I want to use my memory myself, not have it used up by some bloated piece of shit window manager
+1, not to mention memory management being shared in pools isn't actually happening as well as people seem to think. A lot of apps sit idle and horde their memory, leaving various other applications pining for RAM. When the baseline system becomes standard with 8 GB of RAM you'll still see applications hording memory, until we have some advances in shared memory management, beyond today's advances.
You just lost all credibility proclaiming GNOME is bloated and KDE is lean. KDE is nothing but bloat. There is a reason that Debian has 5 base package options for KDE installs and ultimately if you want most of the stuff you end up using in KDE it forces you to use most of the packages. It's not lean, by any stretch of the imagination. GNOME 3, on the contrary, is extremely lean, both on system resources and app resources.
I don't give a shit about Gtk+. However, Glib is critical to my ability to port certain software to other OS's; lots of Unix software uses a Glib event loop, GObject's, GModule's, and GThread's underneath. If Gtk+ goes Linux only, how long until Glib also does?
How about you stop shitting yourself and actually research the discussion, before making a complete picture of yourself as a mix of paranoia.
Yeah, really bad hyperbole. As spacecraft go, low earth orbit isn't all that fast either. The folks who walked on the moon went a fair bit faster than Mach 25 (17,500 mph). And that's not even a blip on the 17 km/s that Voyager I is coasting along at. That's 163,198.8 mph for those who are metric-challenged.
A really good fastball travels at 100mph. Using that as an analogy for something going 175 times faster is a bit inadequate. And using that as a superlative in a world where "fast" is 10x faster than your fastball....
Aint Gravity a bitch? Seriously, you're comparing apples to oranges. The amount of thrust the boosters would exert if they were outside of the Earth's low orbit would have them blasting well past the Moon or becoming an impact zone causing a new crater.
While you might be happy that your preferred liberal or conservative news hits you, you'll never get to see the converse. This is because Google, Facebook, newspaper sites and even Netflix filter what hits you before you get to see it. And since they give you what you want, you never see the opposing viewpoints or step outside your comfort zone. It amounts to a claim of censorship through personalization and now that every site does it, it's commingle a problem.
It would, but then again learned men of the early 20th century were advising people to read as many opposing views on philosophy, religion, politics, ethics, etc., long before this book. They were often labeled as dangerous men of learning. In the end, they suggest one will naturally filter out or take in ideas/ideals that add to one's perceptions of human existence.
I'm bombarded with the opposing view constantly. Because most all of the media is biased towards the Left in this country, and any attempt to represent the majority opinions (Conservatives - just check the Battleground Poll, question D3) is met with howls of protest and ad hominem attack.
I have to actively seek news and information that represents my views because none of the major services ever send it to me.
This article is mostly disinformation.
Turn on AM Radio. You can drown in your Far Right Crap. Conservative is synonymous with ``What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine!''
At WSU the university is set to expand an additional 1,000 students in Pullman, WA and and additional 2-4k statewide in the branch campuses. Become a traditional Engineer and pick up a Minor in CS. You'll be better off. Of course, if you want to do heavy research WSU is the state's lead land grant university. Besides, Bellingham is f'n boring, even with beautiful Mt. Baker nearby. It's not nearly as interesting as a place like Port Townsend, or any of the small harbor cities on the Sound, while being just a gateway to Vancouver B.C. when one heads to Burien, WA.
Go Cougs!
Learn Plasma Physics, Mech.Eng, EE, ChemE all very useful in the emerging economies.
Yeah, but very strict religiously Islamic or Christians shouldn't have porn according to their respective teachings. Especially if they're in a position of leadership and example.
Saying that, I consider myself pretty devout Christian, and I watch porn even though I feel I really shouldn't.
The guilt is a byproduct of your ideological enslavement.
Perhaps Newt has a strange kinship to the fact Richard played the bongos at a strip club while being a Professor at Caltech. Otherwise, I doubt Feynman would ever want to have his name anywhere near the name of Newt Gingrich.
Tell me how as an author I give a rat's ass about having multiple eBook readers on my iOS Device? Seriously, I write a novel and how come I should be interested in distributing it to a third party who takes a massive cut from my creation? Go Apple. If you think I give a flying fuck that Joe eBook Devs are whining about their POS eBook reader and that I can sell that on multiple platforms, then you're f'n nuts. The actual Publisher rapes the Artist in writing books and you want me to care that the distributor is taking it in the ass on this one? Sorry. Bend over.
