You are 100% right: hardware acceleration should be handled by the OS. In many cases, it is. Starting with Vista and the Aero interface, all drawing surfaces are virtualized and take advantage of the GPU for boring stuff like blits and exciting stuff like font smoothing calculations.
What happened with IE is that it, as well as any non-toy browser, doesn't create actual GUI objects. The drop down on that web page isn't a native windows drop down. That kitten picture isn't painted into a windows panel. If you were to render HTML that way you'd consume an order of magnitude more memory since the HTML standards don't need to support everything the native versions do.
The trade off is that IE's rendering is all done within itself and it doesn't offload processing to the OS. This optimization winds up requiring that any hardware acceleration be deliberately and explicitly done, and, thankfully, the OS provides mechanisms for them to use it.
And, heh, since it's IE, if it didn't provide the mechanism it soon would with a service pack.:P
If you look at the Wikipedia article's sources section, there was an investigation conducted by United States Central Command, days after the event occurred. It's entirely possible the video was pulled for review, but while the investigation's contents may have been encrypted and not visible, the index would explain what was on it.
I could see how someone charged with filing and safeguarding the actual data would not possess the actual decryption keys.
There is no fucking way there are google servers in 190 some odd countries.
The cliche IT answer to "Where does your cloud store data?" is "Why do you want to know?" And it is with good reason.
Are you trying to avoid embargoed countries? The list of places it will not be stored should be pretty good. Are you trying to avoid a specific country? Again, the list of places it will not be stored will reveal enough.
If your customer (in this case, Yale would be Google's potential customer) wants data stored in a specific country, they gotta ask why instead of just caving. If you care WHERE your data is stored, then you don't really want Cloud storage. And I'm pretty sure Google would like to reserve the right to have servers in the Vatican if they got a sweet deal there.
This is kind customers with non-functional requirements ("you should use SQL Server, I saw an ad in InformationWeek magazine that says it costs less in the long run!").
Exactly. To execute code, at some point, the reader is branching into data created or loaded by the pdf. When is that ever a good idea? If it's part of the PDF spec then it's a pretty good part to break compatibility with.
Apparently, if I understand the assertion, folks without the magnetic manipulation would consider both "wrong". But folks who have had the magnetic treatment would have increased odds of judging the inept sniper to be blameless, since no actually harm occurred.
"Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?"
Why even include anything that relates to your mothers name? Why even give attackers that much? Just provide a 30 character string of random characters.
Yo, I heard you like passwords, so we're going to protect your password with another password.
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In this case, since it was effectively smuggled out, I'd wager that the leak was simply unable to get ahold of the source document and maybe all they had available was some hard copies. FSM bless them for the effort, I sure hope they don't get found out and made dead.
China has to be a lot more low-profile when they oppress the people of Hong Kong, so that the global community doesn't suddenly start to care again and call shenanigans.
Or do what, exactly? Implement an embargo? Impose sanctions? Go to war?
China is pretty embedded in the world at this point, unlike where it was a mere 13 years ago when they got Hong Kong back from the Brits. How much manufacturing and raw materials come out from China? How much foreign currency and debt do they control?
At least with questions about Taiwan there's a de facto stalemate. Google is putting its employees in China at risk (remember, they "treated" opium addiction with a bullet to the head) and forcing the issue. And, because of how powerful China is right now on the global stage, I can't see a bunch of UN and NATO finger wagging is going to swing their actions towards those of freedom and human rights.
So, if they still made DLC alongside the actual game itself but instead downloaded a 180KB key file + 20MB dummy file that went straight to/dev/null it would be ok?
All this outrage is going to do is to force developers to move that content off-disc so they can pretend they developed it outside the standard development cycle. You don't really think company execs will say "gee, we'd better provide better value," do you? Particularly when every other company jumps aboard?
I remember a timeline they had out in ads back in 1989 that mentioned among other things that Windows 3.1 was "The world's first graphic operating system."
Windows 3.1 would curse at the user. Prior versions weren't as graphic.
