I don't know what you mean by that. If it's performance, you don't make any mention of Zen. Try reading the "Recent results" section from your link. It's 6d on KGS (5d in slower games), and recently beat a pro with only 4 stones handicap.
No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time
the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends:
Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster.
Dependency management is a big part of software development today but the
“header files” of languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean
dependency analysis—and fast compilation.
There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of
Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as
Python and JavaScript.
Some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation
are not well supported by popular systems languages.
The emergence of multicore computers has generated worry and confusion.
We believe it's worth trying again with a new language, a concurrent,
garbage-collected language with fast compilation. Regarding the points above:
It is possible to compile a large Go program in a few seconds on a single computer.
Go provides a model for software construction that makes dependency
analysis easy and avoids much of the overhead of C-style include files and
libraries.
Go's type system has no hierarchy, so no time is spent defining the
relationships between types. Also, although Go has static types the language
attempts to make types feel lighter weight than in typical OO languages.
Go is fully garbage-collected and provides fundamental support for
concurrent execution and communication.
By its design, Go proposes an approach for the construction of system
software on multicore machines.
Software floating point emulation is not prior art to this patent. The text of the patent explains why.
To be patentable, it can't be obvious. The text of the patent basically says that hardware is now fast enough to do what couldn't be done before:
"But as advances in semiconductor and computer technology enable greater processing power and faster speeds; as prices drop; and as graphical applications grow in sophistication and precision, it has been discovered by the present inventors that it is now practical to implement some portions or even the entire rasterization process by hardware in a floating point format."
And Obama has already demo'd that he is as bomb happy. Continue the Irag/Afghan War even though he promised to end them by Dec 31, 2009.
You are mistaken. He did not promise to end the war in Afghanistan. In fact, it was just the opposite. He promised to wind down the war in Iraq and ramp up the war in Afghanistan. That's what happened.
First off, it doesn't cost the big manufacturers $200 to license Windows. It's more like $50 or possibly even less.
Bundled software with budget laptops, outside of the OS, is shovelware, and is often used to reduce the price.
For the hardware, the display is the most expensive component, and it's no wonder that cheap tablets tried to save money on the display. I'll grant you that tables save some money with lower RAM and small flash drives, but it's not hundreds of dollars. Chipsets for standard ports like ethernet are cheap, and only cost a few dollars. I don't know how much they saved on stuff like GPU, but again, it's not hundreds of dollars, especially when you're talking budget laptops in the price range of $400.
Citations, please. Prior art is still prior art, the reform does not change that. The only difference is somebody else can't file the same patent based on work they did in secret.
The old iPad is competitive now, mainly because the Android units are way overpriced.
The Android units are "overpriced" because they cost a lot to manufacture. Apple kept their prices down by making big bets and locking up supply chains. For once, Apple is winning on the price/value front.
A portable tablet is NOT a laptop, the point of a tablet is its a fairly stripped down mobile device for high portability, and should not cost as much as a full blown laptop.
Just what parts do you think you're going to save on? The touch screen will be more expensive. The lack of keyboard isn't going to save a lot. You'll still need cpu, graphics driver, RAM, and a hard drive. And you'll have to pack it into less space than a laptop.
It was a corporate reform of patents driven by patent lawyers. All a smoke screen to get in, who patents first wins. If it hasn't been patented yet, patent it, bugger prior art, bugger existing use and, bugger obviousness.
Bullshit. You might have noticed that prior art and obviousness were being ignored before patent reform, so first-to-file changes nothing. Prior art and obviousness are still preclusions to getting a patent, but the patent office still needs to apply these principles wisely.
It's a reverse test for me of an employer I wouldn't want to work for, whether they were "just testing" or not. Stupid games like that I can do without.
Even your grandmother can copy some files to a USB drive and chuck it in a drawer as a backup to the cloud. The cloud offers on-demand scalability, accessibility while traveling, and offsite storage should something happen locally. It's not an either-or proposition.
I posed the hypothetical question of devices being difficult to fix for any lay person of the general populous.
You tried to equate how hard it was to fix a refrigerator to the "walled garden" iPad, and specifically said it was difficult, then claimed in a later post that it wasn't, just not worth the time. There are a lot of do-it-yourself laypeople that can and do make simple repairs to their home appliances, which are often designed for accessibility. You can't even simply replace the battery on an iPad, the kind of thing that lots of laypeople do. In other words, your comparison was ridiculous.
