Meanwhile, on the "big boy stage", both of the other big 3 are busy trying to desperately imitate the "gimmick" of motion control that they spent the past few years mocking Nintendo for doing. Meanwhile, Nintendo's perfecting it.
Are you kidding me? Wii motion control is a joke. They have completely given up on any sort realistic imitation of movement within games, and have resorted to arbitrary movements to take place of pressing a button, for example "twirl the joystick to swing."
The Wii is like a gym membership. Everyone I know purchased one with good intention, only to realize it's not as cool as it looks and then eventually sits and collects dust.
Meanwhile, the "big boys" as you've called them, have been the ones really improving on Nintendo's original intention. Microsoft especially. No having to hold some clunky device tied together with a cord, no accidentally destroying your tv, no having to charge your controller, no having to buy some ridiculous accessory to make the technology suck a little bit less (wii motion plus). And all this, while being far more accurate and precise, and including the motion of the entire body. In other words, Nintendo is getting rich off a gimmick, while the others are actually trying to improve on the technology and make it fun.
Yes, if you search for "oil spill" in google, there is a single sponsored link (and identified as such) before the search results. About 6 results down, there are image results with oil covered birds and such. Is it news that one of the most profitable companies in the world is spending a relatively piddly amount on damage control? It's not as if they are buying out search engines.
Having owned a Zune HD, I was one of the first people to experience the "Windows Phone 7" platform. From a UI standpoint, it is a very intuitive, well thought out experience. Zune HD runs on the Tegra SOaC, and was an extremely capable device from a hardware standpoint. Battery life was excellent, and the games I played were graphically impressive -- more so than anything I've seen on the Android platform running on my Nexus One which I sold the Zune to purchase. The device was also extremely stable.
From a strategic standpoint, I thought it was smart of Microsoft to deploy the new WinMo kernel and UI concept on a device that isn't quite as important or business critical as a phone. What most people don't understand, is that because of this, WinMo 7 is more mature than you might think.
The point I'm trying to make here, is that Windows Phone 7 most certainly will not be crap. MS is definitely late to the game here, but they will be a contender, and ultimately everyone will benefit from it.
Isn't that more because they wanted to keep their driver closed source, and thus had to bypass and work around a bunch of stuff to jam their binary blob into the thing?
No, but ignorance (on your part) is bliss isn't it? It's just a big bad company being big and bad, right? Typical gnubeard speak.
The proprietary nvidia drivers include their own direct memory manager, custom implemented because X.org does not provide proper facilities via DRI/DRM to do such a thing. What it affords them is actual, real, Windows/OS X like 3d acceleration.
Oh omniscient one, what is wrong with the Linux community. Surely you have seen it all and can provide coherent, reasonable arguments as to why X11 is bad?
Its asynchronous nature
dri/drm
You have your work cut out for you, as my phone is running X11 with 3D acceleration without bypassing anything and works quite well.
Which is what... replace Windows? Fat chance. Until you fix what is fundamentally broken. Ubuntu is pushed at the layperson for desktop use, yet it uses an antiquated display server that was never designed with under the premise that everything would run entirely on one machine. The fact that Nvidia had to bypass a good portion of X's functionality to develop a proper hardware accelerated driver speaks volumes to the fact that X is not at all suited for the desktop.
It doesn't matter how many coats of paint you put on Ubuntu, until you fix what is fundamentally broken you don't stand a chance. And that will never happen, because the Linux community fails to acknowledge their shortcomings.
The framework is extremely well thought out, and allows your app complete integration with the rest of the operating system. It has a very good way of handling resources for various screen sizes, dpi's, i18n, etc. It has excellent distinctions between "Activities" and "Services," to use their nomenclature. Basically, an Activity is the UI aspect of something, whereas a Service is the implementation of particular functionality. You could write your own Activity to an existing service, for example, the music player. At the same time, this sort of separation is not required. The examples I've given are really just the tip of the iceberg. It is an extremely, extremely well thought out design, and as such, there is a bit of a learning curve to be able to do everything you'd like to.
And how does a salt help when they can get the salt?
