Really? Where can you find the source code? I never noticed it on their site - seems like they're a typically closed-source company to me. Am I missing something obvious?
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Does that mean it's "about to take off?" I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I certainly hope so. Games have always meant pushing technological boundaries, so if games get big on Linux it will hopefully move the whole OS forwards. Finally, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us! (...don't worry about those pesky locked-down mobile devices)
Well... a man can dream, at least.
First of all, it's a lazy insult - it's just applying a label (also known as name calling) to put people down without any context. It implies that these people are irrational, inflexible and idealistic, but with a bad connotation. He could have argued that those things are true in a more diplomatic way, and more importantly, by using evidence other than just claiming that mir is "important" or "a huge leap forward for gaming performance...". Instead, he just labels the people who happen to disagree with him as the tea party. Great.
Secondly, I think it's fair to be concerned about what's going on with mir. Maybe he's telling the truth that they just want the best solution... I think everyone, whether you want Wayland or not, would like to move away from X. So maybe mir is the right way to go. However, they failed to make the case for this in a typical open source way. Why not improve Wayland instead of going off and doing your own thing? If the direction of Wayland is awful or wrong, why not point that out? And instead of just claiming that's the case, why not try to use evidence to prove that it's the case? I have been following this closely, but have no idea what the advantages of the two proposed systems is better... but it certainly seems that almost everyone other than Canonical is rooting for and working on Wayland, which isn't really a good sign...
It's very easy to be skeptical because of all the good will they sacrificed by sticking Amazon adds in my god-damned desktop. Honestly, that seems like such a shameless land-grab for clueless users' personal data which really damages their privacy. It wouldn't even have been an issue if it was simply opt in. So, because they made that poor decision, people are skeptical, critical, maybe even a bit irrational. But that shouldn't be surprising. And even if you're being personally attacked yourself, it doesn't make it right to attack other people - many of whom aren't trying to make their contributions a business and are doing their work with pure intentions - unlike Canonical and Mark who clearly have a business angle in all this (which, in and of itself, is totally fine).
Sorry for the rant, guys. I mean, do people really think "open source tea party" is at all fair?
https://gist.github.com/gnufied/7160410
Looks like it says: (depends-on "color-theme-sanityinc-tomorrow") ... (depends-on "noctilux-theme") ... (depends-on "soft-morning-theme")
Sorry, I didn't look into those, but saw he didn't respond. Good luck!
I don't have a background in games/graphics at all, but have a background with multivariate calculus and linear algebra.
I thought he went on a little too long at the beginning about physics/history of stuff, but overall I thought that it was a really good introduction to some of the ideas in computer graphics. If you already work with computer graphics regularly you probably won't learn much, but the guy is interesting and one of those obviously immense intellects which are just good to listen to. So yeah. If you already know computer graphics it might be worth a skim just to hear this guy talk - otherwise this seems like a pretty good introduction to the topic (at a conceptual level).
Anyways, this is completely ridiculous.
And just because information is cheaper doesn't mean it's free. At the very least it costs us time - at least in the current form of the internet it's not like there's simultaneous, effortless, instant communication between every human being on Earth. Now that might change things.
But I don't think you fully made the case that the internet is fundamentally different than a "better" or more effective printing press. My point, I guess, is that maybe we approach that zero cost world, but will never reach it. And that there's a fundamental distinction between being at zero cost and being at any positive cost... so that the internet is more like a printing press rather than a zero cost communication mechanism.
But even if they are working with Ubuntu for some of the reasons you mentioned, that doesn't mean that they have to go with Mir. You could install Mir for any distribution. You could install Wayland on any distribution. You could just keep going with X because at least it's stable and people know about it.
But if they really are going to be a healthy contributor to the whole community, then it makes sense for them to pick one and contribute to it. Who knows what's actually going to happen! I don't want to get my hopes up, though. Graphics support sucks in Linux for (presumably) some economic reason - maybe Valve entering the market is just a hedge against Windows locking down their software market and they don't really care about Linux or at least not about the wider community.
But Gaben has said some pretty promising things. Who knows. Very interesting and exciting, isn't it?
Fascinating stuff.
