Should driver developers re-evaluate their optimization practices for Linux?
Not necessarily. For example, replacing game shaders with optimized platform-specific ones can offer great performance increase with no tradeoffs. The GPU makers know their chip architecture inside out, but game developers usually target a higher level concept such as some shader language. Unless you develop for fixed hardware such as consoles, of course.
There's really two ways how you can relate to these kind of optimizations: "Hey, you're cheating!" or "Cool, thanks for help!". I personally are fine with them, but I would like to clearly know when specific optimizations are in use, and can turn them off when needed. Maybe after application startup the driver could render some popup in the frame buffer such as "AMD Catalyst(R) optimizations in use" which would fade out after a few seconds.
No, it already works. It was active for a while some 10 years ago, but was removed because it was hard to sanitize. You could easily write you own comment score by reversing direction at the right time.
Still they could reactivate it if they just found a reasonable way of sanitizing features they don't want.
Dude, all other websites support Unicode. Sanitizing it properly cannot be rocket science.
Uhh...yeah. Sorry about that. Here, have a Snickers.
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When I think about how much faster (at a hardware level) my current computer is relative to my old 486SX 33MHz, and how I still have to spend time waiting for the damn thing to catch up to what I'm trying to do, I just have to shake my head.
Part of the blame goes to slow mechanical hard disks, though.
What if I do not want to restart my computer? Windows updates seem to require that for every update (compared to Linux, where only kernel updates require a reboot, normally you just restart the affected service(s)).
That's because under Windows userspace apps typically have their own updater, which do not require a reboot. During Patch Tuesday you usually get a small 10-pack of Windows core updates and it's not that unreasonable for those to require a reboot. Updates to Office, and video driver updates, still do not require reboots. Under Linux you cannot install a new video driver on the fly, and that's a sad trombone: wah-wah-wah-waaaaa.
Superfish
Should be all that has to be said. There should be a price to pay.
Lenovo is not shipping Superfish anymore. Hey, they listened to feedback and made appropriate changes. What else do you want? Please, let's not make this another decade-long nerd-grudge like IBM DeathStar or SonyBMG rootkit.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
