You are right on all counts. I especially agree with making a goal of fixing the BSP issues with ARM development.
What a lot of people do not understand is that Linus does not have a 1000 person development team sitting at his corporate headquarters, churning out code and ideas. Code gets essentially given (through patches, Git pull requests, etc.) to Linus (or someone Linus trusts) and that eventually makes its way into Linus's branch of the kernel. The system is built on the idea that needs get fulfilled by those who need it. At this point, Linus just integrates the really good ideas into the kernel while filtering out the bad stuff.
As far as I could guess, Linus probably still codes some stuff, but the genius of the whole system is that he does not need to. As ideas are implemented, the community evaluates, and Linux integrates. No one can know for sure what kind of great ideas people come up with in the coming years, so no one can know for sure what that roadmap looks like.
Much the same here. The attraction of G+ was that it was a lot easier to use for non-public streams. Where Facebook tried to make everything public for the world to see, G+ made it easy to keep things limited to specific groups so that a) conversations wouldn't be visible to people I didn't want to see them (and to people that aren't interested, my family really doesn't want to have a ringside seat for my rather heated discussions about the technical aspects of IPv6) and b) we wouldn't be inundated by trolls, spammers and general idjits. I think that's one of the problems, it's not that G+ isn't active but that the outlets saying it's dead are basing that only on public activity which isn't G+'s focus.
^This is exactly correct. Social Media "Gurus" dislike it because there is no way to fully monitor usage from the outside. I use Google+ as well for specific discussions (i.e. technology) where my throng of Facebook friends would just post stupid comments. Sometimes, you want a more serious [and semi-private] discussion and Google+ really did facilitate that in a way that you just could not do on Facebook. However, with the way they are dismantling things, I have a feeling Google+ will be retired by the end of 2016.
With the recent update, Google broke Chromecast support for Google+ photos. The biggest thing I liked about Google+ photos was that I could share the pictures and videos on my Chromecast. Of course, they did not add Chromecast support for the updated photos app.
While not everyone agreed with the "integration" of accounts, I am absolutely amazed at the number of services on which Google has dismantled the good parts. Google has created some pretty neat things over the years and they still are innovating. But for the life of me, I can't shake the feeling that some part of Google's management team likes self mutilation.
This is a much more complicated issue. If the government was giving away candles, I might find it fun and interesting, but also inconvenient. Sure, I'd probably use them occasionally, but it would more than likely supplement my lighting. Electric lights would still be my main source of lighting.
I like using my car because it is convenient. I know I am spending money on it, but honestly, the biggest investment was the purchase of the vehicle. So sure I might jump on board the bus occasionally, but not all the time. I purchased a car for convenience and freedom to go places. I like to go to a place on a whim and not have to check bus routes.
Also, a car makes it much more convenient to shop. Imagine I pick up a case of soda and a couple gallons of milk. Yes, it is doable on a bus, but hardly fun at all. It might take me 5 bus trips to get the family groceries home.
And, as others have mentioned, its not like this is free. Someone is paying for it. More than likely, you are. But now you are forced to pay for the bus whether you use it or not. Sometimes, you just cannot use the bus. A single mom that needs to work and pick up their kids from daycare, and buy groceries, might not be able to spend valuable minutes waiting for buses. Is it fair to her to charge her for operating buses and then she has to pay for her car as well?
I've ridden buses and trains when convenient, but in all honesty there is a lot more to this than giving it away free. Buses work more fine for urban dwellers with no kids. Once you start adding other people to the mix, relying 100% on public transit loses its appeal rather quickly.
I agree. In my state, pedestrians in the path of traffic cannot cross when the left turn signal is green. However, bikes are always flying past on the right. As someone who used to do a lot more biking in a downtown area, I can say I would be much more concerned about forcing massive amounts of right turns in the city. Even though I was careful, I had to be doubly careful by popular right turn spots. The trouble is that most downtown streets and traffic make it hard to see us bikers.
My other concern is that we create additional problems when people "defy" the directions, then have to look down and wait for the map to redirect. It could make left turns, and the moments that follow, be even more dangerous.
"progress" means we go from a safe cab ride from a licensed cab drivers, to scary joy rides from unknown unlicensed unaccountable strangers who downloaded an app.
I haven't been in a lot of cabs, but the ones I have used have been overpriced, somewhat rude, dirty, and in no way did I feel exceptionally safe. Your mileage may vary. In a lot of cities, I got the impression that cabbies really don't care because they "own" the market through a city mandated oligopoly.
