Software can be cross-platform if that's one of the goals of the developer.
VLC is the best video player out there -- and it works for Linux/Windows/MacOS. So is Libre Office and Microsoft has even managed develop a cross-platform code editor -- and each one is in an entirely different programming language (C++/Java/Javascript respectively).
Will there be a day when developers mostly write cross-platform software? One can hope.
Slashdot had both negative and positive moderation since the 90's and it does work. The problem with Facebook's likes/dislikes/etc are that they ENTIRELY opaque in how they operate to anyone except the people who literally work in the "feed ordering" division at FB -- and even then, if you were to leave for even a week they could completely change it again and you'd have no idea how it works. Of course, if you are a paid propagandist, you probably have the most time
If only someone could come up with a decentralized system for people to post content and users could decide how to order that content for themselves. Why we even need these companies whose chief "service" is data mining their customers is beyond me.
We already have a federal postal system which seems perfectly capable of honoring warrants while not opening every package to spy on people. And unlike like the postal system, individual can choose to use encryption to circumvent any content monitoring.
Both countries were armed with nukes at the time the clock was moved; the main difference being Fidel Castro was in charge of the nukes then and Kim Jong Un is in charge of the nukes now.
ever noticed the recent trend in gaming consoles ?
AMD doesn't provide drivers for game consoles -- they just provide the hardware. AMD's drivers have been a source of anguish since they were ATI -- and don't even try to use their Linux drivers. Most of what they do nowadays is optimize for a few current/upcoming flagship titles -- at the expense of stability of anything else.
AMD has some of the best computer/electrical engineers in the world. However, you need decent software engineers in order to win the PC graphic card wars (and please have a unified driver for Linux...pretty please?) -- and they're having a hard time recruiting with Apple/Facebook/Google/NVidia in their backyard.
Exactly. Median rent of a 1 bedroom sets you back a cool $2K a month ($24K/year). Skim 10% off the top for state income tax ($5K) and another $6K off the top for Federal income tax/social security, around $200 month ($2.4K/year) for electricty/cell phone/internet, and you're left with around $15K.
Start talking about a car note and you get into $1K/month territory of take-home pay -- which just isn't worth it. Google plans on actively making the problem worse by creating thousands of jobs in San Jose with no city planning on creating enough housing units to hold that many people...which raises housing costs, because of supply and demand.
The housing problem has been bad for over a decade and no politician dares talk about a real solution as it would mean a depreciation in home prices (supply and demand again -- economics works whether or not you choose to believe in it) which is political suicide.
The oldest/. story I could find on net neutrality the tenor of the comments is largely that the internet was founded on net neutrality and it wasn't until ISPs figured out yet another way to swindle consumers that it was even an issue.
What happened? More partisan politics? More paid shills and less moderation? For all the things that would divide the/. folk, there were two things that united us: free competition within a market free of monopolistic interference (hi Microsoft!)...and Natalie Portman covered in hot grits.
Totally agree about the hate though -- controversy, conflict and violence sure are profitable though and as long as our media systems makes money by keeping everyone continuously angry and offended -- it's not going to change. When TV news wasn't supposed to be profitable, journalism provided more light than heat.
For most parallel problems, it's possible to divide them and send each piece to different computers, rather than a different core on the same computer. For even more highly parallel problems, using a GPUs to do the computation is even faster.
With 100 gig ethernet, we're starting to see networking speeds closer to bus speeds on motherboards themselves and it's cheaper, faster to scale (especially dynamically), and probably more fault tolerant (node fail? Send the job to a different node) to use more computer nodes rather than using more processors in a single computer.
Distributed computing has almost made supercomputers irrelevant -- except for people with a hole in their pocket. Folding@home is more powerful than anything on their list while we have no idea what monster of a compute clusters work inside Google or Facebook -- but given the open source software they have released (e.g. Facebook's 360 degree video stitcher) and how slow they are on a single machine -- the only way they'd be usable on their site is if you have a massive cluster.
When MacOS X came out, users said the same thing. "Why won't my programs in this new OS?" You average Joe Designer was just unhappy. You couldn't explain to him that the backend being Unix was a major upgrade and that doing so required programs to be not backwards compatible.
Ten+ years later, it was one of the best decisions Apple ever made, while a certain Monopoly haSn't ever rethought security and compares every file on access against a database of known malware.
Hopefully, this new FF overhaul will usher in a new era of competition between browsers as monopolies are bad for innovation.
