666 is a pretty evil permission actually. Making a file world writable is just asking for trouble. I'm also shocked at the prospect that a Jack Chick type pamphleteer would understand Unix permissions. Those people are usually quite technologically challenged.
If this succeeds its ultimate product will be the ability to make an expensive and slow GPU using a FPGA? One that almost certainly won't be good enough to run most games? Who is clamoring for this? If they were manufacturing their own chips instead of using FPGAs then I could see it maybe as something for a Raspberry Pi like device, but that's right out the window when you're talking about $300 FPGA chips.
Yes, the house needed time to vote against it another 87 times in the hopes that one time the Senate would not be paying attention and accidentally pass it.
The Fukushima plant is from the 70s, no doubt its control systems are ancient. In fact it was one of the oldest nuclear power plants still operating when the wave hit.
Watson was a supercomputer answering basically one question at a time. You can't apply that level of compute time to every single query without bankrupting yourself on hardware costs. With time computer cycles will become cheaper and this will be more realistic, but today's technology just isn't there.
Are you willing to put money on that LG? Every time a manufacturer claims that their screen is "unbreakable", they get embarrassed by the first guy who really puts effort into it.
So Moore's law suggests that you should have roughly 32-64x more transistors available on an equivalent machine in 10 years. Asking for a 1000x speedup from that seems a bit much.
On the other hand, a public defender has a fraction of the time to spend on your case that a private lawyer will have. The quailty if the public defender is likely to vary quite a bit by locality as well. If you're a black guy living in an inner city a public defender can be a quick way to get life in prison or execution, even if you are innocent.
From what I can tell, nVidia has basically given up on 3D Vision. The price point they set for it was way too high anyway, it was always doomed. I don't think it ever worked on Linux for instance.
If you have a gaming PC already, then just run steam and put it in Big Picture mode if you want the same experience. This is for people who don't have gaming PCs and/or want to play in the living room on their TV.
Valve's own statistics show that gamers tend to prefer nVidia hardware. Because this is going to run Linux there really isn't a good alternative anyway. Intel Graphics are still a joke and AMD's drivers are still terrible. As much as free software guys hate it, the nVidia binary blob driver is the best supported 3D graphics driver on Linux.
What about when you bring up a shell prompt on your phone for example? My phone has 32GB of storage, but Cyanogen still uses busybox for some reason. I've yet to find a full version of the shell utilities for Android. It's annoying, especially if you want to compile stuff on the phone directly but discover that the environment is too crippled to run most build scripts.
Other ways? Like what? Private investors??? Like they don't want to exert even more control than public investors? Once you're big enough your options are pretty limited. Shareholders are typically used to elect the board, which is fine. That's exactly the sort of control a public investor should have, power to choose the proper stewardship for the company so they don't have to personally concern themselves with daily operations at the company. It's when shareholders try to directly tell the CEO what the company should do that I know there is a problem.
I think this thing is more designed to compete with Raspberry Pi type devices, not Arduino. Pis don't run very long on a pair of AAs, it's just not what they're designed to do.
I like Linux on small devices like this, but I hate Busybox. Saving a couple of MB was a big deal back when you had 16MB of flash storage and that was it, but these days it's not unusual to have 16GB. Saving those few bytes on a version of Bash that barfs on a lot of common scripts is just dumb.
One of the big advantages to PC gaming is that you don't get dicked around by the console manufacturers. The power is far more distributed and any one entity can't really screw up the platform for a whole class of people.
This never made much sense to me. They're just shareholders, if they don't like what the company is doing they should just divest themselves from it and go somewhere else. Having them exert control over the company seems like a colossally bad idea--they're not the ones who know how the day to day workings of the company are going, why do they get to decide how it is run?
For things like Acrobat, leaving auto-update off is risky because new security flaws are fixed in there all the time. Same with Java, and especially with Flash. Sure you can just avoid those apps altogether, but I get asked to read a whole lot of PDFs so they're kind of hard to do without. Ghostscript's PDF renderer can leave something to be desired sometimes.
If Valve came out and said "Good news! Halflife 3 (or Halflife 2 Ep 3) is ready for release! It's a Steambox exclusive!" that would certainly sell a lot of boxes, but I know a lot of people would be really unhappy about it. I would be grumbling all the way to the store to buy the box.
I guess they kind of did the same thing with Steam itself and Halflife 2, but Steam is free software so at least you weren't out of pocket for it.
It didn't stop them from abusing the crap out of the law when they got Kim Dotcom. That said, Kim might walk because there was so much prosecutorial misconduct.
They're changing the operating profile of their phone to inflate the benchmark results. In real life you would never be able to achieve numbers like that on a phone with a halfway decent battery life, even on applications that behave similarly to the benchmark. No normal use would achieve numbers found in the benchmark, they can't because they involve running the phone super hot and burning through the battery in no time, even when idle.
If the hack were to go to full power when plugged into the wall, then I could maybe see a case for this being legitimate, since it would mean you could theoretically achieve the same results by simply playing your game or whatnot while plugged in, but because they're only switching on full power mode for a handful of specific benchmark applications there is just no excuse.
The Note was a couple of percent faster on renamed benchmark apps, and a whopping 20% faster on normally named benchmark apps. The point is that they were already faster so cheating wasn't even necessary.
