...I wonder if the people who develop these chess and go algorithms ever considered a "training first" approach: taking some days to train a huge decision tree or something like that and store it in a shitload of memory. The results would be worse, but the computer would then be able to to each move in constant time. It would be interesting to put of those against a professional in a time-limit game.
Eh no, "angry, almost rabid" users are not the ones I refer to as crazy zealots. The crazy zealots are the ones who emailed Foxconn saying things like "u r OBVIOUSLY bing birbed b mIcro$hit!!!1!!" without any real evidence of it.
I applaud the users who emailed Foxconn about the issue, but only the ones who did in a appropriate way (and I'm not even going into the politeness discussion, you can even be a rude jerk without bringing up conspiracy theories).
But this is irrelevant to my point. My point was that complaining, alone, is useless if you belong to a group that the manufacturer does not consider to be commercially relevant. Clearly this is not the case with Foxconn and Linux users, and this is good.
This whole soap opera, which probably had more to do with copy and paste laziness than conspiracy theories, blew up out of proportions and gave Foxconn a lot of reasons to believe that Linux users are crazy zealots. Yes, I know that the users who actually harassed Foxconn with "OMG microsoft payed you!!!" emails are just a small part of the Linux userbase, but I'd kinda understand if Foxconn took Linux less seriously after that.
The fact that they're now going as far as writing about the patch in the Ubuntu Forums shows that they consider the Linux userbase large and important enough to be worried about the bad press, even though most of the "bad press" was grossly exaggerated. Not-so-many years ago, a company could dismiss the complaints as "nonsense zealotry" with no worries and no financial negative impact whatsoever. Foxcoon seems to believe that this is not the case now.
So, from a "relevance of Linux nowadays" point of view, I consider this to be a very good sign.
But one could also argue that graphics sell precisely because gameplay innovations have stagnated. I mean, there's not much to look out for other than the graphics when game companies are making FPS, FPS sequels and FPS versions of other games.
Actually, I believe real-time ray tracing open up some very interesting gameplay possibilities if people know how to use it.
Imagine a FPS, for example, on which you could notice a sneaking bastard on an unusual angle behind you because you saw his reflection on the doorknob you were about to pull. Or maybe cursing at the newbie because he didn't pay attention to the position of a specific lamp and now your team is screwed because your shadows have been noticed.
Then again, I think the whole FPS genre is saturated. Examples of other types of games are welcome here.
...one can already notice that the article has a point. Each one has a different definition of what "ready for the desktop" means and none of them is completely right or completely wrong.
For more evidence, check the Ubuntu forums: there's no real consistency in comments about the readniess of Ubuntu for the mainstream: some computer illiterates say it's ready, some don't. Some geeks say it's ready, some don't.
First, dig up your copy of the contract you signed granting you royalties for your participation in the recording.
Next, -- wait, what do you mean you didn't sign a contract? He didn't sign a contract giving them rights to record his participation and profiting from it, either.
...isn't the UMG/Universal case worse? I mean, they were clearly using the unlicenced song for profit and an album version without it wasn't even available. Jammie Thomas, on the other hand, even it was true that she was sharing copyrighted songs, she wasn't profiting from it.
Open source allows greater quality control than closed source. If Mozilla did not use this potential, it's their fault and not the open source process'.
In fact, the problem here is that the quality control used by Mozilla was not open source enough. They only did automatic scanning, something that can be done in compiled binaries, when a simple code-checking (notice that an extension source is not that big) would get the malicious code rather quickly.
Mark Shuttleworth recently declared that Gobuntu was not going so well as he expected because of the lack of community support and conjectured that perhaps it was better if the development team helped the gNewSense team instead.
It seems they are doing exactly that now, since the 8.04 folder of the gobuntu download page it's empty.
Agreed. This is about as impressive as a headline saying that dozens of people died today in the entire world. I'm a long-time Linux user and I had unpleasant experiences with Vista, but it's not like every single user that did an update to Ubuntu Gutsy from Feisty lasy year had a smooth transition...
That said, your slogan suggestion is unfair because TFA technically has no lies. A more accurate second half to that alternate slogan would be "Stuff that we overreact to.":)
While I do agree that the correct interpretation of "capable" in this case is not exactly unique and obvious, I would say that the opinion of Microsoft employees (and I mean personal private opinions, not public and clearly marketing-oriented opinions) should be taken into account. The internal emails revealed that some quite relevant people didn't consider certain Intel chipsets Vista-capable, yet they slapped the sticker there to make Intel happy. In other words, machines were displaying on stores words that the people who developed the operating system didn't exactly agree with.