Is there any chance at all that Slashdot might make a tiny amount of effort to report about Apple and Google in the same tone when they are sitting side by side talking about essentially the exact same stuff?
Apple sent a VP of software tech and Google sent a lobbyist. If I'm going to listen to a lobbyist, they better be paying me money.
Apple sent Bud, one of the founding engineers from Apple and later NeXT, now back at Apple to talk about technology and how it actually works. Google sent a Lawyer.
Highlight of the day for me was the ability for an android app to connect to my home appliances termed Android@Home Anything from a light bulb to the sprinkler system outside. Of course the manufacturers of specific household items will have to work closely with android to deliver on the hardware side but as was demonstrated on live stream today, it can and has been done already. Kudos to those companies that are getting on board.
Also to note, a lot of the tools like the movie rentals from the marketplace will be backward compatible in the coming months as well as the developer tools like fragments all the way back to Android 1.6. And unless i missed anything, everything will be open source.
Bravo! Now you can join Windows and iOS in this market.
A user can't sue a company violating the GPL, only the copyright holder can do that. It would be up to the Webkit developers to pursue a lawsuit if they chose to.
That's usually true, though there are exceptions. However, since Google uses Webkit extensively, they've almost certainly contributed to it and therefore hold copyrights on parts of it.
WebKit is extensively Apple code. The only part that is LGPL is WebCore and JavaScriptCore. The rest was originally all Apple. With the various ports, a collaboration between parties using the BSD license has ensued. WebKit2 is Apple. All the ports from WebKit2 comply with the BSD License or they don't use it. Read the damn source code once in a while to grasp how much actual Code Apple has provided with the BSD license for the world to use. It's a helluva lot of code. The same now goes for Google. Without these two parties who are competitors in the mobile space Mozilla and Opera wouldn't have gotten off their asses to catch up. Hell, the HTML 5 spec was written by Google and Apple when they submitted it.
Agreed. Another example is the portable Ultrasound and MRI units. Hospitals have spent millions upon millions for the large systems and will avoid them like the plague because they still want to recoup their investments and pass that onto the patient. Instead of reducing the cost of medical services, for-profit health care is for exploiting the system.
Doesn't get in your way? How ironic. It's the reason I switched to GNOME 3 and the Gnome Shell. It's the minimalist look that isn't KDE with that abortion called Plasma I don't miss. Don't get me wrong, I still use the same KDE apps [Kate for instance] in Gnome 3 shell but now I'm not stuck dealing with all the resources used for Plasma. Gawd I can't stand that crap.
You're not too bright, if you presume to think a Foundation doesn't conduct its business in private. The information concerns their business emails, not some dude or dudette writing to complain about a piece of java software or apache server that is broken, needs to be patched or please apply this patch.
It seemed pretty much par for the course in college that a significant amount of people didn't own a TV.
College students probably have broadband. They can get movies on Netflix or iTunes, no spinny disc required.
Right, and you know what makes netflix great? The fact that you can get physical discs, like bluray or dvd. I know I would be fairly annoyed if I couldn't watch physical disc media when I was in college. I didn't do it often, but it certainly happened. There isn't a good reason to remove it from their new computers / laptops.
Netflix has plans to phase out more and more of it's disc service especially in areas where > 10Mbps net access is common. The bill from the Post Office for Netflix costs them around $300-$400 Million in lost profits, per year.
Can someone point out where it says that Apple is abandoning its ARM-based architecture and going x86?
...yeah, didn't think so.
Go to the original EE times article. Read it. There is no claim that Apple is dumping ARM or its own SOC design in favor of x86. Apple is simply changing foundries because they don't trust Samsung any more. Intel is just as capable of making A5s, etc. as Samsung. Apple will continue to design its own SOC; they're just using someone else's fabs.
This article is a joke. Apple will not be abandoning ARM. By the way, the only ARM compliant big boy foundry for Apple to turn to is AMD's Foundry Solutions. Apple will not be turning over it's IP designs for their ARM SoC to Intel to stamp out.
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And by unlimited, they mean unlimited connectivity to up to 5GB per month, just like sprint, their parent company.
Virgin Mobile is a brand that uses various Networks, around the globe. Sprint in the US only.
