....kernel developers actually know how to use C. Seriously...C is an extremely efficient and powerful language, but it must be wielded by thos who know how to use its power. Every time I thought I knew a little C, one of my programmers - who really knew his shit - would just blow my mind with some of his routines. Function calls that returned pointers to the next function (state-machine type stuff) just blew my mind first time I saw it used. Blindingly fast, but damned difficult to debug. Even with my background in assembler, some of their stuff was just amaizing. OTOH, I would never consider writing, say, an ERP app in C, but for kernel work, interface routines, etc. it just cannot be beat.
That's why dafuck we're developing self-driving cars! I remember being in a classroom in the mid/late 60s when we were discussing those new-fangled Government Regulations requiring seat belts be installed on all passenger cars sold in America (not passed until 1968) . Our teacher pointed out that "you can make cars as safe as you want, but until they do something about that loose nut behind the wheel, there's going to be lots of deaths in cars." A week later, a good friend died in a car crash. Fast forward to the 80s and I wrote up a lengthy, unread by anyone document on a system for driverless transportation, merging in existing road tech, etc. Bottom line: they cannot get here soon enough! Even if a few dozen of us die in the transition to perfection, compared to the horrific slaughter currently extant, it's a damned fine tradeoff over time.
....any idiot still using Microsoft software absolutely deserves all of these levels of bullshit - and more on the way! - that you are dealing with. FFS, why would any person, much less organization submit to this?!? Is Outlook THAT fucking awesome that you'll give up your IT life/control? Is there any aspect of AD that justifies ridiculous reboots in mid-presentation/whatever-I'm-running-at-the-time?
Christ on a candle! What does it take for you to at least START breaking your chains of slavery?!?!
You're full of shit. All of this happened LONG before RoHS regulations, but you just wanted to make a point about how regulations suck. Instead, it shows how your thinking sucks.
It seems that you're living in that Conservative SimplisticFantasyLand where workers can easily acquire new skills while at the same time living decently, raising a family, negotiating with bosses who actually give a bubbly fart about investing in their own employees....Keep reading that Ayn Rand crap, but it fails the Reality World test...BIGLY!
I joined the industry in 1976, starting as a depot-level tech at Data General gate-banging CPU boards, disk controller boards, etc. that had been swapped out in the field. At that time, every single part of every computer (except the core stack on core memory cards) was made here in America. Everything from the castings for the disk drive frames, through the manufacture and chip-stuffing of every single PCB used, to the special lights used on some disks for positioning to the discrete components (resistors, caps, etc).....EVERYTHING was made here, and those businesses - and associated suppliers - employed millions of people. Today, other than some special mil-spec companies, ZERO electronics are made here. THIS is what brought us to this point: that either you're an app-appy developer or a low-tier drone with no room to grow. Basically, we've squeezed the piss out of the entire industry's middle with most of the rewards going to the Squillionaires and the rest of us left fighting over - Yes! As Pelosi said - "the crumbs". I'm glad I got the chance to ride the wave long enough, but the tide has been going out for decades.
That's bullshit and you know it. The Texas church shooter had already done his deed and was fleeing the scene when the citizen intervened. Also, the citizen's choice of weapon had squat to do with ultimately stopping his escape. But - Hey! Keep living that Rambo fantasy!
You mean to say that Intel actually fought for a design win and won?!? Stop the presses!! Of course, as TFA notes squarely: "...in my own experience the latest Snapdragon chips simply don’t have the performance and compatibility to match Intel on laptops just yet. " And they still picked Intel - what a world.
FTR, my first distro was Yggdrasil, followed quickly by Slackware cause they had an easier method for bring in the Adaptec SCSI card.
For Desktop, I'm currently running Linux Mint which is pretty damned solid and stable and I've installed it on several family members during the Windows 7->8 fiasco and they're all still really, really happy with it.
What I would like to see Linux Desktop(TM) focus on is overall greater consistency! Starting with sound, all the way through the most basic stuff, the wide plethora of desktops (KDE, Gnome, etc.) and applications is a bloody mess of inconsistency. Having lived through "The UNIX wars", I can tell you that MS' *CONSISTENCY* in everything the user did - along with enabling developers of applications to have a single target platform - led to MS being what it is today. Choice is great, until you're paralysed by the plethora of choices and wind up with a tiny market. PS - I could give a bubbly-fart about systemd. All I (as a user) care about is: Does this shit work?
