AMD failed because R&D could not deliver. In 2000 AMD totally owned the server space and was making huge inroads into the client PC space. Intel pivoted and beat them with better designs.
This is like the worst forum for this stuff. Half of the respondents are like there is no problem and the other half is like black people suck. Any black people reading this would say why would I want to be part of this community. I actually kind of think this is click-bait for white people rather than any interest in social issues.
So there is no problem then! Oh thank goodness. I was getting a little scared there for a minute. Discourse on the internet is okay and nobody is being sexually harassed or called the N-word. It is only that one crazy asshole who is issuing death threats. Are the only victims gamers? Being punished by reviewers not giving their favorite games 10s? I am really confused. Tell me how you are oppressed? Really tell me about your cause and why it is worth killing someone over?
There is no engineering solution to this particular problem. The only solution is a market one. When customers buy games on Linux desktop at the rate of Windows desktop the game industry and hardware stack developers will care enough to put their A team on it (better yet they will hire more developers downstream to work on it). I don't believe this will happen and here is why:
We are in the middle of a platform shift today. The PC desktop is in decline and the players are fighting for a shrinking market. Mobile is saturating the market. A successful Linux gaming market people don't want to talk about is Android. Google provided a compelling alternative to the Apple ecosystem. Many hardware vendors had a limited to no market in the Apple ecosystem, Google provided an more open hardware ecosystem with developer credibility. Hardware vendors are now squeezing every bit of performance out of the mobile hardware today.
The Linux desktop does not have the same opportunity now, we kind of blew it a decade ago when PCs were relevant. We then blew it again when Netbooks were on the rise (started as Linux only at first), and then blew it again during the Windows 8 debacle (Chromebooks are our only success story here (similar to Android in this respect)). With all the in fighting about compositors, windows managers, incompatible kernel ABI, etc there is no compelling story. There was no real market to demonstrate who the winners and losers were and drive developer resources, so here we are in 2014 still arguing about stuff like Wayland, Mir, X, etc. The "free" free market leads developers to argue about dumb shit like GUI tool kits, syntax indenting, and init systems. Hardware vendors don't give a shit because they can't sell units based on these things. We are not solving problems that would grow their bottom line and thus they have no interest in growing our bottom line. This is simple economics.
Many Linux desktop diehards have moved to MacOS X which is has competent desktop, with a rich market of customers willing to play, and software library that is brimming with quality apps, with a UNIXey environment underneath. Apple demonstrated what we could have done if we had gotten our act together and the market has rewarded them.
Sadly there is a lot about the open source narrative that we are finding that is not true. Inclusivity and security seem to be the first of a set of pillars that are falling for opensource. Companies gobble up opensource projects they want and lock them behind ecosystems that are not interoperable. It is kind of sad.
Well no you don't have the right in all cases! I am sure the employee at Microsoft signed an agreement that he would follow certain guidelines, so no he did not have the right to do this on behalf of Microsoft. Linus also has the right to accept, correct, or reject code that he does not like in his tree. You have the right to be a jackass (at least in the US) but we don't have to give you a platform.
The truth is that no one knows how you are going to stay employable!
We have no idea about the challenges you are facing now and will face in the future. We don't even know what lies before us in the future. The best chance you have is to make sure your lifestyle is sustainable. Make sure you get out of debt (if any) and are physically and mentally healthy. Be kind and considerate to others (even if they do no deserve it). Reduce your attachments to material things. Things do not make you happy anyway. If you are not happy with the work you are doing now, find something that interests you and gives your life purpose (life is too short).
This article has a racist subtext. I have also seen extremely unskilled programmers from the US at the > $100/hr level. There are countless federal projects that fail with cost overruns for any number of reasons. Choosing US programmers does not guarantee success. I think ultimately companies need to realize that software development is very hard and you just can't randomly hire/contract programmers and expect success. Top programmers are hard to find and expensive no matter what country look at.
Mobile phones are just another platform to experience gaming. Mobile platforms are becoming more like gaming consoles. With technologies like wireless display (WiDi), etc you may be able to run a virtual xbox 360 straight from a mobile device on to the display of your choice. Good times!
Let me guess you are white. I dare you to ask any black person if white privilege does not exist. I bet you will have a tough time finding one. But in your mind they are all liars or lazy. I hate the "black people are just lazy" narrative. It's a really tired old lie you people keep telling yourselves.:-)
You did not read that article correctly. Duke Power initially used segregation to weed out Black job applicants. When the Civil Rights Act prevented segregation they instituted IQ tests to weed out Black applicants who did not have the same education opportunities at the time. The IQ tests did not have anything to do with the job. The Civil Rights Act does not ban IQ tests.
I see a lot of well educated engineers coming into the field that have terrible problem solving skills. I am sure they have great grades but they can't solve their way out of a card board box. I am not exactly sure this weak student elimination thing is working out very well.
