Software development is an engineering practice when done right, which you clearly have no fucking clue how real engineers work. Fortunately people like you will never be allowed to do anything that actually matters like build bridges or buildings
I just had to laugh at this one. You praise Agile but it is everything but the way you'd build a bridge or building. You absolutely don't create a building one room at a time, you have architects and construction engineers and blueprints all ready to go before you start implementing. If you did it the Agile way you'd rewire the house ten times over before you're done. And you don't in the middle of construction find out you want to add another floor and an upstairs bathroom, not unless you want a huge replanning. Agile is more like Star Trek, full power to shields/weapons/engines/life support and things magically rewire themselves to serve the most pressing business need.
To be honest, I feel like waterfall overplan and overthinks things, Agile underplans and underthinks things. I like waterfall projects that act "agilish", small initial scope and iterative releases, clear deliverables, priorities and rapid prototyping. Or Agile projects that act "waterfallish", someone with a clear long term vision of what the system eventually will look like and how the components we build will scale and fit the big picture. Bad waterfall is just mental masturbation over plans that'll never work in reality. Bad Agile is just timeboxed cowboy coding, making up shit as you go along. The problem is some project managers think you can make uncertainty go away by sitting around a table and discussing it further. Some things you just won't know until you've tried and seen what kind of progress you actually make.
And yet another top of the line card comes out at $1/GB more or less. With even the smallest cards going for $10 a Best Buy due to shipping and storage prices... can we find some better way of doing this? How about a box of 10 SD cards like floppies at the signoff price for floppies at $10/box?
Best Buy? LOL. Ever hear of eBay, grandpa? Here's 10 32GB microSD cards for $29.99 with free shipping, that works out to $3/card and less than $0.1/GB.
I have the feeling the real litmus test would be the first time they have a really bad bug, like permanent injury or death where you just have to admit the car was dead wrong. You can compare this with for example the medical industry or industrial accidents, a lot of people have died from human error. But despite all the checklists and routines and safety procedures people recognize that there's always the human factor. With medical equipment and industrial robots on the other hand, there's no tolerance for fatal errors. Which is why there's not so much human-robot interaction really, usually they operated in closed quarters and safety cages and if humans are to go in there they're turned off.
But you can't do that with a car AI and sooner or later it'll run into one kind of crazy nobody taught it how to handle. And improvisation is not their best skill, I suppose it'll hit the brakes and come to a complete stop. If that means standing still as that 50 ton out-of-control semi comes barreling down the hill right at you, well it's technically correct driving I suppose. But it's maybe not the best kind of correct for you.
Real life is not Star Trek, and we are not Klingons. The "Sins of the Father" do not dishonor the next seven generations of real human beings. (...) To continue to bear a grudge, especially when you're not even the actual person who was wronged, and double especially against people who weren't involved and likely not even born at the time; is just batshit irrational.
The repercussions and spoils of war can last a lot longer than a generation. If your daddy got rich on blood money from the Nazis, it doesn't become clean money just because you inherit it. Same with lands you've occupied, property you've seized, occupants you've deported or enslaved. I can certainly see Native Americans or children of an African-American slave holding a grudge even though the actual people who forced them into reservations or slavery is dead. Sure at some point you have to bury the hatchet and not dig up every old feud from here to the dawn of man, but I think you're oversimplifying it a little.
The other part is whether the next generation has really taken a stand against the culture and ideology that was the foundation of the war in the first place. So the North won the civil war and slavery was ended, why then did the US have the KKK? Why did you need Martin Luther King jr? Is racism dead now that Obama is President? One should hope so, but it's been 150 years. Ethnic wars, religious wars, old hatred is like a fire keg waiting to be relit. Because we're not just people, it's still us and them.
