This is exactly what crowdfunded projects are supposed to be.Projects can fail.
This seems to be a 100% genuine failure. I would not even regret having spent money there. Other projects (e.g. Clang!) failed in a more circumspect way.
Indiegogo and Kickstarter are no warehouses like Amazon.
If I wish to scare a recruit sufficiently to obey me and charge into near certain death at some point in the future, I may chose that approach. And it works only with a certain type.
Should I rely on the recruits intellectual work, that approach would be very counter-productive. Believe me, pointing out a stupid mistake in a very discrete manner can achieve a much better effect.
P.S. Went through army training (15 months) and really can't remember a single thing of what was yelled at me back then.
P.P.S. If you want people to change their ways, exposure or coverage actually damages the cause. Because people remember the shaming much stronger than the cause. It may have an effect on others as well then, but such is called "making an example of" and I truly hope Linus is above that.
If you do this and say "You moron" to your coworker, you both are on the same power level. But probably nobody except him will ever hear it and he might not even take it serious (because he knows you).
But now imagine that the boss of your boss of your boss says the same about you on an official company meeting in front of all other employees. Even if meant as joke, as most people don't know him personally, it will be taken seriously.
Linus is a very powerful person. Though he did not try to achieve that, he wields an incredible amount of power. He must be very careful wielding it.
There is a reasons that medieval kings usually spoke most polite. Because when Henry II once uttered "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?", Thomas Beckett died. Probably Henry did not intend to command murder (historians are divided about that), but it happened nonetheless.
Luckily we live in better times and probably (and I am sorry to have to include that qualifier) nobody will kill anyone else due to a diss by Linus. But if Linus shows anger, this may cost people their job and career.
If he wishes to convey that, he can write "I am angry." But I would advise against that.
Because there is another point, that one should be aware of. There is a huge "power differential" between the sender and the recipient of the mail.
If I were to say "Puff_Of_Hot_Air posts a lot of cr*p online" this might not be nice, but it would not impact his life much (but perhaps our relationship). Our levels of "power" are roughly same.
Should I write the same about an employee of my company, this might make that person fear for his job. That is because in that context, I wield a lot of power. The effect is there, even if I do not intend to do any harm.
Linus is a very powerful person. Not formalized power, but probably more powerful than the average politician. Others may socially or otherwise harm the person dissed in that post. Not because Linus wants it to be done, but just because those persons admire Linus. There are probably a lot of admirers in the area the recipient is working in.
The excessive use of such explicit language will lower the barrier that prevents others from taking a negative action.ï
As I wrote, i don't complain about "sh*t" or "crap".
But he writes the author is "incompetent and out to lunch" and accuses him to do things for "compiler-masturbation".
My main point is: this serves no purpose. It does not make anything clearer or help the discussion (rather to the contrary).
I don't want to have every sentence corrected by ten people and checked for gluten;-). I just think, even a genius can afford a bare minimum of civility.
a) I agree with him on the code, but I am not a competent coder myself.
b) I disagree with the form of communication and that is an area where I am competent.
As Linus expects others to write proper code, I expect people to conduct proper communication.
Same rules apply: If it does not improve the flow of information, it does not belong in the email. Some swearwords don't bring any points across that could not be covered by "professional english" subset;-). I think "sh*t" and "crap" may be considered validly applied here. But beyond that, it generates an unnecessary conflict at rc7 time. ï
This is why I mentioned the simplification. German law makes judgement about how good a creation is. Since we are Germans, we even have an own word for it: "SchÃpfungshÃhe" (in english; Threshold of originality).
If you don't reach a certain level, no copyright protection.
That statements simplifies the legal situation. The example was concerning high-level restaurants where the food presentation might reach a level of art that could be protected. You won't get hammered for taking a shot of your burger at McDonalds;-).
Even with high-level restaurants, while there may be a policy which asks you not to take photos, no lawsuit has been initiated yet. So this is a very theoretical discussion.
