No they don't, if you knew anything about them you'd understand why they don't make anything more secure, they depend entirely on trusting that the others in your system are telling the truth.
So instead of dealing with one registry that might be lieing too you, you have to ponder if everyone on the internet is lieing too you.
Contrary to what you people think, peer to peer is 99.999999% time the WRONG way to do something.
For instance, Tor breaks down completely if the entrance node doesn't 'follow the rules' and not tell anyone who you are. There are ways to take advantage of dirty intermediate nodes and exit nodes as well. But don't let reality cloud your judgement.
P2P simply makes it harder to control, thats it.
Harder to control is not a good thing for the DNS system.
In order for that to work you either have to have everyone switch to your registries... or... you still depend on ICANNs existing registries to serve names you don't serve yourself because no one is going to care enough about your whining over ICANN to join you rather than have access to the Internet as they know it now.
So sure, you can start your own service and get people using it... but they are still using the existing registries as well so you have accomplished nothing really.
How are you going to mark your plugin as 'approved' when it requires a digital signature to be added to the list of approved plugins for the plugin you want approved? The only way to add the digital signature is with the encrypted private key, which requires a password to do so?
No digital signature? Warn the user and sign if its okay, or throw the plugin out, or whatever the user wants.
Its really not difficult, it just requires that you don't store some vital piece of information in a way that other software can access it without the users permission.
Kind of how OS X and Windows already have provisions for prompting users to allow changes rather than allowing them to be changed by any app. Those OSes both have protected storage mechanisms that apps can access only if the user authorizes it using built in mechanisms that applications can't access directly themselves.
Most people place less value on 'managing their computer' than they do on 'living their life', that I'll agree to.
Saying people place no value in having control over their own hardware is retarded. You have 0 control on how your processor operates internally don't you? Or do you work for Intel or AMD and have some sort of direct control over it?
Most people don't care about what slashdot users care about. A 'perfect computer setup' is not anywhere on their list of priorities, which I realize is completely blasphemy to most slashdotters, but the reality of it is, most other people have other things in their lives that they value more than dicking around with their PC.
You place a high value on controlling your PC, they place a high value on something else.
You live in a hypocritical fantasy where you pretend you have complete control over your PC, while you utterly ignore all the aspects of it that you have absolutely no control over.
Its pretty easy to do with public/private keys. A password to decrypt the private key, so it can be used to sign the 'accepted plugins' list... which the browser can verify on startup using the unencrypted public key.
The only way new plugins can make it into the digitally signed, accepted/known plugins list is if the user provides the password so the private key can be used to sign the list. Sure, they might be able to 'add' to the list, but the signature wouldn't match and the browser could blow its top and disallow all add ons until the user corrected the problem. Store a backup copy of the list in OS provided secure storage and you can even revert when tampering is detected by simply prompting the user for the password.
I've done it myself, you won't get around it without the private key so you've either got to make one hell of a guess or get the password. Add to that on Windows and Mac you have built in places to securely store the data and let the OS deal with the details, well it becomes trivial really.
I've seen other apps that do so as well, I want to say netbeans does it, but I don't recall of the top of my head.
Normal users want shit to just work without being bothered with installing crap.
I realize slashdot doesn't understand this, but its true.
Apple does a lot of things not only without asking, but without even giving you an option if you wanted to ask... and people freaking LOVE them.
This is one of those times when you're arguing technical reasons for not doing something and completely ignoring the practical reasons and target audience.
NORMAL USERS DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE THINGS SLASHDOT USERS CARE ABOUT.
Once you guys actually get that into your heads you'll probably get a lot further along. Normal users don't give a fuck about your agenda, they care about theirs. Theirs doesn't revolve around tinkering constantly with their computer to make sure everything works in only the way they determine. They just want to browse the web and do shit and most are happy to have someone else automate the tedious retarded bullshit like installing browser plugins
Although frankly it is a waste of time, as we old guys didn't have the Internet and still found teh titties just fine, thank you VERY much.
Yea but its different now.
Paper porn is near dead, and sneaking peeks through your neighbors window at their mom will net you a life time sex offender tag. To top it off, none of the 'older kids' you'd learn the old ways from know how to do anything but find porn on the Internet now days.