It's not exactly a conincidence that WWII started with Germany, just like WWI did. Or that the Middle East has been a battleground for the last 2000 years. You have to be blind not to see that next war is very likely to come from the same place as the last war. Different people, same shit. What ISIS is doing today isn't new, it's very old. It could have happened a hundred or a thousand years ago. And if they don't deal with it, regardless if they're beaten into a military surrender or not it can happen again in a hundred years from now. It's not their forefather's battle they're fighting, it's the same fucking battle with a new generation of soldiers.
The "selling" at a negative rate doesn't happen very often, so relying on that mechanism to encourage battery charging or other storage means isn't going to be viable.. short of rigging the mechanism
Yeah I don't see battery packs for the sake of storing it actually working out. But I do see the potential for opportunistic charging of EVs. We know that in order for them to be popular, the max range must be well beyond the daily commute. But that doesn't mean people need the fully charged all the time, if you know monday-friday you're just going to work and picking up a few groceries maybe you say anything over 40% is okay, charge it up to 80% if you can do it cheaply but otherwise don't bother. Throw in a little fleet management and you can create a variable demand to match the variable supply or at the very least smoothen out the peaks. You don't need free electricity for that, just cheaper electricity.
And it could even be an emergency power source if you have to, if a major power plant goes down maybe you can drain it back out like a distributed UPS until you hit the user defined minimums. It's not so much that you'd actually invest in that specifically as that you'll use it because it's there for other reasons. And if we ever get those autonomous cars going, we could use it for opportunistic transport - if we're not in a hurry maybe we'll start driving when the battery's full so we can deliver cheap and get back to waiting for more cheap peak time electricity. Instead of trying to make supply flat, maybe the focus should be on making the demand variable too.
NOTE! BitKeeper isn't going away per se. Right now, the only real thing that has happened is that I've decided to not use BK mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives, and rather than continuing "things as normal", I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like. So far it's a gray and bleak world;) (...) PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative
Seems to me like the "I #Â%#&Â give up, none of these alternatives work I'll just write my own SCM system" phase was 15 days, that's close enough to two weeks for me. Of course I'm sure a lot of the mental churning on what such a system should be like was already done but in terms of coding it seems like he knocked out an initial version in that timeframe.
Hollywood has released some awesome movies and giant turds too, I'm sure they all seemed like a good idea at some point. Just launch both and let the market decide, the pre-hype wars are just tedious.
He's making an announcement to the entire company. Difficult as that may be to believe, IT staff isn't actually the most popular group of employees in many companies. So, roughly translated, his message reads: "Rejoice, journalists, artists, writers, editors, and business people, our ornery and expensive IT staff is being replaced with more efficient and friendlier overseas staff, and we're going to save money too!"
Regardless of that it's the job of any CxO to make a shit sandwich sound tasty. If they were laying off journalists he'd make that sound like some kind of strategic plan and realignment opportunity too, he wouldn't say "business has turned sour and people don't like our product anymore" any more than he'd say "those Indians work so damn cheap" even though that's the reality. Yeah I've met some dysfunctional IT organizations, but I doubt outsourcing would fix any of the because the dysfunction is usually at the management level that stays, the people who work on code, servers, databases, networks etc. usually know their stuff well enough. It doesn't matter though if people work on the wrong things or pointless initatives that'll be for naught, nothing has value unless it goes to production and actually solves a business need.
As someone else said, these ISPs simply would never, ever bring service to these remote areas if not for government subsidy, because these areas don't otherwise meet the company's ROI goals. These people should not be penalized for living in rural areas.
Let's be honest here, this isn't business they're not taking because they don't get Apple-like margins. In most cases this is business operating at a dead loss that will never recover the investment/operating cost. Very often when you read about rural areas self-organizing to get decent broadband you have one or more enthusiasts that have spent countless hours working for free to make it happen, if they'd billed at market value the business would have gone under. It's not a penalty to expect users of a service to generally cover the cost of providing service.
I mean, if you don't have to worry about operating on a commercial basis why stop at 10 Mbit/s? Google delivers gigabit fiber for $70/month, why penalize rural areas with less. It's not hard to turn this into absurdity. Yes, occasionally we invest in basic infrastructure the same way we invest in basic research even though there's no immediate ROI but because we expect that long term having public roads, mail service, electricity grids, phone service, public utilities etc. will help the community. Broadband is obviously such a thing, to some degree.
