While I agree with your other points the fluff up about Secure Boot is certainly not FUD. It's a looming problem which is deep and serious. Competitors are being forced into a position where a hostile entity is both becoming a sole supplier and a serious barrier to entry into the market place at the same time. Yes the door is still open for x86, but for how long? What happens with Intel's new low power chips and x86 tablets start becoming mainstream in the next couple of years? You really think that policy will stand still? And even now have you tried to install a new-release Linux on a new Windows 8 laptop as dual boot? It has become an tricky task even for a pro who knows what they are doing and knows what needs to be done.
It's the end of the first golden age of the PC, and you'd be crazy not to expect Microsoft to go down swinging with everything they've got. The PC market is going to get a lot uglier before it gets better. The big question is how much Taiwan needs to toe the Microsoft line. I'm guessing in the coming years not so much anymore. The marketplace moves more quickly than any one corporation.
It does not surprise me that people sell out their friends, families, and citizens they are elected to represent. I don't know if it is true or not, but they say everyone has their price. What continually amazes me whenever one of these people get caught red handed is just how low their price is. It's sort of disrespectful really, if you're going to sell me out, at least get a fair price for it. (to quote Saphie when Patsy sold her into the slave trade: "you could of at least haggled with the man!")
The market can not fundamentally fix this because the market can not create new Helium. The market can only slow the bleeding as the commodity becomes scarce. The only way to deal with it is by humans deciding to regulate it, and taking measures to enforce those regulations. Fish stocks are in a similar market-failure category, but at least after we're gone they will regenerate many of orders of magnitude faster than the He will.
Glad to see the progreess, maybe the competion will eventually lead to better OpenGL support in OSX too.
Now where the heck is the OpenCL support for i7 on Linux ?!
Perhaps Intel could put a bit of effort into releasing (GPU) OpenCL support for their i7 Ivy Bridge line then? For the same chip there's a Windows driver, but not for Linux. But for Xeon it only works for Linux but not Windows. It has been promised for a year, still nothing.
Their efforts so far seem to have been shipped off to another team, who did something in parallel to the rest of the community, so likely a dead end.
As demonstrated here, surely they have the resources?
> IMO archeologists know exactly diddly about historical linguistics
how about one who has studied historical linguistics for 50 years?
I've no idea about the guy you're talking about, but as a rule, putting people permanently into labeled boxes with solid walls is silly and reeks of tribalism.
This is why people are working on standardized exchangable slide-in slide-out battery packs. Packs slow-charge & self-check at the station. You pull in, slide your dead one out, slide a full one in, pay your money and off you go. Dying packs are taken out of circulation so you never see them.
know Slashdot likes to confuse us with it's hyperlink placement, but I just feel like pointing out that puting the link to TFA on the text "a city that more closely resembles the real world" makes absolutely no sense.
It's part of their preemptive legal strategy, guaranteeing an aquital.
> Journals demand that scientists turn over the rights of > publication in order to get published.
to be fair, in requesting copy-right they do actually need the right- to -copy your work in order to legally publish it.
typically you can self-publish the final draft of your PDF on your personal website without conflicting with their copyrighted typeset version, instead of forcing people to buy reprints from the journal.
In all likelihood manned. If you "drive" around for a few minutes in street view you will notice a number of other cars driving on the main roads. The acute risk from radiation has dissipated (the worst emitting particles have the shortest half-lives) the remaining threat is low-level emitting particles where the danger is more or less cumulative with time. A day spent driving around the town might be a small risk to you and your car, but you wouldn't want to live or work there every day.
It probably wouldn't hurt to bolt an extra air filter in the cabin air intake, and give the car a good wash down afterwards, just in case you stirred up some nasties in a dust pile.
> Baloney. > > WW I was based on the assassination of a single individual.
Er, do you really believe that there's wasn't just a little more going on in the geopolitical arena than simply the death of little old Franz Jr.? (and doesn't his wife count as an "individual"? she got shot too you know)
Perhaps the situation was so unstable that any match, any match at all, would be enough to set off the power keg?
