Another reason they may not want their driver code visible is that they do have benchmark detecting and circumventing code in their drivers, which might be somewhat embarrassing if it were on public display.
I used to play with a GOP politician from Guam (in the same guild as him), but I suppose the fact he wasn't an evil Orc Rogue but rather a good Dwarf Priest made his WoW playing okay. Sigh.
Exactly. I'm still running 3.2 on my 10.1 tablet with only vague generalizations as to when I *might* get ICS. Instead of futzing around with their own O/S, maybe they could make Android better? For example, I have to manually set my timezone when I travel with the 10.1 even though it has GPS; no option to have it automatically update. Yes, it's a minor nit, but it's that level of quality that I'm wanting and that they're currently not delivering with Android. If they can't manage that with someone else's O/S, then I really don't want to see what they would deliver via 100% of their own sweat.
The story passed by the editor(s) (granted, it's timothy) with a summary that was quite excited to point out that computation isn't the same as proof. Perhaps it's time to relegate this site to r/slashdot and replace it with a nice stream of cats and ponies.
What NVIDIA really wants is a sample of the benchmark so that they can tweak their drivers to fool the benchmark into producing a higher number; same as they do for the rest of the benchmarks.
Knowledge of how to implement a search algorithm is pretty much useless in most real world applications in businesses especially when most people would just leverage what is already present in a framework...
This is exactly the point I wanted to make. I've been doing professional software dev for over 20 years and if an interviewer asked me to explain an algorithm off of the top of my head I would immediately know that this is not someone I would ever want to work for – primarily because it tells me they're clueless and quite likely in way the hell over their head. Frequently, software development isn't about what you know... it's about what you don't know and how quickly you can learn it. Yes, there are some core things that help along the way, but being able to regurgitate a bunch of facts only tells me that you'd do well on the MCSE exam. How well you could deal with unknowns (i.e., whether you can do problem solving or not) is unrelated to amount of trivia you can spout.
As to standing meetings... been there, done that; circa 1998 or so (IIRC). Yet another attempt to avoid the correct solution to "the meeting problem". The correct solution is to stop having regularly scheduled meetings. You can easily schedule meetings as the need arises. I would also be for voting by the invitees as to whether the meeting is necessary or not.
Which really, for me at least, brings it back to letting someone else do the research and then seeing what they have to say. Fan sites don't do much for me but I like reading the first impressions from tech journalists and the tear down reports. It does prevent me from being an early adopter, but as I said earlier, I'm not much of an impulse buyer.
In the case of my Galaxy Tab 10.1, one of the things that I didn't find out from reviews nor notice during my first usage of it was the "oddness" of its touch interface. It's difficult to quantify, but essentially the touch interface varies between being overly sensitive and underly sensitive. It has a laggy feel to it sometimes, but not always. I think the core of the problem is that Android doesn't give you positive feedback about whether it noticed your touch event or not. The feedback you get is the performance of the function, which doesn't happen in any guaranteed realtime fashion. iOS is far better tuned than Android in this area. Perhaps ICS is the magic panacea to fix this, but I don't foresee Samsung bothering to release it for the 10.1 given the huge gap between the release of 3.2 and Samsung's port of it to the 10.1. And the Android dev environment is so incredibly awful in the emulator area that there's no way to know without actual hardware. Not that Eclipse is a joy either, but that's a whole other topic.
I've never bought any of those items from a physical store. Always online. That said, I don't see how having an item in the store with a cord attached to it on a moderately low table will tell me anything about interacting with it for long periods of time. Is there some store that I'm unaware of with lounge chairs, couches and desks where I can grab one of the items and sit down with it for a couple of hours? Or that will let take it home with me overnight to test drive it?
It would be nice to physically look them over. I rely on the Amazon reviews for that as well as other review sites and go to the manufacturer's site for additional information when Amazon doesn't have it. These are the same things I would do before going to a physical store. I'm not much of an impulse buyer, so having the physical array of items in front of me doesn't make a lot of difference to me. As to returns, I'm trying to remember the last time I returned something; I think it was a container of dried mushrooms that had a cigarette butt in it. That was maybe 4 or 5 years ago and was from a local grocery chain.
The only beneficiary of this will be the state of Indiana. Amazon's prices are already (typically) lower than what I can get them for in a store and I don't have to put up with parking lots, shitty cashiers, nor someone trying to pressure me into getting the "extended warranty". I don't have to wander around the store trying to find it, and I don't have to deal with my items either not being carried by them or else out of stock. And now Amazon has the right to demand the same level of government services that the brick-and-mortar retailers are getting. So 3 years from now, when the anachronistic "main street" retailers finally figure out that sales tax wasn't the issue, it will likely be too late for them to do anything about it.
Well, what he said was that the moderators can't handle the truth. Then, in the next sentence he mentioned corruption which I inferred to mean that whether the corruption is in the DNC or the RNC, it shouldn't matter to the moderators.
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Another reason they may not want their driver code visible is that they do have benchmark detecting and circumventing code in their drivers, which might be somewhat embarrassing if it were on public display.
I must have missed the WWJD expansion.
I used to play with a GOP politician from Guam (in the same guild as him), but I suppose the fact he wasn't an evil Orc Rogue but rather a good Dwarf Priest made his WoW playing okay. Sigh.
Surprising number of slackware users here. I went Slackware (floppies with 0.9.16 kernel?) -> Red Hat -> Debian -> Ubuntu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Peruse at your leisure.
Name on [sic] Presidential candidate that has ever released college transcripts...