Fewer components can also lead to a faster development time. If companies were only lazily interested in an e-reader before, the cost barrier to break into the market in R&D has decreased dramatically.
Anyone scope any datasheets? All I can find is some dumb "fact sheet" on Freescale's site.
Sounds low if it were, say, for IE or Firefox flaws. Chrome is still less than 5% of the browser market (from Jul - Dec 2009 according to StatOwl) and suffers (or, rather, benefits) from the Mac effect in resisting the actual exploitation of discoveries.
Though, since we are going to play the Wikipedia game, you might want to read the last sentence of one of your own links. "A total of 3.2 million - one in six U.S. factory jobs - have disappeared since the start of 2000."
"We don't make anything anymore" != "We make 16.7% fewer things than before"
Definitely, but maybe for QA or as a Code Review consultant. Of course, I'm assuming that the winner of the contest would also be clever enough to detect hidden maliciousness in others' code.
Would it either be that or waiting for one giant major natural shift that could cause even more damage?
No good deed goes unpunished?
If you leave it alone and a natural disaster happens, you can't really sue God. If you drill and make mini-quakes and someone's windows break, you can definitely sue the driller.
I believe the argument being made is that, maybe, it isn't the shadow of a paywall that keeps people out of Salon.com but instead of limited appeal of its content.
If you're a governmental or quasi-governmental entity, and you don't have a warrant to search within the walls of a citizen's house, don't. Any law written to allow this is patently ultra vires and unconstitutional.
The government has played pretty fast and loose with the constitution over the past 40 years. Patriot act & Homeland Security, War on Drugs & DEA, tight laws controlling gun ownership. Hell, every police department in the country has a paramilitary SWAT unit and people are getting killed in no-knock warrant situations that are indistinguishable from true military home invasions.
I wonder how much more expensive legal fees are today than almost 50 years ago.
It certainly is noble, since a lot of courts won't even hear about these kinds of conflicts without Ripeness. But, I can't say I'd willingly bankrupt myself to expose hypocrisy, whether I'm found right or wrong.
Your company's name will be tarnished, and you will get the blame, not Wal-Mart.
I'd say the blame belongs where the customer places it. Brand recognition and loyalty goes both ways, and if a company is going to slap a strong name on a piece of garbage just to get on a Walmart shelf then they deserve the erosion.
You can go ahead and just pay more for the same thing. I don't mind.
Except a lot of times it's not the same thing. Walmart is large enough that they can convince (read: coerce) manufacturers to making Walmart Edition versions of mainstream items. Walmart isn't the first to do this, but IS the first to do this with huge players like Whirlpool and Sony. No doubt this is because the big players can effectively be shut out of the lower middle class market by Walmart marketing the off-brands. It's a game of join the devil or die. I laugh when I see a Walmart commercial with the "Same Brands, Better Prices" theme. It's somewhat ironic that these companies that so closely guard their brand names to exploit brand recognition to imply quality are willing to undercut themselves just to get shelf space in one of the most powerful retailers in the country.
Now, those retail-specific models? You might have encountered them when trying to comparison shop and the model number you picked up from a Walmart placard cannot be found online or at other shops. Sometimes they differ by minor things: a lesser warranty or using factory-second plastic castings with a little more excess flash or slightly mismatched colors. Sometimes they differ by major things: lower class LCD panel with more permitted dead pixels or appliances with lower MTBF or lower tolerance components. A savings of pennies for a handful of resistors could mean the difference between shipping 50,000 units to Walmart or not.
That said, Amazon does it too, but for a much more customer-positive purpose. "Frustration-Free Packaging" takes manufacturer cooperation and requires them to make stuff for Amazon but it's not about presenting a false economy.
I know which company I'd rather give my money too, even if it happens to be a dollar or two more.
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Two hundred dollars != a dime!
Inflation will fix that in time.
You are 100% right: hardware acceleration should be handled by the OS. In many cases, it is. Starting with Vista and the Aero interface, all drawing surfaces are virtualized and take advantage of the GPU for boring stuff like blits and exciting stuff like font smoothing calculations.
