Not too knowledgeable on the different networks. I do know I'm stuck with Verizon Wireless for a long time to come. Does anyone know how easy/hard it is to use this phone with the different networks? Since it's an unlocked phone can I just stroll down to my local Verizon outlet and tell them to switch my account to that phone? I remember I had a hell of a time some years back buying a phone in New York and activating that... even I bought that from a Verizon outlet too.
I'm thankful for Ubuntu. Now maybe I can get my brother, my mother, my father, my father's company, etc to use Linux instead of Windows.
Most of the world are not techgeeks like you, or me even.
When I read the article, it sounded to me like two of the bugs caused the entire PC to hang, and required a complete reboot of the system. Not, as it seems to be assumed throughout these responses, just Word. It doesn't say in the article that you could just kill the offending word process. It says you have to reboot the machine. That is absolutely a DoS.
"Two of the three bugs result in a denial-of-service-like situation, with the PC's processor maxed out at 100%, making the machine unusable until it's rebooted. The third, Aharoni suggested, could be used to introduce remote attack code after an exploit causes an overflow of "wwlib.dll," a crucial Word library. But "code execution is not trivial," he added."
Right - thanks for clarifying for me. That's what I get for posting in a hurry.:) If I'd taken the time to copy/paste one more paragraph it would've been more clear... (as I bang out a post on my way out the door)
That's not 62 watts at 1.8 teraflops.
That's 62 watts at 3.16 GHz
FTFA:
"Intel claims that it can scale the voltage and clock speed of the processor to gain even more floating point performance. For example, at 5.1 GHz, the chip reaches 1.63 TFlops (2.61 Tb/s) and at 5.7 GHz the processor hits 1.81 TFlops (2.91 Tb/s). However, power consumption rises quickly as well: Intel measured 175 watts at 5.1 GHz and 265 watts at 5.7 GHz. However, considering the fact that just 202 of these 80-core processors could replicate the floating point performance of today's highest performing supercomputer, those power consumption numbers appear even more convincing: The Department of Energy's BlueGene/L system, rated at a peak performance of 367 TFlops, houses 65,536 dual core processors."
That's the issue. If you went to work for some plumbing company they wouldn't care. I wouldn't be surprised if you had to sign a non-competitive agreement (that you can't go to a competitor within X amount of time, 2 years is what I've seen as standard) when you first joined.
The two times I've seen a lawsuit come about because of this, it was when the person in question was in high enough position the company thought it mattered...
Couldn't you say that nerdcore is the burgeoning musical outlet for a subculture that already exists?
Or in specifically musical terms... if a movement of music doesn't neatly fit into any classications of genres that exist already, especially if it takes elements of genres that exist already, would that define a new (sub or no) genre of music?
This is a tendency that's especially prevalent within electronica. Which comes first? The genre or the subculture?
I don't know what part of the North Atlantic they're talking about, but the fishing industry in Boston has collapsed. Cod, which used to be cheap and plentiful is as expensive as haddock now.
It's not fake money. Companies do interdepartment financial transactions all the time. Just because it's Google doesn't make it fishy.
If Marketing department has budget of 100 dollars, and AdWords charges Marketing 30 dollars, and Google made 300 dollars total profit...
Marketing has 70 dollars left to spend over the year. Those 30 dollars get added to total expenses.
Net profit = 300 - 30 = 270 dollars.
Of course this is a highly simplified example, and I'm sure Google shareholders are hoping a net profit something more than 270 bucks...
It's warming up in Boston too. When I was young (20 years ago thanks for that bit of self realization) there were snowbanks at every curb corner. The snowbanks would inevitably shrink between snowfalls but there'd always be plenty of snow for king of the hill. That's hardly the case now. Usually what snow we get melts within a few days.
Sorry, don't have any links. This was for the DNC in Boston, we had an agreed verbal contract with the coordinator. Then it went south when he told us that microsoft had donated a bunch of hardware but then required that all businesses that the DNC deal with had to be microsoft compliant. since we were not, we lost the business. IIRC that was 3 million dollars allocated to local businesses to run the DNC.
I'm doubly embittered because that was a make or break moment for the company. As it stands, it broke, I got broke, and I spend most of my time writing technical docs now. Scratch that. I'm triply embittered.
this is exactly the kind of thing that makes people call it micro$oft. just like during the DNC our startup company was frozen out of a contract because microsoft came in and "donated" hardware with the stipulation that only companies that were m$ certified and did not use linux technology could get contracts. i am sure that the open source community sees it for the load of crap it is - i only hope that the corporate world does as well.
1. That's already difficult for some people. Once they got an Ubuntu cd in their grubby little hands, then yes, it's astonishingly easy (when I installed I sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out what I had to do next bwahahaha)
Replace 1. with "sign up on ubuntu to get mailed a free install cd" and you're in business
The major email services like yahoo, earthlink, & hotmail use filters before the mail even gets to you. Yahoo used to use Brightmail, at least before it got bought out. MS got in trouble once because they had their filters cranked too high and real mails were getting dropped. Just because you don't see as many spam in your inbox/bulk folder doesn't mean that less spam is being sent. I'd wager that it's more a function of more spam being caught.
