Hey, when it really comes down to it, the problem is that we're racist and paranoid. But then again, shouldn't all the trade deficitists out there be rejoicing that the Chinese have lost such a big customer? Hmmm . . . it's weird how people only think about things in the way that is convenient at the moment, not recognizing the inherent conflicts between the things they say at one time and the things they say at another.
When was the last time you saw a movie with any stock footage? No, even with game engines if the games feel too alike (I.e. not enough modification on the engine), then people end up feeling gyped. Certainly reusing textures is not a possibility, at least until we get to the point where we can use too many art assets for the user to remember, even subconsciously.
* Run the malware in a virtual environment and capture the machine code executed. * Bring the machine code into your classification environment. * Do naive Bayesian on the "words" or instructions given. * Anything that comes up more than X%, send to a human to validate.
Send definitions to consumers. When consumer tries to run program with matching hash, "This program has been classified as malware by MS Defender, are you sure you want to run it? Yes, (No)?"
In my mind, that's just the low-hanging fruit. You could probably do a lot better if you thought about it for more than five minutes. In fact, there are a lot of other problems you could solve using this filtering . . . does anyone know if anyone's tried to bet on baseball this way? I wonder if there is a way to write a neural network and then get a bunch of info and see if I can make me some side cash.:)
You mean like teaching users not to click "OK" on seedy websites? Yeah . . . that's gonna work. If the user gives a program executable permission, it's not going to help that there are no holes in the operating system. Just like "sudo make install BAD_MALWARE" would probably kill you on Linux. Yeah, they could work on permissions, but users will probably just clobber those too.
This "graphics is everything" paradigm is most certainly not new, whippersnapper.:P It's been around since the Famicom, and before. Man, I remember Zelda II: the Adventure of Link. That game had amazing graphics and effects when it came out. The most powerful spell in the game, Thunder, was just a flashing on the screen. Man, those were the days. I wonder what kind of hacking they must have done to fit all of that into . . .
True, though, the real reason it was great was because of the amazing gameplay.
This is my point of view exactly. Microsoft also payed hard cash for the right to put their SE as the default: it's called "The cost of developing Internet Explorer." I'm not saying it's OK for MS to do it, just that the argument made by TFA is not a good one.
It would be interesting if reality backed up your assertion, but my sense is that your post finds its source more in wishful thinking and less in actual trends or solid predictions.
You and I disapprove of non-immigrant visas for different reasons.;) I thought it was illegal to pay H1-Bs less than the equivalent permanent resident/citizen worker though, in order to deincentivize the hiring of foreigners to jobs for which there are Americans who can do the work. Am I wrong there?
MS Vista still probably has 95% of the functionality promised, it's just that they don't talk about a lot of what's promised because it is standard in operating systems. The last 5% is the flashiest, hardest, and most visible stuff, which is what Microsoft and you (by your own admission) have failed to deliver.
Changes of status from non-immigrant to immigrant are typical, not just in work visas either. How is it any different to change your status by changing it while in the country versus changing it after leaving the country in order to come back? But you do have a point, I hate the idea of non-immigrant visas.:)
It's not that bad. If you are good enough, the company will sponsor you for permanent residency, and there are other ways too. Remember, H1-Bs sign up for it, and it is hard, but there's a reason why they want that visa.
They don't penalize you for incorrect submissions on answers you don't get correct, so this story is not holding water for me. Maybe it was different in the past? What school were you and what year?
Please note that most problems on the uva site are not actually world finals questions, but regional contest-ish questions. The finals questions are harder.
I competed this year -- it is my second time at regionals and first time at worlds. I have also followed basically the same progression as you (C subset first year, C++ w/ STL second year), and having done that, I have also decided that next year I will use Java exclusively. The virtual machine with automatic stack trace every time there's an uncaught exception and no segfault/heap corruption/stack corruption EASILY pays back for the slight increase in verbosity and slight speed hit.
Make sure to remember that there is no theory in economics that says that this would be a good idea. Generally, any intervention by the government over that which is necessary to ensure the stability of the supply of money and that people have property rights is viewed as sketchy at best, extremely harmful at worst.
I think your dress might have caught the moron on that one . . . i.e. the one within the clothes. Not dressing up for an interview is nonsense -- if you won't even conform that much, it's a pretty good sign you won't conform to company policies either, which is a good enough reason not to hire you alone.
