Whoa, what have we got here, Nvidia manager with mod points? Come on, admit it, closing your driver source when you're trying to sell hardware is just plain stupid, no two ways about it.
Could it be possible that you are not clear on the concept of "multiplier"? In this case, it means the per-task overhead for a process is a multiple of that for a thread. Of course, the code and data of the application itself may be bloated, but that is a another story.
Why should having many tabs open in separate processes cause any problem?
A process has a far bigger resource footprint than a thread, with its own page tables, heap, fd table, etc, etc. It's a pretty big multiplier. Against that, we have improved robustness, it better be worth the bloat.
Who would have guessed that Billg lacks the balls to bring in an outsider and instead will name yet another tired old insider retread to the job. Here is hoping that the fail is massive, even eclipsing Ballmer.
Rendering of the data. I doubt you can use the rendering freely either. You get to look at it. Distribute it and if the big G catches you, you will have some explaining to do.
Since Bill Gates is well known for cheating at many things (business partners, court depositions, arrested for habitual speeding etc) it is likely that he cheated on his SAT as well, quite possibly with the aid of family money. 99% seems a rather unlikely result for somebody who was dumb enough to fail to notice the rise of the internet and, let Steve Ballmer run Microsoft, and bet the company on winfs (it didn't die but it certainly got sick). Smells more like the an election result in a one party state. The Gates family has never been widely renowned for wanting to play on a level playing field.
If you ask any non-computer geek consumer on the street who wrote Android OS, they'll say google. So in their minds, google wrote it all.
This amounts to intellectual dishonesty on Google's part. "Oh we accidentally forgot to credit our sources, now nobody knows, heh heh, why should we do anything about it?"
Apple is obviously just as dishonest with FreeBSD and Webkit. But we expect a higher standard of behavior from Google... or do we?
I meant, expanding templates. Macros on steroids. Disgusting hack of a language, but annoyingly useful.
Respecfully, anyone who claims you can do classes well in C has no experience with C++. You imagine you can do classes well. The truth is that you rely on a lot of conventions that the programmer must implement in meatware, that have little to do with software engineering. And what you get is not the real thing - you can't subclass properly for example. To someone who has only ever written C code it feels like what they imagine object oriented programming must be like, and that seems to be corroborated if things are actually getting done, better than if there were no ad hoc infrastructure. But the value of it pales beside the real thing. I have been there myself. If you want to argue that you can do OOP in C, you better get some experience with C++ first, and then you will assuredly realize that you are actually just helping the old cripple limp along, not setting it free.
Hi Raster. If you go "compiles faster" and "has designated initializers" you are getting really close to the end of the list of advantages C has. Meanwhile the C++ list of advantages is too long to list here. Start with just one: classes. Horrible filth pervades GTK from top to bottom because there is no good way to make up for that lack. I will accept a longer compile to end up with a better result, thankyou. BTW, much of the C++ compile overhead is expanding macros. Nobody forces you to use those bloated things.
Google's stopped promoting VP8 a while ago - they wanted to add it as an option for YouTube, and it's fizzled out for that reason - Google realizes it's not worth winning the WebM/VP8 war
What nonsense. Google didn't stop promoting VP8, they just started referring to it as WebM.
Incidentally, I much prefer the HTML5 player, it integrates properly with my browser controls as opposed to flash player, which was always infuriorating. And I don't know about your browser, but WebM is is available in my browser and H.264 is not.
the Harmony people at least had the sense to wind down the project once it was redundant as a result of Qt getting a more popular license. Same thing should have happened to GNOME - once Qt became GPL, the reason to have GNOME went away.
You mean, the main reason to have Gnome went way. The other reason to have Gnome was to have a fiefdom. Red Hat wanted a fiefdom (and was willing to subsidize developers to have it) and Gnome devs wanted to have a fiefdom for their own personal glory, self image, and paycheck. Damn the greater good.
While there are indeed cultural issues with GTK, its biggest problem is being written in C, which lacks many facilities to support good software engineering practices, and has next to no offsetting advantages. The result is a horrible kludge of a design full of ad now hacks trying to approximate proper OOP, and a disgusting, fragile code base. Among other things, implementing reasonable defaults in a GTK program is a lot of work, whereas is mostly just happens naturally in QT, which is partly by good design and partly because C++ supports sophistated mechanisms to manage defaults.
More precisely, because all decisions at Google are now based on power point presentations in manager meetings. Powerpoints prepared on Macs of course.
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The Amiga was also higher res than the original Mac - 640x400 vs 512x342
Whoa, what have we got here, Nvidia manager with mod points? Come on, admit it, closing your driver source when you're trying to sell hardware is just plain stupid, no two ways about it.
Could it be possible that you are not clear on the concept of "multiplier"? In this case, it means the per-task overhead for a process is a multiple of that for a thread. Of course, the code and data of the application itself may be bloated, but that is a another story.
See, if you get management's attention with a few precisely calibrated and executed gestures, stupidity can sometimes end.
Not at all. It's never too late to see the light and do the right thing.
