PARIS: Look, we could spend weeks trying to solve this, but we've got a ticking clock. Engines are working, weapons systems are online. I say we launch now and hope for the best. TUVOK: Mister Paris, that is perhaps the most illogical statement you've ever made. Unless we find a way to reconfigure the structural integrity field the hull will incur microfractures during descent. PARIS: Microfractures, Tuvok. Doesn't necessarily mean we'll have a hull breach. TUVOK: And if we do, I suppose these useless design elements from your Captain Proton scenario will compensate for the problem. PARIS: Hey, every one of these knobs and levers is fully functional. TUVOK: And completely superfluous. PARIS: Maybe to you. I am tired of tapping panels. For once, I want controls that let me actually feel the ship I'm piloting.
And the "Retina" trend isn't helping either when a lot of Web devs are incredibly lazy or don't understand the consequences of their code.
A simple example is background images. On this website for example (wink-wink), the background is a 2012x1128 pixels JPEG with a file size of 1.6MB. So after downloading those 1624960 bytes, a CPU or GPU has to decompress that data into 2269536 pixels and it requires 6808608 bytes of RAM to store the result.
And all of that for a background image that look like it was converted into a 3-bit grayscale image before being saved in JPEG, which is usually the wrong format for such a low number of colours. Even Photoshop, which creates bloated PNGs in the first place, can save that 3-bit grayscale image (8 colours) as a 327KB PNG (326646 bytes). That's 4.97 times smaller than the JPEG file while preserving the pixelated look 100% better than JPEG which will need a really high quality setting for the same result. Hell, ImageOptim can optimize that file down to 294338 bytes, almost 10% savings on the PNG, meaning my PNG version is now 5.52 times smaller than the JPEG. And because of the Photoshop color-reducing conversion, I've even removed the JPEG artifacts and restored the pixels to their true 3-bit value.
So not only does the author does not understand the impact of such a huge background image for the CPU/GPU and the RAM, he doesn't know when to use the proper image format. Probably someone who learned that "JPEG can compress images better than anything else, one-size-fits-all".
And why is the background image that big in the first place? Because of 27" monitors? It's not a content image, it's a background image. He could have used a much lower resolution and used "background-size: cover". Even if it blurs the image a bit, it's not important since it's only for the background.
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: people are a problem.
So, instead of waiting for that to be patched, the news is spreading that people can use it to find security holes in a lot of software. I'm all for open formats, open source and whatnot, but this is not a good way to do things regarding security. Warn the people in charge of the project, not the general public.
Don't think of the Kinect as a handless controller and think of it as an amazing, low-cost 3D scanner. I'm not sure why we haven't seen any "Kinect used to make 3D scans for 3D printers" projects yet.
* requires spools (embedded with a security chip) of "standard" PLA (with a non-standard diameter and melting point) which will be available for only USD$99 each.
And yet people keep saying that Apple "stole" the GUI from Xerox. Steve Jobs saw the value of the GUI and the mouse, the guys at Xerox had no clue about the potential of both.
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PARIS: Look, we could spend weeks trying to solve this, but we've got a ticking clock. Engines are working, weapons systems are online. I say we launch now and hope for the best.
TUVOK: Mister Paris, that is perhaps the most illogical statement you've ever made. Unless we find a way to reconfigure the structural integrity field the hull will incur microfractures during descent.
PARIS: Microfractures, Tuvok. Doesn't necessarily mean we'll have a hull breach.
TUVOK: And if we do, I suppose these useless design elements from your Captain Proton scenario will compensate for the problem.
PARIS: Hey, every one of these knobs and levers is fully functional.
TUVOK: And completely superfluous.
PARIS: Maybe to you. I am tired of tapping panels. For once, I want controls that let me actually feel the ship I'm piloting.
The answer is clear, then. Ban A/C controls, radio, passengers and kids!
The good thing about this case though, is that emergency services will be on their way before you have the accident.
And the "Retina" trend isn't helping either when a lot of Web devs are incredibly lazy or don't understand the consequences of their code.
A simple example is background images. On this website for example (wink-wink), the background is a 2012x1128 pixels JPEG with a file size of 1.6MB. So after downloading those 1624960 bytes, a CPU or GPU has to decompress that data into 2269536 pixels and it requires 6808608 bytes of RAM to store the result.
And all of that for a background image that look like it was converted into a 3-bit grayscale image before being saved in JPEG, which is usually the wrong format for such a low number of colours. Even Photoshop, which creates bloated PNGs in the first place, can save that 3-bit grayscale image (8 colours) as a 327KB PNG (326646 bytes). That's 4.97 times smaller than the JPEG file while preserving the pixelated look 100% better than JPEG which will need a really high quality setting for the same result. Hell, ImageOptim can optimize that file down to 294338 bytes, almost 10% savings on the PNG, meaning my PNG version is now 5.52 times smaller than the JPEG. And because of the Photoshop color-reducing conversion, I've even removed the JPEG artifacts and restored the pixels to their true 3-bit value.
So not only does the author does not understand the impact of such a huge background image for the CPU/GPU and the RAM, he doesn't know when to use the proper image format. Probably someone who learned that "JPEG can compress images better than anything else, one-size-fits-all".
And why is the background image that big in the first place? Because of 27" monitors? It's not a content image, it's a background image. He could have used a much lower resolution and used "background-size: cover". Even if it blurs the image a bit, it's not important since it's only for the background.
“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
I've also looked for "better sites" and I've found the "blackjack" and "hookers" sites. I'm still looking for the "theme park" sites though.
So.... 3D printed drones?
No, people need to get a Mac. /duck
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: people are a problem.
But are they cheaper than a Kinect?
So, instead of waiting for that to be patched, the news is spreading that people can use it to find security holes in a lot of software. I'm all for open formats, open source and whatnot, but this is not a good way to do things regarding security. Warn the people in charge of the project, not the general public.
Don't think of the Kinect as a handless controller and think of it as an amazing, low-cost 3D scanner. I'm not sure why we haven't seen any "Kinect used to make 3D scans for 3D printers" projects yet.
And best of all, it's in super-ultra-mega-HD with zero lag and infinite frames per second!
And how does that make you feel?
No, the trophy still is property of the local indigenous population.
His brother's name was actually Walter, but that got deformed over the centuries by that stupid joke.
If they'd come up with something like that, I'm pretty sure it would be hacked into a more open system within a week.
The brand-new USD$100 HP 3D printer*.
* requires spools (embedded with a security chip) of "standard" PLA (with a non-standard diameter and melting point) which will be available for only USD$99 each.
Did they try their algorithms on that "moon face"? Does it see the same thing humans see, i.e. a face?
And yet people keep saying that Apple "stole" the GUI from Xerox. Steve Jobs saw the value of the GUI and the mouse, the guys at Xerox had no clue about the potential of both.
I'll just install it on a computer with a BIOS that isn't Y2K compliant. My free copy of Windows 10 will last 86 years!
Same for me, this would never work.
If it's a preview and they're using the same key for all the installations, why bother with a fucking key in the first place?
When Microsoft does the same thing as Apple, they're copying.
When Apple does the same thing as Xerox, they're stealing.
Trying to re-write history much?
Samurai Jack had one of the best nerdy reference ever made in a cartoon.