yes, if you don't mind getting the performance of a Pentium 3 out of your core I7 system whenever that driver becomes the I/o bottleneck. All that extra context switching basically guarantees it will happen regularly.
You can't be serious. BSD license is fine for people who largely don't care if their code is forked, patched, and closed, then used to compete against the original author or the community at large. While this gives the person doing this more freedom initially, it has the potential to deny the relevance of, and long term interest in, the original open project in the future. The end result is one less open source project in the market. This attack vector, used by aggressive vendors who want to kill open competition, is what the GPL was intended to prevent. In one sense BSD is one step closer to public domain than GPL, but it doesn't protect the community relevance, market value, and continued program source access, which is a loss of freedom for everyone else.
The GPL prevents this by providing legal guarantees for the freedom to tinker with that program indefinitely. The code and any modifications to it remain available to anyone because those who publicly distribute changed binaries must also publicly distribute source patches. With proprietary licenses you pay money for binaries (source, sometimes). With GPL code, your 'payment' for using it is giving any user the code you've added (if any) when requested. There's nothing viral or damaging about any of this because the answer is the same: if you don't like the license, ask the authors if they are willing to give you an alternative (since they still own the copyright), or don't use the code. If it's a library under LGPL then you can dynamically link against it without sharing the code that links to it. Most GPL libraries are LGPL now, so that's not an issue either.
The GCC guys have made it clear that programs compiled with gcc do not have to be GPL, and it's used in countless projects, both proprietary and OSS, for over two decades. I doubt it's going anywhere anytime soon.
broadcast tv is partly funded by the taxpayer, though the line is getting quite blurry now. At the very least, the taxpayer funds the FCC which grants the right to NBC to broadcast unimpeded on specific frequencies.
If this was about protecting americans (or anyone really) from terrorists, those ships would be in the middle east, launching cruise missiles and taking out cities of countries that harbor them. No, this is about maintaining a culture of fear to make people used to the idea of total surveillance and slow loss of liberty.
Ok, so what are the user expectations for this site? List the top ten in a text editor, and start there. Create another top ten list for sites targeting nanosecond attention spans. Compare. Attempts to widen 'accessibility' to the latter kills vertical growth, ie deep coverage of niche topics. At one end of the continuum there're sites like cryptome, insecure.org, hell, even kuro5hin, and at the other, there's cnn.com, which gives shallow summaries of world events to the general population. Where do you think slashdot falls within that spectrum? The middle ground might seem reasonable at first, but, for sites that cover topics of niche interest, you really need to bias it towards that vertical growth side of the continuum so that those relatively few numbers of users come back repeatedly. If you water content down in an attempt to draw in more neurotypical stereotypicals, you'll kill the site as the core userbase will bail, leaving only a few typicals who really were not that interested to begin wtih. If dice was looking to buy a site with general mass appeal, they chose poorly.
I realize you might be tempted to go the path of tablet and phone friendliness because that's where a lot of sites are going, but this site's meat and potatoes is about the commentary. It's nearly impossible to participate in commentary here without a real keyboard at the very least.
The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.
Why's that? If 'progress' is defined by things like iOS, windows 8 metro, gnome 3, unity, and other examples of dumbing down, why would you want to go there? This site's not for your average tweenager's tablet.
Just focus on making the comments system less klutzy.. It took long enough to get this one working right.
Labeling men's complaints as 'canards' is not very understanding or sympathetic. With uncaring people like you running around, it's no wonder they're not reported. Isn't that what feminists say about female rape victims' supposed refusal to report? Do you not see your hypocrisy? You're complaining about those who 'shame' female victims, but if men do, you're just as callous.
Of course, divorce court wouldn't be considered rape.. It's a rape if she says it is, right? What he says is irrelevant? Some equality there buddy. Women can and do rape about as much as men do (esp children). They also psychologically abuse, punch, kick, stab, and throw blunt objects, and thanks to feminist lobbied 'mandatory arrest laws', HE's arrested for HER behavior, even if he's the bludgeoned victim. Even in murder cases, she's given lighter sentences (or even let go) if she can 'prove' (ie put on a good tear jerkin' show), that he 'abused' her somehow, and nancies like you lap that shit up. If you support feminists, you support this hypocrisy.
