Unique? That's Virtual Memory. Sure, the fact that it's easy (may be) a good thing (though how many people are going to keep an empty flash drive around for this? Easier to get the kid down the street to install more ram for you and be done with it if you cant do it yourself. However, unique? I can put a swap file on flash drive and itd do the same thing...
Will the swap be encrypted so taking away the stick can't reveal confidential data? No. Will taking the swap out in the middle of the OS running lock it up? Yes. Will the OS benchmark the Flash for you and determine which pieces of data are best stored there and which not for best performance? No.
So when you say "it's the same" you're stretching truth quite a lot.
I wonder, if it was written in law that it's wrong that you live since it's indirectly doing harm to the africal children or something of that sort, would you jump off a cliff?
Call the post nihilistic if you will, I'm just saying in the real world people try whatever works, without regard to what some smart fella sat down and wrote in a law somewhere.
If it can be done, and there's some value in doing it, people will attempt it. This is why the movie/audio industry has such a problem on its hands right now, as the more they fight piracy, the more pirated content has bigger value compared to legal content.
When I said "is it right or wrong" I didn't ask for clarification. We all know what's the official policy on this. I just said it doesn't matter though. And you may want to reread what I said on this topic.
But trying to have your cake and eat it too is just stupid.
There's only one rule: you can have and eat your cake, or you get busted. Some people are just willing to accept to risks and go with the former scenario.
It may not be their right as citizens, but it's their ability as living beings to try what they want and live with the results.
I've frequently found myself pirating a software initially and as I find more and more uses for it, and become dependent on it, I purchase a license. Is it proper? Is it wrong? Doesn't matter. Only thing that matters is that I did it.
The situation with Windows/Office is the same. They stealthily encourages piracy and then demanded all pirated users pay. Is it wrong, right? Doesn't matter. They pulled it off, and since the law is on their side, they have the right to call the BSA on the pirates.
And the pirates have the right to fight back... It's that simple.
If you're doing something that requires code execution speed, you're probably better off looking at Java or possibly even ASP.NET.
Easy to say, hard to do. When you and your team have invested years in experience and reusable code in a certain platform/technology, it won't be good news to just, switch language to get extra performance.
Time for what? Do they plan to integrate mandatory brain purging in our brains or something? Do the planets align in some DRM-favoring way few days from now?
Exactly wtf is the paranoia about? DRM is broken, so fine. By the time people start feeling the effects of this (the wide public still hasn't), DRM will either adapt to be bearable or die.
This is easily solved by putting in place a corporate policy to include roof decoration for all franchises.
You can't actually be against people doing what they want with their own roofs right? In fact, putting readable symbols on your own roof will make the building easily recognizable in a map, so it's a positive thing.
The problem in my opinion is people like those in the article which "spammed" a public park.
None, because it ruins the entire point of maps if you turn them into nothing but billboards.
This is easily solved by the online maps simply not announcing where they'll shoot next week. Unless you have the money to spam the entire world, for an year...
The way AMD and Intel are improving the processor speed is very impressive. I/O speed is going to become an even clearer bottleneck now.
Depends what you're using. I gotta say, I use PHP.. and I'm very happy with more cores coming on the server market, and CPU is quite clear bottleneck for that one technology:(
Why does everyone think people will rush out to buy players when there are only a handful of HD *movies* out on the market?
The focus groups that aren't, the lower management trying to save itself, the "independent" studies that fake results to favor their sponsors, greed?
They have no clue. It's truly marvelous how group think works. It's entirely plausible that you put 1000 very smart people together, and they come out with the most logic void solutions as a team.
I think we're worrying too much though: they'll try random things until one of them sticks (good ol' natural selection), and they'll just follow the money. This is why being an early adopter is something most of us gotta avoid like the plague.
Where as if everyone had stopped being dicks and gone "screw this, lets just make a great OS" together we could have the most amazing thing ever.
This is what Linux is.
The problem with "screw this, lets just make a great OS together" is that people don' just throw effort in a hole.
They always are in to get something back, and in the case of community development efforts, developers join together to give OS and get OS. This is why Linux is friendly only to advanced users and developers.
With commercial efforts, developers are in to give OS and get money, so they have much better initiative to make an OS look appealing to someone else but them.
