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Whilst it is dangerous to guess at what people were meaning, I understood the 'disclaimer" to mean "I do this for a living so I know what I am talking about".

So, if that is the correct interpretation then is not a disclaimer, more a disclosure. Which is what noibl was trying to educate exDM69 about.

But it is really all idle speculation until exDM69 chimes in.
I don't think your comment really bares any relation to reality.

The US isn't perfect, but actually has elections, an independent judiciary, doesn't lock up dissidents, doesn't make women forcibly abort their babies, etc etc.
What you are talking about is complete nonsense.

http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/trade/trade-at-a-glance-...

China makes up only 22.6% of our trade exports. And at the end of the day the US is still a stable democracy with a free press, free speech and core values very closely aligned to Australia.
Yeah even when your run windows AMD's still not worth the pain. OpenGL games like Rage are bugged on release for AMD owners and the catalyst drivers often introduce terrible bugs. I don't upgrade my drivers unless I the older ones have a known bug with a newer game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsD3y3vnsM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pSHOJKcFU8 (the youtube comment is wrong, it didn't happen only with skyrim, I had the antialiasing bug with lots of games after I upgraded to that version of the catalyst at the time)
This is what happens (and happened to me) when you trust AMD with their drivers. That one of their mid or high end card can work like shit with one of the best sellers on the PC platform says it all about how much AMD cares for their customers : they're giving us the finger.

How could AMD stay in business with such subpar products is beyond me. I know they'll never regain my trust. That's just not possible. Too many problems on too many platforms.
The problem with mobile video is that there will be so much of it. If you create an Instagram for video, you're going to massively hemorrhage bandwidth as soon as the video becomes remotely popular.

If it was financially feasible, it would have happened, but as it stands any company that tried this would get obliterated quite quickly. There's no way to monetize against that much data.
303 in OpenGL on Windows. 270 in DirectX.
> well you can move your eyes to expand your vertical field of view just as easily.

Not true, our eyes are optimized for horizontal scanning. We have specialized extraocular muscles for doing this, and as a result horizontal eye scanning relatively is fast, accurate and easy compared to vertical scanning. This has less to do with our eyes being side-by-side (which is a product of our biological symmetry) and more to do with the horizontal world we live in.
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So you're acquired in a "becomes a subsidiary" sense rather than "be assimilated in the borg" sense?
20% is quite significant. If it was 50% better, then we'd already be saying that DirectX performance is cr*p compared to OpenGL. But 20% is definitely a decent boost, especially since you'd expect DirectX to fare better than OpenGL.
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I've actually worked with iSEC people last year, and only realized they were part of NCC Group today. Totally independent shop.
I've been anxiously waiting for you to make this available for some time. All other personal coding projects are now secondary to this. I can't wait to play!
I have not used my Twitter account for over two years, yet it gathers about 3-4 new followers a week so there's a significant amount of pointless activity created by automated processes that just follow people based on keywords - or maybe there's a lot of people who like my extended period of thoughful silence.
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Yes. The parent comment illustrates exactly what happens when you try to Borg a high end consulting firm.
As I mentioned above, it's not so much about our eyes being side-by-side as it is about our world being horizontally organized. Our eye muscles are optimized for horizontal movement (two muscles involved for a horizontal scan, one contract and one relax, where four are involved for vertical movement).

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/eom.html
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For the record, I'm English.

I don't think you can compare the crackdown on the Occupy movements to what happens to people like Ai Weiwei. We had our own Occupy movement which was moved on, but that had as much to do with drunkeness, drug taking and defecating in St Pauls Cathedral as it did with political oppression.

I agree China is a major financial power now, but just because they have money it doesn't stop them being just as unethical and repressive as before.
I thought it could have actually been built out a bit more. If they created a few more categories (and sub-categories), they could really have something very cool on their hands.
It was apparent with NGS too, who were (are) one of the most highly regarded pen testing companies here in the UK. Having worked with many of the leading ones I can say NGS was always at the top of the list, helped not only by their talent but also small size which made them flexible and adaptable. After the acquisition I noticed this changed and a number of the guys I'd worked with left. So it is probably good that Matasano is staying Matasano but with the ability to draw on the collective resources of all the other teams.
The biggest un-addressed problem is sheer lack of will. A significant percentage of students will not do the work. They'll show up, they'll go thru motions, but will not do the actual work required. Telling them they'll fail won't help: they either don't care or don't comprehend. Punishments won't work because punishments are forbidden. Offering more assistance and resources won't help because those are tools, useless if unused. They do nothing, life goes on in an acceptable manner. They have no reason to do the work, so they will not do the work, and thus will fail.
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To be more helpful with the quote:

"This site built with Open Source: html/css, php, apache, linux, vim, air, water. and the awesome Lenovo ThinkPad — made in [Flag of PR China], working for [flag of Tibet(?)] — thank you, China!"
It's better to use the percentage to put it in perspective.

