So, apple "steals" from open source for their opsys, and monetizes it, and now they are bent about android coming from open source and not charging for it.
I get it. They *failed* to copy Apple's model (or Disney's). Apple is frightened that they won't have the insane margins, highest in the industry by far, unless they actually do innovate, and have lost their main man that had the actual visions and took them all the way from vision to reality.
Remember Steve saying he'd spend their last time to stop android? It's not about facts, its about emotion.
I won't even argue that. But I have around 20 desktops, and zero tablets or phones. Gnone3 utterly sucks, adds nothing new, but takes away features I liked in gnome 2.
I don't need great big things wasting pixels I paid for. I don't have the first touch screen in my home. Hard to see how I could even reach most of the usual 4 23" monitor setups if they WERE touchscreens. I don't need to explore my computer on every boot - I know what's on there because I put it there.
I create things, not consume them. Why should I have to put up with a screen manage for consume-only types that really does not fit my needs and which wastes my time by removing the few features I actually do use all the time. I don't give a shit about someone saying G2 looks antiquated, because I almost never even see anything of it - I use the pixels I paid for for my apps - many of which I wrote, not to just screw around in the opsys, but you know, actually USE the damn computer to do something useful.
They know very little, and if they are right on this - it's by accident. They are click-baiting totally, trying to get their falling readership to increase instead of what it's doing. I read all the major market rags every day, including this one - they have nice pictures. Their analysis is almost always dead wrong - use their info to trade markets only if you want to lose money.
Actually you're about right there. The Volt does have a tiny gas tank - only about 300 miles worth (saves weight and by golly I gotta get out and pee sometimes anyway). My Volt gets right at 40 mpg, not shabby for its weight, on gasoline that costs less than the over-taxed diesel fuel you get better mileage with in a TDI.
Some of this just comes down to taste I suppose. I happen to have a visceral dislike of diesels that sound like they're gargling rocks at idle, and the smell they make. And the jerks that leave them running while at the convenience store around here, stinking up the lot with eye-watering fumes.
This is because we don't get Libyan light sweet crude to work with, and sulfur removal from diesel fuel is difficult and not very effective. Diesel is a lot more popular in Europe because they DO get the light-sweet - and notice how easy it was to get them on board to attack Libya. Cost is partly in lives, not $/gallon.
So my taxes are subsidizing you.
I've driven that, and nope, it's not as fast as the Volt (you MUST be kidding, come and race me!), it costs more daily to run, doesn't handle as well, it's noisier and not as luxurious (by far). Further, it still sends money to people who like to kill us - the true cost of your die-sel fuel is measured in lives and bombs and financial disaster. Even if I had to drive on gasoline, which a do - but only rarely, I'd rather be in the Volt with it's superior, well, just about everything (including safety), but that's me.
I paid 42k for mine, but the way it worked out, I was very little out of pocket, and could get the tax break almost immediately. So, a little under 35k, and mine has every option but the GM NAV system (which sucks anyway). I do have the hands-free phone and all that stuff, leather heated seats...all the caddy niceties.
Remember, you're going to have to rebuild that engine someday, or do at least the normal maintenance, not the once every two years oil change I have to do, that's because the engine runs so little the oil gets stale(!). You have a transmission that has slipping clutches that will wear out, I don't (the Volt has rev-matching and the clutches only drop at zero differential revs). And so forth. TCO isn't known yet, but it's going to come out pretty good I think.
I traded my hotrod (2010 camaro SS) in for a Volt, and haven't looked back. Even if I had the money for a model S tesla, I can't have one yet - that's the real challenge Elon's outfit has - ramping up production before the bigger base loses interest.
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FWIW, here in VA, it takes about 200 sq feet of high efficiency solar to charge the Volt once a day. That's around 45 miles worth of range, which gets more than 80% of my own driving done, even though it's a 27 mile roundtrip to the nearest general store for beer/munchies. I can get to the nearest town, do all my errands, come back, still have a little under half my range left. It works for me. Not as sexy as the Tesla, but it's no slouch either and does get a lot of favourable attention.
