Let's start a crowd source campaign to raise money to buy all the internet history of the people who voted for this and publish it to wikileaks. If it sells for $10k per, then we're looking at a goal of just short of $3 million.
Well, T.V. arguably ruined the mind of the older generation. The best people from that generation were the ones that self-limited their time in the common pursuits of the day.
So, just don't do that and you'll be better than your peers.
Lot of hype around it, but Nintendo did research on it and everytime they were asked they gave the same answer, "Long game sessions are a problem."
I owned the Nvidia stereoscopic set and got it working with most of my games. It looked amazing. I can game for 18 hours straight and not thing much of it. With the glasses and the 3D setup, it's about 1-3 hours and I'm nauseous. No amount of retraining fixed that. I couldn't just muscle through and wait for my body to adapt, despite wanting that additional detail and feature very badly.
Seeing real 3D on a 2D screen is just something the human body doesn't ingest very well.
I play almost all indie games and, yes, I do buy through the humble bundle. I like early access and seeing what a game will become. I have ran into four or five really bad purchases where the reviews showed them as stellar, but the game was absolute garbage. This is a real problem for steam users and while I think the implementation might be a bit off (might make more sense to give a heavier weight to purchased copies rather than discount gift keys altogether because indie bundle and all), the idea that they care shows they're moving in the right direction.
I realize there's the enlightened self-interest in play here, but this is really a kind move on Nintendo's part.
1) There's a huge increase in valuation for their company.
Nintendo employees (especially VP and C-level) could make a lot of money off of this fact. Ultimately, that money is coming from a bunch of investors because these guys get paid in stock and stock options.
2) The investors made the wrong investment, so they'd either lose or gain money based on a false premise.
So, Nintendo is being the nice guys here by setting them straight. Their execs could've just cashed all their stock options right now and ran. Instead, they issue a statement helping to set these investors straight before they lose any more. It saves Nintendo's reputation as a long-term investment, but they also built a good will with investors.
3) Nintendo didn't need to do this
They have the cash reserves to essentially self-fund all their projects. They could've burnt through good will in the short term and made a ton of money, but they didn't. They aren't in need of investment capital and haven't been for 20+ years.
Good on you Nintendo for being an outstanding corporate citizen.
For trying to steal some of the IT spotlight on Linux, but you'll never dampen our GNU spirit--largely because this vulnerability isn't really a big deal and most of us who use it are educated enough to know that.
Went and read the article (hey, someone on slashdot had to put up the $15). Anyway, at the end they had participants see if they could correctly guess the shape, and about 90% of them could. The haptic field produced here is no where near strong enough to stop or hinder hand movement.
I imagine that the closest sensation to this in real life would be running your hand under a balloon and feeling the shape by how your hand hairs respond.
is there absolutely ANY reason this should be posted on slashdot? MSNBC, sure, but for a technical and nerdy news, why do I even care what his preference is? Shame on you slashdot--stay away from sensationalist media before we lose hope for having a news outlet of substance.
Break up systemd into its components and let certain functionality of it be augmented or replaced by sysvinit. The ONLY problem with systemd is that it's rather monolithic and breaks the *nix paradigm of do one thing an do one thing well. We break out the features of systemd, and let each one work in a stand-alone way, then great.
One binary for parallelized boot
One binary for syslog database
One binary for daemon chroot
and in one kernel module for interface!
I've done research against these database programs, and this is really really old news for anyone who has done testing. If you have a single machine, then Oracle is the best performing database, followed by Postgres. When you need more than 4 dedicated servers hosting a database, then mongo can handle about 180% of the volume that oracle can, and about 220% the volume of postgres, and about 110% the volume of Casandra.
As soon as you need more than one machine to host your database (which usually happens around 1000 active users on your website at any given time, depending on your application), consider switching off of an SQL database.
For that matter, why the hell is the kernel dependent on glibc!? Lets just throw out all dependencies and if your code doesn't work without it, then it's not simple or philosophically pure.
Same OS, same install (Archlinux on a Lenovo W520, using fluxbox as a window manager with slim for a login)
Boot time with initd setup: 14-20 seconds for full environment
Boot time with systemd setup: 3-7 seconds
Number of times I boot my machine: 2-3 times per day, including weekends. So, since I converted, I could be saving up to 79 hours a year in boot times.
