Posts by Mark 65 3439 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
You'd need to be full retard to give permission to anything that caused the display of such a message. "Oh, it's written backwards, isn't that clever? I best give it access to my system." Unless you then give it raised permissions via the necessary authentication dialog it will still only have rudimentary user permissions.
Having just backed up data to a USB3 portable drive using rsync from a 2010 iMac (USB2 only) I can vouch for how much of a pain in the arse the older standard is when backing up. I'm looking forward to the day when my machines have USB3 / thunderbolt especially after reading the Macbook Air review where 50+GB transited in a little over 2 minutes.
The question I have is "does USB3 experience the slowdowns of USB2 in the real world when performing this sort of task (backing up rather than rsync per se)?"
USB2 just slows to a crawl as time goes on.
"Question - and a serious one - that I think needs answering: what exactly does Office 2013 offer me that LibreOffice doesn't? I mean, besides FUD?"
Ooo ooo ooo, I know - probably another undocumented fucking file structure with a few pointless inclusions to make it incompatible with everything on the planet bar the latest Office version. Given the 365 creation it ain't hard to see where this is headed for corporates. Slow bleed like a cut that just won't heal.
If anything they should be lessening the cost of these things in order to get people on board - that's how you get your market share, encourage usage amongst the dev/IT crowd by allowing them to setup and play with all manner of configs that can be persisted and re-used. Just think, you setup some infrastructure, start coding an app that you want to sell or make publicly available and sooner or later that's going to result in sales. This is dumb. Oracle got its market through ability but retained it largely through lock-in. You can tell its desperation to stop its decline through purchases like Sun which went oh-so-well. If that's the route MS wants to take then so be it, but it isn't a smart move.
So at peak rates this is transferring and storing 25MB/s (200Mbps) or, more simply, it's in the realms of a USB 2.0 portable drive. Would a USB 3.0 portable drive not make more sense as the storage medium or perhaps if you had an Airport Extreme with a USB 3.0 port? To me that's just shit and even being an Apple fan I wouldn't touch it.
"But really, anyone claiming "Microsoft" and "love" in the same sentence is either an MS shill, or has bet the cards on the MS ecosystem, like those devs who only knew .NET and were afraid of the Java switch one of my former employers was planning..."
Dude, when enterprise shops mainly use Windows on the desktop (by some margin) it makes sense to only use .Net. Java as a front-end on Windows has always been fugly and switching from .Net to Java on windows desktops makes no sense at all.
Good at his job? The man believed he could do whatever the Government wanted with the internet and filtering in particular - I'd call that pretty sh!t at your job unless your job is "technical arsehat". He was totally ignorant of the ease at which filtering is circumvented. His statement about pants on heads really said it all. Total numbnut.
As for Lundy having an interest in technology, that's all well and good but so does my two year-old. An aptitude is what you want, not an interest. Given the peer group I'd say ability in this area is all relative.
Whilst I agree with you and have seen this in action I also believe that we in IT must shoulder some of the blame. I have been on both sides of this fence. Often the message from those on the ground and in the know are misrepresented or poorly translated to those in the business so that it often seems as like a demanding child asking for the latest toy. It would work a lot better if we considered our position to be somewhat similar to an old arcade game - you only have so much health/credits to utilise so you need to use them well as when they're all gone the game is over. That's the way it often is from the business perspective - you only have so much credit, don't waste it. In your case I'm guess your credit got used up by some middle-management carbon waste touting something worthless he'd read in some buzzword riddled middle-management IT rag.
Sounds like the benchmark is heavy on multi-threading and the Samsung is a quad core. Don't PC benchmarks use real-world tests these days because of this (my i7 is likely slower than an up-to-date i3/5 with higher clock but shits on it in video encoding)? i.e. time to open app x, do task y etc etc. Sounds like phones need a similar routine.
"and do you think there is no a correlation that and financial instruments that no one has any control?"