Its a sad state of affiars for finding decent boobies for kids these days:(
I know a couple people from Sweden and a Fin who are mighty proud of their awesome driving test and how much harder it is for them to get a drivers license than us because you 'must know how to drive'....
I can honestly say I won't get into any car they drive. I would feel safer with a teenage girl changing the radio station while talking to her girlfriends on the phone and texting her boyfriend with the other hand while giving the passenger a footjob as the driver.
I know Scandenavians think they know how to drive, and maybe on 20 foot thick ice lakes they can, but I call bullshit on your statement.
Seriously? I know you guys are anti-copyright but seriously? Fully copying and posting the article somewhere else to intentionally circumvent their moneymaking scam...
I hate the 12 page crap too, so I just don't go, no ad revenue for them, but you just gave them a fully loaded gun man.
This really isn't the way the web is supposed to be used.
That's like your opinion man. I personally like the design of Motorola products more.
So you work for Motorola I take it? I've never in my life heard someone say 'I like Motorola better than X'. Never.
I think people often get confused between the words "better" and "easier".
Actually, no, its just that you don't realize that most people equate Easier to Better. Anything that makes my life easier overall is better for me. I'm not sure how you can not understand that. I realize you think people need to dick around with their computer all day long, but the rest of us actually want to get shit done. I don't want to spend my day at a sh prompt, I want to get my work done, go home and go fishing/camping with my family. You go ahead and dick around in your moms basement with Linux and your favorite porno site.
They make you buy their SDK.
No they don't. Get a clue. Everything you need to develop OS X apps comes with every single mac sold. The iPhone/iPad SDK can be downloaded for free and used at no cost. You have to pay to publish to the app store. It is an intentional barrier to entry, it helps slow down a tiny bit of the cruft.
You can also run any app you want on your phone, but I admit, it does cost $99 a year to do so. Sucks for you, $99 for me is about 15 minutes worth of work time so I could really care less, and considering the first app I've made returned that money to me in 3 days, well, once again, I could care less. Sorry your poor/cheap/bitchy/whatever. I'm not, and don't really care.
Nobody does "I can get you to pay me for "it" so why should I just give it to you for free?" like Apple does.
Wait one fucking minute? You're telling me Apple doesn't do things out of the goodness of its heart? You mean they are running a for profit business? Those fucking assholes.
Nobody does "After years of bashing your hardware platform (x86) I'll switch to it without getting any egg on my face." like Apple does.
Yea, you mean like... when x86 surpassed what they were using? I hate when companies pick the superior product rather than blindly preaching about how great their inferior version is. They just used the best chips at the time, Intel made better chips than anything PPC when the jumped and the future of PPC was getting worse due to the makers backing out of it.
Nobody does "We'll buy a windows handler for BSD much like KDE, and have the audacity to call it OSx." Like Apple. It's just Free BSD! Geesh!
You think using OS X is like using KDE on FreeBSD? Have you ever used OS X? You're comparing a go-kart to a Porsche... okay, maybe its more like a Pento to an Audi, but they aren't even anywhere NEAR the same class of GUI. One doesn't suck, the other one does, and people pay for the one that doesn't suck, with a smile on their face.
Nobody does "We'll sue you if you try and make clones of our computers." - while they make cheap PC clones!
Apple != Dell. NONE of their hardware is cheap in any sense. It is expensive to buy and is quality hardware. If you want cheap crap, buy a Dell, thats fine, but calling Apple hardware cheap is utterly retarded in every way. For all the rest of your 'nobody does' coments:
Citation needed or STFU.
People use Linux because they like to tinker and use zero cost software.
People use Windows because it comes with their PC and the apps they want to use run on it.
People use OS X because they enjoy it.
Rather than sitting around bashing it, maybe you should figure out why people like it, you'll make MUCH more progress. Your little temper tantrums are not productive for your cause.
Apple openly acknowledges that the iPhone is cannibalizing its iPods — and they don't seem to care;
Yea, I'm sure Apple is upset that people are buying the more expensive iPhone which nets them monthly income from AT&T rather than buying the iPods which are cheaper and have no monthly payout...
I don't know about you, but most companies who roll out new products that are more profitable per item and provide recurring revenue when the previous product didn't... are rather happy to have such a great thing happen.
Why are you and everyone else so mad about wikileaks here? Your anger is completely misdirected. Wikileaks didn't steal the information it got leaked.
