This topic comes up all the time and every time I wonder "why don't they just put the old system on a VM?" Sure there are some rare cases where VM's won't do the job right, or maybe you don't have any reason to upgrade anything at all, but there's very little reason to hold back upgrading your systems just to continue using an IE6 frontend like described in the OP.
The best QA testers are usually the people overqualified for it. They're not doing it because they want to, they do it for a paycheck while waiting to land a dev job. If QA testers start needing degrees then why would anyone choose studying QA over CS when the skills overlap but most of the fun and pay is in CS?
I would be very displeased if I bought a car that uses a mechanical drive that is going to get bumped around and severely damaged by a cars movement. I would expect that the car uses flash memory. 10GB of flash is still incredibly cheap (~$10) so I would expect more, but comparing desktop HDD capacity to that of a car's is asinine.
I don't expect google glass to ever become popular for everyday use but do think it will have niche markets but the reasons that Marcus thinks it will fail are completely flawed.
I've never seen anyone use bluetooth and then put it away or have it away and then put it on just for a call, from what I've seen people either leave it on all day looking like douches or put it on the entire time while driving. ie. if they have the headset with them then they are wearing it.
He says segways are lame because they are rational which makes absolutely no sense - segways are completely irrational. How are you going to get to work 20 miles away on a segway? You're not. How would you carry groceries home on a segway? You wouldn't. How are you going to transport very young children on a segway? You can't. Segways are toys for the rich and tourists that rent them. They have extremely limited practical usage that is better accomplished with things such as mopeds, bicycles, skateboards, skates, or even good old fashion walking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL >Open Computing Language (OpenCL) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), DSPs and other processors. >OpenCL includes a language (based on C99) for writing kernels (functions that execute on OpenCL devices), plus application programming interfaces (APIs) that are used to define and then control the platforms. OpenCL provides parallel computing using task-based and data-based parallelism. OpenCL is an open standard maintained by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group. It has been adopted by Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Nvidia, Altera, Samsung, Vivante and ARM Holdings.
This has nothing to do with Gallium 3D or Mesa which are 3D graphics related. The only similarity is that some of the targets happens to be GPU. The person has no clue what the hell he was talking about. May be he is confused it with OpenGL!?
This is AMD's answer to CUDA.
Neither do you. How can it be AMD's answer to (Nvidia's) CUDA when Apple developed it with help from AMD, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia?
AMD's answer to CUDA was their Stream framework that they abandoned in favor of an open standard (OpenCL) but Nvidia built a business around CUDA so they're supporting both but still pushing CUDA on their customers and using it as an excuse not to support other GPU's in PhysX.
It doesn't and that's not even what the AMD exec said but the dumb articles are running with an idiotic interpretation of what he said. He was only saying that there is no new version of DX currently in the works so in order to differentiate their products they have to bundle pretty looking games instead of implementing new features because there aren't any new features left for the to add right now.
I forgot to mention that sometimes when they do these bundles then the game is locked so that it only plays if your graphics card is the one that it was bundle with by checking the serial of the card. Other times the game isn't locked and then you can just sell it on ebay if you don't want it.
The OP and article are taking an offhand comment way out of proportion. The quote in the article from the AMD exec is basically saying that they need to bundle top quality games with their graphics cards in order to showcase what their cards are capable of because there is no new graphics card/api features in development currently. ie. they can't say "hey buy our new cards because they support X, Y, and Z new features" so instead they are bundling games and saying "hey buy our cards and you get these games that have beautiful graphics on the card you just bought."
Finally a suit that understands piracy HELPS more than it hurts, especially when the legal means of consuming the content is limited to few regions of the world.
How are you going to pirate it when it is a client+server model? All your cities live on EA's servers and there's no local saving/offline play. The only way it will ever be pirated is if the developers left some hidden local saving in it that management told them to disable, or if someone reverse engineers the network protocol and writes a server for it.