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Sure is nice to have that unlimited range due to also having a gasoline engine, tuned just for this use so it can be more efficient than just about any other out there. 40 mpg from a 3800 lb car ain't shabby. I don't use it much, but what it does for you is remove worry if you're going to be pushing the battery only range.
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For once, GM really leapfrogged everyone else. The GM haters are out in force to dis this car, but that kinda tells you who isn't doing much critical thinking and saves you from time wasted thinking they are OK (kinda like hank hill's comment about body piercing - you know right off someone "just ain't right").
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I wish Tesla every success, they've "Bet the farm" and gotten a heck of a lot of stuff right. But now they need to transition from a design-only outfit to a major manufacturer - not trivial in real life. Go Elon!
I own a Volt, and it has both touchscreen and real buttons, well, capacitive and real buttons. I like it pretty well, though at first all that motion/animation and junk on the middle screen was hazardous (there are two, one in the usual spot for a speedo, that doesn't do much distracting).
Still, people on the GM-Volt board used to complain that they'd hit the wrong "real" button when trying to change drive modes, and accidentally turn the car off.
Gee, that only takes a short glance to confirm before you double-tap to re-map into "sport" mode, but some people....don't get it no matter how well executed it seems.
I'm pretty doggone fond of this car - charge it off my solar system, cash just piles up in your wallet when you stop buying gas most of the time. The bling is fun, but it's not the core of the driving experience at all - it's the car that's great, not the bling.
You don't recall correctly. I knew Gary, and had a copy of the source - it came with the dev system for intel microprocessors we used in the beltway bandit Ensco. It used something that was later called FAT, it did NOT need to scan the whole disk to put a filesystem together - couldn't, not enough ram in things like Xerox 820s and Kaypros to do that (would have been faster, though). I know these things as I built SSD (dram) drives for those back in the day, and had to rewrite the floppy driver to deal with that. Mostly used the bios? True - so did Dos, and strangely, both used the same int to get to it, or their wrapper over it. Far too many identical API's to think anything but that DOS was heavily copied in spirit at least, from CP/M, To move from Z80 to x80 was a trivial recompilation of the ASM, fixing only a couple errors where special Z80 instructions were used - I've done it, I know. Just like DOS, CPM wasn't re-entrant and didn't support threads, though I spent hours arguing with Gary on the phone about how easy it would be to do that - think how different the world would be had he listened.
The fact remains that he did die conveniently in a plane crash just after failing to come to terms with MS. Handy, that, since yes, a heck of a lot of dos was virtually line for line copied from CP/M. It had to be to implement the very same API and still be tight - Gary was a good coder (and rock-headed, sadly).
DOS simply added a few more built-ins. Basically, it was the same thing. At that level, yes, it's hard to see how it would have been otherwise, it was all pretty simple, and yes, I've written better opsys than those for my embedded work, including as the poster above mentions, a filesystem that DID need to read all flash to avoid write amplification with FAT type tables in flash - but that was for a machine that had a meg of ram (TMS320C31) and plenty of rom, which only had to boot maybe every couple of years (power failure only), so the extra boot time wasn't an issue.
I was there, I know what went down. Microsoft's insistence that everyone else was a pirate was pure projection (ask a psychologist if you don't know what I mean here). They dumpster-dived to help them get their original basic as well - Honeywell...all they did was rewrite a reverse engineered version.
But we live in a world where entire governments are the slaves of big money - I know that too, and them with the gold makes the rules...So I don't expect any truth to matter to any outcome here.
Gov pay you much for this astroturfing? I used to work in the 3 letter agencies, and I've seen dossiers. Nuff said. I've even seen the outside of mine, due to a mis-informed bunch of crap the.gov pulled on me...till they pulled it and rediscovered who I am and what I used to do - for them.
I call total, utter BS.
I'm a GM guy, FWIW, and I own a Volt, which I loved at first, and now I love more - it grows on you, especially when you can charge it off solar power. But...the GM web presence is the absolute worst written software I've ever experienced on the web - and I've been here since the BBS days.
I'm thinking specifically about the MyVolt site. Ok, it's mostly a bunch of ads and info on the Volt - obviously mainly motivated by brain-dead marketing, since it's also the main place owners go to check their car's status.
