On the contrary, i have some recollection of some nation-states poisioning downloads of "encrypted" communication apps to be able to eavesdrop. (Egypt? Iran?).
While the Berlin Wall itself as just in Berlin it stood as the prime example of the Iron Curtain division of Europe and apart from the Berlin border there was also an division of the German countryside as well.
Considering it's Apple all they'd have to do is reschedule their yearly "new phone reveal" event to coincide with products starting to roll out of a new assembly line to get most of their regular customers to stay with them. (Add to this they could probably even release a cut-down phone at that event with only software updates and still save themselves if the timetable needed to be accelerated).
Actually the 17 million figure includes commercial vechicles, the number for passenger vechicles seems to be around 6-6.5 million and a competitor approaching 5-10% from being basically at 0% a few years back should scare any company in any market.
See https://countryeconomy.com/bus...
It's not about "whiteness" when it comes to China, it's about a level playing field. Companies in China must be majority owned by Chinese persons or companies so even if car companies,etc has precence in China their local subsidiaries are in some fashion China owned and thus exposed to the possibility of technology theft.
For example read up on how China became the Nr #1 country in high speed trains and the bitter taste it left for companies that tried to invest in subsidiaries there to have their tech stolen and now used agains't them aborad.
The engineers were great, at making hardware and embedded software to run on memory constrained system like their cheaper phone models.
I'm sure some people internally said in 2004-2007 that they needed a new OS since they were basically running a macOS8/win3.1 like operating system on phones that had better specs than most win95 machines had used when the internet became a thing, but the thing was that Nokia's culture was not one that could appreciate the need for something like that in the future because the higher rungs were full of salesmen or other risk averse people that usually climbs in big organisations like Nokia was.
(I'm not familiar with Nokia history so maybe they had some teams on that but then they did the whole Copland thing that Apple had done in the 90s)
Sadly ideology doesn't pay. The simple fact is that tools like Gimp, Lib/OO-office,video-editing and Blender are far far behind the commercial offerings and people betting on the closed source offerings will almost always make more money and have enough to offset the costs.
Out of these programs the only suite that really tries to improve things is Blender that has had pushes to improve it's UI (because even the die-hards remembers the bad learning curve they had).
I made my masters thesis in GDocs(drafts) and Libre Office(final version) and the time spent on stupid behaviours was actually pretty big. Some crash bugs in LO-Impress on a contract forced my hand to buy in MS-O and it's been worthy every penny for those "soft" contracts because on top of unifying menus/toolbars the ribbon interface also unified key-beindings in the programs leading to me being able to do more than 95% of the work in Powerpoint with the KEYBOARD! (yes, MS has been better for keyboard users on this front)
However GIMP is still the prime example of how badly opensource developers manages UI's. Downloaded GIMP a few months back to give it another chance and almost immediately i ran into stupid things that modern graphics programs shoudn't worry about. Namely that creating a new layer required me to specify the layer dimensions manually!, Photoshop has managed this automatically since the first versions but the opensource "equivalent" in 2017 still requires you to fiddle with these things manually (and frankly no artist will ever want to control that if the program can just auto-resize things on demand).
Open source has worked great for many things but when it comes to user interfaces we always seem to be stuck with the descisions of the initial programmers and sadly those has historically often been bad. This in turn has been a barrier of entry for new software since open source wisdom has been to pool behind whataver exists and is good enough to make it "great", but when bad UI descisions are more or less set in stone it won't really happen.
I don't know exactly how the open source community could and should improve things but things do need to change. One solution could be to found some productivity software company that does to open source productiviy software what Red Hat did for making money on server software, the question of course is how to bootstrap such a company. (And would the established OS operating system companies be willing to hand over enough control to such a company?)
Also it might be possible that he was intentionally left out due to trust issues after patching the Krack attack and thus disclosing info about it prematurely.
If you look at the last link Rei posted you'll notice that they removed panels for that very reason and reinstalled them after the storm passed.
Just the same way as they shut down the nuclear plants in Florida. (Granted removing solar panels might be a tad more work but seems it wasn't overwhelming with a bit of planning).
Partially, both the Soviets and NASA did use pencils initially since regular ink ones didn't work. However, once the space ink pen was produced they both also started using it.
Now since NASA got the pens first the legend was probably technically true for a short period.
