The same argument has been made about ABS, traction control, electronic stability programs and similar changes that mitigate or hide the forces at work until they overwhelm the system or that take away part of the work like cruise control and so on. At least so far the conclusion has been that even though people push the limits, overall it does good. Particularly if they limit the scope to hard/emergency braking or even just damage reduction, so you normally want to brake yourself. I mean, clearly if you do the math of distance and speed you at some point cross the threshold where a crash is inevitable, but there's still time to turn a high-speed impact into a low-speed impact. And that matters a lot, it's still an accident but they're not all equal.
In all seriousness though, how does such a massive distraction *not* interfere with a job where you have to, you know, focus?
I'm guessing that the amount of attention and cozy attitude you get is highly related to your job performance. I think roughly 99% of all clothes store selling clothes to men employ attractive women, if they tell you it looks great on you we're affected even though they probably say that about everything to everybody some part of your brain wants to think "a hot girl thinks I'm sexy in this". If they can make that a (sub-?)conscious competition you know that males will go to great lengths to impress a girl. They probably need to tune it right to make you churn out work rather than daydream all day, but I don't have any doubt it could work.
Sorry but you are screwed. Unless the devices themselves have some kind of common sync like wordclock or the like, they will drift out of sync. So sync the audio at any given point, it'll be out of sync later. That's why studios have all kind of gear to slave everything to a master clock.
Uh, the fact that he links to a piece of proprietary software which can do it in the summary should be a pretty good hint that he's not screwed. He might not be able to do it on Linux, but clearly you know even less about it than the submitter.
How is it nothing like that? I'll give you a clearer quote from RMS:
RMS: Proprietary software is unethical, because it denies the user the basic freedom to control her own computer and to cooperate. It may also be of low quality or insecure, but that's a secondary issue. I will reject it even if it is the best quality in the world, simply because I value my freedom too much to give it up for that.
He asked questions such as, how do game developers, like himself, make a living without making proprietary software? Stallman replied with a stock statement that such a job is unethical and that he should do something else, and further elaborated that there are lots of jobs writing custom software for clients, and that those clients, if they're not stupid, will demand the source code.
I don't know if I can get it through your thick skull, but RMS says and has been saying for decades that making proprietary software makes you a bad person and the ethical thing to do is to quit your job if you can't do it in an "ethical" = "free software" way.
Didn't anyone ever tell you that argument by analogy is a logical fallacy when the analogy is false?
Didn't anybody tell you that falsely appealing to a fallacy is a fallacy?
The problem with "monetize" is, the sense has become not just "make money from it" but "lock it up".
If by "lock it up" you mean "stop giving it away", then usually yes. Or to put it in/.-speak if what you have is:
1. Create great product 2. Give it away for free, sell service and support 3. No profit
And what you want is:
1. Create great product 2. ??? 3. Profit
Then obviously the free software model isn't working for you. RMS doesn't care that you have bills to pay, it's the "ethical" way or the highway and you should rather quit than write non-free code. And that's where he jumps the shark for me, it's like an eco-freak saying that if you can't get to work without your gas guzzler, it's your ethical obligation to quit. Even if it means you can't pay rent and end up homeless, RMS can relate to that. Or that if you don't give away all your wealth and become a Tibetan monk, you're not charitable. In my world I don't have a problem with you taking your code/site/service and going non-free as long as you obey the licenses. If you can beat free software on your own or with just code with more permissive and make money, that's fairly earned. There's nothing wrong with working for personal gain rather than the common good, as long as you're not deluding yourself about it. And if you still want to contribute to free software, do that. It's no more contradictory than Bill Gates hoarding lots of money then giving it away.
This card is not aimed at people who are upgrading their POS SFF from a major manufacturer. It's aimed at people who buy a $200+ case and put a $200 motherboard into it. SFF cases go on up past $500 with a 475W power supply included, more than enough juice to run one of these cards. It's exactly the kind of thing I want for my next PC, which I will probably spend more than $600 on... except that I don't want to buy an AMD video card. And that machine will likely not have an AMD processor, either, like the one I'm using now does.
I made such a "gaming SFF" once, but only once. It was hot, it was loud and though it lowered the bulk you still needed everything else but the box. I can understand gaming laptops for portability. I can understand <50W SFF boxes for casual or HTPC use, particularly passively cooled. But if you want a system drawing >250W, you spend ridiculous amounts and cripple performance compared to a slightly bigger mATX mini-tower that can fit and cool a full size card. Unless you have some really odd requirements I don't see how saving a shoebox's worth of space is a luxury product.
and another empty threat. you'll be on windows 10 in a few years, you'll see.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaaa!
