No, it's more like about par with an old-school Amiga demo. All that's missing is a starfield and a scrolltext, but I guess they didn't have any raster left:-p
Anything above 5% CPU for some moving points to music is absolutely ridiculous, as is your idea that this should take more cycles than decoding HD video.
Love it how you don't get to chose where it's installed (on MS Windows). It requires me to exit Opera for the installer to run, even though I don't want the plugin installed in Opera (in fact, it's blacklisted there). Guess simply allowing me to check the applications where I want it installed would be too dangerous, someone might back out at the last minute and all...
How are these updates pushed out onto the unwashed masses anyhow, will the client update itself? If not, when are people who don't care about security-bulletins going to get updated? Will there be an update to flash-authoring tools such that this is the new minimum req. version, forcing updates, or what?
Yes, and that'd be very neat and much much harder than you seem to think. Try it, go looking for that magical random seed that creates a 1MB blob of code that does something impressive. Maybe you should expand your idea to first generate a filtering program that can determine if a code sequence, when run over some data, creates a demo?:-)
Organize some donors and create a program whereby if a donated high-quality image is used (or restrict it to portraits if that's a specific problem area), the donators give X dollars to a good cause, starving children or something, in the name of the image copyright holder. Create a public top list of photographers works so donated.
There are a million variations, but the idea is that if they want to complain with their strawmen arguments, make them look like the whiners they are.
Assuming this is a real problem. I've never had reason to complain personally about images on wikipedia, but I mostly hang out in technical articles.
I don't know where you got the idea that you can't block encrypted traffic. It's not like you really even need a distinguishing attack, just block all high-entropy content. Sure, some merely compressed content will get caught aswell, but so what? Even if you allow it though if there's some known signature (PK, RAR, JFIF, etc), you have a system which only a few hundred people in the country will have the capability to penetrate, and when they do, they're effectively excluded from the 'mass market' (your twitter, facebook, youtube, etc).
1. Block ports used for encrypted traffic (ports 22,443), or only allow whitelisted ports.
2. Block protocols when they expose encryption negotiation (STARTTLS, DHKE in instant messaging, etc), or all protocols that aren't whitelisted
3. Block HTTP/SMTP with encryption signatures (PGP/GPG blocks)
4. Block non-whitelisted high entropy connections.
What you're left with is steganography, and that's astrology to cryptologys astronomy.
More like it's the understanding of an ex-C64'er. SID files are programs, and SID players are special emulators that run the code in SID files. In this way SIDs are decidedly different from say MODs or MIDI files.
>But let's not start reviling them for merely following their stated policy.
If they are following their stated policy, explain how "sid player" was okayed, since it's an emulator that interprets executable code, which is downloaded on-the-fly.
I think the problem people have with the appstore, is that Apple enforce their policies using dice.
It's one seat only for sure, however, it's my understanding that if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified (shudder), this opens up extra seats one of which would go to PP.
I don't understand who are going to sell these when Microsoft call them up and say "Oh, I see you're selling computers with [non-windows OS], that's interesting... Yeaaahh so... you know those rebates you get on Windows? Yeah, you can forget about those. Have a nice day"
Do they think they're safe because they're on ARM?
Probably why the second sentence in the article is "All of the sort benchmarks measure the time to sort different numbers of 100 byte records. The first 10 bytes of each record is the key and the rest is the value."
Is that even an argument that's popular? I believe the popular argument is that DRM doesn't stop le pirates while it definitely hurt the legitimate customers. Don't see how this report say anything about that. My only conclusion here is that Gamestop hurt GPG.
I'll also put forth the argument that people actually order games on-line AND download them if they can get them that way earlier (similar but not exactly like the try-before-buy argument). I do that all the time, and I assume I'm not unique in any way.
If the game use online serials then what this proves is...er.. what exactly? I guess it could down the line prove that there are some xK amount of users who illegaly downloaded the game and then, even though they couldn't play it online, didn't think it good enough to buy?
If you can shift 18K copies in one territory in a few days through one retailer who happened to release the game earlier than anyone expected, maybe you're not off to such a bad start after all.
I've come across one software where the pane showing the EULA was an unlocked edit pane. I just replaced it with something like "You guys owe me $10M" and pushed accept.
I couldn't get apt to upgrade in step 4.5.4 of the process (wouldn't upgrade libc), but the alternative aptitude route seems to have worked, though expect it to bring in a fair bit of more packages than just glibc and locale.
