The main page looks refreshing and nice. Bringing more attention to submissions is also a good idea. Tree structure of comments is now harder to follow though. The classic version with clear borders around comments and ample usage of horizontal page was much more comfortable. I hope the main page autorefresh has been removed (or an option to turn it off), I always find it annoying in the current version. Now would also be excellent moment to roll in the long-awaited Unicode support.
If someone is surprised Humans are willing to cheat, rip off, etc to get ahead... well you haven't really been paying attention.
Fixed that for you.
I wouldn't want people to unfairly categorize you as a racist moron.
Samsung represents a very big chunk of Korean electronics industry and they have the responsibility to choose what kind of image they want to give about the practices of that particular industry.
On individual level, I believe there are many honest Korean people too.
No, they wouldn't. They would be rigorously defending their precious iGadgets with arguments like "at least I like the extra performance for GPU-intensive apps" or "every manufacturer does this".
Buy the kid a Nexus 5. Root it. Install Ubuntu. Don't do everything for him. Let him figure it out. Don't turn him into another one of these kids that can't even write a simple script.
That would still be encouraging him to the "everything is handed to you on a silver platter" thinking model. The best idea for the kid's future is to start him working on his own script interpreter as early as possible.
Sure, if you don't have any programming skill then you can't hack on Free code, but you can still pay someone else to add features/fix bugs/remove Bad Things. Generally not so with non-Free software, and even where it is possible, they always have the power to just say no.
You can easily flip around that argument too: if you don't have any desire or skills to hack on free code, you can pay commercial software developers to make it work. Free software developers have always the power to just say no, and sometimes they have to, as they simply might not have enough developer resources to get everything working. Now, if you are a commercial software house and you say no, you might lose some of your customers, so you have an incentive to get shit working as soon as possible.
Additionally, the bugs and performance problems have increased significantly over last decade and I find myself already thinking if OSS, despite being free, gives me enough advantage over closed software anymore. There are still many success stories, such as the Chromium browser, Intel GPU drivers, and many others, but then again there are too many OS components which creak. The feeling that constantly lingers is what happens when I click this button, as it's not obvious whether the result will be something unexpected or result in a crash.
30 years for Hurd 0.5, so 1.0 will be available in 2043?
I know I'm being a pedantic pangolin here and ruining your joke without any good reason, but we should still remember that version numbers are not floating point numbers. Rather, they contain groups of integer numbers separated with a dot. So after 0.9 there might still be 0.10, 0.11, etc...
I wonder if RMS could actually push his agenda more efficiently if he wasn't so pedantic about everything. For example, if you let slip in a little bit of evil (non-free software), such as closed-source GPU drivers or Adobe Flash, and you will still get more users to the rest of the OS which is all free software. That being said, we should be cautious about things like Unity's Dash plugins which send your searches online, unnecessarily introducing malicious features to free software.
RMS has said that freedom is more important than innovation. In practice this means that he prefers software which is more clunky or does not implement all the features than a non-free alternative. This is one area where I don't agree at all. I'm just a "shit working is #1 priority" guy.
Rumors are that newer designs are more symmetric and while most are to be dedicated to
driving displayed content that dedication can be toggled or the balance shifted
to give the OS more cores to do work.
I'm not sure what that would mean. The current GPUs are able to give you pretty much all the cores (shader units) to do general purpose work if you want to.
AFAIK it's not a myth at all. We're just talking about really old, crusty monitors. They didn't have enough smarts to do some sanity checking for the signal.
Yeah, I've commented about the issue a couple of times.
What purpose does it really serve? I'm not sure if it makes sense to not hand mod points to you if you comment a lot. We already have a system where you can't mod and post to the same discussion anyway. I have always assumed that the motivation behind that is that you would be partial to cast votes on the same discussion on which you speak. That's basically a good idea.
What about a system where you would get 1 mod point per day, with a maximum of 5 mod points on your account? I dunno, would there be too much mod points in circulation then? In Reddit where you have unlimited supply, it's sometimes fun to just go clicking away on any comments you want to. Then again, modding gets a bit crazy on that site sometimes.:)
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Add a couple of color themes. A selection between a light or dark theme would be especially nice.
Would unicorn support be a good enough compromise between the two?
The main page looks refreshing and nice. Bringing more attention to submissions is also a good idea. Tree structure of comments is now harder to follow though. The classic version with clear borders around comments and ample usage of horizontal page was much more comfortable. I hope the main page autorefresh has been removed (or an option to turn it off), I always find it annoying in the current version. Now would also be excellent moment to roll in the long-awaited Unicode support.
Also there is a lot of content from the research group on Channel 9.
