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No, radius is the principal measurement of a circle, a sphere, a hypersphere, and so on. The diameter is the mathematically unnatural measurement. The diameter is used nowhere but in the relation of circumference to diameter. All other calculations use the radius, and factors of 2 pi.
Pi was chose as it was because it is more practical to physically measure the diameter than the radius. This does not make it a mathematically sound choice, however.
Go for the ones with the most songs and investigate them?
"Investigate" them how? Break into their home and go through their CDs?
Pay an ISP or two to snoop their customers to correlate Torrent downloads of music with iCloud comparison transactions?
What purpose would that serve?
Point out that there's 10 times more "legal" uploads of the latest Lady Gaga hit to iCloud than there were sales recorded by the label?
They already have plenty of real and made-up statistics they can quote - why would they go to that kind of effort to get just one more drop in the bucket?
That only works if you know ahead of time which users will need any given block, and of course you don't.
If user 1 uploads file A, and you encrypt it and store the key encrypted with user 1's key, and then user 2 uploads file A too, you can find out that the data is already uploaded by user 1, but you can't actually find the key to that data to give to user 2.
of course the Kronos group is unbiased, it was their project Microsoft targeted in that "report".
I really do not understand what you are trying to say here.
and if what you're saying about OpenGL drivers is true then anything which rendered through a web connection and used the OpenGL drivers would be a problem. Has Microsoft been putting out similar "reports" about those? Java3D and JGL are the first which come to mind and any 3D application is also a "threat" to Windows.
I have not checked whether they allow you to run custom code on the GPU, but if they do, then yes, they are a problem too. They are, however, not really in wide use at all, as far as I can tell. Certainly there is nowhere near the same amount of interest in them as there is in WebGL.
Sorry but regardless if this being a valid issue, I have a problem with Microsoft, the marketing company, deciding when and what they want to declare as a security threat when you know darn well it's the competition which is the threat to them.
And why is it not foolish to disregard a warning of a threat just because you dislike the person delivering the warning?
The Khronos group is not a particularly unbiased source, here.
This is a problem. Security issues aside, most OpenGL drivers are horrible at handling multiple tasks, and you could easily make a webpage that grinds your system to a halt by overusing the GPU on a lot of cards.
It's certainly not a non-issue. It's the sole thing that gives bitcoins real value. Bitcoin holders should be watching the drug markets pretty closely, because once they go, the whole currency might just go with them.
Name me one new technology that Apple developed, not something Apple acquired or an extension of something they acquired, that wasn't a proprietary Apple lock-in?
I already told you: clang.
It was developed by Apple programmers, internally at Apple, and then freely released as part of LLVM. It is entirely an Apple project, and not at all something they acquired.
Want some more? launchd is another.
I don't claim they go around closing down the things they acquire.
You sure implied that when you said this:
Sure they have a log of some open source things like WebKit and CUPS that they still maintain and are forced to keep open due to GPL, but otherwise everything Apple does is proprietary and locked to their software.
You were saying they only kept WebKit open because they were forced to. Well, they weren't forced to keep LLVM open, nor to keep Darwin open, nor any of the other non-GPL projects they work on. So what were you trying to say, if it wasn't that they would close the source for projects if they could?
Doesn't everything new that Apple makes have that requirement? Sure they have a log of some open source things like WebKit and CUPS that they still maintain and are forced to keep open due to GPL, but otherwise everything Apple does is proprietary and locked to their software.
Utter nonsense. LLVM is BSD, and they made no effort to close that, and they developed clang from scratch internally and released it as open source.
Star Trek has had a few continuity problems of it's own. The building of the Enterprise on Earth is actually one of them, but it goes back further than the movie and into the nature of Starfleet. In the old TOS, Starfleet was seen as a multi-cultural force, something akin to the United Nations peacekeeping force. Loyal to federation princibles, open to all, and with command split between all of the Federation's members - no one species having control. Humans were one member among many, and newcomers at that. The headquarters were even located (IIRC) on a starbase, so as not to grant any member the prestige of having the HQ on their homeworld. A coalition of nominal equals.
Sure, it's been a long time since I watched TOS, but I sure don't remember seeing any of that in there.
subscription models, free games with a built in market to sell in-game content, ad sponsored games
And how much do people complain about all of these?
community developed free games
And how many actually good games like this are there? Sure, they exist, but they are miniscule in comparison to commercial games, either on a large or small scale. Most people who have the skills and dedication needed to actually make a good game seldom have the time and resources to do so for free.
games where you pay a subscription to a third party for an all you can eat rental affair
This is the only one that has any chance of success, and it is entirely unproven, and also suffers from piracy just as much as the current game model.
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No, radius is the principal measurement of a circle, a sphere, a hypersphere, and so on. The diameter is the mathematically unnatural measurement. The diameter is used nowhere but in the relation of circumference to diameter. All other calculations use the radius, and factors of 2 pi.
Pi was chose as it was because it is more practical to physically measure the diameter than the radius. This does not make it a mathematically sound choice, however.
Well.. no, they can't just do that?
If you want to claim they can, back it up with an actual legal argument, please.
Yes, but I think a large part of why they do this is because of the bandwidth savings.
The same way it does in a regular camera. If a fence is close to the lens, keeping it out of focus lets you see through it just fine.
It works because the lens has finite size, and from some parts of the lens you see past the wires in the fence, while from others you do not.
Go for the ones with the most songs and investigate them?
"Investigate" them how? Break into their home and go through their CDs?
Pay an ISP or two to snoop their customers to correlate Torrent downloads of music with iCloud comparison transactions?
