Unless, of course, that website that opens in your browser exploits a vulnerability in Firefox to take over your user account. From there on, if you're using Ubuntu for example, they could hijack your menus and next time you open up a control panel they use a fake gksudo dialog to steal your password, and then have complete control of your computer. Which is basically what happened to this fellow.
The only reason that doesn't happen to you and it happens to Windows users is obscurity.
Except for breaking DEP/noexec heap protections by leaving a lot of writable and executable memory in predictable locations. It may not have had a lot of security flaws itself over the years, but it's been one hell of an enabler.
I think you've got it. But I'll distill it down a little further:
Apple is very good at screen-centric user interfaces. They are the king of visual interaction. But they have very, very little expertise outside of that arena. Of course, this has served them well because we are primarily visual creatures.
But speech and sound, and language (in the abstract sense, not the text sense) are also very important interaction mechanisms. And Apple is weak in this area. And its competitors, Microsoft and Google, are quite good at it. And these are fields MS and Google have been investing billions into for many years. When I say they're good, I don't just mean better than Apple... they're better than everybody. There's no revolutionary startup Apple can buy to catapult them into the lead, like they usually do.
The core of Chrome is Chromium, and is open source (but Google developed). Chrome is really just a packaged distribution of Chromium. Even if you can't remove Flash from Chrome there are a number of third-party distributions, like SRWare Iron, which probably won't come with Flash.
A better question is, when one product holds 90%+ market share, why would any sane standards body create something different? If IE had 90% of the market share, the standard should have been very close to IE's behavior at the time. In any other industry, standards bodies exist to codify existing practices, not invent new ones. That's how you create a standard with minimal disruption. Instead we're in a situation where more than a decade later, there still isn't agreement in web browser behavior for the majority of internet users.
Sure, it lets some people be very righteous and wag their finger at Microsoft, flaunting the standards process... but by any objective measure the standards process has been a miserable failure. Unfortunately in the software business, Not Invented Here syndrome runs deep.
You had the capitalists, who owned factories and companies, and the workers who did not but had to sell their labour. The workers would actually do the work and produce while most of the benefits went to the owners as profit. The whole point of socialism was that the workers should own the means of production, thus avoiding this issue.
Turns out, Marx wasn't much of an economist. You look at any industry, and with few exceptions they all survive on the tiniest of profit margins. You eke out a percent here, a percent there, and do it enough and you end up with a giant pile of money. And what's the biggest expense eating away at your revenue stream? Payroll. So it seems to me that the workers are getting the vast majority of the benefits and the owners are getting very little.
And we've seen what happens when workers' unions get too much power.
I don't see memory fragmentation being a problem with 64-bit address spaces for a very, very long time. Unless a contiguous range of 2^40 addresses is just not enough.
There's a reason why you keep getting modded up and those disagreeing with you keep getting modded down.
You're exactly right. Modern diagnostic medicine is predicated on interpreting statistical studies to make diagnoses. It is practically incompetence for a practicing medical doctor to not know what standard deviation means.
As much as I hate to admit it, this is where marketing comes in. All you have to do is look at the crapfests that come from the major publishers and still pull in megasales to realize that marketing is far more important than anything intrinsic to the product itself. It's true of everything: movies, books, music, even games.
Indie products almost never have the kind of commercial success they deserve (excepting the rare cult hit) because they don't have the money to buy their way into the enormous media machines and get the exposure needed for commercial success. What pays for the all the wonderful free content available today? All the overpriced products you DO buy. They're mediocre because all the money and effort goes into massive advertising campaigns, which in turns pays for the free content you enjoy. Like Slashdot.
Er, no. The only Apple API you could be referring to that I can think of would be libdispatch. And libdispatch is NOT especially suited for running a single task on a single core. That's exactly the kind of thing traditional threading libraries (such as pthreads, or Windows threads) are good at. libdispatch is more for background batch processing.
You're an idiot. Seriously. Turn off the TV and think about the problem for a minute.
First, no without gasoline, electricity or diesel power we probably couldn't build the pyramids in the same time frame. Because we don't have an army of slaves.
