Hiroshima today is a very beautiful city. If you happen to plan a trip to Japan, I highly recommend it. The only traces left of the bombardment are the memorials.
I didn't go to Nagasaki but AFAIK it is also a very nice place.
Men and women are different you know. Different bodies, different brains, so it's only natural that men and women want different things and tend to have different sets of skills. Just because men and women deserve the same rights and opportunities doesn't mean that we are the same.
Learning the basics of new language is easy. Or as least, easier than doing things with an inadequate language. And because you want "quick and dirty", you don't need to know all the subtilities of you language of choice before you start coding.
You are talking about web dev, mobile dev, desktop GUIs and text file processing. These are very different use cases and I think that using the same language for all would be silly, especially for one-shot apps. I couldn't find something that beats Perl for text-file processing, PHP is really good for web pages, if you make GUIs for windows, don't forget about VB. I don't know much about the mobile world so I can't help you there.
As for Python, it is certainly a very nice language but I wouldn't recommend it : too "clean". With one-shot dev, you can throw away readability, modularity, maintainability, etc... so you'll probably want a very permissive (ugly) language like Perl. Of course, it also depends on the available libraries. Both Perl and Python have a large catalog but if the ones you need are only available in one language, then use it.
Speed trap alerts of any kind are already forbidden in some countries. A common workaround is to relabel speed traps as "danger zones" or some kind of point of interest, which are legal.
the theoretical limit for LED's is around 38.1–43.9%.
This is the theoretical limit for *white* LEDs. Even with a perfect light source, you can't get much higher than this and still call it white. 100% is for monochromatic green.
Also, luminous efficiency is for human vision. It is meaningless for photosynthesis. PAR ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... ) should be used instead.
Some automated attacks can defeat security through obscurity. For a very simple example, read "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe. In this book, the protagonist explains how he managed to defeat a simple substitution cypher. This method uses frequency analysis and can be easily automated, it also work no matter how cleverly you generate your substitution table. Of course, your cypher will probably be a bit more complex than that, but if all what it takes to break a substitution cypher is to read a short story from the 19th century, imagine what the NSA can do. Cryptography is hard. It's hard because the output always looks random (if it doesn't, you are doing things very very wrong). It means that it is very easy to make a mistake and going back to rot13 level security without noticing it. Even experts get it wrong sometimes.
If you really want to roll your own, encrypt it with a well recognized crypto-system as a second pass. Using a different key of course.
Carmack is not that good at making games, he doesn't even enjoy the "game" part of programing that much. What he is is an outstanding programmer, and he happens to enjoy the technical aspects of game engines.
I believe that once the engine is done, Carmack's contribution to the game is minimal.
Can you please stop with this meme : We don't need better graphics, [game I played as a teen] was good enough. We need better gameplay. Modern games (Call of Duty) suck.
Ok, time to remove the nostalgia goggles. First of all, not all modern games are Call of Duty. There are plenty of very good games with interesting gameplay *and* good HD graphics, both in the big budget and indie scene. Of course, you won't like all of them, not everybody have the same tastes after all. And Call of Duty 28 is not a bad game. It only annoys older gamers (me included) because it's just another military style FPS like we've seen for more than a decade. But for younger people who are just getting into video games (the target demographic), if they have to choose between modern graphics and the low-resolution, blurry/aliased, shadowless mess we had before and came to accept, what do you think they'll choose ? Good graphics are important. Proof is : when you ask someone about what he think were good games, he will usually mention games that had state-of-the-art graphics for the time.
Modern C string capabilities (strl[cat,cpy]) asprintf etc.
None of the quoted functions are standard C and strl* are BSD-only - yay for GNU-BSD strn*/strl* string function wars:(
It's all nice and good practice that they want to use the best tools available to them on OpenBSD, but not caring for what's available on other platforms is not really how one does portability and *will* produce forks, regardless how much the LibreSSL authors want to 'discourage' it.
If you really want to be clean you shouldn't even use strl*/strn* functions. Either you know exactly what the strings will be and it is safe to use strcat/strcpy or you should check beforehand that you won't overflow and report an error if it happens. Something like this : size_t src_len = strlen(src) + 1; if (src_len > dst_len) goto error; memcpy(dst, src, src_len);
strl*/strn* may be good at limiting the risks (a truncated string is better than a buffer overflow) but it shouldn't be your first line of defense.
