The only areas where proprietary drivers work worse than Open Source drivers
What about kernel mode setting? Can I adjust the resolution, or plug in an external monitor, on my Linux Mint KDE system with the proprietary Nvidia driver, using the KDE tools, or do I have to use some shitty proprietary program which isn't built into KDE?
Right now, with my Intel system, I can plug in an external monitor and I don't have to do anything at all to use it. Does the proprietary driver do that? If not, it's unusable.
What "base case"? Plugging an external monitor into a laptop is not a rare, niche application, it's a common thing for people with monitors to do. In fact, it's an absolute necessity for anyone who works at a corporate job: you have to be able to take your laptop into a conference room and plug in a VGA or HDMI cable so you can use the room's projector. For home use, it's not uncommon for people to plug their big-screen TV into their laptop.
Intel hardware works just fine unless you're playing high-end games. For things like watching video (which includes hardware decoding), and for not-so-high-end games, it's perfectly adequate, plus it has lower power consumption than external GPUs, which is a very important thing on a laptop.
If you're having problems walking around, you really should see a doctor. That isn't normal unless you're elderly (80+). Just look at Harrison Ford; he's in his 70s and still in great shape. Not exercising isn't going to help anything.
You might also want to see a podiatrist and make sure your footwear is keeping your legs aligned properly.
If you have places that are spread out over a city, you'll get between them much faster on a bus or in a taxi. Segways are not particularly fast, they just free you from having to walk.
Restarting X is unacceptable in this day and age. I don't have to do that shit with the open-source Intel drivers; everything "just works". If I plug in a new monitor on my laptop, it's instantly activated and configured, and I can just move windows to it.
No, Linux gaming is not absolutely dependent on open-source drivers. However, open-source drivers work much better on Linux systems than proprietary drivers; the proprietary ones usually take extra work to install, they break on updates, etc. The Linux desktop ecosystem just isn't set up very well for proprietary drivers (by design).
No, he's absolutely right. It doesn't matter if her examples have been debunked or not, or if they've been completely made up. What people believe is what's important, not objective reality, and people's beliefs are shaped by things like media coverage on the harassment she received. So basically, the harassment made everyone take her side, even though she may be (according to you) wrong. If she hadn't been harassed that way, and the critics focused only on the facts, this probably wouldn't have turned out this way.
not same inteligent person (only low-IQ people would share their private data with Slashdot or Facebook, and have account on those sites)
You're an idiot. Slashdot doesn't know anything about me besides my handle. All anyone knows about "Grishnakh" is that he's an orc captain who was stepped on by an ent.
This is exactly right: only send introverts. They're generally happy with small groups of familiar people anyway, and don't need lots of socialization.
On top of that, make the mission bigger. Have at least a dozen people, or even 20, and that really should be plenty of interaction to keep everyone happy. If you can't afford to build the ship big enough for 20 people, you can't afford the mission.
I disagree; I applaud MS's decision to put it in the OS kernel, and I think they should move more stuff there, security be damned. I just wish they'd be more honest and tell everyone that they really don't care about security.
Then, anyone who continues to use MS products will get what they deserve.
My sense of the silly valley is that one reason people jump around like popcorn is that companies don't give raises, ever
This isn't a Silicon Valley problem, this is a nationwide problem. Every company is like that these days. I saw the exact same thing (well, not quite *no* raises, but crappy 2% CoLA raises were common) working in companies other states. You just can't expect to stay in any one company for more than a few years or so, unless you like being stuck with CoLA raises and don't mind being taken advantage of. It's no different than apartment complexes: they jack up your rent every year because they know it costs you money to move, so they're banking that you don't want to bother and will just sign the new lease. Companies don't give out raises because they know employees like stability and don't want to bother getting a new job with all the risk that entails. But of course, lots of people do it anyway, but enough people are willing to accept the abuse that it's obviously profitable to do so.
RTP seems to have succeeded, though, despite being tobacco and Jesse Helms.
