For composited desktop with all the wobbly windows and such, tuxracer, watching DVD's, etc., the integrated intel chips are more than adequate and have great open-source support (everything except GMA 500 they use in netbooks).
I'm told they aren't so great for the latest games.
"Because of this, I'm going with ATI next time, I've heard they're way more Linux friendly now."
I haven't been following this so closely, but my impression was that ATI is doing a better job of working with the community at this point--giving adequate access to specs and so on, as opposed to just dropping a binary driver in our laps--which means in months and years to come ATI is likely to work better. But for now it may still have catching up to do.
From my limited experience in recent years, Intel hardware is the only stuff with first-class open-source support. (But of course the best drivers in the world don't help if their hardware isn't good enough to run your game. I wouldn't know--for compiz, watching DVD's, and the occasional game of Tuxracer, the Intel stuff is fine.)
Unfortunately, a netbook maker may consider it easier to ship with custom binary drivers that only work reliably on a single kernel, than to choose linux-compatible hardware or contribute a real driver to upstream.
Well, the "shooting rhinos" one (Tintin au Congo) is the way to maximize the "stereotypical racist" component and minimize the actual fun.... Almost any of the albums since then are much better.
Err. Good grief, do a 2-second google search on "uk private hospital". It's amazing the length these webmasters are going to, creating webpages for hospitals which must obviously be fictitious!
If your test of a good medical system is whether it lets anyone die that might have been saved under some other system: they all fail. Medicine is far from perfect.
We could also find examples of US citizens whose insurance companies didn't provide some test or procedure that might have saved their lives. (Not to mention, cases where someone would have been better off had they *not* gotten that additional test! Nothing is risk-free.)
Both the UK and US systems provide good care most of the time. But I also think the US should move towards universal coverage, and close "preexisting condition" loopholes. The legislation under consideration takes steps in this direction, which I applaud.
Or be fined ~$2500 per family for not having insurance.
That's for not having insurance, yes (and it's on a sliding scale based on income). Insurance will be continued to be available from a mixture of public and private sources.
That's an almost-exact quote from Congressman Barney Frank's mouth.
Cause everybody knows that Barney Frank runs the congress?
They want the US to be like the UK.
The bill is a compromise. It's not written by some shadowy extreme-left "they".
Other industrialized countries provide a wide variety of models, from completely government-run (the UK), to government insurance with mostly private doctors (Canada) to mostly private doctors and insurers (Japan). Any of them can work: they all have their problems, but they all seem to provide quality care at less expense; and, the singificant difference, they all manage to provide universal care. The US has always done a little of all of those (the VA administration, medicare...). Future tweaks may move it more in one direction or another, but it will continue to be a hybrid system for a long time.
Congress doesn't want us to know what the bills say
Oh, please. Other versions are available too. Wikipedia is one starting point for pointers and summaries.
Aren't you bothered that most in Congress don't read the bill before they sign it
Citation needed.
In any case, Linus doesn't read every line of code that goes through his mailbox, either. It *might* be technically possible, if he did it too quickly to understand it well, and didn't spend any time on anything else, but it would be a stupid use of his time. Instead, he delegates work to maintainers and is able to focus on particular areas that need it.
Want code to be better reviewed? Great, work on that, but don't get sidelined by a narrow focus on whether everyone's eyes passed over each word of some bill.
if they're the same "strategic vision" that the article is talking about, their webpage says "Strategic Vision has worldwide experience developing tools to measure decision-making, human behavior, attitudes and perceptions....
Nope, you're looking at the webpage of a different company! See Nate's previous article:
Why would you pick the name "Strategic Vision, LLC" for your company when the name "Strategic Vision, Inc." was already in use by an extremely well regarded, San Diego-based research firm that has been in business for more than 30 years? Are you deliberately trying to confuse your potential clients and leverage Strategic Vision, Inc.'s much stronger brand name?
Alan Turing broke the law that was on the books at that time. The people knew of Turing's sexual orientation, but he did not have to act on it, if that was against the law.
Har. "We've just passed a law! It is now illegal for you to have sex with anyone, for the rest of your life! Well--at least anyone you find even remotely attractive." Yeah, that'll work.
I've got two SSD's (80GB Intel X25-M), one in a laptop, one in a desktop. Never did any tweaking--just plugged them in and they worked. Haven't done any benchmarking, but boot time, application start-up time, and time for things like "grep -r large-directory/" are all (very) noticeably faster.
