And it's several steps advanced from the original case that Microsoft was convicted for, which was bundling Internet Explorer with Windows 95.
But that was way before there were dozens of billions being made with such systems. Look at google, they have featured invasive ads for their chrome browser on the most popluar website on the internet. Any punishment? None. Or take google apps. Abusing their monopoly is the only control they have in fact over android, the remainder is open sourced. On the smartphone maket, google approaches monopoly status.
Or take systemd. It bundles many services and is forced down the throats of thousands of gnu/linux users. Thanks to it, everyone is forced to use binary logging if they want to use udev.
Or even better, export the elderly to give them care in foreign countries. The cheap labor will be happier as they can stay with the family, the relatives will be happier as they now have a reason to visit less often, and it will be cheaper overall.
Funny you should mention the Stackoverflow survey, according to that Mac OS X actually gained quite a lot on Linux compared to previous years and is now at 26.2%.
1. Please someone else should be the guinea pig before I use it. Great technology but right now not ready yet. Maybe in 10 years if there is continued development. Either way, it means more tracking and tracing, that's bad.
2. We have to do it one way or another, so either we figure it out, or lots of people will face the consequences.
3. VR? yes, please. Augmented reality? No thanks, it just allows even more tracking and tracing.
4. Flying cars are an energy waste. Most of the energy is required to keep those things in the air. Drones are too, but if they are popular enough maybe we will get a pneumatic tube like system for the smaller and mid sized things, and drones for the larger things.
5. AI is going to be one of those things that will only work in the cloud. I for one welcome our new cortana overlord.
6. Its nice but these supercomputers are sold and marketed and used as consumption devices, not as devices you really are productive with.
7. The banking industry had a digital revolution long overdue.
8. It has already arrived. Just take a look at wikipedia.
9. Its a good concept but we should NOT do things like giving antibiotics to lifestock so that we can put them even closer together. That just creates germ immunities, and threatens human treatments.
10. But make them secure. Current medical devices have tons of security holes. Hackers shouldn't be able to hold humans ransom.
11. Space is nice, but mostly something for dreams, and not real life.
I'd like to add 12, as it wasn't mentioned. With the invention of CRISPR, we will see lots of genetical engineering appear, and many illnesses will be successfully fought with that technique.
The subsidies needed to make clean energies (wind, solar, geothermal) affordable are just a small amount compared to the subsidies of the other technologies (nuclear is heavily subsidized) plus the hidden costs of these "dirty" ways to generate electricity.
It can be exactly the opposite too. Just compare global linux desktop market share (about 2%) with linux market share for software developer desktops (about 20%).
The unemployment rate among Black and American Indian and Alaska Native science and engi-neering graduates is 6.6 percent.
Well the difference is very small overall, especially if you consider that the employment rates are very close to each other, so there is not much discrimination, or at least not enough to justify these radical means.
Female science and engineering graduates are also less likely to be in the labor force.
Well that's just statistics speak for "women are more likely to be homemakers than men", probably because they chose to stay at home because they wanted children. Nothing wrong with wanting children, is there?
Not in Labor Force – All people 16 years old and over who are not classified as members of the labor force. This category consists mainly of students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers interviewed in an off season who were not looking for work, institutionalized people, and people doing only incidental unpaid family work (less than 15 hours during the reference week).
American Indian and Alaska Native science and engineering graduates have the highest rates of labor force exit
Well this too can have multiple reasons, but if a racist boss kicks someone out solely because they are American indian, or they quit because of discrimination inside the job, that person is unemployed, and not outside of the labor force.
This US government report [census.gov] says the same thing.
Does it? I've looked into it and what I saw on page 16 (figure 9) was that 70.8% of STEM workers are white and not hispanic or latino. On page 19 there is figure 19, which shows that 70.7% of Science and engineering graduates are white and not hispanic or latino. So the other races are represented just as fairly in the workforce as they are in the graduation stats.
