Hmm, something for Google to really jump into, the Enterprise area. So don't need Play Store, but 'Enterprise Store' stuff, let the admin control who has what and when. Odd Google don't have something like this, seems the sort of thing people would pay for.
The strange thing is that Google does do some of this, in the form of "Google Apps for Business"(either on ordinary computers with a recent web browser, or on ChromeOS devices). Admin dashboard, accounts(at your domain, not generic google ones, though the backend is probably similar), policies, etc, etc.
However, for reasons that would probably qualify as a mental illness if Google were a person, they've got next to nothing for Android. You've got some rudimentary support for the few things, mostly deletion related, that 'Activesync' can do; but that's pretty much it.
Perhaps, once somebody bodges together an actually-working set of management tools for Android.
Are Wintels brutally overpowered and needlessly complex for many purposes they are put to? Sure. Can I use off-the-shelf tools to take one out of the box, PXE boot it, dump a substantially system-agnostic image onto it, and get mostly-done-for-me centralized account management, configuration of virtually anything, etc, etc.? Also yes.
Android(and iOS, though Apple has been a bit more aggressive about building tools that kind of allow you to paper over its raging deficiencies in the area) is a total mess by comparison. It's intensely geared to the 'Well, everyone just has a Google Account, and they log in an install their Apps, easy, right?' model. Almost every different model has its own little port, remote management is comparatively weak and hacky, it's an ugly business.
Can anybody find anything useful on how exactly this 'driver model' works? Microsoft's page could hardly be less informative.
What's the intermediate format that software interacts with to define the print job before sending it off? What interface does the device-specific driver interact with, etc, etc?
Obviously, not having 3d printers be handled entirely by a specific application is a noble goal; but there are, even after years and years of polishing and development, some truly horrible things living in the 2d printing process. What can we expect from the details of the 3d-print path?
Blobs are definitely not ideal; but I've never really understood the distinction between people who put them in ROM and people who require them to be loaded at initialization time(as long as they aren't assholes about redistribution: if Distro X is legally unable to distribute firmware.bin and I have to go to your site, download the Windows driver, and then chop it open to get firmware.bin, just to get an unaltered copy of your firmware to run with your device, I'm going to be pissed).
Both approaches involve exactly the same binary firmware blob, one just stores it on comparatively expensive, board-space-consuming, flash ROM and one stores it on system mass storage.
Firmware that is open is better than either; but closed firmware that is handled behind the curtain on the card seems no better than closed firmware that is supplied to the card during startup(again, assuming proper redistribution terms and proper driver support for that aspect of initializing the device).
This is a great step in the right direction. Hopefully it's not the last step.
AMD's penurious financials do make me nervous; but their strategic change in favor of *gasp* actually working to integrate support for their product into the kernel development process proper seems to be sincere and ongoing. Slower moving than one would like; but since they began their course-change, they've kept it up.
So, can anybody think of a not-totally-shameful reason why HP's vendor service backdoor didn't use SSH's keypair auth? Y'know, the one where obtaining the private key just by having access to the public key baked into every unit isn't dangerously trivial?
Who are you to decree how many ring slots his goldfish has? Aren't you being a little judgmental there?
Don't blame me, I just read the character sheet. I fully respect the right of a goldfish to have built a character that sucks less; but this one apparently didn't.
I'm afraid that your pet goldfish has zero (0) ring slots. Not only does this totally nerf his ability to use enchanted items, it makes marrying him more difficult.
I don't think I want to have the Laffer Curve as an ally here.
Oh, that's where your wrong; for a powerful ally it is. Just think for a moment: Do you have a problem that you can pretend to boil down to two variables that are inversely proportional in their hypothetical extreme cases? If so, just draw a curve of pretty much any shape between those points on the graph and *boom* Instant policy justification!
Based on the continued harassment by the feds, even in the face of relatively strong local support, I'd say that the 'lobby the feds' strategy is working very well for team Law and Order. Based on the relative indifference of local cops to overt pot dealers, I'd say that the 'lobby the states' strategy is working very well for team decriminalization...
The non-technological hurdles are exactly what you'd expect - government regulations, air-traffic restrictions and (restrictions on) emergency landing procedures.
Doesn't really seem like a problem - except in california, where realistic, useful legislation rarely passes on a permanent basis.
Even if California is as wicked as you say, do you seriously suspect that proponents of some economically useful drone application wouldn't just seek changes at the federal level that would preempt whatever state regulations happened to annoy them?
The issue is presently somewhat unsettled(in part because the FAA is a bit jumpy about the safety of a bunch of glorified model aircraft running around without either a Serious airworthiness workup or a pilot whose continued non-splatteredness is directly dependent on the aircraft); but "If a state pisses you off, go to the feds, if the feds piss you off, go to the states" is a well-established lobbying strategy...