Was the investment recouped, will the previous investment create incentive to make another great game?
This sentiment is a big part of why the most profitable parts of the game industry is now chasing cheap and crappy microtransaction money instead of creating big experiences and things aren't looking better each time an "artistic creator" goes bankrupt.
From today they should make the Wii SDK produce "fat" binaries with X86 aswell as PPC code and plan for a migration to the same AMD CPU/GPU(GCN) architechture that the Xbone/PS4 is already using in 2 years (But with better specs at a possibly cheaper price point).
That way they can remain a target for "AAA" developers and then put their differentiator as smaller/chilfriendly controllers by default and Mario/Zelda games, if they did right now and added forward compability with WiiU games they'd not upset anyone at that point (since the SDK would produce X86 code today and they could re-use most Wii U games until then on he new console).
Well looking at the time this changeover has been in progress and that getting the userland and ports into sane order was the latter part of it i would suspect that they might already be running with llvm since the sony userland is probably stripped down and Sony's own code is running most of the show.
That is assuming that the Sony devs had a good clue and sanity enough to track the mother project..
NURBS and other "procedural" methods has always been hampered by the fact that tools for them are usually unweidly.
Sure people have been using both methods for terrain and other "nature" features of worlds but for characters,etc the main consideration is how an artist should create the representation.
The simple fact is that it's so much quicker to do a bitmap texture and sculpt a mesh that even getting the outlines done with "mathematical" methods wouldn't happen in the time the full model is done with the classic tools.
To begin their department have a diagnostic space with several axes onto where the classic autism and aspberger diagnoses are just specified areas in their diagnostic space. This is because the classic diagnoses are relatively static and might not pinpoint the correct treatments/remedies.
A big result of this is that they have realized that a lot of women with problems coping in society(crime,etc) in reality fits into parts of that diagnostic spectrum that would have made them fall out of the classic autism/aspergers diagnoses but still retain a multitude of "problems" in interactions with other people.
Let your kid roam on the computer and once it slows down teach him to reinstall the computer himself.
Anti-virus programs are reactive rather than proactive so you should expect a windows machine to be infected soon or later (unless used by a somewhat obsessive noscript,etc user that avoids most risks).
As you mention Teslas i guess using openCL with AMD could be an option?
Since the fusion chips share memory (for better and worse) with the main CPU you can apperantly get faster(0?) "transfer time" between CPU/GPU also maybe with this method it'd be possible to pump up the GPU cores with larger amounts of useable memory than usual?
And since they're cheap you could buy a bucketload of them.
Install your favourite linux on virtualbox and then add the host additions, setup the mapping in VBox and mount the path in linux and presto.. filesystem sharing.
Sure this is a big security issue for networked apps, especially those that listens on sockets.
However for many desktop utility apps (graphics programs,etc) that has a tendency to depend on cutting edge libraries, it's a major hurdle for users to try them out (without borking up half their system to go cutting edge for that single app). This might even be a reason for why linux has never really succeeded on the desktop since you either get a flawed experience or an outdated experience.
As for security, a 0install system like this could black-list insecure library versions until they get upgraded by the authors.
Actually i think you can enable PAE with a bit of hacking.
There are however a few big problems with PAE.
1: Pages in memory are 4mb instead of 4kb, some programs make silly assumptions about it and that decreases compability. 2: Ever more severe, many thirdparty drivers does the same. Thus PAE mode would induce a whole world of hurt in terms of compability and system crashes. 3: Bloat.. since most programs has code, constant, stack and data areas that usually end up on separate pages every minor app will require something like 16meg of memory. Not a big problem for a server with lots of mem and few programs but worse in desktop settings.
So.. when you go to PAE you could as well just jump to 64bit because of the driver and app issues and that will also be more efficient since it's really only the kernel that will consume more memory due to larger pointers.
The apps are still 32bit for most parts but can be put into separate areas with virtual mappings on a small (4k) granularity that doesn't induce bloat.
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On the contrary, i have some recollection of some nation-states poisioning downloads of "encrypted" communication apps to be able to eavesdrop. (Egypt? Iran?).