Another vote for Channel 9. One of the best side-things Microsoft is currently churning out.
That uses bitwise AND instead of '&&', so it has all the bugs in place to be authentic Microsoft code. ;)
I'm a little disappointed that there isn't actually any penalties for fudging your benchmarks
But there are. For example here in Finland you could release the hounds of KKV (Competition and Consumer Authority).
If someone is surprised Humans are willing to cheat, rip off, etc to get ahead... well you haven't really been paying attention.
Fixed that for you.
I wouldn't want people to unfairly categorize you as a racist moron.
Samsung represents a very big chunk of Korean electronics industry and they have the responsibility to choose what kind of image they want to give about the practices of that particular industry.
On individual level, I believe there are many honest Korean people too.
If Apple did this, people would be up in arms!
No, they wouldn't. They would be rigorously defending their precious iGadgets with arguments like "at least I like the extra performance for GPU-intensive apps" or "every manufacturer does this".
But he is...
That is true, but there is usually too much work involved to make it feasible in practice.
Yet another example how people think they can get by with a tablet but just end up rebuilding the laptop.
Sad but still completely true.
Buy the kid a Nexus 5. Root it. Install Ubuntu. Don't do everything for him. Let him figure it out. Don't turn him into another one of these kids that can't even write a simple script.
That would still be encouraging him to the "everything is handed to you on a silver platter" thinking model. The best idea for the kid's future is to start him working on his own script interpreter as early as possible.
Sure, if you don't have any programming skill then you can't hack on Free code, but you can still pay someone else to add features/fix bugs/remove Bad Things. Generally not so with non-Free software, and even where it is possible, they always have the power to just say no.
You can easily flip around that argument too: if you don't have any desire or skills to hack on free code, you can pay commercial software developers to make it work. Free software developers have always the power to just say no, and sometimes they have to, as they simply might not have enough developer resources to get everything working. Now, if you are a commercial software house and you say no, you might lose some of your customers, so you have an incentive to get shit working as soon as possible.
Additionally, the bugs and performance problems have increased significantly over last decade and I find myself already thinking if OSS, despite being free, gives me enough advantage over closed software anymore. There are still many success stories, such as the Chromium browser, Intel GPU drivers, and many others, but then again there are too many OS components which creak. The feeling that constantly lingers is what happens when I click this button, as it's not obvious whether the result will be something unexpected or result in a crash.
You took the GP's quote from my message. You should have replied directly to him instead.
It seems that "TL;DR" is often simply used as a synonym for "to wrap it up".
Do you happen to be the Product Manager for Adobe Flash? ;)
In retrospective, the production has taken so long that the Hurd project should not have been started at all.
30 years for Hurd 0.5, so 1.0 will be available in 2043?
I know I'm being a pedantic pangolin here and ruining your joke without any good reason, but we should still remember that version numbers are not floating point numbers. Rather, they contain groups of integer numbers separated with a dot. So after 0.9 there might still be 0.10, 0.11, etc...
Excellent comment.
I wonder if RMS could actually push his agenda more efficiently if he wasn't so pedantic about everything. For example, if you let slip in a little bit of evil (non-free software), such as closed-source GPU drivers or Adobe Flash, and you will still get more users to the rest of the OS which is all free software. That being said, we should be cautious about things like Unity's Dash plugins which send your searches online, unnecessarily introducing malicious features to free software.
RMS has said that freedom is more important than innovation. In practice this means that he prefers software which is more clunky or does not implement all the features than a non-free alternative. This is one area where I don't agree at all. I'm just a "shit working is #1 priority" guy.
Hmm. I'm not sure what you exactly meant, but couldn't you already use something like OpenCL to do that?
Rumors are that newer designs are more symmetric and while most are to be dedicated to driving displayed content that dedication can be toggled or the balance shifted to give the OS more cores to do work.
I'm not sure what that would mean. The current GPUs are able to give you pretty much all the cores (shader units) to do general purpose work if you want to.
AFAIK it's not a myth at all. We're just talking about really old, crusty monitors. They didn't have enough smarts to do some sanity checking for the signal.
Yeah, I've commented about the issue a couple of times.
What purpose does it really serve? I'm not sure if it makes sense to not hand mod points to you if you comment a lot. We already have a system where you can't mod and post to the same discussion anyway. I have always assumed that the motivation behind that is that you would be partial to cast votes on the same discussion on which you speak. That's basically a good idea.
What about a system where you would get 1 mod point per day, with a maximum of 5 mod points on your account? I dunno, would there be too much mod points in circulation then? In Reddit where you have unlimited supply, it's sometimes fun to just go clicking away on any comments you want to. Then again, modding gets a bit crazy on that site sometimes. :)