There's no "good OS", "bad OS" anymore. We have a developed industry and specialization. We have a bunch of OS that are all good, but for vastly different purposes.
My web servers run on BSD and Linux (simple, secure, stable, proven,... free). My designers run Apple-s (cultural phenomenon, the whole product line speaks "design", good software, user friendly). Most of my developers and my accountant run on Windows (user friendly/less than Mac, but not a lot/, lots of software, superb dev tools).
When you grow up, you realize there's no place for favoritism and politics in here, just tools you pick depending on your task.
That said I suspect Apple supporters will come out the winners from the BBC competition. It's purely a branding thing, and entirely predictable: all Apple does it cool (good job, Steve & co!), all Microsoft does is not cool (with power comes resp... come the obligatory haters), and all Linux does, is way too geeky (by geeks, for geeks) and no one in the general public cares.
The Jokes aren't for purposes of making fun of people who believe in Global Warming. They are to make fun of those who absolutely don't want anyone else to voice doubt of their theories. Like asking the Meteorological Society to take away a meteorologists license for voicing doubt of the current vogue theories of Global Warming. Or, putting them on trial in the future. Sounds kinda Nazi-like when you think of it.
This is because at the amount of evidence, even by simple observations on the climate changes in the place where we live, it's obvious it's not a kidding matter anymore.
People who want to censor opposing voices basically are worried our way of living is at stake here.
As I said, there's no black and white: life's more complex. Giving voice to doubts and so on is cool, but if you were in the middle of open fire, would you sit down to discuss whether fire is really dangerous or not, or try to get out of there?
This effect is clearly visible both on a global scale (developed/developing countries) and locally (lower/upper class).
What you're missing is what "developing/developed" means.
I've also been busy with such data, and I can tell you people were multiplying like rabbits in the likes of Germany, France, USA and so on, before they 'developed'.
Also don't confuse being massively ignorant (mostly a cultural phenomenon) with being genetically stupid.
Looking at the majority of posts, I gotta say... I've the feeling, that the jokes that poke fun at theories of global warming caused by human activity will get less and less funny each year.
I just hope we won't cry when we hear one in 10 years.
I guess it's human nature to oversimplify things into two categories of black and white. As always, real life is a lot more complex than this.
You know, it's not considered cool anymore to just jump in random posts, split them in sentences and just say "no, it isn't" to every piece without adding anything of substance.
Shouldn't we be trying to create candidate algorithms for the year 2050 to give the algorithms time to withstand attack? Or do we plan to keep creating new algorithms as a serial security-by-obscurity strategy.
This is what a hash is by design: obscurity. For mathematical reasons alone, you can't have a unique hash for your megabyte message crammed in (say) 256 bytes. Or 512, or 1024 bytes.
And with a public algorithm spec, it's all about whether there's a determined group to turn it inside-out and make it easy to crack.
That said, the ability to hack SHA/MD5 given the time and tools, doesn't make hashes useless. A hash by itself can be useless, but coupled with a good procedure that incorporates it, it can raise the security level just enough so it's not reachable by 99.99999...% of the potential hackers out there that will try to break you.
Security is just an endless race on both sides, and will always be.
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Unique? That's Virtual Memory. Sure, the fact that it's easy (may be) a good thing (though how many people are going to keep an empty flash drive around for this? Easier to get the kid down the street to install more ram for you and be done with it if you cant do it yourself. However, unique? I can put a swap file on flash drive and itd do the same thing...
Will the swap be encrypted so taking away the stick can't reveal confidential data? No.
Will taking the swap out in the middle of the OS running lock it up? Yes.
Will the OS benchmark the Flash for you and determine which pieces of data are best stored there and which not for best performance? No.
So when you say "it's the same" you're stretching truth quite a lot.
I wonder, if it was written in law that it's wrong that you live since it's indirectly doing harm to the africal children or something of that sort, would you jump off a cliff?
Call the post nihilistic if you will, I'm just saying in the real world people try whatever works, without regard to what some smart fella sat down and wrote in a law somewhere.
If it can be done, and there's some value in doing it, people will attempt it. This is why the movie/audio industry has such a problem on its hands right now, as the more they fight piracy, the more pirated content has bigger value compared to legal content.
