They seem to have forgotten that there is zero documentation on developer.gnome.org relating to Javascript right now.
There is C documentation, and binding documentation for C++, "Vala", Java and Python. They should have picked one of these. Or two - one functional/OO, one imperative. Or ignored it entirely as language is irrelevant as long as there is an up to date binding for it.
TBH it is a collossal clusterfsck of a decision. Then again, maybe they think that people are going to be coming into Gnome development from a web development background in the future. The rest of us can take that as a massive warning, perhaps.
The actual problem they have is how they answer the question "How do I develop for Gnome?". The answer isn't, and should never be, "Use Javascript". or "Use [language]". Developers don't have problems picking up a different language if needs be. It should be a link to a URL that lets the developer choose his own path depending on his application's needs, and his own existing knowledge. It should be the first topic on "developer.gnome.org" really.
It's funny except that it's taking a lot of his time, it must be extremely stressful, the fact that people turn up at any time must be affecting his sleep, his mental state, and so on.
And that's before someone turning up possibly gets violent.
And their costs to get there. Why are they going? Because the police refuse to deal with stolen phone cases even where there is a GPS signal, so people go out on their own or with mates to reclaim their property.
Quite clearly this problem needs a solution very soon before something bad happens.
Well, it's probably a good game and I'd be more than chuffed to write even a portion of it myself, but the video makes it feel like the kart is disconnected from the ground.
They should turn of skidmarks if they can't get them to emerge from the tyres for a start.
It's just a bit floaty, isn't it. One of the things about Mario Kart is that the kart feels connected to the ground, like there is some invisible force that is pushing the kart downwards onto it that adds an aspect of realism to an otherwise fantasy karting world.
NVIDIA say that Tegra 4 is 45% more efficient power-wise than Tegra 3. Some of this will be down to its 28nm process rather than the 40nm process Tegra 3 utilised. They also say it is 2.6x faster.
In addition the AnandTech articles are all set up by Intel, so you need to take the results with a large pinch of salt.
It does raise some questions about Samsung's 32nm process, although a large amount of the power consumption of the Exynos 5250 could be the GPU rather than the CPU - the Exynos uses a very high performance (for a SoC) GPU.
So... I can go into a game store with a RFID reader/writer, and program all the RFIDs on the unsold games? Okay, I'm sure there is some security, but that'll be hacked fairly quickly, as any security based around two devices you have in your hands (console with rfid reader/writer, rfid tagged item) is.
What is good about this patent, is that someone has patented it, and hopefully will not license it. That means all the other platforms can't use this method of preventing people exercising their right to resale.
OTOH if the RFID tag had enough memory, you could store game-specific data on it (saves, character saves, etc) and carry them between consoles just by taking the disc. But that is a completely different end use of the tag than this patent describes.
The RPi is based around a video SoC, the CPU is really a microcontroller to drive the video capabilities - hence it can do 1080p easily, even though it's a 700MHz ARM11.
However these other SoCs are far more general purpose, and are more balanced towards the CPUs. The video decode can probably do more than 1080p to be honest, even the A10 can do 2160p allegedly!
4 Cortex A9s at 1.2GHz 8GB + MicroSD slot No screen, it's HDMI 1.4 capable Use your own favourite Bluetooth input devices 802.11n wifi - 150mbps in theory
Well, it's in the memory manager portion of the driver. Memory management isn't easy at the best of times, and when you're dealing with a GPU that has thousands of cores, and each of those cores has its own local memory, and shared memory with a local cluster group, and then there are software controllable caches further up the hierarchy, I can see how writing this code could be fraught with difficulty.
And as many of us here have worked in professional software environments, I'm sure we can all see how something that was pretty hard to pin down like these latency spikes might not have been a top priority for development, even if they were aware of it at all - after all the FPS figures were great. You'd end up with a driver kernel that had some magic that nobody would want to touch, and most of the work would be game specific optimisations and higher level optimisations. A year sounds about right really.
Indeed I think the only use for this advertising hoarding with empty rooms is as a storage facility, given that many of the windows will be obscured by the advertising hoardings, and access to the hoardings is required for repairs.
