Yep, that's why Linux will never matter on the desktop.
People express true and valid concerns and you mock them and blow them off.
Your comment about audio on the pi is great..."look see audio works on this random shitty toy.... Of course graphics acceleration support on that toy is still absolute shit and the GPU goes completely unused... But we've got working sound on one device?!?!?!"
Awesome 200 games that no one has cared about in years and they don't work on half the machines out there due to shitty GPU support but hey, your right, left4dead on my Intel integrated GPU is all the rage... Steam is a joke on Linux.
Font is ugly and your response is to not fix the shitty font, it's to tell individual users to replicate that work...
Of course fragmentation isn't a problem... I mean it's not like the build trees for most desktop apps don't have tons of district specific code paths or anything.
Your attitude is why Linux will remain irrelevant on the desktop for a long time.
I say this working for a company that uses Linux on the desktop nearly exclusively (400 or so) and about a block away from redhat... And all those flaws and more Coke up regularly... Even amung people who have multiple PRs integrated in the kernel.
Ignoring these issue is absolutely no benefit to the Linux community and neither is the mocking of people who point out why some aspects of Linux are absolute shit. Stop being an ignorant fanboy and contribute something constructive.
Lets hold off on pointing out how worthless they are until maybe after they decide to defend themselves.
This is a moment where we can use these morons to help, lets do that before we tell them they are morons and kick their ass to the curb.
Oh who am I kidding, no one gives a shit about the spying cause we'd have already done something about it if we actually did. American's don't deserve the freedom we have, we're too stupid to defend it.
Well, the Republicans control Congress and the purse strings, so you tell me who's responsible? We had surpluses under Clinton. As soon as Bush took office, that changed quickly.
Stop right there liar.
When those things occurred, the democrats had a super majority in congress and the president. They could literally do WHAT EVER THEY WANTED AS A GROUP... and this is the bullshit mess we got... and this is why the republicans control those things NOW... they DID NOT CONTROL IT WHEN THOSE CHOICES WERE MADE.
We never should have had troops there to start with. Thanks, Conservatives.
Based on what? Your lopsided view? I could sit down and argue as to why we should or shouldn't have went, but I'm convinced by the simple stupidity of this statement, reducing it to a trivial binary decision, that you have no fucking clue about some of the actual facts involved. I'm not saying that we should have done exactly what we did, but your trivializing this to a 'they did it, punish them' kind of stance shows you really shouldn't be allowed to vote.
The only people that are complaining are on the far right.
Yea, or all the other people besides republicans (which includes nut job ultra liberals like my inlaws) who now pay more for insurance and have less coverage... you're so right, its only the republicans who think its a pile of shit.
The current system health care is entirely democrats created, not a single republican at all voted for any part of it, and I don't know any person other than you who thinks this is actually something good. Its complete shit and only benefits the insurance companies... ironically... if you follow the money and it goes back to... oh my bad, was that your team that I just found taking money from insurance companies as if they had a ATM card directly into the insurance companies bank accounts?
No, it goes all the way back to Reagan, and probably much further. Bush was a moron but he didn't mess it all up himself.
Yea, Clinton and Carter had nothing to do with it. They just made everything rosy...
I don't really care for her either, never have. We don't need any more Bush's or Clintons in the White House.
Well as long as ignorant fucks like yourself keep making it about the red elephant team or the blue jackass team, then we're going to continue to get fuckwads for politicians.
If you ACTUALLY want to change anything, you have to get off your stupid ignorant ass, look at what ALL politicians are doing and then start voting with your brain and stop checking the team box when you go vote. Stop supporting 'liberal' or 'conservative' view points and fucking support your PERSONAL view point, not determined by some manipulative fuck who just wants more power telling you what to think.
The ignorance of your post is WHY WE HAVE THE SHITTY POLITICIANS WE HAVE. You care more about your 'team' being the winner than the actual results of who you pick.
You're an idiot who only sees what you want to see, which is actually what some politician told you to see. Please don't vote again until you get a cluepon.
Processors are different in many ways other than just 'powerful', whatever you're defining it to be.
And the rest of your post is pretty much false for everyone except gamers.
CPUs have been 'good enough' for most desktop/interactive tasks for a long time. Pretty much any machine released since 2009 is still plenty fast enough to run more modern OSes without noticing it being slower. My 2012 i7 laptop is faster at certain things than the brand new quad Xeon E-54657L (48 cores total) VM server sitting behind me right now. My phone will last for days without a charge, my laptop will only goes about 10 hours with light use, and the server... well I'm waiting for it to suck the power lines out of my office wall (I have 30 amp supplies of power in my office for this purpose and it'll blow the breaker if I don't split it amount the two!). What you're using it for matters.
Just because the trend to cram more eye candy into the OS has been going on for a while, doesn't mean it would continue, and in fact the latest round of OSes goes the opposite direction (iOS excluded which does seem to still be going the eye candy route). Now we're at the stage where we don't need more CPU to deal with shitty developers
Case in point:
Modern CPUs are more than fast enough that we can have shitty developers write games in C/C++, 'compile' them to JavaScript and then run them in a browser with OpenGL graphics... we're WAY WAY beyond the point of having 'enough' CPU when we can do such ridiculously inefficient and stupid things... and celebrate how awesome it is that we did them.
