I disagree that it should be made safer for unknowing people to get into hacking. How about more lenience and forgiveness? There are guns laying around (cyber weapons) within reach of teenagers. Some kid is going to shoot a hole in the neighbor's house because he wanted to see what happened when he pulled the trigger. Have the kid do the labor to fix it and forgive him. He'll either take up shooting at a range where it's safe, quit entirely, or start his criminal career. Hopefully one of the first two. Skilled shooters will always be needed though.
Damnit.. should have used cars in there somewhere.
Already commented so i couldn't mod you up. I like your perspective on this. It's also silly to assume that a skiddie would stay at that level. Most people start with preexisting tools and work their way up. But there is still disdain for it.
That's what many environmental laws are for. Companies are forced to clean up (or prevent) their environmental damage and pass that cost onto their product consumers. If companies weren't forced to do this, rivers would be on fire.
Pure OpenGL is too high? The last time i was working with it (1.1) it was very very low level. Polygon construction, vector lists, state machine, push/pop'ing each translation and rotation. You also had to query for gl extensions to figure out what the hardware was capable of and tailor the rendering.
I'm doubting OpenGL is too high level. It's like the c language for graphics. If anything, it's too low (which is fixed with libraries).
I would agree with you if all Game Developers were also writing their own Graphics Engine. However, most people use an existing Engine which has already implemented all the compatibility bits
In a desert environment, it is best to wear goggles. Glasses produce additional problems that contacts don't have. Permanent scratches (can't just visit a store and get them remade), getting knocked off your face, vibration and small impacts (think running or riding in a truck) causing small moments of visual inaccuracy. Contacts have their problems as well. The only problem i have had with them so far is after 12 hours your eyes get unhappy with them. By 24 hours your eyes hate them. So alternating between the two is probably the best solution.
Niven's Louis Wu used water vapor to diminish the available sunlight to Slaver Sunflowers. The nearby flowers would reflect light at an object (don't remember what it was, but it flew) that was wrapped in a superconductor line/fabric that extended down into a stream/lake. The flowers were creating the very cloud that would eventually kill them.
Wouldn't that only get them access to that specific file? Any other data they found during the process wouldn't be admissible. I get most of my understanding of US Law from TV:)
Thanks for the reply. May i ask what server, client, and spdy implementation you used? I am still not convinced that your spdy test increased page load by a factor of two. However, i accede to your point on SSL being a bad idea if it is always on. There are situations and platforms where it would be desirable to not use SSL and that would exclude SPDY from being used.
I have the feeling that you are specifically pointing out and searching for flaws and not seeing the benefits. Server push is not designed to send you more ads. If you've ever made a web app (AJAX) then you found out quickly how much it sucks for everything to be requested from the browser. The browser has to keep asking the server if there are any updates (wasteful). Server push will fix that and enable sites to create much more efficient web applications.
Lastly and off-topic. Just because i called you out for your bogus sounding spdy test doesn't mean i'm attacking you personally. Job titles and degrees mean nothing to me and do nothing to establish your competence. Your arguments do though.
I'm seriously doubting your test. There are only a handful of SPDY websites in existence right now. You should also realize SPDY is designed to _speed things up_ not slow them down. I also hope you are not suggesting that ssl sites are twice as slow as non-ssl?
Anyways, to counter your anecdote, i invite people to try SPDY themselves. If you have firefox or chrome, you can make a small change to your browser and try it in only a few seconds. Gmail.com is a good test. This will explain how: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY#Browser_support_and_usage
Oh geez, this was not an easy one. So it reads that WebM is just a container anyways but VP8 is the only video codec it currently uses. VP8 sounds equivalent to or only slightly inferior to H.264 (which could change in WebM's favor as encoders improve). One critical thing that jumped at me was the WebM container doesn't appear to support subtitles at all. That could also change in the future.
So WebM is a container only for VP8 video and vorbis audio. H.264 is a video codec that can be used in another container like MKV.
I heard WebM isn't as good as H.264. It would be hard to remove it by that alone. Add to that the fact that H.264 is popular and i think we can all agree it isn't going away just yet.
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Except for the part where the other million players always mark you as a troll during games and eventually you can only join games with other trolls.
i'm pretty sure TF2 is free?
I disagree that it should be made safer for unknowing people to get into hacking. How about more lenience and forgiveness? There are guns laying around (cyber weapons) within reach of teenagers. Some kid is going to shoot a hole in the neighbor's house because he wanted to see what happened when he pulled the trigger. Have the kid do the labor to fix it and forgive him. He'll either take up shooting at a range where it's safe, quit entirely, or start his criminal career. Hopefully one of the first two. Skilled shooters will always be needed though.
