You are missing the fact that the telcos are not smart enough to make txt messaging free. They see it as a money maker, rather than a loss-leader. Their entire philosophy is screwed up - charging people for things that should be free (leaving a contract) and giving away stuff that should cost money (smart phones).
Their policies DO make sense if you don't think about it.
Why wouldn't prisoners be allowed to vote? One man one vote, no exceptions. Once you make exceptions you can justify anything like not allowing slaves or women to vote either.
If you look at the actual points you will see that most countries in 20-50 range has almost the same amount of points. Gaining of losing a pointer will easily move you 20 positions. So the read the list modulo 20 or something. The US is then in the top of the 2nd or 3rd best group of countries, but with many above.
No they don't. Most laws deal with the concept of propertional action. That is that you are allowed to break some laws to stop someone else from breaking worse laws, but you are not allowed to break a much worse law to stop a minor one (murder vs trespassing),
What does ANY of those issues have to do with Freedom of Press? You seem to fit into the category of people who just change the subject to rant about your own pet peeves.
No on Debian, I run steam as a normal user under user credentials. It doesn't launch any daemons, and has no suid executables, but it does have read/write access to all local files which includes saved history of browsers. Will do strace when I get home. Should be interesting.
Engineers only get raises when they change companies. For the rest there are a typically team leads, as mentioned in the article, they just don't want to handle the paperwork of management.
Yes. I was about to say the same thing. An engineering team does not need a manager, they need a secretary. Someone to organize, journalize and report. The best managers I have met act like the teams secretary or assistant, but many seems to get their role in the team confused, and it seems a waste to pay them more than an average company secretary.
Would they have BSD-licensed clang if there had not been the competing GPLed GCC? Who knows...
LLVM was not developed by Apple and is not an Apple project, so its license has nothing to do with them. And they do a have a proprietary fork of both clang and llvm that they use internally. The open source clang/llvm has much worse ARM and iOS support than the Apple version. They prefer to keep the open source version cripled rather than open source all of their improvments to it.
Just as an example: Apple uses a compiler _at runtime_ to compile OpenGL and OpenCL to the hardware. They use LLVM for that. If your favourite game is running on MacOS X or iOS, and it uses OpenGL, LLVM is built into the app (or more likely into the graphics driver). _That_ isn't possible with gcc without releasing the whole graphics driver. And that's something Apple doesn't want to do.
Note that with GPL 2 license, what Apple wanted to do was fine. Now it isn't.
No that would be in complete violation of GPL2 as well. This might be one of the reason Apple likes the BSD license now, but it wasn't the original reason they freaked out over GPL3 because it wouldn't be allowed with any version of GPL.
There was no logical or coherent reason for Apple to back away from GPLv3 when the accepted GPLv2. The GPLv3 debacle was basically just Steve Jobs throwing one of his infamous tantrums.
They do have a good reason to prefer a BSD or LGPL compiler backend to xcode, but that is not relevant to GPLv2 vs GPLv3 discussions.
You know what? EVERY GPL advocate says "Companies will steal your BSD code!!!!!! NOOOO!!! BAD!!!!"
But you know what really irks people? GPL does exactly the same thing. You see, GPL projects can take code from BSD projects, but that BSD project cannot take any improvements the GPL project makes.
So the GPL argument that BSD is bad because the code can be taken and relicensed is bad because BSD code can be taken and relicensed?
I love your logic!:D
Forget the page split, what is needed is to be able to load all comments.
Why can't I load more than 250 comments at a time.
Why do I have to click load more comments 5 times on this story before reading it?
The brain is very much trainable. How do you trink you learn anything or get better at anything? By learning foreign languages you train your brain. The more foreign languages you know the easier it is to learn new ones, understand dialects and use language creatively. The same is true for anything you learn. The more you learn the better you get at utilizing it, and no matter what you learn, your IQ goes up.
Well, I am from a different world (Denmark). I ended up joining a union because it offered me discounts on insurance and free legal assistance if should ever need it a workplace related suit. Even without ever using their minimum contracts it was still a good offer. Though I only took it when I was buying my first car, insuring a fast luxery car can be very expensive for a young man especially if he is a first time car owner, but it is surprisingly cheap for a young engineer.
They also only have 30 minute battery life, so exactly what function made him wear it during a full movie? I am guessing the looking like a glass hole function.
More generic lesson; don't point a video camera at the screen in a movie theater.
Exacly! If you for some reason like to walk around wearing a video camera all the time, you should consider taking it off before going places video cameras are not allowed (Don't wear it when helping your daugther change in the girls change room before swimming either!).
Well, in a way gcc and the linux kernel is also rigged, though in a very fair an honestly good way. Intel is sponsoring a lot of open source development. The only conditition is their open source teams has is to make sure the open source projects support Intel products as good as possible. This means that there a many optimization for Intel than AMD in all central open source projects.
