I, for one, am disappointed the Navy is using the acronym LCS for Littoral Combat Ship, instead of the more imaginative C LITTORAL. At Cape Lisburne Airforce Station, the close-circuit TV network was named Cape LIsburne Internal Television. Yeah, now idea what was on those guy's minds...
Sure, but... who cares if someone's Facebook account gets hacked? Hell, a lot of people log into Facebook on other people's devices (e.g. in stores) and leave themselves logged in!
Problem for PCs is not browser availability or cost, problem is that for some people downloading a GByte of data to install a new browser is not feasible. Also, browsers are in everything now, including smartphones, smart TVs, and Nintendo DS, so you're stuck with what the hardware vendor supplies you. (Don't get me started on my Smart TV not showing videos because most hosts support video using Adobe Flash only, and Adobe refuses to license flash to most hardware manufacturers. HTML5 has been a standard for how many years now?)
Not well thought out at all.
1) Buy cyberbullying insurance
2) Create anonymous account to bully my own child
3) Have Chubb pay for my next move
4) Profit!
Broadcom did a MIPS chip, it sucked, and... let's just say Broadcom was lying when they said it could retire one floating point operation per cycle. Let's face it, there are only 2 CPU designers that have the R&D money to keep improving the design to keep up with the state of the art, and those are Intel and ARM. Intel does everything in house and sells chips. ARM sells CPU designs licensed for pennies per unit to third parties to produce in other companies fabs, a completely different business model that is much closer to the Open Source model. So what we have isn't so much 2 competing CPU architectures as 2 competing business models.
Bruce Perens, the inventor of parenthesis, is now spending the fortune he made in marketing punctuation on making the world a better place for Open Source software...
Wait... has anybody started a kickstarter to produce a video that demonstrates just how over-the-top a $100,000 drunken bacchanalia can be? I'm starting one now. First 1000 attractive young women to donate will receive free invitations...
YouTube videos are free, and you get what you pay for. Yes, some sort of critiquing system to separate the useful from useless videos would be helpful, but that's true of pretty much all web content. And, YouTube does support commenting on videos to give feedback to the creators... but the signal to noise ratio for that is probably even worse than for slashdot comments.
Yes and no. We couldn't use the latest Bluetooth implementation with LE support because nobody had ported the drivers for it to our TI ARM chip. ARM is fragmented, but embedded device manufacturers compensate for it by pumping millions of dollars into customizing firmware for their specific hardware, and hide the differences in the lowest level of firmware (kind of like BIOS used to do for DOS). So you are correct in that the problems can be hidden from most software by adopting a hardware abstraction layer (virtual hardware interface) and making the differences transparent to all hardware about that layer, then require anybody that creates hardware to also create working glue code to make the hardware support all the functions of the hardware abstraction layer. But then you need a certification process to guarantee that the hardware/abstraction layer works as expected, (as is done for Bluetooth implementations), and that can get pretty pricey. Putting restrictions on how "creative" people can get with the hardware may be cheaper.
Software is different than hardware. If somebody breaks the implementation of an API function in their software, you can override that function with your own implementation in software to work around the problem. Overriding someone else's hardware implemention is much, much more difficult. I think the argument Perens is trying to make is that supporting software on a non-fixed hardware platform is impossible. Certainly Apple's job of creating software is much easier than Microsoft's, because there are far fewer hardware variations they need to worry about.(And in fact, Apple just gives you the finger if you want to run their new OS on older hardware, as in specifically checks the version and refuses to install.)
Cabela's is a beautiful store instead you stop and think, "Everything for sale in this huge, overdecorated store is dedicated to one purpose: to help people kill things!" (Ok, maybe some of the kid's toys are an exception.)
Am I the only one that wishes they'd spend those billions on hot girl-on-girl action instead of hot missile-on-missile action?
Don't you just enforce the original poster's argument by saying the expensive monstrosity can be easily taken out be a submarine? The Russians have plenty of submarines...
