Yeah, Linus didn't really do anything special here. The BSD folks were doing open contributions long before Linux did. BSD just wasn't available for 386 at the time. So Linus's contribution was making software that was able to bring that ethos available to more people while BSD was being ported and going through legal troubles.
The people who really deserve the credit are the BSD and ATT folks. Sorry.
Of course you don't get 100% of the nutrients out the other end. If you decrease the amount of meat humans consume by only 20%, that has a *very* significant impact on the environment.
It's not flamebait. The FSF has tried time and again to start PR campaigns with laughable results eg "windows 7 sins". They have legitimate points which I am inclined to agree with but they haven't found a way to appeal to the average user. What average user even gets the brick reference? C'mon now. Hire a PR person from the real world, and give him the ability to say no to Stallman when things won't translate, and the FSF could do a lot more good in the world.
The "Nature" article is based on old data from the same researcher - Tetsuo Matsui. His latest thinking (presumably with more data) as shown in the technologyreview article is that reactions did restart.
Quite separate from the story of the lemonade stand thieves (who should be punished)...
Is it really a good idea for society to support a child born with 1/3 of the brain who is deaf and blind and requires multiple surgeries to be kept alive, cannot tolerate feeding, etc. etc. I mean I can understand why the family does, but with the money spent to keep this kid alive we could feed scores and scores of impoverished children, just for one example...
Maybe I'm just a conspiracy nut, but I think it's possible this was a tactical move on Google's part. Of course Google knew about the prior art if random jackasses (myself included) on slashdot can think of it and go look it up. My sincere hope is that they lost this case in order to appeal it, and the appeal will go all the way to the supreme court, and put an end to this madness. Perhaps its a pipe dream, but it's possible.... Right??
You do realize that only about 3% of Liberians are descended from ex-slaves? Americo-Liberians are historically important and powerful, but by no means are they the only people in Liberia.
The reason there are studies showing playing chess linked with all sorts of critical thinking, mathematical skill and other good traits is because the population they are pulling from would be playing video games or watching tv if not playing chess. By making chess mandatory in school, you're just taking time away from more traditional subjects of study.
The guy had a white collar job for 30 years before being a truck driver for 10. In other words, he (probably) had a college degree, which most truckers probably wouldn't have had. Sigh. I'm not even surprised by what passes for journalism anymore.
Well, what bionic does with headers is arguably questionable, but nothing half as questionable as the oracle stuff. But the idea that you can claim copyright on header files is a bit bizarre. Header files are supposed to be a definition of an interface, not an implementation. So if you want anything to work on your system, you'd best not claim copyright over your headers.
But the idea that android app developers have to comply with the GPLv2 because of headers that interface between two and one layers below (the kernel and libc) is laughable on its face, and clearly a scare tactic. I don't see what's special about bionic in this regard - if android app developers must all release gplv2 code, how is it legal for adobe (or anyone else) to make flash (or any other closed source program) for "traditional" linux systems?
Yeah I don't get it. If you're going to nuke maximize and minimize, you should nuke the close button too. If maximize is fine in a context menu, so is close. Besides, most programs have a "redundant" file->exit type functionality. And at that point, the utility of the title bar is getting pretty low - maybe it's time to lose that too. And all the rest of the window has in it is this wacky thing called an "application" - it would make for a very elegant and consistent UX to eliminate that variability as well, wouldn't it??
The problem is that a bounty system isn't supposed to be broken routinely - it's supposed to be a statement about the infallibility of the product. In other words, the project was launched in the PR wing of google's offices, not people involved in the actual development of chrome. Obligatory xkcd reference is here: http://xkcd.com/816/
I doubt it, but there is definitely a strong time correlation between the increase of java attacks and oracle's sun acquisition. My guess would be that because Oracle doesn't know how to monetize java (without suing others), attention is shifting away from java and the code is getting a thin film of dust over it.
We've known about this problem for... well, as long as we've had more than one core - actually as long as we've had SMP... You increase the number of cores/CPUs, you decrease available memory thruput per core, which was already the bottleneck anyway. Am I missing something here?
So the guy moves his face in accordance with his emotions and then, guess what, he can make the same gestures to go back to the place in the video where he previous made those gestures. Woot? If anything this only shows just how far off this sort of technology really is. Last I checked, I'm pretty sure I had more than 4 emotions... Am I missing something about how amazing this is?
What is this about highly asymmetric execution units on Intel? link please;-)
Anyway, I think you're right about the other assertions. And I like the way that AMD is making a move towards integer performance. It strikes me as a strong move towards the DB-driven, slow dynamic language web serving part of the market. The cost to floating point performance will cost them in the short term in the supercomputing and gaming markets, but they aren't doing real well there anyway on account of Intel's recent strength. I think AMD is betting that their chips with an integrated GPU will be able to make inroads on those markets later this year.
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distributed.net has almost all of those features, but it's not sexy anymore.
Court rules title on website not a full.
Umm, how is parent a troll for posting a link to the actual thing the top parent spoke of? He's not.
Yeah, Linus didn't really do anything special here. The BSD folks were doing open contributions long before Linux did. BSD just wasn't available for 386 at the time. So Linus's contribution was making software that was able to bring that ethos available to more people while BSD was being ported and going through legal troubles.
The people who really deserve the credit are the BSD and ATT folks. Sorry.
