Good explanation, but I'd like to offer one correction. The -gcc suffix is not part of the triple, that string is just the name of the compiler binary, as in/usr/bin/arm-non-eabi-gcc. The actual triple is arm-non-eabi.
It's sad but it does seem to be the case. Maybe they have become disillusioned after years of trying to raise awareness and finding that the common folk just didn't care. If they speak about the importance of free software principles, their words will fall on deaf ears. But if they aggressively raise these red herring issues that the average person can relate to, they will get some much wanted attention. It's hard to tell whether they will win any permanent mind share this way.
Even though Stallman is absolutely right about free software, the message of bright red colours, screaming slogans and extreme statements does paint the FSF in a bad light and will probably put many people off.
FSFe seems to be much more reasonable: maybe the two are playing a game of good cop/bad cop?
Most people won't read beyond the first page (or even half page) of any comment board, so the early posts get the most attention, mod points or not. Of course, if you display new posts first, you get a bunch of redundant threads as people re-post essentially the same thing other people posted earlier on.
It has always annoyed me how it's tolerated here to hijack threads near the top of the discussion. But, as you point out, reversing the order has its own problems. If that's the case, why not just display all sibling comments in random order? Take the UID or a session ID as the seed so they don't jump around too much, but every person sees them differently. You might still get some reposting, but it overall it could improve the format of the discussion.
Alternatively, after a while, start biasing the order in favour of threads with lots of replies. Then you get the best of both worlds.
Of course, any such fundamental changes won't happen before the new javascript interface is ironed out, which is to say probably never. Still, it's an interesting problem to think about.
I'm tired of this sad trolling. GPL advocates never complain about the BSD license. It's only BSD advocates that complain about the GPL. You know what? Just because you want to use other people's code without having to respect their conditions doesn't give you the grounds to demean the GPL, dude.
After he begs forgiveness he lays them off anyway and has a driver take him to the driving range to relax hitting a few balls, then goes and singa karoke and drinks himself into a stupor.
No, of course not. He drives a tanto knife through his guts and bleeds to death, thus saving his honour. Don't you know anything about the Japanese?
I haven't heard of other countries arbitrarily seizing domain names from web sites that the government doesn't like, without due process, without a way to appeal, and without even notification. But this is exactly what the US has been doing recently [1, 2]. This ranking is completely worthless.
Yes, and it doesn't matter how many devices run Linux. Increasing that number has never been an important goal for anyone but maybe Linux developers. The important number is how many devices are open and how many users actually use that openness to run free software. As computer-literate users, we care whether we trust the software on the device, whether it acts in our interests and whether it is we who control it and we don't have to share that control with an external entity. By campaigning for the proliferation of Linux, we don't really act in our own interests. What we should be campaigning for is that devices give us the ability to install and run solely (or at least mostly, where it matters) free software. Then we can feel comfortable and in control when using them.
Arguably, we already have a solution to the bone loss/zero-G pregnancy problem: use a centrifuge to generate acceleration. By the time we send out humans to spend so much time in space, we will probably have incorporated them into space vessel designs. On the other hand, we still don't have a good solution for space radiation shielding: good shielding takes up large amounts of mass.
They did in fact leave in the fragment where you see people carrying what appear to be rifles. They also gave a clear link to the full unedited version, for people interested in the broader context. The editing is understandable, because few people would want to sit through the whole thing, where mostly nothing happens -- they left in only the most interesting parts.
Yours is an oft repeated argument, but I just don't see how you can honestly claim such strong bias on their behalf. While they did choose the name "collateral murder", suggesting anti-American military bias, they provided all the necessary information for any intelligent person to make up their own mind about it. The title was just about the only slanted aspect of the release.
While they could have named the release differently, they certainly did a good job of attracting attention to it, leading to many press articles with more detailed behind-the-scenes information.
Just as you don't read newspapers that seem wrongly biased to you, you didn't have to watch the Wikileaks release. Pretty much all the media used it as a source and offered their own analysis. But this was only possible thanks to the public service of publishing the leak and drawing attention to it in the first place.
All things considered, such a service is so valuable that anyone who supports government accountability should be thankful to Wikileaks, even if they disagree with the apparent bias.
