These problems exist on MacOS too. I was recently handed a MacBook for compatibility testing of a web site with Safari. Only problem? How the FUCK do I launch Safari? It wasnt in the launch bar at the bottom. Literally had to go to another machine just to Google how to do it, because there is apparently no way to just have a simply listing of all available installed applications to launch from the main OS UI. It is inside of Finder apparently, under some Applications menu inside of there. This honestly reminded me of all the bullshit in Windows 3.1 that was needed to get simple things done.
It is the same with everything on macOS, nothing just works, everything has some complicate arcane enchantment you have to utter to get it to do anything at all. And still they market it as simple to use, so people think THEY are the stupid ones. Notice how over 50% of the howto computer books in bookstores are on how to use Apple product, despite being less than 5% of the market?
The data is relatively common and something you can find in any census or online "white pages," with perhaps the exception of the political party you're registered with.
How is this information sensitive in nature?
It is combined with all the data they bought from 3rd party aggregators, like facebook, ad companies and everybody else tracking and contains everything you have ever done that has been registered by soulless entity.
The turnaround story has changed a lot over the years. They no longer talk about their failed outsourcing strategy or about how their push for extreme automation made their production lines so inflexible that they were constantly producing the wrong products.
This version did mention it indirectly by saying they now prefer to produce locally so they can always have the right products on the shelves at the right time.
Not really, I miss the old Lego, before they tried to make nothing but branded and licensed parts that sell well because of their associated content.
Actually they have less special parts now. It was one of the things they fixed during the turn-around. They have licensed models, but fewer special parts.
I dislike many (most) thing Apple does but you've gotta agree that iOS is by far the least user spying mobile OS there is.
Of course, it helps that, unlike Google, their main business is not completely dependent on gathering user data. I heard that in WWDC they threw some jabs towards Google precisely because of that.
As I said, you can't count on Google being too privacy friendly since their business depends on they not being that. And Microsoft has gone full Google on Windows Phone and Windows for PCs.
It's sad that the state of affairs has come to where we are, but people using the products gives the companies little incentive to change their ways
Least? I am not sure, maybe sometimes or in some circumstances, but just see this issue, this a feature they have added 2 years after Android, and 6 years after the first minor smartphones had similar implementation. If they hadn't wanted it to behave the way it did, they would have implemented this years ago, this seems more like they were forced to it by competition and bad PR.
RAID (especially those with parity) can be terrifying. Just think of it: you have a group of disks probably acquired at the same time and probably coming from the same vendor (or even same production batch) serving the same workload in the same environment. That implies a fairly similar MTTF for all the disks.
Then one of the disks fail; this causes the other disks in the array to first handle a higher load, then to be brutally impacted by the rebuild process. That's like playing Russian roulette with a gattling gun.
Yeah. I had a RAID-5 at home. When one disk starting failing I didn't notice because the system kept running, and being a home setup it didn't actually have any lights or warning unless I manually opened the RAID manager and checked. I noticed when a second disk failed this time completely for all sectors, during the recovery two more disks started failing.
And in the gun-control hell that is Europe, all you have to do is join a militia, and they will give you a real assault rifle for free to keep in your home.
Things are called different things in different languages. The english word Swastika comes from Sanskrit, and refers to the shape and symbol that in German is called Hagenkreuz, from german for cross with hooks.
Jesus crist, more nutters in here. Nazis rounded up and shot socialists, they had a socialist wing (along with a nationalist wing), but rounded that wing of the party up and killed them all in the night of long daggers. Few party could be more opposed to socialism than nazies.
And look how many seats the DUP have. Not a lot. Just enough to put the Tories over the edge, but not enough that they can make many demands of their own.
Of course they can make demands. The number of seat has nothing do with it. The size of their balls and their own shame sets the limit for how much they can demand for a power hungry pM that has no other option but to abdicate or agree to the demands
Actually, analysis of the compiled output will tell you things you can derive into a static single assignment tree. For example: if you run a subtraction on x86, it sets the Flags register, which affects branches. If another operation affecting the Flags register occurs before any sort of branch instruction, this is irrelevant, and thus not recorded into the tree. By extension, knowing how such instructions are affected by prior instructions allows you to create a full listing of the logic at each node, such that you can easily understand the conditions for a jump (e.g. if you do SUB %eax,4 and then JLE @addresss, you don't need to encode into the SSA tree that SUB may set the zero flag, signed flag, and overflow flags; you only need to encode that, under the condition %eax is less than or equal to 4, the program takes a branch).
Can you do that in real-time, in an interpreter?
Additionally unless you are sure you can guess which jumps are function calls and returns and you are certain no link-time optimizations have been performed and that the calling convension is still obeyed, you might not even know which registers need to be alive unless you do full analysis of everywhere a jump can go or return to. Of course you can often derive that data from a full analysis (though not always, since you can't cover every possibly state without also solving the halting problem), but it not really something suitable for real-time interpretation or even JIT.
