My Efika runs Ubuntu until the FreeBSD i.MX5 port is finished, and after the last update udevd seems to want to use all of my CPU. No idea how or why, but it means that after booting it takes 3-5 seconds between clicking on anything on the screen and getting a response. Oh, and even though Canonical was paid by Genesi to support the platform, half of the standard dialogs don't fit on the screen.
Read my post again. I'm not complaining about it - I said it had a great debugger. Apparently it's got better since then, but I've still not seen anything as good as the old version so any improvements are irrelevant in the comparison. Of course, if it's got a lot worse, then your post would make sense...
I do most of my coding in vim, which is a nice text editor once you add the clang autocomplete plugin. I've not used Visual Studio since version 5, and even that version had a better debugger than anything I've seen for C-like languages since (still not close to Smalltalk-80, but you can't have everything).
Hehe, it sounds better than what that troll APK is doing to you right now.
I'm finding it hilarious. He's attempting to disprove my comment that mentioning hosts files makes him post a long, rambling, off-topic comment by... posting a long, rambling, off-topic comment on everything I post.
He does know who you are and what you've accomplished, yes?
Oh, I doubt it. I don't really tie my/. identity to other stuff I've done unless it happens to be on-topic, and he barely reads the posts he replies to let alone other ones. Still, I'm looking forward to his demonstration of more detailed knowledge of computing than me. It should be highly informative.
I am slightly amused, just not in the way APK was intending...
He seems to think I'm downmodding him now, ignoring the fact that even if I had mod points I couldn't mod in threads I'd posted in. Apparently the idea that someone else might think he's trolling by pasting the same off-topic rambling on everything I post has never occurred to him...
You'll not how whenever Slashdot is hiring, they studiously avoid posting job adverts on Slashdot. They wouldn't want anyone technically competent (or literate) applying...
I disagree. Currently, flash blocking plugins are much more mature than ones to block HTML5 videos. I encourage Slashdot to keep using Flash for this kind of inanity. It makes it much easier to skip over the video, because it just renders as a grey box, which doesn't take a noticeable amount of CPU power.
It wouldn't be a network neutrality issue if they offered connection to their network to other content providers with the same terms that they offer to their in-house content provider. The problem comes when they are the only ones able to get this special privilege.
How about a video of Timothy Lord actually checking a submitted story before he posts it? Maybe also a video of Timothy Lord attending a remedial English class?
This is the core issue of network neutrality! A network provider should be a neutral network provider, it should not prioritise one vendor's service over another vendor's equivalent service. Network operators being content providers at all is a violation of network neutrality in its purest form. Imposing limits on other services' traffic but not on their own is a blatant violation by even the loosest definition.
The problem isn't technical, it's legal. Even if (and that's a big if) Sealand is an independent country, if all of their traffic goes via a single radio transceiver on the UK mainland that means that it's just as easy for the UK government to shut them down as if their servers were hosted in the UK.
Actually, you've made my point quite well. While you often say things that are correct, your habit of flooding discussions with very long, totally off-topic, stream-of-consciousness, ramblings as soon as a specific keyword (e.h. hosts files) is mentioned is exactly what I was referring to in my post. Why would I want to disprove any of the points you made about hosts files? They may all be true for all that I care - they are totally irrelevant to the topic. I expect that you will now reply to this message telling me that you've 'totally destroyed me' or similar, with at least a thousand words of absolutely no relevance at all.
This one always confuses me. It isn't unique to games shops - go into any city centre and you will find like shops clustered together (here we have a bunch of banks all on the same street, the next street over there are a bunch of jewellers, etc.) I can only assume that it must work, otherwise they wouldn't do it, but I'm at a loss to understand why.
It's not a new phenomenon. Roman cities were actually designed like this, with all of a particular type of shop being on the same street. You can still see some street names that are relics of this, being corruptions of the latin for 'street of butchers' or 'street of bakers'. It made life easy for shoppers, because if you wanted to buy meat, you went to the street of butchers. If one butcher didn't have what you wanted, you'd go to the next one.
The same logic still applies today. If you have shops selling similar things nearby then one will get business from people who go to the other and find that they don't stock quite what they want. They will get more business in aggregate because people wanting to buy something that they sell will go to that bit of town, knowing that at least one of them will sell what they need.
