You mean where many shops (mostly food related) don't support EFTPOS and I have to regress back to carrying cash everywhere? Where my power gets cut off for 3 weeks because when we requested the name be changed on the account they thought it meant "please disconnect me, I don't like electricity"? Where my ISP tells me to contact my modem provider and my modem provider tells me to contact my ISP because the two aren't compatible with each other (and most other ISPs don't service the exchange)? I'm not sure I like civilisation, give me grass skirts any day:(
Note: In a show of tolerance I havent mentioned sheep even ONCE!
Note: The tolerance seems to have expired;)
I don't get the obsession with the sheep jokes. There are more sheep in Australia than in New Zealand.
So what does a coach being murdered [nytimes.com] say about cricket supporters?
That some pathologist didn't do a very good job, and that somehow the supporters are at fault?
Or the countless riots over soccer/football games?
That soccer fans tend to be hooligans (more specifically the British ones).
I'm not quite sure how you can compare the death of a coach and countless riots performed by a large number of people to having one guy blamed for trying to catch a ball that had already entered the bleachers, considering that if he hadn't touched it, Alou might have been able to catch it, thus giving the Cubs the opportunity to get four more outs before relinquishing the lead they currently held due to a series of other plays unrelated to Steve.
Perhaps if you read my comment again, you may notice I said many modems may not support it. You have one that does, which says nothing about my statement. I don't claim to know what percentage do and do not support it (mine doesn't), but the types of users who are going to manually fake their MAC (assuming ISPs find a hack to propagate it with traffic) are the types who are going to delete cookies, use proxies etc to hide who they are.
ISPs can determine the MAC address of routers already. If the heavy NAT solution takes place instead of IPv6 then I wouldn't be surprised if MAC addresses start getting tagged into traffic for identification purposes (RIAA won't be happy if they can't track down people to sue, for example).
How about a MAC address? While it is often changeable if you know what you are doing, not everyone will know about this (and many modems may not support it). It's not a good way of identification, but it's probably better than IP addresses.
I'm still using driver version 94.24 because anything newer causes random graphics corruption now and then when running dual screen setups on my 7600GS. This forces me to stick with XP on that machine until I move to a large single screen instead of dual screens because the earliest supported driver for Vista starts in the 100 range.
The reason this went in in the first place was to disable attempts to run PhysX on ATI hardware, but the check was a little overzealous. If they made it fairly easy to disable with a single configuration tweak, the ATI driver installer would probably perform the tweak automatically, defeating the whole point of NVIDIA's lockdown.
The actual "release" of Windows 7 was around July 22nd to the various manufacturers, and August 6th to MSDN customers. It has been officially released, just not to general retail yet. Windows 7 is the final name (3.1, 95, 98, 2000 weren't exactly fancy either).
Entire lineup of Intel chips support VT? Not at all. My 4 month old P7450 doesn't include it (strangely all the P series before it did include it), and neither does a large portion of the T series Core 2 Duo mobile CPUs. AMD on the other hand, doesn't appear to remove the virtualisation feature from lower models in product lines that originally had it in all models to justify the price tiers (raw CPU power is becoming less and less significant to average users these days). Here is a list of some of Intel chips that tries to warn which ones do and do not support it.
a given process can only see 3 GB of memory, no matter how you set up your licensing
This isn't exactly true. An application can address 4GB of memory, 2GB of which is kernel space (reserved for things like graphics memory etc) and 2GB of user space. A tweak can be applied to change the balance to 1GB kernel / 3GB user space.
Qt looks very nice on all platforms, and Google even uses it for some of their other products (Google Earth for example). Even if "most" of them look like crap, you only need one good one to make that argument moot. Also, the custom solutions that many develop usually look worse than the arse-like toolkits.
I am not being stupid. You took the stance that "free software" should only ever mean without cost without citing evidence and decreed that talking about freedom instead is inherently retarded. Such an argument is asinine.
But thanks for repeating my point.
I did not claim that GNU's definition was retarded. Your "point" presupposed that free means without cost. I disagree (as do many), and not just in software licenses. For example, one definition of free has as it's primary focus the concept of freedom. Removing the requirement of payment is only a subcategory of being free.
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Welcome to civilisation! (-:
You mean where many shops (mostly food related) don't support EFTPOS and I have to regress back to carrying cash everywhere? Where my power gets cut off for 3 weeks because when we requested the name be changed on the account they thought it meant "please disconnect me, I don't like electricity"? Where my ISP tells me to contact my modem provider and my modem provider tells me to contact my ISP because the two aren't compatible with each other (and most other ISPs don't service the exchange)? I'm not sure I like civilisation, give me grass skirts any day :(
Note: In a show of tolerance I havent mentioned sheep even ONCE!
Note: The tolerance seems to have expired ;)
I don't get the obsession with the sheep jokes. There are more sheep in Australia than in New Zealand.
So apart form your disability(Not being a cricket fan)do you get on well with other Kiwi's?