I agree with the idea that sticking everyone into a four year program is counter productive. Problem is the longer the program the more expensive the cost is to the student.
I don't mean to make this seem like a joke, but every time Slashdot posts about race there is a whole slew of White people coming out of the wood-works claiming that racism is not the problem? And then form a defense out of the following...
A. Affirmative Action is the problem Black people can't be trusted. B. Black people are not smart enough and thus can't be qualified. C. Black people score lower on academic tests, and if they did well they did not deserve the grade. See (A) D. How come my Asian friend is so smart and you are so dumb. E. Let me pull out my statistics textbook: if you are Black, then you are dumb. QED.
Then sprinkle it with: A. Oh BTW I am not racist,.. racist rant..., racism is bad B. I voted for Obama, how could I be racist? C. I have a Black friend somewhere! I call him by the N word and he loves it. How can I be racist? D. Look at all of the Black Athletes this proves that genetics determine everything about a person. And since Black people don't have Neanderthal DNA... E. Oh don't mind my friends dropping the N-word on that other post. He is just an anomaly.
Then pat yourself on the back for proving that 500 years of social engineering is meaningless and get modded up. Brillant because the next article will be about how social engineering causes somebody to hand over millions of SSN to a stealthy hacker.
I think there is a sick person who posts these flame bait articles on Slashdot. I am calling you out! You post these articles and wait for hundreds of responses and then you revel in the racist commentary. It does not make sense otherwise. If Slashdot cared about race they would have auto tagged the racists or blocked Anonymous cowards spewing racial epithets.
Let me put it into perspective for you guys. If you were Black, and you had to read that the government has be rejecting your best and brightest because of your race and then log into Slashdot and read through the most offensive racist rants. You would have quite a shitty day. Now imagine that you had to interact with a bunch of people who pretend to be your friends when talking face-to-face and then they log on to Slashdot and drop the N bomb uncontrollably. Then you will have a better understanding of what being Black is like.
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AMD failed because R&D could not deliver. In 2000 AMD totally owned the server space and was making huge inroads into the client PC space. Intel pivoted and beat them with better designs.
Yes, what people do not understand is that Intel is primarily manufacturing company. Intel builds the fabs and R&D/demand fills them.
Yeah I would need to launch minicom and send AT commands to the cell modem. I can't wait! :-)
This is like the worst forum for this stuff. Half of the respondents are like there is no problem and the other half is like black people suck. Any black people reading this would say why would I want to be part of this community. I actually kind of think this is click-bait for white people rather than any interest in social issues.
So there is no problem then! Oh thank goodness. I was getting a little scared there for a minute. Discourse on the internet is okay and nobody is being sexually harassed or called the N-word. It is only that one crazy asshole who is issuing death threats. Are the only victims gamers? Being punished by reviewers not giving their favorite games 10s? I am really confused. Tell me how you are oppressed? Really tell me about your cause and why it is worth killing someone over?
There is no engineering solution to this particular problem. The only solution is a market one. When customers buy games on Linux desktop at the rate of Windows desktop the game industry and hardware stack developers will care enough to put their A team on it (better yet they will hire more developers downstream to work on it). I don't believe this will happen and here is why:
We are in the middle of a platform shift today. The PC desktop is in decline and the players are fighting for a shrinking market. Mobile is saturating the market. A successful Linux gaming market people don't want to talk about is Android. Google provided a compelling alternative to the Apple ecosystem. Many hardware vendors had a limited to no market in the Apple ecosystem, Google provided an more open hardware ecosystem with developer credibility. Hardware vendors are now squeezing every bit of performance out of the mobile hardware today.
The Linux desktop does not have the same opportunity now, we kind of blew it a decade ago when PCs were relevant. We then blew it again when Netbooks were on the rise (started as Linux only at first), and then blew it again during the Windows 8 debacle (Chromebooks are our only success story here (similar to Android in this respect)). With all the in fighting about compositors, windows managers, incompatible kernel ABI, etc there is no compelling story. There was no real market to demonstrate who the winners and losers were and drive developer resources, so here we are in 2014 still arguing about stuff like Wayland, Mir, X, etc. The "free" free market leads developers to argue about dumb shit like GUI tool kits, syntax indenting, and init systems. Hardware vendors don't give a shit because they can't sell units based on these things. We are not solving problems that would grow their bottom line and thus they have no interest in growing our bottom line. This is simple economics.
Many Linux desktop diehards have moved to MacOS X which is has competent desktop, with a rich market of customers willing to play, and software library that is brimming with quality apps, with a UNIXey environment underneath. Apple demonstrated what we could have done if we had gotten our act together and the market has rewarded them.
Sadly there is a lot about the open source narrative that we are finding that is not true. Inclusivity and security seem to be the first of a set of pillars that are falling for opensource. Companies gobble up opensource projects they want and lock them behind ecosystems that are not interoperable. It is kind of sad.
