It is worth pointing out that current x86-64 implementations are limited to addressing "only" 48 bits so it's not like that ARM was way beyond the curve with their 40 bit address space (that's 1 TB).
You are NOT required to use iTunes either. There are a multitude of alternatives
This is not true, at least not for everything. All the alternatives rely on libgpod and it does not support the newer devices: "This release has support for all iPod models except the iPod Nano 6g (the touch one). Most non-jailbroken iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone) are also supported with the notable exception of the iPad and the iPhone/iPod Touch 4 which are only supported as read-only devices."
Maybe you should verify what you say by googling for two seconds;-)
I think this separation of content and presentation fails in many cases.
One is inhertiance: you can't just say ".style2 extends.style2" because there's no such thing, you have to either hack with copy'n'paste or adding some more divs to your HTML.
The same goes for absolutely ordinary things like adding a border around a region: the CSS border property is absolutely underpowered so you have to add multiple divs to your HTML.
And it's not like that these issues are unknown or something, these are widely discussed on the web for ages.
They do business by figuring out what people want, and then selling it directly to the public with a minimum of fuss at a price that both parties can live with. Contrast this with their competitors in the computer and cell phone markets, who sell pretty much the same devices encumbered with "special offers", "free malware detection (for 30 days)", or annoying contracts, none of which customers actually desire.
Huh?... For a long time you could buy the iPhone only tied to special phone plan contracts while at the same time you could walk into a GSM shop and buy any other phone with no strings attached.
Sorry, are you from the past?... The Dual Graphics option for Llano has been in the news since, well, basically since the existence of Llano is known. It also has been featured in basically all the Llano reviews (like this one from June) so I am not sure what do you mean by "not making much words about this"
Moral teachings that have largely been proven to work in building relatively peaceful and successful societies and individuals.
Please note that when you rate moral teaching based on past experience you are not practicing religion, you are being basically an engineer.
The religious approach is to follow "God's word" no matter if they proved to be useful or not.
And that's where the conflict comes from: science converges to truth while religion is bound by "God's word" and the past experience shows that sooner or later science proves statements made by religions wrong.
If buying CDs was "only buying the rights to listen to the music", our license would extend to whatever form of media it were on.
Oh, Jesus, stop this bullshit. There's no "right ot listen to the music", or better put, everybody has the right to listen to any music. Listening to music is not limited by copyright in any form.
When you buy an LP / CD / casette / whatever, the ONLY thing you are buying is the physical thing itself, nothing more, nothing less.
That hydro which needs huge dams that deeply affect the local ecosystem and which can (and DID) kill hundreds of thousands of people if they happen to fail? You gotta be kidding me.
I guess you are mixing up things a little: while copyright protection in general is 70 years (or life + 70 years), sound recording and moviess are an exception so that they are protected "only" for 50 years. However, any sane discussion about copyright should focus on cutting back the protection time to something like 20 years and getting rid of the ridiculous "life of the creator plus" part.
"For instance, if you were using bash, you'd see that you can almost always kick out the worthless good-for nothing cat"
If you would be really proficient in bash, you would know, for instance, that your for would choke on filenames containing spaces - while his cat | read construction handles it well.
If you read the original blog entry (which is in Hungarian, except for a few English sentences that... well... should have not been written) it is clear, that this "creation" is mostly cutting and pasting.
Actually we do have a constitution, formally it's the one from 1949 - though for all practical purposes and intents, it's a new one as it was thoroughly modified after the fall socialism (communism wasn't there since the '50s, but this distinction may be too fine for most/. readers). This one being written is... well, it's mostly a publicity stunt for the current governig party that got such overwhelming majority (a once in a lifetime chance) that it can modify the constitution and can ignore everyone else.
It seems like both the KDE and the GNOME folks have decided that they need to reinvent this whole desktop thing. KDE decided that icons are unnecessary, now GNOME deems maximize/minimize buttons unneeded. Guess I'm lucky to use IceWM which still works the way it worked ten years ago - and I find that a good thing.
Guess calling the CPU Sandy Bridge and not the chipset taking the role of the northbridge and the southbridge must have confused the hell out of people.
Could you give some links (they can be in German) or at least some search terms regarding this stuff (about the naive politican, the ambassadors and the NGO test)?