When I said "is it right or wrong" I didn't ask for clarification. We all know what's the official policy on this. I just said it doesn't matter though. And you may want to reread what I said on this topic.
But trying to have your cake and eat it too is just stupid.
There's only one rule: you can have and eat your cake, or you get busted. Some people are just willing to accept to risks and go with the former scenario.
It may not be their right as citizens, but it's their ability as living beings to try what they want and live with the results.
I've frequently found myself pirating a software initially and as I find more and more uses for it, and become dependent on it, I purchase a license. Is it proper? Is it wrong? Doesn't matter. Only thing that matters is that I did it.
The situation with Windows/Office is the same. They stealthily encourages piracy and then demanded all pirated users pay. Is it wrong, right? Doesn't matter. They pulled it off, and since the law is on their side, they have the right to call the BSA on the pirates.
And the pirates have the right to fight back... It's that simple.
If you know your GNU from your Linux, and you fancy the chance to work on a very popular website, www.gnu.org, then please drop me an email...
See, with those hefty requirements, you're missing out on many of the great among us.
The rumors for my death are greatly exaggerated.
So are the rumors that this article has any substance at all. But, hey, let's all make up random shit and run around panicked because of it!
This OS must be some sort of practical joke just to get all of us talking about it. No company that respects its customers... oh wait, nevermind.
...
The practical joke comes with subsequent releases, when the mandatory install procedure for upgrade versions will include the following steps:
1. install XP SP2
2. upgrade to Vista
3. upgrade to Vista Fiji
4. upgrade to Vienna
5. upgrade to Vienna R2
If you're doing something that requires code execution speed, you're probably better off looking at Java or possibly even ASP.NET.
Easy to say, hard to do. When you and your team have invested years in experience and reusable code in a certain platform/technology, it won't be good news to just, switch language to get extra performance.
But faster CPU.. any time.
Fight DRM While There's Still Time
Time for what? Do they plan to integrate mandatory brain purging in our brains or something? Do the planets align in some DRM-favoring way few days from now?
Exactly wtf is the paranoia about? DRM is broken, so fine. By the time people start feeling the effects of this (the wide public still hasn't), DRM will either adapt to be bearable or die.
I don't get it what's with all the paranoia.
This is easily solved by putting in place a corporate policy to include roof decoration for all franchises.
You can't actually be against people doing what they want with their own roofs right? In fact, putting readable symbols on your own roof will make the building easily recognizable in a map, so it's a positive thing.
The problem in my opinion is people like those in the article which "spammed" a public park.
None, because it ruins the entire point of maps if you turn them into nothing but billboards.
This is easily solved by the online maps simply not announcing where they'll shoot next week. Unless you have the money to spam the entire world, for an year...
Intel's quad-core Xeon 5300 line. AMD says that the introduction of Barcelona marks a shift in their strategy from emphasizing price to performance
The way they spun it, you can also claim they changed their strategy from slow to expensive.
The way AMD and Intel are improving the processor speed is very impressive. I/O speed is going to become an even clearer bottleneck now.
:(
Depends what you're using. I gotta say, I use PHP.. and I'm very happy with more cores coming on the server market, and CPU is quite clear bottleneck for that one technology
Hear that, MPAA!?!?! I said BUYING.
I think MPAA just pissed its pants.
Why does everyone think people will rush out to buy players when there are only a handful of HD *movies* out on the market?
The focus groups that aren't, the lower management trying to save itself, the "independent" studies that fake results to favor their sponsors, greed?
They have no clue. It's truly marvelous how group think works. It's entirely plausible that you put 1000 very smart people together, and they come out with the most logic void solutions as a team.
I think we're worrying too much though: they'll try random things until one of them sticks (good ol' natural selection), and they'll just follow the money. This is why being an early adopter is something most of us gotta avoid like the plague.
Where as if everyone had stopped being dicks and gone "screw this, lets just make a great OS" together we could have the most amazing thing ever.
This is what Linux is.
The problem with "screw this, lets just make a great OS together" is that people don' just throw effort in a hole.
They always are in to get something back, and in the case of community development efforts, developers join together to give OS and get OS. This is why Linux is friendly only to advanced users and developers.
