"Linus can get away with being somewhat prickly because he's a genius." Perhaps, but it could also be because he's in charge and has more power than anyone else on the project.
And it is far from clear that he has gotten away with it. Taken some serious hits to the rep is more like it, whereas by being a bit less of a dick he'd be pure, unadulterated legend by now. No way to put that toothpaste back in the tube, but he could at least take steps to keep more of it from squeezing out.
I mean I don't doubt that he may be very smart, but is he actually a genius?
Depends how you measure. Linus is the Sherlock Holmes of bug hunting. Is Sherlock Holmes a genius? (Or is he even a he?) As far as interpersonal interaction goes, Linus is a dunce. Ask him, he won't deny it.
No, no, conflict is always bad. The precious snowflakes are all unique, so there shouldn't be any conflict because we're all special. Of course, those of us who have grown up know that conflict exists, can't be suppressed effectively, and that "conflict" and "assholishness" are two very, very different things.
Let me guess. You're short, you're the one everybody picked on and now you're an overweight middle manager and somebody's going to be getting some payback.
Skylon's idea is to use oxygen from the air, rather than taking the oxygen as fuel for the initial part of the ascent.
Skylon's stupidity is to insist on combining a jet and rocket motor, whereas the jet could be attached to a separate vehicle, flown back independently. Just leave the LN gear in the atmosphere, please.
Actually, blowing up people in an experimental aircraft should be a crime worthy of jail time all up the line, given that we could be blowing up autonomous piloting gear instead.
It definitely is a Linux system as we usually know them: fast, reliable, developed by tens of thousands of skilled engineers in an open process. The user space binaries make plenty of Linux-specific system calls. No question about it: a) Android is Linux and b) you are full of blather.
The original designer of Tetris is in fact on record as an opponent of free software. He said free software "should never have existed" because it "destroys the market".
I went through the entire list basically just scanning titles and found about a dozen games in the $10-$20 range I'll pick up without a second thought, and there are a few AAA titles that I mostly already have. Overall, looks good to me, no shortage of decent content.
Well, 3DXP is random access so in a sense it is already RAM. It will be about 1/10th as fast as current RAM but it will be cheaper and more dense and non-volatile. So in some applications (in-memory apps in cloud servers) 3DXP may replace current RAM. An all-3DXP system might be faster than a combination of current RAM with SSD memory.
Write latency is the big point that Intel glosses over in these PR releases. Given that they only claim 6.4 times "latency" improvement I expect the bulk of that is write latency, measured in tens of microseconds. If that is anywhere close to the truth then it means that xpoint is definitely not RAM-like, and you won't suddenly be expecting it to save the entire state of your OS on power off because the OS would slow to glacial speeds due to orders of magnitude higher write latency.
This tech won't reduce the need for RAM. It's a better NAND, not a replacement for RAM.
If it performs anywhere new hype levels then it is indeed a replacement for the RAM that would otherwise be used to cache flash or disk. For a lot of use cases, that means most of the RAM in the box.
For low powered devices, Winders is free. Kind of a "lets get you hooked until you want a REAL machine" kind of thing. This breaks down as now these "low powered" machines now can beat a desktop from a few years ago.
It also breaks down because it's a Sherman act violation.[1] I wonder how long it will take the DoJ to get around to prosecuting, or will the EU need to step in again?
The GNU/Linux version is often more expensive, and I'm told this is for three reasons: lack of economies of scale, cost of handling returns from novices who end up buying the wrong thing, and the claim that the royalties paid by publishers of included trialware more than subsidize the royalty paid to Microsoft for Windows.
Maybe true, maybe not. I find these guys deal fairly and don't sell you junk:
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Comment from a youtube unboxing video:
So, basically, it isn't autonomous, it doesn't swarm, it has a flight time of less than five minutes, it can't even save videos to its micro SD card and it's only slightly more intelligent than its backers. It has less functionality than a Hubsan X4 H107c and it's six times the price. Awesome, I bet you're delighted.
I'd be interested in hearing a founder response to this.
How can you make $3,500,000 disappear?
Ten engineers at silly valley rates for a year, or various other other legitimate ways.
It was the thought of Ballmer squirting that killed it.
,,,increasingly becoming a tech town with the Gigafactory and lots of drone manufacturers.
Drone wars, cool.
Money and power, by whatever means. Not just ISIS, look at Putin, the Kims etc.
Ever tried to have a hundred tabs open in chrome?
