Here's an experiment. Go to wolframalpha and ask it to calculate sqrt(2) *sqrt(2). It'll tell you that the result is 2. Just to make sure you're not looking at clever truncation of floating point numbers, it'll also say that the result is "two". That is, it "knows" that the result is 2 algebraically, rather than numerically. Internally, it's working with symbolic calculus rather than numerically. If instead you try "N[sqrt(2)]* N[sqrt(2)]" (N is the numerical approximation function), it'll return "2.". That is, it's approximately 2. It'll gladly do the same with Pi. Hell, try fiddling with variations on e^(i pi) and you'll see what I mean. At the end of the day, what this means is that approximations are taking place until you have to make them (or explicitly ask for them). Sure, it's slower. But it's also arbitrarily precise.
Note taking, for me, was to summarize what the teacher said, in MY words so that I could understand it later.
Well, in a calculus class you will, at some point want to write something like "We know that f(x) = e^x is a monotonically increasing function". Since you're taking notes, "monotonically increasing" will probably be rendered "mon. inc." in notes, but f(x) = e^x can't be compressed further.
Have you ever tried to play Starcraft with a trackpad? Try playing it online and see how long it takes before you get frustrated.
It would suck for Starcraft (or any other RT Anything, really), but I can see this having loads of potential for games like Civilization. I've been thinking of making my own multi-touch display table for tabletop games/virtual battlemat.
Further searching found that in India, the rate is as low as 70% while the state of Deleware declares that "70 percent of the energy in the fuels used to generate electricity is lost"
Note that the generators themselves don't work at 100% efficiency. Those numbers strike me more like "burning coal isn't a particularly efficient way to gather energy" than anything else.
Honestly, It sounds to me like everyone is over-engineering this to to death.
I'm yet to be convinced that a modern desktop-oriented operating system should be crippled by being forbidden from preinstalling a browser. At the very least, it makes zero sense to not provide an html renderer with the OS. It has become one of the most basic functionalities you can ask for.
This said, and accepting you have a browser pre-installed, it takes about half an hour to come up with a mock-up of a page with a decent presentation and a listing of all the browsers they could ask for. The bit of code that's dedicated to this functionality is also a lot less error-prone than an application written from scratch. Given a solution that takes less dedicated code, is quicker to implement, and is less buggy, how is picking that solution "over-engineering" exactly?
Gandhi might have been a good recipient. Posthumously, he can't get it. Bummer. I doubt he'd have accepted it anyway.
That got me thinking. If such events were to happen, people would point at Gandhi and say "pompous git didn't accept the prize", which would weaken his position somewhat. (Other) people would also point at the Nobel committee and say "Gandhi, the single most peaceful guy ever just refused your prize", and see that as undermining their legitimacy. All in all, it just might be that pointedly not attributing the prize to anyone posthumously might've been the best possible way to go about it.
If you're the ONLY one making [mainframes/Macintosh/widget Z], wouldn't that make you an automatic monopoly?
yeah, I guess IBM mainframes count as a monopoly. But really, how are Macs a monopoly? What is the market they're a monopoly in? Either you consider a mac a personal computer, or you consider it a workstation. Having a different operating system does not automatically make it a separate market (think mobile phones!). If anything, the only comparable effect in desktop computers of IBM losing this is making it so that Microsoft can't deny Apple Windows licenses.
You're missing the sanboxing chrome frame does in IE on windows XP which count for 72% of all systems worldwide. IE's sanboxing capabilities need integrity levels present only in Vista and forward. That's Google's point and it is a fair one.
The Chrome Frame's sandboxing only extends to Chrome Frame itself, it doesn't magically turn the rest of IE safe. In terms of attack vectors, the frame can be launched in two ways. First, a site can request it directly by having a tag ask for it. Second, it can be requested manually through an "open with Chrome Frame" shortcut of some description or another. Now, if I'm a malicious developer, I can either find an exploit for IE, or I can find an exploit for Chrome. If I find the former, I just write my page to abuse it, and any IE user who doesn't explicitly request to open the page through Chrome Frame will be open for attack. If I find the latter, I can specifically request a Chrome Frame and the IE/Chrome Frame user will find himself vulnerable to an attack that plain IE wouldn't be vulnerable to.
At the end of the day, you're only safer with a Chromed IE if you specifically use Chrome Frame to request pages that attack IE but not other browsers. In all other scenarios, it increases the available surface area for attacks.
Sorry for confusion, but where did I call those binaries directly "rootkit"
You at the very least implied it:
The question is why does Apple need these kernel services (read rootkit like services) running in the system space ?
For humble user anything that didn't run under icon and is not the operating system raises questions as malware uses these tricks also. Most people blindly trust Apple, but learning from that Sony rootkit incident we ought to be careful. Apple should be more transparent here and enable user to choose to avoid these services.