Shitty Java code doesn't even feel slow at this point.
We're also rapidly approaching the point that there simply isn't a physical means to getting more CPU power in the same density, the laws of physics change at the scales they're approaching. CPUs won't get much faster. We've still got plenty of room for power conservation, so if they can get a couple cores of x86 to run in super lower power, slow performance on a phone... then turn on 8-16 cores when in 'desktop' or 'powered' mode... the only thing that will suck about it si the heat sink it has to have attached to cool them!
I don't know who or what OS is going to be the one that does it, but Android doesn't have anything I'm interested in, iOS/OSx is my preferred environment, but Windows is by far the one most likely to benefit from doing it and while I don't like the feel of Windows 10, the OS is certainly moving exactly in the direction I want.
One OS across devices that allows me to seamlessly transition from working on my phone to working on a 'desktop' without actually requiring a full desktop and I'm sold.
Its not the OS or the company, its the idea. My phone is my laptop and desktop, it just doesn't have the monitor and keyboard attached... I'd buy pre-order it now if they told me OS X 12 would do it, I'd have to see Windows in action based on the Windows Vista, 8 and 8.1 experiences, but they'll work things out and produce something we all (excluding rabid fanboys) consider to be not too bad for the time.
I don't know who is going to do it, I just want someone to fucking do it!
Why? A Phantom without a camera can carry plenty of payload to do plenty of damage. Doesn't have to move fast, just get there.
30 miles is outside the range of your off the shelf DJI phantom, but I've got one thats flown 18 miles thats the same size roughly, of course all its payload capacity was consumed with the extra batteries... but its a quad, the least efficient form of flying machine man has ever invented. A fixed wing aircraft has an order of magnitude more distance given the same inputs.
Remember, quads (the toys you see) are really horrible flying machines. They require full artificial stability 100% of the time or they won't fly. No human can sense or react quick enough to keep them in the air, and they only get made because they are mechanically simple, strap 4 motors with props onto 4 arms and you're essentially done. No linkages for control services, no control surfaces, no control surface flex or any other things that happen during flight, the software on the controller takes care of everything and making software is freaking cheap as shit compared to designing a proper aircraft. So the toys are quads.
Any drop thats going to be a threat isn't going to be a quad.
I don't know about everyone else, but IMHO the web browser is THE WORST platform to code for in existence.
You don't do anything other than websites, do you?
With web browsers your problems are 2 things, shitty language (javascript) and different browsers. In modern terms, you have fewer browsers than you have OSes, so if you want cross platform support the browser is your path of LEAST resistence. If you support webkit, you immediately get the majority of the internet across all platforms, and you'll get close enough out of the box for anyone who uses firefox. You can ignore firefox users up front because they use a shitty browser and complain all the time about anything and everything anyway. The only other browser worth mentioning is Edge since its the direction Microsoft is moving in. In my line of site on my desk right now, I can see 5 different devices that have webkit based browsers, one that runs Edge, no firefox and no IE, certainly nothing like Opera or more obscure than that. But from an OS perspective, that covers OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris.
So for web dev, you essentially support webkit and edge and you get the entire planet, with a few outliers that don't matter anyway because they're doing something obscure.
For real developers that want to do cross platform, its ridiculously more complicated with completely different APIs in a lot of cases... and you're bitching about some minor implementation differences in a pretty well recognized standard? bwhahahahaha FFS there are more Windows variations than there are browsers to choose from, and I'm ignore the 100 different Linux distros that all have minor differences (wouldn't be a different distro if it didn't, would it?)
It amazes and depresses me how little has changed about client side web programming since IE4
Hate to break it to you, but programming hasn't really changed in the last 30 years that I've been doing it. New languages and frameworks, sure, but they aren't actually doing anything new, just more of the same thing they've always done, and faster. If you're expecting the world to change you're going to be disappointed because there is no reason for massive change, what we have works well and fits the way humans work well. You're not doing anything today that you weren't doing in IE4, you're just doing MORE of the same shit and applying it differently. Its easier now to do the same things as before, but its still the same crap. Web pages today are really the same as they were 20 years ago, except now thanks to javascript and flash they have a shitton of advertising that yells and blinks at you.
You sound extremely inexperienced.
But still we are doing this fundamentally broken thing of shoehorning a language intended to describe formatted text documents (HTML) to instead describe a GUI for an application
Stop making shitty web pages. Thats not the fault of the language, thats the fault of the devs using the language or document format. HTML isn't intended for 'applications', and that is dumb, thats why I don't do that. Problem solved. A little interactivity and help on a web form is delightful though.
If we truly are serious about having the web be an application platform then a new markup intended to describe cross platform application GUIs and a standard bytecode for the web is needed.
If anyone wanted a 'one size fits all approach' we would have switched to Java 10 years ago since it does exactly what you're talking about. Thats not what people actually want.
Asm.js and enscripten or PNaCl both could be our new standard bytecode, both have pros and cons that I won't rehash.
Oh, you're one of those morons who thinks using a compiler from one language to compile code to another language and then interpret it with a JIT is a good idea. Sorry, you're just an idiot. You've utterly
You need to go take some American History classes or something.
At no point does the constitution say you have to blindly do what someone says. The constitution applies the first round of limits, it doesn't prevent citizens from additional limitations on the government, it does exactly the opposite.
