Whoa there, cowboy. GaAs doesn't really make an oxide, and the last thing you want to do to an ingot is bead-blast it. You want to be in a room full of GaAs dust?
How many of them actually intimately use the GNU userland as opposed to Xorg and whatever libc's installed? GNU's an increasingly irrelevant portion of unix and unixlike systems -- most of the actually important userland portions are python, ruby, the aforementioned Xorg, etc.
I actually don't think you are incorrect. GNU is not nearly as big a piece of the puzzle as it used to be. It's just that when most people say "Linux Desktop", the part where they say "Linux" usually means the part that GNU makes up. As far as I know, GNU libc is still by far and away the most popular libc installed on those kinds of systems.
So it was just kind of a snarky joke because the parent said that to be a "Linux Desktop" you had to be able to get ssh running (presumably they meant openssh). And while that's not GNU, GNU is what the vast majority of "Linux Desktops" will use to get you there -- so the implication really was that "Linux Desktop" == "GNU/Linux Desktop".
I thought it was funny, but probably I was being too obscure. Also, I should know better than to dive into politics for no good reason.
Yes, I know what it means and includes. Android, which is one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't use GNU. iOS, which is another one of the biggest unixes right now, doesn't use GNU. Most embedded linuxes don't use GNU. So yes, for the parts of unix which are visible to most people, the gnu parts are not very relevant at all.
While this is true, there is still a unix-like userland typically, at least in the form of busybox or somesuch..
I think there is some value in denoting 'linux the kernel' from 'linux the unix-like system', especially in the face of those systems which mainly use 'linux the kernel' in a non unix-like way, such as here..
e.g.: the 'gnu parts' (e.g. unix-style userland) are hugely important for me in a workstation - I could not do work in a system that doesn't provide the 'gnu(unix) like' user interface. On a phone/consumer/browser device, this is not so much the case
A device using the linux kernel (or Mach kernel in iOS) doesn't make it a "Unix" or "Unix-like" system, despite that same kernel being used in other truly Unix-like systems. The user land (aka GNU in most Linux distros) is what makes it a Unix-like system. That doesn't mean GNU isn't relevant, it means what you considered a "Unix-like" system was overly broad.
This reply is a bit overly pedantic and I apologize, but you kept pushing so I wanted to clarify.
True, but I'm curious to see what the rest of the Threadripper line shakes up to be. The $599 chip only has 28 pcie lanes, which isn't enough to run two gpus at full speed. In comparison, the $300 ivy bridge-e cpu has 40 lanes. Especially with their Zeppelin line, AMD's got a chance to shake up Intel's stagnant IO situation.
Even modern GPUs don't give up a significant number of FPS in games when run in 8x or even 2.0 mode. That's been known for a while. But creating a workstation for high IO around this would be advised to go elsewhere.
The compute stick I was referring to is the BOXSTK2m3W64CC which has a Intel Core m3-6Y30 processor. The RAM is really the issue, 4GB only. I run Kodi on it 99% of the time. If I exit out it is to run Firefox to watch / listen to something that Kodi does not support (XMRadio). Every once in awhile I check and I am hitting swap and Kodi is complaining.
Consultations tend to be relatively inexpensive, and a lot of lawyers in the realm of employment law will work on a contingency basis -- you pay a certain percentage of the settlement/award amount. If you lose, you don't owe the lawyer anything.
Using any sort of device -- be it a phone app that keeps track of random number seeds, or an old school blackjack computer that works via foot taps -- has been illegal for a long while. It makes things no longer a game of chance. Much like how a casino's not allowed to use weighted dice, you're not allowed to use your own probability shifters. Now, if the people that are being discussed were doing this in their head, it wouldn't be illegal. The casinos would be angry at these people, call them mean names, and probably blacklist them, but it wouldn't be a crime. It's only once you add that device to make it something other than a game of chance does it become a crime.
I've worked on a codebase where a jsp app would call an API served by a mod_perl app, which would call a remote API to a c++ app. Technical bankruptcy can and does creep up even in services made in the micro style. They may not be as common now because the microservice trend is fairly recent, but as years go on, I'm betting you're going to see more issues with microservice systems where code done may be using a decade's worth of changing Best Practices.
You just reminded me of one I worked on too, back before the buzzword existed but still a microservice architecture. It was all c# but service1 would call service2 which would call service3 which would call service1. It had all the spaghetti of a monolithic system with 1/10th the debugability and performance (serialization can be relatively expensive).
Yes. There are a bunch of cores, plus SMT. The datasheets for their parts give equivalent performance depending on how many threads you have. XMOS chips are in that category of Neat and Weird, which is perfect for an Amiga type system.
Chromebooks have the advantage of keeping state in the cloud. The other day I started editing a document at the office on my desktop and finished it on the train back home. No need to even think where the document was - it's always available no matter the device I'm on.
Office 365 is kind of the same, I know. We can think of these machines as Office 365 clients just as much as we can think of Chromebooks as Google clients.
But, at least for Chromebooks, you can seamlessly add a fully functional Linux environment.
You have to sign lots of NDAs and other docs, give company details, describe the product you want to develop, just to get a look at the datasheets [1]. To put that in perspective, the datasheets for their latest and greatest processors are very readily available [2]. Thunderbolt is very much an intel only game. I really wish that the PCI-SIG had gotten an open standard for external PCIe out, it would have been rather useful.
