A big part of the interview was about using exponentially more sandboxes. Chrome uses sandboxes for each tab, but as Watson noted, they start combining multiple tabs in single sandboxes after there are ~30 tabs open. They do this because they reach performance bottlenecks when there are that many sandboxes used.
Using the example of a browser, his goal is use nested sandboxes, and sandbox individual parts of webpages: a sandbox for a tab, and within that sandbox, sandboxes for each image, for example.
In terms of performance, though, this approach was not feasible on current processors - using the browser example again, individual images would load one at a time, similar to a browsing experience from the days of dialup.
I've only glanced at the files, and I'm far too amateur to understand them. That said, it seems at first glance that a bit too many of the entries relied in part on turning code into ascii art. There was an entry a few years ago that calculated pi by the shape of the source file code, that was neat.. but if the whitespace is there just to look cool and break up lines, then that part of the obfuscation is 2nd rate obfuscation, in my not so well deserved opinion. Still, very very good to see the IOCCC make quick work and bring us the goods.
SPI (Software in the Pubic Interest) being the umbrella group that funds Debian development. His wiki page is admirable, and Debian is strongly dedicated to Free Software principals.
In short, the embargo is working. I'm actually quite pleased at all of this. It's very good to see diplomacy working in place of - and, really, better than - war.
It's a DOE project with the express goal of nuclear weapons research.
From Wiki's 2nd paragraph about NIF:
"NIF's mission is to achieve fusion with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear weapons.[2]"
The attack assumes the fact that the game is a fantasy world. The substance of the attack is that she spends too much time in the fantasy world.
If she says anything it should be to laugh along with it (haha, maybe I do spend a bit too much time with that game, we all have our foibles), or at most say something along the lines of "it's a private matter that has not and will not affect my job performance."
It grows as it gets older; they find their feet around season 3 and, as I recall, season 6-7 are their peak. That said, if you couldn't stand season 1 then you probably wouldn't like the rest - it's not for everyone. For me, I like it for the silly comedy, the frankly sometimes quite clever and interesting plots, and the characters, which grow on you over time. The comedy is somewhat repetitive - each character has a stable of jokes which get repeated over and over. Cat prioritizes fashion above all else; Lister is a slob and can't play guitar; Rimmer is a coward and officious; Kryton.. he's the best, really.
(The cat, by the way, is as good as the rest - his exclamations toned down after the first season, and he has his fair share of the good lines.)
Red Dwarf Season X premiers tomorrow! Smegging 'ell, what more could you smegheads want? The full original cast! The original writers! A real model of the ship (no CG)! Filmed in front of live audience! Sure, it's an aimless dramady about a glorified roomba, a lazy slob, a smeghead and a cat, but it's still better than 99% of the sci-fi out there. I mean, how can you not love these guys?!
Be fair: Jobs didn't wan't to close up smartphones, he wanted to create a very, very good smartphone. In other words, his motivation throughout his career was to create products with elegant and aesthetically pleasing design, well-thought-out UI, ease-of-use, and make computing accessible to non-specialists. The Mac made PCs accessible to the non-specialist/hobbiest; the iPod and iPhone did the same for mp3 players and smartphones.
That was the good side of his character and, from what I observed, the focus of his efforts.
One consequence of this was that he always preferred closed, un-customizable interfaces. As if he saw the UIs on his products as an artistic creation. Understandable, maybe, but still unfair to the people who bought the things.
Are they saying that ads on social networks are more effective than other net ads and offline ads? Or that social networks, writ large, are more influential than advertisements?
Because I suspect that social networks are just a medium; the bit that's effective is the peer groups. People, in other words, are highly influence by those they choose to socialize with. Something which is true online and off.
(Still bugs me, though.. if gold-pressed latinum is so special, why couldn't you just replicate gold, replicate 'latinum', replicate a press, and have at it?)
Good to see a deep link to a non-commercial (at least, non-ad-revenue-based) website. The list provided was interesting, too; it covered some topics I didn't expect (3D printers as replicators? OK, sort of..), and skipped some of the worn out ones (ion drives, flip phones that look a bit like TOS communicators).
