It makes a certain sense to me. Indeed, I suspect it made sense enough to Newton as well, since his notes discuss what a static universe would look like:
At the end of the 9th key.
If th' whole worlds nature were but one
Merely by one figure shown
And Art could nothing els invent
The world no wonder could present
Nor nature plainly be exprest
For which let God be ever blest.
Most people who replied to you didn't answer you and most of those people gave you the wrong answer. A number of people said that the Seiki will only run at 1080p with a computer attached, which is just flat wrong.
The 4k Seiki will run in full resolution with both the 39-inch and 50-inch models. The limiting factor on the Seiki's are the connector, which is standard HDMI. A standard HDMI cable cannot push more than 30 hz, which is a very flow refresh rate for monitors these days. Indeed, the Seiki itself supports 120hz, but because it only comes with a cable jack that allows 30hz, you need to use 30hz.
In the next year hopefully other companies or Seiki itself will come out with displays with HDMI2 or Thunderbolt ports at similar price points. This will allow higher refresh rates to be used, prevent screen tearing in 3d work and gaming and improve fast-motion scenes.
That's one of the first things I noticed. The strange thing is I noticed the same process in reverse when I switched to Mac's back in like 2003. Mac's color balance had a more white look and Windows was more contrasty.
After I upgraded at first I assumed it deleted the calibration profile and ended up going through the whole monitor calibration process only to end up with something close, but not exactly like what I started with and neither like how it looked under Mountain Lion. It doesn't really bug me that much, since I'm doing mostly coding and when I have graphical work I'm mostly previewing it on a mobile or a Mac anyway. You must be working in print. Blame paper.;)
In all seriousness I hope they fix this and any other minor things. It was a much smoother upgrade than the last one though for me.
A strange response considering the easiest way to hack it is to replicate the fingerprint to use on the device, at which point who cares about hashes or what it does to keep the data secure after the fingerprint is used.
If your fingerprint is your passcode anyone can steal your passcode by taking your fingerprint.
It's not like any group has huge databases with large portions of the population's fingerprints anyway. Who would even want access to all the personal information kept on your phone?
Now, everyone calm down and go back to reading peaceful stories about how the NSA has hacked all internet cryptography.
I will tell you what would happen in that admittedly unlikely scenario of China discovering cheap fusion power.
Prices for oil, gas and other energy sources would decrease as China decreased its non-fusion consumption. Neighbors of China may also decrease their non-fusion energy consumption as China could sell them energy over any existing grids.
So, in the short term things actually improve for non-China economies as if they are still on fossil fuels at this point, they just got cheaper and if they are not then they are unaffected.
In the long term the technology leaks or is gained via espionage and the rest of the world gets it too. That also assumes China would not just license the tech in the first place and if they do that things work out fine too.
Vulcan was rejected because it shared its name with a hypothetical planet inside the orbit of Mercury, and also because, as god of the forge, Vulcan had little connection to the icy moons of Pluto.
You are correct. The choice of Vulcan for a name was highly illogical.
Burgalarized? Is that some sort of deliberate, ironic mangling of the langauge?
'Burgled' works just fine.
You are clearly not in the United States. He actually meant "burglarized" not "burgalarized." "Burgled" is chiefly used in the UK and maybe Australia.
In the United States none of our homes are burgled, but sadly many are burglarized. However, they never steal our current generation Mac Pro's because the thieves all assume they are industrial usage cheese graters.
Yes, the Mac Pro's used to be rather upgradable. I upgraded my drives many, many times and it was much easier than any PC and I upgraded my video card by buying a standard Windows video card and flashing it to work with Mac.
While the new Mac Pro looks great, but I'm a little worried about expandability in this regard with the Mac Pro. I mean, I guess with dual GPU's you might not really want to upgrade the video card, as it would get quite expensive and they probably perform great to begin with. I can see not needing a CD-ROM. The only thing I use mine for ever currently is ripping music CDs to lossless. However, you are definitely going to want to add hard drives and popping on four thunderbolt connected drives, the same amount of slots as the Mac Pro had before, is going to get ugly fast.
What they really should do is offer a second version of the same case as another product, with a power supply and four or five hard drive slots. It should as an option automatically put them in a RAID and even include wifi so it becomes a NAS. Then you can just have two of these things connected together locally via thunderbolt or separately over wifi or LAN instead of a mess of external drives.
Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business? -- Bill Gates
Of course, what you don't often hear is the response to that question, where they decided through intensive bureaucratic meetings to compromise between the two positions and make a browser, but make it such a bad browser that it would slowly drive them out of business. The rest is history.
Completely true. The issue is many of the gripes in the article itself are not specific to agile development methods either. They are process problems that you could hit under various programming philosophies. "How do we estimate cost in a way that is simple for customers and accurate for programmers?" is a universal problem, not an agile-specific problem. My answers apply generically, because the problems are generic.
"Clients ask, 'How much will it cost?'" says Hecker. An Agile-style answer is frustratingly ambiguous, he points out, along the lines of, "We think we can do it as described in about two months plus one month of bug-fixing so that's about three months unless we choose to make refinements and improve the product along the way, in which case it will be longer." "Then the client responds, 'Umm but, how much will it cost?' and I begin to hear the anxiety in their voice," says Hecker. "They wanted a crystal clear answer to a seemingly simple question, but it's hard to supply that answer because Agile projects are always a shifting sand."
This is just silly. As an agile developer you just write to a spec and the spec contains features and milestones. You ask "What do you want it to do?" They tell you. You write a spec for them with everything they asked. They ask "How much will it cost?" You tell them. Then if they want evolutionary developments you add those on as a fair fee later for the extra work beyond what was in the original spec. This isn't a problem with an agile development philosophy.
Agile programming is like evolving a species. Just because you might end up with a giraffe, doesn't mean your first spec can't be a very clear one for an antelope. If the client wants to make the neck longer and add some spots later, it is good that you choose a flexible and agile basis, but there is no need to give the client a primer on selective breeding and evolutionary genetics before you even begin and get them concerned with all the details. Details are the programmer's job.
True, my comments were US-centric. The article says the study where the use of the cameras dropped assaults by 60% was in another jurisdiction, but doesn't state whether that jurisdiction is within Canada, the US or elsewhere.
That is, often a police officer will aggress against a person for whatever reason and then later claim that the person they aggressed against was the agressor. It basically allows an officer to arrest or even beat anyone up for anything and is a much more common tactic than you think. When the citizen gets to court, do you think a judge or jury will believe the police officer or the citizen?
We hear a lot about the minority of cases where a bystander taped the scene and the police did something wrong, but you don't hear about the majority where nobody was there to video tape it.
The union says in other jurisdictions where police officers are equipped with point-of-view cameras, the use of force by officers and assaults on officers drops by as much as 60%.
This sort of tells us what we already knew. That basically most of the force police use already is applied illegally applied or over-applied. The camera is forcing police to act more ethically, which reduces their use of force, but also hints that they widely act unethically at present. It isn't unique to Canada.
The question is... what content will take advantage of this? Most consumable content is at 1080p and I've yet to see a game which can run at these resolutions yet alone the newest Cryengine.
Yes, you can play Crysis on it. May I point you here:
For some reason one no-name panel wholesaler has released one of these 4k sets early and for only $1500 instead of the $5000 everyone else is offering (for things that won't even come for months or longer). There are limitations, of course, but they will play Crysis and most other games. The panel quality isn't anything to brag about (but isn't horrible either) and they only offer HDMI-out, which then I believe has some refresh issues with using as a monitor. That is, I think they claim a 60hz refresh rate or something on the box, but HDMI as the only output method can at present only support double that.
That said, it is still pretty nice. We've been stuck at a 30" maximum for computers for years now and I can't wait for these 4K TV's to really get going. I also wish those unboxers in the video tested the same panel for OS X and Linux.
I'm a software developer. I've written programs for paying customers and a few for fun in Objective-C, C#, C++, C, Java, Object Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic and Python. I've taught myself based on information found online and in books. Well, that and experimentation ("I wonder what changing this does?").
If you keep at what you are already doing for a longer period of time and try it with some real programming languages, which are actually easier and less arcane than Bash scripting anyhow, you'll end up being a real programmer yourself too.:)
From the article:
Some might argue that the die area saving achieved is equivalent to a process node move, and that as Moore's talked about the number of transistors per IC his law is not dependent on a reducing minimum geometries. I think that most will see that this runs against the "spirit" of Moore's Law.