Or maybe for free (as in performance) whole-system disk encryption?
Unfortunately, 'reviewers' think it beneath them to actually do any work beyond running their standardized tests. I've tried to reason with some of them before. They'll just continue running their LAME-MT and non-padlock enabled truecrypt or whatever. I tell you though, with Intel finally having crypto primitives in their new instruction set, they'll have to adapt sooner or later. Just as soon as Intel provide the how-to and/or software for them to blindly follow.
Oh, crap. I now get to read articles on computing technology which were written by people who aren't even aware that, once upon a not-so-distant time, you could turn on your computer and be greeted with a cool blue-on-blue READY.-prompt within a second.
I'm ancient, credz nuked:-(
On the upside, I did get a cool new.sig:
-- "Fast boots could be a true advance in the history of computing." -- Henry Kingman, 2009-01-28
Oh, look at the price of that thing. I think I got it for $60 on pre-order back when the dollar was weak. Should have bought two! I guess if you look around a bit I'm sure you can find the pre-release/beta PDFs for the second edition which were made available on the book homepage prior to release.
There's pretty much everything in the C++ In Depth-series which is an absolute must for C++ practicioners. (and don't forget Lakos).
I'm sure Gamma et.al was mentioned ten times while I put this post together...
If I may veer out of CS, I must mention Kahn's Code Breakers, an absolute joy to read.
Decidedly less cool than SSD and eSATA, which we already have. Though maybe not in cameras, but on the other hand, we don't have USB3 in cameras either so that's a tie.
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No, it's more like about par with an old-school Amiga demo. All that's missing is a starfield and a scrolltext, but I guess they didn't have any raster left :-p
Anything above 5% CPU for some moving points to music is absolutely ridiculous, as is your idea that this should take more cycles than decoding HD video.
I think we'll have to wait for webgl.
Love it how you don't get to chose where it's installed (on MS Windows). It requires me to exit Opera for the installer to run, even though I don't want the plugin installed in Opera (in fact, it's blacklisted there). Guess simply allowing me to check the applications where I want it installed would be too dangerous, someone might back out at the last minute and all...
How are these updates pushed out onto the unwashed masses anyhow, will the client update itself? If not, when are people who don't care about security-bulletins going to get updated? Will there be an update to flash-authoring tools such that this is the new minimum req. version, forcing updates, or what?
Yes, and that'd be very neat and much much harder than you seem to think. Try it, go looking for that magical random seed that creates a 1MB blob of code that does something impressive. Maybe you should expand your idea to first generate a filtering program that can determine if a code sequence, when run over some data, creates a demo? :-)
4K demos are sort of an artistic exploration of Kolmogorov complexity.
Remember also that, if the judges die of old age before your demo appear, you're unlikely to place well in the compo.
Organize some donors and create a program whereby if a donated high-quality image is used (or restrict it to portraits if that's a specific problem area), the donators give X dollars to a good cause, starving children or something, in the name of the image copyright holder. Create a public top list of photographers works so donated.
There are a million variations, but the idea is that if they want to complain with their strawmen arguments, make them look like the whiners they are.
Assuming this is a real problem. I've never had reason to complain personally about images on wikipedia, but I mostly hang out in technical articles.
I don't know where you got the idea that you can't block encrypted traffic. It's not like you really even need a distinguishing attack, just block all high-entropy content. Sure, some merely compressed content will get caught aswell, but so what? Even if you allow it though if there's some known signature (PK, RAR, JFIF, etc), you have a system which only a few hundred people in the country will have the capability to penetrate, and when they do, they're effectively excluded from the 'mass market' (your twitter, facebook, youtube, etc).
1. Block ports used for encrypted traffic (ports 22,443), or only allow whitelisted ports.
2. Block protocols when they expose encryption negotiation (STARTTLS, DHKE in instant messaging, etc), or all protocols that aren't whitelisted
3. Block HTTP/SMTP with encryption signatures (PGP/GPG blocks)
4. Block non-whitelisted high entropy connections.
What you're left with is steganography, and that's astrology to cryptologys astronomy.
More like it's the understanding of an ex-C64'er. SID files are programs, and SID players are special emulators that run the code in SID files. In this way SIDs are decidedly different from say MODs or MIDI files.
>But let's not start reviling them for merely following their stated policy.
