Theyre only getting publicity because slashdot bothers posting the update stories, which honestly is the only way Id know there was an update.
They switched models because its a BETTER MODEL. They can actually get useful features out more quickly than the old 1-year dev time. I dont know if anyone remembers, but the upgrade from 1.5 to 2.0 took like a year, and came with like 4 features-- a new-tab button, a completely messed up (still bitter) options GUI, and tab-close-undo.
Now we get about that many features in an 8 week dev period, and incremental speed increases to keep pace with chrome. Im failing to see how this is a bad thing; its keeping Firefox remotely relevant to Chrome who was kicking their hiney in features and speed for about 2 years.
Once youve used chrome in a corporate environment, you never go back. Supports a lot of corporate control-- awesome GPOs, pulls proxy in from IE, MSI installers, and no admin-for-update required. Plus it tends to "just work" in a way firefox doesnt-- all of our corporate apps work flawlessly in chrome, including those which require a smartcard login (which Firefox doesnt know how to deal with).
And the "web application" feature is really cool-- works great with OWA and whatever other apps you have.
Firefox is better with extensions undeniably, but theres so much else going for chrome (like vastly better security, and STILL better updating) that Firefox remains a distant second for me. Though, Ill admit that their new html inspector is really slick, at least to this webdev-layman.
I mean, "let the bad fail" is kind of a cornerstone of what makes capitalism work. I cant fathom why its a good idea to try to get around that just because it would have been painful to "let the bad fail", and now everyone is angry that these "bad actors" didnt fail.
Of course not being an economist I dont know the extent of what would have happened, but enshrining this idea of "too big to fail" seems pretty toxic to me.
Secretaries, accountants, managers, and IT personnel also dont produce "actual goods", though-- like banks-- they do provide services.
Banks have been necessary for a long time, because the service of "provides a stable place to store wealth" has been fairly important for a long time. If you dont feel theres any value there, you could always store your money under your mattress.
Not if we don't want something even worse to happen to our loved ones/selves.
That you consider that there could be something worse than rape (ie, death) is a strong argument for why the death penalty is inappropriate and disproportionate for rape.
"Deterrence" is but one of the reasons we punish crimes. There is this idea of "desert" (as in "deserved"), as well; if we got of that idea, there would be no reason for any restraint whatsoever for even the most minor crime: the death penalty would be an excellent deterrent for shoplifting.
Except that they have official statements on the forum stating that you are NOT legally entitled to use the software unless you had previously purchased it from them.
"found a download on their site" isnt "obtained a license".
I think parent was specifically asking whether the nurse should be terminated if they had a non-religious, valid, non-solvable reason for not getting the vaccine.
What theyre making an argument from should be irrelevant in this case; they have the right to believe whatever they want, and the hospital has the right to set whatever policies it deems fit. If the two are in conflict, the natural course seems for the nurses to leave, and as a private institution this doesnt seem like a problem.
Even if the hospital's policy were over the top, dangerous, or immoral, the nurses should probably leave regardless.
They are largley a way to shift personal responsibility to the Big Sky Man.
Spoken in true ignorance.
Aside from the plethora of religions with NO deity, Christianity (one of the biggest religions) see the problem as being oneself-- that is, the responsibility is being shifted nowhere but inward.
I believe there might be a book somewhere which answers that question.
"True christians" believe in a Christ, Jesus, and in what he taught-- at least by the definition in use for the last 2000 years and as spelled out in the Bible.
Christian science isnt really christian in any meaningful sense. From wikipedia: They do not have an anthropomorphic conception of God, or believe in conventional notions of heaven and hell. They define Christ as the divine ideal of man and see Jesus not as a deity, but as Christ's highest human manifestation They also were formed less than 200 years ago, and would reject basically all of the classic doctrines which differentiate "christianity" from other faiths.
THAT should be irrelevant. What matters isnt what they believe, but whether it has an impact on their job, which it does.
I do not believe that the government should be able to force anyone to get an immunization. But certainly if theyre working in a situation where not being immunized puts others at risk, then they need to make a decision on whether their beliefs or their jobs are more important.