From Wikipedia:
Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
From article linked off the main article:
SanDisk has now revealed that 1Y – now described as a generation rather than a node - is the company's second generation at 19-nm. What the company does claim to have achieved is a reduction in the memory cell size from 19-nm by 26-nm to 19-nm by 19.5-nm, delivering a 25 percent reduction of the memory cell area.
So, if you can fit more cells using the same size process, it doesn't go against the spirit or the letter of Moore's law. Moore's law is about computing power. If you get more computing power without reducing size to do it, that still counts.
But yeah...they are just famous for being famous...
...Until they release a TV with a kinect-like interface running iOS. And then Sony's PS4 and the Wii U crashes and burns, (which is sort of already happening...sales on the Wii U are very poor and Sony's electronics wing isn't doing well either), while everyone is playing Angry Birds on their new Apple TV platform and we get umpteen-million articles about the "New Console Wars," which are now between Microsoft and Apple.
Of course then a couple years will go by and people will forget all of history and again claim that Apple is just famous for being famous. Such is the cycle of Slashdot.
If you read the article it does indeed sound like that, but you must also keep in mind the article has already re-contextualized his speech acts as threatening. For example the article says:
On August 13, he wrote, "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads."
But previous Slashdotter comments pointed out this is part of a lyrics to a song:
Sharpen up my axe and I am back, I'm here to sever heads /
Compulsive obsessive, I'm also aggressive /
My mouth is the message, my life is a lesson, my pulse is a blessing
Apart from this, he could have been writing fiction, writing in character, writing metaphorically, etc. That said, perhaps talking to him more would have been reasonable, but breaking down his door and arresting him for speech which has no specific, credible threats is not. He just sounds like half the people on Doomsday Preppers.
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It makes a certain sense to me. Indeed, I suspect it made sense enough to Newton as well, since his notes discuss what a static universe would look like:
At the end of the 9th key.
If th' whole worlds nature were but one
Merely by one figure shown
And Art could nothing els invent
The world no wonder could present
Nor nature plainly be exprest
For which let God be ever blest.
Most people who replied to you didn't answer you and most of those people gave you the wrong answer. A number of people said that the Seiki will only run at 1080p with a computer attached, which is just flat wrong.
The 4k Seiki will run in full resolution with both the 39-inch and 50-inch models. The limiting factor on the Seiki's are the connector, which is standard HDMI. A standard HDMI cable cannot push more than 30 hz, which is a very flow refresh rate for monitors these days. Indeed, the Seiki itself supports 120hz, but because it only comes with a cable jack that allows 30hz, you need to use 30hz.
In the next year hopefully other companies or Seiki itself will come out with displays with HDMI2 or Thunderbolt ports at similar price points. This will allow higher refresh rates to be used, prevent screen tearing in 3d work and gaming and improve fast-motion scenes.
That's one of the first things I noticed. The strange thing is I noticed the same process in reverse when I switched to Mac's back in like 2003. Mac's color balance had a more white look and Windows was more contrasty.
;)
After I upgraded at first I assumed it deleted the calibration profile and ended up going through the whole monitor calibration process only to end up with something close, but not exactly like what I started with and neither like how it looked under Mountain Lion. It doesn't really bug me that much, since I'm doing mostly coding and when I have graphical work I'm mostly previewing it on a mobile or a Mac anyway. You must be working in print. Blame paper.
In all seriousness I hope they fix this and any other minor things. It was a much smoother upgrade than the last one though for me.
Grolar Bear
A strange response considering the easiest way to hack it is to replicate the fingerprint to use on the device, at which point who cares about hashes or what it does to keep the data secure after the fingerprint is used.
If your fingerprint is your passcode anyone can steal your passcode by taking your fingerprint.
It's not like any group has huge databases with large portions of the population's fingerprints anyway. Who would even want access to all the personal information kept on your phone?
Now, everyone calm down and go back to reading peaceful stories about how the NSA has hacked all internet cryptography.
I will tell you what would happen in that admittedly unlikely scenario of China discovering cheap fusion power.
Prices for oil, gas and other energy sources would decrease as China decreased its non-fusion consumption. Neighbors of China may also decrease their non-fusion energy consumption as China could sell them energy over any existing grids.
So, in the short term things actually improve for non-China economies as if they are still on fossil fuels at this point, they just got cheaper and if they are not then they are unaffected.
In the long term the technology leaks or is gained via espionage and the rest of the world gets it too. That also assumes China would not just license the tech in the first place and if they do that things work out fine too.