When someone shoots your wife, and I tell you I know who it is, but I'm not telling you because I'm protecting my sources... are you not going to get mad?
No, its not the same thing, but the point is.
Common sense tells us that it doesn't matter whether it's wikileaks
Apparently you don't have any common sense, it matters that its wikileaks because they are sharing it. It would matter if it was some other website as well, except we'd be shouting at them instead of Wikileaks. Its simple cause and effect. Its really not hard to understand. You get mad at the people doing things that make you mad. If they weren't doing it, no one would be upset at them.
We should really be asking ourselves WHY THE FUCK CAN'T THE GOVERNMENT KEEP THE NAMES OF CIVILIAN INFORMANTS CONFIDENTIAL?!
Because a traitor with access to the information leaked it... Do you know what a leak is? Have you been actually following any of this? It happens, in the past it wasn't as big of a deal actually, he and everyone with the information would have simply disappeared and no one would know. We stopped (openly) assassinating people however, which in my opinion was stupid.
because with any reasonably sized amount of data you can figure out who the code words are referring to?
Because people need to know who you're talking about?
Its not like there weren't encrypted when sent, a guy inside, with access to them leaked them. Someone who would have easily had the information to decipher the code names.
You are retarded for blindly ruling out the attention whore leader of the group. I don't know that he had anything to do with it, but really, looking at his track record seems pretty clear that anyone of mild intelligence who actually thinks for themselves rather than sipping someone elses coolaid that he certainly could have done this himself.
I doubt he did, but then again, I'm not as retarded as you are.
Stop suggesting various toolkits, that is NOT what he is looking for.
He is looking for a "canvas" widget, meaning he wants drawing API.
Which is not going to be useful at all if it doesnt' fit into the toolkit he's using, so ignore the toolkit is something an inexperienced developer would do.
There is also Cairo and OpenGL, which are not really tied to toolkits. Though you still need to jump through hoops depending on the toolkit to get it so the graphics calls draw where you want. Sigh.
You talk in circles like someone who has absolutely no experience doing what he asked. Perhaps the suggestions people are giving have something to do with their level of experience and knowing that you're going to want a canvas control that works with a toolkit in order for it to actually be useful unless you intend to reinvent the wheel, which is clearly out of his league as he wouldn't have needed to ask slashdot if he was capable of doing so.
Your post wasn't insightful, it was ignorant and wreaks of someone who has never done anything like the questions that were raised.
The following statement is where you should have known they didn't know WTF they were talking about and their tests were completely flawed:
Consider the Indilinx powered OCZ Vertex: without TRIM, its sequential read speed of 1,024KB files plummeted by astonishing 47 per cent - from 258MB/sec to 138MB/sec.
TRIM has absolutely no effect what so ever on read speeds, and they are seeing speed differences. The test is clearly broken.
I'd guess the macbook was tested with a drive that has never had all of its blocks written to, so the wear leveling is still hitting clean blocks, its still writing to blocks that have been TRIM'd. And they've probably used the Windows drives more, hit ever previously unused block and are now at the stage where every bit of the disk has been dirtied and must be erased before it can be written to... which is why you'll notice the speed killing without TRIM.
I never said he didn't do anything illegal, I said he wasn't violent.
I said DDoSes are about the same as burning an empty building down in the name of protest. Not really, but both are an act of aggression. A kind of uncivil riot.
The problem is, MLK wasn't about aggression. The act we're discussing here IS about aggression. Do you know what CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE actually was? I think not.
I suggest that when you go to school on Monday you ask your history teacher to give you a cluepon for Civil Rights in America.
Speaking of civil rights... comparing the copyright lawsuits to the civil rights movement makes Americans hate you, or more specifically your completely broken perspective on the world. I suspect most people feel the same towards your sort of ignorance.
Thanks for trying to educate me, but next time take your own advice and do a little work on your reading comprehension skills. Might want to take some prozac or something since you appear to be pounding the shit out your keyboard.
Its just slashdot, no need to get into a rage induced frenzy... you should use that energy to go learn about the guy you're talking about rather than telling me I don't have a clue.
