Ah the words of a naive young programmer... you can only do as you have suggested if you wish to throw away large chunks of performance and make your nice laptop battery life half as long. Leave VMs on the server and remote into them.
A native desktop should be just that. userspace drivers can be nice for some things that don't require too much performance. Graphics drivers is one area that splits it nicely also with parts necessary for performance in kernel and much of the driver residing in userspace.
Microkernels require complexity to attain speed... where a hybrid or monolithic kernel can do things fast because it's simple.
Also, realtime VM... you're trying to make me laugh:)
That will happen around R2, there are quite a lot of options you can set to tweak it usability wise such as enabling navigator mode in Tracker (some people love the default spatial mode though). Also there is QuickLauch that is a must have IMO, I just map it to win+q and you can typeahead filter through all the applications to lauch whatever you want very quickly.
I have some ideas for that for instance, the Deskbar could become just a host application for replicants that would snap into it so you could swap out the task list and menu for whatever you like. It would be a bit like KDE plasma perhaps just implemented in a framework designed to do that straight from the 90's they were quite ahead of their time.
You are a bit out of date, XHCI (aka USB 3 is mostly there now, you must have missed that).
Virtualization stack? 1. Just go run Linux 2. There are some options that might work like porting libnvmm and the intel and AMD backends from NetBSD which would get you accelerated QEMU. I hear the HAXM code is ugly so probably not that, and KVM is too Linux specific and fast moving.
You seem to have completely missed the point, it is a cohesive desktop OS today... and Windows and Linux are not cohesive desktops anymore or never were in the case of Linux though some distrobutions get close. Windows and Linux are likely to never get back to being cohesive sane desktops.
Haiku is a completely separately developed desktop OS, that rose from the ashes of BeOS after MS killed it, it wouldn't take much to make it compete directly on the same level as Linux and Windows.... mainly graphics driver porting.
It has a Posix layer and supports QT pretty decently in addition to it's very nice BeAPI framework.
And one thing that is *very* clear there is that it is a standardized desktop OS with sane defaults.
I think the potential for doing some really cool stuff there will open up once they release R1 in a few years most likely.
A government that is also collapsing in on itself under it's own weight... http://fortune.com/2019/03/08/finland-government-resigns-health-care/
The fact is Finland is still an ongoing experiment... one that is likely to end badly with a lot of people having no money in their old age because the country is bankrupt.
Sparc is Scalable Risc Architecture... the fact is it probably would have worked for phones just as well as ARM as they aren't all that terribly different. The T4 is a massively multithreaded machine so of course it gets hot. An S7 only uses under 400 watts active power for an 8 core 4.3Ghz 16GB ram system.... so that's not out it of reason for a chip like that. 400/8 = 50 W at 1 core 4 threads, 4.3Ghz... at half the frequency it would probably be in the 10-20W range already with very little power management.
Typical Smartphone active power is around 4-5W, and 0.5-1w idle... applying the same power saveing techniques to Sparc as to ARM would probably result in about the same performance. Add to that that they probably would have built in java hardware acceleration in addition to the Sparc core.
I'm a big fan of old Sun hardware, Oracle is evil though:/ sad days....
Yes it's better because it is a completely closed cycle. The same goes for glass bottles... a better closed cycle that we only went away from because the quit putting any effort into making it cheaper and instead switched to plastic. Glass even though it doesn't decompose is much less harmful to the environment... and eventually it just turns back into sand if in the ocean.
Cardboard is somewhat open ended... and while it can be recycled in many cases it is buried in landfills and doesn't decompose at the same rate.
I thought the Mona Lisa effect was, that you perceive that the painting's gaze is following you... which the Mona Lisa probably does fulfill.
If many people take the test and find that the perception of the gaze is always about the same relative to the viewer then it would seem that the gaze does follow the viewer... even if it is not directed directly at the viewer, it would give the viewer the feeling of being watched but not stared at.
Makes you wonder if cutting most of them down has been a large driver of the change in climate of the area... similar to how rainforests when cut down are nothing like what they were before when there was canopy...