"When people vote with their wallets, they make very selfish choices."
So in other words, you're against personal choices and in favor of government forcing you to subsidize special interests against your will? Doesn't sound like "freedom" to me.
Main difference between Bill and Hillary: If Bill offers you a cigar, you should politely refuse (you don't know where it's been!) Policywise, I suspect they're not that difference. The other difference is Bill has enough charisma that he can lie to your face and make you believe he's telling the truth, whereas Hillary can tell the truth and you'll be convinced she's lying. Huge charisma deficit in the Democratic front runner.
Doesn't making it easy for cybercriminals to find your business also make it easy for law enforcement to find your business? Why isn't law enforcement spending money to try to contact each of these, as well as put up multiple honeypot sites to go after their customer base? How many of the murder-for-hire sites were created by law enforcement in the first place? Much like beautiful women on dating sites, I suspect the count of criminal enterprises is greatly exagerated by ringers put up by law enforcement personnel.
Java is sandboxed, it's not supposed to have any security bugs. Of course, experience shows that's just a marketing lie, but I'd expect languages using a built-in virtual machine instead of compiling to machine code to be somewhat more secure.
Pretty sure dogs and humans have been co-evolving for over 30,000 years, so the niche they fill is already specialized to the role of over-eager brown-nosing human sycophants. Yes, I have a dog, and yes, she fits that description perfectly. Bitch not only does everything I tell her, but jumps up, runs, over accelerates, and slides into the wall while doing it. I stop her, but it's frickin' hilarious to watch! Never gets old, watching a canine embarrass itself...
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Tektronix was on Millikan Way in Beaverton. Beats Apple's Infinite Loop address, I guess...
"Tesla", "Faraday"... Watt is going on with these company names? Next thing you know, they'll giving cars names like "Volt"!
I, for one, am disappointed the Navy is using the acronym LCS for Littoral Combat Ship, instead of the more imaginative C LITTORAL. At Cape Lisburne Airforce Station, the close-circuit TV network was named Cape LIsburne Internal Television. Yeah, now idea what was on those guy's minds...
ISIS has their own computer help line. I'd say the terrorists have better IT support than most 'mericans...
Sure, but... who cares if someone's Facebook account gets hacked? Hell, a lot of people log into Facebook on other people's devices (e.g. in stores) and leave themselves logged in!
Problem for PCs is not browser availability or cost, problem is that for some people downloading a GByte of data to install a new browser is not feasible. Also, browsers are in everything now, including smartphones, smart TVs, and Nintendo DS, so you're stuck with what the hardware vendor supplies you. (Don't get me started on my Smart TV not showing videos because most hosts support video using Adobe Flash only, and Adobe refuses to license flash to most hardware manufacturers. HTML5 has been a standard for how many years now?)
"Moose and Rocko"?!? No, no, it's either "Moose and Squirrel" or "Bullwinkle and Rocky". You're welcome! -- Natasha and Boris
Not well thought out at all.
1) Buy cyberbullying insurance
2) Create anonymous account to bully my own child
3) Have Chubb pay for my next move
4) Profit!
Broadcom did a MIPS chip, it sucked, and... let's just say Broadcom was lying when they said it could retire one floating point operation per cycle. Let's face it, there are only 2 CPU designers that have the R&D money to keep improving the design to keep up with the state of the art, and those are Intel and ARM. Intel does everything in house and sells chips. ARM sells CPU designs licensed for pennies per unit to third parties to produce in other companies fabs, a completely different business model that is much closer to the Open Source model. So what we have isn't so much 2 competing CPU architectures as 2 competing business models.
Bruce Perens, the inventor of parenthesis, is now spending the fortune he made in marketing punctuation on making the world a better place for Open Source software...
Wait... has anybody started a kickstarter to produce a video that demonstrates just how over-the-top a $100,000 drunken bacchanalia can be? I'm starting one now. First 1000 attractive young women to donate will receive free invitations...