Well, they'd have to generate a new hash-table using the specific hash, which at the very least is an extremely time consuming effort that puts up another potential roadblock in getting a whole shit load of user's passwords.
Now, if you do not do this you would be 100% safe:)
Wrong. All they need is your email password and then can reset or get user names for any other accounts you have. What is important, however, is that your email password is entirely unique and extremely strong.
If you do this, you should be disgusted at *yourself* first. Then at the attackers. Then at the altasian for making software susceptible to this (they made the hash as it is in the DB, not Apache).
Wrong again. I'm not disgusted in myself since my password is certainly not common enough to be cracked by a precalculated hash-table.
We are assuming that the attackers have a copy of the JIRA database, which includes a hash (SHA-512 unsalted) of the password
you set when signing up as '________' to JIRA. If the password you set was not of great quality (eg. based on a dictionary word), it
should be assumed that the attackers can guess your password from the password hash via brute force.
The upshot is that someone malicious may know both your email address and a password of yours.
This is a problem because many people reuse passwords across online services. If you reuse passwords across systems, we urge you to change
your passwords on ALL SYSTEMS that might be using the compromised JIRA password. Prime examples might be gmail or hotmail accounts, online
banking sites, or sites known to be related to your email's domain, gmail.com.
Naturally we would also like you to reset your JIRA password. That can be done at:
We (the Apache JIRA administrators) sincerely apologize for this security breach. If you have any questions, please let us know by email.
We are also available on the #asfinfra IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
Regards,
The Apache Infrastructure Team
So, yeah. They were storing the passwords unsalted, which means that it is susceptible to a simple dictionary crack.
Needless to say, I'm quite disgusted with the Apache foundation right now.
As it stands, it doesn't seem requiring more technology is currently the path to a solution, though.
This is not about *requiring* more technology. It's about off-loading processing to a gpu that can handle these particular tasks far more efficiently, while freeing up general processing time. I fail to see anything negative in this.
. It's the pragmatic desire that the web doesn't degenerate into something that's totally unusable except for a relatively small selection of computing devices purely because website designers are more obsessed with having eye candy than actually providing a useful experience to potential viewers.
I still fail to see it as nothing more than "everything old was good, everything new is bad." As a developer myself, and having done quite a bit of web development specifically, the web now is better than it ever has been, and only continues to get better. We actually have standards, and all major browsers implementing them (and working on implementing more). If your goal is to share a simple, mostly-text based website, it is far easier now than it ever has been in the past, and will render more consistently now than it ever would in the past across many browsers.
The argument the parent was making was essentially, "we shouldn't have cool new technology in browsers that would benefit from a gpu, it should be limited to simple text and image only pages."
And yes, mobile devices will be able to run most of this stuff when the html 5 standards flesh out. Sure, not everything will work great in the form factor, but that's why we have subdomains and tld's specifically for mobile devices.
Basically, what I'm saying, is things are better now than they ever have been. Quit complaining.
Well, there is always the fact that this is a Microsoft product, that will never run on anything but Windows. Why in their right mind would they use openGL? Are you dense?
I feel sad about it when hardware acceleration is needed for rendering, what, websites.
Boo hoo. Have you seen what's capable with HTML5, Javscript and canvas? It's downright stupid to have certain things done using a general purpose processor when a GPU is sitting there unused. Why do I get the impression that a subset of slashdot users wished things would remain unchanged from 1998, back when hate for Microsoft was warranted and their ability to hand code crappy html was relevant??
You didn't provide any reasoning at all. All you said is proprietary = bad.
Your reasoning is based on one quasi-statistic "Look at how many other platforms support DirectX."
How about a more relevant statistic: Look at the installed base of directX compared to other technologies on other platforms. Also, consider driver stability and hardware support from vendors.
An iPhone 3GS with a 600MHz CPU outperforms a Nexus One with a 1000MHz CPU.
The reason the 3gs "outperforms" the N1 is because the N1 has more than twice the pixels of a 3GS. If the N1 had to drive the iphones resolution, it would wipe the floor with the iphones ass, all while supporting user app multitasking.