Vegans/Vegetarians use a semi-synthetic form of B12 called cyanocobalamin. No animals needed in the process.
Well no you don't have the right in all cases! I am sure the employee at Microsoft signed an agreement that he would follow certain guidelines, so no he did not have the right to do this on behalf of Microsoft. Linus also has the right to accept, correct, or reject code that he does not like in his tree. You have the right to be a jackass (at least in the US) but we don't have to give you a platform.
The truth is that no one knows how you are going to stay employable!
We have no idea about the challenges you are facing now and will face in the future. We don't even know what lies before us in the future. The best chance you have is to make sure your lifestyle is sustainable. Make sure you get out of debt (if any) and are physically and mentally healthy. Be kind and considerate to others (even if they do no deserve it). Reduce your attachments to material things. Things do not make you happy anyway. If you are not happy with the work you are doing now, find something that interests you and gives your life purpose (life is too short).
Good luck!
That is so great! Now can we have real news?
This article has a racist subtext. I have also seen extremely unskilled programmers from the US at the > $100/hr level. There are countless federal projects that fail with cost overruns for any number of reasons. Choosing US programmers does not guarantee success. I think ultimately companies need to realize that software development is very hard and you just can't randomly hire/contract programmers and expect success. Top programmers are hard to find and expensive no matter what country look at.
Mobile phones are just another platform to experience gaming. Mobile platforms are becoming more like gaming consoles. With technologies like wireless display (WiDi), etc you may be able to run a virtual xbox 360 straight from a mobile device on to the display of your choice. Good times!
Let me guess you are white. I dare you to ask any black person if white privilege does not exist. I bet you will have a tough time finding one. But in your mind they are all liars or lazy. I hate the "black people are just lazy" narrative. It's a really tired old lie you people keep telling yourselves. :-)
At last count it was 111. :-( SMH!
Dude turn off the filter and grep for the n-word on this forum. It will open your eyes!
How about you observe the amount of people use the n-word on this forum. Then tell me that the tech world is open. It is a sad joke.
Please stop the race-bait articles Slashdot. I can't take it anymore. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. You know who you are. >:-(
It seems you have an agenda against Black people and fear lawsuits, but what does giving IQ tests to janitors have to do with the STEM drop out rate?
You did not read that article correctly. Duke Power initially used segregation to weed out Black job applicants. When the Civil Rights Act prevented segregation they instituted IQ tests to weed out Black applicants who did not have the same education opportunities at the time. The IQ tests did not have anything to do with the job. The Civil Rights Act does not ban IQ tests.
Another politician is not going save us. To think otherwise would be intellectually dishonest.
I see a lot of well educated engineers coming into the field that have terrible problem solving skills. I am sure they have great grades but they can't solve their way out of a card board box. I am not exactly sure this weak student elimination thing is working out very well.
I agree with the idea that sticking everyone into a four year program is counter productive. Problem is the longer the program the more expensive the cost is to the student.
Steve Jobs, RIP
I don't mean to make this seem like a joke, but every time Slashdot posts about race there is a whole slew of White people coming out of the wood-works claiming that racism is not the problem? And then form a defense out of the following...
A. Affirmative Action is the problem Black people can't be trusted.
B. Black people are not smart enough and thus can't be qualified.
C. Black people score lower on academic tests, and if they did well they did not deserve the grade. See (A)
D. How come my Asian friend is so smart and you are so dumb.
E. Let me pull out my statistics textbook: if you are Black, then you are dumb. QED.
Then sprinkle it with:
A. Oh BTW I am not racist,.. racist rant..., racism is bad
B. I voted for Obama, how could I be racist?
C. I have a Black friend somewhere! I call him by the N word and he loves it. How can I be racist?
D. Look at all of the Black Athletes this proves that genetics determine everything about a person. And since Black people don't have Neanderthal DNA...
E. Oh don't mind my friends dropping the N-word on that other post. He is just an anomaly.
Then pat yourself on the back for proving that 500 years of social engineering is meaningless and get modded up. Brillant because the next article will be about how social engineering causes somebody to hand over millions of SSN to a stealthy hacker.
I think there is a sick person who posts these flame bait articles on Slashdot. I am calling you out! You post these articles and wait for hundreds of responses and then you revel in the racist commentary. It does not make sense otherwise. If Slashdot cared about race they would have auto tagged the racists or blocked Anonymous cowards spewing racial epithets.
Let me put it into perspective for you guys. If you were Black, and you had to read that the government has be rejecting your best and brightest because of your race and then log into Slashdot and read through the most offensive racist rants. You would have quite a shitty day. Now imagine that you had to interact with a bunch of people who pretend to be your friends when talking face-to-face and then they log on to Slashdot and drop the N bomb uncontrollably. Then you will have a better understanding of what being Black is like.