Here's what's not cool though: bitching that Google is stealing from you, when you're not even following Google's suggestion on how to prevent Google from indexing your content. That's just pure whining and ass-hattery.
Not really. The problem is that just one site going pay will just kill their readership, but if all the sites went pay at once they would be all better off for it. They would be getting the money instead of Google.
It's a similar situation to unions. If just a couple people get together to form a union they just get fired and replaced, but if everybody at once forms the union then they have collective bargaining power and are generally better off.
So there's good reason for Murdoch to be whining. Google is skirting copyright laws and stealing his revenue and the solution is not something he can do by himself. Frankly I side with Murdoch on this, because newspapers and magazines actually create value whereas Google News just exploits the work of others.
There is an actual data stream to transfer before you can use it. You have to get all the data. How fast that happens depends on the speed of your connection.
That's not really true though, that you have to download "all of the data" before you can see it, is it? For instance with JPEG2000 you can see the entire image with just a fraction of the file downloaded because the rest of the file is a series of refinements on what came before it.
For instance if the game is running at 30 fps, but the local display box is displaying at 60 fps then the stream can be encoded as one small packet to give your eye the gist of the scene followed by fuller details of the same game frame. So in this case you only have to download "half of it" before you can show it.
The first feature is that the default config typically underclocks the CPU. OK, this makes the battery last longer, but not a lot longer.
You're sort of right. Changing the cpu frequency on a netbook saves a small amount of power... a few percent. Lowering the core clock speed saves tons of power... for instance there's about 30% difference in idle power between the normal and low power modes using ASUS's utility to change the bus frequency. This corresponds to hours of battery life, and it's a big deal. Changing the cpu freq only saves minutes.
But getting linux to easily change the core clock speed is really difficult. There's no icon that's just sitting there in the tray that you just click on like in Windows. So lots of people using linux on their netbook don't understand that you can actually get a lot more battery life, and run a lot cooler.
But why, as you say, can't they have a half intelligent search history, like Firefox? Why does the browser constantly chatter to 1e100.net?...
Because it's Google. They do whatever they want, whether users like it or not, and there's really nothing you can do about it.
Chromium? It's not going to have more than 1-2% market share when people see "Try Google Chrome NOW!" links on every Google property. Chromium is the treadmill just like Microsoft used -- keeping the competitors (developers in this case) busy so they aren't competing with you. How are you going to be able to replace ChromeOS with ChromiumOS when the device only boots ChromeOS and refreshes itself even if you manage to hack the filesystem? Good luck with that. And even if Google lets you run your own code without an App Store, that's only by their whim.
The fact is that Firefox is the only browser that is really in the spirit of open source, and keeping things open. And yes it's slower, but it also renders more actual pages better than WebKit and it has a much more interesting JavaScript compiler. Chrome is just something shiny to distract you with so you won't look to the long term.
Doesn't pretty much anybody with firefox use noscript and/or adblock to block google analytics? It does nothing for users and no matter how fast google's servers it must take some amount of resources.
I wonder if Chrome's 'analytics share' will decrease once it gets real extensions (that can actually block things).
It sounds to me like google have been seriously pissed off by something they are not talking about in public.
It's like in The Best of Both Worlds when Locutus is captured, the Borg freak out because they can't disconnect him from their consciousness and are getting hacked through him.
I'm sure it's the same thing for Google... using knowledge gained from examining their internal workings, the Chinese could massively hack Google's network all over the world. The only solution is to cut off the Chinese arm entirely (or enter a regenerative feedback loop causing their data centers to explode... but that's not really a good solution is it).
he never files a tax return, though he rakes in a hundred thousand dollars a year. [Real company] catches him, [but] can collect a hundred bucks for their one provable instance of being actually damaged, while Mal gets away free by virtue of destroying (or not keeping) all of his sales records.
That amount makes it criminal copyright infringement (ie federal prison) AND it's a guaranteed conviction for income tax evasion. Probably some counts of fraud too.
So I'm not sure your point here... is it that going to prison on multiple different counts isn't good enough, he should also be bankrupted so he can't buy cigarettes once he's in prison?
