Don't need luck, mate. I'm typing on one now. There's another at home. Sure the OS is six months old (I haven't bothered with a dist upgrade) but it's 2008, plays nearly everything, even let me download and preserve the entire content from a DRM-ladened iPod which was screwing up.
Oh, and it can't access iTunes, but then, who gives a shit?
Speaking of trolling, I'm amazed that this story isn't tagged troll - it definitely paints Apple in a bad light.
Hmmm. The old "I don't know everything about everything, therefore I don't care if I don't know everything about something" argument. Gets 'em every time..
Bollocks. The argument that 40 years of sonar use had not shown any problems would be thrown out by any reasonable scientific study. It's like saying it is impossible for humans to fly based on a thousand years of history. Stupid stupid stupid, as is to be expected from the outgoing administration.
Active sonar really fucks with whales. Others have posted above about evidence, but as you don't get it, hear it is in simpleton terms: Try driving a car at night with someone flashing multi coloured strobing lights in your eyes. You reckon you're no less likely to crash? Why do they make such a big deal about laser pointers being beamed at aircraft?
Maybe you think that the Navy is more important than whales, but I'm not American, so I don't give a shit about your paranoia or your need to flex muscle at no one in particular. Just because environmentalists are against it too does not mean it is automatically bad science, you primitive oaf.
One of the chief responsibilities the government has is to protect its people
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm also not a religonut, but one thing I thing humans have sadly lost in the age of reason, with the loss of real old style religion instead of the nutjob variety infect large amounts of the US and Middle East today, is the sense of guardianship of nature. This idea that the governments responsibility to maintain a threat to other nations is higher than the human responsibility to look after the natural world makes us look more primitive than hunter gatherers, IMO.
If we are guardians, we are the kind that rape and beat their charges so we can look tough to our neighbours. Base and primitive.
I was agreeing with the mods, thinking you're just a Troll. Then I read this:
This appears to be an exterior combustion engine (no spark plug, pistons, etc) - for lack of a better word - and will increase the difficulty of clean burning beyond the impossible to mearly fantasy.
You really haven't a fucking clue, have you? So I'm assuming you really are just ignorant. I won't bother posting links that others have already posted above, but I will try to help you to get a little educated: Stirling engines have pistons and external combustion engines are significantly easier to make clean than internal combustion.
It turned out that result of their grand experiment was the most prosperous nation on earth, which ended up having a natural aversion to communism, monarchy, theocracy and fascism, all of which are now relegated to the garbage can of history.
I'll accept communism and monarchy, but the US has definite fascist and theocratic undertones. The Bush administration has shown that neo-conservatism is really just fascism++, as evidenced by wonderful legislation like the patriot act.
The power that religious groups wield, the abortion debate, same sex marriage, etc, are indicators of the theocratic elements - the large demographic that believes that their religious dogma should be enshrined in law. Even the fact that "In God we trust" appears on stamps.
I'm certainly not saying the entire population of the US are fascist/religious nut jobs, but there certainly are represented well enough to destroy any claim to a "natural aversion".
But you'd expect almost exactly 50% performance drop in I/O-bound benchmarks if the CPU and FSB were throttled to half speed...
That's exactly what I get on my lappy.
An easy thing to do to test this kind of issue is install Ubuntu-Tweak which gives you, amongst other things, an easy way to adjust power management on the fly. Set the power slider down and the policy to power save and encode something. Then set the slider up and the policy to "power" and encode the same thing, observing the cpu temp suddenly sky rocket.
I tend to set the policy to on demand - giving me good performance when I need it but also maximising power savings. Sometimes when I need to do something intensive, I turn things up. Gotta love that tool.
That means that, if you're familiar with the old system, you will have to learn the new system in order to use it -- just like you once had to learn the old system. This does not mean it's a bad system.
Quite true. That does not mean it's a bad system, there are lots of other reasons for that.
So while everyone has to learn a new system, why not learn Linux? Most distros have more frequent and timely updates, plenty of online help available for free, no built in DRM schemes, you can install it on as many machines as you want, you don't have to pay license fees and the two major desktop environments, the browser, email client chat and office suites are really easy to use. Seriously, if everyone is forced to learn a new UI isn't it a perfect time to save a crap load of money?
They won't let you. This is the reason GPLv3 is important.
