I'm not. Actually I do not know what it is trying to achieve, but "unregulated" and "not backed up by anything" are certainly not what I am after.
But this is just a news story about an exchange which didn't know what it was doing, trading in a currency that hasn't been fully proven, operating in an unknown capacity from somewhere in Japan, and without any oversight at all.
I think they knew what they were doing. I think the currency is proven - to be faulty. I think the "achieve" part means "no oversight at all" so you are already contradicting yourself.
That's like millions of people asking my buddy Joe who lives in a trailer to hang onto their money for them. Oh no, bad decisions were made?
What you "bitcoin people" seem to want is anymous (i.e. can buy drugs without getting caught) which can be easily transferred (i.e. no exchange can steal or stop you) backed up (i.e. you cannot lose your money - just win with it) non-government (i.e. not backed up...), non-fiat (i.e. er, I have no clue) money.
Then someone makes "cryptographic mathematically proven" - and you expect that to mean it holds all above. You fail to understand that money has just one necessary condition: majority of people trust it - mostly because the country they live in would collapse without it, and the persons backing it up knows this and you know they know.
Sure QNX is more flexible. And certainly more suited to motor control. But my point is Android is more powerfull, and "cheap enough" for infotaintment. Paying something like $10[1] for Android (including HW) is cheaper than developing a simple UI, unless the car is assumed to sell tens of millions.
Last time I checked a commercial RTOS prices they were really huge and every single extra (audio, video, bluetooth, wifi, TCP/IP,...) would cost more. Even then, if you would like something like wifi-hotspot it seemed you'd have to buy it from 3rd party or develop it.
[1] For example AliExpress has RK3066 sticks for around $20 - single quantity. Although it is low end and a bit outdated, it is capable of HD video.
I wonder if it is really true. I'd assume that full fledged OS with all the stuff included would be better infotaintment system than QNX. As I do not know which version of "Windows" they use, suppose they used Android. Now they would get, for free without any development costs or time, bluetooth, wifi, 3G, UI, development tools, etc. The system would work as a bluetooth handsfree[1]. The system would, with a SIM, work as a wifi-hotspot. You would get Google Maps, i.e. navigation. Games from Play store. Etc, for free (or the price of Android if they want maps&play).
With QNX, what do they get?
[1] I assume Android can work as a bluetooth "device", not only as a "host".
[Citation Needed] - because this claim is complete bullshit.
Show one news article where some airport security has caught a terrorist. You calling it "bullshit" won't make it so.
Seriously. There are many "TSA's of the world" that have caught terrorists. Israel is probably the most noteworthy. They catch terrorists every single day, and yet they do it without forcing people through x ray body scanners, without groping people, and without absurd requests like no aluminum foil.
First, it is a matter of definition whether Palestinians are terrorist or freedom fighters, after all Israel does occupy, illegally, Palestinian land. Second, airport security ("TSA") has not caught any. Or name one.
All the "TSA's" of the world have cought exactly zero terrorists. Can you make same claim about sprinklers, smoke detectors, insurances, airbags? Even USA wide? Even in your city? Your block?
Yes there is. The record company has "producers". The producers ensure that the music does not annoy anyone[1], is de-s'd, autotuned, limited, compressed, and what not to sound exactly same as everybody else.
Imagine what music would be without aforementioned professionals! It might sound interesting, for god's sake!
[1] The worst that can happen to a radio station is listeners to change the station. Sounding annoying or being (too) different is sure way to do it.
Vaccinations... Finland is in trouble. One (Pig Flu 2009) vaccination provably caused several cases (more than ten) of narcolepsia. Now, understandably, people are frightened to get any vaccinations, especially for Pig flu. Unfortunately totally unrelated vaccinations (MMR, HPV) are also opposed.
Still no alternative gives virtual screen bigger than real screen (scroll when mouse hits edge). Or windows occupying more than one desktop (e.g. top left part in "1", bottom right in "4"). Unfortunatelu tvtwm, last time I checked, was lacking too much.
In my previous job I had quite a nice laptop. Except one thing... I quite often needed to process multigigabyte files (situation was made worse by an anti-virus). So I asked for an upgrade, an SSD. They proposed to replace the whole machine with a new one, without SSD. I, of course, declined, it would not help at all.
One size does fit all, albeit sometimes very badly. Besides, they do not care, they just provide what is decided (by those who do not understand my problems).
Hey give me a break! Yuo can pre-propose pretty much anything! Thera are huge amont on idiotic pre-proposals! They always die before getting near "to be voted" stage.
This is a good thing (that you can try to get different things to be voted on)!
I do not believe that (things are getting better). I would be really surprised if the real number of holes is going down significantly, the developers are making holes at the same time as these guys are finding them. Perhaps this temporarily gets the hole count down, but after five years the situation will be the same.
The OSS "mind" has been, for 20 years, "a fixed hole is a good thing". Why on earth would it suddenly change to "do not make new holes"?
One problem here is that the "multiple parties" are looking for holes to take advantage of, not to fix. Another problem is that for example Linux is generating more holes per week than it is fixing, and the attitude sucks (https://lwn.net/Articles/538600/, https://lwn.net/Articles/313621/, etc).