So, you push the log in button. Though there's room on the page, oh no, we have to pop up a window to log in on - meanwhile, the animations on the page behind are still loading and running blocking code that makes my other web apps stutter. After maybe 10 seconds, you get the log on window, with it all filled in (thanks firefox) and click the log in button....and you wait, and wait, and wait. Meanwhile, the button you clicked doesn't grey or disable, and clicking it again breaks it. Finally, you're logged in and it starts trying to talk to the car to see what the state of charge is for you. This takes at least two minutes, often ending in "we failed to contact the car, try again?". During those two minutes, it's busy drawing an animation of the state of charge, in blocking code, so my other realtime (stock trading and TV) apps stutter. And, if there was already valid info on the SOC meter, it gets wiped up while you are waiting. It can take over 5 minutes to find out state of charge on this app! Every single page element is reloaded from scratch and re-initialized in response to every single user action, often wiping out valuable data you had already showing each time. And yes, it logs you out every 30 min - during which time you may or may not have gotten the data you wanted. This site must hit 5-6 different (all slow) servers for each redraw. It's obviously done by drag-drop-monkey tools by someone who doesn't even know how to do that, plus a lot of pretty but useless art from some marketing idiot - owners don't need to see more crappy ads for something they already own (are you listening too, Amazon?).
Anything, and I mean even a site writen by a 13 year old retard who was the nephew of a GM exec would be superior.
Thank god, the Volt runs linux in a cluster...that was done mostly inhouse and by IBM, who at least have a clue.
Didn't work for Oracle, when they tried to claim the same about Google's use of Jave "structure and org", did it. Of course, suing a search engine in a world where prior art matters is kind of stupid and brash, just like Ellison.
My PV solar system came through swimmingly, and all my neigbors are using my refrigeration to keep their beer and food cold, and have come to party. The AC is cranking off the solar power, and it's long since charged my Chevy Volt.
To those who predictably respond to "that aura of smugness" - fsck off. I earned this. While you were feeling all entitled and not having enough of stuff to have the latest bling, I went without ANY of it to be able to afford to do this now. I've had to listen to your smugness, and superiority and "how can you live like that" when the tables were on the other turn, and take it. Your turn suckers. Now you find out as Heinlien said:
Everyone should have to run for his life at least once, to find out that groceries don't come from the store, news doesn't happen to someone else, and in the crunch, your own resourcefulness, agility and preparation is what counts.
Nice party here, despite about 100F out there, and I don't think anyone's going to ask me "how can you live like that", again - since they are also finding out that buying what you can't afford on a "can you breathe" loan isn't "living like they thought" either, when it turns out they can't pay it off when things turn south.
So what if it took a few years to build up all the luxuries, like running water that wasn't sneakernet - at least I actually own what I own, not the bank. Hah!
Riddle me this - photons and the supposed gravitons have infinite range due to zero (rest) mass. Strong and weak forces, heavy bosons, short range, right?
I'll accept a counter-example that shows how I can manipulate the strong or weak forces from a distance larger than a nucleus or thereabouts. Not just fire some other non-boson particle into there (which then is that close or closer).
So how does the Higgs work over all of space, guys?
This is ridiculous as the SM being right to N decimals, and relativity also being right to N (N being however many we can measure). Yet, the huge gaping, embarrassing, festering (yet almost always not spoken of) wound in all physics is that - they can't both be right, yet in their own domains, they are.
C'mon, even politicians do better - and this is from one of your own, I'm a scientist.
Relativity says - can't have a big bang, all that concentration of stuff would be a black hole instead. Are we inside one? Does anyone have a frigging clue, or are all we scientists just singing choir behind a preacher who hasn't a clue or a self-consistent model.
I know what I'd like to think here, but....
I wish whoever votes for this asshat would start voting differently. He's completely central-statist and elitist. You left out the anti-gun stuff above BTW.
You must not be much of a reverse engineer. That tells you just what can be controlled in hardware - which jobs are hardware and which software, and that tradeoff, as well as the division of labour between the GPU and system CPU is the big deal.
Plus, with all this closed stuff, who knows, or can know, what software/hardware patents might be getting cheated? What stuff that's just trade secrets (but good stuff) needs to be kept secret?
