So instead of a binary blob that was easy to install, stable and fast you went for Ati, with a crappy driver, crappy installer and we don't give a shit attitude ? Do you have any idea why the driver has been a binary blob for so long ?
This is ideal for both parking in tight spaces (i.e., you don't have to squeeze your way out of your vehicle while trying not to bang the next car's door)
True, except that the driver of the other car still might have to do exactly that (or hit other cars from the front or rear) because some asshole with FAP-Aid parked his car too close to the others.
A company should only be allowed to use a patent in court when it is active in the field the patent describes and the use of the patent by other organizations reduces the market potential of this company. Exception are research organizations of course, for which market value must somehow be redefined. A very effective troll-be-gone method.
Is it just me who thinks Amarok is a ridiculous piece of software which is bloated to the max, yet misses basic features or makes them hard to use ? For me, the previous version was an example of everything that can be wrong with audio players. Let's see what this one has to offer.
Fire the managers. 90% of them are overhead with no added value for the organization.They cost a lot of money and quite often are clueless about whatever division they are managing. They lack communication skills towards the working men, and therefore are unaware of the real problems of the organization. Also, their drive to "manage" typically means that problems aren't solved, but managed, which are two completely orthogonal things. I now for the first time in my life work in a company where management appears to work (kind of), basically because there are so few managers, and the managers are skilled and know the (technical!) ins and outs of the product we make.
As someone who has been involved in this on both sides (author and reviewer) I can say: yes, the review was hasty, since they are always, and most likely outsourced by the reviewers to people who don't have a clue what reviewing is all about. Maybe the process itself wasn't hasty, but I'm sure most of the reviewers made it hasty by not making it top priority. Also chances are more than 90% that the paper is absolute bullshit only created to satisfy the hunger of management/the PhD professor for more papers. The novelty in the paper most likely is based on the fact that all references to anything that is better or nearly as good are carefully avoided. Been there, done that (not voluntarily).
Papers: one of the main reasons why I quit my previous job. There is interesting stuff in some of them, but you have to go through so much crap that it's impossible to find.
No matter the number of digits in your bank account, in the end you're still human... A very complex and wonderful piece of engineering, way above the complexity that we understand. Kudos for funding research, and all the best for this man...
I would be happy to buy my car at a company which actually wants me to be a happy owner of that car, not a company which wants to make as much as profit from selling as many cars as possible.
This is one of the classic problems in most organizations I know: Upgrading IT makes you face a HUGE bill (direct cost). Inefficiency of your employees is invisible and hard to express in real money (indirect cost). It's easy to say no to a high bill, but you pay the salaries of your employees anyway. CEOs are not getting bonuses for efficiency, they get bonuses for profit. They could get more profit by making things more efficient, but that's a more than one-step solution, too complex for most CEOs.
And yet again, something that could easily be solved by psychological training is 'solved' by chemicals of which we don't have a clue what they actually do to our body. I foresee a future where we 'civilized' people actually die younger on average, because all the side effects of the medication we consumed actually do more harm then good.
Except that you forget the indirect costs of the traffic jams and accidents, which can be huge too. The problem is that the government is not accountable for these costs, so they don't care. If they would be accountable, I bet every project would be finished in no-time.
Either you use VCS, and you can' t ever delete code because you use it properly. Then the answer is: You can delete whatever you like in the latest revision. If you don't use VCS you have problems that exceed the scope of deleted unused code by a factor 1000, and you shouldn't be allowed access to ANY production code.
Quite tough to align multiple NAND gates without open spaces between them. With one circular and three flat faces it doesn't fit well. Oww and that annoying circle for the inverter... Happy that I live in Europe: Though I dislike our (square) logic gate symbols, they are great for tetris... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate#Symbols.
See: we Europeans beat the USA even with logic gate-tetris !
Guys, think of it. Our stock exchange, i.e. your pension or if you are unlucky also your mortgage is depending on this kind of software these days... And this is not the first time this year that stock trading software is in the news. This has nothing to do anymore with owning a share of an organization in the hope the organization will make a profit and pay you dividend. This is total craziness.