Don't bother with any 3rd parties like most suggestions are advising. OpenVPN supports tunneling IPv4 and IPv6 over either of them. You can use a laptop or anything else that supports IPv6 to connect to your server at home over IPv6 via a bridged tap tunnel interface and then anything you connect to the laptop via layer 2 will be able to communicate with your home over IPv4.
And this is why software homogenization is bad. Webkit is becoming the new IE6 but has far greater consequences because every smartphone is using a webkit based browser by default. Yes it also affected IE and Opera but Opera cut their core developers and are moving to Webkit so soon there will only be 3 major engines with one of them having a complete monopoly on smartphones.
Turn on Vsync and then you won't render more frames than the monitor can display. If you want to go a step further then fix your engine so that everything isn't stuck on the main loop waiting for a frame to be rendered like many developers still do many years after the proliferation of multi-core cpu's.
"Power company Entergy New Orleans says the Super Bowl blackout was caused by device designed to prevent power outages."
Isn't the point of the protective relay to CAUSE power outages when the load is too high in order to prevent damage to equipment and fires from the line carrying more load than it should.
The summary is restating the obvious but the actual article is about how the school district and state are moving to use ebooks and online testing so this school needs a lot of additional networking gear to keep everything wired only. They also mention how 802.11ad would work since it's signal range is too high to get through the atmosphere so the observatory doesn't care about it, but 802.11ad isn't readily available yet.
This Harvard professor is assuming that people are being racist purposefully through adsense when she no real evidence to prove it.
I don't see any numbers to prove whether her percentages are even statistically significant or not.
Even if her results are correct, anyone even remotely familiar with google adsense would come to the more likely conclusion that the content of web pages reflect that people with those names are more likely to have been arrested. Almost all of the keyword combinations people use in adsense are ones recommended by adsense based on a few seeded keywords and adsense generates those recommendations automatically based on the content of the internet.
There's many articles easily found that discuss the figures which vary wildly but $1/cd seems to be a typical estimate for the artist cut which then get broken down between all the artists that contributed... Some more stingy deals that this type of artist is likely to get can put it much much lower though. Even at $1/cd that breaks down to ~10c per song which is about as much as they get from 25 plays on these streaming services. Couple that with the fact that one person listening to an online radio stream is going to hear the same songs multiple times which could easily add up to over 25 plays in their lifetime and then 0.42c per play doesn't seem all that unreasonable when put into perspective.
If artists want more of the cut then they need to find ways to cut out the middlemen. Promotion and distribution aren't free and the more you can do yourself, the more you get to keep.
While Java applets are very rare and not of much use to me personally (I mostly see it used for irc clients and bad web games), it seems a bit of an overstep to disable it completely for everyone due to a 0-day vulnerability. How is anyone supposed to ever use it if web browsers start disabling it for every 0-day vulnerability that pops up. It's not like Firefox and Safari don't also have 0-day vulnerabilities but you don't see them completely shutting themselves down nor do they roll out fixes the same day, so it seems a bit hypocritical. IMO there should be a small grace period of 1-2 weeks where the browser warns people of the known unpatched vulnerability but allows users to choose to load it anyways if they trust the site (yes, most people will just say yes to get past it) to at least give the plugin authors a chance to fix it before it gets completely disabled.
Then you would need a dongle to plug it into most everything that isn't a portable device and it would be easier to damage to the port. Micro usb is okay for charging but I really don't want to plug anything into it a portable device's micro usb port because it's likely to get snagged accidentally thus putting pressure on the port. Full sized ports are more rugged.
Pretty much the only thing he did was the 3d printed case, the rest was a bunch of shopping. Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer and he turned it into a $400 computer. I'm all for hobby projects but this one is far from interesting or impressive.
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This topic comes up all the time and every time I wonder "why don't they just put the old system on a VM?" Sure there are some rare cases where VM's won't do the job right, or maybe you don't have any reason to upgrade anything at all, but there's very little reason to hold back upgrading your systems just to continue using an IE6 frontend like described in the OP.
