Google has silently forked the kernel. There is an 'Android' kernel, and the mainline kernel
Is this the first time this has happened?
Hardly. It happens every time anybody makes a kernel mod. First they pull down the kernel, then they make their custom mod (technically a fork), then they wrangle with the gatekeepers over how/if their mod can be put into the baseline.
I understand it is fairly typical for new mods from first-time submitters to get extra-skeptical treatment. Once the developer has been around a while, learns how to work with the other interested parties, and shows a willingness to do so, things get much easier.
The only thing that makes this news is that an employee of Google is getting the same treatment as you or I would get. Some may find that appalling, but I think it is the way things should be.
I really liked that bit from West Wing, but I thought this one from Babylon-5 was better:
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control,
genetics - and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing
every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred
years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will
grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll
take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly,
Aristophanes - all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we go to
the stars.
I buy a lot of PC games. Enough that it can fairly be called a "collection". However, the only reason I buy and still play non-MMOs these days is to have something to do when my internet connection is unavailable or goes wonky. Good online time is reserved for MMO's, because by their very nature they demand that kind of committment.
So I really don't understand why Ubisoft thinks I'm going to buy a non-MMO game from them that I'll never be able to play.
The spiral model is utterly terrible. Since the DoD moved over to it, every one of their projects is over budget, underperforming, and late.
Which has been a horrible downgrade from the waterfall days, when every one of their projects was over budget, underperforming, and late...but we all got "Cost+" contracts for them.
First off, U6 has been hovering at about 17.3 for the last 3 months of reports, and will doubtless be near there the next one as well. The estimated unemployment during the depression was nearly 10 percent higher than that, and in pockets was significantly worse. This level of unemployment practially shut down the money-based economy, as people had to revert to a barter economy to survive.
Also, the Federal Government was far more active than we have been this time around in spending money to stem the tide. It is pretty easy to track the recovery performance against government expenditures during the 30's too. Even with all that, the situation was so bad that it took the herculean expenditures of WW2 to fix it.
To give a non-numeric illustration of the difference, my Great-grandfather was a doctor in a mid-sized Oklahoma town back then. He used to regularly send "sick" kids brought to him down to the local restraunt with a "prescription" for food because their problem was that they were starving to death.
There are certianly comparisons to be made, and in fact we are close to that level of collapse than we have been at any time since then. But we are not there yet. Most mainstream economists will tell you that we have our paltry stimulus package to thank for that, and thank it we should. Damn shame "certian parties" wouldn't allow it to be bigger, or we might have been out of this mess by now. China, ironicly unburdened by considerations of economic dogma, let loose with a gargantuan stimulus program. By all accounts they are now out of the recession. We could have been too.
Voting with your wallets only works if you actually have a choice in who you do business with and if you are fully aware of those companies' supply chains. In practice, outside of very narrow situations, neither of these is ever really true.
Actually, the scenario you paint would be an improvement over what the SCOTUS just gave us. Since the ruling is that these political shell corporations don't have to disclose where they get their funds from, you now have no ability vote with your wallet, because you'll have no clue who actually gave the money.
If you really want to mess with them, do what I do: put your mouse on the left side.
I get no end of pleasure watching folks plop down to use my machine end up spending the whole time doing it with their arms crossed and a constipated look on their faces.
If everyone was doing it, you would end up changing traffic (and avoiding accidents) from a two-dimensional problem into a three-dimensional problem. There would still be the same number of people involved.
When these asshats throw bottles at you or try to smack you, can't you get their license plate number and have them arrested for battery?
I've had this happen to me in a couple of places (Oklahoma and Florida). The thing is, I am going perhaps 10MPH and they are typically going in the neighborhood of 50. By the time I get my wits gathered back and figure out what happened, I'm lucky if I can identify which rapidly receeding vehicle way off in the distance was the offender. Without bionic vision, there is no way to get a plate reading.
This is why a-holes do this in the first place. They know they are safe from any personal or legal retribution.
Halsey was a hyper-aggressive idiot who got promoted because the other admirals were being too passive. Nobody would have ever heard of Halsey if he hadn't been like that. Some other useful aggressive idiot would have been put in charge of his fleet instead.
