Presumably those were just the documented cases, but the author has reason to believe that there were some number of cases that weren't documented (people without access to a doctor who just up and died from it undiagnosed).
Companies go after Apple because in the past Apple has actually taken steps to fix the problems. They put pressure on Foxconn after the negative publicity a couple of years ago. It's the same reason people go after Starbucks about Fair Trade Coffee, because those companies have an image and a consumer who actually care about those issues. They're not going to try to raise a big stink about Acer for instance, because it's not going to get much traction.
Why would someone buy a laptop from a crackhead on the street corner when you could buy one for the same price legit that comes with stuff like tech support and a lack of cops busting down your door a week later? You're basically trading money for risk when buying from a fence.
Ok, so Verizon's website builder thing is pretty lame, but if you need a place to host a small file or two it works pretty well and comes free with your service. However, previously the ONLY ways of getting data on there were FTP and their totally useless "I'll make a crappy looking website for you, you just pick how much lens flare to add!" website. They've just killed the one way that was actually somewhat useful. I know some of you are suggesting that FTP is dead and you should be using SCP instead, and I agree, but Verzion hasn't gotten the message.
To be fair though, they probably did get a lot of complaints about their FTP server, because it advertised EPSV4 support, but was on a machine that had a firewall that blocked ports above 1024. So basically it only worked on Windows XP with the ancient FTP program that shipped with it unless you were a guru. I'm sure they've been getting more and more complaints about it and decided to just shut the thing down instead of trying to figure out how to fix it. Lord knows the tech support guys I talked to had absolutely no clue what I was talking about when I tried to get this fixed years ago.
Just for the heck of it, I worked out the math on this. Assuming 1.44MB 3.5" floppies, you will need 83,333,333,333 disks to store all of that data. Not even accounting for the drives, the disks alone would fill a volume of 2,240,418.91 m^3 (591,856,062 US gallons). I don't know for sure, but I suspect that number exceeds the number of floppies that have ever existed, although it is only about 12 floppies for every man, woman, and child on the Earth.
Education is more important than the kids in school realize. For them it's mostly something that takes way too much time and isn't all that interesting, plus massively uncool. Regardless, they should be forced to get it because by the time they realize just how wrong they were, it will be too late. I certainly wouldn't expect a fifth grader to be mature enough to make such life critical choices on his own.
From what I can tell, reality just caught up with aircraft development. Going faster is of limited use if it requires outrageous amounts of fuel that prevent the aircraft from ever being economical. Plus, unlike the planes of old, you can't build a supersonic rocket glider in your back yard if you just have a thing for aviation. So pretty much the only people who have both the money and interest to do something like this are research institutions (like the JPL, which doesn't have the money) and the military.
The Concorde is a good example of a triumphant failure. Despite offering considerably shorter flight times between two major cities it never managed to become economical, and despite massive government subsidies they couldn't afford to keep it running. It was a technological and political triumph, but a practical failure.
Then your function has the choice of either trusting the input (the status quo) or rejecting it. If you're dealing with something where security is a concern, then you would reject those and insist that people pass in a verifiable memory chunk. I bet you could get this to work more often than not without having to go to extremes or incurring that much of a performance hit if you were willing to only cover the common cases. There would undoubtedly be some extra memory overhead, but this isn't 1985 anymore, we don't need to scrimp every single last bit.
The machine should know the length of the buffers on the stack too. If the machine can't figure out it for some reason, then the function can return an error code saying as much.
Since it's attached via a magnet, snapping off shouldn't be an issue. It'll be like the magsafe power connectors where the cord just pops out when stressed.
The biggest failing of C IMHO is that there is no way to do a "heap check" on any particular pointer you are passed to see how much space it has to work with. Had that functionality existed, then it would be possible to write a safe gets() function or any function. It's not like the machine doesn't know either, free() doesn't require you to pass in the size. It may be relatively expensive to do, but the logic is there.
Isn't the megatexturing feature optional? Couldn't you break up your texture into 16 "mini-megatextures" or something to cut down on the amount of memory you need for the compile? Or you can just buy a reasonably beefy machine with 16GB or 32GB with a fast SSD and simply accept that it will take you longer to compile the maps. Depending on what "compiling" them requires, it might not even be that bad. Carmak tweeted awhile back that the 192GB monster they built cut their compile times down a lot, but he didn't make it sound like the original compiles were mathematically impossible or anything.
