Because things like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace (which, honestly, should have been locked onto this list with marine epoxy) did video long before Wing Commander showed up.
That sort of future didn't seem to have any alternatives. Just an ever-dwindling supply of go-juice.
We, both deliberately and through natural economic forces, are moving towards energy systems that can give us mobility without raising the cost of a gallon of gas to a literal arm and a leg.
The most important stat on that graphic is the learning curve of pricing for the car batteries. It's got a half-life of about 2 years. About 3-5X as fast as I thought it might be. That's an implosion of the cost of being alternative, and it's going to overtake traditional in a hurry.
Passenger cars with combustion-only drivetrains may in a decade be as quaint as typewriters.
I think we're well ahead of the front of fear that peak oil was sweeping our way.
Any insight as to what Firefox is doing with that time? Garbage collection would be pointless after a termination signal. All the config stuff seems to be persistent the moment it's modified. Cached info being stored? Maybe. Running mass quantities of heavyweight destructors may be the bottleneck, depending on how they've chosen to implement solutions to their famous memory-leakage problem. It's clear they don't have a "we're quitting, just drop it and walk away" policy for a lot of their objects.
Context-switching is always expensive, but avoiding it without regard to the actual benefit leads to system bloat, so learning where it is and isn't significant is a good skill to have.
The speedup from GPU hardware is so big that it's worth giving up a few hundred cycles of context switching to get a few thousand cycles of reduction in computing.
But (not having read TFA yet) I wonder just how much kernel functionality is really that parallelizable. When does the context switching cost you more than the CUDA gains you? Crypto stuff relying on gigundous keys would be a no-brainer, but where else could it be economical?
Almost all materials have differing levels of transmission and reflection of waves. It has to do with impedance difference at the interface.
The trick here is there are two interfaces. Air-to-wall on either side. What they've done is to make the impedance differences dfferent on the two sides (low-to-high on one side and balanced on the other side, I would guess), and make it work for a broad spectrum of frequencies.
The question is how much attentuation you get in the transmissive direction. If they're claiming almost none, I'm claiming bollocks.
A good loudspeaker, in fact, makes a good microphone. That voice coil works both ways. It's just a very bulky solution, and you have to basically put your face in it to get the same sound pressure in that you can get out.
Most microphones, though, aren't based on voice coils, and their transduction of sound into variation in an electric current doesn't work the other way nearly as well. Like pushing on a rope.
I wish Firefox would be a little smarter about that. It's annoying to try to open an app, have it tell you that it's already running, then have to close that message box and open the app again. I've never seen the message appear on the second open, no matter how quickly I attend to it, so why doesn't the dialog just say "wait a second while we clean up in here"?
NoScript is probably the most useful thing on my computer aside from the browser itself. And without it, I'd think the internet and by extension the browser were awful, so the probability is approaching unity.
Also, it's dishonest of UI demos to be festooned with pretty pictures that make them look a lot more sharp and slick than they are. I have to stare at them until the novelty of the background wears off, and I can get a sense for what the controls will look-and-feel like.
If he expects it to get any sales, it will have to use standard mechanical connections. The HDMI and USB ports need to be stock. People on the make for $25 thin-client terminals are not going to want to have to buy special keyboards or USB-USB adapters.
But I don't think anything is non-stock in this.
The other 5 wires are probably for a JTAG debugger. I don't recognize the box he's using for that, but that just makes me want one.
A close look at the picture shows that the through-holes the wires are soldered into are labeled "TPxx". A little cop-show enhance mode would help, here.
This reminds me I need to look up the name of the dude who invented JTAG and see if we can't get a national holiday named in his honor or something.
You're assuming that someone delivering code is forced to deliver source with binary.
No license demands such a thing. Those using free-licensed code merely need to make available the sources that built the binaries.
Free-licensed software is hard to use and poorly documented because much of it is written in the first place by people who have a lot of time on their hands, i.e., the unemployable. They follow old bad practices in interface design (300 command-line options with sub-languages built into the hierarchy, anyone?) and don't do doco because it doesn't give them that instant feedback when you change it, compile it, run it, and see it's performing to your bidding.