The current feminist legal arena allows them great power. I watched two guys at a job get wiped out by a woman in the office because they refused her sexual advances. I'd call that 'rape' too. Of course, I'm a male so I'm not allowed to define the word. Only she is. How convenient. You can quote all the stats you want (probably from highly politically motivated, questionable sources), but as long as feminists only consider the needs and whims of one side, they will never have equality. I think that is intentional at this point. There's just too much consistency in their message, lobbied-for law, and their 'accomplishments' to think otherwise.
As far as stats go, the devil's always in the details. Of the men who claimed they 'raped', how much of that was truth, and how much of it was social conditioning (eg stockholm syndrome)? Boys are now spoon fed this fear mongering, shaming language crap starting in elementary school. Of the women who claimed rape, how many of those accusations were actually true? Good luck getting the truth for that.
These are your friends, your family members. Stop turning a blind eye to the problem, admit it exists, and if you see these sort of attitudes expressed, F*'in say something. Your silence or friendly laugh gets interpreted as agreement.
Gee, once again, I was about to say the same thing to you. Every time you support feminism, you support hatred, stereotyping, and distrust of men. That is blatantly sexist. The philosophy is NOT about equity of any kind.
The only false equivalence is your assumption that men and women are the same. They're not. Men objectify women's looks because they are indicators of fertility. Women objectify men for their ability to produce, their social status, and, yes, their looks as well. Women do this because it's part of their biological imperative to get the best possible provider for them and their children. People like you need to quit shaming men for their intrinsics while praising women for theirs.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong places. Men are objectified and stereotyped every time they're separated from their wealth, property, and income in family court, every time they're the butt end of jokes on the media and commercials, and every time the left wing passes one of their 'women rule, men drool' laws that make it easier and easier for women to perpetrate frauds out of spite (eg, vawa, title9, and obama's no-proof-should-be-required 'dear colleague' letter). As far as booth babes go, objectification is part of the sexual game. Both genders play it. I tend to ignore them and look at what's being sold on its own merits, but I don't object as long as everyone is there of their free will. Those girls are paid for their time and they're willing to do it, so there's no harm. The problem with guys like you is your chivalrous "women must be protected" instinct is not compatible with a belief that says women are intrinsically equal. I'll bet in many cases, these guys think at some bestial level that it'll help their chances with them. Get off your high horse.
This is a case of system-wide, legal, and social hypocrisy. Feminists and society are telling men "do as they say, not as they do" and calling it 'equality.' It's a blatant newspeak definition.
The first step to remedying a problem is admitting that it exists.
javascript 'applications' are little more than giant cobbled together hacks. Write the app in a native language and be done with it. Do it right once, and you won't have to do it over and over again.
Some of us still use that 'obsolete' drawing api because the opengl compositor kills performance. Of course, you'd have to be using your desktop for more than just a facebook terminal to notice..
The implication being that speed limits are set to maximize profit, not safety, because warning other drivers denies cops and the state their quotas and revenues. If it was about safety, the practice would be encouraged as it would cause more people to slow down.
It shouldn't be a legal mandate either. Keeping already released patches available should be a courtesy that all vendors willingly do. The good will encourages repeat buys. Eventually, vendor support will be so expensive and so unappealing that people will just run a free unix on commodity hardware because they get better help from internet forums than they do from vendors.
One more reason to avoid buying or recommending HP to would be buyers. The last thing I'd want to deal with is not being able to get a copy of a firmware update for someone's out of warranty system, server or not because I'm not "HP certified support" or whatever. In 2014, there is no fucking reason whatsoever to not have all issued patches available as direct downloads. This is especially true for legacy hardware.
It's interesting how women's sensitivity doesn't seem to stop them from engaging in exactly the same behaviors towards men, at work, on tv, in movies, in music, (recently in games too), the law, college campuses (eg pulling fire alarms at toronto university), and pretty much everywhere else. When challenged about this hypocrisy, they respond with shaming language. It's hard to feel sympathy for a group that routinely engages in the same behaviors it complains about.
