I respect your spin, truth is, though, that companies and especially HR can get it badly wrong (as in "holy crap the toaster is shooting at me").
IMHO robotics does need a good standardized stack, a good friend works in robotics research and what I can gather is that not having agreed upon base layers of software is killing their productivity. Still since robotics does (and always should) employ good minds I'd vote for a language that can model high complexities. Maybe something in the realms of C or, even better, something functional. Imperative languages will still do though.
Correct, the solution is not to battle the effects (hacking, hacktivism, organized digital crime) but the things that create the need for them (IP, DRM, Patents, Coprorational governance of the world wide market). Still hacking and hacktivism will continue to exists as long as there is a reason to tinker and protest.
Hacking was never the bad guy, it is the establishment being afraid of change that instigates it.
Ok, that is actually quite correct. I'd go one further and say that quite possibly it isn't the OS but the ecosystem it has created with everybody wanting to give you stuff for 'Freez' and then monetizing on your CPU, GPU, personal data, attention(via scary adds) etc.
OTOH Microsoft never did anything to prevent that. The only thing they care about is installing rootkits on your machine that determine if you are using a legit version of Win and then locking you out of it if you are running it preinstalled from a Dell netbook. So, no it's still a fault of windows and I'm happy I haven't to deal with it anymore.
What I hate the most about that windows bootup talk is that, even if the system appear to come up fast it still isn't actually responsive. And windows machines slowly start taking more time each reboot untill they become responsive (remedied only by a full reinstall of the OS) I created a Debian workstation some years ago, still updated and it has been used daily from the fist boot untill now. It still only takes some seconds from login to all systems running. A win7 disk on the same system that is only 18 months old now takes a good five minutes untill I can access the explorer and that partition isn't actually used that often...
In a commercial administrative environment with a limited range of applications, free open source software, as the base with some commercial software on top is going to win, end of story.
That depends on how much "retard" the end users, of the machines you make, have in them. If it is a lot you will never (ever) be able to teach them.
I have had an exactly opposite experience of this with a 6870, OSS drivers would put the card into pasthru mode while AMD's driver (from the AMD site not the repos) makes use of the cards full hardware. Now of course I have to reinstall the driver with every kernel update...
Re:Engineers. They love to change things.
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The look isn't any departure. From what I see on the screens it is similar to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1. And the things that did change i personally like. search bar in overview mode has much better visibility this way and the transparent buttons also seem to be more effective. The other optical changes seem quite minute so I hope they also worked on some bug squashing and didn't just wax poetic about the illustration the whole time...
Re:2012 is going to be year of the linux desktop!
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With GNOME 3.4 2012 is most certainly going to be year of the linux desktop!
Either that or with the new version of TurboJPEG
Re:Will this be any different?
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What's to flame? GNOME 3 was good, now it's better
Because they sell the items normal persons think they want (PS3, PSP, Vaio). The thing is that once the consumer has gotten involved and invested in your product you can fsck with him as much as you like since they will still try to cling on to the idea they've been sold.
It common knowledge in corpoland... I know, I know, these are sad times to live in.
They are operating the levels at a cap of approx 80 playing chars per instance from what I understand so new logins over the threshold would just automatically create new instances. I was on an instance though whose end game arena had some 20 ish/.ers
The `original zelda` is an NES game that runs @ 256x224/30 the sprites are 16^2 and some times even smaller. Everything looks like zelda at this resolution. Anyway, this isn't a game as much as proof of concept that a game like this can exist.
This is a "hey, look what we can do!" maneuver. Sort of like: "In your face `chrome experiemnts' and `google IO app'". I don't recall anybody else demonstrating such a big part of HTML5 (graphics,sound,sockets) so successfully.
Props to Moz. for doing this.
Also a small point: This is how gaming should look like all along IMO, I don't want to have to install 18TB of data in order to start playing anything. Nor do I want to have to read through manuals and strategy guides before actually doing gameplay. Games should be fun, click on a link wait a few moments for init, start moving_around/hacking/slashing/selecting_optinos/etc and while the game turns you "free time" into "fun time" it can elaborate the game setting, thicken the storyline, expand game mechanics and controll schemes, widen the world etc. My ideal game's first ten minutes are playing it not waiting for a download on an overwhelmed CDN.
It says so on their blog also. not only several servers but multiple world instances per server. It makes for a nicer game experience that way (and is technologically easier, not that the alternative would be unachievable)
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I respect your spin, truth is, though, that companies and especially HR can get it badly wrong (as in "holy crap the toaster is shooting at me").
IMHO robotics does need a good standardized stack, a good friend works in robotics research and what I can gather is that not having agreed upon base layers of software is killing their productivity. Still since robotics does (and always should) employ good minds I'd vote for a language that can model high complexities. Maybe something in the realms of C or, even better, something functional. Imperative languages will still do though.
I propose they base it on a LARD stack!