It doesn't work when you have two identical shops though. You can have two branches of the same store, but they need to specialise (e.g. have one focus on console games and the other focus on PC games).
32 bits is obvious. The half precision floating point format was actually quite neat. It's pretty much useless for anything except graphics, but with 16 bit floats you can represent a far more useful range of colours (for humans) than with 16 bit integers and get a rendering quality that is much closer to 32-bit floats than to 8-bit integers. Maybe not deserving of a patent, but it was considered pretty clever at the time. It made it into OpenGL ES, because it was useful for saving memory on small-footprint devices.
Not all of them, they kept the bits that were still useful. The things related to high-speed interconnects and efficient NUMA systems, which are still relevant in the supercomputer market, they kept. The obsolete crap, they sold to a patent troll.
They're related. If public servants can abuse members of the public and then pass the responsibility for restitution on to other members of the public, then they have no incentive to stop. If the fine were paid by the officers in question, then it would be a different matter.
When this sort of thing is actually designed for security, there is a dedicated crypto coprocessor with some memory that is write-only from the perspective of the rest of the system. You write the key to it once, and then it will encrypt or decrypt data that you pass to it. The decoder chip can be locked and you must supply the correct passcode to enable its access to the stored key. If you provide the wrong key a preset number of times, it deletes the internal copy of the key and the only way you can get at the data is by restoring the key from another device (typically a backup stored in a safe). Even if the entire OS is compromised, it can't get at the key unless it provides the correct passcode to the decryption chip (actually, it can't get at the key then either, but it can instruct the crypto chip to do it). Some ARM SoCs incorporate this functionality.
Exactly write. Proprietary software is written so you can sell it, open source software is written so you can use it. If your open source program solves the problem whose existence was the reason for its creation, then it's a success. If it partially solves that problem, then it's a partial success.
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If only I could mod in threads where I'd posted. It's been a little while since a Slashdot post actually made me laugh aloud...
My Efika runs Ubuntu until the FreeBSD i.MX5 port is finished, and after the last update udevd seems to want to use all of my CPU. No idea how or why, but it means that after booting it takes 3-5 seconds between clicking on anything on the screen and getting a response. Oh, and even though Canonical was paid by Genesi to support the platform, half of the standard dialogs don't fit on the screen.
Read my post again. I'm not complaining about it - I said it had a great debugger. Apparently it's got better since then, but I've still not seen anything as good as the old version so any improvements are irrelevant in the comparison. Of course, if it's got a lot worse, then your post would make sense...
GE or one of about half a dozen companies. Some things, like pebble bed reactors are quite cheap.
Buying the fuel, on the other hand, is quite difficult.
From what I remember of history, wasn't the USA formed so that people didn't have to bow in front of a European?
I do most of my coding in vim, which is a nice text editor once you add the clang autocomplete plugin. I've not used Visual Studio since version 5, and even that version had a better debugger than anything I've seen for C-like languages since (still not close to Smalltalk-80, but you can't have everything).
Hehe, it sounds better than what that troll APK is doing to you right now.
I'm finding it hilarious. He's attempting to disprove my comment that mentioning hosts files makes him post a long, rambling, off-topic comment by... posting a long, rambling, off-topic comment on everything I post.
He does know who you are and what you've accomplished, yes?
Oh, I doubt it. I don't really tie my /. identity to other stuff I've done unless it happens to be on-topic, and he barely reads the posts he replies to let alone other ones. Still, I'm looking forward to his demonstration of more detailed knowledge of computing than me. It should be highly informative.
I am slightly amused, just not in the way APK was intending...
He seems to think I'm downmodding him now, ignoring the fact that even if I had mod points I couldn't mod in threads I'd posted in. Apparently the idea that someone else might think he's trolling by pasting the same off-topic rambling on everything I post has never occurred to him...
That's not all that they're for. They also stop us having to see videos - or even still images - of Timothy Lord...
You'll not how whenever Slashdot is hiring, they studiously avoid posting job adverts on Slashdot. They wouldn't want anyone technically competent (or literate) applying...
Works fine for me in Safari 5.1.4 on OS X and ClickToPlugin installed. I see a grey box, just as I'd expect.
I disagree. Currently, flash blocking plugins are much more mature than ones to block HTML5 videos. I encourage Slashdot to keep using Flash for this kind of inanity. It makes it much easier to skip over the video, because it just renders as a grey box, which doesn't take a noticeable amount of CPU power.
