Actually, vfat does support large partitions, windows xp just won't format them by default. There was some workaround which I've forgotten presently, google will help. With ntfs-3g, though, there's little reason to use vfat unless you need to access the disk on macs as well.
I don't know, the EXT2IFS FAQ seems to imply you can mount an ext3 partition as ext3, keeping the journaling, under windows. I guess I'll have to try to see if that's true.
Wait, I just googled up info on this because I have an EXT3 harddrive that I will need to access in Windows soon, and don't want to reformat it to NTFS as it would be a hassle. From what I read, I was under the impression the windows driver already supports ext3. Is that wrong? Crap.
Hm, well, to do the old "over-here-they-do-it-better", over here ballots are counted manually, and the results after a nationwide vote are available withing a few hours of the closing of polls. While I live in a much smalled country than the USA is, I don't think the percentage of people who vote is any higher over there, and thus the amount of vote counters required per capita shouldn't be, either. If it takes weeks, hire more people, or perhaps people who can count, if that is the problem.
I don't remember, actually, since I'm not a US resident.
Over here, the ballots are simpler: There's a circle and you write the number of your candidate in it. Then the votes are counted manually.
Considering how strong the push for voting machines is, you'd think there's something terribly wrong with paper ballots. What is it? To me, they seem to work fine, and knowing the system for counting the votes doesn't let you compromise the impartiality of the system. What benefit do these voting machines offer that justifies the risks?
No no, understanding english or not is beside the point. What the quote actually means is they don't need to understand ANYTHING in order to be able to comply. That's the ideal citizen, isn't it? All compliance, no complaints.
In western countries with representative democracies, we still have the faint hope that we can vote our way to a better government. The chances are pretty damn slim, unless you can find a large body of candidates willing to make some pretty radical reforms, such as abolishing the parliamentary system and moving to a decentralized, actual democracy.
OK, I'll bite.
I bought an Acer Travelmate 7514 laptop this summer, it comes with a 17" display, 2 gigs of ram, 160 gb HD, geforce 7600 go GPU, AMD Turion 64 X2 processor (TL-56), and the usual wi-fi, webcam, integrated sound etc. At the time I was open to buying a mac, but the price was simply prohibitively high. The aforementioned setup cost 900 euros, while the cheapest macbook costs 970, and comes with: 13" display, 60 gb HD, 512 mb ram. The core 2 duo processor is probably about the same, or perhaps slightly better than the AMD in my laptop. But to find a unit with similar specs, the screen size being important to me, I'd have to pay 2500 euros. So while I'm sure the 2500 euro macbook pro has some features my 900 euro Acer lacks, those sure have to be quite some features to justify a 278% price increase.
Your first point doesn't really hold water. What were these people supposedly buying XP "while they can" running before? I don't see Linux people suddenly deciding they need XP because of Vista's arrival, and everyone else will have been running windows on PCs anyway, be it XP or 2000, and the 2000 crowd tend to be the type who made a conscious choice to stick to that OS instead of XP. I guess if someone somewhere was running Windows 95 or something on a PC capable of running XP, they might buy XP while they still can.
Not really, it just means that most people use computers they bought before Vista came out. 78% is not so much when you consider that the majority of PCs sold come with Vista.
I just got a laptop for the first time ever, and I'm surprised how much I can do with it. The only thing it doesn't quite shine at is games, since the GPU, although pretty good, is not able to compete with high-end models. The TFT also isn't that great, to be honest, compared to my 21" dual trinitron CRTs. Bearing these points in mind, it's premature to predict the demise of the desktop in the near future, although office workers and even a lot of designer types will be able to make do with a good laptop just fine. The cost of a high-end laptop compared to a high-end desktop is pretty high, though.
The more forbidden "bad" words are, the more powerful they become. Shouting "INTERCOURSE!" just doesn't quite have the same effect. If cursing wasn't frowned upon, no-one would bother.
And, I would contend, the moment someone is able to manipulate the market in a way that gives them more wealth than others, the market ceases to be free.
It's not unthinkable that a free market is, simply put, impossible to have.
A free market is one where every transaction is entirely voluntary, and conducted between equal parties, neither of which has privileges that give them an edge over the other trading party. No system that results in "the wealthy screwing the poor" can be a free market.
The bar has been lowered on what the law considers "bad shit". To me, the parent's first paragraph sounds like a solid argument FOR strong cryptographic measures, not against them. It's very difficult for an individual to change a cultural problem, but much simpler to defend against it with technology.
Seems to me like the responsibility for the functioning of a product should fall upon the distributor. Of course, you could ask if Sony is suing more for the money or as a PR measure to try to shrug off some of the blame for the whole debacle.
Hmh, I have a system that operates Photoshop very well (dual-core Athlon 64@ 1.8ghz, 2 gigabytes of ram), but Gimp paint tools crawl on it. Same on other computers with perfectly reasonable specs I've tried it with. I never tried the windows version though, so I can't say how well that performs.
Technology does not render our Rights "obsolete". Just because the government "can" spy on us doesn't mean that we have to give them permission to do it. No, but do you expect them to stop doing it if you ask them to? Our societies are very much hierarchical, we DO have a clear ruling class, and they do things as they please. Your chances at having privacy are directly dictated by your ability to make it difficult or impossible to watch your actions. Governments can't be trusted not to use technology available to them - they have well-established branches whose very job is precisely to conduct surveillance in secret, and if you think the distinction between foreign and domestic threats to their power makes any difference to them, think a bit harder.
