First, that's not so easy to reduce the amount of calory that you eat (because you know you may get hungry).
Second, let's say you do no activity, then one of the body mass you'll loose when reducing input is muscles, and then when you come back to eat 'normally', you'll become fatter than you were before because you have lost your muscles which did consume a fair amount of calory..
Hmm, remind me how long can the police hold someone in UK?
If memory serves, it was something like two weeks if they suspect you of terrorism, two weeks is a very long time, I wouldn't be surprised that in two weeks the police can make you sign whatever they like..
I don't think that you have to make a pipelined CPU, just because it implements a MIPS-like ISA.. I know that a few instructions (the branching slot) only works on a pipelined implementation, but it isn't necessary to make a fully compatible MIPS.
And even a 'basic x86', is quite complicated with its instruction with a varying length..
If I understood correctly (the article was a bit fuzzy), the CPU he created is x86 compatible which is quite ironic as it's a really bad ISA, I wonder why he didn't choose say a MIPS ISA? (maybe it's because he chose Minix..)
He would have probably saved quite a few gates in the control part..
Backupped by Google yes, stored by Google? No way!
How are you going to access your data when either there is no network or its bandwith isn't good enough? It'll take much more time to have an ubiquitous wireless network with enough bandwith than coming with 'iPod' which have enough capacity to store all your data, so by the time this network happen, people will be used to carry their data with them..
Strong? Not so strong: in France, it's still not easy to get a PC without Windows unless you build it yourself (there has been some recent legal development on the subjet which gives hope but it's too early to see the result).
Having a black-white high DPI mode, readable outside, is quite a useful innovative feature, in my book, with the low power consumption the laptop can be used as an e-book reader.
I wonder if laptops makers will license the display and scale it to 14" to sell in regular laptops? Probably not though as they're doing very little innovation.
Of course having a great product is not enough to be a great success..
Nobody said that Windows is perfect but the biggest reason why Windows is hard to maintain is the compatibility with all these applications, and it's also a big part of why Windows is successful.
And yes, Windows is still successful: Vista's issues are only growing pain, I remember similar comments on XP: XP is a beast, W2000 is much better, it's using too much resources compared to W98, etc.
>>What's so hard about giving back to the community a tiny little something. >It isn't that it is hard, it's just that there is no money in it. They call them for-profit corporations for a reason.
Actually, there are some benefits to supporting Linux: they save money by using Linux, so they need Linux to be successful to keep being able to use it. As supporting Linux increase the number of the users, it ensure that Linux will still be available in the future.
But of course, Linux being already quite successful they think 'I can reduce my costs not supporting Linux, and Linux will still be available' except that if everyone do this, Linux will stall..
The issue of this scheme is that it requires the original software version to know which data is needed by the new SW version. It always happen that developers of the original SW version underestimate the need of the new SW version..
chroot is very useful when you're running software version N and you want to change into version N+1: you install the N+1 version on a partition and you use chroot so that the N+1 version believes it is alone.
The issue is for migration: when you want to migrate some data from N to N+1, it is useful in the N+1 version to escape the chroot to access the N version and chroot makes it too difficult currently, I'd like to have a 'mount -chroot/mount_point' this way by default the N+1 version doesn't see the chroot and the migration scripts can work without problem.
Your sentence implies that parents which have trouble for raising their child shouldn't have had a child in the first place, which is quite mean: some parents have troubles, needs some help to fix the situation and then they're alright..
Note that the reason why Novell's engineer were able to deliver an alpha driver this week is because they had access to the ATI's specification under NDA since two month.
So the driver isn't the result of only one week of work, even if it's still in an alpha state.
>As consumers, we get to vote with our wallets and optionally grumble.
Not really, if I want to read music in a car player from a portable music player, I don't have much choice than buying an iPod, which sucks as it's overpriced.
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First, that's not so easy to reduce the amount of calory that you eat (because you know you may get hungry).
Second, let's say you do no activity, then one of the body mass you'll loose when reducing input is muscles, and then when you come back to eat 'normally', you'll become fatter than you were before because you have lost your muscles which did consume a fair amount of calory..
Hmm, remind me how long can the police hold someone in UK?
If memory serves, it was something like two weeks if they suspect you of terrorism, two weeks is a very long time, I wouldn't be surprised that in two weeks the police can make you sign whatever they like..
Thanks for all these information.
I don't think that you have to make a pipelined CPU, just because it implements a MIPS-like ISA..
I know that a few instructions (the branching slot) only works on a pipelined implementation, but it isn't necessary to make a fully compatible MIPS.
And even a 'basic x86', is quite complicated with its instruction with a varying length..
