Of course the smoothed screen fonts are bitmaps, your whole screen is a bitmap.
Windows renders to the screen context to view e.g. a web page, and since it's a color device, it takes advantage of that by anti-aliasing the fonts.
When you go to print, it re-renders the fonts to the printer context, which is probably mono, and of a significantly higher resolution than the screen, anyway, so it's a good idea to re-render.
After rendering (in either case) the result is a bitmap.
How can you be so wrong and yet so convinced of your correctness that you had to make an epmhatic statement like that? Feel stupid?
I get the impression from the article that the software can't do the naming, but if a human labels a voice once the software will use that label next to that voice thereafter.
Good point, but these are not the sort of people who should be developing web applications for e-commerce sites. Anyone who puts them to work doing so deserves everything they get.
Don't expect it to replace hard drives any time soon, let alone RAM. 100Mb/sec is pretty slow, compared to, say Ultra-2 SCSI (640Mb/sec), or Ultra ATA/66 (528Mb/sec).
But he's got a point, Mr. Dumbass. As many others have pointed out, security through obscurity simply doesn't work.
GPL'ing it will mean that game designers will have no option but to solve this problem. And make no mistake, it will be solved. Just like security holes get solved in a well known GPL'd operating system, which I believe is the point he was making. Sheesh. Who mods your drivel up anyway? Got a spare account, do you?
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Thanks for the link, that was an interesting read!
You've read the book, I wonder if you can give any more detail on something in the summary:
Commands should be independent of applications and be applicable at any time and to any object. If there are times when a gesture that used to evoke one command now invokes another (or evokes no command), then the system's interface suffers from being modal. If applying a command to an object does not make sense, then the object should be automatically transformed so that the command can apply to it -- for example, a spelling check applied to an incoming fax requires that the fax first be run through an OCR program to change it from being a bitmap to a sequence of characters. If nothing can be done, then the system should do nothing.
This seems rather self-contradictory, so I'm oviously missing something. From your memory of the book, I wonder if you could offer any clarification? Ah, maybe I should just go buy it myself.
Oh, man, don't even get me started on SQL Server 7. One of our applications is basically an ASP, and the Microsoft (and Oracle, for that matter) pricing of database licences when you're serving data over the web is just outrageous. So we moved our database to Interbase (on Linux), and we don't have to worry about per-unique-stateful-user or per-cpu-per-megahertz give-me-all-your-profit fucked up pricing models. We're already using Apache (of course), and now, we get to reformat the two remaining Windows boxen and install a REAL OS. In the immortal words of Stimpy, 'I'm so happy, I can hardly contain myself!'.
I've got to jump in here. Everyone's bitching about it costing 1-2 grand, or the fact it's not completely Free (speech) as defined by the FSF. I don't care.
My company develops applications for the corporate market, and the chance to move my code from the steaming heap of shit that is Windows NT, to a nice stable OS is just making me wet my pants here.
$1,999 is CHEAP, I don't care if I can't write GPL software with it, 'cos we don't sell GPL software to our customers. We do get to dictate hardware and OS, and I can see our support burden dropping hugely when we start using Debian as a server platform instead of NT.
Realise that this product is not necessarily targetted at your average OSS developer, but rather at corporate software development houses that want to support Linux platforms. This is good news, any way you play it. And given Borland's history of actually 'getting it', I'm sure you'll soon see a version available cheap (or free!) that the FSF will be 100% happy with.
Just because it's not libre and gratis doesn't mean it sucks.
Another problem is the use of a 'dial' volume control, confusing first time users as how to operate it, and many believe you have to only move it a short distance in the small window that the dial appears.
I just have to chime in here. I know it's been roundly criticized, but am I the only one that had no problems figuring out how that dial worked first time? Goddamn it, I thought it was intuitive!
They're really going to need a good skill-matching service. I mean, if I played UT on some of the highly-trafficed US servers when I was learning, and it was costing me $1.00 per time, I'd be massively in debt now.
What about cheaters? Someone tell me how you can detect or foil an aim-bot? It's bad enough now. When there's monetary incentive for the cheaters, this is going to be a HUGE problem.
download XML documents, and an associated XSL document would turn it into something displayable on the client side. God forbid a Perl, Java, PHP, or ASP program on the server do this for you
What if the client wants to get the data displayed in a format they can control? Surely you don't suggest implementing everything on the server? Perhaps clients should be spared the processor cycles necessary to change font sizes too, since the site designer obviously knows what's best for everyone.
OK, a little harsh maybe. But you see my point. I think the concept of getting raw data from the server and being able to present it client-specifically is an awesome idea. You can always provide a suggested style for the user to view the data as you intended, but why would you stop those who want it from displaying it in a custom format?
you will see an example where they make a widget resizable by attaching "resize" objects to it. "resize" is an object?! Diagram that, UML-mongers!
