Additionally, a list of favorite applications (such as you'd have in a dock, which is visually similar to GNOME Shell's "Dash" feature) is really useful in terms of productivity. I wonder if the Windows team will ever get that part right.
I thought Windows 7and 8 still have the task bar at the bottom with application icons and indicators when the app is running?
It is not really a novel idea. From a simple wiki-cite of the AMD Bulldozer page:
AMD has re-introduced the "Clustered Integer Core" micro-architecture, an architecture developed by DEC in 1996 with the RISC microprocessor Alpha 21264.
Rather, what I would like to see is a detailed analysis of why the 256 bit floating point math is being done. Is this necessary? For what kind of work? Are some just using it due to its being there? Is this maybe solved now due to AES being hardware accelerated, or am I way off track...
Two symmetrical 128-bit FMAC (fused multiply–add capability) floating-point pipelines per module that can be unified into one large 256-bit-wide unit if one of integer cores dispatch AVX instruction and two symmetrical x87/MMX/SSE capable FPPs for backward compatibility with SSE2 non-optimized software
Don't confuse them with the facts! I agree, AMD still holds a price to performance lead - though there are lots of aspects that are concerning. Just not concerning enough to me. Or... you can buy Intel and support their comfy profit margins, market segmentation of features and vPro technologies.
28 Mar 2012: 6.14.4: Trinity APU support, 2D tiling on R6xx+, KMS tiling for r1xx-r2xx, lots of bug fixes
2 Nov 2011: 6.14.3: Llano APU support, KMS page flipping fixes, vdpau/XvMC support, tiling fixes
I must admit though, I run an ATI 4670 in my tower which coincidentally has been recommended as the best performing with open source drivers - pretty good for a cheap video card I bought in early 2010 and am still happy with. No setup. It just works. I bought an old card, even at that time, explicitly to have open source 3d. As to this article: I have loaded a live disc on my laptop w/ Llano (to verify the above a while back) but I still run Windows 7 on it to play games like Torchlight and now Torchlight 2. I didn't try anything in the way of 3d while booted into Linux on Llano.
It does indicate lacking emotional intelligence. What those in the media do not realize is that those within the various software communities usually lack emotional intelligence. It seems to not have that many negative repercussions in open source. You either put up with it or you don't. The pool is large.
All it takes is the will to learn something new. It's no different than learning to work on cars. Do you think auto-mechanics have these same discussions? No. They're more emotionally stable, apparently, than the average developer.
Of course they do not have these same discussions, they just know. All the people coming in with reasonably obvious problems that don't know what is wrong would be a pretty clear indication. I would agree though about your basic sentiment and we should not need to have this discussion. Auto maintenance interestingly has some similarities regarding knowing what to do, following the manual and doing the job right.
Are they intending to use clause 8 to then say that they are in violation? I read the IT World article but didn't really gether how they were intending to use the GPL to fight back other than just saying "you distribute a work based on the GPL and aren't in compliance." In which case (if indeed true) all they would have to do to settle that matter would be to release their source.
8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
Given that we are talking about Kirk McKusick an appeal to authority is entirely fair. Just because he didn't have a bunch of citations or references listed at the bottom of the article does not mean they do not exist somewhere. For you to say it is a "fallacious" appeal to authority is unfair - it has not been proven as fallacious. (You assert it to be fallacious due to a lack of reference... the culture created by Wikipedia and all the "[Citation Needed]" slackers never fails to impress me.) Surely there exists blacklists in source in Linux/FreeBSD/other publicly viewable code, I also will not hold your hand and show you where.
I have personally seen these kinds of issues (with writes not happening soon enough and fsync calls introduced for data integrity) with flash media which is something mentioned in the beginning of article. I would like to further comment that the article talked about other things such as sector size side effects and the impact on useful space. ++Great article. Does anyone else remember how he (Kirk McK.) used to sell shirts and pc stickers? I still have the bsd daemon logo sticker on the case of my first pc.
The problem with rockstar developers is they often write code that mere mortals cannot read or maintain.