You are probably remembering one of the quotes that went around Sun Microsystems, "The Network Is the Computer" and was coined by John Guage during Sun's heydays.... it wasn't meant to be totalitarian like that it was meant to be empowering, as in are aren't tied to the single machine you are logged into you are logged into the "Network" with it possible to allocate any resource you might need from there which is exactly how modern datacenters work... AWS etc..
An early sun logo pin with the quote on it: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/0c/8e/950c8e5db13a72e792c9adfbfcc42646.jpg
Having lived in brazil for a few years... using shopping bags for trash has nothing to do with poverty it is just what is done. During a week the average brazilian home produces somewhere between 3-4 grocery bags of trash. They don't have bins/dumpsters they have a little rack usually on a pole just so smaller dogs can't reach it that they throw the bags on and the trash truck picks them up off of that.
Also as an American in Brazil, we produced probably double the trash or more than our neighbors...... not really sure why either, but I put it down to different habits and lifestyle.
Even if the oil age ends, hydrocarbons will still likely rule, as the safe, simple and efficient and cost effective fuel for decades to come. We'll just figure out more and more ways to make it cleaner and carbon neutral.
Solar -> electricity + co2 + h2o -> metane or Biomass -> biodiesel are good methods of putting reducing the CO2 load on the atmosphere by closing the cycle.
No events and worried about it is cautious, one even in a very long time and you're worried about it maybe a little parranoid, a second event under separately engineered system from the same error maybe still a little paranoid, but after all that and a 3rd event occurs it's starting to move into maybe we should not do this until we can design in passive failsafe's cost effectively territory.
If we ever figure out fusion... then it'll be a no brainer.
Spot on, and I'll reemphasize "good healthcare", its a complete scam, the socialists in brazil were trying to get cuban "doctors" into brazil to "supplement" brazil's doctors but after the recent election nearly all the vacancies were filled once they realized that the new president was not going to have any of that.... filled with highly qualified doctors that had be turned away previously I might add. The lack of enough doctors was a complete farce.
If there is anything I've ever been impressed about Brazil it's that they have plenty of doctors due to educational subsidy, this of course means there are some less than good ones, but the good ones are *really really* good and genuinely care about and put effort into caring for their patients. The larger number of doctors means more competition and less incentive for hospitals to hire or keep on bad doctors.
Strange that you seem to think that isn't already a thing... Dell's for sure do this for quite some years.
I don't know if I would call it a DRM chip.... but the batteries do communicate thier state to the PC and it can decide if they fast charge or not, etc... I have a reburb in my Dell and it's a bit wonky doesn't always charge quite right but it does work for the most part...
Sometimes you establish a convention to do a calculation or proof, and that apparently was not well defined in that case but apparently it was used consistently otherwise the professor would not have conseded.
And example is the right hand rule (a convention), and the + or - nature of electrons (we actually got it backwards from reality but since it's just a convention it doesn't matter in practice we just had to choose a polarity and go with it consitently).
That's nice and all but Nissan's are fairly unpleasant cars to drive... (quite a few I've driven as rentals they have the worst interior finish, and worst driving handling)
I wish Honda made an EV I might go for that if it were in the 25-30k range something the size of a civic or accord. But the key measure is being able to run at least 300 miles on a charge unfortunately to do so still costs about 18-25k in batteries depending on the size of the car. A smart car with 60mile range has 18kw and that would cost about 3.5k to produce at Tesla's factory, 5x that range would be around 18k at least.
Because of all the land it would put under water.... these days it makes more sense to build wind, solar and wave farms as those do less damage to the land. Solar usually makes the land unusable otherwise but it doesnt' have to necessarily... ie solar panels on houses, over parking lots etc..
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Its multi user underneath it the desktop doesnt support multi user yet. Probably wont happen until R2.
"Simplicity"
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Ah the words of a naive young programmer... you can only do as you have suggested if you wish to throw away large chunks of performance and make your nice laptop battery life half as long. Leave VMs on the server and remote into them.
