But seriously, unless you're gonna keep all 8 cores cooking a lot, or you do a lot of seriously high-end video work or something else where speed above all else matters, they'll be a waste. So what you're saying basically is that the new macs aren't useful for anything, except for what they are useful for?
If I were creating these keys... MS can now issue up to 1 billion copies of the software with distinct key Yes, but it is a lot less than the 24493372044386789716458775771410190.708 keys they can create with their current system (((10 digits + 26 letters)^(25 spaces))/33000). With the current high demand for vista they just can't afford to have any less;)
Having not toyed with Microsoft products at this level, I have to wonder how hard it would be to 1) firewall the machine so it can't talk to microsoft, or even better, 2) redirect to a fake local server that tells your box that it is legit?
1) not hard, but then the verification fails due to "network problems" and cancel the installation process. 2) nice idea. if I were MS and used the GP's scheme of using public key cryptography then I would sign each copy of my server's response on the server with my private key, thus making the software able to detect with the public key if it is an original response or a fake one.
Nobody here mentioned AntiVir. It's free (for personal use) and I've also seen it touted on slashdot in the past. I use it on all the computers in home and it's fast, not annoying* (see auto-update ad) and efficient. Caveats: * No email scanning in free version. * If auto-update is turned on (as it should be!) when it starts the updating process it launches an ad pop-up touting their non-free version and products.b
In my previous job (3 years ago) there was a robotic parking lot - you parked your car inside a garage-sized room and a robotic arm/elevator combo. using electro magnets parked it in the "lot" (if I remember correctly it was a shaft both underground and in the building itself). In the end of the day you put your parking-card thru the card reader and the robotic combo. brought it to the garage-sized room. It saved much space and is really cool. The disadvantages I saw where: a) 17:00 most of the people in the building finished their work. BAM, long line of workers infront of the garage-sized room. Sure, it can be solved with more "terminals" (aka the garage-sized rooms) but this takes more space. Also, altough in regular parking lots there is also a bottle-neck in the exit, I suspect they will usually be faster. b) in the first few weeks of the system's operation there were two accidents - the robotic arm with the elcetromagnets ripped of their roofs. This was solved with further tuning but needless to say that some people were afraid to put their car into this system:)
Overall I think such a system is good if there is a space problem, but in terms of costs I really don't know how it compares.
If your destination is a place with a non-Roman alphabet, I doubt any databases will be able to link your name to anything without human intervention. I live in Israel, where the main language is Hebrew. In my former univ. there was a website with some interactive homework. Now, the site was in english. But it took your hebrew name and converted it to english. I don't know why it was so important to them, but they did it. Sure, it sometimes lead to funny names, but only sometimes.
And what makes you think that when you'll fill that new country's forms you will not be asked for the english equivelent of your name? It is pretty standard here and in european countries i've been (though, granted, as tourist and not a citizen)
I'm another happy namecheap user. I registered my private domain there, but at work I manage several domains in other registrars and namecheap has by far the best control panel, thus give you by far the best control of your domain.
Sure, it might be that the other registrars I work with just plain suck, but I'm really enjoying namecheap.
Reminds me a lecture I attended last year where Adi Shamir talked about one of his latest AES attacks. Basically it uses information about the state of the CPU's memory cache and thus attacks processes on the same computer too. Here's the paper.
An article at Ten Ton Hammer answers personal computer/PC gamers' question on what's coming their way with Microsoft's newest operating system/OS, Windows Vista.
Welcome to the Redundancy Department of Redundancy!
Yes, it does run Linux. From Engadget: Yes, according to Sony you can install any PowerPC-capable Linux build. Yellow Dog Linux, however, is the most prominently supported distro announced to date.
The only drive I've had die before I retired it myself from sheer obsolescence was an IBM 20GB "DeskStar" model Yes, the so called "DeathStar" series... (Not that all of it was bad, "only" certain models)
Incidentally, IBM was very good about the whole thing; they sent me a new drive the day I called them. Too bad they sold their HD division to Hitachi... Sure, they had good support, but is that really a replacement for reliability when it comes to harddrives?