We're not talking about the Unix process model, are we? We're talking about the iPhone multitasking capabilities. What you and a million other idiots don't seem to understand is that just because the iPhone OS is based on Unix, doesn't mean that the iPhone supports multitasking in a way that is meaningful to end users. If it did, we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?
What android phone are you using? I have a nexus one and it is just as snappy as any Iphone, at a considerably higher resolution. There are also optimization techniques that Google hasn't made prime-time yet, that really increase the overall performance of all apps running in a dalvik vm: zipalign-on-install.
Apple's decision to not include multitasking from the start was likely a decision to keep things as simple as possible. Now they're playing catch-up and tacking on multi-tasking to a system that was built from the ground-up without it. I don't understand how this will not break app compatibility. Existing apps only understand certain "states." Multitasking will introduce new application states that existing apps will not know how to handle. I am very interested in how they plan to reconcile this.
I would love nothing more than to see a BSD licensed solution succeed on the desktop, if nothing more, than to prove to FSF folks the definition of irony when it comes to being "free and open."
So I take it your grandma didn't try to install anything outside of Ubuntu's standard app repository, or plug any non-trivial device into the USB slot. Very few users will go 2 years without either of these scenario's happening.
Google seems willing and ready to tap any market that is dominated by dick-wads that have gotten too comfortable charging too much for too little. More power to them. They're going to make a lot of money off of innovating and giving people their money's worth.
No kidding. All you have to do is open up a terminal window and enter these twelve 12 cryptic commands. If you would have taken the time to read all the man pages and then post on the Ubuntu forums and then go out and buy linux friendly hardware, you'd realize just how easy it really is, moron.
Slashdot Mirror
Meanwhile, on the "big boy stage", both of the other big 3 are busy trying to desperately imitate the "gimmick" of motion control that they spent the past few years mocking Nintendo for doing. Meanwhile, Nintendo's perfecting it.
Are you kidding me? Wii motion control is a joke. They have completely given up on any sort realistic imitation of movement within games, and have resorted to arbitrary movements to take place of pressing a button, for example "twirl the joystick to swing."
The Wii is like a gym membership. Everyone I know purchased one with good intention, only to realize it's not as cool as it looks and then eventually sits and collects dust.
Meanwhile, the "big boys" as you've called them, have been the ones really improving on Nintendo's original intention. Microsoft especially. No having to hold some clunky device tied together with a cord, no accidentally destroying your tv, no having to charge your controller, no having to buy some ridiculous accessory to make the technology suck a little bit less (wii motion plus). And all this, while being far more accurate and precise, and including the motion of the entire body. In other words, Nintendo is getting rich off a gimmick, while the others are actually trying to improve on the technology and make it fun.
Yes, if you search for "oil spill" in google, there is a single sponsored link (and identified as such) before the search results. About 6 results down, there are image results with oil covered birds and such. Is it news that one of the most profitable companies in the world is spending a relatively piddly amount on damage control? It's not as if they are buying out search engines.
Having owned a Zune HD, I was one of the first people to experience the "Windows Phone 7" platform. From a UI standpoint, it is a very intuitive, well thought out experience. Zune HD runs on the Tegra SOaC, and was an extremely capable device from a hardware standpoint. Battery life was excellent, and the games I played were graphically impressive -- more so than anything I've seen on the Android platform running on my Nexus One which I sold the Zune to purchase. The device was also extremely stable.
From a strategic standpoint, I thought it was smart of Microsoft to deploy the new WinMo kernel and UI concept on a device that isn't quite as important or business critical as a phone. What most people don't understand, is that because of this, WinMo 7 is more mature than you might think.
The point I'm trying to make here, is that Windows Phone 7 most certainly will not be crap. MS is definitely late to the game here, but they will be a contender, and ultimately everyone will benefit from it.
Isn't that more because they wanted to keep their driver closed source, and thus had to bypass and work around a bunch of stuff to jam their binary blob into the thing?
No, but ignorance (on your part) is bliss isn't it? It's just a big bad company being big and bad, right? Typical gnubeard speak.