Because its hard to start a flamewar based on someone's position on which tool Curiosity should use next, while its quite easy to do so based on their political persuasion. Slashdot isnt a message board, its an argument generator.
Its not authoritarian unless you decide you want to play their game. You always have the option of telling them to get bent and develop for another platform.
Im not sure it makes sense to classify "right to develop games for Apple's store with whatever political speech I want" as a censorship issue.
Not always, AFAIK the filesystem will fill up one block completely before moving onto the next one, regardless of where it is located. Wasted space from allocation block size ("cluster size") is only really an issue with lots of files which are smaller than the cluster size.
No, it doesnt. Fragmentation is only an issue when seek times are an issue. The filesystem really doesnt care how your data is split up.
Regardless, Microsoft, as well as basically every SSD vendor, highly recommends that you do NOT defragment your SSD. You're welcome to argue with them if you like.
And as he said, there can be a lot of other factors that come along with "lead reduction" (which he helpfully listed in his post) which are responsible.
Theres a lot more work that needs to be done before you can claim a causal link.
Bullets are known to cause death. Therefore it is reasonable to suggest that the bullets I'm firing into the crowd might be responsible for the dead people in the crowd.
That is not a reasonable assumption unless you can determine that there are bullets inside of the dead people, that those bullets are in vital areas, and that organ failures where the bullets hit appear to have caused the death.
In other words, the correlation can be a starting point, but you have a whole lot more leg work to do after that.
From what I've read, the connection set-up (handshakes, acks, etc) is also a large cause of the latency. A device cant just start throwing data down the wire, it needs to negotiate, make sure it was heard, and generally assume that the connection is prone to packet loss; and all of that generally slows the connection down.
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Theyre only getting publicity because slashdot bothers posting the update stories, which honestly is the only way Id know there was an update.
They switched models because its a BETTER MODEL. They can actually get useful features out more quickly than the old 1-year dev time. I dont know if anyone remembers, but the upgrade from 1.5 to 2.0 took like a year, and came with like 4 features-- a new-tab button, a completely messed up (still bitter) options GUI, and tab-close-undo.
Now we get about that many features in an 8 week dev period, and incremental speed increases to keep pace with chrome. Im failing to see how this is a bad thing; its keeping Firefox remotely relevant to Chrome who was kicking their hiney in features and speed for about 2 years.
Once youve used chrome in a corporate environment, you never go back. Supports a lot of corporate control-- awesome GPOs, pulls proxy in from IE, MSI installers, and no admin-for-update required. Plus it tends to "just work" in a way firefox doesnt-- all of our corporate apps work flawlessly in chrome, including those which require a smartcard login (which Firefox doesnt know how to deal with).
And the "web application" feature is really cool-- works great with OWA and whatever other apps you have.
Firefox is better with extensions undeniably, but theres so much else going for chrome (like vastly better security, and STILL better updating) that Firefox remains a distant second for me. Though, Ill admit that their new html inspector is really slick, at least to this webdev-layman.
Or you could, you know, let them fail.
I mean, "let the bad fail" is kind of a cornerstone of what makes capitalism work. I cant fathom why its a good idea to try to get around that just because it would have been painful to "let the bad fail", and now everyone is angry that these "bad actors" didnt fail.
Of course not being an economist I dont know the extent of what would have happened, but enshrining this idea of "too big to fail" seems pretty toxic to me.
Secretaries, accountants, managers, and IT personnel also dont produce "actual goods", though-- like banks-- they do provide services.
Banks have been necessary for a long time, because the service of "provides a stable place to store wealth" has been fairly important for a long time. If you dont feel theres any value there, you could always store your money under your mattress.
Not if we don't want something even worse to happen to our loved ones/selves.
That you consider that there could be something worse than rape (ie, death) is a strong argument for why the death penalty is inappropriate and disproportionate for rape.
"Deterrence" is but one of the reasons we punish crimes. There is this idea of "desert" (as in "deserved"), as well; if we got of that idea, there would be no reason for any restraint whatsoever for even the most minor crime: the death penalty would be an excellent deterrent for shoplifting.
