Because while Androids outsell Apple 4:1 or more, there's a very strange thing going on. Mobile web traffic has iOS using TWICE the amount of data over Android. Or, put another way, 1 iOS user consumes as much data as 8 Android users.
Do you have any reliable, current citations for this? The only evidence I have ever seen were some ancient articles on Apple fan sites. My own personal site gets more Android hits than iOS, so I'm sceptical.
If all you find is Apple fan sites (which still reference their sources, btw) then you searched the wrong terms in Google. Try "mobile web traffic report". Here's one example.
Exactly this. Google is showing the power of open. All your stuff works with all your other stuff. Amazing.
As long as it all runs the same version, or you're willing to take the time to make it work. Let's keep this real. There's enough BS flying around both camps. The "closed" environment is bound to be more interoperable, look at Adobe and Microsoft. The cons are that they are only interoperable with their own kind. Which one is better? The one that lets you work the way you want. Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't make it bad.
Not everyone may want to sit down and use their phone/tablet to start a movie, but I don't see it as being too different from using a normal TV/media player remote...
And this is why geeks are terrible people to go to for advice on stuff like this.
A flat touch screen is a TERRIBLE interface for controlling media.
Hey troll, eff-off. Others, STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS! Igits.
"Netgear NeoTV which he wants to utilise for that."
He can, you pick it up, walk over to the trash bin and drop it inside. He wants to use a toy he got duped into buying, there is no happiness until he realizes that and get's rid of it.
XBMC on a low end core duo throwaway PC and a mild out of date nvidia video card will blow away any device you can buy to play back media on your TV. utterly blow it away.
and the side effect, the same XBMC pc can act as the media server so it is an all in one solution. but you can not buy one. You have to spend time to build it and you have to take the time to educate yourself on how to build it. He refuses to even spend time fixing his problem.
I wish/. rankings went to 11. Best answer to a stupid question I have seen in years, if not ever. I would just add, that you want to have a spare machine around if you are cobbling this together from eBay. That, and it will give the OP a machine to use to learn more while he still enjoys the production setup. Heaven forbid there's learning involved!
So, are these banks' websites just as bad, or did they actually manage to re-implement something worse than just wrapping their site in a suitable stylesheet and calling that 'an app'? If the latter, how do they look themselves in the mirror every morning?
Web group is probably internal while the iOS dev was probably shopped out to Rent-a-Coder, so the web app is probably safe. I should say that RaC was used as a generic example. Folks have gotten good work out of them. But do notice the number of times I used "probably".
Put some satellites in orbit around the sun. Enough of them and you'll always be able to see at least one of them from either planet, and they can relay between each other.
This doesn't seem like a hard problem. You can even launch three, Earth L4 &L5, and Jupiter L1 to have redundant and diverse coverage. Though no idea if they were looking for something in a more stable orbit, as Lagrange points take corrections to remain in. Or if those sorts of details were the point of the study.
"As of March 2013, Falcon 9 launch prices are $4,109 per kilogram ($1,864/lb) to low-Earth orbit when the launch vehicle is transporting its maximum cargo weight." This is currently one of the cheapest ways to get to LEO. L4 and L5 are a lot farther out and Jupiter...hahahahaha. I doubt a private entity would be able to fund this. As was said somewhere above, the chances of this stunt getting to the point of putting people on the surface of Mars is laughable. It will probably take them a generation just to get to get the prelim research and logistics worked out before even thinking about astronaut training, so anyone "selected" now would probably see their child go instead. If it doesn't just fall flat on its face in the next few years. Time will tell, and it is not in their favor.
Mac browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) don't run Java applets automatically anyway, so it doesn't matter what version of Java you have installed. Remember these exploits are all getting in because you run malicious code inside a sandbox and the sandbox fails. Don't download and run malicious code and you're OK.
Depends on what version of the OS and Java you are running and whether the user has already acknowledged the site as "safe". Weather.gov uses a mix of Java and other tech to display satellite and radar loops, for instance. The local radar loops (Base and Composite) are Java and after one acknowledgement will load without user intervention another time.