Yes, it would sure be nice if NVidia could give us more support - I'm all for that one, as there's a lotta cool things you could do with their cards.
Like CUDA? Last I checked they were pretty open with that one. All my linux boxen run NVidia cards as they're the best for the money, and "just work" for me all the time.
Nvidia drivers work fine for my all linux household, no complaints. They don't open source them because of some trade secrets that would be revealed if they did (and perhaps the odd software patent violation? How can you know with closed-source?). Heck, CUDA even works fine for me, though.
Mod parent up! I worked in the hearing aid biz. Heck, you have FDA coming in looking for rat droppings - you can't describe the horrible tangled mess the regulations and implementers are. Then there's the question of making loud noises into the ear of someone who already has a loss...legal liability. Same issues for most medical gear. I've seen some amazing prices on laptop based EKG's, as in, way too many digits. But....insurance pays, the gov makes sure they make money, and tries to make it so the guy who slaves to make a good aid - they have to be customizable (and by a medical type) for your situaion - makes no money. It's a hard biz to be in.
The best jobs - find someone already working there to skip you around most of the HR, dropdown list checking paperwork idiots. I've seen all too many people who could check off all the boxes, but who were idiots, and disruptive and entitled on top. Places where you can't get around that HR BS aren't worth working for - if HR is totally in CYA mode, so is the rest of the joint, in my experience. I skipped out of college (in '71) to take a good paying job. Not long after that, someone gave me a job with "engineer" in the title. No one since has ever seriously asked for paper quals - my rep preceded me - if you got the stuff, and people find out, that's how you get the juicy jobs. Of course, since '80, I've been totally freelance/contractor, when I feel like working. It's been profitable enough to let me have the choice.
If that sounds too smug for someone, hell, I deserve it - 60-80 hour weeks, total dedication and loyalty to customers, and always on time and in budget - time to market is worth a lot to the right customers, and part of it is finding those guys in the first place to work for.
I earned it - an hour at a time. And so did the guys I hired when it was time to expand the outfit. Now retired, but that's what has worked for me.
And can't easily do it. He wants to help with my fusion project - for love or tiny money. I want him as a contractor, so I get to give him what little I can afford, rather than giving the state unemployment and disability - I won't have min wage left over for him after that crap - which is why small business doesn't hire people when things are tight. This sucks, he can only get a 6 mo tourist visa unless I can find a university that hasn't hit its limit to hire him as a visiting scholar (he qualifies in spades) so he can at least work here part time. No ethnic/race/spy issues with this guy - he's top rate nuclear physicist and well off enough not to need much money to do what we love to do. Since I can't afford him as an official "employee" (eg the state required crap), the deal isn't happening. He'd be a great US citizen, but there's no way to there from here it seems, just ask the State Dept - if you can get them on the phone at all, you just get shunted from auto-response to another non human response number in a big circle.
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Maybe, maybe not. Tech exists for photolith, doping and etching and growing oxide, and generally doing you-name-it to silicon that has no counterpart for graphene whatever. It's a pretty big deal, actually. No one's made a graphene integrated circuit AT ALL. Silicon, on the other hand...
Commonly used for decades, you get some quality rack slides that let you pull things out far enough to get to the back sides of them. Remember, the standard 19" rack has been around a long time, and this situation also - consider a Navy boat or an AWACs plane with stuff mounted to the walls - same problem, and they need quick access. I never knew what those things cost new, because for a long time they were almost give-away surplus. Probably an almost lost tech now, but they really made some quality stuff back then, self-lubed surfaces, some would let you rotate the gear after sliding it out, all kinds of good stuff. They did make things protrude from the front about 1/4", because the rack slide mounts to the rack, then the gear mounts to that - so you have one extra metal/screw thickness involved.
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Remember Steve saying he'd spend their last time to stop android? It's not about facts, its about emotion.
I don't need great big things wasting pixels I paid for. I don't have the first touch screen in my home. Hard to see how I could even reach most of the usual 4 23" monitor setups if they WERE touchscreens. I don't need to explore my computer on every boot - I know what's on there because I put it there.