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Not too knowledgeable on the different networks. I do know I'm stuck with Verizon Wireless for a long time to come. Does anyone know how easy/hard it is to use this phone with the different networks? Since it's an unlocked phone can I just stroll down to my local Verizon outlet and tell them to switch my account to that phone? I remember I had a hell of a time some years back buying a phone in New York and activating that ... even I bought that from a Verizon outlet too.
I'm thankful for Ubuntu. Now maybe I can get my brother, my mother, my father, my father's company, etc to use Linux instead of Windows. Most of the world are not techgeeks like you, or me even.
Spoken like a true second born!
Wonderful, I'll be seeing news on britney spears and true.com
You rock :)
When I read the article, it sounded to me like two of the bugs caused the entire PC to hang, and required a complete reboot of the system. Not, as it seems to be assumed throughout these responses, just Word. It doesn't say in the article that you could just kill the offending word process. It says you have to reboot the machine. That is absolutely a DoS. "Two of the three bugs result in a denial-of-service-like situation, with the PC's processor maxed out at 100%, making the machine unusable until it's rebooted. The third, Aharoni suggested, could be used to introduce remote attack code after an exploit causes an overflow of "wwlib.dll," a crucial Word library. But "code execution is not trivial," he added."
Right - thanks for clarifying for me. That's what I get for posting in a hurry. :) If I'd taken the time to copy/paste one more paragraph it would've been more clear... (as I bang out a post on my way out the door)
That's not 62 watts at 1.8 teraflops. That's 62 watts at 3.16 GHz FTFA: "Intel claims that it can scale the voltage and clock speed of the processor to gain even more floating point performance. For example, at 5.1 GHz, the chip reaches 1.63 TFlops (2.61 Tb/s) and at 5.7 GHz the processor hits 1.81 TFlops (2.91 Tb/s). However, power consumption rises quickly as well: Intel measured 175 watts at 5.1 GHz and 265 watts at 5.7 GHz. However, considering the fact that just 202 of these 80-core processors could replicate the floating point performance of today's highest performing supercomputer, those power consumption numbers appear even more convincing: The Department of Energy's BlueGene/L system, rated at a peak performance of 367 TFlops, houses 65,536 dual core processors."
That's the issue. If you went to work for some plumbing company they wouldn't care. I wouldn't be surprised if you had to sign a non-competitive agreement (that you can't go to a competitor within X amount of time, 2 years is what I've seen as standard) when you first joined. The two times I've seen a lawsuit come about because of this, it was when the person in question was in high enough position the company thought it mattered...
Bastards, I just bought one of those books! And I got no key!
Couldn't you say that nerdcore is the burgeoning musical outlet for a subculture that already exists? Or in specifically musical terms... if a movement of music doesn't neatly fit into any classications of genres that exist already, especially if it takes elements of genres that exist already, would that define a new (sub or no) genre of music? This is a tendency that's especially prevalent within electronica. Which comes first? The genre or the subculture?
You've hit the nail on the head my friend.
I don't know what part of the North Atlantic they're talking about, but the fishing industry in Boston has collapsed. Cod, which used to be cheap and plentiful is as expensive as haddock now.
It's not fake money. Companies do interdepartment financial transactions all the time. Just because it's Google doesn't make it fishy. If Marketing department has budget of 100 dollars, and AdWords charges Marketing 30 dollars, and Google made 300 dollars total profit ...
Marketing has 70 dollars left to spend over the year. Those 30 dollars get added to total expenses.
Net profit = 300 - 30 = 270 dollars.
Of course this is a highly simplified example, and I'm sure Google shareholders are hoping a net profit something more than 270 bucks...
It's warming up in Boston too. When I was young (20 years ago thanks for that bit of self realization) there were snowbanks at every curb corner. The snowbanks would inevitably shrink between snowfalls but there'd always be plenty of snow for king of the hill. That's hardly the case now. Usually what snow we get melts within a few days.
Sorry, don't have any links. This was for the DNC in Boston, we had an agreed verbal contract with the coordinator. Then it went south when he told us that microsoft had donated a bunch of hardware but then required that all businesses that the DNC deal with had to be microsoft compliant. since we were not, we lost the business. IIRC that was 3 million dollars allocated to local businesses to run the DNC. I'm doubly embittered because that was a make or break moment for the company. As it stands, it broke, I got broke, and I spend most of my time writing technical docs now. Scratch that. I'm triply embittered.
this is exactly the kind of thing that makes people call it micro$oft. just like during the DNC our startup company was frozen out of a contract because microsoft came in and "donated" hardware with the stipulation that only companies that were m$ certified and did not use linux technology could get contracts. i am sure that the open source community sees it for the load of crap it is - i only hope that the corporate world does as well.
1. That's already difficult for some people. Once they got an Ubuntu cd in their grubby little hands, then yes, it's astonishingly easy (when I installed I sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out what I had to do next bwahahaha) Replace 1. with "sign up on ubuntu to get mailed a free install cd" and you're in business
The major email services like yahoo, earthlink, & hotmail use filters before the mail even gets to you. Yahoo used to use Brightmail, at least before it got bought out. MS got in trouble once because they had their filters cranked too high and real mails were getting dropped.
Just because you don't see as many spam in your inbox/bulk folder doesn't mean that less spam is being sent. I'd wager that it's more a function of more spam being caught.