Correction: many or most high profile cases. For every big DDoS we hear about on/., there are thousands if not tens of thousands that go unnoticed by the majority, done by some script kiddie who thought he'd have some fun with his tiny botnet or by some crazies in a Middle Eastern or slavic country who decided to deface your site and claim it as theirs. Those attacks very often rely on amplification and spoofing to do any damage.
This article once again makes false equivalences. The deaths from the Crusades were made directly because of religious reasons; the Crusades themselves were inherently religious. On the other hand, many, many deaths at the hands of Stalin or Mao had absolutely nothing to do with their atheism. If you want to play that game, then you'd have to tally up all the murders and wars of each and every single country outside of possibly the last fifty years under "religious" because their leaders or perpetrators were religious.
The problems are not in terms of design, but purely technical. A phone has a much greater volume, hence more space for a battery and larger internals. It also has more surface area, which helps radiate heat away. A watch just cannot match the processing power and battery capacity of a phone, which is the same thing as between a laptop and a phone or a desktop and a laptop. As with phones, though, watches will get more and more powerful, especially if they catch on. Yet, for each step down in terms of size, we get closer to an absolute limit in terms of miniaturization. I don't expect a watch to ever equal a phone in terms of power or battery life, which is generally why the watch is considered a peripheral as opposed to the core: it just makes more sense from a technical standpoint.
Honestly, the games are only shit if you don't bother looking. There's plenty of good games, and not just in the indie scene as some would let you believe. You just gotta go a little further than the games Gamestop pushes and TV ads.
Plus, PC gaming is being described as "dying" each and every console cycle. It never has. It may not have the size and scope of consoles, but unlike them, it endures beyond any overlord's whims.
Try playing your PS2 games on your PS4, or your NES games on your Wii U. If you're lucky, you'll be allowed generously to pay for them again so that you can play them on your new machine... and pay again come the next console since the games never carry over. Isn't it amazing? Meanwhile, I'm playing games from 20 years ago just fine on my PC.
Once again, the journalist messes up his units. He obviously meant to say kWh, kilowatt-hours, a unit of energy, instead of just kilowatt, a unit of power.
I don't know for everyone else, but I'm more surprised by another one: the fact that Walmart is really high up there. I know there's probably a gigantic system for handling all of their stores, shipments, etc. but I did not expect to see them so high up the list. Walmart would strike me as the sort of company to pay as little as possible.
Interestingly, Nvidia will be providing the G-sync chips by themselves, allowing people to mod their monitor to install the chip on them. I'm not sure just how compatible this would be, but it might allow you to upgrade your existing monitors with G-sync support or get someone to do it for you, depending on your capabilities and willingness to risk your monitor.
Actually, it's the reverse. Instead of forcing the GPU to wait for the screen's refresh rate (as is the case with V-sync), potentially causing some pretty bad frame drops, G-sync makes the monitor wait for the GPU's frames. Whenever the GPU outputs a frame, the monitor refreshes with that frame. If a frame takes longer, the screen keeps the old frame shown in the meantime.
Remember, V-sync forces the GPU to wait for the full frame's duration, regardless of how long it's taken to render the frame. If the GPU renders the frame in 3ms but V-sync is at 10ms per frame, the GPU waits around for 7ms. Flip side, if the GPU takes 11ms, it's "missed" a frame (lag) and still has to wait 9ms until it can start drawing the next frame. G-sync is supposed to make it so as soon as the GPU's done rendering a frame, it pushes it to the monitor, and as soon as the monitor can refresh the display to show that new image, it will.
In theory, this could effectively give the visual quality of V-sync (no screen tearing) with a speed similar to straight rendering without V-sync.
The problem is that simple rules fail to cover a lot of reality. There's a reason why morality is in constant flux and so many books have been written by eminent people on the subject.
Killing people is wrong, you say. How about killing someone who's murdered people in the past and who COULD (but not necessarily will) murder more? How about killing someone who wants to die, for instance for medical reasons? How about war, where your country may be on the defensive but you may be on the offensive? Heck, how do you even define people to begin with? That last question is the entire reason we're still seeing people oppose abortion in the first place.
There's a reason why criminal law is so complicated, and that's because of all those cases and scenarios. You can't easily summarize morals because you're usually relying on your own interpretation of the statements to extrapolate to other scenarios (commonly called "common sense", ironically enough). To your mind, perhaps all the questions I have asked have extremely simple, binary answers, and thus are a non-issue. The problem happens when you talk to another person and realize that their answers diverge completely from yours. Who's right?