As a real nerd I have to object. Endianness is all about the order of equal-sized elements in a larger container. In the most popular form, it is about the order of bytes within a larger (16, 32 or 64) word. Hence, assuming every character is stored as a byte, the logo should be
todhsalS (64 bit), salShtodh (32 bit) or lSsadhto (16 bit).
This logo is not a correct representation of any little endianness stored Slashdot, not even on 24 bit machines.
Linux 5.0 could be out tomorrow. Linus just has to say "this is 5.0". What does that tell us ? Absolutely nothing. Sorry Slashdot, I expected a bit better from you.
Windows Phone 8 is't good enough to do anything about Apples and Googles dominance in the market. Microsoft teamed up with a phone vendor that nobody wants anymore. Windows 8 is too late for the tablet market and will destroy the user experience of desktop PCs. With the forced installation of Windows 8 on the new PCs they will annoy a lot of customers. Computer noobs around the world start to ask questions about alternatives when they hear about the prices of upgrading their computer to the latest Microsoft software (OS + Office). The gaming market has finally discovered alternatives, so that's another reason to stick to Microsoft down the drain.
Of course Microsoft has so much money that they won't be history soon. And they will come up with some decent OS again in the near future. However, with Vista they could get away with it because they still dominated the market and there was no serious alternative. These days there are plenty, whether you are an Apple fanboy, Linux fanboy or a "what's an operating system" noob.
How are you supposed to simulate something when the simulation generates so much heat that the simulated object can never exist long enough to run the simulation ?
Great that they finally kill a bot-net, I hope this is an example how "easy" it can be to do it. Now it would be even better if they'd somehow warned the infected PCs, or maybe take them down. Most people will not even realize their PC is infected, and don't have a clue how to do something about it.
As far as I know I'm no grandma, and I run XP on all my three PCs. legally. Upgrading to windows 7 will cost me about 200 dollar, and break a lot of software I got installed. Oh, one of the machines definitely will not work with Windows 7. When it comes to my legal office 2010 installation, I can only hope that microsoft is willing to allow me to switch all three used licenses to the new installations, but I guess I can buy new office software too. And why would I upgrade ? XP is nothing but a tool to browse files and start applications for me. And no, I can't switch to a linux-only environment, though all machines are dual-boot.
You don't want to know how many XP PCs -just working fine- I know here in the wild. The only reason why my parents in law run win 7 is that they recently bought a new PC. They don't have a clue what windows 7 is and why they run it.
Don't underestimate the huge amount of old installations and machines in the world. They won't disappear when microsoft stops supporting XP.
It's the language closest to assembly, which makes it a great language for microcontrollers. In fact, most of the microcontrollers only come with assembler and C programmer, though many understand some convenient C++ features.
They can dismiss it, but when you look at all the tricks they have to apply to keep their current processors running MSDOS 1.0, their design is simply scary. As a processor designer I am amazed how well they manage to keep their bloated processors running, adding extensions of the x86 architecture on top of each other. I want to bet that if they would start from scratch and drop support for Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 (i.e. make a decent 64 bit processor, with a decent, not bytewise instruction set without 20 layers of extensions) they could easily lower the power consumption with a factor of 2.
Then again, the ARM processors lean a bit too much to the RISC approach to be a fair comparison. (yes I know, under the hood modern Intel processors are not CISC any more either, but I'm talking assembly level) The performance per cycle of an ARM is really crap compared to modern intel architectures. The good news is: if ARM manages to improve that a bit, they will manage to stay in the mobile processors drivers seat.
Intel and ARM are coming from a different direction when it comes to the sweet spot of mobile computing: ARM needs to improve performance, Intel has to reduce power. Oh, and ARM is powering the mobile world, so who are you to say Intel is better, mister marketing guy ?
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So instead of a binary blob that was easy to install, stable and fast you went for Ati, with a crappy driver, crappy installer and we don't give a shit attitude ? Do you have any idea why the driver has been a binary blob for so long ?