I'll take an additional ounce of complexity for those gains.
Converted a server, with a very long POST time, over to systemd as well. It cut boot time down from 4 minutes to all services being up and running to one minute and 20 seconds. If you're working with a system that reboots often, that's a big gain in overall availability. I'd hardly call the thing bloated if it makes better utilization of system resources than its predecessor.
You see, I don't know if you're aware of this, but most computers have multiple processor cores in them now. Running from a script implies serialized code. Running and booting from a database implies threading. Systemd is designed to work with modern systems, but hey, if you're still on a pre-dual-core setup, then more power to you.
Oh, I guess you've also never worked in an environment where httpd frequently logs more than 30GB in a day. I like awk as much as the next admin, but being able to run a query and get targeted data from the deamon itself in less than a second's processing time is a HUGE gain.
Yup, certainly no reason to design it THAT way. . .
Dividing out compute functions into mobile devices might have been the key to this happening. Tablets/smartphones do a lot of the leisure activities associated with computers, and can do some of the minor business features too.
This means that, increasingly so, the market for desktop computers will be for heavy business uses, and for heavy gaming. The marginal stuff will move to mobile as it's able to.
The day the Linux desktop comes is when it becomes easier for the majority of people to use Linux in the office than the alternative.
So, how is that going? What are some of the heavy-use applications that will likely never move away from a desktop computer?
Office applications - Openoffice and libreoffice are considered a viable alternatives to Microsoft Office. The fact that you can write macros in python gives the FOSS stuff a bit of a longevity advantage as new office workers come into the labor force and don't feel like learning Visual Basic. Where it lacks is the Exchange server market, where there's no viable FOSS software to handle email, organize meetings, allocate resources, and have it all work natively with single-sign-on credentials.
Gaming - OpenGL has seen huge improvement over the years, and it gets easier to work with every release. If it isn't already equivalent to DirectX, then it's well on its way. I see OpenGL as having more potential as well, since there are more interested and intelligent parties involved with its development than DirectX. The rendering library is just one component though. You also need top-notch hardware and drivers to match. The NVidia drivers are equivalent from Linux to Windows and are pretty good, if a little unstable. The FOSS drivers for NVidia have a long way to go still, as do the ATI drivers. NVidia is on-board with maintaining Linux as diligently as Windows, but ATI tends to lag behind in that area. Most major gaming engine components already work for Linux, like Havok, or the Source engine. With Steam picking up the banner of Linux gaming, it will certainly grow more viable over time too.
Interface - This is a big one. No matter how proficient you are, this one has to be learned. Linux has hundreds of different interfaces, and all of them require some amount of training to use and customize. Windows has this one because it has been essentially the same since Windows 95, and the paradigm and prior knowledge from all previous Windows OSes tend to transfer over from release to release. The only solution to this one is making streamlined workflows a priority inside of the interface, and then training people on it. As odd as this might sound, I think the best candidate for Linux gaining more ground on the PC interface is a window manager that focuses on ease of user customization, rather than ease of use. For me, that's fluxbox or openbox, with xfce making strong ground. Teaching people how to edit a text file and customize their menus and hotkeys takes me about 10-20 minutes, and the person learning it usually can get far enough with it to make it their own after an hour or two of use. Add in a program that turns your interface into a drag-and-drop to customize mode that's easy to use and it might start making some serious ground. I mean, Linux's real interface is the command line, and bash largely put to rest our ancient shell holy war. Once we can intelligently combine the advantages of gnome, kde, and xfce (which are the three biggest contenders for user space) and make all these paradigms work together, then we'll be on track for taking the desktop.
Anyways, just my two cents.
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https://searchinternethistory.... found it
Let's start a crowd source campaign to raise money to buy all the internet history of the people who voted for this and publish it to wikileaks. If it sells for $10k per, then we're looking at a goal of just short of $3 million.
Well, T.V. arguably ruined the mind of the older generation. The best people from that generation were the ones that self-limited their time in the common pursuits of the day. So, just don't do that and you'll be better than your peers.