G.W. Bush
Whereas every Presidential candidate going back to at least FDR has released those tax records.
Not true. Carter was the first. He released two years worth. That's the same as Romney has released (sort of - his 2011 is still in process).
Wow. The Bard's Tale. Tempted to break out the old floppies...
Exactly. I'm still running 3.2 on my 10.1 tablet with only vague generalizations as to when I *might* get ICS. Instead of futzing around with their own O/S, maybe they could make Android better? For example, I have to manually set my timezone when I travel with the 10.1 even though it has GPS; no option to have it automatically update. Yes, it's a minor nit, but it's that level of quality that I'm wanting and that they're currently not delivering with Android. If they can't manage that with someone else's O/S, then I really don't want to see what they would deliver via 100% of their own sweat.
I think he gets it; just won't admit it. At least you understood my point.
The story passed by the editor(s) (granted, it's timothy) with a summary that was quite excited to point out that computation isn't the same as proof. Perhaps it's time to relegate this site to r/slashdot and replace it with a nice stream of cats and ponies.
Whoa. Dude. Like, I think you meant to post that on /r/trees man.
What NVIDIA really wants is a sample of the benchmark so that they can tweak their drivers to fool the benchmark into producing a higher number; same as they do for the rest of the benchmarks.
That was hilarious! I've forwarded it on to friends. I'm sure they'll get a chuckle out of that.
cripes...
s/in favor/be in favor/
I hear some of the newer websites have invented this thing called "editing". Probably just a fad. And potentially IP encumbered. Must... stay... away.
s/be for/in favor of/
This is exactly the point I wanted to make. I've been doing professional software dev for over 20 years and if an interviewer asked me to explain an algorithm off of the top of my head I would immediately know that this is not someone I would ever want to work for – primarily because it tells me they're clueless and quite likely in way the hell over their head. Frequently, software development isn't about what you know... it's about what you don't know and how quickly you can learn it. Yes, there are some core things that help along the way, but being able to regurgitate a bunch of facts only tells me that you'd do well on the MCSE exam. How well you could deal with unknowns (i.e., whether you can do problem solving or not) is unrelated to amount of trivia you can spout.
As to standing meetings... been there, done that; circa 1998 or so (IIRC). Yet another attempt to avoid the correct solution to "the meeting problem". The correct solution is to stop having regularly scheduled meetings. You can easily schedule meetings as the need arises. I would also be for voting by the invitees as to whether the meeting is necessary or not.
Which really, for me at least, brings it back to letting someone else do the research and then seeing what they have to say. Fan sites don't do much for me but I like reading the first impressions from tech journalists and the tear down reports. It does prevent me from being an early adopter, but as I said earlier, I'm not much of an impulse buyer.
In the case of my Galaxy Tab 10.1, one of the things that I didn't find out from reviews nor notice during my first usage of it was the "oddness" of its touch interface. It's difficult to quantify, but essentially the touch interface varies between being overly sensitive and underly sensitive. It has a laggy feel to it sometimes, but not always. I think the core of the problem is that Android doesn't give you positive feedback about whether it noticed your touch event or not. The feedback you get is the performance of the function, which doesn't happen in any guaranteed realtime fashion. iOS is far better tuned than Android in this area. Perhaps ICS is the magic panacea to fix this, but I don't foresee Samsung bothering to release it for the 10.1 given the huge gap between the release of 3.2 and Samsung's port of it to the 10.1. And the Android dev environment is so incredibly awful in the emulator area that there's no way to know without actual hardware. Not that Eclipse is a joy either, but that's a whole other topic.
I've never bought any of those items from a physical store. Always online. That said, I don't see how having an item in the store with a cord attached to it on a moderately low table will tell me anything about interacting with it for long periods of time. Is there some store that I'm unaware of with lounge chairs, couches and desks where I can grab one of the items and sit down with it for a couple of hours? Or that will let take it home with me overnight to test drive it?
It would be nice to physically look them over. I rely on the Amazon reviews for that as well as other review sites and go to the manufacturer's site for additional information when Amazon doesn't have it. These are the same things I would do before going to a physical store. I'm not much of an impulse buyer, so having the physical array of items in front of me doesn't make a lot of difference to me. As to returns, I'm trying to remember the last time I returned something; I think it was a container of dried mushrooms that had a cigarette butt in it. That was maybe 4 or 5 years ago and was from a local grocery chain.
I pay the same or less at Amazon and don't have to deal with it. I'm not bitching, I'm shopping elsewhere and pointing out why; it's not sales tax.
The only beneficiary of this will be the state of Indiana. Amazon's prices are already (typically) lower than what I can get them for in a store and I don't have to put up with parking lots, shitty cashiers, nor someone trying to pressure me into getting the "extended warranty". I don't have to wander around the store trying to find it, and I don't have to deal with my items either not being carried by them or else out of stock. And now Amazon has the right to demand the same level of government services that the brick-and-mortar retailers are getting. So 3 years from now, when the anachronistic "main street" retailers finally figure out that sales tax wasn't the issue, it will likely be too late for them to do anything about it.
Well, what he said was that the moderators can't handle the truth. Then, in the next sentence he mentioned corruption which I inferred to mean that whether the corruption is in the DNC or the RNC, it shouldn't matter to the moderators.
TIL: Jingly means an uneducated/stupid person of South Asian origin.
Man. Reddit will love this.
Jeez. Read the summary. Obviously it's a company that's going to launch 25 dollars. Presumably into space.
As to why you should care; well if you're a nerd you just will. 'Cause, like, this is slashdot and stuff.
You mean like Felipe Massiah?