This is probably a case of MS trying desperately to subvert the rise of linux by promoting fragmentation and confusion in the market.
I hope I am wrong. I hope this is just another milestone in their valiant pivoting efforts and not something nefarious.
If I am really hopeful, I would love to see a future OpenBSD version with a solid windows like GUI and vast driver support.
I am wondering if that code was decompiled. Actually, I am pretty sure class names are kept intact in the byte code. Not so much for internal variable names.
If it was done on purpose, maybe there's a speed benefit when searching for a class.
Or it was as you said it was coded by a math nut who is incapable of naming things with more than 2 letters.
As a layman on this topic, I can't help but be apathetic as I am told that it's too late to do anything about.
Fire chief has yelled out, "stop the water! it's too far gone", let's all just stare in awe as the destruction unfolds.
Play the final scene from FightClub!
That's the sort of mentality they want us sheeps to have. I for one applaud these white knights of data mining.
Bottom line, these "intelligence" folks had either the nerve or stupidity to post their super secret clandestine code names then they deserve to be smacked down.
I am tired of these corporations trying to own the world. We invest time and energy in to these systems to only be farmed for ads or worse and ultimately to see it die off.
What we need is a pure peer to peer facebook where we dictate the fate our data.
Think usenet, torrent, irc, webrtc. It can be done. You can still have corporations farm you in lieu of providing better hosting/support but base the system on an open, distributed protocol.
$600 vs $1200 (assuming $1 per gb for this intel card)
not sure about about speed. in theory, it should be faster due to raid or stripping (4 or 5 x 500mb/sec).
power and cable is a mess so definitely a con here.
fault tolerance is a plus from raiding.
upgradeable storage capacity is a plus.
otherwise, great for server farms.
Hardware wise, this thing's a big fat loser compared to the new Macbook 2015.
Off the cuff comparison:
1. Storage is a huge loss
2. Has fan. booooo
3. CPU is a win
4. I am going to guess the touchpad is a loss - hard to beat apple on this.
5. Form factor and weight is a big loss
6. I/O ports, winner. silly being apple apple and sacrificing function over form.
7. OS - I prefer a pure linux for CLI but not so much for GUI apps. I would lean for OS X as it has better support in the GUI apps area.
is that right? how do they make money?! they must unloading that burden on the merchants or selling the customer's data out for major bucks.
bitcoin! we need you to spread.
Easy. All black guys need to be flagged for threat and all asian guys can be safely ignored unless he looks like Kim Jong Un.
Indian guys are tough cause they all look like a jihadist.
JK!!!
If I was running their phone OS dept, and I received an order to take ownership of the app market, I would just focus on that.
Why invent a new platform when all you need is your own store. Look to the Amazon fire phone.
It's one thing to try to lock customers in to your eco system, it's another thing entirely to get developers to port their stuff to a new platform.
Android is open source, more importantly, it's the top mobile platform what's the problem? If there are things in there that's not to your liking, fork, but always maintain that app API compatibility.
"Developers! Developers! Developers!" -Ballmer
remember those being the next hot thing? well, look how they turned out.
I have a feeling this could have the same fate.
also, with the phones being so cheap there's is little reason to upgrade in piecemeal.
I think the one thing that it does bring to the table is expansion ports for third party products - PCI slots for phones.
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poon tagging across the cosmos. radical dude.
This is probably a case of MS trying desperately to subvert the rise of linux by promoting fragmentation and confusion in the market.
I hope I am wrong. I hope this is just another milestone in their valiant pivoting efforts and not something nefarious.
If I am really hopeful, I would love to see a future OpenBSD version with a solid windows like GUI and vast driver support.
Desperate companies do desperate things. Sad really.
When was the last time you visited yahoo.com?
Used their email?
Used their games or chat?
I am wondering if that code was decompiled. Actually, I am pretty sure class names are kept intact in the byte code. Not so much for internal variable names. If it was done on purpose, maybe there's a speed benefit when searching for a class. Or it was as you said it was coded by a math nut who is incapable of naming things with more than 2 letters.