This is absolutely right. Programming can be a fun game to play, but to make it overly complex for others is not what the game should be about. When the rockstar hops in and out and leaves a pogo-stick-shit behind he does no one any favors. Hey, but thanks for that product we will now have to re-write anyways! These are probably the kids whose mothers doted on too much saying how special they were.
(As a U.S. American...) If there was a realistic choice when spending money on health care and insurance - or rather the extent to which we spend money there - we could start having a more sincere discussion. I would be of the opinion to save money and have a better nest egg to give to my family and die at a normal 50 to 75 years old. My view (pun intended) on these issues is jaded though since I have retinal pigmentosa degeneration and will be going blind eventually (unless something is found to cure or artificially supplement vision.) The best thing _I_ can do is take vitamin A supplements. Though I would prefer that I had more of a choice - spend nest egg on fix or just go blind and give that money to the family. What we have now is an abomination where we realistically have no choice, we give massive portions of income to health insurance companies who skim from that "investment", and then we get old and expect to have something in return. All the while expecting this infusion of funds while at the end of life and not enjoying it.
Essentially we were designing GNOME2 to be the free software version of a desktop computer system.
Our main target for GNOME3 is laptop use, which I think is by far the overwhelming majority of computing use today - in the non-mobile space.
I look at things a bit differently. I walk around the conference and I'm absolutely amazed by the energy we are seeing in the GNOME community right now. I am more optimistic about GNOME than I've been in a long time.
We have fewer people testing GNOME outside of the active contributors. And there are a number of reasons for that, but that's also why we have these discussions around making GNOME more easily testable.
So to paraphrase: We changed everything, new paradigm baby. Us developers love it, but it turns out the users just don't like it anymore and we lost all our testers. So now we feel we need to make it easier for us to test GNOME since we have to do it ourselves.
In the middle of Scocades didn't it surface that they got a lot of money from Microsoft, which was in the midst of the Vista disaster and didn't want anyone thinking about migrating to Linux until Windows 7 was safely on the market.
They purchased a license for Unix technology from SCO in 2003 but that was 4 years before VIsta came out.
Teachers cannot write their own tests anymore? I went to a smallish private school. Our poor teachers were practically paupers, but I deeply respected their abilities to create tests for us. (Not every teacher did, but certainly some of them did.) Every year even with some or many modifications. Is this an aspect of "central planning" and no child left behind and teaching to a standardized test? Maybe Ron Paul is right and we should kill off the DoEducation?... Let each state and community decide what to do. I even went to a "Christian" school and we were still taught evolution. It is science, that is how it works. It explains things. At that level of grade school and high school it isn't an issue to get hung up on, there are more important things to learn. [sarcasm]Be proud of your lawmakers Kentucky.
The primary keyboard like that is the Happy Hacking Keyboard, in a regular model that now also includes arrow keys and a Topre model without arrow keys with the higher cost that people are discussing in this article. If there is any other manufacturer I would also love to know since I would like something like the HHK Pro/Topre but with arrow keys and hopefully less cost than $250.
I have an older HHK with PS2 and no arrow keys as well as a HHK USB with arrow keys currently. I use the older PS2 model more since it types better due to being broken in better. The USB (HHK Lite2?) model doesn't seem to type as well though I am still fairly happy with it. In general: I love the key layout especially location of escape, ctrl, ~, and backspace (which i dip-switch remap to from its original delete purpose.) The HHK Lite2 at about $75 does make you wonder if you should just spend more to get a better key switch technology. Though the current HHK Pro price is a bit steep for me at least.
My point was merely that his attempted humor had gone awry. I listen to as much right wing AM radio as I can stomach, and I have heard them say those words. I have not heard Obama say those words. So even in the joke context of a quote said by Obama I have never heard or read of Obama saying that Marx quote. (I would like to think I have no bias in this matter as I try to take in information from as many sources as possible, am sick of both parties, and also due to not at all wanting to vote for either Obama or Romney.)
FTFY
Just because he didn't say it first doesn't mean it's not a valid quote.
Just what does the word "quote" mean to you right wingers? If he didn't say it then it isn't a valid quote. Nevermind the "first" nonsense I can't even find something where he even repeated it - unless you count ideologically similar comments. Those who have repeated the quote: right wing AM radio loudmouths. Why not attribute the quote to them? At least they have actually SAID it. A cursory search led to comments he has made that may be similar but you might want to cite something that is, well, those exact words.