In all fairness, different people have different tastes in things. One of the smartest guys I know is a unix expert but loves the "Bob" and Find-Puppy style features that Microsoft throws into their products. Do I understand it? No way, it completely baffles me, those things make my head hurt. Do I have to understand it? No way, whatever floats boats. As long as I'm not forced to use it, deal with it, or fix it, what do I care what others' taste in software or phones happens to be?
MS8 phone has two main things working against it: the legacy consumer memory of MS phones 1-7, and trying to compete with the feature set provided by the Apple and Play app stores. Both hurdles are huge, for the first they're going to have to drop the price to get people over the fence. For the second they're going to have to pay a lot of people a lot of money to port their apps to the MS environment. Even for a historically MS invested shop that's non-trivial as the interface and delivery envelope is totally different from the desktop. The toolkit and programming language are just details. (and guess what, all that.net know how is soon to be abandonware)
... for all the bullshit Blackboard technology mess, videotaped classroom lectures, and.edu buzzwords, this sort of thing is exactly how open education should be done.
You will never regret buying class 10, but you will almost certainly regret a class 6 so why bother? Heck, in a year or two there won't be any class 6 available anyway - it is too slow...
see thread here (or maybe on the Raspberry Pi forums?) about how different SD card levels are tuned. For photography and other sequential write applications indeed class 10 is great.
But for random access like the Pi might use, that sequential write speed is done at the expense of the random access, so in whosever's tests the class 4 and class 6 drives actuall far out performed the class 10 ones for small regular user files.
ymmv, and in a year the situation will be different again.
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While I agree with your other points the fluff up about Secure Boot is certainly not FUD. It's a looming problem which is deep and serious. Competitors are being forced into a position where a hostile entity is both becoming a sole supplier and a serious barrier to entry into the market place at the same time. Yes the door is still open for x86, but for how long? What happens with Intel's new low power chips and x86 tablets start becoming mainstream in the next couple of years? You really think that policy will stand still? And even now have you tried to install a new-release Linux on a new Windows 8 laptop as dual boot? It has become an tricky task even for a pro who knows what they are doing and knows what needs to be done.
It's the end of the first golden age of the PC, and you'd be crazy not to expect Microsoft to go down swinging with everything they've got. The PC market is going to get a lot uglier before it gets better. The big question is how much Taiwan needs to toe the Microsoft line. I'm guessing in the coming years not so much anymore. The marketplace moves more quickly than any one corporation.
It does not surprise me that people sell out their friends, families, and citizens they are elected to represent. I don't know if it is true or not, but they say everyone has their price. What continually amazes me whenever one of these people get caught red handed is just how low their price is. It's sort of disrespectful really, if you're going to sell me out, at least get a fair price for it. (to quote Saphie when Patsy sold her into the slave trade: "you could of at least haggled with the man!")
You can find the real "Synaptic" package manager in there somewhere.
(I was going to say in the System menu, but they seem to have misplaced it...)
`apt-get install xubuntu-desktop` helps too.
The market can not fundamentally fix this because the market can not create new Helium.
The market can only slow the bleeding as the commodity becomes scarce.
The only way to deal with it is by humans deciding to regulate it, and taking measures to enforce those regulations.
Fish stocks are in a similar market-failure category, but at least after we're gone they will regenerate many of orders of magnitude faster than the He will.
Glad to see the progreess, maybe the competion will eventually lead to better OpenGL support in OSX too.
Now where the heck is the OpenCL support for i7 on Linux ?!
Perhaps Intel could put a bit of effort into releasing (GPU) OpenCL support for their i7 Ivy Bridge line then? For the same chip there's a Windows driver, but not for Linux. But for Xeon it only works for Linux but not Windows. It has been promised for a year, still nothing.
Their efforts so far seem to have been shipped off to another team, who did something in parallel to the rest of the community, so likely a dead end.
As demonstrated here, surely they have the resources?
Get with the program guys!
> IMO archeologists know exactly diddly about historical linguistics
how about one who has studied historical linguistics for 50 years?
I've no idea about the guy you're talking about, but as a rule, putting people permanently into labeled boxes with solid walls is silly and reeks of tribalism.