It wouldn't be a network neutrality issue if they offered connection to their network to other content providers with the same terms that they offer to their in-house content provider. The problem comes when they are the only ones able to get this special privilege.
How about a video of Timothy Lord actually checking a submitted story before he posts it? Maybe also a video of Timothy Lord attending a remedial English class?
This is the core issue of network neutrality! A network provider should be a neutral network provider, it should not prioritise one vendor's service over another vendor's equivalent service. Network operators being content providers at all is a violation of network neutrality in its purest form. Imposing limits on other services' traffic but not on their own is a blatant violation by even the loosest definition.
The problem isn't technical, it's legal. Even if (and that's a big if) Sealand is an independent country, if all of their traffic goes via a single radio transceiver on the UK mainland that means that it's just as easy for the UK government to shut them down as if their servers were hosted in the UK.
Actually, you've made my point quite well. While you often say things that are correct, your habit of flooding discussions with very long, totally off-topic, stream-of-consciousness, ramblings as soon as a specific keyword (e.h. hosts files) is mentioned is exactly what I was referring to in my post. Why would I want to disprove any of the points you made about hosts files? They may all be true for all that I care - they are totally irrelevant to the topic. I expect that you will now reply to this message telling me that you've 'totally destroyed me' or similar, with at least a thousand words of absolutely no relevance at all.
A person who believes that oppression is best handled by the private sector.
This one always confuses me. It isn't unique to games shops - go into any city centre and you will find like shops clustered together (here we have a bunch of banks all on the same street, the next street over there are a bunch of jewellers, etc.) I can only assume that it must work, otherwise they wouldn't do it, but I'm at a loss to understand why.
It's not a new phenomenon. Roman cities were actually designed like this, with all of a particular type of shop being on the same street. You can still see some street names that are relics of this, being corruptions of the latin for 'street of butchers' or 'street of bakers'. It made life easy for shoppers, because if you wanted to buy meat, you went to the street of butchers. If one butcher didn't have what you wanted, you'd go to the next one.
The same logic still applies today. If you have shops selling similar things nearby then one will get business from people who go to the other and find that they don't stock quite what they want. They will get more business in aggregate because people wanting to buy something that they sell will go to that bit of town, knowing that at least one of them will sell what they need.
It doesn't work when you have two identical shops though. You can have two branches of the same store, but they need to specialise (e.g. have one focus on console games and the other focus on PC games).
I've read up on "made redundant"
I thought that was international. What do Americans say instead?
32 bits is obvious. The half precision floating point format was actually quite neat. It's pretty much useless for anything except graphics, but with 16 bit floats you can represent a far more useful range of colours (for humans) than with 16 bit integers and get a rendering quality that is much closer to 32-bit floats than to 8-bit integers. Maybe not deserving of a patent, but it was considered pretty clever at the time. It made it into OpenGL ES, because it was useful for saving memory on small-footprint devices.
Not all of them, they kept the bits that were still useful. The things related to high-speed interconnects and efficient NUMA systems, which are still relevant in the supercomputer market, they kept. The obsolete crap, they sold to a patent troll.
They're related. If public servants can abuse members of the public and then pass the responsibility for restitution on to other members of the public, then they have no incentive to stop. If the fine were paid by the officers in question, then it would be a different matter.
So, the range of punishments is from being told not to do it again, all the way up to being given some paid time off? Where do I sign up?
When this sort of thing is actually designed for security, there is a dedicated crypto coprocessor with some memory that is write-only from the perspective of the rest of the system. You write the key to it once, and then it will encrypt or decrypt data that you pass to it. The decoder chip can be locked and you must supply the correct passcode to enable its access to the stored key. If you provide the wrong key a preset number of times, it deletes the internal copy of the key and the only way you can get at the data is by restoring the key from another device (typically a backup stored in a safe). Even if the entire OS is compromised, it can't get at the key unless it provides the correct passcode to the decryption chip (actually, it can't get at the key then either, but it can instruct the crypto chip to do it). Some ARM SoCs incorporate this functionality.
Exactly write. Proprietary software is written so you can sell it, open source software is written so you can use it. If your open source program solves the problem whose existence was the reason for its creation, then it's a success. If it partially solves that problem, then it's a partial success.