Oh, being the immune system is definitely a "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" situation, because oh boy are they ever. It's just not much comfort to people who have plenty of access to antibiotics; but no longer have a functional pancreas...
It seems wrong that a brand discontinued by its owner should sell for $400 million. Perhaps I just don't understand the consumer business. Maybe that's why I'm a hardware designer...
It's not really the consumer business, it's the corporate chop-shop/knacker business.
"Hostess Brands" has reasonably strong product lines and revenue; but it was having trouble with those pesky 'employees' who wanted 'the wages and benefits specified in their contracts', like some kind of parasitic commies or something. Some of them even had the temerity to suggest that demanding that they take major cuts when the 'Chief restructuring officer' and other higher ups had received 80% raises was a show of rather bad faith.
By chopping up the company for parts, the various brands, which are valuable, can be divorced from any "legacy pension and medical benefit obligations and restrictive work rules"(as the company describes them, in the self-pitying tones of one who has conveniently forgotten agreeing to them...) and turned into sweet, sweet cash, any facilities worth keeping can be sold off, and operations and creditors who actually matter can continue as normal. (Thanks to a little strategic-under-funding of the pension plan, American taxpayers will get to do their part to ensure that real creditors come out unscathed.
It's been a while since "Human Infectious Diseases"; but my understanding is that the inflammatory response is a component of the 'Innate immune system', a very, very, old, comparatively rudimentary; but fast-responding complement to the more recent immune system with pathogen-specific antibodies and killer T cells and things.
As for it being associated with a laundry list of unpleasant diseases, I'm told that it's a combination of:
1. Inflammation is (when it's working correctly) a stress response/damage control mechanism, that kicks in in response to certain environmental stresses and pathogens, so people who are inflamed a lot are also unpleasantly likely to be people who are being exposed to something that isn't doing them any good.
2. Like scarring, inflammation is one of those 'unpleasant; but it beat dying for most of evolutionary history' arrangements that wreaks a lot of havoc in the process of saving you from infection or tissue damage; which was a much better trade-off before we had access to modern medicine to deal with our acute illnesses and injuries; but also wanted to live to be 90.
3. The immune system, innate and acquired, is sort of your own personal military-industrial complex, and has a nasty tendency to sometimes go off the rails and start killing civilians in an increasingly paranoid response to minimal or nonexistent security threats, giving us autoimmune disorders.
There's a lot of lateral gene transfer in humans, as well(just ask your parents, though sometimes they weren't strictly lateral at the time); bacteria just make it more obvious because gene transfer/recombination and reproduction are more or less wholly separate processes, while mammals and such combine gene transfer and reproduction into a single operation.
Oh, thanks. I've just learned something. I have used resistance to antibiotics as an example of real-time observable evolution. If it is actually lateral transfer, then this example won't hold. Good to know!
Lateral transfer is, arguably, just an example of the fact that 'evolution' isn't merely something that happens to individuals. In the case of bacteria, a novel mutation can increase in prevalence either through reproduction by the organism carrying it, or by transfer to other bacteria. Just because nothing makes a complex system more fun than adding more variables(and/or nature hates biologists), both the bacterial population and the distribution/makeup of the laterally-transferrable DNA sequences floating around on top of the bacterial population evolve...(And did we mention the viruses that are probably in on the action?)
Possibly true; but if you have a wishlist that is longer than your budget(and who doesn't?) why buy items you could get for free and deny yourself the means to buy items that you need to buy?
Not particularly implausible if it has pictures(especially highish-quality and/or appallingly malcompressed ones). The actual exploit code is probably a pretty small percentage of the total.
Hey you guys who are talking about Snowden, download this PDF with some cool additional code! Don't worry about it. I promise we didn't buy exploits from Adobe or Microsoft!
The fact that game developers will be able to recruit people who have several years of experience with the base of the underlying OS should result in better code than the usual half-assed guesswork near the beginning of a console's lifetime.
I'd imagine that the "It's just an x86 with a relatively recent Radeon, you may have heard of those" factor will have a major role there... This will be the first (non portable, the portables have been less weird) Sony console in generations that isn't a serious oddball in terms of silicon.
More importantly, it's not as though the NSA reads your email by printing it out and sending it off for OCR... Font doesn't mean much if you have the document in any remotely sane digital format.
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Which all but guarantees that this engine will never do anything more.
Sort of like the ion thruster on the Dawn probe, which left Vesta about a year ago with an ETA on Ceres sometime in 2015?
Hmm, something for Google to really jump into, the Enterprise area.
So don't need Play Store, but 'Enterprise Store' stuff, let the admin control who has what and when.
Odd Google don't have something like this, seems the sort of thing people would pay for.
The strange thing is that Google does do some of this, in the form of "Google Apps for Business"(either on ordinary computers with a recent web browser, or on ChromeOS devices). Admin dashboard, accounts(at your domain, not generic google ones, though the backend is probably similar), policies, etc, etc.