Jar Jar wouldn't have been so bad, if he had gotten way less screen time.
The biggest problem with Jar Jar is that he talked English. His equivalent in the original movies, Chewie, talked but only in another language so we didn't have to actually hear his dialog. Instead we get to use our imagination to fill that in (not relevant to the story) with whatever stupid or smart dialog we can imagine. It brings some of the imagination element of books to the movies.
And no, C3PO is not really comic relief or the equivalent of Jar-jar, he's a prophet / a fate. Just about everything he says comes true later on in the movie. He prepares us for what's coming so we can focus on what's important.
Firefox is at 30% and Chrome is already at 5% and its still an infant
Firefox started with a complex codebase with tons of baggage and over time improved this. Firefox was spread by word of mouth and had to earn every percent. It got popular the hard way, by earning it.
Meanwhile Google Chrome is being pimped by the internet's biggest advertising company. Google Chrome started with the major pieces already completed: WebKit for rendering, V8 for JavaScript (I don't call rewriting the VM from Self doing something new). All they had to do was write a simple shell around this.
The real test for Google Chrome will be how well the project is managed now that they actually have to maintain the browser over time. Once they fill in the remaining 20% that Firefox does that Google Chrome does not, what will the result be like?
if you will take the time to read the Constitution, you will learn that it is not the executive branch at all that controls the economy, but the legislative branch. So blaming Bush/Cheney or Obama/Biden really just shows ignorance. Congress controls the purse strings.
Fact is that the president ultimately has the same voting power as 1/6th of congress... 16 senators and 72 representatives. That's why the buck stops with the president, and why the deficit went down consistently every year Clinton was in office despite the congress changing hands. And yes, if the budget goes up (after correcting for Bush) then that's Obama's fault more than any other person's.
Halogens: + Cheap, we're used to the warm light, longish lifespan, resistant to power fluctuations, instant on, dimmable, non polluting, non toxic, can be used in recessed and enclosed fixtures. - Bad efficiency (as opposed to terrible)
Halogens already solve all the main lighting problems except efficiency. But if you're in a cold climate the waste heat offsets the heating bill, raising their effective efficiency. I've never seen this factored into any analysis, but for instance if you compare a 20w CFL to a 60w halogen the cost savings are based on the straight 40w difference. So if you have a heat pump averaging at twice the efficiency of electric heating the CFL real cost is 40w... instead of being 3x more efficient it's 1.5x more efficient. On a freezing cold day CFLs in the home may be no more efficient at all than incandescent lights.
Given all the problems with CFLs, in cold climates they seem like a pretty bad choice to me.
FTA: "Average power consumption of 3W or less while decoding multimedia or intense 3d graphics" (for chipset). Intel's 945m draws about 6 watts idle, so that's 3 watts extra the AMD processor can take and be at the same power levels.
Some things to consider:
- AMD gives the worst-case maximum power draw as TDP. Intel gives the "expected" power draw as "TDP". So AMD chips of the same TDP rating will use less power than Intel ones.
- AMD chips have been much better than Intel chips for low idle power for a long time now, and they've done this with ATI now too... my desktop Radeon takes 7w idle / 60w max for instance. Before AMD, ATI and Nvidia cards would often draw 50+ watts idle (nvidia still does).
- Next version of mobile Atom is going to save 1w by integrating the memory controller, but add ~4w with more 'powerful' graphics. This sounds like a really bad move to me, that's a lot of extra heat and a lot less battery life... this is like 20-30% extra power use for no real benefit (the gfx still aren't going to be good enough to do anything real).
Put it together and neo x2 seems to be lower power than the low-end core 2 duos at about the same performance, at a much lower price. This should do really well in the low-end laptop market and if they get it at 45nm process it will also destroy atom for netbooks.
For you maybe. For me the reason is because the battery lasts forever and it runs cool (it doesn't burn you).
I'd buy a 12" or larger 'netbook' that consists of a screen, keyboard, hard drive and that's it. I don't want a cdrom drive. I don't want fast 3d graphics, or 10000 bogomips... it costs too much battery power and generates too much heat.
