the news increasingly censors any opinion that would be against socialism or popular accepted opinions
I find it incredible that in the 21st century Internet-connected Scandinavia, there are no independent contrarian news outlets.
There are. Don't conflate Sweden with the rest of Scandinavia, and even if Sweden there are contrarian outlets, it is just that most Swedes pretend opions they don't like don't exits.
Yeah. And as I remember the twin tests from a decade ago, they did show genetics played a large role in how well the kids did in early school, but by the time they twins were 18, the environment was a much bigger factor. In other words the article here has it backwards. Genes doesn't predict intelligence in adults very well, upbringing does, but what genes do predict is how easy a time you will have in early school, which may help you if you have bad school. However, if you don't have an easy time early in school, know that, by the time you are out of school and university, the genes doesn't matter as much as how hard you worked (and how good schools/parents you got).
So you can register an account with an email from another domain? Still I know of no-bugzilla where security bugs are allowed to be seen by everybody from a certain domain. They are allowed to be seen by certain number of emails, and since they are already registered, you can't create a new account with one of those.
So, not really that much of an issue unless you have really wide permission to everybody from specific email domains.
The importance of this is underestimated. With a sanely written C++ program (merely sticking to the modern approaches) memory and resource leaks are a thing of the past, but you still get the completely predictable and deterministic resource management of C.
Unfortunately, you can't use any of that in the kernel [overloading create/destroy new/delete operators won't cut it]. Spinlocks, rwlocks, RCU, slab allocation, per cpu variables, explicit cache flush, memory fence operations, I/O device mappings, ISRs, tasklets, kmalloc vs vmalloc, deadlocks, livelocks, etc. are the issues a kernel programmer has to deal with. Nothing in C++ will help with these and some C++ constructs are actually a hindrance rather than a help.
For instance, copy constructors must be disabled. This was part of a proposal a few years back to make a C++ subset suitable for realtime/embedded. It isn't acceptable to have "x = y" invoke an unexpected amount of code simply because you inadvertantly invoked a copy constructor.
Kernels by their nature are messy. Anybody writing kernel code must be fully aware of the implications of doing something and must be aware of the state they're being called in. Abstraction just makes this job harder not easier.
For example, all kernel code must be compiled with -mno-red-zone because of the threat that any base code could receive an interrupt at any time [even between 2-3 machine instructions that comprise the red zone setup code].
Linux already does a pretty fair job of keeping things clean. If you don't believe that, actually go read the kernel source code. And, if something ends up being crufty, it gets cleaned up. Even if that means that some 100 or so modules need corresponding changes.
As someone who have tought kernel programming and C++ at the same time, I call bullshit on all of that.
Overloading allocation is exactly one of the useful features of C++, and copying is no different than on C. You can in fact even explicitly disable copying or explicitly enforce default copying in C++11. Things that is error-prone and boiler plate code in C is easy in C++. As for memory barriers and all that, C++ is again no different from C. Usually you use compiler extensions or assembler for kind of feature, but it is much easier in C++ where you can create templates and wrappers do use all of this correctly, convientenly and safely.
The abstractions of C++ makes handling most kernel issues easier, but it does require more skill as C++ is greater language, this is also why it was great to teach students C++ by letting them write a kernel, they had to learn what C++ features actually did and which to use and what not to use.
Unfortunately C programmers are a religous sect at this point. The believe C++ is witchcraft because they don't understand it, and refuse to learn.
When did the slash get added, and why? Anyway it is just a cleaner modern verison of SPDY should be trivial to support for most browser assuming it is actually final final.
Microsoft does not make money on making hardware obsolete, on the contrary, as long as it doesn't take them too long to support something, they make MORE money on supporting old hardware.
Unless they use only the version of Windows that shipped with the computer and don't buy a new version for use on the same computer. In my experience, people stick with outdated Windows until it's time to replace the hardware.
True, but I would give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt that they know how many on average upgrade, and can calculate whether it is worth to support or not. Since most cases where iOS or Mac doesn't support older hardware is increased defaults for fancy graphical effects, and can't imagine it is too hard for Microsoft tone down new unnecessary graphical effects, especially since fancy graphical effects has never really been their thing (and the extremely wide difference in even modern PC hardware means they still have to support some pretty shitty integrated Intel GPUs).
My Mac is no longer supported (hasn't been for a couple of releases) by OS-X because the CPU doesn't do 64-bits. It's not even 10 years old yet, and it isn't supported by OS-X.