State of the art for a DC is a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) value of 1,1 or lower. This means: for getting 1kwh used for a computer, you have to put 1,1kwh (or less) into the datacenter.
This uses the adiabatic cooling, which is some kind of cheating (you are evaporating water). But water is in ample supply here (not being California).
We are currently in the process of designing a new DC and getting the PUE value as low as possible is major design goal.
At least commercially it is BS. In a modern DC, climate control takes up less than 9% of all electricity. Those meager savings can't make up for all the problems involved here (service and installation processes, safety issues, etc).
Same system here. A soccer star had to pay 540.000 Euros for driving without a valid license: http://www.spiegel.de/auto/akt... (sorry, German link only)
I am sorry to hear about the seriousness of your illness and admire your for dealing with it so openly.
Since I had death and illness of a close relative lately, I would ask you to think of two things:
- Give full powers to someone to deal with your affairs when you cannot - Make sure you have a current patient's provision
From the way you are approaching the end, I am pretty sure you have already done so. But I just want to make sure. It can really take a lot of burden from your daughter and other relatives.
Making a live-or-death decision for a loved one is really, really hard.
Concerning your daughter: you may want to leave her letters (one per year until 18) describing how you experienced live at her age back then. Just let her know how you felt, what moved you, what you loved or hated.
Compression is cheap if it is only of one type (e.g. videos). General purpose compression is much more difficult (you have first to determine the best algorithm).
On networks the lack of compression is also due to the fact that both sides need to have it and those may far apart (spatial as well as economical). But it is used increasingly nonetheless.
You have to have dedicated hardware for it. With current equipment it cannot be done properly (NVidia has some of it in their SHIELD approach (detached second screen).
a) Compression would probably even reduce power consumption. (De)Compression is an inexpensive task if not done by a G/CPU but a specialized chip. The power consumption of a monitor is determined by size and brightness. The rest is a rounding error;-).
b) Costs for a chip to do the compression would be 1$ if we look at the costs for HD/4K streams (for which most TV sets already have decoding chips).
The only thing i am unsure of: latency. You need have a progressive compression that will not increase the latency. That is not my area of expertise but is certainly doable.
It is madness to increase of the data rate in video signals even further. A monitor cable transmitting 32.4 gbps is not a good solution. It is something engineers can boast about but it also limits cable lengths and makes them more expensive. Trying to get 4K UHD over 20m is as expensive as a PC and the display together.
Instead they should adapt and norm low-latency compression methods for the transmission of video signals. 1 gbps should be more than enough to transport an 8K UHD signal with 100Hz (and without any gamer noticing a difference).
The inclusion of DSC is a good start but is seems to be just a sidekick.ï
I am working for a small (65 employees) company in Europe that serves customers with locations around the world. Of those locations that we have to deal with, Brazil is the worst nightmare.
Money (taxes, customs duties) is a solvable problem: it just costs the customer more. But getting definitive answers about the process, reliable delivery schedules or any kind of planning dependability is extremely hard. Due to the bureaucratic overhead, nobody there wants to deal with it.
I would rather skip the business than ruining our reputation through uncontrollable external influence.
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That project seems to be rather transparent or at least tries to.
There are project where I ended up angry (Clang! is an example).
I did not dig into details, but from my current PoV I probably would not be angry here.
I (co-)founded startups that burnt more per month and nobody got rich in the process ;;-).
Yep, it is only a failure in delivery.
Had I spent money on it, I would not have considered the "investment" failed.
I (co-)founded several companies in my career. The chances of success are rarely better than 1:4, rather 1:10 in most cases.
So instead of saying "it failed" let's use "We found a 1-million-US$ approach that doesn't work" ;-).
This is exactly what crowdfunded projects are supposed to be.Projects can fail.
This seems to be a 100% genuine failure. I would not even regret having spent money there. Other projects (e.g. Clang!) failed in a more circumspect way.
Indiegogo and Kickstarter are no warehouses like Amazon.
