I think this is an _excellent_ idea. The first patients can be the ones that are willing to hire coders educated in this excellent way and the ones that came up with this sure and cost-efficient way to educate coders and brain-surgeons! With these, obviously, these brain-surgeons cannot do much damage...
You must be referring to the recent failures like Weyland. If it is not broken, do not fix it. X.org, sysVinit, etc. all being "improved" by people that only manage to make it worse. No thanks.
By examples from the past, EME will bring unskippable ads, subtitles that cannot be turned off, restriction to dubbed versions, bad video-quality, etc. Hence this is all about screwing the user over better. Fortunately, I have long since stopped caring. I will just use a completely FOSS browser, and that is fundamentally incompatible with DRM.
Indeed. I will limit myself to browsers where this crap is either not present or can be switched off. There is no way I will use software that has higher privileges than me on my machine and DRM cannot work without that. As to the "content" I will be "losing", most of it is utter trash these days anyways.
Also, as games have amply demonstrated, DRM is completely futile.
Yes, I/O locking and flushing-to-disk is still not quite perfect in Linux. It used to be you could tune the parameters yourself (and if you did it with some understanding of your workloads, things were fine), but then some big egos decided that users are not allowed to do that anymore. Resulted in me having to throttle some I/O to a slow MO drive myself manually. The stupidity of that decision really pissed me off. It has gotten better again, but not as good as my hand-tuned performance parameters were.
No, I have not. One exception, on emergency flush to disk and a GUI-action that accesses the file-system. Then that filesystem-access (not the GUI) will hang for a while.
If you want "view source" to be useful, you need to go back to coding with simplicity in mind.
Simplicity needs skill. In today's world, "web developers" often do not even understand the basics and have the lowest skills that just about will get the job done to some degree. Hence they rely on frameworks that may make some things "easier" to accomplish, but increase complexity massively and hide what is actually going on. The worst case I have seen is 2.5MB (!) of JavaScript to render a simple table that plain HTML would have done just as well.
You are not confused. A sane kernel does not have this issue. A sane GUI stays responsive even with this issue. Unfortunately, Win10 does not have either.
Indeed. Or put another way: Most humans understand nothing, including their own personality. Add that most humans do not really benefit from education either (they ignore anything they do not like, for example history and inconvenient hard scientific facts), and as a group, humans are complete losers. However, there is a persistent observation that in almost any group that was thrown together with some randomization, about 10-15% do not suck and do actually understand things and are capable of independent thought. It is almost as two different species have been mixed together on the mental side.
Not actually. The problem here is that while it is possible to read something from a brain if the person attached to it really helps with it, reading actual thoughts is in a whole different class of complexity. The problem is not that these people are bad at observing, the problem is that they are really bad at mathematics and CS.
That bullshit again. Yes, again, it was up around 20 years ago, complete failure, and it might have been up before that, also complete failure if it was.
I think this is a sign of pretty extreme desperation: They do not have anything on par with what AMD offers and they will not have anything for years to come, as developing new architectures takes a lot of time, regardless of how much money you throw at it. AMD, meanwhile can optimize their new design for the next 5 years or more before they are even remotely threatened by Intel. Will take all the mindless sheep a while to understand, but eventually it might even dawn on them how thoroughly Intel has fucked them over the last few years..
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Well, I don't think your observations came as any surprise. But you state the real problem very well:
... management thinks they can get bright young devs with brand new skill for dirt cheap.
As long as management keeps not understanding what is going on, the problem will persist or get worse.
Which means that as a group, MDs are a lot smarter than coders.
I think this is an _excellent_ idea. The first patients can be the ones that are willing to hire coders educated in this excellent way and the ones that came up with this sure and cost-efficient way to educate coders and brain-surgeons! With these, obviously, these brain-surgeons cannot do much damage...
You must be referring to the recent failures like Weyland. If it is not broken, do not fix it. X.org, sysVinit, etc. all being "improved" by people that only manage to make it worse. No thanks.
Naa, being able to kill a lot of people is just so much more important than to do anything good.
By examples from the past, EME will bring unskippable ads, subtitles that cannot be turned off, restriction to dubbed versions, bad video-quality, etc. Hence this is all about screwing the user over better. Fortunately, I have long since stopped caring. I will just use a completely FOSS browser, and that is fundamentally incompatible with DRM.
Indeed. I will limit myself to browsers where this crap is either not present or can be switched off. There is no way I will use software that has higher privileges than me on my machine and DRM cannot work without that. As to the "content" I will be "losing", most of it is utter trash these days anyways.
Also, as games have amply demonstrated, DRM is completely futile.
Do you have a reading comprehension issue?
So basically, the "41%" number is nonsense. Figures.
Linux has a forking performance issue? You seem to be confused.
Funny. But a bit pathetic as well.
Yes, I/O locking and flushing-to-disk is still not quite perfect in Linux. It used to be you could tune the parameters yourself (and if you did it with some understanding of your workloads, things were fine), but then some big egos decided that users are not allowed to do that anymore. Resulted in me having to throttle some I/O to a slow MO drive myself manually. The stupidity of that decision really pissed me off. It has gotten better again, but not as good as my hand-tuned performance parameters were.
This does hover not lock the GUI.
No, I have not. One exception, on emergency flush to disk and a GUI-action that accesses the file-system. Then that filesystem-access (not the GUI) will hang for a while.
Windows not forking is not bad engineering? Funny. Architecture falls under engineering as well, you know.
If you want "view source" to be useful, you need to go back to coding with simplicity in mind.
Simplicity needs skill. In today's world, "web developers" often do not even understand the basics and have the lowest skills that just about will get the job done to some degree. Hence they rely on frameworks that may make some things "easier" to accomplish, but increase complexity massively and hide what is actually going on. The worst case I have seen is 2.5MB (!) of JavaScript to render a simple table that plain HTML would have done just as well.
That seems more than a bit over the top. Or are people really this easily made to feel uncomfortable these days? That would not be good at all.
What an incredibly bad design!
You are not confused. A sane kernel does not have this issue. A sane GUI stays responsive even with this issue. Unfortunately, Win10 does not have either.
MS always had pretty bad engineering. This is just one place where it really shows.
Indeed. Or put another way: Most humans understand nothing, including their own personality. Add that most humans do not really benefit from education either (they ignore anything they do not like, for example history and inconvenient hard scientific facts), and as a group, humans are complete losers. However, there is a persistent observation that in almost any group that was thrown together with some randomization, about 10-15% do not suck and do actually understand things and are capable of independent thought. It is almost as two different species have been mixed together on the mental side.
Not actually. The problem here is that while it is possible to read something from a brain if the person attached to it really helps with it, reading actual thoughts is in a whole different class of complexity. The problem is not that these people are bad at observing, the problem is that they are really bad at mathematics and CS.
It is pretty obvious they know they cannot. So they are not trying to fake it.
That bullshit again. Yes, again, it was up around 20 years ago, complete failure, and it might have been up before that, also complete failure if it was.
I think this is a sign of pretty extreme desperation: They do not have anything on par with what AMD offers and they will not have anything for years to come, as developing new architectures takes a lot of time, regardless of how much money you throw at it. AMD, meanwhile can optimize their new design for the next 5 years or more before they are even remotely threatened by Intel. Will take all the mindless sheep a while to understand, but eventually it might even dawn on them how thoroughly Intel has fucked them over the last few years..
Thanks for supporting my point. Although I guess you did not mean to...