Aside from just laypeople, this also impacts recycling. From a link in the article: "Apple claims the new iPad is environmentally friendly with a 'recyclable aluminum and glass enclosure.' The materials may be recyclable, but the assembled unit is not. We spoke yesterday with Steve Skurnac, president of SIMS Recycling Solutions--one of the largest electronics recyclers in the world. He told us, 'Sealed units make it difficult to remove the batteries. From a recycler's point of view, the hazardous components [like batteries] need to be easily separated or removed.'"
I didn't say it would be difficult to fix. I said it's worth paying someone else for me not to care.
You know, it's not like we can't look back at what you actually wrote: "Is my refrigerator a walled garden because it's hard to get into and fix? Is my dishwasher a walled garden?"
It's not so much saying "Cross site scripting is an epidemic problem among today's computers" as it is saying "Cross site scripting is a vulnerability you can easily guard against. As a professional, you should do so."
Bullshit. They publish the list because these are the worst bugs in computer security, which has always been pretty terrible. From Wikipedia:
"XSS vulnerabilities have been reported and exploited since the 1990s. Prominent sites affected in the past include the social-networking sites Twitter,[3] Facebook,[4] MySpace, and Orkut.[5][6] In recent years, cross-site scripting flaws surpassed buffer overflows to become the most common publicly-reported security vulnerability,[7] with some researchers in 2007 viewing as many as 68% of websites as likely open to XSS attacks.[8]"
But thanks for pointing it out. I'd be worried if I was still using Netscape Navigator.
The problem is mostly on the server end. Every site has to take care not to be vulnerable.
And I'm glad you're so concerned about privacy. So am I - we just have different ideas about what constitutes a threat to it.
Good for you, but again, this is a public board. Most people who profess to care about privacy would find the idea of their every move online being tracked and compiled into databases a violation of their privacy.
I'm not sorry. You posted a public comment and I replied publicly. Cross-site scripting and privacy aren't "internet bogeymen", they're realistic concerns that transcend how secure the office in your house is.
Just because your bauble isn't shiny doesn't mean it was manufactured in an ethical manner.
No shit. That point was already raised and responded to.
Also, when have being fashionable and being socially conscientious gone hand-in-hand?
There's a big contrast between the image Apple projects (elite products for hipsters) and the reality of how the products are made. That's all.
I get what you want to say - "Steve Jobs was a hippy,"
The 70s are long gone.
as if that somehow obligates Apple as a company to only make their computers out of 100% recycled goods and hemp fiber, all manufactured here in the U.S. by unionized workers.
Nice strawman. We're talking about people working long hours for little pay and shacked up in crowded dormitories, all in a country with a totalitarian government and no free press.
Thousands if not millions of people get by just fine with Python.
Yes, and the same goes for C/C++ or Java. The code for the moon landings was also written in assembly. The simple fact is that you can get the job done in any language, but that doesn't mean there aren't advantages and disadvantages to particular languages.
More like fashionable, not better. What's fashionable these days is to look like you just got out of bed.
which obviously needs to be punished, so I want to rub it in their faces that their phone is made by Chinese workers under poor conditions
Apple users aren't being punished via bad Apple publicity for their haircuts. They're being punished for their smug attitudes for owning shiny baubles made in an unethical manner. Apple gets press for its fashionable items. There's no reason it shouldn't get press for the glaring contrast.
"In Canada, the courts always have the final say with regard to sentencing. Nevertheless, plea bargaining has become an accepted part of the criminal justice system although judges and Crown attorneys are often reluctant to refer to it as such. In most Canadian criminal proceedings, the Crown has the ability to recommend a lighter sentence than it would seek following a guilty verdict in exchange for a guilty plea.
Like other common law jurisdictions, the Crown can also agree to withdraw some charges against the defendant in exchange for a guilty plea. This has become standard procedure for certain offences such as impaired driving."
They're a border control point, they're stopping EVERYONE.
Which is exactly the problem. Somebody traveling within the country in Texas on a public road shouldn't be subjected to a mandatory border control stop. A border crossing, yes. An interstate highway, no.
Try and use this argument for coming into the country, and see how far you get...
That's what they actually were granted authority for, yet it has gone down the slippery slope to policing huge swaths of areas where certain constitutional rights have disappeared, regardless if you are actually crossing the border or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Still nothing close to human.
I don't know what you mean by that. If it's performance, you don't make any mention of Zen. Try reading the "Recent results" section from your link. It's 6d on KGS (5d in slower games), and recently beat a pro with only 4 stones handicap.
What is the purpose of the project?
No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends:
We believe it's worth trying again with a new language, a concurrent, garbage-collected language with fast compilation. Regarding the points above:
Software floating point emulation is not prior art to this patent. The text of the patent explains why.
