MS isn't worried about the standard having holes, but 3D card drivers having holes. Drivers run at kernel level and WebGL passes data to those drivers. MS is concerned about how video Drivers have never had to worry about security from the internet.
FUD? Not sure. I don't write drivers, but MS's logic does seem valid, assuming potential driver security is truly an unknown.
Some people claim Silverlight has the same security issues as WebGL. The difference is Silverlight is a plugin, WebGL is part of the HTML spec. Even IE10-Metro won't support any plugins, which means no Silverlight.
I would assume WebGL can be supported via a plugin? This means it won't work on Windows Phone/Arm/Metro.
Deal with them like my debt. If I paid all of my debt collections the "minimum", I wouldn't have any food to eat. I just figure out what I can pay and pay top X amount of debt collectors who yell the loudest.
At my job, when us salaried programmers start averaging more than 40hr/week, they hire a new person. Once that person gets up to speed, we're working under 40hr/week, so they expand our projects.
Nearly everything people do on a regular day is illegal or a sue-able offense. We're only so lucky that going after the average person would be too costly.
Probably an evolving tick-tock setup between real and test.
Step1. Performance Test App against real world Step2. Document Real world issues Step3. Create test environment to run your issue cases against Step4. Optimize app against test environment Step5. Goto Step1, adding any new cases
Steps 1 and 2 can happen independent of 3 and 4. Step5 is just to make the logic seem serial.
Wish I had points for alexander_686. Even if not correct(not saying it isn't), it is a very good argument. I have never heard it from that view point before.
See, sales people do understand very basic Boolean logic.
They actually wanted to do $13,999.99999999999~, but someone told them it was equal to $14k, so they could no longer claim it was less than. Their heads exploded.
Not to mention comparing one stores taxed vs non-taxed is apples and oranges. I'm not going to normalize their prices to 5.5% tax in my head.
Not only would people bias against higher listed prices, but against what's "normal". One could also say that 9.99 "looks" more appealing than some more random value like 9.87. We're accustomed to seeing x.99, x.95, x.75, x.50, x.25, x.1, x.00, etc.
Memresistors are suppose to come out in the next 1-2 years. Will be even used as system memory because it has no effective "wear". That "breakthrough" is already done, it's just being readied for production.
5 years ago, smart phones were only emerging. It's more like growing from 51kb/s to 10mb/s. It's still not much data relative to wired speeds. 4G LTE will bring wireless fairly close to home broadband speeds in the USA. I think it will taper off a lot.
Kind of like how SSDs went from 16GB to 512GB and dropped price in only 5 years. It's not that tech was growing fast, but that SSDs were catching up to tech.
Chicken Pox vaccine is only 80% effective as a life long immunity. One can lose the "immunity" from the vaccine after a few decades, when you're much older and more likely to die from it. For all intents and purposes, the natural way is 100% life long.
The good news is the vaccine has nearly removed Chicken Pox from the USA population. Only a sub 10% of children ever get it. I want to say sub 5%, but I can't remember.
The bad news is the anti-bodies are less effective from the vaccine and the benefits don't get passed on to the fetus like the natural way does.
I think if people get booster shots, the vaccine is the way to go.
As a child, I remember it being annoying and I got to miss a few days of school. I have heard that it can be dangerous for some people, but I have never met a family where it was an issue.
I think you have the wrong idea of "modern". There are much much better safer less waste designs.
Using the car analogy, a "modern" water reactor is like using current tools to build a Model T to it's original specification, then dropping an electric starter in it and calling it "modern". It may be "new", but that doesn't mean "modern".
" given that our yield continues to increase over the last 100 years, I'd say something we're doing is very sustainable"
We're importing massive amounts of fertilizer from around the world as we strip the soil of it's nutrients faster than it can be naturally replenished. The amount of fertilizer isn't measured in units of tons, because there would be too many to understand. We count in units of cubic miles per year.
Just like water, there are large natural reserves around the world that we strip empty and import. But don't be fooled into thinking those reserves will replenish for a few hundred thousands years. Once they're gone... well.. I guess we'll worry about that when we get there.
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"they are NOT required to use anything other than the PlayStation Network"
I thought Netflix on PS3 required PSN, because when PSN went down last year, no one could use Netflix.
I'm not a PS3 owner, so I have absolutely no first-hand experience.
I hope so. R-PI does have GPU/SIMD, it could be "decent" for non-HW codecs.
MS isn't worried about the standard having holes, but 3D card drivers having holes. Drivers run at kernel level and WebGL passes data to those drivers. MS is concerned about how video Drivers have never had to worry about security from the internet.
FUD? Not sure. I don't write drivers, but MS's logic does seem valid, assuming potential driver security is truly an unknown.
MS refuses to support a standard that opens their users to Kernel level security holes. This is their claim anyway.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/microsoft-no-way-to-support-webgl-and-meet-our-security-needs.ars
Some people claim Silverlight has the same security issues as WebGL. The difference is Silverlight is a plugin, WebGL is part of the HTML spec. Even IE10-Metro won't support any plugins, which means no Silverlight.
I would assume WebGL can be supported via a plugin? This means it won't work on Windows Phone/Arm/Metro.
