Apparently, the geniuses over at Intel forgot about emulation and virtual machine software.
I suspect they're genius enough to know that to emulate a CPU effectively you need a CPU that's about 10x as fast as the CPU you're emulating. Emulating ARM on an i7 should not be hard; emulating an i7 on ARM will leave your code running at about the speed of a Pentium-90; which may be OK for programs which spend most of their time in an idle loop, but not for anything even remotely CPU-intensive.
Direct understandable interfaces changed to obfuscated, hidden, over-engineered nonsense. Is Google now taking its cues from the MIcrosoft Office interface design team?
Sadly, everyone seems to be trying to ape Windows these days. Last night I told my Ubuntu laptop to shut down and Gnome gave me some stupid Windows-style 'Program Unknown is not responding' dialog box. Like I give a crap, kill -15 and shut down.
Ugh. If I wanted to run Windows I'd be running Windows.
Look at a ATOM board. The large thing with the cooling... that's the northbridge!
You do realise that Intel only ship absurdly crappy northbridge chips with the desktop Atoms, right? My Atom netbook uses about a third as much power in total as the northbridge in my Atom home server does (something like 7-8W vs 20-24W, if I remember correctly).
ARM still has the lead on power, but it's nowhere near as bad as you make out.
Or you know, you could buy the tools to work on your car. Or possibly even rent a tool kit.
Not if Car Company X patents their innovative tool design; just because they're made for $5 a set in China doesn't mean you can buy them to use yourself.
Not to mention they are actually slower than a cashier. the scanner is less sensitive, and you have to wade through the menus for payment, taking twice the time a cashier could do the same thing.
Oh yeah, if you're buying fifteen types of fresh food, you're probably fscked. Someone who does checkout all day probably knows the code for the most common items whereas the rest of us are stuck with hunting through menus trying to figure out what we're actually holding in our hands and which of the icons is actually the correct one ('Is this bunch of tomatoes, large, or bunch of tomatoes, kind of medium sized?') .
Self checkout lanes still typically have a person at the end monitoring a few lanes, and some scales you have to put everything on after you scan it.
They have to have people there because the machines are so incredibly unreliable. 'Put the item in the bag'.. 'I already put the item in the bag you moron'... 'Put the item in the bag'... takes item out of bag.. 'Return the item to the bag'... puts it back in the bag... 'Please wait for an assistant'.
Most times I could get through the checkout faster if they just had a human doing it for me.
The point was that stopping by a second-hand store to pick up a licensed physical copy of the game gets a developer zero revenue, as opposed to stopping by a first-hand retailer to pick up a licensed physical copy of the game.
But there's absolutely no reason to believe that someone who can't sell the game second-hand would still buy it at full price or that someone who buys games second-hand would buy them at full price if buying second-hand wasn't an option. Quite likely both people would wait until it hit the bargain bin and get it for $5.
So the claim is probably as retarded as it first appears.
And that Sir, is exactly what DRM was thought for.
The funny part is that I would probably have bought Fable III if it wasn't for the DRM, because it seems like it would be worth a try despite the numerous problems. But becasue of they put extra DRM on top of the Steam DRM I spent the money on a DRM-free copy of Witcher 2 instead.
The ones I'm familiar with do - if it's flashing, you have a serious problem that warrants immediate investigation. Usually this is caused by excessive misfires.
I'm pretty sure ours does that. I believe it also has a special code for 'your gas cap is loose', which seems to be the biggest single cause of CEL warnings.
Yes, user-mode programs should install into %LOCALAPPDATA% unless being installed for all users. Chrome, for example, does this correctly, which is why you do not need admin credentials to install it.
So every user needs their own copy of the pgoram, and any user-mode exploit can overwrite it with a trojan. Sounds like a great idea.
We're going to have to move to a model where the OS provides each application a sandbox, and nothing can modify the operating system, and no application can directly modify any other application.
Like, say, Linux with SELinux or Apparmor?
The real problem is that sandboxing doesn't work in the general case. For example, if you want your web browser to be able to install plugins, then your sandboxing has to allow it to install plugins, which means that an exploit can install a logger to grab your login passwords and credit card numbers. To work around that you'd need to handle plugin installation in a separate executable which was allowed to install them but not to do much of anything else, which requires rewriting your browser and adding extra hassle to Joe User who just wants to watch that funny dancing cat video that requires the new Silverflashlight plugin.
Similarly, if you want your word processor to be able to edit arbitrary text files, then it has to be able to edit/etc/hosts and/etc/passwd. If you limit it to specific directories then users will whine when they can't edit a document they saved in some random location.
I don't recall having huge numbers of wealthy people moving to the US when Reagan cut taxes from ~73% down to the mid 30s
That's because controlling a company from another country was far more difficult in those days, and because they could move to Switzerland and pay a fixed $50,000 or so in tax rather than paying 30% or whatever in America.
