Except that there is a big difference between political ideologies based on religious belief ans secular ideologies: in the first case, the political power is based on a religious belief in the second case it is based usually on economical theories *not* on atheism!
As a trivial example, I've never heard someone say, there is no god so you should eat such or such food for example.
So those two types of ideologies are really different.
>Isn't the universe supposed to collapse sooner than that?
1) No, that's what we used to think before, but now our current measurement indicates that the expansion of the universe is accelerating not slowing towards a big crunch.
2) We don't even have an interesting theory (as in a theory which gives testable new predictions) which is compatible with both general relativity and quantum theory, so asking for a theory for what happened before the big-bang is.. greedy to say the least.
>It's easier for the credit card companies to just write it off as some fraud and not actually go out and do anything.
Easier, maybe but think about the client! It wouldn't cost that much for a credit card company to do this kind of checks and it would save a priceless amount of stress for their clients.
Also, it would reduce (if only slightly) the amount of credit card number stolen, so people would be less reluctant to shop online: a win for the credit card companies.
*Sigh* management by putting one's head in the sand is so common..
What is funny, is that this is clearly the worst MySQL feature (and yes the default setting is *very* important) and yet it doesn't appear on the stupid 'reason not to use MySQL', clearly the guy who made the list doesn't know much about MySQL.
Myself I would have put: -reason to use: many applications bind to MySQL first. -reason not to use: by default, MySQL can corrupt silently your data (I wonder how many applications change this setting, I'm not optimistic).
I disagree Thunderbird anti-spam tends to let pass "empty" emails, I'm not sure why there are "empty" emails (after all spam is supposed to sell something??) but Thunderbird doesn't block them so I had to add a rules for them.
My brother for Christmas made a photo book with printed photos for my mom, she was delighted. Sure, it takes some efforts to select the photos but it's really worth it.
First not 100% of the fuel can be recycled so there are still waste. And there are the other contaminated parts.
So you still need to store the waste, which in France we have currently failed to do.
Second, recycling isn't so easy: in France, there was a recycler which had lots of problem (sodium is a finicky thing to handle) and was closed finally.
[[Every time a Japanese Prime Minister visits the shrine, there are shrieks of him, allegedly, "honoring the war-criminals". That's not true -- the handful of criminals there are in a tiny minority among the people, who died furthering the government's conquests without committing any crimes.]]
I don't understand this part of your tongue-in-sheek comment.
I'm not well aware of this shrine (except that they shouldn't have added the known war criminals to this shrine and that they should remove them), but I do hope that among the Japanese soldiers the war-criminals were a minority (*much more* than a handful, but still a significant minority).
Whether the war was just or not, the soldiers didn't have much a saying in this part, so honouring those soldier (not the war criminals) who died for the country is quite logical IMO..
Building a civilisation up there, will take a very long time, so why do 'we need to get off this rock right now'?
We can also wait until the technology improves enough.. Maybe pouring 'space money' into say Drexler's type nanotechnology would result in being able to go truly to space *faster* than spending money on sending dinky little spaceship to the moon or mars with men inside..
This was not the official reason given by the French government, so you can invent whatever 'real' reason behind the official position, but that's just hot air.
Anyway, I said the French not the French government, a majority of French people were against the war because 1) they knew that WMDs existence was very unlikely 2) Irak people would suffer a lot because of the war and the most likely chaos that would follow the war (and that it would be worse than before).
All this was painfully obvious at the time, what is strange is why the American people didn't see it also, after all that's their tax dollar which are wasted here (granted the US oil companies will benefit from it)..
Sorry, but I'm not convinced that MS is selling GPL software, IMHO it's more like MS is selling use the right to have Novell support the software you download from Novell website.
If by France, you mean "some selected parts of Paris", then you're correct.
That said, when I got from modem to ADSL (unmetered and fast), it was really a breath of fresh air, but going from 512/128 kbs to 8/1 Mbs wasn't such a big deal.. The main interesting point of the higher bandwidth is TV over IP (VoIP works with 512/128kbs) which would be nice if I watched TV, but I don't..
That said, for the (relatively few) users who wants to serve informations, with 20MBs of uplink, a static IPv6 address and bittorrent, who needs servers?