Unfortunately, this is the reason GPLv3 software will not find its way on these devices. Companies are control freaks because their primary motivation is monetary profit.
gave it up for something that provided me with an obfuscated version of the old GUI with added non-functional bloated eye candy and a massive amount of commercial software
There, fixed that for ya. By the way, I run Vista too and IMO it is the most god awful POS ever written. And the modern interface has nothing new to it. There are no productivity boosts in the "modern desktop" environment of which you speak, just expensive (in system requirements and power consumption) eye candy.
Befunge. I have nearly finished work on Enterprise Micro Funge 7.5 (the first official release), a concurrent funge with a network stack which has as one of its myriad of features the ability to pull an svg document out of a SOAP container which defines the funge space. This allows your messages to be the actual code you run, while maintaining excellent code visualization you'd expect from a world class funge. I'm this far off getting it self hosting.
I know this isn't a popular approach aroud here, but I'm reluctant to open source this one. I think I'm onto a winner, even though I'm currently having a little trouble getting it past management, and I do want to strike it rich in computers. If I can just make the business case for the switch attractive enough, what would have been a 2 hour job in any other modern language will stretch out to 2 years! You can't get more Enterprisey than that!
You are honestly trying to claim that drunks have excellent reaction times? Really?
According to a study done at Monash University, you know, like controlled and scientific rather than "in my extensive experience", they have good reaction times, very close to when they are sober. Unless they are really hammered of course.
The thing that makes drink driving dangerous is the inappropriate and exaggerated reactions, as well as the false sense of confidence, not the time it takes to react. And before you half-read my response, poorly reinterpret a quote from me, and put forward another bullshit piece of rhetoric, I am not saying that drink driving is safe.
Most things in live(sic) are counter intuitive?
I didn't post that. In most things in nature there are counter intuitive elements. That is not to say that everything in life is counter intuitive. Elvis Presley is dead, but not all of the class of dead people is Elvis Presley. Hope this logic lesson helps.
The first link cites studies while disagreeing with them and uses statistical fallacy to downplay the risk of mobile phone usage. It suggests that because alcohol stays in your blood while phone calls will end, the cumulative risk from alcohol is greater. While this is true, cumulative risk is irrelevant in the split second when something unexpected happens.
It's interesting that the first article I linked to is written by the CEO of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association and uses a number of arguments similar in nature to the ones that the tobacco industry used to use regarding the dangers of smoking. Well done for spotting that it disagrees with my point, but you missed the point.
I have not said that drink driving laws should be relaxed, I'm just saying people who use mobile phones while driving are culpable and those laws should be tightened, regardless of how safe people think they are.
Shit, there are so many examples of peoples brains tricking them into false sense of security. Alcohol does it, being sober on a mobile phone does it, turning up the stereo when a pumping tune comes on the radio does it, driving in conditions with low contrast make people feel like they are driving slower than high contrast so they drive quicker and have pile ups, all because of neurological tricks. These things are all real and even if you don't support toughening the laws where they can be toughened, please don't fool yourself that you are safe while driving and on the phone. That is sheer idiocy.
Nah, I do buy it. I'm not stupid enough to say, "Hey, that research which points to a truth I personally find uncomfortable must be funded by people I disagree with," just because I find it uncomfortable.
There are related studies that have looked at the difference in brain activity between people involved in a conversation and people concentrating on other visual stimuli that show that important motor skills can suffer when people are chatting.
There are also studies that show that smoking pot is more of a danger than alcohol because drunks have excellent reaction times but their reactions are poorly controlled. Pot heads do everything more slowly and appear more careful, but as soon as something unexpected happens, they tend to go "Wow, I'm freaking out" and then smash.
Like most things in life there is a counter intuitive element to road safety. It's not that the alcohol related laws are too strict, it's just that the laws relating to mobile phones need to be stricter and policed a lot better. Uncomfortable and unpopular for some, but it appears to be true given that most of the evidence supports it.
And for what it's worth, it's not incredibly difficult to talk on the phone while driving -- or to ignore it. I'm sure drunk driving is a much bigger problem.
Nope. Common misconception and just plain wrong
The reactions of drivers on phone calls areworsethan the reactions of drunk drivers. Check those links, or use google, you'll find a mass of studies supporting this.
So if you are someone who thinks it's okay to drive while on the phone, please turn in you license and refrain from driving at all.
Good thing there's a passenger mode and you can basically opt out. I have hands free in the car and I find it useful to take the occasional call, so I wouldn't use this in a car.
