If it halves every two years when do you think we will hit Planck?
The current number of atoms in a (2D chip) is... whatever. If that doubles every two years after Planck scale is reached (for 3D) how long do you think it takes to consume whole Earth?
I think your "far" future is far closer than you think.
Seriously, those screenshots makes me want to puke.
I know there are very few who dislike distractions like animations, etc. For me Compiz is PITA.
Even the "less candy" setting in Ubuntu 8.04 is a bit annoying. Unfortunately it seems there is no way to enable transparency and still get exactly zero animations - when I minimise a program I bloody hell know I minimised it because the window disappeared, I do not need more visual feedback. The "wobbly windows" setting seems to be designed for people who use computers instead of the applications.
But if you accept property owning as a social contract you immediately have to acknowledge the social aspect. That is, pollution prevention, taxes, etc.
Packing UTF-8 to ASCII loses the appeal of flat file completely as it is no longer editable by text editors (UTF-7, thank god, is not used anywhere).
The engine uses the high bit for something so the change might be big (I have not checked the code and therefore have no clue). Anyway I personally have no need for the engine so I will not bother the author with superfluous requests.
Apple's machines aren't ridiculously priced. They are, at least in Finland. "Cheapo" laptop is around 500, "high performance" is about 800. Apple is 1200.
When the RISC was "invented" the CPU was the bottleneck. Therefore making it simpler could make it faster (MHz, pipeline,...) and that way speed up the computation.
This is no longer true, now the bottleneck is memory.
You are implying changing from one distro to another just because some not-so-frequent bug makes sense.
It does not.
Besides, the distros make their versions, but the _base_ is the same, like same libraries. Why would there be different libraries, unless some distro wants to get less testing?
Releasing after others makes the extremely dubious assumption that the others cannot fix problems.
better to have only one distro get hit with it Is it? If it hits all distros then 1. it is more likely be promptly fixed. Ditto for security 2. they are less likely (as the same version gets much more testing). Ditto for security. 3. easier to make a workaround as you do not need to make three different ones, just one for all distros. Ditto for security. 4. Development is faster as there is less need to make (urgent) fixes - all distros use the same version.
Security by obscurity really does not work. Especially not anymore as there are targeted attacks.
Political pressure to adopt release schedules doesn't necessary mean the actual software gets finished any faster. Faster is exactly what this is NOT about.
It is about planning ahead. Mozilla team could have planned the 3.0 release date few years ago.
Planning is one of the worst handled things in OSS, "it is ready when it is ready". That, my friend, is an insult to the customers (users).
This does not make it easier for proprietary developers only, it makes things easier for every developer. "I know that lib xyzzy will be v. 1.2.3 in every distro so I'll build my exe against it" isntead of "sorry, you cannot build this because your distro has 1.2.2" (and yes, that has happened to me far too often).
P.S. I'd like to hear about those magical "methods" that allow to pursue constantly changing target.
DVB drivers - some of the cards require compiling from (latest) source. Webcam - exactly the same. WLAN - the same. NVidia - OK, no sources but the end effect is the same.
The problem: after that every single update to the kernel is going to break your computer badly. And that happens several times a year.
Compare this to OSX/OpenSolaris/Windows/...
The situation is extremely unlikely to change in the near future.
[...] is not judging people. It's taking a stand on actions. I have never, ever, seen any difference in those in practice. And it includes every known (to me) religion, moral, political view, and so on. I am absolutely certain that gay people cannot live among mormons without being judged. And again, do not take this too much as a negative against mormons as there are huge number of other religions, "morals", etc. which do the same.
The truth, however, is that the gay are not gay because of sin/whatnot or even by choice. They just are gay - just like you(?) and me are straight. No "reason". No (need to) cure.
Trying to stop gays having sex by making the action a sin is (to me) as ridiculous as trying to stop gravity by making falling a sin. Unfortunately making an action a sin will create judgement from "non-sinners" in practice.
I know we will not get into consensus here (you cannot accept that this is wrong with your religion - I cannot accept what happens in practice is not important). So I think it is pointless to continue this argument.
Mormonism simply holds that homosexual relations are a sin. This isn't persecution I respectfully, but strongly, disagree. If declaring a person as a sinner is not a form of persecution then what is.
But that was offtopic. More to the point: it is impossible to argue against some of the atheists as they seek to find anything to "prove" their essentially-a-religion. But still they cannot tell where their "free will" comes.
BTW: I am an atheist. However I do not know whether I do have free will or is "everything written" (as quantum mechanical equations or whatnot).
people do what they can Like mug elderly. Or go to other countries for a kill.
I refuse to judge their choices as long as they act humane. War is never humane.
you only get to abhor the war as much when you've actually participated in one. Are you claiming it is not enough that my parents had to live in one? Or to know how the war "works"?
Am I not allowed to abhor natural disasters as I have not been in any?
If they are stupid enough to enlist just to finance, well they do not deserve my "tolerance".
Slashdot Mirror
Actually Finnish law required that.
According to Finnish law e-mail has very high level of privacy protection.
So in order not to break Finnish law they were practically forced to move the servers to Finland as they could not guarantee e-mail privacy otherwise.
Blah.