That's all to do with the unpaid nature of it, and little to do with the licensing model, albeit without the licensing model the code produced that way would be unprotected and therefore scary to release, so that much less of that behavior would be enabled or encouraged.
Your beef is with the personality of the community, not with their laws.
Was it a pissed-off customer who stole $millions worth of data from Sony to aggravate Sony?
Or was it a thief interested in the $ part of the $millions worth of data, who may or may not also be a member of Anonymous, and wanted to grief them on top of making shekels from their database?
We could probably safely assume, given the scope of DDoS that it would take to wax a major aggregator like Sony, that Anonymous was responsible for that part of it. J. Random Thief would probably not have that big a botnet. Though nobody could rule a lone wolf out. But it's a pretty safe assumption.
And I read Sony's letter. They didn't have conclusive proof that the DDoS was a deliberate smokescreen for the intrusion. Nor, really, did they have proof that there wasn't more than one intrusion.
Frankly, their testimony should consist of "we have nothing conclusive as to who did this or with whom they are affiliated."
And, frankly, nobody "in Anonymous" should be concered either way about being linked to it, if they intend to remain black-hattish. Only the person who did it could say for sure.
Slashdot Mirror
That reminds me I owe the Adblock Plus project a few ducats as well.
I'm not opening the PDF just to check, but did anyone see any Wii games?
Little Big Planet is what I'm thinking of, here.
There's also a lack of Katamari Damacy in the mix.
My question was why Doom II and not Doom? Wolfenstein was technically progressive, but artistically Doom clobbered it.
But giving it this recognition is kind of like calling a box of paints "art".
Full motion video? you mean cut-scenes?
Because things like Dragon's Lair and Space Ace (which, honestly, should have been locked onto this list with marine epoxy) did video long before Wing Commander showed up.
Ironic, since the same editor modified my submission today to replace the perfect word with a less apt one.
Looking at the "winners," he's clearly right. The Smithsonian is demonstrating a fallacy: that putting a fact to a vote proves it.
Mad-Max style collapse
Disagree.
That sort of future didn't seem to have any alternatives. Just an ever-dwindling supply of go-juice.
We, both deliberately and through natural economic forces, are moving towards energy systems that can give us mobility without raising the cost of a gallon of gas to a literal arm and a leg.
The most important stat on that graphic is the learning curve of pricing for the car batteries. It's got a half-life of about 2 years. About 3-5X as fast as I thought it might be. That's an implosion of the cost of being alternative, and it's going to overtake traditional in a hurry.
Passenger cars with combustion-only drivetrains may in a decade be as quaint as typewriters.
I think we're well ahead of the front of fear that peak oil was sweeping our way.
Replace 2/3 % of the gas guzzlers with non-gas guzzlers and you end up saving 2/3 % of the gas.
Is that not supposed to work out that way? You're expecting some amplification?
Any insight as to what Firefox is doing with that time? Garbage collection would be pointless after a termination signal. All the config stuff seems to be persistent the moment it's modified. Cached info being stored? Maybe. Running mass quantities of heavyweight destructors may be the bottleneck, depending on how they've chosen to implement solutions to their famous memory-leakage problem. It's clear they don't have a "we're quitting, just drop it and walk away" policy for a lot of their objects.
Just what are you using for graphics hardware, then? Intel's integrated core?
Context-switching is always expensive, but avoiding it without regard to the actual benefit leads to system bloat, so learning where it is and isn't significant is a good skill to have.
The speedup from GPU hardware is so big that it's worth giving up a few hundred cycles of context switching to get a few thousand cycles of reduction in computing.
But (not having read TFA yet) I wonder just how much kernel functionality is really that parallelizable. When does the context switching cost you more than the CUDA gains you? Crypto stuff relying on gigundous keys would be a no-brainer, but where else could it be economical?
"Talk to the hand."
Almost all materials have differing levels of transmission and reflection of waves. It has to do with impedance difference at the interface.
The trick here is there are two interfaces. Air-to-wall on either side. What they've done is to make the impedance differences dfferent on the two sides (low-to-high on one side and balanced on the other side, I would guess), and make it work for a broad spectrum of frequencies.
