Also.. What's with the need to tweet? Don't tell the customer anything until the dust settles! Geez... What's with these amateurs?
I've never even used them before, and this transparency has moved them to the top of my list for the future.
Fuckups happen to everybody, despite all the 20/20 Captain Hindsights here pointing out everything that went wrong. I like to see how people handle their fuckups, and they're handling this one with grace.
The stunning amount of ignorance being displayed by the commenters here just makes me a bit sad when I remember how you people used to be. Seriously, where are you people getting the ideas that DSPs aren't reprogrammable, or that they've somehow been made obsolete by FPGAs (wtf), or that FPGAs are in any way superior for low power (wtf??) or any number of other things I'm seeing people pull out of their asses here? Fuck's sake people, know the limits of your knowledge and quit speaking outside them. It's really kind of embarrassing.
Nice to see the editors are as bad as always though, some things never change. 8MB of SDRAM indeed.
And yet it's the simplest, easiest to use version control system I've ever used. That's why I use it, not because any of the projects I'm working on are the size of Linux.
Overrated security tip. I mean - it's absolutely basic, nobody should be stupid enough to run as administrator - but it's also bare minimum. There are still absolute tons of vulnerabilities that have nothing to do with Admin.
All of my data (documents, etc) is accessible to my standard user account, as it rather has to be, and malware could do me way more harm by fucking with that than it could do as root.
Levels of abstraction, dude. If you design a CPU in an FPGA you are working at the same level as someone designing a CPU in hardware. Nobody hand-crafts every one of the tens of thousands to billions of transistors in a CPU.
Plenty of computer manufacturers manage to sell product without you ever hearing the names of any of their marketing workers. Apple's janitors were also essential to their success as a company, but unless we start giving everyone praise, it's not fair to give any to someone like Jobs. It's the engineers who made the product, everyone else was auxiliary.
When the masses decided on what the Internet looks like, out went newsgroups, mailing lists, Web forums, and IRC. In return, we have Facebook, and Twitter.
These things are at least still around. Not as big as they once were, but depending on your areas of interest some are surprisingly active still. I actually know people who still use newsgroups! In particular on IRC, I find that while the number of active users has fallen, the signal to noise ratio in many places has risen - a big chunk of the people who left were the annoying trolling kids who are now bothering people through all the newer platforms instead.
I would consider it inappropriate to go around actually hugging strangers randomly. Don't know about you, but I do not like uninvited physical contact one bit. Keep off.
However, I understand the meaning of the gesture, and by "virtually" hugging someone via text I am simply making a reference to that meaning. I'm not actually touching you, you ninny! I'm not even saying I want to!
If it had just said "physical contact" the intent would have been clear and I'd have supported it a hundred percent. The fact that they specifically, explicitly list a traditionally very non-sexual and benign behavior as an example of a violation of the code of conduct shows that they are looking to squeeze it to their advantage. Anybody who would write or use that doesn't want context, they want a set of rules that's restrictive enough to claim anybody they don't like is in violation at any given time.
Not just "white male discrimination", rather a whole lot of eyeroll-worthy rules designed to make everybody always afraid of offending someone else...
Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
[snip]
Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop
...so the last time I action-messaged somebody "/me hugs $NICK" on IRC as a tongue-in-cheek expression of cheerful approval, I was actually harassing him? Because I didn't say "hey, do you mind if I totally non-sexually pretend to hug you via text?" first? No, just go pound sand.
Yes. clearly Linux will never succeed if we don't use every article about Windows as a chance to complain about systemd. Glad someone knows what the real problem is.
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Also.. What's with the need to tweet? Don't tell the customer anything until the dust settles! Geez... What's with these amateurs?
I've never even used them before, and this transparency has moved them to the top of my list for the future.
Fuckups happen to everybody, despite all the 20/20 Captain Hindsights here pointing out everything that went wrong. I like to see how people handle their fuckups, and they're handling this one with grace.
Who can hand solder QFN chips?!
Who can't? FFS, they're one of the easiest packages to solder. Grab a firestick and practice...