However, for reasons that would probably qualify as a mental illness if Google were a person, they've got next to nothing for Android. You've got some rudimentary support for the few things, mostly deletion related, that 'Activesync' can do; but that's pretty much it.
Perhaps, once somebody bodges together an actually-working set of management tools for Android.
Are Wintels brutally overpowered and needlessly complex for many purposes they are put to? Sure. Can I use off-the-shelf tools to take one out of the box, PXE boot it, dump a substantially system-agnostic image onto it, and get mostly-done-for-me centralized account management, configuration of virtually anything, etc, etc.? Also yes.
Android(and iOS, though Apple has been a bit more aggressive about building tools that kind of allow you to paper over its raging deficiencies in the area) is a total mess by comparison. It's intensely geared to the 'Well, everyone just has a Google Account, and they log in an install their Apps, easy, right?' model. Almost every different model has its own little port, remote management is comparatively weak and hacky, it's an ugly business.
Can anybody find anything useful on how exactly this 'driver model' works? Microsoft's page could hardly be less informative.
What's the intermediate format that software interacts with to define the print job before sending it off? What interface does the device-specific driver interact with, etc, etc?
Obviously, not having 3d printers be handled entirely by a specific application is a noble goal; but there are, even after years and years of polishing and development, some truly horrible things living in the 2d printing process. What can we expect from the details of the 3d-print path?
Blobs are definitely not ideal; but I've never really understood the distinction between people who put them in ROM and people who require them to be loaded at initialization time(as long as they aren't assholes about redistribution: if Distro X is legally unable to distribute firmware.bin and I have to go to your site, download the Windows driver, and then chop it open to get firmware.bin, just to get an unaltered copy of your firmware to run with your device, I'm going to be pissed).
Both approaches involve exactly the same binary firmware blob, one just stores it on comparatively expensive, board-space-consuming, flash ROM and one stores it on system mass storage.
Firmware that is open is better than either; but closed firmware that is handled behind the curtain on the card seems no better than closed firmware that is supplied to the card during startup(again, assuming proper redistribution terms and proper driver support for that aspect of initializing the device).
This is a great step in the right direction. Hopefully it's not the last step.
AMD's penurious financials do make me nervous; but their strategic change in favor of *gasp* actually working to integrate support for their product into the kernel development process proper seems to be sincere and ongoing. Slower moving than one would like; but since they began their course-change, they've kept it up.
So, can anybody think of a not-totally-shameful reason why HP's vendor service backdoor didn't use SSH's keypair auth? Y'know, the one where obtaining the private key just by having access to the public key baked into every unit isn't dangerously trivial?
Who are you to decree how many ring slots his goldfish has? Aren't you being a little judgmental there?
Don't blame me, I just read the character sheet. I fully respect the right of a goldfish to have built a character that sucks less; but this one apparently didn't.
I'm afraid that your pet goldfish has zero (0) ring slots. Not only does this totally nerf his ability to use enchanted items, it makes marrying him more difficult.
So states have the right to deprive people of rights?
Can Alabama decide to have slaves again? Can they stop inter racial marriage?
The 14th amendment would(largely because it was designed to keep southerners from being dickheads again) make that more difficult.
I don't think I want to have the Laffer Curve as an ally here.
Oh, that's where your wrong; for a powerful ally it is. Just think for a moment: Do you have a problem that you can pretend to boil down to two variables that are inversely proportional in their hypothetical extreme cases? If so, just draw a curve of pretty much any shape between those points on the graph and *boom* Instant policy justification!
Based on the continued harassment by the feds, even in the face of relatively strong local support, I'd say that the 'lobby the feds' strategy is working very well for team Law and Order. Based on the relative indifference of local cops to overt pot dealers, I'd say that the 'lobby the states' strategy is working very well for team decriminalization...
There isn't just one lobby at work, here.
The non-technological hurdles are exactly what you'd expect - government regulations, air-traffic restrictions and (restrictions on) emergency landing procedures.
Doesn't really seem like a problem - except in california, where realistic, useful legislation rarely passes on a permanent basis.
Even if California is as wicked as you say, do you seriously suspect that proponents of some economically useful drone application wouldn't just seek changes at the federal level that would preempt whatever state regulations happened to annoy them?
The issue is presently somewhat unsettled(in part because the FAA is a bit jumpy about the safety of a bunch of glorified model aircraft running around without either a Serious airworthiness workup or a pilot whose continued non-splatteredness is directly dependent on the aircraft); but "If a state pisses you off, go to the feds, if the feds piss you off, go to the states" is a well-established lobbying strategy...
Oh, being the immune system is definitely a "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" situation, because oh boy are they ever. It's just not much comfort to people who have plenty of access to antibiotics; but no longer have a functional pancreas...