What happened with IE is that it, as well as any non-toy browser, doesn't create actual GUI objects. The drop down on that web page isn't a native windows drop down. That kitten picture isn't painted into a windows panel. If you were to render HTML that way you'd consume an order of magnitude more memory since the HTML standards don't need to support everything the native versions do.
The trade off is that IE's rendering is all done within itself and it doesn't offload processing to the OS. This optimization winds up requiring that any hardware acceleration be deliberately and explicitly done, and, thankfully, the OS provides mechanisms for them to use it.
And, heh, since it's IE, if it didn't provide the mechanism it soon would with a service pack. :P
If you look at the Wikipedia article's sources section, there was an investigation conducted by United States Central Command, days after the event occurred. It's entirely possible the video was pulled for review, but while the investigation's contents may have been encrypted and not visible, the index would explain what was on it.
I could see how someone charged with filing and safeguarding the actual data would not possess the actual decryption keys.
There is no fucking way there are google servers in 190 some odd countries.
The cliche IT answer to "Where does your cloud store data?" is "Why do you want to know?" And it is with good reason.
Are you trying to avoid embargoed countries? The list of places it will not be stored should be pretty good. Are you trying to avoid a specific country? Again, the list of places it will not be stored will reveal enough.
If your customer (in this case, Yale would be Google's potential customer) wants data stored in a specific country, they gotta ask why instead of just caving. If you care WHERE your data is stored, then you don't really want Cloud storage. And I'm pretty sure Google would like to reserve the right to have servers in the Vatican if they got a sweet deal there.
This is kind customers with non-functional requirements ("you should use SQL Server, I saw an ad in InformationWeek magazine that says it costs less in the long run!").
Exactly. To execute code, at some point, the reader is branching into data created or loaded by the pdf. When is that ever a good idea? If it's part of the PDF spec then it's a pretty good part to break compatibility with.
Apparently, if I understand the assertion, folks without the magnetic manipulation would consider both "wrong". But folks who have had the magnetic treatment would have increased odds of judging the inept sniper to be blameless, since no actually harm occurred.
"Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?"
And the fee for linux is the cost of the admins -- the people who are good in the environment know they are good and their price goes up every year.
Fair enough, but I don't think how many physical CPUs versus cores on a server impacts that price.
There's simply nowhere else that makes these things cheaply but China.
There are still fab houses, PCB construction & assembly, etc in the West.
Why even include anything that relates to your mothers name? Why even give attackers that much? Just provide a 30 character string of random characters.
Yo, I heard you like passwords, so we're going to protect your password with another password.
In this case, since it was effectively smuggled out, I'd wager that the leak was simply unable to get ahold of the source document and maybe all they had available was some hard copies. FSM bless them for the effort, I sure hope they don't get found out and made dead.
China has to be a lot more low-profile when they oppress the people of Hong Kong, so that the global community doesn't suddenly start to care again and call shenanigans.
Or do what, exactly? Implement an embargo? Impose sanctions? Go to war?
China is pretty embedded in the world at this point, unlike where it was a mere 13 years ago when they got Hong Kong back from the Brits. How much manufacturing and raw materials come out from China? How much foreign currency and debt do they control?
At least with questions about Taiwan there's a de facto stalemate. Google is putting its employees in China at risk (remember, they "treated" opium addiction with a bullet to the head) and forcing the issue. And, because of how powerful China is right now on the global stage, I can't see a bunch of UN and NATO finger wagging is going to swing their actions towards those of freedom and human rights.
So, if they still made DLC alongside the actual game itself but instead downloaded a 180KB key file + 20MB dummy file that went straight to /dev/null it would be ok?
All this outrage is going to do is to force developers to move that content off-disc so they can pretend they developed it outside the standard development cycle. You don't really think company execs will say "gee, we'd better provide better value," do you? Particularly when every other company jumps aboard?
I remember a timeline they had out in ads back in 1989 that mentioned among other things that Windows 3.1 was "The world's first graphic operating system."
Windows 3.1 would curse at the user. Prior versions weren't as graphic.