While the Berlin Wall itself as just in Berlin it stood as the prime example of the Iron Curtain division of Europe and apart from the Berlin border there was also an division of the German countryside as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_German_border
Considering it's Apple all they'd have to do is reschedule their yearly "new phone reveal" event to coincide with products starting to roll out of a new assembly line to get most of their regular customers to stay with them.
(Add to this they could probably even release a cut-down phone at that event with only software updates and still save themselves if the timetable needed to be accelerated).
Actually the 17 million figure includes commercial vechicles, the number for passenger vechicles seems to be around 6-6.5 million and a competitor approaching 5-10% from being basically at 0% a few years back should scare any company in any market.
See https://countryeconomy.com/bus...
It's not about "whiteness" when it comes to China, it's about a level playing field. Companies in China must be majority owned by Chinese persons or companies so even if car companies,etc has precence in China their local subsidiaries are in some fashion China owned and thus exposed to the possibility of technology theft.
For example read up on how China became the Nr #1 country in high speed trains and the bitter taste it left for companies that tried to invest in subsidiaries there to have their tech stolen and now used agains't them aborad.
http://fortune.com/2013/04/15/did-china-steal-japans-high-speed-train/
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2107096/china-says-its-bullet-train-technology-was-stolen-days-after-us
The engineers were great, at making hardware and embedded software to run on memory constrained system like their cheaper phone models.
I'm sure some people internally said in 2004-2007 that they needed a new OS since they were basically running a macOS8/win3.1 like operating system on phones that had better specs than most win95 machines had used when the internet became a thing, but the thing was that Nokia's culture was not one that could appreciate the need for something like that in the future because the higher rungs were full of salesmen or other risk averse people that usually climbs in big organisations like Nokia was.
(I'm not familiar with Nokia history so maybe they had some teams on that but then they did the whole Copland thing that Apple had done in the 90s)
Don't think so. You should ping rich turner and ask since he's been helpful, there's also an github+"uservoice" thing where you can post these issues.
Sadly ideology doesn't pay. The simple fact is that tools like Gimp, Lib/OO-office,video-editing and Blender are far far behind the commercial offerings and people betting on the closed source offerings will almost always make more money and have enough to offset the costs.
Out of these programs the only suite that really tries to improve things is Blender that has had pushes to improve it's UI (because even the die-hards remembers the bad learning curve they had).
I made my masters thesis in GDocs(drafts) and Libre Office(final version) and the time spent on stupid behaviours was actually pretty big. Some crash bugs in LO-Impress on a contract forced my hand to buy in MS-O and it's been worthy every penny for those "soft" contracts because on top of unifying menus/toolbars the ribbon interface also unified key-beindings in the programs leading to me being able to do more than 95% of the work in Powerpoint with the KEYBOARD! (yes, MS has been better for keyboard users on this front)
However GIMP is still the prime example of how badly opensource developers manages UI's. Downloaded GIMP a few months back to give it another chance and almost immediately i ran into stupid things that modern graphics programs shoudn't worry about. Namely that creating a new layer required me to specify the layer dimensions manually!, Photoshop has managed this automatically since the first versions but the opensource "equivalent" in 2017 still requires you to fiddle with these things manually (and frankly no artist will ever want to control that if the program can just auto-resize things on demand).
Open source has worked great for many things but when it comes to user interfaces we always seem to be stuck with the descisions of the initial programmers and sadly those has historically often been bad. This in turn has been a barrier of entry for new software since open source wisdom has been to pool behind whataver exists and is good enough to make it "great", but when bad UI descisions are more or less set in stone it won't really happen.
I don't know exactly how the open source community could and should improve things but things do need to change. One solution could be to found some productivity software company that does to open source productiviy software what Red Hat did for making money on server software, the question of course is how to bootstrap such a company. (And would the established OS operating system companies be willing to hand over enough control to such a company?)
Also it might be possible that he was intentionally left out due to trust issues after patching the Krack attack and thus disclosing info about it prematurely.
If you look at the last link Rei posted you'll notice that they removed panels for that very reason and reinstalled them after the storm passed.
Just the same way as they shut down the nuclear plants in Florida. (Granted removing solar panels might be a tad more work but seems it wasn't overwhelming with a bit of planning).
But would that really apply for tapes capable of storing "modern" amounts of data?
At thousands times more data the density would need to be high enough that cosmic radiation should start affecting tape also?