Sounds win-win to me.
"seven million lines of Cobol code that hasn't been updated" is redundant.
If they were updated, they wouldn't be in Cobol.
Vulcan was rejected because it shared its name with a hypothetical planet inside the orbit of Mercury, and also because, as god of the forge, Vulcan had little connection to the icy moons of Pluto.
You are correct. The choice of Vulcan for a name was highly illogical.
Unexpected? You didn't think something 4.5 billion years old would have a few wrinkles?
and your home is burgalarized
Burgalarized? Is that some sort of deliberate, ironic mangling of the langauge?
'Burgled' works just fine.
You are clearly not in the United States. He actually meant "burglarized" not "burgalarized." "Burgled" is chiefly used in the UK and maybe Australia.
In the United States none of our homes are burgled, but sadly many are burglarized. However, they never steal our current generation Mac Pro's because the thieves all assume they are industrial usage cheese graters.
Yes, the Mac Pro's used to be rather upgradable. I upgraded my drives many, many times and it was much easier than any PC and I upgraded my video card by buying a standard Windows video card and flashing it to work with Mac.
While the new Mac Pro looks great, but I'm a little worried about expandability in this regard with the Mac Pro. I mean, I guess with dual GPU's you might not really want to upgrade the video card, as it would get quite expensive and they probably perform great to begin with. I can see not needing a CD-ROM. The only thing I use mine for ever currently is ripping music CDs to lossless. However, you are definitely going to want to add hard drives and popping on four thunderbolt connected drives, the same amount of slots as the Mac Pro had before, is going to get ugly fast.
What they really should do is offer a second version of the same case as another product, with a power supply and four or five hard drive slots. It should as an option automatically put them in a RAID and even include wifi so it becomes a NAS. Then you can just have two of these things connected together locally via thunderbolt or separately over wifi or LAN instead of a mess of external drives.
Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business? -- Bill Gates
Of course, what you don't often hear is the response to that question, where they decided through intensive bureaucratic meetings to compromise between the two positions and make a browser, but make it such a bad browser that it would slowly drive them out of business. The rest is history.
Completely true. The issue is many of the gripes in the article itself are not specific to agile development methods either. They are process problems that you could hit under various programming philosophies. "How do we estimate cost in a way that is simple for customers and accurate for programmers?" is a universal problem, not an agile-specific problem. My answers apply generically, because the problems are generic.
I am telling you, you are a liar. You don't know and your estimates are garbage at a project level.
I am telling you, you are a liar. You don't know and your comments are garbage at a content level.
"Clients ask, 'How much will it cost?'" says Hecker. An Agile-style answer is frustratingly ambiguous, he points out, along the lines of, "We think we can do it as described in about two months plus one month of bug-fixing so that's about three months unless we choose to make refinements and improve the product along the way, in which case it will be longer." "Then the client responds, 'Umm but, how much will it cost?' and I begin to hear the anxiety in their voice," says Hecker. "They wanted a crystal clear answer to a seemingly simple question, but it's hard to supply that answer because Agile projects are always a shifting sand."
This is just silly. As an agile developer you just write to a spec and the spec contains features and milestones. You ask "What do you want it to do?" They tell you. You write a spec for them with everything they asked. They ask "How much will it cost?" You tell them. Then if they want evolutionary developments you add those on as a fair fee later for the extra work beyond what was in the original spec. This isn't a problem with an agile development philosophy.
Agile programming is like evolving a species. Just because you might end up with a giraffe, doesn't mean your first spec can't be a very clear one for an antelope. If the client wants to make the neck longer and add some spots later, it is good that you choose a flexible and agile basis, but there is no need to give the client a primer on selective breeding and evolutionary genetics before you even begin and get them concerned with all the details. Details are the programmer's job.
Just wanted to add: I told you so.
True, my comments were US-centric. The article says the study where the use of the cameras dropped assaults by 60% was in another jurisdiction, but doesn't state whether that jurisdiction is within Canada, the US or elsewhere.
Yes, I did notice it. I'm not sure if you are familiar with police practices, but "assault on an officer" is often used as a blanket crime by police to arrest people in any situation where the police use force, especially if they use improper or excessive force. It is completely logical to me that both would drop by 60% because very often they are the same thing.
