It's still an okay deal. The alternative happens to be the "open source" door opener guy, who fails to pick some items from inside the fridge, and opens the door very slowly.
I did not refute electron leakage, but said that this bug was not caused by it. Well, on the other hand, Flash devices do walk the cells periodically to refresh them, so maybe Samsung botched something on that department. I still suspect that this is something completely different.
It would be like buying a refrigerator, and discovering that in order to use it, you need to hire someone from the distributor to stand there and open the doors for you whenever you want something
I wouldn't have to hire anyone. The refrigerator would come with one for free.
I'd expect the TLC FLASH in the 850 EVO to be much more robust against this sort of issue, being of a much bigger process size (50nm?) and suffering less electron leakage as a result.
The bug is absolutely not caused by electron leakage! Flash drives would be dying all the time if that was the case.
There's also a cool tool called CLOC which gives a nice report about a source tree including the lines of code and in which languages they are written.
2) Installing the OEM drivers is usually not a major hurdle, but yes, you are correct about that. However, it's still a long way to the constant glitch-fixing under Linux world.
3) Under Windows the brightness changes one step at time. Under Linux it can incorrectly change two or three steps per keypress.
"It's the distro you're using." "You can only blame yourself for choosing wrong hardware." "Those drivers are known to be crap under Linux."
Just make it work!
I don't want to have to find the optimal combination where the stars are aligned. If Linux actually was good, the situation would simply be: "Use any hardware and software you want. Works great."
1) My point is not whether HD 6000 is supported or not. The point is that there will occasionally be unsupported hardware and the mode of failure should not be corrupted graphics.
2) I accept your counterargument. It's true that the amount of tweaking depends on the distro.
3) Some laptops have only about 10 levels of brightness and that amount is halved (or some times even divided into three), which results to 5 levels of brightness. It's too coarse. There are some workarounds to decrease the steps which work with varying degree, but the general problem is that the backlight adjustment event is handled by multiple listeners. This mess should absolutely be sorted out.
I'd like to interject for a moment. Sadly, the desktop is still extremely glitchy. Let me show some examples.
1) Notebookcheck a new Intel NUC. Intel HD Graphics 6000 was missing Linux support at the moment of writing. That's not the end of the world, but how does Linux Mint report about it? Nope, you don't get an informative "device not supported" message, nor does X.org fall back to a VESA mode. Instead you get corrupted graphics! Nice failure mode there. Just look at the screenshot in the article. Does that look professional to you?
2) When you install Linux, various manual hacks are needed to correct all sorts of little glitches here and there. Read the installation report of this guy. Does that seem familiar?
3) Laptop brightness adjustment still goes in multiple steps! I can't believe this bug is still around. The same issue is in Ubuntu in Mint and affects most laptops. Bug #527157. Just try pressing the brightness keys of your laptop under Linux and you see what I mean. An everyday feature like this should Just Work without me having to even think about it.
Conclusion: I need an desktop operating system that is more deterministic in behavior. I want robust and predictable user experience. This is not rock solid at all.
I really dislike the lack of control I feel when using a Windows box. All my personal machines at home are Linux boxes, except one WinXP system I use for specific tasks that require Windows. And on those Linux boxes, I do damn near everything as an unprivileged user. I only sudo to install packages that come from a verified source, such as the latest GCC.
That's not any different to Windows box. You generally don't need Administrator privileges to do things.
Well, I have UAC turned on, and never have seen it trap anything suspicious. If you are a geek and have common sense security practices (do not run spurious installers, do not have Flash plugin enabled by default, etc.), this stuff does not come to bite you in the ass.
Then why do universities bother teaching courses in specific topics like mathematics, computer science, and whatnot? Surely there is still some intent to actually increase the student's domain knowledge in these areas?
One can self-teach himself or take a MOOC here and there, but does that create a person with a well-rounded rich engineering base?
And say that availability of alcohol has a vastly higher effect than 5%.
What is interesting is how alcohol is often seen as part of "college life" but that's exactly the period of your life when you shouldn't be drinking much at all to be able to think clearly.
Notebookcheck is helpful in this regard. They test precisely how the thermal solution acts under maximum CPU/GPU load, in terms of temperature, noise and clock rate throttling.
YouTube allows you to watch videos in exchange of seeing some advertisements. This is the deal that they offer. If you use AdBlock, you drop your part, which is viewing those advertisements. My claim is that breaking the deal would be unethical, as you are being unfair towards the other party.
If a golf ball is 1.5 inches in diameter (have no idea if this is true) then 10080 golf balls fit in a school bus.
Golf balls can be stored more optimally than assuming a cubical space for each one (for example 1.5" ^ 2). For example, if you place four golf balls as a square, and you place a fifth one on the top in the center, it can sink a bit between the four lower balls.
That's like taking a job and telling your manager: "Gee...I'm not that interested in the work part, can you just pay me salary while I sip mojitos at home?"
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It's still an okay deal. The alternative happens to be the "open source" door opener guy, who fails to pick some items from inside the fridge, and opens the door very slowly.
I did not refute electron leakage, but said that this bug was not caused by it. Well, on the other hand, Flash devices do walk the cells periodically to refresh them, so maybe Samsung botched something on that department. I still suspect that this is something completely different.
