Wait a second, what on earth is he speaking at SXSW for? Is he now considered an expert on national security?
I don't know about national security, but he's shown himself time and again to be a very astute observer. It's the same with Bruce Schneier, he doesn't have a PhD in cryptography but people still listen to him because he's damn good at picking out the relevant bits and communicating them effectively to the masses.
The idea that you can just throw tech at education problems is so common its got a name: 'digital utopianism'.
Beat me to it. The answer to the series of questions in the summary is "none of the above", instead of fancy gadgets we need a better pupil-to-teacher ratio, the ability for school boards to fire incompetent teachers, better support for teachers from parents (rather than treating them as glorified daycare nannies), and so on. Playing with gadgets is, at best, a distraction from addressing the real problems.
While JPEG 2000 has slightly better compression quality (less visible artifacts) at the same file sizes itâ(TM)s decode performance is substantially slower than JPEG XR (the same is true for encode performance, but decode is much more important).
How much of this is due to hardware support for core JPEG operations in GPUs and (to a lesser extent) CPUs? If wavelet-based JPEG took off, would it just be a matter of time before hardware vendors added explicit support for it to their instruction sets, at which point the speed difference would vanish?
I think it's mostly because JPEG is good enough. JPEG2000, for example, also provides perfectly acceptable performance and quality, with significantly-reduced file sizes. But unlike JPEG, JPEG2000 decoders aren't already available everywhere.
It's the fax-machine effect, JPEG will be around forever because everything, and I mean everything, that creates, processes, manipulates, and displays images, speaks JPEG. If Jobs was still alive and decided that from now on iWhatever's were only going to do JPEG2000 (and it's not just for file size reasons, image quality is also vastly improved), you can bet that we'd have a surge in JPEG2000 adoption as soon as the first JPEG2000-only iWhatever was released.
(Personally I'd opt for JPEG-XR, which is more flexible than JPEG2000, addressing the 20-odd-years' worth of issues that have emerged since the original JPEG first saw widespread adoption, but since it was developed by Microsoft I'm nervous even mentioning it here. You never saw these lines, move along, move along...).
Yep, like GnuTLS, or Apple's SSL implementation. You know there won't be any bugs in those, or if there are they'll be very quickly fixed and not sit there unnoticed for years.
This sounds a lot like a submarine patent. The idea is that you file a patent on some generic idea, not necessarily realisable, and then continue it for years, sometimes decades, until the state of the art has advanced to the point where it can be realised. At that point your submarine patent emerges and you've now patented a field that others have spent years developing for you. The notorious Jerome Lemelson made a billion-dollar business out of this.
Additionally, the man is effectively in captivity under a lot of stress. That can present a very different person than that individual might be if not for being locked in the fucking embassy, for example.
Julian has always had serious user interface bugs, for example he would take a laptop along to family Christmas dinners because he thought they were boring and didn't want to talk to them. Having said that, I know other geeks who are at least as poorly socialised, if not more so, than him. Unfortunately being a media personality he now has to put up with having his private life exposed, as does every other celebrity ever. In that case compared to the antics of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and an infinite lineup of others, he's pretty tame. And before everyone jumps on the bandwagon to criticise him, how many of you could have started Wikileaks?
My biggest gripe with the PS4 so far is that I can't put a music cd in it and listen to it,
My biggest gripe is that when I put a DVD in it I get some error message about it being the wrong region. Even my $20 Chinese-made DVD player does better than that. How could Sony ship a product with a bug this fundamental?
Landrigan and Grandjean looked at an analysis of 27 studies of children, mostly in China, who were exposed to fluoride in drinking water at high concentrations.
It's all true then! Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face! And do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, children's ice cream.
You clearly don't know Usenet rules. A more specific group for comp.misc would be comp.slashdot. Which could then be split up into comp.slashdot.developers, comp.slashdot.ask,
Of course, arguably the homeopathic drugs are just as effective as the prescriptions with less harmful side effects at 1/100th the cost.
DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER!
Homepathic pet medicine can be extremely dangerous. I gave some to my cat once. Two days later she died of an overdose while drinking from her water bowl.
Bullshit. Expiration dates are randomly created in order to push products through. There is ** very little ** science about long term storage - most of it from the military and most of it saying that the shelf life is quite a bit longer than advertised.