As someone not in the current "mobile app" market, help me to understand.... For Apple apps specifically, is there any way to have apps available outside of Apple's store? I know that on Android, one can bypass the Google store. Is there NO other way to install an iPhone app for Apple?
If not, again being outside this world, I'd have to give VERY serious consideration to making my app "Android-only". Serious question here as any business model that relies on paying 30% of revenues for, essentially, nothing makes very little sense to me.
"Never trust a computer"....Says a guy who - besides posting on/. - probably does much more personally important stuff like banking, shopping, etc... ON A COMPUTER!!
Damn - considering that every single major tech provider from Google through Facebook through...relies fundamentally on open-source software, the idea that our elections rely on - essentially - DOS-based, closed-source systems for every step from voting through counting is beyond bizarre!
...but I believe that all communications providers should required to furnish all services to Police, Fire and other Emergency Services at cost. I can just see it now, like in the Transformers movie where the soldier is trying to get through to HQ: "Before I connect your call, can I talk to you about upgrading your cell phone plan?" Look, I'm a stone-cold Capitalist Pig(TM) at heart for sure, but...just...Damn!
Exactly what I was thinking! Ultimately, if Tesla becomes as successful as they want to be, they're going to have to cross the Rubicon of 3rd party repair facilities. Better for all - including Tesla! - to support this.
"The biggest problem in the US right now is access to healthcare, but no one has a reasonable plan." Bullshit! Medicare For All is a very, very reasonable plan...unless you suck on the Fox News tit, in which case "you should have worked harder, loser!" is a reasonable plan.
they're not susceptible to Spectre/Meltdown! Based on the latest/. postings regarding S/M, if I'm not freaking out about it, all my passwords are stolen!!
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It's WAY more fun to put the call on hold (not mute). That way, your company's "on-hold music" will be piped into the call overwhelming everyone else.
...there's times I really love Europe.
....kernel developers actually know how to use C.
Seriously...C is an extremely efficient and powerful language, but it must be wielded by thos who know how to use its power.
Every time I thought I knew a little C, one of my programmers - who really knew his shit - would just blow my mind with some of his routines. Function calls that returned pointers to the next function (state-machine type stuff) just blew my mind first time I saw it used. Blindingly fast, but damned difficult to debug.
Even with my background in assembler, some of their stuff was just amaizing.
OTOH, I would never consider writing, say, an ERP app in C, but for kernel work, interface routines, etc. it just cannot be beat.
That's why dafuck we're developing self-driving cars! I remember being in a classroom in the mid/late 60s when we were discussing those new-fangled Government Regulations requiring seat belts be installed on all passenger cars sold in America (not passed until 1968) . Our teacher pointed out that "you can make cars as safe as you want, but until they do something about that loose nut behind the wheel, there's going to be lots of deaths in cars." A week later, a good friend died in a car crash. Fast forward to the 80s and I wrote up a lengthy, unread by anyone document on a system for driverless transportation, merging in existing road tech, etc. Bottom line: they cannot get here soon enough! Even if a few dozen of us die in the transition to perfection, compared to the horrific slaughter currently extant, it's a damned fine tradeoff over time.
....any idiot still using Microsoft software absolutely deserves all of these levels of bullshit - and more on the way! - that you are dealing with. FFS, why would any person, much less organization submit to this?!? Is Outlook THAT fucking awesome that you'll give up your IT life/control? Is there any aspect of AD that justifies ridiculous reboots in mid-presentation/whatever-I'm-running-at-the-time?
Christ on a candle! What does it take for you to at least START breaking your chains of slavery?!?!
You're full of shit. All of this happened LONG before RoHS regulations, but you just wanted to make a point about how regulations suck. Instead, it shows how your thinking sucks.
...if those same voting machines were downloading movies or whatnot, why the Feds would be all over them with black helicopters, etc.!
It seems that you're living in that Conservative SimplisticFantasyLand where workers can easily acquire new skills while at the same time living decently, raising a family, negotiating with bosses who actually give a bubbly fart about investing in their own employees....Keep reading that Ayn Rand crap, but it fails the Reality World test...BIGLY!