With commercial efforts, developers are in to give OS and get money, so they have much better initiative to make an OS look appealing to someone else but them.
Geeks and businessmen... You can always rely on them to walk 9 seas and mountains but find a replacement for good ol' human contact.
There's no "good OS", "bad OS" anymore. We have a developed industry and specialization. We have a bunch of OS that are all good, but for vastly different purposes.
... free). /less than Mac, but not a lot/, lots of software, superb dev tools).
My web servers run on BSD and Linux (simple, secure, stable, proven,
My designers run Apple-s (cultural phenomenon, the whole product line speaks "design", good software, user friendly).
Most of my developers and my accountant run on Windows (user friendly
When you grow up, you realize there's no place for favoritism and politics in here, just tools you pick depending on your task.
That said I suspect Apple supporters will come out the winners from the BBC competition. It's purely a branding thing, and entirely predictable: all Apple does it cool (good job, Steve & co!), all Microsoft does is not cool (with power comes resp... come the obligatory haters), and all Linux does, is way too geeky (by geeks, for geeks) and no one in the general public cares.
The Jokes aren't for purposes of making fun of people who believe in Global Warming. They are to make fun of those who absolutely don't want anyone else to voice doubt of their theories. Like asking the Meteorological Society to take away a meteorologists license for voicing doubt of the current vogue theories of Global Warming. Or, putting them on trial in the future. Sounds kinda Nazi-like when you think of it.
This is because at the amount of evidence, even by simple observations on the climate changes in the place where we live, it's obvious it's not a kidding matter anymore.
People who want to censor opposing voices basically are worried our way of living is at stake here.
As I said, there's no black and white: life's more complex. Giving voice to doubts and so on is cool, but if you were in the middle of open fire, would you sit down to discuss whether fire is really dangerous or not, or try to get out of there?
This effect is clearly visible both on a global scale (developed/developing countries) and locally (lower/upper class).
What you're missing is what "developing/developed" means.
I've also been busy with such data, and I can tell you people were multiplying like rabbits in the likes of Germany, France, USA and so on, before they 'developed'.
Also don't confuse being massively ignorant (mostly a cultural phenomenon) with being genetically stupid.
Let's kill this stupid theory.
it would seam desirable that stupidity should kill
Then it would "seam" time to meet your maker.
Weird times we live in. Are you implying that one typo is enough to put this guy in the group of people that burned their sponges in the microwave?
Shouldn't this be? The cycles predicted by Ehlrich's model were inferred from observations.
You know, I noticed my TV program guide lines up almost perfectly with the TV programs, but I never quite felt how this phenomenon is called.
Looking at the majority of posts, I gotta say... I've the feeling, that the jokes that poke fun at theories of global warming caused by human activity will get less and less funny each year.
I just hope we won't cry when we hear one in 10 years.
I guess it's human nature to oversimplify things into two categories of black and white. As always, real life is a lot more complex than this.
You know, it's not considered cool anymore to just jump in random posts, split them in sentences and just say "no, it isn't" to every piece without adding anything of substance.
But.. you'll catch up. Eventually.
Shouldn't we be trying to create candidate algorithms for the year 2050 to give the algorithms time to withstand attack? Or do we plan to keep creating new algorithms as a serial security-by-obscurity strategy.
This is what a hash is by design: obscurity. For mathematical reasons alone, you can't have a unique hash for your megabyte message crammed in (say) 256 bytes. Or 512, or 1024 bytes.
And with a public algorithm spec, it's all about whether there's a determined group to turn it inside-out and make it easy to crack.
That said, the ability to hack SHA/MD5 given the time and tools, doesn't make hashes useless. A hash by itself can be useless, but coupled with a good procedure that incorporates it, it can raise the security level just enough so it's not reachable by 99.99999...% of the potential hackers out there that will try to break you.
Security is just an endless race on both sides, and will always be.
Yes, they do but the question is: does wtf you're proposing have any argument to support it?
I'm not proposing anything, these are your very own words, with "Apple" replaced with "Microsoft". As I said, just an interesting experiment.
Well today I saw someone reply to his own words and argue the details with himself. Fun.