Either you provide Power, or water, or broadband or phone or TV. The fact that everything runs on your pipes/cables/em waves does not mean you are the one and only provider. At least for the sake of market freedom. And finally, what's written in the EU contract?
Run time optimizations can be (are?) a very bad idea in a kernel, where very often the exact predictability of execution paths makes the difference between a working kernel and a misbehaving one. Clang can be a good solution for application programs, though, where a LLVM failure "just" harms a process. I am also concerned with different architectures running the same "binary" produced by Clang. But that's only my opinion.
As well as of software and hardware design quality. I mean, if you have seen the pictures, you'd not say it's a 60 yo machine. I'd say it's 20 yo. An 8088 class machine, for example. The knobs still have a well readable lettering on. There is not a lake of exhaust oil on the floor or burns on the metal shields. Meaning that the mechanical and electrical construction has been designed to last and for ease of maintenance. My oldest machine has been a IBM (yeah!) Tower i486 DX4-100 deployed in 1995 as a DNS server and retired in 2005 for a total MB failure. 10 years at 24/7 of operations. That's it. Current hardware (and also software, I fear) is not done to last. Is done for lasting revenues. Which can actually be the opposite. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying how it seems to me to be.
Filtering is removing things the user does not want to see
I fear Mr Facebook is not *all* users.
A human can easily tell what is spam
The user should tell what is span accordingly to her/his current tastes. A sarcastic humorous reply can be seen as spam by some one and as funny by some one else.
Probably not as spam is not posted
So what in case of an algorithmic mistake? Missing posts?
Because there have been many complaints about spam
But there can be also complaints about missing messages. My very personal point of view: don't reinvent the wheel (once more). We all know spam filters that either allow access to filtered messages or allow dynamic learning or, better, both of them. And my bottom line reads: isn't it better to get an extra spam message rather then a forever missing good message? And I would leave Slashdot as soon as they'd start filtering posts.
What'd be the difference between "filtering" and "censoring"? How would you tell spam and non-spam apart? Will I still be able to read what you filtered out as spam? Why don't you leave the users themselves to trash what they consider useless on their own?
There's still a bunch of countries that are not members of the WIPO. And then I ask myself: what if I ask for a patent and the answer that it's already patented but I'm not allowed to know the details? From that point on I do know at least a part of the details of the secret patent!
They also extract energy from the athmosphere (I actually have no idea on how much). But in the end all depends on how many wind farms will be deployed.
but actually useless. Why unearthing all those planes? To show? We already have plenty of original spitfires all over the world and a few also still working. To sell? How would buy one? To learn new things? Don't think so.
1ppm? 1% problem? You really think cars will last forever? For more than, say, 10 years? Do you think that a Li-whatever battery grows from grass and dung? That an electric motor or an internal combustion one can be made from sand and water?
Chances there are that we all are. We mind the "pollution" involved in using a car (any car type). But we'd mind the one involved into the whole process, from manufacturing a car to dispose it! I fear that electric cars (whatever battery technology they use) just move the pollution stuff from "usage" to "manufacturing" and "disposing"!
Now we have MATE from GNOME v2 as a form of dissatisfaction of v3. We already had Trinity forked from KDE v3.5. Then there's Razor-Qt as "something almost completely new". And the pletora of "alternative" desktops we all love: XFCE, LXDE, etc.etc. Is it actually a problem of fragmentation, or is it that some projects after a few years (and some amounts of donated money) just go into technology decline? I personally tend towards the second option.
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EU=End User
I can backup my BDs in my urine and feces!
Either you provide Power, or water, or broadband or phone or TV.
The fact that everything runs on your pipes/cables/em waves does not mean you are the one and only provider.
At least for the sake of market freedom.
And finally, what's written in the EU contract?
But Conan will save us all!
Run time optimizations can be (are?) a very bad idea in a kernel, where very often the exact predictability of execution paths makes the difference between a working kernel and a misbehaving one.
Clang can be a good solution for application programs, though, where a LLVM failure "just" harms a process.
I am also concerned with different architectures running the same "binary" produced by Clang.
But that's only my opinion.
As well as of software and hardware design quality.
I mean, if you have seen the pictures, you'd not say it's a 60 yo machine. I'd say it's 20 yo. An 8088 class machine, for example.
The knobs still have a well readable lettering on. There is not a lake of exhaust oil on the floor or burns on the metal shields.
Meaning that the mechanical and electrical construction has been designed to last and for ease of maintenance.
My oldest machine has been a IBM (yeah!) Tower i486 DX4-100 deployed in 1995 as a DNS server and retired in 2005 for a total MB failure.
10 years at 24/7 of operations. That's it.
Current hardware (and also software, I fear) is not done to last. Is done for lasting revenues. Which can actually be the opposite.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying how it seems to me to be.
Filtering is removing things the user does not want to see
I fear Mr Facebook is not *all* users.
A human can easily tell what is spam
The user should tell what is span accordingly to her/his current tastes. A sarcastic humorous reply can be seen as spam by some one and as funny by some one else.
Probably not as spam is not posted
So what in case of an algorithmic mistake? Missing posts?
Because there have been many complaints about spam
But there can be also complaints about missing messages.
My very personal point of view: don't reinvent the wheel (once more). We all know spam filters that either allow access to filtered messages or allow dynamic learning or, better, both of them.
And my bottom line reads: isn't it better to get an extra spam message rather then a forever missing good message?
And I would leave Slashdot as soon as they'd start filtering posts.
What'd be the difference between "filtering" and "censoring"?
How would you tell spam and non-spam apart?
Will I still be able to read what you filtered out as spam?
Why don't you leave the users themselves to trash what they consider useless on their own?
There's still a bunch of countries that are not members of the WIPO.
And then I ask myself: what if I ask for a patent and the answer that it's already patented but I'm not allowed to know the details?
From that point on I do know at least a part of the details of the secret patent!
They also extract energy from the athmosphere (I actually have no idea on how much).
But in the end all depends on how many wind farms will be deployed.
but actually useless.
Why unearthing all those planes?
To show? We already have plenty of original spitfires all over the world and a few also still working.
To sell? How would buy one?
To learn new things? Don't think so.
DIE!
MMIX
by dropping all the departments!
1ppm? 1% problem?
You really think cars will last forever? For more than, say, 10 years?
Do you think that a Li-whatever battery grows from grass and dung?
That an electric motor or an internal combustion one can be made from sand and water?
By the way, I'm not green but a physicist.
Chances there are that we all are.
We mind the "pollution" involved in using a car (any car type). But we'd mind the one involved into the whole process, from manufacturing a car to dispose it!
I fear that electric cars (whatever battery technology they use) just move the pollution stuff from "usage" to "manufacturing" and "disposing"!
read this one
How would that battery efficiency be affected by air pollution and low- high- density cases?
Now we have MATE from GNOME v2 as a form of dissatisfaction of v3.
We already had Trinity forked from KDE v3.5.
Then there's Razor-Qt as "something almost completely new".
And the pletora of "alternative" desktops we all love: XFCE, LXDE, etc.etc.
Is it actually a problem of fragmentation, or is it that some projects after a few years (and some amounts of donated money) just go into technology decline?
I personally tend towards the second option.
without Windows?
Ha! Impossible Mission!
to read the quantum version of Slashdot.
He has a nice name, indeed. Sounds like "John Doe Hacker".
As 99.999% of the people that has power just focus on his own profit.
It's clearly written in the fery first FAQ:
EGLIBC is not meant to be a fork of GLIBC.
He's not an English Language professor, anyway!