Burglars mostly look for easy to sell, small, valuable items : cash, jewelry, etc... They usually won't stay longer than a few minutes. Do you really think a burglar will bother with a UPS or any of these big, heavy, boxes that only a few people want ? They may however damage some of your stuff as they mess around your house searching for hiding places but anti-theft products won't help you with this.
As for the remaining cases : insiders and real professional burglars who know exactly what to take, unless you become completely paranoid, you won't stop them.
So : backup your data offsite, get a good insurance, do the minimum so that you are not the low hanging fruit (basically what is mandated by most insurance contract), keep calm and carry on.
Is there a privacy screen filter ? The kind where you can see the screen only from a narrow angle. Some Japanese phones, which are commonly used in crowded trains feature this. I think it is an essential privacy feature. Ah and a physical, highly visible, camera lens cap too.
FLAC is definitely better for archiving. While you may not hear the difference between a well encoded MP3 and FLAC, audible artifacts may surface if you transcode to another format. If you keep your archives in a lossy format, you must also make sure that you use a good quality encoder. No such trouble with FLAC.
There *is* something wrong with Dual_EC_DRBG, the possibility of a backdoor is the most serious flaw but it isn't the only one : http://blog.cryptographyengine...
Imagine a hotel with a hundred rooms. A murder has occurred in one of the rooms and you are here to investigate. Modeling each room is easy, they are basically all the same, you can include a few random item and even characters for variety but chances are that you won't find anything interesting except in the room where the murder occurred. In fact, in real life, checking all the rooms is probably something you will try to avoid because it is time-consuming and boring. But games, like movies, are supposed to be fun, not necessarily realistic. And it usually means that anything that does advance the story or character must be eliminated. So access to these useless rooms should be denied somehow and as you said, it's the job of the game designer is to do it the most natural way. But believe me, while unopeable doors and impassable waist height fences may be frustrating, really shitty games features unrestricted access to useless rooms. And that's true even with sandbox-style games like The Elder Scrolls or GTA.
I believe that competitive sports are simply more of a man's thing and the difference in budget simply reflects this. Like with programming, you won't get parity without discrimination. The reason I think this is that men will almost always beat women if put together in the same competition, even when strength is not a significant advantage.
Note : - I'm only talking about competitive sports. Women probably enjoy physical activity as much as men do, and maybe more. - Of course some women are better at sports than most men, here I am talking about same relative level competitions, like the Olympics.
Let's put ethics aside for a moment. Imagine that for a year, every night you have a dream. This dream seem to take 1 day but every morning, you forget almost all of it, like it is usually the case. Now, they give you a drug that make these dreams feel like 1 week. Would the year with the drug feel longer than the year without the drug ? No, because the dreams are forgotten anyways. Another example : If you went to an amusement park, you may have waited in line for maybe 1 hour for a 1 minute ride. A minute waiting probably feels much longer than a minute riding. Yet, at the end of the day, the wait time almost vanished and it seems like you spent your time doing rides.
This is not time dilatation like in Einstein's relativity where a second have a strict definition. Humans have plenty of different "clocks" for different things and different scales, all using different references. Using hallucinogens to mess up with some of these clocks won't necessarily make the others follow.
If you are still unconvinced you can make a parallel with size instead of time. A drug that make you feel like object are much larger than they really are don't mean that they also seem more distant. Even if it would seem like a reasonable conclusion, our brain doesn't work like that.
Knox shouldn't prevent you from flashing a custom ROM. If your bootloader is locked it is because of your carrier. International models don't have this problem. What Knox does, in regards to customization : - prevents you from downgrading your bootloader - causes the "knox warranty void" bit to be set to 1 permanently is you flash a custom ROM. This will prevent you from using Knox features, it also may (or may not) cause trouble for warranty repairs
Also, what don't you like about TouchWiz ? It it is the launcher, you can install something else like Nova. If you are rooted you can fix many annoying aspects of TW using Xposed and freeze pre-installed apps you don't like.
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Hiroshima today is a very beautiful city. If you happen to plan a trip to Japan, I highly recommend it.
The only traces left of the bombardment are the memorials.
I didn't go to Nagasaki but AFAIK it is also a very nice place.
Men and women are different you know. Different bodies, different brains, so it's only natural that men and women want different things and tend to have different sets of skills. Just because men and women deserve the same rights and opportunities doesn't mean that we are the same.