The constitution was written at a time when every single person involved KNEW what a shitty government (a lot like our current one actually) was like and their entire intention of the constitution was to form a government that COULDN'T run all over peoples lives.
And blindly supporting the law makes you retarded, but that seems right up your ally by the way you're talking.
Also, I dislike the generalizations and use of the word "liberal" as if its always a negative thing. It is fine to say you have a disagreement with a stance, but let's please not demonize groups of people and pretend that we aren't what we are -- a country with a diverse set of beliefs that really isn't easily categorized.
Anyone who calls themselves a 'liberal' is a problem. Just like people who call themselves 'conservatives' are a problem.
You SHOULD be a free thinking citizen of the United States of America who chooses the best politicians and policies for the country (in your opinion of course) and does so regardless of what some blue or red team is doing.
People who call themselves 'liberal' or 'conservative' and take offense when people refer to them that way ARE THE PROBLEM WITH OUR POLITICIANS.
You're so concerned with what team you're on and how other people talk about your team that you're not focused on what actually matters. Who the fuck cares what someone calls you, does that REALLY have any effect on you or what the TSA does? No, you only care because you are more concerned with peoples impression of your team then what your team actually does.
So go ahead, get offended, for those of us with half a brain or more, it just makes you look like an ignorant douche who's been brainwashed by politicians.
So lets all agree to stop being pussies and worry about who calls each other what and actually vote on what matters instead of this two year old bullshit, can we? Can we grow up and focus on the actual issues and not that your team mascot is a jackass? hmm? Can we please?
I'm going to ignore the financial and resource related reasons why this won't work and simple focus on the ignorance of the politicians involved.
We have 10,000 unemployed people in Utrecht, but if they all have to do something in return for welfare we just don't have the people to see to that. It costs too much.
In Nijmegen we get £88m to give to people on welfare,' Westerveld said, 'but it costs £15m a year for the civil servants running the bureaucracy of the current system. We will save money with a "basic income."'
So you have 10k people that don't have a job... and need to have a job... and you're paying them 88m... and then employing more people... at 15m... to handle paying the first group?
Why the fuck don't you make some of the people drawing your handouts work for the system by providing those services. You just employed several people and cut 15m off the top.
Of course in reality whats going to happen is that the 15m will increase because its going to take more bureaucracy to deal with the massive amount of lazy fucks that immigrate toy our city with the intention of never doing shit and getting the free ride.so instead of paying a little more than 100m... you're going to pay multiple times that to deal with your new 'citizens'
And you're not even smart enough to use the people who need jobs in an intelligent way? You guys are fucked.
I know I'm being an example of what you pointed out as the follow up comment... but... bear with me anyway, please.
My wife is the perfect example of someone who would want a Surface Phone (excepted she'd really want an OSXiOS phone since she's a mac person). She RARELY uses her MBA, but when she does its because a phone just isn't the right input/display device, its pretty much never due to lack of CPU power.
If should could simply take that phone, and plug it in with Thunderbolt and it instantly becomes a very low powered but fully featured laptop... with say 256GB of storage? She'd never own another laptop.
99% of the time, the phone is perfect. The other 1% doesn't require a desktop PC, it requires a big display and a real keyboard/mouse. Having all her data, always being connected, and only needing essentially a KVM to turn it into a practical 'desktop pc'? Awesome-sauce.
I want the exact same thing, but I require more CPU power so its not going to work for me for a few more years, but I do dev work on her MBA on occasion and its really not that bad for most things if you can keep your working set small enough. You aren't going to want to run freebsd's 'make world' on an MBA as a regular thing, but rebuilding init or sshd is certainly tolerable.
Again, I may be a corner case, but I don't think she is. She's a vet, so being able to do almost everything on her phone (with a different UI than full desktop mode!, same apps) and then just plugging in a keyboard or display for the rest? Wherever she is because her phone is ALWAYS with her...
I think that would be the death of 'PCs' much like cell phones killed off the low end film and digital camera market entirely.
Uh, in the US? Since when? Unless you mean being poor/uninsured and having hospital ERs pass the cost along to others. Perhaps rich white dudes, like Zuckerberg, and I have different definitions of the word "free".
So yes, we do have 'free basic healthcare' by your own words.
How do you think 'free health care' is paid for in other countries? Do you think those people don't get paid or do you think they just pay it in taxes... kind of like you pay it in taxes (insurance) in the US. So yes, we pay for our Free Basic Healthcare, which is EXACTLY what those ER visits are.
Do you understand anything at all about how the world works? You seem to think other countries give 'free and universal' health care... which you seem to think means NO ONE pays ANYTHING for it EVER, and also that they treat everything...
The reality of it is, there is no such thing as 'free healthcare' its just a matter of who you're paying the tax, admittedly, our tax is worse because we have government required for-profit insurance companies (how fucking stupid can you be to allow this to exist) rather than simple public funded health care, so we pay WAY more than anyone else. And its cute that you don't think the ER visits count, but there are plenty of people who actually need healthcare desperately in the world who would literally give up a child if it meant they could walk into an ER and get treated.