The stunning amount of ignorance being displayed by the commenters here just makes me a bit sad when I remember how you people used to be. Seriously, where are you people getting the ideas that DSPs aren't reprogrammable, or that they've somehow been made obsolete by FPGAs (wtf), or that FPGAs are in any way superior for low power (wtf??) or any number of other things I'm seeing people pull out of their asses here? Fuck's sake people, know the limits of your knowledge and quit speaking outside them. It's really kind of embarrassing.
Nice to see the editors are as bad as always though, some things never change. 8MB of SDRAM indeed.
you can change the FPGA with a firmware update, while the DSP is stuck in time.
er, what?
they're reprogrammable like any other commonly used, uh, programmable device.
And yet it's the simplest, easiest to use version control system I've ever used. That's why I use it, not because any of the projects I'm working on are the size of Linux.
Have you ever used it?
Seriously dude? Because teens inevitably will use it even if it's illegal for them to use.....rather like they're already doing.
That should be a fairly easy list to compile, just list every company that has filed a patent in the last twenty years.
Of course I have backups, that doesn't mean I want them to have access to the stuff...
Overrated security tip. I mean - it's absolutely basic, nobody should be stupid enough to run as administrator - but it's also bare minimum. There are still absolute tons of vulnerabilities that have nothing to do with Admin.
All of my data (documents, etc) is accessible to my standard user account, as it rather has to be, and malware could do me way more harm by fucking with that than it could do as root.
Yes, their name is Every Oscilloscope Maker Ever.
You write like you probably orgasmed at least once while thinking that shit up.
Yup, Avago as well.
Levels of abstraction, dude. If you design a CPU in an FPGA you are working at the same level as someone designing a CPU in hardware. Nobody hand-crafts every one of the tens of thousands to billions of transistors in a CPU.
Plenty of computer manufacturers manage to sell product without you ever hearing the names of any of their marketing workers. Apple's janitors were also essential to their success as a company, but unless we start giving everyone praise, it's not fair to give any to someone like Jobs. It's the engineers who made the product, everyone else was auxiliary.
Am I just stupid, or is their website crap? I couldn't find any indication that there is an ISO, let alone download one.
Of just talking about the group who do agree...
(albeit without death resulting, for now)
For now? What exactly is your implication? I don't really think we have to worry about Germany killing a few billion Facebook users.
Obviously, the ones in the imaginations of the very, very stupid.
Shame about the games and phones, but...
When the masses decided on what the Internet looks like, out went newsgroups, mailing lists, Web forums, and IRC. In return, we have Facebook, and Twitter.
These things are at least still around. Not as big as they once were, but depending on your areas of interest some are surprisingly active still. I actually know people who still use newsgroups! In particular on IRC, I find that while the number of active users has fallen, the signal to noise ratio in many places has risen - a big chunk of the people who left were the annoying trolling kids who are now bothering people through all the newer platforms instead.
In the same sense that selling a less efficient car (than what? dunno) is theft of your fuel?
IT'S FUCKING TEXT
Gah, this so much.
I would consider it inappropriate to go around actually hugging strangers randomly. Don't know about you, but I do not like uninvited physical contact one bit. Keep off.
However, I understand the meaning of the gesture, and by "virtually" hugging someone via text I am simply making a reference to that meaning. I'm not actually touching you, you ninny! I'm not even saying I want to!
If it had just said "physical contact" the intent would have been clear and I'd have supported it a hundred percent. The fact that they specifically, explicitly list a traditionally very non-sexual and benign behavior as an example of a violation of the code of conduct shows that they are looking to squeeze it to their advantage. Anybody who would write or use that doesn't want context, they want a set of rules that's restrictive enough to claim anybody they don't like is in violation at any given time.
Not just "white male discrimination", rather a whole lot of eyeroll-worthy rules designed to make everybody always afraid of offending someone else...
Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
[snip]
Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop
...so the last time I action-messaged somebody "/me hugs $NICK" on IRC as a tongue-in-cheek expression of cheerful approval, I was actually harassing him? Because I didn't say "hey, do you mind if I totally non-sexually pretend to hug you via text?" first? No, just go pound sand.
Yes. clearly Linux will never succeed if we don't use every article about Windows as a chance to complain about systemd. Glad someone knows what the real problem is.