Re: Unit of data

and as a micro unit, single ICMP packet (i.e. ping itself)

@PatientOne

my kids have exactly same looking certificates (issued here in Britain), look and speak like any English person you have seen or talked to, and yet they are not British.

Not that I disagree, just to prove the point that JetSetJim made.

Another thing - as a comer from another country, I find it rather ridiculous that bills issued by utility companies can be used to do things like open bank account in one's name.

Re: A second attempt.

What wrong with 9900 keyboard? Or Q10 one?

Re: Wait a few months

I was forced to use a 9900 with broken trackpad for a week, it was terrible (week because that's how long it took me to source part and replace it). Touch screen the size of 3" is clunky, imprecise (you do not actually see area under your finger) and slow (have to move hand away from keyboard) compared to trackpad, and I do not think Q10 improved on 9900 in this area since it's simple physical limitation.

Imaginably RIM could add "virtual trackad" , i.e. dedicated area of the screen similar to game controls on touch screens, but I doubt it would have the same precision as original. Unless they also added transparent on-screen hardware to support it, in which case I claim modest patent fee.

Re: Who'd have thought the robin reliant...

... they do fly, but they also do not land (nicely).

Re: X-51

intercontinental, underground maglev in vacuum tubes, anyone?

Re: It may be the most accurate watch in the world...

nah, you just use different dial for it!

Re: could this get worse?

I wish it was that simple.

1. people who claim ownership may be different people than those who strip EXIF. Also, since stripping EXIF might automated, they might not even know this is happening.

2. if there is 3rd party who stripped EXIF and then submitted such work to corporation, no one in the corporation might even know.

3. I do not want copyright to my pictures to hang on the presence of metadata; it's like presumption of guilt. I should not have to use the metadata to be able to prove the ownership

Basically, the whole thing seems to be based on ridiculous assumption that "orphan work has no author thus requires no protection", while the fact is that orphan work most surely has an author, however he/she cannot be offered copyright protection since he/she is unknown.

Totally agree on shooting RAWs, BTW.

Re: Who watches those watching everything?

This is exactly what computers looked like, half century ago. And they were very, VERY primitive, by today's standards.

That's because SQL is interpreted language (kind of). This property of SQL is sometimes used by lazy developers to build dynamic queries by simple string concatenation, e.g. "SELECT * FROM orders WHERE id = " + request.id(); Assuming that request.id() is string provided by the client, it might be possible to put something "interesting" into it.

Of course there are many ways to prevent this from happening (most popular are 1. use precompiled queries with parameters 2. perform string sanitation on data supplied by the client) but, for "lazy developers" it's not worth the trouble. It seems more fun to just have the database hacked.

Re: And if Anonymous are wrong?

Downvote because Anonymous did not release any names, even though they threatened to.

Re: Trolls are going to kill American industry

"Admittedly, that does open me up to the risk of being ripped off by a US company."

you might file a patent in the US just for protection in such a case, but otherwise do not produce nor sell your stuff in the US. Which would make you an NPE in this market, so what.

Re: andybaird@earthlink.net

... and the writer is right. Here is what "Lee D" wrote earlier in this thread technology is distracting from the things they should be learning.

Unless it is technology that kids need to learn, the tablets do not help but only make it more difficult. Yes the tablets can, occasionally, be used in the class - just like TV can. But, for the time being, the cost and trouble does not justify (potential) benefits.

Re: wow

Frankly, I am more worried about soot pollution from coal plants than any imaginable risks from nuclear one. Unless, of course, the nuclear plant is built to 30 years old designs of Russian origin. Which luckily will never happen again.

Sad really that there are so few statistics comparing death figures from coal against nuclear.

Re: Maybe we need....

In case you wonder why the downvotes - large companies spend more on toilet paper than your proposed deposit. It will /not/ deter anyone who already is in quasi-monopolistic position. It, however, will deter smaller companies, associations, user groups etc . , thus creating ideal conditions for the corporations to claim every domain name conceivable.

Re: not news any more

Right, the risk to life makes a difference, yet such heist would be all over the news even if there was no risk to life. E.g. guards crooked or cooperating by fear of actually bogus weapons.

Re: Meanwhile over at ipo.gov.uk...

according to PSF application, class 16 as used there is for Printed publications concerning computer programs, computer software and computer programming language. .

Re: comparison

The only way to make it charge quicker is to use a bigger charger.

Yes you would need a dedicated charger, but that is not much of a problem, is it? 1. you still get higher battery capacity 2. faster charge is often suboptimal to battery performance so you don't really need to bother with it 3. if you did, 5W is tiny anyway. For example, 100W charger is considered entry-level size for LiPo batteries used in RC helicopters (larger than micro size). I would happily swap my LiPos for a new generation of batteries, if it gave me 3x flight times, even I do not get the benefits of faster charge. Which I would since 1000W charger and PSU (especially one built from servers PSUs bought on eBay) are not that very expensive either, considered the cost of things they are used to supply the power to.

Re: some things make sense, some don't

I do not need to stick a Raspberry Pi into my Onkyo to access my Spotify account, why my TV should be any different? This one thing aside, a TV is media consumption device, you shouldn't need a general purpose computer you have setup yourself (no matter how small or cheap) to make it work.

Just imagine how TV would be used by a layman, given the possibilities.