That's not the only place; there's a bunch of tech hubs all over the US, of varying degrees and quality: NYC, Boston, DC, Austin, Phoenix, SLC, San Diego, LA, Portland, and Seattle (I might have missed a few). (Note that some hubs cater to certain industries and skills more than others; NYC is great if you're into big data or financial computing, and also web development, but terrible for embedded devices for instance.) There's various reasons why they succeed: educational institutions, size of the metro area, and political climate are probably important factors. Very few of these are in highly conservative places, and those that are seem to be in fairly liberal enclaves within them (hello, Austin).
But the point is, you can't just stick up some signs, or offer some tax breaks or whatever, and expect a certain area to magically become a new tech hub. It doesn't work that way, but politicians think it does.
On-site backup is not backup, it's just wishful thinking for a business.
There's nothing preventing them from driving the tapes to a safety-deposit box every week.
They are the backup.
And you trust them why?
Because you encrypt it first. And because, if you're a business, you solve this in the same way that you solve the other issues: a contract with steep penalty clauses.
Unless this is some sizable company, that doesn't mean anything. As soon as things go south, they just disappear.
There's a reason that business broadband exists and provides 1+Gb/s speeds...
And how much does that cost compared to a tape drive? Even gigabit ethernet isn't that fast to a single random internet site, and is pretty slow compared to the speed a tape drive operates at. Seriously, how is some little company with 20 employees supposed to afford this? $2k for a tape drive and some flunky IT employee to run backups every week is not a big cost for a small business.
The off-site storage option is high-risk. How long will that company be around? How do you know they're backing up your data? How do you know they're not selling your data to someone? And that's a lot of bandwidth too.
It's not just the weather; all the tech talent you need is located in California, so it's not that hard to find employees. Enticing them to move to upstate NY isn't so easy. This is the thing all these states don't understand: you can't get companies to just move to some bumfuck place in the sticks, because they need employees, and employees usually don't want to move to someplace which doesn't have a critical mass of employers, because if their job doesn't work out or ends (which it will, tech employment is always short these days), then they're stuck having to pay $$$$ to relocate for a new job. In a tech hub city, you just go find another job at a company a few miles from your old one.
They're just like apartment complex management companies: they're banking that you're too lazy to pack up and move, so they continue jacking up your rent year after year, while giving new renters a big discount.
Yeah, I used to live in that area and I remember reading about this program over a year ago. I remember because I looked into it, but it seemed like they wanted your company to locate in out-of-the-way places.
This program just seems like another silly east-coast attempt to try to replicate the success of Silicon Valley without at all understanding why SV was successful in the first place. They did this years ago in Virginia, where I went to college: they set up something called "Virginia's Technology Corridor" in the southwest part of the state, put up a bunch of signs out in the sticks ("You are now entering Virginia's Technology Corridor!!!" with some shitty trailer home in the background), and then wondered why no companies bothered to locate there even though Virginia Tech was in the region. They eventually gave up.
Tape seems to be a healthy market, otherwise there wouldn't be multiple companies making them and selling them. Just because you can't afford one for your home computer doesn't mean anything; there's tons of larger companies out there who have no trouble dropping $2k on a tape drive. It's not just large ones; even smaller ones can afford that easily. $2k is nothing. How much does a consumer spend on a digital camera these days anyway? I see boxes of them going for $1k+ at Costco. I used to work at a company with only 50-100 people in the office and they had tape drives. You're looking at everything through the lens of your own home budget.
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The only areas where proprietary drivers work worse than Open Source drivers
What about kernel mode setting? Can I adjust the resolution, or plug in an external monitor, on my Linux Mint KDE system with the proprietary Nvidia driver, using the KDE tools, or do I have to use some shitty proprietary program which isn't built into KDE?
Right now, with my Intel system, I can plug in an external monitor and I don't have to do anything at all to use it. Does the proprietary driver do that? If not, it's unusable.
