Now it's far worse. As a single large entity AT&T was vulnerable to rouge researchers conducting their studies in dusty labs corporate management had little understanding of. Nowadays, each separate entity is either incapable or unwilling to support meaningful research. Worse, like Al-Qaeda, the the beast can't be slain by having it's head severed.
Why is everyone so reluctant to consider that IBM's engineers have come across the same issues in the 14 nm and below scale as Intel. But, IBM being a more diverse business, have decided if it can't compete in 3-5 years time, they might as well sell off now while there are still interested buyers? Simply put, maybe the linear progression in the development of the silicon chip fabrication processes has reached it's end or is about to?
On the other hand, we could be more optimistic and say IBM has reached a huge breakthrough with such a different process that all their current facilities are obsolete. But I prefer my science fiction of grim dark variety;)
It's a special case of automatic code optimisation: Since regular expressions should be reduce-able to logical gates, it stands to reason a minimized equivalent boolean function could be decompiled into a regex. On it's own, having compilers\interpreters that optimize regexes is beneficial. But how about you turn the table over and ask yourself this, "Can I design a high, expressive, programming language that could be fully optimised without sacrificing human readability and productivity?" As far as I can tell, this is the holy grail of system research, or what's left of it nowadays...
More importantly, this same corporations are the contractors that facilitated these acts. Now, that they're outed, they suddenly feel compelled to act...
What really worries me is that the only means the surveillance had a chance at being stopped, was through corporate influence. This combined with the bought and paid for electoral process in The States is the classic symptoms of corporatism (classic fascism).
The entire ordeal just screams poetic justice. Activists been screaming for decades that livestock growing condition are inhumane. That the animals lack living space, kept in unsanitary conditions, over-fed unhealthy foods and are generally mistreated. Now, all those cost saving measures turn around to bite us in the ass. The conditions bred treatment-resistant pathogens that can only be addressed through old fashion quarantines, frequent inspections and blood screenings while keeping smaller herds and at clean living environment... That is, exactly what we should have done in the first place regardless. It's not just animals too. There are multiple reports of antibiotic resistant bacteria originating from prisons for the exact same reasons. And the living conditions associated with poverty have bred a few out breaks already...
I think the utility this guys have in mind is to duplicate the bone after excavation and lease the original off to some bored rich guy. This way, you can keep the research going while he gets "exclusive guardianship". Then, if you ever need the original back - which is very rare considering just how many bones are just laying around in basements - you just need to call on some contract clause and possibly give the money back or just borrow it or whatever you agreed upon.
If I recall correctly Google and other parties were doing something similar with ancient manuscripts. Then I suppose the next logical step is archaeology...
Going down that road, you can discredit all RISC instructions sets on account of their lower code density.
As for the "only true for applications doing "bookkeeping"", since MIPS is already used in embedded so it's not an issue there, what exactly are you doing aside from bookeeping on a mobile SoC that won't be moved into the GPU core?
When ARM released the Cortex A15, there was no mention of a GPU. It's up to the SoC designer to integrate one. Imagination Technologies already have their own GPU that is up there with the rest of them, the PowerVR series.
The only thing that matters is that there's going to be a GPU core to take care of those operations so you won't be missing them.
And, in ARM's case, there was the reference Mali GPU core...
Computation speed doesn't mean memory size. It's quite possible compiled and yet garbage collected languages could be made to be as computationally efficient as C while possibly having a slightly bigger RAM footprint. So, you'd still want to avoid VMs and interpreters to save up on the CPU time, but no one would worry too much about binary sizes or garbage collection. You'd still need to be precise and not leaking of course... But that just means the people writing the compiler should know what they're doing.
Why should I care about visits? I don't live off advertisements and page hits. I'm interested in delivering information. A company's portfolio... A product's specifications... A personal contact page... A data sheet... Wikipedia with NoScript is done right as far as I'm concerned.
JavaScript was executed* over the course of two weekends so it was never built with much of anything in mind let alone security...
To be fair, the person in charge has repeatedly apologized and EcmaScript board members has explained both in public and in private that they all in agreement that JavaScript should be phased out and replaced completely.
Sadly, narrow business interests and squabbling amongst Microsoft, Mozilla and Google have been preventing any progress in the matter. Microsoft is pushing TypeScript, Google is pushing Dart, Mozilla is sticking to a EcmaScript for now... Mind you this is nothing new. Adobe's ActionScript is a JavaScript derivative born under similar conditions.
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Now it's far worse. As a single large entity AT&T was vulnerable to rouge researchers conducting their studies in dusty labs corporate management had little understanding of.
Nowadays, each separate entity is either incapable or unwilling to support meaningful research. Worse, like Al-Qaeda, the the beast can't be slain by having it's head severed.
The pursuit of tastier and bigger chickens always matters.
355/113 is more than enough significant figures for me.
Hell, without a calculator I'll probably be better off using 22/7...
4 years old frozen burrito he found buried in the back of the fridge.
When I told him what he was doing, he just shrugged and carried on munching.