And sometimes it's just an empty threat. Three reasons Ican'tswitch, I got plenty more. Or rather, I did use Linux as my primary desktop like 2007-2010, it worked more or less but I always needed a gaming box so consolidating some hardware I decided to just run Windows 7. I hoped that by now it'd reach more of the mainstream but no, from July 2008 to August 2015 it's gone from 0.84% to 1.5% desktop market share. Steam got less than 1% Linux users. Those who think they see a shift in the market towards Linux are deluding themselves. Most people who run Windows today will run Windows 5 years from now and with Win7 running out of support most people will upgrade then, if not now.
Really? Because I find there's plenty "good enough" Linux clones when it comes to the basic OS interface. It helps that I think anything past Windows 95 is perfectly usable. Unless by that you mean the whole bells and whistles with DirectX, Active Directory and everything else except the applications. Personally I'd go with MS Office Professional, though technically that's a suite not an application but it's sold under one highly discounted sticker price and the only one they'll push in volume licensing agreements. Why? Because the "pro" version with Outlook is the lifeblood of most companies. If you could replace that, Windows as the "must have" OS would disappear in a puff of smoke and you'd see far more professional apps support Linux, which would bring workstation users over and it'd just spiral from there. Of course trying to kill a >$10 billion/year money machine is a lot harder than it sounds...
I got a UHD monitor and what I really miss is a simple way to say "This application is stupid, tell it that my screen is 1920x1080 and scale it 200%." Same thing with browsers, though they could optimistically render images at full resoulation if the image file has higher resolution than the display size.
For the love of god, not this shit. Linux is all about CHOICE. Who fucking CARES what the default desktop is? It's for people literally too lazy to bother trying to find their best match. Besides Unity and GNOME3 for the tasteless brainwashed, there is always KDE4/5. If KDE4/5 is too bloated to taste, there are Cinnamon, MATE (essentially GNOME2), Trinity (essentially KDE3) , Xfce, and LXDE. Enligtenment has its partisans too. If every one of those seem too heavy and in-the-way, you can use one of the large variety of old standby (and plenty of newer) window managers that are less than full-blown desktop environments. Some of the better-known and wiely-used ones are awesome, Blackbox, dwm, Fluxbox, FVWM, IceWM, ratpoison, twm, and Xmonad. That's far from an exhaustive list.
The choice of DE is not merely a theme or a set of configuration changes, Unfortunately there's generally not a good separation between the system utilities and the UI it runs on, so it is not just a visual change but you're throwing away most everything you'd find under the control panel of device management, disk mangement, wired and wireless network connections, keyboard and localization settings, mouse settings, bluetooth settings, display settings, sound settings, power management, user management, accessibility options, default applications and so on. Switch DE and you're usually practically starting over, not to mention they actually have different capabilities so what worked under one won't work under the other. It's the same problem that you typically have when the answer to a problem is to switch distro, most likely the new distro will break in some other way sending you on a time-consuming and often futile search for a solution where everything you want works at the same time. Also every six months or so people will tell you all your old experiences are invalid, try again now on the current version.
The problem is they won't leave you any other choice but to switch. Many projects seem to be run by UX fascists, they're not offering an alternative they're taking away the old way and saying this is the new way and you will like it. I wish somebody would take a real modern desktop and write a GUI-less back-end leaving the front-ends to implement just the visuals. Then it wouldn't be such a big deal if they decided to break shit, just use a different front end to provide that functionality.
I'm an American, and I find that the Trotskyites here call anything they don't like - "socialism". It's...... complex, some how.
When Americans say socialism, they usually mean taxes. Typically they disregard how society indirectly provides benefits like a skilled labor pool, infrastructure and other foundations for modern civilization that enabled their company to make millions in profit. They only narrowly look at the government services they've directly consumed and want their tax bill to match. In fact they might actually argue their tax rate should be lower because a millionaire is still just one man and doesn't consume services in proportion to his income, so they'd rather have a small government and pay themselves. "Socialists" are everybody who want more taxes, progressive taxes, inheritance tax, wealth tax, taxes for welfare, taxes for universal services, taxes for public services or really any form of tax that would redistribute wealth from the rich for the common good. Basically any accumulation of wealth is their own and society has no right to any of it, though those who say that typically want protection of private property and contracts, police, courts and all the other bits that happen to be necessary to keep a large personal fortune. I'm sure it's a coincidence.
And at what point is that? You mean at a point where most people don't have 4k TVs and most content is barely 1080p and most people don't have connections that support 4k streaming?