Oracle and Java exploits - An anecdote:-
A couple of weeks ago I tried to log into my superannuation account, the browser fired back an authentication error, so I notified the company (MLC) who asked me to send them as many technical details as I could. After a little bit of looking around, I noted that the Oracle Access Management system that gave me the error code was was at version (11.1.1.5.0). Oracle's currently version was 11.1.2.1.0. Not too surprising, a supplier that had not patched to the current version.
What did surprise me was that Oracle's Identity Management Patch Set that was available for the version displayed was >2GB - A compressed Java application and framework for a database authentication application that was over 2 Gigabytes in size .
It has been a few years since I wrote any Oracle stuff, but that is ridiculous, what the hell have web based script kiddy/Java type developers been up to. Admittedly I started with Oracle in the Stone Age (V3) and actually shipped an application that used V4. By V6 the C interface which included all the necessary external validation code was small enough to be easily understood and modifiable by a single programmer. My memory is going now, but I seem to remember that in the 1990s all of the code for an early web CGI Oracle interface, including user validation would fit on a floppy.
Why are/were you surprised at the size of the package? I, and many other/.ers remember days when a 30 MB (no kids, that's not a typo) hard disk held dozens of applications, the GUI-based OS, and all our data files. Somewhere along the line APIs, OS frameworks and data files got less compact and then grew as the size of hard drives grew. More features, larger frameworks to accommodate those features and WHAM! you have a 2GB patch set. Sure, I still grumble when I see how big a small application (from a raw code standpoint) turns into a rather large binary, but if the features are needed then we have to just grit our teeth and accept that the underpinnings of those features in the APIs are asymmetric to the amount of text to implement them in the function call. Times they are ever a changin'.
But hyper inflation is not bankruptcy. OP is correct.
Incidentally all currency is fiat, even bitcoin. The only difference is that with bitcoin the users are the ones that say it has value. Color me skeptical, but I'd trust any government over a bunch of greasy neck beards.
Definition of 'bankrupt' from OED: "impoverished or depleted"
If your currency is worth nothing because of hyper-inflation you're bankrupt as a country because you can't buy anything, let alone pay off debts.
How is bitcoin fiat currency? It ain't issued by a government and it doesn't really exist so it has no intrinsic value.
Me thinks someone needs to take Economics 101, AGAIN!
But can a network relying on such assurances survive in the long run?
Answer: NO!
And, here comes the bear trap that any sane person knew was coming for this unregulated currency. Regulations will have to be put in place, which means govts will have to get involved in order for it to survive, and that has been the central reason why I and many others have remained skeptical and completely wary of this cryptocurrency from the beginning. Markets don't self regulate. It's a lie, a myth and history has already demonstrated numerous times that when there's money involved there's corruption involved. Take away any sane regulations and you have a major ripoff in the making. I am never going to deal in BitCoins, ever. Won't have any, won't take any. Give me money backed by a central reserve bank, thank you very much. Take your unregulated, make believe currency somewhere else.
P.S. It is make believe because it only has value to those who use and accept it. That it shares with real currency, except BitCoin is backed by dubious sources, at best. Again, no thanks. My $0.02/£0.02/€0.02.
"You cannot directly interpret a software algorithm to hardware." Why? Here are the follow ups: What type of hardware, FPGA, GPU, custom ASIC? What part of the algorithm NEEDS to be in hardware to gain performance over basic system resources (CPU, GPU)? Who is going to pay for this little experiment?
As others more qualified have already stated, you rarely if ever get a direct translation nor do you always need to interpret the entire algorithm to hardware. For a hardware manufacturer to even ask the question is suspect, unless it was a sales or marketing rep, then it might make sense. The hardware people will know best how to do this, for them to ask you... RUN!
My suggestion would be to say thank you and stick with software. You will probably spend enough time working this out that someone else will implement it before you, better. If you're not talking to Nvidia, AMD or Intel you're probably wasting your time.
Nothing we haven't seen from Hollyweird. Good work, but doesn't thrill me or speak to me. Not sure what the slit camera actually did in his work that another, more common imaging device could not do. Subterfuge it would seem from the article.
Bollocks! The cable is HDMI 1.4, so refresh rate is limited to 24/30 Hz...
