There are people who think such things are beyond the ken of mortal man. Mere programmers should use libraries and only the gods themselves write the libraries.
It's undesirable only if you assume it scales. If you just call the same function a second time, then it's perfectly acceptable. It's no different than any other function call in that regard. Also note that all functional language programs are essentially highly recursive if written according to the language's style. Coming out and saying essentially "don't use this feature because there is a possibility of it being abused" means we can't use any computer language.
1GB is totally acceptable for a web browser. Just stop going to javascript heavy the-web-is-an-app sites. 1GB was acceptable by most people just five to ten years ago, and the web browsers worked just fine. Next people will be saying you need 8GB+ just to do some word processing.
Sorry, most consumers are not interested in results with computers either, they just want to see kitten videos and update social media status. Computers in general are not being used as high technology computing devices except by the nerds.
Reporters don't understand that. Well, let's be honest, reporters don't understand much of anything so I guess the comment is redundant. A reporter uses a computer and thinks "I'm tech savvy, I should cover the tech beat!" but then is baffled by actual nerds.
I don't think grandma is the only problem. San Jose is high on the list, and I think it's because we have far too many ignorant techies who are obsessed with getting the latest new fad, going to every possible web site that's cool, getting all the latest gadgets, using the latest apps, etc. Never mind the ignorant techies actually making the security flaws in the first place.
A lot of questions are general, and should not have to specify programming language or OS, and yet most stackoverflow commenters assume web style programming, javascript, on a peecee.
I don't know my password on stackoverflow by heart, so It's hard to keep up to date on it, keep points increasing, etc. So I visit there when Google shows it as a response to my questions. That's when I noticed the irrelevant answers and I can't post a correct answer as my points are too low. Also when I can ask or answer questions I inevitably mess up some protocol (should post a new answer instead of commenting, or should comment instead of creating a new answer, and so forth).
Yup, bigger CPUs take more power, there's no need for a large amount of address space (which is the only practical thing you get from 64-bit). I'm working on a system with 20kb RAM which has to run off of a small battery for more than a decade. 64-bit has no applicability there. If it's a PC then sure, the newer CPUs tend to be 64-bit but outside of the PC monoculture there is a whole lot of other stuff that can run linux where 32-bit could actually be more secure. The smartcard market has parts that are based on 8-bit 8051 running Java VMs with crypto accelerators.
They should just be clear and say "We're making linux for PeeCees. We don't understand other types of systems. We think 32-bit means old and 64-bit means new."
I'm replying here to explicitly doubt the author's assertion. It's a silly thing to be asserting. Security is not in the size of a system's registers or address bus. A good 32-bit SoC with crypto hardware may be much more secure than a 64-bit CPU.
Not always. I see good questions dismissed by those with lots of points with excuses of "it's a duplicate" because they didn't bother to read the question thoroughly, and the wrong answers modded up because the wrong answer givers have lots of points. People with lots of points in one field will then go to a different field where they are ignorant and try to give answers there. It's not a popularity contest, but people try to be popular by butting in and giving the wrong answers anyway.
I just ignore them. And it's true, people have gotten ruder over the years. I suspect they don't know the answer at all and just want to belittle someone. However others I think are just clueless underneath it, and can't understand why someone would even want an answer to that question. The question is outside of their frame of reference. For instance, ask how to resolve a tricky issue with existing code in C++, and someone will inevitably say "that's bad style, never do that" as if people have the luxury to rewrite all code. Or some people just misinterpret the question completely; they skim past it and assume you were asking a different but simpler question (very common on stackoverflow, which has become nearly useless because of of the bad responses, incorrect responses, or the unhelpful answers with "I don't know how to do that in C but it's trivial to do in C# so you should use that instead" style).
Politicians have sold out across the board. This is not a republican problem, it is a problem for every politician that accepts campaign donations from corporations.
Apple may be getting more restrictive, but on OSC it currently has zero restrictions on installing your own software, building your own software, or grabbing software from random places on the web. If it has a walled garden then the walls are drawn with chalk.
True. However Berkeley is a university, the goal of which is to educate people, prepare them for the real world, and so forth. Prohibiting free speech flies against that principle. You MUST learn about different viewpoints to be well educated, if you live in a bubble of only comfortable thoughts that you already agree with then you will be very poorly educated. It is better to debate ideas one disagrees with than try to shut down out.
