I don't think so. Having had to refine my handwriting a lot in College I think most people's notions about cursive are simply out of date. Cursive is faster than block letters, if you are using a quill pen where lifting the pen carries serious danger of splotching. With modern ballpoint pens however lifting has very little penalty. Worse, the cursive kids are taught in school is loaded down with time eating superfluous flourishes that add nothing to the legibility.
Here are some examples.
Lets start with a cursive capital A. It is yet another "loop on a line" that makes many cursive letters difficult to distinguish. It requires you to match up to the start of the original line and follow the line back down. A block letter A can be made with just two lines and very little penalty if you don't care about getting the point on the top (I don't), just a big upside down U shape and then a quick line in the middle, and if you don't get the middle line exactly right it doesn't matter too much, it's still obviously an A.
Another example: cursive capital G. First off, it doesn't look anything like a block letter G, so that's one strike against legibility. Second, it has a pointless loop, TWO hitches, and two line crosses. That's four time penalties. Compare to a block letter G that can be made with two semicircles that don't even have to touch. One penalty for lifting the pen, but that's it.
Then there's this bullcrap where cursive T and cursive F are very nearly the same letter, especially when you're writing quickly. And of course the top of both is wavy and has a loop for no damn reason and makes lining up the lines even more difficult.
Cursive is an invaluable skill if you intend to write a lot with fountain pens. It is a hindrance with any other writing implement. The only reason schools teach it as a primary skill today is inertia.
However, if the bandwidth is so dramatically improved, can't the caps be also dramatically increased?
That sound you hear is the executives at Verizon and AT&T laughing their asses off. You'll get the same caps you have today, because that's what is most profitable.
Is it not good enough to just put some electrical tape over the camera lens? Obviously microphones can't be an issue because doctors already carry around smartphones/tablets/laptops everywhere and they all have mics, or the hospital has a good way to disable mics that should work equally well on Google Glass.
Given to the kids as a video player seems like a legit use for a table. Also: reading comic books online (where traditional e-ink readers kind of suck). I have an ancient Iconia tablet that still sees regular use despite one of the battery cells ballooning up and warping the case. I don't use it as much as my phone, but it's way easier to use than a laptop on an airplane.
Depends if you want to be able to read it afterward. For me, the cursive that was considerably faster than block letters was basically write only. It was almost impossible to make out what I'd written afterward. I decided it would be easier to just get fast with block letters instead so I could both write and read fast.
Those are all concerns you shouldn't have to worry about in a proper API. It should do those checks for you and return an error if something doesn't look right.
You've never tried to actually code to the SSL library have you? It's a poorly documented nightmare of parallel APIs full of pitfalls and crypto-nerd jargon. All of the APIs are apparently written with the thought that anyone messing with SSL should have PhD in cryptography first, because otherwise they're just going to screw it up. It also has decades of old cruft in it that you shouldn't be using but the manual won't tell you which parts those are. Also, not everyone agrees as to what is the best way to use it. I'm sure someone will come out and complain that the suggested techniques in this book leave you vulnerable to some kind of weird side channel attack in certain circumstances and that you should do it a different way instead, a way that this author thinks will open you up to some other kind of attack.
You might think I'm exaggerating, but even major corporations fuck this up all of the time. There is no "just choose sensible defaults and give me a secure socket" call, because if there were someone would complain that it's not secure and shouldn't be used.
Or the life lives deep in oceans where it would be protected from the gamma ray bursts.
The problem with all of these "how much life is in the Universe" answers is that we're trying to extrapolate from a single datapoint (our Solar System). The unknowns outweigh the knowns by a significant margin. In other words, it's mostly a lot of wild ass guesses.
Silverlight (launched by 15 percent of Chrome users last month).
Unity (9.1 percent).
Google Earth (9.1 percent).
Java (8.9 percent, but already blocked for security reasons).
Google Talk (8.7 percent).
Facebook Video (6.0 percent).
Silverlight is in that list thanks to Netflix, but Google got HTML5 video working for Netflix so that should drop off of there. Google Earth seems like something Google can fix as well. Same with Google Talk.
Unity, Java, and Facebook Video might be problematic however. I guess we'll have to wait and see if Chrome users are important enough for the respective companies to redevelop their plugins.
It seemed like they used a lot of words to say that there is a Geiger counter hooked up to a RNG on the Nuke to give it a good strong random number source. That's great, but the headline oversells that feature by a factor of a thousand or so.
There was a story a couple of weeks ago where a cop pulled this guy over basically for being black. The cop tells him to get his license and registration, so the guy reaches for the glove box. Cop freaks out and shoots the guy because he thinks the guy is going for a gun. Panic makes people stupid. Luckily for the guy, panic also makes you a lousy shot.
This would be more for if they wanted to jump right to Antimatter bombs. This would tell them exactly how to do it. In fact it's so simple that even ISIS can do it once they get this data. You can expect to be annihilated sometime next week.
You don't have to let a program run forever to determine if it will halt or not. There are other things you can do, like check the state at every state to see if it is identical to a previous state. If so, then you're in an infinite loop. There are other things you can do to prove that a loop will never terminate, but they get more complex.