I remember when Quake first came out and people building their own maps spent hours on the compile step. A few years later computers got a lot faster (and more memory) and it wasn't really an issue anymore.
There was too much fighting over which video standard to use with HTML5 and it killed that part of the standard in the crib. That said, Apple is still pushing it (because Flash video doesn't work on many of their platforms) so you might see some traction from that arena.
You know if your machine is up to date when you go to the about page and it says "this copy of Firefox is up to date".
Presumably they just accidentally forgot to mention the part where they're changing the fundamental nature of plugins so that they never break when the version is updated, so nobody would ever have a reason not to update immediately.
That was my thought. These are the "enthusiast" chips, the people who buy them aren't going to use the stock cooler anyway, so it really doesn't make sense for Intel to keep shipping them.
Isn't GPRS effectively obsolete at this point? The only time I see it in use is way out in the boonies where they're clearly near the bottom of the list for tower upgrades. Often the service is broken anyway (get GPRS connection with strong signal, but no packets make it through). 10 or 15 years ago this would have been a big issue, but these days I just can't see it.
Obviously they aren't going to be skimming the surface of the earth at 13,000 mph, so it's going to have to travel quite a bit further to make that full circumference.
I don't know, if you consider the Spice to be a metaphor for Oil, then the book is about how some dirty nomads overthrow the oppressive resource monopolizing government. Maybe not the message the gulf state monarchs want to convey.
$10/movie is absurdly high, especially since you only get to watch it once and when you're competing with a huge amount of free content on the internet. It's no wonder people are abandoning the service in droves.
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Presumably those were just the documented cases, but the author has reason to believe that there were some number of cases that weren't documented (people without access to a doctor who just up and died from it undiagnosed).
Companies go after Apple because in the past Apple has actually taken steps to fix the problems. They put pressure on Foxconn after the negative publicity a couple of years ago. It's the same reason people go after Starbucks about Fair Trade Coffee, because those companies have an image and a consumer who actually care about those issues. They're not going to try to raise a big stink about Acer for instance, because it's not going to get much traction.
Why would someone buy a laptop from a crackhead on the street corner when you could buy one for the same price legit that comes with stuff like tech support and a lack of cops busting down your door a week later? You're basically trading money for risk when buying from a fence.
Apparently the cops on the scene didn't buy her "I didn't realize it was stolen" line for a second.
Ok, so Verizon's website builder thing is pretty lame, but if you need a place to host a small file or two it works pretty well and comes free with your service. However, previously the ONLY ways of getting data on there were FTP and their totally useless "I'll make a crappy looking website for you, you just pick how much lens flare to add!" website. They've just killed the one way that was actually somewhat useful. I know some of you are suggesting that FTP is dead and you should be using SCP instead, and I agree, but Verzion hasn't gotten the message.
To be fair though, they probably did get a lot of complaints about their FTP server, because it advertised EPSV4 support, but was on a machine that had a firewall that blocked ports above 1024. So basically it only worked on Windows XP with the ancient FTP program that shipped with it unless you were a guru. I'm sure they've been getting more and more complaints about it and decided to just shut the thing down instead of trying to figure out how to fix it. Lord knows the tech support guys I talked to had absolutely no clue what I was talking about when I tried to get this fixed years ago.
Just for the heck of it, I worked out the math on this. Assuming 1.44MB 3.5" floppies, you will need 83,333,333,333 disks to store all of that data. Not even accounting for the drives, the disks alone would fill a volume of 2,240,418.91 m^3 (591,856,062 US gallons). I don't know for sure, but I suspect that number exceeds the number of floppies that have ever existed, although it is only about 12 floppies for every man, woman, and child on the Earth.
Have we ever seen Steve Jobs and Rob Malda together in the same room?
Education is more important than the kids in school realize. For them it's mostly something that takes way too much time and isn't all that interesting, plus massively uncool. Regardless, they should be forced to get it because by the time they realize just how wrong they were, it will be too late. I certainly wouldn't expect a fifth grader to be mature enough to make such life critical choices on his own.