Because they get those games from the publisher at a discount. The publishers have an irrational hatred of game reselling. So Nvidia promises to prevent such game reselling and then they get better deals and more access to better games to promote their own products.
Have you not paid attention? BOTH sides are bashing each other (although there are indeed more than two sides, they two dominant sides pretend that's all there is). People did not vote for Donald Trump because they thought Hillary had too much negative campaigning.
Agreed. If they have a cause then they are hurting that cause. While trying to shut up a truly despicable person by shutting down free speech they have only given that jerk more ammunition to use as proof that liberals are intolerant thought police.
If Trump was really so awful then why did they wait until AFTER his election to start protesting, which will cause no change whatsoever in the outcome, when they could have been more effective by actually getting out more people to vote BEFORE the election. Probably they were stupid and thought that because Hillary was going to win they could be lazy and stay home, forgetting that there were many elections for senate, congress, state office, city hall, state and local propositions, and dog catcher. Maybe they are fooled into thinking that the president is a dictator and so they don't need to bother voting for anyone else.
This is not the "right" doing this. That's why there's the new world "alt-right". These are NOT your honest respectable Republicans we've had for so long. There is not just a left and the right in the US, that's just stereotyping people so yu don't have to think too hard. Donald Trump doesn't fit into that mold, he's not really left or right. He won the vote from people who are scared, not from people who have a long held well thought out political viewpoint, and he exploited that fear. The this happens with most politician's these days from every stripe, it is not unique to The Donald.
When you start splitting the country up into 50% on the one side of the political aisle who are good and honest people and 50% on the other side who are assholes, then you have stopped using your brain and have become a part of the problem. And as long as people continue feeling that way then we'll continue to have abysmal elections where our choices are between staunch bigot from party A versus staunch bigot from party B, and we get stuck again with deciding which is the lesser of two evils.
Why not look at it this way: Everyone is a giant selfish asshole. What makes society work is that we try to hide that base animal nature and pretend to be higher beings. The giant assholes on the left and the right need to learn how to live together or society stops working.
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There are people who think such things are beyond the ken of mortal man. Mere programmers should use libraries and only the gods themselves write the libraries.
It's undesirable only if you assume it scales. If you just call the same function a second time, then it's perfectly acceptable. It's no different than any other function call in that regard. Also note that all functional language programs are essentially highly recursive if written according to the language's style. Coming out and saying essentially "don't use this feature because there is a possibility of it being abused" means we can't use any computer language.
1GB is totally acceptable for a web browser. Just stop going to javascript heavy the-web-is-an-app sites. 1GB was acceptable by most people just five to ten years ago, and the web browsers worked just fine. Next people will be saying you need 8GB+ just to do some word processing.
Sorry, most consumers are not interested in results with computers either, they just want to see kitten videos and update social media status. Computers in general are not being used as high technology computing devices except by the nerds.
Reporters don't understand that. Well, let's be honest, reporters don't understand much of anything so I guess the comment is redundant. A reporter uses a computer and thinks "I'm tech savvy, I should cover the tech beat!" but then is baffled by actual nerds.
I don't think grandma is the only problem. San Jose is high on the list, and I think it's because we have far too many ignorant techies who are obsessed with getting the latest new fad, going to every possible web site that's cool, getting all the latest gadgets, using the latest apps, etc. Never mind the ignorant techies actually making the security flaws in the first place.
Naw, I don't use my google login for anything except google. Don't want a single login for my personal accounts. For security, privacy, etc.
Oh sure, I've seen that. The percentage of rude to normal though seemed lower.
A lot of questions are general, and should not have to specify programming language or OS, and yet most stackoverflow commenters assume web style programming, javascript, on a peecee.
I don't know my password on stackoverflow by heart, so It's hard to keep up to date on it, keep points increasing, etc. So I visit there when Google shows it as a response to my questions. That's when I noticed the irrelevant answers and I can't post a correct answer as my points are too low. Also when I can ask or answer questions I inevitably mess up some protocol (should post a new answer instead of commenting, or should comment instead of creating a new answer, and so forth).
Why would they go away? 8-bit CPUs are still around and going strong.
Yup, bigger CPUs take more power, there's no need for a large amount of address space (which is the only practical thing you get from 64-bit). I'm working on a system with 20kb RAM which has to run off of a small battery for more than a decade. 64-bit has no applicability there. If it's a PC then sure, the newer CPUs tend to be 64-bit but outside of the PC monoculture there is a whole lot of other stuff that can run linux where 32-bit could actually be more secure. The smartcard market has parts that are based on 8-bit 8051 running Java VMs with crypto accelerators.