The best QA testers are usually the people overqualified for it. They're not doing it because they want to, they do it for a paycheck while waiting to land a dev job. If QA testers start needing degrees then why would anyone choose studying QA over CS when the skills overlap but most of the fun and pay is in CS?
I would be very displeased if I bought a car that uses a mechanical drive that is going to get bumped around and severely damaged by a cars movement. I would expect that the car uses flash memory. 10GB of flash is still incredibly cheap (~$10) so I would expect more, but comparing desktop HDD capacity to that of a car's is asinine.
I don't expect google glass to ever become popular for everyday use but do think it will have niche markets but the reasons that Marcus thinks it will fail are completely flawed.
I've never seen anyone use bluetooth and then put it away or have it away and then put it on just for a call, from what I've seen people either leave it on all day looking like douches or put it on the entire time while driving. ie. if they have the headset with them then they are wearing it.
He says segways are lame because they are rational which makes absolutely no sense - segways are completely irrational. How are you going to get to work 20 miles away on a segway? You're not. How would you carry groceries home on a segway? You wouldn't. How are you going to transport very young children on a segway? You can't. Segways are toys for the rich and tourists that rent them. They have extremely limited practical usage that is better accomplished with things such as mopeds, bicycles, skateboards, skates, or even good old fashion walking.
I'm sure there will be plenty of young people pranking each other by hijacking their friends' accounts (or former friends) with this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL
>Open Computing Language (OpenCL) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), DSPs and other processors.
>OpenCL includes a language (based on C99) for writing kernels (functions that execute on OpenCL devices), plus application programming interfaces (APIs) that are used to define and then control the platforms. OpenCL provides parallel computing using task-based and data-based parallelism. OpenCL is an open standard maintained by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group. It has been adopted by Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Nvidia, Altera, Samsung, Vivante and ARM Holdings.
This has nothing to do with Gallium 3D or Mesa which are 3D graphics related. The only similarity is that some of the targets happens to be GPU. The person has no clue what the hell he was talking about. May be he is confused it with OpenGL!?
This is AMD's answer to CUDA.
Neither do you. How can it be AMD's answer to (Nvidia's) CUDA when Apple developed it with help from AMD, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia?
AMD's answer to CUDA was their Stream framework that they abandoned in favor of an open standard (OpenCL) but Nvidia built a business around CUDA so they're supporting both but still pushing CUDA on their customers and using it as an excuse not to support other GPU's in PhysX.
It doesn't and that's not even what the AMD exec said but the dumb articles are running with an idiotic interpretation of what he said. He was only saying that there is no new version of DX currently in the works so in order to differentiate their products they have to bundle pretty looking games instead of implementing new features because there aren't any new features left for the to add right now.
I forgot to mention that sometimes when they do these bundles then the game is locked so that it only plays if your graphics card is the one that it was bundle with by checking the serial of the card. Other times the game isn't locked and then you can just sell it on ebay if you don't want it.
The OP and article are taking an offhand comment way out of proportion. The quote in the article from the AMD exec is basically saying that they need to bundle top quality games with their graphics cards in order to showcase what their cards are capable of because there is no new graphics card/api features in development currently. ie. they can't say "hey buy our new cards because they support X, Y, and Z new features" so instead they are bundling games and saying "hey buy our cards and you get these games that have beautiful graphics on the card you just bought."
Finally a suit that understands piracy HELPS more than it hurts, especially when the legal means of consuming the content is limited to few regions of the world.
Is Germany suddenly no longer part of Europe?
How are you going to pirate it when it is a client+server model? All your cities live on EA's servers and there's no local saving/offline play. The only way it will ever be pirated is if the developers left some hidden local saving in it that management told them to disable, or if someone reverse engineers the network protocol and writes a server for it.