This is ideal for both parking in tight spaces (i.e., you don't have to squeeze your way out of your vehicle while trying not to bang the next car's door)
True, except that the driver of the other car still might have to do exactly that (or hit other cars from the front or rear) because some asshole with FAP-Aid parked his car too close to the others.
A company should only be allowed to use a patent in court when it is active in the field the patent describes and the use of the patent by other organizations reduces the market potential of this company. Exception are research organizations of course, for which market value must somehow be redefined. A very effective troll-be-gone method.
Is it just me who thinks Amarok is a ridiculous piece of software which is bloated to the max, yet misses basic features or makes them hard to use ? For me, the previous version was an example of everything that can be wrong with audio players. Let's see what this one has to offer.
Fire the managers. 90% of them are overhead with no added value for the organization.They cost a lot of money and quite often are clueless about whatever division they are managing. They lack communication skills towards the working men, and therefore are unaware of the real problems of the organization. Also, their drive to "manage" typically means that problems aren't solved, but managed, which are two completely orthogonal things. I now for the first time in my life work in a company where management appears to work (kind of), basically because there are so few managers, and the managers are skilled and know the (technical!) ins and outs of the product we make.
As someone who has been involved in this on both sides (author and reviewer) I can say: yes, the review was hasty, since they are always, and most likely outsourced by the reviewers to people who don't have a clue what reviewing is all about. Maybe the process itself wasn't hasty, but I'm sure most of the reviewers made it hasty by not making it top priority. Also chances are more than 90% that the paper is absolute bullshit only created to satisfy the hunger of management/the PhD professor for more papers. The novelty in the paper most likely is based on the fact that all references to anything that is better or nearly as good are carefully avoided. Been there, done that (not voluntarily).
Papers: one of the main reasons why I quit my previous job. There is interesting stuff in some of them, but you have to go through so much crap that it's impossible to find.
No matter the number of digits in your bank account, in the end you're still human... A very complex and wonderful piece of engineering, way above the complexity that we understand. Kudos for funding research, and all the best for this man...
I would be happy to buy my car at a company which actually wants me to be a happy owner of that car, not a company which wants to make as much as profit from selling as many cars as possible.
This is one of the classic problems in most organizations I know: Upgrading IT makes you face a HUGE bill (direct cost). Inefficiency of your employees is invisible and hard to express in real money (indirect cost). It's easy to say no to a high bill, but you pay the salaries of your employees anyway. CEOs are not getting bonuses for efficiency, they get bonuses for profit. They could get more profit by making things more efficient, but that's a more than one-step solution, too complex for most CEOs.
And yet again, something that could easily be solved by psychological training is 'solved' by chemicals of which we don't have a clue what they actually do to our body. I foresee a future where we 'civilized' people actually die younger on average, because all the side effects of the medication we consumed actually do more harm then good.
Except that you forget the indirect costs of the traffic jams and accidents, which can be huge too. The problem is that the government is not accountable for these costs, so they don't care. If they would be accountable, I bet every project would be finished in no-time.
1) How often do they update the virus scanner on their toilets ?
2) Is ssh enabled on their engines ? Are the engines protected against "shutdown -h -t now" commands ?
3) Can I upload video player software to the cockpit screens ? I mean, looking at those indicators the entire flight is soooo boring !
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Either you use VCS, and you can' t ever delete code because you use it properly. Then the answer is: You can delete whatever you like in the latest revision. If you don't use VCS you have problems that exceed the scope of deleted unused code by a factor 1000, and you shouldn't be allowed access to ANY production code.
There is absolutely no reason why a kid under the age of 14 YEARS has access to a smartphone.
Quite tough to align multiple NAND gates without open spaces between them. With one circular and three flat faces it doesn't fit well. Oww and that annoying circle for the inverter... Happy that I live in Europe: Though I dislike our (square) logic gate symbols, they are great for tetris... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate#Symbols.
See: we Europeans beat the USA even with logic gate-tetris !