But the real reason they kill the larger models is because Atom is just too slow to drive a large display for video. You can do it with some offline style codecs, but Atom is too slow to do fullscreen at higher res on the streaming ones including all flash and iTunes. So until Intel or somebody else decides to release the next wave of cheap low-power chips you won't see netbooks get much larger.
I dunno if the crowd is getting nastier or now that I'm far removed from being a teenager, I see how bad it always was. I can't have a reasonable discussion on this site anymore without some asshat hijacking it and turning it into a flame fest.
USENET died. Where else are we supposed to have tech flame wars?
There's too many mod points on reddit so you can't even have reasonable discussions... if you're being the devil's advocate you just get hidden. At least on/. you can post a contrary view and unless you invoke Hitler nobody wants to waste their few mod points burying your post.
Also, it's not operator overloading that's the problem, it's implicit conversions and lack of multi-methods...;-P
The details are that TTYs in general on any *nix are a huge mess with lots of complicated interactions and weird historical behavior that doesn't make sense. The linux tty stack for a long time was a huge clusterfuck. Now thanks to Alan it's just a normal clusterfuck. That's the context for this incident, which basically happened like this...
Some dudes: there's a bug in the ttys Alan: ok lets fix it Some dudes: here's a patch Alan: that patch breaks a dozen other things Some dudes, Alan reject a bunch of solutions Alan: we can fix it with a hack, but it breaks emacs. Emacs is relying on unspecified behavior, so it can go suck an egg. Linus: well it SHOULD (sic) work like this, and emacs is too holy to break. This problem is easy, are you a retard? Alan: look we can hack it and break emacs, or do a huge rewrite Linus: hacks suck, linux should be awesome in every way. Also, your code smells Alan: it's going to take forever to get this right Linus: then revert the patch that introduced the bug Alan: that patch was applied years ago and removing it would break a dozen other things. You didn't think I'd think of that? Who's the tty maintainer anyway, jackass?! Linus: I don't like your attitude Alan: Then fuck off I quit! Linus: Oh yeah did I mention your code smells? Linus: and let me quote you something you said earlier, so I can show what a bad attitude you have.
The TTY and serial line code is basically a huge Rube Goldberg machine and Linus was telling Alan to tweak something somewhere in the middle of this huge contraption. Having followed the TTY code a fair bit, I totally side with Alan on this. It's a miracle that it even works, and not something you can just stick your head in and give advice about how to fix. Also, if Linus is so concerned about proper behavior for user space programs maybe he should take a look at ioctl... because it's completely screwed up in linux.
In other words these photos are 'evidence' of nothing. Minor, small scale year-to-year variation in ice flow patterns.
In other words, these photos are circumstantial evidence. By themselves, they prove nothing. But when you combine them with the hundreds of thousands of other 'small scale' pictures showing retreating ice and weight them side by side with the far fewer images of advancing ice you get a clear pictures. It's still not 'proof' in a rigorous scientific sense, but it's far more than enough to hang a man.
What you seem not to understand in your rant is that these pictures are not 'evidence' and they are not misrepresenting what is going on with the planet. They are just representative samples to give a face to it. You can't show a close up of every location on the planet in a single page.
The climate is seriously fucked up, and we did it. That's a fact. Get over it. Or repent, if that's your thing. Waiting for the sea levels to rise so much that it's plainly obvious, then blaming everybody else for 'not doing anything about it' might make one feel better, but it doesn't do jack to help solve the problem.
In almost all other matters you can take it as a given that around Slashdot you will find if not cynics then certainly skeptics. On the other hand if it has a Bush taint, a little anti-business flavor and it's wrapped up in a Global Warming ribbon you people suck it up like hicks at a Benny Hinn sermon.
Not really. Mostly it is driven by intelligence and facts. It just so happens that reality has a liberal bias, after all.
C# right now has the following features that are absent in Java
Right now Java has the following features that are absent in C#:
1) High performance VM 2) Code that does what it says without hidden conversions, text substitutions, and macros. 3) Other languages that are actually useful like Scala and Clojure.