It is a staggeringly complex problem for a more general case, and you can come up with a handful of specially designed programs that will always break it, but for the vast majority of cases it is solvable.
That's why it seems weird to me that you would immediately ditch the entire concept just because there's one crazy hack program out there that could break it, and only if you've specifically crafted your testing program so that it will fail in that case.
To be fair, the Halting Problem has always confused me because the counterexample to it is highly contrived and it seems like you could reword the problem slightly to avoid the issue. I assume that the description I got in school was incomplete and that it's really the tip of the iceberg of some enormous mathematical model that may or may not be applicable to real life.
There's no technical reason why this should have been difficult. The only reason they "failed" is because they need to protect their goddamn micropayment system. I wasn't even a backer of this project (there were some other red flags early on), but I can totally understand why people are so angry.
Failure to pass this bill means we'll get another chance.
You are quite the comedian. You could have brought the House down with that one. This bill is dead for at least 2 years now, why would a Republican majority Congress bring it up? The only way this bill is going to come back is as an extension of the PATRIOT act that allows for greater surveillance of anybody who makes less than $1 billion per year.
This is the same bullshit they tried to use to kill the ACA, and nobody bought it back then either.
Another thing that dies with DRM systems like this is the mod community. When you have to worry about "cheating" because you intend to make money by keeping features locked behind micropayments, then you can't allow people to mod the game. The first thing they're going to do is install a "free money" button to bypass those micropayment barriers.
But a vibrant mod community can utterly transform a game. There have been two orders of magnitude more code written to mod Minecraft than is in the base game. Kerbal Space Program would just be a toy without many of the mods (which were eventually incorperated into the game). Have you seen what people can do in Skyrim these days? Elite is not going to have any of that because they can't afford to threaten their micropayment income.
The only way the single player only mode goes back in is if online crackers put it back. Companies very rarely patch out DRM systems like this, assuming that the long tail isn't worth servicing.
If a dude totally lies to you and one of the defining features that made you excited for the game (no goddamn online only DRM bullshit) is pulled then yeah, I'm not going to buy anything from the guy again. Not unless he really really works hard to prove that he learned his lesson the first time somehow. What is the point of crowdfunding if you're going to be beholden to publisher's whims anyway?
I got a Lenovo laptop awhile back and it noticed that I keep it plugged in most of the time. It sets itself to keep the battery between 70-80% charged in this state. I thought it was a really cool feature, although it does take a little getting used to. "Why is my battery low? Oh right, battery saving mode."
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I don't think so. Having had to refine my handwriting a lot in College I think most people's notions about cursive are simply out of date. Cursive is faster than block letters, if you are using a quill pen where lifting the pen carries serious danger of splotching. With modern ballpoint pens however lifting has very little penalty. Worse, the cursive kids are taught in school is loaded down with time eating superfluous flourishes that add nothing to the legibility.
Here are some examples.
Lets start with a cursive capital A. It is yet another "loop on a line" that makes many cursive letters difficult to distinguish. It requires you to match up to the start of the original line and follow the line back down. A block letter A can be made with just two lines and very little penalty if you don't care about getting the point on the top (I don't), just a big upside down U shape and then a quick line in the middle, and if you don't get the middle line exactly right it doesn't matter too much, it's still obviously an A.
Another example: cursive capital G. First off, it doesn't look anything like a block letter G, so that's one strike against legibility. Second, it has a pointless loop, TWO hitches, and two line crosses. That's four time penalties. Compare to a block letter G that can be made with two semicircles that don't even have to touch. One penalty for lifting the pen, but that's it.
Then there's this bullcrap where cursive T and cursive F are very nearly the same letter, especially when you're writing quickly. And of course the top of both is wavy and has a loop for no damn reason and makes lining up the lines even more difficult.
Cursive is an invaluable skill if you intend to write a lot with fountain pens. It is a hindrance with any other writing implement. The only reason schools teach it as a primary skill today is inertia.
That sound you hear is the executives at Verizon and AT&T laughing their asses off. You'll get the same caps you have today, because that's what is most profitable.
Is it not good enough to just put some electrical tape over the camera lens? Obviously microphones can't be an issue because doctors already carry around smartphones/tablets/laptops everywhere and they all have mics, or the hospital has a good way to disable mics that should work equally well on Google Glass.
Given to the kids as a video player seems like a legit use for a table. Also: reading comic books online (where traditional e-ink readers kind of suck). I have an ancient Iconia tablet that still sees regular use despite one of the battery cells ballooning up and warping the case. I don't use it as much as my phone, but it's way easier to use than a laptop on an airplane.
Depends if you want to be able to read it afterward. For me, the cursive that was considerably faster than block letters was basically write only. It was almost impossible to make out what I'd written afterward. I decided it would be easier to just get fast with block letters instead so I could both write and read fast.
Those are all concerns you shouldn't have to worry about in a proper API. It should do those checks for you and return an error if something doesn't look right.
Judging from my Facebook feed, President Obama has a personal vendetta against several people and messes with them daily.