I'm sure that a storage facility in that location would be well utilised by local businesses, even if the rates were high. That, or a server colocation facility.
Gotta be a better use than letting it lie empty, but I don't think it's an option to turn the inside into office space or residential space, simply because the primary earner is the advertising, and that has a lot of downsides for potential secondary uses.
Used to be if you wanted to make more money you worked harder and/or longer.
People ran out of hours in the day to work earning abusive pay rates just to get by because the cost of living has been increasing.
Did it help the poor? Hell no. It hurt. If it wasn't for minimum wage you'd still be paying about a nickel for a loaf of bread.
The price of bread rose because the price of the ingredients has risen massively in the past ten years. Why should people be paid a pittance to work full time, doing tiring work, and that wage doesn't even cover basic living costs? Or do you live in a third world country?
And if it puts you over the edge to that higher tax bracket... you're behind.
Do you understand how progressive taxation actually works?
Is it worth $8/hr for a gym to hire a kid to wipe sweat off the equipment in the afternoons? Probably not. Wipe your own sweat.
This is why many minimum wage implementations have different minimum wage values depending upon the age of the worker - allowing a business to hire that "sweat wiper and general gym dogsbody".
For example, the UK (https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates): Age 21+ : £6.19/hr ($9.96/hr) 18 - 20: £4.98/hr http://www.livingwage.org.uk/about-living-wage The London Living Wage is currently £8.55 per hour. The link above shows that it is good for the employees and the employers, that the minimum wage laws benefit those they are supposed to be helping because lots of jobs are necessary but underappreciated. Before the minimum wage was introduced in the UK lots of people were saying the exact same things you are saying. You don't hear squat from them anymore, because they were wrong.
Compared to other parts of the world, his policies have been a roaring success - and an economy doesn't exist in a vacuum these days so that's a really good sign.
How much is a "decent wage?" I hear people all the time talk about a "living wage" on here, but nobody puts a dollar figure on it. Give me something concrete. What should the high-school drop-out ditch digger (or whatever) who has learned no marketable skills make? What kinds of things should someone making a "living" wage be able to buy? What things are over the line? For example, how new a car, what kinds of food, cell phones, cable TV, how big of house or apartment? Should this "living wage" increase because people live in a certain area, or should we pay them more because they have a bunch of kids? I want to know what a "living wage" really means.
To put it simply, a living wage means that someone who is working full time can afford all the necessities (food, bills, housing, clothing, etc) and some wants (beers, meals out, days out) without having to get into debt. The main variance is going to be the cost of housing. Overall, the car won't be new, the cell phone a cheaper model, no billed cable TV (but internet access), and enough space for them to live, in a residence that is not in a state of bad repair because of crappy abusive landlords.
Yes, the living wage should increase in expensive areas. That's because these people - the cleaners, the bin men, etc - are needed in those locations, but rents are more expensive.
Children don't get to choose who they are born to. They should all get a child benefit paid to a responsible carer.
A person with a degree invests money and time to get that degree. Let's say that is six years and $100,000 compared to a person who dropped out of school (for non-academic reasons - not everybody is academic, education paths need more vocational study options) at 16 and subsequently because a labourer/binman/etc. It would make sense that the effort, investment and loss of potential earnings whilst studying was repaid in additional wages over a period of time, say a decade.
I'm not going to get into the housing argument, let's just say that whilst there are homeless people it is a scandal that houses lie empty, and additionally I believe the worth of a society can be ascertained from how it treats the unfortunates within that society.
There are a lot of reasons to pick a slower Raspberry Pi rather than one of the dozens of other cheap ARM boards and systems that have become available.
The primary one is the community that has built up around the device. This means the device is well supported. Also the lack of case means you can access the headers - and there are headers to interface to. And you can then add your own case, rather than put up with cheap-ass plastic.
I am sure that there will be a Mk2 RasPi within a year that will fix the CPU performance issue - it's a natural next step.
