All Video happens in C code: HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, MS media embeds.
Firefox can't do h263 for HTML5. There's no chance of reimplementing h263 in Javascript with performance, so game over for this language choice producing a replacement.
..which may make sense if they were selling Oakley sunglasses, but no one owns a patent on sugar, and buying a harvester doesn't change unless they are making their own from our patents (I doubt that's the concern). So it becomes a simple misplaced punishment bringing farmers into manufacturer's discussions.
You're right at the low-level: kernel vs posix-adapter. Microsoft hasn't sold Windows on that alone.
It's the 100s of libraries devs "expect" Microsoft to provide your Windows program that is the bulk of the "Win32 API" discussions here. That's why I hope Mono & every other MS library copy goes over here where it makes better sense.
Does this mean we could have para-virtualized Windows soon? I'd feel more comfortable playing 3d games in an emulator than on Wine alone.
Organization or corporation impedes others?
Corporations are required to.
Government "Organizations" do for bribes or "for the common good". No sign of these situations here.
Monoculture == universal risks == universal interest in them being prevented, solved, and patched.
I'm not recommending monoculture and think it's impossible in the current browser situation, but such high interest in its maintenance may make it more of a community project than it is now.
- The state-of-the-art of interpreters (like the Javascript one in FF) is changing rapidly. Ideas for improvements will come from academia.
- Software, like car design (anyone?) is never final, but can always be enhanced even in non-bloat ways. Do we have the final car yet (after 100 years of trying)?
- XUL is ancient and still has possibilities
- Ideas come faster than code (SPDY implementation sounds good, it gives most a 50-80% performance improvement).
Flash Video, Ipods, & Scanners all work much better than they once did, though they have a ways to go still.
The things that get me are the "sys admin" tasks like setting a program to start per-user vs once-as-root or once-as-a-user. And if they have a GUI, trying to change it programmatically (since they all save to places and use commands unspecified in the GUI).
Then there's the lack of multi-system synchronized actions like settings, updates, etc. Modern homes have 2+ PCs and increasing.
Many other industries have existed for centuries or resemble other jobs that have. They are often very measurable:
- A trucker can know how long it will take to deliver something, barring breakdowns or impossible-to-predict delays
- An accountant may have delays reconciling books dependent on how easily they can communicate and other records keeping
But other careers cannot follow such a pattern:
- Writing training manuals: making something that can endlessly be improved, is hugely subjective beyond "does it usually work?" which takes even longer to prove. This type of job has never been easy to pin down.
- Guild apprenticeship: How long did it take to learn a trade? Until you were done. Even though this process went on for 100s of years it wasn't something anyone could pin down. Deadlines were arbitrary because there were too many variables and everything kept changing (improving).
- Programming: Deadlines are arbitrary as no one knows how much work something will be. There's the subjectivity of code quality, UI simplicity, etc. There's also algorithms which are left to the programmer to determine IF a toolset allows something, how difficult it will be to add, etc. Also, unlike steel or guild work, your tools and your basis also change from one task to another meaning you're endlessly retraining as someone moves you to another code area or language/engine entirely where old logic no longer applies.
Don't parents tell playing children to share their toys? It prevents fights, prevents the stronger winning, and allows more experiences for all.
If copyright was abolished, where would this all go? Trade secrets. Proprietary software borrowing from open software. Though source code leaks would be a lot more fun. The idea of cooperative design of works may become even more common than the Wikipedia-only common-knowledge it has today.
Linux's KVM module and the "Virtual Machince Manager" (VMM) app that uses it needs to be measured on here. The interface is simple and easy.
It has shiny features too:
- live OS migration.
- Tools like "Test Drive Ubuntu" can use it to give you one-click "Test your bug in a daily build VM".
- FOSS on FOSS (Linux, BSD, etc) no-latency driver requests being passed to the Host OS, meaning only 1 context switch per Virtual-Physical interrupt.
- It's contributers are all still in the business of improving it (unlike all those mentioned except Parallels)
- It's FOSS, has very little code, is the fastest growing
- Its modules can run code for other CPUs (good for the oncoming ARMs).
Hardware virtualization helps for Windows virtualization. Please measure programs that use it (other than with Virtualbox which doesn't cooperate).