Mono performance is a joke compared to Java, and MS CLR performance is even pretty bad in comparison. Code that is a one-liner because of lots of magic conversions and macros (like 'extension' methods) collects fanboys, but is counter productive for real, boring, meat and potatoes coding.
And LINQ? Why are you doing database and 'data sources' queries in something like C#? Use python or something like that. You need that super-fast JIT "cc -O0" speed to print out customer numbers and such?
Basically Java:C#:: C:C++. It's the same story all over again, but for typesafe languages instead of the systems code. C# thinks that making the code a concise series of magic conversions and convenient syntax makes it a better language. Java thinks that having code be straightforward and simple, but longer, is better. C has a solid niche, and will for decades. C++ is widely recognized as a byzantine failure in every case. We'll have to wait and see with Java and C#, but I know where I'd place my bets.
Ageism in tech is very real, and even if you're not seeing it yet, you will in another 10 years.
I'm not buying that age discrimination will be any more real in programming than anything else. The career people that are nearing retirement now started say 40 years ago. But 40 years ago in 1970 there were what like 1% as many programmers graduating as there are now? So these people are very rare, so few are used to working with these older programmers, so they are strange and don't fit in. But in the future there will be lots of older programmers, so there will be more places to work that have them.
Yes, there will still be age discrimination, but it will approach that for other industries. And what do you think, that every programmer can become a manager? There should be fewer managers than programmers, not more.
I think the reality nobody wants to mention is that if you are older and not competent then you're going to have a 30+ year history of nothing much in the way of accomplishments. That's a pretty powerful record to overcome, whereas if you have 3 years experience you're still an unknown quantity... maybe you just got on some unlucky projects for instance. So I think that if you can still cut it and have some good accomplishments then there's no real problem staying a developer.
The problem with most IDE's is that the vast majority of the display is taken up with information that is rarely used. This is the same problem as Gnome's file dialog, where one of the 'enhancing usability' mock-ups had less than 22% of the area actually showing files (in contrast to 60% for Windows). All those sidebars and 'clippy' panels don't help when they actually get in the way of the code.
In my workplace the Windows developers typically have three or four monitors, but they only look at 20-30 lines of code at once, in a little tiny, wide panel. Meanwhile I'm showing 90 lines per vim window, which is enough to show whole even most of their functions... with a larger font. It's completely absurd to have 3 monitors and look at code through even a 30 line panel. I can't work that way. I wouldn't want to.
IDEs do have some useful features to improve developing, but their interfaces and clumsy editors (compared to vim) are a real stumbling block for them.
It would have to be where a network connection of any usable speed is impossible.
Clearly this supercomputer is intended for an autonomous killing machine... a terminator, if you will. As such it doesn't not need a massive network connection, just enough to control some servos really. At 19" this component would compromise the torso of the machine.
BTW, just how big is a steady, 60 KWh solar panel? It appears to require several thousand
Perhaps, but this machine will no doubt will contain some type of nuclear power core.
I don't think it's any coincidence that the stable countries are in the far north and south, and the most unstable parts nearer the equator. If you don't have to plan in order to keep from freezing then you can get into a lot more trouble. People living where there's a cold winter face likely death every year if their societies fall into chaos.
The report doesn't consider plugins... once you load in a handful (or a few dozen) of your favorite plugins, the tests may not turn out the same.
But in all likelihood Chrome plugins will take more memory because of the process-per-tab model. There's necessarily some inefficiency from separating the plugins from everything else.
Afaik Chrome goes to some lengths to avoid plugins exploding memory by having them run in one process instead of every process, but even so you'll probably end up with complicated plugins doing crazy stuff like inserting javascript into pages as they load, bloating them, that are unnecessary with a shared, one-process model.
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Here's what's not cool though: bitching that Google is stealing from you, when you're not even following Google's suggestion on how to prevent Google from indexing your content. That's just pure whining and ass-hattery.