Ditto. I'm writing this msg from my main computer for the last couple of weeks which is a p3 tualatin 1.13 laptop that usually underclocks itself back to 731MHz and I'm really happy with it. I read my emails & rss feeds, listen to and occasionally transcode music, see movies, browsing etc. perfectly well with it. I'm using Ubuntu, but from my limited experience (on this computer) the same is true with windows xp. I'm receiving a new laptop from work in two weeks, but I wouldn't care to keep this laptop for myself - the only caveat (and a I admit that it is a biggy) is that it does not include wifi, but thats really a question of platform and not CPU technology.
Sure, I'm playing Oblivion on a desktop with Geforce 6800 but for corporate and day-to-day use thats already more than needed.
The ability to close and continue sessions later removes a major reason why many people kept their browsers open If you want that out of the box and don't like v2 you should try Opera - it has been a standard there for years now.
I recently did IT for the largest casino company on the planet. I was dual-property and responsible for two casinos. The master code that would open the keyboxes and get you keys to anywhere in the casino was 654321. And people tol^@#^NO CARRIER
Their system of economy is more similar to capitalism then soviet communism. From Wikipedia: "Since 1978 the People's Republic of China (PRC) government has been reforming its economy from a Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented economy but still within the political framework, provided by the Communist Party of China." And from that article: "Despite being the largest country whose ruling party refers to itself as communist, the People's Republic of China runs Special Economic Zones dedicated to capitalist enterprise, which are free from central government control. this is contrary to the communist theory proposed by Marx and Engels and later adapted by Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. After opening up trade to the world under Deng Xiaoping, the People's Republic of China runs some of the most economically free regions in the world, including Hong Kong, which is regarded by the Hoover Institute and the Wall Street Journal as the world's freest economy."
If a karma system will be implemented perhaps Wikipedia (as a foundation) can give volunteered/contracted experts a very high starting karma (or even a redicously high karma so that no one but the most dedicated non-expert can reach it) so their opinion would count (possibly much) more.
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But seriously, unless you're gonna keep all 8 cores cooking a lot, or you do a lot of seriously high-end video work or something else where speed above all else matters, they'll be a waste.
So what you're saying basically is that the new macs aren't useful for anything, except for what they are useful for?
Is Vista a Trap?
;)
geez... I wonder what the slashdot crowd thinks.
Seriously though, good thing it's not on Ask Slashdot
If I were creating these keys... MS can now issue up to 1 billion copies of the software with distinct key ;)
Yes, but it is a lot less than the 24493372044386789716458775771410190.708 keys they can create with their current system (((10 digits + 26 letters)^(25 spaces))/33000).
With the current high demand for vista they just can't afford to have any less
Having not toyed with Microsoft products at this level, I have to wonder how hard it would be to
1) firewall the machine so it can't talk to microsoft,
or even better,
2) redirect to a fake local server that tells your box that it is legit?
1) not hard, but then the verification fails due to "network problems" and cancel the installation process.
2) nice idea. if I were MS and used the GP's scheme of using public key cryptography then I would sign each copy of my server's response on the server with my private key, thus making the software able to detect with the public key if it is an original response or a fake one.
What was the final straw that had the wife decide against Vista?
Nobody here mentioned AntiVir. It's free (for personal use) and I've also seen it touted on slashdot in the past. I use it on all the computers in home and it's fast, not annoying* (see auto-update ad) and efficient.
Caveats:
* No email scanning in free version.
* If auto-update is turned on (as it should be!) when it starts the updating process it launches an ad pop-up touting their non-free version and products.b
In my previous job (3 years ago) there was a robotic parking lot - you parked your car inside a garage-sized room and a robotic arm/elevator combo. using electro magnets parked it in the "lot" (if I remember correctly it was a shaft both underground and in the building itself). In the end of the day you put your parking-card thru the card reader and the robotic combo. brought it to the garage-sized room. It saved much space and is really cool. The disadvantages I saw where: :)
a) 17:00 most of the people in the building finished their work. BAM, long line of workers infront of the garage-sized room. Sure, it can be solved with more "terminals" (aka the garage-sized rooms) but this takes more space. Also, altough in regular parking lots there is also a bottle-neck in the exit, I suspect they will usually be faster.
b) in the first few weeks of the system's operation there were two accidents - the robotic arm with the elcetromagnets ripped of their roofs. This was solved with further tuning but needless to say that some people were afraid to put their car into this system
Overall I think such a system is good if there is a space problem, but in terms of costs I really don't know how it compares.
