Do you trust Adobe to release the new version of Flash for your two year old mobile phone?
Do you trust anyone to release HTML5 support for your 2-year-old mobile phone? Do you trust your mobile OS provider to pay licensing fees to MPEG-LA for your 2-year-old mobile phone?
Apple won't put up with the trouble of using proprietary software.
All signs point to h.264 as the HTML5 video codec of choice. There's nothing non-proprietary about it. It just so happens that Apple is part-owner.
I hate Flash as much as the next coder, but at least it's widely used already, proven to do particular things very well, not caught in the middle of an uncertain future (h.264 vs. Theora vs. VP8), and not currently threatening a patent war, the consequences of which are not yet known but will likely create their own bag of hurt for both developers and consumers.
HTML5 will only be good if it's final implementation is good. The idea behind it is nice, but right now it has a lot of corporate fingers in it, playing for their own interests over yours. It will be a miracle if we can all come out of this without practically renting the web from MPEG-LA.
I would take attendance, but attendance would not be required or have any effect on the student's grade.
Students who don't attend class fall in one of these categories:
Independent, studies on his/her own, doesn't need the lecture to succeed
Irresponsible, not taking college seriously, will fail the class and that will be the end of it.
Irresponsible and entitled, seldom showing up to class. When they do, they waste everyone else's time by asking the professor questions that they would know the answers to if they'd been coming to class regularly. Then they take up the prof's office hours. Then, if the prof refuses to help them, they go whine to their parents, who in turn call a Dean and make a stink.
So if I were a prof, I'd take attendance just for a paper trail. Then I'd set some rules like "If your attendance is below X%, then my office hours are not for you; they are for responsible students who made an effort already. If your attendance is below X%, I will likely not call on you during class because it is likely that everyone else in the room already knows the answer to your question."
That way the people who can learn and pass on their own can still do it that way, but the entitled students who think the professor and everyone else in class should work on their schedule get shut out.
You might be able to make the civil disobedience argument if he had, say, broken into the email account, downloaded everything, and sent it to a site like Wikileaks. Instead, he put the password on 4chan, and in the process he didn't really expose anything and delegitimized anything that might have been found.
Painting this kid as some sort of noble hacker/whistleblower is pure fantasy.
(At the same time, I do feel empathy for him, as we all know what law enforcement would do if someone broke into one of our personal webmail accounts: Absolutely nothing.)
Okay, I sort of opened myself up on that one. However, I would argue that underpricing in order to destroy competitors is only a short-term scheme; the long-term goal is to raise prices once those competitors have been eliminated.
I doubt Apple would want to buy ARM and then kill the sales to ARM's other customers. If they're going to spend $8 billion just to piss it away by killing ARM's revenue they'd be better served by spending the money to subsidize iPhone sales by cutting the price.
Name me one company who has used a monopoly to lower their prices.
This rhetoric is really kicking it up a notch. We're getting into really cynical propaganda territory here.
Buy our iPhone! Unless you're one of those porn-addicted Android users. I certainly welcome competition, and our competitors are doing a great job of fulfilling that niche market of phones for porn addicts. So if you're proud of being addicted to porn, show everyone just how much you mean it by purchasing my competitor's fine Android product and taking it with you everywhere. Android: There's no better way to tell the world "I'd rather be watching porn!"
Never mind, I now see that your point was to say that, for practical purposes, we basically just assume that P != NP, since no one's ever been able to solve one of these problems in polynomial time.
I wish Slashdot would introduce an "Edit" feature.
It's important to note that this is not the same problem upon which the fatalities are being blamed. Woz basically indicated that he could reproduce a problem wherein the cruise control flips out and continues to accelerate when it shouldn't. But in his scenario, when he hits the brakes, the car appropriately disengages the cruise control and the car stops accelerating.
I just wanted to make that clear, but yes, that would seem to indicate at least one instance in which Toyota's software caused a vehicle to malfunction. It wouldn't be completely unfair to expect that there are more bugs.