I should add to the.NET part of my post that I suggest that as then you'll be able to use basically whatever language you want to use and still have access to all the goodies. I would use C# myself, but you can of course use C++, VB.NET, and tons of other languages on Windows (Not sure if Mono does VB and I'm too lazy to look:)
You can also change languages a lot easier later, say if you find out C# isn't going to cut it for you performance wise you can move to C++ in.NET initially and if that doesn't give you the speed up you need you'll have most of your code closer to being able to run outside the.NET runtime as well.
You can also wrap just about any existing C++ library in a minimal amount of code to get something you can use in.NET. I've got TONs of OLD C code that I use in.NET via simple C++.NET wrappers that I wrote by hand... but I probably could have scripted (Hell, SWIG probably would do it for me)
All of this is based on the idea that its entirely for personal use. If you want others to help you work on it, well then you're going to want to pick langauges and runtimes that people like to use. You're not likely to see a BUNCH of support from the Linux crowd for.NET runtime environments (CLI/CLR)
If you want 'easy' with a slightly 'limited' set of options long term, then I would say Windows Forms in a.NET language, use Mono rather than VisualStudio so you have a much easier chance of it working in Linux out of the box, and most likely OSX, FreeBSD and several others in the process. Its not required, but Mono's code completion will point you in the right direction where as VisualStudio is going to point you more towards MSy things. Though VisualStudio is much more enjoyable to use in my opinion. If you've never used either, its not likely to matter for a while I suspect, though on OS X, Mono seems to miss most initial clicks I send to it, could just be me.
That will give you all the basic controls an application gui will need and make it so you can reuse the massive amount of examples out there.
For your custom painted widget its a little different. What kind of painting are you doing?
Is it something that lends itself to OpenGL really well? If its fits well into geometric primatives, then I would go with OpenTK's OpenGL Control. Works pretty good in my experience.
How often does it update the displayed data? Is it a game/animation kind of thing or are we talking about something that renders once after the user changes a setting?
If you need a high FPS on the updates, you're going to want to use OpenGL with textures for displaying the rasterized data. You're learning curve will be a little steep I think if you're starting from no knowledge, but its probably your only solution for something that needs to be fast (I'm just flat out ignoring DirectX, which for Windows would be easier than OGL but would cut you off of Linux and the advantages on Windows aren't that great really)
If you have real slow update rates, then you could just throw a image control on a form and paint the pixels yourself one at a time, or load images from a file/resource.
If this is a project that has a long expected life and will become rather complex and need high performance eventually, then you're probably going to do it wrong the first time no matter WHAT you do now, at least, thats my experience. I never get it right until AT LEAST the 3rd rewrite:/
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No they don't, if you knew anything about them you'd understand why they don't make anything more secure, they depend entirely on trusting that the others in your system are telling the truth.
So instead of dealing with one registry that might be lieing too you, you have to ponder if everyone on the internet is lieing too you.
Contrary to what you people think, peer to peer is 99.999999% time the WRONG way to do something.
For instance, Tor breaks down completely if the entrance node doesn't 'follow the rules' and not tell anyone who you are. There are ways to take advantage of dirty intermediate nodes and exit nodes as well. But don't let reality cloud your judgement.
P2P simply makes it harder to control, thats it.
Harder to control is not a good thing for the DNS system.
Seriously? Are you 3 years old and still think being a 'pirate' in any form is 'good'? We're not talking about a silly Disney movie.
Making such statements makes you look really childish and ignorant.
Bullshit.
In order for that to work you either have to have everyone switch to your registries ... or ... you still depend on ICANNs existing registries to serve names you don't serve yourself because no one is going to care enough about your whining over ICANN to join you rather than have access to the Internet as they know it now.
So sure, you can start your own service and get people using it ... but they are still using the existing registries as well so you have accomplished nothing really.
Except for specifics like names, nothing really ever comes out of Wikileaks that you can't get already via legal channels.
How are you going to mark your plugin as 'approved' when it requires a digital signature to be added to the list of approved plugins for the plugin you want approved? The only way to add the digital signature is with the encrypted private key, which requires a password to do so?
No digital signature? Warn the user and sign if its okay, or throw the plugin out, or whatever the user wants.
Its really not difficult, it just requires that you don't store some vital piece of information in a way that other software can access it without the users permission.
Kind of how OS X and Windows already have provisions for prompting users to allow changes rather than allowing them to be changed by any app. Those OSes both have protected storage mechanisms that apps can access only if the user authorizes it using built in mechanisms that applications can't access directly themselves.
