If the OSS software you find is inadequate or if some features are missing, consider complaining (politely) to the appropriate mailing list or forum. User experiences is a very important information for software developers and most will welcome your insights. Even if you end up giving up on OSS, please send an email to the dev of the solution saying "well, I gave up on your software because I can't easily separate weekday sales and weekend sales". It can really help improve the overall quality.
If automated cars can be "driven" by people without the permit, I think most people would end up not taking the class and exam to have the right to override the automatism.
Well, consider that when some people link to American shows that are legally broadcast on their website, I am welcomed by "this video is not available to your region". So yes, I am basically pirating content that is otherwise accessible freely.
On paid content, I prefer boycotting to pirating. I agree that wanting to get content for free is immature and is not excused by the equally immature practices of the copyright industry. As long as the industry won't come up with a sane way of accessing content online, I'll simply refrain from discovering new talents. I found one or two things in creative commons that are worth listening, but it is true that quality is not that common in the CC world.
Anyway, I vote with my wallet. These people are going to destroy general computing if they continue in their current direction, and I won't support them, even by pirating their productions.
My understanding is that L1 cache is as fast at the CPU it is embedded in. Just make more of it and watch how we make real-time raytracing instead of relying on polygonal tricks for rendering 3D.
The pirate bay is accessible from any geographical zone. No legal provider is. Piracy is my only way to get the US-centric references on Slashdot and Reddit.
Currently, only "piracy" (it used to be called sharing) venues understand what internet is : a transnational network designed to transmit information without geographical discrimination. There seems to be no legal venue who understood that feature. I want to be able to download a drm-less version of any French, English, Japanese version of any movie that is available. I'll pay for that, but I won't pay for something that is of lower quality than what piracy can provide. In particular, I'll refuse to pay for ads. I feel this is an unacceptable "fuck you" to have unskippable ads on a support you bought.
There are lot of laws to change, but not the ones copyright lobbyists focus on. They have to make it easier to make deals for international distribution. Seriously, geographical distribution deals have no sense nowadays. If you want a meaningful frontier, separate rights of different linguistic version, but don't prevent me from getting stuff in original version at the same time that most slashdotters have them available.
This is 5 million dollars to study religious history of immortality beliefs. If you are interested by immortality, why not fund SENS instead? An institute of bio-gerontologists who try to understand and correct aging like it was a disease. (And if you just discover the thing, don't stop at the mighty guru-beard of the founder, his excuse is that he comes from CS background)
If you only count peaks, yes, you have a sample size of 3. If you have a full predictive model, however, you not only predict peaks but also intermediate variations.
The fact that mandatory secure boot is a windows 8 requirement for ARM architecture makes it credible to think they would like the same thing in the x86 world. The fact we even accepted in the ARM world is an incredibly sad defeat that will make us waste another 10 years to turn around.
The company I am talking about provides its own modem that is actually an ethernet and wifi router. I think that 90+% of their clients don't add another router to it.
One of the biggest French DSL provider, Free Telecom, has IPv6 by default and there are more than 5 millions users here. I don't see how the article's premise could be true.
Actually this is what the article suggests but in the comments, a member of the team explains that the only driver engineers they worked with were the intel guys in charge of their OSS driver. They had no answer from ATI or nVIDIA. It is in the 10 or 20 first comments. Check one with an answer.
I have actually worked for a company that focuses on energy strategies and saw one of their studies result. In a modern country (IIRC the results were from UK) with reasonable architecture and infrastructure, at a high cost, you could save ~25% of energy, mainly through better insulation and smarter heating/AC.
On the other hand, we have reached the plateau of the peak oil since 2007 (production stopped to increase and prices skyrocketed). THIS is the challenge we will have to face in the two next decades. Electrical vehicles will be needed. Not just personal cars, but also trucks, construction vehicles (my bet is that most will be wired), agricultural vehicles, possibly planes. That will take a lot more than the mere 25% we could save for a budget that would exceed the construction of 25% supplemental production capabilities.
The best governmental strategy right now is:
- save the energy that can be saved cheaply or even for free (~5-10%, actually probably less in well managed countries)
- build lots of nuclear plants NOW that oil and energy to build them is cheap (compared to fuel costs in 10 years). Make them modern, make them safe. Make it possible that they use plutonium : it is a fuel that is basically free, foreign countries without the tech will even pay you to take care of their.
