While you have a point about card performance personally I think a desktop is somewhat broken if video acceleration is required to make it smooth and fluid. It's a very lazy way to do it compared with every other desktop apart from gnome3 (which has even worse performance). Enlightenment for example gets the job done with as much "shiny" on low end graphics hardware (eg. netbooks from 2008) despite also being able to do a lot with OpenGL on other hardware.
It's about patents. Stupid software patents where copyright makes some sense and patents zero sense. When the last former SGI employee who got badly burned with courtroom antics about patents leaves Nvidia you might see the source get opened up. There is plenty to hate, but you are directing it in the wrong direction.
Why? It was a lot like Android at the same time only faster on the same hardware. It even had Angry Birds and was on the radar of other major application vendors. By your argument above Android should be dead as well, so what additional reason do you have for MeeGo to die other than Elop killing it and telling Intel and the other partners to fuck off?
Even my old Nokia N900 still gets updates, some community updates turned up over the weekend according to the notification icon. That's despite Nokia being drained of blood and staked through the heart. MS is just "special" - locking anyone else out who would be capable of doing updates and then abandoning a product which is not even old enough to need a new battery. It happens on PCs as well like those folks with TV tuner cards that suddenly found them unsupported in Win10 media player.
needs to be balanced against privacy concerns in how it is implemented.
It's Australia - google "Australia" and "metadata" and you'll see that privacy of citizens is not something that the current Government cares about. One department even decided to "doxx" a critic in the newspapers with confidential information that could have resulted in a jail term for a leaker if it had been released by anyone that doesn't own a police force. I'm not suggesting you have a bad point, merely that priorities are different and the best sort of outcome is unlikely. Isn't it funny when the "right" of politics decides to go all nanny state. They want to violate privacy for "our own good" despite calling themselves "conservative".
No I can't tell you - you are the one in the cesspool not able to see what it outside and under some sort of impression that Marxism is somehow a force to be reckoned with instead of a toothless paper tiger. I haven't seen this sort of stuff since I was working as staff at a University and the little rich boys playing politics would turn up to disrupt classes and complain about how minority groups got some resources in the University instead of being forced to fail - are you in that sort of environment? Are you one of those deluded political wonks or just stuck listening to them? Normally tech environments weed out such types who are at University to play and not work hard enough to pass something difficult.
Fair enough, we disagree, but next time the "unthinkable" happens and a second slashdot user dares to suggest that they had a real problem related to systemd please do not blindly assume that they are just repeating what the first said.
Considering we don't understand a lot of mechanisms in the nervous system you are starting with a faulty premise. It turns out the simple high school biology model of how neurons work is more than a little dumbed down and handwaves over the unknowns.
I wrote it elsewhere, but back when this site was still very new there were mesh projects with "backbones" of a sort where the owners would always keep their nodes on. Routing doesn't have to be much more insane than it already is. There's also been a few more recent papers about large IoT mesh networks and how to handle getting signals around without everything just blasting a central node with raw power to get heard. It's a pity the IoT people don't read such things before building their stuff.
When this site was still shiny and new there were mesh projects that had paths of designated nodes to make backbones of a kind that get around that problem of getting stuff from one end to the other of a mesh 100km wide or so. You don't need a "true mesh" to get a mesh. A bit of redundancy is good but having thousands of possible paths over a relatively short range is overkill IMHO.
There was a mesh project in my area that was getting up to quite a few nodes but no internet service providers would allow any gateways from the mesh to the internet to exist. Multiple attempts to make a deal with several ISPs were met with demands to pay full residential account fees for every single node in the mesh before any connection would be allowed. It was seen as competition to be stamped out.
So to do it you need some sort of bargaining power, such as a government telling the ISPs to give you a chance, or some way to get around the ISPs completely. If there is a long way to the next major city it's a bit tricky to get there without an ISP providing the link.
marxist... modern social justice... insecure losers have managed to make skin color and sex more relevant to worthiness than ability
So this is what happens when those hopeless student politics types who think the world owes them everything because they have wealthy parents grows up? Where apart from your imagination are people really getting jobs just because they are in a minority and not because they can also do that job? The magical Kingdom of Prester John? Why continue the trivial and stupid student politics fight against the marxist student club or whatever it was you used to waste time arguing with. You have a fucking President who tells kids to grab women by the pussy - those marxists and "SJW" types are not running the world and are far more powerless than you imagine yourself to be and there will be far less of them than you seem to imagine.
