That's cute, but at this time the OSS drivers in the kernel are still not suitable for doing anything serious with OpenGL. They don't even support GL3.3 and core contexts yet, which is the minimum base any new code should target. And that's even without considering performance which is still lousy, and the fact that most games that run in Wine still won't work with OSS drivers. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort Mesa developers are putting into these drivers, and I hope that someday they'll work, but they just aren't good enough to use yet, so for now there is no choice but to use binary drivers.
Researcher: press that lever, you rat! Rat: I realize that command does have its fascination, even under circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy it nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever logically needs to be done.
A small shop can not afford to take a case to court even without paying the defendant's lawyers. An IP lawsuit costs millions of dollars to pursue; more money than any normal person will make in his entire working lifetime. The courts are for the big fish. For the rest of us, any involvement with them leads to bankrupcy.
And the clueless MBAs strike again. Business school graduates forget that the basis of capitalism is capital, not short term profits. You build capital when you care about the company sticking around for a long time, when you intend people to buy your products because of the reputation of your brand, and when you genuinely care about making the world a better place one awesome toothbrush at a time.
MBAs on the other hand, only care about the company's survival until the next bonus time, believe that people will only buy something if they are tricked and brainwashed into it, and have no interest or knowledge of what the company actually produces.
And when you do not care about the products you make, why would you want talented employees to make them? If quality is irrelevant, all you need is a bunch of cheap warm bodies to make whatever garbage marketing can sell. It is amazing how fast you can ruin the economy when you only intend to stay on your job until the company dies, rather than until you retire from it.
Even simpler: sign up with fastmail.fm for only $4.95/year, and nobody will rummage through your emails. If you are not willing to spare this miniscule amount, have you any right to be incensed that Google tries to extract some value from you through ads on their totally free service?
Side channel attacks only work when you can physically access the target. The chance of you being able to sniff the power usage of my PC while I'm sitting at it and typing my password is basically zero. Direct physical attacks on the computer inside the user's house never happen, due to extremely low reward/effort ratio.
Instead, store your password on a TPM chip, from where the hash can not be stolen and where the attempt rate can be regulated. This way even 7 character passwords can be quite secure.
That's just a case of inventor hubris. No, your idea alone will not produce a great product. No, your idea is not so great that everybody will want to steal it. In fact, until you prove that your idea is great by reaping a lot of profit from selling your innovative product, you'll have to shove your idea down people's throat to get venture capital, shelf space, loans, etc. The truth is that nobody wants your idea. Yes, they will steal it eventually after you prove that it's good, but proving may take a long time. Perhaps even 20 years.
One very good reason to use a license is its liability disclaimer. If you release your software without one, there is always the danger that some idiot will find a way to use it in such a way as to remove all his files, consequently suing you for damages. With the astronomical costs of litigation in the US, a lawsuit, whether you win it or not, is a financial death sentence. It is worthwhile to take every measure you can to defend yourself from this.
Oh, dear. I just imagined playing fetch with my pet brontosaurus in the park. Here Nessie, Here Nessie. THUDUMP THUDUMP THUDUMP. Watch out for the doggie! Eeeeeoow. SPLAT. THUDUMP THUDUMP THUDUMP. Good girl!
Computer science programs became trade schools for programmers when idiot HR departments made a CS degree a requirement for every coding monkey position. The fact that a computer science degree does not give its holder any knowledge of actual computers or real world programming does not bother HR drones because they do not have that knowledge either.
The case is not supposed to dissipate any heat; it is not a heatsink - it is a conduit. Unlike aluminum, wood is heavy and is much more effective at damping sound. A case made of 3/4" plywood will be heavy enough to not transmit any sound through the walls. Make zigzag entry and exit conduits and all the noise your computer makes will not make it out. While you are at it, you may as well make the case into a desk with a removable access panel.
Those Star Trek consoles really are a good design for today's computers; dedicated air ducts hiding fans make it silent and unsightly cables are easy to hide.
You don't understand it because you are an introvert. An introvert defines his self worth in terms of what he can do, as you have illustrated in your comment. An extrovert defines his self worth by what other people think of him. Unless you understand this, you'll never become adequately socialized.
How about "equal"? A nice short word that is far more informative than an analogy to horse races, an event that no slashdotter has ever attended. Horses haven't been in use in a hundred years, it's time to get rid of horsey verbiage.
Go to your program manager's boss and ask to him to assign more program managers to the project. Once the PM finds out what that's like he'll never suggest such a thing again.
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That's cute, but at this time the OSS drivers in the kernel are still not suitable for doing anything serious with OpenGL. They don't even support GL3.3 and core contexts yet, which is the minimum base any new code should target. And that's even without considering performance which is still lousy, and the fact that most games that run in Wine still won't work with OSS drivers. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort Mesa developers are putting into these drivers, and I hope that someday they'll work, but they just aren't good enough to use yet, so for now there is no choice but to use binary drivers.