While it's not nearly as widely used as VMware or other virtualization platforms, your argument is weak. Windows 2008 R2 hardly needs a reboot.
So long as you don't believe in installing security fixes. I can't imagine trying to run VMs on an OS that expects me to reboot to install another security fix every few days.
The 'big boys' have a symbiotic relationship with big government, which gives them the laws that keep competitors out of the market, funnel huge government contracts their way and bail them out when they're going bankrupt.
Eliminate big government and parasitic big business goes with it. Only actual useful big business would continue to exist.
The plus side it is possible to recover. Unfortunately dumb asses in congress want to cut taxes, renew tax breaks, and stop government programs.
When you're on the verge of bankruptcy, reducing waste and increasing income is precisely how you do recover. On a national level that means cut taxes and eliminate wasteful government jobs programs.
Israeli airport security is not theater, it is effective, yet it is not degrading.
How many actual terrrorists has it caught?
That's not a rhetorical question: I can't remember any reported instance in recent years of the much-vaunted Israeli security catching a terrorist at an airport. I would also say that after my experience of it I decided I'd never travel to Israel again.
The problem is the expectation that users will know when to say yes to a UAC prompt. Until users start saying cancel to UAC prompts they don't fully understand, malware will only increase.
Have you ever seen a UAC prompt you do understand?
Normally it's along the lines of 'Do you want to allow TrojanHorse.exe to: Access local disk?' What the hell is that supposed to mean? Is it trying to write to a file in its own Program Files directory, or is it trying to overwrite Windows core DLLs and install a root-kit? If I can't tell, how can Joe Sixpack?
Considering the number of things that get broken in GDM in every new Ubuntu release, this may not be a bad thing. For example, going from 10.04 to 11.04 gdm started displaying every single user in the/etc/passwd file, except when it randomly only displays the last one who logged in.
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Apparently, the geniuses over at Intel forgot about emulation and virtual machine software.
I suspect they're genius enough to know that to emulate a CPU effectively you need a CPU that's about 10x as fast as the CPU you're emulating. Emulating ARM on an i7 should not be hard; emulating an i7 on ARM will leave your code running at about the speed of a Pentium-90; which may be OK for programs which spend most of their time in an idle loop, but not for anything even remotely CPU-intensive.
Direct understandable interfaces changed to obfuscated, hidden, over-engineered nonsense. Is Google now taking its cues from the MIcrosoft Office interface design team?
Sadly, everyone seems to be trying to ape Windows these days. Last night I told my Ubuntu laptop to shut down and Gnome gave me some stupid Windows-style 'Program Unknown is not responding' dialog box. Like I give a crap, kill -15 and shut down.
Ugh. If I wanted to run Windows I'd be running Windows.
Look at a ATOM board. The large thing with the cooling... that's the northbridge!
You do realise that Intel only ship absurdly crappy northbridge chips with the desktop Atoms, right? My Atom netbook uses about a third as much power in total as the northbridge in my Atom home server does (something like 7-8W vs 20-24W, if I remember correctly).
ARM still has the lead on power, but it's nowhere near as bad as you make out.
Or you know, you could buy the tools to work on your car. Or possibly even rent a tool kit.
Not if Car Company X patents their innovative tool design; just because they're made for $5 a set in China doesn't mean you can buy them to use yourself.
Once the initial development costs are covered, selling a game for $5 is still a $4.99 profit for them...
But if one of those people would have bought it for $60 because they could sell it used, then getting $10 instead is a big loss.
Not to mention they are actually slower than a cashier. the scanner is less sensitive, and you have to wade through the menus for payment, taking twice the time a cashier could do the same thing.
Oh yeah, if you're buying fifteen types of fresh food, you're probably fscked. Someone who does checkout all day probably knows the code for the most common items whereas the rest of us are stuck with hunting through menus trying to figure out what we're actually holding in our hands and which of the icons is actually the correct one ('Is this bunch of tomatoes, large, or bunch of tomatoes, kind of medium sized?')
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Self checkout lanes still typically have a person at the end monitoring a few lanes, and some scales you have to put everything on after you scan it.
They have to have people there because the machines are so incredibly unreliable. 'Put the item in the bag'.. 'I already put the item in the bag you moron'... 'Put the item in the bag'... takes item out of bag.. 'Return the item to the bag'... puts it back in the bag... 'Please wait for an assistant'.
Most times I could get through the checkout faster if they just had a human doing it for me.
The point was that stopping by a second-hand store to pick up a licensed physical copy of the game gets a developer zero revenue, as opposed to stopping by a first-hand retailer to pick up a licensed physical copy of the game.
But there's absolutely no reason to believe that someone who can't sell the game second-hand would still buy it at full price or that someone who buys games second-hand would buy them at full price if buying second-hand wasn't an option. Quite likely both people would wait until it hit the bargain bin and get it for $5.