Indeed, we ought to be careful, and we ought to check anything suspicious that crops up. But that doesn't mean making accusations without proper research first.
mDNSresponder (a multicast DNS responder) is a component of Bonjour, which is a service discovery protocol. Amongst other things, it's used by iTunes to implement song sharing (though it can be used by a number of other services, such as printer sharing). Its installation might be pretty invasive, but I'd attribute that to incompetence rather than malice. You instead jumped straight into calling it a rootkit. You implied malice without even bothering to figure out what it was, or what its purpose is, and you implied stealthy behaviour without any proof. "It was installed without my consent" isn't stealthy behaviour either (hint: it's a functional, logical component of the application you installed, and enables a feature that's pretty visible). A rootkit is software that hides other things, and I've seen no evidence that this might indeed be the case here.
Until you can actually prove those suspicions of yours, STFU.
They used that awesome maneuver where you get up to speed, then cut the engines, flip the fighter around, and fly backwards while shooting bogeys.
I remember the Wing Commander Academy manual actually explaining step by step how to pull off a similar manoeuvre, where you'd fire your afterburners, turn slightly to one side, cut the engines, and then turn hard to the other side, so you'd effectively slide past the bogey, always facing it.
I did that a million times in that game, because it just made so much sense, yet most games that came since made your ship slow down when you turned off your accelerator in the(not so) frictionless outer space.
Well, it seems to make sense, until it hits you that, without thrust or friction, your fighter can't actually turn in space either:)
What? Your apps aren't configurable, and don't pick up where you left off? Are you using an Etch A Sketch?
You completely missed the point. Suspend/sleep means just that: you put what you're doing on hold. You have ten browser tabs open when you go to bed, they're still there when you wake up. You leave work with a slashdot post half-typed, you get home and the post is still waiting to be finished. Playing a game of tetris? It's still on pause when you recover from sleep. There's a lot of session information that's not a matter of configuration, and you lose most of it by shutting down.
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Here's an experiment. Go to wolframalpha and ask it to calculate sqrt(2) *sqrt(2). It'll tell you that the result is 2. Just to make sure you're not looking at clever truncation of floating point numbers, it'll also say that the result is "two". That is, it "knows" that the result is 2 algebraically, rather than numerically. Internally, it's working with symbolic calculus rather than numerically. If instead you try "N[sqrt(2)]* N[sqrt(2)]" (N is the numerical approximation function), it'll return "2.". That is, it's approximately 2. It'll gladly do the same with Pi. Hell, try fiddling with variations on e^(i pi) and you'll see what I mean. At the end of the day, what this means is that approximations are taking place until you have to make them (or explicitly ask for them). Sure, it's slower. But it's also arbitrarily precise.
Note taking, for me, was to summarize what the teacher said, in MY words so that I could understand it later.
Well, in a calculus class you will, at some point want to write something like "We know that f(x) = e^x is a monotonically increasing function". Since you're taking notes, "monotonically increasing" will probably be rendered "mon. inc." in notes, but f(x) = e^x can't be compressed further.
Yeah, and they decided to go for bingo with the product name as well. HAL? Come on...
When is the last time that Apple released an entirely new project?
The "last time" would be the very subject of this article.
Well, I wasn't even considering multitouch in my plans yet, so the pieces of software I had in mind were MapTool and ViewingDale.
This list is old, but I originally found both of those applications here.
The latency would suck, though.
He seems to be begging the question by implying it'd be a Bad Thing.
Have you ever tried to play Starcraft with a trackpad? Try playing it online and see how long it takes before you get frustrated.
It would suck for Starcraft (or any other RT Anything, really), but I can see this having loads of potential for games like Civilization. I've been thinking of making my own multi-touch display table for tabletop games/virtual battlemat.
Further searching found that in India, the rate is as low as 70% while the state of Deleware declares that "70 percent of the energy in the fuels used to generate electricity is lost"
Note that the generators themselves don't work at 100% efficiency. Those numbers strike me more like "burning coal isn't a particularly efficient way to gather energy" than anything else.
Honestly, It sounds to me like everyone is over-engineering this to to death.
I'm yet to be convinced that a modern desktop-oriented operating system should be crippled by being forbidden from preinstalling a browser. At the very least, it makes zero sense to not provide an html renderer with the OS. It has become one of the most basic functionalities you can ask for.
This said, and accepting you have a browser pre-installed, it takes about half an hour to come up with a mock-up of a page with a decent presentation and a listing of all the browsers they could ask for. The bit of code that's dedicated to this functionality is also a lot less error-prone than an application written from scratch. Given a solution that takes less dedicated code, is quicker to implement, and is less buggy, how is picking that solution "over-engineering" exactly?