Also, I believe Uber requires background checks, so it is not a complete unknown.
This is not a story, and not really a Linux problem. The worm relies on weak passwords to execute code. This is about as newsworthy as telling me that car thieves found a way to exploit Fords that have the keys left in them.
Searching for Drug trafficking just sounds like an excuse now days. Really? Can't they sniff the mail with modern drug detecting machines? Tracking meta data is almost guaranteed to be used for something different.
I am tired of the boogie men of terrorism, drug trafficking, and safety that the U.S. three letter agencies keep using to justify attacking freedom and privacy.
Republic Wireless effectively does the same thing as this, for less money, with less expensive phones, MotoX|G|E. As of May 18th, RW is starting a test of allowing users to customize his or her plan and refund unused data. $25/mo with 5GB of data. I'd rather support them instead of Google, too.
I agree that Republic is a better deal than Google in some cases. However, you are required to buy one of just a few Republic Wireless phones in order to use their service. But you are correct that Republic Wirelesses broke a lot of ground with their Wifi to Cellular network bridge software.
For years and years, pilots have used flight simulators to practice. This study confirms what was already known, given a real enough simulation, it is almost identical to practicing it in reality.
I am kind of surprised they are using Ubuntu on the devices. I work with embedded Linux as well and we usually use custom Linux distributions built using Buildroot, Yocto, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I think Ubuntu is a fine desktop operating system, but there is a lot going on in the system that is unneeded for a flying robot. I personally use Ubuntu as my desktop development machine and do love it. But it is not a great system for drones and other embedded Linux projects.
I'd prefer to scale down to exactly what you need. Maybe go as high as a minimal Debian distribution, but full blown Ubuntu seems slightly inefficient.
Yes, it was indeed a big advancement. Not only have they successfully tested the Polio Cancer treatment on monkeys, but it was even very successful on early tests on humans.
The FDA is concerned about the modified virus spreading to normal cells. Currently, the researchers are confident that the modified Polio Virus cannot transfer.
This new chemical treatment is maybe not as far along, but encouraging to see as well.
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You are right on all counts. I especially agree with making a goal of fixing the BSP issues with ARM development.
What a lot of people do not understand is that Linus does not have a 1000 person development team sitting at his corporate headquarters, churning out code and ideas. Code gets essentially given (through patches, Git pull requests, etc.) to Linus (or someone Linus trusts) and that eventually makes its way into Linus's branch of the kernel. The system is built on the idea that needs get fulfilled by those who need it. At this point, Linus just integrates the really good ideas into the kernel while filtering out the bad stuff.
As far as I could guess, Linus probably still codes some stuff, but the genius of the whole system is that he does not need to. As ideas are implemented, the community evaluates, and Linux integrates. No one can know for sure what kind of great ideas people come up with in the coming years, so no one can know for sure what that roadmap looks like.
Much the same here. The attraction of G+ was that it was a lot easier to use for non-public streams. Where Facebook tried to make everything public for the world to see, G+ made it easy to keep things limited to specific groups so that a) conversations wouldn't be visible to people I didn't want to see them (and to people that aren't interested, my family really doesn't want to have a ringside seat for my rather heated discussions about the technical aspects of IPv6) and b) we wouldn't be inundated by trolls, spammers and general idjits. I think that's one of the problems, it's not that G+ isn't active but that the outlets saying it's dead are basing that only on public activity which isn't G+'s focus.
^This is exactly correct. Social Media "Gurus" dislike it because there is no way to fully monitor usage from the outside. I use Google+ as well for specific discussions (i.e. technology) where my throng of Facebook friends would just post stupid comments. Sometimes, you want a more serious [and semi-private] discussion and Google+ really did facilitate that in a way that you just could not do on Facebook. However, with the way they are dismantling things, I have a feeling Google+ will be retired by the end of 2016.
With the recent update, Google broke Chromecast support for Google+ photos. The biggest thing I liked about Google+ photos was that I could share the pictures and videos on my Chromecast. Of course, they did not add Chromecast support for the updated photos app.
While not everyone agreed with the "integration" of accounts, I am absolutely amazed at the number of services on which Google has dismantled the good parts. Google has created some pretty neat things over the years and they still are innovating. But for the life of me, I can't shake the feeling that some part of Google's management team likes self mutilation.