I just checked here in Norway, under 4 Mbit/s would be ~9% of broadband connections - almost everyone can get some form of "broadband" (>128kbps here, but not used as cutoff) if they want - and under 10 Mbit/s ~27%, so tripling the number of people and presumably raising the bar to 10 Mbit/s would increase cost/head. If you got infinite budgets no problem, but if it's about getting the most value out of limited funds I'd rather concentrate on the few that don't even have 4 Mbit/s than raising up the rest to >10 Mbit/s. And maybe push fiber on the other end, instead of 10-50 Mbps solutions.
The problem is information asymmetry. Rather than trying to put the genie back in the bottle of ubiquitous privacy, instead we need to shine light (via legal or extralegal methods) into the darkest recesses of public servants, ceos, silver spoons, and politicians private lives. Once nobody has anything to hide (because it is all out in the open) we will be in a better position to judge both laws and people on their merits rather than the weasel-worded ideals projected to us.
And how does that work exactly, the NSA spies on everybody so everybody spies on the NSA? Any scandalized politician will just retire early from politics and get a cushy job for a lobby interest they pushed, no questions asked. Outing people just swap out the talking heads, the system stays the same. And if you think it's ever coming to some sort of reckoning and scaling back of the surveillance society it's not happening, they'll just carve out some more legal exceptions and make more privacy-invading additions for the rest of us to stop the extralegal ways. You sound like one of those Anonymous hackers with delusions of grandeur, sorry but got zero chance at exposing all the backroom deals. Zero.
I can't say I think this is a good thing. Grey areas are good. Humans are grey, and technical models of human society should have grey considerations as well.
And how - short of turning back time - would we achieve that? Like 25 years ago "sexting" was not a problem because we didn't have cell phones or digicams, but short of the Amish nobody wants to go back there. The only question is how you go forwards, whether it's wailing and moaning about how things were better before or not and if you got any meaningful choices going forward.
I don't think you could will the gray areas back even if you wanted to. Maybe the question is as simple as choosing black or white? I'd pick private communication and private data, but unfortunately I think public opinion might be more "if you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear so just let the government rifle through it all looking for bad guys". Because that's where I think you ultimately end up, we're just moving in that direction much more slowly than I thought. I think I had pretty much the exact same thoughts 10+ years ago and expected crunch time to have come and gone by now.
If people had waaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands would they cure cancer or be the next Tolkien? I'm guessing we'd see a lot more records like this, as long as you do it on your own time and dime hey it's your life. I'm not pretending I'd be all that much better, but then I don't expect anyone to pay me for it either...
The value is an illusion, I could download 1000 MP3s that'd cost 99 cents but I couldn't sell it for ten bucks. Okay maybe you'd get a bit of cash for original CDs/DVDs/BluRays, but only a small fraction of what you paid. Practically I just consider the entertainment value to me and consider the asset value ~$0. Which means I'm only interested in owning it if it's a good deal, if I'd never see the movie again I don't care if it's just a stream. And most things are only worth watching once. Many songs are a summer hit and fade away. I get bored by games. As long as I got value for my money forever ever is not really that big a deal.
Every console uses AMD but if you look at their semi-custom revenue/profits margins are very slim. It's good for keeping production volume up as the smaller player but it's not good business. Whether that's because of market realities or because AMD lowballed it is hard to say, but I guess they expected a bigger payoff in the desktop market.
Meh, the flagship typically has the worst price/performance. But it's rare that it is worth trading down in the lineup, if you have last generation's flagship stick with it or buy a new flagship.
Looks nice, but within a year I expect a cosumerish big pascal with hbm2 and closer to 300w as the ultimate single card. Not ready to replace my SLI setup for this one, but multi-gpu support is getting more and more niche. One monster card for 4k gaming would be great.