I remember a story from one of the Apollo documentaries: he went out to test on a rocket-powered LEM simulator, which involved hovering ~5 metres above a concrete pad and landing. It malfunctioned, crashed, and he ejected with seconds (at most) to spare. An hour after his near-death experience, he was in his office, wokring as if nothing had happened. Another astronaut came in and asked him about the crash; he said something to the effect of 'no big deal'!
The parallels of current Apple to early 90s Apple are numerous.
- They were first widely used in multitouch and gui - Their OS is more user-friendly - Development and modification of their OS is more tightly controlled - Crucially, they don't license their OS - Steve Jobs isn't there to save them with brand-new product lines
So now, they're stuck with a market-leading position that is being slowly eroded by the open ARM + Android platform (Armdroid as the new Wintel?), and are being forced to fight on several fronts at once: hardware design, OS design, and developer loyalty.
The litigation strategy is just one more parallel, and it seems destined to fail.
The corporation and the hacktivist both have a moral responsibility. The rule is the golden rule. Civil laws can and should be adjusted accordingly to codify this.
If you are willing to live in a world where you have all the responsibility and others have none, then you are the fool. I prefer civilization, where there is shared responsibility. Reality and ideals never match up perfectly, but that's no reason to throw your hands up in defeat.
Slashdot Mirror
$5 is insanely cheap. I just bought one and have no idea what I'm going to use it for. Looking forward to it though!
A big part of the interview was about using exponentially more sandboxes. Chrome uses sandboxes for each tab, but as Watson noted, they start combining multiple tabs in single sandboxes after there are ~30 tabs open. They do this because they reach performance bottlenecks when there are that many sandboxes used.
Using the example of a browser, his goal is use nested sandboxes, and sandbox individual parts of webpages: a sandbox for a tab, and within that sandbox, sandboxes for each image, for example.
In terms of performance, though, this approach was not feasible on current processors - using the browser example again, individual images would load one at a time, similar to a browsing experience from the days of dialup.
I've only glanced at the files, and I'm far too amateur to understand them. That said, it seems at first glance that a bit too many of the entries relied in part on turning code into ascii art. There was an entry a few years ago that calculated pi by the shape of the source file code, that was neat.. but if the whitespace is there just to look cool and break up lines, then that part of the obfuscation is 2nd rate obfuscation, in my not so well deserved opinion. Still, very very good to see the IOCCC make quick work and bring us the goods.
SPI (Software in the Pubic Interest) being the umbrella group that funds Debian development. His wiki page is admirable, and Debian is strongly dedicated to Free Software principals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bdale_Garbee
Don't bother explaining it yourself, just be a prat when people ask reasonable questions - I'm sure that will bring in more users.
In short, the embargo is working. I'm actually quite pleased at all of this. It's very good to see diplomacy working in place of - and, really, better than - war.
If you login from a story on Slashdot it kicks you back to the main page. Not very elegant, code monkey! :)
n/t
Also, you can take a photo on mars, download it, analyze it and publish your results faster than you can get a news story up on Slashdot. ;)
It's a DOE project with the express goal of nuclear weapons research.
From Wiki's 2nd paragraph about NIF:
"NIF's mission is to achieve fusion with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear weapons.[2]"
The attack assumes the fact that the game is a fantasy world. The substance of the attack is that she spends too much time in the fantasy world.
If she says anything it should be to laugh along with it (haha, maybe I do spend a bit too much time with that game, we all have our foibles), or at most say something along the lines of "it's a private matter that has not and will not affect my job performance."
That sucks. Mods can be real sheep; once one marks something troll, others can follow.
PS - Weren't you making a Filipino horror movie at one point? How did that go?
