I find it hard to believe a standard LAN would be sufficient. You need static routing and possibly optimized paths for gather-scatter of the data. There is a lot of work in designing and optimizing the topology of the network. A very important number is latency. Can you get a reliable microsecond-scale latency on the cloud? In these things if any node lags all the computation does.
I am sure Amazon and buddies can deploy good and even exceptional hardware, just that it is not what they are selling normally and the rates will not be much lower than building one supercomputer in your backyard. Cloud computing is not high performance computing.
Not if you want to have a result in your lifetime. Cloud-based systems can be more powerful than your desktop, but are terribly slow compared to even an average supercomputer like this one (they are using ethernet cables for the interconnects...). The stuff you want to compute on these machines requires a high level of communication between the processes, else you would simply run them on several decoupled machines in parallel. You cannot access the required speed for inter-process communication on the cloud.
Wow I never realised Attila and Genghis-Khan were the same person... thank you for this interesting information, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter on factually inaccurate history/me rolls eyes
It is. Go read the papers. The problem is that you don't have the knowledge to understand them and judge if they are correct. Of course the same applies to the private email between colaborators, but you just hope that there will be something that sounds inappropriate. Or you are trying to substitute a judgement of character for a judgement on merit. Not a good idea either way.
Hello there, you funny trigger-happy "haterboy". This story is not about Google at all.
At first I thought it was the usual incompetence of the editors that let these mistakes fly through, but now I see the light and understand that they do it to uncover troll accounts such as yours. Long live the Slashdot editors!
Nokia was in huge trouble, it's UI teams competing with each other and handset teams not building on the same platform as noted in in an article from yesterday.
Hardly a reason to dump it all in a very public manner and switch to something completely different, turning Nokia instantly from a mobile solutions company into a Windows Phone OEM.
And it could have been much better, if the new OS did not come after almost one year. One year in which they still had to sell the phones that their CEO was bad-mouthing.
Nokia had their own OS in development, which came out before Windows (and now we learn it was one year early since apparently WP7 was just warming up and only WP8 is the real deal). Different from Windows, Meego already had an SDK out and a migration path from Symbian, so that developers could have their apps ported on day one.
We cannot say it would have been a hit for sure, but it had more than a small edge on Windows anyway. Why not give it a shot, along with Windows and then decide what was the best for the company? Nokia was full of cash at the time and could think long term.
Why not do that? Because Elop did what was best for Microsoft, not Nokia and wilfully sacrificed all the assets of his own company to benefit his previous one. Why he is not being investigated for breach of fiduciary duty is beyond me.
Few developers make me so angry as WhatsApp's ones. They just took XMPP, made a couple of changes so that it does not work with normal clients, forgot about any kind of security and call it a day. Their biggest idea is using phone numbers as identifiers and marketing their app as an SMS replacement instead of an internet chat. Fuck them.
It is meant to drive us to a point where most people have one USB-based charger, virtually all the phones can be charged with it and the companies are comfortable not including a charger in the package anymore. Already now, think your proprietary charger for X dies, if they included an adaptor in the package you might simply start using a charger from another phone in the household, an old phone, or a friend's spare.
It does not have to be a USB for everything. What the EC asked was for USB to be the shape of the charging port. Anyway it cannot be too hard: other companies had no trouble adapting without loss of quality. Plus the EC is fine if they simply include an adapter from USB, IIRC.
touchscreens, displays, radios, speakers, cameras, audio processors, and other parts of the equation are all a long way away from being as advanced as Intel's semiconductor processes
It may not be possible at all to lower the power consuption of certain devices below a certain absolute threshold. No matter how advanced, a WiFi device has got to consume at least the power needed to reach other devices. A backlit screen will use at the very least the power it emits in light, etc... It is not simply a matter of technological advances.
That said: amazing prospect. Hope it's not just bold claims no substance. It would really be fantastic.