This is the picture of our robot facilitated science fiction future: little unmanned "planes" flying into things because we're too lazy to fly them back. No more NASA. Cut back science spending. People out of work because corporations with lots of money are sitting on their piles of cash like Scrooge McDuck and getting overly picky about who they hire: surely we can't have them trained... not even by a robot. Nope we use our robots for industrial purposes to run manufacturing more efficiently. Let 5 guys do what 50 did. Its the trickle down affect. Money flows to those at the top and barely trickles down. Thanks robots. Way to make our lives better. Maybe science fiction writers from all these recent decades should have been more pessimistic.
Wager earners are not subject to double taxation. A company is allowed to subtract wages from revenues before paying taxes. In other words, imagine if wages were paid like this:A company pays taxes on revenues, then pays all employees a proportionately reduced wage due to the lower profits, and then that wage was taxed again.
Ahh, but they are. They get taxed on their income. Then when they spend money it gets taxed with local and state sales taxes to varying degrees. Can an individual write off their housing, fuel and food stuffs before they get taxed on their "remaining" income? The government only selectively allows these to be pre-tax exempt or deducted: for their pet industries of health care via HDHCP/HSA and then also housing/schooling via deductables for interests paid on school loans and "owning" a house.
I disagree. Newspapers are extremely important. Maybe not on "paper" but the news and information they can provide is amazingly important. This weekend I bought the local newspaper, on accident. It was in the news stand box of the bigger city's newspaper box. It had an excellent article describing the hardships of the local townships as they deal with increased costs of maintaining their roads, while not getting enough taxation dollars from the wind electric generators. The county, state, and schools get more than their fair share of funds all the while the township keeps the roads maintained and is spending more money than they take in. How does this get fixed? The state legislature set the rates and is now unreceptive to attempts to change the dissemination of tax funds. Local townships can't up their taxes in any fair way. Should they close those roads to the wind towers? (I think they should... force the issue and make those with the real $$$ make change happen.) Anyways I had never heard of this issue till Sunday while sitting there relaxing and reading the paper. It _is_ sitting on the front page of their website. However I have found the on paper medium of newspapers much more refined than their to date attempts on the web.
2. Congress has the right to tax any behavior it sees fit -- the mandate penalty was, for this purpose, a tax.
They may try to. Us citizens now have the right to (try to) vote every one of them out of office. It is sad that the other options aren't much better. The only choice left is to not vote for the incumbent.
I personally do not think that congress should have the right to tax any behavior it sees fit. If an individual does not license a motor vehicle should they then be (further and disproportionately) taxed to fund public transport? What if they never want to ride public transport? Though what matters more so: how do we attempt to draw those lines more accurately than what was drawn so incompletely in our US constitution?
Also why cannot our nation be organized, or disorganized, in a manner so as to appease those who wish for measures like this and those who do not? I personally would support a transition of power from the federal level to the state level so as to begin to achieve such ends. There are so many questions, with the answers so far away.
These arbitrary lines are going to stop innovation. You won't be able to use it because it can process too much information, when it would probably revolutionize society.
These artibrary lines, like DoNotTrack? It hampers innovation. Directed advertising will revolutionize society!
What happens when google has enough of these flying to actually see you leave your house and know where you go?
Can we disable Intel Insider? Who is asking for these Trusted Computing mechanisms? Surely it isn't the customers. I wouldn't want an UEFI motherboard with Secure Boot, and I won't be buying a Sandy Bridge chip either. I never found myself wishing my computer was more locked down.
The ONLY way your argument is at all legitimate is if extensions is included with the default software that comes with Gnome 3. Because it sure seems like it is needed. To chip in, the new alt tab sucks, I wish it would "regress."
I can't explain why their cute little algorithm sucks. I was merely agreeing with the basics of the article while saying that I personally prefer sentences, of varying and suspect grammar. Though, a portion of the discussion is predicated on the size of a typical persons vocabulary. I would also propose that someone whose vocabulary is diminutive would be an account that would be less worth breaking into, so the whole thing is silly to a certain extent.
