I will qualify this. If you are a programmer used to an IDE, Arduino sucks. It wes made to allow painters, breadmakers and other artists to make embedded elements, and maybe for a non-programmer, it may be the only (and best) thing out there.
You can use any IDE/editor out there to write c/c++ code, compile it with avr-gcc and upload it to the arduino-compatible board. It's as closest to the metal as it gets. No need to use the arduino style loop() or its libraries.
Arduino IDE is nothing more than a lousy editor, couple of C++ libraries and a simple source preprocessor.
Agreed. I installed MacOS on my 15.6" laptop with high density (1920x1200) screen and it sucked. MacOS just isn't designed for high density screens, there's no way to change DPI, and even if there was no good is gonna come out of this because no app is designed with this in mind.
Indentation style is thing of preference. You didn't provide any justification.
I love C and C++ and python's identation seemed weird at first. But once you get used to it, it appears very clean, elegant and efficient.
C is great but really - those curly braces may seem like a sexy thing in a geeky way but they seriously decrease the legibility of the code. They may have been a poor design decision.
Now it occured to me that the trick might be less repetition. Take for ex. "rage" - megatexture maybe still immature (not ready for production IMHO) but it really makes the environment look way more realistic. It may be so because human mind is trained to recognize patterns, repetitions. The same goes for animation. It should have at least some randomness. The trick is to add randomness without making the movement appear even more artificial. I think they accomplished this to some degree in BF3.
Confirmed here. I can play almost all recent games on my old GTX260 in 1920x1080 fine. Sometimes I turn-down AA or disable SSAO (really, I don't see any justifiable difference with SSAO enabled). Only exception is BF3, haven't even tried it yet, I will once I upgrade.
IMHO Games to be more visually appealing should go into the direction of improving character animation and polygon count. More full-screen shaders and effects like SSAO won't do much good, when there's fast paced action and immersive gameplay. You just don't see the difference any more.
GTA IV doesn't run smoothly on some recent PC hardware (and I'm not talking everything maxed out). You'll have to wait a long time til you can play it on a phone, cause it requires a lot of raw CPU power, not GPU, so very bad example here.
The thing about terrorism is that the terrorists want to create fear not total destruction. There is no fear when there is nobody that can fear. I think that almost nobody would be mentally capable of unleashing non-discriminating, globally effective bio-weapon.
Only the ones with serious mental health problems seem to have the goal of just wreaking havoc. But this is marginal, and this are single people not organisations so hopefully they don't have resources to do much harm. Well, maybe breiving is the exception that proves the rule.
The exchange of keys isn't that big of a problem. You just need a catalogue of e-mail addresses associated with public keys. If there was a standard for that then each mail provider could host such automatic catalogue. If you trust most e-mail providers that mostly solves the trust issue.
If you don't care about checking authenticity, only about encryption (ex. assume that the contents of the message tell you that it's legit) then it really doesn't matter where do you get the public key from. Worst that could happen is that the recipient won't be able to read your e-mail.
My point was that you can't buy an easy to start with (for children) robotics kit if you have $100 to spend (yes, that's the guy's budget). That makes your comment kind of off-topic.
Kids aged 12-14 might feel a bit too intimidated even by simple programming. It might be an unbreakable entry barrier. I would recommend something that uses this simplified "visual progamming" software.
But from what I gather robotics are expensive. Even entry-level. That said, if you want something easy to play with Mindstorms seems to be the only viable option.
I don't think that it's only advertising. IMO Chrome provides the fastest and smoothest web experience out there. I am not a fanboy. In fact, knowing how much data is being collected by google makes me a bit uncomfortable.
I showed chrome to friends and family. Ex. take my dad - he was accustomed to FF's interface. He is not proficient with computers so once he know something he's very reluctant to change, but once he used chrome for a while he didn't look back. Same for a bunch of my friends and rest of the family. They were simply amazed by the sheer speed of page loads, etc.
DISCLAIMER I don't know about IE, cause I haven't used it for a long time and I didn't let any of my family members use it (well, it was pure evil then).
On HTC phones you basically say "Jailbreak please" and it says "OK."