Nothing happened. And that had meat and vegetables in it.
So yeah, 3 years old Pizza is nothing special.
Why is everyone so reluctant to consider that IBM's engineers have come across the same issues in the 14 nm and below scale as Intel. But, IBM being a more diverse business, have decided if it can't compete in 3-5 years time, they might as well sell off now while there are still interested buyers?
Simply put, maybe the linear progression in the development of the silicon chip fabrication processes has reached it's end or is about to?
On the other hand, we could be more optimistic and say IBM has reached a huge breakthrough with such a different process that all their current facilities are obsolete. But I prefer my science fiction of grim dark variety ;)
Is it an Android fork or Gnu/Linux?
"Freeloaders"? "Users"? Try unpaid beta testers.
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Provided your business model is support and\or infrastructure of course...
It's a special case of automatic code optimisation: Since regular expressions should be reduce-able to logical gates, it stands to reason a minimized equivalent boolean function could be decompiled into a regex.
On it's own, having compilers\interpreters that optimize regexes is beneficial. But how about you turn the table over and ask yourself this, "Can I design a high, expressive, programming language that could be fully optimised without sacrificing human readability and productivity?" As far as I can tell, this is the holy grail of system research, or what's left of it nowadays...
You're an idiot.
Luckily, you don't believe me so you won't find me offensive.
More importantly, this same corporations are the contractors that facilitated these acts. Now, that they're outed, they suddenly feel compelled to act...
What really worries me is that the only means the surveillance had a chance at being stopped, was through corporate influence. This combined with the bought and paid for electoral process in The States is the classic symptoms of corporatism (classic fascism).
The entire ordeal just screams poetic justice. Activists been screaming for decades that livestock growing condition are inhumane. That the animals lack living space, kept in unsanitary conditions, over-fed unhealthy foods and are generally mistreated.
Now, all those cost saving measures turn around to bite us in the ass. The conditions bred treatment-resistant pathogens that can only be addressed through old fashion quarantines, frequent inspections and blood screenings while keeping smaller herds and at clean living environment... That is, exactly what we should have done in the first place regardless.
It's not just animals too. There are multiple reports of antibiotic resistant bacteria originating from prisons for the exact same reasons. And the living conditions associated with poverty have bred a few out breaks already...
I think the utility this guys have in mind is to duplicate the bone after excavation and lease the original off to some bored rich guy. This way, you can keep the research going while he gets "exclusive guardianship". Then, if you ever need the original back - which is very rare considering just how many bones are just laying around in basements - you just need to call on some contract clause and possibly give the money back or just borrow it or whatever you agreed upon.
If I recall correctly Google and other parties were doing something similar with ancient manuscripts. Then I suppose the next logical step is archaeology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspice
already.
Both "admissible" and "admissable" are correct according to the OED.
Going down that road, you can discredit all RISC instructions sets on account of their lower code density.
As for the "only true for applications doing "bookkeeping"", since MIPS is already used in embedded so it's not an issue there, what exactly are you doing aside from bookeeping on a mobile SoC that won't be moved into the GPU core?
When ARM released the Cortex A15, there was no mention of a GPU. It's up to the SoC designer to integrate one.
Imagination Technologies already have their own GPU that is up there with the rest of them, the PowerVR series.
The only thing that matters is that there's going to be a GPU core to take care of those operations so you won't be missing them.
And, in ARM's case, there was the reference Mali GPU core...
There's a GPU core you know... Besides, it's not the CPU core but the memory bandwidth that matters.
to sell in it. They're not a monopoly so they don't need to excuse their decisions to not offer a product.
If you disagree with their policies, don't buy Apple.
Or more likely, another back-end for your engine of choice.
Many visually impaired individuals can't use anything but a terminal off a refreshable braille display... Are we to ban all GUIs now?
Computation speed doesn't mean memory size. It's quite possible compiled and yet garbage collected languages could be made to be as computationally efficient as C while possibly having a slightly bigger RAM footprint. So, you'd still want to avoid VMs and interpreters to save up on the CPU time, but no one would worry too much about binary sizes or garbage collection.
You'd still need to be precise and not leaking of course... But that just means the people writing the compiler should know what they're doing.
Why should I care about visits? I don't live off advertisements and page hits.
I'm interested in delivering information. A company's portfolio... A product's specifications... A personal contact page... A data sheet... Wikipedia with NoScript is done right as far as I'm concerned.
JavaScript was executed* over the course of two weekends so it was never built with much of anything in mind let alone security...
To be fair, the person in charge has repeatedly apologized and EcmaScript board members has explained both in public and in private that they all in agreement that JavaScript should be phased out and replaced completely.
Sadly, narrow business interests and squabbling amongst Microsoft, Mozilla and Google have been preventing any progress in the matter. Microsoft is pushing TypeScript, Google is pushing Dart, Mozilla is sticking to a EcmaScript for now... Mind you this is nothing new. Adobe's ActionScript is a JavaScript derivative born under similar conditions.
*designed would be a stretch...
same client's API...