Seriously, be a man. Drill a hole in the floor with a jackhammer. Stick in a 2x4. Pour concrete. Nail monitor to the 2x4. Grab a beer. Done.
Pump in coal ash and you can call it carbon sequestration.
Researcher: press that lever, you rat!
Rat: I realize that command does have its fascination, even under circumstances such as these, but I neither enjoy it nor am I frightened of it. It simply exists, and I will do whatever logically needs to be done.
A small shop can not afford to take a case to court even without paying the defendant's lawyers. An IP lawsuit costs millions of dollars to pursue; more money than any normal person will make in his entire working lifetime. The courts are for the big fish. For the rest of us, any involvement with them leads to bankrupcy.
And the clueless MBAs strike again. Business school graduates forget that the basis of capitalism is capital, not short term profits. You build capital when you care about the company sticking around for a long time, when you intend people to buy your products because of the reputation of your brand, and when you genuinely care about making the world a better place one awesome toothbrush at a time.
MBAs on the other hand, only care about the company's survival until the next bonus time, believe that people will only buy something if they are tricked and brainwashed into it, and have no interest or knowledge of what the company actually produces.
And when you do not care about the products you make, why would you want talented employees to make them? If quality is irrelevant, all you need is a bunch of cheap warm bodies to make whatever garbage marketing can sell. It is amazing how fast you can ruin the economy when you only intend to stay on your job until the company dies, rather than until you retire from it.
Thinking FTW.
The 70s called
Even simpler: sign up with fastmail.fm for only $4.95/year, and nobody will rummage through your emails. If you are not willing to spare this miniscule amount, have you any right to be incensed that Google tries to extract some value from you through ads on their totally free service?
Side channel attacks only work when you can physically access the target. The chance of you being able to sniff the power usage of my PC while I'm sitting at it and typing my password is basically zero. Direct physical attacks on the computer inside the user's house never happen, due to extremely low reward/effort ratio.
Instead, store your password on a TPM chip, from where the hash can not be stolen and where the attempt rate can be regulated. This way even 7 character passwords can be quite secure.
That's just a case of inventor hubris. No, your idea alone will not produce a great product. No, your idea is not so great that everybody will want to steal it. In fact, until you prove that your idea is great by reaping a lot of profit from selling your innovative product, you'll have to shove your idea down people's throat to get venture capital, shelf space, loans, etc. The truth is that nobody wants your idea. Yes, they will steal it eventually after you prove that it's good, but proving may take a long time. Perhaps even 20 years.
Don't worry: the rope is automatically freed when you are terminated.
Poor Richard...
One very good reason to use a license is its liability disclaimer. If you release your software without one, there is always the danger that some idiot will find a way to use it in such a way as to remove all his files, consequently suing you for damages. With the astronomical costs of litigation in the US, a lawsuit, whether you win it or not, is a financial death sentence. It is worthwhile to take every measure you can to defend yourself from this.
Oh, dear. I just imagined playing fetch with my pet brontosaurus in the park. Here Nessie, Here Nessie. THUDUMP THUDUMP THUDUMP. Watch out for the doggie! Eeeeeoow. SPLAT. THUDUMP THUDUMP THUDUMP. Good girl!
It's official: 2038 is the year of the singularity.
Computer science programs became trade schools for programmers when idiot HR departments made a CS degree a requirement for every coding monkey position. The fact that a computer science degree does not give its holder any knowledge of actual computers or real world programming does not bother HR drones because they do not have that knowledge either.
Time to reread Manna. The cooks, the manager, the cleaning staff, and finally you, until nobody has any work or any money.
The case is not supposed to dissipate any heat; it is not a heatsink - it is a conduit. Unlike aluminum, wood is heavy and is much more effective at damping sound. A case made of 3/4" plywood will be heavy enough to not transmit any sound through the walls. Make zigzag entry and exit conduits and all the noise your computer makes will not make it out. While you are at it, you may as well make the case into a desk with a removable access panel.
Those Star Trek consoles really are a good design for today's computers; dedicated air ducts hiding fans make it silent and unsightly cables are easy to hide.
Remember, girls, there is nothing lower than number one.
- Judy Garland, "For Me And My Gal"
How many of those 321 million results are teenagers complaining about getting a C on their homework?
You don't understand it because you are an introvert. An introvert defines his self worth in terms of what he can do, as you have illustrated in your comment. An extrovert defines his self worth by what other people think of him. Unless you understand this, you'll never become adequately socialized.
How about "equal"? A nice short word that is far more informative than an analogy to horse races, an event that no slashdotter has ever attended. Horses haven't been in use in a hundred years, it's time to get rid of horsey verbiage.
Go to your program manager's boss and ask to him to assign more program managers to the project. Once the PM finds out what that's like he'll never suggest such a thing again.