The Linux desktop has declined in quality, and usability... while the range of Linux drivers available has went up. There just isn't even any justification for the sheer bloat present in the current GUI toolkits and libraries.
Evidence of the decline in usability is the sheer excitement that KDE1 was met with upon it's recent rerelease... sure nearly any Linux desktop properly configured is better than windows 10's interface. But that still doesn't make the modern desktop environments good.
KDE1 + antialiased and hinted fonts would genuinely be good. Personally, for awhile I used e16 as a desktop it mostly was quite nice, lightweight on resources (several megabytes of ram and negligible CPU) and *unintrusive*. I don't think the same can be said for any modern desktop at all.
Haven't heard of any terrorism other than the usual random crazies, certainly nothing organized.
The worse thing that might have happened as I gather... is a few ops may have been compromised and scuttled (we never should have been doing these ops) and a few politicians and diplomats have been severely embarrassed which is just great.
I'm sitting here typing this... it seems to me national security is just fine.
Your are right about that speed doesn't inherently increase memory density. However nothing is stopping anyone from reading multiple bits of information from single atoms...so yes higher densities are possible it's a somehwat separate problem from processor speed though....
Super conducting processors are a thing... they run at Thz cycle frequencies in the lab.
Sure their on the level of complexity of the original IBM PC or so... but that can be remedied. More transistors isn't the only way to go faster... faster transistors is also an equally valid method. Implementing wave pipelines in more components is also valid (they've been used in varying degrees since the early 2000's) being able to go into 3 dimensions may help the practicality of wave pipelines which rely on constant time propagation though all circuits in the pipeline... to optimize both throughput and latency.
There is also Tox... there is one developer I talk to occasionally that uses it as his main means of communications. The chat works well... haven't tested the Voip but it's one of it's main features apparently.
And you're going to assume they aren't based on the base evidence of the huge amount of exploits in just about any software that are discovered over time?
You are the one making the reaaaaallly bad assumption.
In any case... "disable it in the BIOS" is a software switch that just disables documented interfaces it is highly doubtfult that it would disable undocumented backdoors.
Somehow I doubt this is true... certainly pro.ko has lots and lots of dependencies in the kernel that you wouldn't have to build in if you never intended to load it.
If you have ever built a kernel yourself you'd know that everything affects kernel size and complex drivers are the worst offenders along with protocols and filesytems.
Actually this is what udev does automatically... all the distribution has to do is build the module.
It's not like Linux doesn't Plug and Play... However, on many of the recent computers I have used it gets the default sound card wrong still (note this is stock alsa not pulseaudio which may fair better at the cost of bloat and having to run "evil" Lennart Poettering's code)
This exactly... I loaded up the last version of opera that would run on my Sparcstation recently..a pair of 60 and 80Mhz SuperSparcs in there were browsing faster than I've seen firefox load some pages on a netbook with 4x the ram.... sure there is stuff that doesn't work since opera 9.27 or so lacks the features but still... every full featured browser out there is dog slow right now.
No it has to be non obvious to someone *IN* their field of expertise... otherwise it's just patenting something that would be obvious to any expert and thus does not advance the field.
35$ is givinig them away when you consider their real cost which is $229 + support costs that are about as much as the laptop. http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/490_per_xo_laptop_the_real_cos.html
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The Linux desktop has declined in quality, and usability... while the range of Linux drivers available has went up. There just isn't even any justification for the sheer bloat present in the current GUI toolkits and libraries.
Evidence of the decline in usability is the sheer excitement that KDE1 was met with upon it's recent rerelease... sure nearly any Linux desktop properly configured is better than windows 10's interface. But that still doesn't make the modern desktop environments good.
KDE1 + antialiased and hinted fonts would genuinely be good. Personally, for awhile I used e16 as a desktop it mostly was quite nice, lightweight on resources (several megabytes of ram and negligible CPU) and *unintrusive*. I don't think the same can be said for any modern desktop at all.
