Right because today's "safe space", "rape-culture", anti free-speech, socialist youth aren't anything to worry about?
today doesn't worry me, it's tomorrow's "rape space" and "safe-culture" that have me truly concerned. one can only extrapolate that soon after, we'll have "space rape" and "culture safes". the future... so terrifying.
i too worry about security which is why i think you shouldn't let just any program load SPIR-V GPU code. however, isolation still occurs but is dependant on the implementation of the Vulkan API. on the other hand, the desktop rendering scheme i describe is no more dangerous than current rendering systems.
i've never bought into any of the dieting fads nor tried them because they blamed random things without the science to back it up. one fateful day last summer i watched a documentary that claimed sugars in our food were to blame but it actually had the science to back it up.
Sugar is a drug, addictive and causes food cravings. This begs the question of why we aren't going through withdraw and the answer is that sugar has been added to all your foods specifically so you do not go through withdraw. Look at your raw pasta which has zero reason to have sugar added, it has about 3g of sugar added for every 56g (2 oz).
To make matters worse, food makers started using High Fructose Corn Syrup in products because it's inexpensive because corn is subsidized. Fructose is processed by your liver and it gets stored as fat unless you have low blood sugar. so products with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) are most likely to make you fat.
After removing sugar from my diet (not easy to find products without sugar!) I went through a few days of withdraw. After that, I actually felt like I more energy to do things, so much so that I wanted to exercise (that was never my goal). I started walking regularly and losing weight without any crazy diet, just not eating things with sugar added. Apples are a great source of sugar that have the fiber to balance it out so that it's absorbed slowly avoiding a traffic jam in your liver.
In the last year I have lost 65 lbs of fat and gained 15 lbs of muscle without ever having to go hungry or restrain myself from eating. I'm still overweight (for now) but I'm no longer obese.
The food supply is being drugged to increase profits.
one of the big blockers for gaming via WINE has always been DirectX, specifically translating DirectX Graphics to OpenGL. Now with the Vulkan API, we'll be able to implement the various DirectX API versions and OpenGL versions in a completely portable way as function calls to RISC-V GPU code. The only thing left is for someone to make open source firmware that implements the Vulkan API and we'll finally have a truly open source video card.
as for non-gaming, looking over how our desktops are rendered, we should implement a minimalistic window rendering API using the Vulkan API that UI libraries can build upon. this reduces the number of layers involved in rendering and can solve the accelerated vs software only problem via the LLVM implementation that runs RISC-V code. at the same time, the desktop API allowing you to choose a target GPU could forward calls from the remote system to your local system so that the forwarded windows are actually rendered locally which would vastly reduce the bandwidth as well as enable the total integration of multiple desktops.
Vulkan is the rendering API that Linux has needed all along.
Agreed, but getting there by artificially raising the price of energy just leaves us with fewer resources to fix the problem. [...] How does making diesel fuel, the very thing that powers trains, trucks, bulldozers, etc. that will build the infrastructure we need so expensive that people cannot afford to run them help?
which part of "use that money to subsidize investments in renewable energy" didn't you understand?
Making fossil fuels expensive will not help in transitioning from them, it will just be a burden on the economy and prolong the transition.
no, it would force the transition to happen. the reason you didn't understand that is that you simply didn't read (let alone consider) my full proposal before launching into a blind rage.
According to Ted Henderson, the founder of the Cloakroom -- an anonymous messaging app for Capitol Hill staffers -- all of his apps are effectively not available to their target audience.
If you believe that solar power can only win this race by hobbling carbon fuels with exorbitant taxes then you have just admitted that you do not believe solar power will ever be cheaper than coal and oil.
the difference is that solar is an upfront investment. many humans have weak long term planning skills and so paying $300 for electricity sure beats a $30K system. however, i've made no claims about the price of solar because the price isn't the issue here, the environment is the issue. the sooner we switch of fossil fuels, the better chance we have at fixing the problem we've created.