I don't expect him to read it here... ;-)
30+ years in the business, been there, seen that :-(
If I wish to scare a recruit sufficiently to obey me and charge into near certain death at some point in the future, I may chose that approach. And it works only with a certain type.
Should I rely on the recruits intellectual work, that approach would be very counter-productive. Believe me, pointing out a stupid mistake in a very discrete manner can achieve a much better effect.
P.S. Went through army training (15 months) and really can't remember a single thing of what was yelled at me back then.
P.P.S. If you want people to change their ways, exposure or coverage actually damages the cause. Because people remember the shaming much stronger than the cause. It may have an effect on others as well then, but such is called "making an example of" and I truly hope Linus is above that.
If you do this and say "You moron" to your coworker, you both are on the same power level. But probably nobody except him will ever hear it and he might not even take it serious (because he knows you).
But now imagine that the boss of your boss of your boss says the same about you on an official company meeting in front of all other employees. Even if meant as joke, as most people don't know him personally, it will be taken seriously.
Linus is a very powerful person. Though he did not try to achieve that, he wields an incredible amount of power. He must be very careful wielding it.
There is a reasons that medieval kings usually spoke most polite. Because when Henry II once uttered "Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?", Thomas Beckett died. Probably Henry did not intend to command murder (historians are divided about that), but it happened nonetheless.
Luckily we live in better times and probably (and I am sorry to have to include that qualifier) nobody will kill anyone else due to a diss by Linus. But if Linus shows anger, this may cost people their job and career.
If he wishes to convey that, he can write "I am angry." But I would advise against that.
Because there is another point, that one should be aware of. There is a huge "power differential" between the sender and the recipient of the mail.
If I were to say "Puff_Of_Hot_Air posts a lot of cr*p online" this might not be nice, but it would not impact his life much (but perhaps our relationship). Our levels of "power" are roughly same.
Should I write the same about an employee of my company, this might make that person fear for his job. That is because in that context, I wield a lot of power. The effect is there, even if I do not intend to do any harm.
Linus is a very powerful person. Not formalized power, but probably more powerful than the average politician. Others may socially or otherwise harm the person dissed in that post. Not because Linus wants it to be done, but just because those persons admire Linus. There are probably a lot of admirers in the area the recipient is working in.
The excessive use of such explicit language will lower the barrier that prevents others from taking a negative action.ï
What I would have written (example):
"and nobody will think that the above is (a) legible (b) efficient (even with the magical compiler support) or (c) particularly safe."
"A shiny function that we have never ever needed anywhere else, and that is just used as showcase for a compiler feature."
The sentence "And itâ(TM)s a f*cking bad excuse for that braindamage" would have been scratched completely by me, as it does not contain any message.
As I wrote, i don't complain about "sh*t" or "crap".
But he writes the author is "incompetent and out to lunch" and accuses him to do things for "compiler-masturbation".
My main point is: this serves no purpose. It does not make anything clearer or help the discussion (rather to the contrary).
I don't want to have every sentence corrected by ten people and checked for gluten ;-). I just think, even a genius can afford a bare minimum of civility.
Look in the mail Linus wrote ;-).
Two points:
a) I agree with him on the code, but I am not a competent coder myself.
b) I disagree with the form of communication and that is an area where I am competent.
As Linus expects others to write proper code, I expect people to conduct proper communication.
Same rules apply: If it does not improve the flow of information, it does not belong in the email. Some swearwords don't bring any points across that could not be covered by "professional english" subset ;-). I think "sh*t" and "crap" may be considered validly applied here. But beyond that, it generates an unnecessary conflict at rc7 time. ï
This is why I mentioned the simplification. German law makes judgement about how good a creation is. Since we are Germans, we even have an own word for it: "SchÃpfungshÃhe" (in english; Threshold of originality).
If you don't reach a certain level, no copyright protection.
That statements simplifies the legal situation. The example was concerning high-level restaurants where the food presentation might reach a level of art that could be protected. You won't get hammered for taking a shot of your burger at McDonalds ;-).