The military has to stockpile medication for long periods of time, so they have an incentive to find out what the real shelf life is. Our military (deliberately obscuring who "our" is since I don't know if this was made public and couldn't be bothered checking) did long-term ageing tests on commonly-stockpiled stuff and found that medication stored for a decade was still 98% as effective as fresh stock. They're still waiting for the 20-year time period to come up to re-check it again.
"Glucosamine and chondroitin food supplements? Next to useless."
Gee. Just like in humans. Imagine that.
Damn, beat me to it. For people who are wondering about this (but my granny takes it and she says it helps), look at the results of the GAIT trial. It's indistinguishable from placebo for most people, except for a small subset that no-one can explain. This, and the placebo effect (but mostly placebo) is what accounts for the various "but it helped my dog/cat" posts on here.
Don't forget to buy your dog and cat food with lots of grains and carrots in it, for their health! [nods furiously with shit-eating grin].
And electrolytes. Don't forget the electrolytes. It's what cats crave.
That was my reaction as well. They're employing people who have knowingly signed up for a job that would require them to kill millions of innocent civilians, and then they're surprised at their lack of moral backbone when they cheat in the exam.
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I wonder if the NSA was surprised to find Cisco copyright notices in the "Huawei" code they took? And wouldn't this be repossession rather than theft?
Why does everyone ignore the fact that the population there WANT to join Russia?
Exactly! It's time to bring the Sudetenrussians heim in's Reich. Coming up next: Anschluss for the rest of the Ukraine.
USB 3.0 has up to 9.
I hear that USB 4.0 will go all the way up to 11.
Wait a second, what on earth is he speaking at SXSW for? Is he now considered an expert on national security?
I don't know about national security, but he's shown himself time and again to be a very astute observer. It's the same with Bruce Schneier, he doesn't have a PhD in cryptography but people still listen to him because he's damn good at picking out the relevant bits and communicating them effectively to the masses.
So that means that during the last ice age there'd have been a big Wolfswood sign up where the Hollywood sign is now?
The idea that you can just throw tech at education problems is so common its got a name: 'digital utopianism'.
Beat me to it. The answer to the series of questions in the summary is "none of the above", instead of fancy gadgets we need a better pupil-to-teacher ratio, the ability for school boards to fire incompetent teachers, better support for teachers from parents (rather than treating them as glorified daycare nannies), and so on. Playing with gadgets is, at best, a distraction from addressing the real problems.
While JPEG 2000 has slightly better compression quality (less visible artifacts) at the same file sizes itâ(TM)s decode performance is substantially slower than JPEG XR (the same is true for encode performance, but decode is much more important).
How much of this is due to hardware support for core JPEG operations in GPUs and (to a lesser extent) CPUs? If wavelet-based JPEG took off, would it just be a matter of time before hardware vendors added explicit support for it to their instruction sets, at which point the speed difference would vanish?
I think it's mostly because JPEG is good enough. JPEG2000, for example, also provides perfectly acceptable performance and quality, with significantly-reduced file sizes. But unlike JPEG, JPEG2000 decoders aren't already available everywhere.
It's the fax-machine effect, JPEG will be around forever because everything, and I mean everything, that creates, processes, manipulates, and displays images, speaks JPEG. If Jobs was still alive and decided that from now on iWhatever's were only going to do JPEG2000 (and it's not just for file size reasons, image quality is also vastly improved), you can bet that we'd have a surge in JPEG2000 adoption as soon as the first JPEG2000-only iWhatever was released.
(Personally I'd opt for JPEG-XR, which is more flexible than JPEG2000, addressing the 20-odd-years' worth of issues that have emerged since the original JPEG first saw widespread adoption, but since it was developed by Microsoft I'm nervous even mentioning it here. You never saw these lines, move along, move along...).
the chairs! Whatever you do, DO NOT give that man chairs. If he has to sit on one, make sure it's bolted down. It's for your own protection.
Why do you think he was called the chairman of Microsoft?
Easy: use open source libraries.
Yep, like GnuTLS, or Apple's SSL implementation. You know there won't be any bugs in those, or if there are they'll be very quickly fixed and not sit there unnoticed for years.
One word: Aeropress.