By saying we must tax carbon fuels out of existence is admitting we will not be running out of oil any time soon.
the problem is not about running out of oil, the problem is all the carbon in the atmosphere is causing the earth to retain too much heat and causing the ocean to absorb a lot more CO2 which is making the oceans more acidic. even if we had a limitless supply of oil, burning it is still a problem.
Oh, and if you want to save all those wild animals then I have some suggestions
because it... * enables psychopaths to gain power and bleed your for all your worth * has corrupted our government and degraded our rights * promotes misinformation * is destroying our society * is killing our next generation with sugar * is killing our ecosystem both on land and water * is unsustainable
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang claimed the new GeForce GTX 1080 is faster than a pair of GeForce GTX 980 cards in SLI and faster than the company's very expensive Titan X graphics card but at half the price.
that's nice but it doesn't help me 13 months ago. also, if we're being honest here, this is more of an indicator that they charge too much for their products.
The other day I got my vehicle's state emission tests done at a local gas station that's a lot closer than the one I used to go to (thanks Google!). They gave me a free car with it, and I may go back there every once in a while to get my car washed now
stealing a car from them and then going back to the same place to have them wash it? bold move, sir.
the idea isn't that you have a plane that is powered exclusively by solar panels, the idea is the solar panels and batteries. batteries are have been going through a similar process of increased power density and the required power density is far from being impossible as defined by laws of physics. so tell me, who's to say that in 50 years our planes won't be one hundredth the weight, battery powered and have its entire surface be composed of photovoltaics?
On July 31, there will be an out-of-band update that will prompt the user, "Would you like to ruin your life and everything in it?" If you select "Yes" then it will install Windows 10. If you select "No" it will install Windows 10 and say, "you're welcome".;)
Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) are going to continue driving change in manufacturing. DMLS/SLS is effectively building metal/plastic objects by putting down a thin layers of material and melting the parts of each layer you want in the final product. the end result is you can make objects in any shape you want with a tolerance of 100 microns and they are quite robust. a second process is needed to make them nice and shiny objects but when you combine our many three axis tools into a single machine, you end up with a single machine that can go from raw materials to finished product, electronics included. this is the endgame for most of the objects that people buy today and it's going to lay waste to a large segment of manufacturing industry. the good news is that this will advance our recycling efforts as well as the open hardware movement.
What you propose will lower the standard of living for millions of people.
i never claimed it was a perfect solution, only that it was an easy solution. however, tell me this, what about the standard of living for trillions of multicellular organisms on the planet. who are you to say that humans are so important that they cannot be inconvenienced to prevent the ecosystem from dying off? that doesn't just include wild animals but other humans as well.
Where is this money going to come from to pay for all of this if people cannot afford to buy $10 gallons of gasoline?
well if you read my post carefully, you would have noticed i wrote, "slowly increase a tax on fossil fuel energy sources," and not "hike the price to 10 bucks tomorrow!" i would think when it's $10, just about everyone would have already switched over to solar and wind power sources.
In case my tone was lost in the text I'll end with this, fuck off and die.
actually, i was going to do both of those but only for biological reasons.:)
if you want everyone to switch to renewable energy, it's not a complex process. all you have to do is slowly increase a tax on fossil fuel energy sources (and imported electricity) and use that money to subsidize investments in renewable energy. when gasoline is $10 per gallon, electricity is $1 per kWH and a solar panel with microinverter are $50 each, you see everyone switching to solar power, reducing their power consumption or paying out the nose because they can afford to do so.
yeah, this whole airplane thing reminds me of that fool who thought people would have computers in their houses. pfft! how can you fit a giant electromechanical machine that fills a warehouse into your living room? some people, am i right?
Presumably, most of the/. readers produce ideas and other intangible and easily copied once created things for a living. In other words, we are paid for these intangible things.
as a software developer, my work is covered by copyright. however, both copyright and patent law are absurd. software patents are the single worst form of patent because they are not for a specific implementation but rather the mere idea of a design. here's the thing, software patents didn't exist until patent law was amended to allow it. so yeah, software patents need to die forever and copyright needs to be reduced back to it's original 14 year term.