Please stop repeating this stupid myth - I mean, you could have at least read the article you have linked. While it was clearly written by technically uneducated journalist, you should have realized that the article discusses two, entirely different techniques: 1. The roving bug thing: in this case the cell phone's electronics is not used at all (with the probable exception of the battery): a conventional bug is simply hidden in the phone's housing. 2. The remotely activated microphone: it requires some application that runs in the background unnoticed (and, of course, it functions only if the phone is switched on), so it requires a smartphone or perhaps some wicked CMDA feature.
No, small random reads are NOT the primary pattern in desktop usage. Almost NO file on your file system is under 4k in size, which is the "chunk" size for most 8mb to 64mb hd caches.
Actually, it's not the size of the files that really counts but actual read operations. You should not forget that we are running multitasking OSes so even in a situation when you are just copying large files you might find that the drive actually does small random reads because besides of the copying it has to write log files etc. And looking at my/proc/diskstats I see this:
That means that there were ( 1135976 - 24355 ) read operations issued and 19023855 blocks have been read and it works out to 17.11 blocks/read and since blocks are 512 bytes, this works out to 8,55 kB/read so - at least on my desktop - small random reads seems to be the primary pattern.
Where did you get your numbers? I have checked the USA VW site and the base prices are $19,685 and $23,435 - that's a difference of $3,750 but the TDI is better equipped, so the actual difference caused by the diesel engine seems rather small.
On a side note I find it, err..., rather American that the only gasoline engine is the 2.5L one. In Europe that's not even available - but there's a wide selection of engines, the smallest ones being the normally aspirated 1.4 and the turbo-charged 1.2TSI and the largest one the GTI's turbo-charged 2.0.
Actually, here, in Europe, you can buy pretty much any model unlocked in phone shops since... since forever. So really, selling unlocked phones directly is how it always was here.
How do you exactly hijack a GSM number when you are not the NSA? (Or, even, how do you get to KNOW which phone number should you hijack?) Yes, USA banks definitely need to implement out-of-channel authentication, be it an SMS code or an RSA-thingie (altough it's not that handy).
In Europe every bank which I have encountered used such measures in their online banking solution. (I should mention that the crappiest webbank I have seen is Citibank's - guess it was American Made;> )
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It is worth pointing out that current x86-64 implementations are limited to addressing "only" 48 bits so it's not like that ARM was way beyond the curve with their 40 bit address space (that's 1 TB).
This is not true, at least not for everything. All the alternatives rely on libgpod and it does not support the newer devices:
"This release has support for all iPod models except the iPod Nano 6g (the touch one). Most non-jailbroken iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone) are also supported with the notable exception of the iPad and the iPhone/iPod Touch 4 which are only supported as read-only devices."
Maybe you should verify what you say by googling for two seconds ;-)
I think this separation of content and presentation fails in many cases.
One is inhertiance: you can't just say ".style2 extends .style2" because there's no such thing, you have to either hack with copy'n'paste or adding some more divs to your HTML.
The same goes for absolutely ordinary things like adding a border around a region: the CSS border property is absolutely underpowered so you have to add multiple divs to your HTML.
And it's not like that these issues are unknown or something, these are widely discussed on the web for ages.
Huh?... For a long time you could buy the iPhone only tied to special phone plan contracts while at the same time you could walk into a GSM shop and buy any other phone with no strings attached.
From the list:
"34. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*
[...]
* Lehman still existed in the 2007 dataset used"
Just sayin'.
Yes, they do, since it was RMS who has coined this term.
Sorry, are you from the past?... The Dual Graphics option for Llano has been in the news since, well, basically since the existence of Llano is known. It also has been featured in basically all the Llano reviews (like this one from June) so I am not sure what do you mean by "not making much words about this"
Please note that when you rate moral teaching based on past experience you are not practicing religion, you are being basically an engineer.
The religious approach is to follow "God's word" no matter if they proved to be useful or not.
And that's where the conflict comes from: science converges to truth while religion is bound by "God's word" and the past experience shows that sooner or later science proves statements made by religions wrong.
No, this is the version they never ship (like Cairo and Longhorn). What they ship instead is what you skip.
Oh, Jesus, stop this bullshit.
There's no "right ot listen to the music", or better put, everybody has the right to listen to any music. Listening to music is not limited by copyright in any form.
When you buy an LP / CD / casette / whatever, the ONLY thing you are buying is the physical thing itself, nothing more, nothing less.