Not really. The problem is that just one site going pay will just kill their readership, but if all the sites went pay at once they would be all better off for it. They would be getting the money instead of Google.
It's a similar situation to unions. If just a couple people get together to form a union they just get fired and replaced, but if everybody at once forms the union then they have collective bargaining power and are generally better off.
So there's good reason for Murdoch to be whining. Google is skirting copyright laws and stealing his revenue and the solution is not something he can do by himself. Frankly I side with Murdoch on this, because newspapers and magazines actually create value whereas Google News just exploits the work of others.
SIGSTOP is handled by KAOS.
SIGCONT is handled by CONTROL.
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There is an actual data stream to transfer before you can use it. You have to get all the data. How fast that happens depends on the speed of your connection.
That's not really true though, that you have to download "all of the data" before you can see it, is it? For instance with JPEG2000 you can see the entire image with just a fraction of the file downloaded because the rest of the file is a series of refinements on what came before it.
For instance if the game is running at 30 fps, but the local display box is displaying at 60 fps then the stream can be encoded as one small packet to give your eye the gist of the scene followed by fuller details of the same game frame. So in this case you only have to download "half of it" before you can show it.
Shills notwithstanding of course.
The first feature is that the default config typically underclocks the CPU. OK, this makes the battery last longer, but not a lot longer.
You're sort of right. Changing the cpu frequency on a netbook saves a small amount of power... a few percent. Lowering the core clock speed saves tons of power... for instance there's about 30% difference in idle power between the normal and low power modes using ASUS's utility to change the bus frequency. This corresponds to hours of battery life, and it's a big deal. Changing the cpu freq only saves minutes.
But getting linux to easily change the core clock speed is really difficult. There's no icon that's just sitting there in the tray that you just click on like in Windows. So lots of people using linux on their netbook don't understand that you can actually get a lot more battery life, and run a lot cooler.
But why, as you say, can't they have a half intelligent search history, like Firefox? Why does the browser constantly chatter to 1e100.net? ...
Because it's Google. They do whatever they want, whether users like it or not, and there's really nothing you can do about it.
Chromium? It's not going to have more than 1-2% market share when people see "Try Google Chrome NOW!" links on every Google property. Chromium is the treadmill just like Microsoft used -- keeping the competitors (developers in this case) busy so they aren't competing with you. How are you going to be able to replace ChromeOS with ChromiumOS when the device only boots ChromeOS and refreshes itself even if you manage to hack the filesystem? Good luck with that. And even if Google lets you run your own code without an App Store, that's only by their whim.
The fact is that Firefox is the only browser that is really in the spirit of open source, and keeping things open. And yes it's slower, but it also renders more actual pages better than WebKit and it has a much more interesting JavaScript compiler. Chrome is just something shiny to distract you with so you won't look to the long term.
Data gathered by Google Analytics
Doesn't pretty much anybody with firefox use noscript and/or adblock to block google analytics? It does nothing for users and no matter how fast google's servers it must take some amount of resources.
I wonder if Chrome's 'analytics share' will decrease once it gets real extensions (that can actually block things).
It sounds to me like google have been seriously pissed off by something they are not talking about in public.
It's like in The Best of Both Worlds when Locutus is captured, the Borg freak out because they can't disconnect him from their consciousness and are getting hacked through him.
I'm sure it's the same thing for Google... using knowledge gained from examining their internal workings, the Chinese could massively hack Google's network all over the world. The only solution is to cut off the Chinese arm entirely (or enter a regenerative feedback loop causing their data centers to explode... but that's not really a good solution is it).
he never files a tax return, though he rakes in a hundred thousand dollars a year. [Real company] catches him, [but] can collect a hundred bucks for their one provable instance of being actually damaged, while Mal gets away free by virtue of destroying (or not keeping) all of his sales records.
That amount makes it criminal copyright infringement (ie federal prison) AND it's a guaranteed conviction for income tax evasion. Probably some counts of fraud too.
So I'm not sure your point here... is it that going to prison on multiple different counts isn't good enough, he should also be bankrupted so he can't buy cigarettes once he's in prison?