Even with high-level restaurants, while there may be a policy which asks you not to take photos, no lawsuit has been initiated yet. So this is a very theoretical discussion.
And all of this has to be tested in court....
The last time such accusations were leveled against the press the secretary of defense had to vacate his chair afterwards. (Spiegel-Scandal)
The time before, it won the person publishing "state secrets" the Nobel Peace Price (Carl con Ossietzky)
So the accusations against netzpolitik.org are rather honoring them in the eyes of those who know history.
Nope, Central Europe.
State of the art for a DC is a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) value of 1,1 or lower. This means: for getting 1kwh used for a computer, you have to put 1,1kwh (or less) into the datacenter.
This uses the adiabatic cooling, which is some kind of cheating (you are evaporating water). But water is in ample supply here (not being California).
We are currently in the process of designing a new DC and getting the PUE value as low as possible is major design goal.
See: http://www.modbs.co.uk/news/ar...
At least commercially it is BS. In a modern DC, climate control takes up less than 9% of all electricity. Those meager savings can't make up for all the problems involved here (service and installation processes, safety issues, etc).
To (miss)quote Mark Twain: Nothing is easier than loosing 70 pounds, I've done it several times ;-).
Original quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quote...
Loosing weight is always easy, not picking it up again is the hard part.
Same system here. A soccer star had to pay 540.000 Euros for driving without a valid license:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/akt...
(sorry, German link only)
I am sorry to hear about the seriousness of your illness and admire your for dealing with it so openly.
Since I had death and illness of a close relative lately, I would ask you to think of two things:
- Give full powers to someone to deal with your affairs when you cannot
- Make sure you have a current patient's provision
From the way you are approaching the end, I am pretty sure you have already done so. But I just want to make sure. It can really take a lot of burden from your daughter and other relatives.
Making a live-or-death decision for a loved one is really, really hard.
Concerning your daughter: you may want to leave her letters (one per year until 18) describing how you experienced live at her age back then. Just let her know how you felt, what moved you, what you loved or hated.
Compression is cheap if it is only of one type (e.g. videos). General purpose compression is much more difficult (you have first to determine the best algorithm).
On networks the lack of compression is also due to the fact that both sides need to have it and those may far apart (spatial as well as economical). But it is used increasingly nonetheless.
You have to have dedicated hardware for it. With current equipment it cannot be done properly (NVidia has some of it in their SHIELD approach (detached second screen).
a) Compression would probably even reduce power consumption. (De)Compression is an inexpensive task if not done by a G/CPU but a specialized chip. The power consumption of a monitor is determined by size and brightness. The rest is a rounding error ;-).
b) Costs for a chip to do the compression would be 1$ if we look at the costs for HD/4K streams (for which most TV sets already have decoding chips).
The only thing i am unsure of: latency. You need have a progressive compression that will not increase the latency. That is not my area of expertise but is certainly doable.
Madness
It is madness to increase of the data rate in video signals even further. A monitor cable transmitting 32.4 gbps is not a good solution. It is something engineers can boast about but it also limits cable lengths and makes them more expensive. Trying to get 4K UHD over 20m is as expensive as a PC and the display together.
Instead they should adapt and norm low-latency compression methods for the transmission of video signals. 1 gbps should be more than enough to transport an 8K UHD signal with 100Hz (and without any gamer noticing a difference).
The inclusion of DSC is a good start but is seems to be just a sidekick.ï
Finnland has alread trains to continental Europe. In fact, Finnland is a part of continental Europe.
I am working for a small (65 employees) company in Europe that serves customers with locations around the world. Of those locations that we have to deal with, Brazil is the worst nightmare.
Money (taxes, customs duties) is a solvable problem: it just costs the customer more. But getting definitive answers about the process, reliable delivery schedules or any kind of planning dependability is extremely hard. Due to the bureaucratic overhead, nobody there wants to deal with it.
I would rather skip the business than ruining our reputation through uncontrollable external influence.