Did I miss something? Last time I checked you had to run an exploit or two in order to allow firmware downgrading. Then downgrade to permanently exploitable firmware, possibly with the use of a goldcard. Finally, run the S-OFF exploit and upgrade/install custom FW.
I didn't say I believed them but... First of all, the thing that was demonstrated is that CIQ spits out debugging messages containing key strokes. Who's to say that this isn't just an echo of an unimplemented feature. Nobody has shown a remotely convincing proof that this information is stored. Keylogger stores keystrokes.
Secondly, somebody actually disassembled the damn thing:
> Rosenberg told CNET. His reverse-engineering showed that "there is no code in Carrier IQ that actually records keystrokes for data collection purposes."
I am not defending anyone. CIQ still records and transmits other data, but for fucks sake, get your facts straight!
Some guy showing debugging messages does not prove anything.
"The device ends up storing about 200 kilobytes of data," he says. "That's typical upload size. When it gets to the point that it's full, it'll do an upload or it'll drop data and start wrapping and store summary information." (Customers aren't charged for the upload, and it's disabled when the phone is roaming.)"
How Carrier IQ was wrongly accused of keylogging
I think that's not true. You can delegate every location you want to a different server or serve it directly. You know there's this "location" directive in config. Nginx is very flexible.
There's a bigger issue: why the fuck is everybody porting console games to PC?
Where did the cutting edge go?
I look at graphics comparisons of X360 vs PS3 vs PC and you know what? They look almost the same. Sure, you have better resolution, slightly more detailed textures, more FPS on PC, but what the fuck? Consoles have 2005-era hardware. PC games should be crushing console games in terms of graphics.
What the fuck has happened?
Sorry for the f's - but this thing boggles my mind to the point my head nearly explodes.
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That's the company. What about the people behind it?
I will qualify this. If you are a programmer used to an IDE, Arduino sucks. It wes made to allow painters, breadmakers and other artists to make embedded elements, and maybe for a non-programmer, it may be the only (and best) thing out there.
You can use any IDE/editor out there to write c/c++ code, compile it with avr-gcc and upload it to the arduino-compatible board. It's as closest to the metal as it gets. No need to use the arduino style loop() or its libraries.
Arduino IDE is nothing more than a lousy editor, couple of C++ libraries and a simple source preprocessor.
You can forget many passwords. But who would forget the password for the device he uses every day?
Agreed. I installed MacOS on my 15.6" laptop with high density (1920x1200) screen and it sucked. MacOS just isn't designed for high density screens, there's no way to change DPI, and even if there was no good is gonna come out of this because no app is designed with this in mind.
I haven't heard the term 'accelerator' in a long time. I belive the more appriopriate one would be 'DSP'.
Indentation style is thing of preference. You didn't provide any justification.
I love C and C++ and python's identation seemed weird at first. But once you get used to it, it appears very clean, elegant and efficient.
C is great but really - those curly braces may seem like a sexy thing in a geeky way but they seriously decrease the legibility of the code. They may have been a poor design decision.
Things like JS libraries are more and more linked to Google's (or other) CDN which causes them to hit cache almost all the time.
Now it occured to me that the trick might be less repetition. Take for ex. "rage" - megatexture maybe still immature (not ready for production IMHO) but it really makes the environment look way more realistic. It may be so because human mind is trained to recognize patterns, repetitions. The same goes for animation. It should have at least some randomness. The trick is to add randomness without making the movement appear even more artificial. I think they accomplished this to some degree in BF3.
Confirmed here. I can play almost all recent games on my old GTX260 in 1920x1080 fine. Sometimes I turn-down AA or disable SSAO (really, I don't see any justifiable difference with SSAO enabled). Only exception is BF3, haven't even tried it yet, I will once I upgrade.
IMHO Games to be more visually appealing should go into the direction of improving character animation and polygon count. More full-screen shaders and effects like SSAO won't do much good, when there's fast paced action and immersive gameplay. You just don't see the difference any more.
GTA IV doesn't run smoothly on some recent PC hardware (and I'm not talking everything maxed out). You'll have to wait a long time til you can play it on a phone, cause it requires a lot of raw CPU power, not GPU, so very bad example here.
