And all they're doing is coming up with new ways to get you to look at ads.
Whoever said they were the brightest minds? I can guarantee they aren't remotely the brightest of their generation. Not by a long shot.
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Carly Fiorina Meg Whitman
When Carly Fiorina left HP, it was worth half of what it was worth with she arrived.
While Meg Whitman was CEO of eBay, revenues went up by 200000%.
There is good reason to consider Carly as incompetent. I see no reason to see Meg as incompetent. They are not interchangeable just because they are both women.
Since joining HP, Meg Whitman has seen intricately been involved in every major transaction for HP. Meanwhile, the stock has halved its valuation and the blame game on purchasing has been rampant. She has no credibility in actual technology corporations any more than Fiorino. EBay is a glorified Flea Market.
do you? for average PC applications (browsing the web, e-mail, office documents) 64 bit gives no advantage. for the above-average applications (multimedia creation/editing, CADD, running multiple VMs, ) it's very helpful.
On Debian Linux and I can peg with Flash a stupid Zynga game running past 3GB of RAM. For Multimedia Creation/Editing you bet your sweet ass 64 Bits matters. Then again Linux doesn't have shit like GCD and quality OpenCL built in the OS with app suites that can leverage both and welcome 32/64 GB of RAM with open arms. Quality drivers, quality OpenCL/OpenGL etc., are coming with all the hard work at LLVM/Clang, Mesa and more. When that shit lands you better believe 64 bit matters and any heavy engineering/scientific computing, to Blender Modeling/Rendering damn well loves it. So does GIMP.
...where a giant company worth billions--just because people in suits say so--is building state-of-the-art data centers around the globe to store crappy photos of mundane activities and asinine conversations about nothing in order to collect data on consumers for advertisers so they can sell them more gadgets to take even crappier photos of even more mundane activities. (And yes, I'm aware of the irony of appearing on television in order to decry it, so don't bother pointing that out.) Meanwhile the funding agencies that drive the creation of all this technology are being gutted to shave a few fractions of a percent off of the federal budget, Wikipedia is begging users for cash, and NASA had to scrap its shuttle program. Our priorities are a joke.
Spot on.
Its stable its been out over a year, have any distros picked it up yet?
My last annoyance with Debian. 2.4 has been sitting in Experimental and utterly useless without current PHP5 support and much more. I've never seen the purpose of packaging highly visible applications within a distro only to leave them useless for months on end.
LibAV's a badly forked version that's several revisions behind FFmpeg. Plus, this is Debian -- non-free codecs like H.264 are stripped out and are probably really supported by a seperate non-free repository.
I'd rather strip LibAV out and compile my own version of FFmpeg for faster encodes.
Agreed. Debian fucked up Handbrake options, not to mention VLC is a clusterfuck half the time if one uses the LibAV from Debian. Use the Debian Multimedia debs elsewhere and you can that Debian legally unclean but more useful solution.
I could give two cents about GCC compiler Hardening flags. Hell, the only interesting part of Debian is the fact its entire repo is gearing up to be LLVM/Clang compliant. The moment LLVM/Clang can compile Debian, RedHat, SuSE more acceptable Linux based distros is the moment big engineering firms switch the likes ANSYS, Catia, COMSOL, and others away from GCC and give themselves a celebration by welcoming LLVM/Clang with open arms. All of the work for OpenGL/OpenCL in the pipeline for MESA, and Video Drivers are making huge leaps with LLVM/Clang and not GCC.
Sorry folks, but I look forward to the moment FreeBSD 10 arrives so I can say good-bye to Linux. All the work by Intel, Nvidia and AMD with quality GPU drivers and GPGPU stacks for OpenCL/OpenGL are all coming to FreeBSD, as well. It would be truly ironic if FreeBSD 10.x becomes the third largest Desktop OS in the world with Linux continuing to have pissing contests over which DE is best or having 10 DE is better.
Hell, the entire LLVM/Clang stack 3.3 Trunk oozing into Debian is still fucked up and requires an asinine amount of GCC4.7 and GCC4.8 from Experimental to work. That makes absolutely zero sense, but it does.
In my opinion, that makes the effort DOA.
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