YouTube videos are free, and you get what you pay for. Yes, some sort of critiquing system to separate the useful from useless videos would be helpful, but that's true of pretty much all web content. And, YouTube does support commenting on videos to give feedback to the creators... but the signal to noise ratio for that is probably even worse than for slashdot comments.
"And here you see a mime representation of the schematic... look, there are the electrons running through the circuit! Run, little electrons, run!"
Yes and no. We couldn't use the latest Bluetooth implementation with LE support because nobody had ported the drivers for it to our TI ARM chip. ARM is fragmented, but embedded device manufacturers compensate for it by pumping millions of dollars into customizing firmware for their specific hardware, and hide the differences in the lowest level of firmware (kind of like BIOS used to do for DOS). So you are correct in that the problems can be hidden from most software by adopting a hardware abstraction layer (virtual hardware interface) and making the differences transparent to all hardware about that layer, then require anybody that creates hardware to also create working glue code to make the hardware support all the functions of the hardware abstraction layer. But then you need a certification process to guarantee that the hardware/abstraction layer works as expected, (as is done for Bluetooth implementations), and that can get pretty pricey. Putting restrictions on how "creative" people can get with the hardware may be cheaper.
Software is different than hardware. If somebody breaks the implementation of an API function in their software, you can override that function with your own implementation in software to work around the problem. Overriding someone else's hardware implemention is much, much more difficult. I think the argument Perens is trying to make is that supporting software on a non-fixed hardware platform is impossible. Certainly Apple's job of creating software is much easier than Microsoft's, because there are far fewer hardware variations they need to worry about.(And in fact, Apple just gives you the finger if you want to run their new OS on older hardware, as in specifically checks the version and refuses to install.)
I've been having a bit of a problem following Dr. Who's Twitter timeline... can you help me out?
Cabela's is a beautiful store instead you stop and think, "Everything for sale in this huge, overdecorated store is dedicated to one purpose: to help people kill things!" (Ok, maybe some of the kid's toys are an exception.)
Am I the only one that wishes they'd spend those billions on hot girl-on-girl action instead of hot missile-on-missile action?
Don't you just enforce the original poster's argument by saying the expensive monstrosity can be easily taken out be a submarine? The Russians have plenty of submarines...
Hell, Job's yacht Venus only cost $120 million, and i hear it's a lot more fun to party aboard!
(Looks at size of ship ordered by Admiral in charge of the Navy) "Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?" -- Shrek
"When people vote with their wallets, they make very selfish choices."
So in other words, you're against personal choices and in favor of government forcing you to subsidize special interests against your will? Doesn't sound like "freedom" to me.
Main difference between Bill and Hillary: If Bill offers you a cigar, you should politely refuse (you don't know where it's been!) Policywise, I suspect they're not that difference. The other difference is Bill has enough charisma that he can lie to your face and make you believe he's telling the truth, whereas Hillary can tell the truth and you'll be convinced she's lying. Huge charisma deficit in the Democratic front runner.
Doesn't making it easy for cybercriminals to find your business also make it easy for law enforcement to find your business? Why isn't law enforcement spending money to try to contact each of these, as well as put up multiple honeypot sites to go after their customer base? How many of the murder-for-hire sites were created by law enforcement in the first place? Much like beautiful women on dating sites, I suspect the count of criminal enterprises is greatly exagerated by ringers put up by law enforcement personnel.
Java is sandboxed, it's not supposed to have any security bugs. Of course, experience shows that's just a marketing lie, but I'd expect languages using a built-in virtual machine instead of compiling to machine code to be somewhat more secure.
Pretty sure dogs and humans have been co-evolving for over 30,000 years, so the niche they fill is already specialized to the role of over-eager brown-nosing human sycophants. Yes, I have a dog, and yes, she fits that description perfectly. Bitch not only does everything I tell her, but jumps up, runs, over accelerates, and slides into the wall while doing it. I stop her, but it's frickin' hilarious to watch! Never gets old, watching a canine embarrass itself...