Well, Apple likes to target the people with money which significantly increases the odds. I really don't understand why TV can't take a few pages from Spotify and Steam though like offline mode (download now, view later) and automatic pre-release caching of content, it's not like the next episode of Game of Thrones is broadcast live. No stuttering, no degradation, no broken connections and even if they don't want to do full offline mode even a shitty cell phone connection should be enough to authenticate and play. Of course it won't work for sports or news or anything else broadcast live, but it'd work for some things. They could even schedule it for the service's non-peak hours, so 3 AM in the morning you're downloading tonight's episode. That would make it accessible to a lot more people.
The Whispers. Well except: - Why leave a calling card that your name is Drill? - Agents with the most compromised integrity ever. - Kids "playing a game" every kid would understand isn't. - Despite knowing they're under alien influence, full freedom.
Initially it wasn't so bad, but somewhere mid-season the terrible credibility of the story overcame my suspension of disbelief. Even though most the adults should be in jail and most the kids locked up under supervision, the lead actors could do anything without any real consequence so the story would keep going. And that's before the clown playing President, who is everything from extremely timid to extremely reckless to fit the story. Maybe if it had been a high paced action series you'd miss it, but there's so many scenes trying to pass a bullshit story really, really slow.
Whatever rocks your boat. Near as I can tell, almost nobody actually cares to be productive all the time. Most of us have hobbies or interests which ultimately don't have any point at all except that we like it. That's usually the case for social interaction too, some people want more or less of it but a night of beers with my buddies rarely produces more than a hangover. I'm usually on the computer because TV is usually too dull and passive for me, it doesn't mean blabbing off a comment on/. is more productive. And it doesn't mean I need to go skydiving to get my adrenaline pumping. If you got too many ants in your trouser to sit down and watch TV, good for you. But I'm guessing you're ultimately wasting your time on something else. In fact, what you do when it's not to produce something usually reflects what you really want, the rest is usually work, chores, maintenance and repair that you "have to" do.
So basically Google Streetview in 3D. Somehow I fail to see the big problem, it's not like the view from public roads is a big secret, unless it's considerably above human height and peeking into walled gardens.
I'm with you on every point except your agile comments. Yes many companies get it very wrong, but many companies get waterfall just as wrong. For me, coming from a massively waterfall environment to an agile environment has dropped my stress level considerably. Here is how agile (Scrum, specifically) is supposed to benefit you:
Is there any way to do waterfall right? I mean in theory it could work if people knew exactly what they wanted, but I haven't run into it yet. Usually when they see it implemented it turns out that's not actually what they meant or they had a lot of other conditions and features too that it turns out wasn't in the spec. That said, at least with waterfall you have a real plan, where you sometimes have to cross a desert where there's fucking nothing of value other than getting to the other side. Sometimes there's just not any quick wins, you need to make something big that solves a lot.
Game room/exercise room: What this means is more distractions for the young workers who already can't focus on their task for five minutes and get something done. Now they need to bug you to play with them and wonder why you say you don't have time as we are already way behind. So now you end up doing their tasks while they are shooting pool just to make sure the client gets what they were promised. Basically, more people NOT working while at work, forcing you into more hours to pick up the slack. BTW, how many hours a week does your company actually expect out of you?
Dunno, but if it's X whether I play a game of pool or not.... I'm playing pool. It sounds like you're playing Sisyphus, if the ball is always rolling down hill why is it your job to push it back up? Sounds like you want to be the hero that saves the day, but as long as you're just covering for other people all you have are a few youngsters who think you're grumpy and don't see the problem because the deadlines are met anyway. Find a way to let them crash and burn, without you getting too singed and you might find yourself more appreciated.
A lot of tech work is reactionary. And if all you have to do is put out fires, it isn't terrible. But you are usually expected to work at other things between fires. Which means the second you start doing one thing, you have to stop and go fix six other things. Always feeling like you are getting pulled in eighteen different directions sucks.
Actually that part is not so bad. The bad part is when you're not allowed to do anything more than run around with a fire extinguisher. I mean if the electrician told you the wiring is from last century and needs to be replaced, you'd do it. Same if the plumber said your sewer and water pipes are shot. But the more of a clusterfuck an application is, the harder it seems to replace because nobody understands it, it operates on no standards and the documentation is non-existent. The kind of application that have you tearing your hair out because it will fail in surprising, spectacular and entirely irrational ways and fixing it is like an acid trip through Alice's Wonderland, never knowing what you'll unleash next. Once I discovered a bug where totally unrelated functionality used the same locking table, but only one checked the object type. So you'd pull a string on one end and another part of the application fell apart. Oh joy.
