The user land tools in "Linux" are generally GNU, and GCC and associated tools hgaved been very successful, so your criticism seems off-base. If you had criticised GNU's terrible and ugly website, along with the failure of HURD, you might have a point.
But the hardware is solid, the OS is pretty, and has a lot of innovative features not found in Android/iPhone.
While I agree that the OS is pretty good (its UI at least) the hardware is not that good. I bought a cheep lumia 525 and it sucked a lot. Its touchscreen is not good (unusible with slightly moist fingers). The OS hangs & the battery drains occasionally. May be Lumia 950 is a good phone. But you can't win market share with the expensive stuff, you earn it with the cheep phones. And cheep phones sucked.
How could a recall even be possible at this time? To me a recall implies that it is possible to repair the fault, which is clearly not possible now and for some time to come. As for the other things that you mention, they take time. Nothing happens instantaneously.
Yes, and if they recall the cpus, what will you do with the motherboard and the other periphery?
I think that Meltdown is more architectural and OS problem than just Intel's flaw. CPUs have always been designed to be as fast as possible. If you want fast - you might have to sacrifice the security. If you need secirity - do things right and slow.
Oh, you've been having trouble maintaining your magical telepathic link to the Vulcan guy? I'll just replicate this device I've been working on in two minutes.
This is exactly what I hate of most star trek films.
They can do everything in two minutes just with pushing randomly on some buttons.
I love sci-fi (books), but star trek is pure drama. And not particularly good one. Drama in sci-fi context is still drama, not sci-fi.
Remember the time when the Internet fit onto 4736 DVDs, or 3 DVD without the porn?
I remember a slightly earlier time. A friend of mine had most of the internet (the part with porn) on 500 DVDs plus 500 CDs. Unfortunately he stopped collecting it when he realized that internet was growing faster than he can archive it.
I seem to recall that all of those games were identical, only with slightly different skins.
That's exactly what I think of all FPS games --- they are the same, and they all make me sick.
Moreover, third person games, also seem all alike.
May be it is my age, but old 2D games were much more diverse. Take tron, tetris, mario, breakout, galaga, packman, lode runner. They are completely different beasts. Of course, these games themselves had a lot of clones, but still look, feel and play differently. I can understand the pursuit for better graphics, modern games look fantastic. Unfortunately good graphics has nothing to do with fun.
The average newspaper is barely written at a high school level.
Specifically, the average newspaper is written at a grade 7 reading level.
Reading is a recent technological development
Perhaps... but only in about the same sense that you would say that human beings are a recent development as well. Reading is well over 5000 years old, and has origins in numeracy which itself is over 10000 years old.
No, Reading is about 100 years old
Before that, almost nobody could read. Even now, we don't have 100% literacy.
I canceled cable because most (not all) of what was offered is pure shit.
Sports, home decorating, sports, celebrity crap, hunting bigfoot, cooking, cooking, sports, cooking, game shows, shopping channel, honey boo boo, ice truckers, reality TV shows, more shopping, more celebrity crap, fishing, golfing, more bigfoot, more game shows....and on and on. It's drivel, replicated over and over and over.
You forgot to mention the ads. I haven't seen that much content for years. Its only ads, ads ads...
... basically we need a technology that re-enables single threaded performance.
And we need lower prices. Low prices drove the computer boom, not raw power.
In the past, process shrinks led to cheaper CPUs. This is not happening any more.
Tablets/(smart)phones are selling good, because they got cheep. Then their power increased somewhat, and that led two more expensive phones. Beside that, they wear out more quickly and brake more often -- this is what sustains their sales.
Reading a few O'Reilly books might cut it for web monkeys, but then again, anything you can learn from an O'Reilly book can also be learned just as well by someone in India or eastern Europe. Real programmers can re-implement chunks of the standard c library with their own mods because they know what's going on.
Are you implying that there are no "real" programmers in eastern Europe or in India?
Moore said density (transistor count), not your "power". Must I always correct those who failed History?
No, you must not!
Moore's law is not a law, it's just an observation (and maybe self-fulfilling prophecy). And the observation of computers getting more and more powerful was also correct. So why not associate one with the other!
Also, did you know you can swipe from the left edge of the screen to change apps? Or that it takes less time for the start menu to pop up than it does for the Windows 8 start screen to transition in (which is useful if you're tapping the Win key to begin a search, which is much faster than navigating either the start menu or the start screen)?
I didn't know you can swipe to change app the old way, thanks.
Concerning the menu, if I have a keyboard I run all my programs with win-r, which has always been faster than the menu.
As a kid born in the early 1980s, I mostly listened to pop.
In the mid-1990s I started listening to mostly what would then be called "alternative rock".