I want to use my memory myself, not have it used up by some bloated piece of shit window manager
+1, not to mention memory management being shared in pools isn't actually happening as well as people seem to think. A lot of apps sit idle and horde their memory, leaving various other applications pining for RAM. When the baseline system becomes standard with 8 GB of RAM you'll still see applications hording memory, until we have some advances in shared memory management, beyond today's advances.
You just lost all credibility proclaiming GNOME is bloated and KDE is lean. KDE is nothing but bloat. There is a reason that Debian has 5 base package options for KDE installs and ultimately if you want most of the stuff you end up using in KDE it forces you to use most of the packages. It's not lean, by any stretch of the imagination. GNOME 3, on the contrary, is extremely lean, both on system resources and app resources.
I don't give a shit about Gtk+. However, Glib is critical to my ability to port certain software to other OS's; lots of Unix software uses a Glib event loop, GObject's, GModule's, and GThread's underneath. If Gtk+ goes Linux only, how long until Glib also does?
How about you stop shitting yourself and actually research the discussion, before making a complete picture of yourself as a mix of paranoia.
A total dbag.
Yeah, really bad hyperbole. As spacecraft go, low earth orbit isn't all that fast either. The folks who walked on the moon went a fair bit faster than Mach 25 (17,500 mph). And that's not even a blip on the 17 km/s that Voyager I is coasting along at. That's 163,198.8 mph for those who are metric-challenged.
A really good fastball travels at 100mph. Using that as an analogy for something going 175 times faster is a bit inadequate. And using that as a superlative in a world where "fast" is 10x faster than your fastball....
Aint Gravity a bitch? Seriously, you're comparing apples to oranges. The amount of thrust the boosters would exert if they were outside of the Earth's low orbit would have them blasting well past the Moon or becoming an impact zone causing a new crater.
This would be a pretty avant-garde line of thinking if there hadn't been an entire book written about it nine years ago ...
It would, but then again learned men of the early 20th century were advising people to read as many opposing views on philosophy, religion, politics, ethics, etc., long before this book. They were often labeled as dangerous men of learning. In the end, they suggest one will naturally filter out or take in ideas/ideals that add to one's perceptions of human existence.
I'm bombarded with the opposing view constantly. Because most all of the media is biased towards the Left in this country, and any attempt to represent the majority opinions (Conservatives - just check the Battleground Poll, question D3) is met with howls of protest and ad hominem attack. I have to actively seek news and information that represents my views because none of the major services ever send it to me. This article is mostly disinformation.
Turn on AM Radio. You can drown in your Far Right Crap. Conservative is synonymous with ``What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine!''
At WSU the university is set to expand an additional 1,000 students in Pullman, WA and and additional 2-4k statewide in the branch campuses. Become a traditional Engineer and pick up a Minor in CS. You'll be better off. Of course, if you want to do heavy research WSU is the state's lead land grant university. Besides, Bellingham is f'n boring, even with beautiful Mt. Baker nearby. It's not nearly as interesting as a place like Port Townsend, or any of the small harbor cities on the Sound, while being just a gateway to Vancouver B.C. when one heads to Burien, WA.
Go Cougs!
Learn Plasma Physics, Mech.Eng, EE, ChemE all very useful in the emerging economies.
most men have some porn stashed somewhere
... like under their wife's clothes?
Very clever! She would never think to look for it hidden in her own dresser drawer.
Har! Har! The reference of course was her own cave of wonderment.
Yeah, but very strict religiously Islamic or Christians shouldn't have porn according to their respective teachings. Especially if they're in a position of leadership and example.
Saying that, I consider myself pretty devout Christian, and I watch porn even though I feel I really shouldn't.
The guilt is a byproduct of your ideological enslavement.
Perhaps Newt has a strange kinship to the fact Richard played the bongos at a strip club while being a Professor at Caltech. Otherwise, I doubt Feynman would ever want to have his name anywhere near the name of Newt Gingrich.
Tell me how as an author I give a rat's ass about having multiple eBook readers on my iOS Device? Seriously, I write a novel and how come I should be interested in distributing it to a third party who takes a massive cut from my creation? Go Apple. If you think I give a flying fuck that Joe eBook Devs are whining about their POS eBook reader and that I can sell that on multiple platforms, then you're f'n nuts. The actual Publisher rapes the Artist in writing books and you want me to care that the distributor is taking it in the ass on this one? Sorry. Bend over.
Is there any chance at all that Slashdot might make a tiny amount of effort to report about Apple and Google in the same tone when they are sitting side by side talking about essentially the exact same stuff?