The proprietary nvidia drivers include their own direct memory manager, custom implemented because X.org does not provide proper facilities via DRI/DRM to do such a thing. What it affords them is actual, real, Windows/OS X like 3d acceleration.
Oh omniscient one, what is wrong with the Linux community. Surely you have seen it all and can provide coherent, reasonable arguments as to why X11 is bad?
You have your work cut out for you, as my phone is running X11 with 3D acceleration without bypassing anything and works quite well.
I'm sure it runs glxgears swimmingly.
We will accomplish what we're out to do
Which is what... replace Windows? Fat chance. Until you fix what is fundamentally broken. Ubuntu is pushed at the layperson for desktop use, yet it uses an antiquated display server that was never designed with under the premise that everything would run entirely on one machine. The fact that Nvidia had to bypass a good portion of X's functionality to develop a proper hardware accelerated driver speaks volumes to the fact that X is not at all suited for the desktop.
It doesn't matter how many coats of paint you put on Ubuntu, until you fix what is fundamentally broken you don't stand a chance. And that will never happen, because the Linux community fails to acknowledge their shortcomings.
It's nice to see desktop linux finally reach feature parity with Windows 98! Year of the Linux Desktop!
The framework is extremely well thought out, and allows your app complete integration with the rest of the operating system. It has a very good way of handling resources for various screen sizes, dpi's, i18n, etc. It has excellent distinctions between "Activities" and "Services," to use their nomenclature. Basically, an Activity is the UI aspect of something, whereas a Service is the implementation of particular functionality. You could write your own Activity to an existing service, for example, the music player. At the same time, this sort of separation is not required. The examples I've given are really just the tip of the iceberg. It is an extremely, extremely well thought out design, and as such, there is a bit of a learning curve to be able to do everything you'd like to.
And how does a salt help when they can get the salt?
Well, they'd have to generate a new hash-table using the specific hash, which at the very least is an extremely time consuming effort that puts up another potential roadblock in getting a whole shit load of user's passwords.
Now, if you do not do this you would be 100% safe :)
Wrong. All they need is your email password and then can reset or get user names for any other accounts you have. What is important, however, is that your email password is entirely unique and extremely strong.
If you do this, you should be disgusted at *yourself* first. Then at the attackers. Then at the altasian for making software susceptible to this (they made the hash as it is in the DB, not Apache).
Wrong again. I'm not disgusted in myself since my password is certainly not common enough to be cracked by a precalculated hash-table.
Dear ____________,
You are receiving this email because you have a login, '________', on the Apache JIRA installation, https://issues.apache.org/jira/
On April 6 the issues.apache.org server was hacked. The attackers were able to install a trojan JIRA login screen and later get full root access:
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_04_09_2010
We are assuming that the attackers have a copy of the JIRA database, which includes a hash (SHA-512 unsalted) of the password you set when signing up as '________' to JIRA. If the password you set was not of great quality (eg. based on a dictionary word), it should be assumed that the attackers can guess your password from the password hash via brute force.
The upshot is that someone malicious may know both your email address and a password of yours.
This is a problem because many people reuse passwords across online services. If you reuse passwords across systems, we urge you to change your passwords on ALL SYSTEMS that might be using the compromised JIRA password. Prime examples might be gmail or hotmail accounts, online banking sites, or sites known to be related to your email's domain, gmail.com.
Naturally we would also like you to reset your JIRA password. That can be done at:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ForgotPassword!default.jspa?username=_________
We (the Apache JIRA administrators) sincerely apologize for this security breach. If you have any questions, please let us know by email. We are also available on the #asfinfra IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
Regards,
The Apache Infrastructure Team
So, yeah. They were storing the passwords unsalted, which means that it is susceptible to a simple dictionary crack.
Needless to say, I'm quite disgusted with the Apache foundation right now.
As it stands, it doesn't seem requiring more technology is currently the path to a solution, though.
This is not about *requiring* more technology. It's about off-loading processing to a gpu that can handle these particular tasks far more efficiently, while freeing up general processing time. I fail to see anything negative in this.