Partially, both the Soviets and NASA did use pencils initially since regular ink ones didn't work. However, once the space ink pen was produced they both also started using it.
Now since NASA got the pens first the legend was probably technically true for a short period.
Was the investment recouped, will the previous investment create incentive to make another great game?
This sentiment is a big part of why the most profitable parts of the game industry is now chasing cheap and crappy microtransaction money instead of creating big experiences and things aren't looking better each time an "artistic creator" goes bankrupt.
From today they should make the Wii SDK produce "fat" binaries with X86 aswell as PPC code and plan for a migration to the same AMD CPU/GPU(GCN) architechture that the Xbone/PS4 is already using in 2 years (But with better specs at a possibly cheaper price point).
That way they can remain a target for "AAA" developers and then put their differentiator as smaller/chilfriendly controllers by default and Mario/Zelda games, if they did right now and added forward compability with WiiU games they'd not upset anyone at that point (since the SDK would produce X86 code today and they could re-use most Wii U games until then on he new console).
Well looking at the time this changeover has been in progress and that getting the userland and ports into sane order was the latter part of it i would suspect that they might already be running with llvm since the sony userland is probably stripped down and Sony's own code is running most of the show.
That is assuming that the Sony devs had a good clue and sanity enough to track the mother project..
I heard rumours about our favourite Bonzi buddy
NURBS and other "procedural" methods has always been hampered by the fact that tools for them are usually unweidly.
Sure people have been using both methods for terrain and other "nature" features of worlds but for characters,etc the main consideration is how an artist should create the representation.
The simple fact is that it's so much quicker to do a bitmap texture and sculpt a mesh that even getting the outlines done with "mathematical" methods wouldn't happen in the time the full model is done with the classic tools.
You mean http://www.wurmonline.com/ ? (A MMO that by no accident notch was working on before Minecraft)
Sorry could not resist :)
To begin their department have a diagnostic space with several axes onto where the classic autism and aspberger diagnoses are just specified areas in their diagnostic space. This is because the classic diagnoses are relatively static and might not pinpoint the correct treatments/remedies.
A big result of this is that they have realized that a lot of women with problems coping in society(crime,etc) in reality fits into parts of that diagnostic spectrum that would have made them fall out of the classic autism/aspergers diagnoses but still retain a multitude of "problems" in interactions with other people.
Let your kid roam on the computer and once it slows down teach him to reinstall the computer himself.
Anti-virus programs are reactive rather than proactive so you should expect a windows machine to be infected soon or later (unless used by a somewhat obsessive noscript,etc user that avoids most risks).
As you mention Teslas i guess using openCL with AMD could be an option?
Since the fusion chips share memory (for better and worse) with the main CPU you can apperantly get faster(0?) "transfer time" between CPU/GPU also maybe with this method it'd be possible to pump up the GPU cores with larger amounts of useable memory than usual?
And since they're cheap you could buy a bucketload of them.
Install your favourite linux on virtualbox and then add the host additions, setup the mapping in VBox and mount the path in linux and presto.. filesystem sharing.
Sure this is a big security issue for networked apps, especially those that listens on sockets.
However for many desktop utility apps (graphics programs,etc) that has a tendency to depend on cutting edge libraries, it's a major hurdle for users to try them out (without borking up half their system to go cutting edge for that single app). This might even be a reason for why linux has never really succeeded on the desktop since you either get a flawed experience or an outdated experience.
As for security, a 0install system like this could black-list insecure library versions until they get upgraded by the authors.
Actually i think you can enable PAE with a bit of hacking.
There are however a few big problems with PAE.
1: Pages in memory are 4mb instead of 4kb, some programs make silly assumptions about it and that decreases compability.
2: Ever more severe, many thirdparty drivers does the same. Thus PAE mode would induce a whole world of hurt in terms of compability and system crashes.
3: Bloat.. since most programs has code, constant, stack and data areas that usually end up on separate pages every minor app will require something like 16meg of memory. Not a big problem for a server with lots of mem and few programs but worse in desktop settings.
So.. when you go to PAE you could as well just jump to 64bit because of the driver and app issues and that will also be more efficient since it's really only the kernel that will consume more memory due to larger pointers.
The apps are still 32bit for most parts but can be put into separate areas with virtual mappings on a small (4k) granularity that doesn't induce bloat.