You probably have the GPL definition of free, which is pretty common on slashdot... what you really mean is that you don't have to do anything, but everyone else gives you whatever you want for no cost or effort and in exchange... you don't have to do shit. Healthcare in the US is worse than some other countries, but only top of the line FIRST WORLD countries, so basically the worse possible healthcare you can get... is still pretty great compared to massive chunks of the planet. If you picked some other country in the world and said 'do that' and we went and did it... you'd be bitching next year about all the problems with that system because guess what... NOTHING IS PERFECT.
The sense of spoiled entitlement you have is mind blowing.
As soon as that weed is sold, it becomes a federal issue, if nothing else its a tax issue.
Which is why the feds don't bust people who grow their own.
The constitution defines a couple fist fulls of Musts and Must nots, everything else it leaves to Congress to control, the Supreme Court can disagree with Congress and throw it out, but otherwise Congress is actually capable of doing pretty much anything they want.
And its ignorant fucking statements like yours that are a major contributing factor as to why we have such a shitty Congress and national state of affairs. People like yourself expect to stand back without any actual understanding of hour our government works and screen 'constitution' when its sounds entirely like you've never even read it. And you do nothing to actually fix the problem. Just shout and point at something someone else did and absolve yourself of the actual situation.
The FAA has jurisdiction over what flies over any US territory, deal with it. Doesn't matter if its a grain of sand millimeters off the ground or a military aircraft at 80k feet, or even ballistic missiles (though its probably not worth arguing about if ballistic missiles are flying around, is it?).
The reality of it is, "We, the people of the United States of America" DO WANT DRONES REGULATED. I say this as someone who has been flying RC aircraft for over 20 years and currently own 3 flight ready quadcopter, 2 standard helicopters and a fixed wing rc aircraft. Countless model rockets as well. I'm safe. Joe Sixpack that gets one as a christmas present is not. Until 5 years ago, Joe Sixpack was going to be so incapable of controlling the aircraft that its probably going to crash on take off... this wasn't even all that dangerous cause it happened once, fairly early in the life of the aircraft. Artificial stability (the part that makes it so a human being can actually fly a quad in the first place) makes it so Joe Sixpack doesn't crash immediately. This is dangerous. Now he gets over confident and starts doing 'cool' things without actually thinking about what he's doing.
He's just not thinking about the fact that a 5 pound aircraft dropping uncontrolled from 10 feet above someones head is well beyond the amount of blunt force required to kill someone with a head strike... and thats just an unintentional freefall, I'm ignoring all sorts of things that could cause all sorts of damage to a person besides death
But his point is entirely the same and still valid.
You separate power for the radio, thrust an auxiliary items for safety. This is an aircraft, you can't pull over or just roll to a stop if something goes wrong. Cars for instance by nature fail safe for the most part, if the engine fails, they will in most cases start to slow down and eventually stop, with the exception being that gravity can sometimes cause them to accelerate with no engine at all... but thats pretty rare.
On the other hand, with quads or any other aircraft, when you loose power you almost certainly run the possibility of rapid uncontrolled acceleration, in the vertical orientation. Gravity is ALWAYS in play on aircraft, so you want all the redundancy you can get.
You don't want the camera shorting out and drawing a large load which then causes your radio gear to brown out and... poof one motor is going faster, one is going slower, one has stopped and the last one... well now its running in reverse! Or you don't want the thrust motors sharing power with either, because when the flight controller detects that gust of wind and has to put all the power it can into the motors to stabilize the aircraft... now your camera and radio brown out because you simply don't have the surge amps required available after everything is taken into account. (Note: all of these things are typically mitigated with other factors like capacitors and such as well)
Doesn't matter that in the last 5 years lipos have made electric flight on par with nitro flight for a lot of smaller aircraft.... doesn't matter that flight controllers now are so robust that even the cheapest toy can pretty much hover on its own for short periods of time, because the same problems still occurs with those devices, it just happens without you having any control over the situation since the flight controller is acting for you. Doesn't matter that 2.4ghz radios are practically interference proof (not completely, as many pilots have found out the hard way), because too little power in a power hungry cosmos is always going to be a problem.
If the frameworks a page is written in are making your head hurt and you aren't actively maintaining/developing for the page I'd say you might want to consider the problem to be a personal one since you seem to be focused on something that shouldn't matter to you since its not your problem.
And for the record... you do know the original guy was a HOAX right? There were no lights or webcam just static pictures that were swapped in as needed and in the summary... it points out... its using the same old code... so probably no ACTUAL lights here either.
Congratulations, you've been trolled by a second hand troll from 13 years ago.
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Linux zealots consider your complaint a feature, not a flaw. Of course that's Linux won't every rule the desktop
Yep, that's why Linux will never matter on the desktop.
People express true and valid concerns and you mock them and blow them off.
Your comment about audio on the pi is great ..."look see audio works on this random shitty toy .... Of course graphics acceleration support on that toy is still absolute shit and the GPU goes completely unused ... But we've got working sound on one device?!?!?!"
Awesome 200 games that no one has cared about in years and they don't work on half the machines out there due to shitty GPU support but hey, your right, left4dead on my Intel integrated GPU is all the rage ... Steam is a joke on Linux.
Font is ugly and your response is to not fix the shitty font, it's to tell individual users to replicate that work ...
Of course fragmentation isn't a problem ... I mean it's not like the build trees for most desktop apps don't have tons of district specific code paths or anything.
Your attitude is why Linux will remain irrelevant on the desktop for a long time.
I say this working for a company that uses Linux on the desktop nearly exclusively (400 or so) and about a block away from redhat ... And all those flaws and more Coke up regularly ... Even amung people who have multiple PRs integrated in the kernel.
Ignoring these issue is absolutely no benefit to the Linux community and neither is the mocking of people who point out why some aspects of Linux are absolute shit. Stop being an ignorant fanboy and contribute something constructive.
Lets hold off on pointing out how worthless they are until maybe after they decide to defend themselves.
This is a moment where we can use these morons to help, lets do that before we tell them they are morons and kick their ass to the curb.
Oh who am I kidding, no one gives a shit about the spying cause we'd have already done something about it if we actually did. American's don't deserve the freedom we have, we're too stupid to defend it.
Well, the Republicans control Congress and the purse strings, so you tell me who's responsible? We had surpluses under Clinton. As soon as Bush took office, that changed quickly.
Stop right there liar.
When those things occurred, the democrats had a super majority in congress and the president. They could literally do WHAT EVER THEY WANTED AS A GROUP ... and this is the bullshit mess we got ... and this is why the republicans control those things NOW ... they DID NOT CONTROL IT WHEN THOSE CHOICES WERE MADE.
We never should have had troops there to start with. Thanks, Conservatives.
Based on what? Your lopsided view? I could sit down and argue as to why we should or shouldn't have went, but I'm convinced by the simple stupidity of this statement, reducing it to a trivial binary decision, that you have no fucking clue about some of the actual facts involved. I'm not saying that we should have done exactly what we did, but your trivializing this to a 'they did it, punish them' kind of stance shows you really shouldn't be allowed to vote.
The only people that are complaining are on the far right.
Yea, or all the other people besides republicans (which includes nut job ultra liberals like my inlaws) who now pay more for insurance and have less coverage ... you're so right, its only the republicans who think its a pile of shit.
The current system health care is entirely democrats created, not a single republican at all voted for any part of it, and I don't know any person other than you who thinks this is actually something good. Its complete shit and only benefits the insurance companies ... ironically ... if you follow the money and it goes back to ... oh my bad, was that your team that I just found taking money from insurance companies as if they had a ATM card directly into the insurance companies bank accounts?
No, it goes all the way back to Reagan, and probably much further. Bush was a moron but he didn't mess it all up himself.
Yea, Clinton and Carter had nothing to do with it. They just made everything rosy ...
I don't really care for her either, never have. We don't need any more Bush's or Clintons in the White House.
Well as long as ignorant fucks like yourself keep making it about the red elephant team or the blue jackass team, then we're going to continue to get fuckwads for politicians.
If you ACTUALLY want to change anything, you have to get off your stupid ignorant ass, look at what ALL politicians are doing and then start voting with your brain and stop checking the team box when you go vote. Stop supporting 'liberal' or 'conservative' view points and fucking support your PERSONAL view point, not determined by some manipulative fuck who just wants more power telling you what to think.
The ignorance of your post is WHY WE HAVE THE SHITTY POLITICIANS WE HAVE. You care more about your 'team' being the winner than the actual results of who you pick.
You're an idiot who only sees what you want to see, which is actually what some politician told you to see. Please don't vote again until you get a cluepon.
Anyone know if you could get away with an insurance policy that demands such data
Plenty do it for cars, and if you thought that was a good idea, you're a moron.
All that happens is that if there is any at all indication of you doing something 'dangerous', your rate goes up.
No ones rate goes down, everyone will still pay AT LEAST what they pay now, but most people will pay more for the 'danger' tax.
Just think of how bad of an idea it is to even mention it.
Bennett Hasleton started posting anonymously. That's really all you need to know about this post.
Anon in this case looks a whole lot like Bennett Hasltons ignorant rambling ...
Actually, the behavior it's describing also sounds a lot like Bennett.
20 Euro says he wrote it.
No.
The Jeep requires something resembling a road, or at least reasonably flat and unobstructed land.
This robot can walk across things a Jeep simply can't.
The robot horse can walk in the woods, up and down hills that are too steep/rocky/slippery for a Jeep, all sorts of things.
Quadrupeds are far more versatile than cars, we are just way better at making cares than quadrupeds (for the moment)
It'll get worse, thats what it means
Processors are different in many ways other than just 'powerful', whatever you're defining it to be.
And the rest of your post is pretty much false for everyone except gamers.
CPUs have been 'good enough' for most desktop/interactive tasks for a long time. Pretty much any machine released since 2009 is still plenty fast enough to run more modern OSes without noticing it being slower. My 2012 i7 laptop is faster at certain things than the brand new quad Xeon E-54657L (48 cores total) VM server sitting behind me right now. My phone will last for days without a charge, my laptop will only goes about 10 hours with light use, and the server ... well I'm waiting for it to suck the power lines out of my office wall (I have 30 amp supplies of power in my office for this purpose and it'll blow the breaker if I don't split it amount the two!). What you're using it for matters.
Just because the trend to cram more eye candy into the OS has been going on for a while, doesn't mean it would continue, and in fact the latest round of OSes goes the opposite direction (iOS excluded which does seem to still be going the eye candy route). Now we're at the stage where we don't need more CPU to deal with shitty developers
Case in point:
Modern CPUs are more than fast enough that we can have shitty developers write games in C/C++, 'compile' them to JavaScript and then run them in a browser with OpenGL graphics ... we're WAY WAY beyond the point of having 'enough' CPU when we can do such ridiculously inefficient and stupid things ... and celebrate how awesome it is that we did them.
Shitty Java code doesn't even feel slow at this point.
We're also rapidly approaching the point that there simply isn't a physical means to getting more CPU power in the same density, the laws of physics change at the scales they're approaching. CPUs won't get much faster. We've still got plenty of room for power conservation, so if they can get a couple cores of x86 to run in super lower power, slow performance on a phone ... then turn on 8-16 cores when in 'desktop' or 'powered' mode ... the only thing that will suck about it si the heat sink it has to have attached to cool them!
I don't know who or what OS is going to be the one that does it, but Android doesn't have anything I'm interested in, iOS/OSx is my preferred environment, but Windows is by far the one most likely to benefit from doing it and while I don't like the feel of Windows 10, the OS is certainly moving exactly in the direction I want.
One OS across devices that allows me to seamlessly transition from working on my phone to working on a 'desktop' without actually requiring a full desktop and I'm sold.
Its not the OS or the company, its the idea. My phone is my laptop and desktop, it just doesn't have the monitor and keyboard attached ... I'd buy pre-order it now if they told me OS X 12 would do it, I'd have to see Windows in action based on the Windows Vista, 8 and 8.1 experiences, but they'll work things out and produce something we all (excluding rabid fanboys) consider to be not too bad for the time.
I don't know who is going to do it, I just want someone to fucking do it!
No, ignorant panicky inbred horses that you've been around have are afraid of noises.
I've had multiple horses that you can shoot a rifle while on their back with barely a flinch from them. They do fine when they know what to expect.
Why? A Phantom without a camera can carry plenty of payload to do plenty of damage. Doesn't have to move fast, just get there.
30 miles is outside the range of your off the shelf DJI phantom, but I've got one thats flown 18 miles thats the same size roughly, of course all its payload capacity was consumed with the extra batteries ... but its a quad, the least efficient form of flying machine man has ever invented. A fixed wing aircraft has an order of magnitude more distance given the same inputs.
Remember, quads (the toys you see) are really horrible flying machines. They require full artificial stability 100% of the time or they won't fly. No human can sense or react quick enough to keep them in the air, and they only get made because they are mechanically simple, strap 4 motors with props onto 4 arms and you're essentially done. No linkages for control services, no control surfaces, no control surface flex or any other things that happen during flight, the software on the controller takes care of everything and making software is freaking cheap as shit compared to designing a proper aircraft. So the toys are quads.
Any drop thats going to be a threat isn't going to be a quad.
I don't know about everyone else, but IMHO the web browser is THE WORST platform to code for in existence.
You don't do anything other than websites, do you?
With web browsers your problems are 2 things, shitty language (javascript) and different browsers. In modern terms, you have fewer browsers than you have OSes, so if you want cross platform support the browser is your path of LEAST resistence. If you support webkit, you immediately get the majority of the internet across all platforms, and you'll get close enough out of the box for anyone who uses firefox. You can ignore firefox users up front because they use a shitty browser and complain all the time about anything and everything anyway. The only other browser worth mentioning is Edge since its the direction Microsoft is moving in. In my line of site on my desk right now, I can see 5 different devices that have webkit based browsers, one that runs Edge, no firefox and no IE, certainly nothing like Opera or more obscure than that. But from an OS perspective, that covers OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris.
So for web dev, you essentially support webkit and edge and you get the entire planet, with a few outliers that don't matter anyway because they're doing something obscure.
For real developers that want to do cross platform, its ridiculously more complicated with completely different APIs in a lot of cases ... and you're bitching about some minor implementation differences in a pretty well recognized standard? bwhahahahaha FFS there are more Windows variations than there are browsers to choose from, and I'm ignore the 100 different Linux distros that all have minor differences (wouldn't be a different distro if it didn't, would it?)
It amazes and depresses me how little has changed about client side web programming since IE4
Hate to break it to you, but programming hasn't really changed in the last 30 years that I've been doing it. New languages and frameworks, sure, but they aren't actually doing anything new, just more of the same thing they've always done, and faster. If you're expecting the world to change you're going to be disappointed because there is no reason for massive change, what we have works well and fits the way humans work well. You're not doing anything today that you weren't doing in IE4, you're just doing MORE of the same shit and applying it differently. Its easier now to do the same things as before, but its still the same crap. Web pages today are really the same as they were 20 years ago, except now thanks to javascript and flash they have a shitton of advertising that yells and blinks at you.
You sound extremely inexperienced.
But still we are doing this fundamentally broken thing of shoehorning a language intended to describe formatted text documents (HTML) to instead describe a GUI for an application
Stop making shitty web pages. Thats not the fault of the language, thats the fault of the devs using the language or document format. HTML isn't intended for 'applications', and that is dumb, thats why I don't do that. Problem solved. A little interactivity and help on a web form is delightful though.
If we truly are serious about having the web be an application platform then a new markup intended to describe cross platform application GUIs and a standard bytecode for the web is needed.
If anyone wanted a 'one size fits all approach' we would have switched to Java 10 years ago since it does exactly what you're talking about. Thats not what people actually want.