Jar Jar wouldn't have been so bad, if he had gotten way less screen time.
The biggest problem with Jar Jar is that he talked English. His equivalent in the original movies, Chewie, talked but only in another language so we didn't have to actually hear his dialog. Instead we get to use our imagination to fill that in (not relevant to the story) with whatever stupid or smart dialog we can imagine. It brings some of the imagination element of books to the movies.
And no, C3PO is not really comic relief or the equivalent of Jar-jar, he's a prophet / a fate. Just about everything he says comes true later on in the movie. He prepares us for what's coming so we can focus on what's important.
Firefox is at 30% and Chrome is already at 5% and its still an infant
Firefox started with a complex codebase with tons of baggage and over time improved this. Firefox was spread by word of mouth and had to earn every percent. It got popular the hard way, by earning it.
Meanwhile Google Chrome is being pimped by the internet's biggest advertising company. Google Chrome started with the major pieces already completed: WebKit for rendering, V8 for JavaScript (I don't call rewriting the VM from Self doing something new). All they had to do was write a simple shell around this.
The real test for Google Chrome will be how well the project is managed now that they actually have to maintain the browser over time. Once they fill in the remaining 20% that Firefox does that Google Chrome does not, what will the result be like?
if you will take the time to read the Constitution, you will learn that it is not the executive branch at all that controls the economy, but the legislative branch. So blaming Bush/Cheney or Obama/Biden really just shows ignorance. Congress controls the purse strings.
Fact is that the president ultimately has the same voting power as 1/6th of congress... 16 senators and 72 representatives. That's why the buck stops with the president, and why the deficit went down consistently every year Clinton was in office despite the congress changing hands. And yes, if the budget goes up (after correcting for Bush) then that's Obama's fault more than any other person's.
Halogens:
+ Cheap, we're used to the warm light, longish lifespan, resistant to power fluctuations, instant on, dimmable, non polluting, non toxic, can be used in recessed and enclosed fixtures.
- Bad efficiency (as opposed to terrible)
Halogens already solve all the main lighting problems except efficiency. But if you're in a cold climate the waste heat offsets the heating bill, raising their effective efficiency. I've never seen this factored into any analysis, but for instance if you compare a 20w CFL to a 60w halogen the cost savings are based on the straight 40w difference. So if you have a heat pump averaging at twice the efficiency of electric heating the CFL real cost is 40w... instead of being 3x more efficient it's 1.5x more efficient. On a freezing cold day CFLs in the home may be no more efficient at all than incandescent lights.
Given all the problems with CFLs, in cold climates they seem like a pretty bad choice to me.
Because if there's a pattern in one base, there's a pattern in all bases. It's just maybe less obvious and easy to describe in some.
FTA: "Average power consumption of 3W or less while decoding multimedia or intense 3d graphics" (for chipset). Intel's 945m draws about 6 watts idle, so that's 3 watts extra the AMD processor can take and be at the same power levels.
Some things to consider:
- AMD gives the worst-case maximum power draw as TDP. Intel gives the "expected" power draw as "TDP". So AMD chips of the same TDP rating will use less power than Intel ones.
- AMD chips have been much better than Intel chips for low idle power for a long time now, and they've done this with ATI now too... my desktop Radeon takes 7w idle / 60w max for instance. Before AMD, ATI and Nvidia cards would often draw 50+ watts idle (nvidia still does).
- Next version of mobile Atom is going to save 1w by integrating the memory controller, but add ~4w with more 'powerful' graphics. This sounds like a really bad move to me, that's a lot of extra heat and a lot less battery life... this is like 20-30% extra power use for no real benefit (the gfx still aren't going to be good enough to do anything real).
Put it together and neo x2 seems to be lower power than the low-end core 2 duos at about the same performance, at a much lower price. This should do really well in the low-end laptop market and if they get it at 45nm process it will also destroy atom for netbooks.
For you maybe. For me the reason is because the battery lasts forever and it runs cool (it doesn't burn you).