LMFAO...HDMI is a network interface that has NOTHING to do with the refresh rate of the content. The bandwidth and quality of components of the cable determines the quality of the picture that ends up on the display. If it meets the 1.4 standard then its bandwidth and component quality meet the spec. They can't claim HDMI 1.4 otherwise. The limited frame rate is on the content. Cinema is 24fps and TV ranges from 25 to 30 depending on what country/standard is being adhered to. "HDMI 1.4 increases the maximum resolution to 4K × 2K, i.e. 3840×2160 (4K Ultra HD) at 24 Hz/25 Hz/30 Hz or 4096×2160 at 24 Hz (which is a resolution used with digital theaters)," this means that the data connection can handle 3840pixels×2160pixels*24-bit*30fps (~712 MB/s raw) worth of data. The fps/Hz is NOT determined by the cable but the frame rate of the content. Sure, they tuned it for those frame rates, but that's because the content comes that way and the number has to be accounted for in the bandwidth calculations to make sure it can carry the information.
A shotgun and a dog. Dogs are an organic, renewable resource and shotguns make that sound all criminals know to run from when you chamber a round. Plus, both work without batteries or AC power. If you're that worried about a break in while you're not home, maybe you live in a bad neighborhood and should move. Your insurance would most likely go down once out of the rough neighborhood. The dog would probably be happier, too.
Umm. Malwarebytes is a *removal* tool that doesn't offer real-time virus scanning. It's only useful after the machine is infected. It scares me when a "how-to" post has only 4 points, and one of them is so blisteringly wrong that it makes you suspect the OP doesn't actually know how to drive a computer.
It does in the short term. Most of the cloud services let you recover/undelete a file for up to 30 days.
You're right that it's not a "real backup", but honestly you aren't going to get most people to do a real backup with any consistency. Cloud backup of a documents folder is a useful stopgap.
No, it's not and please, for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, stop telling people to put their data in someone else's hands! It's not like money where it is insured at a bank. This is your data and you need to learn how to keep it safe. Unfortunately, data security is part of owning a compute device. It always has been, but we now have some glaring examples of why this is true. New users need to learn this and learn good data security practices and placing files in the cloud is NOT good data security for anyone! Dammit!
Or better, keep YOUR data where it belongs, in YOUR possession. Encrypted or not the safest place for your data is offline where you know it is safe, not on an active machine tied to the Internet. For crying out loud, people!
Zeigerpuppy...what features of Wave are missing from other open or closed source software do your collaborators need? I find it odd that you would go to a dead--or nearly dead--open source project based on a requirements/needs stage. Unless there is something that Wave does out of the box better than existing options that are in active development you are barking up the wrong tree. Plus, one of the advantages of Wave early on was that Google hosted it and collaboration across corporate lines made it attractive. If this is in-house collaboration, again, what is the reason for looking to Wave as a solution? You say "my server" and "private collaborations". If this is just something personal then why not just join the Wave dev group and contribute rather than fuss around?
You are forgetting: R&D costs, production labor costs, shipping of parts from suppliers to assembly plant in U.S. There's more missing from your calculation than just video cards. You neglect your time to assemble, the time it takes to receive the parts, replacement parts (rarely have I had a DIY box work with the first set of parts, something always seems to need to be swapped out in the first 30 days). You are also paying for that convenience of opening the packaging, plugging the thing in and turning it on to start working almost immediately. I am really sick of these asinine discussions of "I can build it cheaper with parts in my basement." If that were true you should work on marketing and become the next PC giant if you're soooo much better at this. Prat.
p>I am not an Electrician, but I'm pretty sure that you aren't supposed to use incandescent lights in a closet because of the fire risk involved.
ROFLMFAO. No, you are not an electrician, nor are you versed in human history. How the eff do you think we've been lighting closets for the last 70+ years, candles and flashlights? Yutz!
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Because while Androids outsell Apple 4:1 or more, there's a very strange thing going on. Mobile web traffic has iOS using TWICE the amount of data over Android. Or, put another way, 1 iOS user consumes as much data as 8 Android users.
Do you have any reliable, current citations for this? The only evidence I have ever seen were some ancient articles on Apple fan sites. My own personal site gets more Android hits than iOS, so I'm sceptical.
