Nvidia has been doing that for a while. They hired several vector-graphics programmers a few years ago and had them add that functionality to their cards. The problem is, no developers use this stuff. https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering
You clearly understand why his post can be viewed as funny (ROT13 and XOR is in no way a secure cryptographic function), but ask yourself this: do you understand why his post can (correctly!) be viewed as insightful? If that is the part that confused you, it's because the basic premise of doubling the encryption by re-encrypting Bruce's Blowfish (say) with someone else's (good) cryptographic function is a good thing.
And yes, the mods appear to have gone a little meta in modding me. I appreciate the humour in their appreciation of my humourous appreciation of blowhe's humourous post.
If I am reading this right, we have to decide whether this means a)Windows is wasting system resources on this task, or b)Windows device drivers are theoretically MORE SECURE than equivalent Linux/OS X drivers.
CanDo and Amiga Vision were cool. Yes, you could so a lot more in C on the platform, but Amiga Vision excelled at developing multimedia programs quickly and easily, CanDo could create fairly complex tools (I made a decent Opus-like file manager in it) and the AREXX hooks into these tools (and everything else, including the OS) really extended their capabilities. Ah, fond memories.
More or less, yes. They should have at least started "spying" enough to figure out what she was up to, and then taken away her phone/inet so she couldn't continue to bully anyone with them. It's not that they have to assume she is guilty just because the police came and accused her, but they need to take responsibility and start their own investigation and find out what's what.
Something the U.S., as a nation, seems to not understand: by making a huge fuss about a "war on terror", they have, by definition, lost the war on terror.
The proverb actually refers to a thorn in the paw; colloquialization (a word I just made up, thankyouverymuch) of the proverb gives us "thorn in my ass"-style commentary.
Robert Heinlein used to talk about his supervisor in the navy, who had similar views to your father. If something new came along and a process had to be developed for implementing/maintaining it/whatever, they would give the job to the laziest man on the ship (it was inferred that this was Heinlein). The idea was that the lazy fellow would not dare to do a poor job, as then they'd just be made to fix it anyway plus they'd get KP duty, so they would do a decent job whilst still trying to do the minimum i.e. they would come up with an efficient system. This system would, in turn, become the S.O.P.
Java became the intro programming language in unis around here in the late 90's. That's JDK 1.2-1.2 era, so you are saying it was big in industry before then? Hell, the language was invented in 1995...even looking at the unis that didn't adopt it until 2004 it couldn't have been "big in industry" for 7-10 years like you claim, it was only 9 years old (and the first couple of years it didn't even have a reliable implementation).
Java is a very young language; so young that it didn't have time for industry to "make it big" before unis started pushing down student's throats.
People saw "posts advocating use of someone's special hosts file" and had bad flashbacks to do with that jerk who spammed his hosts file spamvert messages all over Slashdot a while back.
The above post, in fact, looks suspiciously like said spamverts...was it this guy?
No, they started teaching Java before it became really big. It became really big because every student who graduated from uni had a Java hammer, so every problem looked like a nail to them. It was back when everyone was having orgasms over "write once, run everywhere" and it looked like Java was going to be the answer for making things happen on the web.
Intro programming languages were always "fad of the year" in CS departments. It used to be that students learned some random language, Fortran/Modula-2/Forth/Pascal/Basic/Whatever in year 1, then went on to learn C (and later, C++) in years 2-4 and beyond. Unfortunately, when Java's turn came up in the random year one language slot it invaded years 2-4 as well because it was OO and super-trendy, and way easier to teach. The side effect is still being felt; university CS grads come out of many schools lacking the skill to deal with real-time systems/binary data/memory management etc.
None of the very nice IDEs I've tried have come close to being as nice as VS. Eclipse is OK, so is Code::Blocks, but nowhere near the magic ease-of-use and power combination that VS offers. VS isn't perfect, and it's ease-of-use has started a downward trend since VS9 in 2008, but it's still far beyond all the open-source IDEs I've tried under both Windows and Linux.
Strange and implausible as it may seem, "hock" means selling your wares to a pawnshop, and "hawk" means selling your wares to the public. I know, I know, it makes no sense, but there it is, the strange and wonderous beauty of the english language in full flight.
hmm, that's not the way this family sharing feature was described in the email Valve sent me. They claimed I was only sharing that particular game, not locking out my library. Supposedly I will be able to play any of the other games in my library without interfering with the loaned-out game(s).
I dunno, even in the cases you are talking about (the ones I am familiar with are computer under the table/behind the curtain with "charging cables" for phones etc), I would think that it requires some level of paranoia to say "I shouldn't plug my phone into any charging stations because they might be tracking me". It might be a justifiable level of paranoia, but it is still something that we haven't seen in the wild except as research experiments.
The level of paranoia required to go from that to "better not plug into that lexar thumbdrive glued to the wall, it might actually be an evil computer leveraging 0-day auto-mount driver exploits" is significantly higher.
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Nvidia has been doing that for a while. They hired several vector-graphics programmers a few years ago and had them add that functionality to their cards. The problem is, no developers use this stuff.
https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering
Came here to say exactly this. There is just no way that 24% can be viewed as "low" in this context; it's frickin' huge!