$ git shortlog -s --since="6 months ago" --author="@debian.org"
2 Andres Salomon
2 Bastian Blank
65 Moritz Muehlenhoff
1 Ron Lee
1 dann frazier
(And googling around suggests Mortiz Muehlenoff probably isn't a canonical employee.) Sure, people could also be using personal addresses, etc., though note the addresses come from git metadata, not necessarily "From:" addresses. (So, e.g., in my case, I use an email address from some personal domain on all my mail, but it's so easy to use my work address on git metadata (and forward it to my regular address so mail to it still gets through), that I can't see why I shouldn't do that minimum to give some credit to the employer that has me working on this stuff.)
Also, the same since-6-months search for @redhat.com gets over 1400 commits....
I like debian and ubuntu (I'm posting this from a ubuntu machine), but I think the general impression that they're not one of the larger kernel contributors is correct.
Quality of the sample (was it really random? what was the response rate?) matters more than the size of the sample, and I don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but I suspect 5000 is overkill if anything. (After I flip a coin 5000 times I should have a pretty good idea whether it's biased or not--plenty good enough to make predictions with very small percentage errors for the proportion of heads in a 30,000,000 coin-flip experiment....)
The fact that they don't discuss any of those "quality" issues isn't encouraging.
The proper people to ask about corporation sponsorship of Linux kernel development is HR and PA, not the employees.
Chances that HR people at my employer would have the foggiest idea how to answer this question are small.
And it's enough work tracking down individual contributors (by the email addresses they provide with commits) without having to contact someone else in each organization. Agreed that they could perhaps phrase the question better (they're just asking "who you work for"), but I think self-reporting is probably good enough.
But since there methodology was garbage all that means is that someone using a Volkswagen email address wrote some code.
I've been contacted personally by them to ask who my commits should be credited to. I'm not sure how many people they do that for--for people that have contributed just one or two patches, or have an obvious-looking address ("joe@bigcompany.com"), perhaps they just make the best guess they can.
I'm not necessarily defending the process--I don't recall enough of the details about the methodology (I think they've written more elsewhere, but I can't find it right now)--but they are doing more than just scraping the git commits.
"I doubt they contribute to the kernel itself at all."
They do, see below--just not as much as some others.
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git $ cd linux-2.6 $ git shortlog --author="@canonical.com" --author="@ubuntu.com" --since="6 months ago" Andy Whitcroft (12): checkpatch: make in_atomic ok in the core checkpatch: do not warn about -p0 patches when checking files checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers checkpatch: pointer type star may have modifiers following checkpatch: a modifier is not an identifier at the end of a type checkpatch: extend attribute testing to all modifiers checkpatch: add __ref as a sparse modifier checkpatch: version 0.28 Input: synaptics - ensure we reset the device on resume suspend: switch the Asus Pundit P1-AH2 to old ACPI sleep ordering mmc: add MODALIAS linkage for MMC/SD devices acer-wmi: Cleanup the failure cleanup handling
Colin Watson (1): parisc: expose 32/64-bit capabilities in cpuinfo
Luke Yelavich (1): ALSA: hda - add another MacBook Pro 3,1 SSID
Scott James Remnant (13): [SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias sbus: Auto-load openprom module when device opened. netfilter: auto-load ip6_queue module when socket opened netfilter: auto-load ip_queue module when socket opened [MTD] Auto-load mtdchar module when device opened. [MTD] Auto-load nftl module when device opened. V4L/DVB (10947): Auto-load videodev module when device opened. floppy: provide a PNP device table in the module. applicom: Auto-load applicom module when device opened. cyclades: Auto-load cyclades module when device opened. specialix: Auto-load specialix module when device opened. usb: Auto-load cdc_acm module when device opened. riscom8: Auto-load riscom8 module when device opened.
Yep, agreed on that recommendation. It's a bit old-fashioned in places: some of it's just big collections of stuff without much explanation. But that can be fun too (and it's not all that way.)
And the adjoining Greenfield Village has tons of technological history. Last time I was there I got a kick out of seeing a Jacquard Loom they were in the process of renovating. (And the guy there with it was knowledgeable and interesting.)
Sounds like you probably already know the Smithsonian, but: I always take people to the National Building Museum. Neat, fun place, and easy for tourists to overlook.
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For composited desktop with all the wobbly windows and such, tuxracer, watching DVD's, etc., the integrated intel chips are more than adequate and have great open-source support (everything except GMA 500 they use in netbooks).
