China *already* proved you wrong. Even the beggars in the streets wear alipay QR codes. For daily use, cash already effectively went away in China *right now*, not in the future. No reason this is not going to happen in the rest of the world, Africa might be next. No opinion when it will happen in the US in particular, but who cares.
Are they missing few decimal places with the emails? Those 92000 emails I have in just one of my inboxes are for just a couple of last few years. Do I have a problem?:)
Lightning Network (http://lightning.network/) will allow Bitcoin to scale. Maybe not to VISA-level yet, but at least further several order of magnitudes.
The lightning network allows to keep most transactions off-chain - for example all your daily payments can go through a LN operator, and the only thing that needs to be stored in the blockchain are channel balance settlements - say once per month you settle the balance with a single transaction. It recently left beta, with the protocol finalized and three interoperable implementations. Now, UX and client support is needed, and adoption by major Bitcoin operators. But that'll happen.
Bitcoin adoption just went a bit ahead of the software ecosystem, but don't discard Bitcoin because of that just yet.
Siri is a complete stack of text reco engines, intent recognition tools, and backends. There are many initiatives like Sirius, Mycroft and YodaQA, and each does something slightly different - either focusing on the speech reco infrastructure, or just answering factoid questions...
...except that half of the devices are mobile, which probably means mainly Android. I think as people migrate to latest Windows with their Windows Defender builtin, it's going to be tricky to hold on the PC market
(Yeah, not that AVs help a lot, of course, unless you are doing something crazy like downloading cracks. But perception is everything.)
If DRM prevents copying things, it makes them more like physical objects, and that means the providers shouldn't be able to prevent resale of items, because the argument that "you can't prove you no longer have it" becomes moot - it was DRM'd, right? If the ownership transfers, you no longer have access.
If the item is not DRM'd, the argument above becomes somewhat valid and preventing resale would make sense.
You can use it as a chance to make consumers happy and incentivize not doing DRM.
I don't see it. Nothing comes up for "quick sort java", "string concat c#" or a plenty of other stuff - just blue links. With Chromium or Iceweasel; do I need Edge or something to see it? Or did they pull it down already?
I think you have your timing off. Around 1995, 16MB was the high end. My dad was working in DTP since 1994 and had to shell out tons of money back then for 8MB RAM to run his Ventura smoothly.
So it's how long, about 8 years, since AMD announced it's going open source with its GPU drivers?
They did say it's going to take a while to fully shelve Catalyst, and I could understood if the new open source drivers didn't fully support 5+ years old GPUs due to various transition periods etc. But really?!
I thought you were linking to some sort of security-related bugs. But these are just plain bugs. And the codebase involved in rendering web pages is huge, because it's not an easy thing to do (try it; I maintained a text-mode browser for a couple of years). And huge codebases have many bugs, because the effort to keep them without minor bugs is just not worth it to anyone unless it is flying airplanes or directly responsible for hauling over hundreds of millions of dollars.
Welcome to the real world - we just don't know how to write software without bugs without it being too onerous, expensive and boring (and the code running slow). And there's no short term prospect of learning it either. The only thing we can do is fix the major ones and security-wise, design the whole thing so that most bugs don't matter.
Yes, that looks like a good start. Probably a long way from being able to just run this on something complex like theano to make it work with OpenCL, though. (But if I'm wrong about that, all the better.)
Where AMD seems really missing out is supercomputing. If you are building a computing cluster, you always go with NVidia, because of CUDA's overwhelming presence in the ecosystem. (Cracking might be an exception.) For example, all the major deep learning frameworks work just with CUDA. Why doesn't AMD care? It must be losing a lot of sales on this.
If AMD paid three guys fulltime to add OpenCL backends to the most popular open source libraries and built a CuDNN equivalent, the world would be a better place for everyone, but most clearly for AMD.
That's so silly - physical access to the machine doesn't mean anything per se!
What if you can't take the machine apart inconspicuously because the case is sealed. What if you have only 3 minutes before someone else comes by? Security is not black and zero at all.
One can easily even use an AVR that'll replay the keypress sequence over USB (posing as a keyboard) on a button press. This is something completely different than taking the machine apart to clear CMOS or whatever.
BTW, can you have UEFI trusted boot with GRUB, or do you need coreboot? (Yes, there are people other than Microsoft using it, e.g. when selling appliances - think vote machines or gambling terminals.)
It's sad to see so many misguided comments under such a nice nerdy article.
(a) More advanced pseudo-random algorithms like Mersenne Twister are perfectly good for almost anything but crypto uses. Even much simpler Linear Congruential Generators (multiply-modulo, or multiply-add-modulo) with good parameters are perfectly good enough for applications like emulating dice. The only tricky part is how to get the seed.
(b) Arduino has an intrinsic capability to get physically random bits as it has analog input pins. Floating pins will provide perfectly usable noise in the lowest bit of the A/D converter output. You probably would be able to influence the bit pattern if you had it under physical control and tried to produce suitable RF interference hard enough (not 100% sure of that, though); but we are still talking about friggin' D&D, right?
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China *already* proved you wrong. Even the beggars in the streets wear alipay QR codes. For daily use, cash already effectively went away in China *right now*, not in the future. No reason this is not going to happen in the rest of the world, Africa might be next. No opinion when it will happen in the US in particular, but who cares.
Are they missing few decimal places with the emails? Those 92000 emails I have in just one of my inboxes are for just a couple of last few years. Do I have a problem? :)
> Now, miners can apply all the hacks they want (SegWit and co.) but if the system wasn't made to scale, no amount of patching will make it scale.