You clearly understand why his post can be viewed as funny (ROT13 and XOR is in no way a secure cryptographic function), but ask yourself this: do you understand why his post can (correctly!) be viewed as insightful? If that is the part that confused you, it's because the basic premise of doubling the encryption by re-encrypting Bruce's Blowfish (say) with someone else's (good) cryptographic function is a good thing.
And yes, the mods appear to have gone a little meta in modding me. I appreciate the humour in their appreciation of my humourous appreciation of blowhe's humourous post.
If I am reading this right, we have to decide whether this means a)Windows is wasting system resources on this task, or b)Windows device drivers are theoretically MORE SECURE than equivalent Linux/OS X drivers.
That should stir slashdot up a bit.
"One thing I've noticed as a passenger is that the most dangerous-feeling aspect of flying right now seems to be the winding security line itself."
Ya, the terrorists won.
This is why we need a "+2 insightful AND funny" category, dammit.
CanDo and Amiga Vision were cool. Yes, you could so a lot more in C on the platform, but Amiga Vision excelled at developing multimedia programs quickly and easily, CanDo could create fairly complex tools (I made a decent Opus-like file manager in it) and the AREXX hooks into these tools (and everything else, including the OS) really extended their capabilities. Ah, fond memories.
More or less, yes. They should have at least started "spying" enough to figure out what she was up to, and then taken away her phone/inet so she couldn't continue to bully anyone with them.
It's not that they have to assume she is guilty just because the police came and accused her, but they need to take responsibility and start their own investigation and find out what's what.
Something the U.S., as a nation, seems to not understand: by making a huge fuss about a "war on terror", they have, by definition, lost the war on terror.
The proverb actually refers to a thorn in the paw; colloquialization (a word I just made up, thankyouverymuch) of the proverb gives us "thorn in my ass"-style commentary.
Ahh, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the idea.
Are you implying that, where the wall not there, this would then qualify as a "Kinect of the future"?
I still don't know what a "patent tree" is.
Robert Heinlein used to talk about his supervisor in the navy, who had similar views to your father. If something new came along and a process had to be developed for implementing/maintaining it/whatever, they would give the job to the laziest man on the ship (it was inferred that this was Heinlein). The idea was that the lazy fellow would not dare to do a poor job, as then they'd just be made to fix it anyway plus they'd get KP duty, so they would do a decent job whilst still trying to do the minimum i.e. they would come up with an efficient system. This system would, in turn, become the S.O.P.
+/- 10 cm resolution is not in any way useful as a "Kinect of the future".
Why did this become a story on slashdot? It's total crap.
I think my brain just did a div-by-zero. Thank you for making/ruining my day.
Someone with points should mod this guy up, that article he links to is wonderful reading.
Java became the intro programming language in unis around here in the late 90's. That's JDK 1.2-1.2 era, so you are saying it was big in industry before then? Hell, the language was invented in 1995...even looking at the unis that didn't adopt it until 2004 it couldn't have been "big in industry" for 7-10 years like you claim, it was only 9 years old (and the first couple of years it didn't even have a reliable implementation).
Java is a very young language; so young that it didn't have time for industry to "make it big" before unis started pushing down student's throats.
People saw "posts advocating use of someone's special hosts file" and had bad flashbacks to do with that jerk who spammed his hosts file spamvert messages all over Slashdot a while back.
The above post, in fact, looks suspiciously like said spamverts...was it this guy?
No, they started teaching Java before it became really big. It became really big because every student who graduated from uni had a Java hammer, so every problem looked like a nail to them. It was back when everyone was having orgasms over "write once, run everywhere" and it looked like Java was going to be the answer for making things happen on the web.
Intro programming languages were always "fad of the year" in CS departments. It used to be that students learned some random language, Fortran/Modula-2/Forth/Pascal/Basic/Whatever in year 1, then went on to learn C (and later, C++) in years 2-4 and beyond. Unfortunately, when Java's turn came up in the random year one language slot it invaded years 2-4 as well because it was OO and super-trendy, and way easier to teach. The side effect is still being felt; university CS grads come out of many schools lacking the skill to deal with real-time systems/binary data/memory management etc.
None of the very nice IDEs I've tried have come close to being as nice as VS. Eclipse is OK, so is Code::Blocks, but nowhere near the magic ease-of-use and power combination that VS offers. VS isn't perfect, and it's ease-of-use has started a downward trend since VS9 in 2008, but it's still far beyond all the open-source IDEs I've tried under both Windows and Linux.
Strange and implausible as it may seem, "hock" means selling your wares to a pawnshop, and "hawk" means selling your wares to the public. I know, I know, it makes no sense, but there it is, the strange and wonderous beauty of the english language in full flight.
hmm, that's not the way this family sharing feature was described in the email Valve sent me. They claimed I was only sharing that particular game, not locking out my library. Supposedly I will be able to play any of the other games in my library without interfering with the loaned-out game(s).
I dunno, even in the cases you are talking about (the ones I am familiar with are computer under the table/behind the curtain with "charging cables" for phones etc), I would think that it requires some level of paranoia to say "I shouldn't plug my phone into any charging stations because they might be tracking me". It might be a justifiable level of paranoia, but it is still something that we haven't seen in the wild except as research experiments.
The level of paranoia required to go from that to "better not plug into that lexar thumbdrive glued to the wall, it might actually be an evil computer leveraging 0-day auto-mount driver exploits" is significantly higher.
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