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Additionally, a list of favorite applications (such as you'd have in a dock, which is visually similar to GNOME Shell's "Dash" feature) is really useful in terms of productivity. I wonder if the Windows team will ever get that part right.
I thought Windows 7 and 8 still have the task bar at the bottom with application icons and indicators when the app is running?
Thanks for the post AC.
AMD has re-introduced the "Clustered Integer Core" micro-architecture, an architecture developed by DEC in 1996 with the RISC microprocessor Alpha 21264.
Rather, what I would like to see is a detailed analysis of why the 256 bit floating point math is being done. Is this necessary? For what kind of work? Are some just using it due to its being there? Is this maybe solved now due to AES being hardware accelerated, or am I way off track...
Two symmetrical 128-bit FMAC (fused multiply–add capability) floating-point pipelines per module that can be unified into one large 256-bit-wide unit if one of integer cores dispatch AVX instruction and two symmetrical x87/MMX/SSE capable FPPs for backward compatibility with SSE2 non-optimized software
Don't confuse them with the facts!
I agree, AMD still holds a price to performance lead - though there are lots of aspects that are concerning. Just not concerning enough to me. Or... you can buy Intel and support their comfy profit margins, market segmentation of features and vPro technologies.
Here is some info regarding out of box support with the open source driver
28 Mar 2012: 6.14.4: Trinity APU support, 2D tiling on R6xx+, KMS tiling for r1xx-r2xx, lots of bug fixes
2 Nov 2011: 6.14.3: Llano APU support, KMS page flipping fixes, vdpau/XvMC support, tiling fixes
I must admit though, I run an ATI 4670 in my tower which coincidentally has been recommended as the best performing with open source drivers - pretty good for a cheap video card I bought in early 2010 and am still happy with. No setup. It just works. I bought an old card, even at that time, explicitly to have open source 3d. As to this article: I have loaded a live disc on my laptop w/ Llano (to verify the above a while back) but I still run Windows 7 on it to play games like Torchlight and now Torchlight 2. I didn't try anything in the way of 3d while booted into Linux on Llano.
It does indicate lacking emotional intelligence. What those in the media do not realize is that those within the various software communities usually lack emotional intelligence. It seems to not have that many negative repercussions in open source. You either put up with it or you don't. The pool is large.
All it takes is the will to learn something new. It's no different than learning to work on cars. Do you think auto-mechanics have these same discussions? No. They're more emotionally stable, apparently, than the average developer.
Of course they do not have these same discussions, they just know. All the people coming in with reasonably obvious problems that don't know what is wrong would be a pretty clear indication. I would agree though about your basic sentiment and we should not need to have this discussion. Auto maintenance interestingly has some similarities regarding knowing what to do, following the manual and doing the job right.
Are they intending to use clause 8 to then say that they are in violation? I read the IT World article but didn't really gether how they were intending to use the GPL to fight back other than just saying "you distribute a work based on the GPL and aren't in compliance." In which case (if indeed true) all they would have to do to settle that matter would be to release their source.
8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
Given that we are talking about Kirk McKusick an appeal to authority is entirely fair. Just because he didn't have a bunch of citations or references listed at the bottom of the article does not mean they do not exist somewhere. For you to say it is a "fallacious" appeal to authority is unfair - it has not been proven as fallacious. (You assert it to be fallacious due to a lack of reference... the culture created by Wikipedia and all the "[Citation Needed]" slackers never fails to impress me.) Surely there exists blacklists in source in Linux/FreeBSD/other publicly viewable code, I also will not hold your hand and show you where.
I have personally seen these kinds of issues (with writes not happening soon enough and fsync calls introduced for data integrity) with flash media which is something mentioned in the beginning of article. I would like to further comment that the article talked about other things such as sector size side effects and the impact on useful space. ++Great article. Does anyone else remember how he (Kirk McK.) used to sell shirts and pc stickers? I still have the bsd daemon logo sticker on the case of my first pc.
The problem with rockstar developers is they often write code that mere mortals cannot read or maintain.
This is absolutely right. Programming can be a fun game to play, but to make it overly complex for others is not what the game should be about. When the rockstar hops in and out and leaves a pogo-stick-shit behind he does no one any favors. Hey, but thanks for that product we will now have to re-write anyways! These are probably the kids whose mothers doted on too much saying how special they were.
