Posts by asdf 6570 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2007
>Microsoft had Sinovsky, Linux has Poettering.
Had being the key word. Even the dinosaur Microsoft figured out Win8 was a butt fumble almost immediately and got rid of the reason and have been slowly recovering since. Poettering on the other hand is still around fucking Linux up mainly because Red Hat benefits from most OSS becoming one monolithic Linux only hairball.
>The guess was that they might be talking about having Xiaomi build some Windows phones.
Probably not. The new Microsoft CEO actually cares about profit. They were probably discussing patent licensing on Android (vfat actually) after all which very much unlike windows phone is pure profit for Microsoft.
I was thinking of particularly of Ruby on Rails and while the language is not web only it might as well be. Still honestly my age is showing some but not a lot in the webbie domain strikes me as particularly elegant. It often seems like an ever more high level technology/framework/language flavor of the week, exclusively RAD focused, charlie foxtrot used by millennial hipsters designers (not developers) who don't even understand the levels upon levels of software they are using above the bare metal.
>updates often don't just fix know problems, but include additions and features
Maybe I am missing something but I thought that is the whole reason you pay RH big bucks (to push systemd but I digress) is so you get the security bug fixes without new features if you so choose. Yes bug fixes often come with their own risks and even sometimes open yet new security holes (especially it seems like in Windows land) but that is why companies pay for many of the IT pros reading this to test those fixes first before deployment.
Yes yes but honestly they purposely set expectations very low on the "supposed" life of the rovers in case they did go tits up early in the mission. After that whole billion dollar Mars satellite metric to standard conversion beyond epic fail they have been careful to do that for Mars missions. Still a decade is pretty impressive.
Once udev became dependent on systemd it was all gravy for Red Hat. The more OSS that is Linux only the better after all. Just watch those dependencies pile up. As soon as dbus gets into kernel space in most distros the GPL can pretty much be ignored as well. Good times for Red Hat ahead by cashing in other's work so blatantly even Google is jealous.
>So all that's important is to be able to spray as much random lead down range as possible in the hope that something gets hit or keeps their head down.
Often the keeps head down is the most important thing for many roles (not everyone gets to be Rambo). My dad was medievac in Vietnam and if they actually hit enemy soldiers they often had to fly back under fire to pick them up. He did things like use a Thompson machine gun but loaded with a certain percentage of tracer rounds to match that of a M60 firing one every 5 just to keep heads down while they picked up the wounded. He said he was also a real big fan of grenade launcher with smoke.
Truly the only thing I remember/know about 7mm was remembering in the hunter safety class materials how they had just about the longest accidental kill range (ie. shoot up in air randomly) of any major common hunting rifle. Don't remember exactly but want to say it was 5 miles or something ridiculous like that.
>Unless you want to give me some real life examples...
It was said tongue in cheek but if you want some examples there are plenty of examples of one party waiting until right before an election to drop a bomb shell concerning embarrassing private information about a candidate from another party. Mark Foley being a more recent example. Granted you don't always know how they come about the information but been plenty of shenanigans done inside government over the years including the Pentagon papers (black balling), Watergate, Iran Contra, and even the whole silly Monica Lewinsky business (on both sides). The ultimate example though of the CIA and intelligence apparatus bringing down a president was when they got pissed at Carter and arranged for the Iranians to bargain directly with Reagan to not release the hostages until after he was elected. Granted though Carter wasn't winning that election anyway.
>That is some of America's finest boring wasteland you had to drive through.
Would much rather drive through it than Jersey. Less smog and get to see more than urban decline and the guy in front of you's bumper stickers. Also I think you are thinking more of Kansas, Nebraska or Oklahoma than the mountain west.
In my experience foundries tend to only be a really viable option if you are an 800lb gorilla with massive orders (obviously Apple) or the stuff you are ordering is hardly time sensitive at all. The issue tends to be consumer demand hits all at once for everyone and the little guys are naturally at the back of the line. There are other issues as well but needless to say its not surprising even in the first world how many little 200mm mom and pop fabs are still around due to it being hideous expensive to build a new fab and foundries at times being mirages. Also a remarkable amount of the semiconductors today are still fabbed at above a micron process (granted not so much in phone SoC though).
> C and C++ are still slower than writing in assembly anyway.
May have been true in the early 1990s but unless you are Rainman a modern compiler is going to own your ass efficiency wise for all but the most trivial of programs (assuming of course the C/C++ code is well written) especially with all the constant extensions to virtually every modern instruction set.
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