They should just be clear and say "We're making linux for PeeCees. We don't understand other types of systems. We think 32-bit means old and 64-bit means new."
Just dump Intel and be more secure overall.
I'm replying here to explicitly doubt the author's assertion. It's a silly thing to be asserting. Security is not in the size of a system's registers or address bus. A good 32-bit SoC with crypto hardware may be much more secure than a 64-bit CPU.
Not always. I see good questions dismissed by those with lots of points with excuses of "it's a duplicate" because they didn't bother to read the question thoroughly, and the wrong answers modded up because the wrong answer givers have lots of points. People with lots of points in one field will then go to a different field where they are ignorant and try to give answers there. It's not a popularity contest, but people try to be popular by butting in and giving the wrong answers anyway.
I just ignore them. And it's true, people have gotten ruder over the years. I suspect they don't know the answer at all and just want to belittle someone.
However others I think are just clueless underneath it, and can't understand why someone would even want an answer to that question. The question is outside of their frame of reference. For instance, ask how to resolve a tricky issue with existing code in C++, and someone will inevitably say "that's bad style, never do that" as if people have the luxury to rewrite all code. Or some people just misinterpret the question completely; they skim past it and assume you were asking a different but simpler question (very common on stackoverflow, which has become nearly useless because of of the bad responses, incorrect responses, or the unhelpful answers with "I don't know how to do that in C but it's trivial to do in C# so you should use that instead" style).
But overall, just ignore them.
Politicians have sold out across the board. This is not a republican problem, it is a problem for every politician that accepts campaign donations from corporations.
They're copying Apple's definition of "brave"!
Apple may be getting more restrictive, but on OSC it currently has zero restrictions on installing your own software, building your own software, or grabbing software from random places on the web. If it has a walled garden then the walls are drawn with chalk.
Can you point to one such article from the Huffington Post that demonizes white Christian males?
True. However Berkeley is a university, the goal of which is to educate people, prepare them for the real world, and so forth. Prohibiting free speech flies against that principle. You MUST learn about different viewpoints to be well educated, if you live in a bubble of only comfortable thoughts that you already agree with then you will be very poorly educated. It is better to debate ideas one disagrees with than try to shut down out.
Because they get those games from the publisher at a discount. The publishers have an irrational hatred of game reselling. So Nvidia promises to prevent such game reselling and then they get better deals and more access to better games to promote their own products.
Have you not paid attention? BOTH sides are bashing each other (although there are indeed more than two sides, they two dominant sides pretend that's all there is). People did not vote for Donald Trump because they thought Hillary had too much negative campaigning.
Agreed. If they have a cause then they are hurting that cause. While trying to shut up a truly despicable person by shutting down free speech they have only given that jerk more ammunition to use as proof that liberals are intolerant thought police.
If Trump was really so awful then why did they wait until AFTER his election to start protesting, which will cause no change whatsoever in the outcome, when they could have been more effective by actually getting out more people to vote BEFORE the election. Probably they were stupid and thought that because Hillary was going to win they could be lazy and stay home, forgetting that there were many elections for senate, congress, state office, city hall, state and local propositions, and dog catcher. Maybe they are fooled into thinking that the president is a dictator and so they don't need to bother voting for anyone else.
This is not the "right" doing this. That's why there's the new world "alt-right". These are NOT your honest respectable Republicans we've had for so long. There is not just a left and the right in the US, that's just stereotyping people so yu don't have to think too hard. Donald Trump doesn't fit into that mold, he's not really left or right. He won the vote from people who are scared, not from people who have a long held well thought out political viewpoint, and he exploited that fear. The this happens with most politician's these days from every stripe, it is not unique to The Donald.
When you start splitting the country up into 50% on the one side of the political aisle who are good and honest people and 50% on the other side who are assholes, then you have stopped using your brain and have become a part of the problem. And as long as people continue feeling that way then we'll continue to have abysmal elections where our choices are between staunch bigot from party A versus staunch bigot from party B, and we get stuck again with deciding which is the lesser of two evils.
Why not look at it this way: Everyone is a giant selfish asshole. What makes society work is that we try to hide that base animal nature and pretend to be higher beings. The giant assholes on the left and the right need to learn how to live together or society stops working.