There's something fishy about that plugin, namely that it connects via a 3.5" DIN plug that is somehow on the bottom of that iPhone.
From what I can tell, reality just caught up with aircraft development. Going faster is of limited use if it requires outrageous amounts of fuel that prevent the aircraft from ever being economical. Plus, unlike the planes of old, you can't build a supersonic rocket glider in your back yard if you just have a thing for aviation. So pretty much the only people who have both the money and interest to do something like this are research institutions (like the JPL, which doesn't have the money) and the military.
The Concorde is a good example of a triumphant failure. Despite offering considerably shorter flight times between two major cities it never managed to become economical, and despite massive government subsidies they couldn't afford to keep it running. It was a technological and political triumph, but a practical failure.
Then your function has the choice of either trusting the input (the status quo) or rejecting it. If you're dealing with something where security is a concern, then you would reject those and insist that people pass in a verifiable memory chunk. I bet you could get this to work more often than not without having to go to extremes or incurring that much of a performance hit if you were willing to only cover the common cases. There would undoubtedly be some extra memory overhead, but this isn't 1985 anymore, we don't need to scrimp every single last bit.
The machine should know the length of the buffers on the stack too. If the machine can't figure out it for some reason, then the function can return an error code saying as much.
Since it's attached via a magnet, snapping off shouldn't be an issue. It'll be like the magsafe power connectors where the cord just pops out when stressed.
The biggest failing of C IMHO is that there is no way to do a "heap check" on any particular pointer you are passed to see how much space it has to work with. Had that functionality existed, then it would be possible to write a safe gets() function or any function. It's not like the machine doesn't know either, free() doesn't require you to pass in the size. It may be relatively expensive to do, but the logic is there.
Isn't the megatexturing feature optional? Couldn't you break up your texture into 16 "mini-megatextures" or something to cut down on the amount of memory you need for the compile? Or you can just buy a reasonably beefy machine with 16GB or 32GB with a fast SSD and simply accept that it will take you longer to compile the maps. Depending on what "compiling" them requires, it might not even be that bad. Carmak tweeted awhile back that the 192GB monster they built cut their compile times down a lot, but he didn't make it sound like the original compiles were mathematically impossible or anything.
I remember when Quake first came out and people building their own maps spent hours on the compile step. A few years later computers got a lot faster (and more memory) and it wasn't really an issue anymore.
Assuming the person doing a MITM attack against you is not modifying DNS queries as well?
There was too much fighting over which video standard to use with HTML5 and it killed that part of the standard in the crib. That said, Apple is still pushing it (because Flash video doesn't work on many of their platforms) so you might see some traction from that arena.
You know if your machine is up to date when you go to the about page and it says "this copy of Firefox is up to date".
Presumably they just accidentally forgot to mention the part where they're changing the fundamental nature of plugins so that they never break when the version is updated, so nobody would ever have a reason not to update immediately.
That was my thought. These are the "enthusiast" chips, the people who buy them aren't going to use the stock cooler anyway, so it really doesn't make sense for Intel to keep shipping them.
Isn't GPRS effectively obsolete at this point? The only time I see it in use is way out in the boonies where they're clearly near the bottom of the list for tower upgrades. Often the service is broken anyway (get GPRS connection with strong signal, but no packets make it through). 10 or 15 years ago this would have been a big issue, but these days I just can't see it.
Obviously they aren't going to be skimming the surface of the earth at 13,000 mph, so it's going to have to travel quite a bit further to make that full circumference.
I don't know, if you consider the Spice to be a metaphor for Oil, then the book is about how some dirty nomads overthrow the oppressive resource monopolizing government. Maybe not the message the gulf state monarchs want to convey.
Literary analysis is basically Creative Bullshit 101. Regardless of what you do, you're going to be putting words in the author's mouth.
$10/movie is absurdly high, especially since you only get to watch it once and when you're competing with a huge amount of free content on the internet. It's no wonder people are abandoning the service in droves.
Seems more like: Good games are correlated with good review scores AND with larger numbers of illegal downloads.