So let's say Chrome is fine - there is still IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and hundreds (thousands?) of Webkit-based Android and iOS mobile variations. Even if iOS people tend to update, remember that Android phones, in general, don't get updated.
I would think there would be more empathy for a collaborative approach around here. What he is doing is the open-source equivalent of putting an early alpha up on GitHub. Hell, he even offers up the source code.
You're right, we shouldn't build models based on math. We shouldn't even try to understand the universe using such abstract tools. We should rely on thought experiments and push models around in sand. We can dress in togas and burn heretics.
As if Flash didn't already fucking do that? What's your malfunction?
If you find Flash to have an acceptable track record of security and performance, then I'm not the one with a malfunction.
t's fully encrypted, you moron. The only vulnerability that will allow what you speak of basically requires someone to be at your computer, or someone fucked up the encryption implementation.
You probably would have called me a moron if I suggested that a script from one website on one tab could snag my email credentials on another tab, and yet bugs like that have cropped up repeatedly. I see no reason why this will be any different... it certainly won't make browsers less complicated.
And now my browser can turn on my camera and mic. Yay.
But I'm sure there will never be any cross site vulnerability that lets a compromised site in another tab listen in on my conference session. That will never happen.
That's not what Google seems to say, unless you consider the "High" profile of H.264, which Apple also does not support. Anyway, it's all moot if your phone or tablet doesn't have a VP8 decoder in hardware. Letting ARM do the work will kill your battery.
Yes, I re-read my comment and it is very misleading. A mirror does reflect, but it also absorbs part of the energy. My apologies.
In any case, point a high-energy photon stream at a missile, and it would heat up, no matter how shiny. You can bet that the source mirror is actively cooled, and made from heavy materials that have no business going on the skin of a missile.
If the missile is liquid-fueled, you might be able to polish the surface and also run the liquid fuel down the inside of the skin to convect heat away. I imagine this would create all sorts of practical challenges, and most importantly make the missile more expensive. All things being equal, that means fewer missiles - which could be a good strategic outcome.
USSR spent a lot more, as a percentage of GDP, on their military than we did.
Today, of course, we go overboard... by maybe double!:)
My comment was based on the fact that both SS and Medicare EACH surpass defense these days. In '86, in the midst of the Cold War, our military spending was 40% of our budget, and Medicare was 11%, with SS at 23%. The growth in social spending is a bit astounding, but understandable given our demographic shift and the rapid cost increase of healthcare.
That's a very subjective statement. Objectively, we CAN say that the delta between tax rates and spending has gotten too high. And objectively, the largest growth rate has been in the social services category of spending - specifically healthcare and Social Security. Military spending bounces in and out of historical norms, as do tax rates.
This strategy is not without it's drawbacks. It assumes no immediate threat of counterattack and destroys any possibility of surprise. Launching an attack that you know will fail could end disastrously if the enemy knows anything about the location of your high tech resources.
In the case of a nuclear attack, this strategy is DOA - just launch everything you have, old and new.
My Android phone has an SD card, and I got the biggest one the phone would accept... but I have to tell you, it is a second class citizen compared to the internal memory. I have this absurd situation of having very large amounts of useless memory and I'm always struggling to move stuff onto it. There are work arounds involving root, but nevertheless the SD card is not a panacea.
To be fair, though, I've never had a device where I "upgraded" the SD card. I almost always buy the biggest, fastest card I can afford when I purchase the device - I consider it as part of the cost of the device. For my use case, it is immaterial whether the memory is built in or not. There must be a lot of people who think like me, since even Nokia is going this route at the high end.
Of course these days it seems odd that BASIC was ever seen as an acceptable language to write a production program in, but it was quite common then.
We have a very old (early 90s) temperature logger that is written in QBASIC. And if you include Visual Basic... well, many of our tools are glued together with that. Even with new stuff, if you are writing to.NET, Basic is a reasonable option. BASIC will never die:)
I'll have to look up the Church of the Beaver Cleaver when I'm not at work:)
Wow! PC Pursuit! No, for me the closest city was Philadelphia - and it was 100 miles away. Long distance was still in the 20+ cents / minute range back then, so I had to stay with my area code. Even then, calls outside my "local area" were expensive. It's amazing how good I got at navigating the phone system to avoid my parents wrath:) It was self-limiting, though... the BBSes all had limited time and there were only a few worth dialing in to in my area. The ones running Wildcat were "popular" down my way. I don't think a board ever lasted more than 2 years - mostly high school kids I think, and the board would die when they went off to college.
Satellites are a pretty good chunk of infrastructure. If you could refuel them for a reasonable cost, that seems like a good start. Add services such as on-station repair gradually. Once you have sustainable "gas stations" up there, NASA (hell, everyone) could start launching lighter loads. Once that happens, access to space becomes more cost-effective. More cost-effective access to space leads to more exploitation of space. That creates more customers and demand for more resources.
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So let's say Chrome is fine - there is still IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and hundreds (thousands?) of Webkit-based Android and iOS mobile variations. Even if iOS people tend to update, remember that Android phones, in general, don't get updated.
I would think there would be more empathy for a collaborative approach around here. What he is doing is the open-source equivalent of putting an early alpha up on GitHub. Hell, he even offers up the source code.
Wait, so he should have kept his work secret until he had the One Perfect Model?
