...we need AMD. Because if AMD goes away, Intel has zero competitors in the x86/64 market. Most people here probably aren't old enough to remember that CPU's used to cost an arm-and-a-leg in margins, and then when a bunch of hot shots like the 6502 came out, prices dropped literally over night. How could they drop so much? Because it was nothing but margin to begin with.
If AMD goes the way of the dodo bird, so do our cheap processors. Moreover, we'll likely lose a great deal of software freedom as what Intel says becomes law across the whole board. UEFI and TPM? Disneyland to what Intel can demand under the guise of "security" from every future computer.
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Who the hell works on the 99% of open source software that isn't popular, and why do they care? Because they do.
To be fair, they know it's not going to replace the Linux kernel now, so it's merely an experimental project. Much like many of the Microsoft experimental kernels, except those eventually are put to death and the relevant guts are sucked into the next revision of Windows. (see Singularity OS--an OS that does away with hardware virtual memory and the translation lookaside buffer)
>Why sould a GPU manufacturer spend a lot of time supporting such a small user base
I don't know, maybe because most super computers on the fucking planet use GPUs? Why would scientists want a GPU manufacturer to support the operating system they do most of their work on? Oh, I can't think of a reason.
Meanwhile, we're trying to do some work in ROS. I certainly don't want CUDA cores to help speed up the processing and filtering of tens of thousands of LIDAR points. Nor could I possibly use shaders for anything outside of gaming.
This much sarcasm is killing me. Please get better opinions before I die.
Anita isn't the problem. It's all of the morons who take her seriously. Why? Because people want to believe that we live in a world where all women are oppressed. And once you subscribe to that narrative, you're going to read anything that anyone says that supports that ideology of victimization.
And news companies know their audience is a bunch of suckers that will react to "oh no, poor cute princesses are being excluded?!" and be outraged, which makes them quite a bit of readership money.
This is not rocket science. It's yellow journalism. It's money. The news didn't care about ethics when we went into Iraq, or when we send the innocent Central Park Five black kids to jail for a rape they didn't commit. All that matters, is sensationalism to generate money.
And the people that believe it are just as guilty as the news corporations that exploit them.
I think it's more important to note that Obama has done literally shit all to act on any of those "We the People" petitions. Any time they hit 100k, they just write some politically-correct bullshit... or with Snowden they literally wrote nothing at all.
I mean who honestly believes Obama really cares about your/our petitions?
I think you've completely missed the important facts.
Scientology is still a religion in Germany, but they don't qualify to be state recognized religious organization because they don't do anything to benefit he community. You can be believe Jimmy Buffet is your only ticket to paradise, but he's not gonna get a tax break unless he tells you to give back to the community.
Likewise, you can call whatever you want "a company" but it's not going to be a company--and entitled to the benefits therein--unless it gets a business license.
You can call yourself a cop all you want, but unless you pass the requirements to become a LEO, you're not a cop.
That's the difference.
Meanwhile, the other major religions you listed are all giving back to the community in great numbers. So they do qualify to be a state approved religion. So this is an entirely apples to oranges, reasonable contrast between major religions and Scientology. If Scientology wants to get tax breaks all they have to do (GASP) is start giving a shit about people and trying to help them. If that burden is too high for you to become a religion, I don't think I want you anywhere near a legislative job.
Why aren't there ANY statistics for cruise ship deaths? Because they're in international waters and they don't give a shit. Go ahead, google "Cruise Ship Death Statistics." You'll find a couple websites run by a individuals. That's it. No news investigations. No research. Not a damn thing save for a couple of guys in their spare time trying to warn everyone.
It would be much better to have a system that HIDES users content by default, than to delete it. Then, people scrolling all posts (including hidden) would be able to report mistakes in the system.
Funny side note: I mentioned a similar system to Reddit because they have huge problems with mod abuse now. I said, "Hey, just make mod deletions pseudo-deletions, so they're hidden unless you want to see them, so people can check mods and report abuses to admins."
They didn't even reply back. No politically-correct, "we appreciate your input, but no thanks." Literally nothing. Ellen Pao, you sneaky bitch. Seems like they know there's a problem and they either don't want to admit it, or they want it that way.
I really wouldn't be surprised if Reddit explodes the same way Digg did--through over-commercialization of "sponsered content", and outright censorship.
It's kind of funny that Microsoft has also decided to move their Kernel from version 6.1.62.6.2.7.21.1.6.2.2.000.02.432.523.253.532 to 10.0 in Windows 10.
I wonder if some useless managers got wind of Linux changing theirs, and made their developers change the number.
"Dear busy senior developers: I just found out Linux made a bigger number. Why can't we? Why are you wasting our time fixing bugs? Add this feature I just heard about today! It's very important.
One thing of note, however. There's a huge difference between running temperature and temperature limits. A hard drive can sit in a very hot room and be fine, but it cannot be run in that hot room.