In the mid-2000s, I switched to mostly pop.
In the 2010s, I'm listening to mostly pop and dance music, with a lot of EDM, and some hip-hop. My musical tastes are wider than ever.
Why do you expect joy in your work?
If you want "just to code" - do it on your own time. Or find another job with more "just coding." These jobs do exist, but they might not pay that well.
Bad comments tell what the code is doing when that's obvious from the code itself. Good comments explain why, especially when they're fixes for non-obvious bugs. If you spent a lot of time figuring out the solution to a tough problem, you owe the next guy to see your code an explanation.
Not exactly. Sometimes comments describing what the code does are what is needed. For example when commenting assembly language, describing what instructions do from the point of view of the problem solved is really helpful. Another example is when writing some not-that obvious optimization. Of course both are examples of code with no obvious behaviour. Obvious code, I agree, should not be commented. But obvious to one is not nesseccery obvious to other
I don't understand how we can answer why, especially in the code. For example
//what: Adds two numbers
//why: I don't know
Add(a, b){
return a+b;
}
The why should be answerd elsewhere. In some design document or in a design choice comment.
I have a phone.
My wife has a phone.
Our son has a phone.
My family then has one computer with three accounts on it.
Sure there are families with multiple computers and one phone, but I doubt that one phone is passed around each day to a different family member. A mobile phone isn't consumed like it was a mobile version of a land line (one line per household).
So instead of selling one device per household with a computer, you sell one device per member of household. A much larger addressable market.
And you probably have a computer at work, and may be your wife has one at her work.
Things without keyboard are much tougher to use for real work.
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The user land tools in "Linux" are generally GNU, and GCC and associated tools hgaved been very successful, so your criticism seems off-base. If you had criticised GNU's terrible and ugly website, along with the failure of HURD, you might have a point.
I like GNU's website. It is fast.
I would take fast and ugly any time!
wow you really solved that problem didn't you, monitor ratio is really just a subjective experience of how much screen area you actually use. goddamn.
Of course the monitor ratio is not a problem. What you're looking for is size, and for a big size -- the resolution.
People needing huge multi-monitor setups & tall screens are just bad at organizing their desktops.
But the hardware is solid, the OS is pretty, and has a lot of innovative features not found in Android/iPhone.
While I agree that the OS is pretty good (its UI at least) the hardware is not that good. I bought a cheep lumia 525 and it sucked a lot. Its touchscreen is not good (unusible with slightly moist fingers). The OS hangs & the battery drains occasionally. May be Lumia 950 is a good phone. But you can't win market share with the expensive stuff, you earn it with the cheep phones. And cheep phones sucked.
How could a recall even be possible at this time? To me a recall implies that it is possible to repair the fault, which is clearly not possible now and for some time to come. As for the other things that you mention, they take time. Nothing happens instantaneously.
Yes, and if they recall the cpus, what will you do with the motherboard and the other periphery?
I think that Meltdown is more architectural and OS problem than just Intel's flaw. CPUs have always been designed to be as fast as possible. If you want fast - you might have to sacrifice the security. If you need secirity - do things right and slow.
Oh, you've been having trouble maintaining your magical telepathic link to the Vulcan guy? I'll just replicate this device I've been working on in two minutes.
This is exactly what I hate of most star trek films. They can do everything in two minutes just with pushing randomly on some buttons.
I love sci-fi (books), but star trek is pure drama. And not particularly good one. Drama in sci-fi context is still drama, not sci-fi.
Remember the time when the Internet fit onto 4736 DVDs, or 3 DVD without the porn?
I remember a slightly earlier time. A friend of mine had most of the internet (the part with porn) on 500 DVDs plus 500 CDs. Unfortunately he stopped collecting it when he realized that internet was growing faster than he can archive it.
I seem to recall that all of those games were identical, only with slightly different skins.
That's exactly what I think of all FPS games --- they are the same, and they all make me sick.
Moreover, third person games, also seem all alike.
May be it is my age, but old 2D games were much more diverse. Take tron, tetris, mario, breakout, galaga, packman, lode runner. They are completely different beasts. Of course, these games themselves had a lot of clones, but still look, feel and play differently. I can understand the pursuit for better graphics, modern games look fantastic. Unfortunately good graphics has nothing to do with fun.
Specifically, the average newspaper is written at a grade 7 reading level.
Perhaps... but only in about the same sense that you would say that human beings are a recent development as well. Reading is well over 5000 years old, and has origins in numeracy which itself is over 10000 years old.
No, Reading is about 100 years old
Before that, almost nobody could read. Even now, we don't have 100% literacy.
