iOS can do that too, it's called AirPlay.
Bullshit, Intel is falsely advertising
Please show me the advertisement that says, well... anything. A spokesman saying something is not an advertisement.
Intel is colluding with Microsoft
Really? Where did you learn this from? Oh, you just made that up. I see. Never mind, I'm sure that will hold up in a court of law. Dear Judge, I present irrefutable evidence that Intel and Microsoft were colluding... Khyber said so. I rest my case.
FALSE ADVERTISING IS STILL ILLEGAL AND AN ANTITRUST ISSUE WHEN A CONVICTED MONOPOLIST IS INVOLVED.
Yes, false advertising is illegal.
No, false advertising doesn't become an antitrust issue, ever.
There is no such thing as a "convicted monopolist", at least as how you intend to use it. Being a monopoly is not illegal, so you can not be convicted of it.
If you can explain the logical difference between why it is legal to give one of these URLs out, and not the other because one is "lock"ed and the other is not, I'd love to hear it: //{hard to guess string with colon in it}@host //host/{hard to guess string that may have colon in it}
http:
and
http: