Except that/. isn't displaying anything. Your browser is.
ameyer17 and I can both see the icon just fine. The problem is with your browser, not/.
There also seems to be some deficiency in your understanding or patterns of thinking since you don't seem to understand which parts of your computer have which different areas of responsibility.
This is leading people to lose faith in the scientific method.
This is leading people to lose faith in scientists.
Also the constant pushing of political agendas.
Scientists have only themselves to blame. What makes people angry is that those same scientists go around acting like they're the oracles of Truth and intelligence just because they put on a stereotypical white lab coat once or published a paper.
Having your results reproduced several times by several other research groups should be the gold standard.
Using your results to produce something should be the gold standard. "If you're so smart and what you've figured out is so neato then why ain't you rich?"
As far as the public should care, the standard should be whether your study is useful and actually improves people's lives today.
Scientists over the past few centuries have pushed the boundaries pretty far; everyone will agree to that.
Perhaps what's needed now is to "digest" and make use of those discoveries and come up with useful things rather than some new "study" about how whale songs indicate how hungry the whale is or other such navel gazing and speculation.
People in their own workshops and homes are doing some amazing stuff. Companies see this and think they need to get in on it, but the hobbyists aren't doing it to make money, and most of them don't have much money, so there isn't much money to be made.
No, there's just no room for Intel coming in like they own the place and trying to sell their insanely overpriced crap and offering zero support.
In this context "support" doesn't mean a helpdesk with an Indian sitting at it.
"Support" means "I can install the development tools on literally every platform from Windows200 to Linux to Mac to BSD to Haiku to Plan9". It does NOT mean "this only works if you're on Windows 10"
It means "when I'm trying to figure something out can I google it and get some straight forward instructions that work and not a page full of bullshit "Enterprise" jargon that doesn't fucking work or doesn't adequately address the issue I'm having.
It means if I spend money on an Arduino shield or a doodad for an RPi it will also work with this thing from Intel with minimal kajiggering. It doesn't mean "our stuff is completely incompatible with everything else out there... it only accepts our other overpriced thingies... that we really don't put any effort into..."
It means that Intel continues to release updates and fix bugs and possibly even fund a couple of cool projects and not just say "hey guise, buy this overpriced thing from us while we are dead silent and do nothing".
It means releasing a product that actually has something interesting and awesome about it-- just slapping a craptastic x86 chip on there is not awesome and it's not interesting and it brings nothing new to the world at all.
If you're reading this, Intel, you should know that everyone is on the fence about you. We like high performance CPUs but we dislike it when you are hostile to us, your customers.
Intel, your Management Engine crap is absolutely unacceptable. We do not want out-of-band chips monitoring everything we do and providing back doors to our systems. Until you take the ME and TPM out of your platforms I'll be buying AMD. And yes, I know AMD has pretty much the same thing on their platform. But the money won't be going into your pocket now will it, Intel?
Thanks for improving your graphics drivers on Linux, though. I really appreciate it.
If only you could stop being bipolar, Intel, and just be cool.
People think that reporting this sort of thing is the morally correct thing to do. It is not. It exposes you to life-destroying legal action. Putting yourself at that kind of risk is recklessly negligent, not morally lofty.
Ayn Rand, is that you!? We all thought you were dead! How did you--? I mean, seriously, we thought you were dead!
I care. But I know as much about building CPUs and getting them to work as I do about brain surgery: none.
I'm rooting for you guys, though. Is there a place I can go to donate some money?
1. Even if you only have solar farms and no batteries, that reduces the dependency on fossil fuel. For certain parts of the country, the times of maximum insolation correspond really quite well with maximum usage due to cooling and business / manufacturing needs, so no batteries needed, and the existing generating capacity can be scaled back to cover nights and days with less sun.
Ok. I don't know enough to really disagree.
2. Battery capacity can be phased in (a corollary to point 1) and the system will still be useful.
Makes perfect sense to me.
3. Just because you can't do it all immediately and POOF have a sudden switchover to full solar doesn't mean it isn't a laudable goal to work in that direction. Moreover, because it will disrupt a fair chunk of the economy to switch over to solar, doing it gradually (on the scale of decades) makes sense.
Why is it laudable? Do you mean that some people could get a technically nicer energy system than they currently have now or do you mean to say it's good as a moral statement (i.e. save the trees)? But other than that, yeah, a gradual switch over makes sense.
4. Even if the goal is only to achieve 10% replacement of existing fuel-based generating capacity with solar, it's a good thing to do.
Again, "technically good" or "morally good"?