Don't bother with any 3rd parties like most suggestions are advising. OpenVPN supports tunneling IPv4 and IPv6 over either of them. You can use a laptop or anything else that supports IPv6 to connect to your server at home over IPv6 via a bridged tap tunnel interface and then anything you connect to the laptop via layer 2 will be able to communicate with your home over IPv4.
3 or 4 phones that nobody is buying. Android and IOS dominate the market and both use Webkit browsers.
And this is why software homogenization is bad. Webkit is becoming the new IE6 but has far greater consequences because every smartphone is using a webkit based browser by default. Yes it also affected IE and Opera but Opera cut their core developers and are moving to Webkit so soon there will only be 3 major engines with one of them having a complete monopoly on smartphones.
Why would you want to give it anything when you could walk away with the machine and steal all their bitcoins instead?
Turn on Vsync and then you won't render more frames than the monitor can display. If you want to go a step further then fix your engine so that everything isn't stuck on the main loop waiting for a frame to be rendered like many developers still do many years after the proliferation of multi-core cpu's.
"Power company Entergy New Orleans says the Super Bowl blackout was caused by device designed to prevent power outages."
Isn't the point of the protective relay to CAUSE power outages when the load is too high in order to prevent damage to equipment and fires from the line carrying more load than it should.
The summary is restating the obvious but the actual article is about how the school district and state are moving to use ebooks and online testing so this school needs a lot of additional networking gear to keep everything wired only. They also mention how 802.11ad would work since it's signal range is too high to get through the atmosphere so the observatory doesn't care about it, but 802.11ad isn't readily available yet.
This Harvard professor is assuming that people are being racist purposefully through adsense when she no real evidence to prove it.
I don't see any numbers to prove whether her percentages are even statistically significant or not.
Even if her results are correct, anyone even remotely familiar with google adsense would come to the more likely conclusion that the content of web pages reflect that people with those names are more likely to have been arrested. Almost all of the keyword combinations people use in adsense are ones recommended by adsense based on a few seeded keywords and adsense generates those recommendations automatically based on the content of the internet.
There's many articles easily found that discuss the figures which vary wildly but $1/cd seems to be a typical estimate for the artist cut which then get broken down between all the artists that contributed... Some more stingy deals that this type of artist is likely to get can put it much much lower though. Even at $1/cd that breaks down to ~10c per song which is about as much as they get from 25 plays on these streaming services. Couple that with the fact that one person listening to an online radio stream is going to hear the same songs multiple times which could easily add up to over 25 plays in their lifetime and then 0.42c per play doesn't seem all that unreasonable when put into perspective.
If artists want more of the cut then they need to find ways to cut out the middlemen. Promotion and distribution aren't free and the more you can do yourself, the more you get to keep.
While Java applets are very rare and not of much use to me personally (I mostly see it used for irc clients and bad web games), it seems a bit of an overstep to disable it completely for everyone due to a 0-day vulnerability. How is anyone supposed to ever use it if web browsers start disabling it for every 0-day vulnerability that pops up. It's not like Firefox and Safari don't also have 0-day vulnerabilities but you don't see them completely shutting themselves down nor do they roll out fixes the same day, so it seems a bit hypocritical. IMO there should be a small grace period of 1-2 weeks where the browser warns people of the known unpatched vulnerability but allows users to choose to load it anyways if they trust the site (yes, most people will just say yes to get past it) to at least give the plugin authors a chance to fix it before it gets completely disabled.
Insertion and removal has nothing to do with applying excessive sideways pressure to the port when the attached peripheral is snagged.
Then you would need a dongle to plug it into most everything that isn't a portable device and it would be easier to damage to the port. Micro usb is okay for charging but I really don't want to plug anything into it a portable device's micro usb port because it's likely to get snagged accidentally thus putting pressure on the port. Full sized ports are more rugged.
Pretty much the only thing he did was the 3d printed case, the rest was a bunch of shopping. Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer and he turned it into a $400 computer. I'm all for hobby projects but this one is far from interesting or impressive.