Basically, I just think that the terminology you used is wrong. You're not catching morons by dressing that way, you're just catching people who might want you to do things you don't always want to do and view your not dressing as expected as evidence you won't. If this is your definition of a job that you don't want, OK, that's fine, but most jobs require even the most dedicated employees to do some things they don't want to do.
I had to LOL at that spelling of acquisition. I hope someone mods you +5 funny just for that. It's OK, everyone has brain-farts now and then.:)
(For the record, when I first wrote this comment, I spelled it "aquisition," which is also wrong. I was about to hit, "Post," but then I was like, "Damn, wouldn't it look retarded if I spelled it wrong too?" Thank God I did that or else HUMILIATION == ULTIMATE.)
So . . . let me get this straight. Because of a crude computer simulation that you encountered nearly thirty years ago, you now are willing to accept a single voice that claims that petroleum production has reached its peak. OK, just making sure I had that straight.
Uh, in most of the benchmarks, the Pentium M won over the more expensive Turion. Why exactly would you stick with AMD on this particular case? I'm confused.
Key difference between Sun and Microsoft: Microsoft on the up and up, has total market dominance, and won't be dead at any point in the near future. I once read somewhere (But don't ask me to substantiate this remark because I can't!) that Microsoft has enough cash on hand that it could stop selling all of its products and keep going for five years without firing anyone. So I don't see how Microsoft could possibly learn the lesson, "Open up or die," when staying closed is doing pretty well for it so far.
In other news, here is the thing about Sun. I agree that it would be good if they opened up on OpenOffice. However, if I were them, I would feel pretty crappy about doing all that work on OpenOffice for everyone, then everyone turning around and telling me that I couldn't keep control of it. I guess a company can't really feel crappy, but if it were a person, I bet that's how it would feel.
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Hey, when it really comes down to it, the problem is that we're racist and paranoid. But then again, shouldn't all the trade deficitists out there be rejoicing that the Chinese have lost such a big customer? Hmmm . . . it's weird how people only think about things in the way that is convenient at the moment, not recognizing the inherent conflicts between the things they say at one time and the things they say at another.
When was the last time you saw a movie with any stock footage? No, even with game engines if the games feel too alike (I.e. not enough modification on the engine), then people end up feeling gyped. Certainly reusing textures is not a possibility, at least until we get to the point where we can use too many art assets for the user to remember, even subconsciously.
Think about this idea:
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* Run the malware in a virtual environment and capture the machine code executed.
* Bring the machine code into your classification environment.
* Do naive Bayesian on the "words" or instructions given.
* Anything that comes up more than X%, send to a human to validate.
Send definitions to consumers. When consumer tries to run program with matching hash, "This program has been classified as malware by MS Defender, are you sure you want to run it? Yes, (No)?"
In my mind, that's just the low-hanging fruit. You could probably do a lot better if you thought about it for more than five minutes. In fact, there are a lot of other problems you could solve using this filtering . . . does anyone know if anyone's tried to bet on baseball this way? I wonder if there is a way to write a neural network and then get a bunch of info and see if I can make me some side cash.
You mean like teaching users not to click "OK" on seedy websites? Yeah . . . that's gonna work. If the user gives a program executable permission, it's not going to help that there are no holes in the operating system. Just like "sudo make install BAD_MALWARE" would probably kill you on Linux. Yeah, they could work on permissions, but users will probably just clobber those too.
This "graphics is everything" paradigm is most certainly not new, whippersnapper. :P It's been around since the Famicom, and before. Man, I remember Zelda II: the Adventure of Link. That game had amazing graphics and effects when it came out. The most powerful spell in the game, Thunder, was just a flashing on the screen. Man, those were the days. I wonder what kind of hacking they must have done to fit all of that into . . .
True, though, the real reason it was great was because of the amazing gameplay.
You should wait to see what kind of success the Revolution has before you hold it up as evidence that gameplay matters most. :P
This is my point of view exactly. Microsoft also payed hard cash for the right to put their SE as the default: it's called "The cost of developing Internet Explorer." I'm not saying it's OK for MS to do it, just that the argument made by TFA is not a good one.
