Or, you could use POST requests like you're supposed to.
Which in my experience are really slow in browsers as compared to GETs, especially in IE.
Any number of intermediary caches and load balancing tricks can play foul with GET requests, but POST is not allowed to be cached.
With jQuery this is as simple as using $.post() instead of $.get().
Which is what http cache headers (no-cache) are here for, so any number of balancing/intermediary stuff knows what to do (except of course IE, which does not seem capable to fully talk http/1.1)
I just got forced to adopt IE8 compatibility (outside constraints). After developing something that runs just fine in Safari/Firefox/Chrome for 4 weeks, it took me:
The downside
- 4 hours to get it to run in IE8
- Data intensive JS processing/DOM manipulation is about 10x slower then in either of the alternatives
- Since no support for CSS3 border-image is present, it makes it look ugly
- Since DOM/JS is so slow, animations (width, height, opacity etc.) are slow as hell.
- the HTML5 popstate event (document.location change) is not supported, hence a watchdog interval has to be installed checking the document.location.hash 20x/second
- since IE is the only browser to enforce XHR caching, every request needs a timestamp query parameter (something that no other browser does, and which is really stupid, altough easy to provide)
- the developer tools are difficult to use (as compared to chrome, webkit, firebug etc.)
The Upside
- console.log works (thank god, no more alert debugging)
- The layout just worked (though I think that's rather a side effect of using pixel width/height zealously rather then an IE8 virtue)
- developer tools, any, even if they work badly, but developer tools!
Recommendation for anyone: IE is still the worst browser, and there's at least 4 alternatives which are collectively 1) faster 2) easier to develop for 3) more compatible to each other 4) prettier 5) more standards conformant
You see, By speakers there's 330 million Spanish speakers and 330 million English speakers, there's also 240 Million Hindi/Urdu speakers. That's more then the 800 Million Mandarin speakers in itself, but that doesn't matter. Because if the Spanish want to talk to the Hindi/Urdu speakers, or the Chinese to the Spanish, they'll just use English. That is of course to the delight of everybody else who also speaks English (either natively, or as a second language, or because their countries official language is English (even if their everyday language isn't).
The question that really addresses this wrong assertion is: Why has English become the lingua franka of the internet, and not say German, Spanish, French or Chinese? The answer is pretty simple: English (as opposed to German, French, Swedish etc. of the indo-germanic/latin root) is relatively simple to learn for anybody natively speaking indo-germanic/latin root language (really many people). Chinese on the other hand is anything but simple. People who do not speak it by far and large (in terms of percentage) will never be able to gain any substantial reading/writing proficiency in it, or pick it up drive-by style (as many do English). Chinese (written) is also pretty much a dead language. It has been honed over something like 5000 years by the Chinese into the near perfect albeit ludicrously verbose set of glyphs, and as such is not amenable to pidgin (although spoken it is another story).
Of course if these same secrets where to fall into the laps of say an "established" news organization, there's nothing wrong with that. It's only those troublesome internetkids you make life tough for, if you happen to be the Guardian or the NYT everything's fine.
Capturing direct light from earth sized planets is extremely important. Spectral analysis could reveal free oxygen (which would mean life), environmental pollution (which would mean civilization) etc.
Also if they manage to crank the resolution up, way up, we might be able to directly observe the surface structure of said planets (and any anomalies they might contain, like cities, etc.)
It sure would be good to at least know you've got neighbors, and perhaps aim some comlink at them, maybe we might learn stuff nobody thought of before, or come to more humbling insights about our existence to quieten those annoying creationist trolls (though I doubt that exobiology would quieten them any bit).
You cannot copyright game mechanics and game design. Period. Plagiarism isn't isn't copyright infringement. Period. It also isn't trademark violation, since trademarks apply to names and logos, not to design. Period.
I don't know what you're responding to, but it's certainly an interesting view, I take it you speak of tessellation shading.
As it happens I did a bit of tinkering around with that (http://codeflow.org/entries/2010/nov/07/opengl-4-tessellation/).
It's true that generic displacement mapping is more expensive, since you need to calculate the smoothed mesh before you can displace it. However, even though it makes things near the point of view more expensive to display (but also better looking), it's a great boon at scaling detail down smoothly, so it actually ends up being faster and better looking (because most further away things have just the detail required, and aren't hugely overdrawn).
"Enough with this sillyness already, we don't need a supercomputer! Now let me get back to play my latest DX11 compute enabled game with the awesome physics and graphics."
You're having a supercomputer on your desk right now. It's called a "GPU", and most likely, it sports many hundred cores. Oh, and the killer app you mean, that's whatever latest DX11/Opengl4 game you prefer.
Just hypothethically, given the information we have from the summary, what's the worst case scenario?