As a layman on this topic, I can't help but be apathetic as I am told that it's too late to do anything about.
Fire chief has yelled out, "stop the water! it's too far gone", let's all just stare in awe as the destruction unfolds.
Play the final scene from FightClub!
That's the sort of mentality they want us sheeps to have. I for one applaud these white knights of data mining.
Bottom line, these "intelligence" folks had either the nerve or stupidity to post their super secret clandestine code names then they deserve to be smacked down.
Even better, make a global grid so that there will always be a buyer and seller of energy. http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/arc...
no mention of 3d printing? nor some kind of phone + crowd sourcing + big data analysis?
what kind of pragmatic nonsense is this?
I am tired of these corporations trying to own the world. We invest time and energy in to these systems to only be farmed for ads or worse and ultimately to see it die off.
What we need is a pure peer to peer facebook where we dictate the fate our data. Think usenet, torrent, irc, webrtc. It can be done. You can still have corporations farm you in lieu of providing better hosting/support but base the system on an open, distributed protocol.
let's see...
pci express raid controller ~ 100
5 x 256gb ssd ~ 500
$600 vs $1200 (assuming $1 per gb for this intel card)
not sure about about speed. in theory, it should be faster due to raid or stripping (4 or 5 x 500mb/sec).
power and cable is a mess so definitely a con here.
fault tolerance is a plus from raiding.
upgradeable storage capacity is a plus.
otherwise, great for server farms.
"Oh nevermind.. false alarm.. all is well. go about your business" as your feeble AV tool is gagged and bound by the new BIOS.
Hardware wise, this thing's a big fat loser compared to the new Macbook 2015.
Off the cuff comparison:
1. Storage is a huge loss
2. Has fan. booooo
3. CPU is a win
4. I am going to guess the touchpad is a loss - hard to beat apple on this.
5. Form factor and weight is a big loss
6. I/O ports, winner. silly being apple apple and sacrificing function over form.
7. OS - I prefer a pure linux for CLI but not so much for GUI apps. I would lean for OS X as it has better support in the GUI apps area.
https://www.ischool.utexas.edu... This reminded me of this inspiring paper.
Umm... how about that little thing called marketing?
is that right? how do they make money?! they must unloading that burden on the merchants or selling the customer's data out for major bucks. bitcoin! we need you to spread.
Come on baby! make it hurt so good!
sorry, blame my dendrite that reached over to the 80's section
This plus drones with missiles = aimbots in RL
Easy. All black guys need to be flagged for threat and all asian guys can be safely ignored unless he looks like Kim Jong Un. Indian guys are tough cause they all look like a jihadist. JK!!!
Unlike TOR or VPN, HTTPS doesn't hide everything. They can see where you are going, the hostname/ip and port. That alone says volumes about you.
hey, how much snow did you get?
OVER 9000 METRIC TON!
You don't even need JTAG access, modify one the many opensource VM and then have it log this awesomely secure key.
get with yall! so disappointing. and we call this place news for nerds. shame.
Even if your argument holds water, the market has already decided and basic anything is not in the running. Stop wasting people's cycles.
If I was running their phone OS dept, and I received an order to take ownership of the app market, I would just focus on that.
Why invent a new platform when all you need is your own store. Look to the Amazon fire phone.
It's one thing to try to lock customers in to your eco system, it's another thing entirely to get developers to port their stuff to a new platform.
Android is open source, more importantly, it's the top mobile platform what's the problem? If there are things in there that's not to your liking, fork, but always maintain that app API compatibility.
"Developers! Developers! Developers!" -Ballmer
remember those being the next hot thing? well, look how they turned out. I have a feeling this could have the same fate. also, with the phones being so cheap there's is little reason to upgrade in piecemeal. I think the one thing that it does bring to the table is expansion ports for third party products - PCI slots for phones.