Asm.js and enscripten or PNaCl both could be our new standard bytecode, both have pros and cons that I won't rehash.
Oh, you're one of those morons who thinks using a compiler from one language to compile code to another language and then interpret it with a JIT is a good idea. Sorry, you're just an idiot. You've utterly
Poorly, sure. Qt fanboys think its awesome, anyone with experience elsewhere, not so much
No.
You need to go take some American History classes or something.
At no point does the constitution say you have to blindly do what someone says. The constitution applies the first round of limits, it doesn't prevent citizens from additional limitations on the government, it does exactly the opposite.
The constitution was written at a time when every single person involved KNEW what a shitty government (a lot like our current one actually) was like and their entire intention of the constitution was to form a government that COULDN'T run all over peoples lives.
And blindly supporting the law makes you retarded, but that seems right up your ally by the way you're talking.
Also, I dislike the generalizations and use of the word "liberal" as if its always a negative thing. It is fine to say you have a disagreement with a stance, but let's please not demonize groups of people and pretend that we aren't what we are -- a country with a diverse set of beliefs that really isn't easily categorized.
Anyone who calls themselves a 'liberal' is a problem. Just like people who call themselves 'conservatives' are a problem.
You SHOULD be a free thinking citizen of the United States of America who chooses the best politicians and policies for the country (in your opinion of course) and does so regardless of what some blue or red team is doing.
People who call themselves 'liberal' or 'conservative' and take offense when people refer to them that way ARE THE PROBLEM WITH OUR POLITICIANS.
You're so concerned with what team you're on and how other people talk about your team that you're not focused on what actually matters. Who the fuck cares what someone calls you, does that REALLY have any effect on you or what the TSA does? No, you only care because you are more concerned with peoples impression of your team then what your team actually does.
So go ahead, get offended, for those of us with half a brain or more, it just makes you look like an ignorant douche who's been brainwashed by politicians.
So lets all agree to stop being pussies and worry about who calls each other what and actually vote on what matters instead of this two year old bullshit, can we? Can we grow up and focus on the actual issues and not that your team mascot is a jackass? hmm? Can we please?
Fucking childish bullshit.
I'm going to ignore the financial and resource related reasons why this won't work and simple focus on the ignorance of the politicians involved.
We have 10,000 unemployed people in Utrecht, but if they all have to do something in return for welfare we just don't have the people to see to that. It costs too much.
In Nijmegen we get £88m to give to people on welfare,' Westerveld said, 'but it costs £15m a year for the civil servants running the bureaucracy of the current system. We will save money with a "basic income."'
So you have 10k people that don't have a job ... and need to have a job ... and you're paying them 88m ... and then employing more people ... at 15m ... to handle paying the first group?
Why the fuck don't you make some of the people drawing your handouts work for the system by providing those services. You just employed several people and cut 15m off the top.
Of course in reality whats going to happen is that the 15m will increase because its going to take more bureaucracy to deal with the massive amount of lazy fucks that immigrate toy our city with the intention of never doing shit and getting the free ride.so instead of paying a little more than 100m ... you're going to pay multiple times that to deal with your new 'citizens'
And you're not even smart enough to use the people who need jobs in an intelligent way? You guys are fucked.
I know I'm being an example of what you pointed out as the follow up comment ... but ... bear with me anyway, please.
My wife is the perfect example of someone who would want a Surface Phone (excepted she'd really want an OSXiOS phone since she's a mac person). She RARELY uses her MBA, but when she does its because a phone just isn't the right input/display device, its pretty much never due to lack of CPU power.
If should could simply take that phone, and plug it in with Thunderbolt and it instantly becomes a very low powered but fully featured laptop ... with say 256GB of storage? She'd never own another laptop.
99% of the time, the phone is perfect. The other 1% doesn't require a desktop PC, it requires a big display and a real keyboard/mouse. Having all her data, always being connected, and only needing essentially a KVM to turn it into a practical 'desktop pc'? Awesome-sauce.
I want the exact same thing, but I require more CPU power so its not going to work for me for a few more years, but I do dev work on her MBA on occasion and its really not that bad for most things if you can keep your working set small enough. You aren't going to want to run freebsd's 'make world' on an MBA as a regular thing, but rebuilding init or sshd is certainly tolerable.
Again, I may be a corner case, but I don't think she is. She's a vet, so being able to do almost everything on her phone (with a different UI than full desktop mode!, same apps) and then just plugging in a keyboard or display for the rest? Wherever she is because her phone is ALWAYS with her ...
I think that would be the death of 'PCs' much like cell phones killed off the low end film and digital camera market entirely.
Bullshit, it says neither of those two things. You're flat out making shit up that does not exist.
Because JavaScript doesn't specify the RNG implementation details, and V8 is the only engine mentioned ass affected in the article ...
Uh, in the US? Since when? Unless you mean being poor/uninsured and having hospital ERs pass the cost along to others. Perhaps rich white dudes, like Zuckerberg, and I have different definitions of the word "free".
So yes, we do have 'free basic healthcare' by your own words.
How do you think 'free health care' is paid for in other countries? Do you think those people don't get paid or do you think they just pay it in taxes ... kind of like you pay it in taxes (insurance) in the US. So yes, we pay for our Free Basic Healthcare, which is EXACTLY what those ER visits are.