Potato, of course. While I remember hearing the name Sarge during my lifetime, I'm fairly certain that Potato was named around the import in Europe of its namesake vegetable, four centuries ago. So it's probably one or two releases before Sarge.
since the app did not pop out of nowhere but someone wrote it, I have to assume that WhatsApp already knows that they are using IMEI as passwords and they are clearly ok with that. It's not a bug or something that slipped in. It is not a side effect of another decision: it is how they intended it to work and it is stupid. The only people who don't know are the current and prospective users, hence full disclosure.
For centuries public/important figures have donated huge libraries to universities and other cultural institution or created foundations to manage their estate for the public good. It makes no sense that this opportunity disappears as we move toward digital content. Unless we go back to sane copyright terms and stuff starts to become public domain again, that is.
internal ABI breakage only affects driver developers. we are well past the point where drivers are the main concern for linux. In fact it includes support for many more peripherals than any other OS out of the box.
If you want to have any discussion on why Linux has not come to the desktop you should start talking about OEM. If you ignore the issue of pre-installation you lose the biggest single factor against linux on the desktop. In fact on cell phones the linux kernel comes preinstalled and guess what? it dominates the smartphone market.
If you and a halfling are being chased by a dragon...
... remember that the halfling has a better shot at your knees than you do at his.
Yes, but you can pick the halfling up and toss him towards the dragon's mouth. Which I have actually done before playing role playing games. Buddy was not amused.
I bet he was upset he would miss the roleplaying session
I think it is more related to a 16yo female beating an absolute world record. It may well be, but it is pretty damn incredible. Regardless, we will never know the truth. Whether her capabilities are above average because she has a natural predisposition and worked hard or because she was farmed with whatever cocktail or drugs/therapies and worked hard, the end result is the same. She probably does not need any form of enhancement drug now and how she gaind her strength may not even be terribly important.
Partly true. For example it is true that both KIO slaves and GVFS duplicate the work of FUSE. However they both came much much before FUSE. The need for a system wide messaging protocol first came from KDE and GNOME that had their own implementations, then they standardized on DBUS. Now I can have notifications from any program work in any DE. No need to use "write (2)" and pts...
There are several other examples where these two have found a need and worked on standardizing/implementing at the OS level. It is the reason I can open any DE I want and still have all the network setups configured correctly. Before you think it is simple remember that on a laptop a static configuration is a no-go and I don't want to become root every time I want to connect. If this still seems simple you have not been around linux for long, I simply have to go back ten years to see how the DE have improved the experience. As a reference, I used to use the console only and only start X if strictly necessary, since it was such a PITA.
The DE developers (the good ones) ask themselves what can help the user and make it work, then they integrate with the system and move around the pieces where they belong. But it has to start in userspace and pretty high level, because that is where the UI experimenting goes, and they can only do it if they are free to alter all of the user interface in coordination.
the company was not bleeding money. they had a profit instead and it was also growing. However it was expected that the symbian based revenue and profits (it made profits) would be down some time around next year (2013). Elop could have delayed the current crash by two years at the very least by just doing nothing.
So yes, something needed to be done, but there was no hurry, and surely no need to actively kill symbian and all phones that were already being produced and focus only on something that came several months later.
The in house OSes are currently the only chance Nokia has of not being dismantled. If Elop took the time to evaluate the strategy maybe he could have had a backup plan. It seems instead that he wanted to put Nokia in a place where it was either success with windows or bankruptcy with windows, and the "staying alive with our own OS" was not really an option for him. Now it is clear that the path will be bankruptcy with windows.
suing is not "causing bad things to others". it is simply asking a judge "don't you think this person owes me money because of his behavour?". The judge said no, case closed. explain to me the harm they have caused to anyone aside from the inconvenience to walk to court? something that incidentally the defendant did not even do?
But then again, if you cannot even muster the sympathy to excuse the act of "slightly inconveniencing" by the injured couple, I don't think we can ever agree.
Of course you don't have to, it is just that for functioning human beings it is natural to be understanding to people that suffered a loss.
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I find it hard to believe a standard LAN would be sufficient. You need static routing and possibly optimized paths for gather-scatter of the data. There is a lot of work in designing and optimizing the topology of the network. A very important number is latency. Can you get a reliable microsecond-scale latency on the cloud? In these things if any node lags all the computation does.
