Indeed, he's completely unpredictable and irrational. He doesn't have a plan, or even a clue that he knows how things work. He's playing his supporters like a drum, light on thought and heavy on emotion.
Trump couldn't give a rats ass about racism, misogyny or just being plain rude.
Of course not, that's how immature and childish he is.
I _am_ a little scared to find out that all that nonsense he spouted was exactly what Republican primary voters wanted to hear, but at least they voted for the guy not using the dog whistle...
What, so blatant racism and bigotry is somehow better than subtle racism and bigotry?
The lazy asses I'm talking about are out there, and you KNOW they are. I don't hate them, because I'd rather just ignore them.
So you're raging against some unseen but ever present entity?
But unfortunately the people in that entitlement culture have politicians scrambling to tell them they're right that people who start businesses are always the villains.
Sounds like a conservative straw man to me.
Which would be funny (since everyone seems to want to find one of those businesses to give them a paycheck), if the hypocrisy wasn't so strong that it confuses people into voting for anyone who promises them free stuff and the spectacle of tearing down Eeeeevil business owners (even as they promise to pay for the free stuff through the ongoing taxing of those they want to destroy - the cognitive dissonance is really something).
Sounds like a persecution complex and seeing the other side through an external tint, if you ask me.
This is such a mindboggling position for people to take. The entire concept of open source is about flexibility but people think it's fine to blindly force one option down everyone's throats, regardless of what they want. It's surreal to watch. We have 9,000 distributions but only One True Init, apparently.
So do your own. The entire concept of open source is flexibility, and absolutely nothing is stopping you. Distros making decisions inherently remove some flexibility for the sake of delivering a functional platform.
And it's annoying
Is it existentially annoying, in that "it's there, and it bothers me" sense or is there a tangible criticism you have against it?
I'm really not sure what problem this was supposed to solve.
Reduced resource usage, reduced system overhead, increased response time, increased manageability, etc.
Everyone talks about fast bootup times, but my servers uptimes are measured in year.
Well, fast (parallel) bootup is one bonus, mostly for desktops, laptops, and embedded platforms. Maybe not for servers, because any with sufficient RAM will spend several minutes in the BIOS doing POST.
But why don't you also support my desire to use the init system that I want to use?
Use a distro that caters to your desires. Not necessarily needs, obviously, since you failed to make against systemd that isn't the same "It's there, and it bothers me" that has been howled for years now.
Vendors, including Google, need to realize this and figure out some way to do long term support for at least five years if not more.
So easy to say, so hard to actually do. With the wide performance gulf between a 2011 device and a 2015 device, optimization would be hell.
Toss in vendors fucking around with closed source drivers, locking you into specific kernels, and Google's own out-of-tree changes that make it virtually impossible to use upstream trees, and it becomes harder.
On top of that, add that handset vendors crank out dozens of models in a single year and, as soon as that product is done, the team is moved rapidly to the next project and you're lucky to get support for things shipping 3 months from any given point.
Heck I know plenty of companies that run ten year old PCs (or older since I know a few places run DOS still in their machine shops)
And in that case you're on your own and should be. A PC from 2005/2006, or running DOS, is almost entirely unsupported now except by virtue of the 30+ year x86 legacy. You can't reasonably expect new drivers for nForce 4 chipsets or what not, let alone fixes.
This need to constantly push 'new' is unsustainable for a large part of their user base.
And at some point you have to assume responsibility for things beyond their warranty period if you wish to continue using them. Most of the time this isn't a problem, but things fall by the wayside and become too old to justify support for.
Of course, this is why Free Software is so great, and why binary-only drivers are crap. All those Galaxy Nexus users wouldn't be up shit creek if not for TI shipping only binary blobs then exiting the business and taking their drivers with them.
I see the dismissal and accusations of cherry picking are here already. The point readily highlighted by their data is that people seek out and shit on people based on race and gender. It's unlikely the A/B testing the GP cited has been done, as it'd be difficult and is somewhat outside the scope of a newspaper.
Or boot using UEFI, which probably breaks this. Toss in Secure Boot, and even if they wrote a UEFI bootloader they wouldn't be able to intercept the boot process.
Cue idiots who make inaccurate comments about UEFI and betray their technical ignorance.
Well, that and it depends on how quiet the company responsible can keep the local government and media. Given how subservient Texas tends to be towards petrochemical companies, I'm not surprised they've managed to keep it on the down low.
Signed firmware isn't bad since generally firmware can't be changed.
Firmware is basically just another word for "software that runs on a peripheral processor." It can almost always be changed. Technically the Android install on your smartphone is "firmware" and the broken router software on most cheap routers is "firmware." Typically both can be replaced with 3rd party builds - unless the firmware is signed, in which case you're fucked if there's something wrong with it.
The caveat with this, of course, is we have no way of knowing what is in this firmware.
Firmware doesn't need to be signed but Nvidia is probably doing this for security reasons.
That's typically the main reason one signs firmware. Unfortunately, when that signing is used by morons who abandon their products shortly after release, the greatest threat comes from the vendor, since they leave you open to vulnerabilities down the line.
None of that necessarily applies to Nvidia GPUs, but I take particular interest in the implications of software/firmware signing and its impact on Free Software and user freedoms.
I disagree. Nexus devices are satisfactory but not exceptional. They lack essential features like SD Card slots and don't really feature any nifty "bits" to mess with, but are the only devices guaranteed over the long term to receive regular updates, and that alone makes them better. Everything else is, by far, less than satisfactory due to the emphasis of gimmicks or poorly implemented features while often neglecting or actively harming security.