Lot of hype around it, but Nintendo did research on it and everytime they were asked they gave the same answer, "Long game sessions are a problem." I owned the Nvidia stereoscopic set and got it working with most of my games. It looked amazing. I can game for 18 hours straight and not thing much of it. With the glasses and the 3D setup, it's about 1-3 hours and I'm nauseous. No amount of retraining fixed that. I couldn't just muscle through and wait for my body to adapt, despite wanting that additional detail and feature very badly. Seeing real 3D on a 2D screen is just something the human body doesn't ingest very well.
I play almost all indie games and, yes, I do buy through the humble bundle. I like early access and seeing what a game will become. I have ran into four or five really bad purchases where the reviews showed them as stellar, but the game was absolute garbage. This is a real problem for steam users and while I think the implementation might be a bit off (might make more sense to give a heavier weight to purchased copies rather than discount gift keys altogether because indie bundle and all), the idea that they care shows they're moving in the right direction.
We need the military industrial sector to port all our machines control interfaces over to an keyboard-and-mouse control scheme.
Porn.
Oracle buys more intellectual property so they can attempt to generate more revenue via lawsuits rather than by doing anything useful
I realize there's the enlightened self-interest in play here, but this is really a kind move on Nintendo's part.
1) There's a huge increase in valuation for their company.
Nintendo employees (especially VP and C-level) could make a lot of money off of this fact. Ultimately, that money is coming from a bunch of investors because these guys get paid in stock and stock options.
2) The investors made the wrong investment, so they'd either lose or gain money based on a false premise.
So, Nintendo is being the nice guys here by setting them straight. Their execs could've just cashed all their stock options right now and ran. Instead, they issue a statement helping to set these investors straight before they lose any more. It saves Nintendo's reputation as a long-term investment, but they also built a good will with investors.
3) Nintendo didn't need to do this
They have the cash reserves to essentially self-fund all their projects. They could've burnt through good will in the short term and made a ton of money, but they didn't. They aren't in need of investment capital and haven't been for 20+ years.
Good on you Nintendo for being an outstanding corporate citizen.
Unbreakable coin, well, except for this one time. . .
All science is either mathematics, or stamp collecting. This would be printing a stamp and adding it to a collection of already printed stamps.
For trying to steal some of the IT spotlight on Linux, but you'll never dampen our GNU spirit--largely because this vulnerability isn't really a big deal and most of us who use it are educated enough to know that.
Went and read the article (hey, someone on slashdot had to put up the $15). Anyway, at the end they had participants see if they could correctly guess the shape, and about 90% of them could. The haptic field produced here is no where near strong enough to stop or hinder hand movement. I imagine that the closest sensation to this in real life would be running your hand under a balloon and feeling the shape by how your hand hairs respond.
I'm all for this. . .after we grant human children some basic rights (such as a say in custody hearings).
They were a circuit board and IC provider that specialized in bitcoin mining hardware.
is there absolutely ANY reason this should be posted on slashdot? MSNBC, sure, but for a technical and nerdy news, why do I even care what his preference is? Shame on you slashdot--stay away from sensationalist media before we lose hope for having a news outlet of substance.
It's the tool you use to download elinks
Break up systemd into its components and let certain functionality of it be augmented or replaced by sysvinit. The ONLY problem with systemd is that it's rather monolithic and breaks the *nix paradigm of do one thing an do one thing well. We break out the features of systemd, and let each one work in a stand-alone way, then great.
One binary for parallelized boot
One binary for syslog database
One binary for daemon chroot
and in one kernel module for interface!
Anyway for a non-student to get access to the full article without paying for it? I'm okay with paying for it if that's what it comes down to. . .
I've done research against these database programs, and this is really really old news for anyone who has done testing. If you have a single machine, then Oracle is the best performing database, followed by Postgres. When you need more than 4 dedicated servers hosting a database, then mongo can handle about 180% of the volume that oracle can, and about 220% the volume of postgres, and about 110% the volume of Casandra.
As soon as you need more than one machine to host your database (which usually happens around 1000 active users on your website at any given time, depending on your application), consider switching off of an SQL database.