"Linus can get away with being somewhat prickly because he's a genius." Perhaps, but it could also be because he's in charge and has more power than anyone else on the project.
And it is far from clear that he has gotten away with it. Taken some serious hits to the rep is more like it, whereas by being a bit less of a dick he'd be pure, unadulterated legend by now. No way to put that toothpaste back in the tube, but he could at least take steps to keep more of it from squeezing out.
I mean I don't doubt that he may be very smart, but is he actually a genius?
Depends how you measure. Linus is the Sherlock Holmes of bug hunting. Is Sherlock Holmes a genius? (Or is he even a he?) As far as interpersonal interaction goes, Linus is a dunce. Ask him, he won't deny it.
No, no, conflict is always bad. The precious snowflakes are all unique, so there shouldn't be any conflict because we're all special. Of course, those of us who have grown up know that conflict exists, can't be suppressed effectively, and that "conflict" and "assholishness" are two very, very different things.
Let me guess. You're short, you're the one everybody picked on and now you're an overweight middle manager and somebody's going to be getting some payback.
With these kinds of releases coming from hardware companies, what is the current bottleneck on mobile devices? Is it the actual wireless signal?
It's the telco oligopoly
why not have sex instead of kicking each other's teeth out
You might not be any good at sex.
Whoops, I meant liquid helium gear, even worse. Think of all the party balloons that could be harmed.
Skylon's idea is to use oxygen from the air, rather than taking the oxygen as fuel for the initial part of the ascent.
Skylon's stupidity is to insist on combining a jet and rocket motor, whereas the jet could be attached to a separate vehicle, flown back independently. Just leave the LN gear in the atmosphere, please.
Actually, blowing up people in an experimental aircraft should be a crime worthy of jail time all up the line, given that we could be blowing up autonomous piloting gear instead.
It definitely is a Linux system as we usually know them: fast, reliable, developed by tens of thousands of skilled engineers in an open process. The user space binaries make plenty of Linux-specific system calls. No question about it: a) Android is Linux and b) you are full of blather.
"linux native" = "not wine"
As the population ages, the Linux gamers will become fewer and fewer.
That's my laugh for the day. Android is Linux for one thing.
The original designer of Tetris is in fact on record as an opponent of free software. He said free software "should never have existed" because it "destroys the market".
Everything you need to know about Alexey_Pajitnov -- "Hexic comes with the Zune version 3.0 firmware, released September 16, 2008"
I went through the entire list basically just scanning titles and found about a dozen games in the $10-$20 range I'll pick up without a second thought, and there are a few AAA titles that I mostly already have. Overall, looks good to me, no shortage of decent content.
Well, 3DXP is random access so in a sense it is already RAM. It will be about 1/10th as fast as current RAM but it will be cheaper and more dense and non-volatile. So in some applications (in-memory apps in cloud servers) 3DXP may replace current RAM. An all-3DXP system might be faster than a combination of current RAM with SSD memory.
Write latency is the big point that Intel glosses over in these PR releases. Given that they only claim 6.4 times "latency" improvement I expect the bulk of that is write latency, measured in tens of microseconds. If that is anywhere close to the truth then it means that xpoint is definitely not RAM-like, and you won't suddenly be expecting it to save the entire state of your OS on power off because the OS would slow to glacial speeds due to orders of magnitude higher write latency.
This reminded me of the fiasco technology Bubble Memory.
You remind me of somebody who can't read numbers.
This tech won't reduce the need for RAM. It's a better NAND, not a replacement for RAM.
If it performs anywhere new hype levels then it is indeed a replacement for the RAM that would otherwise be used to cache flash or disk. For a lot of use cases, that means most of the RAM in the box.
Where is my radio tractor beam? I need to know.
The price marks this as a "low powered" device.
For low powered devices, Winders is free. Kind of a "lets get you hooked until you want a REAL machine" kind of thing. This breaks down as now these "low powered" machines now can beat a desktop from a few years ago.
It also breaks down because it's a Sherman act violation.[1] I wonder how long it will take the DoJ to get around to prosecuting, or will the EU need to step in again?
[1] Dumping. Illegal under the Sherman and Clayton acts.
The GNU/Linux version is often more expensive, and I'm told this is for three reasons: lack of economies of scale, cost of handling returns from novices who end up buying the wrong thing, and the claim that the royalties paid by publishers of included trialware more than subsidize the royalty paid to Microsoft for Windows.
Maybe true, maybe not. I find these guys deal fairly and don't sell you junk:
http://thelinuxlaptop.com/