I am sure Amazon and buddies can deploy good and even exceptional hardware, just that it is not what they are selling normally and the rates will not be much lower than building one supercomputer in your backyard. Cloud computing is not high performance computing.
Not if you want to have a result in your lifetime. Cloud-based systems can be more powerful than your desktop, but are terribly slow compared to even an average supercomputer like this one (they are using ethernet cables for the interconnects...). The stuff you want to compute on these machines requires a high level of communication between the processes, else you would simply run them on several decoupled machines in parallel. You cannot access the required speed for inter-process communication on the cloud.
Wow I never realised Attila and Genghis-Khan were the same person... thank you for this interesting information, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter on factually inaccurate history /me rolls eyes
It is. Go read the papers. The problem is that you don't have the knowledge to understand them and judge if they are correct. Of course the same applies to the private email between colaborators, but you just hope that there will be something that sounds inappropriate. Or you are trying to substitute a judgement of character for a judgement on merit. Not a good idea either way.
Hello there, you funny trigger-happy "haterboy". This story is not about Google at all.
At first I thought it was the usual incompetence of the editors that let these mistakes fly through, but now I see the light and understand that they do it to uncover troll accounts such as yours. Long live the Slashdot editors!
This is the first time Google has used its power of blocking users in specific countries
Aren't we talking about Twitter? ffs, it's in the title AND the previous sentence!
Nokia was in huge trouble, it's UI teams competing with each other and handset teams not building on the same platform as noted in in an article from yesterday.
Hardly a reason to dump it all in a very public manner and switch to something completely different, turning Nokia instantly from a mobile solutions company into a Windows Phone OEM.
And it could have been much better, if the new OS did not come after almost one year. One year in which they still had to sell the phones that their CEO was bad-mouthing.
Nokia had their own OS in development, which came out before Windows (and now we learn it was one year early since apparently WP7 was just warming up and only WP8 is the real deal). Different from Windows, Meego already had an SDK out and a migration path from Symbian, so that developers could have their apps ported on day one.
We cannot say it would have been a hit for sure, but it had more than a small edge on Windows anyway. Why not give it a shot, along with Windows and then decide what was the best for the company? Nokia was full of cash at the time and could think long term.
Why not do that? Because Elop did what was best for Microsoft, not Nokia and wilfully sacrificed all the assets of his own company to benefit his previous one. Why he is not being investigated for breach of fiduciary duty is beyond me.
Few developers make me so angry as WhatsApp's ones. They just took XMPP, made a couple of changes so that it does not work with normal clients, forgot about any kind of security and call it a day. Their biggest idea is using phone numbers as identifiers and marketing their app as an SMS replacement instead of an internet chat. Fuck them.
It is meant to drive us to a point where most people have one USB-based charger, virtually all the phones can be charged with it and the companies are comfortable not including a charger in the package anymore. Already now, think your proprietary charger for X dies, if they included an adaptor in the package you might simply start using a charger from another phone in the household, an old phone, or a friend's spare.
It does not have to be a USB for everything. What the EC asked was for USB to be the shape of the charging port. Anyway it cannot be too hard: other companies had no trouble adapting without loss of quality. Plus the EC is fine if they simply include an adapter from USB, IIRC.
And Mountain View. And Seoul. And Waterloo. And Tokyo. And Redmond, just to be sure. Then Windows Phone 8 can really fly.
touchscreens, displays, radios, speakers, cameras, audio processors, and other parts of the equation are all a long way away from being as advanced as Intel's semiconductor processes
It may not be possible at all to lower the power consuption of certain devices below a certain absolute threshold. No matter how advanced, a WiFi device has got to consume at least the power needed to reach other devices. A backlit screen will use at the very least the power it emits in light, etc... It is not simply a matter of technological advances.
That said: amazing prospect. Hope it's not just bold claims no substance. It would really be fantastic.
Which came first, Debian Potatoe or Debian Sarge?
