The Linus/systemd controvery is long over btw. People had a conflict, yelled a bit at each other, then came up with patches, and everything went back to normal.
Personally I like at least the idea of systemd. It means I can make a single startup script, and have most of the work done by the system, instead of having to muck around with the minor differences of the ubuntu/debian/etc scripts.
Let me translate. They were fucking off by diverging from the core project into recreational political activities unrelated to their mission.
But that seems to be what a lot of people on Slashdot want. Look at the Mozilla and DropBox controversies. Lots of people posting and moderating support those.
No, I'd say what people here want in general is for an organization to be apolitical. Being against LGBT is bad, but doing activities related to LGBT is also bad. A software company is supposed to be a bunch of people coding and nothing else, ideally.
Deviations are allowed only for subjects related to the core mission: patents, copyright, open source, etc.
I have DK1 and ordered DK2.
DK1 is cool as a prototype, but the lack of positioning gets annoying at times, and the resolution is horrible.
DK2 fixes that, but it sounds like the resolution still needs improving.
This is the kind of thing I'd love to have in there. The Rift as it stands right now won't work well with many UIs, as it's too low res to render the details, and it seriously breaks immersion to see things pixellated.
So the more the better I say, if it's overkill for a phone then there are other uses for it.
Obviously. I didn't claim otherwise
Google has their own CA. Of course the NSA may demand certs from them, but Google will have to know, so the NSA can't do it secretly anymore
Spying on this level isn't needed for when secret services "take an interest in somebody". There already are mechanisms for the authorities to wiretap you if they're concerned with you directly. There's no need to wiretap the entire net for that.
No, the purpose of such things is to assemble large databases of things like who talks to who, and for those purposes, you are of interest to secret services, as is everybody else. Let's say a friend of yours participates in some sort of environmental activism. Well, you both communicate, and that automatically makes you a person of interest.
Anybody with a recent DSLR can test that this can be done. I recently took a portrait if myself in my cat's eye.
The trick to this though is that you need a DSLR with fairly high resolution, a good sharp lens, and have the photo be a closeup of the subject. None of which are features of the vast majority of security camera footage.
If somebody was willing to spend amounts in the range of $1000 per camera, yes, this might be a possibility. Provided the person stared right into the camera while standing at a meter or so from it.
Also, it'll probably stay this way. There are limitations to the useful resolution that can be achieved, so it's not possible to simply put a 1000 MP sensor into a security camera and suddenly be able to perform the tricks shown in CSI.
This reads like: This bunch of corporate press releases haven't been getting as much attention as we'd like, so we'll mention Snowden, which is what seems to get attention these days, and then proceed to dump a list of the stuff we do care about.
It doesn't seem to be anything that exciting. Yeah, technology marches on. Somebody figuring out a way to get more bandwidth out of a cell tower is normal and expected. And I can't say I care that much since all this would do is to allow me to consume my tiny quota faster.
The more interesting bits about balloons and IETF proposing Tor already got discussed, so not like they got overlooked either..
As far as I can tell, he lives off ramen because he has no money., not because he's into martyrdom.
It isn't good for children to always have their noses stuck in a computer of some sort. There are plenty of other things they should be doing. That hardly constitutes being a "hermit."
Which does nothing to disprove Snowden's point. One can use a computer and still go outside, you know.
As to the rest of your post, it would be more convincing if it was posted tomorrow. And I could ask you the same question.
Unlike Americans, I don't have anything to celebrate on this day. I keep celebrating the way I did in the days of the Soviet Union, on December 31st. The Russian Orthodox Church sticks to the Julian calendar and celebrates on January 7, anyway.
Yes, easy answer: if you don't like the government sticking their nose in your private life, just become a hermit!
Ed really should try leaving his desk from time to time.
You should take that advice too, are you being paid overtime for this, by chance?
"Many queries that I write are simpler than TPC-H, so what's holding them back?" -- simple queries don't need acceleration.
A "SELECT * FROM users WHERE user_id = 12", or a "SELECT SUM(price) FROM products" doesn't need a GPU, it's IO bound and would benefit much more from having plenty cache memory, and a SSD. A lot of what things like MySQL get used for is forums and similar, where queries are simple. The current tendency seems to be to use the database as an object store, which results in a lack of gnarly queries that could be optimized.
I do think such features will eventually make it in, but this isn't going to benefit uses like forums much.
Do you really want me to make a list of all the bullshit projects that have shown up on Kickstarter in the last few months?
Sure, if it makes you happy.
No guarantee that a successful project will ship anything either.
According to the updates and comments of the project you linked, it shipped. Tsk.
$700,000 for this?
Well, when 5000 people buy something in the ~$100 and above dollar range, yes, the result is a lot of money.
What are you whining about, are you jealous?
No, you are. I'm talking about donations directly to a project through paypal, without an intermediary like kickstarter that offters the "money back" guarantee.
Ask yourself this question: same guys that raise $250k on Kickstarter for a board game sell that board game on their own web site and make jack shit. Why?
Because of the reasons outlined in my previous post, and that I repeat below.
Kickstarter adds nothing to the project. Why does the cash register ring only on Kickstarter but not on the project's own web site?
If you're unable to read, or to comprehend what is written, what's the point of asking? I'll answer again, in case it sinks in this time: because kickstarter doesn't allow obviously bad projects, doesn't take my money if the project doesn't make enough, and isn't under the control of the project's owner, allowing tricky questions to remain visible to potential donors.
On the project's own site, none of those things are assured. There's no guarantee that a failed project will give me my money back, there's no guarantee that the people who run it will not pretend inconvenient questions aren't being asked, and there's no guarantee that the project achieved a minimum amount of planning to make sure it at least has some chance of succeeding.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