Without going into the details... you know that the Federal Reserve doesn't pay the bills, right? The Treasury does. And when the Treasury pays the bills, it doesn't really have much to do with the Fed buying bonds on the open market. The Treasury pays bills based on interest on national debt, stuff like social security and spending approved by congress. For some reason, congress implemented laws which mean that they have to give permission to the Treasury to pay the bills that congress itself voted into the budget.
My point is that this whole debacle doesn't really have to do much with the Fed, and the Treasury is just following the orders of congress.
*Edit: Ah, I see from stalking your profile that you are not American. Well I can see why you'd be confused - shit's confusing. I don't think even most US citizens understand how it works.
Anyways, that doesn't have any impact on other people doing the phone thing. It's a lot easier to not be nose-deep in your phone when other people are engaging with you. I find that most people settle into the "trance" based on whether other people are on their phones. The people who start the "trance" are often preoccupied or just plain rude.
Another facet to this is that we just don't know where this is going. Is it a step forwards or backwards. Hard to say that it looks like a good thing, but many of us didn't grow up with it - what will the story be like in 50 years? None of us has a clue, to be honest.
Anyways, I think what it comes down to is the "responsible use" cliche. There are so many constructive things you can do with technology. But here we all are, reading these comments which don't matter and are just random people screaming into the void. Shit.
What if we put missiles on our missiles?
But c'mon... "hate it"? I think you'll get used to it. It's not really a big change in my book.
I have a bad feeling about this whole thing.
Now I have my doubts about whether they'll keep true to that philosophy and spirit. I mean, I guess Red Hat has been pretty awesome for Linux, so maybe they'll go that route and calm my nerves a bit.
I saw someone ask whether they would remain open source in the AMA, and they gave kind of a murky answer which involved saying that certain parts would become closed and proprietary - really not a good start to this whole thing in my book. The whole reason I switched to CM in the first place was to get away from crappy closed software that I had little control over.
Overall, it is a huge pain in the ass. I oh-so-wish that graphics cards would "just work" like wireless cards now do.
But if you're on a desktop and get a well-supported card, you're right. It's not a big deal.
If you're so inclined, I'd appreciate if you'd take a look at my stack overflow question.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18603962/javascript-memor...
At this point, I'm either fundamentally screwed up in my design or have some small innocuous looking thing which is eating all of my memory.
Why do we care what he thinks here?
I am a big android fan, but I definitely see differences in quality between Apple products and others. I don't care as much about the polish, though - I like the freedom that android can afford.
But comparing Apple now to Microsoft in their hay day is not original, compelling or even that accurate. I mean, they're still selling computers, true, but the whole space seems pretty different than how it was when Microsoft was dominating... isn't that why Microsoft's in trouble in the first place?
I guess his point is more general - that Microsoft gained market dominance not through making a superior product, but simply by gaining traction and having the largest consumer base - that may be true, but Microsoft allowed a lot of freedom and control over your devices while Apple does not. Furthermore, Android has dominated the market in terms of numbers for a while now and yet Apple is still in the game - presumably due to the quality of their products, not the fact that lots of people use them.
Anyways, I'm probably rambling. My point is simply that Krugman should probably sick to his area of expertise.
Because I've just started messing with javascript, I'm mostly focused on games programming. But more generally, it seems hard to find information about how to write well optimized javascript (especially in terms of memory usage). This could be my problem, though. I get confused by callbacks and knowing when I'm creating objects (especially functions) versus when I'm reusing them. Callbacks are just confusing the hell out of me - specifically inside of something like requestAnimationFrame... how do I prevent new functions from being created every time I use it?
I mean, w3schools is awful for anything but a very quick reference, and while the content on MDN seems to be accurate, it's not very exhaustive and doesn't seem to provide much explanation. Whenever I have a problem with matlab or perl I can go to some great websites or just google my problem to find solutions (and often great explanations) quickly.
For as popular as JS is, I've found it pretty difficult to find good tutorials and resources online for it. I guess I was looking in the wrong places? Google was just failing? My google-fu isn't as good as I think it is? I dunno...
I think this will be a big help and a good resource, so thanks a million.
Why does Java have so many security holes? Is it really worse than any other language, or is it just so ubiquitous that it presents itself as a good target?