I was working contract at the HQ for a x86 processor maker (yes, you can probably guess who) a couple years back and IT had banned any program which attempted to even READ from the Windows registry...which I found out when Visual Studio batch file (to setup its environment) complained about being able to find some of its installation paths
Rather than talking to IT to fix the problem, my boss pointed me to a network location which had a.exe to enable all registry writing...and a set of recursive directories for each OS going back to the 90's when it was a simple VBScript with the company's logo.
Hacking a solution to bypass IT had literally become the de facto design pattern for over 20 years.
(FWIW, I don't even blame IT...every I talked to was both nice and knowledgeable, but it was clear they were being handled like a commodity and had almost zero free time to help with anything that wasn't in an explicit ticket.)
In addition to the licensing costs, there's also the costs of having viruses free to roam your network. People used to say that if more people used *nix it would get viruses too, but given the dominance of iOS/Android perhaps Windows is just insecure by (lack of) design?
Indeed. Between this and Alexa/Google Home, we've installed what are the potential eyes and eyes of Big Brother into homes without realizing it. Even Mark Zuckerberg puts a sticker on his laptop's camera.
Is there another political outlook that is more self-serving for the super-wealthy?
You've made a ton of money and (1) you don't want to pay higher taxes and (2) you want to easily be able to make more money with the money you have without having to work (investing) and (3) really like cheap foreign labor.
The growing number of homeless people in SF? Opioid epidemic across rural America? People committing suicide rather than work another day at Foxconn? The market will take care of it (another way of saying "I don't care").
`After decades of stagnant innovation, Microsoft decided that 10 was the number that came after 8. Apple how obvious this great innovation was -- now with the iPhone X, they finally have!
Getting rid of 9 is such a greeat idea -- why doesn't every company try it?!
Punching people is already illegal -- the point of a hate crime is a charge on top of an already committed crime.
So yes, you could punch your political opponents without it being a hate crime (still not "permitted"). However, religion is largely familial almost everywhere in the world, meaning that if your parents are Jewish, you're going to get a bris and if you're parents are Christian, you're going to get baptized -- and there's nothing you can do about it. Leaving the religion you were brought up in can mean losing your family, which is not like losing a job or mate, since you're only born with one.
Sexuality, too, is something that science has thus far shown to have a strong genetic component. Other groups might include people with incurable genetic disorders or other diseases (leprosy is probably the classic example).
I agree that there's some subjectivity to the idea of hate crimes, but documenting the most egregious does not seem to be a slippery slope toward totalitarianism.
The difference between Neil deGrasse Tyson punching Weev for being a neo-Nazi and Weev punching NGT for being black is pretty simple: Tyson can't change the fact he's black. The sooner Weev wants to stop being a neo-Nazi the better.
You can hate Democrats, Republicans, Nazis or Antifa and these are entirely different from hating ethnic groups precisely because the former is a CHOSEN identity while the latter is a BORN AS identity.
You can either (1) make your own content and get licenses in perpetuity (even if NF folds as a movie place, their content is still valuable) or (2) license content from studios which can change their prices on a whim.
By depending on the whims of studios, Netflix makes a decision not to be subjugated into irrelevance when studios raise their prices (as they've been doing). Think of them like HBO now or something.
Remember how much we love how Microsoft decided to make a common interface across all platforms and resulted in making the Windows interface (particularly the now-usesless start men) worse? Mark Shuttleworth must have thought to himself. "You know, that strategy is absolutely going to work for Microsoft. And while we have neither the desktop market or the smartphone market, let's try it!"
(And, as a guy who does UI work from time-to-time over a decade... Hundreds of apps that use Qt, but how many use QML? I remember when QML was introduced and thought to myself "Peope only use Javascript because it's the only language web browsers understand. Almost every desktop application on every platform is written in a type-checked compiled language for a reason -- catching more errors at compile time is a Good Thing (TM).. Why do I want to introduce Javascript into my perfectly good C/C++ code?")
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Software can be cross-platform if that's one of the goals of the developer.
VLC is the best video player out there -- and it works for Linux/Windows/MacOS. So is Libre Office and Microsoft has even managed develop a cross-platform code editor -- and each one is in an entirely different programming language (C++/Java/Javascript respectively).
Will there be a day when developers mostly write cross-platform software? One can hope.
A good chunk of nVidia hardware is used in machine learning and computer vision.