Linux
Apache
Riak
Dart
So that it will be web scale!
While there is truth to that let's remind ourselves what conservatives have contributed to civilization during history:
hmm,
uhuhm,
ohh
Ok, now I (kind of) can see the logic behind conservatives not to wanting the population to read or experiment.
Then I have some news for you!
Lulz mate... Lulz
Not to forget the job market:
"Wanted senior S&M specialist with python experience and high availability background"
Of some concern may be the following:
A "loosing the battle" statement, in modern history, is often precedent to a mass disruption of civil rights.
So I would like to see what this one will conjure. OSs with required government back door? Ban on cryptography?
Correct, the solution is not to battle the effects (hacking, hacktivism, organized digital crime) but the things that create the need for them (IP, DRM, Patents, Coprorational governance of the world wide market). Still hacking and hacktivism will continue to exists as long as there is a reason to tinker and protest.
Hacking was never the bad guy, it is the establishment being afraid of change that instigates it.
I still don't get why people want to install google sw on their systems....
Love the sig BTW
Ok, that is actually quite correct. I'd go one further and say that quite possibly it isn't the OS but the ecosystem it has created with everybody wanting to give you stuff for 'Freez' and then monetizing on your CPU, GPU, personal data, attention(via scary adds) etc.
OTOH Microsoft never did anything to prevent that. The only thing they care about is installing rootkits on your machine that determine if you are using a legit version of Win and then locking you out of it if you are running it preinstalled from a Dell netbook. So, no it's still a fault of windows and I'm happy I haven't to deal with it anymore.
What I hate the most about that windows bootup talk is that, even if the system appear to come up fast it still isn't actually responsive.
And windows machines slowly start taking more time each reboot untill they become responsive (remedied only by a full reinstall of the OS)
I created a Debian workstation some years ago, still updated and it has been used daily from the fist boot untill now. It still only takes some seconds from login to all systems running. A win7 disk on the same system that is only 18 months old now takes a good five minutes untill I can access the explorer and that partition isn't actually used that often...
In a commercial administrative environment with a limited range of applications, free open source software, as the base with some commercial software on top is going to win, end of story.
That depends on how much "retard" the end users, of the machines you make, have in them. If it is a lot you will never (ever) be able to teach them.
I have had an exactly opposite experience of this with a 6870, OSS drivers would put the card into pasthru mode while AMD's driver (from the AMD site not the repos) makes use of the cards full hardware. Now of course I have to reinstall the driver with every kernel update...
The look isn't any departure. From what I see on the screens it is similar to 3.3, 3.2, 3.1. And the things that did change i personally like. search bar in overview mode has much better visibility this way and the transparent buttons also seem to be more effective. The other optical changes seem quite minute so I hope they also worked on some bug squashing and didn't just wax poetic about the illustration the whole time...
With GNOME 3.4 2012 is most certainly going to be year of the linux desktop!
Either that or with the new version of TurboJPEG
What's to flame? GNOME 3 was good, now it's better
<runs and hides>
Round corners©
Because they sell the items normal persons think they want (PS3, PSP, Vaio). The thing is that once the consumer has gotten involved and invested in your product you can fsck with him as much as you like since they will still try to cling on to the idea they've been sold.
It common knowledge in corpoland... I know, I know, these are sad times to live in.
They are operating the levels at a cap of approx 80 playing chars per instance from what I understand so new logins over the threshold would just automatically create new instances. I was on an instance though whose end game arena had some 20 ish /.ers
The `original zelda` is an NES game that runs @ 256x224/30 the sprites are 16^2 and some times even smaller. Everything looks like zelda at this resolution. Anyway, this isn't a game as much as proof of concept that a game like this can exist.
for reference:
Zelda screenshot
NES video capabilities
This is a "hey, look what we can do!" maneuver. Sort of like: "In your face `chrome experiemnts' and `google IO app'". I don't recall anybody else demonstrating such a big part of HTML5 (graphics,sound,sockets) so successfully.
Props to Moz. for doing this.
Also a small point: This is how gaming should look like all along IMO, I don't want to have to install 18TB of data in order to start playing anything. Nor do I want to have to read through manuals and strategy guides before actually doing gameplay. Games should be fun, click on a link wait a few moments for init, start moving_around/hacking/slashing/selecting_optinos/etc and while the game turns you "free time" into "fun time" it can elaborate the game setting, thicken the storyline, expand game mechanics and controll schemes, widen the world etc. My ideal game's first ten minutes are playing it not waiting for a download on an overwhelmed CDN.
I had no problems at all with aurora. Could it be plugins?
It says so on their blog also. not only several servers but multiple world instances per server.
It makes for a nicer game experience that way (and is technologically easier, not that the alternative would be unachievable)
They are?!?!?!?
I always thought the punctuation inside the quotes was a topography thing not a typography thing.
And at the end of his drivel he asked her "What's your formula for the ending?."