Damnit.. should have used cars in there somewhere.
Already commented so i couldn't mod you up. I like your perspective on this. It's also silly to assume that a skiddie would stay at that level. Most people start with preexisting tools and work their way up. But there is still disdain for it.
How did he use muggles incorrectly?
That's what many environmental laws are for. Companies are forced to clean up (or prevent) their environmental damage and pass that cost onto their product consumers. If companies weren't forced to do this, rivers would be on fire.
All Iraqi's i've met can haggle very well. I doubt anyone is taking advantage of them or getting any kind of discount.
Bigger smiles on the pilot's faces when opening the bay doors?
Pure OpenGL is too high? The last time i was working with it (1.1) it was very very low level. Polygon construction, vector lists, state machine, push/pop'ing each translation and rotation. You also had to query for gl extensions to figure out what the hardware was capable of and tailor the rendering.
I'm doubting OpenGL is too high level. It's like the c language for graphics. If anything, it's too low (which is fixed with libraries).
I would agree with you if all Game Developers were also writing their own Graphics Engine. However, most people use an existing Engine which has already implemented all the compatibility bits
In a desert environment, it is best to wear goggles. Glasses produce additional problems that contacts don't have. Permanent scratches (can't just visit a store and get them remade), getting knocked off your face, vibration and small impacts (think running or riding in a truck) causing small moments of visual inaccuracy. Contacts have their problems as well. The only problem i have had with them so far is after 12 hours your eyes get unhappy with them. By 24 hours your eyes hate them. So alternating between the two is probably the best solution.
Unisys made great keyboards!
hahah, yeah
Niven's Louis Wu used water vapor to diminish the available sunlight to Slaver Sunflowers. The nearby flowers would reflect light at an object (don't remember what it was, but it flew) that was wrapped in a superconductor line/fabric that extended down into a stream/lake. The flowers were creating the very cloud that would eventually kill them.
Agreed! I was a big DW4 fan. I loved the moving cut-scene and sounds.
Wouldn't that only get them access to that specific file? Any other data they found during the process wouldn't be admissible. I get most of my understanding of US Law from TV :)
Thanks for the reply. May i ask what server, client, and spdy implementation you used? I am still not convinced that your spdy test increased page load by a factor of two. However, i accede to your point on SSL being a bad idea if it is always on. There are situations and platforms where it would be desirable to not use SSL and that would exclude SPDY from being used.
I have the feeling that you are specifically pointing out and searching for flaws and not seeing the benefits. Server push is not designed to send you more ads. If you've ever made a web app (AJAX) then you found out quickly how much it sucks for everything to be requested from the browser. The browser has to keep asking the server if there are any updates (wasteful). Server push will fix that and enable sites to create much more efficient web applications.
Lastly and off-topic. Just because i called you out for your bogus sounding spdy test doesn't mean i'm attacking you personally. Job titles and degrees mean nothing to me and do nothing to establish your competence. Your arguments do though.
I'm seriously doubting your test. There are only a handful of SPDY websites in existence right now. You should also realize SPDY is designed to _speed things up_ not slow them down. I also hope you are not suggesting that ssl sites are twice as slow as non-ssl?
Anyways, to counter your anecdote, i invite people to try SPDY themselves. If you have firefox or chrome, you can make a small change to your browser and try it in only a few seconds. Gmail.com is a good test. This will explain how: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY#Browser_support_and_usage
what would stop them from bricking jail broken/rooted phones?
The phones wouldn't be reported stolen and so they aren't bricked.
Oh geez, this was not an easy one. So it reads that WebM is just a container anyways but VP8 is the only video codec it currently uses. VP8 sounds equivalent to or only slightly inferior to H.264 (which could change in WebM's favor as encoders improve). One critical thing that jumped at me was the WebM container doesn't appear to support subtitles at all. That could also change in the future.
So WebM is a container only for VP8 video and vorbis audio. H.264 is a video codec that can be used in another container like MKV.
The search bar is easy to switch to bing. Click and hold, select bing, Done!
I heard WebM isn't as good as H.264. It would be hard to remove it by that alone. Add to that the fact that H.264 is popular and i think we can all agree it isn't going away just yet.
I read your first two links and they had exactly zero to do with paying google for search relevance.
Reducing the cost to install solar by 20% would be amazing.
You are right.. but! G+ uses them now too.