To be patentable, it can't be obvious. The text of the patent basically says that hardware is now fast enough to do what couldn't be done before:
"But as advances in semiconductor and computer technology enable greater processing power and faster speeds; as prices drop; and as graphical applications grow in sophistication and precision, it has been discovered by the present inventors that it is now practical to implement some portions or even the entire rasterization process by hardware in a floating point format."
So what's their invention that's novel?
And Obama has already demo'd that he is as bomb happy. Continue the Irag/Afghan War even though he promised to end them by Dec 31, 2009.
You are mistaken. He did not promise to end the war in Afghanistan. In fact, it was just the opposite. He promised to wind down the war in Iraq and ramp up the war in Afghanistan. That's what happened.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/134/send-two-additional-brigades-to-afghanistan/
You have this habit of just making up shit. Try doing some fact checking before you post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe :
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has confirmed that the universe is flat with only a 0.5% margin of error.[1] Within the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model, the presently most popular shape of the Universe found to fit observational data according to cosmologists is the infinite flat model,[2] while other FLRW models that fit the data include the Poincaré dodecahedral space[3][4] and the Picard horn.[5]
First off, it doesn't cost the big manufacturers $200 to license Windows. It's more like $50 or possibly even less.
Bundled software with budget laptops, outside of the OS, is shovelware, and is often used to reduce the price.
For the hardware, the display is the most expensive component, and it's no wonder that cheap tablets tried to save money on the display. I'll grant you that tables save some money with lower RAM and small flash drives, but it's not hundreds of dollars. Chipsets for standard ports like ethernet are cheap, and only cost a few dollars. I don't know how much they saved on stuff like GPU, but again, it's not hundreds of dollars, especially when you're talking budget laptops in the price range of $400.
Citations, please. Prior art is still prior art, the reform does not change that. The only difference is somebody else can't file the same patent based on work they did in secret.
The old iPad is competitive now, mainly because the Android units are way overpriced.
The Android units are "overpriced" because they cost a lot to manufacture. Apple kept their prices down by making big bets and locking up supply chains. For once, Apple is winning on the price/value front.
A portable tablet is NOT a laptop, the point of a tablet is its a fairly stripped down mobile device for high portability, and should not cost as much as a full blown laptop.
Just what parts do you think you're going to save on? The touch screen will be more expensive. The lack of keyboard isn't going to save a lot. You'll still need cpu, graphics driver, RAM, and a hard drive. And you'll have to pack it into less space than a laptop.
It was a corporate reform of patents driven by patent lawyers. All a smoke screen to get in, who patents first wins. If it hasn't been patented yet, patent it, bugger prior art, bugger existing use and, bugger obviousness.
Bullshit. You might have noticed that prior art and obviousness were being ignored before patent reform, so first-to-file changes nothing. Prior art and obviousness are still preclusions to getting a patent, but the patent office still needs to apply these principles wisely.
It's a reverse test for me of an employer I wouldn't want to work for, whether they were "just testing" or not. Stupid games like that I can do without.
Perhaps then, the police will realize what happens when you deny someone legal ways to solve their disputes.
Yes, some idiot Anonymous Coward on Slashdot makes a stupid suggestion that would result in innocent people being injured or killed.
Even your grandmother can copy some files to a USB drive and chuck it in a drawer as a backup to the cloud. The cloud offers on-demand scalability, accessibility while traveling, and offsite storage should something happen locally. It's not an either-or proposition.
Lets go back and look at what YOU said.
It wasn't me that said it, but he's spot on.
I posed the hypothetical question of devices being difficult to fix for any lay person of the general populous.
You tried to equate how hard it was to fix a refrigerator to the "walled garden" iPad, and specifically said it was difficult, then claimed in a later post that it wasn't, just not worth the time. There are a lot of do-it-yourself laypeople that can and do make simple repairs to their home appliances, which are often designed for accessibility. You can't even simply replace the battery on an iPad, the kind of thing that lots of laypeople do. In other words, your comparison was ridiculous.
Aside from just laypeople, this also impacts recycling. From a link in the article: "Apple claims the new iPad is environmentally friendly with a 'recyclable aluminum and glass enclosure.' The materials may be recyclable, but the assembled unit is not. We spoke yesterday with Steve Skurnac, president of SIMS Recycling Solutions--one of the largest electronics recyclers in the world. He told us, 'Sealed units make it difficult to remove the batteries. From a recycler's point of view, the hazardous components [like batteries] need to be easily separated or removed.'"
