Probably longer than it will take them to build an atomic bomb from scratch.
Making an a-bomb isn't much of a technical challenge. It's only got a few thousand pieces and specs for those pieces are pretty easy to come by. You can actually buy the majority of them premade. Once you've got the thing, it's pretty reliable. No worries about dispersion patterns, vaccines, resistant populations.
Now, putting together a killer virus from scratch, that's hard. Nobody's ever done it before.
Maybe she changed the title so that victims of rape would have more warning not to attend the talk if they felt they might be sensitive to such material?
Most date rape drugs are favoured for that purpose because they make the victim compliant and often cause some amnesia, which means victims are less likely to have PTSD. On the other hand, by far the most popular date rape drug, alcohol, often increases the likelihood of violence. Despite the dark alley fantasies, a large proportion of rape also involves drunk idiots at social gatherings. So if you want to avoid triggering rape-related PTSD, ban alcohol.
No? I agree. Recovery from PTSD (and many other mental illnesses) doesn't involve sanitizing the world, it involves learning how to live in it again.
Next maybe they'll admit that possibly it's not a good idea to run your office suite in your browser at all. They could provide some sort of launcher or task manager or start menu to let you start the web browser and/or the office suite, and let you switch between them!
A good summary, but you're forgetting one thing: we've also got a MUCH better reason to get everyone back to the thin client (although let's try and make those expensive thin clients) and server paradigm: targeted advertising.
Let's see. I wrote my "translation" based on the summary and the article. True, those things are known to be incorrect sometimes. So let's examine your claims (which in another post you claim should be modded up because they are factually correct).
- Native Client apps are cloud apps - they just use a different client technology. - Second Chrome OS (and Chrome) does have native apps - via NaCl - and has for a while. This isn't new at all.
Okay, first, what exactly do you think NaCl stands for (in Google world, I mean. Regular people know it's the chemical formula of table salt). Could it be... "Native Client"? Why yes, it looks like it could be. Your point one and two contradict each other. Secondly, a web app that runs native code sounds very much to me like:
Google figured out that a computer that runs only cloud based stuff isn't such a good idea. But, since Chrome OS doesn't have native apps, they had to hack those native apps into Chrome, where they run "almost as fast" as they would if they were proper applications under a real OS.
(I said that, by the way, not you)
Next:
- This isn't hacked into Chrome - it's not part of Chrome at all.
- There is no way that anyone at Google would want to write such a misleading and confusing summary.
Well, you're half right. Nobody at Google would want to say anything bad about their expensive new product. Well, except the VP who said "You'll never see another Pixel in your life." But that was just a poor choice of words. And I'm sure he wouldn't have capitalized it like that if he'd written it instead of spoken it.
This is just a new cloud app, that runs on an existing client technology that's been built-into Chrome and Chrome OS for a while.
No, it's a native app with a cloud launcher/downloader that runs through a sandbox and translation/interpretation/emulation/filtering/whatever layer in Chrome, which Chrome OS needs because it must, for some reason, adhere to this idea that the browser IS the OS (like those marketing peons who take Marshall McLuhan's emphatic hyperbole too seriously). Basically, a Java applet, with the added inconvenience that you have to worry about the architecture of the users's machine. So you get to run a native application through a browser, almost as fast as it would run if you just omitted the browser part. Just like I said.
Thanks, it's nice to realize you're also right when you were just posting a funny over coffee at eight in the morning.
It seems you're wrong. The Pixel looks like it's less locked down than previous ChromeBooks so you can run Linux on it (although it's easiest to run particular blessed distros) but if you want something else you're out of luck. Or you can get some decent hardware for a similar price from Apple and run OS X, Linux, Windows, BSD or whatever else, or from any of a number of other laptop manufacturers and run any of those except OS X.
On something the size of a smart phone I'm not sure how you're having trouble looking at the action on one part of the screen and pressing buttons on the other. You definitely shouldn't be playing games on your phone if you're in a situation where you can't afford to look at it. Hey, were you the guy who bombed through the crosswalk outside my building this morning?
Personally, if I want to play a game that doesn't work well on a touch screen, I'll play it on a device that has buttons. I don't want to give up the functionality that a big touchscreen gives in a phone in order to play a subset of games more conveniently on it. I do have a couple of games that use a touch joystick and button though. They work fine. Possibly better than they would with a real joystick and button, and definitely better than with a QWERTY or phone keypad.
Are you saying that phones should look like a game controllers so it's easier to play games on them?
No, I think I was thinking of Star Office (which apparently turned semi-proprietary again when Oracle took over). There are so many X Office suites... somebody should think of another naming scheme.
Quick Office... is that the crappy smartphone reader software?
If the native code thing is so great I wonder why Google didn't port something more substantial. Possibly because it's difficult and slow?
Whenever you're confused about something Google does, ask yourself how it helps their business, which is targeted advertising.
Makes Android and gives it away!? Oh yeah, now they get access to your phone.