What purpose would that serve?
Point out that there's 10 times more "legal" uploads of the latest Lady Gaga hit to iCloud than there were sales recorded by the label?
They already have plenty of real and made-up statistics they can quote - why would they go to that kind of effort to get just one more drop in the bucket?
If the RIAA or one of it's members files suit and gets access to music stored in iCloud in discovery, Apple has to obey the law.
And the RIAA will get a huge list of "this person owns legal copies of these songs".
I am not sure what you think they would do with those lists.
Yeah, it's not like anyone can access anybody else's files!
I mean, not any more.
Not until the next time they break it, anyway!
That only works if you know ahead of time which users will need any given block, and of course you don't.
If user 1 uploads file A, and you encrypt it and store the key encrypted with user 1's key, and then user 2 uploads file A too, you can find out that the data is already uploaded by user 1, but you can't actually find the key to that data to give to user 2.
of course the Kronos group is unbiased, it was their project Microsoft targeted in that "report".
I really do not understand what you are trying to say here.
and if what you're saying about OpenGL drivers is true then anything which rendered through a web connection and used the OpenGL drivers would be a problem. Has Microsoft been putting out similar "reports" about those? Java3D and JGL are the first which come to mind and any 3D application is also a "threat" to Windows.
I have not checked whether they allow you to run custom code on the GPU, but if they do, then yes, they are a problem too. They are, however, not really in wide use at all, as far as I can tell. Certainly there is nowhere near the same amount of interest in them as there is in WebGL.
Sorry but regardless if this being a valid issue, I have a problem with Microsoft, the marketing company, deciding when and what they want to declare as a security threat when you know darn well it's the competition which is the threat to them.
And why is it not foolish to disregard a warning of a threat just because you dislike the person delivering the warning?
The Khronos group is not a particularly unbiased source, here.
This is a problem. Security issues aside, most OpenGL drivers are horrible at handling multiple tasks, and you could easily make a webpage that grinds your system to a halt by overusing the GPU on a lot of cards.
Probably not, since that word is no longer in the summary.
Now it just makes no sense.
and hopefully they've designed in ways to mitigate security issues.
Well, they have. Do you know how they work?
If you have a driver that is known to be particularly buggy, WebGL is disabled completely.
See what I did, there?
Totally disregarded the difference of risk between getting mugged and getting malware on your computer?
so this "independent research" has also been done on Microsoft's browser integration to the graphics card also?
Microsoft's graphics card integration does not let website run arbitrary code on the GPU, so it is entirely unrelated to the problems with WebGL.
(Most other browsers have similar projects, and these are also independent of WebGL and its problems.)
It's certainly not a non-issue. It's the sole thing that gives bitcoins real value. Bitcoin holders should be watching the drug markets pretty closely, because once they go, the whole currency might just go with them.
What's so false about that flag? It's well known people use bitcoin to buy drugs. Probably most of its actual value comes from that.
And who is going to enable the internet on that portable device?
Name me one new technology that Apple developed, not something Apple acquired or an extension of something they acquired, that wasn't a proprietary Apple lock-in?
I already told you: clang.
It was developed by Apple programmers, internally at Apple, and then freely released as part of LLVM. It is entirely an Apple project, and not at all something they acquired.
Want some more? launchd is another.
I don't claim they go around closing down the things they acquire.
You sure implied that when you said this:
Sure they have a log of some open source things like WebKit and CUPS that they still maintain and are forced to keep open due to GPL, but otherwise everything Apple does is proprietary and locked to their software.
You were saying they only kept WebKit open because they were forced to. Well, they weren't forced to keep LLVM open, nor to keep Darwin open, nor any of the other non-GPL projects they work on. So what were you trying to say, if it wasn't that they would close the source for projects if they could?
Doesn't everything new that Apple makes have that requirement? Sure they have a log of some open source things like WebKit and CUPS that they still maintain and are forced to keep open due to GPL, but otherwise everything Apple does is proprietary and locked to their software.
Utter nonsense. LLVM is BSD, and they made no effort to close that, and they developed clang from scratch internally and released it as open source.
Do you even know what iCloud is, or what it is supposed to do?
Yes, well, it sure isn't quite ready for primetime yet, but here we have it anyway. At least their bug tracker should get a workout.
Yeah, no, going their own way with Unity is pretty much the only they are ever going to get a "slick Linux".
And when they decide maybe they don't really need to call you?
Star Trek has had a few continuity problems of it's own. The building of the Enterprise on Earth is actually one of them, but it goes back further than the movie and into the nature of Starfleet. In the old TOS, Starfleet was seen as a multi-cultural force, something akin to the United Nations peacekeeping force. Loyal to federation princibles, open to all, and with command split between all of the Federation's members - no one species having control. Humans were one member among many, and newcomers at that. The headquarters were even located (IIRC) on a starbase, so as not to grant any member the prestige of having the HQ on their homeworld. A coalition of nominal equals.
Sure, it's been a long time since I watched TOS, but I sure don't remember seeing any of that in there.
subscription models, free games with a built in market to sell in-game content, ad sponsored games
And how much do people complain about all of these?
community developed free games
And how many actually good games like this are there? Sure, they exist, but they are miniscule in comparison to commercial games, either on a large or small scale. Most people who have the skills and dedication needed to actually make a good game seldom have the time and resources to do so for free.
games where you pay a subscription to a third party for an all you can eat rental affair
This is the only one that has any chance of success, and it is entirely unproven, and also suffers from piracy just as much as the current game model.