A native desktop should be just that. userspace drivers can be nice for some things that don't require too much performance. Graphics drivers is one area that splits it nicely also with parts necessary for performance in kernel and much of the driver residing in userspace.
Microkernels require complexity to attain speed... where a hybrid or monolithic kernel can do things fast because it's simple.
Also, realtime VM... you're trying to make me laugh
Stallman's idea of a cohesive OS is Emacs. Everything else about the OS is just to make Emacs work.
That will happen around R2, there are quite a lot of options you can set to tweak it usability wise such as enabling navigator mode in Tracker (some people love the default spatial mode though). Also there is QuickLauch that is a must have IMO, I just map it to win+q and you can typeahead filter through all the applications to lauch whatever you want very quickly.
I have some ideas for that for instance, the Deskbar could become just a host application for replicants that would snap into it so you could swap out the task list and menu for whatever you like. It would be a bit like KDE plasma perhaps just implemented in a framework designed to do that straight from the 90's they were quite ahead of their time.
You are a bit out of date, XHCI (aka USB 3 is mostly there now, you must have missed that).
Virtualization stack? 1. Just go run Linux 2. There are some options that might work like porting libnvmm and the intel and AMD backends from NetBSD which would get you accelerated QEMU. I hear the HAXM code is ugly so probably not that, and KVM is too Linux specific and fast moving.
You seem to have completely missed the point, it is a cohesive desktop OS today... and Windows and Linux are not cohesive desktops anymore or never were in the case of Linux though some distrobutions get close. Windows and Linux are likely to never get back to being cohesive sane desktops.
Operating systems are what you make of them and that is a reflection of your turd self.
I've written a bit in Scribus on Haiku I find it to be a not very distracting OS. That in itself is useful.
Haiku is a completely separately developed desktop OS, that rose from the ashes of BeOS after MS killed it, it wouldn't take much to make it compete directly on the same level as Linux and Windows.... mainly graphics driver porting.
It has a Posix layer and supports QT pretty decently in addition to it's very nice BeAPI framework.
And one thing that is *very* clear there is that it is a standardized desktop OS with sane defaults.
I think the potential for doing some really cool stuff there will open up once they release R1 in a few years most likely.
A government that is also collapsing in on itself under it's own weight... http://fortune.com/2019/03/08/finland-government-resigns-health-care/
The fact is Finland is still an ongoing experiment... one that is likely to end badly with a lot of people having no money in their old age because the country is bankrupt.
Sparc is Scalable Risc Architecture... the fact is it probably would have worked for phones just as well as ARM as they aren't all that terribly different. The T4 is a massively multithreaded machine so of course it gets hot. An S7 only uses under 400 watts active power for an 8 core 4.3Ghz 16GB ram system.... so that's not out it of reason for a chip like that. 400/8 = 50 W at 1 core 4 threads, 4.3Ghz... at half the frequency it would probably be in the 10-20W range already with very little power management.
:/ sad days....
Typical Smartphone active power is around 4-5W, and 0.5-1w idle... applying the same power saveing techniques to Sparc as to ARM would probably result in about the same performance. Add to that that they probably would have built in java hardware acceleration in addition to the Sparc core.
I'm a big fan of old Sun hardware, Oracle is evil though
Yes it's better because it is a completely closed cycle. The same goes for glass bottles... a better closed cycle that we only went away from because the quit putting any effort into making it cheaper and instead switched to plastic. Glass even though it doesn't decompose is much less harmful to the environment... and eventually it just turns back into sand if in the ocean.
Cardboard is somewhat open ended... and while it can be recycled in many cases it is buried in landfills and doesn't decompose at the same rate.
I thought the Mona Lisa effect was, that you perceive that the painting's gaze is following you... which the Mona Lisa probably does fulfill.
If many people take the test and find that the perception of the gaze is always about the same relative to the viewer then it would seem that the gaze does follow the viewer... even if it is not directed directly at the viewer, it would give the viewer the feeling of being watched but not stared at.
Makes you wonder if cutting most of them down has been a large driver of the change in climate of the area... similar to how rainforests when cut down are nothing like what they were before when there was canopy...