For viewing streaming content from iPlayer, blinkbox or Lovefilm I'd very much prefer if I did not have to keep my PC running. TV able to do it all by itself is what I would actually prefer, thank you. If my PC is running, I'd rather do it more useful stuff rather than command its HDMI output. For example, I like to do my email on a PC, browse web, run some VMs and compile stuff, at the same time when the kids are watching a movie I rented in blinkbox.

Re: Thanks for the memories

New chip design would be needed anyway, because some of the nonvolatile technologies can potentially have latency in the low tens of nanoseconds, i.e. on par with 2nd or 3rd level cache. Meaning you only need 1 level cache, thus freeing lots of space on the chip. You could use it for more cores, larger level 1 cache, dunno what else. Very exciting, although we are still far from it.

Re: Instant on computer

Yes, that is definitely the direction this is going to, that's why I mentioned fifth storage category above. It requires support in programming languages though. It is actually not that difficult to add useful stuff to C++ , you just have to convince a bunch of people that this is both doable and useful. New nonvolatile memory category would most likely qualify, if solutions such as phase change RAM or MRAM hit market in sufficient numbers and capacities, and sane programming model is proposed.

Re: Instant on computer

Yes, that's one possible application. With "instant on" you can also have "instant off", i.e. computer which goes to sleep in a millisecond and wakes up in a millisecond too, meaning it can actually go to sleep even when you use it, when monitor and GPU continue work. Even more interesting is memory going to sleep when your programs do not happen to use particular module, without the CPU noticing.

Re: The best SSD config is SAS RAID controllers with SSD as cache

FWIW, I use MegaRAID with few SSDs in RAID0 configuration and FastPath (I like it fast). Am I being careless with my data? Not really, I run backups every few hours apart, onto HDD, also rsynced to external machine. Few hours potential loss of data is not much of a problem for me. However, I might consider switching to CacheCade since I also have few unused 2TB drives. Would need to attach Chenbro or similar expander first, too lazy for it ATM ;)

Re: How many days...

It might, just might, be open source - or at least open for security researchers. If it is not, I do not quite see how this might be approved by wide enough user base.

Re: Microsoft are planting these stories in the media

I would love to upvote you, just fear someone might miss the irony. Next time please use "Joke Alert!"

Re: code of connection

Normally it would be network job to validate the device, or accept validation performed by other network (they do not like to duplicate the work).

Since OTA updates are normally distributed via network, there would be also some work done on the network side for firmware updates. Although I very much doubt it would be anywhere close to device validation.

the same way as blackberry?

I don't think so, blackberry gestures always start on touch sensitive bezel area (not on screen, to avoid interfering with active app). Last time I heard, no Android device had appropriate hardware, touch buttons do not count.

Re: Come back when the criminals are out of the parliaments!

Hold on, it's barely lunchtime.

But yeah, I agree, seems like some people do not quite understand the concept of indirect incentives.

Re: Multicast and Spanning Tree at the same time?

Just a comment regarding bandwidth requirements - very high is actually helpful keeping latency under control when you have a "glut" or batch of messages in a short period of time. This is because as soon as you get close to saturation, your messages get delayed. Even if this saturation happens once a month and only lasts a second, this may cost you serious money (e.g. financial figures announcements).

Re: Persuasive Arguments

You may very well be correct in all the above assertions regarding F-35C, however the point of catapult is to enable the carrier to carry different non-STOVL aircrafts, not just F-35C.

We are currently building a carrier which can only be used with STOVL aircraft (choice of F-35B or nothing) . This is very suboptimal use of taxpayers money compared to more expensive but also universal carrier which can be used with many different models, including F-18 (relatively cheap and available right now).

Re: Why is it only IT personnel that has to go to these lengths?

"ALL get saddled with idiots (arguably what is actually happening in the industry now anyway)."

There you go.

Re: Why is it only IT personnel that has to go to these lengths?

I think that companies understand that employees will eventually move to "greener pastures", because times of lifetime employment are well and truly past (in private sector, to say at least). Providing employees with training only makes them more employable by the competition. On the other hands, employees who are truly enthusiastic about particular technologies, will acquire training/knowledge/practice on their own account, thus making themselves more employable. If that does not pay off with the current employment, it might pay with the future one.

Oh yes of course, plenty of employers (especially large corporations) like to make an impression they will guide you by hand, setting so called "career paths". These are only designed to make you more useful to the company, not necessarily more employable. In particular, there are few, if any, selleable technical skills to be acquired this way.

C'est la vie, stop complaining and teach yourself what you want to know. Or if you don't, don't be surprised if you find your skill unsellable to other employers.

Re: As a simple mental exercise...

Not necessarily. The difference is mainly : how much do you want to pay for integrity constraints and normalized schema? If the amount of data itself to be stored means that you cannot afford these two (look at the example of Square Kilometre Array, above) then the choice is either no data at all, or data without integrity constraints and normalized schema. This is exactly the kind of scenarios "NoSQL" are optimized for.

Practical example: if I were to ask a DBA to run a query returning some 10^7 rows, I am almost sure to hear some grumbling back, most likely related to locks or execution time. However if I run the same query on a NoSQL, no one will notice and I will have results in seconds (I know, I've done that). Similarly, if I need to store some 0.5*10^9 rows of data day in, day out, and keep the data available for few months (or years) to query later, I'm sure NoSQL will oblige, requiring only disk space as and when needed. SQL? I think DBAs will not be very happy, unless some very interesting (and expensive) technological solutions are put in place.