If all you find is Apple fan sites (which still reference their sources, btw) then you searched the wrong terms in Google. Try "mobile web traffic report". Here's one example.
Exactly this. Google is showing the power of open. All your stuff works with all your other stuff. Amazing.
As long as it all runs the same version, or you're willing to take the time to make it work. Let's keep this real. There's enough BS flying around both camps. The "closed" environment is bound to be more interoperable, look at Adobe and Microsoft. The cons are that they are only interoperable with their own kind. Which one is better? The one that lets you work the way you want. Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't make it bad.
Not everyone may want to sit down and use their phone/tablet to start a movie, but I don't see it as being too different from using a normal TV/media player remote...
And this is why geeks are terrible people to go to for advice on stuff like this.
A flat touch screen is a TERRIBLE interface for controlling media.
Hey troll, eff-off. Others, STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS! Igits.
"Netgear NeoTV which he wants to utilise for that."
He can, you pick it up, walk over to the trash bin and drop it inside. He wants to use a toy he got duped into buying, there is no happiness until he realizes that and get's rid of it.
XBMC on a low end core duo throwaway PC and a mild out of date nvidia video card will blow away any device you can buy to play back media on your TV. utterly blow it away.
and the side effect, the same XBMC pc can act as the media server so it is an all in one solution. but you can not buy one. You have to spend time to build it and you have to take the time to educate yourself on how to build it. He refuses to even spend time fixing his problem.
I wish /. rankings went to 11. Best answer to a stupid question I have seen in years, if not ever. I would just add, that you want to have a spare machine around if you are cobbling this together from eBay. That, and it will give the OP a machine to use to learn more while he still enjoys the production setup. Heaven forbid there's learning involved!
So, are these banks' websites just as bad, or did they actually manage to re-implement something worse than just wrapping their site in a suitable stylesheet and calling that 'an app'? If the latter, how do they look themselves in the mirror every morning?
Web group is probably internal while the iOS dev was probably shopped out to Rent-a-Coder, so the web app is probably safe. I should say that RaC was used as a generic example. Folks have gotten good work out of them. But do notice the number of times I used "probably".
Who's writing keylogging malware for CentOS?
Oh, I know this one! What is the NSA, Alex?
if putting fucking honey boo boo on Mars it's what gets the effort funded I'm ok with that.
I think most people would have no problem sending them to Mars. It's already a one way trip, so that's a win-win.
I think most people would like to see Honey Boo-Boo launched AT the Sun, not put in orbit around it.
Put some satellites in orbit around the sun. Enough of them and you'll always be able to see at least one of them from either planet, and they can relay between each other.
This doesn't seem like a hard problem. You can even launch three, Earth L4 &L5, and Jupiter L1 to have redundant and diverse coverage. Though no idea if they were looking for something in a more stable orbit, as Lagrange points take corrections to remain in. Or if those sorts of details were the point of the study.
"As of March 2013, Falcon 9 launch prices are $4,109 per kilogram ($1,864/lb) to low-Earth orbit when the launch vehicle is transporting its maximum cargo weight." This is currently one of the cheapest ways to get to LEO. L4 and L5 are a lot farther out and Jupiter...hahahahaha. I doubt a private entity would be able to fund this. As was said somewhere above, the chances of this stunt getting to the point of putting people on the surface of Mars is laughable. It will probably take them a generation just to get to get the prelim research and logistics worked out before even thinking about astronaut training, so anyone "selected" now would probably see their child go instead. If it doesn't just fall flat on its face in the next few years. Time will tell, and it is not in their favor.
Mac browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) don't run Java applets automatically anyway, so it doesn't matter what version of Java you have installed. Remember these exploits are all getting in because you run malicious code inside a sandbox and the sandbox fails. Don't download and run malicious code and you're OK.
Depends on what version of the OS and Java you are running and whether the user has already acknowledged the site as "safe". Weather.gov uses a mix of Java and other tech to display satellite and radar loops, for instance. The local radar loops (Base and Composite) are Java and after one acknowledgement will load without user intervention another time.
