I know it's hard to get a meaningful metric, but this chart makes me wonder about the trustworthiness of the study. There are approximately two major Android releases per year whereas there is only one major iOS upgrade per year. Thus "two major releases behind" means an average of 15 months late for an Android device, whereas "one major release behind" means an average of 18 months late for an iOS device. Yet by the look of the legend, the first one is supposed to be worse than the second one.
I think I can guarantee that no chat logs could exist that show Goatse Security members discussing selling or using the information in an illegal way. Or they would be fakes.
I have personally answered requests sent to Goatse Security for a while, and have constantly refused all offers to buy or even have a look at the data. I am pretty sure some of the requests were bait to see just how greedy we were, so if the people who tried are honest, they will be able to confirm that no matter the amount of money proposed, we said no.
... is to wait until a Google recruiter contacts me. I then explain I have trouble trusting Google as an entity because of that particular bad experience I had with them. Then my problem gets magically solved. And I respectfully decline the job offer.
Games already are on the very limits of a platform. They already are optimized to the breaking point. There’s nothing left. You can only make the textures and models crappier and remove some physics and collision detection.
And your point is that eg. Uncharted was optimised to the breaking point, and there was no way Uncharted 2 would look better, with better textures, models, physics and collisions?
The PS3 hardware is very complicated. Very few programmers can claim to master both the PS3 hardware and video game related algorithms. And most of them probably work at Naughty Dog or Insomniac Games.
So, if I want a Cell-powered machine that can run my software, what choices do I have now? I cannot afford an IBM blade server (the price tag is around $10,000) and there is no way Sony will let me have a Debug or Test PS3 at home.
Do you have any actual evidence that the people running Linux on their PS3 are the people who were responsible for any of the popularity of the PS3?
Here are some facts about me. Up to you to decide whether it means anything:
- I run Linux on my PS3
- Thanks to Linux on the PS3, I kick ass at PPU (AltiVec) and SPU programming
- My skills got me a job at an AAA game studio
When I use my sam@lastmeasure.zoy.org e-mail address, people who know this successful domain with thousands of visitors immediately take me as seriously as required on the Internet.
Obviously you've never worked at a game development company... Programmers there aren't worth much. At least this guy got away with all his limbs and no oil burns. And they didn't use the spiders...
Obviously you've worked at the wrong game development company. I know quite a few successful European studios where programmers are well treated. I can't believe no US companies is worth working for, see for instance Insomniac Games.
The following survey disagrees with your perception of Debian not having a significant presence in the embedded market: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7065740528.html . I suggest you back up your statement with relevant information if you wish to use it as an argument.
Also, Ulrich Drepper does not have "every right" to disregard the ARM platform as long as it is listed as a supported architecture. My request to the steering committee can be seen here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2007/10/msg00038.html
From http://volatile.debian.org/: "debian-volatile will only contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep them functional".
Slashdot got trolled once again with a false story. Nothing unusual, and always deserved, but when it harms Debian's reputation in an area where it used to be at fault but now does the proper thing, it's just irritating.
Looks legit to me. It came from somebody's laptop on an Earthlink connection in Atlanta.
Received: from [65.37.133.42] (helo=NewLaptop.eathlink.net)
Sir, if you look at the HELO argument to tell whether an email looks legit or not, you are terribly mistaken about how email works. Besides, the typo in "eathlink.net" certainly does not make it look "legit".
Anyone else finds it pretty unfair that the registrar took the domain back from its owner, then allows someone else to buy it for hundreds of dollars? Pretty close to stealing if you ask me.
If a power failure can be triggered by an attacker and affects the availability of a resource you rely on, then yes, it's a security hole. Welcome to the real world.
You can tell there's nothing interesting in the link from the fact that not even a summary of the results is given in the story. It looks like the average pay-to-get-diggs story, except you don't have to pay anything to be on Slashdot. Well done, and enjoy your Google Ads revenues!
Colour AsCii Art library. I mean, they had to WORK to get "caca" out of that. They couldn't have just called it CASCAL or even CAAL...
Of course they couldn't have. The Firefox trademark case has shown how important it is to have a good, eye-catching product name as a part of the user experience, and how vital it is to protect it, especially for software targeting huge audiences. CASCAL was too close to PASCAL, and CAAL is meaningless and would have led to people constantly clarifying "CAAL-with-two-As".
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I know it's hard to get a meaningful metric, but this chart makes me wonder about the trustworthiness of the study. There are approximately two major Android releases per year whereas there is only one major iOS upgrade per year. Thus "two major releases behind" means an average of 15 months late for an Android device, whereas "one major release behind" means an average of 18 months late for an iOS device. Yet by the look of the legend, the first one is supposed to be worse than the second one.
