You buy a device to store your personal data on from a company that collects personal data for a living, and then run an app on it from another company that profits from collecting you data and then are confused when they collect your personal data?
Really? Is it? Could you tell by looking at some pgp source whether it has been compromised or not? Maybe you could but the majority of people reading this could not and if that's true of slashdot what hope does the rest of the wold have?
I've worked on Java processes that use that much RAM. On a server app, if you have it, why not use it (for caches etc.). Better than having it sit there depreciating.
I don't think anyone will hold it against you for knowing something, even something with is not really at the core of what I do to pay the bills (Java dev mostly) but could be required from time to time. Not knowing something however will always be a problem so I do put office on my CV in small writing, near the end.
How many people with guns actually hunt though? I think if you want to own a hunting rifle and can demonstrate that you are going to use it for hunting that's fine, but applying at logic to handguns and machine guns makes no sense to me.
I think their fear of being just another Android player was valid. Samsung have run away with that one by making some pretty nice phones spending insane amounts on marketing.
I don't see what was really wrong with Symbian/Qt and Meego/Qt at the high end. These platforms (which were now mostly compatible) could have taken them forward. Also Symbian outperforms everyone else on battery life by a fair distance. I know there were some issues (neither would do LTE for example) but I don't think these were unsolvable. Certainly less risky than getting into bed with Microsoft, who in the scheme of things have basically screwed them over with Winphone 7.8 / 8
What possible good could come out of that? At best it's hugely uninteresting, at worst it glamorises criminality. Glad we don't have that on TV over here.
The value of anything is what people are prepared to pay, and if people are prepared to pay $38 a share then that is what they were worth on that day at that point in time. Like many people I thought that was too high and didn't buy. That's okay, that's how markets work. If you thought it was a good buy then you were wrong and you lost some money, that's the nature of this type of investment. You may or may not get it back depending on how long you hold it and how well Facebook does.
I don't think anyone can say that the signs weren't there when so many people were saying it was overvalued.
This is a power play from the linux kernel team. They don't like that someone else has control over a large part of their system and they want the source so that they can control it. As far as I can tell they are the only people with a real, practical issue with the status quo in that they're the ones using exprimental kernels that Nvidia don't support yet and obviously Nvidia drivers being under their control would make their lives easier.
I'm with Nvidia on this one though, it's their hardware and they have the right to maintain control of thier drivers if they choose to do so. Of course, as others have pointed out, we have the right not buy that hardware if we choose and those with an ideological issue with Nvidia's position will probably choose to do that but this clearly doesn't worry Nvidia too much.
Personally, I'm satisfied with Nvidia's model. Seems to work pretty well for me.
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You buy a device to store your personal data on from a company that collects personal data for a living, and then run an app on it from another company that profits from collecting you data and then are confused when they collect your personal data?
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Really? Is it? Could you tell by looking at some pgp source whether it has been compromised or not? Maybe you could but the majority of people reading this could not and if that's true of slashdot what hope does the rest of the wold have?
Need to post some boxes that say 'contains god' and see if it gets there quicker than the control.
You know why XBox is so big?
Sadly the XBox is so big because it was much easier to pirate games for it than it is for the Wii or the PS3.
Agreed. There's a good Joel on Software piece - things you should never do on why you should never start with a total rewrite.
The solution is hard, fix X. The mistake is thinking that starting again will produce a better result.
I've worked on Java processes that use that much RAM. On a server app, if you have it, why not use it (for caches etc.). Better than having it sit there depreciating.
At least they're trying - NASA can't even make it to the ISS since the shuttle got decommisioned.
I don't think anyone will hold it against you for knowing something, even something with is not really at the core of what I do to pay the bills (Java dev mostly) but could be required from time to time. Not knowing something however will always be a problem so I do put office on my CV in small writing, near the end.
I'd say no, coding standards are pretty pointless, unless people are being deliberately difficult or obsfuscating.
In my experience people in large companies like to write them because it's an easy thing to stick on their PDP.
How many people with guns actually hunt though? I think if you want to own a hunting rifle and can demonstrate that you are going to use it for hunting that's fine, but applying at logic to handguns and machine guns makes no sense to me.
I've been using a couple of Uniball eye micros and they're excellent.
Valve's 'better than Windows' performance numbers were achieved on a Nvidia card.
But you're trolling so you don't care.
Guerrilla marketing is all the rage these days, but that is about the lamest example I've ever seen.
I think their fear of being just another Android player was valid. Samsung have run away with that one by making some pretty nice phones spending insane amounts on marketing.
I don't see what was really wrong with Symbian/Qt and Meego/Qt at the high end. These platforms (which were now mostly compatible) could have taken them forward. Also Symbian outperforms everyone else on battery life by a fair distance. I know there were some issues (neither would do LTE for example) but I don't think these were unsolvable. Certainly less risky than getting into bed with Microsoft, who in the scheme of things have basically screwed them over with Winphone 7.8 / 8
Indeed relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten
(http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/blinkenlights.html)
AC has a point
What possible good could come out of that? At best it's hugely uninteresting, at worst it glamorises criminality. Glad we don't have that on TV over here.
There was one up there - see 'Faster than a Cray Super computer?!'
A one time pad is provably unbreakable if used correctly
Maemo / Meego is dead at Nokia. They all either got sacked or quit and formed Jolla mobile.
Nvidia is excellent in my experience. People don't like it's closed source proprietryness though.
The value of anything is what people are prepared to pay, and if people are prepared to pay $38 a share then that is what they were worth on that day at that point in time. Like many people I thought that was too high and didn't buy. That's okay, that's how markets work. If you thought it was a good buy then you were wrong and you lost some money, that's the nature of this type of investment. You may or may not get it back depending on how long you hold it and how well Facebook does.
I don't think anyone can say that the signs weren't there when so many people were saying it was overvalued.
Completely agree. I demand 66p compensation.
This is a power play from the linux kernel team. They don't like that someone else has control over a large part of their system and they want the source so that they can control it. As far as I can tell they are the only people with a real, practical issue with the status quo in that they're the ones using exprimental kernels that Nvidia don't support yet and obviously Nvidia drivers being under their control would make their lives easier.
I'm with Nvidia on this one though, it's their hardware and they have the right to maintain control of thier drivers if they choose to do so. Of course, as others have pointed out, we have the right not buy that hardware if we choose and those with an ideological issue with Nvidia's position will probably choose to do that but this clearly doesn't worry Nvidia too much.
Personally, I'm satisfied with Nvidia's model. Seems to work pretty well for me.
I find the Nvidia drivers to be excellent from a features perspective. 3D acceleration is excellent.