Uhm.. if you cant bundle a browser with the OS these days
The antitrust case wasn't saying "bundling is illegal", but "using a monopoly in one market (operating systems) to steamroller over the top of superior products in another market (web browsers) is illegal"
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It may be great, it may be awesome, it may be the next big thing. But it's not for me.
So don't use it? Linux noobs were complaining for years about how there were too many desktops to choose from, and they're all still there:-/
Why does every distro but Debian have this weird hangup where the GUI cannot be decoupled from the OS?
I'm not aware of any distros that do, only stupid whiney users; personally I'm very happily running ubuntu with E17 as the WM and a bunch of xterms to get work done
now, for good or ill, the left-hand vertical menu is a permanent desktop element
It is? I'm running Enlightenment as a WM and I don't see it...
How on earth did we go from noobs complaining that there were no defaults to noobs complaining that there are no choices so quickly, when the truth is that there have been defaults and choices all along?/o\
But that's just a computer-generated illusion, not a reflection of reality.
I wouldn't go that far, I'd say it's more like making an educated guess -- and while it's true that a guess is a guess and you should never take it for fact, a guessing tool that is consistently 95% accurate is still incredibly useful, even if just to narrow down the places that humans should then go and investigate by hand.
Given that inclusion in the humble bundle = instant million times popularity multiplier, I would think that games being included and written about would be somewhat correlated. I got SpaceChem from the bundle yesterday, and just before reading this story I was emailing some university staff I know thinking that they might have a use for it:-P
If I'm making two posts in ~5 minutes, it's faster -- if I make three posts a day (say, one in the morning before work, one at lunch, one at night) then even though I only ever come from two IP addresses it still spends ages checking every time (frequently stalling entirely:-/ )
How is it the IT organizations fault the developers are unaware of the effect of their software?
Because they didn't take the time to send a quick email saying "hey, your code breaks in production"?
As far as I can see, DevOps is just a fancy name for "people who are working together on the same project should probably talk to each other", and I'm amazed at the number of people who are surprised by or even hostile towards this suggestion.
I can see a load of really negative side effects to this tech, but this particular effect doesn't worry me; if anything, I think a world where it's useless to try and hide your appearance might even be a better one - all the normal looking people could then see that they look normal relative to each other, and they don't need to be ashamed for not matching up to their previous supermodel sample selection.
Indeed; I might not be able to afford an overpriced phone, so I have to settle for having a personality instead, but it still seems to get the job done:-)
Give me $150,000 and 3 months and I'll give you a relatively bug-free version of Hello World (no guarantees about the hardware though). If you want some more complicated software, I could put together a team to do that too; the price and time requirements will go up exponentially though.
When there are all these good firmwares around, why do so many companies stick with their shitty proprietary ones?
(Also applies to cheap NAS boxes; I just bought one where half the text was translated terribly from chinese, and the other half not at all -- with the aid of google translate I eventually figured out that to edit a user's password I had to click "Clam Party"... would just sticking freenas on it be so hard?:( )
I've been on the lookout for something like this; not because of the power, but because I have a lot of legacy PC hardware that I want to hook into my HDMI monitor, and the PCI / HDMI eras don't really overlap. This does seem overkill and overpriced for that job though...
After a decade of having the best minds in the industry doing everything they can to optimise it, moving ahead in leaps and bounds, it's still an order of magnitude or two slower than native. This to me suggests that it's seriously hard to optimise. And a lot more optimisation is still needed -- we can barely get simple webapps like gmail or facebook to perform well, let alone anything with heavy processing involved...
Javascript quake on my quad-core 3GHz box runs slower than native quake on my pentium 133. I would say "I guess it performs well enough for web page interaction", except slashdot, gmail and facebook frequently take up a core each and still feel noticably slower than native apps...
OpenSSL (which is what most open source software uses for SSL/TLS support) only supports TLS 1.0 (1.1 support has been added recently but not released) - GnuTLS (which some software can use as a compile-time option, normally defaulting to "off") supports 1.1 and 1.2
The government doesn't need patent law to enforce its ideas - it just says "no" and the thing is illegal in itself. Plus, patents would only work if the government was first to publish it, they'd be useless for closing existing holes.
And then when one release per week isn't enough and they want to move to one release per day, they'll move towards a new version for every bug addition:-P
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Uhm.. if you cant bundle a browser with the OS these days
The antitrust case wasn't saying "bundling is illegal", but "using a monopoly in one market (operating systems) to steamroller over the top of superior products in another market (web browsers) is illegal"
It may be great, it may be awesome, it may be the next big thing. But it's not for me.
So don't use it? Linux noobs were complaining for years about how there were too many desktops to choose from, and they're all still there :-/
at least we had consistent UIs across applications, and they were reasonably efficient to use
Speaking as someone who used linux circa 2001, ahahahahahahahah haha ahahahah, hahaha, hah.