Learning the basics of new language is easy. Or as least, easier than doing things with an inadequate language. And because you want "quick and dirty", you don't need to know all the subtilities of you language of choice before you start coding.
You are talking about web dev, mobile dev, desktop GUIs and text file processing. These are very different use cases and I think that using the same language for all would be silly, especially for one-shot apps. I couldn't find something that beats Perl for text-file processing, PHP is really good for web pages, if you make GUIs for windows, don't forget about VB. I don't know much about the mobile world so I can't help you there.
As for Python, it is certainly a very nice language but I wouldn't recommend it : too "clean". With one-shot dev, you can throw away readability, modularity, maintainability, etc... so you'll probably want a very permissive (ugly) language like Perl. Of course, it also depends on the available libraries. Both Perl and Python have a large catalog but if the ones you need are only available in one language, then use it.
Speed trap alerts of any kind are already forbidden in some countries.
A common workaround is to relabel speed traps as "danger zones" or some kind of point of interest, which are legal.
Brands usually don't endorse hacking. Some are very tolerant and may even give indirect support but they are very careful with their name.
They don't want to be involved in an accident caused by an unsafe hack, or someone making sex toys out of their kids stuff.
the theoretical limit for LED's is around 38.1–43.9%.
This is the theoretical limit for *white* LEDs. Even with a perfect light source, you can't get much higher than this and still call it white. 100% is for monochromatic green.
Also, luminous efficiency is for human vision. It is meaningless for photosynthesis. PAR ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... ) should be used instead.
Are you *seriously* suggesting using an easily spoofed MAC address is one way to do that?
It is *one way* to do that and it is totally reasonable if there are other lines of defense. That's defense in depth.
Some automated attacks can defeat security through obscurity.
For a very simple example, read "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe. In this book, the protagonist explains how he managed to defeat a simple substitution cypher. This method uses frequency analysis and can be easily automated, it also work no matter how cleverly you generate your substitution table.
Of course, your cypher will probably be a bit more complex than that, but if all what it takes to break a substitution cypher is to read a short story from the 19th century, imagine what the NSA can do.
Cryptography is hard. It's hard because the output always looks random (if it doesn't, you are doing things very very wrong). It means that it is very easy to make a mistake and going back to rot13 level security without noticing it. Even experts get it wrong sometimes.
If you really want to roll your own, encrypt it with a well recognized crypto-system as a second pass. Using a different key of course.
Obligatory XKCD : http://xkcd.com/1179/
Carmack is not that good at making games, he doesn't even enjoy the "game" part of programing that much.
What he is is an outstanding programmer, and he happens to enjoy the technical aspects of game engines.
I believe that once the engine is done, Carmack's contribution to the game is minimal.
In the same way, your fist disappear as soon as you open your hand.
Can you please stop with this meme :
We don't need better graphics, [game I played as a teen] was good enough. We need better gameplay. Modern games (Call of Duty) suck.
Ok, time to remove the nostalgia goggles.
First of all, not all modern games are Call of Duty. There are plenty of very good games with interesting gameplay *and* good HD graphics, both in the big budget and indie scene. Of course, you won't like all of them, not everybody have the same tastes after all.
And Call of Duty 28 is not a bad game. It only annoys older gamers (me included) because it's just another military style FPS like we've seen for more than a decade. But for younger people who are just getting into video games (the target demographic), if they have to choose between modern graphics and the low-resolution, blurry/aliased, shadowless mess we had before and came to accept, what do you think they'll choose ?
Good graphics are important. Proof is : when you ask someone about what he think were good games, he will usually mention games that had state-of-the-art graphics for the time.
Modern C string capabilities (strl[cat,cpy]) asprintf etc.
None of the quoted functions are standard C and strl* are BSD-only - yay for GNU-BSD strn*/strl* string function wars :(
It's all nice and good practice that they want to use the best tools available to them on OpenBSD, but not caring for what's available on other platforms is not really how one does portability and *will* produce forks, regardless how much the LibreSSL authors want to 'discourage' it.
If you really want to be clean you shouldn't even use strl*/strn* functions. Either you know exactly what the strings will be and it is safe to use strcat/strcpy or you should check beforehand that you won't overflow and report an error if it happens.
Something like this :
size_t src_len = strlen(src) + 1;
if (src_len > dst_len) goto error;
memcpy(dst, src, src_len);
strl*/strn* may be good at limiting the risks (a truncated string is better than a buffer overflow) but it shouldn't be your first line of defense.