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It was the first Apple computer I bought. It will be the last Apple computer I ever buy.
Apple is a hardware seller. They make money on leaving old hardware behind in their software. Microsoft does not make money on making hardware obsolete, on the contrary, as long as it doesn't take them too long to support something, they make MORE money on supporting old hardware.
Global Warming isn't a rational/scientific debate. If it was, the idea wouldn't have taken off as a result of Al Gore's film. That's not science, it's a popularity contest.
I'm not debating whether the science is there or not. I'm simply pointing out that the idea of Global Warming didn't take off because of the science. And Karmashock is right in saying that when in doubt (there is contradicting evidence for or against some event being caused by Global Warming) the Global Warming crowd goes nuts when people dare to question it. You need to be able to admit that not everything is caused by Global Warming.
Science is not well served by shouting down people who disagree with you. It's served by providing evidence to back up your claims and explaining why your opponent's claims are factually incorrect. Labeling people skeptics without actually proving them wrong is counterproductive.
What the fuck are you talking about?
The movie was a cash in on the already substantial interest and science in global warming. Stop lying, and start opening your eyes.
No need for profanity.
In my personal experience, there was no "substantial interest" in global warming before the movie. No one was talking about it. I never heard about it once in the news or mainstream documentaries in the preceding 20 years.
It might have been all over the place for people looking for it, but it wasn't mainstream in the sense that same sense that search engines didn't pick up popularity before Google came on the block (there were plenty of them before Google but your parents didn't ever mention their name).
So the Kyoto agreement never happened and was never signed by president Clinton? You were either a kid not watching news in 90s, or you are still lying.
At least it's not illegal to [circumvent technical measures].
Yes, it still is. That's the point. Almost all of the theoretical benefits of these changes can immediately be nullified, because all the content provider has to do is apply technical measures and then breaking those measures remains against the law even if the copy would otherwise now be legal.
This is not America, there is no DMCA. Though there is a murky EU rule saying otherwise to placate the US, that rule hasn't held up in court and even if it did, any clearer law saying something is specifically allowed would overrule it.
Global Warming isn't a rational/scientific debate. If it was, the idea wouldn't have taken off as a result of Al Gore's film. That's not science, it's a popularity contest.
I'm not debating whether the science is there or not. I'm simply pointing out that the idea of Global Warming didn't take off because of the science. And Karmashock is right in saying that when in doubt (there is contradicting evidence for or against some event being caused by Global Warming) the Global Warming crowd goes nuts when people dare to question it. You need to be able to admit that not everything is caused by Global Warming.
Science is not well served by shouting down people who disagree with you. It's served by providing evidence to back up your claims and explaining why your opponent's claims are factually incorrect. Labeling people skeptics without actually proving them wrong is counterproductive.
What the fuck are you talking about?
The movie was a cash in on the already substantial interest and science in global warming. Stop lying, and start opening your eyes.
It's not a race to the bottom, it's an optimization. If corporate tax rate is X and total tax revenue is Y, past a certain point as X goes up, Y goes down because of competitive forces elsewhere.
Yeah, but if you give away more free stuff than you ever get back in revenue you will be losing money. This is what Ireland did. They got less than a thousand jobs out of it, and would lose them in an instant if they ever tried to make Apple or Google pay for what they actually use of public resources. Selling for less than cost is BAD BUSINESS.
What lesson is that? Would Ireland have been better off if Apple and Microsoft and Google moved those jobs to Wales or France or Spain? Ireland is collecting income tax from all those employees, and sales tax from everything those employees buy. Why push employers away out of some fashionable drive for 'social justice'?
I made no comment on social justice. I said it was bad business. A race to the bottom leaves you at the bottom, and since the rest of the EU was not racing against Ireland, they just raced themselves to the bottom. It was bad business and economically idiotic.
They do pay taxes. They just negotiated lower taxes in exchange for bringing those jobs to Ireland. It's a WIN-WIN solution for Ireland and Apple. Ireland still collects more revenue due to all the new jobs. The only losers are the countries who want to maintain a high tax rate and don't appreciate competition from Ireland, hence the EU getting their panties in a bunch.
Yeah, all that win for Ireland was why they went near bankcrupt and had to bailed out by the rest of the EU?
Ireland sold out, but sold out so cheap they didn't even get rich from selling out. Hopefully they have learned their lesson, though it seemed some people like you haven't.