Actually two words, Zojirushi + Aeropress (specifically a VE-series Zojirushi). Beats a Keurig any day, and not DRM-able in any manner.
(If I'm being traditional and have the time I'll use a machinetta).
This sounds a lot like a submarine patent. The idea is that you file a patent on some generic idea, not necessarily realisable, and then continue it for years, sometimes decades, until the state of the art has advanced to the point where it can be realised. At that point your submarine patent emerges and you've now patented a field that others have spent years developing for you. The notorious Jerome Lemelson made a billion-dollar business out of this.
So wait: now EVERY country that has a Russian minority can expect to be invaded by Russia?
It'd never happen. I mean, that'd be like every country that had a German minority being invaded by Germany.
Additionally, the man is effectively in captivity under a lot of stress. That can present a very different person than that individual might be if not for being locked in the fucking embassy, for example.
Julian has always had serious user interface bugs, for example he would take a laptop along to family Christmas dinners because he thought they were boring and didn't want to talk to them. Having said that, I know other geeks who are at least as poorly socialised, if not more so, than him. Unfortunately being a media personality he now has to put up with having his private life exposed, as does every other celebrity ever. In that case compared to the antics of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and an infinite lineup of others, he's pretty tame. And before everyone jumps on the bandwagon to criticise him, how many of you could have started Wikileaks?
Goto fail. Go directly to fail. Do not pass the signature check. Do not collect an error status.
As does gcc with the right flags, which detect "unreachable code".
No it doesn't. -Wunreachable-code is accepted as a compiler option, but it does nothing while making you think it's actually doing what it claims to.
(Yet another of the many reasons why the sooner clang/LLVM kills gcc, the better).
Yeah, you'd think a compiler should have caught that.. but neither GCC or Xcode seems to do that.
Visual Studio will detect and complain about this. So all Apple would need to do is switch to Microsoft Vis.... oh. Damn.
My biggest gripe with the PS4 so far is that I can't put a music cd in it and listen to it,
My biggest gripe is that when I put a DVD in it I get some error message about it being the wrong region. Even my $20 Chinese-made DVD player does better than that. How could Sony ship a product with a bug this fundamental?
Landrigan and Grandjean looked at an analysis of 27 studies of children, mostly in China, who were exposed to fluoride in drinking water at high concentrations.
It's all true then! Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face! And do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, children's ice cream.
You clearly don't know Usenet rules. A more specific group for comp.misc would be comp.slashdot. Which could then be split up into comp.slashdot.developers, comp.slashdot.ask,
... comp.slashdot.judean.peoples.front, comp.slashdot.peoples.front.of.judea, ...
The technique is called cloaking.
When Elsevier are doing it, it's called cloacaing.
Of course, arguably the homeopathic drugs are just as effective as the prescriptions with less harmful side effects at 1/100th the cost.
DANGER DANGER DANGER DANGER!
Homepathic pet medicine can be extremely dangerous. I gave some to my cat once. Two days later she died of an overdose while drinking from her water bowl.
Bullshit. Expiration dates are randomly created in order to push products through. There is ** very little ** science about long term storage - most of it from the military and most of it saying that the shelf life is quite a bit longer than advertised.
The military has to stockpile medication for long periods of time, so they have an incentive to find out what the real shelf life is. Our military (deliberately obscuring who "our" is since I don't know if this was made public and couldn't be bothered checking) did long-term ageing tests on commonly-stockpiled stuff and found that medication stored for a decade was still 98% as effective as fresh stock. They're still waiting for the 20-year time period to come up to re-check it again.
"Glucosamine and chondroitin food supplements? Next to useless."
Gee. Just like in humans. Imagine that.
Damn, beat me to it. For people who are wondering about this (but my granny takes it and she says it helps), look at the results of the GAIT trial. It's indistinguishable from placebo for most people, except for a small subset that no-one can explain. This, and the placebo effect (but mostly placebo) is what accounts for the various "but it helped my dog/cat" posts on here.
Don't forget to buy your dog and cat food with lots of grains and carrots in it, for their health! [nods furiously with shit-eating grin].
And electrolytes. Don't forget the electrolytes. It's what cats crave.
That was my reaction as well. They're employing people who have knowingly signed up for a job that would require them to kill millions of innocent civilians, and then they're surprised at their lack of moral backbone when they cheat in the exam.