UAC prompt to the rescue.
Most people place less value on 'managing their computer' than they do on 'living their life', that I'll agree to.
Saying people place no value in having control over their own hardware is retarded. You have 0 control on how your processor operates internally don't you? Or do you work for Intel or AMD and have some sort of direct control over it?
Most people don't care about what slashdot users care about. A 'perfect computer setup' is not anywhere on their list of priorities, which I realize is completely blasphemy to most slashdotters, but the reality of it is, most other people have other things in their lives that they value more than dicking around with their PC.
You place a high value on controlling your PC, they place a high value on something else.
You live in a hypocritical fantasy where you pretend you have complete control over your PC, while you utterly ignore all the aspects of it that you have absolutely no control over.
Its pretty easy to do with public/private keys. A password to decrypt the private key, so it can be used to sign the 'accepted plugins' list ... which the browser can verify on startup using the unencrypted public key.
The only way new plugins can make it into the digitally signed, accepted/known plugins list is if the user provides the password so the private key can be used to sign the list. Sure, they might be able to 'add' to the list, but the signature wouldn't match and the browser could blow its top and disallow all add ons until the user corrected the problem. Store a backup copy of the list in OS provided secure storage and you can even revert when tampering is detected by simply prompting the user for the password.
I've done it myself, you won't get around it without the private key so you've either got to make one hell of a guess or get the password. Add to that on Windows and Mac you have built in places to securely store the data and let the OS deal with the details, well it becomes trivial really.
I've seen other apps that do so as well, I want to say netbeans does it, but I don't recall of the top of my head.
Normal users want shit to just work without being bothered with installing crap.
I realize slashdot doesn't understand this, but its true.
Apple does a lot of things not only without asking, but without even giving you an option if you wanted to ask ... and people freaking LOVE them.
This is one of those times when you're arguing technical reasons for not doing something and completely ignoring the practical reasons and target audience.
NORMAL USERS DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE THINGS SLASHDOT USERS CARE ABOUT.
Once you guys actually get that into your heads you'll probably get a lot further along. Normal users don't give a fuck about your agenda, they care about theirs. Theirs doesn't revolve around tinkering constantly with their computer to make sure everything works in only the way they determine. They just want to browse the web and do shit and most are happy to have someone else automate the tedious retarded bullshit like installing browser plugins
Yea but its different now.
Paper porn is near dead, and sneaking peeks through your neighbors window at their mom will net you a life time sex offender tag. To top it off, none of the 'older kids' you'd learn the old ways from know how to do anything but find porn on the Internet now days.
Its a sad state of affiars for finding decent boobies for kids these days :(
I know a couple people from Sweden and a Fin who are mighty proud of their awesome driving test and how much harder it is for them to get a drivers license than us because you 'must know how to drive'. ...
I can honestly say I won't get into any car they drive. I would feel safer with a teenage girl changing the radio station while talking to her girlfriends on the phone and texting her boyfriend with the other hand while giving the passenger a footjob as the driver.
I know Scandenavians think they know how to drive, and maybe on 20 foot thick ice lakes they can, but I call bullshit on your statement.
Seriously? I know you guys are anti-copyright but seriously? Fully copying and posting the article somewhere else to intentionally circumvent their moneymaking scam ...
I hate the 12 page crap too, so I just don't go, no ad revenue for them, but you just gave them a fully loaded gun man.
This really isn't the way the web is supposed to be used.
So you work for Motorola I take it? I've never in my life heard someone say 'I like Motorola better than X'. Never.
Actually, no, its just that you don't realize that most people equate Easier to Better. Anything that makes my life easier overall is better for me. I'm not sure how you can not understand that. I realize you think people need to dick around with their computer all day long, but the rest of us actually want to get shit done. I don't want to spend my day at a sh prompt, I want to get my work done, go home and go fishing/camping with my family. You go ahead and dick around in your moms basement with Linux and your favorite porno site.
No they don't. Get a clue. Everything you need to develop OS X apps comes with every single mac sold. The iPhone/iPad SDK can be downloaded for free and used at no cost. You have to pay to publish to the app store. It is an intentional barrier to entry, it helps slow down a tiny bit of the cruft.