Makes a notebook with a tiny hard drive that only runs web apps?! Oh yeah, now you have to store all your stuff on Google's servers where they can look at it.
Google figured out that a computer that runs only cloud based stuff isn't such a good idea. But, since Chrome OS doesn't have native apps, they had to hack those native apps into Chrome, where they run "almost as fast" as they would if they were proper applications under a real OS. As a demonstration of how great this technology is, Google hacked an entire open source office suite into Chrome.
That certainly does explain why you'd want to buy a Chromebook that costs more than an ultrabook or an Air.
It almost sounds like Google wrote the summary... except for the use of annoying cliches and the incomplete sentences.
You referred specifically to cell phones. As I said, volume and mute are things you might want to do with your phone without looking. For everything else, if you can't afford to look, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
Did you read them? All four of the chemistry ones are related to controversies about whether (all) the right people were properly credited for important advances. Did this person's work constitute the discovery, or was it this person who really launched the new field? None of them are on par with vagueness or political motivation of the peace prizes, which have been given to attempted coup leaders, terrorists, random people like Obama and Al Gore, for popularizing global warming.
"There are times when that may be kinda important."
But not very many. If you're manipulating your phone and it's important for you not to be looking at it, you probably shouldn't be manipulating your phone. On the other hand, reconfigurable controls add quite a bit of functionality.
Notice there are still hardware controls for the really essential features - mute, volume up and down, off.
It's still a journal, with a board (as you pointed out, JMLR is successful because it inherited an experienced editorial board), editors, a database of reviewers, etc.
Journals DO useful things. There probably isn't any point in having large aggregate publishers like Elsevier anymore, but there certainly is still a reason to have journals with staff, volunteer or otherwise.
Some Slashdotters seem to think that academic publishing is just a matter of sticking some PDFs up on a web page. It's not. Publishers are expendable, journals and journal staff are not. Fortunately the latter are mostly volunteers.
So you had to type and read instead of dropping by the cube to ask for the TPS report on the way back from the coffee machine?
The last time I consulted for industry (I'm a full time academic) we were working to a ridiculous schedule because someone thought "the code will be finished" meant "everything will be done, processed, and ready to deliver." We made it though. One of the biggest productivity boosts? Telling the manager to quit harassing the people actually doing the work.
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Because the submitter doesn't understand what it is.
Probably longer than it will take them to build an atomic bomb from scratch.
Making an a-bomb isn't much of a technical challenge. It's only got a few thousand pieces and specs for those pieces are pretty easy to come by. You can actually buy the majority of them premade. Once you've got the thing, it's pretty reliable. No worries about dispersion patterns, vaccines, resistant populations.
Now, putting together a killer virus from scratch, that's hard. Nobody's ever done it before.
Maybe she changed the title so that victims of rape would have more warning not to attend the talk if they felt they might be sensitive to such material?
Most date rape drugs are favoured for that purpose because they make the victim compliant and often cause some amnesia, which means victims are less likely to have PTSD. On the other hand, by far the most popular date rape drug, alcohol, often increases the likelihood of violence. Despite the dark alley fantasies, a large proportion of rape also involves drunk idiots at social gatherings. So if you want to avoid triggering rape-related PTSD, ban alcohol.
No? I agree. Recovery from PTSD (and many other mental illnesses) doesn't involve sanitizing the world, it involves learning how to live in it again.
Next maybe they'll admit that possibly it's not a good idea to run your office suite in your browser at all. They could provide some sort of launcher or task manager or start menu to let you start the web browser and/or the office suite, and let you switch between them!
A good summary, but you're forgetting one thing: we've also got a MUCH better reason to get everyone back to the thin client (although let's try and make those expensive thin clients) and server paradigm: targeted advertising.
Let's see. I wrote my "translation" based on the summary and the article. True, those things are known to be incorrect sometimes. So let's examine your claims (which in another post you claim should be modded up because they are factually correct).
Okay, first, what exactly do you think NaCl stands for (in Google world, I mean. Regular people know it's the chemical formula of table salt). Could it be... "Native Client"? Why yes, it looks like it could be. Your point one and two contradict each other. Secondly, a web app that runs native code sounds very much to me like:
(I said that, by the way, not you)
Next:
"Native Client was formerly available as an experimental disabled-by-default feature in the Google Chrome web browser.[2] The feature is enabled from version 14 of Chrome;"
Sounds like it's part of Chrome to me.
Well, you're half right. Nobody at Google would want to say anything bad about their expensive new product. Well, except the VP who said "You'll never see another Pixel in your life." But that was just a poor choice of words. And I'm sure he wouldn't have capitalized it like that if he'd written it instead of spoken it.
