Most people have significant gripes with Vista because of an assortment of smaller issues. Like the 'mouse properties' screen hanging for 5 minutes when one changes the mouse sensitivity. I found that one particularly amusing.
Sluggishness is also a huge problem for people. I couldn't stand waiting for 4 freaking minutes for my laptop to start up. XP does it in 2. Shutting down is probably a worse ratio. This problem is common in all Vista installations. Even the basic dialogs to change system settings take fucking ages. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in years, since I was using a 1.6ghz p4 with 256MB RAM.
Sure, they're not show-stoppers. After they fixed file transfers, one could overlook all of these stupid annoyances. But the main thing is.. there are no real improvements over XP. There's nothing major Vista can do that XP can't, aside from DirectX 10. It looks prettier, but that's only skin-deep, and anyway Linux and OSX look even better. Even UAC is easily bypassed by virii.
So instead of nitpicking about bugs, or saying "oooh look all of these bugs really aren't bugs", we should really point out that there's.. well.. no real reason to upgrade, & that's the main reason why nobody minds sticking with XP.
The inventors of the internet did not anticipate the xbox-huge bittorrent packets flooding the pipes. What we need is better flow control -- an engineering solution to an engineering problem. It's not a net neutrality thing at all:-)
But we can already crash EVERY tab at once
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Simply inserting an a href linking to "evil:%" crashes chrome. ALL of chrome. While this is acceptable in a beta product, I don't buy the graceful, tab-only crashes they're promising.
More like.. as long as your CPU has 171 cores, apparently.
The windows thread switching code is not supposed to handle that many threads!! Performance tends to decrease drastically at that point... ugh.
This is a beta release though. They still have to optimise the code, & include all of those security vulnerabilities and break standards complaince, or whatever it is they have to do.
If they'd kept their hack secret, nobody would've been the wiser. Thus, their point may have been that the press room is in fact INSECURE and should not be trusted.
This is simply a pointer - a giant, *&@off red neon pointer at that - to the fact that users need to be able to moderate/. articles up or down. If the body politic deems an article to have low 'truthiness' then it should say so in giant *&^@off red neon writing.:)
But perhaps our benevolent dictators would be scared of la revolucion?
Awesome, now I'm going to run around with my 1337 new tool, finding vulnerabilities in every website I can find on the internet. Then I'm going to post obnoxious defacement messages, pretending to be a Turkish hacker...:p
No, you're not put up on a pedestal as some sort of poster-child for democracy. The extent of the influence of lobbyists and degree to which funding shapes the political process means that ultimately, it is forces other than public opinion and discussion that make the decisions.
And only through accepting this fact can one begin cleaning up the mess:)
Holy crap. I just realised what you were saying -- use parallelism, vast parallelism for BRANCH PREDICTION.
That's not really how concurrency works at the moment:) it's at a much higher level at the moment, explicitly in the code itself - take matrix multiplication for instance, it's easy to see how that can be split up into multiple threads..
But calculation of every possible state 'n' states into the future, with 2^n CPU cores, that sounds like a good idea, sir!:) and is also not mutually exclusive with explicit multithreading (although each concurrent thread blows out the total number of states).
I'd wager that the $100M was spent largely on graphics designer types - who, after all, had to create a huge glomping city.
It's not the programmers that do the majority of the work in a game like that. It's modellers, animators, mappers, texturers, etc etc. Just look at the credit reel for the game.
Is it still "stealing" to pirate the software after they stop selling it? Thsi raises some questions regarding the morality of piracy..
Yarrrrgh, I'll see you landlubbers on the high seas.
"My mail client is fine because it doesn't load javascript or images.. however it's possible for someone to nuke my entire filesystem or execute anything!"
What kind of crazy priorities do you have?
Also, I use pine -- would someone please share some proof-of-concept? Otherwise I won't have to write my own goddamn text-based email client! Ye gods.
We'll just see how secure facial recognition is after I hold up a bloody picture of someone's face and gain entry to whatever.
Now with *two* webcams you could possibly do a bit better, but one need only have two photos from slightly varying angles & some lenses to refocus the webcams' cameras. Very easy.
This is worse than finger scanners. Up till now, I've actually had to cut off my victims' fingers to use their thinkpads!
You guys are idiots. Have you actually read the document in question?
The most interesting bit is the part about international enforcement. It seems as though the US may be able to pluck citizens from other countries and try them in US courts..?
Recently a British citizen was extradited from Australia.. to the US. So I guess they can already do that..
Haha guys, this is obviously fake. I'm using RC2 right now and nothing is amiss. I can post normally.. dunno what's going on with you guys, maybe Candlejack or something has-
Hey, I have a really spiffy idea. How about creating a router that can determine which packets take precedence? I'll make millions off that idea...
What? Oh, damn Linux! What? Oh, Windows can do it too now? Why do I always have the good ideas about 10 years too late? Can't remember the last time I convinced my ISP to let me install software on their DSLAM router:D
As someone who plays a lot of rhythm-based games (but not Guitar Hero, funnily enough, though I plan on buying it at SOME point... programming student here, too busy to have job) I can't begin to describe how boring most of the songs get after a while. DDR suffers from this problem -- that's why I play Stepmania, which is open source (incl. the song format).
Put it this way: The Guitar Hero fans eager for a new fix outnumber the fans of an ageing pop-rock band that, like everyone else, was eventually spat out by the system. Not that surprising.
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Most people have significant gripes with Vista because of an assortment of smaller issues. Like the 'mouse properties' screen hanging for 5 minutes when one changes the mouse sensitivity. I found that one particularly amusing.