We also have to consider that the RasPi is now entirely assembled in the UK, and it's worth supporting local industry (or using it as an example to encourage local assembly of electronics in your own country).
Reading some of the responses here has been very dispiriting, to say the least.
A lot of "holier than thou" attitudes, to the worst - houghi's post on how neglecting a baby is good.
Maybe these topics allow some geeks to feel they can meet their annual "speaking against technology" quotient or something!
The sane comments here point out quite correctly - it's just another toy that should be used in moderation, under strict supervision (like many toys - bouncers and walkers spring to mind). However this toy is actually loads of toys, each a download away, and it's always with you.
What about when playing with a real human isn't actually fun, and they starting to wail, and you're out and about, or in a restaurant, on a train, etc?
You can sit them on your lap, get the tablet out, and calm them down with an interesting sound/image/touch application in moments.
This is actually good parenting, but the know-it-alls here would seem to think that it's not, because babies need something that's not a tablet app, they don't know what apart from what they've read, but they know they'll get +5 Insightful from other childless users who think things are black (using tablet, no humans) or white (humans, no technology) and nothing between. Clue: Have a baby and see how long it is before you're asking about tablet apps as a baby entertainment/development aid (to go with all the other ones you have bought) on a website, only to get sarcastic know-it-all comments about how SHIT YOU ARE AS A PARENT YOU FUCKING SHOULD DIE YOU SCUMMITY FUCK just because you consider toddler centred apps and ask about them.
A tablet can be a dozen different toys and distractions to a baby, and you'll use them in a monitored environment, often when you're out (oh, the two toys I have with me aren't working, but the baby piano app saves the day).
Or maybe you have had a baby - maybe you had lots of support from family living close by to keep baby occupied for the ~12 hours they're awake a day from ~6 months old.
Don't forget that in the movie, each frame is a snapshot over 1/24 (or 1/48 in the case of The Hobbit) of a second, motion blur comes for free.
In a computer game the motion blur is far harder to perform, and most frames are instantaneous snapshots of a scene. It can be made up for by having a higher framerate.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
And isn't that just conjecture by the police looking to justify their action?
She wanted four iPhones, she got two on the Friday, complained when she was treated differently to other customers (i.e., this is potentially a racist action by the Apple Store - denying her the sale because of her ethnicity). She orders two more online (and gets them shipped to the store instead of her home, I don't know why) and goes to pick them up, and ends up being tasered.
Problem is, we don't have much story, only some partial snippets because the "news" article is so patchy.
There are very few issues with public breastfeeding in the UK, at least if an attempt is made to be discrete.
Anyone complaining about it would be looked down upon by other people in the vicinity. Anyone getting offended by breastfeeding is a pervert - they can't control where their eyes are looking and thus they complain instead of sorting out their own sexual issues.
Being offended at a female breast being used for what it exists to do pretty much makes the "offendee" a pervert, because they're the one associating breastfeeding with sex, and then getting offended at it because of that. It's a perverse association that damages those who would breastfeed but don't because of these perverts who feel they can complain instead of NOT LOOKING.
That's what the Italian government will probably do, with it's massive lack of understanding of science and imprisonment of scientists for not being omniscient.
Yes, it will encourage locking up of savings on the short term (i.e., until said fair tax gets repealed and they can then spend their 0% taxed savings) or until their (grand)children inherit it and spend it all on drugs and sports cars.
There's a really really frickin' good reason why taxes are applied at multiple points - to spread the effect, to catch income (income taxes), expenditure (VAT / "fair tax"), capital gains, and so on and so forth. Take a bit at every point rather than create a single point of avoidance tax.
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They seem to have forgotten that there is zero documentation on developer.gnome.org relating to Javascript right now.
There is C documentation, and binding documentation for C++, "Vala", Java and Python. They should have picked one of these. Or two - one functional/OO, one imperative. Or ignored it entirely as language is irrelevant as long as there is an up to date binding for it.
TBH it is a collossal clusterfsck of a decision. Then again, maybe they think that people are going to be coming into Gnome development from a web development background in the future. The rest of us can take that as a massive warning, perhaps.