Why does every distro but Debian have this weird hangup where the GUI cannot be decoupled from the OS?
I'm not aware of any distros that do, only stupid whiney users; personally I'm very happily running ubuntu with E17 as the WM and a bunch of xterms to get work done
now, for good or ill, the left-hand vertical menu is a permanent desktop element
It is? I'm running Enlightenment as a WM and I don't see it...
How on earth did we go from noobs complaining that there were no defaults to noobs complaining that there are no choices so quickly, when the truth is that there have been defaults and choices all along? /o\
But that's just a computer-generated illusion, not a reflection of reality.
I wouldn't go that far, I'd say it's more like making an educated guess -- and while it's true that a guess is a guess and you should never take it for fact, a guessing tool that is consistently 95% accurate is still incredibly useful, even if just to narrow down the places that humans should then go and investigate by hand.
Given that inclusion in the humble bundle = instant million times popularity multiplier, I would think that games being included and written about would be somewhat correlated. I got SpaceChem from the bundle yesterday, and just before reading this story I was emailing some university staff I know thinking that they might have a use for it :-P
"Dive out of the internet"?
If I'm making two posts in ~5 minutes, it's faster -- if I make three posts a day (say, one in the morning before work, one at lunch, one at night) then even though I only ever come from two IP addresses it still spends ages checking every time (frequently stalling entirely :-/ )
They're specifically concerned about cyberstalking and cyberbullying, and are introducing legislation to make both of those against the law.
Aren't stalking and (large-scale-) bullying illegal in any context already? How does "cyber" make them any different?
I already have a date lined up every week (or more) for the rest of my life
I hate to break this to you, but if you don't have seven dates every week, you are severely misunderstanding the gregorian calendar :-/
How is it the IT organizations fault the developers are unaware of the effect of their software?
Because they didn't take the time to send a quick email saying "hey, your code breaks in production"?
As far as I can see, DevOps is just a fancy name for "people who are working together on the same project should probably talk to each other", and I'm amazed at the number of people who are surprised by or even hostile towards this suggestion.
I can see a load of really negative side effects to this tech, but this particular effect doesn't worry me; if anything, I think a world where it's useless to try and hide your appearance might even be a better one - all the normal looking people could then see that they look normal relative to each other, and they don't need to be ashamed for not matching up to their previous supermodel sample selection.
Indeed; I might not be able to afford an overpriced phone, so I have to settle for having a personality instead, but it still seems to get the job done :-)
Speaking as an android user who only ever sees iphones in the hands of friends, does it have any apps other than Angry Birds? :-P
(I really am curious -- I'd put money on that being the top selling app, and I can't think of anything else that seems anywhere near as popular)
Just copy your older, smaller HD's to the one in current use and discard them
Or keep them, stored off-site: it might be a pain to find something compatible, but it's still an extra copy of the data
Give me $150,000 and 3 months and I'll give you a relatively bug-free version of Hello World (no guarantees about the hardware though). If you want some more complicated software, I could put together a team to do that too; the price and time requirements will go up exponentially though.
When there are all these good firmwares around, why do so many companies stick with their shitty proprietary ones?
(Also applies to cheap NAS boxes; I just bought one where half the text was translated terribly from chinese, and the other half not at all -- with the aid of google translate I eventually figured out that to edit a user's password I had to click "Clam Party"... would just sticking freenas on it be so hard? :( )
I've been on the lookout for something like this; not because of the power, but because I have a lot of legacy PC hardware that I want to hook into my HDMI monitor, and the PCI / HDMI eras don't really overlap. This does seem overkill and overpriced for that job though...
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There's nothing wrong with it.
After a decade of having the best minds in the industry doing everything they can to optimise it, moving ahead in leaps and bounds, it's still an order of magnitude or two slower than native. This to me suggests that it's seriously hard to optimise. And a lot more optimisation is still needed -- we can barely get simple webapps like gmail or facebook to perform well, let alone anything with heavy processing involved...
JavaScript performs well now (generally)
Javascript quake on my quad-core 3GHz box runs slower than native quake on my pentium 133. I would say "I guess it performs well enough for web page interaction", except slashdot, gmail and facebook frequently take up a core each and still feel noticably slower than native apps...
OpenSSL (which is what most open source software uses for SSL/TLS support) only supports TLS 1.0 (1.1 support has been added recently but not released) - GnuTLS (which some software can use as a compile-time option, normally defaulting to "off") supports 1.1 and 1.2
The government doesn't need patent law to enforce its ideas - it just says "no" and the thing is illegal in itself. Plus, patents would only work if the government was first to publish it, they'd be useless for closing existing holes.
And then when one release per week isn't enough and they want to move to one release per day, they'll move towards a new version for every bug addition :-P