. It's the pragmatic desire that the web doesn't degenerate into something that's totally unusable except for a relatively small selection of computing devices purely because website designers are more obsessed with having eye candy than actually providing a useful experience to potential viewers.
I still fail to see it as nothing more than "everything old was good, everything new is bad." As a developer myself, and having done quite a bit of web development specifically, the web now is better than it ever has been, and only continues to get better. We actually have standards, and all major browsers implementing them (and working on implementing more). If your goal is to share a simple, mostly-text based website, it is far easier now than it ever has been in the past, and will render more consistently now than it ever would in the past across many browsers.
The argument the parent was making was essentially, "we shouldn't have cool new technology in browsers that would benefit from a gpu, it should be limited to simple text and image only pages."
And yes, mobile devices will be able to run most of this stuff when the html 5 standards flesh out. Sure, not everything will work great in the form factor, but that's why we have subdomains and tld's specifically for mobile devices.
Basically, what I'm saying, is things are better now than they ever have been. Quit complaining.
Well, there is always the fact that this is a Microsoft product, that will never run on anything but Windows. Why in their right mind would they use openGL? Are you dense?
I feel sad about it when hardware acceleration is needed for rendering, what, websites.
Boo hoo. Have you seen what's capable with HTML5, Javscript and canvas? It's downright stupid to have certain things done using a general purpose processor when a GPU is sitting there unused. Why do I get the impression that a subset of slashdot users wished things would remain unchanged from 1998, back when hate for Microsoft was warranted and their ability to hand code crappy html was relevant??
You didn't provide any reasoning at all. All you said is proprietary = bad.
Your reasoning is based on one quasi-statistic "Look at how many other platforms support DirectX."
How about a more relevant statistic: Look at the installed base of directX compared to other technologies on other platforms. Also, consider driver stability and hardware support from vendors.
You lose.
We should totally support the new hardware rendering in Firefox for this reason. Because... oh shit, they use DirectX too.
An iPhone 3GS with a 600MHz CPU outperforms a Nexus One with a 1000MHz CPU.
The reason the 3gs "outperforms" the N1 is because the N1 has more than twice the pixels of a 3GS. If the N1 had to drive the iphones resolution, it would wipe the floor with the iphones ass, all while supporting user app multitasking.
We're not talking about the Unix process model, are we? We're talking about the iPhone multitasking capabilities. What you and a million other idiots don't seem to understand is that just because the iPhone OS is based on Unix, doesn't mean that the iPhone supports multitasking in a way that is meaningful to end users. If it did, we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?
What android phone are you using? I have a nexus one and it is just as snappy as any Iphone, at a considerably higher resolution. There are also optimization techniques that Google hasn't made prime-time yet, that really increase the overall performance of all apps running in a dalvik vm: zipalign-on-install.
Apple's decision to not include multitasking from the start was likely a decision to keep things as simple as possible. Now they're playing catch-up and tacking on multi-tasking to a system that was built from the ground-up without it. I don't understand how this will not break app compatibility. Existing apps only understand certain "states." Multitasking will introduce new application states that existing apps will not know how to handle. I am very interested in how they plan to reconcile this.
You can in fact see the other player, if you enable the PiP option. The game itself is pretty fun, by the way.
...a search engine giant might name it something a lil more search engine friendly.
I would love nothing more than to see a BSD licensed solution succeed on the desktop, if nothing more, than to prove to FSF folks the definition of irony when it comes to being "free and open."
So I take it your grandma didn't try to install anything outside of Ubuntu's standard app repository, or plug any non-trivial device into the USB slot. Very few users will go 2 years without either of these scenario's happening.
Well, Google just opened up an office here in Madison... let's hope!
Google seems willing and ready to tap any market that is dominated by dick-wads that have gotten too comfortable charging too much for too little. More power to them. They're going to make a lot of money off of innovating and giving people their money's worth.
No kidding. All you have to do is open up a terminal window and enter these twelve 12 cryptic commands. If you would have taken the time to read all the man pages and then post on the Ubuntu forums and then go out and buy linux friendly hardware, you'd realize just how easy it really is, moron.