Not that I'm really disagreeing with you but how big is the total launch market at current rates? This is not like Tesla and the car market, as I understand it SpaceX is already a fairly big player. Even with reusable rockets there won't be a mass market any time soon.
I'm sure they'd be working on that in parallel, but the right to air a TV channel live + x hours of replay streaming might be easier to deal with from the business side than a ton of different content that have very different long term value. News, live sports and other current events have very short shelf life, series and movies a much longer shelf life. An "airing" is a known quantity for the TV networks, it's what they do themselves and know how to price.
Maybe it's not, but it's got a long history here... I remember the Obama stories, the Bush stories all the way back to before 9/11. Usually the discussion has circled in on what it means for nerds and tech workers, not political discussion in general and so turned it into a useful topic for us that you wouldn't really get elsewhere. If you don't feel that's the case anymore, it's mostly the crowd at fault not the story. And sometimes it's fun to see how/. can be armchair political experts too in addition to supreme court justices, like if Clinton would win more or less on walkover because she's establishment then Trump would never, ever been the republican candidate to being with. I think a jumbo bag of popcorn is in order up to the election...
While that's kinda important you also need to have active communication to be useful, which puts a rather significant drain on your power budget. And every time the user raises his arm so you think he might be looking at the watch and not just reaching for something on a shelf, the screen has to turn on. On the kind of battery you can fit in a watch, that's a pretty big deal. Ever put your cell phone in flight mode and not use it to game or listen to music? It'll barely sip power because it's not doing anything. On the other hand, it's not very useful either.
the whole point of Linux was that you didnt have to make any fucking pledges. (...) Further, the nature of open source code itself discourages the kinds of back-doors
You know that and I know that and Mark Shuttleworth knows it too. And I don't think he was ever considering adding one. The pledge is just a PR grab and he can even top it off with saying everyone's welcome to verify that themselves by inspecting the source. If I was competing against two major closed source operating systems I'd do it too, who cares if it's a bit "well, duuuh" for existing open source users.
"We don't do encryption to hide things; we do encryption so we can choose what to share"
As a greybeard, Fuck your cloud and the sharing economy it rolled in on. When i choose what to share, I make it explicitly publically available in a format that may, or may not be encrypted. when you recontext my privacy in terms of what im willing to "share" with people it debases the very real need for encryption to circumvent things like warrantless wiretaps, blanket government surveillance, and invasive advertising. stop treating me like a toddler for using cryptography.
It sounds like something Phil Zimmerman could have said, would your response have been the same?
maybe you will, maybe you wont, but again, the point of linux is that I dont need a 60 million dollar corporation to reassure me about privacy. if you do it --like you screwed developers with contributor agreements and the UI-- ill just switch to a different distro or ill fork yours.
Sounds like you have an axe to grind with him, if you want to talk about choice and freedom couldn't you simply not use Ubuntu? I hear Windows 10 is great for your privacy...
Statcounter doesn't break out stats for Linux, which is perhaps just as well.
They do if you download the CSV. For April 2016 in the US it's 1,54% and 1,63% Chromebooks, for the world it's 1.55% and 0.55% respectively. Mobile and web has pretty much cracked the platform monopoly anyway, you have to be a pretty staunch believer to start a new application exclusively for the Windows desktop.
I can respect what this professor is saying. However, there are plenty of industries/careers/endeavors that have it far worse. Take safety, for example. You can have thousands of successes, but then everything goes in smoke after an failure or two.
Uh, that would be the opposite where your failures are very visible. He's describing how all the successes are on the CV and the failures aren't, so people think life's been a winning streak. He's showing the list to say I've had my failures, you'll have your failures too and that's totally normal so don't fret about it. At least ordinary people in ordinary careers shouldn't, if people die when you fail maybe you should take it rather seriously.
