Not to mention that writing that H.264 is proprietary is wrong.
It's patent-encumbered, yes, and as such non-free, but it is nonetheless a non-proprietary standard as AFAIK the full documentation is available.
BTW, the JPEG standard is also patent-encumbered, which is why only a subset of the features described in the standard are usually implemented (lossless coding, hierarchical coding, arithmetic coding are usually left out of the implementation).
"-1 Doesn't really know what xinerama+xrandr does"
My bet is that and "-1 Doesn't understand the question because poster OS / default Linux distribution setup doesn't do that and poster can't think of more flexibility"
There's a flaw in X where you can't move windows between screens. That you can't move them between displays makes sense (from:1.0 to:2.0 for example), but between screens (from:0.1 to:0.2 for example) it should be allowed.
Some tools try to get around that limitation (Xpra, xmove, mentioned in other posts, that I didn't know of, so the thread is useful;) )
Then there's that technical difficulty about windows crossing screen boundaries :
Virtual workspace are only simulated by the window manager by mapping or unmapping windows. When a window crosses screen boundaries and you change your workspace on one screen, you get an interesting case because X doesn't allow you to map half a window.
So you have two options : - You can move from one screen to another screen with a WM option, but no dragging allowed between screens. Some applications like Gimp can do that (View->Move to screen)
- A WM could implement independant workspaces in xinerama mode (I think DR17 does just that), and have some special set of rules for windows crossing screens (and workspaces) boundaries (like always shown, or tie with the workspace where most of the windows is located)
[Apple] are not large enough to build their own search engine
Completely wrong. Actually, they already have their own search engine, it's called Spotlight and it works well.
I'm pretty sure they could build some data centers and have a product quickly.
Now, Apple has always worked on profitable markets. I'm pretty sure web search has not enough profit margins for them to consider to enter into that market.
If anything, you will get applesearch through your MobileMe account : paying customers, smaller datacenters because not anyone can access the search engine; no ads, integration with the platform as additional features, that's the only move that can make sense to them.
No, IPV6 is meant so that every device has a unique address
Not exactly. Think about masks. The last 6 bytes in a IPv6 adress are the MAC address of the device. The 10 first bytes are enough to identify you. Actually I think that was the whole point of IPv4 classes, easing routing and DNS searches by having meaningful prefixes.
IPv6 was also my first thought. Have your own 80 bits prefix to identify you, and have the remaining 48 bits to do whatever you want with.
I'm pretty sure that by tweaking a little their formula and figures, we can compute the probability of the article's authors to get laid with an alien life form.
The only think you proved is that your test is wrong.
Render the animation once in (say) 240 fps.
Then blend the frames to drop the framerate (so, blend 10 frames for your 24 fps rendering)
You should get different results.
However, as another poster mention, there is tracking, which will still make some difference.
I've read a long time ago (no source, sorry) that some neuroscientists observed that the brain processes about 20 / 25 images/second.
Now the content of the images is determined partly by the movement of the eyes, so practically, the higher the framerate, the better experience.
If you had high-end equipment, with a laser tracking your eyes movement and calculating the images taking into account those movements, 30 fps would be more than enough though.
It's only adding one added layer to the dancing bunnies problem.
Virtualization is detectable. Your dancing bunnies malware will complain that it needs better access to the computer in order to run.
You only need memory protection, and an OS with some access control mechanisms.
If the application can't run in those constraints:
Educated users will know that something is going wrong;
Uneducated users will escalate privileges one by one until the computer is pwned.
Now what I think would be a secure system on paper : Only signed apps run on native hardware, everything else in one big sandbox (resetted each time, have fun reinstalling unsigned apps every day).
Practically, bugs can allow code injection in signed code, and the signing authority can miss malware, but this at least solves the dancing bunnies problem, because it's the hardware/OS vendor which will refuse you to run the application.
Well, unless if there was a way to work around the signing check. We could call that "jailbreaking" the computer. But that's unthinkable, isn't it ?
Asking the user to install dancing_bunnies was too easy for this guy, he wants to ask the user to ldd dancing_bunnies to activate the malware.
Could as well ask the user to ACTIVATE_MALWARE=1 dancing_bunnies or LD_PRELOAD=dancing_bunnies.so your_app for letting the user running the malware from any your_app he likes.
Damn you're so wrong. I have mod points but I prefer to supplement smoker2's comment about your 1st paragraph. (Someone mod parent down.)
Britain [...] (80,823 square miles) [...] 70 Million people
I don't know where your superficy comes from, or aren't Whales and Northern Ireland part of UK anymore ? More like 94 000 sq mi. For 61M people.
To give a good comparison France
Bad comparison, France is one of the least densely populated countries of western Europe.
has a similar population size
65M, 62M if you only count metropolitan area. OK, that's similar, but not in the 70's. You could have tried Italy: closer superficy and population numbers.
but an area of 260,558 square miles
Counting mostly unhabitated French Guyana. 213 000 for metropolitan area.