Do you understand anything at all about how the world works? You seem to think other countries give 'free and universal' health care ... which you seem to think means NO ONE pays ANYTHING for it EVER, and also that they treat everything ...
The reality of it is, there is no such thing as 'free healthcare' its just a matter of who you're paying the tax, admittedly, our tax is worse because we have government required for-profit insurance companies (how fucking stupid can you be to allow this to exist) rather than simple public funded health care, so we pay WAY more than anyone else. And its cute that you don't think the ER visits count, but there are plenty of people who actually need healthcare desperately in the world who would literally give up a child if it meant they could walk into an ER and get treated.
You probably have the GPL definition of free, which is pretty common on slashdot ... what you really mean is that you don't have to do anything, but everyone else gives you whatever you want for no cost or effort and in exchange ... you don't have to do shit. ... is still pretty great compared to massive chunks of the planet. If you picked some other country in the world and said 'do that' and we went and did it ... you'd be bitching next year about all the problems with that system because guess what ... NOTHING IS PERFECT.
Healthcare in the US is worse than some other countries, but only top of the line FIRST WORLD countries, so basically the worse possible healthcare you can get
The sense of spoiled entitlement you have is mind blowing.
As soon as that weed is sold, it becomes a federal issue, if nothing else its a tax issue.
Which is why the feds don't bust people who grow their own.
The constitution defines a couple fist fulls of Musts and Must nots, everything else it leaves to Congress to control, the Supreme Court can disagree with Congress and throw it out, but otherwise Congress is actually capable of doing pretty much anything they want.
And its ignorant fucking statements like yours that are a major contributing factor as to why we have such a shitty Congress and national state of affairs. People like yourself expect to stand back without any actual understanding of hour our government works and screen 'constitution' when its sounds entirely like you've never even read it. And you do nothing to actually fix the problem. Just shout and point at something someone else did and absolve yourself of the actual situation.
The FAA has jurisdiction over what flies over any US territory, deal with it. Doesn't matter if its a grain of sand millimeters off the ground or a military aircraft at 80k feet, or even ballistic missiles (though its probably not worth arguing about if ballistic missiles are flying around, is it?).
The reality of it is, "We, the people of the United States of America" DO WANT DRONES REGULATED. I say this as someone who has been flying RC aircraft for over 20 years and currently own 3 flight ready quadcopter, 2 standard helicopters and a fixed wing rc aircraft. Countless model rockets as well. I'm safe. Joe Sixpack that gets one as a christmas present is not. Until 5 years ago, Joe Sixpack was going to be so incapable of controlling the aircraft that its probably going to crash on take off... this wasn't even all that dangerous cause it happened once, fairly early in the life of the aircraft. Artificial stability (the part that makes it so a human being can actually fly a quad in the first place) makes it so Joe Sixpack doesn't crash immediately. This is dangerous. Now he gets over confident and starts doing 'cool' things without actually thinking about what he's doing.
He's just not thinking about the fact that a 5 pound aircraft dropping uncontrolled from 10 feet above someones head is well beyond the amount of blunt force required to kill someone with a head strike ... and thats just an unintentional freefall, I'm ignoring all sorts of things that could cause all sorts of damage to a person besides death
But his point is entirely the same and still valid.
You separate power for the radio, thrust an auxiliary items for safety. This is an aircraft, you can't pull over or just roll to a stop if something goes wrong. Cars for instance by nature fail safe for the most part, if the engine fails, they will in most cases start to slow down and eventually stop, with the exception being that gravity can sometimes cause them to accelerate with no engine at all ... but thats pretty rare.
On the other hand, with quads or any other aircraft, when you loose power you almost certainly run the possibility of rapid uncontrolled acceleration, in the vertical orientation. Gravity is ALWAYS in play on aircraft, so you want all the redundancy you can get.
You don't want the camera shorting out and drawing a large load which then causes your radio gear to brown out and ... poof one motor is going faster, one is going slower, one has stopped and the last one ... well now its running in reverse! Or you don't want the thrust motors sharing power with either, because when the flight controller detects that gust of wind and has to put all the power it can into the motors to stabilize the aircraft ... now your camera and radio brown out because you simply don't have the surge amps required available after everything is taken into account. (Note: all of these things are typically mitigated with other factors like capacitors and such as well)
Doesn't matter that in the last 5 years lipos have made electric flight on par with nitro flight for a lot of smaller aircraft .... doesn't matter that flight controllers now are so robust that even the cheapest toy can pretty much hover on its own for short periods of time, because the same problems still occurs with those devices, it just happens without you having any control over the situation since the flight controller is acting for you. Doesn't matter that 2.4ghz radios are practically interference proof (not completely, as many pilots have found out the hard way), because too little power in a power hungry cosmos is always going to be a problem.
If the frameworks a page is written in are making your head hurt and you aren't actively maintaining/developing for the page I'd say you might want to consider the problem to be a personal one since you seem to be focused on something that shouldn't matter to you since its not your problem.
And for the record ... you do know the original guy was a HOAX right? There were no lights or webcam just static pictures that were swapped in as needed and in the summary ... it points out ... its using the same old code ... so probably no ACTUAL lights here either.
Congratulations, you've been trolled by a second hand troll from 13 years ago.
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