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Software development is an engineering practice when done right, which you clearly have no fucking clue how real engineers work. Fortunately people like you will never be allowed to do anything that actually matters like build bridges or buildings
I just had to laugh at this one. You praise Agile but it is everything but the way you'd build a bridge or building. You absolutely don't create a building one room at a time, you have architects and construction engineers and blueprints all ready to go before you start implementing. If you did it the Agile way you'd rewire the house ten times over before you're done. And you don't in the middle of construction find out you want to add another floor and an upstairs bathroom, not unless you want a huge replanning. Agile is more like Star Trek, full power to shields/weapons/engines/life support and things magically rewire themselves to serve the most pressing business need.
To be honest, I feel like waterfall overplan and overthinks things, Agile underplans and underthinks things. I like waterfall projects that act "agilish", small initial scope and iterative releases, clear deliverables, priorities and rapid prototyping. Or Agile projects that act "waterfallish", someone with a clear long term vision of what the system eventually will look like and how the components we build will scale and fit the big picture. Bad waterfall is just mental masturbation over plans that'll never work in reality. Bad Agile is just timeboxed cowboy coding, making up shit as you go along. The problem is some project managers think you can make uncertainty go away by sitting around a table and discussing it further. Some things you just won't know until you've tried and seen what kind of progress you actually make.
And yet another top of the line card comes out at $1/GB more or less. With even the smallest cards going for $10 a Best Buy due to shipping and storage prices... can we find some better way of doing this? How about a box of 10 SD cards like floppies at the signoff price for floppies at $10/box?
Best Buy? LOL. Ever hear of eBay, grandpa? Here's 10 32GB microSD cards for $29.99 with free shipping, that works out to $3/card and less than $0.1/GB.
once in a millennia volcanic eruptions
We all know that three of these events are likely to occur in our lifetime.
Well I guess this is the unlikely one then, works for me. Unless those bastards discover immortality.
I have the feeling the real litmus test would be the first time they have a really bad bug, like permanent injury or death where you just have to admit the car was dead wrong. You can compare this with for example the medical industry or industrial accidents, a lot of people have died from human error. But despite all the checklists and routines and safety procedures people recognize that there's always the human factor. With medical equipment and industrial robots on the other hand, there's no tolerance for fatal errors. Which is why there's not so much human-robot interaction really, usually they operated in closed quarters and safety cages and if humans are to go in there they're turned off.
But you can't do that with a car AI and sooner or later it'll run into one kind of crazy nobody taught it how to handle. And improvisation is not their best skill, I suppose it'll hit the brakes and come to a complete stop. If that means standing still as that 50 ton out-of-control semi comes barreling down the hill right at you, well it's technically correct driving I suppose. But it's maybe not the best kind of correct for you.
Real life is not Star Trek, and we are not Klingons. The "Sins of the Father" do not dishonor the next seven generations of real human beings. (...) To continue to bear a grudge, especially when you're not even the actual person who was wronged, and double especially against people who weren't involved and likely not even born at the time; is just batshit irrational.
The repercussions and spoils of war can last a lot longer than a generation. If your daddy got rich on blood money from the Nazis, it doesn't become clean money just because you inherit it. Same with lands you've occupied, property you've seized, occupants you've deported or enslaved. I can certainly see Native Americans or children of an African-American slave holding a grudge even though the actual people who forced them into reservations or slavery is dead. Sure at some point you have to bury the hatchet and not dig up every old feud from here to the dawn of man, but I think you're oversimplifying it a little.
The other part is whether the next generation has really taken a stand against the culture and ideology that was the foundation of the war in the first place. So the North won the civil war and slavery was ended, why then did the US have the KKK? Why did you need Martin Luther King jr? Is racism dead now that Obama is President? One should hope so, but it's been 150 years. Ethnic wars, religious wars, old hatred is like a fire keg waiting to be relit. Because we're not just people, it's still us and them.
It's not exactly a conincidence that WWII started with Germany, just like WWI did. Or that the Middle East has been a battleground for the last 2000 years. You have to be blind not to see that next war is very likely to come from the same place as the last war. Different people, same shit. What ISIS is doing today isn't new, it's very old. It could have happened a hundred or a thousand years ago. And if they don't deal with it, regardless if they're beaten into a military surrender or not it can happen again in a hundred years from now. It's not their forefather's battle they're fighting, it's the same fucking battle with a new generation of soldiers.
