What I don't like about this is that when I compile code, every time I run it, a waring message gets written to the system log unless I also code sign it before I run it.
You don't like that unsigned code gives you a warning?
What I've never understood, is why? Why not just check on writing; and reading on removable drives?
2 things:
firstly they may keep track of which files have been scanned with the current up-to-date DB and not re-scan them on read, though it may be slower to do the lookup than to just do the scan.
secondly think about the situation described in TFA, he went to open a scanned, identified and infected file.
For a car analogy, many boy racers like to put Lexus headlight/tail-light clusters on their cars...for...whatever reason. Microsoft's reaction is as stupid as Lexus trying to stop non-Lexus owners from buying their headlight/tail-light clusters because they want them to go out and buy a Lexus.
They don't expect them to go out and buy a lexus, it's that they don't want a signature part of their premium brand associated with some 17-year-old's beaten up shitbox car.
But our government relies for it's vote massively on the unions who include most of that 82% poor people as members, if the unions ever tell their members to vote for the opposition - this government couldn't possibly survive an election.
So it's just another level of abstraction, essentially the union bosses run the country. They tell their members who to vote for so the government is answerable to them or it is ousted in favour of a more cooperative government.
Posting that is idiotic, if you know anything at all about those languages - or programming in general - you would know that there is nothing he/she can cite that would prove that statement one way or the other. Neither can be defined as better and that statement - if not accompanied by a specific situation in which one language is preferable - always comes with an implied 'IMO'.
I think one of the biggest issues - the thing that makes piracy so socially acceptable these days - is that in the old days if i bought a vinyl, cassette, CD, etc... I was buying the physical media, and of course paying for the content on it, but the product i received was something i could do what i like with, i could play it wherever i want, loan it to a friend, re-sell it, etc... But with the rise of digital distribution what do we get? What are we paying for? We don't own the music, we don't get a license to use the music, we can't resell it when we no longer want it (because we didn't get a product), we can't loan it to a friend, all we get is a bit of bandwidth on the distribution server. Most people who pirate music would - I assume - be loath to pay for bandwidth on the distribution server when they can get that for free and if they can say to themselves 'i wouldn't have bought it anyway' then they don't see it as stealing because they haven't taken anything from anyone else. Although services like iTunes are convenient, they are still pretty much the same price as you would pay in a store, but you don't get the aforementioned benefits of physical media.
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and the only thing that will die is distributors who make money off of distributing content. boo hoo
They don't have to though. The Recording and Motion picture industries tried to ignore the internet because they had a good and very profitable system as it was. The internet made it easy and convenient for consumers to get the content that they wanted when they wanted it, however the RIAA/MPAA members weren't interested in satisfying their customers with an efficient supply chain that could potentially cut into their profits so they ignored it, that ignorance gave rise to the only way to get this sort of media over the internet, piracy, the RIAA/MPAA figure they could just sue the users and that would stop it but once that ball started rolling it was too late. If the RIAA/MPAA had some foresight and built something like iTunes in the beginning I doubt piracy would be as rampant as it is.
TBH I used to pirate movies and music because it was the only convenient way to get them, why make may all the way to a physical shop to get digital media? It's not the right thing to do, though most of the time I bought the album/dvd when it was convenient - which is how i've amassed such a large collection. Though these days I have foxtel (with heaps of on-demand content) and XBox Live for movies and TV, then iTunes with DRM-free (mostly) music/movies/TV. There really isn't a reason to pirate stuff now that these services are so convenient.
Linux has a 90% share in supercomputers, a 50% share in servers (+/- 10%), and a pretty good share of cell phones and other mobiles, if you include Android and other semi-proprietary systems. The only place to expand into it the desktop, where the market share is at most 5%. So, why not?
I mostly agree with that, and i certainly don't see 'Linux' being held back by being a Windows competitor, i mean Linux is doing just fine. Maybe adoption of desktop linux distros is affected by just trying to be a windows alternative rather than being something new and different but there needs to be a level of familiarity for users to be comfortable, you need a Windows-esque distro to start the transition to linux then as the users get comfortable they can make the progression - if they wish - towards systems like Gentoo. I don't think any of this affects Linux itself though.
'It would be nice to side with Google here, but they do exactly the same on YouTube. Apply restrictions that content producers require.'
Indeed.
But that's a totally different scenario, it isn't google prohibiting the content from being viewed on the device (like Hulu is doing) and certainly nothing to do with the device manufacturer failing to reach a deal with google, it's the content producers.
The code was as close as possible in both languages
What's the point of that then? Write an optimal version for each language, use language-specific features, use the best-suited compilers, optimisations, etc... Different languages require different approaches and different tools, achieve your result by actually using the language features, libraries, etc... not just whacking the same code in both.
If you're seeing that much of a performance difference in something so basic there's a good chance you're doing it wrong in one of the languages, obviously there's a good chance sub-optimal c++ will lose out to optimal java.