Education as things go mainstream? Or rip out sudo to force users through management utilities. Sudo is still around for those booting into recovery mode, for everyone else:
For most admin tasks, a handful of GUIs would do: kernel mod add/remove, config file change, compile-deb-and-install a program, etc. Taking these "lesser-but-common" use-cases pull admin-users away from the command-line.
This is also going to be useful in large-scale deployments with administration capabilities where 1-off console commands piped to everyone's station wouldn't make complete sense. With the right abstraction, a variety of kernels could exist to vary the user environments just for diversity's sake.
The FOSS OS movement doesn't require 100% trust. Closed source requires 100% trust. If someone (or wealthy organization) has very little trust, open source is their best bet for computing.
Open Source at worst case could include auto-problem-detection at the source level or trust evaluation ratings (Even BitTorrent does that).
You have an underlying assumption of "any correctly-compiled software will just run on any OS". PolicyKit is actively working to make Linux more secure by limiting what the app can do. I could easily see a permission system in place for
"Your screensaver wanted Internet access to known malware site www......com and has been disabled" [Accept] [Change]
As Ubuntu outgrows the needs for each high-risk vector, they've simply been removing them.
Root is no longer a user for all practical purposes that could be running in a general case as it was replaced by 1 user with Sudo rights.
Sudo is now being replaced with PolicyKit which gives selective permissions to programs that need it. We may see Sudo retired one day, or at-least outside common use & disabled.
Making software (theming especially) installable in a user-specific way that excludes executables is another great step in that direction.
These great ideas can be made as the whole system can be examined by security-minded individuals (and not just a small security team in the case of closed-source). It's exciting to see the actual security progress being made in the desktop.
Or: Make "patch the source & compile it" something every user (or auto-updater) could do. We already have updaters patching binaries automatically.
Lets make the most secure way feasible for the average user. An "Anti-virus" repo could put out urgent patches (and is checked frequently, or even may offer push technology) that could guard open source software.
And if said "average user" will always call for IT help, lets ease their getting to root cause & reporting just what happened.
And good enough for Bach, Tchaikovsky, Homer, Chaucer, every folk take Disney copied, the Magna Carta, vast amounts of recorded History, Science, and Math, and enough more to make the libraries the city centers and their health the measure of stability of most nations.
Reflecting on that, what's the health of our nation when it's accessible information (library) goes to zero by DRM? Requiring great work or criminal effort to access shared culture or functional knowledge will make for a below-third-world nation more closely resembling slavery.
...assuming you (or your company) is foolish enough to buy into a system of remote attestation for personally-created documents.
There will likely always be devices able to run "untrusted" code b/c PC manufacturers don't want to foot the bill in this (losing) fight and the support calls it entails.
Traditionally that served us well to ignore the laws. Most people don't realize that US states have laws requiring you to hide your car from horses or give them a carrot when you pass because the horse industries weren't going to let cars hurt their business model.
The problem is now we can't ignore it because the lawsuits are so televised & coordinated (since the news agencies share owners with the content industries). Otherwise they would be like other dying monopolies: have their corrupt laws forgotten about and left unenforced rather than taken off the books.
So instead of RIAA suing for profit, we have the over-strained police supposed to check for this (or more easily make their quota with speeding tickets)? Sounds like a win to pirates.
That's the best part of the war on copyright:
Make pirating impossible to those too poor to buy it, then have Internet everywhere. Open source is the answer to get you to the creative commons Internet of the future.
As a nation becomes poorer and copyright penalties tighten, open source will be the only answer.
Yes, but only 1 Democrat or Republican runs for president at a time. Which once? The one who wins the primary. How do you win a primary? Get popular from Ads How do you pay for Ads? Bribes Who 'wins' bribes? Those whose track record follows up on them.
Why did so many want Obama? He campaigned he'd reduce the legality of bribes
I considered doing that, voting for who I thought was worst as that's the way things are going quickly. The downside is it's a long road to ruin and I'm not interested in seeing a half-century depression.
That said, Ron Paul would have been nice. So would a huge tax on copyrighted goods (since we will never get them into the public domain).
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All Video happens in C code: HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, MS media embeds.
Firefox can't do h263 for HTML5. There's no chance of reimplementing h263 in Javascript with performance, so game over for this language choice producing a replacement.