The question is how much attentuation you get in the transmissive direction. If they're claiming almost none, I'm claiming bollocks.
A good loudspeaker, in fact, makes a good microphone. That voice coil works both ways. It's just a very bulky solution, and you have to basically put your face in it to get the same sound pressure in that you can get out.
Most microphones, though, aren't based on voice coils, and their transduction of sound into variation in an electric current doesn't work the other way nearly as well. Like pushing on a rope.
In your personal space, nobody can hear you scream.
I wish Firefox would be a little smarter about that. It's annoying to try to open an app, have it tell you that it's already running, then have to close that message box and open the app again. I've never seen the message appear on the second open, no matter how quickly I attend to it, so why doesn't the dialog just say "wait a second while we clean up in here"?
NoScript is probably the most useful thing on my computer aside from the browser itself. And without it, I'd think the internet and by extension the browser were awful, so the probability is approaching unity.
Time to donate to the cause.
Any time a process goes tits-up on my machine, it reports that it's checking for a solution to the problem, then that it's reporting the problem.
That's not the same as being able to report that I don't like the way they've mis-implemented a feature, but it makes reporting crash-bugs painless.
I don't recall hearing of Linux or OSX phoning home to say it crashed. Where did MS get the idea?
A dent.
But shortly they'd have very few bugs, and still have something to sell.
And then it'd be worth the money. Maybe more. Likely more.
And they'd soon be even richer.
So bug bounties would be a wise investment.
This.
Also, it's dishonest of UI demos to be festooned with pretty pictures that make them look a lot more sharp and slick than they are. I have to stare at them until the novelty of the background wears off, and I can get a sense for what the controls will look-and-feel like.
If he expects it to get any sales, it will have to use standard mechanical connections. The HDMI and USB ports need to be stock. People on the make for $25 thin-client terminals are not going to want to have to buy special keyboards or USB-USB adapters.
But I don't think anything is non-stock in this.
The other 5 wires are probably for a JTAG debugger. I don't recognize the box he's using for that, but that just makes me want one.
A close look at the picture shows that the through-holes the wires are soldered into are labeled "TPxx". A little cop-show enhance mode would help, here.
This reminds me I need to look up the name of the dude who invented JTAG and see if we can't get a national holiday named in his honor or something.
You're assuming that someone delivering code is forced to deliver source with binary.
No license demands such a thing. Those using free-licensed code merely need to make available the sources that built the binaries.
Free-licensed software is hard to use and poorly documented because much of it is written in the first place by people who have a lot of time on their hands, i.e., the unemployable. They follow old bad practices in interface design (300 command-line options with sub-languages built into the hierarchy, anyone?) and don't do doco because it doesn't give them that instant feedback when you change it, compile it, run it, and see it's performing to your bidding.
That's all to do with the unpaid nature of it, and little to do with the licensing model, albeit without the licensing model the code produced that way would be unprotected and therefore scary to release, so that much less of that behavior would be enabled or encouraged.
Your beef is with the personality of the community, not with their laws.
s/independently of the organization/in keeping with the disorganization
Calling who that?
Was it a pissed-off customer who stole $millions worth of data from Sony to aggravate Sony?
Or was it a thief interested in the $ part of the $millions worth of data, who may or may not also be a member of Anonymous, and wanted to grief them on top of making shekels from their database?
We could probably safely assume, given the scope of DDoS that it would take to wax a major aggregator like Sony, that Anonymous was responsible for that part of it. J. Random Thief would probably not have that big a botnet. Though nobody could rule a lone wolf out. But it's a pretty safe assumption.
And I read Sony's letter. They didn't have conclusive proof that the DDoS was a deliberate smokescreen for the intrusion. Nor, really, did they have proof that there wasn't more than one intrusion.
Frankly, their testimony should consist of "we have nothing conclusive as to who did this or with whom they are affiliated."
And, frankly, nobody "in Anonymous" should be concered either way about being linked to it, if they intend to remain black-hattish. Only the person who did it could say for sure.