- The debugmode is worthy of its name, i.e. can bypass any ring and OS restriction
- It cannot be turned on or off in the bios or with a pin, since it is undocumented
- It is on by default
- The bit combination to set resides in usual working registers and can be triggered by usual computation by native code or in any bytecode interpreter (javascript, java etc.) of your choice when carefully targeting the bytecode interpreter
It's not that I'm surprised. But you need to recall that AMD chips a goodly chunk of data/hosting-center cores, which run many clients on the same machine...
AMD will need a very good indemnification clause to wind their way out of that dammage responsibility.
Since TFA is down by now, and I can't get the exact details... does this mean that any program running and setting the right bits in the right registers can get "processor root" access to everything the processor does, irrespective of any security constraint the OS may place on that process?
Oh dear
You know protecting whatnot is all good and fine. I'd just like it to happen in a fashion that doesn't clog up court time and does not cost the taxpayer money. But besides that, suing each other isn't accomplishing anything other then to finance the Lawyer industry.
The issue, if you want to put it so succinctly is, that you Americans stopped doing stuff (like cars, electronics, etc.) and increasingly rely on an industry of imaginary property and lawsuits. The issue with that is that ultimately imaginary property and lawsuits do produce nothing of tangible inherent worth. You'll figure that out sooner or later I'm sure.
Because the judicial system is paid for by you, the taxpayer. So instead of doing important things, like processing violent crime, the courts get DDOSed now by a bunch of companies who like to play games with the system and you pay for it to happen.
This whole cyclic undirected graph of lawsuits with varying levels of reference cycles will never be resolved. At some point pretty soon it'll just deadlock out, unable to move one suit forward because it depends cyclically on another suit.
I won't create an account with any of the gazillion of news sites out there just to read what they feel compelled to vomit on the internet. Since I'm of late only seeing the NY times registerwall whenever I click one of their links, I simply stopped clicking any link going to the NY Times. For my intends and purposes, the NY times is dead online. In fact, if I get around to, I'll put links to it on my spamfilter so I won't see them and accidentially click it.
If you somehow think that having user/password authentication would prevent you from being owned, then you're even more incompetent then the admins of the exploited memcached servers.
Yeah like... all these open a socket to listen to, and man, if somebody logs into it, they're like, owning your server! Geeze, what where mysql/ssh/postgres/ftp/etc. thinking?!!!
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Or, you could use POST requests like you're supposed to.
Which in my experience are really slow in browsers as compared to GETs, especially in IE.
Any number of intermediary caches and load balancing tricks can play foul with GET requests, but POST is not allowed to be cached.
With jQuery this is as simple as using $.post() instead of $.get().
Which is what http cache headers (no-cache) are here for, so any number of balancing/intermediary stuff knows what to do (except of course IE, which does not seem capable to fully talk http/1.1)
I just got forced to adopt IE8 compatibility (outside constraints). After developing something that runs just fine in Safari/Firefox/Chrome for 4 weeks, it took me:
The downside
- 4 hours to get it to run in IE8
- Data intensive JS processing/DOM manipulation is about 10x slower then in either of the alternatives
- Since no support for CSS3 border-image is present, it makes it look ugly
- Since DOM/JS is so slow, animations (width, height, opacity etc.) are slow as hell.
- the HTML5 popstate event (document.location change) is not supported, hence a watchdog interval has to be installed checking the document.location.hash 20x/second
- since IE is the only browser to enforce XHR caching, every request needs a timestamp query parameter (something that no other browser does, and which is really stupid, altough easy to provide)
- the developer tools are difficult to use (as compared to chrome, webkit, firebug etc.)
The Upside
- console.log works (thank god, no more alert debugging)
- The layout just worked (though I think that's rather a side effect of using pixel width/height zealously rather then an IE8 virtue)
- developer tools, any, even if they work badly, but developer tools!
Recommendation for anyone: IE is still the worst browser, and there's at least 4 alternatives which are collectively 1) faster 2) easier to develop for 3) more compatible to each other 4) prettier 5) more standards conformant
So actually the MAFIAA owns artists in excess of 24$ Billion in dammages...
You see, By speakers there's 330 million Spanish speakers and 330 million English speakers, there's also 240 Million Hindi/Urdu speakers. That's more then the 800 Million Mandarin speakers in itself, but that doesn't matter. Because if the Spanish want to talk to the Hindi/Urdu speakers, or the Chinese to the Spanish, they'll just use English. That is of course to the delight of everybody else who also speaks English (either natively, or as a second language, or because their countries official language is English (even if their everyday language isn't).
The question that really addresses this wrong assertion is: Why has English become the lingua franka of the internet, and not say German, Spanish, French or Chinese? The answer is pretty simple: English (as opposed to German, French, Swedish etc. of the indo-germanic/latin root) is relatively simple to learn for anybody natively speaking indo-germanic/latin root language (really many people). Chinese on the other hand is anything but simple. People who do not speak it by far and large (in terms of percentage) will never be able to gain any substantial reading/writing proficiency in it, or pick it up drive-by style (as many do English). Chinese (written) is also pretty much a dead language. It has been honed over something like 5000 years by the Chinese into the near perfect albeit ludicrously verbose set of glyphs, and as such is not amenable to pidgin (although spoken it is another story).
