If it can be exploited remotely for root access then it can be patched remotely by a non-vendor. I guess we will see stagefright patch apps start appearing over the next few days.
Obviously, nobody can rely on the lame-ass vendors, even if they had their heart in it.
Sorry, no, it's not that at all. If there was any serious suspicion about that then the weenies would be all over the binary blobs with decompilers. Cost is no object for that sort of thing.
I have no proof, but i also have no doubt this already happens. That, and reverse engineering the actual silicon.
And in-circuit emulators. Cost of one is a drop in the bucket compared to other efforts, often non-engineering, that goes into these sorts of things.
Ok, it's fantastic that LibreOffice spreadsheet calculations are faster now. But what good is that when the rest of it is so goddamn bloated?
Because speeding up spreadsheet calculations matters a lot to some users?
"So goddamn bloated" is a subjective term. I use LibreOffice regularly and it works for me. Pretty damn impressed in fact. Sure, faster is already better but your exaggeration is wild.
Graphics is a patent minefield - it's one of the most legally aggressive areas in computing. Both parties have a strong commercial incentive to keep their technology secret - both to stop their rival stealing ideas, and to avoid inadvertently revealing any code that infringes upon a patent they were not aware of at the time...
Sorry, no, it's not that at all. If there was any serious suspicion about that then the weenies would be all over the binary blobs with decompilers. Cost is no object for that sort of thing. The real reason is... a mystery. Fear of giving the competition a leg up on optimization algorithms? Maybe, but it seems a long shot. The real reason is probably just manager idiocy. I mean it's not like manager idiocy is in short supply.
Who is demanding zoomable magnification? The game uses icons.
Bitmap icons, which always end up looking like shit in a couple of years. How about turning all graphics into SVG? It would instantly make the game zoomable, ensure nice sharp visuals on every platform, benefit future OSS projects and give obsessive micro-optimizers something useful to do - or at least I've never seen a fast SVG implementation.
The more practical thing that is pretty much standard these days is to code it in OpenGL, which gives you zoom for free. Most new projects lose the sprites too and go with 3D. Then lots of standard content generation tools can be brought into the mix.
I think it's time for Wesnoth to declare itself in deep freeze...
Disagree. Keep making it better, that is true superpower of an open source media project. Not constrained by lily livered market drones or tight assed accountants. For example, Improve the animation engine and fill it with new high quality content. Major amount of work, but fun and will move the game look forward a couple of decades.
Some aspects of the game production values are just great, notably the music. Bring some of the other production values up to a similar level. Add creature comforts like zoomable magnification. Extend some of the game mechanics. Upgrade the status menus... why not show status for multiple actors at the same time? Endless incremental improvements are possible. If somebody wants to start with a clean sheet then they should by all means do so, but that is no argument for orphaning the current project. It won't happen anyway, even if the original devs did move on, somebody would just pick up the engine and content and resume improving it anyway. Why argue about that? Not only is it natural and useful, but whining about it won't stop it.
Ok, it's fantastic that LibreOffice spreadsheet calculations are faster now. But what good is that when the rest of it is so goddamn bloated?
Because speeding up spreadsheet calculations matters a lot to some users?
"So goddamn bloated" is a subjective term. I use LibreOffice regularly and it works for me. Pretty damn impressed in fact. Sure, faster is already better but your exaggeration is wild.
Could be a self-selection bias. Higher earners are more likely to visit glassdoor, and may be surprised to learn what the more typical rest & vest cog pulls down.
We have a Vendor at work ("I've fallen and I can't get up buttons") who's entire site is Silver light based. I'm not sure what we are going to do either as this is local government... change takes 3 months to a year before it clears the necessary beauracracy.
The limiting factor is the speed at which zombies shuffle.
I tried switching to HTML5 on youtube for a while... (using firefox) worked fine on shorter (less than 30min) videos, maybe a bit longer, but when I got to hour+ long ones the video stream would consistently stop somewhere around the 30=40min mark and I'd be stuck looking at a static image while the audio continued playing flawlessly.
A Firefox bug most certainly, and 39 still has something at least similar to it. Smells like a resource (memory) leak to me. I kill Firefox and restart when it happens, then it's fine for a while. More than a bit pathetic that those longstanding leaks haven't been hunted down and killed after all these years. I mean, where do those tens of millions of dollars that Mozilla foundation supposedly pours into development actually go? I suspect, mostly into non-dev pockets.
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My telephone's an old fashion really dumb land line...
Oh I know, right? I keep a couple tin cans and some string around in case things get really bad.
If it can be exploited remotely for root access then it can be patched remotely by a non-vendor. I guess we will see stagefright patch apps start appearing over the next few days.
Obviously, nobody can rely on the lame-ass vendors, even if they had their heart in it.
Your taste in style runs to hair shirts?
Sorry, no, it's not that at all. If there was any serious suspicion about that then the weenies would be all over the binary blobs with decompilers. Cost is no object for that sort of thing.
I have no proof, but i also have no doubt this already happens. That, and reverse engineering the actual silicon.
And in-circuit emulators. Cost of one is a drop in the bucket compared to other efforts, often non-engineering, that goes into these sorts of things.