I doubt it will fail even if people don't care simply because once the early adopter premium is over the cost difference is not that huge and unlike 3D there's really no downsides. Checking my local price comparison site here now in Norway there's 84 TV models with 720p, 7 models with 1080i, 445 models with 1080p and 253 with Ultra HD. If I restrict it to 50"+ models UltraHD is already in a majority (188 vs 176). About 4 years ago I bought a 60" 1080p LCD, I see now you can get a 58" UHD LCD for 20% less. Am I going to run out and buy a new one? Hell no, but if it needs replacing they're already at the prices you paid for a 1080p screen five years ago. With UltraHD Blu-Ray launching before Christmas there'll actually be high bandwidth content too, not just Netflix stream. Though I'd rather wait a couple years more until I'm sure any TV I buy will be compatible with the new features like HDR and Rec. 2020. Then again, like computers there's always something better coming.
This is the best answer right here, and it would cure his loneliness, too. Not only do the people who have stuck by you during the hard times deserve the reward, but they're the ones who have proven who you can trust.
I think even the best of friendships might end up weird if sucking up to you might mean another drop of many millions of dollars. And many people will feel quite obliged by something like that, even if it's a gift. And some feel unnaturally compelled to match spending habits even though they clearly can't afford it, though I suppose not with a billionaire. Sure, some people are welfare queens and will take what they can get but many also don't want your charity. It's always easier to peer with your peers, which is why rich people tend to lump together.
I'm mad because in ten years they still won't have delivered, will have spent the bulk of the money on executive bonuses and won't get punished. Keep the subsidies, make em pay it back with interest if they're so much as a smidge off
Better yet, why not pay on delivery? Sure, you'll have to compensate them a little bit extra to cover interest for the roll-out period but "no cure, no pay" tends to get things done.
We're getting to the point where the Linux kernel itself is superb, but everything built on top of it is becoming utter shit. This is unfortunate, because the kernel alone is not very useful. The kernel's actual usefulness comes from it laying a solid foundation for the great things that could potentially be built upon it.
There was a billion Android devices shipped last year. It has 98% market share on the TOP500 supercomputer list. About 92% of Amazon's EC2 cloud servers run some form of Linux. Maybe we'll still be waiting for YotLD ten years from now, but I don't think anything could reverse that momentum. The entire FreeBSD ports tree had in Q1 2015 a bit less than 7000 commits from 163 developers, there's a ton of work missing to reach feature parity with the Linux kernel and nobody complained about it in the first place, I think there already was a "BSD-like" init system called OpenRC and it'd probably be less work to finish that than to write all the bits that are missing from Linux. Either way the problem is how many packages you must maintain that don't support your init system upstream.
Personally I wish Google would take a play from the Microsoft playbook and introduce the Android desktop, then again at this point it might be seen as admitting Microsoft has a point about one device from smartphones to tablets to laptops to desktops. Then again their Chromebooks are very successful, unfortunately really since they got you very hooked up to the mothership.
Everything? No. Just the kernel and X. Also note that if you first upgrade to a non-LTS kernel you're only getting support on that until the next LTS kernel is out, if you want something you can leave untouched for a few years afterwards you'd better stick with the original kernel.
Each Linux release includes more than 10,000 patches from more than 1,400 developers and more than 200 corporations.
Of course a whole lot of them work on some driver that won't have any effect on you unless you own that piece of hardware, same with architecture-specific code and various other subsystems. The number of code changes that touches everyone is significantly less.
As far as I can understand, AMD has released the specs for the new GPUs, which is what many Linux / Open Source advocates care about, right? Sure they haven't yet added the support for the new cards on their own, but other people could do it if they are in a hurry, right?
Not for Fury, not yet. The shader instruction set architecture (ISA) is up to date, since the shaders are still GCN 1.2 (also known as 3rd gen GCN, IPv8) so you can write shader code for it. But the code to initialize and manage the card changes from generation to generation, if I recall correctly at launch it didn't work at all. Those parts are typically written by AMD, with the code typically preceding and more or less being the initial documentation. From what I've understood it's because AMD's legal department finds it easier to approve low level code than the high level documentation you'd need to write your own from scratch, since the former is less likely to reveal any trade secrets or plans for the future and the implementation is de facto proof the information is sufficient. So until AMD drops some code to dynamically manage clocks on Fury, there's not documentation either.
Once upon a time AMD had a plan to reach launch parity with Windows, since the work doesn't get any significant less by waiting - in fact it would be easier if they could ask the closed source people towards the end of their implementation while it's still fresh before they start moving on to the next generation of cards, but with AMD's financial troubles that's not going to happen. If the open source driver wasn't important for the embedded/semi-custom market, one of the niches AMD is betting on I don't think any of them would have a job today. In fact, I'm not sure how long anybody at AMD has a job as they now have a stockholder's deficit meaning they owe more than their assets. Technically that's not a problem until they can't pay their bills, but I'm not sure how much longer they can get financing since they're now losing the bank's money.
