+1 on GCC being important. There are still platforms where GCC is the only supported compiler. And many more platforms (embedded ones in particular) where the choice is GCC or a proprietary $$$ compiler from the system vendor.
I dont think Java will die. But if this new measure makes Java applets embedded in web pages die, great (I dont even have Java installed on my Windows PC after all the crap the updater does with trying to force unwanted programs down your throat)
Much better choice than this Intel thing, its got Coreboot support AND an open ATI GPU (as compared to a closed-source Intel BIOS and a closed-source PowerVR GPU on the MinnowBoard)
The most telling thing about AMD is that their first generation Bulldozer-architecture CPUs were getting their pants creamed not just by their Intel competitors but by the last-generation AMD parts.
+1 to this, I have played both Myst and Riven and really liked the puzzles because they were proper puzzles here it was clear how whatever you were interacting with worked but wasn't clear exactly what you needed to do to it to make it work and required you to use your head (and information you find in the game world) to figure it all out.
Guessing this http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/ The license says "free to redistribute in binary form" but its not open source and the license specifically forbids reverse engineering.
Is why it makes business sense for Microsoft to be in a market where they have single digit market share and zero prospects of ever being more than a blip compared to Android and iOS.
Microsoft should focus on the things where it is successful including XBOX and Windows and Office.
I think the biggest thing to fear if you are a foreign country, foreign company, foreign government or foreign entity and are concerned about the NSA is not that info on Google or Facebook or Twitter or other US-based internet companies has been compromised by the NSA but that all that networking and cellular equipment from the likes of Cisco, HP, Juniper, Motorola Solutions and others have been compromised.
The problem (as has been seen in a number of situations) is even if the local council can be convinced to give approval for new competitors, the entrenched players just go over their head and get the state governments to regulate things and overrule the local authorities.
I am not talking about phones on contract, I am talking about entities like tracfone and various other prepaid offerings where you buy a phone at a subsidized price but the phone is network locked so you have to buy service/top-ups from the prepaid provider.
People are using BSD (and BSD code) in devices and products (consumer products and otherwise) where there is a requirement (might be a requirement specified by some law or regulation, might be a requirement specified by a content provider or other entity, might be a business requirement, might be something else) to ensure the software on the device can't be changed by the end user. And using a gplv3 version of GCC (and libstdc++/libgcc/etc) creates a conflict between the anti-tivoization clauses in gplv3 and the requirements of the software developers to prevent tampering with the software.
Apple did not split the new season in 2 parts but they ARE the ones that sold it as a "season pass" and didn't say anywhere that the "season pass" is not good for the entire season.
To me its a fairly simple case of misleading advertizing.
ECC may not be as strong as everyone believes if the "magic numbers" used in the particular ECC implementation may have been chosen by someone (NSA or otherwise) with an interest in making the algorithm weaker than it otherwise would have been.
I suspect a lot of what PayPal does (e.g. freezing accounts with "suspicious" transactions and refusing to unfreeze until you provide proof you are who you claim to be and proof of where the money came from/where its going to) has to do with the international rules designed to prevent money laundering.
When you open an account at a regular bank, you generally need to show ID to prove you are who you claim to be (usually at least one piece of ID that can be linked back to government databases such as drivers license, passport, birth certificate or whatever). This means the banks can then hand those details over to the government alongside any transactions that meet the government (or bank) criteria for "suspicious" transactions under money laundering laws
With PayPal on the other hand, the identity checks they perform when you sign up are much less strict which means that they dont have sufficient proof-of-identification to comply with money laundering laws and hence if they see transactions that they need to report under money-laundering laws they have no option but to freeze the account until sufficient information has been obtained to allow them to properly report the transaction.
Someone ought to start putting pressure on the US government to start treating PayPal as a bank and require they follow all the rules banks have to follow (better yet, why not convince the banks and credit card companies that its in their best interest if PayPal has to follow the same rules as they do since that will increase PayPal's costs and level the playing field)
When I was a kid, I used take my pocket money every Saturday morning, tear out of the house at who knows what speed, down the street, through the car park of the recreation center, across the sports oval and through to the corner store (all the while shouting who knows what at the top of my lungs). Then I would go and spend my pocket money on all kinds of lollies (most of which would probably be eaten by the time I got home). All of this was done with no parental supervision whatsoever.
These days if that happened, the parents would be yelled at for allowing their kid to go out unsupervised, yelled at for allowing their kid to run so fast though car parks and sports ovals and things with such a high risk of being hurt in the process and quite possibly yelled at for allowing their kids to spend their money with no controls on what they are buying.
Note that I also did other "dangerous" things like walking/riding my bike to school, playing on playground equipment and accessing the Internet without a parent looking over my shoulder at all times.
The SLS is basically a big boondoggle forced on NASA by a bunch of congressmen who have factories in their districts that used to make Space Shuttle parts. These congressmen have basically forced NASA to produce some sort of space launch vehicle in a way that requires these Space Shuttle parts and therefore keeps the factories in their districts in business.
