That would be a big yes. We have 15,000 commits per month to open source and more than 2,000 hosted GitHub repositories. And then of course there is the Hyperledger Fabric, Node Red and Kubernetes. https://www.ibm.com/opensource...

https://youtu.be/hXeO8Kzz3bo In this work, we present an all-memristive neuromorphic architecture comprising neurons and synapses realized by using the physical properties and state dynamics of phase-change memristors. The architecture employs a novel concept of interconnecting the neurons in the same layer, resulting in level-tuned neuronal characteristics that preferentially process input information. We demonstrate the proposed architecture in the tasks of unsupervised learning and detection of multiple temporal correlations in parallel input streams. The efficiency of the neuromorphic architecture along with the homogenous neuro-synaptic dynamics implemented with nanoscale phase-change memristors represent a significant step towards the development of ultrahigh-density neuromorphic co-processors. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957...

^^ What he said, but will also add that all these systemd conspiracy theories about RedHat wanting to make World use systemd seem a bit far fetched. I think that it's more likely, that distros liked enough aspects of systemd to want to incorporate it. All I see in these discussions about Gnome3 and systemd is the same old arguments regurgitated over and over again, by people that probably don't know what they are talking about, or are simply 'confused'. Lennart might well be an asshat--I wouldn't personally know, but if he makes good code that solves problems then fair enough.

I see some comments every now and again, thet seem to give technical credence to systemd, and explain technically why it solves certain problems. I also see comments from people that debunk the half baked theories about why systemd is shite, but what I never see is people debunking *those* posts.

I pay $40 for 500/500 in Sweden via Bredband2. I feel sorry for Americans...must be very frustrating.

you're wrong.

"many eyes make all bugs shallow" is logically correct. Take a company with 200 developers working on closed source. Take an open source project which has *the potential* for all developers in all companies that use that FOSS software to be able to look at the source. Not talking users here but all developers worldwide that incorporate that FOSS project into their work or use it in some fashion. It is a statistically higher probability that a bug *has the potential* to be identified quicker and/or fixed quicker with FOSS than with closed source. ESR's statement still stands.

Now just because there have been bugs that have been around unidentified for decades, does not mean that this is the norm, or that these cases are worse than closed source or an indication that FOSS is wrong in the many eyes theory. You're just trolling.

Btw, "professionals"? Are you serious? You seriously think that FOSS developers are inferior in their competency compared to a developer who works at a company? You don't have a clue. I work in a large dev team for enterprise software (im not a dev). I have the greatest respect for FOSS developers, because with them, it's a pasion, with devs@company it's a pay check.

gotta debunk. "better choice for Windows users"? Windows 8 is radically different that every other Windows Desktop there has been. Windows 95 was quite different than Windows 3.1 You've got Unity, Gnome, Windows 8, OSX, which are all departures from win95 desktop layouts, and then the rest of the so-called "traditional" Win95-esque desktops. To single Gnome out as something that is so different that it is unusable is a poor argument. By that argument, nobody would upgrade to Win8 because it's too different. But yet all those millions of Windows 7 home users will happily upgrade to Win8 no questions asked, just because it's the newest version. And when even Microsoft changes their own desktop paradigm to something radically different from the Win95-esque, then you've got to ask what you people are smoking when you posit that Win95 is the desktop standard to stick to.

Glad to see so much interest on Slashdot for our sunflower. I'd like to address a few misunderstandings and share with you how YOU can test one of our systems in your home town. 1. The standard commercial system will be available in 2017 for both heat and electricity, the water desalination will come later. 2. This presentation explains the science behind the sunflower and how it can also provide cooling: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pdf/... By means of a thermally driven sorption chiller, cool air can also be produced. A sorption chiller is a device that converts heat into cooling via a thermal cycle applied to a liquid or solid sorption material. Adsorption chillers, with solid silica gel adsorbers and with water as a working fluid, can replace compression chillers, which place a burden on electrical grids in hot climates and contain working fluids that are harmful to the ozone layer. Although absorption (liquid sorption) systems are already available for combination with the HCPVT system, they provide less cooling output compared to low-temperature driving heat for the adsorption (solid sorption) systems under development at IBM. The systems can also be customized with a transparent back for urban installations. 3. This presentation highlights the regions and the commercial applications: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pdf/... 4. Here is a YouTube video showing the prototype in Biasca, Switzerland http://youtu.be/JVB9_3IKIAE 5. The news was announced at a TED conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. You can watch the presentation here: http://fora.tv/2014/09/23/Solv...

I'm neither a gun owner or American, but your statement just failed a logic test... How do you know that 2.5 million crimes were avoided if they never happened? Are there strictly defined scenarios that have to be met for the police or courts to come to the conclusion that it was actually because the potential victim had a gun and for no other reason, that the crime did not occur? Or are you just quoting some book?

I took the introduction to artificial intelligence course while he was still at Stanford and they tried this MOOC thing there for the first time. I completed it but didnt take any exam. Afterwards, I heard that he was so excited by the whole MOOC thing that he decided to quit his tenure and go to Udacity. I remember thinking at the time that he was being extremely naive in quiting a position at Stanford for something like this, and really got the impression from his video statements that he was being duped, in a way, by Udacity, who likely probably promised him that this was something BIG! Yes, it could have been, but quitting your day job after the first course is a bit drastic.

really, Quake Live is the ultimate fps deathmatch skill game. You can't take any other modern fps storied game, and make it into the competition game that QL is. CS is the same thing but for tactical combat rather than DM/TeamDM/CTF/duel. That's why CS and Quake Live are till going strong after 16 years. Unless someone takes id tech 5 and releases a new game with heavily updated graphics that also improves even further on weapon/mod balancing,map design and network efficiency in the engine, then QL is going to stay.

Shame you chose Oracle as your example because it's actually much quicker to install on Windows than Linux/UNIX because you have to faff about creating users/groups and setting kernel parameters and checking you've got all the correct dependency versions. Oracle Linux makes it easier by providing a meta package, but RedHat it's all manual. But your point was still bang on the money. --speaking as an Oracle DBA

I don't upgrade my system just for extra speed or cores, although that's nice with more cores when you transcoded video. For me its more about the surrounding technologies like chipsets, PCI speeds USB speeds especially sata upgrades, because the bottleneck is still the damn disc drive even with ssd.