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The same argument has been made about ABS, traction control, electronic stability programs and similar changes that mitigate or hide the forces at work until they overwhelm the system or that take away part of the work like cruise control and so on. At least so far the conclusion has been that even though people push the limits, overall it does good. Particularly if they limit the scope to hard/emergency braking or even just damage reduction, so you normally want to brake yourself. I mean, clearly if you do the math of distance and speed you at some point cross the threshold where a crash is inevitable, but there's still time to turn a high-speed impact into a low-speed impact. And that matters a lot, it's still an accident but they're not all equal.
In all seriousness though, how does such a massive distraction *not* interfere with a job where you have to, you know, focus?
I'm guessing that the amount of attention and cozy attitude you get is highly related to your job performance. I think roughly 99% of all clothes store selling clothes to men employ attractive women, if they tell you it looks great on you we're affected even though they probably say that about everything to everybody some part of your brain wants to think "a hot girl thinks I'm sexy in this". If they can make that a (sub-?)conscious competition you know that males will go to great lengths to impress a girl. They probably need to tune it right to make you churn out work rather than daydream all day, but I don't have any doubt it could work.
Sorry but you are screwed. Unless the devices themselves have some kind of common sync like wordclock or the like, they will drift out of sync. So sync the audio at any given point, it'll be out of sync later. That's why studios have all kind of gear to slave everything to a master clock.
Uh, the fact that he links to a piece of proprietary software which can do it in the summary should be a pretty good hint that he's not screwed. He might not be able to do it on Linux, but clearly you know even less about it than the submitter.
It's nothing whatsoever like that.
How is it nothing like that? I'll give you a clearer quote from RMS:
RMS: Proprietary software is unethical, because it denies the user the basic freedom to control her own computer and to cooperate. It may also be of low quality or insecure, but that's a secondary issue. I will reject it even if it is the best quality in the world, simply because I value my freedom too much to give it up for that.
And this:
He asked questions such as, how do game developers, like himself, make a living without making proprietary software? Stallman replied with a stock statement that such a job is unethical and that he should do something else, and further elaborated that there are lots of jobs writing custom software for clients, and that those clients, if they're not stupid, will demand the source code.
I don't know if I can get it through your thick skull, but RMS says and has been saying for decades that making proprietary software makes you a bad person and the ethical thing to do is to quit your job if you can't do it in an "ethical" = "free software" way.
Didn't anyone ever tell you that argument by analogy is a logical fallacy when the analogy is false?
Didn't anybody tell you that falsely appealing to a fallacy is a fallacy?
The problem with "monetize" is, the sense has become not just "make money from it" but "lock it up".
If by "lock it up" you mean "stop giving it away", then usually yes. Or to put it in /.-speak if what you have is:
1. Create great product
2. Give it away for free, sell service and support
3. No profit
And what you want is:
1. Create great product
2. ???
3. Profit
Then obviously the free software model isn't working for you. RMS doesn't care that you have bills to pay, it's the "ethical" way or the highway and you should rather quit than write non-free code. And that's where he jumps the shark for me, it's like an eco-freak saying that if you can't get to work without your gas guzzler, it's your ethical obligation to quit. Even if it means you can't pay rent and end up homeless, RMS can relate to that. Or that if you don't give away all your wealth and become a Tibetan monk, you're not charitable. In my world I don't have a problem with you taking your code/site/service and going non-free as long as you obey the licenses. If you can beat free software on your own or with just code with more permissive and make money, that's fairly earned. There's nothing wrong with working for personal gain rather than the common good, as long as you're not deluding yourself about it. And if you still want to contribute to free software, do that. It's no more contradictory than Bill Gates hoarding lots of money then giving it away.
This card is not aimed at people who are upgrading their POS SFF from a major manufacturer. It's aimed at people who buy a $200+ case and put a $200 motherboard into it. SFF cases go on up past $500 with a 475W power supply included, more than enough juice to run one of these cards. It's exactly the kind of thing I want for my next PC, which I will probably spend more than $600 on... except that I don't want to buy an AMD video card. And that machine will likely not have an AMD processor, either, like the one I'm using now does.
I made such a "gaming SFF" once, but only once. It was hot, it was loud and though it lowered the bulk you still needed everything else but the box. I can understand gaming laptops for portability. I can understand <50W SFF boxes for casual or HTPC use, particularly passively cooled. But if you want a system drawing >250W, you spend ridiculous amounts and cripple performance compared to a slightly bigger mATX mini-tower that can fit and cool a full size card. Unless you have some really odd requirements I don't see how saving a shoebox's worth of space is a luxury product.
and another empty threat. you'll be on windows 10 in a few years, you'll see.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaaa!