The "selling" at a negative rate doesn't happen very often, so relying on that mechanism to encourage battery charging or other storage means isn't going to be viable .. short of rigging the mechanism
Yeah I don't see battery packs for the sake of storing it actually working out. But I do see the potential for opportunistic charging of EVs. We know that in order for them to be popular, the max range must be well beyond the daily commute. But that doesn't mean people need the fully charged all the time, if you know monday-friday you're just going to work and picking up a few groceries maybe you say anything over 40% is okay, charge it up to 80% if you can do it cheaply but otherwise don't bother. Throw in a little fleet management and you can create a variable demand to match the variable supply or at the very least smoothen out the peaks. You don't need free electricity for that, just cheaper electricity.
And it could even be an emergency power source if you have to, if a major power plant goes down maybe you can drain it back out like a distributed UPS until you hit the user defined minimums. It's not so much that you'd actually invest in that specifically as that you'll use it because it's there for other reasons. And if we ever get those autonomous cars going, we could use it for opportunistic transport - if we're not in a hurry maybe we'll start driving when the battery's full so we can deliver cheap and get back to waiting for more cheap peak time electricity. Instead of trying to make supply flat, maybe the focus should be on making the demand variable too.
Torvalds claims, somewhat exaggeratedly, that he did write the core of git in two weeks
Well, only April 6th 2005 he wrote:
NOTE! BitKeeper isn't going away per se. Right now, the only real thing that has happened is that I've decided to not use BK mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives, and rather than continuing "things as normal", I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like. So far it's a gray and bleak world ;) (...) PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative
On April 21st he announced git.
Seems to me like the "I #Â%#&Â give up, none of these alternatives work I'll just write my own SCM system" phase was 15 days, that's close enough to two weeks for me. Of course I'm sure a lot of the mental churning on what such a system should be like was already done but in terms of coding it seems like he knocked out an initial version in that timeframe.
Hollywood has released some awesome movies and giant turds too, I'm sure they all seemed like a good idea at some point. Just launch both and let the market decide, the pre-hype wars are just tedious.
He's making an announcement to the entire company. Difficult as that may be to believe, IT staff isn't actually the most popular group of employees in many companies. So, roughly translated, his message reads: "Rejoice, journalists, artists, writers, editors, and business people, our ornery and expensive IT staff is being replaced with more efficient and friendlier overseas staff, and we're going to save money too!"
Regardless of that it's the job of any CxO to make a shit sandwich sound tasty. If they were laying off journalists he'd make that sound like some kind of strategic plan and realignment opportunity too, he wouldn't say "business has turned sour and people don't like our product anymore" any more than he'd say "those Indians work so damn cheap" even though that's the reality. Yeah I've met some dysfunctional IT organizations, but I doubt outsourcing would fix any of the because the dysfunction is usually at the management level that stays, the people who work on code, servers, databases, networks etc. usually know their stuff well enough. It doesn't matter though if people work on the wrong things or pointless initatives that'll be for naught, nothing has value unless it goes to production and actually solves a business need.
As someone else said, these ISPs simply would never, ever bring service to these remote areas if not for government subsidy, because these areas don't otherwise meet the company's ROI goals. These people should not be penalized for living in rural areas.
Let's be honest here, this isn't business they're not taking because they don't get Apple-like margins. In most cases this is business operating at a dead loss that will never recover the investment/operating cost. Very often when you read about rural areas self-organizing to get decent broadband you have one or more enthusiasts that have spent countless hours working for free to make it happen, if they'd billed at market value the business would have gone under. It's not a penalty to expect users of a service to generally cover the cost of providing service.
