https://git.kernel.org/cgit/li... "This is being written to try to explain why Linux does not have a binary kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface."
Someday the CPU and GPU instruction set need to merge at least in part to allow efficient architecture because there architectures difference will shrink. That don't prevent to extend the instruction set to get more performance. The important point is to not lock the instruction to only a single implementation.
You are right that GPU started with architecture where the compiler take all the optimisation decision to allow the higher density of ALU into the GPU. I observe that today GPU tend to have more and more dynamic optimisation in there architecture, and I think this trend will continue. I will not be surprised that a some point in the future the GPU and the CPU will share a subset of the same instruction set. A such architecture will radially simplify the complexity of handling the compilation path for GPU compared to the actual state of CPU.
Probably just a dream, but this could be a very big step forward. The lack of a standard GPU instruction set have paved the way of dozen of different architectures that each consume ressources in support for a very average quality and very few open source one. A GPU architecture as standard and open as CPU would allow to concentrate the ressource on a open and high quality support.
Fully agree. The main problem is that most projects wanted to bring new ideas by removing existing features. There nothing wrong to try new ideas, but it's very wrong to impose it to the users and to remove comparaison between implementations.
A bad one obviously... That said, I found last XFCE even better than MATE. Very easy to configure XFCE the way I want, and it provides more feature than MATE.
"Benson Leung +Stephen Warren Our initial failure analysis on my Pixel shows that not everything failed. The main battery charger has reverse-polarity protection and did not fail in this case. The Pericom PI3USB9281 that we use on Pixel for negotiating BC1.2 and Apple charging protocols is NOT tolerant to negative voltages and most definitely was destroyed. Furthermore, something killed the ST PD microcontroller that handles this system's power delivery logic. We are still investigating."
The video signals inside a USB type C cable are just plain Displayport signals without any modification. On the host side there is a multiplexer chip that can switch the source of the signals injected into the USB type C cable from either the USB host controller USB signals or from the GPU Displayport signals.
Not necessary CRT. Fast moving objects rendering at 60Hz can be painful to watch on any monitor technology. Once you have tested a 120Hz rendering you will quickly notice the difference.
I am 45 years old and still have a pretty good vision without correction. But on a 28" 4K monitor I tested for months I noticed an increase of visual fatigue. I now have a 40" 4K monitor and this solved the issue. The feeling is much more natural.
Fully agree. My first 4K screen was too small (28" or 32" I don't remember) and my vision suffered with it. I tested the 4K 40" screen Philips BDM4065UC I was very impressed by it. Can't go back on anything other. My girlfriend have the same monitor now and find the ones she use at work pretty ridiculous in comparaison.
The market is changing. More and more users will at least have a smartphone, or a tablet, or a laptop, all will soon be powerful enough to run a large majority of games. There don't want to buy extra hardware to just play games. Steam proved to that playing on a PC is a big demand.
Exclusivity is just a nasty trick to force user choice. The company that play this nasty game will probably lost respect from all the frustrated potentiel users. Not a good operation in the long term.
A for the hardware, I disagree. The game console hardware need to be replaced almost as often as a PC to be able to play the last games, and you can only play on them. The total cost for a given user that want to play and work will be always in favor of the PC.
For the Swiss popular initiative "For a unconditional base income" ( https://www.admin.ch/ch/f/pore... ) this is far far away from anything usable. The text is just 3 lines that say in short that the government must make a law the make this possible, without giving any hint on how to archive the goal. Knowing how the Swiss politic work, there is absolutely no chance at all that this particular text will be approved in votation.
How can we be certain that the records contain only metadata about the call and not the call content, at least from the calls passing the targets detection filters.
Switzerland is not planning it at all. This is just a popular initiative that will maybe be voted by the citizens in the future, and the response is actually granted to be no.
Popular initiative is a normal political process in Switzerland. There can propose surprising changes to the constitution, even if the government don't like it. Most of them are in fact a way to group together the peoples that have a new idea on how the law should be and stay only a this stage. This allow to have political discussion in a higher level for everyone. That said, the statistic show that this is mostly a way to let's some groups face the reality of what the country think. This is still a useful process, because it allow more peoples to understand the reality and then reduce the unrealistic dreams. Some initiatives are also to force the government to produce a contre-initiative; usually the former is retired and citizens only vote of the second. This last process have proved to be efficient to let's the citizens steering the government on a balanced compromise. Some details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Citizens here are commonly requested to vote on a dozen of law changes per year. There can be initiatives from the government, or initiatives from citizens, or referendum from citizens. I hope that more countries will get this kind of political system.
Oracle is proprietary and probably not free. MariaDB (MySQL) are not reliable, verified the hard way multiple times. MongoDB is not structured; some found that fun, I found them horrible (for example to update the field of a record). Postgresql is free, very reliable, and the last couple of versions can even manage unstructured data for the fanatics.
So the big shared part of the system consist in structured tables and notifications, while the clients applications that connect to it can store in JSON there private data if there like this format. Very powerful and run smoothly even on a tiny 0.5GHz Cortex-A5.
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https://git.kernel.org/cgit/li...
"This is being written to try to explain why Linux does not have a binary
kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface."
Did you know Ada ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Someday the CPU and GPU instruction set need to merge at least in part to allow efficient architecture because there architectures difference will shrink. That don't prevent to extend the instruction set to get more performance. The important point is to not lock the instruction to only a single implementation.