Guys, think of it. Our stock exchange, i.e. your pension or if you are unlucky also your mortgage is depending on this kind of software these days... And this is not the first time this year that stock trading software is in the news. This has nothing to do anymore with owning a share of an organization in the hope the organization will make a profit and pay you dividend. This is total craziness.
As a real nerd I have to object. Endianness is all about the order of equal-sized elements in a larger container. In the most popular form, it is about the order of bytes within a larger (16, 32 or 64) word. Hence, assuming every character is stored as a byte, the logo should be
todhsalS (64 bit), salShtodh (32 bit) or lSsadhto (16 bit).
This logo is not a correct representation of any little endianness stored Slashdot, not even on 24 bit machines.
Linux 5.0 could be out tomorrow. Linus just has to say "this is 5.0". What does that tell us ? Absolutely nothing. Sorry Slashdot, I expected a bit better from you.
Windows Phone 8 is't good enough to do anything about Apples and Googles dominance in the market. Microsoft teamed up with a phone vendor that nobody wants anymore. Windows 8 is too late for the tablet market and will destroy the user experience of desktop PCs. With the forced installation of Windows 8 on the new PCs they will annoy a lot of customers. Computer noobs around the world start to ask questions about alternatives when they hear about the prices of upgrading their computer to the latest Microsoft software (OS + Office). The gaming market has finally discovered alternatives, so that's another reason to stick to Microsoft down the drain.
Of course Microsoft has so much money that they won't be history soon. And they will come up with some decent OS again in the near future. However, with Vista they could get away with it because they still dominated the market and there was no serious alternative. These days there are plenty, whether you are an Apple fanboy, Linux fanboy or a "what's an operating system" noob.
How are you supposed to simulate something when the simulation generates so much heat that the simulated object can never exist long enough to run the simulation ?
Great that they finally kill a bot-net, I hope this is an example how "easy" it can be to do it. Now it would be even better if they'd somehow warned the infected PCs, or maybe take them down. Most people will not even realize their PC is infected, and don't have a clue how to do something about it.
As far as I know I'm no grandma, and I run XP on all my three PCs. legally. Upgrading to windows 7 will cost me about 200 dollar, and break a lot of software I got installed. Oh, one of the machines definitely will not work with Windows 7. When it comes to my legal office 2010 installation, I can only hope that microsoft is willing to allow me to switch all three used licenses to the new installations, but I guess I can buy new office software too. And why would I upgrade ? XP is nothing but a tool to browse files and start applications for me. And no, I can't switch to a linux-only environment, though all machines are dual-boot.
You don't want to know how many XP PCs -just working fine- I know here in the wild. The only reason why my parents in law run win 7 is that they recently bought a new PC. They don't have a clue what windows 7 is and why they run it.
Don't underestimate the huge amount of old installations and machines in the world. They won't disappear when microsoft stops supporting XP.
It's the language closest to assembly, which makes it a great language for microcontrollers. In fact, most of the microcontrollers only come with assembler and C programmer, though many understand some convenient C++ features.
They can dismiss it, but when you look at all the tricks they have to apply to keep their current processors running MSDOS 1.0, their design is simply scary. As a processor designer I am amazed how well they manage to keep their bloated processors running, adding extensions of the x86 architecture on top of each other. I want to bet that if they would start from scratch and drop support for Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 (i.e. make a decent 64 bit processor, with a decent, not bytewise instruction set without 20 layers of extensions) they could easily lower the power consumption with a factor of 2.
Then again, the ARM processors lean a bit too much to the RISC approach to be a fair comparison. (yes I know, under the hood modern Intel processors are not CISC any more either, but I'm talking assembly level) The performance per cycle of an ARM is really crap compared to modern intel architectures. The good news is: if ARM manages to improve that a bit, they will manage to stay in the mobile processors drivers seat.
Intel and ARM are coming from a different direction when it comes to the sweet spot of mobile computing: ARM needs to improve performance, Intel has to reduce power. Oh, and ARM is powering the mobile world, so who are you to say Intel is better, mister marketing guy ?