I create things, not consume them. Why should I have to put up with a screen manage for consume-only types that really does not fit my needs and which wastes my time by removing the few features I actually do use all the time. I don't give a shit about someone saying G2 looks antiquated, because I almost never even see anything of it - I use the pixels I paid for for my apps - many of which I wrote, not to just screw around in the opsys, but you know, actually USE the damn computer to do something useful.
Because 3 sucks and they don't listen to real users. Theory ain't the same as practice, in practice.
They know very little, and if they are right on this - it's by accident. They are click-baiting totally, trying to get their falling readership to increase instead of what it's doing. I read all the major market rags every day, including this one - they have nice pictures. Their analysis is almost always dead wrong - use their info to trade markets only if you want to lose money.
Some of this just comes down to taste I suppose. I happen to have a visceral dislike of diesels that sound like they're gargling rocks at idle, and the smell they make. And the jerks that leave them running while at the convenience store around here, stinking up the lot with eye-watering fumes.
This is because we don't get Libyan light sweet crude to work with, and sulfur removal from diesel fuel is difficult and not very effective. Diesel is a lot more popular in Europe because they DO get the light-sweet - and notice how easy it was to get them on board to attack Libya. Cost is partly in lives, not $/gallon. So my taxes are subsidizing you.
I paid 42k for mine, but the way it worked out, I was very little out of pocket, and could get the tax break almost immediately. So, a little under 35k, and mine has every option but the GM NAV system (which sucks anyway). I do have the hands-free phone and all that stuff, leather heated seats...all the caddy niceties.
Remember, you're going to have to rebuild that engine someday, or do at least the normal maintenance, not the once every two years oil change I have to do, that's because the engine runs so little the oil gets stale(!). You have a transmission that has slipping clutches that will wear out, I don't (the Volt has rev-matching and the clutches only drop at zero differential revs). And so forth. TCO isn't known yet, but it's going to come out pretty good I think.
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FWIW, here in VA, it takes about 200 sq feet of high efficiency solar to charge the Volt once a day. That's around 45 miles worth of range, which gets more than 80% of my own driving done, even though it's a 27 mile roundtrip to the nearest general store for beer/munchies. I can get to the nearest town, do all my errands, come back, still have a little under half my range left. It works for me. Not as sexy as the Tesla, but it's no slouch either and does get a lot of favourable attention.
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Sure is nice to have that unlimited range due to also having a gasoline engine, tuned just for this use so it can be more efficient than just about any other out there. 40 mpg from a 3800 lb car ain't shabby. I don't use it much, but what it does for you is remove worry if you're going to be pushing the battery only range.
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For once, GM really leapfrogged everyone else. The GM haters are out in force to dis this car, but that kinda tells you who isn't doing much critical thinking and saves you from time wasted thinking they are OK (kinda like hank hill's comment about body piercing - you know right off someone "just ain't right").
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I wish Tesla every success, they've "Bet the farm" and gotten a heck of a lot of stuff right. But now they need to transition from a design-only outfit to a major manufacturer - not trivial in real life. Go Elon!
I own a Volt, and it has both touchscreen and real buttons, well, capacitive and real buttons. I like it pretty well, though at first all that motion/animation and junk on the middle screen was hazardous (there are two, one in the usual spot for a speedo, that doesn't do much distracting). Still, people on the GM-Volt board used to complain that they'd hit the wrong "real" button when trying to change drive modes, and accidentally turn the car off. Gee, that only takes a short glance to confirm before you double-tap to re-map into "sport" mode, but some people....don't get it no matter how well executed it seems. I'm pretty doggone fond of this car - charge it off my solar system, cash just piles up in your wallet when you stop buying gas most of the time. The bling is fun, but it's not the core of the driving experience at all - it's the car that's great, not the bling.
Decaf isn't - it still has some caffeine, just not as much, but still more than a cuppa lipton does.
Actually, they claim he dumpster-dove Honeywell's basic, which was a lot leaner and meaner. Still stolen, wrong target.