That is, often a police officer will aggress against a person for whatever reason and then later claim that the person they aggressed against was the agressor. It basically allows an officer to arrest or even beat anyone up for anything and is a much more common tactic than you think. When the citizen gets to court, do you think a judge or jury will believe the police officer or the citizen?
We hear a lot about the minority of cases where a bystander taped the scene and the police did something wrong, but you don't hear about the majority where nobody was there to video tape it.
The union says in other jurisdictions where police officers are equipped with point-of-view cameras, the use of force by officers and assaults on officers drops by as much as 60%.
This sort of tells us what we already knew. That basically most of the force police use already is applied illegally applied or over-applied. The camera is forcing police to act more ethically, which reduces their use of force, but also hints that they widely act unethically at present. It isn't unique to Canada.
The question is... what content will take advantage of this? Most consumable content is at 1080p and I've yet to see a game which can run at these resolutions yet alone the newest Cryengine.
Yes, you can play Crysis on it. May I point you here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXBu9nxLN78
For some reason one no-name panel wholesaler has released one of these 4k sets early and for only $1500 instead of the $5000 everyone else is offering (for things that won't even come for months or longer). There are limitations, of course, but they will play Crysis and most other games. The panel quality isn't anything to brag about (but isn't horrible either) and they only offer HDMI-out, which then I believe has some refresh issues with using as a monitor. That is, I think they claim a 60hz refresh rate or something on the box, but HDMI as the only output method can at present only support double that.
That said, it is still pretty nice. We've been stuck at a 30" maximum for computers for years now and I can't wait for these 4K TV's to really get going. I also wish those unboxers in the video tested the same panel for OS X and Linux.
I'm a software developer. I've written programs for paying customers and a few for fun in Objective-C, C#, C++, C, Java, Object Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic and Python. I've taught myself based on information found online and in books. Well, that and experimentation ("I wonder what changing this does?").
:)
If you keep at what you are already doing for a longer period of time and try it with some real programming languages, which are actually easier and less arcane than Bash scripting anyhow, you'll end up being a real programmer yourself too.
From the article: Some might argue that the die area saving achieved is equivalent to a process node move, and that as Moore's talked about the number of transistors per IC his law is not dependent on a reducing minimum geometries. I think that most will see that this runs against the "spirit" of Moore's Law.
From Wikipedia: Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
From article linked off the main article: SanDisk has now revealed that 1Y – now described as a generation rather than a node - is the company's second generation at 19-nm. What the company does claim to have achieved is a reduction in the memory cell size from 19-nm by 26-nm to 19-nm by 19.5-nm, delivering a 25 percent reduction of the memory cell area.
So, if you can fit more cells using the same size process, it doesn't go against the spirit or the letter of Moore's law. Moore's law is about computing power. If you get more computing power without reducing size to do it, that still counts.
What's Apple famous for again? Yup, they are famous for being famous.
...Until they release a TV with a kinect-like interface running iOS. And then Sony's PS4 and the Wii U crashes and burns, (which is sort of already happening...sales on the Wii U are very poor and Sony's electronics wing isn't doing well either), while everyone is playing Angry Birds on their new Apple TV platform and we get umpteen-million articles about the "New Console Wars," which are now between Microsoft and Apple.
Well that and popularizing the graphic user interface everyone uses in the first place.
And for having a pretty decent Unix-based operating system while Ballmer drives Microsoft off a cliff.
And for designing the first mp3 player that the mass-market embraced.
And for ushering in the change from feature-phones to smartphones.
And for creating an earthquake in the tablet market such that in the future it is predicted more tablets will sell than PCs.
But yeah...they are just famous for being famous...
Of course then a couple years will go by and people will forget all of history and again claim that Apple is just famous for being famous. Such is the cycle of Slashdot.
If you read the article it does indeed sound like that, but you must also keep in mind the article has already re-contextualized his speech acts as threatening. For example the article says:
On August 13, he wrote, "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads."
But previous Slashdotter comments pointed out this is part of a lyrics to a song:
Sharpen up my axe and I am back, I'm here to sever heads / Compulsive obsessive, I'm also aggressive / My mouth is the message, my life is a lesson, my pulse is a blessing
Apart from this, he could have been writing fiction, writing in character, writing metaphorically, etc. That said, perhaps talking to him more would have been reasonable, but breaking down his door and arresting him for speech which has no specific, credible threats is not. He just sounds like half the people on Doomsday Preppers.