(*) In order it to be a "sharp" the symbol in use must be (1) in italics, and (2) in a musical clef. In Microsoft's language definition it is neither, that makes those two vertical and two horizontal lines a "pound" no matter how much they want you to call it a "sharp".
And OSX should be O.S.X., iPhone should be Eye-Phone, Windows XP should be Windows X.P., etc...
It's an approximation, the vast majority have no problem dealing with it, im sure if you apply yourself you can eventually get your head around it too.
Which suggests that it's really more about anti-corporatism than anti-copyright, which explains why people get up in arms over GPL code theft despite the double standard (the GPL is a copyright license).
How is that a double-standard? GPL code-theft is about not adhering to the terms of the license regarding sharing of source code.
do hardware-assisted H.264 decoding, which seems almost as processor-intensive as unassisted H.264 without Flash (until you get to large resolutions).
By large resolutions you mean standard HD resolutions? Apple/nV software unfortunately limits the ability to do hardware decoding of low resolution videos, hopefully this will be fixed in future.
It's a captain obvious story...if you're displaying animated banners it's obviously using more processing power - and hence battery power - than not displaying them. I can't work out who the bigger moron is, the guy who did the test or the news outlets that ran with it.
Hey look everyone, playing a movie on my laptop uses more battery power than not playing a movie...
No, it isn't a loss, they haven't lost anything, they just haven't gained anything, you can't lose something you never had in the first place. That's why this matter is complicated, because it isn't stealing of physical property.
I have been using Flashblock for well over 2 years now for my own sanity's sake. Because of that, I can't give a recent example that's certain to still exist.
Is it really necessary to continue spreading FUD then? If you can't cite an example and haven't been using it in the last 2 years then how do you know it's an issue? I never had any random issues like that with flash on my imac, sure i've seen badly coded flash sites that chew up more CPU than they probably should, just as with sub-optimal desktop applications and im not sure what you expect will stop the same thing from happening with HTML5.
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Because XBMC made the original XBOX look so bad.
What's that got to do with kinect? My point was his analogy is nonsense.
What I don't like about this is that when I compile code, every time I run it, a waring message gets written to the system log unless I also code sign it before I run it.
You don't like that unsigned code gives you a warning?
What I've never understood, is why? Why not just check on writing; and reading on removable drives?
2 things:
firstly they may keep track of which files have been scanned with the current up-to-date DB and not re-scan them on read, though it may be slower to do the lookup than to just do the scan.
secondly think about the situation described in TFA, he went to open a scanned, identified and infected file.
For a car analogy, many boy racers like to put Lexus headlight/tail-light clusters on their cars...for...whatever reason. Microsoft's reaction is as stupid as Lexus trying to stop non-Lexus owners from buying their headlight/tail-light clusters because they want them to go out and buy a Lexus.
They don't expect them to go out and buy a lexus, it's that they don't want a signature part of their premium brand associated with some 17-year-old's beaten up shitbox car.
Instead, their marketing department saw red and decided to threaten everybody. Idiots.
They threatened everybody?
But our government relies for it's vote massively on the unions who include most of that 82% poor people as members, if the unions ever tell their members to vote for the opposition - this government couldn't possibly survive an election.
So it's just another level of abstraction, essentially the union bosses run the country. They tell their members who to vote for so the government is answerable to them or it is ousted in favour of a more cooperative government.
C# is better than Java anyway
Citation needed.
Posting that is idiotic, if you know anything at all about those languages - or programming in general - you would know that there is nothing he/she can cite that would prove that statement one way or the other. Neither can be defined as better and that statement - if not accompanied by a specific situation in which one language is preferable - always comes with an implied 'IMO'.
I think one of the biggest issues - the thing that makes piracy so socially acceptable these days - is that in the old days if i bought a vinyl, cassette, CD, etc... I was buying the physical media, and of course paying for the content on it, but the product i received was something i could do what i like with, i could play it wherever i want, loan it to a friend, re-sell it, etc... But with the rise of digital distribution what do we get? What are we paying for? We don't own the music, we don't get a license to use the music, we can't resell it when we no longer want it (because we didn't get a product), we can't loan it to a friend, all we get is a bit of bandwidth on the distribution server. Most people who pirate music would - I assume - be loath to pay for bandwidth on the distribution server when they can get that for free and if they can say to themselves 'i wouldn't have bought it anyway' then they don't see it as stealing because they haven't taken anything from anyone else. Although services like iTunes are convenient, they are still pretty much the same price as you would pay in a store, but you don't get the aforementioned benefits of physical media.
and the only thing that will die is distributors who make money off of distributing content. boo hoo
They don't have to though. The Recording and Motion picture industries tried to ignore the internet because they had a good and very profitable system as it was. The internet made it easy and convenient for consumers to get the content that they wanted when they wanted it, however the RIAA/MPAA members weren't interested in satisfying their customers with an efficient supply chain that could potentially cut into their profits so they ignored it, that ignorance gave rise to the only way to get this sort of media over the internet, piracy, the RIAA/MPAA figure they could just sue the users and that would stop it but once that ball started rolling it was too late. If the RIAA/MPAA had some foresight and built something like iTunes in the beginning I doubt piracy would be as rampant as it is.