Don't have boots on the ground. Don't have long term commitment. Go in hard and fast with airstrikes, missiles and other things aimed squarely at Assad's military forces. Tanks. Aircraft. Military bases. Military communications. Command centers. Artillery pieces and missile batteries. Anything that is a military target and can be taken out without civilian casualties. (with the precision strike capability the US has these days from drones etc, taking out even something as small as a tank without civilian casualties is theoretically possible)
What this does is A.Punish the Syrian and Syrian Government for using chemical weapons. B.Takes away the things they used to disperse those chemical weapons so they cant do it again and C.Helps level the playing field so that those groups (regardless of affiliation) who are trying to overthrow Assad have a greater chance of actually getting rid of Assad. (without actually giving any direct support or recognition to any one such group)
Only requires a short term commitment, low amount of resources, no boots on the ground, low risk of casualties (assuming the first strikes are by stealth aircraft and other things capable of taking down any air defenses Assad may be using without being shot down themselves),
Here are some suggestions on how to reduce piracy in Australia: 1.Reduce (if not eliminate) the delay between the release of a film in the USA and the general cinema release in Australia. Right now I could go onto any number of pirate sites and download a very much watchable copy of "White House Down" (probably a screener rip) even though it isn't in Australian cinemas yet. 2.Make more old films and TV available on DVD so people dont need to pirate them. I have a copy of Young Einstein (classic Aussie film) on DVD but I had to grey-market import a Region 1 copy to get it. Its ridiculous that so much content just isn't available in Australia even when its available on DVD in other countries. 3.Stop giving Foxtel (and other pay TV operators) exclusive rights to shows. If the only way to get a TV show is to buy Foxtel (and possibly a channel package on top of that) then to hope that Foxtel airs the show you want to see then people will pirate it. If its available on a digital download service like iTunes or Google soon after its US airing (and at a reasonable price), people will have an incentive to buy it rather than pirating it. 4.Stop delaying the local airing of TV shows and air them sooner. Under The Dome is the perfect example of how this should be done, its being aired on local free-to-air TV hours after the US airing AND if you miss it on TV, you can watch the episode on a "catch-up" TV website free and legal.
For most of the 20th century, every new form of entertainment/recreation/young people hangout was blamed for the ills of society by the older generation.
I bet the same people blaming violent video games for today's problems probably grew up in an era where their parents and grandparents were rallying against Rock Music and Pinball Parlors and such.
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+1 on GCC being important.
There are still platforms where GCC is the only supported compiler. And many more platforms (embedded ones in particular) where the choice is GCC or a proprietary $$$ compiler from the system vendor.
Just ask anyone who has had their DSG VW in the shop more than on the road (google VW DSG problems for details)
Add a 0.0001% tax to all financial transactions. Has minimal effect on anyone buying shares to hold but makes HFT unviable.
I dont think Java will die. But if this new measure makes Java applets embedded in web pages die, great (I dont even have Java installed on my Windows PC after all the crap the updater does with trying to force unwanted programs down your throat)
Much better choice than this Intel thing, its got Coreboot support AND an open ATI GPU (as compared to a closed-source Intel BIOS and a closed-source PowerVR GPU on the MinnowBoard)
It has an Intel GMA600 GPU (which has a closed-source PowerVR SGX GPU core at its heart)
The most telling thing about AMD is that their first generation Bulldozer-architecture CPUs were getting their pants creamed not just by their Intel competitors but by the last-generation AMD parts.
+1 to this, I have played both Myst and Riven and really liked the puzzles because they were proper puzzles here it was clear how whatever you were interacting with worked but wasn't clear exactly what you needed to do to it to make it work and required you to use your head (and information you find in the game world) to figure it all out.
Guessing this
http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/
The license says "free to redistribute in binary form" but its not open source and the license specifically forbids reverse engineering.
Is why it makes business sense for Microsoft to be in a market where they have single digit market share and zero prospects of ever being more than a blip compared to Android and iOS.
Microsoft should focus on the things where it is successful including XBOX and Windows and Office.
I think the biggest thing to fear if you are a foreign country, foreign company, foreign government or foreign entity and are concerned about the NSA is not that info on Google or Facebook or Twitter or other US-based internet companies has been compromised by the NSA but that all that networking and cellular equipment from the likes of Cisco, HP, Juniper, Motorola Solutions and others have been compromised.
The problem (as has been seen in a number of situations) is even if the local council can be convinced to give approval for new competitors, the entrenched players just go over their head and get the state governments to regulate things and overrule the local authorities.
I am not talking about phones on contract, I am talking about entities like tracfone and various other prepaid offerings where you buy a phone at a subsidized price but the phone is network locked so you have to buy service/top-ups from the prepaid provider.
Are the companies that sell subsidized prepaid phones that are network locked and the users who buy and use those prepaid phones.
People are using BSD (and BSD code) in devices and products (consumer products and otherwise) where there is a requirement (might be a requirement specified by some law or regulation, might be a requirement specified by a content provider or other entity, might be a business requirement, might be something else) to ensure the software on the device can't be changed by the end user. And using a gplv3 version of GCC (and libstdc++/libgcc/etc) creates a conflict between the anti-tivoization clauses in gplv3 and the requirements of the software developers to prevent tampering with the software.