This doesn't hurt Toyota; if anything it helps them. Nobody is buying the sticky-pedal, caught-in-the-floormat explanation anyway, so how could this do anything but help restore confidence in Toyota? You get NASA to say that the electronics could use some better shielding, everyone assumes that EMI was the problem, and you get right back to selling Prius'.
What's really wrong? I don't know (I'm sort of 50/50 between it being a software race condition or driver error). But one would think that EMI wouldn't result in several cases of the exact same system failure.
Actually, earth's magnetic field is stronger the closer you get to the poles. So, according to this, Texans are morally superior to Canadians. That Canadians tend to be liberal, and Texans conservative, would seem to imply that conservatism is the morally superior ideology.
WARNING: Above statements are intended for humor and satire only, and do not intend to make any actual political statements about anything. Individuals having an axe to grind, and lacking a sense of humor, should take proper precautions by navigating to either FoxNews.com or the Huffington Post, where they can discuss politics as emotionally and obnoxiously as they wish.
I read somewhere (sorry, no source link) that WiMax radios should theoretically require less power than current 3G technologies. If this thing takes a hit in battery life, it's probably because it uses both 3G and 4G radios (unless the software's really smart about turning one off when the other has good signal). Of course, if your new 4G speeds cause you to go nuts and start downloading huge torrents on-the-go, then the energy consumption of the radio is probably the least of your battery-draining concerns.
I think part of the deal in Hong Kong's reunification was supposed to be that Hong Kong would continue to have freedom of speech, the press, etc. Hong Kong journalists will tell you that this has not really happened in practice, but Chinese officials must at the very least tread lightly when they do their dirty business in Hong Kong. China, then, cannot overtly infringe on Hong Kong citizens' rights, and therefore it cannot afford a move as high profile as censoring or shutting off google.com.hk.
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Do you trust Adobe to release the new version of Flash for your two year old mobile phone?
Do you trust anyone to release HTML5 support for your 2-year-old mobile phone? Do you trust your mobile OS provider to pay licensing fees to MPEG-LA for your 2-year-old mobile phone?
Apple won't put up with the trouble of using proprietary software.
All signs point to h.264 as the HTML5 video codec of choice. There's nothing non-proprietary about it. It just so happens that Apple is part-owner.
I hate Flash as much as the next coder, but at least it's widely used already, proven to do particular things very well, not caught in the middle of an uncertain future (h.264 vs. Theora vs. VP8), and not currently threatening a patent war, the consequences of which are not yet known but will likely create their own bag of hurt for both developers and consumers.
HTML5 will only be good if it's final implementation is good. The idea behind it is nice, but right now it has a lot of corporate fingers in it, playing for their own interests over yours. It will be a miracle if we can all come out of this without practically renting the web from MPEG-LA.
Students who don't attend class fall in one of these categories:
So if I were a prof, I'd take attendance just for a paper trail. Then I'd set some rules like "If your attendance is below X%, then my office hours are not for you; they are for responsible students who made an effort already. If your attendance is below X%, I will likely not call on you during class because it is likely that everyone else in the room already knows the answer to your question."
That way the people who can learn and pass on their own can still do it that way, but the entitled students who think the professor and everyone else in class should work on their schedule get shut out.
Wake me up when this NVIDIA's proposed solution doesn't double my electrical bill and set my computer on fire.
You might be able to make the civil disobedience argument if he had, say, broken into the email account, downloaded everything, and sent it to a site like Wikileaks. Instead, he put the password on 4chan, and in the process he didn't really expose anything and delegitimized anything that might have been found.
Painting this kid as some sort of noble hacker/whistleblower is pure fantasy.
(At the same time, I do feel empathy for him, as we all know what law enforcement would do if someone broke into one of our personal webmail accounts: Absolutely nothing.)
12.04 Purple Peopleater?
It's more like:
...etc., etc.
"I'm linksys! I'm linksys!"
"No, I'm linksys!"
"I'm linksys!"
"I'm linksys!"
Okay, I sort of opened myself up on that one. However, I would argue that underpricing in order to destroy competitors is only a short-term scheme; the long-term goal is to raise prices once those competitors have been eliminated.