You're right, we shouldn't build models based on math. We shouldn't even try to understand the universe using such abstract tools. We should rely on thought experiments and push models around in sand. We can dress in togas and burn heretics.
What if each bomb were moon-sized? :)
As if Flash didn't already fucking do that? What's your malfunction?
If you find Flash to have an acceptable track record of security and performance, then I'm not the one with a malfunction.
t's fully encrypted, you moron. The only vulnerability that will allow what you speak of basically requires someone to be at your computer, or someone fucked up the encryption implementation.
You probably would have called me a moron if I suggested that a script from one website on one tab could snag my email credentials on another tab, and yet bugs like that have cropped up repeatedly. I see no reason why this will be any different... it certainly won't make browsers less complicated.
And now my browser can turn on my camera and mic. Yay.
But I'm sure there will never be any cross site vulnerability that lets a compromised site in another tab listen in on my conference session. That will never happen.
That's not what Google seems to say, unless you consider the "High" profile of H.264, which Apple also does not support. Anyway, it's all moot if your phone or tablet doesn't have a VP8 decoder in hardware. Letting ARM do the work will kill your battery.
An excuse for bloat.
I'm going to rip all of this crap out of Firefox and make it just a light, efficient web browser. I shall call it "Phoenix".
Isn't VP8 more processor-intensive than H.264? I would think it was pretty reasonable for Apple to be concerned about battery life.
Yes, I re-read my comment and it is very misleading. A mirror does reflect, but it also absorbs part of the energy. My apologies.
In any case, point a high-energy photon stream at a missile, and it would heat up, no matter how shiny. You can bet that the source mirror is actively cooled, and made from heavy materials that have no business going on the skin of a missile.
If the missile is liquid-fueled, you might be able to polish the surface and also run the liquid fuel down the inside of the skin to convect heat away. I imagine this would create all sorts of practical challenges, and most importantly make the missile more expensive. All things being equal, that means fewer missiles - which could be a good strategic outcome.
USSR spent a lot more, as a percentage of GDP, on their military than we did.
Today, of course, we go overboard... by maybe double! :)
My comment was based on the fact that both SS and Medicare EACH surpass defense these days. In '86, in the midst of the Cold War, our military spending was 40% of our budget, and Medicare was 11%, with SS at 23%. The growth in social spending is a bit astounding, but understandable given our demographic shift and the rapid cost increase of healthcare.
Tax rates have been WAY too low for decades.
That's a very subjective statement. Objectively, we CAN say that the delta between tax rates and spending has gotten too high. And objectively, the largest growth rate has been in the social services category of spending - specifically healthcare and Social Security. Military spending bounces in and out of historical norms, as do tax rates.
Even "perfect" mirrors absorb photons, and would need a heat sink. This would make them too heavy.
Ironically, the debt that will kill us is for social services, not our military.
A mirror works by absorbing photons and then re-emitting them. Any mirror substantial enough to protect a missile will be too heavy for a missile.
This strategy is not without it's drawbacks. It assumes no immediate threat of counterattack and destroys any possibility of surprise. Launching an attack that you know will fail could end disastrously if the enemy knows anything about the location of your high tech resources.
In the case of a nuclear attack, this strategy is DOA - just launch everything you have, old and new.
I found one of my favorite games ever (R-Type) for a few dollars on Android.
My Android phone has an SD card, and I got the biggest one the phone would accept... but I have to tell you, it is a second class citizen compared to the internal memory. I have this absurd situation of having very large amounts of useless memory and I'm always struggling to move stuff onto it. There are work arounds involving root, but nevertheless the SD card is not a panacea.
Fire keeps us warm.
This is true.
To be fair, though, I've never had a device where I "upgraded" the SD card. I almost always buy the biggest, fastest card I can afford when I purchase the device - I consider it as part of the cost of the device. For my use case, it is immaterial whether the memory is built in or not. There must be a lot of people who think like me, since even Nokia is going this route at the high end.
Of course these days it seems odd that BASIC was ever seen as an acceptable language to write a production program in, but it was quite common then.
We have a very old (early 90s) temperature logger that is written in QBASIC. And if you include Visual Basic... well, many of our tools are glued together with that. Even with new stuff, if you are writing to .NET, Basic is a reasonable option. BASIC will never die :)
I'll have to look up the Church of the Beaver Cleaver when I'm not at work :)
LOL! I had to Google because I was hoping for pictures. I found this.
I almost completely forgot about the Church of the Subgenius.
Wow! PC Pursuit! No, for me the closest city was Philadelphia - and it was 100 miles away. Long distance was still in the 20+ cents / minute range back then, so I had to stay with my area code. Even then, calls outside my "local area" were expensive. It's amazing how good I got at navigating the phone system to avoid my parents wrath :) It was self-limiting, though... the BBSes all had limited time and there were only a few worth dialing in to in my area. The ones running Wildcat were "popular" down my way. I don't think a board ever lasted more than 2 years - mostly high school kids I think, and the board would die when they went off to college.
Satellites are a pretty good chunk of infrastructure. If you could refuel them for a reasonable cost, that seems like a good start. Add services such as on-station repair gradually. Once you have sustainable "gas stations" up there, NASA (hell, everyone) could start launching lighter loads. Once that happens, access to space becomes more cost-effective. More cost-effective access to space leads to more exploitation of space. That creates more customers and demand for more resources.