5. Our existing nuclear power plants have a finite lifetime and replacement capacity will need to come from somewhere.
Sure. But does it have to be solar? Why not let the market figure out the optimum replacement? Why not thorium/LIFTR or wind or something? I'll need a little more convincing that solar is the proper solution to this one.
6. Just because solar power doesn't make as much sense in certain parts of the country (primarily the more northern lattitudes) doesn't mean there is no value to deploying it where it does make sense.
Ok, so let those parts (states) of the country that want it pay for it. There's no need to have everyone else subsidize the cool toys or even necessities that only a part of the country will use. If it won't work without everyone subsidizing it then I would argue that it just plain isn't worth doing. For example, we could all get together and buy a solid gold toilet seat for one guy just by having us all chip in a couple bucks. But why should he get a golden "throne" and we all get squat? No. If we're all required to pay taxes for it then we should all get a share of the benefit. Otherwise it's only fair that those who want the solar should pay for it themselves.
7. Tesla is a battery manufacturer (among other things); chemical batteries aren't the only way to go for storage. Lithium batteries in particular might not even be a good way to go, given their limited lifetime and potential to catch fire as a failure mechanism.
Sure. I've heard that lead-acid might be a good way to go here. Or perhaps pumping water up into towers during the day and letting it flow out at night or something might also work. I don't know much about it thought, so I'll want to see numbers before I get all fired up about any particular solution.
8. Batteries alone (or some storage technology) without any solar power might be a good idea to allow scaling-back of peak generating capacity.
I think you mentioned this on #2 above.
So, a national effort to improve the power infrastructure just might be a good idea, even if it isn't quite the pipe dream from the summary.
I think I agree with you that it'd be do-able. But there's lots of things that are do-able that aren't worth doing. I want to know that this particular item is necessary, won't increase my taxes to pay for it, and that I'll get a share of the benefits (i.e. lower electric bill). If it's not all three of those then I just don't care. I have a job, a wife, and bills to pay. I'm not interested in expensive goose chases to salve the self-righteous outrage of a bunch of progressives, tree-huggers, and marxists.
And no, other than non-technical users like you, real nerds don't give a shit about it. We can figure out whats happening just fine by slapping a debugger on that shit.
I have other things to do with my life than scroll through a lot of uncommented assembly.
Way to show off your e-peen; we care so much and we're all really impressed.
That's why restaurants like to start you off with bread while you're perusing the menu. It ain't just being hospitable. They want your blood sugar to be plummeting when you order.
Or maybe it's just traditional.
Also usually bread is served with olive oil or butter-- which goes right along with your point about fats blunting the insulin spike/dip from the starches.
In other words, people who are making profits end up footing the bill for the people they laid off to make those profits.
If they were laid off then by definition they aren't helping to make those profits.
The rest of your post may be correct or incorrect-- I haven't "done the math" myself-- but since your reasoning is obviously tainted by socialist ideology then I don't have much confidence in the rest of your analysis.
So the truth was modded "Troll" and thus Western Civilization collapsed.
Not because it was attacked and invaded by barbarians (though that was occurring at the time as well) but because of the self-righteous greed of the mob.
I really wish *nix would get equal or better game support because then all of Microsoft's shenanigans would be a thing of the past. Why can't *nix seem to get past that one? I'd really love to know what's in the way of that.
1. Steam runs natively on Linux now and I have more AAA titles to play than I have time for-- and I play several hours every single night after work. There's way way way more titles if you like to delve into indie stuff too.
2. Isn't it obvious what the hold-up is? It's people clinging to Windows. Game devs won't go through the bother of releasing for Linux if literally 95% of all users are on Windows.
But the tide is turning.
Valve is pushing Linux gaming with excellent results.
Intel and AMD are contributing good drivers for their hardware (Nvidia GPUs still run like champs using the proprietary binaries).
Unreal Engine 4 and Unity both support native Linux development and deployment.
Doom (2016) runs amazingly well with Vulkan... on Wine... on Linux-- and Vulkan is available on literally everything, and is used by the two major engines: UE4 and Unity.
Modern C++ is providing libraries and features to, at last!, provide a real standard for cross platform stuff like threading and networking-- this means there'll be very little reason to bother with the win32 API or to be tied down to any particular OS.
And, of course, Microsoft is doing their dead level best to shaft their users and thus drive them away to Mac or Linux.
This keeps getting said, but it's truer every year: there's never been a better time to install Linux and try it out... and maybe stay.
If you're still using Microsoft products after all this time and all of their "shenanigans" what else can be said than that you're a digital cuckold?
