There have been many third party studies on code quality for large open source and closed source projects. Having worked on both kinds of projects I think you really overestimate the code quality of closed source. A lot of it is simply horrid.
There is are whole free books documenting the Linux kernel FWIW. Linux In a Nutshell and Linux Device Drivers for example. The Lex and Bison manuals are also excellent provided you give yourself the trouble of actually printing them or at least generating a PDF.
The fact is corporations need to be taxed because otherwise you would just shift all your assets into a corporation with you as the sole proprietor and pay no tax at all. In fact this is more or less what those CEOs you hear "only take minimum wage" do. They get their income from either bonuses or stocks which are taxed differently. Were they taxed more heavily this would not happen. Meanwhile us chumps can't enter this little shell game. BTW this is one of the arguments for the so called flat tax systems.
Different countries have different ways of appropriating revenue. Take Russia with their relatively low flat tax. It was made possible in a large part because of the State is being funded by oil tax revenues. In the case of Bermuda they have these low taxes for corporation and individual income but the kick is that land taxes are extremely high and they live on tourism revenues so you get taxed for snorkling, renting a hotel, etc. Monaco has the casino profits. Etc.
IMO they need to unify the Linux graphics subsystem with the Android graphics subsystem. Then you will have much easier to port games not to mention more advanced functionality. Games don't need OpenGL. OpenGL ES is fine. This might be a problem for the Linux workstation market though.
In comparison the Chinese now have their Liaoning aircraft carrier which is 304.5 meters long. They bought the hulk from Ukraine and refitted it (engines, electronics, etc). It can launch J-15 twin-jet fighters which are derived from the Su-27.
They also seem to be in the process of building some smaller carriers. They already have their Type 071 amphibious warfare boats which are 210 m long. Plus they have been busy developing the J-31 stealth fighter which is small enough to fit in a carrier.
I think PBS needs to define a standard user with standard sized hands and beedy little eyes to use their tablet application since they use such meticulate placement of widgets.
What I wanted to say is that the problem will also happen in a coal plant. In fact coal plants use the same design for cooling towers as nuclear power plants like this coal power plant in Germany. Sure there are more advanced cooling mechanisms under study. I have heard even weird proposals than that. But they are not in common use yet.
We don't have an octa core and we really wish you stopped talking about octa cores because we really want you to buy our processors. Pretty please? With sugar on top?
Oh yeah wash with the soap *after* you shave with the electric not before.
I noticed this back when I still used a regular razor. Most people use shaving cream and that acts more or less like soap. A lot of the people who use electrics don't wash their face properly after shaving because they don't need to.
The need for water for cooling will be true with any other high efficiency thermal generation method. Every noticed coal power plants have much the same type of condensation towers?
Actually Linux is part of the reason for the downfall of Sun. In the early 1990s Sun and the other UNIX vendors sold a lot of RISC workstations and servers. Eventually with the release of the Pentium Pro and Windows NT Microsoft started clawing back on that workstation market and server market. You probably do not remember but back then you had UNIX World magazine, of all places, claiming UNIX was dead and Windows NT was going to be the next big thing. Then Linux and the WWW happened. Had it not happened Microsoft would have dominated the server market. The price was always going to be the downfall of the expensive proprietary UNIX RISC platforms.
Last time you bought your PC was the clockspeed of the GPU listed in the specs sheet? Does this MacBook Air page say the GPU clockspeed? Nope. Does this Apple iPhone page say anything about the GPU clockspeed? Zilch. Nada. If the Samsung Galaxy S4 specs say Samsung Exynos 5 Octa SOC then you go to Samsung Electronics, the manufacturer of the SOC, and see the spec sheet or brochure. Which is what I did.
You come back to me with a GPU clock speed quote that comes from actual Samsung literature and not a benchmark app or a source-less web page, and then we'll talk some more.
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You invent one. Just like Lexus or Athlon. You make it vaguely Latin or Greek sounding et voila.
There have been many third party studies on code quality for large open source and closed source projects. Having worked on both kinds of projects I think you really overestimate the code quality of closed source. A lot of it is simply horrid.
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There is are whole free books documenting the Linux kernel FWIW. Linux In a Nutshell and Linux Device Drivers for example. The Lex and Bison manuals are also excellent provided you give yourself the trouble of actually printing them or at least generating a PDF.
