Comment Re:RAID (Score 1) 552
Citation needed. Which would be pedantic and yet my point stands. Do backup with better cost benefit ratio first.
Citation needed. Which would be pedantic and yet my point stands. Do backup with better cost benefit ratio first.
The ATRIX 4G had a fingerprint sensor, but it was definitely a less elegant implementation, having to swipe your finger down across a sensor on the back of the phone. Apple puts it right where you always touch to activate the phone anyway
On Atrix 4G, back of the phone IS where you touch to activate the phone anyway. There is only one physical button on Atrix 4G, and that is the back button, which is the fingerprint reader.
Pattern lock has a worse convenience to security ratio than fingerprint. Pattern is trivially bypassed by low resolution CCTV footage, as well as by observation of pattern trail on the phone, both by completely unskilled adversaries. Brute force is likely to work within an hour too, because typically the number of "points" to make the pattern is 12 or less. Pattern lock does all this , at a higher "cost" i.e. the distance the finger has to move on the phone.
Fingerprint is resistant to all these, and it's vulnerable to fingerprint collectors but only to moderately skilled adversaries.
I love the fingerprint reader on my 2.5 year old Motorola Atrix. Nothing military grade, but great against annoying teenagers.
Intel has no interest in selling its low power Haswell chips that still barely break 10watts for $10 per chip
There is no comparison between Haswell and any ARM based chips. Order of magnitude difference in performance. So forget Haswell.
See Intel's Atom, which gets state of the art fab tech starting Bay Trail.
1. $10.
2. Ivy bridge level graphics, so more than good enough.
3. Open source graphics drivers so Android manufacturers can adopt it without having to worry about drivers - so Intel invests in fabs for it without worrying about success of Win RT.
4. Already 22nm , next year successor should be built on 14nm. Blows away the ~30/40nm ARM chips.
5. Performs at par with ARM chips.
6. And backward compatible with software written for x86 in last 20 years.
No Bill the juvenile, wrong again. And the other specs are so wrong you are not even trying to defend them any more.
Even for slashdot standards, your reluctance to admit your mistake and attempt to bluff your way out of it is remarkable. But most people learn at the age of about 7 or 8 years that it doesn't fool anyone. Not you, though.
Better handled in software. Otherwise the device is kaput once either of the contained ssd or hdd fail. With software we can decide the aggression of caching better.
You can put 2 3.5" drives in a 5.25" slot by breaking at least one hdd. So only one works. There is also the problem of cooling if you stuff hardware too close to each other.
That's why cooler master sells a 4 in 3 module ( http://www.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/case/case-accessories/4-in-3-device-module.html ). Makes sense, even though it might appear they could have fit one more hard drive sideways in the same space if they removed the fan. Maybe more. But not a good idea. Because small amounts of heat add up to high temperature in absence of cooling.
Hard drives spaced comfortably don't need dedicated cooling, typically.
is still holding on, but their answer
You can say that, but their long term answer is better. They are better than Intel at integer , and once they can shift to using the integrated "graphics" component for floating point, their floating point performance should improve drastically. Intel would also improve by then so I am not saying they will definitely beat Intel.
On the other hand, Intel's approach is "winning" but it is more risky. They have bet everything on process advantage, which is enormous now and in near future. But you never know when they hit a brick wall. They might have an ace up their sleeve, but it is not visible from here.
Meanwhile, if you question their ability to survive till then - notice they bagged multiple big game console deals. This should help in directly earning revenue, and also they might get slight advantage in gaming PCs as much of PC games are console ports these days. Their high-end graphics cards can be said to be beating Nvidia's, but it is subjective.
before you start planning the additional weaker
Yes, so that having difficult work to do first causes people to postpone the whole backup project until a data loss. Just to protect against once in a millenium events. I heard somewhere that the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Or, adopt the data protection scheme with the best cost-benefit ratio first - which for most people is a local backup. And then worry about once in a millenium events.
Plastic is a huge *class* of materials, not just an instance of material. Plastic can be made to not dent at much bigger impacts than most metals can.
The strength of metal is tensile. I.e. if the undertaker and Hulk Hogan grab opposite ends of your phone and pull, a metallic frame ismuch less likely to break than plastic, ceramic and wooden frame. But that is not a typical use case a phone is subject to.
In typical use cases : falling, getting squeezed very tight in pockets, dent inducing impacts etc, plastic can be made to be BETTER than metals, mostly.
Plastics can be made to be more comfortable - they won't get excessively cold in winters nor skin roasting hot if it stays in the sun for long. Ok, the latter is less of a use case, scratch that.
Plastics can be made to slip less on most surfaces. Being eclectically insulating doesn't hurt either.
It is the success of hype over fact that metal, an inferior substance for the use case has come to mean "quality ".
They wouldn't need to use *FAT for iPhone. Other phones use those filesystems to mount on a huge variety of computers. iPhone, famously, doesn't need to bother with mounting , iTunes goodness all the way.
My 30 months old Motorola atrix has a fingerprint scanner that is much much faster than inputting a password. I think it is a great substitute for non military grade security -
E.g. pattern unlock that is so common on touchscreen phones and yet has a worse convenience to security ratio than fingerprint. Pattern is trivially bypassed by low resolution CCTV footage, as well as by observation of pattern trail on the phone, both by completely unskilled adversaries. Brute force is likely to work within an hour too. Fingerprint is resistant to all these, and it's vulnerable to fingerprint collectors but only to moderately skilled adversaries.
So basically you were wrong about the S II. Got it.
What do you mean bad for business? It is business itself. Field requests from TLAs, get money in return.
You shouldn't have to dick around with a steering wheel to direct a car either. Write a wrapper around it if you can think of a better interface (both steering wheel and sudo ) or STFU. Unlikely because you chose the wrong tool for the job in the first place - selinux instead of sudo.
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