Old SVG font support (where the wrapper was actually SVG) was found to have security issues that browser developers couldn't figure out how to fix. New SVG font support is SVG glyphs in OpenType, which is a different wrapper format that somehow changes things.
Just a smaller subset, which is also what makes it more complicated to implement as they can't just send it to the SVG interpreter without introducing the same security issues.
Though note the "security issues" here are just code for rarely used and poorly maintained code. I tried fixing a few bugs there and clean it up in WebKit, but it was too late and it was deleted anyway, and to be honest, even after investing time in it. That might not have been a wrong decision. Just which they did the same with the rest of the SVG code, or finally invested people in cleaning it up.
You do know all modern compilers convert program source code into a static single assignment tree which is then optimized by simplifying complex graph traversals with weighted edges based on CPU architecture variations in speed of certain operations, right?
You can turn CPU instruction code into the same static single assignment tree, perform the same optimizations, and emit the code as if it were compiled from source code to target a different ISA.
Which works great if you have that intermediate code, but once it becomes instructions they often do a lot more than what is necessary, and unless you know the original intention or can analyse it from the entire program you might have to fully emulate every nuance of the instruction instead of just using the one simple instruction in the other ABI that perform the same intermediate operation but has slightly different nuances in the other ABI.
I mean I feel this misses the point. We know x86 can emulate well: the question is, what, if snytjing , emulates x86 well?
It's a software question. It simply depends on how much you invest in optimizing the emulator, there is nothing intrinsic in x86 that makes it better at emulating ARM that ARM would be at emulating x86.
This is strictly software emulation, so it's easy to get a decent picture of how slow it is going to be.
1- Install QEMU 2- Grab Rasbpian Linux from the Raspberry PI site 3- Install/Run Raspbian on QEMU 4- Profit?
I tried this like a year ago on my core i7, and it was rather slow. Not unusable, but there was a noticeable performance hit.
But this was a beefy i7 system, with GOBS of ram emulating ARM. Now, how well do you think that a bottom of the barrel ARM - which is what the majority of the users is gonna end up with - is going to fare emulating x86?
Not well, I'm guessing. This is mainly going to be a PR thing for Qualcomm and Microsoft.
I often run emulated ARM or MIPS applications on my desktop (for testing), and while it was once a beefy workstation it is also a 6-year old sandy-bridge by now, and most applications are perfectly usable emulated through QEMU, and if you add a bit more optimization you could probably improve the performance even more.
How fast can Snapdragon processors run Windows software? I'm sure that productivity software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice Acrobat Reader, Edge, Firefox, Chrome et cetera - will run just fine. That stuff doesn't need huge CPU power to begin with. What about something more CPU-heavy like Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects, AutoCAD, 3D Max,Blender, Handbrake? How fast will that software run on Snapdragon? Of course this is no big problem - if ARM can't run it today, you can always run it on an Intel or AMD box. But the question remains - how fast is emulated Windows on ARM?
It won't be winning any benchmarks. The base processor starts off slower than most x86 processors, and then has an overhead for emulation. I am guessing it is mostly just for old applications, and not for games or anything CPU intensive, and for that it might be enough.
Between the fact that current ISA is actually AMD64 (which is x86 compatible, but not intel-designed) and the fact that many key patents should have expired by now, it's going to be interesting if intel has the legal bass to actually stop this from happening.
Yeah. Even AMD64 is almost 15 years old by now. They might have patents on some newer additions (maybe no AVX emulation?), but what can still be patented about x86?
Actually, no, they can't, and that's the crux of the matter. Fossil fuel or nuclear turbines take a fairly long, involved process to spin up or down. And they feathering windmills can take a while depending on the windmill type and most place have laws that they have to turn off the "dirty" power first.
Actually windmills are easy to turn off. They have a free-wheel position. This is needed during storms because they otherwise produce too much power and burn out their powerlines.
Correction: During storms they are locked to also avoid them tearing themselves apart. Still it is a switch all windmills need.
Actually, no, they can't, and that's the crux of the matter. Fossil fuel or nuclear turbines take a fairly long, involved process to spin up or down. And they feathering windmills can take a while depending on the windmill type and most place have laws that they have to turn off the "dirty" power first.
Actually windmills are easy to turn off. They have a free-wheel position. This is needed during storms because they otherwise produce too much power and burn out their powerlines.
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In cats they are called panthers.
It also depends on the race. The common housecat is a terrible domesticated breed. The classic breeds the near east are much more domestic.
These problems exist on MacOS too. I was recently handed a MacBook for compatibility testing of a web site with Safari. Only problem? How the FUCK do I launch Safari? It wasnt in the launch bar at the bottom. Literally had to go to another machine just to Google how to do it, because there is apparently no way to just have a simply listing of all available installed applications to launch from the main OS UI. It is inside of Finder apparently, under some Applications menu inside of there. This honestly reminded me of all the bullshit in Windows 3.1 that was needed to get simple things done.