It seems wrong that a brand discontinued by its owner should sell for $400 million.
Perhaps I just don't understand the consumer business.
Maybe that's why I'm a hardware designer...
It's not really the consumer business, it's the corporate chop-shop/knacker business.
"Hostess Brands" has reasonably strong product lines and revenue; but it was having trouble with those pesky 'employees' who wanted 'the wages and benefits specified in their contracts', like some kind of parasitic commies or something. Some of them even had the temerity to suggest that demanding that they take major cuts when the 'Chief restructuring officer' and other higher ups had received 80% raises was a show of rather bad faith.
By chopping up the company for parts, the various brands, which are valuable, can be divorced from any "legacy pension and medical benefit obligations and restrictive work rules"(as the company describes them, in the self-pitying tones of one who has conveniently forgotten agreeing to them...) and turned into sweet, sweet cash, any facilities worth keeping can be sold off, and operations and creditors who actually matter can continue as normal. (Thanks to a little strategic-under-funding of the pension plan, American taxpayers will get to do their part to ensure that real creditors come out unscathed.
It's been a while since "Human Infectious Diseases"; but my understanding is that the inflammatory response is a component of the 'Innate immune system', a very, very, old, comparatively rudimentary; but fast-responding complement to the more recent immune system with pathogen-specific antibodies and killer T cells and things.
The inflammation itself is partially a cause of the changes that tissues undergo to do damage control and partially serves to increase supply of particular chemicals and cell types at the site of the issue(leading to the redness and swelling that are most obvious.
As for it being associated with a laundry list of unpleasant diseases, I'm told that it's a combination of:
1. Inflammation is (when it's working correctly) a stress response/damage control mechanism, that kicks in in response to certain environmental stresses and pathogens, so people who are inflamed a lot are also unpleasantly likely to be people who are being exposed to something that isn't doing them any good.
2. Like scarring, inflammation is one of those 'unpleasant; but it beat dying for most of evolutionary history' arrangements that wreaks a lot of havoc in the process of saving you from infection or tissue damage; which was a much better trade-off before we had access to modern medicine to deal with our acute illnesses and injuries; but also wanted to live to be 90.
3. The immune system, innate and acquired, is sort of your own personal military-industrial complex, and has a nasty tendency to sometimes go off the rails and start killing civilians in an increasingly paranoid response to minimal or nonexistent security threats, giving us autoimmune disorders.
Perhaps because the classic evolution model typically involves vertical transfer?
But, of course, the selection process continues to work very well, so you're right from that perspective.
"HGT has been shown to be an important factor in the evolution of many organisms." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
There's a lot of lateral gene transfer in humans, as well(just ask your parents, though sometimes they weren't strictly lateral at the time); bacteria just make it more obvious because gene transfer/recombination and reproduction are more or less wholly separate processes, while mammals and such combine gene transfer and reproduction into a single operation.
Oh, thanks. I've just learned something. I have used resistance to antibiotics as an example of real-time observable evolution. If it is actually lateral transfer, then this example won't hold. Good to know!
Lateral transfer is, arguably, just an example of the fact that 'evolution' isn't merely something that happens to individuals. In the case of bacteria, a novel mutation can increase in prevalence either through reproduction by the organism carrying it, or by transfer to other bacteria. Just because nothing makes a complex system more fun than adding more variables(and/or nature hates biologists), both the bacterial population and the distribution/makeup of the laterally-transferrable DNA sequences floating around on top of the bacterial population evolve...(And did we mention the viruses that are probably in on the action?)
Possibly true; but if you have a wishlist that is longer than your budget(and who doesn't?) why buy items you could get for free and deny yourself the means to buy items that you need to buy?
Not particularly implausible if it has pictures(especially highish-quality and/or appallingly malcompressed ones). The actual exploit code is probably a pretty small percentage of the total.
Hey you guys who are talking about Snowden, download this PDF with some cool additional code! Don't worry about it. I promise we didn't buy exploits from Adobe or Microsoft!
Why buy what you can get for free?
The fact that game developers will be able to recruit people who have several years of experience with the base of the underlying OS should result in better code than the usual half-assed guesswork near the beginning of a console's lifetime.
I'd imagine that the "It's just an x86 with a relatively recent Radeon, you may have heard of those" factor will have a major role there... This will be the first (non portable, the portables have been less weird) Sony console in generations that isn't a serious oddball in terms of silicon.
There may be some element of data-buy as well. Just ask Apple how easy it isn't to build good maps fast.
I wonder if that's stupidity, or people who know enough to know about metadata; but not about more elegant ways of scrubbing it?
Undecipherable my ass.
More importantly, it's not as though the NSA reads your email by printing it out and sending it off for OCR... Font doesn't mean much if you have the document in any remotely sane digital format.