It would be like buying a refrigerator, and discovering that in order to use it, you need to hire someone from the distributor to stand there and open the doors for you whenever you want something
I wouldn't have to hire anyone. The refrigerator would come with one for free.
I don't know about you but this is really bad. It's just as if you bought a car and the trunk came locked with a key only NVIDIA staff have.
There is nothing locked. You can fully use your GPU with the proprietary driver. These days cars are chock full of proprietary components as well.
I loved the "RESTART YOUR SYSTEMS IMMEDIATELY" part. That would have kicked ass in the front page.
I'd expect the TLC FLASH in the 850 EVO to be much more robust against this sort of issue, being of a much bigger process size (50nm?) and suffering less electron leakage as a result.
The bug is absolutely not caused by electron leakage! Flash drives would be dying all the time if that was the case.
There's also a cool tool called CLOC which gives a nice report about a source tree including the lines of code and in which languages they are written.
2) Installing the OEM drivers is usually not a major hurdle, but yes, you are correct about that. However, it's still a long way to the constant glitch-fixing under Linux world.
3) Under Windows the brightness changes one step at time. Under Linux it can incorrectly change two or three steps per keypress.
No disagreement there...
I always get these excuses.
"It's the distro you're using."
"You can only blame yourself for choosing wrong hardware."
"Those drivers are known to be crap under Linux."
Just make it work!
I don't want to have to find the optimal combination where the stars are aligned. If Linux actually was good, the situation would simply be: "Use any hardware and software you want. Works great."
1) My point is not whether HD 6000 is supported or not. The point is that there will occasionally be unsupported hardware and the mode of failure should not be corrupted graphics.
2) I accept your counterargument. It's true that the amount of tweaking depends on the distro.
3) Some laptops have only about 10 levels of brightness and that amount is halved (or some times even divided into three), which results to 5 levels of brightness. It's too coarse. There are some workarounds to decrease the steps which work with varying degree, but the general problem is that the backlight adjustment event is handled by multiple listeners. This mess should absolutely be sorted out.
I'd like to interject for a moment. Sadly, the desktop is still extremely glitchy. Let me show some examples.
1) Notebookcheck a new Intel NUC. Intel HD Graphics 6000 was missing Linux support at the moment of writing. That's not the end of the world, but how does Linux Mint report about it? Nope, you don't get an informative "device not supported" message, nor does X.org fall back to a VESA mode. Instead you get corrupted graphics! Nice failure mode there. Just look at the screenshot in the article. Does that look professional to you?
2) When you install Linux, various manual hacks are needed to correct all sorts of little glitches here and there. Read the installation report of this guy. Does that seem familiar?
3) Laptop brightness adjustment still goes in multiple steps! I can't believe this bug is still around. The same issue is in Ubuntu in Mint and affects most laptops. Bug #527157. Just try pressing the brightness keys of your laptop under Linux and you see what I mean. An everyday feature like this should Just Work without me having to even think about it.
Conclusion: I need an desktop operating system that is more deterministic in behavior. I want robust and predictable user experience. This is not rock solid at all.
I really dislike the lack of control I feel when using a Windows box. All my personal machines at home are Linux boxes, except one WinXP system I use for specific tasks that require Windows. And on those Linux boxes, I do damn near everything as an unprivileged user. I only sudo to install packages that come from a verified source, such as the latest GCC.
That's not any different to Windows box. You generally don't need Administrator privileges to do things.
Well, I have UAC turned on, and never have seen it trap anything suspicious. If you are a geek and have common sense security practices (do not run spurious installers, do not have Flash plugin enabled by default, etc.), this stuff does not come to bite you in the ass.
Then why do universities bother teaching courses in specific topics like mathematics, computer science, and whatnot? Surely there is still some intent to actually increase the student's domain knowledge in these areas?
One can self-teach himself or take a MOOC here and there, but does that create a person with a well-rounded rich engineering base?
And say that availability of alcohol has a vastly higher effect than 5%.
What is interesting is how alcohol is often seen as part of "college life" but that's exactly the period of your life when you shouldn't be drinking much at all to be able to think clearly.
Notebookcheck is helpful in this regard. They test precisely how the thermal solution acts under maximum CPU/GPU load, in terms of temperature, noise and clock rate throttling.
Heh, you know your search-fu.
You keep assuming that a user gave their tacit consent to this behavior.
No, I don't. You are shifting the goalposts. We were talking about what is ethical and what is not. Not about literal agreements.
Actually that is a good counterargument. Also I extremely rarely buy something that I see on YouTube ads.
Let me explain then.
YouTube allows you to watch videos in exchange of seeing some advertisements. This is the deal that they offer. If you use AdBlock, you drop your part, which is viewing those advertisements. My claim is that breaking the deal would be unethical, as you are being unfair towards the other party.
If a golf ball is 1.5 inches in diameter (have no idea if this is true) then 10080 golf balls fit in a school bus.
Golf balls can be stored more optimally than assuming a cubical space for each one (for example 1.5" ^ 2). For example, if you place four golf balls as a square, and you place a fifth one on the top in the center, it can sink a bit between the four lower balls.
YouTube does not use Flash-based ads.
Proof?
That's like taking a job and telling your manager: "Gee...I'm not that interested in the work part, can you just pay me salary while I sip mojitos at home?"