Perhaps the reality is that both genders behave this way from time to time, and as adults, we should just let it roll off our backs and get back to work so that they are paid for it.. After all, the definition of 'professional' is someone who is paid for their work, not someone suffering from delusional solipsistic narcissism.
Since when? Your statement fails logic 101. Only a feminists would think that absence must be proof since 'the patriarchy' is everywhere. Talk about paranoia.
Your post suggests you're not terribly interested in helping kids get into programming either. You're much more interested in sandbagging specific open source projects' politics and the GPL license.
The politics of projects like the kernel keep the insecure out. This is needed, or else most of the social effort goes towards appeasing insecurity rather than making headway on the project. The project recently dealt with this in the form of sarah sharp. I find this dynamic refreshing as output code matters much more than gender, race, compliance with some person's or group's politically correct behavioral expectation, or any other irrelevancy. The result is that the weak drop out. So be it. While it might be true that they lose a few good coders in the process (or turn them off on the outset), the project stays healthy over all. The benefits of immune systems like this may come with a few allergies, but not having one is untenable.
I think the most respectable gauntlet that can be fought is the one where a subject is chosen and mastered without much external motivation. Those people are the ones who become greats later on. This push towards 'infinite accessibility' comes at the expense of the opportunities for future generations to gain wisdom and understanding that cannot be learned any other way.
Great, so why is it ok for women to create all-women (or at least female dominated) departments in organizations, but when men do it, it's suddenly 'sexist' and 'oppressive' to women?
Right, but it's not ok to destroy the interest one group has in these things just to increase the interest of another, especially under the guise of 'equality'. 2 out of 3 college grads are women, now, so perhaps we should be asking "Were are all the men?"
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yes, if you don't mind getting the performance of a Pentium 3 out of your core I7 system whenever that driver becomes the I/o bottleneck. All that extra context switching basically guarantees it will happen regularly.
Is this supposed to convince me that snowden was a criminal instead of a patriot reporting on the behavior of corrupt government?
On the contrary, some purity is always needed to refresh natural atrophy.
You can't be serious. BSD license is fine for people who largely don't care if their code is forked, patched, and closed, then used to compete against the original author or the community at large. While this gives the person doing this more freedom initially, it has the potential to deny the relevance of, and long term interest in, the original open project in the future. The end result is one less open source project in the market. This attack vector, used by aggressive vendors who want to kill open competition, is what the GPL was intended to prevent. In one sense BSD is one step closer to public domain than GPL, but it doesn't protect the community relevance, market value, and continued program source access, which is a loss of freedom for everyone else.
The GPL prevents this by providing legal guarantees for the freedom to tinker with that program indefinitely. The code and any modifications to it remain available to anyone because those who publicly distribute changed binaries must also publicly distribute source patches. With proprietary licenses you pay money for binaries (source, sometimes). With GPL code, your 'payment' for using it is giving any user the code you've added (if any) when requested. There's nothing viral or damaging about any of this because the answer is the same: if you don't like the license, ask the authors if they are willing to give you an alternative (since they still own the copyright), or don't use the code. If it's a library under LGPL then you can dynamically link against it without sharing the code that links to it. Most GPL libraries are LGPL now, so that's not an issue either.
The GCC guys have made it clear that programs compiled with gcc do not have to be GPL, and it's used in countless projects, both proprietary and OSS, for over two decades. I doubt it's going anywhere anytime soon.
broadcast tv is partly funded by the taxpayer, though the line is getting quite blurry now. At the very least, the taxpayer funds the FCC which grants the right to NBC to broadcast unimpeded on specific frequencies.
If this was about protecting americans (or anyone really) from terrorists, those ships would be in the middle east, launching cruise missiles and taking out cities of countries that harbor them. No, this is about maintaining a culture of fear to make people used to the idea of total surveillance and slow loss of liberty.