Actually, this is a really cool design pattern called Decorator. Read up on it, it's actually a useful idea for some applications.
SSH is as secure as you make it. If you validate server keys rigorously, MIM attacks are impossible. If you regenerate your keys frequently, it's even less likely that you will be compromised. Until quantum-based encryption becomes reality, the 'perfect' security system is just theory. Until then, SSH is certainly good enough for me.
TCP/IP and UDP provide no built-in encryption or authentication, and it will be a very long time before there is widespread use of IPSec.
IPSec isn't a solution either. Well, Bruce Schneier certainly doesn't think so, anyway. Check out this at Counterpane.
Sample quote: We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form for protection of any kind of valuable information, and hope that future iterations of the design will be improved. However, we even more strongly discourage any current alternatives, and recommend IPsec when the alternative is an insecure network. Such
are the realities of the world.
Oh, yeah. This one just bugs the living shit outta me. It's not spelled with two o's in either the americian or english dictionary, so what's up with the misspelling? I've even seen it spelt that way in novels! Here's another one for ya: How do you spell wuss/woos? That is, a synonym for wimp/whimp?
Couldn't the nodes that cache the information in the existing structure respond to cache timeout values generated by the original source of the content? Then the intermediary nodes could update the information they store periodically, keeping it current, and distributed. How would you handle sites that store client-based state information though? Would cookies still work?
I just want to find out how the hell they calculate the microsoft minute. I mean, it's a simple algorithm, I really want to know how they got it as wrong as they obviously have.
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Check your facts, dude.
Of course the smoothed screen fonts are bitmaps, your whole screen is a bitmap.
Windows renders to the screen context to view e.g. a web page, and since it's a color device, it takes advantage of that by anti-aliasing the fonts.
When you go to print, it re-renders the fonts to the printer context, which is probably mono, and of a significantly higher resolution than the screen, anyway, so it's a good idea to re-render.
After rendering (in either case) the result is a bitmap.
How can you be so wrong and yet so convinced of your correctness that you had to make an epmhatic statement like that? Feel stupid?
I get the impression from the article that the software can't do the naming, but if a human labels a voice once the software will use that label next to that voice thereafter.
Good point, but these are not the sort of people who should be developing web applications for e-commerce sites. Anyone who puts them to work doing so deserves everything they get.
Data access time is around 100 Mb/sec.
Don't expect it to replace hard drives any time soon, let alone RAM. 100Mb/sec is pretty slow, compared to, say Ultra-2 SCSI (640Mb/sec), or Ultra ATA/66 (528Mb/sec).
Is this the first time a first post got a +5, or what?
But he's got a point, Mr. Dumbass. As many others have pointed out, security through obscurity simply doesn't work .
GPL'ing it will mean that game designers will have no option but to solve this problem. And make no mistake, it will be solved. Just like security holes get solved in a well known GPL'd operating system, which I believe is the point he was making. Sheesh. Who mods your drivel up anyway? Got a spare account, do you?
who will police the police?
Uh, I dunno, Coast Guard?
Thanks for the link, that was an interesting read!
You've read the book, I wonder if you can give any more detail on something in the summary:
Commands should be independent of applications and be applicable at any time and to any object. If there are times when a gesture that used to evoke one command now invokes another (or evokes no command), then the system's interface suffers from being modal. If applying a command to an object does not make sense, then the object should be automatically transformed so that the command can apply to it -- for example, a spelling check applied to an incoming fax requires that the fax first be run through an OCR program to change it from being a bitmap to a sequence of characters. If nothing can be done, then the system should do nothing.
This seems rather self-contradictory, so I'm oviously missing something. From your memory of the book, I wonder if you could offer any clarification? Ah, maybe I should just go buy it myself.
Oh, man, don't even get me started on SQL Server 7. One of our applications is basically an ASP, and the Microsoft (and Oracle, for that matter) pricing of database licences when you're serving data over the web is just outrageous. So we moved our database to Interbase (on Linux), and we don't have to worry about per-unique-stateful-user or per-cpu-per-megahertz give-me-all-your-profit fucked up pricing models. We're already using Apache (of course), and now, we get to reformat the two remaining Windows boxen and install a REAL OS. In the immortal words of Stimpy, 'I'm so happy, I can hardly contain myself!'.
Yeah, but why not other English-speaking countries?
I've got to jump in here. Everyone's bitching about it costing 1-2 grand, or the fact it's not completely Free (speech) as defined by the FSF. I don't care.
My company develops applications for the corporate market, and the chance to move my code from the steaming heap of shit that is Windows NT, to a nice stable OS is just making me wet my pants here.