I didn't say it would be difficult to fix. I said it's worth paying someone else for me not to care.
You know, it's not like we can't look back at what you actually wrote: "Is my refrigerator a walled garden because it's hard to get into and fix? Is my dishwasher a walled garden?"
It's not so much saying "Cross site scripting is an epidemic problem among today's computers" as it is saying "Cross site scripting is a vulnerability you can easily guard against. As a professional, you should do so."
Bullshit. They publish the list because these are the worst bugs in computer security, which has always been pretty terrible. From Wikipedia:
"XSS vulnerabilities have been reported and exploited since the 1990s. Prominent sites affected in the past include the social-networking sites Twitter,[3] Facebook,[4] MySpace, and Orkut.[5][6] In recent years, cross-site scripting flaws surpassed buffer overflows to become the most common publicly-reported security vulnerability,[7] with some researchers in 2007 viewing as many as 68% of websites as likely open to XSS attacks.[8]"
But thanks for pointing it out. I'd be worried if I was still using Netscape Navigator.
The problem is mostly on the server end. Every site has to take care not to be vulnerable.
And I'm glad you're so concerned about privacy. So am I - we just have different ideas about what constitutes a threat to it.
Good for you, but again, this is a public board. Most people who profess to care about privacy would find the idea of their every move online being tracked and compiled into databases a violation of their privacy.
I'm not sorry. You posted a public comment and I replied publicly. Cross-site scripting and privacy aren't "internet bogeymen", they're realistic concerns that transcend how secure the office in your house is.
2011 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors shows cross-site scripting at #4 and cross-site request forgery at #12, bugs that big sites like Facebook have been vulnerable to.
And while lots of people are apathetic, there are plenty of those who care about privacy.
Just delete it. The useful part of the comment has been copied from elsewhere.
Now I just stay signed in to everything. I figure I'm sitting at my own desk in my own office in my own house - what's the risk?
Cross-site scripting (security) and user-tracking (privacy).
Just because your bauble isn't shiny doesn't mean it was manufactured in an ethical manner.
No shit. That point was already raised and responded to.
Also, when have being fashionable and being socially conscientious gone hand-in-hand?
There's a big contrast between the image Apple projects (elite products for hipsters) and the reality of how the products are made. That's all.
I get what you want to say - "Steve Jobs was a hippy,"
The 70s are long gone.
as if that somehow obligates Apple as a company to only make their computers out of 100% recycled goods and hemp fiber, all manufactured here in the U.S. by unionized workers.
Nice strawman. We're talking about people working long hours for little pay and shacked up in crowded dormitories, all in a country with a totalitarian government and no free press.
I guarantee it.
A money-back guarantee, right?
Thousands if not millions of people get by just fine with Python.
Yes, and the same goes for C/C++ or Java. The code for the moon landings was also written in assembly. The simple fact is that you can get the job done in any language, but that doesn't mean there aren't advantages and disadvantages to particular languages.
Someone with a better haircut than me
More like fashionable, not better. What's fashionable these days is to look like you just got out of bed.
which obviously needs to be punished, so I want to rub it in their faces that their phone is made by Chinese workers under poor conditions
Apple users aren't being punished via bad Apple publicity for their haircuts. They're being punished for their smug attitudes for owning shiny baubles made in an unethical manner. Apple gets press for its fashionable items. There's no reason it shouldn't get press for the glaring contrast.
All that article says is that somebody who has been under investigation is lashing out at the current administration, not the other way around.
This is Canada (not USA). I know you US-ians do that sort of stuff regularly, but that's (from what I'm used to) not done here, that I know of.
Live and learn, my fellow plebeian to the north:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargain#Canada
"In Canada, the courts always have the final say with regard to sentencing. Nevertheless, plea bargaining has become an accepted part of the criminal justice system although judges and Crown attorneys are often reluctant to refer to it as such. In most Canadian criminal proceedings, the Crown has the ability to recommend a lighter sentence than it would seek following a guilty verdict in exchange for a guilty plea.
Like other common law jurisdictions, the Crown can also agree to withdraw some charges against the defendant in exchange for a guilty plea. This has become standard procedure for certain offences such as impaired driving."
They're a border control point, they're stopping EVERYONE.
Which is exactly the problem. Somebody traveling within the country in Texas on a public road shouldn't be subjected to a mandatory border control stop. A border crossing, yes. An interstate highway, no.
Try and use this argument for coming into the country, and see how far you get...
That's what they actually were granted authority for, yet it has gone down the slippery slope to policing huge swaths of areas where certain constitutional rights have disappeared, regardless if you are actually crossing the border or not.