As I'm the chief architect, technical director and main code monkey for this, I do know what vector artwork is.
There's still a big difference between encapsulating the graphics commands in a file as written by an illustration app and just writing lines of code to do the same thing.
Chrome is "now rendered fully programmatically including iconography, effectively removing the ~1200 png assets we were maintaining before,"
This is dumb. Utterly dumb. What they should have done is used vector assets, such as PDF, or if that's too "non-Google" for them, SVG or anything similar. Coding images doesn't make sense - you have to maintain that code and it's a complex effort for anyone to alter what's rendered. Compare that with simply swapping out a resource created in a vector art program.
Forcing the material design on Mac users is equally dumb, there's no point making the browser consistent with other platforms the users isn't likely using, but to make it fit in with the ones s/he *is* using. And having hard-coded the image assets, there's now no easy way to simply swap out one set of resources for another to allow that to be done easily.
Despite lots of other crap going on at the time - Vietnam, Race Riots and so on, mankind basically hit its pinnacle that day. It's been a slow downhill ride ever since. The election of Trump will prove me right.
If the world is in danger, we should be able to help out.
That's a big 'if'. Terrorism doesn't kill anybody, statistically speaking (and that's not to say I don't feel sad for all the statistical anomalies in Nice, etc, but let's keep it in perspective), so it should not be something to be afraid of. Governments around the world are using it as a control measure over the population. That's what they always do. Encryption thwarts that control in a minor way, that's why they're scared of it.
I think this was Blackberry's "Ratner Moment". Bye bye blackberry way.....
Not for a while yet. Even when the video resolution has reached "good enough for everybody", there's the next push: hardware accelerated physics. At the moment physics models are necessarily crude, which is why things never quite behave the way you think they ought to. Physics is amenable to massively parallel scaling, just as graphics has been. When we can model physics at the macro-atomic level, video cards will be done.
We don't need to replace every piece of technology we own every 2 years you assholes
Indeed we don't, so who's forcing you? Tell them to stop!
Anyway, never heard of wireless headphones? Way better than having a trailing cable snagging on everything, and not really any more expensive these days, if you compare like-for-like sound quality.
As many have pointed out, if this were true, it would have to overwhelmingly affect the young, not the old. The opposite must be true: cancer exists because people died of everything else before cancer could begin to cause significant problems. Now we've mostly cured or mitigated all those other causes, cancer can happen because it's never previously been subjected to evolutionary pressure.
The CPU just needs to set aside an area of memory exclusively for return addresses, and make that protected. No more security issues, buffer overruns, execution of arbitrary code. The real problem is that return addresses are mingled with other data. This should be solved at the hardware level, and AFAICS, it could be done totally transparently to code, even binaries.
Why does the choice of another person upset you so much? It's really rather bizarre, because I can't see any likelihood that that person's choice of hardware/software affects you in any way.
I use Macs and PCs, and I also have much more than 30 years experience of software development. Right now, the hardware may have converged, and specs-wise, a PC gives a lot more power/performance per dollar. But install Windows (10) on it, and all that advantage goes to shit in terms of usability and freedom from "issues" that just grind away at your daily will to live.
And still no Daltonium. It's simply wrong that the scientist who first came up with the modern concept of what an element actually is (and which led to the periodic table itself) is ignored while far less known names get the honour.
All civilizations eventually fall. The Egyptians are one of the first we know about, then the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians... be America's turn soon, the votes are soon to be counted in fact.
Idiot. They're rising, it's obvious in places like Tuvalu. But the rise is slow - it'll never reach 10 feet any time soon, it's only risen one foot in the last century. But it's got a lot warmer, and that's the real problem. You did read the article, didn't you? Oh no: of course you didn't, you just leapt to make an ignorant comment based on your own stupid belief system. Business as usual, in other words. You should run for office.
The Official Secrets Act still exists, and people still sign it. The fact that you thought it was some relic of WW2 proves that it's still effective - because people are NOT blabbing about their work or posting images of their equipment. For one thing, anyone who's invited to sign it has probably already been vetted and proven to be not that kind of person, and second, if they ever did do something of the sort, you can bet they'd be out of a job within less than 12 hours, at the very least, and most likely on a charge of some sort.
Please ignore the movies. There are many excellent books about the work of Bletchley Park, and while I can't claim to have read the majority of them, the ones I have read do acknowledge the Polish debt, and it's pretty clear that the personnel of Bletchley were extremely grateful for the head-start.
A good book for example is "The Secret Life of Bletchley Park" by Sinclair McKay
It's also a good argument for the continued use and existence of header files. Many languages are doing away with them, making the implementation effectively the declaration. That trend will make cases like this harder to argue in the future.
I had a Doom port running on a Canon G3 camera, around 2003. I don't know who wrote that port, but it was a very cool demo of how powerful cameras had become by that point.
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As I'm the chief architect, technical director and main code monkey for this, I do know what vector artwork is.
There's still a big difference between encapsulating the graphics commands in a file as written by an illustration app and just writing lines of code to do the same thing.
Chrome is "now rendered fully programmatically including iconography, effectively removing the ~1200 png assets we were maintaining before,"
This is dumb. Utterly dumb. What they should have done is used vector assets, such as PDF, or if that's too "non-Google" for them, SVG or anything similar. Coding images doesn't make sense - you have to maintain that code and it's a complex effort for anyone to alter what's rendered. Compare that with simply swapping out a resource created in a vector art program.