And sometimes it's just an empty threat. Three reasons I can't switch, I got plenty more. Or rather, I did use Linux as my primary desktop like 2007-2010, it worked more or less but I always needed a gaming box so consolidating some hardware I decided to just run Windows 7. I hoped that by now it'd reach more of the mainstream but no, from July 2008 to August 2015 it's gone from 0.84% to 1.5% desktop market share. Steam got less than 1% Linux users. Those who think they see a shift in the market towards Linux are deluding themselves. Most people who run Windows today will run Windows 5 years from now and with Win7 running out of support most people will upgrade then, if not now.
Really? Because I find there's plenty "good enough" Linux clones when it comes to the basic OS interface. It helps that I think anything past Windows 95 is perfectly usable. Unless by that you mean the whole bells and whistles with DirectX, Active Directory and everything else except the applications. Personally I'd go with MS Office Professional, though technically that's a suite not an application but it's sold under one highly discounted sticker price and the only one they'll push in volume licensing agreements. Why? Because the "pro" version with Outlook is the lifeblood of most companies. If you could replace that, Windows as the "must have" OS would disappear in a puff of smoke and you'd see far more professional apps support Linux, which would bring workstation users over and it'd just spiral from there. Of course trying to kill a >$10 billion/year money machine is a lot harder than it sounds...
I got a UHD monitor and what I really miss is a simple way to say "This application is stupid, tell it that my screen is 1920x1080 and scale it 200%." Same thing with browsers, though they could optimistically render images at full resoulation if the image file has higher resolution than the display size.
For the love of god, not this shit. Linux is all about CHOICE. Who fucking CARES what the default desktop is? It's for people literally too lazy to bother trying to find their best match. Besides Unity and GNOME3 for the tasteless brainwashed, there is always KDE4/5. If KDE4/5 is too bloated to taste, there are Cinnamon, MATE (essentially GNOME2), Trinity (essentially KDE3) , Xfce, and LXDE. Enligtenment has its partisans too. If every one of those seem too heavy and in-the-way, you can use one of the large variety of old standby (and plenty of newer) window managers that are less than full-blown desktop environments. Some of the better-known and wiely-used ones are awesome, Blackbox, dwm, Fluxbox, FVWM, IceWM, ratpoison, twm, and Xmonad. That's far from an exhaustive list.
The choice of DE is not merely a theme or a set of configuration changes, Unfortunately there's generally not a good separation between the system utilities and the UI it runs on, so it is not just a visual change but you're throwing away most everything you'd find under the control panel of device management, disk mangement, wired and wireless network connections, keyboard and localization settings, mouse settings, bluetooth settings, display settings, sound settings, power management, user management, accessibility options, default applications and so on. Switch DE and you're usually practically starting over, not to mention they actually have different capabilities so what worked under one won't work under the other. It's the same problem that you typically have when the answer to a problem is to switch distro, most likely the new distro will break in some other way sending you on a time-consuming and often futile search for a solution where everything you want works at the same time. Also every six months or so people will tell you all your old experiences are invalid, try again now on the current version.
The problem is they won't leave you any other choice but to switch. Many projects seem to be run by UX fascists, they're not offering an alternative they're taking away the old way and saying this is the new way and you will like it. I wish somebody would take a real modern desktop and write a GUI-less back-end leaving the front-ends to implement just the visuals. Then it wouldn't be such a big deal if they decided to break shit, just use a different front end to provide that functionality.
I'm an American, and I find that the Trotskyites here call anything they don't like - "socialism". It's...... complex, some how.
When Americans say socialism, they usually mean taxes. Typically they disregard how society indirectly provides benefits like a skilled labor pool, infrastructure and other foundations for modern civilization that enabled their company to make millions in profit. They only narrowly look at the government services they've directly consumed and want their tax bill to match. In fact they might actually argue their tax rate should be lower because a millionaire is still just one man and doesn't consume services in proportion to his income, so they'd rather have a small government and pay themselves. "Socialists" are everybody who want more taxes, progressive taxes, inheritance tax, wealth tax, taxes for welfare, taxes for universal services, taxes for public services or really any form of tax that would redistribute wealth from the rich for the common good. Basically any accumulation of wealth is their own and society has no right to any of it, though those who say that typically want protection of private property and contracts, police, courts and all the other bits that happen to be necessary to keep a large personal fortune. I'm sure it's a coincidence.
And at what point is that? You mean at a point where most people don't have 4k TVs and most content is barely 1080p and most people don't have connections that support 4k streaming?