I'd buy a 12" or larger 'netbook' that consists of a screen, keyboard, hard drive and that's it. I don't want a cdrom drive. I don't want fast 3d graphics, or 10000 bogomips... it costs too much battery power and generates too much heat.
But the real reason they kill the larger models is because Atom is just too slow to drive a large display for video. You can do it with some offline style codecs, but Atom is too slow to do fullscreen at higher res on the streaming ones including all flash and iTunes. So until Intel or somebody else decides to release the next wave of cheap low-power chips you won't see netbooks get much larger.
I dunno if the crowd is getting nastier or now that I'm far removed from being a teenager, I see how bad it always was. I can't have a reasonable discussion on this site anymore without some asshat hijacking it and turning it into a flame fest.
USENET died. Where else are we supposed to have tech flame wars?
There's too many mod points on reddit so you can't even have reasonable discussions... if you're being the devil's advocate you just get hidden. At least on /. you can post a contrary view and unless you invoke Hitler nobody wants to waste their few mod points burying your post.
Also, it's not operator overloading that's the problem, it's implicit conversions and lack of multi-methods... ;-P
The details are that TTYs in general on any *nix are a huge mess with lots of complicated interactions and weird historical behavior that doesn't make sense. The linux tty stack for a long time was a huge clusterfuck. Now thanks to Alan it's just a normal clusterfuck. That's the context for this incident, which basically happened like this...
Some dudes: there's a bug in the ttys
Alan: ok lets fix it
Some dudes: here's a patch
Alan: that patch breaks a dozen other things
Some dudes, Alan reject a bunch of solutions
Alan: we can fix it with a hack, but it breaks emacs. Emacs is relying on unspecified behavior, so it can go suck an egg.
Linus: well it SHOULD (sic) work like this, and emacs is too holy to break. This problem is easy, are you a retard?
Alan: look we can hack it and break emacs, or do a huge rewrite
Linus: hacks suck, linux should be awesome in every way. Also, your code smells
Alan: it's going to take forever to get this right
Linus: then revert the patch that introduced the bug
Alan: that patch was applied years ago and removing it would break a dozen other things. You didn't think I'd think of that? Who's the tty maintainer anyway, jackass?!
Linus: I don't like your attitude
Alan: Then fuck off I quit!
Linus: Oh yeah did I mention your code smells?
Linus: and let me quote you something you said earlier, so I can show what a bad attitude you have.
The TTY and serial line code is basically a huge Rube Goldberg machine and Linus was telling Alan to tweak something somewhere in the middle of this huge contraption. Having followed the TTY code a fair bit, I totally side with Alan on this. It's a miracle that it even works, and not something you can just stick your head in and give advice about how to fix. Also, if Linus is so concerned about proper behavior for user space programs maybe he should take a look at ioctl... because it's completely screwed up in linux.
In other words these photos are 'evidence' of nothing. Minor, small scale year-to-year variation in ice flow patterns.
In other words, these photos are circumstantial evidence. By themselves, they prove nothing. But when you combine them with the hundreds of thousands of other 'small scale' pictures showing retreating ice and weight them side by side with the far fewer images of advancing ice you get a clear pictures. It's still not 'proof' in a rigorous scientific sense, but it's far more than enough to hang a man.
What you seem not to understand in your rant is that these pictures are not 'evidence' and they are not misrepresenting what is going on with the planet. They are just representative samples to give a face to it. You can't show a close up of every location on the planet in a single page.
The climate is seriously fucked up, and we did it. That's a fact. Get over it. Or repent, if that's your thing. Waiting for the sea levels to rise so much that it's plainly obvious, then blaming everybody else for 'not doing anything about it' might make one feel better, but it doesn't do jack to help solve the problem.
In almost all other matters you can take it as a given that around Slashdot you will find if not cynics then certainly skeptics. On the other hand if it has a Bush taint, a little anti-business flavor and it's wrapped up in a Global Warming ribbon you people suck it up like hicks at a Benny Hinn sermon.
Not really. Mostly it is driven by intelligence and facts. It just so happens that reality has a liberal bias, after all.