Note: Some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping)
have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate,
as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly. I'm guessing it's the same case with Acid3.
And would you take names like "Windows Chicago", "Windows Detroit", "Windows Whistler" or "Windows Longhorn" seriously? I'm guessing no. But that doesn't care because those were not actual names of Windows releases, but CODENAMES of Windows releases.
That's exactly what "Hardy Heron" is: JUST A CODENAME. The latest version has the codename "Gutsy Gibbon", but go www.ubuntu.com and tell me how exposed this codename is. The download page says "Ubuntu 7.10". The features page says "Ubuntu 7.10".
If a so-called "serious adult" doesn't like names like "Hardy Heron", you can simply say "Ubuntu 8.04" because that's its actual name. Of course, I'd have a hard time calling someone who judges an operating system just by its name a "serious adult".
I wouldn't be surprised if I was modded redundant after this... It seems someone has to explain this to an AC every single time an Ubuntu release appears on/.
Weird Al Yankovic makes money by parodying other artists. Probably no artist would be successful in sueing him, but usually they don't even think about it because he has decency of letting them know in advance of the parody and ask for their approval. There were exceptions, but those were not intentional. TFA doesn't go into details, but I'm guessing Chuck never knew about the book before its announcement.
Sueing is a bit extreme, but Spector deserves an earpull. He let his greed overcome his politeness.
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...I wonder if the people who develop these chess and go algorithms ever considered a "training first" approach: taking some days to train a huge decision tree or something like that and store it in a shitload of memory. The results would be worse, but the computer would then be able to to each move in constant time. It would be interesting to put of those against a professional in a time-limit game.
...just like what happened with Kasparov, the headline is completely backwards.
How about this one: Computer needed 800 processors, at 4.7 Ghz, 15 Teraflops to beat a professional Go player.
We're talking about a computer needing gargantuan processing power to beat a human and we are impressed at the computer? Seriously?
If I am to be impressed by something, it's definitely by this Myungwan Kim guy.
Eh no, "angry, almost rabid" users are not the ones I refer to as crazy zealots. The crazy zealots are the ones who emailed Foxconn saying things like "u r OBVIOUSLY bing birbed b mIcro$hit!!!1!!" without any real evidence of it.
I applaud the users who emailed Foxconn about the issue, but only the ones who did in a appropriate way (and I'm not even going into the politeness discussion, you can even be a rude jerk without bringing up conspiracy theories).
But this is irrelevant to my point. My point was that complaining, alone, is useless if you belong to a group that the manufacturer does not consider to be commercially relevant. Clearly this is not the case with Foxconn and Linux users, and this is good.
This whole soap opera, which probably had more to do with copy and paste laziness than conspiracy theories, blew up out of proportions and gave Foxconn a lot of reasons to believe that Linux users are crazy zealots. Yes, I know that the users who actually harassed Foxconn with "OMG microsoft payed you!!!" emails are just a small part of the Linux userbase, but I'd kinda understand if Foxconn took Linux less seriously after that.
The fact that they're now going as far as writing about the patch in the Ubuntu Forums shows that they consider the Linux userbase large and important enough to be worried about the bad press, even though most of the "bad press" was grossly exaggerated. Not-so-many years ago, a company could dismiss the complaints as "nonsense zealotry" with no worries and no financial negative impact whatsoever. Foxcoon seems to believe that this is not the case now.
So, from a "relevance of Linux nowadays" point of view, I consider this to be a very good sign.
Makes sense for suicidal people, at least, since this pretty much implies that life has no meaning.
(Just kidding, just kidding! You can leave that modding button now.)
But one could also argue that graphics sell precisely because gameplay innovations have stagnated. I mean, there's not much to look out for other than the graphics when game companies are making FPS, FPS sequels and FPS versions of other games.
Actually, I believe real-time ray tracing open up some very interesting gameplay possibilities if people know how to use it.
Imagine a FPS, for example, on which you could notice a sneaking bastard on an unusual angle behind you because you saw his reflection on the doorknob you were about to pull. Or maybe cursing at the newbie because he didn't pay attention to the position of a specific lamp and now your team is screwed because your shadows have been noticed.
Then again, I think the whole FPS genre is saturated. Examples of other types of games are welcome here.
I completely agree!