It grows as it gets older; they find their feet around season 3 and, as I recall, season 6-7 are their peak. That said, if you couldn't stand season 1 then you probably wouldn't like the rest - it's not for everyone. For me, I like it for the silly comedy, the frankly sometimes quite clever and interesting plots, and the characters, which grow on you over time. The comedy is somewhat repetitive - each character has a stable of jokes which get repeated over and over. Cat prioritizes fashion above all else; Lister is a slob and can't play guitar; Rimmer is a coward and officious; Kryton .. he's the best, really.
(The cat, by the way, is as good as the rest - his exclamations toned down after the first season, and he has his fair share of the good lines.)
Red Dwarf Season X premiers tomorrow! Smegging 'ell, what more could you smegheads want? The full original cast! The original writers! A real model of the ship (no CG)! Filmed in front of live audience! Sure, it's an aimless dramady about a glorified roomba, a lazy slob, a smeghead and a cat, but it's still better than 99% of the sci-fi out there. I mean, how can you not love these guys?!
Haven't been 'shaggled' in a while, eh?
Don't worry, you can always just suck on a fag.
"apartment complex" , "gas station"? These are not terms the average Brit uses. Unless you're an american ex-pat of course.
Indeed, I believe the equivalent British words would be "wide/tall flat stack" and "unpotable fire water dispensatorium"
That's what I was referring to :)
Ohh, and the guy in the grass is masturbating.
On a related note, Randall watches Peep Show.
Be fair: Jobs didn't wan't to close up smartphones, he wanted to create a very, very good smartphone. In other words, his motivation throughout his career was to create products with elegant and aesthetically pleasing design, well-thought-out UI, ease-of-use, and make computing accessible to non-specialists. The Mac made PCs accessible to the non-specialist/hobbiest; the iPod and iPhone did the same for mp3 players and smartphones.
That was the good side of his character and, from what I observed, the focus of his efforts.
One consequence of this was that he always preferred closed, un-customizable interfaces. As if he saw the UIs on his products as an artistic creation. Understandable, maybe, but still unfair to the people who bought the things.
Are they saying that ads on social networks are more effective than other net ads and offline ads? Or that social networks, writ large, are more influential than advertisements?
Because I suspect that social networks are just a medium; the bit that's effective is the peer groups. People, in other words, are highly influence by those they choose to socialize with. Something which is true online and off.
The plot must have its devices.
(Still bugs me, though.. if gold-pressed latinum is so special, why couldn't you just replicate gold, replicate 'latinum', replicate a press, and have at it?)
Good to see a deep link to a non-commercial (at least, non-ad-revenue-based) website. The list provided was interesting, too; it covered some topics I didn't expect (3D printers as replicators? OK, sort of..), and skipped some of the worn out ones (ion drives, flip phones that look a bit like TOS communicators).
I remember a story from one of the Apollo documentaries: he went out to test on a rocket-powered LEM simulator, which involved hovering ~5 metres above a concrete pad and landing. It malfunctioned, crashed, and he ejected with seconds (at most) to spare. An hour after his near-death experience, he was in his office, wokring as if nothing had happened. Another astronaut came in and asked him about the crash; he said something to the effect of 'no big deal'!
A brave, hardworking, and modest man. RIP.
Woohoo! Level 5! (Peter David ST-TNG books, seriously they can be great)
The parallels of current Apple to early 90s Apple are numerous.
- They were first widely used in multitouch and gui
- Their OS is more user-friendly
- Development and modification of their OS is more tightly controlled
- Crucially, they don't license their OS
- Steve Jobs isn't there to save them with brand-new product lines
So now, they're stuck with a market-leading position that is being slowly eroded by the open ARM + Android platform (Armdroid as the new Wintel?), and are being forced to fight on several fronts at once: hardware design, OS design, and developer loyalty.
The litigation strategy is just one more parallel, and it seems destined to fail.
The corporation and the hacktivist both have a moral responsibility. The rule is the golden rule. Civil laws can and should be adjusted accordingly to codify this.
If you are willing to live in a world where you have all the responsibility and others have none, then you are the fool. I prefer civilization, where there is shared responsibility. Reality and ideals never match up perfectly, but that's no reason to throw your hands up in defeat.