Well, Apple likes to target the people with money which significantly increases the odds. I really don't understand why TV can't take a few pages from Spotify and Steam though like offline mode (download now, view later) and automatic pre-release caching of content, it's not like the next episode of Game of Thrones is broadcast live. No stuttering, no degradation, no broken connections and even if they don't want to do full offline mode even a shitty cell phone connection should be enough to authenticate and play. Of course it won't work for sports or news or anything else broadcast live, but it'd work for some things. They could even schedule it for the service's non-peak hours, so 3 AM in the morning you're downloading tonight's episode. That would make it accessible to a lot more people.
The Whisperers (interesting concept)
The Whispers. Well except:
- Why leave a calling card that your name is Drill?
- Agents with the most compromised integrity ever.
- Kids "playing a game" every kid would understand isn't.
- Despite knowing they're under alien influence, full freedom.
Initially it wasn't so bad, but somewhere mid-season the terrible credibility of the story overcame my suspension of disbelief. Even though most the adults should be in jail and most the kids locked up under supervision, the lead actors could do anything without any real consequence so the story would keep going. And that's before the clown playing President, who is everything from extremely timid to extremely reckless to fit the story. Maybe if it had been a high paced action series you'd miss it, but there's so many scenes trying to pass a bullshit story really, really slow.
Whatever rocks your boat. Near as I can tell, almost nobody actually cares to be productive all the time. Most of us have hobbies or interests which ultimately don't have any point at all except that we like it. That's usually the case for social interaction too, some people want more or less of it but a night of beers with my buddies rarely produces more than a hangover. I'm usually on the computer because TV is usually too dull and passive for me, it doesn't mean blabbing off a comment on /. is more productive. And it doesn't mean I need to go skydiving to get my adrenaline pumping. If you got too many ants in your trouser to sit down and watch TV, good for you. But I'm guessing you're ultimately wasting your time on something else. In fact, what you do when it's not to produce something usually reflects what you really want, the rest is usually work, chores, maintenance and repair that you "have to" do.
So basically Google Streetview in 3D. Somehow I fail to see the big problem, it's not like the view from public roads is a big secret, unless it's considerably above human height and peeking into walled gardens.
I'm with you on every point except your agile comments. Yes many companies get it very wrong, but many companies get waterfall just as wrong. For me, coming from a massively waterfall environment to an agile environment has dropped my stress level considerably. Here is how agile (Scrum, specifically) is supposed to benefit you:
Is there any way to do waterfall right? I mean in theory it could work if people knew exactly what they wanted, but I haven't run into it yet. Usually when they see it implemented it turns out that's not actually what they meant or they had a lot of other conditions and features too that it turns out wasn't in the spec. That said, at least with waterfall you have a real plan, where you sometimes have to cross a desert where there's fucking nothing of value other than getting to the other side. Sometimes there's just not any quick wins, you need to make something big that solves a lot.
Game room/exercise room: What this means is more distractions for the young workers who already can't focus on their task for five minutes and get something done. Now they need to bug you to play with them and wonder why you say you don't have time as we are already way behind. So now you end up doing their tasks while they are shooting pool just to make sure the client gets what they were promised. Basically, more people NOT working while at work, forcing you into more hours to pick up the slack. BTW, how many hours a week does your company actually expect out of you?
Dunno, but if it's X whether I play a game of pool or not.... I'm playing pool. It sounds like you're playing Sisyphus, if the ball is always rolling down hill why is it your job to push it back up? Sounds like you want to be the hero that saves the day, but as long as you're just covering for other people all you have are a few youngsters who think you're grumpy and don't see the problem because the deadlines are met anyway. Find a way to let them crash and burn, without you getting too singed and you might find yourself more appreciated.
A lot of tech work is reactionary. And if all you have to do is put out fires, it isn't terrible. But you are usually expected to work at other things between fires. Which means the second you start doing one thing, you have to stop and go fix six other things. Always feeling like you are getting pulled in eighteen different directions sucks.
Actually that part is not so bad. The bad part is when you're not allowed to do anything more than run around with a fire extinguisher. I mean if the electrician told you the wiring is from last century and needs to be replaced, you'd do it. Same if the plumber said your sewer and water pipes are shot. But the more of a clusterfuck an application is, the harder it seems to replace because nobody understands it, it operates on no standards and the documentation is non-existent. The kind of application that have you tearing your hair out because it will fail in surprising, spectacular and entirely irrational ways and fixing it is like an acid trip through Alice's Wonderland, never knowing what you'll unleash next. Once I discovered a bug where totally unrelated functionality used the same locking table, but only one checked the object type. So you'd pull a string on one end and another part of the application fell apart. Oh joy.