The fact is corporations need to be taxed because otherwise you would just shift all your assets into a corporation with you as the sole proprietor and pay no tax at all. In fact this is more or less what those CEOs you hear "only take minimum wage" do. They get their income from either bonuses or stocks which are taxed differently. Were they taxed more heavily this would not happen. Meanwhile us chumps can't enter this little shell game. BTW this is one of the arguments for the so called flat tax systems.
Different countries have different ways of appropriating revenue. Take Russia with their relatively low flat tax. It was made possible in a large part because of the State is being funded by oil tax revenues. In the case of Bermuda they have these low taxes for corporation and individual income but the kick is that land taxes are extremely high and they live on tourism revenues so you get taxed for snorkling, renting a hotel, etc. Monaco has the casino profits. Etc.
You can try this MathML browser test. I can see the math notation just fine on Firefox.
There is a markup for Math. It is called MathML it just never caught on.
In other words the management is telling them they suck so they had to buy a competitor to do their job. I thought Renesas was a Japanese company?
IMO they need to unify the Linux graphics subsystem with the Android graphics subsystem. Then you will have much easier to port games not to mention more advanced functionality. Games don't need OpenGL. OpenGL ES is fine. This might be a problem for the Linux workstation market though.
Worked into turning him into a successful political activist you mean.
In comparison the Chinese now have their Liaoning aircraft carrier which is 304.5 meters long. They bought the hulk from Ukraine and refitted it (engines, electronics, etc). It can launch J-15 twin-jet fighters which are derived from the Su-27.
They also seem to be in the process of building some smaller carriers. They already have their Type 071 amphibious warfare boats which are 210 m long. Plus they have been busy developing the J-31 stealth fighter which is small enough to fit in a carrier.
The Russians do not need a Navy to do that. Just roll over their tanks towards Iran and from then go elsewhere.
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Actually, only recently have big corporations started trying to use standards-essential patents as tools of corporate warfare.
Depends on how you defend big. Remember the Unisys LZW patent and the Rambus SDRAM patents?
I think PBS needs to define a standard user with standard sized hands and beedy little eyes to use their tablet application since they use such meticulate placement of widgets.
What I wanted to say is that the problem will also happen in a coal plant. In fact coal plants use the same design for cooling towers as nuclear power plants like this coal power plant in Germany. Sure there are more advanced cooling mechanisms under study. I have heard even weird proposals than that. But they are not in common use yet.
What Qualcomm is saying is this:
We don't have an octa core and we really wish you stopped talking about octa cores because we really want you to buy our processors. Pretty please? With sugar on top?
Oh yeah wash with the soap *after* you shave with the electric not before.
I noticed this back when I still used a regular razor. Most people use shaving cream and that acts more or less like soap. A lot of the people who use electrics don't wash their face properly after shaving because they don't need to.
Electric razors give me a rash. I can only shave every two days as it is.
Wash your face with soap. Or use aftershave. Or use a different aftershave.
The need for water for cooling will be true with any other high efficiency thermal generation method. Every noticed coal power plants have much the same type of condensation towers?
Since he only got to tinker with it in the shop, but didn't actually buy one, then he didn't get the chance to examine it's bowels closely.
Which part of brought back did you not understand. It is quite clear he bought it for the $200 USD.
Actually Linux is part of the reason for the downfall of Sun. In the early 1990s Sun and the other UNIX vendors sold a lot of RISC workstations and servers. Eventually with the release of the Pentium Pro and Windows NT Microsoft started clawing back on that workstation market and server market. You probably do not remember but back then you had UNIX World magazine, of all places, claiming UNIX was dead and Windows NT was going to be the next big thing. Then Linux and the WWW happened. Had it not happened Microsoft would have dominated the server market. The price was always going to be the downfall of the expensive proprietary UNIX RISC platforms.
Last time you bought your PC was the clockspeed of the GPU listed in the specs sheet? Does this MacBook Air page say the GPU clockspeed? Nope. Does this Apple iPhone page say anything about the GPU clockspeed? Zilch. Nada. If the Samsung Galaxy S4 specs say Samsung Exynos 5 Octa SOC then you go to Samsung Electronics, the manufacturer of the SOC, and see the spec sheet or brochure. Which is what I did.
You come back to me with a GPU clock speed quote that comes from actual Samsung literature and not a benchmark app or a source-less web page, and then we'll talk some more.
Sure. Here is the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa flyer.
It's there on page 2. PowerVR SGX544 MP3 533 MHz GPU.