You are probably remembering one of the quotes that went around Sun Microsystems, "The Network Is the Computer" and was coined by John Guage during Sun's heydays.... it wasn't meant to be totalitarian like that it was meant to be empowering, as in are aren't tied to the single machine you are logged into you are logged into the "Network" with it possible to allocate any resource you might need from there which is exactly how modern datacenters work... AWS etc..
An early sun logo pin with the quote on it:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/0c/8e/950c8e5db13a72e792c9adfbfcc42646.jpg
He was kicked off the board amicably... by the rest of the board.
Having lived in brazil for a few years... using shopping bags for trash has nothing to do with poverty it is just what is done. During a week the average brazilian home produces somewhere between 3-4 grocery bags of trash. They don't have bins /dumpsters they have a little rack usually on a pole just so smaller dogs can't reach it that they throw the bags on and the trash truck picks them up off of that.
Also as an American in Brazil, we produced probably double the trash or more than our neighbors...... not really sure why either, but I put it down to different habits and lifestyle.
Even if the oil age ends, hydrocarbons will still likely rule, as the safe, simple and efficient and cost effective fuel for decades to come. We'll just figure out more and more ways to make it cleaner and carbon neutral.
Solar -> electricity + co2 + h2o -> metane or Biomass -> biodiesel are good methods of putting reducing the CO2 load on the atmosphere by closing the cycle.
No events and worried about it is cautious, one even in a very long time and you're worried about it maybe a little parranoid, a second event under separately engineered system from the same error maybe still a little paranoid, but after all that and a 3rd event occurs it's starting to move into maybe we should not do this until we can design in passive failsafe's cost effectively territory.
If we ever figure out fusion... then it'll be a no brainer.
Spot on, and I'll reemphasize "good healthcare", its a complete scam, the socialists in brazil were trying to get cuban "doctors" into brazil to "supplement" brazil's doctors but after the recent election nearly all the vacancies were filled once they realized that the new president was not going to have any of that.... filled with highly qualified doctors that had be turned away previously I might add. The lack of enough doctors was a complete farce.
If there is anything I've ever been impressed about Brazil it's that they have plenty of doctors due to educational subsidy, this of course means there are some less than good ones, but the good ones are *really really* good and genuinely care about and put effort into caring for their patients. The larger number of doctors means more competition and less incentive for hospitals to hire or keep on bad doctors.
Strange that you seem to think that isn't already a thing... Dell's for sure do this for quite some years.
I don't know if I would call it a DRM chip.... but the batteries do communicate thier state to the PC and it can decide if they fast charge or not, etc... I have a reburb in my Dell and it's a bit wonky doesn't always charge quite right but it does work for the most part...
Sometimes you establish a convention to do a calculation or proof, and that apparently was not well defined in that case but apparently it was used consistently otherwise the professor would not have conseded.
And example is the right hand rule (a convention), and the + or - nature of electrons (we actually got it backwards from reality but since it's just a convention it doesn't matter in practice we just had to choose a polarity and go with it consitently).
Nothing can prevent the fall of Wells-Fargo...
Banker >> Cowboy
"Sell" >> "Git Outta Dodge!!!"
That's nice and all but Nissan's are fairly unpleasant cars to drive... (quite a few I've driven as rentals they have the worst interior finish, and worst driving handling)
I wish Honda made an EV I might go for that if it were in the 25-30k range something the size of a civic or accord. But the key measure is being able to run at least 300 miles on a charge unfortunately to do so still costs about 18-25k in batteries depending on the size of the car. A smart car with 60mile range has 18kw and that would cost about 3.5k to produce at Tesla's factory, 5x that range would be around 18k at least.
Because of all the land it would put under water.... these days it makes more sense to build wind, solar and wave farms as those do less damage to the land. Solar usually makes the land unusable otherwise but it doesnt' have to necessarily ... ie solar panels on houses, over parking lots etc..
you realize that's over 2.5x higher than the highest state in the USA?
The only way sales taxes will ever be that high is with the elimination of income tax.