The only difference I can see in the stats is that 77.2% of females with science and education degrees are employed, while for men the number is 87.7% (figure 12 on page 20). Still, in other fields there is a difference too, just look at [2], it says that in july 2016, 81% of the males that were 20 or older were employed in (civilian) jobs, while it was only 71% for the females (note that I had to calculate the percentages myself as the link only shows absolute numbers).
The most probable cause for this difference is the women staying at home to take care of the children, out of free choice, and not some discrimination by the employers. Also maybe because they didnt find proper child care and getting children were more important for them and their spouses than the woman having a job as well. But, it is present in all fields and not just STEM.
So I don't think this reports says what you claim it says. On the contrary, the report shows that employers are fair and dont advantage whites over minorities, they just take what's graduated.
Currently the plan is to make non flash npapi plugins disabled by default on firefox 52, and by firefox 53 support will be removed entirely. So better change to pdf.js, or open the pdf files that pdf.js has problems with externally.
LLVM/Clang may use a different design than GCC, but it appears that one of the reasons apple did it is to give people a GPL free alternative of the GCC compiler.
And gcc and clang do have many things in common: many of their non standard (as in: not part of the C/C++ ISO standard) language extensions and macros are replicated by the other (either by llvm because initially gcc was the more popular one, now llvm is the more popular one...).
Fuchsia IS a rewritten Linux because Linux was THE OS that google worked with. They even give their own linux distro to their own employees as desktop/laptop machines (not chromium but goobuntu). Its the major if not almost only OS their servers run on (at least AFAIK), and that has been the case since the very early days. They even give it to their customers with android and chromium. So google has had a long history with Linux, and if it is developing Fuchsia for their own use, then it will do a task that was previously done by a linux based OS, so it might not be a clear "rewrite", they probably don't aim to implement all syscalls the same way linux does (don't even know if fuchsia is an unixoid), but it certainly will be a replacement for linux.
Clang has been made as replacement for GCC, and Fuchsia for Linux. And in both cases, the license was a reason.
This has nothing to do with ADHD, and everything to do with the GPL. The GPL is seen as something negative by many companies like google or apple. Apple has rewritten gcc, google is now rewriting linux.
I am partly a fanboi of linux because of its license.
Agreed. They could put it into the public as GPL, and as they require a CLA for contributors anyway, they can still do as much tivoisation as they want. That would be eons better than what they are doing now.
AAnd again where slashdot has eaten my smaller signs. I've meant to say "Really, wind turbines cost < $10 million a piece". $10 million is an upper bound, and very highly put (most turbines cost way less than that).
I wonder why it costs $300 million to build FIVE wind turbines. Are they built by a defense contractor or something? Really, wind turbines cost $10 million a piece,
Well asm.js is about 50% more than native [1], maybe slower on browsers that don't have asm.js optimisations (the analogon for PNaCl would result in it not working at all). So yes, its 20% difference, but its not considerably far away, unless you say that PNaCl is far away from native speeds.
Javascript is not designed to model a processor architecture
No it isn't. But asm.js is. The only thing it doesn't have that "normal" assembly has is gotos, its done via manual loops instead.
It uses LLVM bitcode which means it can be translated into native instructions and cached.
Its the same for asm.js, it gets translated into native instructions as well. At least on browsers that care about asm.js.
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Thanks to SSL I can connect to an unencrypted WiFi, and be mostly safe.
The malicious yahoo ad used the angler exploit kit. 75% of the exploits used by angler are flash exploits: http://www.talosintelligence.c...
Just don't install flash per default, and require exceptions for people who need it for their job (hopefully a small amount).
No, but Windows 7 and 8.1 won't be "safe harbours" anymore, so the disadvantage of windows 10 will be smaller.
Either way, I like it that microsoft makes so many windows users angry, maybe now they switch to in my eyes better alternatives like linux.
And it's several steps advanced from the original case that Microsoft was convicted for, which was bundling Internet Explorer with Windows 95.