That hydro which needs huge dams that deeply affect the local ecosystem and which can (and DID) kill hundreds of thousands of people if they happen to fail?
You gotta be kidding me.
I guess you are mixing up things a little: while copyright protection in general is 70 years (or life + 70 years), sound recording and moviess are an exception so that they are protected "only" for 50 years.
However, any sane discussion about copyright should focus on cutting back the protection time to something like 20 years and getting rid of the ridiculous "life of the creator plus" part.
"For instance, if you were using bash, you'd see that you can almost always kick out the worthless good-for nothing cat"
If you would be really proficient in bash, you would know, for instance, that your for would choke on filenames containing spaces - while his cat | read construction handles it well.
If you read the original blog entry (which is in Hungarian, except for a few English sentences that ... well ... should have not been written) it is clear, that this "creation" is mostly cutting and pasting.
Actually we do have a constitution, formally it's the one from 1949 - though for all practical purposes and intents, it's a new one as it was thoroughly modified after the fall socialism (communism wasn't there since the '50s, but this distinction may be too fine for most /. readers).
This one being written is... well, it's mostly a publicity stunt for the current governig party that got such overwhelming majority (a once in a lifetime chance) that it can modify the constitution and can ignore everyone else.
It seems like both the KDE and the GNOME folks have decided that they need to reinvent this whole desktop thing. KDE decided that icons are unnecessary, now GNOME deems maximize/minimize buttons unneeded.
Guess I'm lucky to use IceWM which still works the way it worked ten years ago - and I find that a good thing.
Guess calling the CPU Sandy Bridge and not the chipset taking the role of the northbridge and the southbridge must have confused the hell out of people.
Thanks! (Ach, Ursula, wer sonst? :) )
Could you give some links (they can be in German) or at least some search terms regarding this stuff (about the naive politican, the ambassadors and the NGO test)?
Please stop repeating this stupid myth - I mean, you could have at least read the article you have linked. While it was clearly written by technically uneducated journalist, you should have realized that the article discusses two, entirely different techniques:
1. The roving bug thing: in this case the cell phone's electronics is not used at all (with the probable exception of the battery): a conventional bug is simply hidden in the phone's housing.
2. The remotely activated microphone: it requires some application that runs in the background unnoticed (and, of course, it functions only if the phone is switched on), so it requires a smartphone or perhaps some wicked CMDA feature.
These are not fs blocks but actual disk sectors (as the documentation states), so the 512 byte size is the correct one.
No, small random reads are NOT the primary pattern in desktop usage. Almost NO file on your file system is under 4k in size, which is the "chunk" size for most 8mb to 64mb hd caches.
Actually, it's not the size of the files that really counts but actual read operations. You should not forget that we are running multitasking OSes so even in a situation when you are just copying large files you might find that the drive actually does small random reads because besides of the copying it has to write log files etc. And looking at my /proc/diskstats I see this:
8 1 sda1 1135976 24355 19023855 5744972 3070553 8230315 94539776 86159800 0 5058128 91925360
That means that there were ( 1135976 - 24355 ) read operations issued and 19023855 blocks have been read and it works out to 17.11 blocks/read and since blocks are 512 bytes, this works out to 8,55 kB/read so - at least on my desktop - small random reads seems to be the primary pattern.
Where did you get your numbers? I have checked the USA VW site and the base prices are $19,685 and $23,435 - that's a difference of $3,750 but the TDI is better equipped, so the actual difference caused by the diesel engine seems rather small.
On a side note I find it, err..., rather American that the only gasoline engine is the 2.5L one. In Europe that's not even available - but there's a wide selection of engines, the smallest ones being the normally aspirated 1.4 and the turbo-charged 1.2TSI and the largest one the GTI's turbo-charged 2.0.
Actually, here, in Europe, you can buy pretty much any model unlocked in phone shops since ... since forever. So really, selling unlocked phones directly is how it always was here.
How do you exactly hijack a GSM number when you are not the NSA? (Or, even, how do you get to KNOW which phone number should you hijack?)
Yes, USA banks definitely need to implement out-of-channel authentication, be it an SMS code or an RSA-thingie (altough it's not that handy).
In Europe every bank which I have encountered used such measures in their online banking solution. (I should mention that the crappiest webbank I have seen is Citibank's - guess it was American Made ;> )