Oracle and Java exploits - An anecdote:- A couple of weeks ago I tried to log into my superannuation account, the browser fired back an authentication error, so I notified the company (MLC) who asked me to send them as many technical details as I could. After a little bit of looking around, I noted that the Oracle Access Management system that gave me the error code was was at version (11.1.1.5.0). Oracle's currently version was 11.1.2.1.0. Not too surprising, a supplier that had not patched to the current version.
What did surprise me was that Oracle's Identity Management Patch Set that was available for the version displayed was >2GB - A compressed Java application and framework for a database authentication application that was over 2 Gigabytes in size .
It has been a few years since I wrote any Oracle stuff, but that is ridiculous, what the hell have web based script kiddy/Java type developers been up to. Admittedly I started with Oracle in the Stone Age (V3) and actually shipped an application that used V4. By V6 the C interface which included all the necessary external validation code was small enough to be easily understood and modifiable by a single programmer. My memory is going now, but I seem to remember that in the 1990s all of the code for an early web CGI Oracle interface, including user validation would fit on a floppy.
Why are/were you surprised at the size of the package? I, and many other /.ers remember days when a 30 MB (no kids, that's not a typo) hard disk held dozens of applications, the GUI-based OS, and all our data files. Somewhere along the line APIs, OS frameworks and data files got less compact and then grew as the size of hard drives grew. More features, larger frameworks to accommodate those features and WHAM! you have a 2GB patch set. Sure, I still grumble when I see how big a small application (from a raw code standpoint) turns into a rather large binary, but if the features are needed then we have to just grit our teeth and accept that the underpinnings of those features in the APIs are asymmetric to the amount of text to implement them in the function call. Times they are ever a changin'.
But hyper inflation is not bankruptcy. OP is correct.
Incidentally all currency is fiat, even bitcoin. The only difference is that with bitcoin the users are the ones that say it has value. Color me skeptical, but I'd trust any government over a bunch of greasy neck beards.
Definition of 'bankrupt' from OED: "impoverished or depleted"
If your currency is worth nothing because of hyper-inflation you're bankrupt as a country because you can't buy anything, let alone pay off debts.
How is bitcoin fiat currency? It ain't issued by a government and it doesn't really exist so it has no intrinsic value.
Me thinks someone needs to take Economics 101, AGAIN!
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4654691&cid=45917103
But can a network relying on such assurances survive in the long run?
Answer: NO!
And, here comes the bear trap that any sane person knew was coming for this unregulated currency. Regulations will have to be put in place, which means govts will have to get involved in order for it to survive, and that has been the central reason why I and many others have remained skeptical and completely wary of this cryptocurrency from the beginning. Markets don't self regulate. It's a lie, a myth and history has already demonstrated numerous times that when there's money involved there's corruption involved. Take away any sane regulations and you have a major ripoff in the making. I am never going to deal in BitCoins, ever. Won't have any, won't take any. Give me money backed by a central reserve bank, thank you very much. Take your unregulated, make believe currency somewhere else.
P.S. It is make believe because it only has value to those who use and accept it. That it shares with real currency, except BitCoin is backed by dubious sources, at best. Again, no thanks. My $0.02/£0.02/€0.02.
"You cannot directly interpret a software algorithm to hardware." Why? Here are the follow ups: What type of hardware, FPGA, GPU, custom ASIC? What part of the algorithm NEEDS to be in hardware to gain performance over basic system resources (CPU, GPU)? Who is going to pay for this little experiment?
As others more qualified have already stated, you rarely if ever get a direct translation nor do you always need to interpret the entire algorithm to hardware. For a hardware manufacturer to even ask the question is suspect, unless it was a sales or marketing rep, then it might make sense. The hardware people will know best how to do this, for them to ask you ... RUN!
My suggestion would be to say thank you and stick with software. You will probably spend enough time working this out that someone else will implement it before you, better. If you're not talking to Nvidia, AMD or Intel you're probably wasting your time.
Do not ask a computer scientist to be an electrical engineer.
And for the sake of Pete's dragon don't hand him/her an electric screwdriver! Chaos will ensue.
Nothing we haven't seen from Hollyweird. Good work, but doesn't thrill me or speak to me. Not sure what the slit camera actually did in his work that another, more common imaging device could not do. Subterfuge it would seem from the article.