The actual problem they have is how they answer the question "How do I develop for Gnome?". The answer isn't, and should never be, "Use Javascript". or "Use [language]". Developers don't have problems picking up a different language if needs be. It should be a link to a URL that lets the developer choose his own path depending on his application's needs, and his own existing knowledge. It should be the first topic on "developer.gnome.org" really.
It's funny except that it's taking a lot of his time, it must be extremely stressful, the fact that people turn up at any time must be affecting his sleep, his mental state, and so on.
And that's before someone turning up possibly gets violent.
And their costs to get there. Why are they going? Because the police refuse to deal with stolen phone cases even where there is a GPS signal, so people go out on their own or with mates to reclaim their property.
Quite clearly this problem needs a solution very soon before something bad happens.
Well, it's probably a good game and I'd be more than chuffed to write even a portion of it myself, but the video makes it feel like the kart is disconnected from the ground.
They should turn of skidmarks if they can't get them to emerge from the tyres for a start.
It's just a bit floaty, isn't it. One of the things about Mario Kart is that the kart feels connected to the ground, like there is some invisible force that is pushing the kart downwards onto it that adds an aspect of realism to an otherwise fantasy karting world.
NVIDIA say that Tegra 4 is 45% more efficient power-wise than Tegra 3. Some of this will be down to its 28nm process rather than the 40nm process Tegra 3 utilised. They also say it is 2.6x faster.
In addition the AnandTech articles are all set up by Intel, so you need to take the results with a large pinch of salt.
It does raise some questions about Samsung's 32nm process, although a large amount of the power consumption of the Exynos 5250 could be the GPU rather than the CPU - the Exynos uses a very high performance (for a SoC) GPU.
So ... I can go into a game store with a RFID reader/writer, and program all the RFIDs on the unsold games? Okay, I'm sure there is some security, but that'll be hacked fairly quickly, as any security based around two devices you have in your hands (console with rfid reader/writer, rfid tagged item) is.
What is good about this patent, is that someone has patented it, and hopefully will not license it. That means all the other platforms can't use this method of preventing people exercising their right to resale.
OTOH if the RFID tag had enough memory, you could store game-specific data on it (saves, character saves, etc) and carry them between consoles just by taking the disc. But that is a completely different end use of the tag than this patent describes.
The RPi is based around a video SoC, the CPU is really a microcontroller to drive the video capabilities - hence it can do 1080p easily, even though it's a 700MHz ARM11.
However these other SoCs are far more general purpose, and are more balanced towards the CPUs. The video decode can probably do more than 1080p to be honest, even the A10 can do 2160p allegedly!
4 Cortex A9s at 1.2GHz
8GB + MicroSD slot
No screen, it's HDMI 1.4 capable
Use your own favourite Bluetooth input devices
802.11n wifi - 150mbps in theory
Pictures: http://liliputing.com/2012/12/zealz-gk802-tv-stick-packs-quad-core-freescale-cpu-onto-a-99-pc-on-a-stick.html
http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Unii-GK802-Fresscale-i-MX6-Quad-Dure-Cortex-A9-DDR3-1GB-RAM-8GB-ROM-TV-Box-Dongle----Black-312807.html
http://blog.geekbuying.com/index.php/2012/12/12/quad-core-tv-stick-gk802-finally-stock-in-geekbuying/
Wonder what the Vivante quad core graphics is like, performance wise, compared to its peers.
You should be reading the Tech Report GPU reviews then, they have all that stuff included.
Well, it's in the memory manager portion of the driver. Memory management isn't easy at the best of times, and when you're dealing with a GPU that has thousands of cores, and each of those cores has its own local memory, and shared memory with a local cluster group, and then there are software controllable caches further up the hierarchy, I can see how writing this code could be fraught with difficulty.
And as many of us here have worked in professional software environments, I'm sure we can all see how something that was pretty hard to pin down like these latency spikes might not have been a top priority for development, even if they were aware of it at all - after all the FPS figures were great. You'd end up with a driver kernel that had some magic that nobody would want to touch, and most of the work would be game specific optimisations and higher level optimisations. A year sounds about right really.