Why, then, are most people so negative on other people selling and buying them?
for the same reason i'm against international arms deals who have no quibbles selling weapons to terrorists.
The hated "patent trolls" buy ideas from people, who have them — thus rewarding our colleagues.
developers don't make patents and developers don't get rewarded when their company sells a patent. so how are our colleagues rewarded again?
What is theirs, they are entitled to reselling — at whatever price the market will bear. This is normal and perfectly ethical.
there is nothing ethical about extortion.
Yes, the weaponized litigation practiced by some of these firms is most reprehensible, but they are hardly the only ones partaking of it. Until we change our legal practices to make sure, the loser pays winner's legal costs by default, the side with a bigger legal budget will keep "winning" before entering the courtroom.
you make a good argument for abolishing patents.
But none of it supports the abolishment of the very concept of intellectual property in general and patents in particular, which is so often suggested here.
widespread abuse and a total deviation of it's intended purpose isn't reason enough?
Are these suggestions coming from fools and/or folks short of their own ideas? What's going on?
no, they are coming from people who are fed up with the bullshit idea that because someone thought of an idea before them that somehow entitles them to exclusive ownership of the idea. very few patents are actually novel and everything will be reinvented given enough time.
I'm not your normal/. "#$%! Microsoft" kinda guy. I've been an MS guy my whole life, only dabbling in other OSs briefly.
you poor, soul. well, we all have our faults.:P
It's now at a point where it's outright sounding BAD. Like proper, bad. The things they keep doing are worse and worse, more and more intrusive. I thought the pushy installer was rough but ok
yeah, systemd is a bummer. you were talking about systemd, right?:P
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FBI Director James Comey needs to resign because he's made it very clear he does not have the American public's best interests in mind.
11 years too late.
Right because today's "safe space", "rape-culture", anti free-speech, socialist youth aren't anything to worry about?
today doesn't worry me, it's tomorrow's "rape space" and "safe-culture" that have me truly concerned. one can only extrapolate that soon after, we'll have "space rape" and "culture safes". the future... so terrifying.
i too worry about security which is why i think you shouldn't let just any program load SPIR-V GPU code. however, isolation still occurs but is dependant on the implementation of the Vulkan API. on the other hand, the desktop rendering scheme i describe is no more dangerous than current rendering systems.
i've never bought into any of the dieting fads nor tried them because they blamed random things without the science to back it up. one fateful day last summer i watched a documentary that claimed sugars in our food were to blame but it actually had the science to back it up.
Sugar is a drug, addictive and causes food cravings. This begs the question of why we aren't going through withdraw and the answer is that sugar has been added to all your foods specifically so you do not go through withdraw. Look at your raw pasta which has zero reason to have sugar added, it has about 3g of sugar added for every 56g (2 oz).
To make matters worse, food makers started using High Fructose Corn Syrup in products because it's inexpensive because corn is subsidized. Fructose is processed by your liver and it gets stored as fat unless you have low blood sugar. so products with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) are most likely to make you fat.
After removing sugar from my diet (not easy to find products without sugar!) I went through a few days of withdraw. After that, I actually felt like I more energy to do things, so much so that I wanted to exercise (that was never my goal). I started walking regularly and losing weight without any crazy diet, just not eating things with sugar added. Apples are a great source of sugar that have the fiber to balance it out so that it's absorbed slowly avoiding a traffic jam in your liver.
In the last year I have lost 65 lbs of fat and gained 15 lbs of muscle without ever having to go hungry or restrain myself from eating. I'm still overweight (for now) but I'm no longer obese.