You can also run any app you want on your phone, but I admit, it does cost $99 a year to do so. Sucks for you, $99 for me is about 15 minutes worth of work time so I could really care less, and considering the first app I've made returned that money to me in 3 days, well, once again, I could care less. Sorry your poor/cheap/bitchy/whatever. I'm not, and don't really care.
Wait one fucking minute? You're telling me Apple doesn't do things out of the goodness of its heart? You mean they are running a for profit business? Those fucking assholes.
Yea, you mean like ... when x86 surpassed what they were using? I hate when companies pick the superior product rather than blindly preaching about how great their inferior version is. They just used the best chips at the time, Intel made better chips than anything PPC when the jumped and the future of PPC was getting worse due to the makers backing out of it.
You think using OS X is like using KDE on FreeBSD? Have you ever used OS X? You're comparing a go-kart to a Porsche ... okay, maybe its more like a Pento to an Audi, but they aren't even anywhere NEAR the same class of GUI. One doesn't suck, the other one does, and people pay for the one that doesn't suck, with a smile on their face.
Apple != Dell. NONE of their hardware is cheap in any sense. It is expensive to buy and is quality hardware. If you want cheap crap, buy a Dell, thats fine, but calling Apple hardware cheap is utterly retarded in every way.
For all the rest of your 'nobody does' coments:
Citation needed or STFU.
People use Linux because they like to tinker and use zero cost software.
People use Windows because it comes with their PC and the apps they want to use run on it.
People use OS X because they enjoy it.
Rather than sitting around bashing it, maybe you should figure out why people like it, you'll make MUCH more progress. Your little temper tantrums are not productive for your cause.
Yea, I'm sure Apple is upset that people are buying the more expensive iPhone which nets them monthly income from AT&T rather than buying the iPods which are cheaper and have no monthly payout ...
I don't know about you, but most companies who roll out new products that are more profitable per item and provide recurring revenue when the previous product didn't ... are rather happy to have such a great thing happen.
I hope my company does the same thing next year.
When someone shoots your wife, and I tell you I know who it is, but I'm not telling you because I'm protecting my sources ... are you not going to get mad?
No, its not the same thing, but the point is.
Apparently you don't have any common sense, it matters that its wikileaks because they are sharing it. It would matter if it was some other website as well, except we'd be shouting at them instead of Wikileaks. Its simple cause and effect. Its really not hard to understand. You get mad at the people doing things that make you mad. If they weren't doing it, no one would be upset at them.
Because a traitor with access to the information leaked it ... Do you know what a leak is? Have you been actually following any of this? It happens, in the past it wasn't as big of a deal actually, he and everyone with the information would have simply disappeared and no one would know. We stopped (openly) assassinating people however, which in my opinion was stupid.
You again, you need to get your angst out. You probably also need to learn how many 'millions' actually means.
You're an idiot, come back to slashdot when you grow up and learn to communicate without raging like you drink steroids like coffee.
because with any reasonably sized amount of data you can figure out who the code words are referring to?
Because people need to know who you're talking about?
Its not like there weren't encrypted when sent, a guy inside, with access to them leaked them. Someone who would have easily had the information to decipher the code names.
Yes, and we all live in a fantasy world where everyone is honest, especially the spies in other countries ...
You've never been involved in any sort of negotiations in your life, have you?
Yes, and thats a mind bogglingly ignorant statement.
I've done nothing wrong, but I don't share my credit card number do I?
If you've done nothing wrong, post all your private information right now, if you don't its clear you've done something wrong!!!!!
Thats just retarded logic.
You are retarded for blindly ruling out the attention whore leader of the group. I don't know that he had anything to do with it, but really, looking at his track record seems pretty clear that anyone of mild intelligence who actually thinks for themselves rather than sipping someone elses coolaid that he certainly could have done this himself.
I doubt he did, but then again, I'm not as retarded as you are.
Wow, you've got a REALLY narrow view of the world, don't you?
Which is not going to be useful at all if it doesnt' fit into the toolkit he's using, so ignore the toolkit is something an inexperienced developer would do.
Hence ... why ... people ... are ... suggesting ... toolkits.
You talk in circles like someone who has absolutely no experience doing what he asked. Perhaps the suggestions people are giving have something to do with their level of experience and knowing that you're going to want a canvas control that works with a toolkit in order for it to actually be useful unless you intend to reinvent the wheel, which is clearly out of his league as he wouldn't have needed to ask slashdot if he was capable of doing so.