Apple did not split the new season in 2 parts but they ARE the ones that sold it as a "season pass" and didn't say anywhere that the "season pass" is not good for the entire season.
To me its a fairly simple case of misleading advertizing.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2011/09/02/diginotar-removal-follow-up/ would seem to say otherwise.
ECC may not be as strong as everyone believes if the "magic numbers" used in the particular ECC implementation may have been chosen by someone (NSA or otherwise) with an interest in making the algorithm weaker than it otherwise would have been.
I suspect a lot of what PayPal does (e.g. freezing accounts with "suspicious" transactions and refusing to unfreeze until you provide proof you are who you claim to be and proof of where the money came from/where its going to) has to do with the international rules designed to prevent money laundering.
When you open an account at a regular bank, you generally need to show ID to prove you are who you claim to be (usually at least one piece of ID that can be linked back to government databases such as drivers license, passport, birth certificate or whatever). This means the banks can then hand those details over to the government alongside any transactions that meet the government (or bank) criteria for "suspicious" transactions under money laundering laws
With PayPal on the other hand, the identity checks they perform when you sign up are much less strict which means that they dont have sufficient proof-of-identification to comply with money laundering laws and hence if they see transactions that they need to report under money-laundering laws they have no option but to freeze the account until sufficient information has been obtained to allow them to properly report the transaction.
Someone ought to start putting pressure on the US government to start treating PayPal as a bank and require they follow all the rules banks have to follow (better yet, why not convince the banks and credit card companies that its in their best interest if PayPal has to follow the same rules as they do since that will increase PayPal's costs and level the playing field)
Might be interesting to see what this data mob has on me and how accurate it is...
When I was a kid, I used take my pocket money every Saturday morning, tear out of the house at who knows what speed, down the street, through the car park of the recreation center, across the sports oval and through to the corner store (all the while shouting who knows what at the top of my lungs). Then I would go and spend my pocket money on all kinds of lollies (most of which would probably be eaten by the time I got home).
All of this was done with no parental supervision whatsoever.
These days if that happened, the parents would be yelled at for allowing their kid to go out unsupervised, yelled at for allowing their kid to run so fast though car parks and sports ovals and things with such a high risk of being hurt in the process and quite possibly yelled at for allowing their kids to spend their money with no controls on what they are buying.
Note that I also did other "dangerous" things like walking/riding my bike to school, playing on playground equipment and accessing the Internet without a parent looking over my shoulder at all times.
The SLS is basically a big boondoggle forced on NASA by a bunch of congressmen who have factories in their districts that used to make Space Shuttle parts. These congressmen have basically forced NASA to produce some sort of space launch vehicle in a way that requires these Space Shuttle parts and therefore keeps the factories in their districts in business.
Don't have boots on the ground. Don't have long term commitment. Go in hard and fast with airstrikes, missiles and other things aimed squarely at Assad's military forces. Tanks. Aircraft. Military bases. Military communications. Command centers. Artillery pieces and missile batteries. Anything that is a military target and can be taken out without civilian casualties. (with the precision strike capability the US has these days from drones etc, taking out even something as small as a tank without civilian casualties is theoretically possible)
What this does is A.Punish the Syrian and Syrian Government for using chemical weapons. B.Takes away the things they used to disperse those chemical weapons so they cant do it again and C.Helps level the playing field so that those groups (regardless of affiliation) who are trying to overthrow Assad have a greater chance of actually getting rid of Assad. (without actually giving any direct support or recognition to any one such group)
Only requires a short term commitment, low amount of resources, no boots on the ground, low risk of casualties (assuming the first strikes are by stealth aircraft and other things capable of taking down any air defenses Assad may be using without being shot down themselves),
Here are some suggestions on how to reduce piracy in Australia:
1.Reduce (if not eliminate) the delay between the release of a film in the USA and the general cinema release in Australia. Right now I could go onto any number of pirate sites and download a very much watchable copy of "White House Down" (probably a screener rip) even though it isn't in Australian cinemas yet.
2.Make more old films and TV available on DVD so people dont need to pirate them. I have a copy of Young Einstein (classic Aussie film) on DVD but I had to grey-market import a Region 1 copy to get it. Its ridiculous that so much content just isn't available in Australia even when its available on DVD in other countries.
3.Stop giving Foxtel (and other pay TV operators) exclusive rights to shows. If the only way to get a TV show is to buy Foxtel (and possibly a channel package on top of that) then to hope that Foxtel airs the show you want to see then people will pirate it. If its available on a digital download service like iTunes or Google soon after its US airing (and at a reasonable price), people will have an incentive to buy it rather than pirating it.
4.Stop delaying the local airing of TV shows and air them sooner. Under The Dome is the perfect example of how this should be done, its being aired on local free-to-air TV hours after the US airing AND if you miss it on TV, you can watch the episode on a "catch-up" TV website free and legal.
For most of the 20th century, every new form of entertainment/recreation/young people hangout was blamed for the ills of society by the older generation.
I bet the same people blaming violent video games for today's problems probably grew up in an era where their parents and grandparents were rallying against Rock Music and Pinball Parlors and such.