Would you think that a car with an ICE with 60 litres of highy flammable fuel is more or less prone to fire than a car with 60 kWh worth of LiPo batteries?
Yes. Lithium self-ignites when exposed to air, gasoline does not. Gasoline releases more energy once it is on fire, but it harder to make it catch on fire.
Well, I won't go that far. There is a valid technical reason why miners have to do nonsense work. But that doesn't really make that work itself meaningful. It is literally a waste of time of energy, because that is what it is designed to be, because the whole system would collapse if you could do it too quickly, so you have to force people to waste time.
Nowhere near enough defence. Once your computer is compromised, that is not going to stop it, when it can just keylog you or hook into the memory of the running bitcoin client.
Why would you need a citation for that? That is how licensing works. Cisco can not realistically offer a license for code you build yourself, only for binaries they provide.
The binary module is by far the more interesting part. There are already entirely capable open-source h.264 decoders. Another one would not be interesting on its own. Getting a fully licensed binary is much more useful.
Apple created and owns clang. If they wanted to stop distributing the source, they could do so no matter if it were GPL and BSD licensed. It's theirs to do what they want with.
They're giving it all away for free with zero obligation to do so, and all you can do is criticise them for somehow still not giving enough?
There's like a single 64-bit ARM processor in existence yet. The market is still pretty much entirely 32-bit, and it will be a long time before most of it moves to 64 bit. Sure, in some years it will be different. But not now.
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Remind me again what you are doing to stop the American military from killing innocents in its wars?
Also, to which extent do you feel you deserve death for what they are doing?
Would you think that a car with an ICE with 60 litres of highy flammable fuel is more or less prone to fire than a car with 60 kWh worth of LiPo batteries?
Yes. Lithium self-ignites when exposed to air, gasoline does not. Gasoline releases more energy once it is on fire, but it harder to make it catch on fire.
Considering that is exactly what I assumed had happened when I first heard about it, I have little reason not to believe it.
Well, I won't go that far. There is a valid technical reason why miners have to do nonsense work. But that doesn't really make that work itself meaningful. It is literally a waste of time of energy, because that is what it is designed to be, because the whole system would collapse if you could do it too quickly, so you have to force people to waste time.
The single rule holds true - treat your wallet like cash.
Well, quite. But there are safer ways to store regular cash than having it as cash in your home. For bitcoin, not so much.
Not at all comparable. Counting votes is gathering actual information. The mining work isn't.
"Depends on" in the sense that if you didn't make people do pointless busywork the scheme wouldn't work, yes.
Doesn't mean you have actually done anything of actual value, though. Mining work is basically completely pointless.
Nope, nowhere near secure enough. If your computer gets compromised it does not matter if your wallet is encrypted.
In fact, it just did!
Encrypt your wallets.
Nowhere near enough defence. Once your computer is compromised, that is not going to stop it, when it can just keylog you or hook into the memory of the running bitcoin client.
They've been doing well for audio, both Vorbis and Opus are good codecs. But audio is a lot simpler. It's a very different story for video.
VP8 is just as good as H.264,
This is not actually true.
Why would you need a citation for that? That is how licensing works. Cisco can not realistically offer a license for code you build yourself, only for binaries they provide.
It's not a competitor to h.264, it's aiming to be a competitor to h.265.
The binary module is by far the more interesting part. There are already entirely capable open-source h.264 decoders. Another one would not be interesting on its own. Getting a fully licensed binary is much more useful.
What are those countless others before? Theora was the first serious free codec I can think of.
Because it is most likely not quite as good as h.265, and it is not quite clear it is actually unencumbered, either.
As the other guy says, Apple created clang from scratch. You are confusing it with LLVM, which is its backend.
Apple created and owns clang. If they wanted to stop distributing the source, they could do so no matter if it were GPL and BSD licensed. It's theirs to do what they want with.
They're giving it all away for free with zero obligation to do so, and all you can do is criticise them for somehow still not giving enough?
And you can't reasonably do it yourself, as it requires more sophisticated equipment than most people would have.
Wouldn't be a problem if PHP honoured Unix execute permissions.
Too bad it doesn't.
They were cheap and ubiquitous for nearly a decade, dude.
There's like a single 64-bit ARM processor in existence yet. The market is still pretty much entirely 32-bit, and it will be a long time before most of it moves to 64 bit. Sure, in some years it will be different. But not now.
The market is still very much at 32 bit. You are just confused about what "the market" is. It is not desktop PCs or servers.
Did you stop to consider who you are really helping with that attitude?