If OSS were serious about security they would immediately use grsecurity and managed runtimes (JVM and like). I don't expect either happening anytime soon.
I would be surprised if every single american made router can NOT be attacked by NSA to gain management console. Which means thay can inspect and re-route your data at will. And they can get the access inside your intranet. Same with british made (is there any?), probably israeli and maybe some chinese. IMHO best bet would be german or perhaps scandinavian ones. Same with VPN, german VPN is very likely without intentional holes.
When someone "bit rich" dumps bitcoins he has, the others lose money. When this happens several times, people should learn this is not sane money. Should, but probably will not.
My moral prohibits me from taking advantage of the buyer, no matter whether I "misrepresent" the goods or not.
If I have the knowledge that something is not as valuable as the price is, due to reasons the buyer does not understand, I just skip it. I will not sell a lemon car even if the buyer does not have the mechanical knowledge to find out it is lemon. I will not sell lemon eletronic coins because I know they are lemon.
It's not unethical to sell people stuff that they want at a price they deem fair.
On this we just have to agree to disagree. Most frauds are done with this principle in mind. Note that I am not saying you should not do it, just that I will not myself do it.
This is exactly why I think Bitcoin will collapse. Or perhaps, "should". There are quite a few with high percentage of all the money, one with at least 20%. Sooner or later some of them are going to dump. Getting $1'000'000 for "nothing" is very tempting. Later, much later, the gullible are going to understand they were ripped of, several times. Then, again it might be so that they never understand as they see Bitcoin as "mathematically proven" money missing the problems entirely.
I hope you have luck. I just cannot do the same for ethical & moral reasons. Damn, parents!
Or considerably faster, as each process can be given own CPU.
If there is such a need to use libraries that the separation cannot be done cleanly, you might be using the languages or libraries wrong and probably get screwed. For example I recall Java got faster unzipping after C zlib was replaced with native Java. This although it is likely that the C lib was "faster". YMMV, of course.
Personally I would always try to partition the problem into separate processes. Even if it is somewhat slower. For several reasons (architecturally better, more maintainable, easier to test, easier to understand and fix, network transparency, protection from other parts,...).
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I'm all for what bitcoin is trying to achieve.
I'm not. Actually I do not know what it is trying to achieve, but "unregulated" and "not backed up by anything" are certainly not what I am after.
But this is just a news story about an exchange which didn't know what it was doing, trading in a currency that hasn't been fully proven, operating in an unknown capacity from somewhere in Japan, and without any oversight at all.
I think they knew what they were doing. I think the currency is proven - to be faulty. I think the "achieve" part means "no oversight at all" so you are already contradicting yourself.
That's like millions of people asking my buddy Joe who lives in a trailer to hang onto their money for them. Oh no, bad decisions were made?
What you "bitcoin people" seem to want is anymous (i.e. can buy drugs without getting caught) which can be easily transferred (i.e. no exchange can steal or stop you) backed up (i.e. you cannot lose your money - just win with it) non-government (i.e. not backed up ...), non-fiat (i.e. er, I have no clue) money.
Then someone makes "cryptographic mathematically proven" - and you expect that to mean it holds all above. You fail to understand that money has just one necessary condition: majority of people trust it - mostly because the country they live in would collapse without it, and the persons backing it up knows this and you know they know.
I am willing to bet it costs $10'000 plus certification & type approval for aviation use.
No, taking pictures in public is explicitly allowed in Finland. Collecting data about people is not.
Thank (all the gods), this kind of thing is illegal in Finland. And most likely in the EU too.
Sure QNX is more flexible. And certainly more suited to motor control.
But my point is Android is more powerfull, and "cheap enough" for infotaintment. Paying something like $10[1] for Android (including HW) is cheaper than developing a simple UI, unless the car is assumed to sell tens of millions.
Last time I checked a commercial RTOS prices they were really huge and every single extra (audio, video, bluetooth, wifi, TCP/IP, ...) would cost more. Even then, if you would like something like wifi-hotspot it seemed you'd have to buy it from 3rd party or develop it.
[1] For example AliExpress has RK3066 sticks for around $20 - single quantity. Although it is low end and a bit outdated, it is capable of HD video.
I wonder if it is really true. I'd assume that full fledged OS with all the stuff included would be better infotaintment system than QNX.
As I do not know which version of "Windows" they use, suppose they used Android. Now they would get, for free without any development costs or time, bluetooth, wifi, 3G, UI, development tools, etc. The system would work as a bluetooth handsfree[1]. The system would, with a SIM, work as a wifi-hotspot. You would get Google Maps, i.e. navigation. Games from Play store. Etc, for free (or the price of Android if they want maps&play).
With QNX, what do they get?
[1] I assume Android can work as a bluetooth "device", not only as a "host".
[Citation Needed] - because this claim is complete bullshit.
Show one news article where some airport security has caught a terrorist. You calling it "bullshit" won't make it so.
Seriously. There are many "TSA's of the world" that have caught terrorists. Israel is probably the most noteworthy. They catch terrorists every single day, and yet they do it without forcing people through x ray body scanners, without groping people, and without absurd requests like no aluminum foil.