If there wasn't a difference, soldering ovens wouldn't really be very useful.
>And that's the biggest problem with the cloud. Once a single copy has been posted, you no longer have a sure way to delete every copy in existence.
So encrypt your important data before you sent it to the cloud. If iPhone level encryption is "evil" enough to piss off the NSA, it's probably good enough for your typical data.
That's like arguing against anything because a meteor killed all life a long time ago, and that meteor is way worse than anything happening now, so everything now you disagree with doesn't matter.
You seem to think that businesses have a right to subsidies, even if they harm society. Let's give patent trolls some subsidies. Sure, they're damaging our society, but think of all the jobs we're lose!
I continue to be amazed at how much readability improves when using ClearType or similar subpixel font rendering even on high DPI monitors.
Side story: Pray to God you never buy a BGR monitor. Almost nothing supports it because even though WINDOWS supports BGR, the programs are designed in a way that assumes RGB. So you'll get hodge podges of RGB and BGR all over the same program.
Chrome is abysmal--though they're finally fixing it soon. Steam has issues. The list goes on. My eyes have been bleeding ever since I got a BGR TV.
Isn't the definition of a super computer... a massively parallel computer?
So let's say I ban the highest Xeons.
...
Can't they just buy more middle-tier Xeons?
Furthermore, why the hell would they need a bleeding-edge super computer to accomplish something we did without any super computers in the 40's? A single iPhone has more power than the ENIAC... a TI-83 does too.
Lastly, you don't need modern nukes to become a part of the alliance of nuclear deterrent. You just need nukes that work.
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So the government should have to pay for walled-garden bullshit from car manufacturers?
PS. Using profanity just makes you appear to be an illiterate idiot.
Your lack of profanity exudes pontification... but it's the lack of depth in your miasma of thoughts that accentuate your defeat.
Oh, hello, bottom of the internet! I didn't see you come in.
...we need AMD. Because if AMD goes away, Intel has zero competitors in the x86/64 market. Most people here probably aren't old enough to remember that CPU's used to cost an arm-and-a-leg in margins, and then when a bunch of hot shots like the 6502 came out, prices dropped literally over night. How could they drop so much? Because it was nothing but margin to begin with.
If AMD goes the way of the dodo bird, so do our cheap processors. Moreover, we'll likely lose a great deal of software freedom as what Intel says becomes law across the whole board. UEFI and TPM? Disneyland to what Intel can demand under the guise of "security" from every future computer.
Who the hell works on the 99% of open source software that isn't popular, and why do they care? Because they do.
To be fair, they know it's not going to replace the Linux kernel now, so it's merely an experimental project. Much like many of the Microsoft experimental kernels, except those eventually are put to death and the relevant guts are sucked into the next revision of Windows. (see Singularity OS--an OS that does away with hardware virtual memory and the translation lookaside buffer)
"Rape culture" isn't really about solving any problems. It's about generating fear to generate money and votes.
Rape rates have been falling drastically since the 70's.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZlRN...
Rape rates on colleges are LOWER than outside of college:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
And rape rates in some other 1st-world countries are HUGELY higher--but nobody here cares apparently:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
But none of these facts comply with the myth of the "oppressive white male" who thinks he can rape and take whatever he wants.
Nobody disagrees with the idea that rape is a bad thing. But people are willing to hijack that axiom to create hysteria and generate political power.
>Why sould a GPU manufacturer spend a lot of time supporting such a small user base
I don't know, maybe because most super computers on the fucking planet use GPUs? Why would scientists want a GPU manufacturer to support the operating system they do most of their work on? Oh, I can't think of a reason.
Meanwhile, we're trying to do some work in ROS. I certainly don't want CUDA cores to help speed up the processing and filtering of tens of thousands of LIDAR points. Nor could I possibly use shaders for anything outside of gaming.
This much sarcasm is killing me. Please get better opinions before I die.
Anita isn't the problem. It's all of the morons who take her seriously. Why? Because people want to believe that we live in a world where all women are oppressed. And once you subscribe to that narrative, you're going to read anything that anyone says that supports that ideology of victimization.
And news companies know their audience is a bunch of suckers that will react to "oh no, poor cute princesses are being excluded?!" and be outraged, which makes them quite a bit of readership money.
This is not rocket science. It's yellow journalism. It's money. The news didn't care about ethics when we went into Iraq, or when we send the innocent Central Park Five black kids to jail for a rape they didn't commit. All that matters, is sensationalism to generate money.
And the people that believe it are just as guilty as the news corporations that exploit them.
You realize there are tons of movies with the same name, right?
http://www.andsoitbeginsfilms....
I think it's more important to note that Obama has done literally shit all to act on any of those "We the People" petitions. Any time they hit 100k, they just write some politically-correct bullshit... or with Snowden they literally wrote nothing at all.