..which may make sense if they were selling Oakley sunglasses, but no one owns a patent on sugar, and buying a harvester doesn't change unless they are making their own from our patents (I doubt that's the concern). So it becomes a simple misplaced punishment bringing farmers into manufacturer's discussions.
You're right at the low-level: kernel vs posix-adapter. Microsoft hasn't sold Windows on that alone.
It's the 100s of libraries devs "expect" Microsoft to provide your Windows program that is the bulk of the "Win32 API" discussions here. That's why I hope Mono & every other MS library copy goes over here where it makes better sense.
Does this mean we could have para-virtualized Windows soon? I'd feel more comfortable playing 3d games in an emulator than on Wine alone.
Organization or corporation impedes others?
Corporations are required to.
Government "Organizations" do for bribes or "for the common good". No sign of these situations here.
Monoculture == universal risks == universal interest in them being prevented, solved, and patched.
I'm not recommending monoculture and think it's impossible in the current browser situation, but such high interest in its maintenance may make it more of a community project than it is now.
As a programmer, I cannot imagine that. Why?
- The state-of-the-art of interpreters (like the Javascript one in FF) is changing rapidly. Ideas for improvements will come from academia.
- Software, like car design (anyone?) is never final, but can always be enhanced even in non-bloat ways. Do we have the final car yet (after 100 years of trying)?
- XUL is ancient and still has possibilities
- Ideas come faster than code (SPDY implementation sounds good, it gives most a 50-80% performance improvement).
So you want to return to AOL's software-per-keyword mechanism? Or use browsers to download SonySiteViewer.exe ?
Flash Video, Ipods, & Scanners all work much better than they once did, though they have a ways to go still. The things that get me are the "sys admin" tasks like setting a program to start per-user vs once-as-root or once-as-a-user. And if they have a GUI, trying to change it programmatically (since they all save to places and use commands unspecified in the GUI). Then there's the lack of multi-system synchronized actions like settings, updates, etc. Modern homes have 2+ PCs and increasing.
Many other industries have existed for centuries or resemble other jobs that have. They are often very measurable:
- A trucker can know how long it will take to deliver something, barring breakdowns or impossible-to-predict delays
- An accountant may have delays reconciling books dependent on how easily they can communicate and other records keeping
But other careers cannot follow such a pattern:
- Writing training manuals: making something that can endlessly be improved, is hugely subjective beyond "does it usually work?" which takes even longer to prove. This type of job has never been easy to pin down.
- Guild apprenticeship: How long did it take to learn a trade? Until you were done. Even though this process went on for 100s of years it wasn't something anyone could pin down. Deadlines were arbitrary because there were too many variables and everything kept changing (improving).
- Programming: Deadlines are arbitrary as no one knows how much work something will be. There's the subjectivity of code quality, UI simplicity, etc. There's also algorithms which are left to the programmer to determine IF a toolset allows something, how difficult it will be to add, etc. Also, unlike steel or guild work, your tools and your basis also change from one task to another meaning you're endlessly retraining as someone moves you to another code area or language/engine entirely where old logic no longer applies.
Agreed, I have 15 threads in Firefox 3.5 in Linux. FYI, get this from: /proc/`pgrep firefox`/status
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Reporting live from acedemia:
The field of Statistics is all about making patterns from random information and recognizing the sampling errors implicit in the tests.
Don't parents tell playing children to share their toys? It prevents fights, prevents the stronger winning, and allows more experiences for all.
If copyright was abolished, where would this all go? Trade secrets. Proprietary software borrowing from open software. Though source code leaks would be a lot more fun. The idea of cooperative design of works may become even more common than the Wikipedia-only common-knowledge it has today.
Linux's KVM module and the "Virtual Machince Manager" (VMM) app that uses it needs to be measured on here. The interface is simple and easy.
It has shiny features too:
- live OS migration.
- Tools like "Test Drive Ubuntu" can use it to give you one-click "Test your bug in a daily build VM".
- FOSS on FOSS (Linux, BSD, etc) no-latency driver requests being passed to the Host OS, meaning only 1 context switch per Virtual-Physical interrupt.
- It's contributers are all still in the business of improving it (unlike all those mentioned except Parallels)
- It's FOSS, has very little code, is the fastest growing
- Its modules can run code for other CPUs (good for the oncoming ARMs).
Hardware virtualization helps for Windows virtualization. Please measure programs that use it (other than with Virtualbox which doesn't cooperate).