Ok, so what are the user expectations for this site? List the top ten in a text editor, and start there. Create another top ten list for sites targeting nanosecond attention spans. Compare. Attempts to widen 'accessibility' to the latter kills vertical growth, ie deep coverage of niche topics. At one end of the continuum there're sites like cryptome, insecure.org, hell, even kuro5hin, and at the other, there's cnn.com, which gives shallow summaries of world events to the general population. Where do you think slashdot falls within that spectrum? The middle ground might seem reasonable at first, but, for sites that cover topics of niche interest, you really need to bias it towards that vertical growth side of the continuum so that those relatively few numbers of users come back repeatedly. If you water content down in an attempt to draw in more neurotypical stereotypicals, you'll kill the site as the core userbase will bail, leaving only a few typicals who really were not that interested to begin wtih. If dice was looking to buy a site with general mass appeal, they chose poorly.
I realize you might be tempted to go the path of tablet and phone friendliness because that's where a lot of sites are going, but this site's meat and potatoes is about the commentary. It's nearly impossible to participate in commentary here without a real keyboard at the very least.
The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.
Why's that? If 'progress' is defined by things like iOS, windows 8 metro, gnome 3, unity, and other examples of dumbing down, why would you want to go there? This site's not for your average tweenager's tablet.
Just focus on making the comments system less klutzy.. It took long enough to get this one working right.
This will go over well when one of these trucks mows down a kid.
Labeling men's complaints as 'canards' is not very understanding or sympathetic. With uncaring people like you running around, it's no wonder they're not reported. Isn't that what feminists say about female rape victims' supposed refusal to report? Do you not see your hypocrisy? You're complaining about those who 'shame' female victims, but if men do, you're just as callous.
Of course, divorce court wouldn't be considered rape.. It's a rape if she says it is, right? What he says is irrelevant? Some equality there buddy. Women can and do rape about as much as men do (esp children). They also psychologically abuse, punch, kick, stab, and throw blunt objects, and thanks to feminist lobbied 'mandatory arrest laws', HE's arrested for HER behavior, even if he's the bludgeoned victim. Even in murder cases, she's given lighter sentences (or even let go) if she can 'prove' (ie put on a good tear jerkin' show), that he 'abused' her somehow, and nancies like you lap that shit up. If you support feminists, you support this hypocrisy.
The current feminist legal arena allows them great power. I watched two guys at a job get wiped out by a woman in the office because they refused her sexual advances. I'd call that 'rape' too. Of course, I'm a male so I'm not allowed to define the word. Only she is. How convenient. You can quote all the stats you want (probably from highly politically motivated, questionable sources), but as long as feminists only consider the needs and whims of one side, they will never have equality. I think that is intentional at this point. There's just too much consistency in their message, lobbied-for law, and their 'accomplishments' to think otherwise.
As far as stats go, the devil's always in the details. Of the men who claimed they 'raped', how much of that was truth, and how much of it was social conditioning (eg stockholm syndrome)? Boys are now spoon fed this fear mongering, shaming language crap starting in elementary school. Of the women who claimed rape, how many of those accusations were actually true? Good luck getting the truth for that.
These are your friends, your family members. Stop turning a blind eye to the problem, admit it exists, and if you see these sort of attitudes expressed, F*'in say something. Your silence or friendly laugh gets interpreted as agreement.
Gee, once again, I was about to say the same thing to you. Every time you support feminism, you support hatred, stereotyping, and distrust of men. That is blatantly sexist. The philosophy is NOT about equity of any kind.
The only false equivalence is your assumption that men and women are the same. They're not. Men objectify women's looks because they are indicators of fertility. Women objectify men for their ability to produce, their social status, and, yes, their looks as well. Women do this because it's part of their biological imperative to get the best possible provider for them and their children. People like you need to quit shaming men for their intrinsics while praising women for theirs.
Perhaps you're looking in the wrong places. Men are objectified and stereotyped every time they're separated from their wealth, property, and income in family court, every time they're the butt end of jokes on the media and commercials, and every time the left wing passes one of their 'women rule, men drool' laws that make it easier and easier for women to perpetrate frauds out of spite (eg, vawa, title9, and obama's no-proof-should-be-required 'dear colleague' letter). As far as booth babes go, objectification is part of the sexual game. Both genders play it. I tend to ignore them and look at what's being sold on its own merits, but I don't object as long as everyone is there of their free will. Those girls are paid for their time and they're willing to do it, so there's no harm. The problem with guys like you is your chivalrous "women must be protected" instinct is not compatible with a belief that says women are intrinsically equal. I'll bet in many cases, these guys think at some bestial level that it'll help their chances with them. Get off your high horse.