If they are following their stated policy, explain how "sid player" was okayed, since it's an emulator that interprets executable code, which is downloaded on-the-fly.
I think the problem people have with the appstore, is that Apple enforce their policies using dice.
It's one seat only for sure, however, it's my understanding that if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified (shudder), this opens up extra seats one of which would go to PP.
I don't understand who are going to sell these when Microsoft call them up and say "Oh, I see you're selling computers with [non-windows OS], that's interesting... Yeaaahh so... you know those rebates you get on Windows? Yeah, you can forget about those. Have a nice day"
Do they think they're safe because they're on ARM?
I'm currently listening to a future Eminem track. I got it by running bittorrent through a time-machine. The evidence is plain for all to see (or my playedlist)
Good grief.
Probably why the second sentence in the article is "All of the sort benchmarks measure the time to sort different numbers of 100 byte records. The first 10 bytes of each record is the key and the rest is the value."
Is that even an argument that's popular? I believe the popular argument is that DRM doesn't stop le pirates while it definitely hurt the legitimate customers. Don't see how this report say anything about that. My only conclusion here is that Gamestop hurt GPG.
I'll also put forth the argument that people actually order games on-line AND download them if they can get them that way earlier (similar but not exactly like the try-before-buy argument). I do that all the time, and I assume I'm not unique in any way.
If the game use online serials then what this proves is...er.. what exactly? I guess it could down the line prove that there are some xK amount of users who illegaly downloaded the game and then, even though they couldn't play it online, didn't think it good enough to buy?
If you can shift 18K copies in one territory in a few days through one retailer who happened to release the game earlier than anyone expected, maybe you're not off to such a bad start after all.
>The product has one genuine innovation a built-in tool for overlaying the rendering from one browser over another to compare.
Man, when animators get a hold of this "lay one image over another"-innovation, their productivity will go through the roof!
Tomorrow's Microsoft Innovation: Layering images to gauge object motion!
I've come across one software where the pane showing the EULA was an unlocked edit pane. I just replaced it with something like "You guys owe me $10M" and pushed accept.
I couldn't get apt to upgrade in step 4.5.4 of the process (wouldn't upgrade libc), but the alternative aptitude route seems to have worked, though expect it to bring in a fair bit of more packages than just glibc and locale.
...I'm pretty sure...
Or maybe for free (as in performance) whole-system disk encryption?
Unfortunately, 'reviewers' think it beneath them to actually do any work beyond running their standardized tests. I've tried to reason with some of them before. They'll just continue running their LAME-MT and non-padlock enabled truecrypt or whatever. I tell you though, with Intel finally having crypto primitives in their new instruction set, they'll have to adapt sooner or later. Just as soon as Intel provide the how-to and/or software for them to blindly follow.
Or if you want the countdown, something like while true; do let a=1234567890-`date +"%s"`; echo $a; sleep 1; done"
Oh, crap. I now get to read articles on computing technology which were written by people who aren't even aware that, once upon a not-so-distant time, you could turn on your computer and be greeted with a cool blue-on-blue READY.-prompt within a second.
I'm ancient, credz nuked :-(
On the upside, I did get a cool new .sig:
--
"Fast boots could be a true advance in the history of computing."
-- Henry Kingman, 2009-01-28
Actually, from what I usually see, these are the kinds of rumors that strengthens a stock. In fact, layoffs are often used for this purpose.
Going only on your description, I'd say Habitat for sure.
Write "Told you so." on a letter. Include a copy of your previous correspondence. Send it in. Might make you feel good for a minute or two.
I like Speech and Language Processing (2nd Edition), which is kind of the Russell/Norvig for NLP.
Oh, look at the price of that thing. I think I got it for $60 on pre-order back when the dollar was weak. Should have bought two! I guess if you look around a bit I'm sure you can find the pre-release/beta PDFs for the second edition which were made available on the book homepage prior to release.
There's pretty much everything in the C++ In Depth-series which is an absolute must for C++ practicioners. (and don't forget Lakos).
I'm sure Gamma et.al was mentioned ten times while I put this post together...
If I may veer out of CS, I must mention Kahn's Code Breakers, an absolute joy to read.
>Maybe SSD + USB 3.0 would be really cool
Decidedly less cool than SSD and eSATA, which we already have. Though maybe not in cameras, but on the other hand, we don't have USB3 in cameras either so that's a tie.
Seems like you're unable to follow a well formed argument. Over and out.