We are one of the most densely populated areas in the world
Not really. 52th : Many of most densely populated entities are islands and metropolis-states (obviously, the more your country population density is, the more your country looks like a metropolis-country). Still more densely-populated countries with more than 10M people are : Bangladesh, Taiwan, South Korea, Netherlands, India, Belgium, Japan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Vietnam. If you count by "real" population density (because deserts and high mountains are scarcely inhabitated), 75th, after South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Colombia, Bangladesh, Philippines, Yemen, Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal, Belgium, Indonesia.
We are running out of land to build houses on.
Not at all. Population density is not homogeneous. City areas are densely populated, fields areas aren't (duh!). One-in-five to one-in-six UK and France citizens are living in their capital metropolis. These areas therefore achieve very high population densities and still are growing.
Crappy journalism. That's like advertising iSCSI as Ethernet.
Fiber data transfer is nothing new, but Intel designed a chipset for what could be some kind of "FireWire over fiber", designed for generic PC to peripheral interconnection.
Existing standard fiber connections are dedicated (only one signal/protocol in the fiber) while this one can multiplex (or time-share ?) many signals of different protocols.
Could the mods please mod the AC parent back to (-1, Troll) ?
It's a strawman.
I could also make generalisations about the "Windows community" being only a bunch of chills, or the "Mac community" being only a bunch of fanboys, and even find plenty of exemples in diverse forums to support my point.
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So, 198% of game developers are morons?
Spoken like a game developer. Anyone with a clue knows that -37% of game developers are morons.
How are you counting ? You must be a game developer.
198% (unsigned) = 11000110b% = -58% (signed)
Or -57% if you're developing for a platform using one's complement.
Not to mention that writing that H.264 is proprietary is wrong.
It's patent-encumbered, yes, and as such non-free, but it is nonetheless a non-proprietary standard as AFAIK the full documentation is available.
BTW, the JPEG standard is also patent-encumbered, which is why only a subset of the features described in the standard are usually implemented (lossless coding, hierarchical coding, arithmetic coding are usually left out of the implementation).
Hex maps allow the world to really be a sphere, as opposed to a flat map.
Hmm, no. Look at a football (soccer) ball : There are pentagons to make it spherical.
The advantage of hexes is that all adjacent tiles represent the same travel distance, while with squares, diagonals represent greater distances.
Roughly expressing what Voltaire said :
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
"-1 Doesn't really know what xinerama+xrandr does"
My bet is that and "-1 Doesn't understand the question because poster OS / default Linux distribution setup doesn't do that and poster can't think of more flexibility"
There's a flaw in X where you can't move windows between screens. That you can't move them between displays makes sense (from :1.0 to :2.0 for example), but between screens (from :0.1 to :0.2 for example) it should be allowed.
Some tools try to get around that limitation (Xpra, xmove, mentioned in other posts, that I didn't know of, so the thread is useful ;) )
Then there's that technical difficulty about windows crossing screen boundaries :
Virtual workspace are only simulated by the window manager by mapping or unmapping windows.
When a window crosses screen boundaries and you change your workspace on one screen, you get an interesting case because X doesn't allow you to map half a window.
So you have two options :
- You can move from one screen to another screen with a WM option, but no dragging allowed between screens. Some applications like Gimp can do that (View->Move to screen)
- A WM could implement independant workspaces in xinerama mode (I think DR17 does just that), and have some special set of rules for windows crossing screens (and workspaces) boundaries (like always shown, or tie with the workspace where most of the windows is located)
That's the way you recognize smart entrepreneurs.
Steve Jobs of NeXT bought Apple for -429 million dollars in 1996.
Steve Jobs of Pixar bought Disney for -7.4 billion dollars in 2004.
Talk about Reality Distortion Field !
these bots 'completely ignore the rules specified in robots.txt.'
Microsoft ignoring standards is not incompetence, it's policy (NIH syndrome).
[Apple] are not large enough to build their own search engine
Completely wrong. Actually, they already have their own search engine, it's called Spotlight and it works well.
I'm pretty sure they could build some data centers and have a product quickly.
Now, Apple has always worked on profitable markets. I'm pretty sure web search has not enough profit margins for them to consider to enter into that market.
If anything, you will get applesearch through your MobileMe account : paying customers, smaller datacenters because not anyone can access the search engine; no ads, integration with the platform as additional features, that's the only move that can make sense to them.
No, IPV6 is meant so that every device has a unique address
Not exactly. Think about masks.
The last 6 bytes in a IPv6 adress are the MAC address of the device.
The 10 first bytes are enough to identify you.
Actually I think that was the whole point of IPv4 classes, easing routing and DNS searches by having meaningful prefixes.
IPv6 was also my first thought. Have your own 80 bits prefix to identify you, and have the remaining 48 bits to do whatever you want with.
I'm pretty sure that by tweaking a little their formula and figures, we can compute the probability of the article's authors to get laid with an alien life form.