Potato, of course. While I remember hearing the name Sarge during my lifetime, I'm fairly certain that Potato was named around the import in Europe of its namesake vegetable, four centuries ago. So it's probably one or two releases before Sarge.
since the app did not pop out of nowhere but someone wrote it, I have to assume that WhatsApp already knows that they are using IMEI as passwords and they are clearly ok with that. It's not a bug or something that slipped in. It is not a side effect of another decision: it is how they intended it to work and it is stupid. The only people who don't know are the current and prospective users, hence full disclosure.
Sure, they should have alerted WhatsApp that they programmed their system to use IMEI as passwords...
Hey! I just noticed that you wrote your comment and pushed the submit button and now everyone can read your thoughts! Are you aware of that?
As I understand it what he wants and he cannot do per license is to write in the testament that he is leaving it to the daughters.
For centuries public/important figures have donated huge libraries to universities and other cultural institution or created foundations to manage their estate for the public good. It makes no sense that this opportunity disappears as we move toward digital content. Unless we go back to sane copyright terms and stuff starts to become public domain again, that is.
internal ABI breakage only affects driver developers. we are well past the point where drivers are the main concern for linux. In fact it includes support for many more peripherals than any other OS out of the box.
If you want to have any discussion on why Linux has not come to the desktop you should start talking about OEM. If you ignore the issue of pre-installation you lose the biggest single factor against linux on the desktop. In fact on cell phones the linux kernel comes preinstalled and guess what? it dominates the smartphone market.
Samsung's tables have rounded corners.
If you and a halfling are being chased by a dragon ...
... remember that the halfling has a better shot at your knees than you do at his.
Yes, but you can pick the halfling up and toss him towards the dragon's mouth. Which I have actually done before playing role playing games. Buddy was not amused.
I bet he was upset he would miss the roleplaying session
I think it is more related to a 16yo female beating an absolute world record. It may well be, but it is pretty damn incredible. Regardless, we will never know the truth. Whether her capabilities are above average because she has a natural predisposition and worked hard or because she was farmed with whatever cocktail or drugs/therapies and worked hard, the end result is the same. She probably does not need any form of enhancement drug now and how she gaind her strength may not even be terribly important.
Partly true. For example it is true that both KIO slaves and GVFS duplicate the work of FUSE. However they both came much much before FUSE. The need for a system wide messaging protocol first came from KDE and GNOME that had their own implementations, then they standardized on DBUS. Now I can have notifications from any program work in any DE. No need to use "write (2)" and pts...
There are several other examples where these two have found a need and worked on standardizing/implementing at the OS level. It is the reason I can open any DE I want and still have all the network setups configured correctly. Before you think it is simple remember that on a laptop a static configuration is a no-go and I don't want to become root every time I want to connect. If this still seems simple you have not been around linux for long, I simply have to go back ten years to see how the DE have improved the experience. As a reference, I used to use the console only and only start X if strictly necessary, since it was such a PITA.
The DE developers (the good ones) ask themselves what can help the user and make it work, then they integrate with the system and move around the pieces where they belong. But it has to start in userspace and pretty high level, because that is where the UI experimenting goes, and they can only do it if they are free to alter all of the user interface in coordination.
the company was not bleeding money. they had a profit instead and it was also growing. However it was expected that the symbian based revenue and profits (it made profits) would be down some time around next year (2013). Elop could have delayed the current crash by two years at the very least by just doing nothing.
So yes, something needed to be done, but there was no hurry, and surely no need to actively kill symbian and all phones that were already being produced and focus only on something that came several months later.
The in house OSes are currently the only chance Nokia has of not being dismantled. If Elop took the time to evaluate the strategy maybe he could have had a backup plan. It seems instead that he wanted to put Nokia in a place where it was either success with windows or bankruptcy with windows, and the "staying alive with our own OS" was not really an option for him. Now it is clear that the path will be bankruptcy with windows.
suing is not "causing bad things to others". it is simply asking a judge "don't you think this person owes me money because of his behavour?". The judge said no, case closed. explain to me the harm they have caused to anyone aside from the inconvenience to walk to court? something that incidentally the defendant did not even do?
But then again, if you cannot even muster the sympathy to excuse the act of "slightly inconveniencing" by the injured couple, I don't think we can ever agree.
Of course you don't have to, it is just that for functioning human beings it is natural to be understanding to people that suffered a loss.