I mean, if you don't have to worry about operating on a commercial basis why stop at 10 Mbit/s? Google delivers gigabit fiber for $70/month, why penalize rural areas with less. It's not hard to turn this into absurdity. Yes, occasionally we invest in basic infrastructure the same way we invest in basic research even though there's no immediate ROI but because we expect that long term having public roads, mail service, electricity grids, phone service, public utilities etc. will help the community. Broadband is obviously such a thing, to some degree.
I just checked here in Norway, under 4 Mbit/s would be ~9% of broadband connections - almost everyone can get some form of "broadband" (>128kbps here, but not used as cutoff) if they want - and under 10 Mbit/s ~27%, so tripling the number of people and presumably raising the bar to 10 Mbit/s would increase cost/head. If you got infinite budgets no problem, but if it's about getting the most value out of limited funds I'd rather concentrate on the few that don't even have 4 Mbit/s than raising up the rest to >10 Mbit/s. And maybe push fiber on the other end, instead of 10-50 Mbps solutions.
The problem is information asymmetry. Rather than trying to put the genie back in the bottle of ubiquitous privacy, instead we need to shine light (via legal or extralegal methods) into the darkest recesses of public servants, ceos, silver spoons, and politicians private lives. Once nobody has anything to hide (because it is all out in the open) we will be in a better position to judge both laws and people on their merits rather than the weasel-worded ideals projected to us.
And how does that work exactly, the NSA spies on everybody so everybody spies on the NSA? Any scandalized politician will just retire early from politics and get a cushy job for a lobby interest they pushed, no questions asked. Outing people just swap out the talking heads, the system stays the same. And if you think it's ever coming to some sort of reckoning and scaling back of the surveillance society it's not happening, they'll just carve out some more legal exceptions and make more privacy-invading additions for the rest of us to stop the extralegal ways. You sound like one of those Anonymous hackers with delusions of grandeur, sorry but got zero chance at exposing all the backroom deals. Zero.
I can't say I think this is a good thing. Grey areas are good. Humans are grey, and technical models of human society should have grey considerations as well.
And how - short of turning back time - would we achieve that? Like 25 years ago "sexting" was not a problem because we didn't have cell phones or digicams, but short of the Amish nobody wants to go back there. The only question is how you go forwards, whether it's wailing and moaning about how things were better before or not and if you got any meaningful choices going forward.
I don't think you could will the gray areas back even if you wanted to. Maybe the question is as simple as choosing black or white? I'd pick private communication and private data, but unfortunately I think public opinion might be more "if you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear so just let the government rifle through it all looking for bad guys". Because that's where I think you ultimately end up, we're just moving in that direction much more slowly than I thought. I think I had pretty much the exact same thoughts 10+ years ago and expected crunch time to have come and gone by now.
If people had waaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands would they cure cancer or be the next Tolkien? I'm guessing we'd see a lot more records like this, as long as you do it on your own time and dime hey it's your life. I'm not pretending I'd be all that much better, but then I don't expect anyone to pay me for it either...
The value is an illusion, I could download 1000 MP3s that'd cost 99 cents but I couldn't sell it for ten bucks. Okay maybe you'd get a bit of cash for original CDs/DVDs/BluRays, but only a small fraction of what you paid. Practically I just consider the entertainment value to me and consider the asset value ~$0. Which means I'm only interested in owning it if it's a good deal, if I'd never see the movie again I don't care if it's just a stream. And most things are only worth watching once. Many songs are a summer hit and fade away. I get bored by games. As long as I got value for my money forever ever is not really that big a deal.
Every console uses AMD but if you look at their semi-custom revenue/profits margins are very slim. It's good for keeping production volume up as the smaller player but it's not good business. Whether that's because of market realities or because AMD lowballed it is hard to say, but I guess they expected a bigger payoff in the desktop market.
Meh, the flagship typically has the worst price/performance. But it's rare that it is worth trading down in the lineup, if you have last generation's flagship stick with it or buy a new flagship.