Guess who has cornered the markets for self-driving car computing, image classification algorithm hardware, or GPGPU?
It's the company with a stable and high--performance Linux driver (and it's been that way for over a decade).
Slashdot had both negative and positive moderation since the 90's and it does work. The problem with Facebook's likes/dislikes/etc are that they ENTIRELY opaque in how they operate to anyone except the people who literally work in the "feed ordering" division at FB -- and even then, if you were to leave for even a week they could completely change it again and you'd have no idea how it works. Of course, if you are a paid propagandist, you probably have the most time
If only someone could come up with a decentralized system for people to post content and users could decide how to order that content for themselves. Why we even need these companies whose chief "service" is data mining their customers is beyond me.
We already have a federal postal system which seems perfectly capable of honoring warrants while not opening every package to spy on people. And unlike like the postal system, individual can choose to use encryption to circumvent any content monitoring.
Besides, it's naive to think AT&T would not turn your secrets over to the government if asked
Both countries were armed with nukes at the time the clock was moved; the main difference being Fidel Castro was in charge of the nukes then and Kim Jong Un is in charge of the nukes now.
I'd trust Castro's sanity before I'd trust Kim's.
ever noticed the recent trend in gaming consoles ?
AMD doesn't provide drivers for game consoles -- they just provide the hardware. AMD's drivers have been a source of anguish since they were ATI -- and don't even try to use their Linux drivers. Most of what they do nowadays is optimize for a few current/upcoming flagship titles -- at the expense of stability of anything else.
AMD has some of the best computer/electrical engineers in the world. However, you need decent software engineers in order to win the PC graphic card wars (and please have a unified driver for Linux...pretty please?) -- and they're having a hard time recruiting with Apple/Facebook/Google/NVidia in their backyard.
Unless you can show me someone actually tampered with the balloting process
Reality has evidence.
Exactly. Median rent of a 1 bedroom sets you back a cool $2K a month ($24K/year). Skim 10% off the top for state income tax ($5K) and another $6K off the top for Federal income tax/social security, around $200 month ($2.4K/year) for electricty/cell phone/internet, and you're left with around $15K.
Start talking about a car note and you get into $1K/month territory of take-home pay -- which just isn't worth it. Google plans on actively making the problem worse by creating thousands of jobs in San Jose with no city planning on creating enough housing units to hold that many people...which raises housing costs, because of supply and demand.
The housing problem has been bad for over a decade and no politician dares talk about a real solution as it would mean a depreciation in home prices (supply and demand again -- economics works whether or not you choose to believe in it) which is political suicide.
The oldest /. story I could find on net neutrality the tenor of the comments is largely that the internet was founded on net neutrality and it wasn't until ISPs figured out yet another way to swindle consumers that it was even an issue.
What happened? More partisan politics? More paid shills and less moderation? For all the things that would divide the /. folk, there were two things that united us: free competition within a market free of monopolistic interference (hi Microsoft!)...and Natalie Portman covered in hot grits.
But Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time.
Totally agree about the hate though -- controversy, conflict and violence sure are profitable though and as long as our media systems makes money by keeping everyone continuously angry and offended -- it's not going to change. When TV news wasn't supposed to be profitable, journalism provided more light than heat.
For most parallel problems, it's possible to divide them and send each piece to different computers, rather than a different core on the same computer. For even more highly parallel problems, using a GPUs to do the computation is even faster.
With 100 gig ethernet, we're starting to see networking speeds closer to bus speeds on motherboards themselves and it's cheaper, faster to scale (especially dynamically), and probably more fault tolerant (node fail? Send the job to a different node) to use more computer nodes rather than using more processors in a single computer.
Distributed computing has almost made supercomputers irrelevant -- except for people with a hole in their pocket. Folding@home is more powerful than anything on their list while we have no idea what monster of a compute clusters work inside Google or Facebook -- but given the open source software they have released (e.g. Facebook's 360 degree video stitcher) and how slow they are on a single machine -- the only way they'd be usable on their site is if you have a massive cluster.
When MacOS X came out, users said the same thing. "Why won't my programs in this new OS?" You average Joe Designer was just unhappy. You couldn't explain to him that the backend being Unix was a major upgrade and that doing so required programs to be not backwards compatible.
Ten+ years later, it was one of the best decisions Apple ever made, while a certain Monopoly haSn't ever rethought security and compares every file on access against a database of known malware.