Ok, it's fantastic that LibreOffice spreadsheet calculations are faster now. But what good is that when the rest of it is so goddamn bloated?
Because speeding up spreadsheet calculations matters a lot to some users?
"So goddamn bloated" is a subjective term. I use LibreOffice regularly and it works for me. Pretty damn impressed in fact. Sure, faster is already better but your exaggeration is wild.
Huh. Troll? Somebody has an agenda.
Graphics is a patent minefield - it's one of the most legally aggressive areas in computing. Both parties have a strong commercial incentive to keep their technology secret - both to stop their rival stealing ideas, and to avoid inadvertently revealing any code that infringes upon a patent they were not aware of at the time...
Sorry, no, it's not that at all. If there was any serious suspicion about that then the weenies would be all over the binary blobs with decompilers. Cost is no object for that sort of thing. The real reason is... a mystery. Fear of giving the competition a leg up on optimization algorithms? Maybe, but it seems a long shot. The real reason is probably just manager idiocy. I mean it's not like manager idiocy is in short supply.
Bitmap icons, which always end up looking like shit in a couple of years. How about turning all graphics into SVG? It would instantly make the game zoomable, ensure nice sharp visuals on every platform, benefit future OSS projects and give obsessive micro-optimizers something useful to do - or at least I've never seen a fast SVG implementation.
The more practical thing that is pretty much standard these days is to code it in OpenGL, which gives you zoom for free. Most new projects lose the sprites too and go with 3D. Then lots of standard content generation tools can be brought into the mix.
Animation engine? Seriously? For a turn-based strategy game?
I take it you never played civilization?
I'm playing it for the first time. It's fun. No need to get worked up over a bug that most probably doesn't exist any more.
I think it's time for Wesnoth to declare itself in deep freeze...
Disagree. Keep making it better, that is true superpower of an open source media project. Not constrained by lily livered market drones or tight assed accountants. For example, Improve the animation engine and fill it with new high quality content. Major amount of work, but fun and will move the game look forward a couple of decades.
Some aspects of the game production values are just great, notably the music. Bring some of the other production values up to a similar level. Add creature comforts like zoomable magnification. Extend some of the game mechanics. Upgrade the status menus... why not show status for multiple actors at the same time? Endless incremental improvements are possible. If somebody wants to start with a clean sheet then they should by all means do so, but that is no argument for orphaning the current project. It won't happen anyway, even if the original devs did move on, somebody would just pick up the engine and content and resume improving it anyway. Why argue about that? Not only is it natural and useful, but whining about it won't stop it.
...the reason we see such a huge speedup in this case is probably because the CPU comparison point is running badly optimized code...
Actually, it's because spreadsheet problems tend to be "embarrassingly parallellizable".
Ok, it's fantastic that LibreOffice spreadsheet calculations are faster now. But what good is that when the rest of it is so goddamn bloated?
Because speeding up spreadsheet calculations matters a lot to some users?
"So goddamn bloated" is a subjective term. I use LibreOffice regularly and it works for me. Pretty damn impressed in fact. Sure, faster is already better but your exaggeration is wild.
Posting as A/C makes your content invisible to most readers.
Why o why did you post such a gem as A/C?
...You can be fired for discussing salary while on the clock....
To me, that sounds like an open invitation for a wrongful dismissal suit.
"I told you so." -- Dead Steve Jobs
FTFY.
Companies can fire anyone at any time. People can't simply hire themselves into any position at any time.
However they can offer their skills to any employer at any time, or they can start their own company and hire themselves into any desired position.
Could be a self-selection bias. Higher earners are more likely to visit glassdoor, and may be surprised to learn what the more typical rest & vest cog pulls down.
Though you are probably right about not going into the public sector, I fail to see why some management should not be paid like peons, and vice versa.
Wasn't Google going to index all the world's information, at one point? It appears that they might be making an exception.
Try indexing Larry's information and see what happens to you.
... like unionizing, this is a powerful tool for workers and they will do anything they can to keep you from asking.
So this is where Google hires a private detective agency to assassinate devs with high powered rifles?
We have a Vendor at work ("I've fallen and I can't get up buttons") who's entire site is Silver light based. I'm not sure what we are going to do either as this is local government... change takes 3 months to a year before it clears the necessary beauracracy.
The limiting factor is the speed at which zombies shuffle.
"I applaud Google for forcing the industry forward."
After Steve Jobs started the outcry against Flash, you mean.
Continued the outcry, you mean.
You can disable it, but you can't remove it.
Much like Winston's TV then.
I tried switching to HTML5 on youtube for a while... (using firefox) worked fine on shorter (less than 30min) videos, maybe a bit longer, but when I got to hour+ long ones the video stream would consistently stop somewhere around the 30=40min mark and I'd be stuck looking at a static image while the audio continued playing flawlessly.
A Firefox bug most certainly, and 39 still has something at least similar to it. Smells like a resource (memory) leak to me. I kill Firefox and restart when it happens, then it's fine for a while. More than a bit pathetic that those longstanding leaks haven't been hunted down and killed after all these years. I mean, where do those tens of millions of dollars that Mozilla foundation supposedly pours into development actually go? I suspect, mostly into non-dev pockets.