I don't understand why plugins could not run in 32b mode while the browser is in 64b mode.. The plugin could run in a separated process for example (and that's probably a very good idea when you're calling some alien code that you cannot maintain: if you load in the same process, it could crash the browser).
>64bit linux is fine if you're willing to accept the consequences of running a non-standard architecture
Non-standard? AMD and Intel has sold 64bit x86 for a few years now.
>But don't expect closed source crap to run on your system
Bah, why browsers do not design two plugins API, one for 32bit executables (which would run unchanged wether the underlying CPU is in 32 or 64b mode) one for 64bit (only available on 64b CPU mode of course)?
It seems to me that this is as much a failure of the opensource browser than it is a failure of the closed source plugin.
100ms would be enough for reading yes, but the link above indicated ~0.7s typical (with a max of 0.2s) which is better than 1.2s (the previous generation) but still much higher than your figure of 0.1s.
What I've read before was about ~1s of update time so 0.7s or 1.2s seems much more plausible than 0.1s, unfortunately.
>were actually sitting in the basement surfing alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.midgets.
Well in some countries, it could be a crime: if memory serves in some country it is illegal to have porn pictures with what look like a children, even if these are really adults or even if these pictures are drawings or generated by computer..
Does a midget look like a child enough that porn with them is illegal? I don't know, when laws reach this level of stupidity, it's hard to rely on common sense to distinguish what is legal or not..
Apparently they have not improved it, otherwise they would have given it in the PR. If memory serves, it's higher than 1s, waiting that long each time you "turn the page" on your book reader must be quite annoying..
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Except that there is a big difference between political ideologies based on religious belief ans secular ideologies: in the first case, the political power is based on a religious belief in the second case it is based usually on economical theories *not* on atheism!
As a trivial example, I've never heard someone say, there is no god so you should eat such or such food for example.
So those two types of ideologies are really different.
>Isn't the universe supposed to collapse sooner than that?
.. greedy to say the least.
1) No, that's what we used to think before, but now our current measurement indicates that the expansion of the universe is accelerating not slowing towards a big crunch.
2) We don't even have an interesting theory (as in a theory which gives testable new predictions) which is compatible with both general relativity and quantum theory, so asking for a theory for what happened before the big-bang is
3) What is silly is comparing myths with science.
>It's easier for the credit card companies to just write it off as some fraud and not actually go out and do anything.
Easier, maybe but think about the client! It wouldn't cost that much for a credit card company to do this kind of checks and it would save a priceless amount of stress for their clients.
Also, it would reduce (if only slightly) the amount of credit card number stolen, so people would be less reluctant to shop online: a win for the credit card companies.
*Sigh* management by putting one's head in the sand is so common..
What is funny, is that this is clearly the worst MySQL feature (and yes the default setting is *very* important) and yet it doesn't appear on the stupid 'reason not to use MySQL', clearly the guy who made the list doesn't know much about MySQL.
Myself I would have put:
-reason to use: many applications bind to MySQL first.
-reason not to use: by default, MySQL can corrupt silently your data (I wonder how many applications change this setting, I'm not optimistic).
I disagree Thunderbird anti-spam tends to let pass "empty" emails, I'm not sure why there are "empty" emails (after all spam is supposed to sell something??) but Thunderbird doesn't block them so I had to add a rules for them.
Depends, I have a few *dumbheads* who send me an email an then phone me about it, sigh.
As my email client checks the email every 5 minutes, sometimes they phone me even *before* I have received the email, grrr.
My brother for Christmas made a photo book with printed photos for my mom, she was delighted.
Sure, it takes some efforts to select the photos but it's really worth it.
First not 100% of the fuel can be recycled so there are still waste.
And there are the other contaminated parts.
So you still need to store the waste, which in France we have currently failed to do.
Second, recycling isn't so easy: in France, there was a recycler which had lots of problem (sodium is a finicky thing to handle) and was closed finally.
[[Every time a Japanese Prime Minister visits the shrine, there are shrieks of him, allegedly, "honoring the war-criminals". That's not true -- the handful of criminals there are in a tiny minority among the people, who died furthering the government's conquests without committing any crimes.]]
I don't understand this part of your tongue-in-sheek comment.
I'm not well aware of this shrine (except that they shouldn't have added the known war criminals to this shrine and that they should remove them), but I do hope that among the Japanese soldiers the war-criminals were a minority (*much more* than a handful, but still a significant minority).