But the pyramids are structurally simple. And we DO have gasoline, electricity and diesel power. Hell, we have construction equipment BIGGER than the pyramids. How long do you seriously think it would take a large tower crane to position a stone? It doesn't even have to be precise, by modern standards. One guy in the tower, a few guys on the ground, they could probably place a couple of stones an hour once everybody got used to it.
It took absolute monarchs decades to build each pyramid; if money was no object you could have one built today in about a year. We don't build new pyramids because we can't figure out how. How is easy. We don't build pyramids because nobody wants one.
If you still don't believe you're an idiot, google 'Dubai artificial islands.'
The USSR was what Marx called 'socialism.' He saw it as an intermediate step on the path to 'true communism,' under which there would be no state and the entire world would function as one giant anarchist commune.
So no, Marxism is actually far less practical than the Leninism.
It's not decentralization that makes the free market work: it's money. Money, as they say, makes the world go around, because money (and its associated concepts: cost and value) are basically information summarization mechanisms.
The decision problem in a command economy is asymptotically exponential, but the use of money allows a free market economy to reduce the decision problem to one that is polynomial.
This is why free market economies always work better than command economies. It has nothing to do with human nature, they simply allocate resources far more efficiently.
No it doesn't. Communism, and specifically the command economy of communism, doesn't make sense on paper, except to the intellectually unsophisticated. Anybody with a good understanding of economics or even mathematics should be able to see the fundamental flaws in a command economy. On paper an economy is a glorified optimization problem, and communism is a shitty algorithm even theoretically.
Why has China done well over the past 20 years? Because they've abandoned communist economics in favor of a government directed free-market. Which is also known as fascism. Unfortunately, fascism does work.
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Unless, of course, that website that opens in your browser exploits a vulnerability in Firefox to take over your user account. From there on, if you're using Ubuntu for example, they could hijack your menus and next time you open up a control panel they use a fake gksudo dialog to steal your password, and then have complete control of your computer. Which is basically what happened to this fellow.
The only reason that doesn't happen to you and it happens to Windows users is obscurity.
Except for breaking DEP/noexec heap protections by leaving a lot of writable and executable memory in predictable locations. It may not have had a lot of security flaws itself over the years, but it's been one hell of an enabler.
Interestingly enough, QNX and RIM are both University of Waterloo semi-spinoffs.
And the cheapest Mac Pro is $2,500.
Except how many Macs these days have user replacable graphics cards for example?
Not really. Managed code will use static analysis to prove that out-of-bounds writes will never happen.
Magically growing datastructures can be implemented in any language, managed or not.
I think you've got it. But I'll distill it down a little further:
Apple is very good at screen-centric user interfaces. They are the king of visual interaction. But they have very, very little expertise outside of that arena. Of course, this has served them well because we are primarily visual creatures.
But speech and sound, and language (in the abstract sense, not the text sense) are also very important interaction mechanisms. And Apple is weak in this area. And its competitors, Microsoft and Google, are quite good at it. And these are fields MS and Google have been investing billions into for many years. When I say they're good, I don't just mean better than Apple... they're better than everybody. There's no revolutionary startup Apple can buy to catapult them into the lead, like they usually do.
The core of Chrome is Chromium, and is open source (but Google developed). Chrome is really just a packaged distribution of Chromium. Even if you can't remove Flash from Chrome there are a number of third-party distributions, like SRWare Iron, which probably won't come with Flash.
A better question is, when one product holds 90%+ market share, why would any sane standards body create something different? If IE had 90% of the market share, the standard should have been very close to IE's behavior at the time. In any other industry, standards bodies exist to codify existing practices, not invent new ones. That's how you create a standard with minimal disruption. Instead we're in a situation where more than a decade later, there still isn't agreement in web browser behavior for the majority of internet users.
Sure, it lets some people be very righteous and wag their finger at Microsoft, flaunting the standards process... but by any objective measure the standards process has been a miserable failure. Unfortunately in the software business, Not Invented Here syndrome runs deep.
You had the capitalists, who owned factories and companies, and the workers who did not but had to sell their labour. The workers would actually do the work and produce while most of the benefits went to the owners as profit. The whole point of socialism was that the workers should own the means of production, thus avoiding this issue.