(As a U.S. American...) If there was a realistic choice when spending money on health care and insurance - or rather the extent to which we spend money there - we could start having a more sincere discussion. I would be of the opinion to save money and have a better nest egg to give to my family and die at a normal 50 to 75 years old. My view (pun intended) on these issues is jaded though since I have retinal pigmentosa degeneration and will be going blind eventually (unless something is found to cure or artificially supplement vision.) The best thing _I_ can do is take vitamin A supplements. Though I would prefer that I had more of a choice - spend nest egg on fix or just go blind and give that money to the family. What we have now is an abomination where we realistically have no choice, we give massive portions of income to health insurance companies who skim from that "investment", and then we get old and expect to have something in return. All the while expecting this infusion of funds while at the end of life and not enjoying it.
Essentially we were designing GNOME2 to be the free software version of a desktop computer system.
Our main target for GNOME3 is laptop use, which I think is by far the overwhelming majority of computing use today - in the non-mobile space.
I look at things a bit differently. I walk around the conference and I'm absolutely amazed by the energy we are seeing in the GNOME community right now. I am more optimistic about GNOME than I've been in a long time.
We have fewer people testing GNOME outside of the active contributors. And there are a number of reasons for that, but that's also why we have these discussions around making GNOME more easily testable.
So to paraphrase: We changed everything, new paradigm baby. Us developers love it, but it turns out the users just don't like it anymore and we lost all our testers. So now we feel we need to make it easier for us to test GNOME since we have to do it ourselves.
In the middle of Scocades didn't it surface that they got a lot of money from Microsoft, which was in the midst of the Vista disaster and didn't want anyone thinking about migrating to Linux until Windows 7 was safely on the market.
They purchased a license for Unix technology from SCO in 2003 but that was 4 years before VIsta came out.
How is this confusing you?
Teachers cannot write their own tests anymore? I went to a smallish private school. Our poor teachers were practically paupers, but I deeply respected their abilities to create tests for us. (Not every teacher did, but certainly some of them did.) Every year even with some or many modifications. Is this an aspect of "central planning" and no child left behind and teaching to a standardized test? Maybe Ron Paul is right and we should kill off the DoEducation?... Let each state and community decide what to do. I even went to a "Christian" school and we were still taught evolution. It is science, that is how it works. It explains things. At that level of grade school and high school it isn't an issue to get hung up on, there are more important things to learn. [sarcasm]Be proud of your lawmakers Kentucky.
The primary keyboard like that is the Happy Hacking Keyboard, in a regular model that now also includes arrow keys and a Topre model without arrow keys with the higher cost that people are discussing in this article. If there is any other manufacturer I would also love to know since I would like something like the HHK Pro/Topre but with arrow keys and hopefully less cost than $250.
I have an older HHK with PS2 and no arrow keys as well as a HHK USB with arrow keys currently. I use the older PS2 model more since it types better due to being broken in better. The USB (HHK Lite2?) model doesn't seem to type as well though I am still fairly happy with it. In general: I love the key layout especially location of escape, ctrl, ~, and backspace (which i dip-switch remap to from its original delete purpose.) The HHK Lite2 at about $75 does make you wonder if you should just spend more to get a better key switch technology. Though the current HHK Pro price is a bit steep for me at least.
My point was merely that his attempted humor had gone awry. I listen to as much right wing AM radio as I can stomach, and I have heard them say those words. I have not heard Obama say those words. So even in the joke context of a quote said by Obama I have never heard or read of Obama saying that Marx quote. (I would like to think I have no bias in this matter as I try to take in information from as many sources as possible, am sick of both parties, and also due to not at all wanting to vote for either Obama or Romney.)
FTFY
Just because he didn't say it first doesn't mean it's not a valid quote.
Just what does the word "quote" mean to you right wingers? If he didn't say it then it isn't a valid quote. Nevermind the "first" nonsense I can't even find something where he even repeated it - unless you count ideologically similar comments. Those who have repeated the quote: right wing AM radio loudmouths. Why not attribute the quote to them? At least they have actually SAID it. A cursory search led to comments he has made that may be similar but you might want to cite something that is, well, those exact words.