China makes up 9.1% of New Zealand exports.
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Disclosure, disclaimer. Both apply. I disclose that I work in the field but it can also be a disclaimer that I have extremely skewed views because of the frustrations that years of working too closely with OpenGL can bring. English is not my native language, sorry for any confusion.
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I think the finality of learning "courses" of traditional education has something to it. There's something to be said for having a task at hand and accomplishing a series of steps rather that lead to something rather than a mashup of useful tutorials and lectures (no-matter how brilliant they are), that don't have an underlying current, theme or curriculum to them.
Disclaimer: I am German and I actually saw and liked 30 Rock (in English) ;-)
As for 30 Rock: The problem with English shows on German television is that they are all dubbed. I won't say that they are doing a bad job (c.f. eastern european countries) but sometimes they are missing out puns and jokes which "can't be translated" without losing meaning. In the end this can make a funny TV show unwatchable.
On the other hand you will never (as in never ever) see an undubbed show on German television. People are used to watch it in German, so most of them might just never watch it again in either language.

edit: s/Disclaimer/FYI/
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> [...] most postscript viewers decompress on the fly as gzipped postscript is so prevalent.

Not only prevalent, but also the right thing to do. PDF was an attempt to (among other aims) achieve smaller filesizes than PS. But that was premature optimization: While a PS file is usually bigger than a PDF, gzipped PS beats PDF.
Lots of comments on the effectiveness of a 20% policy - I'm curious what other folks experience is like with an internal hack day? It seems that if a company's culture isn't suitable for 20% time (for whatever reason), that an internal hack day might be a useful alternative (scratching developer itches but not "wasting" 20% of developer time on non-core projects). Any insight/recommendations from anyone who's done this?
What, only weeks after I threw away my (very) old OpenGL books? The reason why DirectX is used everywhere is that graphics cards have been developed to suit it better for the past 10 years or so, I thought. Also, DirectX is a more complete solution for developers including networking, audio, controller handling code ...
> a ton of mobile game developers these days developing for Android and iOS in OpenGL ES, and I could see a day coming when these network effects are reversed in OpenGL's favor.

I'm pretty sure we're seeing that already. And WebGL is not going to improve the situation for D3D.
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As a counter to any complaint about how hard algebra is: recall the recent HN-featured app DragonBox. It strips away the boring/confusing irrelevancies of the subject, replacing the appearance with cute tiles and animations - creating a game where a kid learns the core concepts. If my 4-year-old (and even my 2yo) will sit there for prolonged periods playing and picking up rules & techniques on her own, then surely high school students can grasp the subject - if they choose to.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=dra...
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> It is not 'less guns' that should bother you, but the intent of the people who use them.

I agree, but what politically viable solutions do you propose there? Clearly this implies regulation and clearly very few Americans want that. More difficult to get and maintain a license to drive a car and all that. Even proposals to stop people from selling guns to verifiably crazy or unstable people or convicted felons are seen as a slippery slope that should be avoided, etc. Your driver's license can be taken away but the right to own a gun is inalienable. Militia vs well regulated and properly trained militia, I guess.
Congrats tptacek!! Thanks for all your amazing comments over the years and now that you are set for life, I expect more higher quality commentary. :-P
It doesn't look significant because the game is old and runs already pretty fast on modern hardware. If it was more gpu intensive game, a 20% difference could make a difference between a tolerably fluid framerate and a jerky framerate.
haha, that sounds totally awesome!

and yeah I’m hoping to make it out to the SF area in the near future; would definitely be down if it works out.
i know some people would claim certain Wine games ran faster in Linux than Windows (WoW) but it turned out a lot of the advanced shaders and things weren't running through Wine causing the performance increase.
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> If it is property, tax it like property, at 1% of value per year.