The only think you proved is that your test is wrong.
Render the animation once in (say) 240 fps.
Then blend the frames to drop the framerate (so, blend 10 frames for your 24 fps rendering)
You should get different results.
However, as another poster mention, there is tracking, which will still make some difference.
I've read a long time ago (no source, sorry) that some neuroscientists observed that the brain processes about 20 / 25 images/second.
Now the content of the images is determined partly by the movement of the eyes, so practically, the higher the framerate, the better experience.
If you had high-end equipment, with a laser tracking your eyes movement and calculating the images taking into account those movements, 30 fps would be more than enough though.
And mostly useless bloat at that.
It's only adding one added layer to the dancing bunnies problem.
Virtualization is detectable. Your dancing bunnies malware will complain that it needs better access to the computer in order to run.
You only need memory protection, and an OS with some access control mechanisms.
If the application can't run in those constraints:
Now what I think would be a secure system on paper :
Only signed apps run on native hardware, everything else in one big sandbox (resetted each time, have fun reinstalling unsigned apps every day).
Practically, bugs can allow code injection in signed code, and the signing authority can miss malware, but this at least solves the dancing bunnies problem, because it's the hardware/OS vendor which will refuse you to run the application.
Well, unless if there was a way to work around the signing check. We could call that "jailbreaking" the computer. But that's unthinkable, isn't it ?
Or keeping with the tradition of some Slashdot summaries, they could have stated 108 people instead of 10^8.
I also have "L'aile ou la cuisse" (The Wing and the Thigh), with the relevant excerpt.
The Techdirt article that the Slashdot article is based on is based on [sic] is a piece of crap
Remembers me something...
A very bad summary indeed, and a quite bad article to start with.
You sir, have summed up Slashdot quite well in one sentence.
Maybe Anon deserved insightful, after all... ;)
Damn,
Asking the user to install dancing_bunnies was too easy for this guy, he wants to ask the user to ldd dancing_bunnies to activate the malware.
Could as well ask the user to ACTIVATE_MALWARE=1 dancing_bunnies or LD_PRELOAD=dancing_bunnies.so your_app for letting the user running the malware from any your_app he likes.
I think you're missing the point.
Here is an example of bill.
Go to section 3.
You will see that the bill is actually a diff on previous laws.
To read the law modified by this bill, you need to get the text of the laws referenced by this bill.
Hence the idea of using a version control system, to be able to read side-by-side the law before and after the bill.
Don't worry, the penguin's kernel has evolved to pulseless a few years ago and is all fine and dandy :P
Damn you're so wrong. I have mod points but I prefer to supplement smoker2's comment about your 1st paragraph. (Someone mod parent down.)
Britain [...] (80,823 square miles) [...] 70 Million people
I don't know where your superficy comes from, or aren't Whales and Northern Ireland part of UK anymore ? More like 94 000 sq mi. For 61M people.
To give a good comparison France
Bad comparison, France is one of the least densely populated countries of western Europe.
has a similar population size
65M, 62M if you only count metropolitan area. OK, that's similar, but not in the 70's. You could have tried Italy: closer superficy and population numbers.
but an area of 260,558 square miles
Counting mostly unhabitated French Guyana. 213 000 for metropolitan area.
We are one of the most densely populated areas in the world
Not really.
52th : Many of most densely populated entities are islands and metropolis-states (obviously, the more your country population density is, the more your country looks like a metropolis-country). Still more densely-populated countries with more than 10M people are : Bangladesh, Taiwan, South Korea, Netherlands, India, Belgium, Japan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Vietnam.
If you count by "real" population density (because deserts and high mountains are scarcely inhabitated), 75th, after South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Colombia, Bangladesh, Philippines, Yemen, Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal, Belgium, Indonesia.
We are running out of land to build houses on.
Not at all. Population density is not homogeneous. City areas are densely populated, fields areas aren't (duh!). One-in-five to one-in-six UK and France citizens are living in their capital metropolis. These areas therefore achieve very high population densities and still are growing.
How is that news for nerds ?
None of us will ever get laid, so that's not stuff that matters...
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Crappy journalism. That's like advertising iSCSI as Ethernet.
Fiber data transfer is nothing new, but Intel designed a chipset for what could be some kind of "FireWire over fiber", designed for generic PC to peripheral interconnection.
Existing standard fiber connections are dedicated (only one signal/protocol in the fiber) while this one can multiplex (or time-share ?) many signals of different protocols.
You can also mount FATFS with dmask=002,fmask=113
Could the mods please mod the AC parent back to (-1, Troll) ?
It's a strawman.
I could also make generalisations about the "Windows community" being only a bunch of chills, or the "Mac community" being only a bunch of fanboys, and even find plenty of exemples in diverse forums to support my point.
That wouldn't make my comment insightful.
Press release
Maybe it wasn't online at the time of submission, but now it is.
Here is a link (pointing to studies).