Posts by Modeller 11 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2007
I do not see why this service would be considered "unethical". Suppose your files get encrypted, do you want to deal with the ransomware operators yourself? Do you know where to get and how to send Bitcoins? Do you have a guarantee that your files will be decrypted after you part with the cash?
Here are your reasons to employ a middleman. Besides, what is so shocking in the fact that he identifies himself? Do you want a service from a real person or from some anonymous bloke?
"grown-ups in charge" and "identification of identity"! In fact, forget about Wikipedia!
Joking aside, I do not see how the removal of anonymity would suddenly make articles about Middle East or Kazakhstan any less politically skewed. So instead of some big_kazakh username you will have a person named Karim Islambekov who is entitled to his political view, and he happens to love the eternal president of Kazakhstan [president's bio], his administration and the cabinet of ministers very much for very sound reasons [link to glorious statistics]. Any dissident Kazakhs would be very foolish to expose their real names by editing Islambekov's articles.
I have a WP (Nakia 625) and I have created an app relatively easily. However, I had to install a trial version of Windows 8 to install the development kit. Now that my Windows 8 trial has expired, I am not going to develop any WP8 apps, since no way in hell I am going to pay for Windows 8.
Haswell architecture is employed in new desktop CPUs (LGA1150 socket), as well as in laptop and low-power applications.
> Unless machines with Haswell processors are widely available
Yes, they are. In fact, I has just bought a PC based on i5 4670k ("4th gen" or Haswell arch).
"The GetSafeOnline.org survey showed that almost one in five (19 per cent) have lost money as a result of cyber criminals. ... a successful attack costing, on average, £247 per person."
So really, an average cost of a cyber attack is £247*(chance to get robbed = 0.19) = £46.93. Not much. Certainly not enough to justify the inconvenience of changing passwords regularly.
Dessau: "the speed of the processor no longer determines the experience of the end user"
This guy is delusional. Just because it costs more than ever to develop a new manufacturing process that makes chips faster does not mean users do not want faster processors. I, for one, want a CPU that is 10 times faster. I do not want 10 slow CPUs on one die as a substitute.
Previously, part of the profit generated by selling older generation chips went to subsidise the development of faster, newer generation of semiconductors. It may seem sub-optimal to a marketing person like Dessau, obviously he wants to concentrate on profit generation, not development, but let us see where this fab-lessness leads.
The costly process development is outsourced to The Foundry. Why would The Foundry want to spend billions upon billions of $ to create a process comparable to the latest Intel or IBM process? It is not where the profit lies. The most profitable are one-generation-older chips, I think. So a design company like AMD would not be able to make a CPU faster than Intel's, unless AMD pays same billions to The Foundry for development. If it does not, it would have to design chips using old technology. This would mean an end of AMD as a competitor to Intel on the "fastest CPU" market. We'll be stuck with Intel's monopoly.
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