I'm told they aren't so great for the latest games.
"Because of this, I'm going with ATI next time, I've heard they're way more Linux friendly now."
I haven't been following this so closely, but my impression was that ATI is doing a better job of working with the community at this point--giving adequate access to specs and so on, as opposed to just dropping a binary driver in our laps--which means in months and years to come ATI is likely to work better. But for now it may still have catching up to do.
From my limited experience in recent years, Intel hardware is the only stuff with first-class open-source support. (But of course the best drivers in the world don't help if their hardware isn't good enough to run your game. I wouldn't know--for compiz, watching DVD's, and the occasional game of Tuxracer, the Intel stuff is fine.)
Unfortunately, a netbook maker may consider it easier to ship with custom binary drivers that only work reliably on a single kernel, than to choose linux-compatible hardware or contribute a real driver to upstream.
What does "tonal variations on sine waves" even mean?
Well, the "shooting rhinos" one (Tintin au Congo) is the way to maximize the "stereotypical racist" component and minimize the actual fun.... Almost any of the albums since then are much better.
Err. Good grief, do a 2-second google search on "uk private hospital". It's amazing the length these webmasters are going to, creating webpages for hospitals which must obviously be fictitious!
Err. Really, do a little reading....
"No but in the US, you can simply walk in, hand-over some cash, and get the PAP smear done."
Err: http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/hospitaltreatment-enquiryform/
"She had no other choices."
She could have gone to a private doctor and paid for the procedure.
If your test of a good medical system is whether it lets anyone die that might have been saved under some other system: they all fail. Medicine is far from perfect.
We could also find examples of US citizens whose insurance companies didn't provide some test or procedure that might have saved their lives. (Not to mention, cases where someone would have been better off had they *not* gotten that additional test! Nothing is risk-free.)
Both the UK and US systems provide good care most of the time. But I also think the US should move towards universal coverage, and close "preexisting condition" loopholes. The legislation under consideration takes steps in this direction, which I applaud.
That's for not having insurance, yes (and it's on a sliding scale based on income). Insurance will be continued to be available from a mixture of public and private sources.
Cause everybody knows that Barney Frank runs the congress?
The bill is a compromise. It's not written by some shadowy extreme-left "they".
Other industrialized countries provide a wide variety of models, from completely government-run (the UK), to government insurance with mostly private doctors (Canada) to mostly private doctors and insurers (Japan). Any of them can work: they all have their problems, but they all seem to provide quality care at less expense; and, the singificant difference, they all manage to provide universal care. The US has always done a little of all of those (the VA administration, medicare...). Future tweaks may move it more in one direction or another, but it will continue to be a hybrid system for a long time.
Not particularly. Asterix at its best has jokes for everyone. (And spotting the puns is good fun for french students!)
Nope, that google code project is unrelated: citation.
Sure.
Options are to keep the autoremoval turned off, or build simple custom packages for your third-party aps with the proper dependencies.
Or you could do without any package management entirely. That doesn't strike me as likely to make anybody safer....
Err. What part of the bill does that?
Oh, please. Other versions are available too. Wikipedia is one starting point for pointers and summaries.
Citation needed.
In any case, Linus doesn't read every line of code that goes through his mailbox, either. It *might* be technically possible, if he did it too quickly to understand it well, and didn't spend any time on anything else, but it would be a stupid use of his time. Instead, he delegates work to maintainers and is able to focus on particular areas that need it.
Want code to be better reviewed? Great, work on that, but don't get sidelined by a narrow focus on whether everyone's eyes passed over each word of some bill.
Nope, you're looking at the webpage of a different company! See Nate's previous article:
Alan Turing broke the law that was on the books at that time. The people knew of Turing's sexual orientation, but he did not have to act on it, if that was against the law.
Har. "We've just passed a law! It is now illegal for you to have sex with anyone, for the rest of your life! Well--at least anyone you find even remotely attractive." Yeah, that'll work.
"altering Wikipedia's implicit notion that everyone has an equal right to edit entries"
Oh, please. Is the purpose of Wikipedia to provide an outlet for its contributors, or is it to produce a high-quality free encyclopedia?
I've got two SSD's (80GB Intel X25-M), one in a laptop, one in a desktop. Never did any tweaking--just plugged them in and they worked. Haven't done any benchmarking, but boot time, application start-up time, and time for things like "grep -r large-directory/" are all (very) noticeably faster.