December 13.
I just had Acrobat 8 pro start complaining about activation in the last few weeks; thats why theyre providing the dls and serials.
Except that they have official statements on the forum stating that you are NOT legally entitled to use the software unless you had previously purchased it from them.
"found a download on their site" isnt "obtained a license".
Linux is used on print servers internally to this day,
Id be interested to know why that would be a necessity; ive seen Windows servers handling a pretty large number of printers.
Paint.net, sure, but GIMP, really?
I think parent was specifically asking whether the nurse should be terminated if they had a non-religious, valid, non-solvable reason for not getting the vaccine.
What theyre making an argument from should be irrelevant in this case; they have the right to believe whatever they want, and the hospital has the right to set whatever policies it deems fit. If the two are in conflict, the natural course seems for the nurses to leave, and as a private institution this doesnt seem like a problem.
Even if the hospital's policy were over the top, dangerous, or immoral, the nurses should probably leave regardless.
Your argument could be used for any kind of ideology or belief whatsoever.
Really what youre saying is, bad beliefs firmly held are bad.
They are largley a way to shift personal responsibility to the Big Sky Man.
Spoken in true ignorance.
Aside from the plethora of religions with NO deity, Christianity (one of the biggest religions) see the problem as being oneself-- that is, the responsibility is being shifted nowhere but inward.
What do all true Christians believe?
I believe there might be a book somewhere which answers that question.
"True christians" believe in a Christ, Jesus, and in what he taught-- at least by the definition in use for the last 2000 years and as spelled out in the Bible.
Christian science isnt really christian in any meaningful sense. From wikipedia:
They do not have an anthropomorphic conception of God, or believe in conventional notions of heaven and hell. They define Christ as the divine ideal of man and see Jesus not as a deity, but as Christ's highest human manifestation
They also were formed less than 200 years ago, and would reject basically all of the classic doctrines which differentiate "christianity" from other faiths.
THAT should be irrelevant. What matters isnt what they believe, but whether it has an impact on their job, which it does.
I do not believe that the government should be able to force anyone to get an immunization. But certainly if theyre working in a situation where not being immunized puts others at risk, then they need to make a decision on whether their beliefs or their jobs are more important.
Because its hard to start a flamewar based on someone's position on which tool Curiosity should use next, while its quite easy to do so based on their political persuasion. Slashdot isnt a message board, its an argument generator.
Its not authoritarian unless you decide you want to play their game. You always have the option of telling them to get bent and develop for another platform.
Im not sure it makes sense to classify "right to develop games for Apple's store with whatever political speech I want" as a censorship issue.
Not always, AFAIK the filesystem will fill up one block completely before moving onto the next one, regardless of where it is located. Wasted space from allocation block size ("cluster size") is only really an issue with lots of files which are smaller than the cluster size.
No, it doesnt. Fragmentation is only an issue when seek times are an issue. The filesystem really doesnt care how your data is split up.
Regardless, Microsoft, as well as basically every SSD vendor, highly recommends that you do NOT defragment your SSD. You're welcome to argue with them if you like.
Why wouldnt you just get an SSD thats nearly the same size, and about 3 times faster? There are USB-to-SATA docks that are tiny and only about $20.
And as he said, there can be a lot of other factors that come along with "lead reduction" (which he helpfully listed in his post) which are responsible.
Theres a lot more work that needs to be done before you can claim a causal link.
Bullets are known to cause death. Therefore it is reasonable to suggest that the bullets I'm firing into the crowd might be responsible for the dead people in the crowd.
That is not a reasonable assumption unless you can determine that there are bullets inside of the dead people, that those bullets are in vital areas, and that organ failures where the bullets hit appear to have caused the death.
In other words, the correlation can be a starting point, but you have a whole lot more leg work to do after that.
From what I've read, the connection set-up (handshakes, acks, etc) is also a large cause of the latency. A device cant just start throwing data down the wire, it needs to negotiate, make sure it was heard, and generally assume that the connection is prone to packet loss; and all of that generally slows the connection down.