What we need our x86 PC systems for is no longer a normal Personal Computer, but a Personal Workstation. For our Workstations, we don't need a Table OS, or a Server OS. But a work station OS, with UI features meant for people with a Keyboard, Large Screens, Who will be expected to have a lot of things going on at the same time.
LINUX.
I Personally would like to see less window decoration, and use the space for more application space. And be able to have many Apps running and visible at the same time. Perhaps in Re-sizable Frames vs Windows...
Normally now when I get out my PC it is because I have some real work to do, vs just goofing off.
Linux. Oh, we have Steam now, so you can even goof off if you want to.
TFA, TFS, and all the comments are just... so...
Linux users have been telling you Windows people that you should consider switching for so many years, but you never listen and all we Linux users hear is complaining.
There's lots of stuff about Linux that sucks or doesn't work right.
But at least I don't have to pay for it.
At least I'm not getting ads on my desktop or paying a subscription fee to use my computer.
At least I know my OS isn't spying on me no matter how innocuous the gathered data is.
At least I know that kernel APIs are stable and are being actively improved-- hell, I could roll up my sleeves and help myself if I really had to.
Forced updates? You mean you guys put up with that crap?
You have no one to blame but yourselves.
But don't mind me; you just keep right on using Microsoft products, giving them money, and rewarding them for abusing you.
Without this information, it's hard to estimate whether anyone in this scenario has actually done anything wrong.
Indeed, without this information it's hard to believe that anything happened at all.
I know this one guy who make twenty million dollars overnight by doing odd jobs for this one dude over the internet. You should look into it, maybe something going on there, y'know?
Slashdot Mirror
People are not computers, no matter how much Greeks think they are...
Except that /. isn't displaying anything. Your browser is. /.
ameyer17 and I can both see the icon just fine. The problem is with your browser, not
There also seems to be some deficiency in your understanding or patterns of thinking since you don't seem to understand which parts of your computer have which different areas of responsibility.
Outstanding posts on the part of Baron_Yam and King_TJ both. I wish I had mod points.
The only real advantage is that you wrap a browser window around the site and make it work more like a desktop app... like what Chrome Apps use to be.
That's basically what Electron is, isn't it?
Ever wonder why Google / Alphabet abandoned that technology?
I'm actually curious about this, yes. Could you please give me your take on it?
This is leading people to lose faith in the scientific method.
This is leading people to lose faith in scientists.
Also the constant pushing of political agendas.
Scientists have only themselves to blame. What makes people angry is that those same scientists go around acting like they're the oracles of Truth and intelligence just because they put on a stereotypical white lab coat once or published a paper.
Having your results reproduced several times by several other research groups should be the gold standard.
Using your results to produce something should be the gold standard. "If you're so smart and what you've figured out is so neato then why ain't you rich?"
As far as the public should care, the standard should be whether your study is useful and actually improves people's lives today.
Scientists over the past few centuries have pushed the boundaries pretty far; everyone will agree to that.
Perhaps what's needed now is to "digest" and make use of those discoveries and come up with useful things rather than some new "study" about how whale songs indicate how hungry the whale is or other such navel gazing and speculation.
People in their own workshops and homes are doing some amazing stuff. Companies see this and think they need to get in on it, but the hobbyists aren't doing it to make money, and most of them don't have much money, so there isn't much money to be made.
No, there's just no room for Intel coming in like they own the place and trying to sell their insanely overpriced crap and offering zero support.
In this context "support" doesn't mean a helpdesk with an Indian sitting at it.
"Support" means "I can install the development tools on literally every platform from Windows200 to Linux to Mac to BSD to Haiku to Plan9". It does NOT mean "this only works if you're on Windows 10"
It means "when I'm trying to figure something out can I google it and get some straight forward instructions that work and not a page full of bullshit "Enterprise" jargon that doesn't fucking work or doesn't adequately address the issue I'm having.
It means if I spend money on an Arduino shield or a doodad for an RPi it will also work with this thing from Intel with minimal kajiggering. It doesn't mean "our stuff is completely incompatible with everything else out there... it only accepts our other overpriced thingies... that we really don't put any effort into..."
It means that Intel continues to release updates and fix bugs and possibly even fund a couple of cool projects and not just say "hey guise, buy this overpriced thing from us while we are dead silent and do nothing".
It means releasing a product that actually has something interesting and awesome about it-- just slapping a craptastic x86 chip on there is not awesome and it's not interesting and it brings nothing new to the world at all.
If you're reading this, Intel, you should know that everyone is on the fence about you. We like high performance CPUs but we dislike it when you are hostile to us, your customers.