Even wikileaks leaves itself wide open to astroturfing with manufactured 'leaks' to suit someone's agenda. It doesn't even have to go that far if someone somewhere is deciding what to leak and what to bury.
Wikileaks do their best to verify the leaks before publishing them. IIRC, they sent some people to Iraq to confirm the authenticity of the leaked video, before publishing "Collateral Murder", for example. While it's possible that they will make a mistake sooner or later, I don't think that what you're describing is so easy.
I have a feeling that all this is arguing over the colour of the bike shed. It's just not important whether HTML is versioned or not, what's important is that the principles behind developing XHTML2 have been dumped, and instead of a strict, orderly and accessible standard, we've been left with a chaotic, disorganised jumble of hacks developed by people who don't seem to care at all about good design.
After that, I'm wondering if it's better to use D3D and Wine instead of native GL!
Then I guess it will surprise you to know that Wine implements D3D on top of native OpenGL. If Firefox worked better on Wine, it would only mean that the Firefox developers can't write decent OpenGL code, but Wine developers can.
Maybe a better fix for this bug would now be to port the game to other systems using portable free software libraries. Such ports are not unheard of: recently the copyright owners of Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries released its Windows-only sources, under the GPL, into the hands of the community, which managed to relatively quickly port it to SDL/OpenAL (http://7kfans.com/). Now it runs natively on GNU/Linux and possibly on other systems too.
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Speak for yourself, I want my grave to be made of glass so I can look up girls' dresses after I die.
Good explanation, but I'd like to offer one correction. The -gcc suffix is not part of the triple, that string is just the name of the compiler binary, as in /usr/bin/arm-non-eabi-gcc. The actual triple is arm-non-eabi.
It's sad but it does seem to be the case. Maybe they have become disillusioned after years of trying to raise awareness and finding that the common folk just didn't care. If they speak about the importance of free software principles, their words will fall on deaf ears. But if they aggressively raise these red herring issues that the average person can relate to, they will get some much wanted attention. It's hard to tell whether they will win any permanent mind share this way.
Even though Stallman is absolutely right about free software, the message of bright red colours, screaming slogans and extreme statements does paint the FSF in a bad light and will probably put many people off.
FSFe seems to be much more reasonable: maybe the two are playing a game of good cop/bad cop?
Most people won't read beyond the first page (or even half page) of any comment board, so the early posts get the most attention, mod points or not. Of course, if you display new posts first, you get a bunch of redundant threads as people re-post essentially the same thing other people posted earlier on.
It has always annoyed me how it's tolerated here to hijack threads near the top of the discussion. But, as you point out, reversing the order has its own problems. If that's the case, why not just display all sibling comments in random order? Take the UID or a session ID as the seed so they don't jump around too much, but every person sees them differently. You might still get some reposting, but it overall it could improve the format of the discussion.
Alternatively, after a while, start biasing the order in favour of threads with lots of replies. Then you get the best of both worlds.
Of course, any such fundamental changes won't happen before the new javascript interface is ironed out, which is to say probably never. Still, it's an interesting problem to think about.
I'm tired of this sad trolling. GPL advocates never complain about the BSD license. It's only BSD advocates that complain about the GPL. You know what? Just because you want to use other people's code without having to respect their conditions doesn't give you the grounds to demean the GPL, dude.
After he begs forgiveness he lays them off anyway and has a driver take him to the driving range to relax hitting a few balls, then goes and singa karoke and drinks himself into a stupor.
No, of course not. He drives a tanto knife through his guts and bleeds to death, thus saving his honour. Don't you know anything about the Japanese?
And why is that?
I haven't heard of other countries arbitrarily seizing domain names from web sites that the government doesn't like, without due process, without a way to appeal, and without even notification. But this is exactly what the US has been doing recently [1, 2]. This ranking is completely worthless.
[1] http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
[2] http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizures-110201/
Hugging someone to death, AWESOME!