Unfortunately... google doesn't load fast enough on vacuum tube based computers.
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Bloatware these days...
Some people couldn't follow a recipe to boil water to save their life...
WW3 still hasn't happened..
... it seems to me national security is just fine.
Haven't heard of any terrorism other than the usual random crazies, certainly nothing organized.
The worse thing that might have happened as I gather... is a few ops may have been compromised and scuttled (we never should have been doing these ops) and a few politicians and diplomats have been severely embarrassed which is just great.
I'm sitting here typing this
Your are right about that speed doesn't inherently increase memory density. However nothing is stopping anyone from reading multiple bits of information from single atoms...so yes higher densities are possible it's a somehwat separate problem from processor speed though....
Super conducting processors are a thing... they run at Thz cycle frequencies in the lab.
Sure their on the level of complexity of the original IBM PC or so... but that can be remedied. More transistors isn't the only way to go faster... faster transistors is also an equally valid method. Implementing wave pipelines in more components is also valid (they've been used in varying degrees since the early 2000's) being able to go into 3 dimensions may help the practicality of wave pipelines which rely on constant time propagation though all circuits in the pipeline... to optimize both throughput and latency.
There is also Tox... there is one developer I talk to occasionally that uses it as his main means of communications. The chat works well... haven't tested the Voip but it's one of it's main features apparently.
Are you implying that Hillary uses Horcruxes? Not supprised...
And you're going to assume they aren't based on the base evidence of the huge amount of exploits in just about any software that are discovered over time?
You are the one making the reaaaaallly bad assumption.
If it can't tell the difference between a 8foot or greater bridge clearance and a 3-4ft off the ground truck.. .something is wrong.
You'd have too many trailers stuck where the side guards would hit the ground entering areas with a high spot.
Ahem.... http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/drive-on/2011/05/23/obamax-large.jpg
In any case... "disable it in the BIOS" is a software switch that just disables documented interfaces it is highly doubtfult that it would disable undocumented backdoors.
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Somehow I doubt this is true... certainly pro.ko has lots and lots of dependencies in the kernel that you wouldn't have to build in if you never intended to load it.
If you have ever built a kernel yourself you'd know that everything affects kernel size and complex drivers are the worst offenders along with protocols and filesytems.
Actually this is what udev does automatically ... all the distribution has to do is build the module.
It's not like Linux doesn't Plug and Play... However, on many of the recent computers I have used it gets the default sound card wrong still (note this is stock alsa not pulseaudio which may fair better at the cost of bloat and having to run "evil" Lennart Poettering's code)
This exactly... I loaded up the last version of opera that would run on my Sparcstation recently..a pair of 60 and 80Mhz SuperSparcs in there were browsing faster than I've seen firefox load some pages on a netbook with 4x the ram.... sure there is stuff that doesn't work since opera 9.27 or so lacks the features but still... every full featured browser out there is dog slow right now.
From a practical standpoint the larger vehicle always wins... pulling out in front of a moving bus in tiny car is nothing short of stupid.
No it has to be non obvious to someone *IN* their field of expertise... otherwise it's just patenting something that would be obvious to any expert and thus does not advance the field.
May as well drop glibc and udev while you are at it... and adobe flash.
That leaves you with alpine and void linux (they may still have udev but are moving away from it)
That and there is a good chance with that many cores there is a NUMA architecture... at some level.
Lithium battery in gun explodes killing cop and allowing murders to escape a standoff... now guns do kill people. That'll never make it to the news...
I drive a CVT .... my IQ is infinite!!!!!!!
There's always a silver lining... it'd make it easy to know if I need to reload without looking.
It's a microbenchmark which is the worst case for a JIT... that said Java is pretty darn bloaty.
It would probably perform better on a long running calculation etc... given the same algorithms.
35$ is givinig them away when you consider their real cost which is $229 + support costs that are about as much as the laptop. http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/price/490_per_xo_laptop_the_real_cos.html