Apple sent a VP of software tech and Google sent a lobbyist. If I'm going to listen to a lobbyist, they better be paying me money.
Apple sent Bud, one of the founding engineers from Apple and later NeXT, now back at Apple to talk about technology and how it actually works. Google sent a Lawyer.
Highlight of the day for me was the ability for an android app to connect to my home appliances termed Android@Home Anything from a light bulb to the sprinkler system outside. Of course the manufacturers of specific household items will have to work closely with android to deliver on the hardware side but as was demonstrated on live stream today, it can and has been done already. Kudos to those companies that are getting on board. Also to note, a lot of the tools like the movie rentals from the marketplace will be backward compatible in the coming months as well as the developer tools like fragments all the way back to Android 1.6. And unless i missed anything, everything will be open source.
Bravo! Now you can join Windows and iOS in this market.
A user can't sue a company violating the GPL, only the copyright holder can do that. It would be up to the Webkit developers to pursue a lawsuit if they chose to.
That's usually true, though there are exceptions. However, since Google uses Webkit extensively, they've almost certainly contributed to it and therefore hold copyrights on parts of it.
WebKit is extensively Apple code. The only part that is LGPL is WebCore and JavaScriptCore. The rest was originally all Apple. With the various ports, a collaboration between parties using the BSD license has ensued. WebKit2 is Apple. All the ports from WebKit2 comply with the BSD License or they don't use it. Read the damn source code once in a while to grasp how much actual Code Apple has provided with the BSD license for the world to use. It's a helluva lot of code. The same now goes for Google. Without these two parties who are competitors in the mobile space Mozilla and Opera wouldn't have gotten off their asses to catch up. Hell, the HTML 5 spec was written by Google and Apple when they submitted it.
Agreed. Another example is the portable Ultrasound and MRI units. Hospitals have spent millions upon millions for the large systems and will avoid them like the plague because they still want to recoup their investments and pass that onto the patient. Instead of reducing the cost of medical services, for-profit health care is for exploiting the system.
Doesn't fire sterilize just fine? They have fire.
And, for plastic items, fire can be used to boil water to sterilize those.
We're not removing slivers. We're talking about internal medicine.
Instead, one should use OpenCL. It's Platform Agnostic for a reason, but don't let Linux's chance to be hypocritical step in the way.
Doesn't get in your way? How ironic. It's the reason I switched to GNOME 3 and the Gnome Shell. It's the minimalist look that isn't KDE with that abortion called Plasma I don't miss. Don't get me wrong, I still use the same KDE apps [Kate for instance] in Gnome 3 shell but now I'm not stuck dealing with all the resources used for Plasma. Gawd I can't stand that crap.
Yes... Internal... Like the much closed ASF mailing lists? http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html
You're not too bright, if you presume to think a Foundation doesn't conduct its business in private. The information concerns their business emails, not some dude or dudette writing to complain about a piece of java software or apache server that is broken, needs to be patched or please apply this patch.
Show me Bulldozer and then we'll talk.
3D? Aren't all transistors 3d? Along with every other physical item?
The point of 3D is to have 3 distinct dimension and in this case, 3 distinct dimensions where electrical current is controlled.
It seemed pretty much par for the course in college that a significant amount of people didn't own a TV.
College students probably have broadband. They can get movies on Netflix or iTunes, no spinny disc required.
Right, and you know what makes netflix great? The fact that you can get physical discs, like bluray or dvd. I know I would be fairly annoyed if I couldn't watch physical disc media when I was in college. I didn't do it often, but it certainly happened. There isn't a good reason to remove it from their new computers / laptops.
Netflix has plans to phase out more and more of it's disc service especially in areas where > 10Mbps net access is common. The bill from the Post Office for Netflix costs them around $300-$400 Million in lost profits, per year.
Can someone point out where it says that Apple is abandoning its ARM-based architecture and going x86?
...yeah, didn't think so.
Go to the original EE times article. Read it. There is no claim that Apple is dumping ARM or its own SOC design in favor of x86. Apple is simply changing foundries because they don't trust Samsung any more. Intel is just as capable of making A5s, etc. as Samsung. Apple will continue to design its own SOC; they're just using someone else's fabs.
This article is a joke. Apple will not be abandoning ARM. By the way, the only ARM compliant big boy foundry for Apple to turn to is AMD's Foundry Solutions. Apple will not be turning over it's IP designs for their ARM SoC to Intel to stamp out.