TBH I used to pirate movies and music because it was the only convenient way to get them, why make may all the way to a physical shop to get digital media? It's not the right thing to do, though most of the time I bought the album/dvd when it was convenient - which is how i've amassed such a large collection. Though these days I have foxtel (with heaps of on-demand content) and XBox Live for movies and TV, then iTunes with DRM-free (mostly) music/movies/TV. There really isn't a reason to pirate stuff now that these services are so convenient.
Linux has a 90% share in supercomputers, a 50% share in servers (+/- 10%), and a pretty good share of cell phones and other mobiles, if you include Android and other semi-proprietary systems. The only place to expand into it the desktop, where the market share is at most 5%. So, why not?
I mostly agree with that, and i certainly don't see 'Linux' being held back by being a Windows competitor, i mean Linux is doing just fine. Maybe adoption of desktop linux distros is affected by just trying to be a windows alternative rather than being something new and different but there needs to be a level of familiarity for users to be comfortable, you need a Windows-esque distro to start the transition to linux then as the users get comfortable they can make the progression - if they wish - towards systems like Gentoo. I don't think any of this affects Linux itself though.
'It would be nice to side with Google here, but they do exactly the same on YouTube. Apply restrictions that content producers require.'
Indeed.
But that's a totally different scenario, it isn't google prohibiting the content from being viewed on the device (like Hulu is doing) and certainly nothing to do with the device manufacturer failing to reach a deal with google, it's the content producers.
The code was as close as possible in both languages
What's the point of that then? Write an optimal version for each language, use language-specific features, use the best-suited compilers, optimisations, etc... Different languages require different approaches and different tools, achieve your result by actually using the language features, libraries, etc... not just whacking the same code in both.
If you're seeing that much of a performance difference in something so basic there's a good chance you're doing it wrong in one of the languages, obviously there's a good chance sub-optimal c++ will lose out to optimal java.
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The Classpaths?
(*) In order it to be a "sharp" the symbol in use must be (1) in italics, and (2) in a musical clef. In Microsoft's language definition it is neither, that makes those two vertical and two horizontal lines a "pound" no matter how much they want you to call it a "sharp".
And OSX should be O.S.X., iPhone should be Eye-Phone, Windows XP should be Windows X.P., etc... It's an approximation, the vast majority have no problem dealing with it, im sure if you apply yourself you can eventually get your head around it too.
Because of course all forms of animation are h264 video.
Which suggests that it's really more about anti-corporatism than anti-copyright, which explains why people get up in arms over GPL code theft despite the double standard (the GPL is a copyright license).
How is that a double-standard? GPL code-theft is about not adhering to the terms of the license regarding sharing of source code.
Will Adobe ever add assistance like the these examples? Fuck no they won't, they've had 10 years of complete inaction.
During more than half of that time they didn't even own Flash.
No -- some versions of Flash
Specifically the latest version of flash for OSX.
on some systems
Like the macbook air we are talking about here.
do hardware-assisted H.264 decoding, which seems almost as processor-intensive as unassisted H.264 without Flash (until you get to large resolutions).
By large resolutions you mean standard HD resolutions? Apple/nV software unfortunately limits the ability to do hardware decoding of low resolution videos, hopefully this will be fixed in future.
Geez, I wonder how Jobs' little darling, HTML5, will manage to do animations without using any CPU power?
My guess is, by using GPU acceleration.
Which, as we all know, uses no battery power.
Decoding H.264 is much less CPU-intensive than Flash -- even non-video Flash.
But flash does hardware h.264 decoding.
No doubt that HTML 5 ads would consume some more resources but they would still be an order of magnitude less power hungry.
Why would it be less power hungry?
It's a captain obvious story...if you're displaying animated banners it's obviously using more processing power - and hence battery power - than not displaying them. I can't work out who the bigger moron is, the guy who did the test or the news outlets that ran with it.
Hey look everyone, playing a movie on my laptop uses more battery power than not playing a movie...
For A, its a loss.
No, it isn't a loss, they haven't lost anything, they just haven't gained anything, you can't lose something you never had in the first place. That's why this matter is complicated, because it isn't stealing of physical property.
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I have been using Flashblock for well over 2 years now for my own sanity's sake. Because of that, I can't give a recent example that's certain to still exist.
Is it really necessary to continue spreading FUD then? If you can't cite an example and haven't been using it in the last 2 years then how do you know it's an issue? I never had any random issues like that with flash on my imac, sure i've seen badly coded flash sites that chew up more CPU than they probably should, just as with sub-optimal desktop applications and im not sure what you expect will stop the same thing from happening with HTML5.