The thing about terrorism is that the terrorists want to create fear not total destruction. There is no fear when there is nobody that can fear. I think that almost nobody would be mentally capable of unleashing non-discriminating, globally effective bio-weapon.
Only the ones with serious mental health problems seem to have the goal of just wreaking havoc. But this is marginal, and this are single people not organisations so hopefully they don't have resources to do much harm. Well, maybe breiving is the exception that proves the rule.
The exchange of keys isn't that big of a problem. You just need a catalogue of e-mail addresses associated with public keys. If there was a standard for that then each mail provider could host such automatic catalogue. If you trust most e-mail providers that mostly solves the trust issue.
If you don't care about checking authenticity, only about encryption (ex. assume that the contents of the message tell you that it's legit) then it really doesn't matter where do you get the public key from. Worst that could happen is that the recipient won't be able to read your e-mail.
My point was that you can't buy an easy to start with (for children) robotics kit if you have $100 to spend (yes, that's the guy's budget). That makes your comment kind of off-topic.
Kids aged 12-14 might feel a bit too intimidated even by simple programming. It might be an unbreakable entry barrier. I would recommend something that uses this simplified "visual progamming" software.
But from what I gather robotics are expensive. Even entry-level. That said, if you want something easy to play with Mindstorms seems to be the only viable option.
I don't think that it's only advertising. IMO Chrome provides the fastest and smoothest web experience out there. I am not a fanboy. In fact, knowing how much data is being collected by google makes me a bit uncomfortable.
I showed chrome to friends and family. Ex. take my dad - he was accustomed to FF's interface. He is not proficient with computers so once he know something he's very reluctant to change, but once he used chrome for a while he didn't look back. Same for a bunch of my friends and rest of the family. They were simply amazed by the sheer speed of page loads, etc.
DISCLAIMER I don't know about IE, cause I haven't used it for a long time and I didn't let any of my family members use it (well, it was pure evil then).
It's not a normal, full jailbreak AFAIK. See this.
On HTC phones you basically say "Jailbreak please" and it says "OK."
Did I miss something? Last time I checked you had to run an exploit or two in order to allow firmware downgrading. Then downgrade to permanently exploitable firmware, possibly with the use of a goldcard. Finally, run the S-OFF exploit and upgrade/install custom FW.
I've had such a test. The trick is, there was something like 15 seconds for each question, so there was no time to do anything.
Of course if you saved time on some questions, you could spend it on other, skip/go back, etc.
I didn't say I believed them but... First of all, the thing that was demonstrated is that CIQ spits out debugging messages containing key strokes. Who's to say that this isn't just an echo of an unimplemented feature. Nobody has shown a remotely convincing proof that this information is stored. Keylogger stores keystrokes.
Secondly, somebody actually disassembled the damn thing:
> Rosenberg told CNET. His reverse-engineering showed that "there is no code in Carrier IQ that actually records keystrokes for data collection purposes."
I am not defending anyone. CIQ still records and transmits other data, but for fucks sake, get your facts straight!
Some guy showing debugging messages does not prove anything.
"The device ends up storing about 200 kilobytes of data," he says. "That's typical upload size. When it gets to the point that it's full, it'll do an upload or it'll drop data and start wrapping and store summary information." (Customers aren't charged for the upload, and it's disabled when the phone is roaming.)" How Carrier IQ was wrongly accused of keylogging
Because the industry isn't changing rapidly and we have hunderds of years of data to back up this statement.
Five years from now everything can seem very different. IMHO it's not wise to generalise like this.
I think that's not true. You can delegate every location you want to a different server or serve it directly. You know there's this "location" directive in config. Nginx is very flexible.
There's a bigger issue: why the fuck is everybody porting console games to PC?
Where did the cutting edge go?
I look at graphics comparisons of X360 vs PS3 vs PC and you know what? They look almost the same. Sure, you have better resolution, slightly more detailed textures, more FPS on PC, but what the fuck? Consoles have 2005-era hardware. PC games should be crushing console games in terms of graphics.
What the fuck has happened?
Sorry for the f's - but this thing boggles my mind to the point my head nearly explodes.
My friend puts ketchup on scrambled eggs... Eat this.