- invest a lot in research. Make a courageous choice : do you believe in solar energy or fusion power? Choose one and invest massively. And remember : if a trillion dollars could give you Iraq's oil reserves, the result of these projects can give you a durable amount of energy that is far greater. Investment should be of a comparable scale.
- if you live in US : do not shut down tokamaks. This is one of the dumbest long-term move. Realize this : in 20 years, there will be fusion power. The first to have it will either build plants for the whole world or even sell electricity directly. And China wants that badly.
I know it will sound trollish, but this is for reasons like this one that I don't think I will ever live or make business in the US (unless I have a big legal department one day). In France, you can accept EULA knowing that some legal rights are not circumventable. I can buy stuff online and click "accept", I know that I have 3 (or 5, can't remember) days to cancel the order.
Living in a country where a single click or the buy of a DVD or a hardware device can void your democratically decided rights is really dangerous.
On the other hand, prizes like the Nobel are not just about money. If they manage to get a similar reputation, it gives good scientists in the field a weight and authority in scientific debates that they would have not if each year the prize was awarded to 300 people. Within a generation, their would more prize recipients than there are MIT graduates.
I personally hold a grudge to outlook for a different reason : back in 2007 it had refused for almost 10 years (don't know if it ended up accepting it) to follow a RFC that allowed to send an email with a crypto signature and public key attached in the header. I wanted to use a good crypto in my emails but because a signed email looked ugly in outlook and that many professional contacts were still using it, I chose to abandon the idea.
Anyone not understanding what an exponential is does not have a good enough understanding of demographics to make a fully informed decision about making babies and should not be authorized to take a loan.
The last money I gave to an artist was a direct donation of 5â for giving his songs under a CC license. I believe that no artist ever received that much money from me. A 20â CD usually ends up at 2 or 3 for an artist.
The CD model sucks and is dead. Let's dance on its corpse.
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If the OSS software you find is inadequate or if some features are missing, consider complaining (politely) to the appropriate mailing list or forum. User experiences is a very important information for software developers and most will welcome your insights. Even if you end up giving up on OSS, please send an email to the dev of the solution saying "well, I gave up on your software because I can't easily separate weekday sales and weekend sales". It can really help improve the overall quality.
I can understand that. Car accidents killed far more Americans that terrorism did in the last decade. This should be a top national issue.
If automated cars can be "driven" by people without the permit, I think most people would end up not taking the class and exam to have the right to override the automatism.
The truth that no hacker wants to acknowledge is that they find it actually cool to be occasionally mistaken for the bad guys.
Congratulations, you were hacked by the Mormons : https://familysearch.org/
Your laws are funny in the USA. Isn't that a simple mechanical modification to make ?
That is why I am talking about raytracing : you need far more operations per pixel than what we have today.
Well, consider that when some people link to American shows that are legally broadcast on their website, I am welcomed by "this video is not available to your region". So yes, I am basically pirating content that is otherwise accessible freely.
On paid content, I prefer boycotting to pirating. I agree that wanting to get content for free is immature and is not excused by the equally immature practices of the copyright industry. As long as the industry won't come up with a sane way of accessing content online, I'll simply refrain from discovering new talents. I found one or two things in creative commons that are worth listening, but it is true that quality is not that common in the CC world.
Anyway, I vote with my wallet. These people are going to destroy general computing if they continue in their current direction, and I won't support them, even by pirating their productions.
My understanding is that L1 cache is as fast at the CPU it is embedded in. Just make more of it and watch how we make real-time raytracing instead of relying on polygonal tricks for rendering 3D.
The pirate bay is accessible from any geographical zone. No legal provider is. Piracy is my only way to get the US-centric references on Slashdot and Reddit.
Currently, only "piracy" (it used to be called sharing) venues understand what internet is : a transnational network designed to transmit information without geographical discrimination. There seems to be no legal venue who understood that feature. I want to be able to download a drm-less version of any French, English, Japanese version of any movie that is available. I'll pay for that, but I won't pay for something that is of lower quality than what piracy can provide. In particular, I'll refuse to pay for ads. I feel this is an unacceptable "fuck you" to have unskippable ads on a support you bought.
There are lot of laws to change, but not the ones copyright lobbyists focus on. They have to make it easier to make deals for international distribution. Seriously, geographical distribution deals have no sense nowadays. If you want a meaningful frontier, separate rights of different linguistic version, but don't prevent me from getting stuff in original version at the same time that most slashdotters have them available.