Unclear why this would be the case. The Lightning Network should compress many transactions to a single one per a long time period.
The slowdown is on syscalls. So it depends on your workload. For example, `du -s` is reportedly slowed down really by tens of percents.
Lightning Network (http://lightning.network/) will allow Bitcoin to scale. Maybe not to VISA-level yet, but at least further several order of magnitudes.
The lightning network allows to keep most transactions off-chain - for example all your daily payments can go through a LN operator, and the only thing that needs to be stored in the blockchain are channel balance settlements - say once per month you settle the balance with a single transaction. It recently left beta, with the protocol finalized and three interoperable implementations. Now, UX and client support is needed, and adoption by major Bitcoin operators. But that'll happen.
Bitcoin adoption just went a bit ahead of the software ecosystem, but don't discard Bitcoin because of that just yet.
Meanwhile, Public Backdoor in Many Chinese Phones Sent Data To US.
...yet, there are professional chess (and Go, shogi) players. It's just smaller economics than football, but that's okay.
Which is all right since the cube root of 1e6 is 1e2. The previous best algorithm would require 1e4 pages.
Siri is a complete stack of text reco engines, intent recognition tools, and backends. There are many initiatives like Sirius, Mycroft and YodaQA, and each does something slightly different - either focusing on the speech reco infrastructure, or just answering factoid questions...
...because letsencrypt?
...except that half of the devices are mobile, which probably means mainly Android. I think as people migrate to latest Windows with their Windows Defender builtin, it's going to be tricky to hold on the PC market
(Yeah, not that AVs help a lot, of course, unless you are doing something crazy like downloading cracks. But perception is everything.)
No developer in the world deserves that Google loses to Oracle in the API lawsuit.
If DRM prevents copying things, it makes them more like physical objects, and that means the providers shouldn't be able to prevent resale of items, because the argument that "you can't prove you no longer have it" becomes moot - it was DRM'd, right? If the ownership transfers, you no longer have access.
If the item is not DRM'd, the argument above becomes somewhat valid and preventing resale would make sense.
You can use it as a chance to make consumers happy and incentivize not doing DRM.
Heh, what a faux-pas...
I don't see it. Nothing comes up for "quick sort java", "string concat c#" or a plenty of other stuff - just blue links. With Chromium or Iceweasel; do I need Edge or something to see it? Or did they pull it down already?
I think you have your timing off. Around 1995, 16MB was the high end. My dad was working in DTP since 1994 and had to shell out tons of money back then for 8MB RAM to run his Ventura smoothly.
So it's how long, about 8 years, since AMD announced it's going open source with its GPU drivers?
They did say it's going to take a while to fully shelve Catalyst, and I could understood if the new open source drivers didn't fully support 5+ years old GPUs due to various transition periods etc. But really?!
I thought you were linking to some sort of security-related bugs. But these are just plain bugs. And the codebase involved in rendering web pages is huge, because it's not an easy thing to do (try it; I maintained a text-mode browser for a couple of years). And huge codebases have many bugs, because the effort to keep them without minor bugs is just not worth it to anyone unless it is flying airplanes or directly responsible for hauling over hundreds of millions of dollars.
Welcome to the real world - we just don't know how to write software without bugs without it being too onerous, expensive and boring (and the code running slow). And there's no short term prospect of learning it either. The only thing we can do is fix the major ones and security-wise, design the whole thing so that most bugs don't matter.
Yes, that looks like a good start. Probably a long way from being able to just run this on something complex like theano to make it work with OpenCL, though. (But if I'm wrong about that, all the better.)
Where AMD seems really missing out is supercomputing. If you are building a computing cluster, you always go with NVidia, because of CUDA's overwhelming presence in the ecosystem. (Cracking might be an exception.) For example, all the major deep learning frameworks work just with CUDA. Why doesn't AMD care? It must be losing a lot of sales on this.
If AMD paid three guys fulltime to add OpenCL backends to the most popular open source libraries and built a CuDNN equivalent, the world would be a better place for everyone, but most clearly for AMD.
I can't replace Android with my own system on my phone unless I get lucky and it's rootable either.
Yep, seems like exactly what EU did to Microsoft, making it possible to pick your browser inst. of MSIE when installing Windows XP.
Right, 400MHz Atheros with 64MB RAM as a competition to RPi. It's something completely different, in fact.
That's so silly - physical access to the machine doesn't mean anything per se!
What if you can't take the machine apart inconspicuously because the case is sealed. What if you have only 3 minutes before someone else comes by? Security is not black and zero at all.
One can easily even use an AVR that'll replay the keypress sequence over USB (posing as a keyboard) on a button press. This is something completely different than taking the machine apart to clear CMOS or whatever.
BTW, can you have UEFI trusted boot with GRUB, or do you need coreboot? (Yes, there are people other than Microsoft using it, e.g. when selling appliances - think vote machines or gambling terminals.)
It's sad to see so many misguided comments under such a nice nerdy article.
(a) More advanced pseudo-random algorithms like Mersenne Twister are perfectly good for almost anything but crypto uses. Even much simpler Linear Congruential Generators (multiply-modulo, or multiply-add-modulo) with good parameters are perfectly good enough for applications like emulating dice. The only tricky part is how to get the seed.
(b) Arduino has an intrinsic capability to get physically random bits as it has analog input pins. Floating pins will provide perfectly usable noise in the lowest bit of the A/D converter output. You probably would be able to influence the bit pattern if you had it under physical control and tried to produce suitable RF interference hard enough (not 100% sure of that, though); but we are still talking about friggin' D&D, right?