Seriously, rights of an individual animal can wait. We need to first sort out rights of individual humans and plight of animals as species. Once we do, we'll be much more morally qualified to judge these other issues.
There are also a number of programs to prioritize admission and scholarship for students who are disadvantaged individually or as a group. Maybe they needs to be more, but at some point we can not deny someone's achievements just because there are some other people who didn't have chance to pursue them.
In the context of today's hardware, coherent state equals bad concurrency and performance. So we better start imagining weakly coupled concurrent code for filesystems and everything else.
You are right, kernel should be rewritten in a faster type safe language, not C/C++ which assume a CPU from 60s and can not be adequately optimized for modern ones due to insufficient information available to the compiler.
It's not about what Linus wants, it's about what it takes to keep project relevant by attracting talented new developers. There is no way I am doing new work, especially an unpaid hobby project, using plain C in 2014. Automatic destructors and templates would be a step in the right direction, but what we really need is to be able to write user mode device drivers in Java and Python. They will suck, no doubt, but far less than not being able to use the hardware at all. In the end, perhaps Linus should have listened more to Andrew Tanenbaum. With less monolithic OS, people would be able to write key services in any language they want.
Really can't use T-mobile through combination of LTE, Wi-Fi calling and limited free data roaming? Your highest data use to date would be prohibitively expensive on best limited plan? Then stay on your current plan while it lasts and look at your options then. I definitely wouldn't pay month after month to just preserve what you might need some day.
Well, were they different than penalties for leaving a math class? Are you dead set against mandatory education in general? Just anything hands on and useful?
I remember, with great fondness, trimming flower bushes and collecting dry grass for livestock, for 3 weeks every summer. I agree that they can be inappropriate tasks or inadequate supervision - need to make sure kids are not bullied for example - but don't see anything wrong with the concept in general.
I would say that rich people especially need to be introduced to social services, including due to more spare time and greater access to transportation, but most of all more resources to invest in a cause. As long as it's substantial work like working in soup kitchen for a year every Saturday, I don't see the problem with them getting the credit.
Maybe not donating blood for high scroll age, but challenging and substantial social service. If you are at least familiar with a variety of ways to contribute, even if you are only doing it to get points, it's more beneficial to educate you than someone who is not. You will remember these lessons when you are in your 40s and have more free time and empathy.
Roads, fire/police department, public parks, libraries... It would be very useful to give everyone some amount of cash so that they are able to take care of themselves and then reward beneficial activities and tax problematic ones. But in the context of a city, traditional use for publicly beneficial projects is quite straightforward.
Every citizen equally, of course, as environment is a public resource. People will then have incentive to get the income but minimize their own footprint.
Horrible story title. Actually, you can waste food all you want, but you have to place it in compost bin. I still think it's a dumb law. Landfill disposal rates should be set high enough to compensate for city costs and adverse environmental impact. People would then have incentive to reduce non-recyclable waste in all kind of ways, not just by sorting.
It takes 10s of milliseconds to read and decompress one full screen jpeg. You can not even imagine what kind of rich apps would be possible if this could happen in a blink of an eye. Of course if it kills battery in an hour, you wouldn't want to imagine, so the improvement has to be specs per watt.
I am sure some people are interested in the topic on its own right, but obviously most just want to escape from systemd. In this case, please first read this paper. Even if you think the end result is crap, there are some very lucid ideas in there. You would do well to at least consider them as you adopt OpenRC or whatever in your thin Linux distribution. I swear that I have no relationship with systemd project and only occasional hobbyist relationship with Linux.
Every server is different, packages and dependencies are very much relevant. Some need a fully functional framebuffer with OpenGL support to generate web images/video.
If you are asking to configure system on build master and then mass deploy to individual servers, without any unnecessary development/configuration tools, that's a reasonable idea.
You don't debug devices like watches and lightbulbs by connecting a keyboard and booting them to single user mode. You mount them as a drive, or they replicate logs over network.
It's easy to laugh at Android for limited upgrades. But the truth is, you wouldn't like most of the upgrades if they were available. iOS8 is probably perfectly fine on iPhone 6/6+. On others devices, you should only upgrade when you need the new features. Performance is likely to go strictly downward.
Parallel is trivial.. hehe. Not when it needs to work unattended every time. Monitoring TCP/UDP sockets and starting/stopping services and their dependencies on demand in/bin/sh - interesting! Managing messages from all smart light bulbs in your house in text files? Go and try it.
Or is it complex simply because it takes complexity to do things better? Gnome is more complex than twm for example, but many people find extra functionality useful. Is traditional script-based init a good match for cell phones, watches, robotics, other new devices that Linux needs to support to remain relevant?
I fully understand that there should be server and education oriented Linux distributions where simplicity and ease of customization are more important than boot time milliseconds. Just don't think that others are doing anything wrong by catering to their own needs.
Think just for a second about how web email works, especially web e-mail that provides fast full content search. Or SMTP from outside systems. Can't read user's e-mail. Riiiight! Maybe with all open source client stack using public keys exchanged out of band.
At least in the US there are countless software/IT jobs because every business relies on software for its continuous existence in some way. Yor may have to downsize and live on lower wages for some time, but you will live.
Are you saying that buying servers is the same thing as maintaining, backing up, securing, auditing servers? What is your threat profile? If NSA or Amazon hacking your data are realistic top concerns, by all means deploy your own datacenter with armed guards. If it's common crooks, big providers are more likely to discover and patch exploits, detect intrusions and withstands DDOS attacks. It's their nest egg and they focus on protecting it.
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Seriously, rights of an individual animal can wait. We need to first sort out rights of individual humans and plight of animals as species. Once we do, we'll be much more morally qualified to judge these other issues.