$1,999 is CHEAP, I don't care if I can't write GPL software with it, 'cos we don't sell GPL software to our customers. We do get to dictate hardware and OS, and I can see our support burden dropping hugely when we start using Debian as a server platform instead of NT.
Realise that this product is not necessarily targetted at your average OSS developer, but rather at corporate software development houses that want to support Linux platforms. This is good news, any way you play it. And given Borland's history of actually 'getting it', I'm sure you'll soon see a version available cheap (or free!) that the FSF will be 100% happy with.
Just because it's not libre and gratis doesn't mean it sucks.
On the shop.borland.com site, it says:
Availability: Scheduled to begin shipping on Feb 22 2001
We may only sell this product to the following countries:
United States
What's up with that? Anyone know what the big deal is shipping to other countries? It's not like there's those crappy export restrictions any more...
Another problem is the use of a 'dial' volume control, confusing first time users as how to operate it, and many believe you have to only move it a short distance in the small window that the dial appears.
I just have to chime in here. I know it's been roundly criticized, but am I the only one that had no problems figuring out how that dial worked first time? Goddamn it, I thought it was intuitive!
The vast majority of the database's signals are evidence only of terrestrial intelligence.
And here I was, thinking there was no such thing as terrestrial intelligence...
A couple of problems I see:
They're really going to need a good skill-matching service. I mean, if I played UT on some of the highly-trafficed US servers when I was learning, and it was costing me $1.00 per time, I'd be massively in debt now.
What about cheaters? Someone tell me how you can detect or foil an aim-bot? It's bad enough now. When there's monetary incentive for the cheaters, this is going to be a HUGE problem.
...after a week of preparation and hours of digestion Chew Chew's sugar high lasts only 15 minutes at best...
... the gastrobots have been built without the ability to defecate...
But what about after that? If you keep feeding it sugar, does it keep running? How long is the 'stomach' sustainable?
Hmmm, one problem:
Well, I agree with some of your points, but...
download XML documents, and an associated XSL document would turn it into something displayable on the client side. God forbid a Perl, Java, PHP, or ASP program on the server do this for you
What if the client wants to get the data displayed in a format they can control? Surely you don't suggest implementing everything on the server? Perhaps clients should be spared the processor cycles necessary to change font sizes too, since the site designer obviously knows what's best for everyone.
OK, a little harsh maybe. But you see my point. I think the concept of getting raw data from the server and being able to present it client-specifically is an awesome idea. You can always provide a suggested style for the user to view the data as you intended, but why would you stop those who want it from displaying it in a custom format?
you will see an example where they make a widget resizable by attaching "resize" objects to it. "resize" is an object?! Diagram that, UML-mongers!
Actually, this is a really cool design pattern called Decorator. Read up on it, it's actually a useful idea for some applications.
Actually even quantum-based security requires a a channel which is non-interceptable to work
Really? What about this then? Using entangled photons appears to actually get around this problem.
SSH is as secure as you make it. If you validate server keys rigorously, MIM attacks are impossible. If you regenerate your keys frequently, it's even less likely that you will be compromised. Until quantum-based encryption becomes reality, the 'perfect' security system is just theory. Until then, SSH is certainly good enough for me.
TCP/IP and UDP provide no built-in encryption or authentication, and it will be a very long time before there is widespread use of IPSec.
IPSec isn't a solution either. Well, Bruce Schneier certainly doesn't think so, anyway. Check out this at Counterpane.
Sample quote:
We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form for protection of any kind of valuable information, and hope that future iterations of the design will be improved. However, we even more strongly discourage any current alternatives, and recommend IPsec when the alternative is an insecure network. Such are the realities of the world.
Although it's a nice simple analogy, I don't think it fits programming languages very well.
Languages are more like toolboxes themselves. Each with it's own hammer, screwdriver, etc.
And some have really good hammers, whilst others have better screwdrivers.
Oh, yeah. This one just bugs the living shit outta me. It's not spelled with two o's in either the americian or english dictionary, so what's up with the misspelling? I've even seen it spelt that way in novels! Here's another one for ya: How do you spell wuss/woos? That is, a synonym for wimp/whimp?
How does that work then? What happens when the registrar needs to send you (snail) mail?
Couldn't the nodes that cache the information in the existing structure respond to cache timeout values generated by the original source of the content? Then the intermediary nodes could update the information they store periodically, keeping it current, and distributed. How would you handle sites that store client-based state information though? Would cookies still work?
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... ;)
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PLEASE DON'T USE SO MANY CAPS. USING CAPS IS LIKE YELLING!
Seriously, Rob, you think that's gonna help?!
I just want to find out how the hell they calculate the microsoft minute. I mean, it's a simple algorithm, I really want to know how they got it as wrong as they obviously have.