It feels much more natural than Java programming.
chmod +x ./natural.exe
export DLLPATH=/usr/lib/libmono.dll
Yeah, right. Natural.
C# right now has the following features that are absent in Java
Right now Java has the following features that are absent in C#:
1) High performance VM
2) Code that does what it says without hidden conversions, text substitutions, and macros.
3) Other languages that are actually useful like Scala and Clojure.
Mono performance is a joke compared to Java, and MS CLR performance is even pretty bad in comparison. Code that is a one-liner because of lots of magic conversions and macros (like 'extension' methods) collects fanboys, but is counter productive for real, boring, meat and potatoes coding.
And LINQ? Why are you doing database and 'data sources' queries in something like C#? Use python or something like that. You need that super-fast JIT "cc -O0" speed to print out customer numbers and such?
Basically Java:C# :: C:C++. It's the same story all over again, but for typesafe languages instead of the systems code. C# thinks that making the code a concise series of magic conversions and convenient syntax makes it a better language. Java thinks that having code be straightforward and simple, but longer, is better. C has a solid niche, and will for decades. C++ is widely recognized as a byzantine failure in every case. We'll have to wait and see with Java and C#, but I know where I'd place my bets.
Ageism in tech is very real, and even if you're not seeing it yet, you will in another 10 years.
I'm not buying that age discrimination will be any more real in programming than anything else. The career people that are nearing retirement now started say 40 years ago. But 40 years ago in 1970 there were what like 1% as many programmers graduating as there are now? So these people are very rare, so few are used to working with these older programmers, so they are strange and don't fit in. But in the future there will be lots of older programmers, so there will be more places to work that have them.
Yes, there will still be age discrimination, but it will approach that for other industries. And what do you think, that every programmer can become a manager? There should be fewer managers than programmers, not more.
I think the reality nobody wants to mention is that if you are older and not competent then you're going to have a 30+ year history of nothing much in the way of accomplishments. That's a pretty powerful record to overcome, whereas if you have 3 years experience you're still an unknown quantity... maybe you just got on some unlucky projects for instance. So I think that if you can still cut it and have some good accomplishments then there's no real problem staying a developer.
The problem with most IDE's is that the vast majority of the display is taken up with information that is rarely used. This is the same problem as Gnome's file dialog, where one of the 'enhancing usability' mock-ups had less than 22% of the area actually showing files (in contrast to 60% for Windows). All those sidebars and 'clippy' panels don't help when they actually get in the way of the code.
In my workplace the Windows developers typically have three or four monitors, but they only look at 20-30 lines of code at once, in a little tiny, wide panel. Meanwhile I'm showing 90 lines per vim window, which is enough to show whole even most of their functions... with a larger font. It's completely absurd to have 3 monitors and look at code through even a 30 line panel. I can't work that way. I wouldn't want to.
IDEs do have some useful features to improve developing, but their interfaces and clumsy editors (compared to vim) are a real stumbling block for them.
It would have to be where a network connection of any usable speed is impossible.
Clearly this supercomputer is intended for an autonomous killing machine... a terminator, if you will. As such it doesn't not need a massive network connection, just enough to control some servos really. At 19" this component would compromise the torso of the machine.
BTW, just how big is a steady, 60 KWh solar panel? It appears to require several thousand
Perhaps, but this machine will no doubt will contain some type of nuclear power core.
I don't think it's any coincidence that the stable countries are in the far north and south, and the most unstable parts nearer the equator. If you don't have to plan in order to keep from freezing then you can get into a lot more trouble. People living where there's a cold winter face likely death every year if their societies fall into chaos.
The report doesn't consider plugins ... once you load in a handful (or a few dozen) of your favorite plugins, the tests may not turn out the same.
But in all likelihood Chrome plugins will take more memory because of the process-per-tab model. There's necessarily some inefficiency from separating the plugins from everything else.
Afaik Chrome goes to some lengths to avoid plugins exploding memory by having them run in one process instead of every process, but even so you'll probably end up with complicated plugins doing crazy stuff like inserting javascript into pages as they load, bloating them, that are unnecessary with a shared, one-process model.