The Intel compiler stuff is terrible and Intel needs to be reminded of it and scolded for it all the time. I can't scold them for just making things better though.
If you rendered the glyphs on the GPU you would still cache the rendered glyphs because rendering that many small details on the screen can be quite demanding on the GPU and rendering a lot of textures is what GPUs do all the time and something that is very well optimized.
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Same thing probably happened with the 2d biggest tech.
Their policies DO make sense if you don't think about it.
Why wouldn't prisoners be allowed to vote? One man one vote, no exceptions. Once you make exceptions you can justify anything like not allowing slaves or women to vote either.
If you look at the actual points you will see that most countries in 20-50 range has almost the same amount of points. Gaining of losing a pointer will easily move you 20 positions. So the read the list modulo 20 or something. The US is then in the top of the 2nd or 3rd best group of countries, but with many above.
No they don't. Most laws deal with the concept of propertional action. That is that you are allowed to break some laws to stop someone else from breaking worse laws, but you are not allowed to break a much worse law to stop a minor one (murder vs trespassing),
Eritrea is really fucked up though. You just don't hear much about them in the western press.
What does ANY of those issues have to do with Freedom of Press? You seem to fit into the category of people who just change the subject to rant about your own pet peeves.
No on Debian, I run steam as a normal user under user credentials. It doesn't launch any daemons, and has no suid executables, but it does have read/write access to all local files which includes saved history of browsers. Will do strace when I get home. Should be interesting.
Engineers only get raises when they change companies. For the rest there are a typically team leads, as mentioned in the article, they just don't want to handle the paperwork of management.
Yes. I was about to say the same thing. An engineering team does not need a manager, they need a secretary. Someone to organize, journalize and report. The best managers I have met act like the teams secretary or assistant, but many seems to get their role in the team confused, and it seems a waste to pay them more than an average company secretary.
LLVM was not developed by Apple and is not an Apple project, so its license has nothing to do with them. And they do a have a proprietary fork of both clang and llvm that they use internally. The open source clang/llvm has much worse ARM and iOS support than the Apple version. They prefer to keep the open source version cripled rather than open source all of their improvments to it.
No that would be in complete violation of GPL2 as well. This might be one of the reason Apple likes the BSD license now, but it wasn't the original reason they freaked out over GPL3 because it wouldn't be allowed with any version of GPL.
There was no logical or coherent reason for Apple to back away from GPLv3 when the accepted GPLv2. The GPLv3 debacle was basically just Steve Jobs throwing one of his infamous tantrums.
They do have a good reason to prefer a BSD or LGPL compiler backend to xcode, but that is not relevant to GPLv2 vs GPLv3 discussions.
So the GPL argument that BSD is bad because the code can be taken and relicensed is bad because BSD code can be taken and relicensed? I love your logic! :D
Forget the page split, what is needed is to be able to load all comments. Why can't I load more than 250 comments at a time. Why do I have to click load more comments 5 times on this story before reading it?
Wouldn't a few humans amount to a small hill of beans pretty well?
Only in this crazy world.
That is not true, a lot of time was killed, or perhaps even brutally slaughtered.
The brain is very much trainable. How do you trink you learn anything or get better at anything? By learning foreign languages you train your brain. The more foreign languages you know the easier it is to learn new ones, understand dialects and use language creatively. The same is true for anything you learn. The more you learn the better you get at utilizing it, and no matter what you learn, your IQ goes up.
Only in how fast it generates code. Code generated by GCC is still faster than code generated by LLVM.
Well, I am from a different world (Denmark). I ended up joining a union because it offered me discounts on insurance and free legal assistance if should ever need it a workplace related suit. Even without ever using their minimum contracts it was still a good offer. Though I only took it when I was buying my first car, insuring a fast luxery car can be very expensive for a young man especially if he is a first time car owner, but it is surprisingly cheap for a young engineer.
What, he doesn't already receive thousands of emails everyday that is not for him? Lucky man.
They also only have 30 minute battery life, so exactly what function made him wear it during a full movie? I am guessing the looking like a glass hole function.
Exacly! If you for some reason like to walk around wearing a video camera all the time, you should consider taking it off before going places video cameras are not allowed (Don't wear it when helping your daugther change in the girls change room before swimming either!).
Well, in a way gcc and the linux kernel is also rigged, though in a very fair an honestly good way. Intel is sponsoring a lot of open source development. The only conditition is their open source teams has is to make sure the open source projects support Intel products as good as possible. This means that there a many optimization for Intel than AMD in all central open source projects. The Intel compiler stuff is terrible and Intel needs to be reminded of it and scolded for it all the time. I can't scold them for just making things better though.
So what do you do when your carrier has large inefficiencies they share with every other carrier available to you, and none of them bother to compete?
If you rendered the glyphs on the GPU you would still cache the rendered glyphs because rendering that many small details on the screen can be quite demanding on the GPU and rendering a lot of textures is what GPUs do all the time and something that is very well optimized.