First, it is a matter of definition whether Palestinians are terrorist or freedom fighters, after all Israel does occupy, illegally, Palestinian land.
Second, airport security ("TSA") has not caught any. Or name one.
WTF?
All the "TSA's" of the world have cought exactly zero terrorists.
Can you make same claim about sprinklers, smoke detectors, insurances, airbags? Even USA wide? Even in your city? Your block?
Yes there is. The record company has "producers".
The producers ensure that the music does not annoy anyone[1], is de-s'd, autotuned, limited, compressed, and what not to sound exactly same as everybody else.
Imagine what music would be without aforementioned professionals! It might sound interesting, for god's sake!
[1] The worst that can happen to a radio station is listeners to change the station. Sounding annoying or being (too) different is sure way to do it.
In essense, good managers work for the engineers, bad managers work for upper management.
Vaccinations ... Finland is in trouble. One (Pig Flu 2009) vaccination provably caused several cases (more than ten) of narcolepsia.
Now, understandably, people are frightened to get any vaccinations, especially for Pig flu. Unfortunately totally unrelated vaccinations (MMR, HPV) are also opposed.
Yes.
Still no alternative gives virtual screen bigger than real screen (scroll when mouse hits edge). Or windows occupying more than one desktop (e.g. top left part in "1", bottom right in "4").
Unfortunatelu tvtwm, last time I checked, was lacking too much.
Every drone strike is authorized by the government of the country involved. That doesn't make it right, but it prevents it from being an act of war.
And what would be the "government" in Somalia? Not that I believe you at all.
In my previous job I had quite a nice laptop. Except one thing ... I quite often needed to process multigigabyte files (situation was made worse by an anti-virus). So I asked for an upgrade, an SSD. They proposed to replace the whole machine with a new one, without SSD. I, of course, declined, it would not help at all.
One size does fit all, albeit sometimes very badly. Besides, they do not care, they just provide what is decided (by those who do not understand my problems).
Hey give me a break! Yuo can pre-propose pretty much anything! Thera are huge amont on idiotic pre-proposals!
They always die before getting near "to be voted" stage.
This is a good thing (that you can try to get different things to be voted on)!
Define "OO techniques". In C you just cannot use inheritance in any usefull way. IMHO inheritance is the most important aspect of OO.
Even if we do, whan on earth makes you think Wayland is even a bit better?
I do not believe that (things are getting better).
I would be really surprised if the real number of holes is going down significantly, the developers are making holes at the same time as these guys are finding them. Perhaps this temporarily gets the hole count down, but after five years the situation will be the same.
The OSS "mind" has been, for 20 years, "a fixed hole is a good thing". Why on earth would it suddenly change to "do not make new holes"?
One problem here is that the "multiple parties" are looking for holes to take advantage of, not to fix.
Another problem is that for example Linux is generating more holes per week than it is fixing, and the attitude sucks (https://lwn.net/Articles/538600/, https://lwn.net/Articles/313621/, etc).
If OSS were serious about security they would immediately use grsecurity and managed runtimes (JVM and like). I don't expect either happening anytime soon.
I would be surprised if every single american made router can NOT be attacked by NSA to gain management console. Which means thay can inspect and re-route your data at will. And they can get the access inside your intranet. Same with british made (is there any?), probably israeli and maybe some chinese. IMHO best bet would be german or perhaps scandinavian ones. Same with VPN, german VPN is very likely without intentional holes.
When someone "bit rich" dumps bitcoins he has, the others lose money. When this happens several times, people should learn this is not sane money. Should, but probably will not.
My moral prohibits me from taking advantage of the buyer, no matter whether I "misrepresent" the goods or not.
If I have the knowledge that something is not as valuable as the price is, due to reasons the buyer does not understand, I just skip it. I will not sell a lemon car even if the buyer does not have the mechanical knowledge to find out it is lemon. I will not sell lemon eletronic coins because I know they are lemon.
I do not expect you to hold these values.
It's not unethical to sell people stuff that they want at a price they deem fair.
On this we just have to agree to disagree. Most frauds are done with this principle in mind.
Note that I am not saying you should not do it, just that I will not myself do it.
This is exactly why I think Bitcoin will collapse. Or perhaps, "should". There are quite a few with high percentage of all the money, one with at least 20%.
Sooner or later some of them are going to dump. Getting $1'000'000 for "nothing" is very tempting.
Later, much later, the gullible are going to understand they were ripped of, several times. Then, again it might be so that they never understand as they see Bitcoin as "mathematically proven" money missing the problems entirely.
I hope you have luck. I just cannot do the same for ethical & moral reasons. Damn, parents!
Or considerably faster, as each process can be given own CPU.
If there is such a need to use libraries that the separation cannot be done cleanly, you might be using the languages or libraries wrong and probably get screwed.
For example I recall Java got faster unzipping after C zlib was replaced with native Java. This although it is likely that the C lib was "faster". YMMV, of course.
Personally I would always try to partition the problem into separate processes. Even if it is somewhat slower. For several reasons (architecturally better, more maintainable, easier to test, easier to understand and fix, network transparency, protection from other parts, ...).