You have more than one source file, right? So build can take advantage of parallelism without being flaky.
There are also a number of programs to prioritize admission and scholarship for students who are disadvantaged individually or as a group. Maybe they needs to be more, but at some point we can not deny someone's achievements just because there are some other people who didn't have chance to pursue them.
In the context of today's hardware, coherent state equals bad concurrency and performance. So we better start imagining weakly coupled concurrent code for filesystems and everything else.
Silly as it sounds, they would have had much easier time raising money for next project than some unknown guy. Sounds like personal problems.
You are right, kernel should be rewritten in a faster type safe language, not C/C++ which assume a CPU from 60s and can not be adequately optimized for modern ones due to insufficient information available to the compiler.
It's not about what Linus wants, it's about what it takes to keep project relevant by attracting talented new developers. There is no way I am doing new work, especially an unpaid hobby project, using plain C in 2014. Automatic destructors and templates would be a step in the right direction, but what we really need is to be able to write user mode device drivers in Java and Python. They will suck, no doubt, but far less than not being able to use the hardware at all. In the end, perhaps Linus should have listened more to Andrew Tanenbaum. With less monolithic OS, people would be able to write key services in any language they want.
Really can't use T-mobile through combination of LTE, Wi-Fi calling and limited free data roaming? Your highest data use to date would be prohibitively expensive on best limited plan? Then stay on your current plan while it lasts and look at your options then. I definitely wouldn't pay month after month to just preserve what you might need some day.
Well, were they different than penalties for leaving a math class? Are you dead set against mandatory education in general? Just anything hands on and useful?
I remember, with great fondness, trimming flower bushes and collecting dry grass for livestock, for 3 weeks every summer. I agree that they can be inappropriate tasks or inadequate supervision - need to make sure kids are not bullied for example - but don't see anything wrong with the concept in general.
I would say that rich people especially need to be introduced to social services, including due to more spare time and greater access to transportation, but most of all more resources to invest in a cause. As long as it's substantial work like working in soup kitchen for a year every Saturday, I don't see the problem with them getting the credit.
Maybe not donating blood for high scroll age, but challenging and substantial social service. If you are at least familiar with a variety of ways to contribute, even if you are only doing it to get points, it's more beneficial to educate you than someone who is not. You will remember these lessons when you are in your 40s and have more free time and empathy.
Roads, fire/police department, public parks, libraries... It would be very useful to give everyone some amount of cash so that they are able to take care of themselves and then reward beneficial activities and tax problematic ones. But in the context of a city, traditional use for publicly beneficial projects is quite straightforward.
Every citizen equally, of course, as environment is a public resource. People will then have incentive to get the income but minimize their own footprint.
Horrible story title. Actually, you can waste food all you want, but you have to place it in compost bin. I still think it's a dumb law. Landfill disposal rates should be set high enough to compensate for city costs and adverse environmental impact. People would then have incentive to reduce non-recyclable waste in all kind of ways, not just by sorting.
It takes 10s of milliseconds to read and decompress one full screen jpeg. You can not even imagine what kind of rich apps would be possible if this could happen in a blink of an eye. Of course if it kills battery in an hour, you wouldn't want to imagine, so the improvement has to be specs per watt.
I am sure some people are interested in the topic on its own right, but obviously most just want to escape from systemd. In this case, please first read this paper. Even if you think the end result is crap, there are some very lucid ideas in there. You would do well to at least consider them as you adopt OpenRC or whatever in your thin Linux distribution. I swear that I have no relationship with systemd project and only occasional hobbyist relationship with Linux.
Every server is different, packages and dependencies are very much relevant. Some need a fully functional framebuffer with OpenGL support to generate web images/video.
If you are asking to configure system on build master and then mass deploy to individual servers, without any unnecessary development/configuration tools, that's a reasonable idea.
You don't debug devices like watches and lightbulbs by connecting a keyboard and booting them to single user mode. You mount them as a drive, or they replicate logs over network.
It's easy to laugh at Android for limited upgrades. But the truth is, you wouldn't like most of the upgrades if they were available. iOS8 is probably perfectly fine on iPhone 6/6+. On others devices, you should only upgrade when you need the new features. Performance is likely to go strictly downward.
Parallel is trivial.. hehe. Not when it needs to work unattended every time. Monitoring TCP/UDP sockets and starting/stopping services and their dependencies on demand in /bin/sh - interesting! Managing messages from all smart light bulbs in your house in text files? Go and try it.
Or is it complex simply because it takes complexity to do things better? Gnome is more complex than twm for example, but many people find extra functionality useful. Is traditional script-based init a good match for cell phones, watches, robotics, other new devices that Linux needs to support to remain relevant?
I fully understand that there should be server and education oriented Linux distributions where simplicity and ease of customization are more important than boot time milliseconds. Just don't think that others are doing anything wrong by catering to their own needs.
Think just for a second about how web email works, especially web e-mail that provides fast full content search. Or SMTP from outside systems. Can't read user's e-mail. Riiiight! Maybe with all open source client stack using public keys exchanged out of band.
At least in the US there are countless software/IT jobs because every business relies on software for its continuous existence in some way. Yor may have to downsize and live on lower wages for some time, but you will live.
J2ME? Palm/WebOS? iPhone? Android?
Are you saying that buying servers is the same thing as maintaining, backing up, securing, auditing servers? What is your threat profile? If NSA or Amazon hacking your data are realistic top concerns, by all means deploy your own datacenter with armed guards. If it's common crooks, big providers are more likely to discover and patch exploits, detect intrusions and withstands DDOS attacks. It's their nest egg and they focus on protecting it.