Not particularly, I was evicted to Australia about 8 months ago.
So what does a coach being murdered [nytimes.com] say about cricket supporters?
That some pathologist didn't do a very good job, and that somehow the supporters are at fault?
Or the countless riots over soccer/football games?
That soccer fans tend to be hooligans (more specifically the British ones).
I'm not quite sure how you can compare the death of a coach and countless riots performed by a large number of people to having one guy blamed for trying to catch a ball that had already entered the bleachers, considering that if he hadn't touched it, Alou might have been able to catch it, thus giving the Cubs the opportunity to get four more outs before relinquishing the lead they currently held due to a series of other plays unrelated to Steve.
Criket fans are sophisticated and civilsed individuals (Apart form the Kiwi's).
As a Kiwi who's not a cricket fan, I'm not sure whether to take offence to that or not.
That says more about American Baseball supporters than it does about Steve's actions.
If the LHC gets hit by a meteor five minutes before it is next switched on we may conclude that something strange is going on.
Wouldn't a highly improbable event like a meteor hitting the LHC itself create a high probability that something is amiss with the universe?
That is what was just suggested. Your reading skills have earned you a gold star.
Why did the summary not mention everything in the article? Because it's the summary. If you want all the details, you read the article.
For Intel cards, yes. The types of users who buy high end cards for gaming tend to keep up to date with latest graphics drivers.
Perhaps if you read my comment again, you may notice I said many modems may not support it. You have one that does, which says nothing about my statement. I don't claim to know what percentage do and do not support it (mine doesn't), but the types of users who are going to manually fake their MAC (assuming ISPs find a hack to propagate it with traffic) are the types who are going to delete cookies, use proxies etc to hide who they are.
Then again, there's always the username/password.
ISPs can determine the MAC address of routers already. If the heavy NAT solution takes place instead of IPv6 then I wouldn't be surprised if MAC addresses start getting tagged into traffic for identification purposes (RIAA won't be happy if they can't track down people to sue, for example).
$5/mo discount? No... they'd opt for a $5/mo premium if you specifically asked for an IP.
How about a MAC address? While it is often changeable if you know what you are doing, not everyone will know about this (and many modems may not support it). It's not a good way of identification, but it's probably better than IP addresses.
I'm still using driver version 94.24 because anything newer causes random graphics corruption now and then when running dual screen setups on my 7600GS. This forces me to stick with XP on that machine until I move to a large single screen instead of dual screens because the earliest supported driver for Vista starts in the 100 range.
The reason this went in in the first place was to disable attempts to run PhysX on ATI hardware, but the check was a little overzealous. If they made it fairly easy to disable with a single configuration tweak, the ATI driver installer would probably perform the tweak automatically, defeating the whole point of NVIDIA's lockdown.
a prime reason FOR those issues in usability is because lots of users don't know how to actually use them properly
Just a minor nitpick, but if the user can't figure out how to use it properly, that is a usability problem.
The actual "release" of Windows 7 was around July 22nd to the various manufacturers, and August 6th to MSDN customers. It has been officially released, just not to general retail yet. Windows 7 is the final name (3.1, 95, 98, 2000 weren't exactly fancy either).
...What? The RC's expire next year, not October 21st.
Entire lineup of Intel chips support VT? Not at all. My 4 month old P7450 doesn't include it (strangely all the P series before it did include it), and neither does a large portion of the T series Core 2 Duo mobile CPUs. AMD on the other hand, doesn't appear to remove the virtualisation feature from lower models in product lines that originally had it in all models to justify the price tiers (raw CPU power is becoming less and less significant to average users these days). Here is a list of some of Intel chips that tries to warn which ones do and do not support it.
Most Windows users don't choose Dell.
And none of those are 64bit versions of Server 2008, so aren't relevant to the parents comment.
a given process can only see 3 GB of memory, no matter how you set up your licensing
This isn't exactly true. An application can address 4GB of memory, 2GB of which is kernel space (reserved for things like graphics memory etc) and 2GB of user space. A tweak can be applied to change the balance to 1GB kernel / 3GB user space.
Not all languages have them and even if they do, not all code is exception safe.
What you just described was an implementation detail, not a conceptual difference.
Qt looks very nice on all platforms, and Google even uses it for some of their other products (Google Earth for example). Even if "most" of them look like crap, you only need one good one to make that argument moot. Also, the custom solutions that many develop usually look worse than the arse-like toolkits.
Are you intentionally stupid?
I am not being stupid. You took the stance that "free software" should only ever mean without cost without citing evidence and decreed that talking about freedom instead is inherently retarded. Such an argument is asinine.
But thanks for repeating my point.
I did not claim that GNU's definition was retarded. Your "point" presupposed that free means without cost. I disagree (as do many), and not just in software licenses. For example, one definition of free has as it's primary focus the concept of freedom. Removing the requirement of payment is only a subcategory of being free.