Looks nice, but within a year I expect a cosumerish big pascal with hbm2 and closer to 300w as the ultimate single card. Not ready to replace my SLI setup for this one, but multi-gpu support is getting more and more niche. One monster card for 4k gaming would be great.
Not that I'm really disagreeing with you but how big is the total launch market at current rates? This is not like Tesla and the car market, as I understand it SpaceX is already a fairly big player. Even with reusable rockets there won't be a mass market any time soon.
I'm sure they'd be working on that in parallel, but the right to air a TV channel live + x hours of replay streaming might be easier to deal with from the business side than a ton of different content that have very different long term value. News, live sports and other current events have very short shelf life, series and movies a much longer shelf life. An "airing" is a known quantity for the TV networks, it's what they do themselves and know how to price.
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What part of that is in any way unclear?
Maybe it's not, but it's got a long history here... I remember the Obama stories, the Bush stories all the way back to before 9/11. Usually the discussion has circled in on what it means for nerds and tech workers, not political discussion in general and so turned it into a useful topic for us that you wouldn't really get elsewhere. If you don't feel that's the case anymore, it's mostly the crowd at fault not the story. And sometimes it's fun to see how /. can be armchair political experts too in addition to supreme court justices, like if Clinton would win more or less on walkover because she's establishment then Trump would never, ever been the republican candidate to being with. I think a jumbo bag of popcorn is in order up to the election...
While that's kinda important you also need to have active communication to be useful, which puts a rather significant drain on your power budget. And every time the user raises his arm so you think he might be looking at the watch and not just reaching for something on a shelf, the screen has to turn on. On the kind of battery you can fit in a watch, that's a pretty big deal. Ever put your cell phone in flight mode and not use it to game or listen to music? It'll barely sip power because it's not doing anything. On the other hand, it's not very useful either.
the whole point of Linux was that you didnt have to make any fucking pledges. (...) Further, the nature of open source code itself discourages the kinds of back-doors
You know that and I know that and Mark Shuttleworth knows it too. And I don't think he was ever considering adding one. The pledge is just a PR grab and he can even top it off with saying everyone's welcome to verify that themselves by inspecting the source. If I was competing against two major closed source operating systems I'd do it too, who cares if it's a bit "well, duuuh" for existing open source users.
"We don't do encryption to hide things; we do encryption so we can choose what to share"
As a greybeard, Fuck your cloud and the sharing economy it rolled in on. When i choose what to share, I make it explicitly publically available in a format that may, or may not be encrypted. when you recontext my privacy in terms of what im willing to "share" with people it debases the very real need for encryption to circumvent things like warrantless wiretaps, blanket government surveillance, and invasive advertising. stop treating me like a toddler for using cryptography.
It sounds like something Phil Zimmerman could have said, would your response have been the same?
maybe you will, maybe you wont, but again, the point of linux is that I dont need a 60 million dollar corporation to reassure me about privacy. if you do it --like you screwed developers with contributor agreements and the UI-- ill just switch to a different distro or ill fork yours.
Sounds like you have an axe to grind with him, if you want to talk about choice and freedom couldn't you simply not use Ubuntu? I hear Windows 10 is great for your privacy...
Statcounter doesn't break out stats for Linux, which is perhaps just as well.
They do if you download the CSV. For April 2016 in the US it's 1,54% and 1,63% Chromebooks, for the world it's 1.55% and 0.55% respectively. Mobile and web has pretty much cracked the platform monopoly anyway, you have to be a pretty staunch believer to start a new application exclusively for the Windows desktop.
I can respect what this professor is saying. However, there are plenty of industries/careers/endeavors that have it far worse. Take safety, for example. You can have thousands of successes, but then everything goes in smoke after an failure or two.
Uh, that would be the opposite where your failures are very visible. He's describing how all the successes are on the CV and the failures aren't, so people think life's been a winning streak. He's showing the list to say I've had my failures, you'll have your failures too and that's totally normal so don't fret about it. At least ordinary people in ordinary careers shouldn't, if people die when you fail maybe you should take it rather seriously.