This is a much more complicated issue. If the government was giving away candles, I might find it fun and interesting, but also inconvenient. Sure, I'd probably use them occasionally, but it would more than likely supplement my lighting. Electric lights would still be my main source of lighting.
I like using my car because it is convenient. I know I am spending money on it, but honestly, the biggest investment was the purchase of the vehicle. So sure I might jump on board the bus occasionally, but not all the time. I purchased a car for convenience and freedom to go places. I like to go to a place on a whim and not have to check bus routes.
Also, a car makes it much more convenient to shop. Imagine I pick up a case of soda and a couple gallons of milk. Yes, it is doable on a bus, but hardly fun at all. It might take me 5 bus trips to get the family groceries home.
And, as others have mentioned, its not like this is free. Someone is paying for it. More than likely, you are. But now you are forced to pay for the bus whether you use it or not. Sometimes, you just cannot use the bus. A single mom that needs to work and pick up their kids from daycare, and buy groceries, might not be able to spend valuable minutes waiting for buses. Is it fair to her to charge her for operating buses and then she has to pay for her car as well?
I've ridden buses and trains when convenient, but in all honesty there is a lot more to this than giving it away free. Buses work more fine for urban dwellers with no kids. Once you start adding other people to the mix, relying 100% on public transit loses its appeal rather quickly.
Driveways in New York City???
I agree. In my state, pedestrians in the path of traffic cannot cross when the left turn signal is green. However, bikes are always flying past on the right. As someone who used to do a lot more biking in a downtown area, I can say I would be much more concerned about forcing massive amounts of right turns in the city. Even though I was careful, I had to be doubly careful by popular right turn spots. The trouble is that most downtown streets and traffic make it hard to see us bikers.
My other concern is that we create additional problems when people "defy" the directions, then have to look down and wait for the map to redirect. It could make left turns, and the moments that follow, be even more dangerous.
"progress" means we go from a safe cab ride from a licensed cab drivers, to scary joy rides from unknown unlicensed unaccountable strangers who downloaded an app.
I haven't been in a lot of cabs, but the ones I have used have been overpriced, somewhat rude, dirty, and in no way did I feel exceptionally safe. Your mileage may vary. In a lot of cities, I got the impression that cabbies really don't care because they "own" the market through a city mandated oligopoly.
Also, I believe Uber requires background checks, so it is not a complete unknown.
This is not a story, and not really a Linux problem. The worm relies on weak passwords to execute code. This is about as newsworthy as telling me that car thieves found a way to exploit Fords that have the keys left in them.
Searching for Drug trafficking just sounds like an excuse now days. Really? Can't they sniff the mail with modern drug detecting machines? Tracking meta data is almost guaranteed to be used for something different.
I am tired of the boogie men of terrorism, drug trafficking, and safety that the U.S. three letter agencies keep using to justify attacking freedom and privacy.
Republic Wireless effectively does the same thing as this, for less money, with less expensive phones, MotoX|G|E. As of May 18th, RW is starting a test of allowing users to customize his or her plan and refund unused data. $25/mo with 5GB of data. I'd rather support them instead of Google, too.
I agree that Republic is a better deal than Google in some cases. However, you are required to buy one of just a few Republic Wireless phones in order to use their service. But you are correct that Republic Wirelesses broke a lot of ground with their Wifi to Cellular network bridge software.
For years and years, pilots have used flight simulators to practice. This study confirms what was already known, given a real enough simulation, it is almost identical to practicing it in reality.
This just opened up a whole new barrel of monkeys . . . and set them free from their unconstitutional detention, apparently.
Fixed that for you!
I am kind of surprised they are using Ubuntu on the devices. I work with embedded Linux as well and we usually use custom Linux distributions built using Buildroot, Yocto, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I think Ubuntu is a fine desktop operating system, but there is a lot going on in the system that is unneeded for a flying robot. I personally use Ubuntu as my desktop development machine and do love it. But it is not a great system for drones and other embedded Linux projects.
I'd prefer to scale down to exactly what you need. Maybe go as high as a minimal Debian distribution, but full blown Ubuntu seems slightly inefficient.
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The FDA is concerned about the modified virus spreading to normal cells. Currently, the researchers are confident that the modified Polio Virus cannot transfer.
This new chemical treatment is maybe not as far along, but encouraging to see as well.