Education as things go mainstream? Or rip out sudo to force users through management utilities. Sudo is still around for those booting into recovery mode, for everyone else:
For most admin tasks, a handful of GUIs would do: kernel mod add/remove, config file change, compile-deb-and-install a program, etc. Taking these "lesser-but-common" use-cases pull admin-users away from the command-line. This is also going to be useful in large-scale deployments with administration capabilities where 1-off console commands piped to everyone's station wouldn't make complete sense. With the right abstraction, a variety of kernels could exist to vary the user environments just for diversity's sake.
The FOSS OS movement doesn't require 100% trust. Closed source requires 100% trust. If someone (or wealthy organization) has very little trust, open source is their best bet for computing. Open Source at worst case could include auto-problem-detection at the source level or trust evaluation ratings (Even BitTorrent does that).
You have an underlying assumption of "any correctly-compiled software will just run on any OS". PolicyKit is actively working to make Linux more secure by limiting what the app can do. I could easily see a permission system in place for
"Your screensaver wanted Internet access to known malware site www......com and has been disabled" [Accept] [Change]
As Ubuntu outgrows the needs for each high-risk vector, they've simply been removing them.
Root is no longer a user for all practical purposes that could be running in a general case as it was replaced by 1 user with Sudo rights.
Sudo is now being replaced with PolicyKit which gives selective permissions to programs that need it. We may see Sudo retired one day, or at-least outside common use & disabled.
Making software (theming especially) installable in a user-specific way that excludes executables is another great step in that direction. These great ideas can be made as the whole system can be examined by security-minded individuals (and not just a small security team in the case of closed-source). It's exciting to see the actual security progress being made in the desktop.
So be Microsoft, b/c they define normal?
Or: Make "patch the source & compile it" something every user (or auto-updater) could do. We already have updaters patching binaries automatically.
Lets make the most secure way feasible for the average user. An "Anti-virus" repo could put out urgent patches (and is checked frequently, or even may offer push technology) that could guard open source software.
And if said "average user" will always call for IT help, lets ease their getting to root cause & reporting just what happened.
"it hurts you by making you more security-conscious" So, kinda like the world outside computers?
After all, "off roading" depends on top-heavy design.
And good enough for Bach, Tchaikovsky, Homer, Chaucer, every folk take Disney copied, the Magna Carta, vast amounts of recorded History, Science, and Math, and enough more to make the libraries the city centers and their health the measure of stability of most nations.
Reflecting on that, what's the health of our nation when it's accessible information (library) goes to zero by DRM? Requiring great work or criminal effort to access shared culture or functional knowledge will make for a below-third-world nation more closely resembling slavery.
...assuming you (or your company) is foolish enough to buy into a system of remote attestation for personally-created documents.
There will likely always be devices able to run "untrusted" code b/c PC manufacturers don't want to foot the bill in this (losing) fight and the support calls it entails.
Traditionally that served us well to ignore the laws. Most people don't realize that US states have laws requiring you to hide your car from horses or give them a carrot when you pass because the horse industries weren't going to let cars hurt their business model.
The problem is now we can't ignore it because the lawsuits are so televised & coordinated (since the news agencies share owners with the content industries). Otherwise they would be like other dying monopolies: have their corrupt laws forgotten about and left unenforced rather than taken off the books.
So instead of RIAA suing for profit, we have the over-strained police supposed to check for this (or more easily make their quota with speeding tickets)? Sounds like a win to pirates.
That's the best part of the war on copyright:
Make pirating impossible to those too poor to buy it, then have Internet everywhere. Open source is the answer to get you to the creative commons Internet of the future.
As a nation becomes poorer and copyright penalties tighten, open source will be the only answer.
Yes, but only 1 Democrat or Republican runs for president at a time.
Which once? The one who wins the primary.
How do you win a primary? Get popular from Ads
How do you pay for Ads? Bribes
Who 'wins' bribes? Those whose track record follows up on them.
Why did so many want Obama? He campaigned he'd reduce the legality of bribes
I considered doing that, voting for who I thought was worst as that's the way things are going quickly. The downside is it's a long road to ruin and I'm not interested in seeing a half-century depression.
That said, Ron Paul would have been nice. So would a huge tax on copyrighted goods (since we will never get them into the public domain).