Of course if these same secrets where to fall into the laps of say an "established" news organization, there's nothing wrong with that. It's only those troublesome internetkids you make life tough for, if you happen to be the Guardian or the NYT everything's fine.
and then there'll be some sex by surprise and many small nathans or summers
is not justification for the bad Wikileaks does.
Well, you can't have the good without the bad...
There are better ways to do it.
Like what? Wear buttons with sloagans about love, put bumper stickers on your car?
Can we have Nathan Fillion and Summer Glau play parts? pleaaaase!
Capturing direct light from earth sized planets is extremely important. Spectral analysis could reveal free oxygen (which would mean life), environmental pollution (which would mean civilization) etc. Also if they manage to crank the resolution up, way up, we might be able to directly observe the surface structure of said planets (and any anomalies they might contain, like cities, etc.) It sure would be good to at least know you've got neighbors, and perhaps aim some comlink at them, maybe we might learn stuff nobody thought of before, or come to more humbling insights about our existence to quieten those annoying creationist trolls (though I doubt that exobiology would quieten them any bit).
A tablet and major JS engine overhaul wasn't enough, on a whim they just threw a notebook into the mix or what?
You cannot copyright game mechanics and game design. Period. Plagiarism isn't isn't copyright infringement. Period. It also isn't trademark violation, since trademarks apply to names and logos, not to design. Period.
I don't know what you're responding to, but it's certainly an interesting view, I take it you speak of tessellation shading. As it happens I did a bit of tinkering around with that (http://codeflow.org/entries/2010/nov/07/opengl-4-tessellation/). It's true that generic displacement mapping is more expensive, since you need to calculate the smoothed mesh before you can displace it. However, even though it makes things near the point of view more expensive to display (but also better looking), it's a great boon at scaling detail down smoothly, so it actually ends up being faster and better looking (because most further away things have just the detail required, and aren't hugely overdrawn).
"Enough with this sillyness already, we don't need a supercomputer! Now let me get back to play my latest DX11 compute enabled game with the awesome physics and graphics."
You're having a supercomputer on your desk right now. It's called a "GPU", and most likely, it sports many hundred cores. Oh, and the killer app you mean, that's whatever latest DX11/Opengl4 game you prefer.
Just hypothethically, given the information we have from the summary, what's the worst case scenario?
- The debugmode is worthy of its name, i.e. can bypass any ring and OS restriction
- It cannot be turned on or off in the bios or with a pin, since it is undocumented
- It is on by default
- The bit combination to set resides in usual working registers and can be triggered by usual computation by native code or in any bytecode interpreter (javascript, java etc.) of your choice when carefully targeting the bytecode interpreter
It's not that I'm surprised. But you need to recall that AMD chips a goodly chunk of data/hosting-center cores, which run many clients on the same machine... AMD will need a very good indemnification clause to wind their way out of that dammage responsibility.
Since TFA is down by now, and I can't get the exact details... does this mean that any program running and setting the right bits in the right registers can get "processor root" access to everything the processor does, irrespective of any security constraint the OS may place on that process? Oh dear
You know protecting whatnot is all good and fine. I'd just like it to happen in a fashion that doesn't clog up court time and does not cost the taxpayer money. But besides that, suing each other isn't accomplishing anything other then to finance the Lawyer industry. The issue, if you want to put it so succinctly is, that you Americans stopped doing stuff (like cars, electronics, etc.) and increasingly rely on an industry of imaginary property and lawsuits. The issue with that is that ultimately imaginary property and lawsuits do produce nothing of tangible inherent worth. You'll figure that out sooner or later I'm sure.
Because the judicial system is paid for by you, the taxpayer. So instead of doing important things, like processing violent crime, the courts get DDOSed now by a bunch of companies who like to play games with the system and you pay for it to happen.
This whole cyclic undirected graph of lawsuits with varying levels of reference cycles will never be resolved. At some point pretty soon it'll just deadlock out, unable to move one suit forward because it depends cyclically on another suit.
I won't create an account with any of the gazillion of news sites out there just to read what they feel compelled to vomit on the internet. Since I'm of late only seeing the NY times registerwall whenever I click one of their links, I simply stopped clicking any link going to the NY Times. For my intends and purposes, the NY times is dead online. In fact, if I get around to, I'll put links to it on my spamfilter so I won't see them and accidentially click it.
If nothing happens, whoever implemented it sucks.
We've been applying genetic algorithms with ANNs for quite a while now, quite often also making groups of them cooperate. yawn?
If you somehow think that having user/password authentication would prevent you from being owned, then you're even more incompetent then the admins of the exploited memcached servers.
Yeah like... all these open a socket to listen to, and man, if somebody logs into it, they're like, owning your server! Geeze, what where mysql/ssh/postgres/ftp/etc. thinking?!!!