But that was way before there were dozens of billions being made with such systems. Look at google, they have featured invasive ads for their chrome browser on the most popluar website on the internet. Any punishment? None. Or take google apps. Abusing their monopoly is the only control they have in fact over android, the remainder is open sourced. On the smartphone maket, google approaches monopoly status.
Or take systemd. It bundles many services and is forced down the throats of thousands of gnu/linux users. Thanks to it, everyone is forced to use binary logging if they want to use udev.
Go to page 5:
http://www.energy.siemens.com/...
Or even better, export the elderly to give them care in foreign countries. The cheap labor will be happier as they can stay with the family, the relatives will be happier as they now have a reason to visit less often, and it will be cheaper overall.
Funny you should mention the Stackoverflow survey, according to that Mac OS X actually gained quite a lot on Linux compared to previous years and is now at 26.2%.
http://stackoverflow.com/resea...
Linux didn't lose percentages, instead it stayed mostly the same and in fact gained a little bit. The only loser is windows.
1. Please someone else should be the guinea pig before I use it. Great technology but right now not ready yet. Maybe in 10 years if there is continued development. Either way, it means more tracking and tracing, that's bad.
2. We have to do it one way or another, so either we figure it out, or lots of people will face the consequences.
3. VR? yes, please. Augmented reality? No thanks, it just allows even more tracking and tracing.
4. Flying cars are an energy waste. Most of the energy is required to keep those things in the air. Drones are too, but if they are popular enough maybe we will get a pneumatic tube like system for the smaller and mid sized things, and drones for the larger things.
5. AI is going to be one of those things that will only work in the cloud. I for one welcome our new cortana overlord.
6. Its nice but these supercomputers are sold and marketed and used as consumption devices, not as devices you really are productive with.
7. The banking industry had a digital revolution long overdue.
8. It has already arrived. Just take a look at wikipedia.
9. Its a good concept but we should NOT do things like giving antibiotics to lifestock so that we can put them even closer together. That just creates germ immunities, and threatens human treatments.
10. But make them secure. Current medical devices have tons of security holes. Hackers shouldn't be able to hold humans ransom.
11. Space is nice, but mostly something for dreams, and not real life.
I'd like to add 12, as it wasn't mentioned. With the invention of CRISPR, we will see lots of genetical engineering appear, and many illnesses will be successfully fought with that technique.
Without government subsidy, they are unaffordable
The subsidies needed to make clean energies (wind, solar, geothermal) affordable are just a small amount compared to the subsidies of the other technologies (nuclear is heavily subsidized) plus the hidden costs of these "dirty" ways to generate electricity.
https://vimeo.com/12915013
It can be exactly the opposite too. Just compare global linux desktop market share (about 2%) with linux market share for software developer desktops (about 20%).
The unemployment rate among Black and American Indian and Alaska Native science and engi-neering graduates is 6.6 percent.
Well the difference is very small overall, especially if you consider that the employment rates are very close to each other, so there is not much discrimination, or at least not enough to justify these radical means.
Female science and engineering graduates are also less likely to be in the labor force.
Well that's just statistics speak for "women are more likely to be homemakers than men", probably because they chose to stay at home because they wanted children. Nothing wrong with wanting children, is there?
http://www.census.gov/people/l...
Not in Labor Force – All people 16 years old and over who are not classified as members of the labor force. This category consists mainly of students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers interviewed in an off season who were not looking for work, institutionalized people, and people doing only incidental unpaid family work (less than 15 hours during the reference week).
American Indian and Alaska Native science and engineering graduates have the highest rates of labor force exit
Well this too can have multiple reasons, but if a racist boss kicks someone out solely because they are American indian, or they quit because of discrimination inside the job, that person is unemployed, and not outside of the labor force.
This US government report [census.gov] says the same thing.
Does it? I've looked into it and what I saw on page 16 (figure 9) was that 70.8% of STEM workers are white and not hispanic or latino. On page 19 there is figure 19, which shows that 70.7% of Science and engineering graduates are white and not hispanic or latino. So the other races are represented just as fairly in the workforce as they are in the graduation stats.