The food supply is being drugged to increase profits.
one of the big blockers for gaming via WINE has always been DirectX, specifically translating DirectX Graphics to OpenGL. Now with the Vulkan API, we'll be able to implement the various DirectX API versions and OpenGL versions in a completely portable way as function calls to RISC-V GPU code. The only thing left is for someone to make open source firmware that implements the Vulkan API and we'll finally have a truly open source video card.
as for non-gaming, looking over how our desktops are rendered, we should implement a minimalistic window rendering API using the Vulkan API that UI libraries can build upon. this reduces the number of layers involved in rendering and can solve the accelerated vs software only problem via the LLVM implementation that runs RISC-V code. at the same time, the desktop API allowing you to choose a target GPU could forward calls from the remote system to your local system so that the forwarded windows are actually rendered locally which would vastly reduce the bandwidth as well as enable the total integration of multiple desktops.
Vulkan is the rendering API that Linux has needed all along.
Land of the [Redacted].
Agreed, but getting there by artificially raising the price of energy just leaves us with fewer resources to fix the problem.
[...]
How does making diesel fuel, the very thing that powers trains, trucks, bulldozers, etc. that will build the infrastructure we need so expensive that people cannot afford to run them help?
which part of "use that money to subsidize investments in renewable energy" didn't you understand?
Making fossil fuels expensive will not help in transitioning from them, it will just be a burden on the economy and prolong the transition.
no, it would force the transition to happen. the reason you didn't understand that is that you simply didn't read (let alone consider) my full proposal before launching into a blind rage.
According to Ted Henderson, the founder of the Cloakroom -- an anonymous messaging app for Capitol Hill staffers -- all of his apps are effectively not available to their target audience.
which means the blocking is working as intended.
If you believe that solar power can only win this race by hobbling carbon fuels with exorbitant taxes then you have just admitted that you do not believe solar power will ever be cheaper than coal and oil.
the difference is that solar is an upfront investment. many humans have weak long term planning skills and so paying $300 for electricity sure beats a $30K system. however, i've made no claims about the price of solar because the price isn't the issue here, the environment is the issue. the sooner we switch of fossil fuels, the better chance we have at fixing the problem we've created.
By saying we must tax carbon fuels out of existence is admitting we will not be running out of oil any time soon.
the problem is not about running out of oil, the problem is all the carbon in the atmosphere is causing the earth to retain too much heat and causing the ocean to absorb a lot more CO2 which is making the oceans more acidic. even if we had a limitless supply of oil, burning it is still a problem.
Oh, and if you want to save all those wild animals then I have some suggestions
i'm sure you do.
Why do you hate capitalism?
because it...
* enables psychopaths to gain power and bleed your for all your worth
* has corrupted our government and degraded our rights
* promotes misinformation
* is destroying our society
* is killing our next generation with sugar
* is killing our ecosystem both on land and water
* is unsustainable
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang claimed the new GeForce GTX 1080 is faster than a pair of GeForce GTX 980 cards in SLI and faster than the company's very expensive Titan X graphics card but at half the price.
that's nice but it doesn't help me 13 months ago. also, if we're being honest here, this is more of an indicator that they charge too much for their products.
The other day I got my vehicle's state emission tests done at a local gas station that's a lot closer than the one I used to go to (thanks Google!). They gave me a free car with it, and I may go back there every once in a while to get my car washed now
stealing a car from them and then going back to the same place to have them wash it? bold move, sir.
No.
the idea isn't that you have a plane that is powered exclusively by solar panels, the idea is the solar panels and batteries. batteries are have been going through a similar process of increased power density and the required power density is far from being impossible as defined by laws of physics. so tell me, who's to say that in 50 years our planes won't be one hundredth the weight, battery powered and have its entire surface be composed of photovoltaics?
On July 31, there will be an out-of-band update that will prompt the user, "Would you like to ruin your life and everything in it?" If you select "Yes" then it will install Windows 10. If you select "No" it will install Windows 10 and say, "you're welcome". ;)
Who's mission in life is it to help all governments collect more taxes?
IRS auditors..
Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) are going to continue driving change in manufacturing. DMLS/SLS is effectively building metal/plastic objects by putting down a thin layers of material and melting the parts of each layer you want in the final product. the end result is you can make objects in any shape you want with a tolerance of 100 microns and they are quite robust. a second process is needed to make them nice and shiny objects but when you combine our many three axis tools into a single machine, you end up with a single machine that can go from raw materials to finished product, electronics included. this is the endgame for most of the objects that people buy today and it's going to lay waste to a large segment of manufacturing industry. the good news is that this will advance our recycling efforts as well as the open hardware movement.
people will realize they can print 3d printer parts and the entire 3d printer industry will collapse. ;P
What you propose will lower the standard of living for millions of people.
i never claimed it was a perfect solution, only that it was an easy solution. however, tell me this, what about the standard of living for trillions of multicellular organisms on the planet. who are you to say that humans are so important that they cannot be inconvenienced to prevent the ecosystem from dying off? that doesn't just include wild animals but other humans as well.
Where is this money going to come from to pay for all of this if people cannot afford to buy $10 gallons of gasoline?
well if you read my post carefully, you would have noticed i wrote, "slowly increase a tax on fossil fuel energy sources," and not "hike the price to 10 bucks tomorrow!" i would think when it's $10, just about everyone would have already switched over to solar and wind power sources.
In case my tone was lost in the text I'll end with this, fuck off and die.
actually, i was going to do both of those but only for biological reasons. :)
if you want everyone to switch to renewable energy, it's not a complex process. all you have to do is slowly increase a tax on fossil fuel energy sources (and imported electricity) and use that money to subsidize investments in renewable energy. when gasoline is $10 per gallon, electricity is $1 per kWH and a solar panel with microinverter are $50 each, you see everyone switching to solar power, reducing their power consumption or paying out the nose because they can afford to do so.
yeah, this whole airplane thing reminds me of that fool who thought people would have computers in their houses. pfft! how can you fit a giant electromechanical machine that fills a warehouse into your living room? some people, am i right?
Presumably, most of the /. readers produce ideas and other intangible and easily copied once created things for a living. In other words, we are paid for these intangible things.
as a software developer, my work is covered by copyright. however, both copyright and patent law are absurd. software patents are the single worst form of patent because they are not for a specific implementation but rather the mere idea of a design. here's the thing, software patents didn't exist until patent law was amended to allow it. so yeah, software patents need to die forever and copyright needs to be reduced back to it's original 14 year term.
Why, then, are most people so negative on other people selling and buying them?
for the same reason i'm against international arms deals who have no quibbles selling weapons to terrorists.
The hated "patent trolls" buy ideas from people, who have them — thus rewarding our colleagues.
developers don't make patents and developers don't get rewarded when their company sells a patent. so how are our colleagues rewarded again?
What is theirs, they are entitled to reselling — at whatever price the market will bear. This is normal and perfectly ethical.
there is nothing ethical about extortion.
Yes, the weaponized litigation practiced by some of these firms is most reprehensible, but they are hardly the only ones partaking of it. Until we change our legal practices to make sure, the loser pays winner's legal costs by default, the side with a bigger legal budget will keep "winning" before entering the courtroom.
you make a good argument for abolishing patents.
But none of it supports the abolishment of the very concept of intellectual property in general and patents in particular, which is so often suggested here.
widespread abuse and a total deviation of it's intended purpose isn't reason enough?
Are these suggestions coming from fools and/or folks short of their own ideas? What's going on?
no, they are coming from people who are fed up with the bullshit idea that because someone thought of an idea before them that somehow entitles them to exclusive ownership of the idea. very few patents are actually novel and everything will be reinvented given enough time.
I'm not your normal /. "#$%! Microsoft" kinda guy. I've been an MS guy my whole life, only dabbling in other OSs briefly.
you poor, soul. well, we all have our faults. :P
It's now at a point where it's outright sounding BAD. Like proper, bad. The things they keep doing are worse and worse, more and more intrusive. I thought the pushy installer was rough but ok
yeah, systemd is a bummer. you were talking about systemd, right? :P
the Unity desktop is so terrible they should just call it Overunity because that's a name that matches the level of ridicule it deserves.