Unlike most lazy Americans, I do a fair bit of hiking. I'm sure I wouldn't have any trouble.
What "base case"? Plugging an external monitor into a laptop is not a rare, niche application, it's a common thing for people with monitors to do. In fact, it's an absolute necessity for anyone who works at a corporate job: you have to be able to take your laptop into a conference room and plug in a VGA or HDMI cable so you can use the room's projector. For home use, it's not uncommon for people to plug their big-screen TV into their laptop.
Intel hardware works just fine unless you're playing high-end games. For things like watching video (which includes hardware decoding), and for not-so-high-end games, it's perfectly adequate, plus it has lower power consumption than external GPUs, which is a very important thing on a laptop.
If you're having problems walking around, you really should see a doctor. That isn't normal unless you're elderly (80+). Just look at Harrison Ford; he's in his 70s and still in great shape. Not exercising isn't going to help anything.
You might also want to see a podiatrist and make sure your footwear is keeping your legs aligned properly.
If you have places that are spread out over a city, you'll get between them much faster on a bus or in a taxi. Segways are not particularly fast, they just free you from having to walk.
Serious comments are useless when the discussion is being drowned in comments from paid shills.
This discussion has made it obvious that Slashdot has been completely taken over by shills, and serious discussion can't be done here any more.
Why would those scientists you mention need to use FOSS drivers?
Because they're not playing games, they're using the GPUs' computational power, and the proprietary drivers don't work for that presumably.
Restarting X is unacceptable in this day and age. I don't have to do that shit with the open-source Intel drivers; everything "just works". If I plug in a new monitor on my laptop, it's instantly activated and configured, and I can just move windows to it.
No, Linux gaming is not absolutely dependent on open-source drivers. However, open-source drivers work much better on Linux systems than proprietary drivers; the proprietary ones usually take extra work to install, they break on updates, etc. The Linux desktop ecosystem just isn't set up very well for proprietary drivers (by design).
No, he's absolutely right. It doesn't matter if her examples have been debunked or not, or if they've been completely made up. What people believe is what's important, not objective reality, and people's beliefs are shaped by things like media coverage on the harassment she received. So basically, the harassment made everyone take her side, even though she may be (according to you) wrong. If she hadn't been harassed that way, and the critics focused only on the facts, this probably wouldn't have turned out this way.
not same inteligent person (only low-IQ people would share their private data with Slashdot or Facebook, and have account on those sites)
You're an idiot. Slashdot doesn't know anything about me besides my handle. All anyone knows about "Grishnakh" is that he's an orc captain who was stepped on by an ent.
In any decent country, those patent problems aren't an issue.
If you're obese or out of shape, I guess. For the rest of us, a walking tour is good exercise.
Exactly. This lackadaisical attitude towards security is par for the course with them.
Another typical Microsoft shill. How much do they pay you to sit around and troll message boards?
This is exactly right: only send introverts. They're generally happy with small groups of familiar people anyway, and don't need lots of socialization.
On top of that, make the mission bigger. Have at least a dozen people, or even 20, and that really should be plenty of interaction to keep everyone happy. If you can't afford to build the ship big enough for 20 people, you can't afford the mission.
I disagree; I applaud MS's decision to put it in the OS kernel, and I think they should move more stuff there, security be damned. I just wish they'd be more honest and tell everyone that they really don't care about security.
Then, anyone who continues to use MS products will get what they deserve.
yes, if you're making over $100K, you're rich
You're an idiot. 100K is firmly in middle-middle-class territory these days, unless maybe you live in someplace way out in the sticks.