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666 is a pretty evil permission actually. Making a file world writable is just asking for trouble. I'm also shocked at the prospect that a Jack Chick type pamphleteer would understand Unix permissions. Those people are usually quite technologically challenged.
If this succeeds its ultimate product will be the ability to make an expensive and slow GPU using a FPGA? One that almost certainly won't be good enough to run most games? Who is clamoring for this? If they were manufacturing their own chips instead of using FPGAs then I could see it maybe as something for a Raspberry Pi like device, but that's right out the window when you're talking about $300 FPGA chips.
Everything I know about making Meth I learned from Breaking Bad.
Yes, the house needed time to vote against it another 87 times in the hopes that one time the Senate would not be paying attention and accidentally pass it.
What the hell are you talking about?
The Fukushima plant is from the 70s, no doubt its control systems are ancient. In fact it was one of the oldest nuclear power plants still operating when the wave hit.
Watson was a supercomputer answering basically one question at a time. You can't apply that level of compute time to every single query without bankrupting yourself on hardware costs. With time computer cycles will become cheaper and this will be more realistic, but today's technology just isn't there.
Are you willing to put money on that LG? Every time a manufacturer claims that their screen is "unbreakable", they get embarrassed by the first guy who really puts effort into it.
So Moore's law suggests that you should have roughly 32-64x more transistors available on an equivalent machine in 10 years. Asking for a 1000x speedup from that seems a bit much.
On the other hand, a public defender has a fraction of the time to spend on your case that a private lawyer will have. The quailty if the public defender is likely to vary quite a bit by locality as well. If you're a black guy living in an inner city a public defender can be a quick way to get life in prison or execution, even if you are innocent.
From what I can tell, nVidia has basically given up on 3D Vision. The price point they set for it was way too high anyway, it was always doomed. I don't think it ever worked on Linux for instance.
If you have a gaming PC already, then just run steam and put it in Big Picture mode if you want the same experience. This is for people who don't have gaming PCs and/or want to play in the living room on their TV.
Valve's own statistics show that gamers tend to prefer nVidia hardware. Because this is going to run Linux there really isn't a good alternative anyway. Intel Graphics are still a joke and AMD's drivers are still terrible. As much as free software guys hate it, the nVidia binary blob driver is the best supported 3D graphics driver on Linux.
What about when you bring up a shell prompt on your phone for example? My phone has 32GB of storage, but Cyanogen still uses busybox for some reason. I've yet to find a full version of the shell utilities for Android. It's annoying, especially if you want to compile stuff on the phone directly but discover that the environment is too crippled to run most build scripts.
Other ways? Like what? Private investors??? Like they don't want to exert even more control than public investors? Once you're big enough your options are pretty limited. Shareholders are typically used to elect the board, which is fine. That's exactly the sort of control a public investor should have, power to choose the proper stewardship for the company so they don't have to personally concern themselves with daily operations at the company. It's when shareholders try to directly tell the CEO what the company should do that I know there is a problem.
I think this thing is more designed to compete with Raspberry Pi type devices, not Arduino. Pis don't run very long on a pair of AAs, it's just not what they're designed to do.
I like Linux on small devices like this, but I hate Busybox. Saving a couple of MB was a big deal back when you had 16MB of flash storage and that was it, but these days it's not unusual to have 16GB. Saving those few bytes on a version of Bash that barfs on a lot of common scripts is just dumb.
One of the big advantages to PC gaming is that you don't get dicked around by the console manufacturers. The power is far more distributed and any one entity can't really screw up the platform for a whole class of people.
This never made much sense to me. They're just shareholders, if they don't like what the company is doing they should just divest themselves from it and go somewhere else. Having them exert control over the company seems like a colossally bad idea--they're not the ones who know how the day to day workings of the company are going, why do they get to decide how it is run?
For things like Acrobat, leaving auto-update off is risky because new security flaws are fixed in there all the time. Same with Java, and especially with Flash. Sure you can just avoid those apps altogether, but I get asked to read a whole lot of PDFs so they're kind of hard to do without. Ghostscript's PDF renderer can leave something to be desired sometimes.
If Valve came out and said "Good news! Halflife 3 (or Halflife 2 Ep 3) is ready for release! It's a Steambox exclusive!" that would certainly sell a lot of boxes, but I know a lot of people would be really unhappy about it. I would be grumbling all the way to the store to buy the box.
I guess they kind of did the same thing with Steam itself and Halflife 2, but Steam is free software so at least you weren't out of pocket for it.
It didn't stop them from abusing the crap out of the law when they got Kim Dotcom. That said, Kim might walk because there was so much prosecutorial misconduct.
They're changing the operating profile of their phone to inflate the benchmark results. In real life you would never be able to achieve numbers like that on a phone with a halfway decent battery life, even on applications that behave similarly to the benchmark. No normal use would achieve numbers found in the benchmark, they can't because they involve running the phone super hot and burning through the battery in no time, even when idle.
If the hack were to go to full power when plugged into the wall, then I could maybe see a case for this being legitimate, since it would mean you could theoretically achieve the same results by simply playing your game or whatnot while plugged in, but because they're only switching on full power mode for a handful of specific benchmark applications there is just no excuse.
Just their Fiber division. Google is more than willing to let products go if they're not performing.
The Note was a couple of percent faster on renamed benchmark apps, and a whopping 20% faster on normally named benchmark apps. The point is that they were already faster so cheating wasn't even necessary.