Hopefully, this new FF overhaul will usher in a new era of competition between browsers as monopolies are bad for innovation.
One of the most enduring features of /. is the lack of QA. Like how all the 20th anniversary parties are taking place in 2012:)
I was working contract at the HQ for a x86 processor maker (yes, you can probably guess who) a couple years back and IT had banned any program which attempted to even READ from the Windows registry...which I found out when Visual Studio batch file (to setup its environment) complained about being able to find some of its installation paths
Rather than talking to IT to fix the problem, my boss pointed me to a network location which had a .exe to enable all registry writing...and a set of recursive directories for each OS going back to the 90's when it was a simple VBScript with the company's logo.
Hacking a solution to bypass IT had literally become the de facto design pattern for over 20 years.
(FWIW, I don't even blame IT...every I talked to was both nice and knowledgeable, but it was clear they were being handled like a commodity and had almost zero free time to help with anything that wasn't in an explicit ticket.)
In addition to the licensing costs, there's also the costs of having viruses free to roam your network. People used to say that if more people used *nix it would get viruses too, but given the dominance of iOS/Android perhaps Windows is just insecure by (lack of) design?
Indeed. Between this and Alexa/Google Home, we've installed what are the potential eyes and eyes of Big Brother into homes without realizing it. Even Mark Zuckerberg puts a sticker on his laptop's camera.
Is there another political outlook that is more self-serving for the super-wealthy?
You've made a ton of money and (1) you don't want to pay higher taxes and (2) you want to easily be able to make more money with the money you have without having to work (investing) and (3) really like cheap foreign labor.
The growing number of homeless people in SF? Opioid epidemic across rural America? People committing suicide rather than work another day at Foxconn? The market will take care of it (another way of saying "I don't care").
`After decades of stagnant innovation, Microsoft decided that 10 was the number that came after 8. Apple how obvious this great innovation was -- now with the iPhone X, they finally have!
Getting rid of 9 is such a greeat idea -- why doesn't every company try it?!
Punching people is already illegal -- the point of a hate crime is a charge on top of an already committed crime.
So yes, you could punch your political opponents without it being a hate crime (still not "permitted"). However, religion is largely familial almost everywhere in the world, meaning that if your parents are Jewish, you're going to get a bris and if you're parents are Christian, you're going to get baptized -- and there's nothing you can do about it. Leaving the religion you were brought up in can mean losing your family, which is not like losing a job or mate, since you're only born with one.
Sexuality, too, is something that science has thus far shown to have a strong genetic component. Other groups might include people with incurable genetic disorders or other diseases (leprosy is probably the classic example).
I agree that there's some subjectivity to the idea of hate crimes, but documenting the most egregious does not seem to be a slippery slope toward totalitarianism.
making it the worst at-sea disaster [emphasis mine]
The Arizona was docked at the time. The water was so shallow her superstructure was above water after she sunk.
The difference between Neil deGrasse Tyson punching Weev for being a neo-Nazi and Weev punching NGT for being black is pretty simple: Tyson can't change the fact he's black. The sooner Weev wants to stop being a neo-Nazi the better.
You can hate Democrats, Republicans, Nazis or Antifa and these are entirely different from hating ethnic groups precisely because the former is a CHOSEN identity while the latter is a BORN AS identity.
You can either (1) make your own content and get licenses in perpetuity (even if NF folds as a movie place, their content is still valuable) or (2) license content from studios which can change their prices on a whim.
By depending on the whims of studios, Netflix makes a decision not to be subjugated into irrelevance when studios raise their prices (as they've been doing). Think of them like HBO now or something.
What about Cisco?
Mother Russia thanks you for your service.
Remember how much we love how Microsoft decided to make a common interface across all platforms and resulted in making the Windows interface (particularly the now-usesless start men) worse? Mark Shuttleworth must have thought to himself. "You know, that strategy is absolutely going to work for Microsoft. And while we have neither the desktop market or the smartphone market, let's try it!"
(And, as a guy who does UI work from time-to-time over a decade... Hundreds of apps that use Qt, but how many use QML? I remember when QML was introduced and thought to myself "Peope only use Javascript because it's the only language web browsers understand. Almost every desktop application on every platform is written in a type-checked compiled language for a reason -- catching more errors at compile time is a Good Thing (TM).. Why do I want to introduce Javascript into my perfectly good C/C++ code?")
Can we donate a life-size portrait of Bennett Hasselton or Timothy?