I mean who honestly believes Obama really cares about your/our petitions?
I think you've completely missed the important facts.
Scientology is still a religion in Germany, but they don't qualify to be state recognized religious organization because they don't do anything to benefit he community. You can be believe Jimmy Buffet is your only ticket to paradise, but he's not gonna get a tax break unless he tells you to give back to the community.
Likewise, you can call whatever you want "a company" but it's not going to be a company--and entitled to the benefits therein--unless it gets a business license.
You can call yourself a cop all you want, but unless you pass the requirements to become a LEO, you're not a cop.
That's the difference.
Meanwhile, the other major religions you listed are all giving back to the community in great numbers. So they do qualify to be a state approved religion. So this is an entirely apples to oranges, reasonable contrast between major religions and Scientology. If Scientology wants to get tax breaks all they have to do (GASP) is start giving a shit about people and trying to help them. If that burden is too high for you to become a religion, I don't think I want you anywhere near a legislative job.
I don't think anyone is blaming Snowden? This is about Assange being a white-haired asshole.
It's common, really. Any time someone knows they have something to hide, they make sure not to leave a paper trial.
Why do you think there are "no statistics" on how many police shoot or kill civilians? Because they don't want to know.
Why aren't there ANY statistics for cruise ship deaths? Because they're in international waters and they don't give a shit. Go ahead, google "Cruise Ship Death Statistics." You'll find a couple websites run by a individuals. That's it. No news investigations. No research. Not a damn thing save for a couple of guys in their spare time trying to warn everyone.
It would be much better to have a system that HIDES users content by default, than to delete it. Then, people scrolling all posts (including hidden) would be able to report mistakes in the system.
Funny side note: I mentioned a similar system to Reddit because they have huge problems with mod abuse now. I said, "Hey, just make mod deletions pseudo-deletions, so they're hidden unless you want to see them, so people can check mods and report abuses to admins."
They didn't even reply back. No politically-correct, "we appreciate your input, but no thanks." Literally nothing. Ellen Pao, you sneaky bitch. Seems like they know there's a problem and they either don't want to admit it, or they want it that way.
I really wouldn't be surprised if Reddit explodes the same way Digg did--through over-commercialization of "sponsered content", and outright censorship.
Yeah, basically if you say something Slashdot doesn't agree with, you'll be called flamebait or troll pretty quickly.
Here's a list of topics to try:
- Literally anything related to women that isn't word-for-word copied from a feminist speaker.
I still think people would watch the crap out of that video if you want to make it.
It's kind of funny that Microsoft has also decided to move their Kernel from version 6.1.62.6.2.7.21.1.6.2.2.000.02.432.523.253.532 to 10.0 in Windows 10.
I wonder if some useless managers got wind of Linux changing theirs, and made their developers change the number.
"Dear busy senior developers: I just found out Linux made a bigger number. Why can't we? Why are you wasting our time fixing bugs? Add this feature I just heard about today! It's very important.
Sincerely,
--Scott Miller"
One thing of note, however. There's a huge difference between running temperature and temperature limits. A hard drive can sit in a very hot room and be fine, but it cannot be run in that hot room.
If there wasn't a difference, soldering ovens wouldn't really be very useful.
>And that's the biggest problem with the cloud. Once a single copy has been posted, you no longer have a sure way to delete every copy in existence.
So encrypt your important data before you sent it to the cloud. If iPhone level encryption is "evil" enough to piss off the NSA, it's probably good enough for your typical data.
That's like arguing against anything because a meteor killed all life a long time ago, and that meteor is way worse than anything happening now, so everything now you disagree with doesn't matter.
You seem to think that businesses have a right to subsidies, even if they harm society. Let's give patent trolls some subsidies. Sure, they're damaging our society, but think of all the jobs we're lose!
I continue to be amazed at how much readability improves when using ClearType or similar subpixel font rendering even on high DPI monitors.
Side story: Pray to God you never buy a BGR monitor. Almost nothing supports it because even though WINDOWS supports BGR, the programs are designed in a way that assumes RGB. So you'll get hodge podges of RGB and BGR all over the same program.
Chrome is abysmal--though they're finally fixing it soon. Steam has issues. The list goes on. My eyes have been bleeding ever since I got a BGR TV.
Introducing my super clever hack:
Wait till the key is needed.
Write the key down.
Use it whenever we want from then on, but make sure we tell everyone we're not.
Isn't the definition of a super computer... a massively parallel computer?
...
So let's say I ban the highest Xeons.
Can't they just buy more middle-tier Xeons?
Furthermore, why the hell would they need a bleeding-edge super computer to accomplish something we did without any super computers in the 40's? A single iPhone has more power than the ENIAC... a TI-83 does too.
Lastly, you don't need modern nukes to become a part of the alliance of nuclear deterrent. You just need nukes that work.