If you run unsanitized input from the web in your shell. YOU ARE ALREADY VULNERABLE, you don't need any other issues, you are screwed and the fix is to stop running untrusted unsanitized content on your machine.
However, the engineer in me can't help but think of how far they can take the cyborg theme.
Are you kidding me? Imagine having one that you could just strap on for an hour, get on a treadmill, and then read a book or surf the net while your legs did their thing. I'd exercise everyday.
Sign me up!
What would the difference be? Unless you detach your upper body, it is still going to follow the legs and bump und down as much if not more that if you ran normally. Reading a book is not going to get any easier, the main problem is all the bouncing, so I recommend audiobooks.
Maybe Gnome is friendlier for noobs or something. Are there noobs left in the world?
Apparently they determined KDE has NO accessibility features, because KDE doesn't have full support the GNOME API for accesibility that is only used by screen-readers.
So apparently all the settings KDE has for accessibility doesn't matter. Maybe because Gnome doesn't have them?
Now that is renewable. Of course the rest is made of coal power to fill the energy holes both in Denmark and in Sweden that is using hydro and nuclear only, and therefore can't supply peak energy on it own.
Regardless of the particulars of this project, it's good people are waking up and realizing what a bloated feature-creeped rube goldberg contraption systemd is, a non-Unix non-Unix-way solution no serious Linux/Unix admin wants, it hinders troubleshooting and configuration. Systemd is what happens when inexperienced people with high IQ fly off on a tagent without engineering ability.
Actually systemd might be bloated, and new and less reliable, but it was the old init system that was rube goldberg machine, it was an ancient well tested and well unstood rube goldberg machine, but it did run a many random independent tools one after the other handing one result to the next sequentially like a rube goldberg machine. Now it is all parallel and all part of the same machine.
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They've already got the mind control covered.
It just too bad they made it work the wrong way. I would prefer a machine I could control, and not the other way around.
Really...with 1000 dollars you can already have a luxury wedding in the Phillipines. Plus, you are already on your destination honeymoon.
Yeah, but how do you get 200+ people there for the party, without the cost going up?
the news increasingly censors any opinion that would be against socialism or popular accepted opinions
I find it incredible that in the 21st century Internet-connected Scandinavia, there are no independent contrarian news outlets.
There are. Don't conflate Sweden with the rest of Scandinavia, and even if Sweden there are contrarian outlets, it is just that most Swedes pretend opions they don't like don't exits.
For speakers of Commonwealth English, 'a fourth' is American for 'a quarter'.
Did you buy that information for a fourth?
That is not dead which can eternal lie, in unmaintained hardware burried deep in your organization.
Dolphin to Orca: Hey man, you need to get checked out. It looks like you blew a seal.
Orca to Dolphin: Nope, it's just ice cream.
Are you sure you are not confusing it with a sperm whale?
Yeah. And as I remember the twin tests from a decade ago, they did show genetics played a large role in how well the kids did in early school, but by the time they twins were 18, the environment was a much bigger factor. In other words the article here has it backwards. Genes doesn't predict intelligence in adults very well, upbringing does, but what genes do predict is how easy a time you will have in early school, which may help you if you have bad school. However, if you don't have an easy time early in school, know that, by the time you are out of school and university, the genes doesn't matter as much as how hard you worked (and how good schools/parents you got).
So you can register an account with an email from another domain? Still I know of no-bugzilla where security bugs are allowed to be seen by everybody from a certain domain. They are allowed to be seen by certain number of emails, and since they are already registered, you can't create a new account with one of those.
So, not really that much of an issue unless you have really wide permission to everybody from specific email domains.
So can we expect all the junk food emporiums to now start recruiting fatties to serve their customers?
Sound reasonable. Though with the current overweight ratio in America.. Don't they already by simple stastical chance?
The importance of this is underestimated. With a sanely written C++ program (merely sticking to the modern approaches) memory and resource leaks are a thing of the past, but you still get the completely predictable and deterministic resource management of C.
Unfortunately, you can't use any of that in the kernel [overloading create/destroy new/delete operators won't cut it]. Spinlocks, rwlocks, RCU, slab allocation, per cpu variables, explicit cache flush, memory fence operations, I/O device mappings, ISRs, tasklets, kmalloc vs vmalloc, deadlocks, livelocks, etc. are the issues a kernel programmer has to deal with. Nothing in C++ will help with these and some C++ constructs are actually a hindrance rather than a help.