You don't recall correctly. I knew Gary, and had a copy of the source - it came with the dev system for intel microprocessors we used in the beltway bandit Ensco. It used something that was later called FAT, it did NOT need to scan the whole disk to put a filesystem together - couldn't, not enough ram in things like Xerox 820s and Kaypros to do that (would have been faster, though). I know these things as I built SSD (dram) drives for those back in the day, and had to rewrite the floppy driver to deal with that. Mostly used the bios? True - so did Dos, and strangely, both used the same int to get to it, or their wrapper over it. Far too many identical API's to think anything but that DOS was heavily copied in spirit at least, from CP/M, To move from Z80 to x80 was a trivial recompilation of the ASM, fixing only a couple errors where special Z80 instructions were used - I've done it, I know. Just like DOS, CPM wasn't re-entrant and didn't support threads, though I spent hours arguing with Gary on the phone about how easy it would be to do that - think how different the world would be had he listened. The fact remains that he did die conveniently in a plane crash just after failing to come to terms with MS. Handy, that, since yes, a heck of a lot of dos was virtually line for line copied from CP/M. It had to be to implement the very same API and still be tight - Gary was a good coder (and rock-headed, sadly). DOS simply added a few more built-ins. Basically, it was the same thing. At that level, yes, it's hard to see how it would have been otherwise, it was all pretty simple, and yes, I've written better opsys than those for my embedded work, including as the poster above mentions, a filesystem that DID need to read all flash to avoid write amplification with FAT type tables in flash - but that was for a machine that had a meg of ram (TMS320C31) and plenty of rom, which only had to boot maybe every couple of years (power failure only), so the extra boot time wasn't an issue. I was there, I know what went down. Microsoft's insistence that everyone else was a pirate was pure projection (ask a psychologist if you don't know what I mean here). They dumpster-dived to help them get their original basic as well - Honeywell...all they did was rewrite a reverse engineered version. But we live in a world where entire governments are the slaves of big money - I know that too, and them with the gold makes the rules...So I don't expect any truth to matter to any outcome here.
Gov pay you much for this astroturfing? I used to work in the 3 letter agencies, and I've seen dossiers. Nuff said. I've even seen the outside of mine, due to a mis-informed bunch of crap the .gov pulled on me...till they pulled it and rediscovered who I am and what I used to do - for them.
I call total, utter BS.
I'm thinking specifically about the MyVolt site. Ok, it's mostly a bunch of ads and info on the Volt - obviously mainly motivated by brain-dead marketing, since it's also the main place owners go to check their car's status.
So, you push the log in button. Though there's room on the page, oh no, we have to pop up a window to log in on - meanwhile, the animations on the page behind are still loading and running blocking code that makes my other web apps stutter. After maybe 10 seconds, you get the log on window, with it all filled in (thanks firefox) and click the log in button....and you wait, and wait, and wait. Meanwhile, the button you clicked doesn't grey or disable, and clicking it again breaks it. Finally, you're logged in and it starts trying to talk to the car to see what the state of charge is for you. This takes at least two minutes, often ending in "we failed to contact the car, try again?". During those two minutes, it's busy drawing an animation of the state of charge, in blocking code, so my other realtime (stock trading and TV) apps stutter. And, if there was already valid info on the SOC meter, it gets wiped up while you are waiting. It can take over 5 minutes to find out state of charge on this app! Every single page element is reloaded from scratch and re-initialized in response to every single user action, often wiping out valuable data you had already showing each time. And yes, it logs you out every 30 min - during which time you may or may not have gotten the data you wanted. This site must hit 5-6 different (all slow) servers for each redraw. It's obviously done by drag-drop-monkey tools by someone who doesn't even know how to do that, plus a lot of pretty but useless art from some marketing idiot - owners don't need to see more crappy ads for something they already own (are you listening too, Amazon?).
Anything, and I mean even a site writen by a 13 year old retard who was the nephew of a GM exec would be superior. Thank god, the Volt runs linux in a cluster...that was done mostly inhouse and by IBM, who at least have a clue.
Didn't work for Oracle, when they tried to claim the same about Google's use of Jave "structure and org", did it. Of course, suing a search engine in a world where prior art matters is kind of stupid and brash, just like Ellison.
To those who predictably respond to "that aura of smugness" - fsck off. I earned this. While you were feeling all entitled and not having enough of stuff to have the latest bling, I went without ANY of it to be able to afford to do this now. I've had to listen to your smugness, and superiority and "how can you live like that" when the tables were on the other turn, and take it. Your turn suckers. Now you find out as Heinlien said:
Everyone should have to run for his life at least once, to find out that groceries don't come from the store, news doesn't happen to someone else, and in the crunch, your own resourcefulness, agility and preparation is what counts.