I doubt it will fail even if people don't care simply because once the early adopter premium is over the cost difference is not that huge and unlike 3D there's really no downsides. Checking my local price comparison site here now in Norway there's 84 TV models with 720p, 7 models with 1080i, 445 models with 1080p and 253 with Ultra HD. If I restrict it to 50"+ models UltraHD is already in a majority (188 vs 176). About 4 years ago I bought a 60" 1080p LCD, I see now you can get a 58" UHD LCD for 20% less. Am I going to run out and buy a new one? Hell no, but if it needs replacing they're already at the prices you paid for a 1080p screen five years ago. With UltraHD Blu-Ray launching before Christmas there'll actually be high bandwidth content too, not just Netflix stream. Though I'd rather wait a couple years more until I'm sure any TV I buy will be compatible with the new features like HDR and Rec. 2020. Then again, like computers there's always something better coming.
This is the best answer right here, and it would cure his loneliness, too. Not only do the people who have stuck by you during the hard times deserve the reward, but they're the ones who have proven who you can trust.
I think even the best of friendships might end up weird if sucking up to you might mean another drop of many millions of dollars. And many people will feel quite obliged by something like that, even if it's a gift. And some feel unnaturally compelled to match spending habits even though they clearly can't afford it, though I suppose not with a billionaire. Sure, some people are welfare queens and will take what they can get but many also don't want your charity. It's always easier to peer with your peers, which is why rich people tend to lump together.
I'm mad because in ten years they still won't have delivered, will have spent the bulk of the money on executive bonuses and won't get punished. Keep the subsidies, make em pay it back with interest if they're so much as a smidge off
Better yet, why not pay on delivery? Sure, you'll have to compensate them a little bit extra to cover interest for the roll-out period but "no cure, no pay" tends to get things done.
We're getting to the point where the Linux kernel itself is superb, but everything built on top of it is becoming utter shit. This is unfortunate, because the kernel alone is not very useful. The kernel's actual usefulness comes from it laying a solid foundation for the great things that could potentially be built upon it.
There was a billion Android devices shipped last year. It has 98% market share on the TOP500 supercomputer list. About 92% of Amazon's EC2 cloud servers run some form of Linux. Maybe we'll still be waiting for YotLD ten years from now, but I don't think anything could reverse that momentum. The entire FreeBSD ports tree had in Q1 2015 a bit less than 7000 commits from 163 developers, there's a ton of work missing to reach feature parity with the Linux kernel and nobody complained about it in the first place, I think there already was a "BSD-like" init system called OpenRC and it'd probably be less work to finish that than to write all the bits that are missing from Linux. Either way the problem is how many packages you must maintain that don't support your init system upstream.
Personally I wish Google would take a play from the Microsoft playbook and introduce the Android desktop, then again at this point it might be seen as admitting Microsoft has a point about one device from smartphones to tablets to laptops to desktops. Then again their Chromebooks are very successful, unfortunately really since they got you very hooked up to the mothership.
Everything? No. Just the kernel and X. Also note that if you first upgrade to a non-LTS kernel you're only getting support on that until the next LTS kernel is out, if you want something you can leave untouched for a few years afterwards you'd better stick with the original kernel.
How many people to thank?
According to this:
Each Linux release includes more than 10,000 patches from more than 1,400 developers and more than 200 corporations.
Of course a whole lot of them work on some driver that won't have any effect on you unless you own that piece of hardware, same with architecture-specific code and various other subsystems. The number of code changes that touches everyone is significantly less.
As far as I can understand, AMD has released the specs for the new GPUs, which is what many Linux / Open Source advocates care about, right? Sure they haven't yet added the support for the new cards on their own, but other people could do it if they are in a hurry, right?
Not for Fury, not yet. The shader instruction set architecture (ISA) is up to date, since the shaders are still GCN 1.2 (also known as 3rd gen GCN, IPv8) so you can write shader code for it. But the code to initialize and manage the card changes from generation to generation, if I recall correctly at launch it didn't work at all. Those parts are typically written by AMD, with the code typically preceding and more or less being the initial documentation. From what I've understood it's because AMD's legal department finds it easier to approve low level code than the high level documentation you'd need to write your own from scratch, since the former is less likely to reveal any trade secrets or plans for the future and the implementation is de facto proof the information is sufficient. So until AMD drops some code to dynamically manage clocks on Fury, there's not documentation either.
Once upon a time AMD had a plan to reach launch parity with Windows, since the work doesn't get any significant less by waiting - in fact it would be easier if they could ask the closed source people towards the end of their implementation while it's still fresh before they start moving on to the next generation of cards, but with AMD's financial troubles that's not going to happen. If the open source driver wasn't important for the embedded/semi-custom market, one of the niches AMD is betting on I don't think any of them would have a job today. In fact, I'm not sure how long anybody at AMD has a job as they now have a stockholder's deficit meaning they owe more than their assets. Technically that's not a problem until they can't pay their bills, but I'm not sure how much longer they can get financing since they're now losing the bank's money.