It would be interesting if reality backed up your assertion, but my sense is that your post finds its source more in wishful thinking and less in actual trends or solid predictions.
You and I disapprove of non-immigrant visas for different reasons. ;) I thought it was illegal to pay H1-Bs less than the equivalent permanent resident/citizen worker though, in order to deincentivize the hiring of foreigners to jobs for which there are Americans who can do the work. Am I wrong there?
MS Vista still probably has 95% of the functionality promised, it's just that they don't talk about a lot of what's promised because it is standard in operating systems. The last 5% is the flashiest, hardest, and most visible stuff, which is what Microsoft and you (by your own admission) have failed to deliver.
Changes of status from non-immigrant to immigrant are typical, not just in work visas either. How is it any different to change your status by changing it while in the country versus changing it after leaving the country in order to come back? But you do have a point, I hate the idea of non-immigrant visas. :)
It's not that bad. If you are good enough, the company will sponsor you for permanent residency, and there are other ways too. Remember, H1-Bs sign up for it, and it is hard, but there's a reason why they want that visa.
They don't penalize you for incorrect submissions on answers you don't get correct, so this story is not holding water for me. Maybe it was different in the past? What school were you and what year?
Please note that most problems on the uva site are not actually world finals questions, but regional contest-ish questions. The finals questions are harder.
I competed this year -- it is my second time at regionals and first time at worlds. I have also followed basically the same progression as you (C subset first year, C++ w/ STL second year), and having done that, I have also decided that next year I will use Java exclusively. The virtual machine with automatic stack trace every time there's an uncaught exception and no segfault/heap corruption/stack corruption EASILY pays back for the slight increase in verbosity and slight speed hit.
Make sure to remember that there is no theory in economics that says that this would be a good idea. Generally, any intervention by the government over that which is necessary to ensure the stability of the supply of money and that people have property rights is viewed as sketchy at best, extremely harmful at worst.
I think your dress might have caught the moron on that one . . . i.e. the one within the clothes. Not dressing up for an interview is nonsense -- if you won't even conform that much, it's a pretty good sign you won't conform to company policies either, which is a good enough reason not to hire you alone.
Basically, I just think that the terminology you used is wrong. You're not catching morons by dressing that way, you're just catching people who might want you to do things you don't always want to do and view your not dressing as expected as evidence you won't. If this is your definition of a job that you don't want, OK, that's fine, but most jobs require even the most dedicated employees to do some things they don't want to do.
I had to LOL at that spelling of acquisition. I hope someone mods you +5 funny just for that. It's OK, everyone has brain-farts now and then. :)
(For the record, when I first wrote this comment, I spelled it "aquisition," which is also wrong. I was about to hit, "Post," but then I was like, "Damn, wouldn't it look retarded if I spelled it wrong too?" Thank God I did that or else HUMILIATION == ULTIMATE.)
You mean never?
I think the correct answer is, "No."
Disclaimer: I use OO and like it, but I just don't see it going to the mainstream. I don't have any logic, that's just my gut feeling.
I had already run out of tears by the time I finished reading the article summary. The only thing worse than beating a dead horse . . ..
I don't know where this rule comes from. I think I forgot to read "Wulfstan's Handbook On What You Should Do To Keep Me Happy." Was it in there?
So . . . let me get this straight. Because of a crude computer simulation that you encountered nearly thirty years ago, you now are willing to accept a single voice that claims that petroleum production has reached its peak. OK, just making sure I had that straight.
Uh, in most of the benchmarks, the Pentium M won over the more expensive Turion. Why exactly would you stick with AMD on this particular case? I'm confused.
Key difference between Sun and Microsoft: Microsoft on the up and up, has total market dominance, and won't be dead at any point in the near future. I once read somewhere (But don't ask me to substantiate this remark because I can't!) that Microsoft has enough cash on hand that it could stop selling all of its products and keep going for five years without firing anyone. So I don't see how Microsoft could possibly learn the lesson, "Open up or die," when staying closed is doing pretty well for it so far.
In other news, here is the thing about Sun. I agree that it would be good if they opened up on OpenOffice. However, if I were them, I would feel pretty crappy about doing all that work on OpenOffice for everyone, then everyone turning around and telling me that I couldn't keep control of it. I guess a company can't really feel crappy, but if it were a person, I bet that's how it would feel.