This is a case of system-wide, legal, and social hypocrisy. Feminists and society are telling men "do as they say, not as they do" and calling it 'equality.' It's a blatant newspeak definition.
The first step to remedying a problem is admitting that it exists.
funny, I was about to say the same thing to you.
javascript 'applications' are little more than giant cobbled together hacks. Write the app in a native language and be done with it. Do it right once, and you won't have to do it over and over again.
Seems to be a trend in a lot of places, now. I know it's rapidly becoming a tired cliche to say this, but maybe the movie idiocracy is prophetic.
Some of us still use that 'obsolete' drawing api because the opengl compositor kills performance. Of course, you'd have to be using your desktop for more than just a facebook terminal to notice..
My big issue with it is the crazy amounts of wasted whitespace. This is a trend in site layout that needs to die.
The implication being that speed limits are set to maximize profit, not safety, because warning other drivers denies cops and the state their quotas and revenues. If it was about safety, the practice would be encouraged as it would cause more people to slow down.
The same could potentially be said of any of them.
It shouldn't be a legal mandate either. Keeping already released patches available should be a courtesy that all vendors willingly do. The good will encourages repeat buys. Eventually, vendor support will be so expensive and so unappealing that people will just run a free unix on commodity hardware because they get better help from internet forums than they do from vendors.
One more reason to avoid buying or recommending HP to would be buyers. The last thing I'd want to deal with is not being able to get a copy of a firmware update for someone's out of warranty system, server or not because I'm not "HP certified support" or whatever. In 2014, there is no fucking reason whatsoever to not have all issued patches available as direct downloads. This is especially true for legacy hardware.
It's interesting how women's sensitivity doesn't seem to stop them from engaging in exactly the same behaviors towards men, at work, on tv, in movies, in music, (recently in games too), the law, college campuses (eg pulling fire alarms at toronto university), and pretty much everywhere else. When challenged about this hypocrisy, they respond with shaming language. It's hard to feel sympathy for a group that routinely engages in the same behaviors it complains about.
Perhaps the reality is that both genders behave this way from time to time, and as adults, we should just let it roll off our backs and get back to work so that they are paid for it.. After all, the definition of 'professional' is someone who is paid for their work, not someone suffering from delusional solipsistic narcissism.
Since when? Your statement fails logic 101. Only a feminists would think that absence must be proof since 'the patriarchy' is everywhere. Talk about paranoia.
Your post suggests you're not terribly interested in helping kids get into programming either. You're much more interested in sandbagging specific open source projects' politics and the GPL license.
The politics of projects like the kernel keep the insecure out. This is needed, or else most of the social effort goes towards appeasing insecurity rather than making headway on the project. The project recently dealt with this in the form of sarah sharp. I find this dynamic refreshing as output code matters much more than gender, race, compliance with some person's or group's politically correct behavioral expectation, or any other irrelevancy. The result is that the weak drop out. So be it. While it might be true that they lose a few good coders in the process (or turn them off on the outset), the project stays healthy over all. The benefits of immune systems like this may come with a few allergies, but not having one is untenable.
I think the most respectable gauntlet that can be fought is the one where a subject is chosen and mastered without much external motivation. Those people are the ones who become greats later on. This push towards 'infinite accessibility' comes at the expense of the opportunities for future generations to gain wisdom and understanding that cannot be learned any other way.
Great, so why is it ok for women to create all-women (or at least female dominated) departments in organizations, but when men do it, it's suddenly 'sexist' and 'oppressive' to women?
Right, but it's not ok to destroy the interest one group has in these things just to increase the interest of another, especially under the guise of 'equality'. 2 out of 3 college grads are women, now, so perhaps we should be asking "Were are all the men?"
your post doesn't sound like someone who's interested in equality. it sounds more like someone who's got a superiority complex.