Yes, we don't like the hypocrisy, but if you really don't believe in imaginary property then what he did isn't questionable at all.
The part that is objectionable isn't the copying. It's the dissonance between the copying and the laws he's trying to pass.
Gandhi might have been a good recipient. Posthumously, he can't get it. Bummer. I doubt he'd have accepted it anyway.
That got me thinking. If such events were to happen, people would point at Gandhi and say "pompous git didn't accept the prize", which would weaken his position somewhat. (Other) people would also point at the Nobel committee and say "Gandhi, the single most peaceful guy ever just refused your prize", and see that as undermining their legitimacy. All in all, it just might be that pointedly not attributing the prize to anyone posthumously might've been the best possible way to go about it.
If you're the ONLY one making [mainframes/Macintosh/widget Z], wouldn't that make you an automatic monopoly?
yeah, I guess IBM mainframes count as a monopoly. But really, how are Macs a monopoly? What is the market they're a monopoly in? Either you consider a mac a personal computer, or you consider it a workstation. Having a different operating system does not automatically make it a separate market (think mobile phones!). If anything, the only comparable effect in desktop computers of IBM losing this is making it so that Microsoft can't deny Apple Windows licenses.
Well, Apple's 24" LED display is almost a docking station in and of itself (expensive as it is...)
Nice rant but the twitterer
Twitter is the delivery method
Hey kids, let's play spot the difference!
protecting yourself from getting screwed.
Wouldn't that only apply in cases of attempted rape?
It was "research" all in the name of Science!
So it was NSF Work?
Isn't the Data Liberation group the same group that kidnapped Patty Hearst?
Data wants to be free! People? Not so much.
You're missing the sanboxing chrome frame does in IE on windows XP which count for 72% of all systems worldwide. IE's sanboxing capabilities need integrity levels present only in Vista and forward. That's Google's point and it is a fair one.
The Chrome Frame's sandboxing only extends to Chrome Frame itself, it doesn't magically turn the rest of IE safe. In terms of attack vectors, the frame can be launched in two ways. First, a site can request it directly by having a tag ask for it. Second, it can be requested manually through an "open with Chrome Frame" shortcut of some description or another. Now, if I'm a malicious developer, I can either find an exploit for IE, or I can find an exploit for Chrome. If I find the former, I just write my page to abuse it, and any IE user who doesn't explicitly request to open the page through Chrome Frame will be open for attack. If I find the latter, I can specifically request a Chrome Frame and the IE/Chrome Frame user will find himself vulnerable to an attack that plain IE wouldn't be vulnerable to.
At the end of the day, you're only safer with a Chromed IE if you specifically use Chrome Frame to request pages that attack IE but not other browsers. In all other scenarios, it increases the available surface area for attacks.
Sorry for confusion, but where did I call those binaries directly "rootkit"
You at the very least implied it:
The question is why does Apple need these kernel services (read rootkit like services) running in the system space ?
For humble user anything that didn't run under icon and is not the operating system raises questions as malware uses these tricks also. Most people blindly trust Apple, but learning from that Sony rootkit incident we ought to be careful. Apple should be more transparent here and enable user to choose to avoid these services.
Indeed, we ought to be careful, and we ought to check anything suspicious that crops up. But that doesn't mean making accusations without proper research first.
Until you can actually prove those suspicions of yours, STFU.
The question is why does Apple need these kernel services (read rootkit like services) running in the system space?
If you can't even try to figure out what those services are for, I suggest you steer clear of making accusations of rootkitting.
They used that awesome maneuver where you get up to speed, then cut the engines, flip the fighter around, and fly backwards while shooting bogeys.
I remember the Wing Commander Academy manual actually explaining step by step how to pull off a similar manoeuvre, where you'd fire your afterburners, turn slightly to one side, cut the engines, and then turn hard to the other side, so you'd effectively slide past the bogey, always facing it.
I did that a million times in that game, because it just made so much sense, yet most games that came since made your ship slow down when you turned off your accelerator in the(not so) frictionless outer space.
Well, it seems to make sense, until it hits you that, without thrust or friction, your fighter can't actually turn in space either :)
As good as KDE's session management might be, I'm spoilt by the joy of detaching a screen session and reattaching it from elsewhere.
What? Your apps aren't configurable, and don't pick up where you left off? Are you using an Etch A Sketch?
You completely missed the point. Suspend/sleep means just that: you put what you're doing on hold. You have ten browser tabs open when you go to bed, they're still there when you wake up. You leave work with a slashdot post half-typed, you get home and the post is still waiting to be finished. Playing a game of tetris? It's still on pause when you recover from sleep. There's a lot of session information that's not a matter of configuration, and you lose most of it by shutting down.