Forcing the material design on Mac users is equally dumb, there's no point making the browser consistent with other platforms the users isn't likely using, but to make it fit in with the ones s/he *is* using. And having hard-coded the image assets, there's now no easy way to simply swap out one set of resources for another to allow that to be done easily.
Chrome will never be installed on my Mac.
Despite lots of other crap going on at the time - Vietnam, Race Riots and so on, mankind basically hit its pinnacle that day. It's been a slow downhill ride ever since. The election of Trump will prove me right.
Yes, it totally was! This is how it was done.
If the world is in danger, we should be able to help out.
That's a big 'if'. Terrorism doesn't kill anybody, statistically speaking (and that's not to say I don't feel sad for all the statistical anomalies in Nice, etc, but let's keep it in perspective), so it should not be something to be afraid of. Governments around the world are using it as a control measure over the population. That's what they always do. Encryption thwarts that control in a minor way, that's why they're scared of it.
I think this was Blackberry's "Ratner Moment". Bye bye blackberry way.....
Not for a while yet. Even when the video resolution has reached "good enough for everybody", there's the next push: hardware accelerated physics. At the moment physics models are necessarily crude, which is why things never quite behave the way you think they ought to. Physics is amenable to massively parallel scaling, just as graphics has been. When we can model physics at the macro-atomic level, video cards will be done.
Just taking a picture of a window to the clipboard takes a lot of keys
True. But they are the same keys they've always been, right back to the very original Mac. Mac users just know what they are, it's part of their DNA.
Incidentally, taking a screenshot to a file (which is put on the desktop) is easier and a lot more typical.
Not to mention Thunderbird 2.
LIkely it will be the opposite. Without the EU laws reigning it in, the UK govt. can allow GCHQ to do whatever it likes.
We don't need to replace every piece of technology we own every 2 years you assholes
Indeed we don't, so who's forcing you? Tell them to stop!
Anyway, never heard of wireless headphones? Way better than having a trailing cable snagging on everything, and not really any more expensive these days, if you compare like-for-like sound quality.
Gotta love the logic surrounding this bullshit argument.
You said it. Right back atcha.
As many have pointed out, if this were true, it would have to overwhelmingly affect the young, not the old. The opposite must be true: cancer exists because people died of everything else before cancer could begin to cause significant problems. Now we've mostly cured or mitigated all those other causes, cancer can happen because it's never previously been subjected to evolutionary pressure.
The CPU just needs to set aside an area of memory exclusively for return addresses, and make that protected. No more security issues, buffer overruns, execution of arbitrary code. The real problem is that return addresses are mingled with other data. This should be solved at the hardware level, and AFAICS, it could be done totally transparently to code, even binaries.
Why does the choice of another person upset you so much? It's really rather bizarre, because I can't see any likelihood that that person's choice of hardware/software affects you in any way.
I use Macs and PCs, and I also have much more than 30 years experience of software development. Right now, the hardware may have converged, and specs-wise, a PC gives a lot more power/performance per dollar. But install Windows (10) on it, and all that advantage goes to shit in terms of usability and freedom from "issues" that just grind away at your daily will to live.
Macs every time for just getting stuff done.
And still no Daltonium. It's simply wrong that the scientist who first came up with the modern concept of what an element actually is (and which led to the periodic table itself) is ignored while far less known names get the honour.
Could be worse. I'm surprised it's not "Hey Microsoft Cortana Tee Em..."
I mean, if these companies are going to make you feel like an idiot they may as well do a bit of marketing while they're at it.
All civilizations eventually fall. The Egyptians are one of the first we know about, then the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians... be America's turn soon, the votes are soon to be counted in fact.
You're obviously very easily baffled.
Idiot. They're rising, it's obvious in places like Tuvalu. But the rise is slow - it'll never reach 10 feet any time soon, it's only risen one foot in the last century. But it's got a lot warmer, and that's the real problem. You did read the article, didn't you? Oh no: of course you didn't, you just leapt to make an ignorant comment based on your own stupid belief system. Business as usual, in other words. You should run for office.
The Official Secrets Act still exists, and people still sign it. The fact that you thought it was some relic of WW2 proves that it's still effective - because people are NOT blabbing about their work or posting images of their equipment. For one thing, anyone who's invited to sign it has probably already been vetted and proven to be not that kind of person, and second, if they ever did do something of the sort, you can bet they'd be out of a job within less than 12 hours, at the very least, and most likely on a charge of some sort.
Please ignore the movies. There are many excellent books about the work of Bletchley Park, and while I can't claim to have read the majority of them, the ones I have read do acknowledge the Polish debt, and it's pretty clear that the personnel of Bletchley were extremely grateful for the head-start.
A good book for example is "The Secret Life of Bletchley Park" by Sinclair McKay
It's also a good argument for the continued use and existence of header files. Many languages are doing away with them, making the implementation effectively the declaration. That trend will make cases like this harder to argue in the future.
Certainly as embarrassing as your grammar.
He added, "We carried out this plan in 1013 with Facebook"
FTFY.
I had a Doom port running on a Canon G3 camera, around 2003. I don't know who wrote that port, but it was a very cool demo of how powerful cameras had become by that point.