Thanks.
This is 5 million dollars to study religious history of immortality beliefs. If you are interested by immortality, why not fund SENS instead? An institute of bio-gerontologists who try to understand and correct aging like it was a disease. (And if you just discover the thing, don't stop at the mighty guru-beard of the founder, his excuse is that he comes from CS background)
If you only count peaks, yes, you have a sample size of 3. If you have a full predictive model, however, you not only predict peaks but also intermediate variations.
The fact that mandatory secure boot is a windows 8 requirement for ARM architecture makes it credible to think they would like the same thing in the x86 world. The fact we even accepted in the ARM world is an incredibly sad defeat that will make us waste another 10 years to turn around.
The company I am talking about provides its own modem that is actually an ethernet and wifi router. I think that 90+% of their clients don't add another router to it.
One of the biggest French DSL provider, Free Telecom, has IPv6 by default and there are more than 5 millions users here. I don't see how the article's premise could be true.
Actually this is what the article suggests but in the comments, a member of the team explains that the only driver engineers they worked with were the intel guys in charge of their OSS driver. They had no answer from ATI or nVIDIA. It is in the 10 or 20 first comments. Check one with an answer.
I have actually worked for a company that focuses on energy strategies and saw one of their studies result. In a modern country (IIRC the results were from UK) with reasonable architecture and infrastructure, at a high cost, you could save ~25% of energy, mainly through better insulation and smarter heating/AC.
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On the other hand, we have reached the plateau of the peak oil since 2007 (production stopped to increase and prices skyrocketed). THIS is the challenge we will have to face in the two next decades. Electrical vehicles will be needed. Not just personal cars, but also trucks, construction vehicles (my bet is that most will be wired), agricultural vehicles, possibly planes. That will take a lot more than the mere 25% we could save for a budget that would exceed the construction of 25% supplemental production capabilities.
The best governmental strategy right now is
- save the energy that can be saved cheaply or even for free (~5-10%, actually probably less in well managed countries)
- build lots of nuclear plants NOW that oil and energy to build them is cheap (compared to fuel costs in 10 years). Make them modern, make them safe. Make it possible that they use plutonium : it is a fuel that is basically free, foreign countries without the tech will even pay you to take care of their.
- invest a lot in research. Make a courageous choice : do you believe in solar energy or fusion power? Choose one and invest massively. And remember : if a trillion dollars could give you Iraq's oil reserves, the result of these projects can give you a durable amount of energy that is far greater. Investment should be of a comparable scale.
- if you live in US : do not shut down tokamaks. This is one of the dumbest long-term move. Realize this : in 20 years, there will be fusion power. The first to have it will either build plants for the whole world or even sell electricity directly. And China wants that badly.
I know it will sound trollish, but this is for reasons like this one that I don't think I will ever live or make business in the US (unless I have a big legal department one day). In France, you can accept EULA knowing that some legal rights are not circumventable. I can buy stuff online and click "accept", I know that I have 3 (or 5, can't remember) days to cancel the order.
Living in a country where a single click or the buy of a DVD or a hardware device can void your democratically decided rights is really dangerous.
...so why not give runners a time bonus if they are in a later lane ? Start 30 m from the gun, get a 100ms bonus. Sounds simple enough, no ?
On the other hand, prizes like the Nobel are not just about money. If they manage to get a similar reputation, it gives good scientists in the field a weight and authority in scientific debates that they would have not if each year the prize was awarded to 300 people. Within a generation, their would more prize recipients than there are MIT graduates.
I personally hold a grudge to outlook for a different reason : back in 2007 it had refused for almost 10 years (don't know if it ended up accepting it) to follow a RFC that allowed to send an email with a crypto signature and public key attached in the header. I wanted to use a good crypto in my emails but because a signed email looked ugly in outlook and that many professional contacts were still using it, I chose to abandon the idea.
Virtualization becomes unavoidable.
OTOH, if it is not possible to install steam as a user, a good excuse will be necessary.
Actually, it is people without a facebook OR slashdot account that will be considered suspicious.
Anyone not understanding what an exponential is does not have a good enough understanding of demographics to make a fully informed decision about making babies and should not be authorized to take a loan.
The last money I gave to an artist was a direct donation of 5â for giving his songs under a CC license. I believe that no artist ever received that much money from me. A 20â CD usually ends up at 2 or 3 for an artist.
The CD model sucks and is dead. Let's dance on its corpse.