You've never tried to actually code to the SSL library have you? It's a poorly documented nightmare of parallel APIs full of pitfalls and crypto-nerd jargon. All of the APIs are apparently written with the thought that anyone messing with SSL should have PhD in cryptography first, because otherwise they're just going to screw it up. It also has decades of old cruft in it that you shouldn't be using but the manual won't tell you which parts those are. Also, not everyone agrees as to what is the best way to use it. I'm sure someone will come out and complain that the suggested techniques in this book leave you vulnerable to some kind of weird side channel attack in certain circumstances and that you should do it a different way instead, a way that this author thinks will open you up to some other kind of attack.
You might think I'm exaggerating, but even major corporations fuck this up all of the time. There is no "just choose sensible defaults and give me a secure socket" call, because if there were someone would complain that it's not secure and shouldn't be used.
Or the life lives deep in oceans where it would be protected from the gamma ray bursts.
The problem with all of these "how much life is in the Universe" answers is that we're trying to extrapolate from a single datapoint (our Solar System). The unknowns outweigh the knowns by a significant margin. In other words, it's mostly a lot of wild ass guesses.
Silverlight is in that list thanks to Netflix, but Google got HTML5 video working for Netflix so that should drop off of there. Google Earth seems like something Google can fix as well. Same with Google Talk.
Unity, Java, and Facebook Video might be problematic however. I guess we'll have to wait and see if Chrome users are important enough for the respective companies to redevelop their plugins.
It seemed like they used a lot of words to say that there is a Geiger counter hooked up to a RNG on the Nuke to give it a good strong random number source. That's great, but the headline oversells that feature by a factor of a thousand or so.
There was a story a couple of weeks ago where a cop pulled this guy over basically for being black. The cop tells him to get his license and registration, so the guy reaches for the glove box. Cop freaks out and shoots the guy because he thinks the guy is going for a gun. Panic makes people stupid. Luckily for the guy, panic also makes you a lousy shot.
Dashcam video of the incident.
This would be more for if they wanted to jump right to Antimatter bombs. This would tell them exactly how to do it. In fact it's so simple that even ISIS can do it once they get this data. You can expect to be annihilated sometime next week.
You could follow the links in the writeup for that information too.
Organized lists are oldschool man. Get with the times! Now it's all rounded corner boxes with drop shadows!
You don't have to let a program run forever to determine if it will halt or not. There are other things you can do, like check the state at every state to see if it is identical to a previous state. If so, then you're in an infinite loop. There are other things you can do to prove that a loop will never terminate, but they get more complex.
It is a staggeringly complex problem for a more general case, and you can come up with a handful of specially designed programs that will always break it, but for the vast majority of cases it is solvable.
That's why it seems weird to me that you would immediately ditch the entire concept just because there's one crazy hack program out there that could break it, and only if you've specifically crafted your testing program so that it will fail in that case.
That's the highly contrived example I was talking about.
To be fair, the Halting Problem has always confused me because the counterexample to it is highly contrived and it seems like you could reword the problem slightly to avoid the issue. I assume that the description I got in school was incomplete and that it's really the tip of the iceberg of some enormous mathematical model that may or may not be applicable to real life.
There's no technical reason why this should have been difficult. The only reason they "failed" is because they need to protect their goddamn micropayment system. I wasn't even a backer of this project (there were some other red flags early on), but I can totally understand why people are so angry.
One Democrat and almost every Republican is not "bipartisan effort against liberty".
You are quite the comedian. You could have brought the House down with that one. This bill is dead for at least 2 years now, why would a Republican majority Congress bring it up? The only way this bill is going to come back is as an extension of the PATRIOT act that allows for greater surveillance of anybody who makes less than $1 billion per year.
This is the same bullshit they tried to use to kill the ACA, and nobody bought it back then either.
Another thing that dies with DRM systems like this is the mod community. When you have to worry about "cheating" because you intend to make money by keeping features locked behind micropayments, then you can't allow people to mod the game. The first thing they're going to do is install a "free money" button to bypass those micropayment barriers.
But a vibrant mod community can utterly transform a game. There have been two orders of magnitude more code written to mod Minecraft than is in the base game. Kerbal Space Program would just be a toy without many of the mods (which were eventually incorperated into the game). Have you seen what people can do in Skyrim these days? Elite is not going to have any of that because they can't afford to threaten their micropayment income.
The only way the single player only mode goes back in is if online crackers put it back. Companies very rarely patch out DRM systems like this, assuming that the long tail isn't worth servicing.
If a dude totally lies to you and one of the defining features that made you excited for the game (no goddamn online only DRM bullshit) is pulled then yeah, I'm not going to buy anything from the guy again. Not unless he really really works hard to prove that he learned his lesson the first time somehow. What is the point of crowdfunding if you're going to be beholden to publisher's whims anyway?
I got a Lenovo laptop awhile back and it noticed that I keep it plugged in most of the time. It sets itself to keep the battery between 70-80% charged in this state. I thought it was a really cool feature, although it does take a little getting used to. "Why is my battery low? Oh right, battery saving mode."