For instance, copy constructors must be disabled. This was part of a proposal a few years back to make a C++ subset suitable for realtime/embedded. It isn't acceptable to have "x = y" invoke an unexpected amount of code simply because you inadvertantly invoked a copy constructor.
Kernels by their nature are messy. Anybody writing kernel code must be fully aware of the implications of doing something and must be aware of the state they're being called in. Abstraction just makes this job harder not easier.
For example, all kernel code must be compiled with -mno-red-zone because of the threat that any base code could receive an interrupt at any time [even between 2-3 machine instructions that comprise the red zone setup code].
Linux already does a pretty fair job of keeping things clean. If you don't believe that, actually go read the kernel source code. And, if something ends up being crufty, it gets cleaned up. Even if that means that some 100 or so modules need corresponding changes.
As someone who have tought kernel programming and C++ at the same time, I call bullshit on all of that.
Overloading allocation is exactly one of the useful features of C++, and copying is no different than on C. You can in fact even explicitly disable copying or explicitly enforce default copying in C++11. Things that is error-prone and boiler plate code in C is easy in C++. As for memory barriers and all that, C++ is again no different from C. Usually you use compiler extensions or assembler for kind of feature, but it is much easier in C++ where you can create templates and wrappers do use all of this correctly, convientenly and safely.
The abstractions of C++ makes handling most kernel issues easier, but it does require more skill as C++ is greater language, this is also why it was great to teach students C++ by letting them write a kernel, they had to learn what C++ features actually did and which to use and what not to use.
Unfortunately C programmers are a religous sect at this point. The believe C++ is witchcraft because they don't understand it, and refuse to learn.
Atleast since HTTP/1.0
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc...
Ah, so it is a regression ;)
When did the slash get added, and why? Anyway it is just a cleaner modern verison of SPDY should be trivial to support for most browser assuming it is actually final final.
Microsoft does not make money on making hardware obsolete, on the contrary, as long as it doesn't take them too long to support something, they make MORE money on supporting old hardware.
Unless they use only the version of Windows that shipped with the computer and don't buy a new version for use on the same computer. In my experience, people stick with outdated Windows until it's time to replace the hardware.
True, but I would give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt that they know how many on average upgrade, and can calculate whether it is worth to support or not. Since most cases where iOS or Mac doesn't support older hardware is increased defaults for fancy graphical effects, and can't imagine it is too hard for Microsoft tone down new unnecessary graphical effects, especially since fancy graphical effects has never really been their thing (and the extremely wide difference in even modern PC hardware means they still have to support some pretty shitty integrated Intel GPUs).
My Mac is no longer supported (hasn't been for a couple of releases) by OS-X because the CPU doesn't do 64-bits. It's not even 10 years old yet, and it isn't supported by OS-X.
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It was the first Apple computer I bought. It will be the last Apple computer I ever buy.
Apple is a hardware seller. They make money on leaving old hardware behind in their software. Microsoft does not make money on making hardware obsolete, on the contrary, as long as it doesn't take them too long to support something, they make MORE money on supporting old hardware.
Global Warming isn't a rational/scientific debate. If it was, the idea wouldn't have taken off as a result of Al Gore's film. That's not science, it's a popularity contest.
I'm not debating whether the science is there or not. I'm simply pointing out that the idea of Global Warming didn't take off because of the science. And Karmashock is right in saying that when in doubt (there is contradicting evidence for or against some event being caused by Global Warming) the Global Warming crowd goes nuts when people dare to question it. You need to be able to admit that not everything is caused by Global Warming.
Science is not well served by shouting down people who disagree with you. It's served by providing evidence to back up your claims and explaining why your opponent's claims are factually incorrect. Labeling people skeptics without actually proving them wrong is counterproductive.
What the fuck are you talking about?
The movie was a cash in on the already substantial interest and science in global warming. Stop lying, and start opening your eyes.
No need for profanity.
In my personal experience, there was no "substantial interest" in global warming before the movie. No one was talking about it. I never heard about it once in the news or mainstream documentaries in the preceding 20 years.
It might have been all over the place for people looking for it, but it wasn't mainstream in the sense that same sense that search engines didn't pick up popularity before Google came on the block (there were plenty of them before Google but your parents didn't ever mention their name).
So the Kyoto agreement never happened and was never signed by president Clinton? You were either a kid not watching news in 90s, or you are still lying.
At least it's not illegal to [circumvent technical measures].
Yes, it still is. That's the point. Almost all of the theoretical benefits of these changes can immediately be nullified, because all the content provider has to do is apply technical measures and then breaking those measures remains against the law even if the copy would otherwise now be legal.