It is the same with everything on macOS, nothing just works, everything has some complicate arcane enchantment you have to utter to get it to do anything at all. And still they market it as simple to use, so people think THEY are the stupid ones. Notice how over 50% of the howto computer books in bookstores are on how to use Apple product, despite being less than 5% of the market?
The data is relatively common and something you can find in any census or online "white pages," with perhaps the exception of the political party you're registered with.
How is this information sensitive in nature?
It is combined with all the data they bought from 3rd party aggregators, like facebook, ad companies and everybody else tracking and contains everything you have ever done that has been registered by soulless entity.
The turnaround story has changed a lot over the years. They no longer talk about their failed outsourcing strategy or about how their push for extreme automation made their production lines so inflexible that they were constantly producing the wrong products.
This version did mention it indirectly by saying they now prefer to produce locally so they can always have the right products on the shelves at the right time.
Not really, I miss the old Lego, before they tried to make nothing but branded and licensed parts that sell well because of their associated content.
Actually they have less special parts now. It was one of the things they fixed during the turn-around. They have licensed models, but fewer special parts.
I dislike many (most) thing Apple does but you've gotta agree that iOS is by far the least user spying mobile OS there is.
Of course, it helps that, unlike Google, their main business is not completely dependent on gathering user data. I heard that in WWDC they threw some jabs towards Google precisely because of that.
As I said, you can't count on Google being too privacy friendly since their business depends on they not being that. And Microsoft has gone full Google on Windows Phone and Windows for PCs.
It's sad that the state of affairs has come to where we are, but people using the products gives the companies little incentive to change their ways
Least? I am not sure, maybe sometimes or in some circumstances, but just see this issue, this a feature they have added 2 years after Android, and 6 years after the first minor smartphones had similar implementation. If they hadn't wanted it to behave the way it did, they would have implemented this years ago, this seems more like they were forced to it by competition and bad PR.
RAID (especially those with parity) can be terrifying. Just think of it: you have a group of disks probably acquired at the same time and probably coming from the same vendor (or even same production batch) serving the same workload in the same environment. That implies a fairly similar MTTF for all the disks.
Then one of the disks fail; this causes the other disks in the array to first handle a higher load, then to be brutally impacted by the rebuild process. That's like playing Russian roulette with a gattling gun.
Yeah. I had a RAID-5 at home. When one disk starting failing I didn't notice because the system kept running, and being a home setup it didn't actually have any lights or warning unless I manually opened the RAID manager and checked. I noticed when a second disk failed this time completely for all sectors, during the recovery two more disks started failing.
And in the gun-control hell that is Europe, all you have to do is join a militia, and they will give you a real assault rifle for free to keep in your home.
Maybe some poor bastard's been stuck on that comet for the last 40 years.
The signal has one bit, it could mean either 0 or 1, we have yet to figure out what. Once we do we can take action!
Are you retarded?
Things are called different things in different languages. The english word Swastika comes from Sanskrit, and refers to the shape and symbol that in German is called Hagenkreuz, from german for cross with hooks.
Jesus crist, more nutters in here. Nazis rounded up and shot socialists, they had a socialist wing (along with a nationalist wing), but rounded that wing of the party up and killed them all in the night of long daggers. Few party could be more opposed to socialism than nazies.
And look how many seats the DUP have. Not a lot. Just enough to put the Tories over the edge, but not enough that they can make many demands of their own.
Of course they can make demands. The number of seat has nothing do with it. The size of their balls and their own shame sets the limit for how much they can demand for a power hungry pM that has no other option but to abdicate or agree to the demands
Actually, analysis of the compiled output will tell you things you can derive into a static single assignment tree. For example: if you run a subtraction on x86, it sets the Flags register, which affects branches. If another operation affecting the Flags register occurs before any sort of branch instruction, this is irrelevant, and thus not recorded into the tree. By extension, knowing how such instructions are affected by prior instructions allows you to create a full listing of the logic at each node, such that you can easily understand the conditions for a jump (e.g. if you do SUB %eax,4 and then JLE @addresss, you don't need to encode into the SSA tree that SUB may set the zero flag, signed flag, and overflow flags; you only need to encode that, under the condition %eax is less than or equal to 4, the program takes a branch).
Can you do that in real-time, in an interpreter?
Additionally unless you are sure you can guess which jumps are function calls and returns and you are certain no link-time optimizations have been performed and that the calling convension is still obeyed, you might not even know which registers need to be alive unless you do full analysis of everywhere a jump can go or return to. Of course you can often derive that data from a full analysis (though not always, since you can't cover every possibly state without also solving the halting problem), but it not really something suitable for real-time interpretation or even JIT.