So the claim is probably as retarded as it first appears.
And that Sir, is exactly what DRM was thought for.
The funny part is that I would probably have bought Fable III if it wasn't for the DRM, because it seems like it would be worth a try despite the numerous problems. But becasue of they put extra DRM on top of the Steam DRM I spent the money on a DRM-free copy of Witcher 2 instead.
The ones I'm familiar with do - if it's flashing, you have a serious problem that warrants immediate investigation. Usually this is caused by excessive misfires.
I'm pretty sure ours does that. I believe it also has a special code for 'your gas cap is loose', which seems to be the biggest single cause of CEL warnings.
Yes, user-mode programs should install into %LOCALAPPDATA% unless being installed for all users. Chrome, for example, does this correctly, which is why you do not need admin credentials to install it.
So every user needs their own copy of the pgoram, and any user-mode exploit can overwrite it with a trojan. Sounds like a great idea.
We're going to have to move to a model where the OS provides each application a sandbox, and nothing can modify the operating system, and no application can directly modify any other application.
Like, say, Linux with SELinux or Apparmor?
The real problem is that sandboxing doesn't work in the general case. For example, if you want your web browser to be able to install plugins, then your sandboxing has to allow it to install plugins, which means that an exploit can install a logger to grab your login passwords and credit card numbers. To work around that you'd need to handle plugin installation in a separate executable which was allowed to install them but not to do much of anything else, which requires rewriting your browser and adding extra hassle to Joe User who just wants to watch that funny dancing cat video that requires the new Silverflashlight plugin.
Similarly, if you want your word processor to be able to edit arbitrary text files, then it has to be able to edit /etc/hosts and /etc/passwd. If you limit it to specific directories then users will whine when they can't edit a document they saved in some random location.
Don't like paying taxes? Secede.
That's what the left always say until people say 'alright, I'll just do that', and then they demand that someone stop those people from leaving.
I don't recall having huge numbers of wealthy people moving to the US when Reagan cut taxes from ~73% down to the mid 30s
That's because controlling a company from another country was far more difficult in those days, and because they could move to Switzerland and pay a fixed $50,000 or so in tax rather than paying 30% or whatever in America.
While it's not nearly as widely used as VMware or other virtualization platforms, your argument is weak. Windows 2008 R2 hardly needs a reboot.
So long as you don't believe in installing security fixes. I can't imagine trying to run VMs on an OS that expects me to reboot to install another security fix every few days.
It's not clear what eliminating the TSA would solve.
People might not feel that they're in an authoritarian police state whenever they have to fly somewhere?
The 'big boys' have a symbiotic relationship with big government, which gives them the laws that keep competitors out of the market, funnel huge government contracts their way and bail them out when they're going bankrupt.
Eliminate big government and parasitic big business goes with it. Only actual useful big business would continue to exist.
collect information on how users actually use their products and services
Still, there might be an upside if companies can no longer spy on their users without paying license fees.
gpu shaders cannot access main memory.
They can if you configure a texture buffer in main memory, e.g. by exploiting a driver bug to configure the buffer in the wrong place.
Though I agree that the warnings in this post and the previous one are overhyped.
The plus side it is possible to recover. Unfortunately dumb asses in congress want to cut taxes, renew tax breaks, and stop government programs.
When you're on the verge of bankruptcy, reducing waste and increasing income is precisely how you do recover. On a national level that means cut taxes and eliminate wasteful government jobs programs.
Israeli airport security is not theater, it is effective, yet it is not degrading.
How many actual terrrorists has it caught?
That's not a rhetorical question: I can't remember any reported instance in recent years of the much-vaunted Israeli security catching a terrorist at an airport. I would also say that after my experience of it I decided I'd never travel to Israel again.
People don't like it because of the repercussions of making it, not because of the quality of the end product.
That and because it wasn't a very good movie.
The problem is the expectation that users will know when to say yes to a UAC prompt. Until users start saying cancel to UAC prompts they don't fully understand, malware will only increase.
Have you ever seen a UAC prompt you do understand?
Normally it's along the lines of 'Do you want to allow TrojanHorse.exe to: Access local disk?' What the hell is that supposed to mean? Is it trying to write to a file in its own Program Files directory, or is it trying to overwrite Windows core DLLs and install a root-kit? If I can't tell, how can Joe Sixpack?
Considering the number of things that get broken in GDM in every new Ubuntu release, this may not be a bad thing. For example, going from 10.04 to 11.04 gdm started displaying every single user in the /etc/passwd file, except when it randomly only displays the last one who logged in.
when pressed, GNOME tells the user to switch off the computer and do something useful with their life, such as showering.
But does not actually provide a shut down option, because that might confuse users too much.