All they do is hurt US citizens/companies. Anyone in the world can get anything they want from us or another country. I can't even write an app that uses Blowfish (public domain algorithm) without permission. That is nonsense.
You cannot take a given programming task out of context. Just because a given implementation is "good enough" on your machine with your hardware and your operating system doesn't mean anything. Your process has to run with other processes. They are all sharing cpu, memory, buses, storage, network. What if this image convertor was being used as part of a system to generate live streaming video on a major web server? Using the entire CPU to convert 60 FPS for a single video would then be so incredibly poor, it would be a failure. I'm not saying you have to lose sleep over squeezing every last micro-code operation out of your executables, just that performance always matters. Writing "good enough" routines leads to bloated, slow, terrible software (windows media player, real player, winamp, internet explorer, ICQ, on and on).
DVD players are one of the things that piss me off the most. While the picture/sound quality are better, the interface is so incredibly poor, I almost returned my player to the store to live forever with VHS.
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All they do is hurt US citizens/companies. Anyone in the world can get anything they want from us or another country. I can't even write an app that uses Blowfish (public domain algorithm) without permission. That is nonsense.
You cannot take a given programming task out of context. Just because a given implementation is "good enough" on your machine with your hardware and your operating system doesn't mean anything. Your process has to run with other processes. They are all sharing cpu, memory, buses, storage, network. What if this image convertor was being used as part of a system to generate live streaming video on a major web server? Using the entire CPU to convert 60 FPS for a single video would then be so incredibly poor, it would be a failure. I'm not saying you have to lose sleep over squeezing every last micro-code operation out of your executables, just that performance always matters. Writing "good enough" routines leads to bloated, slow, terrible software (windows media player, real player, winamp, internet explorer, ICQ, on and on).
DVD players are one of the things that piss me off the most. While the picture/sound quality are better, the interface is so incredibly poor, I almost returned my player to the store to live forever with VHS.