Typically whoever fucked up is not the one capable of fixing it so don't blame the 1am guy. The failures of staffing, or scheduling sound about right though.
I don't know how things work in IT specifically
Major changes tend to be done after hours, so that's nights, weekends or public holidays. A well run place will have that 1AM guy start after 5PM that evening unless it's something considered urgent.
Sometimes you can just put them in an office out the back and make sure nobody meets with them alone. Less opportunity to be an "asshole" can sometimes calm things down in fairly nasty situations. Or did you just mean some mild annoyance instead? Fired for that?
It's kind of sad but some years back when I did a bit of work at University a very large group of the first year engineering students had the "curse of the gifted student" due to the entry requirements - they were all "big fish in little ponds". A tactic that seemed to work was to confront them early with things they would find interesting enough to get off their arses and work, and a lot of early feedback (with little impact on final scores) to show they were on the path to failure if they didn't lift their game. Maybe it helped that most of the final results rode on the final exam so they had time to get over the culture shock. By then most had got over the damage from the high schools in that state using rote learning even for calculus and they could work out that unlike before they needed more than a good memory to pass. And yes, back a dozen years before that I went through the same sort of culture shock too, going from thinking I was very smart to looking at a textbook and saying "where the hell do I even start?"
In my workplace all but one came back probably because they could do things like three day weeks for a few years. Not a lot of workplaces are that flexible. Having long deadlines probably helps.
Back in the days using a ridiculous phrase like "virtue signaling" may have had a similar response. I still have trouble taking anyone seriously who uses that phrase or the stupid insult "SJW" or calls a person a "creative". Is it a Californian thing? When did that stupid phrase start infesting this place?
so you buy robots cuz people on welfare won't do the job.
People who can get welfare don't get hired because they can get a court to listen to them if they later complain about illegal working conditions. Hence using workers that will get deported if they go to complain.
Those scumbags who wanted indentured labor to come back got it.
Not really. There are plenty of students, homeless etc who are willing to work for almost nothing.
As another wrote, the farmers (or contracting companies at arms length) are not willing to pay illegal wages to the sort of people who can take them to court instead of getting deported.
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While you have a point about card performance personally I think a desktop is somewhat broken if video acceleration is required to make it smooth and fluid. It's a very lazy way to do it compared with every other desktop apart from gnome3 (which has even worse performance). Enlightenment for example gets the job done with as much "shiny" on low end graphics hardware (eg. netbooks from 2008) despite also being able to do a lot with OpenGL on other hardware.
You've got it backwards.
Not setting it in stone is so that things can be changed if they have been wrong all the time.
That was the policy choice.
It's about patents. Stupid software patents where copyright makes some sense and patents zero sense.
When the last former SGI employee who got badly burned with courtroom antics about patents leaves Nvidia you might see the source get opened up.
There is plenty to hate, but you are directing it in the wrong direction.
Maybe, but that's a very common tactic of salesfolk and when it's especially over the top it's a fair indication that they are being rejected a lot.
Wrong. It was called "ovi store".
Why? It was a lot like Android at the same time only faster on the same hardware. It even had Angry Birds and was on the radar of other major application vendors.
By your argument above Android should be dead as well, so what additional reason do you have for MeeGo to die other than Elop killing it and telling Intel and the other partners to fuck off?
Even my old Nokia N900 still gets updates, some community updates turned up over the weekend according to the notification icon. That's despite Nokia being drained of blood and staked through the heart.
MS is just "special" - locking anyone else out who would be capable of doing updates and then abandoning a product which is not even old enough to need a new battery.
It happens on PCs as well like those folks with TV tuner cards that suddenly found them unsupported in Win10 media player.
It's Australia - google "Australia" and "metadata" and you'll see that privacy of citizens is not something that the current Government cares about. One department even decided to "doxx" a critic in the newspapers with confidential information that could have resulted in a jail term for a leaker if it had been released by anyone that doesn't own a police force.
I'm not suggesting you have a bad point, merely that priorities are different and the best sort of outcome is unlikely.
Isn't it funny when the "right" of politics decides to go all nanny state. They want to violate privacy for "our own good" despite calling themselves "conservative".
No I can't tell you - you are the one in the cesspool not able to see what it outside and under some sort of impression that Marxism is somehow a force to be reckoned with instead of a toothless paper tiger.
I haven't seen this sort of stuff since I was working as staff at a University and the little rich boys playing politics would turn up to disrupt classes and complain about how minority groups got some resources in the University instead of being forced to fail - are you in that sort of environment? Are you one of those deluded political wonks or just stuck listening to them? Normally tech environments weed out such types who are at University to play and not work hard enough to pass something difficult.
