Look, nobody uses Ubuntu because it has source code available. They use it because it's $free.
Actually, i use it because it has source available. I dont disagree with most of your post, i publish my code under MIT or BSD. But i do use Ubuntu because it
a) mostly works
b) has debian package management, with sources included
which makes it a breeze to rebuild every package from the pristine sources in three simple shell commands. So i can ALWAYS, and i mean ALWAYS troubleshoot and get to the bottom of each and every problem. Even if im not able to solve it, i can at least understand what i am running into.
OT: anyone else think the idea of 'keep passing more and more laws' is not scalable?
I am sure that if you managed to build a logical analyzer capable of parsing the entire set of federal laws to the letter, it would short circuit and burn in an eternal fire.
There goes my plan of replacing judges with computers.
A geek can cover 99% of their bases scanning boingboing, slashdot, digg, fark and google news
Depends. If you have specialized interests the "mainstream-y" aggregation sites really miss out on most everything interesting, or get the news weeks later.
For example, i have followed the news of development of electric vehicles and generally electric propulsion over the last decade, private spaceflight, hobby robotics, bleeding edge 3d graphics research, embedded coding, and planetary science now and then. All geeky.
NONE of the sites above get any even remotely relevant content on these topics. I hit slashdot when im really bored
Its 2010, who the hell still uses #ifdefs ? a code fork right in the middle of your core codebase ? Because thats what every #ifdef is, a branch.
Unless is tightly contained in some portability wrapper class somewhere, and very well unittested at the interface layer. Even then, your portability layer should take care most of that for you.
Otherwise, every #ifdef in the code will create two mutations of your code which make it harder to test, and two #ifdefs on different not mutually exclusive variables will result in four. Lets not go further..
Still need a branch ? Well, use hg or bzr or git as the good lord intended.
You are behind. FAA handed out first licenses to these companies quite long time ago.
Also, did you not notice that Bigelow has two prototypes circling the earth right now ?
I'm not holding my breath for convincing androids any time soon.
Did you consider the rate of advances as these things have happened ? Its only accelerating.
Execute in Place ( XIP ) from flash is very common on low-end embedded hardware, especially with System-On-Chip machines having internal flash on chip. Most ARM7 ( not to be confused with ARMv7 ) systems out there probably do this. And that is a very very big segment of CPU market.
By sci-fi standards, its a pretty bad cliche-ridden paperback. Nothing novel or interesting. ( Yes, i was in a small airport with really limited bookshelves )
The one reason to not like Star Trek is its political system. I mean, a socialist utopia.
http://colossus.mu.nu/archives/287079.php
Theres no business, theres no enterpreneurship anymore.
Maybe this is a sign that NVIDIA is going more towards ARM, that has always been a system-on-a-chip architecture. Tegra lineup is a very nice product already, with ARM going Cortex-A9 and multicore this year, maybe Nvidia just has a more important space to play in, than to tinker around with x86 chipsets ?
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Look, nobody uses Ubuntu because it has source code available. They use it because it's $free.
Actually, i use it because it has source available. I dont disagree with most of your post, i publish my code under MIT or BSD. But i do use Ubuntu because it
a) mostly works
b) has debian package management, with sources included
which makes it a breeze to rebuild every package from the pristine sources in three simple shell commands. So i can ALWAYS, and i mean ALWAYS troubleshoot and get to the bottom of each and every problem. Even if im not able to solve it, i can at least understand what i am running into.
This is from a coder, of course.
Netfront. Its massively underrated.
Soo .. you are the part of the population that thinks that digital watches are a pretty neat idea ?
You may want to try virtualization at some point.
OT: anyone else think the idea of 'keep passing more and more laws' is not scalable? I am sure that if you managed to build a logical analyzer capable of parsing the entire set of federal laws to the letter, it would short circuit and burn in an eternal fire. There goes my plan of replacing judges with computers.
Obligatory http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-embarks-on-epic-delay,2704/
A geek can cover 99% of their bases scanning boingboing, slashdot, digg, fark and google news
Depends. If you have specialized interests the "mainstream-y" aggregation sites really miss out on most everything interesting, or get the news weeks later.
For example, i have followed the news of development of electric vehicles and generally electric propulsion over the last decade, private spaceflight, hobby robotics, bleeding edge 3d graphics research, embedded coding, and planetary science now and then. All geeky.
NONE of the sites above get any even remotely relevant content on these topics. I hit slashdot when im really bored
Of course, we'll also need a ".racism", a ".gay", a ".islam", a ".republican" and a ".democrat", a ".atheism", a ".darwinism" and a ".racemixing"
and sci.anatomy.clusterf*ck
Wait. Thats usenet ?
Yes, Turkey is pardoned.
Its 2010, who the hell still uses #ifdefs ? a code fork right in the middle of your core codebase ? Because thats what every #ifdef is, a branch. Unless is tightly contained in some portability wrapper class somewhere, and very well unittested at the interface layer. Even then, your portability layer should take care most of that for you. Otherwise, every #ifdef in the code will create two mutations of your code which make it harder to test, and two #ifdefs on different not mutually exclusive variables will result in four. Lets not go further ..
Still need a branch ? Well, use hg or bzr or git as the good lord intended.
You are behind. FAA handed out first licenses to these companies quite long time ago. Also, did you not notice that Bigelow has two prototypes circling the earth right now ?
I'm not holding my breath for convincing androids any time soon. Did you consider the rate of advances as these things have happened ? Its only accelerating.
A country like the one where this manned space program and a few others are currently being built ?
Yes, Slashdot crowd is clueless about real-world HW and software. So what else is new ?
Happy to do the job ? Now where are these TPS reports ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-22EpQOm8c
Not quite. Google on "first solar, grid parity". Also, news.google.com : nanosolar.
Your second "fact" seems to be far from established. Where is the reliable database that shows that ? "Warmer" over what time period ?
don't know the difference between a "funnycats.avi" and "funnycats.avi.exe"
Whats the difference ? The kittens get executed by a god in the second one, because of all the people masturbating ?
Execute in Place ( XIP ) from flash is very common on low-end embedded hardware, especially with System-On-Chip machines having internal flash on chip. Most ARM7 ( not to be confused with ARMv7 ) systems out there probably do this. And that is a very very big segment of CPU market.
Aha, but have you ever made a Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs ! ?
By sci-fi standards, its a pretty bad cliche-ridden paperback. Nothing novel or interesting. ( Yes, i was in a small airport with really limited bookshelves )
The one reason to not like Star Trek is its political system. I mean, a socialist utopia. http://colossus.mu.nu/archives/287079.php Theres no business, theres no enterpreneurship anymore.
Maybe this is a sign that NVIDIA is going more towards ARM, that has always been a system-on-a-chip architecture. Tegra lineup is a very nice product already, with ARM going Cortex-A9 and multicore this year, maybe Nvidia just has a more important space to play in, than to tinker around with x86 chipsets ?
"Dealing with 128 bit numbers for mathematics is of limited use" Depends. Are you talking floating point ?