Sure that's such a good idea? Look at your last example: if their goal is to frame you, there are LOTS of keys which can be used to make you say incriminating things. Since the key is only used one time and should be random, they can easily falsify a key and then what is your defence? Providing your own key says nothing; you could've falsified it too. Most judges don't know anything about crypto, so you'd have to make a case for it, assuming you're given the chance. OTP is very useful when the goal is to hide information you don't want others to find, not so much when others aren't looking for anything in particular. Contrast with, say, AES; good luck finding a key which, when applied to encrypted data using another key, generates a legible message, let alone an incriminating one.
Plus, people who have the know-how to install this sort of thing probably won't immediately blame Facebook about issues with the site. If they installed it for relatives, you just know the relatives will call them at the first sign of a problem, extension or not.
Playing Battlefield for the singleplayer is like getting Playboy for the articles. There wasn't even any singleplayer before Battlefield: Bad Company, only multiplayer maps with crude, terrible bots. The campaign was added later, probably at the request of execs to "compete" with Call of Duty. The BC campaigns weren't half bad, but BF3 went full Modern Warfare and suffered for it.
If your sole experience of the game is the campaign, then I'm sorry but you know nothing of the game. It's neither the draw nor the focus, and does not represent the rest of the game at all.
Laws don't mean you will know for sure how a measurement will turn out. One of the fundamental tenets of quantum mechanics is that you cannot determine in advance in which state a particle will be. If it is in a superposition of 0 and 1, for instance, there will be a likelihood for it to, once measured, be 0 or 1, and that likelihood may be biased, but you cannot know any of this unless you created the bias in the first place. Even then, even if you know the exact likelihood, unless the particle is entirely, 100% in one state, you cannot predict which state it will be in when you measure it. Despite this randomness, quantum mechanics has many clear laws, and some of these define the randomness, like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Now, of course, using quantum effects to produce random numbers is a bit impractical. The GP's suggestion might be more practical, I don't know that particular method, but the general point still stands.
Actually, yes, yes we do. You are benefiting from society's services (police, firemen, infrastructure, courts of law, whatever else) and hence are due a certain portion of your income as compensation for these services. The ratio asked differs by country but is irrelevant to the principle. If you don't want to pay the rate, move somewhere else. I'm sure you'll enjoy your money in a country with 0% tax rate and no law enforcement to speak of: there'll be plenty of people who will love getting in your house and stealing your shit or just killing you outright, and that's if you can even make money at all in the context of a society like that.
The press is looking for something to compare Tesla to, almost obsessively so. Fisker blew out a while ago so they're really hard-pressed to find something. The Leaf, i-MiEV and Volt are competitors to the Model S, which says a lot about the state of the industry. From that perspective, the ELR is very much a competitor; in fact, considering the price point and styling, it's the closest competitor I can think of. All the other electric cars are going for the Prius style of eco-friendly compact car.
Since TFS doesn't give any detail worth noting, this thing has two doors (not four like the S), a laughable 35mi electric range before the gasoline engine kicks in for 300mi total (which is still fairly bad, especially when the S has 208-265mi range pure electric depending on the model), a smaller (8" vs 17" for the S) touchscreen with a poorer OS/UI, all that for $75k. Oh yeah, and it looks like a blockier Volt. In fact, it's pretty much a Volt with a few extra features at twice the price.
If this is the best GM can do, they better get back to the drawing board quick.
Google would make a competent entry, which would be in beta for a few years despite widespread commercial distribution. After version 3 or 4, it'd become a very good product. They'd also never do hardware and simply license the tech at low cost on the condition of being able to track your every movements to show you ads.
I'm not sure you're attributing this victory to the right cause. I think it's a lot more simple: regardless of the DRM employed, piracy still worked fine. No DRM scheme has ever survived in the wild for any viable period of time, which has made the entire exercise moot. The stores slowly realized that they could make just about the same amount of money without investing into often costly DRM schemes, and as a bonus they'd get free publicity from savvier users saying just how great they were for not putting DRM on their tracks.
You mean the 3dfx who made Glide, a proprietary API that only they implemented with any semblance of performance and then managed to get game devs to use instead of open alternatives like OpenGL? Yeah, um, I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
Then again, AMD are making Mantle now. Maybe they're the new 3dfx.
Yeah, that's the killer right there. Until Watson-level parsing and research can be done on the sort of scale that Google handles, I doubt it'll matter. The most vulnerable search engines would be something like Wolfram Alpha, which take much longer to process queries and are specifically about making more advanced connections between topics and keywords. I very much doubt IBM has any interest in fighting Wolfram Alpha though, as the market's just not there.
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Correction: many or most high profile cases. For every big DDoS we hear about on /., there are thousands if not tens of thousands that go unnoticed by the majority, done by some script kiddie who thought he'd have some fun with his tiny botnet or by some crazies in a Middle Eastern or slavic country who decided to deface your site and claim it as theirs. Those attacks very often rely on amplification and spoofing to do any damage.