... whatever. If that doubles every two years after Planck scale is reached (for 3D) how long do you think it takes to consume whole Earth?
The current chip line size is about 35nM.
If it halves every two years when do you think we will hit Planck?
The current number of atoms in a (2D chip) is
I think your "far" future is far closer than you think.
I bet you live on a place where 0 degree Celsius is not common.
Knowing whether temperature is above or below (or near) zero does have a huge impact in my life.
I went to public school, in Finland:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PISA#Results
It is very hard for me to believe private school (check UK on the list) will solve the problems.
No, I do not know why we are on top.
The knowledge that you cannot control the entire Internet to your whim makes me happy (i.e. there always will be shaping).
The grocery store analogy sucks even more than a car analogy would (highway & cars).
At least I have not seen a good repository browser or HTML interface to e.g. Subversion.
But you must tell me how on earth you have gotten the Sharepoint to work "great", even on IE. I hate the shit.
Seriously, those screenshots makes me want to puke.
I know there are very few who dislike distractions like animations, etc. For me Compiz is PITA.
Even the "less candy" setting in Ubuntu 8.04 is a bit annoying. Unfortunately it seems there is no way to enable transparency and still get exactly zero animations - when I minimise a program I bloody hell know I minimised it because the window disappeared, I do not need more visual feedback. The "wobbly windows" setting seems to be designed for people who use computers instead of the applications.
Sure.
But if you accept property owning as a social contract you immediately have to acknowledge the social aspect. That is, pollution prevention, taxes, etc.
Unless you want to "freeload".
Packing UTF-8 to ASCII loses the appeal of flat file completely as it is no longer editable by text editors (UTF-7, thank god, is not used anywhere).
The engine uses the high bit for something so the change might be big (I have not checked the code and therefore have no clue). Anyway I personally have no need for the engine so I will not bother the author with superfluous requests.
dbtxt can only handle ASCII (<128 so even ISO-8859-1, etc. are no-no). This can be killer (it is for me).
Other than that the dbtxt looks very nice indeed.
When the RISC was "invented" the CPU was the bottleneck. Therefore making it simpler could make it faster (MHz, pipeline, ...) and that way speed up the computation.
This is no longer true, now the bottleneck is memory.
I doubt 1080p, I have not seen that much offloading from graphics processor. But then there's a lot I haven't seen :-)
Besides, it has a fan and has no optical sound output.
The ombudsman (official for consumer's rights) have given "ruling" that computer manufacturers are not required to sell bare-bones computers.
Whether you can get a refund
You are implying changing from one distro to another just because some not-so-frequent bug makes sense.
It does not.
Besides, the distros make their versions, but the _base_ is the same, like same libraries. Why would there be different libraries, unless some distro wants to get less testing?
Releasing after others makes the extremely dubious assumption that the others cannot fix problems.
1. it is more likely be promptly fixed. Ditto for security
2. they are less likely (as the same version gets much more testing). Ditto for security.
3. easier to make a workaround as you do not need to make three different ones, just one for all distros. Ditto for security.
4. Development is faster as there is less need to make (urgent) fixes - all distros use the same version.
Security by obscurity really does not work. Especially not anymore as there are targeted attacks.
It is about planning ahead. Mozilla team could have planned the 3.0 release date few years ago.
Planning is one of the worst handled things in OSS, "it is ready when it is ready". That, my friend, is an insult to the customers (users).
This does not make it easier for proprietary developers only, it makes things easier for every developer. "I know that lib xyzzy will be v. 1.2.3 in every distro so I'll build my exe against it" isntead of "sorry, you cannot build this because your distro has 1.2.2" (and yes, that has happened to me far too often).
P.S. I'd like to hear about those magical "methods" that allow to pursue constantly changing target.
Unfortunately things are not always that simple.
DVB drivers - some of the cards require compiling from (latest) source.
Webcam - exactly the same.
WLAN - the same.
NVidia - OK, no sources but the end effect is the same.
The problem: after that every single update to the kernel is going to break your computer badly. And that happens several times a year.
Compare this to OSX/OpenSolaris/Windows/...
The situation is extremely unlikely to change in the near future.
The truth, however, is that the gay are not gay because of sin/whatnot or even by choice. They just are gay - just like you(?) and me are straight. No "reason". No (need to) cure.
Trying to stop gays having sex by making the action a sin is (to me) as ridiculous as trying to stop gravity by making falling a sin. Unfortunately making an action a sin will create judgement from "non-sinners" in practice.
I know we will not get into consensus here (you cannot accept that this is wrong with your religion - I cannot accept what happens in practice is not important). So I think it is pointless to continue this argument.
But that was offtopic. More to the point: it is impossible to argue against some of the atheists as they seek to find anything to "prove" their essentially-a-religion. But still they cannot tell where their "free will" comes.
BTW: I am an atheist. However I do not know whether I do have free will or is "everything written" (as quantum mechanical equations or whatnot).
Muggers of elderly can be humane, too.
But they deserve none of my tolerance.
I, for one, think higher of men who rather shit in their pants than kill others.
And, yes, I've gone "through" the army.
Am I not allowed to abhor natural disasters as I have not been in any?
If they are stupid enough to enlist just to finance, well they do not deserve my "tolerance".