Space is a resource that will belong to whomever has the capacity to claim it first
For that matter, why the hell is the kernel dependent on glibc!? Lets just throw out all dependencies and if your code doesn't work without it, then it's not simple or philosophically pure.
Same OS, same install (Archlinux on a Lenovo W520, using fluxbox as a window manager with slim for a login)
Boot time with initd setup: 14-20 seconds for full environment
Boot time with systemd setup: 3-7 seconds
Number of times I boot my machine: 2-3 times per day, including weekends. So, since I converted, I could be saving up to 79 hours a year in boot times.
I'll take an additional ounce of complexity for those gains.
Converted a server, with a very long POST time, over to systemd as well. It cut boot time down from 4 minutes to all services being up and running to one minute and 20 seconds. If you're working with a system that reboots often, that's a big gain in overall availability. I'd hardly call the thing bloated if it makes better utilization of system resources than its predecessor.
You see, I don't know if you're aware of this, but most computers have multiple processor cores in them now. Running from a script implies serialized code. Running and booting from a database implies threading. Systemd is designed to work with modern systems, but hey, if you're still on a pre-dual-core setup, then more power to you.
Oh, I guess you've also never worked in an environment where httpd frequently logs more than 30GB in a day. I like awk as much as the next admin, but being able to run a query and get targeted data from the deamon itself in less than a second's processing time is a HUGE gain.
Yup, certainly no reason to design it THAT way. . .
fish farts are making the earth hotter
Dividing out compute functions into mobile devices might have been the key to this happening. Tablets/smartphones do a lot of the leisure activities associated with computers, and can do some of the minor business features too.
This means that, increasingly so, the market for desktop computers will be for heavy business uses, and for heavy gaming. The marginal stuff will move to mobile as it's able to.
The day the Linux desktop comes is when it becomes easier for the majority of people to use Linux in the office than the alternative.
So, how is that going? What are some of the heavy-use applications that will likely never move away from a desktop computer?
Office applications - Openoffice and libreoffice are considered a viable alternatives to Microsoft Office. The fact that you can write macros in python gives the FOSS stuff a bit of a longevity advantage as new office workers come into the labor force and don't feel like learning Visual Basic. Where it lacks is the Exchange server market, where there's no viable FOSS software to handle email, organize meetings, allocate resources, and have it all work natively with single-sign-on credentials.
Gaming - OpenGL has seen huge improvement over the years, and it gets easier to work with every release. If it isn't already equivalent to DirectX, then it's well on its way. I see OpenGL as having more potential as well, since there are more interested and intelligent parties involved with its development than DirectX. The rendering library is just one component though. You also need top-notch hardware and drivers to match. The NVidia drivers are equivalent from Linux to Windows and are pretty good, if a little unstable. The FOSS drivers for NVidia have a long way to go still, as do the ATI drivers. NVidia is on-board with maintaining Linux as diligently as Windows, but ATI tends to lag behind in that area. Most major gaming engine components already work for Linux, like Havok, or the Source engine. With Steam picking up the banner of Linux gaming, it will certainly grow more viable over time too.
Interface - This is a big one. No matter how proficient you are, this one has to be learned. Linux has hundreds of different interfaces, and all of them require some amount of training to use and customize. Windows has this one because it has been essentially the same since Windows 95, and the paradigm and prior knowledge from all previous Windows OSes tend to transfer over from release to release. The only solution to this one is making streamlined workflows a priority inside of the interface, and then training people on it. As odd as this might sound, I think the best candidate for Linux gaining more ground on the PC interface is a window manager that focuses on ease of user customization, rather than ease of use. For me, that's fluxbox or openbox, with xfce making strong ground. Teaching people how to edit a text file and customize their menus and hotkeys takes me about 10-20 minutes, and the person learning it usually can get far enough with it to make it their own after an hour or two of use. Add in a program that turns your interface into a drag-and-drop to customize mode that's easy to use and it might start making some serious ground. I mean, Linux's real interface is the command line, and bash largely put to rest our ancient shell holy war. Once we can intelligently combine the advantages of gnome, kde, and xfce (which are the three biggest contenders for user space) and make all these paradigms work together, then we'll be on track for taking the desktop.
Anyways, just my two cents.