Intel, your Management Engine crap is absolutely unacceptable. We do not want out-of-band chips monitoring everything we do and providing back doors to our systems. Until you take the ME and TPM out of your platforms I'll be buying AMD. And yes, I know AMD has pretty much the same thing on their platform. But the money won't be going into your pocket now will it, Intel?
Thanks for improving your graphics drivers on Linux, though. I really appreciate it.
If only you could stop being bipolar, Intel, and just be cool.
and I find out FuckwitUsed2CharacterTabs
There's no such thing as 2 character tabs.
Could you please clarify what you mean?
A good and very simple but extensible open source CMS would be a good idea. Even in php. Too bad we don't have one yet.
Have you heard of October? If so, what is your opinion of it?
People think that reporting this sort of thing is the morally correct thing to do. It is not. It exposes you to life-destroying legal action. Putting yourself at that kind of risk is recklessly negligent, not morally lofty.
Ayn Rand, is that you!? We all thought you were dead! How did you--? I mean, seriously, we thought you were dead!
I care. But I know as much about building CPUs and getting them to work as I do about brain surgery: none.
I'm rooting for you guys, though. Is there a place I can go to donate some money?
1. Even if you only have solar farms and no batteries, that reduces the dependency on fossil fuel. For certain parts of the country, the times of maximum insolation correspond really quite well with maximum usage due to cooling and business / manufacturing needs, so no batteries needed, and the existing generating capacity can be scaled back to cover nights and days with less sun.
Ok. I don't know enough to really disagree.
2. Battery capacity can be phased in (a corollary to point 1) and the system will still be useful.
Makes perfect sense to me.
3. Just because you can't do it all immediately and POOF have a sudden switchover to full solar doesn't mean it isn't a laudable goal to work in that direction. Moreover, because it will disrupt a fair chunk of the economy to switch over to solar, doing it gradually (on the scale of decades) makes sense.
Why is it laudable? Do you mean that some people could get a technically nicer energy system than they currently have now or do you mean to say it's good as a moral statement (i.e. save the trees)? But other than that, yeah, a gradual switch over makes sense.
4. Even if the goal is only to achieve 10% replacement of existing fuel-based generating capacity with solar, it's a good thing to do.
Again, "technically good" or "morally good"?
5. Our existing nuclear power plants have a finite lifetime and replacement capacity will need to come from somewhere.
Sure. But does it have to be solar? Why not let the market figure out the optimum replacement? Why not thorium/LIFTR or wind or something? I'll need a little more convincing that solar is the proper solution to this one.
6. Just because solar power doesn't make as much sense in certain parts of the country (primarily the more northern lattitudes) doesn't mean there is no value to deploying it where it does make sense.
Ok, so let those parts (states) of the country that want it pay for it. There's no need to have everyone else subsidize the cool toys or even necessities that only a part of the country will use. If it won't work without everyone subsidizing it then I would argue that it just plain isn't worth doing. For example, we could all get together and buy a solid gold toilet seat for one guy just by having us all chip in a couple bucks. But why should he get a golden "throne" and we all get squat? No. If we're all required to pay taxes for it then we should all get a share of the benefit. Otherwise it's only fair that those who want the solar should pay for it themselves.
7. Tesla is a battery manufacturer (among other things); chemical batteries aren't the only way to go for storage. Lithium batteries in particular might not even be a good way to go, given their limited lifetime and potential to catch fire as a failure mechanism.
Sure. I've heard that lead-acid might be a good way to go here. Or perhaps pumping water up into towers during the day and letting it flow out at night or something might also work. I don't know much about it thought, so I'll want to see numbers before I get all fired up about any particular solution.
8. Batteries alone (or some storage technology) without any solar power might be a good idea to allow scaling-back of peak generating capacity.
I think you mentioned this on #2 above.
So, a national effort to improve the power infrastructure just might be a good idea, even if it isn't quite the pipe dream from the summary.
I think I agree with you that it'd be do-able. But there's lots of things that are do-able that aren't worth doing. I want to know that this particular item is necessary, won't increase my taxes to pay for it, and that I'll get a share of the benefits (i.e. lower electric bill). If it's not all three of those then I just don't care. I have a job, a wife, and bills to pay. I'm not interested in expensive goose chases to salve the self-righteous outrage of a bunch of progressives, tree-huggers, and marxists.
And no, other than non-technical users like you, real nerds don't give a shit about it. We can figure out whats happening just fine by slapping a debugger on that shit.
I have other things to do with my life than scroll through a lot of uncommented assembly.
Way to show off your e-peen; we care so much and we're all really impressed.