Where is property taxed like that?
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Another interesting stat from the linked-to source article: "China accounted for 27% of the 158 million global smart phone shipments, compared to 16% for the United States.". Within China itself, 81% of smartphones are Android.
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Yes, you're absolutely right. I've always associated DEFCON with security stuff, mainly because that's all the interesting stuff I remember reading coming out of DEFCON (and I've never been). Thanks for the clarification.
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I could understand forecasting corporate taxes, but concretely relying on fluffy bunny overhyped IPOs in your budget seems irresponsible.
The root post of this thread suggested a general rule covering all lawsuits.
I've always been skeptical of how big this problem really is. People who need more power/flex are probably the minority.
What's wrong with bind-to-modify and using integers for handles? What alternatives are there? With my limited knowledge of OpenGL, I know you get a number, describing a resource in video card memory. I bet for an OpenGL implementation, binding a resource id means finding a pointer to the resource. Sounds reasonable to me. Would you rather get an invalid pointer that you should refrain from dereferencing (because you'll be reading from RAM, not GPU RAM)? That would've been a disaster.

And I don't really know what 'global state everywhere' means. Do you mean that you keep OpenGL-related info in your program's global state? In that case, you should be using some AppState object to keep the state (and pass a pointer around). Otherwise, what global state is there "everywhere"?
He was perhaps over enthusiastic with the sequencing aspect and while I don't think it will come about as he describes (for the reasons you give), I expect some method of real time ecosystem analysis to exist.

Your point on camera sensor size is well made. But compressed sensing will allow us to get much lower energy usage and exploited redundancies at local nodes in the network will allow us to do well at otherwise impractical sizes.
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It's a quite common reaction in AI, yeah: once we can reduce the problem to some standard NP-problem solver, we're probably in good shape.

I believe SatPlan (1992) initiated that trend, by showing that compiling classical planning problems to SAT can get significant speedups over traditional planning algorithms in some cases. This ties into another, mostly informal hallway debate so far, over whether AI needs a replacement idea of "AI-completeness" to specify the problems that are really hard from an AI perspective. I wrote a short opinion piece on that a few years ago: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/nphard_not_always_hard.html

A more common problem than SAT not being fast enough is the reduction being intractable. It's ok if it's "big" (SAT solvers can solve for millions of variables), but it's easy for naive encodings to generate truly absurd blowups, gigabytes or more, which can make it intractable to even state the SAT problem, i.e. write it to disk or send it over a pipe. If you avoid that problem, the actual SAT-solving step is usually fast. I believe that's where some of the interest in alternatives to SAT comes from, as compilation targets, so to speak, that are easier to generate non-blown-up code for.

SAT-heritage grounding targets are still common in logic programming, though, e.g. http://potassco.sourceforge.net/ uses a SAT-like approach, though one specialized for answer-set programming rather than directly targeting SAT.
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Sounds like you might run into problems similar to US campaign financing law.
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Yes... ... ... ... that's ... why ... I posted the video of jail inmates describing how they sexual harass and rape men, many of whom simply got caught with Marijuana. Just hearing the descriptions and testimonies gave me E.D. for 2 days. When men see what it feels like to be preyed upon it might change the way they behave around women. One cannot just "avoid" people like that. You talk to people about it, you educate them about it.

Avoiding racist people didn't give blacks the freedoms and acceptance they have today. That was achieved by confrontation, education, and telling their stories from a point of view that everyone can relate to. Same with sexism and sexual harassment. Men can joke around about rape all they want because they're never really have the fear of having it happen to them. They can harass women and grab their asses all they want because they've never felt what it's like to have a bigger and taller man sexually harass them.
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Here's a simpler solution, that creates no legal quagmires: Do away with patents.
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I've got the same feeling. I'd add categories for education level, accreditation and course length. Having a "starting soon" section would also be fine, listing the courses starting between now and the next two weeks.
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No. What I'm saying is that educating or helping these people might be a better solution than straight ridicule. Whether the education be how to control self, or how to appropriately engage woman, it would seem to strike the root of the problem.

