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Linux and open-source software will be hotter than ever, but the real changes will be in how they're secured. Everyone else can have the year off
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Don’t you find it a little unsettling when you encounter a typo in code? Only use single character variable names?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Only use single character variable names?
And harking back to Fortran days, variables that are integers should be I, J, K, L, M, or N.
Gads, those were simpler days. Now we have JavaScript and nobody can tell you if it's an integer, a real, a string, null, undefined, or NaN. And I probably missed a few.
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Javascript - and its evil cousine visual basic - are the most woke languages I can think of. Any variable can be any gender.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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For the last 28 years, the Royal Statistical Society has published a brain-melting Christmas Quiz to baffle and entertain puzzle fans over the festive break – and this year is no exception. There will be math(s)
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Expect low stock and high prices to last until 2023 for GPUs, consoles and many other gadgets. Because we can never have nice stuff
Or at least lots of it.
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Funny, high priced CPU stuff until 2023 or farther...
Why does that coincide with my graduation fo High School and my beginning in college
   
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Attackers can secretly communicate with air-gapped computer systems over distances of several meters. In addition to conventional information and communication technology security, critical IT systems need to be protected optically as wel Beware of hackers with lasers on their frickin' heads
I'm pretty sure I've heard of this attack before?
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These toolkits feature expanded cross-architecture features including open-source software components. Great news for the oneDeveloper
"New capabilities include the world’s first unified compiler implementing C++, SYCL and Fortran", just like everyone needs
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I dunno if it's as good as they say, but the claims are impressive!
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He stated that Intel's graphics team is hard at work right now on various next-gen technologies and one of these involves allowing a user to remotely game on some of their friends' PCs. Mental note: find friend with decent computer
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i wonder who came up with the use case for this senario ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Someone stuck on a machine with in-built Intel graphics? 
TTFN - Kent
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abmv wrote: i wonder who came up with
Nobody at Intel. 
They are very late to the party:
Azure Remote Rendering[^]
Xbox Cloud[^]
Google Stadia[^]
Amazon Luna[^]
Geforce Now[^]
Playstation Now[^]
All of those services are remote GPU rendering. I don't know what Intel is doing different, but it looks like they are just exposing this capability to the end-user. I think users could probably get a similar experience by using the Miracast standard[^].
Let me tell you a secret, the 'end-goal' 10+ years out is to have platforms available with no local storage, very low power, remote gpu and booting off a remote operating system. Basically nothing but a dumb terminal with full cloud dependency. Multiple companies have similar roadmaps.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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You forgot the part about the major players owning ALL the intellectual (and non-intellectual) property, and making EVERYTHING a subscription service with prices going ever upward.
An overview was put out years ago: The Corporation
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David O'Neil wrote: You forgot the part about the major players owning ALL the intellectual (and non-intellectual) property
Patents are like icebergs, there's often mountains of R&D technology underneath that was deemed unnecessary to protect.
Also... I can give first-hand testimony that one company is using an automated process similar to infinite monkey[^] to generate machine instructions, then use a battery of tests to see if it can solve equations. After bazillions of iterations if something is found it goes to a team to look at how it works. I don't think this is unusual, I was given the impression that several others have similar programs.
What I found fascinating was that almost none of the discoveries were patented. When I asked the team leaders why, I was given:
1.) Patents would require disclosing how the algorithm works.
2.) It is very unlikely others will find them anytime soon.
Some of the discoveries are massively parallel[^] and my understanding is that we think they can only be found by this type of machine process.
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What we can accomplish is amazing.
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Park the great spacecrafts of science fiction in your backyard — Santa’s sleigh included At last - Bob can come visit
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If you think that is big, look at The Ark from Halo...
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This is the year when 5G will finally matter and many people stuck without broadband will finally get some. Yes, please
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Garrett metal detectors, which are used in schools and government buildings, have security vulnerabilities that can be remotely exploited. Who secures the security companies?
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merry christmas 
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Vodafone has turned the first text message into a non-fungible token (NFT). Because...because...I'm sure I'll eventually figure out a reason
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Whoever wasted that amount of money is going to be so ticked when they find out that their purchase is non-refungible.
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You are the hero we need (and hopefully deserve)
TTFN - Kent
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