No, it's a native app with a cloud launcher/downloader that runs through a sandbox and translation/interpretation/emulation/filtering/whatever layer in Chrome, which Chrome OS needs because it must, for some reason, adhere to this idea that the browser IS the OS (like those marketing peons who take Marshall McLuhan's emphatic hyperbole too seriously). Basically, a Java applet, with the added inconvenience that you have to worry about the architecture of the users's machine. So you get to run a native application through a browser, almost as fast as it would run if you just omitted the browser part. Just like I said.
Thanks, it's nice to realize you're also right when you were just posting a funny over coffee at eight in the morning.
It seems you're wrong. The Pixel looks like it's less locked down than previous ChromeBooks so you can run Linux on it (although it's easiest to run particular blessed distros) but if you want something else you're out of luck. Or you can get some decent hardware for a similar price from Apple and run OS X, Linux, Windows, BSD or whatever else, or from any of a number of other laptop manufacturers and run any of those except OS X.
On something the size of a smart phone I'm not sure how you're having trouble looking at the action on one part of the screen and pressing buttons on the other. You definitely shouldn't be playing games on your phone if you're in a situation where you can't afford to look at it. Hey, were you the guy who bombed through the crosswalk outside my building this morning?
Personally, if I want to play a game that doesn't work well on a touch screen, I'll play it on a device that has buttons. I don't want to give up the functionality that a big touchscreen gives in a phone in order to play a subset of games more conveniently on it. I do have a couple of games that use a touch joystick and button though. They work fine. Possibly better than they would with a real joystick and button, and definitely better than with a QWERTY or phone keypad.
Are you saying that phones should look like a game controllers so it's easier to play games on them?
No, I think I was thinking of Star Office (which apparently turned semi-proprietary again when Oracle took over). There are so many X Office suites... somebody should think of another naming scheme.
Quick Office... is that the crappy smartphone reader software?
If the native code thing is so great I wonder why Google didn't port something more substantial. Possibly because it's difficult and slow?
Nope. My mistake. There are so many XX Offices.
Unless they're comparing to Windows.
Yes, all of those. Plus not being spied on.
I'm not really sure why you'd want to pay Google to let them have your data.
Whenever you're confused about something Google does, ask yourself how it helps their business, which is targeted advertising.
Makes Android and gives it away!? Oh yeah, now they get access to your phone.
Makes a notebook with a tiny hard drive that only runs web apps?! Oh yeah, now you have to store all your stuff on Google's servers where they can look at it.
So what you're saying is that a Chromebook is just dandy if you have a real computer to connect it to?
Google figured out that a computer that runs only cloud based stuff isn't such a good idea. But, since Chrome OS doesn't have native apps, they had to hack those native apps into Chrome, where they run "almost as fast" as they would if they were proper applications under a real OS. As a demonstration of how great this technology is, Google hacked an entire open source office suite into Chrome.
That certainly does explain why you'd want to buy a Chromebook that costs more than an ultrabook or an Air.
It almost sounds like Google wrote the summary... except for the use of annoying cliches and the incomplete sentences.
You referred specifically to cell phones. As I said, volume and mute are things you might want to do with your phone without looking. For everything else, if you can't afford to look, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
Did you read them? All four of the chemistry ones are related to controversies about whether (all) the right people were properly credited for important advances. Did this person's work constitute the discovery, or was it this person who really launched the new field? None of them are on par with vagueness or political motivation of the peace prizes, which have been given to attempted coup leaders, terrorists, random people like Obama and Al Gore, for popularizing global warming.
"There are times when that may be kinda important."
But not very many. If you're manipulating your phone and it's important for you not to be looking at it, you probably shouldn't be manipulating your phone. On the other hand, reconfigurable controls add quite a bit of functionality.
Notice there are still hardware controls for the really essential features - mute, volume up and down, off.
The weakest link is the encryption if you don't have any.
Encryption has just become so important, and so good, that attackers are forced to look elsewhere.
Yes, YOU go read it. They encrypted the white balance information. As I said, a dick move, but not really that big a deal.
Your comment about Pentax and Canon seems to be entirely unfounded FUD.
Awesome. Come into the lab and we'll do an MRI on you, gather some medical history, and publish it all. As a text file!
You do "deep literature searches" and you can't go to a university library for some reason?
It's still a journal, with a board (as you pointed out, JMLR is successful because it inherited an experienced editorial board), editors, a database of reviewers, etc.
Journals DO useful things. There probably isn't any point in having large aggregate publishers like Elsevier anymore, but there certainly is still a reason to have journals with staff, volunteer or otherwise.
Some Slashdotters seem to think that academic publishing is just a matter of sticking some PDFs up on a web page. It's not. Publishers are expendable, journals and journal staff are not. Fortunately the latter are mostly volunteers.
So you had to type and read instead of dropping by the cube to ask for the TPS report on the way back from the coffee machine?
The last time I consulted for industry (I'm a full time academic) we were working to a ridiculous schedule because someone thought "the code will be finished" meant "everything will be done, processed, and ready to deliver." We made it though. One of the biggest productivity boosts? Telling the manager to quit harassing the people actually doing the work.