That's why restaurants like to start you off with bread while you're perusing the menu. It ain't just being hospitable. They want your blood sugar to be plummeting when you order.
Or maybe it's just traditional.
Also usually bread is served with olive oil or butter-- which goes right along with your point about fats blunting the insulin spike/dip from the starches.
In other words, people who are making profits end up footing the bill for the people they laid off to make those profits.
If they were laid off then by definition they aren't helping to make those profits.
The rest of your post may be correct or incorrect-- I haven't "done the math" myself-- but since your reasoning is obviously tainted by socialist ideology then I don't have much confidence in the rest of your analysis.
So the truth was modded "Troll" and thus Western Civilization collapsed.
Not because it was attacked and invaded by barbarians (though that was occurring at the time as well) but because of the self-righteous greed of the mob.
I really wish *nix would get equal or better game support because then all of Microsoft's shenanigans would be a thing of the past. Why can't *nix seem to get past that one? I'd really love to know what's in the way of that.
1. Steam runs natively on Linux now and I have more AAA titles to play than I have time for-- and I play several hours every single night after work. There's way way way more titles if you like to delve into indie stuff too.
2. Isn't it obvious what the hold-up is? It's people clinging to Windows. Game devs won't go through the bother of releasing for Linux if literally 95% of all users are on Windows.
But the tide is turning.
Valve is pushing Linux gaming with excellent results.
Intel and AMD are contributing good drivers for their hardware (Nvidia GPUs still run like champs using the proprietary binaries).
Unreal Engine 4 and Unity both support native Linux development and deployment.
Doom (2016) runs amazingly well with Vulkan... on Wine... on Linux-- and Vulkan is available on literally everything, and is used by the two major engines: UE4 and Unity.
Modern C++ is providing libraries and features to, at last!, provide a real standard for cross platform stuff like threading and networking-- this means there'll be very little reason to bother with the win32 API or to be tied down to any particular OS.
And, of course, Microsoft is doing their dead level best to shaft their users and thus drive them away to Mac or Linux.
This keeps getting said, but it's truer every year: there's never been a better time to install Linux and try it out... and maybe stay.
If you're still using Microsoft products after all this time and all of their "shenanigans" what else can be said than that you're a digital cuckold?
I have even decided to forgo an upgrade to Ryzen because I do not want 10.
You do know there's other operating systems out there besides W7 and W10 right?
What we need our x86 PC systems for is no longer a normal Personal Computer, but a Personal Workstation. For our Workstations, we don't need a Table OS, or a Server OS. But a work station OS, with UI features meant for people with a Keyboard, Large Screens, Who will be expected to have a lot of things going on at the same time.
LINUX.
I Personally would like to see less window decoration, and use the space for more application space. And be able to have many Apps running and visible at the same time. Perhaps in Re-sizable Frames vs Windows...
Have you seen this? Or this?
Normally now when I get out my PC it is because I have some real work to do, vs just goofing off.
Linux. Oh, we have Steam now, so you can even goof off if you want to.
TFA, TFS, and all the comments are just... so...
Linux users have been telling you Windows people that you should consider switching for so many years, but you never listen and all we Linux users hear is complaining.
There's lots of stuff about Linux that sucks or doesn't work right.
But at least I don't have to pay for it.
At least I'm not getting ads on my desktop or paying a subscription fee to use my computer.
At least I know my OS isn't spying on me no matter how innocuous the gathered data is.
At least I know that kernel APIs are stable and are being actively improved-- hell, I could roll up my sleeves and help myself if I really had to.
Forced updates? You mean you guys put up with that crap?
You have no one to blame but yourselves.
But don't mind me; you just keep right on using Microsoft products, giving them money, and rewarding them for abusing you.
How do you know that's the full list? Did you read the source code?
That's like a championship sports team trading away all of their best players for a bunch of rookies. Makes no sense at all.
I'm afraid I didn't quite get that.
Could you translate that to a car analogy, please?
Tabs descend from the manual typewriter, where they were a poor approximation to properly-formatted columnar layouts.
Genetic Fallacy. Opinion discarded.
Stop spreading lies. Or at least post proof.
So because you and your company don't collect detailed data (so you say) that means that other people and other companies don't?
You're stupid or naive or a liar or a shill or all of the above.
but how come nobody wants to trim it?
Without this information, it's hard to estimate whether anyone in this scenario has actually done anything wrong.
Indeed, without this information it's hard to believe that anything happened at all.
I know this one guy who make twenty million dollars overnight by doing odd jobs for this one dude over the internet. You should look into it, maybe something going on there, y'know?