If I came across otherwise, I appologize.
And that's probably why we're not going to get a retina macbook air anytime soon. I don't think a GPU that is fast enough to give a good experience on retina-level resolutions could be put in a MBA without severe consequences related to heat.
OpenGL ES 2.0 is actually pretty clean; the monstrosity that is other OpenGL is basically being held up by the CAD companies (such as AutoDesk) who are very conservative and don't care much about games; they just want their old code to keep running on new versions of the spec.
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If you find it interesting I recommend my own articles on the subject:

- Esoteric Queue Disciplines: http://blog.databigbang.com/esoteric-queue-scheduling-discip...

- Adding Acknowledgement Semantics to a Persistent Queue: http://blog.databigbang.com/adding-acknowledgement-semantics...

- Persisting Native Python Queues: http://blog.databigbang.com/persisting-native-python-queues/

- Using Queues in Web Crawling and Analysis Infrastructure: http://blog.databigbang.com/using-queues-in-web-crawling-and...

- Using Queues in a crawler to discover facebook, twitter, blogs on web pages: http://blog.databigbang.com/automated-discovery-of-blog-feed...
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Also, my two fake users have uncovered more Facebook platform bugs than the vast majority of real users.
Thanks for the advice, I'll try it over the re-inclusion request.
This is my primary gripe with facebook. You'd think that they'd be able to develop a decent mobile app, being as large as it is.
The google+ app works way way way better. So smooth and everything loads quickly as it should. Hell, even the tumblr app I use works better than the facebook one.
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My impression is that part of the issue is that OpenGL has only really gotten its act together, so to speak, recently and that fresh in the memory of many game devs was a time when DirectX really was obviously better.
It won't let me register an e-mail address with a + sign in it. I prefer customizing my gmail address when I enter it on a random site like so: username+sitethatmightspamme@gmail.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local_part
I suppose you have a point. "How do you stop bad people from obtaining guns?" doesn't really sound like a solvable or even definable problem. (Who decides? How do you decide? How could you know what this person will do with it in future, how do you stop someone else from taking/stealing the gun.. Guns don't exactly expire by themselves afterall..)

I don't think all guns have to go away. I don't think revolutions or changes in government have to be violent. (South Africa being a shining example). I don't think you need a right to bear arms to even violently remove the people in power either. (America gained independence without an existing inalienable right to bear arms, afterall.)

Guns or no guns, gun rights or no gun rights, democracy or not - all systems ultimately rely on there not being too many "bad people" or the government behaving properly, etc. As you hinted yourself - America could have a civil war tomorrow if the government did something the people didn't want. And that's with Democracy. Terrorism proves that you don't even need guns. The arab spring proves you don't need many guns.

Civilisation doesn't require guns - it requires civilized people. Everyone owning guns (like America) also only works when you have civilized people.
Peter Turchin published a highly readable pop-science account of his work in a book called War and Peace and War. I read it a few months ago and gave a review.

http://chester.id.au/2012/05/14/review-war-and-peace-and-war...

What's left out of this link is that Turchin still hedges his findings heavily. He's not performing precise predictions; he can't. He's pointing out dynamics that acquire massive social inertia and eventually force the phase change of whole societies.
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Good article, but it always bothers me a bit when people talk about Americans generically.

Yes, you can make some generalizations, but the country is huge and there are many distinct cultural zones. Attitudes and behavior vary widely between them.
Is it time for an OpenGL revolution?

Perhaps not, lets wait until Valve has a chance to fix their D3D issues. It seems to me the blog post was more about success in ferreting out problems with drivers and APIs on Linux and Windows than pure Linux/OpenGL superiority.

I'm a longtime Linux user and there is little reason to assume Linux the is king of graphics. One thing worth pointing out is that Valve is using a Nvidia card with proprietary drivers which don't make use of any shared Linux graphics infrastructure (Gallium3D, etc). So this type of performance gain compared to Windows may not be repeatable with Intel or ATI cards.
Congrats for the adquisition tptacek! :)

[Off topic] I really like the name "matasano", it means bad doctor in informal Spanish. Matasano = matar(kill) + sano(healthy) literally means the doctor who kills the healthy patients.
This is much more complicated. Technology may add a lot, not just a tiny bit, but it has to be used in such way. While certainly apps are being created [and soon they may reach much harder topics, like indefinite integrals] the core issue is in using them - there is no point in technology alone if it is not used. It depends heavily on parents so that they can enable and encourage children to use the app but it also depends on children to use [or rather play] the app.

Technology is not solution to the problem per se - Technology only enables us to solve the problem.