Sadly, there's a difference between being aggressive, and being a hyper-aggressive idiot. The Japaneese knew what Halsey was like, and lured him away from the landings he was supposed to be proecting to near disaster at Leyte Gulf.
Do you honestly think people are going to pay US$30-40k for a compact car that (feature-wise) compares to a US$16k Toyota Corolla?
Prius' sell great right now don't they? For that matter, so do all those apple products like iPhones, iPods, and Macs. You could say the exact same thing about all of them.
All they need to do to sell millions of Volts is market them as a car that will make you superior to the common rabble driving non-electric cars, and make sure they are clearly recognizable to other drivers as "not your car". Prius drivers will switch enmasse.
There needs to be some sort of Godwin's law for 1984 comparisons.
Well, in the meantime, can you please bridge that gap for us?
No, I don't like the airport paranoia, but to compare airport security tech to 1984 is rather hysterical.
It would be claiming anti-Arab feelings and sentiment make the US just like Nazi Germany.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area.
what exactly is the fucking point over a lawsuit to prove that one of the most secretive components of our Government actually saved data that is very well likely to be CLASSIFIED to begin with?
Bullshit. You do not, I repeat not send classified information through email. Anybody doing that should have their clearance revoked immediately, and could quite possibly go up on criminal charges.
The relation I've noticed (being a soccer player) is with soccer teams. I've seen the exact same cycles of drama and team splits. Its just like an online guild, but in slow motion (as they don't spend as much time together in a week).
You know the absolute first thing that will happen is that some pedo-hacker will use a PC virus to hack into the Dolphin and send all "panic" help requests to themselves.
Almost nobody taking the CS Assembly Language course ends up getting a job writing in assembly either. Almost nobody taking an Operating Systems course ends up getting a job writing their own kernel.
CS is not a Vo-Tech program. The point is to understand how things are done, not nessecarily to train you to do that for a career.
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Eventually google's turn-by-turn will have integrated street view imagery, and probably virtual advertisements on the buildings paid for by those businesses (or their competitors)...
It'd be just my luck to get stuck in traffic behind the goatse fan.
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Google has silently forked the kernel. There is an 'Android' kernel, and the mainline kernel Is this the first time this has happened?
Hardly. It happens every time anybody makes a kernel mod. First they pull down the kernel, then they make their custom mod (technically a fork), then they wrangle with the gatekeepers over how/if their mod can be put into the baseline.
I understand it is fairly typical for new mods from first-time submitters to get extra-skeptical treatment. Once the developer has been around a while, learns how to work with the other interested parties, and shows a willingness to do so, things get much easier.
The only thing that makes this news is that an employee of Google is getting the same treatment as you or I would get. Some may find that appalling, but I think it is the way things should be.
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics - and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes - all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we go to the stars.
So I really don't understand why Ubisoft thinks I'm going to buy a non-MMO game from them that I'll never be able to play.
The spiral model is utterly terrible. Since the DoD moved over to it, every one of their projects is over budget, underperforming, and late.
Which has been a horrible downgrade from the waterfall days, when every one of their projects was over budget, underperforming, and late...but we all got "Cost+" contracts for them.
Wait...Yahoo! had products?
Mozilla have fallen into the classic trap...
the best known of course is "never get involved in a LAN war in Asia".
First off, U6 has been hovering at about 17.3 for the last 3 months of reports, and will doubtless be near there the next one as well. The estimated unemployment during the depression was nearly 10 percent higher than that, and in pockets was significantly worse. This level of unemployment practially shut down the money-based economy, as people had to revert to a barter economy to survive.
Also, the Federal Government was far more active than we have been this time around in spending money to stem the tide. It is pretty easy to track the recovery performance against government expenditures during the 30's too. Even with all that, the situation was so bad that it took the herculean expenditures of WW2 to fix it.
To give a non-numeric illustration of the difference, my Great-grandfather was a doctor in a mid-sized Oklahoma town back then. He used to regularly send "sick" kids brought to him down to the local restraunt with a "prescription" for food because their problem was that they were starving to death.