This article once again makes false equivalences. The deaths from the Crusades were made directly because of religious reasons; the Crusades themselves were inherently religious. On the other hand, many, many deaths at the hands of Stalin or Mao had absolutely nothing to do with their atheism. If you want to play that game, then you'd have to tally up all the murders and wars of each and every single country outside of possibly the last fifty years under "religious" because their leaders or perpetrators were religious.
The problems are not in terms of design, but purely technical. A phone has a much greater volume, hence more space for a battery and larger internals. It also has more surface area, which helps radiate heat away. A watch just cannot match the processing power and battery capacity of a phone, which is the same thing as between a laptop and a phone or a desktop and a laptop. As with phones, though, watches will get more and more powerful, especially if they catch on. Yet, for each step down in terms of size, we get closer to an absolute limit in terms of miniaturization. I don't expect a watch to ever equal a phone in terms of power or battery life, which is generally why the watch is considered a peripheral as opposed to the core: it just makes more sense from a technical standpoint.
Good for you! Most people seem to be enjoying GTA V a lot.
Honestly, the games are only shit if you don't bother looking. There's plenty of good games, and not just in the indie scene as some would let you believe. You just gotta go a little further than the games Gamestop pushes and TV ads.
Plus, PC gaming is being described as "dying" each and every console cycle. It never has. It may not have the size and scope of consoles, but unlike them, it endures beyond any overlord's whims.
Try playing your PS2 games on your PS4, or your NES games on your Wii U. If you're lucky, you'll be allowed generously to pay for them again so that you can play them on your new machine... and pay again come the next console since the games never carry over. Isn't it amazing? Meanwhile, I'm playing games from 20 years ago just fine on my PC.
Once again, the journalist messes up his units. He obviously meant to say kWh, kilowatt-hours, a unit of energy, instead of just kilowatt, a unit of power.
Controversial for a while? Yes. Fundamental? Yes, At the core? Not necessarily. QM involves a lot of things and entanglement is only part of that.
I don't know for everyone else, but I'm more surprised by another one: the fact that Walmart is really high up there. I know there's probably a gigantic system for handling all of their stores, shipments, etc. but I did not expect to see them so high up the list. Walmart would strike me as the sort of company to pay as little as possible.
Interestingly, Nvidia will be providing the G-sync chips by themselves, allowing people to mod their monitor to install the chip on them. I'm not sure just how compatible this would be, but it might allow you to upgrade your existing monitors with G-sync support or get someone to do it for you, depending on your capabilities and willingness to risk your monitor.
Actually, it's the reverse. Instead of forcing the GPU to wait for the screen's refresh rate (as is the case with V-sync), potentially causing some pretty bad frame drops, G-sync makes the monitor wait for the GPU's frames. Whenever the GPU outputs a frame, the monitor refreshes with that frame. If a frame takes longer, the screen keeps the old frame shown in the meantime.
Remember, V-sync forces the GPU to wait for the full frame's duration, regardless of how long it's taken to render the frame. If the GPU renders the frame in 3ms but V-sync is at 10ms per frame, the GPU waits around for 7ms. Flip side, if the GPU takes 11ms, it's "missed" a frame (lag) and still has to wait 9ms until it can start drawing the next frame. G-sync is supposed to make it so as soon as the GPU's done rendering a frame, it pushes it to the monitor, and as soon as the monitor can refresh the display to show that new image, it will.
In theory, this could effectively give the visual quality of V-sync (no screen tearing) with a speed similar to straight rendering without V-sync.
The problem is that simple rules fail to cover a lot of reality. There's a reason why morality is in constant flux and so many books have been written by eminent people on the subject.
Killing people is wrong, you say. How about killing someone who's murdered people in the past and who COULD (but not necessarily will) murder more? How about killing someone who wants to die, for instance for medical reasons? How about war, where your country may be on the defensive but you may be on the offensive? Heck, how do you even define people to begin with? That last question is the entire reason we're still seeing people oppose abortion in the first place.
There's a reason why criminal law is so complicated, and that's because of all those cases and scenarios. You can't easily summarize morals because you're usually relying on your own interpretation of the statements to extrapolate to other scenarios (commonly called "common sense", ironically enough). To your mind, perhaps all the questions I have asked have extremely simple, binary answers, and thus are a non-issue. The problem happens when you talk to another person and realize that their answers diverge completely from yours. Who's right?