Why should having many tabs open in separate processes cause any problem?
A process has a far bigger resource footprint than a thread, with its own page tables, heap, fd table, etc, etc. It's a pretty big multiplier. Against that, we have improved robustness, it better be worth the bloat.
Bing apparently had a leadership vacuum while he was leading it.
Who would have guessed that Billg lacks the balls to bring in an outsider and instead will name yet another tired old insider retread to the job. Here is hoping that the fail is massive, even eclipsing Ballmer.
Rendering of the data. I doubt you can use the rendering freely either. You get to look at it. Distribute it and if the big G catches you, you will have some explaining to do.
Remember McNealy the clown? Oracle bought Sun just so Larry could get those clown shoes.
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Since Bill Gates is well known for cheating at many things (business partners, court depositions, arrested for habitual speeding etc) it is likely that he cheated on his SAT as well, quite possibly with the aid of family money. 99% seems a rather unlikely result for somebody who was dumb enough to fail to notice the rise of the internet and, let Steve Ballmer run Microsoft, and bet the company on winfs (it didn't die but it certainly got sick). Smells more like the an election result in a one party state. The Gates family has never been widely renowned for wanting to play on a level playing field.
Give me multiples of millions and I will happily sit in a cube farm. Give me a cube farm without multiple millions and I'm out of that dump.
I, for one, do not believe the state has a right to take any life, regardless.
Defend its citzens from a war of aggression? Rubber bullets, that will do the trick. Probably.
If you ask any non-computer geek consumer on the street who wrote Android OS, they'll say google. So in their minds, google wrote it all.
This amounts to intellectual dishonesty on Google's part. "Oh we accidentally forgot to credit our sources, now nobody knows, heh heh, why should we do anything about it?"
Apple is obviously just as dishonest with FreeBSD and Webkit. But we expect a higher standard of behavior from Google... or do we?
calling it China's Operating System is implying that they wrote everything from scratch.
Sort of like Google calling it Android OS implies they wrote everything from scratch?
The debate is no longer about whether Linux should rule the world, but which flavor should.
I meant, expanding templates. Macros on steroids. Disgusting hack of a language, but annoyingly useful.
Respecfully, anyone who claims you can do classes well in C has no experience with C++. You imagine you can do classes well. The truth is that you rely on a lot of conventions that the programmer must implement in meatware, that have little to do with software engineering. And what you get is not the real thing - you can't subclass properly for example. To someone who has only ever written C code it feels like what they imagine object oriented programming must be like, and that seems to be corroborated if things are actually getting done, better than if there were no ad hoc infrastructure. But the value of it pales beside the real thing. I have been there myself. If you want to argue that you can do OOP in C, you better get some experience with C++ first, and then you will assuredly realize that you are actually just helping the old cripple limp along, not setting it free.
Hi Raster. If you go "compiles faster" and "has designated initializers" you are getting really close to the end of the list of advantages C has. Meanwhile the C++ list of advantages is too long to list here. Start with just one: classes. Horrible filth pervades GTK from top to bottom because there is no good way to make up for that lack. I will accept a longer compile to end up with a better result, thankyou. BTW, much of the C++ compile overhead is expanding macros. Nobody forces you to use those bloated things.
Google's stopped promoting VP8 a while ago - they wanted to add it as an option for YouTube, and it's fizzled out for that reason - Google realizes it's not worth winning the WebM/VP8 war
What nonsense. Google didn't stop promoting VP8, they just started referring to it as WebM.
Incidentally, I much prefer the HTML5 player, it integrates properly with my browser controls as opposed to flash player, which was always infuriorating. And I don't know about your browser, but WebM is is available in my browser and H.264 is not.
the Harmony people at least had the sense to wind down the project once it was redundant as a result of Qt getting a more popular license.
Same thing should have happened to GNOME - once Qt became GPL, the reason to have GNOME went away.
You mean, the main reason to have Gnome went way. The other reason to have Gnome was to have a fiefdom. Red Hat wanted a fiefdom (and was willing to subsidize developers to have it) and Gnome devs wanted to have a fiefdom for their own personal glory, self image, and paycheck. Damn the greater good.
What I don't understand is why Red Hat has not yet jumped off the sinking GTK ship. Ego involved?
While there are indeed cultural issues with GTK, its biggest problem is being written in C, which lacks many facilities to support good software engineering practices, and has next to no offsetting advantages. The result is a horrible kludge of a design full of ad now hacks trying to approximate proper OOP, and a disgusting, fragile code base. Among other things, implementing reasonable defaults in a GTK program is a lot of work, whereas is mostly just happens naturally in QT, which is partly by good design and partly because C++ supports sophistated mechanisms to manage defaults.
Because they jumped the shark.
More precisely, because all decisions at Google are now based on power point presentations in manager meetings. Powerpoints prepared on Macs of course.
You can't ever arrive at an electron-and-a-half of charge (though you can, in theory, get a third or two thirds, but not naturally in nature).
And not artificially either, by any accepted theory and in spite of many experimental attempts.