Of course you don't get 100% of the nutrients out the other end. If you decrease the amount of meat humans consume by only 20%, that has a *very* significant impact on the environment.
It's not flamebait. The FSF has tried time and again to start PR campaigns with laughable results eg "windows 7 sins". They have legitimate points which I am inclined to agree with but they haven't found a way to appeal to the average user. What average user even gets the brick reference? C'mon now. Hire a PR person from the real world, and give him the ability to say no to Stallman when things won't translate, and the FSF could do a lot more good in the world.
The "Nature" article is based on old data from the same researcher - Tetsuo Matsui. His latest thinking (presumably with more data) as shown in the technologyreview article is that reactions did restart.
If you're not searching for the amulet of yendor, it doesn't count. It all started going wrong with nethack...
Quite separate from the story of the lemonade stand thieves (who should be punished)...
Is it really a good idea for society to support a child born with 1/3 of the brain who is deaf and blind and requires multiple surgeries to be kept alive, cannot tolerate feeding, etc. etc. I mean I can understand why the family does, but with the money spent to keep this kid alive we could feed scores and scores of impoverished children, just for one example...
Maybe I'm just a conspiracy nut, but I think it's possible this was a tactical move on Google's part. Of course Google knew about the prior art if random jackasses (myself included) on slashdot can think of it and go look it up. My sincere hope is that they lost this case in order to appeal it, and the appeal will go all the way to the supreme court, and put an end to this madness. Perhaps its a pipe dream, but it's possible.... Right??
You do realize that only about 3% of Liberians are descended from ex-slaves? Americo-Liberians are historically important and powerful, but by no means are they the only people in Liberia.
iPrism (my company's nanny of choice), blocks the site as an annonymiser. And what the hell kinda URL *is* net.princeton.edu.nyud.net anyway?
It's a cache. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Network
The reason there are studies showing playing chess linked with all sorts of critical thinking, mathematical skill and other good traits is because the population they are pulling from would be playing video games or watching tv if not playing chess. By making chess mandatory in school, you're just taking time away from more traditional subjects of study.
java was created, not invented. you'd think a story about intellectual property would be a little more careful with such terms.
The guy had a white collar job for 30 years before being a truck driver for 10. In other words, he (probably) had a college degree, which most truckers probably wouldn't have had. Sigh. I'm not even surprised by what passes for journalism anymore.
Well, what bionic does with headers is arguably questionable, but nothing half as questionable as the oracle stuff. But the idea that you can claim copyright on header files is a bit bizarre. Header files are supposed to be a definition of an interface, not an implementation. So if you want anything to work on your system, you'd best not claim copyright over your headers.
But the idea that android app developers have to comply with the GPLv2 because of headers that interface between two and one layers below (the kernel and libc) is laughable on its face, and clearly a scare tactic. I don't see what's special about bionic in this regard - if android app developers must all release gplv2 code, how is it legal for adobe (or anyone else) to make flash (or any other closed source program) for "traditional" linux systems?
Yeah I don't get it. If you're going to nuke maximize and minimize, you should nuke the close button too. If maximize is fine in a context menu, so is close. Besides, most programs have a "redundant" file->exit type functionality. And at that point, the utility of the title bar is getting pretty low - maybe it's time to lose that too. And all the rest of the window has in it is this wacky thing called an "application" - it would make for a very elegant and consistent UX to eliminate that variability as well, wouldn't it??
Yeah, it's a misleading title, to say the least. Should have said "... faster than X86 version" or so.
The problem is that a bounty system isn't supposed to be broken routinely - it's supposed to be a statement about the infallibility of the product. In other words, the project was launched in the PR wing of google's offices, not people involved in the actual development of chrome. Obligatory xkcd reference is here: http://xkcd.com/816/
I doubt it, but there is definitely a strong time correlation between the increase of java attacks and oracle's sun acquisition. My guess would be that because Oracle doesn't know how to monetize java (without suing others), attention is shifting away from java and the code is getting a thin film of dust over it.
That's 64 threads, not cores. T5120s have only 8 physical cores, but allow for up to 8 cores per thread, hence why you see 64.
There is a closer counter-example to the article's claims, though: SiCortex's 72+ core machines:
http://sicortex.com/products
Drool-worthy...
We've known about this problem for ... well, as long as we've had more than one core - actually as long as we've had SMP... You increase the number of cores/CPUs, you decrease available memory thruput per core, which was already the bottleneck anyway. Am I missing something here?
...I couldn't take looking at any more artifacted jpeg images after page 5, which it seems was only 1/10 of the way through... Sheesh...
So the guy moves his face in accordance with his emotions and then, guess what, he can make the same gestures to go back to the place in the video where he previous made those gestures. Woot? If anything this only shows just how far off this sort of technology really is. Last I checked, I'm pretty sure I had more than 4 emotions... Am I missing something about how amazing this is?
What is this about highly asymmetric execution units on Intel? link please ;-)
Anyway, I think you're right about the other assertions. And I like the way that AMD is making a move towards integer performance. It strikes me as a strong move towards the DB-driven, slow dynamic language web serving part of the market. The cost to floating point performance will cost them in the short term in the supercomputing and gaming markets, but they aren't doing real well there anyway on account of Intel's recent strength. I think AMD is betting that their chips with an integrated GPU will be able to make inroads on those markets later this year.
Who needs an FPU anyway? 'G' == 'F'++ ;-)