Whether the war was just or not, the soldiers didn't have much a saying in this part, so honouring those soldier (not the war criminals) who died for the country is quite logical IMO..
Well, when you have the chief of the ONU inspection team who swear that there is no WMD, somehow one tends to trust him..
Building a civilisation up there, will take a very long time, so why do 'we need to get off this rock right now'?
We can also wait until the technology improves enough..
Maybe pouring 'space money' into say Drexler's type nanotechnology would result in being able to go truly to space *faster* than spending money on sending dinky little spaceship to the moon or mars with men inside..
This was not the official reason given by the French government, so you can invent whatever 'real' reason behind the official position, but that's just hot air.
Anyway, I said the French not the French government, a majority of French people were against the war because
1) they knew that WMDs existence was very unlikely
2) Irak people would suffer a lot because of the war and the most likely chaos that would follow the war (and that it would be worse than before).
All this was painfully obvious at the time, what is strange is why the American people didn't see it also, after all that's their tax dollar which are wasted here (granted the US oil companies will benefit from it)..
And the French too..
As far I see, this doesn't prevent, slashdotters to make stupid jokes about French,
and Bush was elected again.
*Sigh*, you know the fate of the one who bring bad news..
I disagree, AFAIK fiber doesn't bend as easily as normal cables so people would complain.
No what should have been used is Ethernet cables rated for 10Gb/s.
Sorry, but I'm not convinced that MS is selling GPL software, IMHO it's more like MS is selling use the right to have Novell support the software you download from Novell website.
>>And France has 20MB symmetric.
If by France, you mean "some selected parts of Paris", then you're correct.
That said, when I got from modem to ADSL (unmetered and fast), it was really a breath of fresh air, but going from 512/128 kbs to 8/1 Mbs wasn't such a big deal..
The main interesting point of the higher bandwidth is TV over IP (VoIP works with 512/128kbs) which would be nice if I watched TV, but I don't..
That said, for the (relatively few) users who wants to serve informations, with 20MBs of uplink, a static IPv6 address and bittorrent, who needs servers?
But why this wrapper isn't bundled with FF by default?
It seems dumb: I've read many complaint about plugins from people using FF compiled in 64b mode.
I don't understand why plugins could not run in 32b mode while the browser is in 64b mode..
The plugin could run in a separated process for example (and that's probably a very good idea when you're calling some alien code that you cannot maintain: if you load in the same process, it could crash the browser).
>64bit linux is fine if you're willing to accept the consequences of running a non-standard architecture
Non-standard? AMD and Intel has sold 64bit x86 for a few years now.
>But don't expect closed source crap to run on your system
Bah, why browsers do not design two plugins API, one for 32bit executables (which would run unchanged wether the underlying CPU is in 32 or 64b mode) one for 64bit (only available on 64b CPU mode of course)?
It seems to me that this is as much a failure of the opensource browser than it is a failure of the closed source plugin.
Thanks for these explanations, I was thinking about pure CPU user process and failed to take into account IO, then the need of >N process makes sense.
>Trying to care, ..., nope failing.
Then you're dumb, because spam is not the only problem, these bots could also be used for DDOS!
And when you're on the receiving end of a DDOS, you're in deep trouble..
Could you explain why N+1 is the 'sweet spot'?
I would have expected N to be the right choice, not N+1..
100ms would be enough for reading yes, but the link above indicated ~0.7s typical (with a max of 0.2s) which is better than 1.2s (the previous generation) but still much higher than your figure of 0.1s.
What I've read before was about ~1s of update time so 0.7s or 1.2s seems much more plausible than 0.1s, unfortunately.
>were actually sitting in the basement surfing alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.midgets.
Well in some countries, it could be a crime: if memory serves in some country it is illegal to have porn pictures with what look like a children, even if these are really adults or even if these pictures are drawings or generated by computer..
Does a midget look like a child enough that porn with them is illegal?
I don't know, when laws reach this level of stupidity, it's hard to rely on common sense to distinguish what is legal or not..
Apparently they have not improved it, otherwise they would have given it in the PR.
If memory serves, it's higher than 1s, waiting that long each time you "turn the page" on your book reader must be quite annoying..