You are right that GPU started with architecture where the compiler take all the optimisation decision to allow the higher density of ALU into the GPU. I observe that today GPU tend to have more and more dynamic optimisation in there architecture, and I think this trend will continue. I will not be surprised that a some point in the future the GPU and the CPU will share a subset of the same instruction set. A such architecture will radially simplify the complexity of handling the compilation path for GPU compared to the actual state of CPU.
Probably just a dream, but this could be a very big step forward. The lack of a standard GPU instruction set have paved the way of dozen of different architectures that each consume ressources in support for a very average quality and very few open source one. A GPU architecture as standard and open as CPU would allow to concentrate the ressource on a open and high quality support.
Fully agree. The main problem is that most projects wanted to bring new ideas by removing existing features. There nothing wrong to try new ideas, but it's very wrong to impose it to the users and to remove comparaison between implementations.
Did you try the last XFCE ? I was using Gnome 2 and then MATE that looked promising, but the last XFCE is now the best for my workload.
A bad one obviously...
That said, I found last XFCE even better than MATE. Very easy to configure XFCE the way I want, and it provides more feature than MATE.
"Benson Leung
+Stephen Warren Our initial failure analysis on my Pixel shows that not everything failed. The main battery charger has reverse-polarity protection and did not fail in this case. The Pericom PI3USB9281 that we use on Pixel for negotiating BC1.2 and Apple charging protocols is NOT tolerant to negative voltages and most definitely was destroyed. Furthermore, something killed the ST PD microcontroller that handles this system's power delivery logic. We are still investigating."
Found into https://plus.google.com/+Benso...
You get it the wrong way: the cable is used into a "Alternate Mode" http://www.displayport.org/pr/...
The video signals inside a USB type C cable are just plain Displayport signals without any modification. On the host side there is a multiplexer chip that can switch the source of the signals injected into the USB type C cable from either the USB host controller USB signals or from the GPU Displayport signals.
More clear explaination here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Not necessary CRT. Fast moving objects rendering at 60Hz can be painful to watch on any monitor technology. Once you have tested a 120Hz rendering you will quickly notice the difference.
I am 45 years old and still have a pretty good vision without correction. But on a 28" 4K monitor I tested for months I noticed an increase of visual fatigue. I now have a 40" 4K monitor and this solved the issue. The feeling is much more natural.
Fully agree. My first 4K screen was too small (28" or 32" I don't remember) and my vision suffered with it. I tested the 4K 40" screen Philips BDM4065UC I was very impressed by it. Can't go back on anything other. My girlfriend have the same monitor now and find the ones she use at work pretty ridiculous in comparaison.
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FTFY
The market is changing. More and more users will at least have a smartphone, or a tablet, or a laptop, all will soon be powerful enough to run a large majority of games. There don't want to buy extra hardware to just play games. Steam proved to that playing on a PC is a big demand.
Exclusivity is just a nasty trick to force user choice. The company that play this nasty game will probably lost respect from all the frustrated potentiel users. Not a good operation in the long term.
A for the hardware, I disagree. The game console hardware need to be replaced almost as often as a PC to be able to play the last games, and you can only play on them. The total cost for a given user that want to play and work will be always in favor of the PC.
For the Swiss popular initiative "For a unconditional base income" ( https://www.admin.ch/ch/f/pore... ) this is far far away from anything usable. The text is just 3 lines that say in short that the government must make a law the make this possible, without giving any hint on how to archive the goal. Knowing how the Swiss politic work, there is absolutely no chance at all that this particular text will be approved in votation.
Does RTK allow to get this resolution on realtime from a fast moving object, like fighter or missile ?
Could ba a good argument against Android.
How can we be certain that the records contain only metadata about the call and not the call content, at least from the calls passing the targets detection filters.
I really wonder the data size of this 14 years record, even if there probably use some kind of compression.
Tell that to the employee that have been "terminated within the hour" to use the Arnnon Geshuri words against him.
Switzerland is not planning it at all. This is just a popular initiative that will maybe be voted by the citizens in the future, and the response is actually granted to be no.
Popular initiative is a normal political process in Switzerland. There can propose surprising changes to the constitution, even if the government don't like it. Most of them are in fact a way to group together the peoples that have a new idea on how the law should be and stay only a this stage. This allow to have political discussion in a higher level for everyone. That said, the statistic show that this is mostly a way to let's some groups face the reality of what the country think. This is still a useful process, because it allow more peoples to understand the reality and then reduce the unrealistic dreams. Some initiatives are also to force the government to produce a contre-initiative; usually the former is retired and citizens only vote of the second. This last process have proved to be efficient to let's the citizens steering the government on a balanced compromise. Some details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Citizens here are commonly requested to vote on a dozen of law changes per year. There can be initiatives from the government, or initiatives from citizens, or referendum from citizens. I hope that more countries will get this kind of political system.
http://www.conflictfreesourcin...
I would love to know what this initiative really do and what there need to fix the problem.
Beznau 1 in Switzerland claim to be the oldest still in operation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I use databases in embedded products.
Oracle is proprietary and probably not free.
MariaDB (MySQL) are not reliable, verified the hard way multiple times.
MongoDB is not structured; some found that fun, I found them horrible (for example to update the field of a record).
Postgresql is free, very reliable, and the last couple of versions can even manage unstructured data for the fanatics.
So the big shared part of the system consist in structured tables and notifications, while the clients applications that connect to it can store in JSON there private data if there like this format. Very powerful and run smoothly even on a tiny 0.5GHz Cortex-A5.