Fewer components can also lead to a faster development time. If companies were only lazily interested in an e-reader before, the cost barrier to break into the market in R&D has decreased dramatically.
Anyone scope any datasheets? All I can find is some dumb "fact sheet" on Freescale's site.
Sounds low if it were, say, for IE or Firefox flaws. Chrome is still less than 5% of the browser market (from Jul - Dec 2009 according to StatOwl) and suffers (or, rather, benefits) from the Mac effect in resisting the actual exploitation of discoveries.
Treble damages? Were the shared songs THAT bad?
Though, since we are going to play the Wikipedia game, you might want to read the last sentence of one of your own links.
"A total of 3.2 million - one in six U.S. factory jobs - have disappeared since the start of 2000."
"We don't make anything anymore" != "We make 16.7% fewer things than before"
Would you hire that guy?
Definitely, but maybe for QA or as a Code Review consultant. Of course, I'm assuming that the winner of the contest would also be clever enough to detect hidden maliciousness in others' code.
Would it either be that or waiting for one giant major natural shift that could cause even more damage?
No good deed goes unpunished?
If you leave it alone and a natural disaster happens, you can't really sue God. If you drill and make mini-quakes and someone's windows break, you can definitely sue the driller.
I believe the argument being made is that, maybe, it isn't the shadow of a paywall that keeps people out of Salon.com but instead of limited appeal of its content.
If you're a governmental or quasi-governmental entity, and you don't have a warrant to search within the walls of a citizen's house, don't. Any law written to allow this is patently ultra vires and unconstitutional.
The government has played pretty fast and loose with the constitution over the past 40 years. Patriot act & Homeland Security, War on Drugs & DEA, tight laws controlling gun ownership. Hell, every police department in the country has a paramilitary SWAT unit and people are getting killed in no-knock warrant situations that are indistinguishable from true military home invasions.
It really is just a piece of paper after all.
I wonder how much more expensive legal fees are today than almost 50 years ago.
It certainly is noble, since a lot of courts won't even hear about these kinds of conflicts without Ripeness. But, I can't say I'd willingly bankrupt myself to expose hypocrisy, whether I'm found right or wrong.
You thought you could get away with fraud while dealing with the government?
Might as well as try robbing a police station.
The trick was that not enough of the ill-gotten gains was winding up lining the pockets of government officials.
Your company's name will be tarnished, and you will get the blame, not Wal-Mart.
I'd say the blame belongs where the customer places it. Brand recognition and loyalty goes both ways, and if a company is going to slap a strong name on a piece of garbage just to get on a Walmart shelf then they deserve the erosion.
You can go ahead and just pay more for the same thing. I don't mind.
Except a lot of times it's not the same thing. Walmart is large enough that they can convince (read: coerce) manufacturers to making Walmart Edition versions of mainstream items. Walmart isn't the first to do this, but IS the first to do this with huge players like Whirlpool and Sony. No doubt this is because the big players can effectively be shut out of the lower middle class market by Walmart marketing the off-brands. It's a game of join the devil or die. I laugh when I see a Walmart commercial with the "Same Brands, Better Prices" theme. It's somewhat ironic that these companies that so closely guard their brand names to exploit brand recognition to imply quality are willing to undercut themselves just to get shelf space in one of the most powerful retailers in the country.
Now, those retail-specific models? You might have encountered them when trying to comparison shop and the model number you picked up from a Walmart placard cannot be found online or at other shops. Sometimes they differ by minor things: a lesser warranty or using factory-second plastic castings with a little more excess flash or slightly mismatched colors. Sometimes they differ by major things: lower class LCD panel with more permitted dead pixels or appliances with lower MTBF or lower tolerance components. A savings of pennies for a handful of resistors could mean the difference between shipping 50,000 units to Walmart or not.
That said, Amazon does it too, but for a much more customer-positive purpose. "Frustration-Free Packaging" takes manufacturer cooperation and requires them to make stuff for Amazon but it's not about presenting a false economy.
I know which company I'd rather give my money too, even if it happens to be a dollar or two more.