... but still use my favourite analog pointing device, thanks to ThinkPads and the awesome trackpoint-enabled ThinkPad USB keyboard.
... is only because I do not have a Mac or Mac OS or iOS. Otherwise, I'm afraid I should reasonably panic.
I think I can guarantee that no chat logs could exist that show Goatse Security members discussing selling or using the information in an illegal way. Or they would be fakes.
I have personally answered requests sent to Goatse Security for a while, and have constantly refused all offers to buy or even have a look at the data. I am pretty sure some of the requests were bait to see just how greedy we were, so if the people who tried are honest, they will be able to confirm that no matter the amount of money proposed, we said no.
I heard USB power was actually OVER 9000!!!
You don't know what you are talking about. I successfully wrote and compiled PS3 software, then ran it on my retail console thanks to PSGroove.
... is to wait until a Google recruiter contacts me. I then explain I have trouble trusting Google as an entity because of that particular bad experience I had with them. Then my problem gets magically solved. And I respectfully decline the job offer.
Disclaimer: I own nimp.org.
Games already are on the very limits of a platform. They already are optimized to the breaking point. There’s nothing left.
You can only make the textures and models crappier and remove some physics and collision detection.
And your point is that eg. Uncharted was optimised to the breaking point, and there was no way Uncharted 2 would look better, with better textures, models, physics and collisions?
The PS3 hardware is very complicated. Very few programmers can claim to master both the PS3 hardware and video game related algorithms. And most of them probably work at Naughty Dog or Insomniac Games.
So, if I want a Cell-powered machine that can run my software, what choices do I have now? I cannot afford an IBM blade server (the price tag is around $10,000) and there is no way Sony will let me have a Debug or Test PS3 at home.
Do you have any actual evidence that the people running Linux on their PS3 are the people who were responsible for any of the popularity of the PS3?
Here are some facts about me. Up to you to decide whether it means anything:
- I run Linux on my PS3
- Thanks to Linux on the PS3, I kick ass at PPU (AltiVec) and SPU programming
- My skills got me a job at an AAA game studio
When I use my sam@lastmeasure.zoy.org e-mail address, people who know this successful domain with thousands of visitors immediately take me as seriously as required on the Internet.
Obviously you've never worked at a game development company... Programmers there aren't worth much.
At least this guy got away with all his limbs and no oil burns. And they didn't use the spiders...
Obviously you've worked at the wrong game development company. I know quite a few successful European studios where programmers are well treated. I can't believe no US companies is worth working for, see for instance Insomniac Games.
The following survey disagrees with your perception of Debian not having a significant presence in the embedded market: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7065740528.html . I suggest you back up your statement with relevant information if you wish to use it as an argument.
Also, Ulrich Drepper does not have "every right" to disregard the ARM platform as long as it is listed as a supported architecture. My request to the steering committee can be seen here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2007/10/msg00038.html
How do you reduce the number of 'hops' by an average of 400%? Negative number of hops? Also, FP.
By far the best evidence of a civilised country. Ever.
From http://volatile.debian.org/: "debian-volatile will only contain changes to stable programs that are necessary to keep them functional".
Slashdot got trolled once again with a false story. Nothing unusual, and always deserved, but when it harms Debian's reputation in an area where it used to be at fault but now does the proper thing, it's just irritating.
Sir, if you look at the HELO argument to tell whether an email looks legit or not, you are terribly mistaken about how email works. Besides, the typo in "eathlink.net" certainly does not make it look "legit".
Since all terrorists have a beard and speak Arabic, the algorithms used in these cameras must really be state of the art.
Wow, you needed to look at the vote pattern to infer that the $20M bidders can't possibly be serious? :-)
Anyone else finds it pretty unfair that the registrar took the domain back from its owner, then allows someone else to buy it for hundreds of dollars? Pretty close to stealing if you ask me.
I admit, Bill Clinton is my pot dealer. Who is yours?
If a power failure can be triggered by an attacker and affects the availability of a resource you rely on, then yes, it's a security hole. Welcome to the real world.
You can tell there's nothing interesting in the link from the fact that not even a summary of the results is given in the story. It looks like the average pay-to-get-diggs story, except you don't have to pay anything to be on Slashdot. Well done, and enjoy your Google Ads revenues!
This is the amount of me not caring about what Linux distribution this Eric Raymond guy uses.
Of course they couldn't have. The Firefox trademark case has shown how important it is to have a good, eye-catching product name as a part of the user experience, and how vital it is to protect it, especially for software targeting huge audiences. CASCAL was too close to PASCAL, and CAAL is meaningless and would have led to people constantly clarifying "CAAL-with-two-As".