Furthermore, if Britney Spears' music sucks, how come she hit the top of the charts so many times, huh, HUH? [1]
Take THAT, you geek smartasses!
[1] I'm talking about the beggining of her career, obviously.
In Ubuntu, this ability is called Synaptic.
And for third-party applications, if the third-party only wants to provide a non-compiled .tar.gz or a .sh, it's not really Ubuntu's fault, is it?
...one can already notice that the article has a point. Each one has a different definition of what "ready for the desktop" means and none of them is completely right or completely wrong.
For more evidence, check the Ubuntu forums: there's no real consistency in comments about the readniess of Ubuntu for the mainstream: some computer illiterates say it's ready, some don't. Some geeks say it's ready, some don't.
From http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/:
"Fixed: 430530 - [Linux] Excess disk IO when updating the url-classifier."
Give it another shot.
...isn't the UMG/Universal case worse? I mean, they were clearly using the unlicenced song for profit and an album version without it wasn't even available. Jammie Thomas, on the other hand, even it was true that she was sharing copyrighted songs, she wasn't profiting from it.
...but some insensitive clod recently deleted it.
Unless you present some proof that this never happened in a Microsoft product, you have nothing.
I'm not saying it did, but you have to take Microsoft's word that it didn't, and no more evidence than that.
I'd rather go with the more transparent option, thank you.
Open source allows greater quality control than closed source. If Mozilla did not use this potential, it's their fault and not the open source process'. In fact, the problem here is that the quality control used by Mozilla was not open source enough. They only did automatic scanning, something that can be done in compiled binaries, when a simple code-checking (notice that an extension source is not that big) would get the malicious code rather quickly.
Mark Shuttleworth recently declared that Gobuntu was not going so well as he expected because of the lack of community support and conjectured that perhaps it was better if the development team helped the gNewSense team instead. It seems they are doing exactly that now, since the 8.04 folder of the gobuntu download page it's empty.
In my opinion, the following question is the easiest and shortest way to explain it: what is the probability that your first guess was wrong?
Agreed. This is about as impressive as a headline saying that dozens of people died today in the entire world. I'm a long-time Linux user and I had unpleasant experiences with Vista, but it's not like every single user that did an update to Ubuntu Gutsy from Feisty lasy year had a smooth transition...
:)
That said, your slogan suggestion is unfair because TFA technically has no lies. A more accurate second half to that alternate slogan would be "Stuff that we overreact to."
While I do agree that the correct interpretation of "capable" in this case is not exactly unique and obvious, I would say that the opinion of Microsoft employees (and I mean personal private opinions, not public and clearly marketing-oriented opinions) should be taken into account. The internal emails revealed that some quite relevant people didn't consider certain Intel chipsets Vista-capable, yet they slapped the sticker there to make Intel happy. In other words, machines were displaying on stores words that the people who developed the operating system didn't exactly agree with.
From the Acid2 page::
Note: Some 827 people (rough estimate, contents may have settled during shipping) have written to point out that the CSS used in the test is invalid. This is deliberate, as a means of exposing the ability of user agents to handle invalid CSS properly. I'm guessing it's the same case with Acid3.And would you take names like "Windows Chicago", "Windows Detroit", "Windows Whistler" or "Windows Longhorn" seriously? I'm guessing no. But that doesn't care because those were not actual names of Windows releases, but CODENAMES of Windows releases.
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That's exactly what "Hardy Heron" is: JUST A CODENAME. The latest version has the codename "Gutsy Gibbon", but go www.ubuntu.com and tell me how exposed this codename is. The download page says "Ubuntu 7.10". The features page says "Ubuntu 7.10".
If a so-called "serious adult" doesn't like names like "Hardy Heron", you can simply say "Ubuntu 8.04" because that's its actual name. Of course, I'd have a hard time calling someone who judges an operating system just by its name a "serious adult".
I wouldn't be surprised if I was modded redundant after this... It seems someone has to explain this to an AC every single time an Ubuntu release appears on
Weird Al Yankovic makes money by parodying other artists. Probably no artist would be successful in sueing him, but usually they don't even think about it because he has decency of letting them know in advance of the parody and ask for their approval. There were exceptions, but those were not intentional. TFA doesn't go into details, but I'm guessing Chuck never knew about the book before its announcement.
Sueing is a bit extreme, but Spector deserves an earpull. He let his greed overcome his politeness.
It was probably a lame reference to Hans Reiser.