Sluggishness is also a huge problem for people. I couldn't stand waiting for 4 freaking minutes for my laptop to start up. XP does it in 2. Shutting down is probably a worse ratio. This problem is common in all Vista installations. Even the basic dialogs to change system settings take fucking ages. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in years, since I was using a 1.6ghz p4 with 256MB RAM.
Sure, they're not show-stoppers. After they fixed file transfers, one could overlook all of these stupid annoyances. But the main thing is.. there are no real improvements over XP. There's nothing major Vista can do that XP can't, aside from DirectX 10. It looks prettier, but that's only skin-deep, and anyway Linux and OSX look even better. Even UAC is easily bypassed by virii.
So instead of nitpicking about bugs, or saying "oooh look all of these bugs really aren't bugs", we should really point out that there's .. well.. no real reason to upgrade, & that's the main reason why nobody minds sticking with XP.
The inventors of the internet did not anticipate the xbox-huge bittorrent packets flooding the pipes. What we need is better flow control -- an engineering solution to an engineering problem. It's not a net neutrality thing at all :-)
Simply inserting an a href linking to "evil:%" crashes chrome. ALL of chrome. While this is acceptable in a beta product, I don't buy the graceful, tab-only crashes they're promising.
More like.. as long as your CPU has 171 cores, apparently.
The windows thread switching code is not supposed to handle that many threads!! Performance tends to decrease drastically at that point... ugh.
This is a beta release though. They still have to optimise the code, & include all of those security vulnerabilities and break standards complaince, or whatever it is they have to do.
Wow. This is a disturbing reminder of my University assignments, for which I forgot to remove those cout "No segfault yet!\n"; statements.
Truly, logging is an amateur pursuit, & a grownup Software Engineer utilises formal verification and.... *GASP*.... unit testing!!
Seriously, do the slashdot developers call a logging function somewhere with "Okay, we've started the comment routine!" in comments.pl?
If they'd kept their hack secret, nobody would've been the wiser. Thus, their point may have been that the press room is in fact INSECURE and should not be trusted.
Not a very smart move, politically speaking.
We're fucked, give up on it.
I agree totally. Although they cannot necessarily be placed in positions of trust, unless there's in-depth knowledge of their motives.
If these people were all in gaol we wouldn't have spies or military hackers. Or guerilla marketers >_>
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This is simply a pointer - a giant, *&@off red neon pointer at that - to the fact that users need to be able to moderate /. articles up or down. If the body politic deems an article to have low 'truthiness' then it should say so in giant *&^@off red neon writing. :)
But perhaps our benevolent dictators would be scared of la revolucion?
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Awesome, now I'm going to run around with my 1337 new tool, finding vulnerabilities in every website I can find on the internet. Then I'm going to post obnoxious defacement messages, pretending to be a Turkish hacker... :p
No, you're not put up on a pedestal as some sort of poster-child for democracy. The extent of the influence of lobbyists and degree to which funding shapes the political process means that ultimately, it is forces other than public opinion and discussion that make the decisions.
And only through accepting this fact can one begin cleaning up the mess :)
Holy crap. I just realised what you were saying -- use parallelism, vast parallelism for BRANCH PREDICTION.
That's not really how concurrency works at the moment :) it's at a much higher level at the moment, explicitly in the code itself - take matrix multiplication for instance, it's easy to see how that can be split up into multiple threads..
But calculation of every possible state 'n' states into the future, with 2^n CPU cores, that sounds like a good idea, sir! :) and is also not mutually exclusive with explicit multithreading (although each concurrent thread blows out the total number of states).
This moderation system is imperfect - I just wish I could moderate this higher than 5. : ) : ) ; )
You mean... I could die TWICE? :O
Doooo iiiiiiiit!
I'd wager that the $100M was spent largely on graphics designer types - who, after all, had to create a huge glomping city.
It's not the programmers that do the majority of the work in a game like that. It's modellers, animators, mappers, texturers, etc etc. Just look at the credit reel for the game.
Gunpowder, treason and plot, my friend.
There will be a resurgence of the anarchist movement. Only violent upheaval can stop this ongoing bloodletting of freedom and privacy.
(Hello ECHELON)
Is it still "stealing" to pirate the software after they stop selling it? Thsi raises some questions regarding the morality of piracy.. Yarrrrgh, I'll see you landlubbers on the high seas.
"My mail client is fine because it doesn't load javascript or images.. however it's possible for someone to nuke my entire filesystem or execute anything!"
What kind of crazy priorities do you have?
Also, I use pine -- would someone please share some proof-of-concept? Otherwise I won't have to write my own goddamn text-based email client! Ye gods.
This is worse than finger scanners. Up till now, I've actually had to cut off my victims' fingers to use their thinkpads!
You guys are idiots. Have you actually read the document in question?
The most interesting bit is the part about international enforcement. It seems as though the US may be able to pluck citizens from other countries and try them in US courts..?
Recently a British citizen was extradited from Australia.. to the US. So I guess they can already do that..
Haha guys, this is obviously fake. I'm using RC2 right now and nothing is amiss. I can post normally.. dunno what's going on with you guys, maybe Candlejack or something has-
As someone who plays a lot of rhythm-based games (but not Guitar Hero, funnily enough, though I plan on buying it at SOME point... programming student here, too busy to have job) I can't begin to describe how boring most of the songs get after a while. DDR suffers from this problem -- that's why I play Stepmania, which is open source (incl. the song format). Put it this way: The Guitar Hero fans eager for a new fix outnumber the fans of an ageing pop-rock band that, like everyone else, was eventually spat out by the system. Not that surprising.