Turns out, Marx wasn't much of an economist. You look at any industry, and with few exceptions they all survive on the tiniest of profit margins. You eke out a percent here, a percent there, and do it enough and you end up with a giant pile of money. And what's the biggest expense eating away at your revenue stream? Payroll. So it seems to me that the workers are getting the vast majority of the benefits and the owners are getting very little.
And we've seen what happens when workers' unions get too much power.
???
I don't see memory fragmentation being a problem with 64-bit address spaces for a very, very long time. Unless a contiguous range of 2^40 addresses is just not enough.
Or perhaps you're perfectly normal and the whole 'men can't not think about sex all the time' is misandrist bullshit.
Damn that dastardly Bill Gates with his plan to save millions of lives through vaccinations and effective health care for the third world!
Nice plan, but make sure you don't accidentally your house.
You mean iNfidel.
So what you're saying is it's easy to pick apart if you don't actually know what you're talking about. Gotcha.
Google is not responsible for China's response.
Spoken like somebody who doesn't know what WSH is.
Batch files are pretty useless, but WSH has been around a long time. I think you'd be very surprised at what you can accomplish through it.
There's a reason why you keep getting modded up and those disagreeing with you keep getting modded down.
You're exactly right. Modern diagnostic medicine is predicated on interpreting statistical studies to make diagnoses. It is practically incompetence for a practicing medical doctor to not know what standard deviation means.
As much as I hate to admit it, this is where marketing comes in. All you have to do is look at the crapfests that come from the major publishers and still pull in megasales to realize that marketing is far more important than anything intrinsic to the product itself. It's true of everything: movies, books, music, even games.
Indie products almost never have the kind of commercial success they deserve (excepting the rare cult hit) because they don't have the money to buy their way into the enormous media machines and get the exposure needed for commercial success. What pays for the all the wonderful free content available today? All the overpriced products you DO buy. They're mediocre because all the money and effort goes into massive advertising campaigns, which in turns pays for the free content you enjoy. Like Slashdot.
Er, no. The only Apple API you could be referring to that I can think of would be libdispatch. And libdispatch is NOT especially suited for running a single task on a single core. That's exactly the kind of thing traditional threading libraries (such as pthreads, or Windows threads) are good at. libdispatch is more for background batch processing.
You're an idiot. Seriously. Turn off the TV and think about the problem for a minute.
First, no without gasoline, electricity or diesel power we probably couldn't build the pyramids in the same time frame. Because we don't have an army of slaves.
But the pyramids are structurally simple. And we DO have gasoline, electricity and diesel power. Hell, we have construction equipment BIGGER than the pyramids. How long do you seriously think it would take a large tower crane to position a stone? It doesn't even have to be precise, by modern standards. One guy in the tower, a few guys on the ground, they could probably place a couple of stones an hour once everybody got used to it.
It took absolute monarchs decades to build each pyramid; if money was no object you could have one built today in about a year. We don't build new pyramids because we can't figure out how. How is easy. We don't build pyramids because nobody wants one.
If you still don't believe you're an idiot, google 'Dubai artificial islands.'
The USSR was what Marx called 'socialism.' He saw it as an intermediate step on the path to 'true communism,' under which there would be no state and the entire world would function as one giant anarchist commune.
So no, Marxism is actually far less practical than the Leninism.
It's not decentralization that makes the free market work: it's money. Money, as they say, makes the world go around, because money (and its associated concepts: cost and value) are basically information summarization mechanisms.
The decision problem in a command economy is asymptotically exponential, but the use of money allows a free market economy to reduce the decision problem to one that is polynomial.
This is why free market economies always work better than command economies. It has nothing to do with human nature, they simply allocate resources far more efficiently.
No it doesn't. Communism, and specifically the command economy of communism, doesn't make sense on paper, except to the intellectually unsophisticated. Anybody with a good understanding of economics or even mathematics should be able to see the fundamental flaws in a command economy. On paper an economy is a glorified optimization problem, and communism is a shitty algorithm even theoretically.
Why has China done well over the past 20 years? Because they've abandoned communist economics in favor of a government directed free-market. Which is also known as fascism. Unfortunately, fascism does work.