Your post wasn't insightful, it was ignorant and wreaks of someone who has never done anything like the questions that were raised.
The following statement is where you should have known they didn't know WTF they were talking about and their tests were completely flawed:
TRIM has absolutely no effect what so ever on read speeds, and they are seeing speed differences. The test is clearly broken.
I'd guess the macbook was tested with a drive that has never had all of its blocks written to, so the wear leveling is still hitting clean blocks, its still writing to blocks that have been TRIM'd. And they've probably used the Windows drives more, hit ever previously unused block and are now at the stage where every bit of the disk has been dirtied and must be erased before it can be written to ... which is why you'll notice the speed killing without TRIM.
...
I never said he didn't do anything illegal, I said he wasn't violent.
I said DDoSes are about the same as burning an empty building down in the name of protest. Not really, but both are an act of aggression. A kind of uncivil riot.
The problem is, MLK wasn't about aggression. The act we're discussing here IS about aggression. Do you know what CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE actually was? I think not.
I suggest that when you go to school on Monday you ask your history teacher to give you a cluepon for Civil Rights in America.
Speaking of civil rights ... comparing the copyright lawsuits to the civil rights movement makes Americans hate you, or more specifically your completely broken perspective on the world. I suspect most people feel the same towards your sort of ignorance.
Thanks for trying to educate me, but next time take your own advice and do a little work on your reading comprehension skills. Might want to take some prozac or something since you appear to be pounding the shit out your keyboard.
Its just slashdot, no need to get into a rage induced frenzy ... you should use that energy to go learn about the guy you're talking about rather than telling me I don't have a clue.
I should add to the .NET part of my post that I suggest that as then you'll be able to use basically whatever language you want to use and still have access to all the goodies. I would use C# myself, but you can of course use C++, VB.NET, and tons of other languages on Windows (Not sure if Mono does VB and I'm too lazy to look :)
You can also change languages a lot easier later, say if you find out C# isn't going to cut it for you performance wise you can move to C++ in .NET initially and if that doesn't give you the speed up you need you'll have most of your code closer to being able to run outside the .NET runtime as well.
You can also wrap just about any existing C++ library in a minimal amount of code to get something you can use in .NET. I've got TONs of OLD C code that I use in .NET via simple C++.NET wrappers that I wrote by hand ... but I probably could have scripted (Hell, SWIG probably would do it for me)
All of this is based on the idea that its entirely for personal use. If you want others to help you work on it, well then you're going to want to pick langauges and runtimes that people like to use. You're not likely to see a BUNCH of support from the Linux crowd for .NET runtime environments (CLI/CLR)
If you want 'easy' with a slightly 'limited' set of options long term, then I would say Windows Forms in a .NET language, use Mono rather than VisualStudio so you have a much easier chance of it working in Linux out of the box, and most likely OSX, FreeBSD and several others in the process. Its not required, but Mono's code completion will point you in the right direction where as VisualStudio is going to point you more towards MSy things. Though VisualStudio is much more enjoyable to use in my opinion. If you've never used either, its not likely to matter for a while I suspect, though on OS X, Mono seems to miss most initial clicks I send to it, could just be me.
That will give you all the basic controls an application gui will need and make it so you can reuse the massive amount of examples out there.
For your custom painted widget its a little different. What kind of painting are you doing?
Is it something that lends itself to OpenGL really well? If its fits well into geometric primatives, then I would go with OpenTK's OpenGL Control. Works pretty good in my experience.
How often does it update the displayed data? Is it a game/animation kind of thing or are we talking about something that renders once after the user changes a setting?
If you need a high FPS on the updates, you're going to want to use OpenGL with textures for displaying the rasterized data. You're learning curve will be a little steep I think if you're starting from no knowledge, but its probably your only solution for something that needs to be fast (I'm just flat out ignoring DirectX, which for Windows would be easier than OGL but would cut you off of Linux and the advantages on Windows aren't that great really)
If you have real slow update rates, then you could just throw a image control on a form and paint the pixels yourself one at a time, or load images from a file/resource.
If this is a project that has a long expected life and will become rather complex and need high performance eventually, then you're probably going to do it wrong the first time no matter WHAT you do now, at least, thats my experience. I never get it right until AT LEAST the 3rd rewrite :/