If I understood correctly (the article was a bit fuzzy), the CPU he created is x86 compatible which is quite ironic as it's a really bad ISA, I wonder why he didn't choose say a MIPS ISA? (maybe it's because he chose Minix..)
He would have probably saved quite a few gates in the control part..
Backupped by Google yes, stored by Google? No way!
How are you going to access your data when either there is no network or its bandwith isn't good enough?
It'll take much more time to have an ubiquitous wireless network with enough bandwith than coming with 'iPod' which have enough capacity to store all your data, so by the time this network happen, people will be used to carry their data with them..
But those thing are *additional* functionalities, they shouldn't slow down the most important one..
Does the figures for the Blue Gene are real or just the maximum possible?
Quite often what you can achieve on a particular problem is much less than what the computer is theoretically capable (say 10%).
>But more than legalization, I support democracy.
So when citizens supports slavery, discrimination against women, etc. you think that this is ok because it's "supported by democracy"?
Interesting.
Have you tried to read the map?
I'm colorblind too and ofter pester against the HW makers which use green/red LED that I can't distinguish, but I can read this map alright.
>There are strong anti-tying directives
Strong? Not so strong: in France, it's still not easy to get a PC without Windows unless you build it yourself (there has been some recent legal development on the subjet which gives hope but it's too early to see the result).
Having a black-white high DPI mode, readable outside, is quite a useful innovative feature, in my book, with the low power consumption the laptop can be used as an e-book reader.
I wonder if laptops makers will license the display and scale it to 14" to sell in regular laptops? Probably not though as they're doing very little innovation.
Of course having a great product is not enough to be a great success..
Well, 'it doesn't fit my hand' seems to me a very valid criticism for adults, the other are just a knowledge issue.
So "It's an amazing machine." *for children*, the keyboard problem will limit very much the uptake for adults.
>The *really* hard part of backups is getting people to organize their data. Mom, keeping everything on the Desktop is not an acceptable solution...
Well, why don't you backup the desktop?
Nobody said that Windows is perfect but the biggest reason why Windows is hard to maintain is the compatibility with all these applications, and it's also a big part of why Windows is successful.
And yes, Windows is still successful: Vista's issues are only growing pain, I remember similar comments on XP: XP is a beast, W2000 is much better, it's using too much resources compared to W98, etc.
>>What's so hard about giving back to the community a tiny little something.
>It isn't that it is hard, it's just that there is no money in it. They call them for-profit corporations for a reason.
Actually, there are some benefits to supporting Linux: they save money by using Linux, so they need Linux to be successful to keep being able to use it.
As supporting Linux increase the number of the users, it ensure that Linux will still be available in the future.
But of course, Linux being already quite successful they think 'I can reduce my costs not supporting Linux, and Linux will still be available' except that if everyone do this, Linux will stall..
I don't see how a bind mount allow to escape from the chroot, could you elaborate?
The issue of this scheme is that it requires the original software version to know which data is needed by the new SW version.
It always happen that developers of the original SW version underestimate the need of the new SW version..
chroot is very useful when you're running software version N and you want to change into version N+1: you install the N+1 version on a partition and you use chroot so that the N+1 version believes it is alone.
/mount_point' this way by default the N+1 version doesn't see the chroot and the migration scripts can work without problem.
The issue is for migration: when you want to migrate some data from N to N+1, it is useful in the N+1 version to escape the chroot to access the N version and chroot makes it too difficult currently, I'd like to have a 'mount -chroot
Your sentence implies that parents which have trouble for raising their child shouldn't have had a child in the first place, which is quite mean: some parents have troubles, needs some help to fix the situation and then they're alright..
>Come to think of it, if people need parenting advice, they shouldn't be having kids.
That's a stupid remark, you should be ashamed of yourself..
Note that the reason why Novell's engineer were able to deliver an alpha driver this week is because they had access to the ATI's specification under NDA since two month.
So the driver isn't the result of only one week of work, even if it's still in an alpha state.
> awful customer support at AT&T, etc. [cut]
> It's silly, because it's not apples fault
It's *definitedly* Apple's fault because they locked the iPhone with AT&T!
Had they sold unlocked phone then it wouldn't be their fault: your cellphone reception suck?
Well choose a better provider!
>As consumers, we get to vote with our wallets and optionally grumble.
Not really, if I want to read music in a car player from a portable music player, I don't have much choice than buying an iPod, which sucks as it's overpriced.
>The big question is whether or not any company will see the point in trying. I hope they do...
Well, I wouldn't invest in such company: a huge amount of money to spend without any solid plan to earn money from the trip..