Yes, and it doesn't matter how many devices run Linux. Increasing that number has never been an important goal for anyone but maybe Linux developers. The important number is how many devices are open and how many users actually use that openness to run free software. As computer-literate users, we care whether we trust the software on the device, whether it acts in our interests and whether it is we who control it and we don't have to share that control with an external entity. By campaigning for the proliferation of Linux, we don't really act in our own interests. What we should be campaigning for is that devices give us the ability to install and run solely (or at least mostly, where it matters) free software. Then we can feel comfortable and in control when using them.
But, is there a gravitational hole in the Indian Ocean? Could it have been an asteroid? Perhaps leading to the "fast split" of Africa and India?
It's a huge deposit of unobtanium!
C++ is optimized per compilation unit.
I encourage you to look up link-time optimisation (LTO). It's been in gcc for a while, and I doubt they were the first to implement it.
You must be thinking of Odyssey 5. It wasn't bad, a pity they only filmed one season.
I figure eventually someone will write the right wrappers so apps only need to deal with one API.
VA-API is the wrapper that you speak of. It has multiple backends, including backends for Intel cards, VDPAU and XvBA.
I'mma let you finish... but I just wanna say... Stargate is the best show of all time!
Oh, come on, mods, do you think it responsible to mod up flamebait comments like this as insightful?
Besides, I thought everyone knew that Babylon 5 is the best show of all time.
Well I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill them all!
Arguably, we already have a solution to the bone loss/zero-G pregnancy problem: use a centrifuge to generate acceleration. By the time we send out humans to spend so much time in space, we will probably have incorporated them into space vessel designs. On the other hand, we still don't have a good solution for space radiation shielding: good shielding takes up large amounts of mass.
If you RTFS, you will note that basically 92% of Ubuntu packages are imported from Debian. Who do you think maintains them?
Yes, but what is its efficiency?
They did in fact leave in the fragment where you see people carrying what appear to be rifles. They also gave a clear link to the full unedited version, for people interested in the broader context. The editing is understandable, because few people would want to sit through the whole thing, where mostly nothing happens -- they left in only the most interesting parts.
Yours is an oft repeated argument, but I just don't see how you can honestly claim such strong bias on their behalf. While they did choose the name "collateral murder", suggesting anti-American military bias, they provided all the necessary information for any intelligent person to make up their own mind about it. The title was just about the only slanted aspect of the release.
While they could have named the release differently, they certainly did a good job of attracting attention to it, leading to many press articles with more detailed behind-the-scenes information.
Just as you don't read newspapers that seem wrongly biased to you, you didn't have to watch the Wikileaks release. Pretty much all the media used it as a source and offered their own analysis. But this was only possible thanks to the public service of publishing the leak and drawing attention to it in the first place.
All things considered, such a service is so valuable that anyone who supports government accountability should be thankful to Wikileaks, even if they disagree with the apparent bias.
Even wikileaks leaves itself wide open to astroturfing with manufactured 'leaks' to suit someone's agenda. It doesn't even have to go that far if someone somewhere is deciding what to leak and what to bury.
Wikileaks do their best to verify the leaks before publishing them. IIRC, they sent some people to Iraq to confirm the authenticity of the leaked video, before publishing "Collateral Murder", for example. While it's possible that they will make a mistake sooner or later, I don't think that what you're describing is so easy.
From Texas Instruments.
I have a feeling that all this is arguing over the colour of the bike shed. It's just not important whether HTML is versioned or not, what's important is that the principles behind developing XHTML2 have been dumped, and instead of a strict, orderly and accessible standard, we've been left with a chaotic, disorganised jumble of hacks developed by people who don't seem to care at all about good design.
After that, I'm wondering if it's better to use D3D and Wine instead of native GL!
Then I guess it will surprise you to know that Wine implements D3D on top of native OpenGL. If Firefox worked better on Wine, it would only mean that the Firefox developers can't write decent OpenGL code, but Wine developers can.
Maybe a better fix for this bug would now be to port the game to other systems using portable free software libraries. Such ports are not unheard of: recently the copyright owners of Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries released its Windows-only sources, under the GPL, into the hands of the community, which managed to relatively quickly port it to SDL/OpenAL (http://7kfans.com/). Now it runs natively on GNU/Linux and possibly on other systems too.
So basically you're saying that using the phrase "epic fail" is EPIC FAIL?