$ git shortlog -s --since="6 months ago" --author="@debian.org"
2 Andres Salomon
2 Bastian Blank
65 Moritz Muehlenhoff
1 Ron Lee
1 dann frazier
(And googling around suggests Mortiz Muehlenoff probably isn't a canonical employee.) Sure, people could also be using personal addresses, etc., though note the addresses come from git metadata, not necessarily "From:" addresses. (So, e.g., in my case, I use an email address from some personal domain on all my mail, but it's so easy to use my work address on git metadata (and forward it to my regular address so mail to it still gets through), that I can't see why I shouldn't do that minimum to give some credit to the employer that has me working on this stuff.)
Also, the same since-6-months search for @redhat.com gets over 1400 commits....
I like debian and ubuntu (I'm posting this from a ubuntu machine), but I think the general impression that they're not one of the larger kernel contributors is correct.
Quality of the sample (was it really random? what was the response rate?) matters more than the size of the sample, and I don't know the numbers off the top of my head, but I suspect 5000 is overkill if anything. (After I flip a coin 5000 times I should have a pretty good idea whether it's biased or not--plenty good enough to make predictions with very small percentage errors for the proportion of heads in a 30,000,000 coin-flip experiment....)
The fact that they don't discuss any of those "quality" issues isn't encouraging.
The proper people to ask about corporation sponsorship of Linux kernel development is HR and PA, not the employees.
Chances that HR people at my employer would have the foggiest idea how to answer this question are small.
And it's enough work tracking down individual contributors (by the email addresses they provide with commits) without having to contact someone else in each organization. Agreed that they could perhaps phrase the question better (they're just asking "who you work for"), but I think self-reporting is probably good enough.
But since there methodology was garbage all that means is that someone using a Volkswagen email address wrote some code.
I've been contacted personally by them to ask who my commits should be credited to. I'm not sure how many people they do that for--for people that have contributed just one or two patches, or have an obvious-looking address ("joe@bigcompany.com"), perhaps they just make the best guess they can.
I'm not necessarily defending the process--I don't recall enough of the details about the methodology (I think they've written more elsewhere, but I can't find it right now)--but they are doing more than just scraping the git commits.
"I doubt they contribute to the kernel itself at all."
They do, see below--just not as much as some others.
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
$ cd linux-2.6
$ git shortlog --author="@canonical.com" --author="@ubuntu.com" --since="6 months ago"
Andy Whitcroft (12):
checkpatch: make in_atomic ok in the core
checkpatch: do not warn about -p0 patches when checking files
checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers
checkpatch: pointer type star may have modifiers following
checkpatch: a modifier is not an identifier at the end of a type
checkpatch: extend attribute testing to all modifiers
checkpatch: add __ref as a sparse modifier
checkpatch: version 0.28
Input: synaptics - ensure we reset the device on resume
suspend: switch the Asus Pundit P1-AH2 to old ACPI sleep ordering
mmc: add MODALIAS linkage for MMC/SD devices
acer-wmi: Cleanup the failure cleanup handling
Colin Watson (1):
parisc: expose 32/64-bit capabilities in cpuinfo
Leann Ogasawara (1):
x86: add Dell XPS710 reboot quirk
Luke Yelavich (1):
ALSA: hda - add another MacBook Pro 3,1 SSID
Scott James Remnant (13):
[SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias
sbus: Auto-load openprom module when device opened.
netfilter: auto-load ip6_queue module when socket opened
netfilter: auto-load ip_queue module when socket opened
[MTD] Auto-load mtdchar module when device opened.
[MTD] Auto-load nftl module when device opened.
V4L/DVB (10947): Auto-load videodev module when device opened.
floppy: provide a PNP device table in the module.
applicom: Auto-load applicom module when device opened.
cyclades: Auto-load cyclades module when device opened.
specialix: Auto-load specialix module when device opened.
usb: Auto-load cdc_acm module when device opened.
riscom8: Auto-load riscom8 module when device opened.
Yep, agreed on that recommendation. It's a bit old-fashioned in places: some of it's just big collections of stuff without much explanation. But that can be fun too (and it's not all that way.)
And the adjoining Greenfield Village has tons of technological history. Last time I was there I got a kick out of seeing a Jacquard Loom they were in the process of renovating. (And the guy there with it was knowledgeable and interesting.)
Sounds like you probably already know the Smithsonian, but: I always take people to the National Building Museum. Neat, fun place, and easy for tourists to overlook.
Among other things, note that the same guy appointing Sotomayor also appointed Summers director of the national economic council....