Hagenkreuz is German for Swastika, dumbass.
The summary should have mentioned there is no solution for 32-bit Linux machines.
In deed there is no solution to 32-bit linux machines.
Wait, what was the subject? Nevermind, it doesn't matter...
Old SVG font support (where the wrapper was actually SVG) was found to have security issues that browser developers couldn't figure out how to fix. New SVG font support is SVG glyphs in OpenType, which is a different wrapper format that somehow changes things.
Just a smaller subset, which is also what makes it more complicated to implement as they can't just send it to the SVG interpreter without introducing the same security issues.
Though note the "security issues" here are just code for rarely used and poorly maintained code. I tried fixing a few bugs there and clean it up in WebKit, but it was too late and it was deleted anyway, and to be honest, even after investing time in it. That might not have been a wrong decision. Just which they did the same with the rest of the SVG code, or finally invested people in cleaning it up.
You do know all modern compilers convert program source code into a static single assignment tree which is then optimized by simplifying complex graph traversals with weighted edges based on CPU architecture variations in speed of certain operations, right?
You can turn CPU instruction code into the same static single assignment tree, perform the same optimizations, and emit the code as if it were compiled from source code to target a different ISA.
Which works great if you have that intermediate code, but once it becomes instructions they often do a lot more than what is necessary, and unless you know the original intention or can analyse it from the entire program you might have to fully emulate every nuance of the instruction instead of just using the one simple instruction in the other ABI that perform the same intermediate operation but has slightly different nuances in the other ABI.
LLVM can compile ARM to x86. CIL is compiled to the current platform ISA. Why wouldn't you JIT, instrument, optimize?
You do, but it works about as well as translating through a third language in google translate. Not always bad, but not great either.
I mean I feel this misses the point. We know x86 can emulate well: the question is, what, if snytjing , emulates x86 well?
It's a software question. It simply depends on how much you invest in optimizing the emulator, there is nothing intrinsic in x86 that makes it better at emulating ARM that ARM would be at emulating x86.
This is strictly software emulation, so it's easy to get a decent picture of how slow it is going to be.
1- Install QEMU
2- Grab Rasbpian Linux from the Raspberry PI site
3- Install/Run Raspbian on QEMU
4- Profit?
I tried this like a year ago on my core i7, and it was rather slow. Not unusable, but there was a noticeable performance hit.
But this was a beefy i7 system, with GOBS of ram emulating ARM. Now, how well do you think that a bottom of the barrel ARM - which is what the majority of the users is gonna end up with - is going to fare emulating x86?
Not well, I'm guessing. This is mainly going to be a PR thing for Qualcomm and Microsoft.
I often run emulated ARM or MIPS applications on my desktop (for testing), and while it was once a beefy workstation it is also a 6-year old sandy-bridge by now, and most applications are perfectly usable emulated through QEMU, and if you add a bit more optimization you could probably improve the performance even more.
How fast can Snapdragon processors run Windows software? I'm sure that productivity software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenOffice Acrobat Reader, Edge, Firefox, Chrome et cetera - will run just fine. That stuff doesn't need huge CPU power to begin with. What about something more CPU-heavy like Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects, AutoCAD, 3D Max,Blender, Handbrake? How fast will that software run on Snapdragon? Of course this is no big problem - if ARM can't run it today, you can always run it on an Intel or AMD box. But the question remains - how fast is emulated Windows on ARM?
It won't be winning any benchmarks. The base processor starts off slower than most x86 processors, and then has an overhead for emulation. I am guessing it is mostly just for old applications, and not for games or anything CPU intensive, and for that it might be enough.
Between the fact that current ISA is actually AMD64 (which is x86 compatible, but not intel-designed) and the fact that many key patents should have expired by now, it's going to be interesting if intel has the legal bass to actually stop this from happening.
Yeah. Even AMD64 is almost 15 years old by now. They might have patents on some newer additions (maybe no AVX emulation?), but what can still be patented about x86?
Actually, no, they can't, and that's the crux of the matter. Fossil fuel or nuclear turbines take a fairly long, involved process to spin up or down. And they feathering windmills can take a while depending on the windmill type and most place have laws that they have to turn off the "dirty" power first.
Actually windmills are easy to turn off. They have a free-wheel position. This is needed during storms because they otherwise produce too much power and burn out their powerlines.
Correction: During storms they are locked to also avoid them tearing themselves apart. Still it is a switch all windmills need.
Actually, no, they can't, and that's the crux of the matter. Fossil fuel or nuclear turbines take a fairly long, involved process to spin up or down. And they feathering windmills can take a while depending on the windmill type and most place have laws that they have to turn off the "dirty" power first.
Actually windmills are easy to turn off. They have a free-wheel position. This is needed during storms because they otherwise produce too much power and burn out their powerlines.