I joined the industry in 1976, starting as a depot-level tech at Data General gate-banging CPU boards, disk controller boards, etc. that had been swapped out in the field. At that time, every single part of every computer (except the core stack on core memory cards) was made here in America. Everything from the castings for the disk drive frames, through the manufacture and chip-stuffing of every single PCB used, to the special lights used on some disks for positioning to the discrete components (resistors, caps, etc).....EVERYTHING was made here, and those businesses - and associated suppliers - employed millions of people.
Today, other than some special mil-spec companies, ZERO electronics are made here. THIS is what brought us to this point: that either you're an app-appy developer or a low-tier drone with no room to grow. Basically, we've squeezed the piss out of the entire industry's middle with most of the rewards going to the Squillionaires and the rest of us left fighting over - Yes! As Pelosi said - "the crumbs".
I'm glad I got the chance to ride the wave long enough, but the tide has been going out for decades.
...on how silly/childish we still are by schoolyard snickering over "funny names". Apparently, we'll just never grow the fuck up.
Pretty sure I was being facetious.
...for years that "Guns don't kill people; video games do!" Looks like they're right for once.
That's bullshit and you know it. The Texas church shooter had already done his deed and was fleeing the scene when the citizen intervened. Also, the citizen's choice of weapon had squat to do with ultimately stopping his escape. But - Hey! Keep living that Rambo fantasy!
Just fill it to over-flowing and "we'll see what happens".
You mean to say that Intel actually fought for a design win and won?!? Stop the presses!!
Of course, as TFA notes squarely: "...in my own experience the latest Snapdragon chips simply don’t have the performance and compatibility to match Intel on laptops just yet. " And they still picked Intel - what a world.
Or the ability to tell the difference between "Cue" and "Que"(sic). Sheesh!!
FTR, my first distro was Yggdrasil, followed quickly by Slackware cause they had an easier method for bring in the Adaptec SCSI card.
For Desktop, I'm currently running Linux Mint which is pretty damned solid and stable and I've installed it on several family members during the Windows 7->8 fiasco and they're all still really, really happy with it.
What I would like to see Linux Desktop(TM) focus on is overall greater consistency! Starting with sound, all the way through the most basic stuff, the wide plethora of desktops (KDE, Gnome, etc.) and applications is a bloody mess of inconsistency. Having lived through "The UNIX wars", I can tell you that MS' *CONSISTENCY* in everything the user did - along with enabling developers of applications to have a single target platform - led to MS being what it is today. Choice is great, until you're paralysed by the plethora of choices and wind up with a tiny market.
PS - I could give a bubbly-fart about systemd. All I (as a user) care about is: Does this shit work?
As someone not in the current "mobile app" market, help me to understand....
For Apple apps specifically, is there any way to have apps available outside of Apple's store? I know that on Android, one can bypass the Google store. Is there NO other way to install an iPhone app for Apple?
If not, again being outside this world, I'd have to give VERY serious consideration to making my app "Android-only".
Serious question here as any business model that relies on paying 30% of revenues for, essentially, nothing makes very little sense to me.
"Never trust a computer"....Says a guy who - besides posting on /. - probably does much more personally important stuff like banking, shopping, etc... ON A COMPUTER!!
Damn - considering that every single major tech provider from Google through Facebook through...relies fundamentally on open-source software, the idea that our elections rely on - essentially - DOS-based, closed-source systems for every step from voting through counting is beyond bizarre!
...but I believe that all communications providers should required to furnish all services to Police, Fire and other Emergency Services at cost.
I can just see it now, like in the Transformers movie where the soldier is trying to get through to HQ:
"Before I connect your call, can I talk to you about upgrading your cell phone plan?"
Look, I'm a stone-cold Capitalist Pig(TM) at heart for sure, but...just...Damn!
Exactly what I was thinking! Ultimately, if Tesla becomes as successful as they want to be, they're going to have to cross the Rubicon of 3rd party repair facilities. Better for all - including Tesla! - to support this.
Aye! The mark of today's moron: "Venezuela! Nuffsaid!!" Fucking idiots....
"The biggest problem in the US right now is access to healthcare, but no one has a reasonable plan."
Bullshit! Medicare For All is a very, very reasonable plan...unless you suck on the Fox News tit, in which case "you should have worked harder, loser!" is a reasonable plan.
they're not susceptible to Spectre/Meltdown! Based on the latest /. postings regarding S/M, if I'm not freaking out about it, all my passwords are stolen!!