Nice party here, despite about 100F out there, and I don't think anyone's going to ask me "how can you live like that", again - since they are also finding out that buying what you can't afford on a "can you breathe" loan isn't "living like they thought" either, when it turns out they can't pay it off when things turn south. So what if it took a few years to build up all the luxuries, like running water that wasn't sneakernet - at least I actually own what I own, not the bank. Hah!
Riddle me this - photons and the supposed gravitons have infinite range due to zero (rest) mass. Strong and weak forces, heavy bosons, short range, right? I'll accept a counter-example that shows how I can manipulate the strong or weak forces from a distance larger than a nucleus or thereabouts. Not just fire some other non-boson particle into there (which then is that close or closer). So how does the Higgs work over all of space, guys? This is ridiculous as the SM being right to N decimals, and relativity also being right to N (N being however many we can measure). Yet, the huge gaping, embarrassing, festering (yet almost always not spoken of) wound in all physics is that - they can't both be right, yet in their own domains, they are. C'mon, even politicians do better - and this is from one of your own, I'm a scientist. Relativity says - can't have a big bang, all that concentration of stuff would be a black hole instead. Are we inside one? Does anyone have a frigging clue, or are all we scientists just singing choir behind a preacher who hasn't a clue or a self-consistent model. I know what I'd like to think here, but....
I wish whoever votes for this asshat would start voting differently. He's completely central-statist and elitist. You left out the anti-gun stuff above BTW.
Plus, with all this closed stuff, who knows, or can know, what software/hardware patents might be getting cheated? What stuff that's just trade secrets (but good stuff) needs to be kept secret?
Yes, it would sure be nice if NVidia could give us more support - I'm all for that one, as there's a lotta cool things you could do with their cards. Like CUDA? Last I checked they were pretty open with that one. All my linux boxen run NVidia cards as they're the best for the money, and "just work" for me all the time.
Nvidia drivers work fine for my all linux household, no complaints. They don't open source them because of some trade secrets that would be revealed if they did (and perhaps the odd software patent violation? How can you know with closed-source?). Heck, CUDA even works fine for me, though.
Mod parent up! I worked in the hearing aid biz. Heck, you have FDA coming in looking for rat droppings - you can't describe the horrible tangled mess the regulations and implementers are. Then there's the question of making loud noises into the ear of someone who already has a loss...legal liability. Same issues for most medical gear. I've seen some amazing prices on laptop based EKG's, as in, way too many digits. But....insurance pays, the gov makes sure they make money, and tries to make it so the guy who slaves to make a good aid - they have to be customizable (and by a medical type) for your situaion - makes no money. It's a hard biz to be in.
If that sounds too smug for someone, hell, I deserve it - 60-80 hour weeks, total dedication and loyalty to customers, and always on time and in budget - time to market is worth a lot to the right customers, and part of it is finding those guys in the first place to work for. I earned it - an hour at a time. And so did the guys I hired when it was time to expand the outfit. Now retired, but that's what has worked for me.
No! The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy too. Nothing more.
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This sucks.
Maybe, maybe not. Tech exists for photolith, doping and etching and growing oxide, and generally doing you-name-it to silicon that has no counterpart for graphene whatever. It's a pretty big deal, actually. No one's made a graphene integrated circuit AT ALL. Silicon, on the other hand...
Commonly used for decades, you get some quality rack slides that let you pull things out far enough to get to the back sides of them. Remember, the standard 19" rack has been around a long time, and this situation also - consider a Navy boat or an AWACs plane with stuff mounted to the walls - same problem, and they need quick access. I never knew what those things cost new, because for a long time they were almost give-away surplus. Probably an almost lost tech now, but they really made some quality stuff back then, self-lubed surfaces, some would let you rotate the gear after sliding it out, all kinds of good stuff. They did make things protrude from the front about 1/4", because the rack slide mounts to the rack, then the gear mounts to that - so you have one extra metal/screw thickness involved.