Who cares about the interface, the performance sucks. Try painting long strokes with a brush over 100 pixels in size. I hope you enjoy waiting for strokes to finish rendering. At 200 pixels and above it gets really ridiculous. I filed a bug report on this some time ago, and the response was that if they could make it faster, they would have done so already.
Promising.
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Actually, vfat does support large partitions, windows xp just won't format them by default. There was some workaround which I've forgotten presently, google will help. With ntfs-3g, though, there's little reason to use vfat unless you need to access the disk on macs as well.
Well, vfat doesn't support files bigger than 4 gigs... Like DVD images.
I don't know, the EXT2IFS FAQ seems to imply you can mount an ext3 partition as ext3, keeping the journaling, under windows. I guess I'll have to try to see if that's true.
Wait, I just googled up info on this because I have an EXT3 harddrive that I will need to access in Windows soon, and don't want to reformat it to NTFS as it would be a hassle. From what I read, I was under the impression the windows driver already supports ext3. Is that wrong? Crap.
Hm, well, to do the old "over-here-they-do-it-better", over here ballots are counted manually, and the results after a nationwide vote are available withing a few hours of the closing of polls. While I live in a much smalled country than the USA is, I don't think the percentage of people who vote is any higher over there, and thus the amount of vote counters required per capita shouldn't be, either. If it takes weeks, hire more people, or perhaps people who can count, if that is the problem.
I don't remember, actually, since I'm not a US resident. Over here, the ballots are simpler: There's a circle and you write the number of your candidate in it. Then the votes are counted manually.
Considering how strong the push for voting machines is, you'd think there's something terribly wrong with paper ballots. What is it? To me, they seem to work fine, and knowing the system for counting the votes doesn't let you compromise the impartiality of the system. What benefit do these voting machines offer that justifies the risks?
No no, understanding english or not is beside the point. What the quote actually means is they don't need to understand ANYTHING in order to be able to comply. That's the ideal citizen, isn't it? All compliance, no complaints.
I guess that should be a 178% price increase, not 278. I blame the flu.
OK, I'll bite. I bought an Acer Travelmate 7514 laptop this summer, it comes with a 17" display, 2 gigs of ram, 160 gb HD, geforce 7600 go GPU, AMD Turion 64 X2 processor (TL-56), and the usual wi-fi, webcam, integrated sound etc. At the time I was open to buying a mac, but the price was simply prohibitively high. The aforementioned setup cost 900 euros, while the cheapest macbook costs 970, and comes with: 13" display, 60 gb HD, 512 mb ram. The core 2 duo processor is probably about the same, or perhaps slightly better than the AMD in my laptop. But to find a unit with similar specs, the screen size being important to me, I'd have to pay 2500 euros. So while I'm sure the 2500 euro macbook pro has some features my 900 euro Acer lacks, those sure have to be quite some features to justify a 278% price increase.
I refuse to use an OS that won't let me turn off mouse acceleration.
OK, enough nitpicking from me for today.
True enough, but that's more akin to the grandparent's point #2. Point #1 seemed to imply people "stocking up" while they still can.
Your first point doesn't really hold water. What were these people supposedly buying XP "while they can" running before? I don't see Linux people suddenly deciding they need XP because of Vista's arrival, and everyone else will have been running windows on PCs anyway, be it XP or 2000, and the 2000 crowd tend to be the type who made a conscious choice to stick to that OS instead of XP. I guess if someone somewhere was running Windows 95 or something on a PC capable of running XP, they might buy XP while they still can.
Not really, it just means that most people use computers they bought before Vista came out. 78% is not so much when you consider that the majority of PCs sold come with Vista.
I just got a laptop for the first time ever, and I'm surprised how much I can do with it. The only thing it doesn't quite shine at is games, since the GPU, although pretty good, is not able to compete with high-end models. The TFT also isn't that great, to be honest, compared to my 21" dual trinitron CRTs. Bearing these points in mind, it's premature to predict the demise of the desktop in the near future, although office workers and even a lot of designer types will be able to make do with a good laptop just fine. The cost of a high-end laptop compared to a high-end desktop is pretty high, though.
The more forbidden "bad" words are, the more powerful they become. Shouting "INTERCOURSE!" just doesn't quite have the same effect. If cursing wasn't frowned upon, no-one would bother.
And, I would contend, the moment someone is able to manipulate the market in a way that gives them more wealth than others, the market ceases to be free. It's not unthinkable that a free market is, simply put, impossible to have.
A free market is one where every transaction is entirely voluntary, and conducted between equal parties, neither of which has privileges that give them an edge over the other trading party. No system that results in "the wealthy screwing the poor" can be a free market.
Seems to me like the responsibility for the functioning of a product should fall upon the distributor. Of course, you could ask if Sony is suing more for the money or as a PR measure to try to shrug off some of the blame for the whole debacle.
Hmh, I have a system that operates Photoshop very well (dual-core Athlon 64@ 1.8ghz, 2 gigabytes of ram), but Gimp paint tools crawl on it. Same on other computers with perfectly reasonable specs I've tried it with. I never tried the windows version though, so I can't say how well that performs.
Who cares about the interface, the performance sucks. Try painting long strokes with a brush over 100 pixels in size. I hope you enjoy waiting for strokes to finish rendering. At 200 pixels and above it gets really ridiculous. I filed a bug report on this some time ago, and the response was that if they could make it faster, they would have done so already. Promising.