Please, inflation and house prices have everything to do with the Government - do you honestly believe that if they didn't want the price pumping to occur that they couldn't have stopped it? House prices are pumped by the Government for two reasons - taxation, and wealth affect. Housing is the one area where tax is near impossible to avoid. Stamp duty on transfer, council tax on value, and debt slavery for good measure to keep you under control. The wealth effect is just there to convince you you've all got more money in the pot whilst you are systematically getting shafted by the wealth destruction that is inflation. A little sugar coating if you will. Ever notice how the only people with consistently inflation busting pay rises and pensions are politicians? Sure they'll slow it down for a year or two (and suckle harder on the expenses teat to compensate) to keep the voters appeased but they'll always be well ahead of the curve. Public sector wage inflation during the same period was vote buying by Labour as they pissed the country's wealth away. Benefits rose mightily as well to buy a few more votes. Notice the uproar when you try and lower public sector pay or benefits despite the private sector being hammered? Sense of entitlement anyone?
You can ride along on the banker bandwagon with all the other general public suckers that believe the political spin of "it's all the nasty banker's fault" if you like but I prefer not to live in ignorance. The people in the limelight before the financial world imploded were the expense cheating leeches in the corridors of power. The people that pissed away the money in the good times so that we now have a structural deficit in the bad. You might want to ask yourself whose responsibility it was to regulate your favourite bogeyman? Didn't occur to you that what was happening was fine and dandy by them until it went boom?
Take away every single penny of the nasty bankers debt and the UK still has a massive structural deficit. Know what that means? I'll spell it out for you - we're spending way more than we have, every bloody year. Get rid of the city (err, and the billions in taxes generated incidently), manufacture your heart out all you like but the UK cannot afford the payments it is making whether that be for middle eastern wars, benefits, or the NHS.
Get used to it because the country is long-term f*cked.
I'd say it was the Americans with the balls. I mean, seriously, you hack their institutions, tap their citizens internet, slurp as much data as you want then have the f*cking cheek to ask them to hand over the guy that told them what you were up to! I'd say the Americans might be getting more than one polite "get f*cked" to any extradition requests, treaty or not. How many countries, with the exception of the UK, will be adopting a "yeah whatever" attitude to the US now they know just how special each of their relationships really is?
The UK is obviously just a conduit for gathering information on American citizens. The NSA don't do it, sure, but I bet they get a nice big feed of data GCHQ may have gathered in a quid-pro-quo "you barge through our loophole and we'll barge through yours" arrangement.
It wasn't an algorithm problem, it is believed that the market making testing software got released into production with the market making software. It then did its job and tested the automated market making software - across the entire market, not just KC's.
http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3525.html
I still don't get what difference there'll be between now with ipv4 and the future with ipv6. I don't think any company in their right mind will allow direct connection to the Internet and everything will go through proxy server and boundary appliance. I also don't think many will trust a windows box for the protection. As for home networks I'll still be sat behind one appliance as I don't need to expose ports left, right, and centre. YMMV.
Don't believe the higher wage dribble. All the costs are higher too. The only thing you should compare across countries is post-tax disposable income. On that basis I don't think you'll find we're as wealthy as the media likes to make out. Having a minimum wage of around $20/hr just puts a floor under the unit price of labour. Sure it raises incomes as the pollies like to trumpet, but it doesn't exactly hold back prices.
As one example of uncontrolled costs that should exclude labour, I found electricity unit price in the UK (inc VAT) of 13.42p (~22c). I currently pay 23c inclusive of GST but that will be rising to 28c in 2 weeks. Not exactly a bargain when you think of all the natural resources we have versus the UK importing energy.
Don't even bother with the price of beer. A pint, where you can buy one, will cost you around £5.20-5.80. That's more than I paid in the nicer parts of London not long ago.
Cars? Nope. Cannot parallel import.
Computer kit? Nope. Pricier in general.
Household appliances? Pricier.
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"There is a limit to how many times faster than real-time you need to be able to shunt video around... if you can get it off your RAID very quickly at will, it kind of negates the need to bulk transfer into your machine to edit it."
I'm assuming you mean local raid i.e. G-RAID rather than networked servers? For server, if you use the ethernet ports you are limited to a theoretical 250MB/s if you can combine them. That's slower than a bog-standard SSD. Fast local storage is necessary unless you are using a render farm.
Check out Chase Jarvis' site for info on how an industry pro is doing it - copy local, edit, copy back to server, backup.