I have a working Orange Pi PC (Allwinder H3) I use it as a network backed USB mass storage device for time-shifting on my smart TV.
usb-otg - wokrs
gpios - work
infrared - works
It uses a custom 3.xx kernel, but the source is definitely available.
I canceled cable because most (not all) of what was offered is pure shit.
Sports, home decorating, sports, celebrity crap, hunting bigfoot, cooking, cooking, sports, cooking, game shows, shopping channel, honey boo boo, ice truckers, reality TV shows, more shopping, more celebrity crap, fishing, golfing, more bigfoot, more game shows....and on and on. It's drivel, replicated over and over and over.
You forgot to mention the ads. I haven't seen that much content for years. Its only ads, ads ads...
Replying to undo wrong mod.
... basically we need a technology that re-enables single threaded performance.
And we need lower prices. Low prices drove the computer boom, not raw power.
In the past, process shrinks led to cheaper CPUs. This is not happening any more.
Tablets/(smart)phones are selling good, because they got cheep. Then their power increased somewhat, and that led two more expensive phones. Beside that, they wear out more quickly and brake more often -- this is what sustains their sales.
Reading a few O'Reilly books might cut it for web monkeys, but then again, anything you can learn from an O'Reilly book can also be learned just as well by someone in India or eastern Europe. Real programmers can re-implement chunks of the standard c library with their own mods because they know what's going on.
Are you implying that there are no "real" programmers in eastern Europe or in India?
Moore said density (transistor count), not your "power". Must I always correct those who failed History?
No, you must not!
Moore's law is not a law, it's just an observation (and maybe self-fulfilling prophecy). And the observation of computers getting more and more powerful was also correct. So why not associate one with the other!
Ah, I see what you are talking about. I new that. This is much slower way to change apps that the old win 8's way.
Have you tried Windows 10 in tablet mode ?
Yes.
Also, did you know you can swipe from the left edge of the screen to change apps? Or that it takes less time for the start menu to pop up than it does for the Windows 8 start screen to transition in (which is useful if you're tapping the Win key to begin a search, which is much faster than navigating either the start menu or the start screen)?
I didn't know you can swipe to change app the old way, thanks. Concerning the menu, if I have a keyboard I run all my programs with win-r, which has always been faster than the menu.
I haven't met anyone that dislikes Windows 10.
Meet me! I have a tablet running windows 8.1. I find Windows 8 interface much better than the one Windows 10 has.
I tried Windows 10 for a week and quickly returned to windows 8.
I can switch apps faster on 8, faster close them and windows 10 used 200 extra megabytes from the limited amount the computer had.
Even using the mouse one can switch apps faster on windows 8 by clicking the top left corner.
I don't know where did the hate for windows 8 came from. I think that the so beloved original start menu was much worse
I really don't understand why neural networks are still taught as part of AI courses...
Because they have to teach something.
Since no AI exists (yet), I've always thought this is a stupid subject name!
The bad news is that suffering won't make you life (and pain) shorter!
As a kid born in the early 1980s, I mostly listened to pop. In the mid-1990s I started listening to mostly what would then be called "alternative rock". In the mid-2000s, I switched to mostly pop. In the 2010s, I'm listening to mostly pop and dance music, with a lot of EDM, and some hip-hop. My musical tastes are wider than ever.
As I post this I'm listening to the last song added to my music library Ariana Grande's "One Last Time".
You wanted to say that you listen everything on MTV? This is not taste.
Why do you expect joy in your work? If you want "just to code" - do it on your own time. Or find another job with more "just coding." These jobs do exist, but they might not pay that well.
Bad comments tell what the code is doing when that's obvious from the code itself. Good comments explain why, especially when they're fixes for non-obvious bugs. If you spent a lot of time figuring out the solution to a tough problem, you owe the next guy to see your code an explanation.
Not exactly. Sometimes comments describing what the code does are what is needed. For example when commenting assembly language, describing what instructions do from the point of view of the problem solved is really helpful. Another example is when writing some not-that obvious optimization. Of course both are examples of code with no obvious behaviour. Obvious code, I agree, should not be commented. But obvious to one is not nesseccery obvious to other
I don't understand how we can answer why, especially in the code. For example
The why should be answerd elsewhere. In some design document or in a design choice comment.
And what is Greece doing in western Europe? And why Albania is not there?
I have a phone. My wife has a phone. Our son has a phone.
My family then has one computer with three accounts on it.
Sure there are families with multiple computers and one phone, but I doubt that one phone is passed around each day to a different family member. A mobile phone isn't consumed like it was a mobile version of a land line (one line per household).
So instead of selling one device per household with a computer, you sell one device per member of household. A much larger addressable market.
And you probably have a computer at work, and may be your wife has one at her work.
Things without keyboard are much tougher to use for real work.