Motorbikes are different. I'd definitely use something like this eliminate the distraction of the phone ringing or buzzing when riding.
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I actually find that with macs. The desktop hurts me and I tend to want to do things in a terminal. Gnome is a happy place for me.
Don't need luck, mate. I'm typing on one now. There's another at home. Sure the OS is six months old (I haven't bothered with a dist upgrade) but it's 2008, plays nearly everything, even let me download and preserve the entire content from a DRM-ladened iPod which was screwing up.
Oh, and it can't access iTunes, but then, who gives a shit?
Speaking of trolling, I'm amazed that this story isn't tagged troll - it definitely paints Apple in a bad light.
Hmmm. The old "I don't know everything about everything, therefore I don't care if I don't know everything about something" argument. Gets 'em every time..
Bollocks. The argument that 40 years of sonar use had not shown any problems would be thrown out by any reasonable scientific study. It's like saying it is impossible for humans to fly based on a thousand years of history. Stupid stupid stupid, as is to be expected from the outgoing administration.
Active sonar really fucks with whales. Others have posted above about evidence, but as you don't get it, hear it is in simpleton terms: Try driving a car at night with someone flashing multi coloured strobing lights in your eyes. You reckon you're no less likely to crash? Why do they make such a big deal about laser pointers being beamed at aircraft?
Maybe you think that the Navy is more important than whales, but I'm not American, so I don't give a shit about your paranoia or your need to flex muscle at no one in particular. Just because environmentalists are against it too does not mean it is automatically bad science, you primitive oaf.
I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm also not a religonut, but one thing I thing humans have sadly lost in the age of reason, with the loss of real old style religion instead of the nutjob variety infect large amounts of the US and Middle East today, is the sense of guardianship of nature. This idea that the governments responsibility to maintain a threat to other nations is higher than the human responsibility to look after the natural world makes us look more primitive than hunter gatherers, IMO.
If we are guardians, we are the kind that rape and beat their charges so we can look tough to our neighbours. Base and primitive.
I was agreeing with the mods, thinking you're just a Troll. Then I read this:
You really haven't a fucking clue, have you? So I'm assuming you really are just ignorant. I won't bother posting links that others have already posted above, but I will try to help you to get a little educated: Stirling engines have pistons and external combustion engines are significantly easier to make clean than internal combustion.
I'll accept communism and monarchy, but the US has definite fascist and theocratic undertones. The Bush administration has shown that neo-conservatism is really just fascism++, as evidenced by wonderful legislation like the patriot act.
The power that religious groups wield, the abortion debate, same sex marriage, etc, are indicators of the theocratic elements - the large demographic that believes that their religious dogma should be enshrined in law. Even the fact that "In God we trust" appears on stamps.
I'm certainly not saying the entire population of the US are fascist/religious nut jobs, but there certainly are represented well enough to destroy any claim to a "natural aversion".
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So it is not the most common, but it is fairly common.
That's exactly what I get on my lappy.
An easy thing to do to test this kind of issue is install Ubuntu-Tweak which gives you, amongst other things, an easy way to adjust power management on the fly. Set the power slider down and the policy to power save and encode something. Then set the slider up and the policy to "power" and encode the same thing, observing the cpu temp suddenly sky rocket.
I tend to set the policy to on demand - giving me good performance when I need it but also maximising power savings. Sometimes when I need to do something intensive, I turn things up. Gotta love that tool.
Quite true. That does not mean it's a bad system, there are lots of other reasons for that.
So while everyone has to learn a new system, why not learn Linux? Most distros have more frequent and timely updates, plenty of online help available for free, no built in DRM schemes, you can install it on as many machines as you want, you don't have to pay license fees and the two major desktop environments, the browser, email client chat and office suites are really easy to use. Seriously, if everyone is forced to learn a new UI isn't it a perfect time to save a crap load of money?
I don't get why they're called white holes. They're usually pink.
Unfortunately, this is the reason GPLv3 software will not find its way on these devices. Companies are control freaks because their primary motivation is monetary profit.
There, fixed that for ya. By the way, I run Vista too and IMO it is the most god awful POS ever written. And the modern interface has nothing new to it. There are no productivity boosts in the "modern desktop" environment of which you speak, just expensive (in system requirements and power consumption) eye candy.
Nah. They learned some lessons and had perfected a few things by the late 1800s.