Indeed I think the only use for this advertising hoarding with empty rooms is as a storage facility, given that many of the windows will be obscured by the advertising hoardings, and access to the hoardings is required for repairs.
I'm sure that a storage facility in that location would be well utilised by local businesses, even if the rates were high. That, or a server colocation facility.
Gotta be a better use than letting it lie empty, but I don't think it's an option to turn the inside into office space or residential space, simply because the primary earner is the advertising, and that has a lot of downsides for potential secondary uses.
Used to be if you wanted to make more money you worked harder and/or longer.
People ran out of hours in the day to work earning abusive pay rates just to get by because the cost of living has been increasing.
Did it help the poor? Hell no. It hurt. If it wasn't for minimum wage you'd still be paying about a nickel for a loaf of bread.
The price of bread rose because the price of the ingredients has risen massively in the past ten years.
Why should people be paid a pittance to work full time, doing tiring work, and that wage doesn't even cover basic living costs? Or do you live in a third world country?
And if it puts you over the edge to that higher tax bracket... you're behind.
Do you understand how progressive taxation actually works?
Bah, it missed off the under 18 category, at £3.68 per hour.
Is it worth $8/hr for a gym to hire a kid to wipe sweat off the equipment in the afternoons? Probably not. Wipe your own sweat.
This is why many minimum wage implementations have different minimum wage values depending upon the age of the worker - allowing a business to hire that "sweat wiper and general gym dogsbody".
For example, the UK (https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates):
Age 21+ : £6.19/hr ($9.96/hr)
18 - 20: £4.98/hr
http://www.livingwage.org.uk/about-living-wage
The London Living Wage is currently £8.55 per hour. The link above shows that it is good for the employees and the employers, that the minimum wage laws benefit those they are supposed to be helping because lots of jobs are necessary but underappreciated.
Before the minimum wage was introduced in the UK lots of people were saying the exact same things you are saying. You don't hear squat from them anymore, because they were wrong.
We know he didn't win on his economic record.
Compared to other parts of the world, his policies have been a roaring success - and an economy doesn't exist in a vacuum these days so that's a really good sign.
How much is a "decent wage?" I hear people all the time talk about a "living wage" on here, but nobody puts a dollar figure on it. Give me something concrete. What should the high-school drop-out ditch digger (or whatever) who has learned no marketable skills make? What kinds of things should someone making a "living" wage be able to buy? What things are over the line? For example, how new a car, what kinds of food, cell phones, cable TV, how big of house or apartment? Should this "living wage" increase because people live in a certain area, or should we pay them more because they have a bunch of kids? I want to know what a "living wage" really means.
To put it simply, a living wage means that someone who is working full time can afford all the necessities (food, bills, housing, clothing, etc) and some wants (beers, meals out, days out) without having to get into debt. The main variance is going to be the cost of housing. Overall, the car won't be new, the cell phone a cheaper model, no billed cable TV (but internet access), and enough space for them to live, in a residence that is not in a state of bad repair because of crappy abusive landlords.
Yes, the living wage should increase in expensive areas. That's because these people - the cleaners, the bin men, etc - are needed in those locations, but rents are more expensive.
Children don't get to choose who they are born to. They should all get a child benefit paid to a responsible carer.
A person with a degree invests money and time to get that degree. Let's say that is six years and $100,000 compared to a person who dropped out of school (for non-academic reasons - not everybody is academic, education paths need more vocational study options) at 16 and subsequently because a labourer/binman/etc. It would make sense that the effort, investment and loss of potential earnings whilst studying was repaid in additional wages over a period of time, say a decade.
I'm not going to get into the housing argument, let's just say that whilst there are homeless people it is a scandal that houses lie empty, and additionally I believe the worth of a society can be ascertained from how it treats the unfortunates within that society.
There are a lot of reasons to pick a slower Raspberry Pi rather than one of the dozens of other cheap ARM boards and systems that have become available.
The primary one is the community that has built up around the device. This means the device is well supported.
Also the lack of case means you can access the headers - and there are headers to interface to.