There are certianly comparisons to be made, and in fact we are close to that level of collapse than we have been at any time since then. But we are not there yet. Most mainstream economists will tell you that we have our paltry stimulus package to thank for that, and thank it we should. Damn shame "certian parties" wouldn't allow it to be bigger, or we might have been out of this mess by now. China, ironicly unburdened by considerations of economic dogma, let loose with a gargantuan stimulus program. By all accounts they are now out of the recession. We could have been too.
Voting with your wallets only works if you actually have a choice in who you do business with and if you are fully aware of those companies' supply chains. In practice, outside of very narrow situations, neither of these is ever really true.
Actually, the scenario you paint would be an improvement over what the SCOTUS just gave us. Since the ruling is that these political shell corporations don't have to disclose where they get their funds from, you now have no ability vote with your wallet, because you'll have no clue who actually gave the money.
I get no end of pleasure watching folks plop down to use my machine end up spending the whole time doing it with their arms crossed and a constipated look on their faces.
That is not an improvement.
But I can understand why they fight so hard. If they didn't have Holmes, they'd have to all get real jobs and work for a living.
Perhaps by writing a book or something.
Wait, what was copyright supposed to be for again?
When these asshats throw bottles at you or try to smack you, can't you get their license plate number and have them arrested for battery?
I've had this happen to me in a couple of places (Oklahoma and Florida). The thing is, I am going perhaps 10MPH and they are typically going in the neighborhood of 50. By the time I get my wits gathered back and figure out what happened, I'm lucky if I can identify which rapidly receeding vehicle way off in the distance was the offender. Without bionic vision, there is no way to get a plate reading.
This is why a-holes do this in the first place. They know they are safe from any personal or legal retribution.
Sadly, there's a difference between being aggressive, and being a hyper-aggressive idiot. The Japaneese knew what Halsey was like, and lured him away from the landings he was supposed to be proecting to near disaster at Leyte Gulf.
Wall Street loves China, no meddling human rights to upset things, simple rules. But Wall Street has shown it doesn't know shit.
I know it is still early, but you sir have just won the T.E.D. Award for the best statement of the month. Congradulations
(no inside knowlege, but a guy can dream...)
The problem with this logic is that electricity isn't free either.
Do you honestly think people are going to pay US$30-40k for a compact car that (feature-wise) compares to a US$16k Toyota Corolla?
Prius' sell great right now don't they? For that matter, so do all those apple products like iPhones, iPods, and Macs. You could say the exact same thing about all of them. All they need to do to sell millions of Volts is market them as a car that will make you superior to the common rabble driving non-electric cars, and make sure they are clearly recognizable to other drivers as "not your car". Prius drivers will switch enmasse.
Cause let's just be honest, as a framework for understanding the universe, gravity is just a stone cold bitch that has no answers but lots of demands.
...or as my favorite philosopher once said: "Gravity is a harsh mistress."
There needs to be some sort of Godwin's law for 1984 comparisons.
Well, in the meantime, can you please bridge that gap for us?
No, I don't like the airport paranoia, but to compare airport security tech to 1984 is rather hysterical. It would be claiming anti-Arab feelings and sentiment make the US just like Nazi Germany.
Thank you!
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area.
Obviously you have never studied rabbits.
what exactly is the fucking point over a lawsuit to prove that one of the most secretive components of our Government actually saved data that is very well likely to be CLASSIFIED to begin with?
Bullshit. You do not, I repeat not send classified information through email. Anybody doing that should have their clearance revoked immediately, and could quite possibly go up on criminal charges.
The relation I've noticed (being a soccer player) is with soccer teams. I've seen the exact same cycles of drama and team splits. Its just like an online guild, but in slow motion (as they don't spend as much time together in a week).
You know the absolute first thing that will happen is that some pedo-hacker will use a PC virus to hack into the Dolphin and send all "panic" help requests to themselves.
Almost nobody taking the CS Assembly Language course ends up getting a job writing in assembly either. Almost nobody taking an Operating Systems course ends up getting a job writing their own kernel.
CS is not a Vo-Tech program. The point is to understand how things are done, not nessecarily to train you to do that for a career.
Eventually google's turn-by-turn will have integrated street view imagery, and probably virtual advertisements on the buildings paid for by those businesses (or their competitors)...
It'd be just my luck to get stuck in traffic behind the goatse fan.