The only difference I can see in the stats is that 77.2% of females with science and education degrees are employed, while for men the number is 87.7% (figure 12 on page 20). Still, in other fields there is a difference too, just look at [2], it says that in july 2016, 81% of the males that were 20 or older were employed in (civilian) jobs, while it was only 71% for the females (note that I had to calculate the percentages myself as the link only shows absolute numbers).
The most probable cause for this difference is the women staying at home to take care of the children, out of free choice, and not some discrimination by the employers. Also maybe because they didnt find proper child care and getting children were more important for them and their spouses than the woman having a job as well. But, it is present in all fields and not just STEM.
So I don't think this reports says what you claim it says. On the contrary, the report shows that employers are fair and dont advantage whites over minorities, they just take what's graduated.
[2] : http://www.bls.gov/news.releas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Maybe not with direct support for virtual reality glasses, but still well before ms did this announcement.
Yeah, I think the number of deaths caused by driver stupidity is far larger than those two deaths that were caused by the autopilot feature.
Currently the plan is to make non flash npapi plugins disabled by default on firefox 52, and by firefox 53 support will be removed entirely. So better change to pdf.js, or open the pdf files that pdf.js has problems with externally.
Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
LLVM/Clang may use a different design than GCC, but it appears that one of the reasons apple did it is to give people a GPL free alternative of the GCC compiler.
And gcc and clang do have many things in common: many of their non standard (as in: not part of the C/C++ ISO standard) language extensions and macros are replicated by the other (either by llvm because initially gcc was the more popular one, now llvm is the more popular one ...).
Fuchsia IS a rewritten Linux because Linux was THE OS that google worked with. They even give their own linux distro to their own employees as desktop/laptop machines (not chromium but goobuntu). Its the major if not almost only OS their servers run on (at least AFAIK), and that has been the case since the very early days. They even give it to their customers with android and chromium. So google has had a long history with Linux, and if it is developing Fuchsia for their own use, then it will do a task that was previously done by a linux based OS, so it might not be a clear "rewrite", they probably don't aim to implement all syscalls the same way linux does (don't even know if fuchsia is an unixoid), but it certainly will be a replacement for linux.
Clang has been made as replacement for GCC, and Fuchsia for Linux. And in both cases, the license was a reason.
Nope, anti-matter is not just a theory. It has been confirmed to exist in the first half of the last century: https://home.cern/topics/antim...
Antimatter can be used as very efficient rocket fuel, so you would have to carry less weight.
The problem however is how to do efficient production of antimatter.
Also, you would still have to carry some kind of propellant with you.
The GPL is only tyrant to tyrants. Tivoisation should have no place in this world.
This has nothing to do with ADHD, and everything to do with the GPL. The GPL is seen as something negative by many companies like google or apple. Apple has rewritten gcc, google is now rewriting linux.
I am partly a fanboi of linux because of its license.
Agreed. They could put it into the public as GPL, and as they require a CLA for contributors anyway, they can still do as much tivoisation as they want. That would be eons better than what they are doing now.
AAnd again where slashdot has eaten my smaller signs. I've meant to say "Really, wind turbines cost < $10 million a piece". $10 million is an upper bound, and very highly put (most turbines cost way less than that).
I wonder why it costs $300 million to build FIVE wind turbines. Are they built by a defense contractor or something? Really, wind turbines cost $10 million a piece,
In every city there is enough population density to justify putting a cell unit "at every lamp post". More than 50% of people live in cities.
Well asm.js is about 50% more than native [1], maybe slower on browsers that don't have asm.js optimisations (the analogon for PNaCl would result in it not working at all). So yes, its 20% difference, but its not considerably far away, unless you say that PNaCl is far away from native speeds.
Javascript is not designed to model a processor architecture
No it isn't. But asm.js is. The only thing it doesn't have that "normal" assembly has is gotos, its done via manual loops instead.
It uses LLVM bitcode which means it can be translated into native instructions and cached.
Its the same for asm.js, it gets translated into native instructions as well. At least on browsers that care about asm.js.
[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013...