Deal with them like my debt. If I paid all of my debt collections the "minimum", I wouldn't have any food to eat. I just figure out what I can pay and pay top X amount of debt collectors who yell the loudest.
At my job, when us salaried programmers start averaging more than 40hr/week, they hire a new person. Once that person gets up to speed, we're working under 40hr/week, so they expand our projects.
Happy workers are good workers.
Nearly everything people do on a regular day is illegal or a sue-able offense. We're only so lucky that going after the average person would be too costly.
Because even Facebook can't delete their own files /joke
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/tech/social-media/deleted-facebook-photos-online/index.html
Probably an evolving tick-tock setup between real and test.
Step1. Performance Test App against real world
Step2. Document Real world issues
Step3. Create test environment to run your issue cases against
Step4. Optimize app against test environment
Step5. Goto Step1, adding any new cases
Steps 1 and 2 can happen independent of 3 and 4. Step5 is just to make the logic seem serial.
Wish I had points for alexander_686. Even if not correct(not saying it isn't), it is a very good argument. I have never heard it from that view point before.
I had to go and re-read and found this supporting Geekoid and changing my opinion.
http://www.oah.state.mn.us/cases/health-immun/dr-chickenpox.html
"15 percent of persons who have had chickenpox disease, resulting in shingles[...]shingles is very painful and can cause death and disability"
I've never stumbled across that info before. Lots of other good stuff in that link.
Buy this car for under $14k! $13,999.99
See, sales people do understand very basic Boolean logic.
They actually wanted to do $13,999.99999999999~, but someone told them it was equal to $14k, so they could no longer claim it was less than. Their heads exploded.
Not to mention comparing one stores taxed vs non-taxed is apples and oranges. I'm not going to normalize their prices to 5.5% tax in my head.
Not only would people bias against higher listed prices, but against what's "normal". One could also say that 9.99 "looks" more appealing than some more random value like 9.87. We're accustomed to seeing x.99, x.95, x.75, x.50, x.25, x.1, x.00, etc.
Gas stations already go out to the 1/10th penny in precision. $3.499/gal. They'll just round up to the nearest smallest unit.
Memresistors are suppose to come out in the next 1-2 years. Will be even used as system memory because it has no effective "wear". That "breakthrough" is already done, it's just being readied for production.
They said XBLA won't happen because they only work with licensed publishers. 360 won't happen because patches cost $40k each.
I'm not saying their profits aren't good, but you're talking revenue.
You're getting reduced service.
Car analogy ahoy!
Rent a car. You get unlimited miles and the car has a governor set to 75, but after 100 miles, it limits down to 25.
5 years ago, smart phones were only emerging. It's more like growing from 51kb/s to 10mb/s. It's still not much data relative to wired speeds. 4G LTE will bring wireless fairly close to home broadband speeds in the USA. I think it will taper off a lot.
Kind of like how SSDs went from 16GB to 512GB and dropped price in only 5 years. It's not that tech was growing fast, but that SSDs were catching up to tech.
"My mom is a nurse, and her best friend was paralyzed from the flu shot."
Thousands of people's lives are saved from the flu shot and one person had an adverse reaction and suddenly it's bad?
Show me the statistics and I'll give you an answer.
Now if they find a way to genetically test if you'll have bad side-effects, I could see having that done before getting a shot.
Chicken Pox vaccine is only 80% effective as a life long immunity. One can lose the "immunity" from the vaccine after a few decades, when you're much older and more likely to die from it. For all intents and purposes, the natural way is 100% life long.
The good news is the vaccine has nearly removed Chicken Pox from the USA population. Only a sub 10% of children ever get it. I want to say sub 5%, but I can't remember.
The bad news is the anti-bodies are less effective from the vaccine and the benefits don't get passed on to the fetus like the natural way does.
I think if people get booster shots, the vaccine is the way to go.
As a child, I remember it being annoying and I got to miss a few days of school. I have heard that it can be dangerous for some people, but I have never met a family where it was an issue.
Real question
The nuclear reactor runs quite hot relative to water's boiling temp. Is there a reason they can't just let the cooling system run at 101c?
I think you have the wrong idea of "modern". There are much much better safer less waste designs.
Using the car analogy, a "modern" water reactor is like using current tools to build a Model T to it's original specification, then dropping an electric starter in it and calling it "modern". It may be "new", but that doesn't mean "modern".
" given that our yield continues to increase over the last 100 years, I'd say something we're doing is very sustainable"
We're importing massive amounts of fertilizer from around the world as we strip the soil of it's nutrients faster than it can be naturally replenished. The amount of fertilizer isn't measured in units of tons, because there would be too many to understand. We count in units of cubic miles per year.
Just like water, there are large natural reserves around the world that we strip empty and import. But don't be fooled into thinking those reserves will replenish for a few hundred thousands years. Once they're gone... well.. I guess we'll worry about that when we get there.
The type of radiation is completely different and more spread out, not to mention mostly blocked by the airplane's skin.
My 1800watt quartz heater puts out a lot of radiation, but I'm not as worried about that as getting x-ray scanned.