And you can then add your own case, rather than put up with cheap-ass plastic.
I am sure that there will be a Mk2 RasPi within a year that will fix the CPU performance issue - it's a natural next step.
We also have to consider that the RasPi is now entirely assembled in the UK, and it's worth supporting local industry (or using it as an example to encourage local assembly of electronics in your own country).
Reading some of the responses here has been very dispiriting, to say the least.
A lot of "holier than thou" attitudes, to the worst - houghi's post on how neglecting a baby is good.
Maybe these topics allow some geeks to feel they can meet their annual "speaking against technology" quotient or something!
The sane comments here point out quite correctly - it's just another toy that should be used in moderation, under strict supervision (like many toys - bouncers and walkers spring to mind). However this toy is actually loads of toys, each a download away, and it's always with you.
So yeah, +1 to your post of sanity and reason.
What about when playing with a real human isn't actually fun, and they starting to wail, and you're out and about, or in a restaurant, on a train, etc?
You can sit them on your lap, get the tablet out, and calm them down with an interesting sound/image/touch application in moments.
This is actually good parenting, but the know-it-alls here would seem to think that it's not, because babies need something that's not a tablet app, they don't know what apart from what they've read, but they know they'll get +5 Insightful from other childless users who think things are black (using tablet, no humans) or white (humans, no technology) and nothing between. Clue: Have a baby and see how long it is before you're asking about tablet apps as a baby entertainment/development aid (to go with all the other ones you have bought) on a website, only to get sarcastic know-it-all comments about how SHIT YOU ARE AS A PARENT YOU FUCKING SHOULD DIE YOU SCUMMITY FUCK just because you consider toddler centred apps and ask about them.
A tablet can be a dozen different toys and distractions to a baby, and you'll use them in a monitored environment, often when you're out (oh, the two toys I have with me aren't working, but the baby piano app saves the day).
Or maybe you have had a baby - maybe you had lots of support from family living close by to keep baby occupied for the ~12 hours they're awake a day from ~6 months old.
Don't forget that in the movie, each frame is a snapshot over 1/24 (or 1/48 in the case of The Hobbit) of a second, motion blur comes for free.
In a computer game the motion blur is far harder to perform, and most frames are instantaneous snapshots of a scene. It can be made up for by having a higher framerate.
No, they mean violating US law by purchasing export-restricted devices within the US for the sole purpose of taking them outside the US to resell.
And isn't that just conjecture by the police looking to justify their action?
She wanted four iPhones, she got two on the Friday, complained when she was treated differently to other customers (i.e., this is potentially a racist action by the Apple Store - denying her the sale because of her ethnicity). She orders two more online (and gets them shipped to the store instead of her home, I don't know why) and goes to pick them up, and ends up being tasered.
Problem is, we don't have much story, only some partial snippets because the "news" article is so patchy.
There are very few issues with public breastfeeding in the UK, at least if an attempt is made to be discrete.
Anyone complaining about it would be looked down upon by other people in the vicinity. Anyone getting offended by breastfeeding is a pervert - they can't control where their eyes are looking and thus they complain instead of sorting out their own sexual issues.
Being offended at a female breast being used for what it exists to do pretty much makes the "offendee" a pervert, because they're the one associating breastfeeding with sex, and then getting offended at it because of that. It's a perverse association that damages those who would breastfeed but don't because of these perverts who feel they can complain instead of NOT LOOKING.
That's what the Italian government will probably do, with it's massive lack of understanding of science and imprisonment of scientists for not being omniscient.
Yet in the UK we've just had a record year for babies. Unemployed people spend more time fucking y'see.
Yes, it will encourage locking up of savings on the short term (i.e., until said fair tax gets repealed and they can then spend their 0% taxed savings) or until their (grand)children inherit it and spend it all on drugs and sports cars.
There's a really really frickin' good reason why taxes are applied at multiple points - to spread the effect, to catch income (income taxes), expenditure (VAT / "fair tax"), capital gains, and so on and so forth. Take a bit at every point rather than create a single point of avoidance tax.