This is not America, there is no DMCA. Though there is a murky EU rule saying otherwise to placate the US, that rule hasn't held up in court and even if it did, any clearer law saying something is specifically allowed would overrule it.
Global Warming isn't a rational/scientific debate. If it was, the idea wouldn't have taken off as a result of Al Gore's film. That's not science, it's a popularity contest.
I'm not debating whether the science is there or not. I'm simply pointing out that the idea of Global Warming didn't take off because of the science. And Karmashock is right in saying that when in doubt (there is contradicting evidence for or against some event being caused by Global Warming) the Global Warming crowd goes nuts when people dare to question it. You need to be able to admit that not everything is caused by Global Warming.
Science is not well served by shouting down people who disagree with you. It's served by providing evidence to back up your claims and explaining why your opponent's claims are factually incorrect. Labeling people skeptics without actually proving them wrong is counterproductive.
What the fuck are you talking about?
The movie was a cash in on the already substantial interest and science in global warming. Stop lying, and start opening your eyes.
It's not a race to the bottom, it's an optimization. If corporate tax rate is X and total tax revenue is Y, past a certain point as X goes up, Y goes down because of competitive forces elsewhere.
Yeah, but if you give away more free stuff than you ever get back in revenue you will be losing money. This is what Ireland did. They got less than a thousand jobs out of it, and would lose them in an instant if they ever tried to make Apple or Google pay for what they actually use of public resources. Selling for less than cost is BAD BUSINESS.
What lesson is that? Would Ireland have been better off if Apple and Microsoft and Google moved those jobs to Wales or France or Spain? Ireland is collecting income tax from all those employees, and sales tax from everything those employees buy. Why push employers away out of some fashionable drive for 'social justice'?
I made no comment on social justice. I said it was bad business. A race to the bottom leaves you at the bottom, and since the rest of the EU was not racing against Ireland, they just raced themselves to the bottom. It was bad business and economically idiotic.
They do pay taxes. They just negotiated lower taxes in exchange for bringing those jobs to Ireland. It's a WIN-WIN solution for Ireland and Apple. Ireland still collects more revenue due to all the new jobs. The only losers are the countries who want to maintain a high tax rate and don't appreciate competition from Ireland, hence the EU getting their panties in a bunch.
Yeah, all that win for Ireland was why they went near bankcrupt and had to bailed out by the rest of the EU?
Ireland sold out, but sold out so cheap they didn't even get rich from selling out. Hopefully they have learned their lesson, though it seemed some people like you haven't.
If you run unsanitized input from the web in your shell. YOU ARE ALREADY VULNERABLE, you don't need any other issues, you are screwed and the fix is to stop running untrusted unsanitized content on your machine.
However, the engineer in me can't help but think of how far they can take the cyborg theme.
Are you kidding me? Imagine having one that you could just strap on for an hour, get on a treadmill, and then read a book or surf the net while your legs did their thing. I'd exercise everyday.
Sign me up!
What would the difference be? Unless you detach your upper body, it is still going to follow the legs and bump und down as much if not more that if you ran normally. Reading a book is not going to get any easier, the main problem is all the bouncing, so I recommend audiobooks.
Maybe Gnome is friendlier for noobs or something. Are there noobs left in the world?
Apparently they determined KDE has NO accessibility features, because KDE doesn't have full support the GNOME API for accesibility that is only used by screen-readers.
So apparently all the settings KDE has for accessibility doesn't matter. Maybe because Gnome doesn't have them?
See http://www.windpower.org/da/ak... (2013), or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (28% 2011).
Now that is renewable. Of course the rest is made of coal power to fill the energy holes both in Denmark and in Sweden that is using hydro and nuclear only, and therefore can't supply peak energy on it own.
Regardless of the particulars of this project, it's good people are waking up and realizing what a bloated feature-creeped rube goldberg contraption systemd is, a non-Unix non-Unix-way solution no serious Linux/Unix admin wants, it hinders troubleshooting and configuration. Systemd is what happens when inexperienced people with high IQ fly off on a tagent without engineering ability.
Actually systemd might be bloated, and new and less reliable, but it was the old init system that was rube goldberg machine, it was an ancient well tested and well unstood rube goldberg machine, but it did run a many random independent tools one after the other handing one result to the next sequentially like a rube goldberg machine. Now it is all parallel and all part of the same machine.