Burglars mostly look for easy to sell, small, valuable items : cash, jewelry, etc... They usually won't stay longer than a few minutes.
Do you really think a burglar will bother with a UPS or any of these big, heavy, boxes that only a few people want ?
They may however damage some of your stuff as they mess around your house searching for hiding places but anti-theft products won't help you with this.
As for the remaining cases : insiders and real professional burglars who know exactly what to take, unless you become completely paranoid, you won't stop them.
So : backup your data offsite, get a good insurance, do the minimum so that you are not the low hanging fruit (basically what is mandated by most insurance contract), keep calm and carry on.
Is there a privacy screen filter ? The kind where you can see the screen only from a narrow angle.
Some Japanese phones, which are commonly used in crowded trains feature this. I think it is an essential privacy feature.
Ah and a physical, highly visible, camera lens cap too.
FLAC is definitely better for archiving.
While you may not hear the difference between a well encoded MP3 and FLAC, audible artifacts may surface if you transcode to another format. If you keep your archives in a lossy format, you must also make sure that you use a good quality encoder. No such trouble with FLAC.
Adobe are really good at making image processing software.
But for everything else, especially all this "online" stuff, they are clearly incompetent.
There *is* something wrong with Dual_EC_DRBG, the possibility of a backdoor is the most serious flaw but it isn't the only one : http://blog.cryptographyengine...
Imagine a hotel with a hundred rooms. A murder has occurred in one of the rooms and you are here to investigate.
Modeling each room is easy, they are basically all the same, you can include a few random item and even characters for variety but chances are that you won't find anything interesting except in the room where the murder occurred. In fact, in real life, checking all the rooms is probably something you will try to avoid because it is time-consuming and boring.
But games, like movies, are supposed to be fun, not necessarily realistic. And it usually means that anything that does advance the story or character must be eliminated. So access to these useless rooms should be denied somehow and as you said, it's the job of the game designer is to do it the most natural way. But believe me, while unopeable doors and impassable waist height fences may be frustrating, really shitty games features unrestricted access to useless rooms. And that's true even with sandbox-style games like The Elder Scrolls or GTA.
APKs rape children ?
Sorry Apple shill, but you are going too far.
I believe that competitive sports are simply more of a man's thing and the difference in budget simply reflects this. Like with programming, you won't get parity without discrimination.
The reason I think this is that men will almost always beat women if put together in the same competition, even when strength is not a significant advantage.
Note :
- I'm only talking about competitive sports. Women probably enjoy physical activity as much as men do, and maybe more.
- Of course some women are better at sports than most men, here I am talking about same relative level competitions, like the Olympics.
Android phones with Picatinny rails will arrive shortly after.
In many cases people prefer the ability to recover their data when they forget their password over the additional security of client-side encryption.
Let's put ethics aside for a moment.
Imagine that for a year, every night you have a dream. This dream seem to take 1 day but every morning, you forget almost all of it, like it is usually the case. Now, they give you a drug that make these dreams feel like 1 week. Would the year with the drug feel longer than the year without the drug ? No, because the dreams are forgotten anyways.
Another example : If you went to an amusement park, you may have waited in line for maybe 1 hour for a 1 minute ride. A minute waiting probably feels much longer than a minute riding. Yet, at the end of the day, the wait time almost vanished and it seems like you spent your time doing rides.
This is not time dilatation like in Einstein's relativity where a second have a strict definition. Humans have plenty of different "clocks" for different things and different scales, all using different references. Using hallucinogens to mess up with some of these clocks won't necessarily make the others follow.
If you are still unconvinced you can make a parallel with size instead of time. A drug that make you feel like object are much larger than they really are don't mean that they also seem more distant. Even if it would seem like a reasonable conclusion, our brain doesn't work like that.
Knox shouldn't prevent you from flashing a custom ROM. If your bootloader is locked it is because of your carrier. International models don't have this problem.
What Knox does, in regards to customization :
- prevents you from downgrading your bootloader
- causes the "knox warranty void" bit to be set to 1 permanently is you flash a custom ROM. This will prevent you from using Knox features, it also may (or may not) cause trouble for warranty repairs
Also, what don't you like about TouchWiz ? It it is the launcher, you can install something else like Nova. If you are rooted you can fix many annoying aspects of TW using Xposed and freeze pre-installed apps you don't like.