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Yep. Who knew a supposedly smart techie readership could be taken in by a con man like Trump?
Look at you, so tough! Must've been hard to knock down that straw man!
Indeed, he's completely unpredictable and irrational. He doesn't have a plan, or even a clue that he knows how things work. He's playing his supporters like a drum, light on thought and heavy on emotion.
Of course not, that's how immature and childish he is.
What, so blatant racism and bigotry is somehow better than subtle racism and bigotry?
I think I see the real problem here!
Soy why not Bernie? You get all the concern for U.S. workers without the misogyny, bigotry, racism, and sheer idiocy and infantile behavior?
So you're raging against some unseen but ever present entity?
Sounds like a conservative straw man to me.
Sounds like a persecution complex and seeing the other side through an external tint, if you ask me.
So do your own. The entire concept of open source is flexibility, and absolutely nothing is stopping you. Distros making decisions inherently remove some flexibility for the sake of delivering a functional platform.
Is it existentially annoying, in that "it's there, and it bothers me" sense or is there a tangible criticism you have against it?
Reduced resource usage, reduced system overhead, increased response time, increased manageability, etc.
Well, fast (parallel) bootup is one bonus, mostly for desktops, laptops, and embedded platforms. Maybe not for servers, because any with sufficient RAM will spend several minutes in the BIOS doing POST.
Use a distro that caters to your desires. Not necessarily needs, obviously, since you failed to make against systemd that isn't the same "It's there, and it bothers me" that has been howled for years now.
Well then we know exactly how worthless your "rating" is.
More so, given everything you've said is entirely subjective with no actual examples of how they've fallen.
2048x1536, but 2D only unless you had a super high end full length PCI/AGP graphics card.
Just because you hate systemd doesn't mean he's trolling.
I wasn't projecting, and you don't exempt the entirety of the conservative world.
Cause a conservative would never advocate for censorship when it served their purposes, would they?
Oh look, someone stuffing words into the mouths of others!
So easy to say, so hard to actually do. With the wide performance gulf between a 2011 device and a 2015 device, optimization would be hell.
Toss in vendors fucking around with closed source drivers, locking you into specific kernels, and Google's own out-of-tree changes that make it virtually impossible to use upstream trees, and it becomes harder.
On top of that, add that handset vendors crank out dozens of models in a single year and, as soon as that product is done, the team is moved rapidly to the next project and you're lucky to get support for things shipping 3 months from any given point.
And in that case you're on your own and should be. A PC from 2005/2006, or running DOS, is almost entirely unsupported now except by virtue of the 30+ year x86 legacy. You can't reasonably expect new drivers for nForce 4 chipsets or what not, let alone fixes.
And at some point you have to assume responsibility for things beyond their warranty period if you wish to continue using them. Most of the time this isn't a problem, but things fall by the wayside and become too old to justify support for.
Of course, this is why Free Software is so great, and why binary-only drivers are crap. All those Galaxy Nexus users wouldn't be up shit creek if not for TI shipping only binary blobs then exiting the business and taking their drivers with them.
I see the dismissal and accusations of cherry picking are here already. The point readily highlighted by their data is that people seek out and shit on people based on race and gender. It's unlikely the A/B testing the GP cited has been done, as it'd be difficult and is somewhat outside the scope of a newspaper.
Or boot using UEFI, which probably breaks this. Toss in Secure Boot, and even if they wrote a UEFI bootloader they wouldn't be able to intercept the boot process.
Cue idiots who make inaccurate comments about UEFI and betray their technical ignorance.
Sony already does this. Street Fighter V is cross-platform play between PC and PS4.
Would you dare try to substantiate your suspicions? Or is this just an idle dismissal?
Well, that and it depends on how quiet the company responsible can keep the local government and media. Given how subservient Texas tends to be towards petrochemical companies, I'm not surprised they've managed to keep it on the down low.
I know, right?! When similar things happen naturally, human fuckups should obviously be ignored and dismissed!
You don't have to compile the thing. They produce a large number of pre-built images ready to go for a large number of routers.
Well that's nice for you. Do you normally go into topics and say "I don't care about this, I don't see why anyone would?"
Firmware is basically just another word for "software that runs on a peripheral processor." It can almost always be changed. Technically the Android install on your smartphone is "firmware" and the broken router software on most cheap routers is "firmware." Typically both can be replaced with 3rd party builds - unless the firmware is signed, in which case you're fucked if there's something wrong with it.
The caveat with this, of course, is we have no way of knowing what is in this firmware.
That's typically the main reason one signs firmware. Unfortunately, when that signing is used by morons who abandon their products shortly after release, the greatest threat comes from the vendor, since they leave you open to vulnerabilities down the line.
None of that necessarily applies to Nvidia GPUs, but I take particular interest in the implications of software/firmware signing and its impact on Free Software and user freedoms.
I disagree. Nexus devices are satisfactory but not exceptional. They lack essential features like SD Card slots and don't really feature any nifty "bits" to mess with, but are the only devices guaranteed over the long term to receive regular updates, and that alone makes them better. Everything else is, by far, less than satisfactory due to the emphasis of gimmicks or poorly implemented features while often neglecting or actively harming security.
Nothing quite like someone so prominently showing off their ignorance.
I know the mode you speak of, it can be utilized effectively from Linux. Amusingly, it requires efivars to be writable as this article discusses.
Just like the BIOS was, right?
Fortunately, that's not at all the case. You are right about one thing: it is totally beyond you.
Because not everyone is as blatantly ignorant about it. Or if they are, they are kindly keeping their mouths shut until they learn more.
Given the ignorance of the comment I assumed he was American.