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by noahl 13y ago
On his Google+ page, Shuttleworth says There's a big debate on at the moment about whether to adopt historical, insecure-by-design 'standards' into the next generation of cloud server systems. ACPI, and the whole PC
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ACPI, firmware, and your security(markshuttleworth.com)
21 points by noahl 13y ago|3 comments
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by noahl 13y ago
This is interesting because, in contrast to the (many) other discussions of basic income, the author's proposal is to make it run by the Fed, not Congress, and to distribute money on a whenever-the-Fed-wants-to basis, rather than every
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Introducing our New Scopes Technology (Ubuntu)(developer.ubuntu.com)
1 points by noahl 13y ago|0 comments
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by noahl 13y ago
Boom! Headshot! That adds nothing to the discussion and makes it feel more adversarial. It reduces the quality of discussion for no gain. Please don't do that again.
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by noahl 13y ago
I believe the current builds run a (standard?) kernel, with a partial Android userland in an LXC container. I assume the point of this is to access some services that are implemented in Android. They were indeed running Android with Ubuntu
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by noahl 13y ago
Can you expand on this? Any stories or observations?
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by noahl 13y ago
I like the idea of scheme functions to output machine code. If you know scheme, you're probably already familiar with this, but since you say code generation is a mystery, let me recommend SICP ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/
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by noahl 13y ago
The real question here is whether operating systems have been commoditized, and if so, what Microsoft should do about it. It's certainly true that I can get the windows-on-a-desktop paradigm from Windows (pre-8), OS X, or GNOME or KDE
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by noahl 13y ago
The mask registers that can turn off operations on individual elements of a vector reminded me of CUDA. It might be possible to emulate individual "threads" on these pretty easily. Does OpenCL have a similar threading concept? I d
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by noahl 13y ago
First, let me say that I am not an expert on video codecs - I've just worked with VP9 a little. However, here is what I got from that. Video codecs overall use two tricks to reduce video sizes: first, they drop unnecessary information;
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by noahl 13y ago
I believe we should think of Fortran as a domain-specific language for handling multidimensional arrays, rather than a normal programming language. It might be terrible for other things, but it's great for array computations, and that's wha
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by noahl 13y ago
I don't know about 12.04, but display scaling was part of the Ubuntu Touch announcement. Their plan is to stop defining everything in terms of pixels and start working in "grid units", which they will rescale in response to pixel density an
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by noahl 14y ago
It's not directly related to games, but I was very surprised to see their graph of operating system usage. In the last few months (which, admittedly, are not at all typical), their Linux usage increased by 1% every one to two months. At tha
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by noahl 14y ago
I'm not as familiar with this problem as I'd like to be, so please take this with a grain of salt, but maybe you could invite female CS majors from nearby universities to come see your offices? Or better yet, to see what it's like to work w
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by noahl 14y ago
That page for Tokyo looks suspiciously like the internals of a natural language processing system. I can't wait until someone hooks up a probabilistic speech parser to Wikidata. A talking computer with the knowledge of Wikipedia could be in
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by noahl 14y ago
Just at a guess, really really good speech recognition might be a "killer app" for big, vectorized chips. I haven't tried to implement it, though, so I don't know how much power it would really take. Apple and Google seem to do all right wi
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by noahl 14y ago
My interpretation (and apologies if this is obvious to you) is that they will define certain interfaces between the driver and the outside world, and any manufacturer will be able to provide something (a library or a daemon, I guess) that i
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by noahl 14y ago
Interesting point. Thinking it through for myself, it seems important that the money be sent to everyone , not just the unemployed. Otherwise you'd get a weird situation where taking a job might not increase the amount of money you make -
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by noahl 14y ago
I would be interested. However, I would bet that there are plenty of people at Canonical who are even more interested (or do this already, even). Thinking about it now, since their plan is to have the same software run on the laptop and pho
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by noahl 14y ago
I don't, unfortunately. I suppose your best bet would be to install the Ubuntu Touch Preview on the laptop, but I don't know how well it would work. As far as I know, it's only been ported to phones so far, although in theory it should work
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by noahl 14y ago
Yes, it will. This is actually part of their video about it. Their idea is to have one OS that can smoothly scale up and down to different form factors. They show people docking their phone into a tablet shell, a laptop, and a desktop, and
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by noahl 14y ago
What about the Ubuntu Phone? It might also make an offer for your soul, but I think it will let you say no. (Not that we have too much information about it yet.)
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by noahl 14y ago
I do like the idea of people habitually paying for FOSS, but I've wished for a while that there were more of an ecosystem of consulting companies around it. I know of companies that support specific software, but I'm thinking of a full-stac
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by noahl 14y ago
I think madmaze is correct about the difference between "ubuntu" and "ubuntu for phones". You might also be interested to know that Canonical is going to release their "Porting Guide" tomorrow. It looks like they are going to help people po
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by noahl 14y ago
On a related note, it occurred to me that Microsoft is handicapped by their culture of doing big releases and not (publicly?) iterating much in between them. The article makes it sound like Samsung iterates quickly and is very responsive, w
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by noahl 14y ago
What issues would they have with phone-specific apps, other than possibly lacking a microphone and cell plan? If their security model makes the developer list what sensitive APIs (like voice and location) they use, then they already have en
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by noahl 14y ago
They use Qt for mobile apps, but I don't think they use the whole KDE environment. For instance, I really really doubt that the KDE daemons are running, and they aren't using the K* apps either. As for porting, I think they have a consisten
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by noahl 14y ago
Yes, it can run all of the standard desktop apps. The video talks about adding a keyboard and mouse and using it like a desktop. I don't think it mentions whether it can run those apps while being a tablet , though. It's not clear if it'll
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by noahl 14y ago
The only thing I don't like about that is that I wish there was a box I could check that says "I'm buying a Windows laptop, but I'm really planning to run Linux on it. Please keep investing in Linux hardware support for this line of laptops

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