Comment Re:Why do we need new langs? (Score 1) 211
Eventually the METAL Linux kernel module (C -> JS + asm.js) will boost overall processing speeds by ~4%.
Eventually the METAL Linux kernel module (C -> JS + asm.js) will boost overall processing speeds by ~4%.
Android got smooth by throwing hardware at it. The reason for a while Androiders were bragging that their phones had more cores or higher clock speeds was that Android needed it.
I'm sorry, but this is the same argument that people made against Java in the 90's, when Java was a few orders of magnitude slower. But as time went on, the total percentage that the computational overhead took up dropped to less than 1% because the hardware got faster. Java's success shows that developer convenience is a very powerful thing.
How do you call VP9 royalty-free in the same article as the rest of this info.
There is not currently a patent pool for VP9. That doesn't mean it's in a better position than HEVC, given there could be a "freelance" patent pool for VP9 any day now.
Any standard which becomes successful attracts leeches. VP9 is no exception.
How do you call VP9 royalty-free in the same article as the rest of this info.
There is not currently a patent pool for VP9. That doesn't mean it's in a better position than HEVC, given there could be a "freelance" patent pool for VP9 any day now.
Any standard which becomes successful attracts leeches. VP9 is no exception.
Carefully avoiding all known patents puts them into a better position, even if the position is just a smaller number of patents.
I think there are two distinct worlds, people who handle the distribution of video and content creators. For content creators, they need highly polished GUIs
I actually read through some of the patents Nokia was threatening VP8/9 with and they really are not sophisticated at all, they are just written in the most confusing possible way. For example, the following paragraph is from a Nokia patent that basically describes the selection of neighboring pixels:
selecting a first reference video pixel in the first video block and a second reference video pixel in the second video block, the first reference video pixel and the second reference video pixel being other than the first boundary video pixel and the second boundary video pixel and the first reference video pixel and the second reference video pixel being placed closer to a central portion of each of said video blocks than the respective boundary video pixel, in such a way that the reference video pixels and the boundary video pixels are situated on a straight line, the straight line being transverse to the boundary, drawn from the first reference video pixel to the second reference video pixel, wherein the first and the second boundary video pixels are located between the first and the second reference video pixels on the straight line,
I was planning on busting all of the Nokia patents myself, but then I got busy
After seeing the blatant and pointless censorship pushed by the movie industry's version of the ESRB, all I can say is that I hope he does as much damaage as possible.
It would be nice to hear from an archivist about how they plan to go about archiving the projects. How well does Archive.org's time machine cover Google Code? It would be cool if Google would post a link to a zip export of every project so you can just pul upl the last (and latest) result up on Archive.org and download the project.
Foreign language graduation requirements are a scam to employ PhD and masters students in the linguistics department. I know a lot of about educational psych and language learning and there was little about the intensive foreign language course I had to take at the UW that could be mistaken as for prepping us for actual fluency. These classes are designed to allow students to pass a test, not speak a foreign language. It actually got easier as the summer went on because each grad student got more desperate for high reviews and thus more forgiving of mistakes.
Whatever you stance on learning foreign languages, computer languages give a window into a different way of logic. This is at least as educational as rote memorization of vocabulary and verb forms.
Agreed, there are hundreds of programming languages, discussion about their merits is overshadowed by the need to get shit done. Evolutionary theory posits that organisms fill niches, but it doesn't assign importance to niches.
So, does this suggest a reasonable upper temperature for superconductivity?
... 'It's a kind of delightful revelation given the fact that the Germans have been on their high horse.' Christian Whiton, a former
Yup, Germany stepped off their high-horse and dived right into our cesspool. But just because everyone is violating our fundamental civil liberties en-mass doesn't make it any less evil.
The only thing this tells us is what our threat model should have been from the start.
Except per Swedish and EU law that would be illegal.
I don't know why you people keep bringing it up.
Because Assange has said that if Britain and Sweden would put forth a good-faith promise not to extradite him he would happily travel to Sweden to face the molestation charges.
If what you are saying is true then I don't know why Glenn Greenwald (a former lawyer) and others would have put together a document detailing exactly how the two governments could make that promise,
This is why this is so crucial: if Sweden (and/or Britain) would provide some meaningful assurance that Assange would not be extradited to the US to face espionage charges for WikiLeaks' journalism, then the vast majority of asylum supporters (including me) would loudly demand that he immediately travel to Stockholm to confront those allegations; Assange himself has said he would do so. That gives the lie to the ugly slander that those who have expressed support for Ecuador's asylum decision are dismissive of the sex assault claims or do not care about seeing them resolved.
Speaking for myself, I have always said the same thing about those allegations in Sweden from the moment they emerged: they are serious and deserve legal resolution. It is not Assange or his supporters preventing that resolution, but the Swedish and British governments, which are strangely refusing even to negotiate as to how Assange's rights against unjust extradition and political persecution can be safeguarded along with the rights of the complainants to have their allegations addressed.
Of course, Greenwald and the Guardian might be lying but, at this point, I trust them much more than I trust British and Swedish governments.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