Fair enough, we disagree, but next time the "unthinkable" happens and a second slashdot user dares to suggest that they had a real problem related to systemd please do not blindly assume that they are just repeating what the first said.
At least the fanboys are finally admitting the latter. There have been real implementation annoyances at times.
Considering we don't understand a lot of mechanisms in the nervous system you are starting with a faulty premise. It turns out the simple high school biology model of how neurons work is more than a little dumbed down and handwaves over the unknowns.
Yes, they were effectively clubs. That doesn't mean they can't scale up.
I wrote it elsewhere, but back when this site was still very new there were mesh projects with "backbones" of a sort where the owners would always keep their nodes on. Routing doesn't have to be much more insane than it already is.
There's also been a few more recent papers about large IoT mesh networks and how to handle getting signals around without everything just blasting a central node with raw power to get heard. It's a pity the IoT people don't read such things before building their stuff.
When this site was still shiny and new there were mesh projects that had paths of designated nodes to make backbones of a kind that get around that problem of getting stuff from one end to the other of a mesh 100km wide or so.
You don't need a "true mesh" to get a mesh. A bit of redundancy is good but having thousands of possible paths over a relatively short range is overkill IMHO.
There was a mesh project in my area that was getting up to quite a few nodes but no internet service providers would allow any gateways from the mesh to the internet to exist. Multiple attempts to make a deal with several ISPs were met with demands to pay full residential account fees for every single node in the mesh before any connection would be allowed.
It was seen as competition to be stamped out.
So to do it you need some sort of bargaining power, such as a government telling the ISPs to give you a chance, or some way to get around the ISPs completely. If there is a long way to the next major city it's a bit tricky to get there without an ISP providing the link.
So this is what happens when those hopeless student politics types who think the world owes them everything because they have wealthy parents grows up? Where apart from your imagination are people really getting jobs just because they are in a minority and not because they can also do that job? The magical Kingdom of Prester John? Why continue the trivial and stupid student politics fight against the marxist student club or whatever it was you used to waste time arguing with.
You have a fucking President who tells kids to grab women by the pussy - those marxists and "SJW" types are not running the world and are far more powerless than you imagine yourself to be and there will be far less of them than you seem to imagine.
Typically whoever fucked up is not the one capable of fixing it so don't blame the 1am guy.
The failures of staffing, or scheduling sound about right though.
Major changes tend to be done after hours, so that's nights, weekends or public holidays. A well run place will have that 1AM guy start after 5PM that evening unless it's something considered urgent.
Sometimes you can just put them in an office out the back and make sure nobody meets with them alone.
Less opportunity to be an "asshole" can sometimes calm things down in fairly nasty situations.
Or did you just mean some mild annoyance instead? Fired for that?
It's kind of sad but some years back when I did a bit of work at University a very large group of the first year engineering students had the "curse of the gifted student" due to the entry requirements - they were all "big fish in little ponds".
A tactic that seemed to work was to confront them early with things they would find interesting enough to get off their arses and work, and a lot of early feedback (with little impact on final scores) to show they were on the path to failure if they didn't lift their game. Maybe it helped that most of the final results rode on the final exam so they had time to get over the culture shock. By then most had got over the damage from the high schools in that state using rote learning even for calculus and they could work out that unlike before they needed more than a good memory to pass.
And yes, back a dozen years before that I went through the same sort of culture shock too, going from thinking I was very smart to looking at a textbook and saying "where the hell do I even start?"
That doesn't change that it does happen as seen by the cases that make it as far as a courtroom. It may not be a major factor but it is still there.
In my workplace all but one came back probably because they could do things like three day weeks for a few years. Not a lot of workplaces are that flexible. Having long deadlines probably helps.
Back in the days using a ridiculous phrase like "virtue signaling" may have had a similar response. I still have trouble taking anyone seriously who uses that phrase or the stupid insult "SJW" or calls a person a "creative".
Is it a Californian thing? When did that stupid phrase start infesting this place?
People who can get welfare don't get hired because they can get a court to listen to them if they later complain about illegal working conditions. Hence using workers that will get deported if they go to complain.
Those scumbags who wanted indentured labor to come back got it.
Not really. There are plenty of students, homeless etc who are willing to work for almost nothing.
As another wrote, the farmers (or contracting companies at arms length) are not willing to pay illegal wages to the sort of people who can take them to court instead of getting deported.
It's also not just fruit picking.