I doubt Apple would want to buy ARM and then kill the sales to ARM's other customers. If they're going to spend $8 billion just to piss it away by killing ARM's revenue they'd be better served by spending the money to subsidize iPhone sales by cutting the price.
Name me one company who has used a monopoly to lower their prices.
Buy our iPhone! Unless you're one of those porn-addicted Android users. I certainly welcome competition, and our competitors are doing a great job of fulfilling that niche market of phones for porn addicts. So if you're proud of being addicted to porn, show everyone just how much you mean it by purchasing my competitor's fine Android product and taking it with you everywhere. Android: There's no better way to tell the world "I'd rather be watching porn!"
Never mind, I now see that your point was to say that, for practical purposes, we basically just assume that P != NP, since no one's ever been able to solve one of these problems in polynomial time.
I wish Slashdot would introduce an "Edit" feature.
Actually it happens to be the case that there is no mathematical proof that P = NP or that P != NP. Wikipedia article.
Did they test against this?
FYI: I just refreshed this page on Firefox and my CPU usage jumped up to 50%.
I don't even like IE, but seriously people, some of you will find any excuse at all to get the torches and pitchforks out.
This is most likely your own fault for not sticking to a long-term support release of an established distro.
I'm pretty sure he was equating "hardware-accelerated" with "better than the competition" and "purely software-rendered" with "inferior."
Disclaimer before I get flamed for being a Microsoft shill: Hardware acceleration still isn't enough for me to switch from Firefox to IE. YMMV.
Just go back to the Onion site and search for articles that aren't filed on April 1st. Those are the real ones.
It's important to note that this is not the same problem upon which the fatalities are being blamed. Woz basically indicated that he could reproduce a problem wherein the cruise control flips out and continues to accelerate when it shouldn't. But in his scenario, when he hits the brakes, the car appropriately disengages the cruise control and the car stops accelerating.
I just wanted to make that clear, but yes, that would seem to indicate at least one instance in which Toyota's software caused a vehicle to malfunction. It wouldn't be completely unfair to expect that there are more bugs.
This doesn't hurt Toyota; if anything it helps them. Nobody is buying the sticky-pedal, caught-in-the-floormat explanation anyway, so how could this do anything but help restore confidence in Toyota? You get NASA to say that the electronics could use some better shielding, everyone assumes that EMI was the problem, and you get right back to selling Prius'.
What's really wrong? I don't know (I'm sort of 50/50 between it being a software race condition or driver error). But one would think that EMI wouldn't result in several cases of the exact same system failure.
Actually, earth's magnetic field is stronger the closer you get to the poles. So, according to this, Texans are morally superior to Canadians. That Canadians tend to be liberal, and Texans conservative, would seem to imply that conservatism is the morally superior ideology.
WARNING: Above statements are intended for humor and satire only, and do not intend to make any actual political statements about anything. Individuals having an axe to grind, and lacking a sense of humor, should take proper precautions by navigating to either FoxNews.com or the Huffington Post, where they can discuss politics as emotionally and obnoxiously as they wish.
Am I the only one who immediately thought of "Friendface"?
I read somewhere (sorry, no source link) that WiMax radios should theoretically require less power than current 3G technologies. If this thing takes a hit in battery life, it's probably because it uses both 3G and 4G radios (unless the software's really smart about turning one off when the other has good signal). Of course, if your new 4G speeds cause you to go nuts and start downloading huge torrents on-the-go, then the energy consumption of the radio is probably the least of your battery-draining concerns.
Has emerging market nation agreed to purchase >250,000 Windows licenses?
Stall-Man (Richard Stallman, not Larry Craig)
I think part of the deal in Hong Kong's reunification was supposed to be that Hong Kong would continue to have freedom of speech, the press, etc. Hong Kong journalists will tell you that this has not really happened in practice, but Chinese officials must at the very least tread lightly when they do their dirty business in Hong Kong. China, then, cannot overtly infringe on Hong Kong citizens' rights, and therefore it cannot afford a move as high profile as censoring or shutting off google.com.hk.