Befunge. I have nearly finished work on Enterprise Micro Funge 7.5 (the first official release), a concurrent funge with a network stack which has as one of its myriad of features the ability to pull an svg document out of a SOAP container which defines the funge space. This allows your messages to be the actual code you run, while maintaining excellent code visualization you'd expect from a world class funge. I'm this far off getting it self hosting.
I know this isn't a popular approach aroud here, but I'm reluctant to open source this one. I think I'm onto a winner, even though I'm currently having a little trouble getting it past management, and I do want to strike it rich in computers. If I can just make the business case for the switch attractive enough, what would have been a 2 hour job in any other modern language will stretch out to 2 years! You can't get more Enterprisey than that!
According to a study done at Monash University, you know, like controlled and scientific rather than "in my extensive experience", they have good reaction times, very close to when they are sober. Unless they are really hammered of course.
The thing that makes drink driving dangerous is the inappropriate and exaggerated reactions, as well as the false sense of confidence, not the time it takes to react. And before you half-read my response, poorly reinterpret a quote from me, and put forward another bullshit piece of rhetoric, I am not saying that drink driving is safe.
I didn't post that. In most things in nature there are counter intuitive elements. That is not to say that everything in life is counter intuitive. Elvis Presley is dead, but not all of the class of dead people is Elvis Presley. Hope this logic lesson helps.
The first link cites studies while disagreeing with them and uses statistical fallacy to downplay the risk of mobile phone usage. It suggests that because alcohol stays in your blood while phone calls will end, the cumulative risk from alcohol is greater. While this is true, cumulative risk is irrelevant in the split second when something unexpected happens.
It's interesting that the first article I linked to is written by the CEO of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association and uses a number of arguments similar in nature to the ones that the tobacco industry used to use regarding the dangers of smoking. Well done for spotting that it disagrees with my point, but you missed the point.
I have not said that drink driving laws should be relaxed, I'm just saying people who use mobile phones while driving are culpable and those laws should be tightened, regardless of how safe people think they are.
Shit, there are so many examples of peoples brains tricking them into false sense of security. Alcohol does it, being sober on a mobile phone does it, turning up the stereo when a pumping tune comes on the radio does it, driving in conditions with low contrast make people feel like they are driving slower than high contrast so they drive quicker and have pile ups, all because of neurological tricks. These things are all real and even if you don't support toughening the laws where they can be toughened, please don't fool yourself that you are safe while driving and on the phone. That is sheer idiocy.
Nah, I do buy it. I'm not stupid enough to say, "Hey, that research which points to a truth I personally find uncomfortable must be funded by people I disagree with," just because I find it uncomfortable.
There are related studies that have looked at the difference in brain activity between people involved in a conversation and people concentrating on other visual stimuli that show that important motor skills can suffer when people are chatting.
There are also studies that show that smoking pot is more of a danger than alcohol because drunks have excellent reaction times but their reactions are poorly controlled. Pot heads do everything more slowly and appear more careful, but as soon as something unexpected happens, they tend to go "Wow, I'm freaking out" and then smash.
Like most things in life there is a counter intuitive element to road safety. It's not that the alcohol related laws are too strict, it's just that the laws relating to mobile phones need to be stricter and policed a lot better. Uncomfortable and unpopular for some, but it appears to be true given that most of the evidence supports it.
Q: Why is it impossible to identify a corpse at a banjo festival?
A: There are no dental records and the DNA is all the same.
Nope. Common misconception and just plain wrong
The reactions of drivers on phone calls are worse than the reactions of drunk drivers. Check those links, or use google, you'll find a mass of studies supporting this.
So if you are someone who thinks it's okay to drive while on the phone, please turn in you license and refrain from driving at all.
Good thing there's a passenger mode and you can basically opt out. I have hands free in the car and I find it useful to take the occasional call, so I wouldn't use this in a car.
Motorbikes are different. I'd definitely use something like this eliminate the distraction of the phone ringing or buzzing when riding.
You used that word in the context of an Australian airline.
I don't think you know what that word means.
That is will been destroyed in the time war. So nothing is stopped him from about to post that.
That's pretty old now, and was crappy at the time. You really should look at upgrading to OSX. The discussion at hand is about Linux kernels though.
That's my experience too. In fact it's so flasless, I wouldn't even know a flas if I saw one.
My Ubuntu laptop suspends and hibernates just fine. It never wakes up from hibernate, but it gets there perfectly... and without flas.