Sure that's such a good idea? Look at your last example: if their goal is to frame you, there are LOTS of keys which can be used to make you say incriminating things. Since the key is only used one time and should be random, they can easily falsify a key and then what is your defence? Providing your own key says nothing; you could've falsified it too. Most judges don't know anything about crypto, so you'd have to make a case for it, assuming you're given the chance. OTP is very useful when the goal is to hide information you don't want others to find, not so much when others aren't looking for anything in particular. Contrast with, say, AES; good luck finding a key which, when applied to encrypted data using another key, generates a legible message, let alone an incriminating one.
If you hear your cows tell you they want to be milked by Seth Rogen in a thong, I think you have bigger problems than a milking machine.
Plus, people who have the know-how to install this sort of thing probably won't immediately blame Facebook about issues with the site. If they installed it for relatives, you just know the relatives will call them at the first sign of a problem, extension or not.
Playing Battlefield for the singleplayer is like getting Playboy for the articles. There wasn't even any singleplayer before Battlefield: Bad Company, only multiplayer maps with crude, terrible bots. The campaign was added later, probably at the request of execs to "compete" with Call of Duty. The BC campaigns weren't half bad, but BF3 went full Modern Warfare and suffered for it.
If your sole experience of the game is the campaign, then I'm sorry but you know nothing of the game. It's neither the draw nor the focus, and does not represent the rest of the game at all.
Laws don't mean you will know for sure how a measurement will turn out. One of the fundamental tenets of quantum mechanics is that you cannot determine in advance in which state a particle will be. If it is in a superposition of 0 and 1, for instance, there will be a likelihood for it to, once measured, be 0 or 1, and that likelihood may be biased, but you cannot know any of this unless you created the bias in the first place. Even then, even if you know the exact likelihood, unless the particle is entirely, 100% in one state, you cannot predict which state it will be in when you measure it. Despite this randomness, quantum mechanics has many clear laws, and some of these define the randomness, like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Now, of course, using quantum effects to produce random numbers is a bit impractical. The GP's suggestion might be more practical, I don't know that particular method, but the general point still stands.
Actually, yes, yes we do. You are benefiting from society's services (police, firemen, infrastructure, courts of law, whatever else) and hence are due a certain portion of your income as compensation for these services. The ratio asked differs by country but is irrelevant to the principle. If you don't want to pay the rate, move somewhere else. I'm sure you'll enjoy your money in a country with 0% tax rate and no law enforcement to speak of: there'll be plenty of people who will love getting in your house and stealing your shit or just killing you outright, and that's if you can even make money at all in the context of a society like that.
The press is looking for something to compare Tesla to, almost obsessively so. Fisker blew out a while ago so they're really hard-pressed to find something. The Leaf, i-MiEV and Volt are competitors to the Model S, which says a lot about the state of the industry. From that perspective, the ELR is very much a competitor; in fact, considering the price point and styling, it's the closest competitor I can think of. All the other electric cars are going for the Prius style of eco-friendly compact car.
Since TFS doesn't give any detail worth noting, this thing has two doors (not four like the S), a laughable 35mi electric range before the gasoline engine kicks in for 300mi total (which is still fairly bad, especially when the S has 208-265mi range pure electric depending on the model), a smaller (8" vs 17" for the S) touchscreen with a poorer OS/UI, all that for $75k. Oh yeah, and it looks like a blockier Volt. In fact, it's pretty much a Volt with a few extra features at twice the price.
If this is the best GM can do, they better get back to the drawing board quick.
Google would make a competent entry, which would be in beta for a few years despite widespread commercial distribution. After version 3 or 4, it'd become a very good product. They'd also never do hardware and simply license the tech at low cost on the condition of being able to track your every movements to show you ads.
Ford would contract Microsoft to do it for them.
When in doubt, blame Oracle. It works surprisingly often!
I'm not sure you're attributing this victory to the right cause. I think it's a lot more simple: regardless of the DRM employed, piracy still worked fine. No DRM scheme has ever survived in the wild for any viable period of time, which has made the entire exercise moot. The stores slowly realized that they could make just about the same amount of money without investing into often costly DRM schemes, and as a bonus they'd get free publicity from savvier users saying just how great they were for not putting DRM on their tracks.
You mean the 3dfx who made Glide, a proprietary API that only they implemented with any semblance of performance and then managed to get game devs to use instead of open alternatives like OpenGL? Yeah, um, I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
Then again, AMD are making Mantle now. Maybe they're the new 3dfx.
Yeah, that's the killer right there. Until Watson-level parsing and research can be done on the sort of scale that Google handles, I doubt it'll matter. The most vulnerable search engines would be something like Wolfram Alpha, which take much longer to process queries and are specifically about making more advanced connections between topics and keywords. I very much doubt IBM has any interest in fighting Wolfram Alpha though, as the market's just not there.