This is the picture of our robot facilitated science fiction future: little unmanned "planes" flying into things because we're too lazy to fly them back. No more NASA. Cut back science spending. People out of work because corporations with lots of money are sitting on their piles of cash like Scrooge McDuck and getting overly picky about who they hire: surely we can't have them trained... not even by a robot. Nope we use our robots for industrial purposes to run manufacturing more efficiently. Let 5 guys do what 50 did. Its the trickle down affect. Money flows to those at the top and barely trickles down. Thanks robots. Way to make our lives better. Maybe science fiction writers from all these recent decades should have been more pessimistic.
Wager earners are not subject to double taxation. A company is allowed to subtract wages from revenues before paying taxes. In other words, imagine if wages were paid like this:A company pays taxes on revenues, then pays all employees a proportionately reduced wage due to the lower profits, and then that wage was taxed again.
Ahh, but they are. They get taxed on their income. Then when they spend money it gets taxed with local and state sales taxes to varying degrees. Can an individual write off their housing, fuel and food stuffs before they get taxed on their "remaining" income? The government only selectively allows these to be pre-tax exempt or deducted: for their pet industries of health care via HDHCP/HSA and then also housing/schooling via deductables for interests paid on school loans and "owning" a house.
I disagree. Newspapers are extremely important. Maybe not on "paper" but the news and information they can provide is amazingly important. This weekend I bought the local newspaper, on accident. It was in the news stand box of the bigger city's newspaper box. It had an excellent article describing the hardships of the local townships as they deal with increased costs of maintaining their roads, while not getting enough taxation dollars from the wind electric generators. The county, state, and schools get more than their fair share of funds all the while the township keeps the roads maintained and is spending more money than they take in. How does this get fixed? The state legislature set the rates and is now unreceptive to attempts to change the dissemination of tax funds. Local townships can't up their taxes in any fair way. Should they close those roads to the wind towers? (I think they should... force the issue and make those with the real $$$ make change happen.) Anyways I had never heard of this issue till Sunday while sitting there relaxing and reading the paper. It _is_ sitting on the front page of their website. However I have found the on paper medium of newspapers much more refined than their to date attempts on the web.
2. Congress has the right to tax any behavior it sees fit -- the mandate penalty was, for this purpose, a tax.
They may try to. Us citizens now have the right to (try to) vote every one of them out of office. It is sad that the other options aren't much better. The only choice left is to not vote for the incumbent.
I personally do not think that congress should have the right to tax any behavior it sees fit. If an individual does not license a motor vehicle should they then be (further and disproportionately) taxed to fund public transport? What if they never want to ride public transport? Though what matters more so: how do we attempt to draw those lines more accurately than what was drawn so incompletely in our US constitution?
Also why cannot our nation be organized, or disorganized, in a manner so as to appease those who wish for measures like this and those who do not? I personally would support a transition of power from the federal level to the state level so as to begin to achieve such ends. There are so many questions, with the answers so far away.
These arbitrary lines are going to stop innovation. You won't be able to use it because it can process too much information, when it would probably revolutionize society.
These artibrary lines, like DoNotTrack? It hampers innovation. Directed advertising will revolutionize society!
What happens when google has enough of these flying to actually see you leave your house and know where you go?
Can we disable Intel Insider? Who is asking for these Trusted Computing mechanisms? Surely it isn't the customers. I wouldn't want an UEFI motherboard with Secure Boot, and I won't be buying a Sandy Bridge chip either. I never found myself wishing my computer was more locked down.
The ONLY way your argument is at all legitimate is if extensions is included with the default software that comes with Gnome 3. Because it sure seems like it is needed. To chip in, the new alt tab sucks, I wish it would "regress."
I can't explain why their cute little algorithm sucks. I was merely agreeing with the basics of the article while saying that I personally prefer sentences, of varying and suspect grammar. Though, a portion of the discussion is predicated on the size of a typical persons vocabulary. I would also propose that someone whose vocabulary is diminutive would be an account that would be less worth breaking into, so the whole thing is silly to a certain extent.