He seems like he may be a smart guy - I'll give him the benefit of the doubt - and stated he wanted to seek refuge in Iceland. So, given he told his boss he was taking two weeks off to get treatment for epilepsy, why didn't he fly there first before releasing the info? Surely your thoughts would be along the lines of "given the monumental shitstorm I'm about to stir up, where might I be safest?"
You'd like to be generous and think that but the number of IT 457s reveals the real story. I've witnessed it first hand with roles at the company I used to work for advertised at rates nobody would work for. You'll never get anyone on that rate we all said. Surprise surprise a couple of months later a man from Bangalore turns up on a 457 to do the role. It's the way they currently roll. It may be protectionist but, within reason (i.e. not seeing rates explode), you do need to look after the locals. It seems strange to me that IT workers get dumped on by the 457 but plumbers, builders, and sparkies have got their market sewn up tighter than a gnat's chaff.
...that the more you spy on the general populous just because you can, the more you alienate them and the more likely encryption is to become routine. At that point your access to data just got orders of magnitude harder than if you'd just done the right thing all along.
Wikileaks funding was blocked as the payment gateways of Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal are all US based and controlled. That is an entirely different proposition to blocking financial transactions in all currencies, or at least in all stable ones that would be reasonable to use.
You are worried about laws being passed to block cashing out of bitcoins just like Cyprus?
1. The Cyprus cashing out blockade wasn't that effective as the wealthy could just withdraw their money from the UK branch of Cyprus Bank. Plenty of money rolled out but that method or others.
2. Again, to prevent cashing out you would need to block it happening in all reasonably currencies on the planet simultaneously.
3. There would undoubtedly be a drop in value but, given you cannot take my bitcoins from me like you can my savings I am still free to trade them for goods and services which, after all, is the point of money.
Unless you can block all the exits and prevent acceptance for goods and services you fail. I may not be able to swap them for dollars but as long as I can swap them for things I want I can accept them myself. I don't have to take all payment in them.
This inability to control and take what is not theirs is what frightens Governments, especially as they are all increasingly bankrupt, both morally and financially.
"It's pretty cost effective to upgrade a Mac by selling it and buying a new one. Unlike the market for used PCs, the market for used Macs is pretty active. It's not uncommon for people to pay half retail for a Mac that's 4-5 years old. I've done this several times."
I have a macbook from 2008. Get me half retail price and I'll happily sell it. No? Didn't think so. You may get ok money for a top of the line macbook pro but not much else.
No, they cannot without an ever increasing market and/or ever increasing share of that market. It is these such unrealistic market and shareholder expectations in part that have led us to where we are today. Look up articles referencing the hunt for yield, it's partly why finance went nuts and still is. With unrealistic expectations to fulfil you come up with ever more creative ways of achieving them.
"In evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into the National Broadband Network on Friday April 19, the junior member of Australia's three-strong mobile carrier club identified Telstra's near-monopoly over some regional backhaul routes as a constraint to competitive service outside Australia's cities."
Perhaps they could explain why their network is so shit in cities then?
Oh my god, are you that naive? Settling out of court is there precisely in order to not admit culpability. It's what corporations do in the US all the time. Taking them to court is, in part, about getting them to be found culpable. A blot on the copybook for future cases.That you should be left out of pocket after winning merely cements the "justice for the rich only" image of the legal system. In local parlance, get a clue.
Also, the perverse Australian legislation means that they offer $1 or similarly non-covering amount perhaps not taking the piss as much, you reject, then it's hard to get awarded greater costs afterwards?
Seriously, how can she have a bill of $224k but be awarded costs of $18k and have to pay Oracle's bill when they lost? That is one seriously f*cked up piece of legislation right there. In my opinion what this wanker of a judge is saying is "fuck you, don't sue". Totally nuts.
"Google files court order for Ebay to give them the seller's name and address. Then they cross reference that with a user that setup the required Wallet account and deactivates the associated unit."
Two points
1. You cannot get a court order unless a crime is shown to have been committed. Maybe in the US, never in EU.
2. This is all likely illegal in EU under restraint of trade etc.
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