If your destination is a place with a non-Roman alphabet, I doubt any databases will be able to link your name to anything without human intervention.
I live in Israel, where the main language is Hebrew. In my former univ. there was a website with some interactive homework. Now, the site was in english. But it took your hebrew name and converted it to english. I don't know why it was so important to them, but they did it. Sure, it sometimes lead to funny names, but only sometimes.
And what makes you think that when you'll fill that new country's forms you will not be asked for the english equivelent of your name? It is pretty standard here and in european countries i've been (though, granted, as tourist and not a citizen)
I'm another happy namecheap user. I registered my private domain there, but at work I manage several domains in other registrars and namecheap has by far the best control panel, thus give you by far the best control of your domain.
Sure, it might be that the other registrars I work with just plain suck, but I'm really enjoying namecheap.
Reminds me a lecture I attended last year where Adi Shamir talked about one of his latest AES attacks.
Basically it uses information about the state of the CPU's memory cache and thus attacks processes on the same computer too.
Here's the paper.
An article at Ten Ton Hammer answers personal computer/PC gamers' question on what's coming their way with Microsoft's newest operating system/OS, Windows Vista.
Welcome to the Redundancy Department of Redundancy!
Are there no editors anywhere?
You must be-
ooh, the heck with it
Ditto. :P ).
Take FM recording for example - with Zune you can listen to the radio but not record.
My 64$ player can do that (and in WMA too
What are the rules in the USofA regarding corporate nuclear reactors?
Actually it would be pretty interesting to hear about such laws in other countries as well.
Yes, it does run Linux. From Engadget:
Yes, according to Sony you can install any PowerPC-capable Linux build. Yellow Dog Linux, however, is the most prominently supported distro announced to date.
The only drive I've had die before I retired it myself from sheer obsolescence was an IBM 20GB "DeskStar" model
Yes, the so called "DeathStar" series... (Not that all of it was bad, "only" certain models)
Incidentally, IBM was very good about the whole thing; they sent me a new drive the day I called them. Too bad they sold their HD division to Hitachi...
Sure, they had good support, but is that really a replacement for reliability when it comes to harddrives?
Ditto. I'm writing this msg from my main computer for the last couple of weeks which is a p3 tualatin 1.13 laptop that usually underclocks itself back to 731MHz and I'm really happy with it. I read my emails & rss feeds, listen to and occasionally transcode music, see movies, browsing etc. perfectly well with it. I'm using Ubuntu, but from my limited experience (on this computer) the same is true with windows xp.
I'm receiving a new laptop from work in two weeks, but I wouldn't care to keep this laptop for myself - the only caveat (and a I admit that it is a biggy) is that it does not include wifi, but thats really a question of platform and not CPU technology.
Sure, I'm playing Oblivion on a desktop with Geforce 6800 but for corporate and day-to-day use thats already more than needed.
The ability to close and continue sessions later removes a major reason why many people kept their browsers open
If you want that out of the box and don't like v2 you should try Opera - it has been a standard there for years now.
Parent might also want to check the new "ribbons" Office 2007 UI.
I recently did IT for the largest casino company on the planet. I was dual-property and responsible for two casinos. The master code that would open the keyboxes and get you keys to anywhere in the casino was 654321. And people tol^@#^NO CARRIER
article #1
article #2
Their system of economy is more similar to capitalism then soviet communism. From Wikipedia:
"Since 1978 the People's Republic of China (PRC) government has been reforming its economy from a Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented economy but still within the political framework, provided by the Communist Party of China."
And from that article:
"Despite being the largest country whose ruling party refers to itself as communist, the People's Republic of China runs Special Economic Zones dedicated to capitalist enterprise, which are free from central government control. this is contrary to the communist theory proposed by Marx and Engels and later adapted by Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. After opening up trade to the world under Deng Xiaoping, the People's Republic of China runs some of the most economically free regions in the world, including Hong Kong, which is regarded by the Hoover Institute and the Wall Street Journal as the world's freest economy."
Amusing.
More amusing when noticing your sig: "What about the good things Osama did?"
If a karma system will be implemented perhaps Wikipedia (as a foundation) can give volunteered/contracted experts a very high starting karma (or even a redicously high karma so that no one but the most dedicated non-expert can reach it) so their opinion would count (possibly much) more.
If you think the system works on Slashdot MOD ME UP.