This is why people are working on standardized exchangable slide-in slide-out battery packs. Packs slow-charge & self-check at the station. You pull in, slide your dead one out, slide a full one in, pay your money and off you go. Dying packs are taken out of circulation so you never see them.
apparently they flew over the top of everyone's head.
It's part of their preemptive legal strategy, guaranteeing an aquital.
at $35 a pop this is sounds like a great chance for lots of people to learn how to use solder wick who haven't picked up an iron before.
> There are a couple of good "Arctic Death Spiral" plots out there,
> none of them look very encouraging.
Here's another worth looking at:
There are a couple of good "Arctic Death Spiral" plots out there, none of them look very encouraging.
https://sites.google.com/site/pettitclimategraphs/sea-ice-volume#asivds http://haveland.com/share/arctic-death-spiral-1979-201303.png https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/with all due respect, you are resorting to ad hominem attacks, which are specious and do not serve to aid your argument.
they just make you look like a pompous jerk, regardless of the merit of what you say.
> Journals demand that scientists turn over the rights of
> publication in order to get published.
to be fair, in requesting copy-right they do actually need the right- to -copy your work in order to legally publish it.
typically you can self-publish the final draft of your PDF on your personal website without conflicting with their copyrighted typeset version, instead of forcing people to buy reprints from the journal.
hey, at least in future years you can say that you were there for the great /. implosion of 2013.
In all likelihood manned. If you "drive" around for a few minutes in street view you will notice a number of other cars driving on the main roads. The acute risk from radiation has dissipated (the worst emitting particles have the shortest half-lives) the remaining threat is low-level emitting particles where the danger is more or less cumulative with time. A day spent driving around the town might be a small risk to you and your car, but you wouldn't want to live or work there every day.
It probably wouldn't hurt to bolt an extra air filter in the cabin air intake, and give the car a good wash down afterwards, just in case you stirred up some nasties in a dust pile.
to anyone reading this who's blocking /. sigs: you're really really missing out sometimes.
you speak as if we know what would have taken place if those protests had not had happened. we don't.
> What makes you think he actually believes what he's saying?
bingo
I like this company.
> Baloney.
>
> WW I was based on the assassination of a single individual.
Er, do you really believe that there's wasn't just a little more going on in the geopolitical arena than simply the death of little old Franz Jr.? (and doesn't his wife count as an "individual"? she got shot too you know)
Perhaps the situation was so unstable that any match, any match at all, would be enough to set off the power keg?
> You don't generally actually get to use retarded technicalities to get off
So you are arguing that full or even partial disclosure is a retarded technicality?
> with a few exceptions where the technicality was created
> intentionally to get defendants an escape plan against a
> corrupted situation.
If you replace "technicality" with "fundamental tenet" in the above, you might be getting closer to what disclosure is all about.
In all fairness, different people have different tastes in things. One of the smartest guys I know is a unix expert but loves the "Bob" and Find-Puppy style features that Microsoft throws into their products. Do I understand it? No way, it completely baffles me, those things make my head hurt. Do I have to understand it? No way, whatever floats boats. As long as I'm not forced to use it, deal with it, or fix it, what do I care what others' taste in software or phones happens to be?
MS8 phone has two main things working against it: the legacy consumer memory of MS phones 1-7, and trying to compete with the feature set provided by the Apple and Play app stores. Both hurdles are huge, for the first they're going to have to drop the price to get people over the fence. For the second they're going to have to pay a lot of people a lot of money to port their apps to the MS environment. Even for a historically MS invested shop that's non-trivial as the interface and delivery envelope is totally different from the desktop. The toolkit and programming language are just details. (and guess what, all that .net know how is soon to be abandonware)
... for all the bullshit Blackboard technology mess, videotaped classroom lectures, and .edu buzzwords, this sort of thing is exactly how open education should be done.
congrats Monty, once again you've done well.
see thread here (or maybe on the Raspberry Pi forums?) about how different SD card levels are tuned. For photography and other sequential write applications indeed class 10 is great.
But for random access like the Pi might use, that sequential write speed is done at the expense of the random access, so in whosever's tests the class 4 and class 6 drives actuall far out performed the class 10 ones for small regular user files.
ymmv, and in a year the situation will be different again.