Bollocks! The cable is HDMI 1.4, so refresh rate is limited to 24/30 Hz...
LMFAO...HDMI is a network interface that has NOTHING to do with the refresh rate of the content. The bandwidth and quality of components of the cable determines the quality of the picture that ends up on the display. If it meets the 1.4 standard then its bandwidth and component quality meet the spec. They can't claim HDMI 1.4 otherwise. The limited frame rate is on the content. Cinema is 24fps and TV ranges from 25 to 30 depending on what country/standard is being adhered to. "HDMI 1.4 increases the maximum resolution to 4K × 2K, i.e. 3840×2160 (4K Ultra HD) at 24 Hz/25 Hz/30 Hz or 4096×2160 at 24 Hz (which is a resolution used with digital theaters)," this means that the data connection can handle 3840pixels×2160pixels*24-bit*30fps (~712 MB/s raw) worth of data. The fps/Hz is NOT determined by the cable but the frame rate of the content. Sure, they tuned it for those frame rates, but that's because the content comes that way and the number has to be accounted for in the bandwidth calculations to make sure it can carry the information.
A shotgun and a dog. Dogs are an organic, renewable resource and shotguns make that sound all criminals know to run from when you chamber a round. Plus, both work without batteries or AC power. If you're that worried about a break in while you're not home, maybe you live in a bad neighborhood and should move. Your insurance would most likely go down once out of the rough neighborhood. The dog would probably be happier, too.
Umm. Malwarebytes is a *removal* tool that doesn't offer real-time virus scanning. It's only useful after the machine is infected. It scares me when a "how-to" post has only 4 points, and one of them is so blisteringly wrong that it makes you suspect the OP doesn't actually know how to drive a computer.
You thought only one of the four was wrong?!?!
Pro-Tip - don't be a condescending asshole.
But then who would make slashdot posts?
The usual idiots?
It does in the short term. Most of the cloud services let you recover/undelete a file for up to 30 days.
You're right that it's not a "real backup", but honestly you aren't going to get most people to do a real backup with any consistency. Cloud backup of a documents folder is a useful stopgap.
No, it's not and please, for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, stop telling people to put their data in someone else's hands! It's not like money where it is insured at a bank. This is your data and you need to learn how to keep it safe. Unfortunately, data security is part of owning a compute device. It always has been, but we now have some glaring examples of why this is true. New users need to learn this and learn good data security practices and placing files in the cloud is NOT good data security for anyone! Dammit!
Or just start out with SpiderOak to start with.
Or better, keep YOUR data where it belongs, in YOUR possession. Encrypted or not the safest place for your data is offline where you know it is safe, not on an active machine tied to the Internet. For crying out loud, people!
Zeigerpuppy...what features of Wave are missing from other open or closed source software do your collaborators need? I find it odd that you would go to a dead--or nearly dead--open source project based on a requirements/needs stage. Unless there is something that Wave does out of the box better than existing options that are in active development you are barking up the wrong tree. Plus, one of the advantages of Wave early on was that Google hosted it and collaboration across corporate lines made it attractive. If this is in-house collaboration, again, what is the reason for looking to Wave as a solution? You say "my server" and "private collaborations". If this is just something personal then why not just join the Wave dev group and contribute rather than fuss around?
You are forgetting: R&D costs, production labor costs, shipping of parts from suppliers to assembly plant in U.S. There's more missing from your calculation than just video cards. You neglect your time to assemble, the time it takes to receive the parts, replacement parts (rarely have I had a DIY box work with the first set of parts, something always seems to need to be swapped out in the first 30 days). You are also paying for that convenience of opening the packaging, plugging the thing in and turning it on to start working almost immediately. I am really sick of these asinine discussions of "I can build it cheaper with parts in my basement." If that were true you should work on marketing and become the next PC giant if you're soooo much better at this. Prat.
p>I am not an Electrician, but I'm pretty sure that you aren't supposed to use incandescent lights in a closet because of the fire risk involved.
ROFLMFAO. No, you are not an electrician, nor are you versed in human history. How the eff do you think we've been lighting closets for the last 70+ years, candles and flashlights? Yutz!