My sense of the silly valley is that one reason people jump around like popcorn is that companies don't give raises, ever
This isn't a Silicon Valley problem, this is a nationwide problem. Every company is like that these days. I saw the exact same thing (well, not quite *no* raises, but crappy 2% CoLA raises were common) working in companies other states. You just can't expect to stay in any one company for more than a few years or so, unless you like being stuck with CoLA raises and don't mind being taken advantage of. It's no different than apartment complexes: they jack up your rent every year because they know it costs you money to move, so they're banking that you don't want to bother and will just sign the new lease. Companies don't give out raises because they know employees like stability and don't want to bother getting a new job with all the risk that entails. But of course, lots of people do it anyway, but enough people are willing to accept the abuse that it's obviously profitable to do so.
RTP seems to have succeeded, though, despite being tobacco and Jesse Helms.
That's not the only place; there's a bunch of tech hubs all over the US, of varying degrees and quality: NYC, Boston, DC, Austin, Phoenix, SLC, San Diego, LA, Portland, and Seattle (I might have missed a few). (Note that some hubs cater to certain industries and skills more than others; NYC is great if you're into big data or financial computing, and also web development, but terrible for embedded devices for instance.) There's various reasons why they succeed: educational institutions, size of the metro area, and political climate are probably important factors. Very few of these are in highly conservative places, and those that are seem to be in fairly liberal enclaves within them (hello, Austin).
But the point is, you can't just stick up some signs, or offer some tax breaks or whatever, and expect a certain area to magically become a new tech hub. It doesn't work that way, but politicians think it does.
On-site backup is not backup, it's just wishful thinking for a business.
There's nothing preventing them from driving the tapes to a safety-deposit box every week.
They are the backup.
And you trust them why?
Because you encrypt it first. And because, if you're a business, you solve this in the same way that you solve the other issues: a contract with steep penalty clauses.
Unless this is some sizable company, that doesn't mean anything. As soon as things go south, they just disappear.
There's a reason that business broadband exists and provides 1+Gb/s speeds...
And how much does that cost compared to a tape drive? Even gigabit ethernet isn't that fast to a single random internet site, and is pretty slow compared to the speed a tape drive operates at. Seriously, how is some little company with 20 employees supposed to afford this? $2k for a tape drive and some flunky IT employee to run backups every week is not a big cost for a small business.
The off-site storage option is high-risk. How long will that company be around? How do you know they're backing up your data? How do you know they're not selling your data to someone? And that's a lot of bandwidth too.
It's not just the weather; all the tech talent you need is located in California, so it's not that hard to find employees. Enticing them to move to upstate NY isn't so easy. This is the thing all these states don't understand: you can't get companies to just move to some bumfuck place in the sticks, because they need employees, and employees usually don't want to move to someplace which doesn't have a critical mass of employers, because if their job doesn't work out or ends (which it will, tech employment is always short these days), then they're stuck having to pay $$$$ to relocate for a new job. In a tech hub city, you just go find another job at a company a few miles from your old one.
They're just like apartment complex management companies: they're banking that you're too lazy to pack up and move, so they continue jacking up your rent year after year, while giving new renters a big discount.
Yeah, I used to live in that area and I remember reading about this program over a year ago. I remember because I looked into it, but it seemed like they wanted your company to locate in out-of-the-way places.
This program just seems like another silly east-coast attempt to try to replicate the success of Silicon Valley without at all understanding why SV was successful in the first place. They did this years ago in Virginia, where I went to college: they set up something called "Virginia's Technology Corridor" in the southwest part of the state, put up a bunch of signs out in the sticks ("You are now entering Virginia's Technology Corridor!!!" with some shitty trailer home in the background), and then wondered why no companies bothered to locate there even though Virginia Tech was in the region. They eventually gave up.
Tape seems to be a healthy market, otherwise there wouldn't be multiple companies making them and selling them. Just because you can't afford one for your home computer doesn't mean anything; there's tons of larger companies out there who have no trouble dropping $2k on a tape drive. It's not just large ones; even smaller ones can afford that easily. $2k is nothing. How much does a consumer spend on a digital camera these days anyway? I see boxes of them going for $1k+ at Costco. I used to work at a company with only 50-100 people in the office and they had tape drives. You're looking at everything through the lens of your own home budget.