The difference here being that Communism led to labor camps and mass executions while your perceived libertarian free market (which is debatable) leads to you not being able to use VHS.
My basic strategy is to add 50% to the minimum required Watts and buy the one that costs 20% more than the cheapest. Not very scientific, but the PSUs I bought with that strategy haven't failed me yet.
Thanks for the info though, I will consider it when I have to buy some new ones.
I seriously doubt that the Obama demo image is real. There is no way that the teeth and the little badge on his jacket are produced, and that no visual artifacts were created.
First of all, he is advocating pessimization of install on good operating systems (like BSDs or Linux) for the sake of the bad ones (like Windows). Second, and most important, is that the changes need not be so invasive as to change the entire APIs. If one must rely on a 3rd-party packages, one may provide that 3rd-party product — but without bundling it with one's own.
Most of the changes seem to be very small or necessary.
Look, for example, how pidgin installs itself on Windows — the GTK and spell-checker(s) are necessary and usually are installed during the pidgin install. But they aren't forked by the pidgin developers...
I don't think the comparison is valid. Pidgin is a Gnome project, so patches can go directly to the gnome source.
The extent, to which Google modifies the bundled 3rd-party stuff is also too great: go through the guy's own list and look for his own "fork severity" ratings...
Most severities are low, the ones that are high seem justified.
Not to mention, that things like JPEG, XML, and PNG, probably, didn't have to be installed on Windows at all — such basic building blocks are available from Microsoft themselves...
There certainly aren't any high-quality platform-independent libraries from Microsoft, otherwise Pidgin wouldn't require the GTK runtime.
Google could have picked GTK or Qt as the Framework, but I think they decided against it because they wanted to have more control over the libraries and maybe because of licensing issues.
Windows 7 may fail to install, giving the error message “Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information.” Generally this error occurs in situations in which multiple disks are connected to the system.
Fix
In order to eliminate this issue, disconnect any disks that are formatted as “dynamic disks.” Dynamic disk volumes cannot be changed back to partitions, causing the Windows 7 installation process to fail. Simply disconnect any external or internal hard disks that are formatted as dynamic disks then re-attempt installation.
I don't know what a "dynamic disk" is, but my Arch Linux partitions seemed to qualify. I had to kick all partitions off the hard drive before I could install Windows 7. The OS itself is ok though
Yeah, and when they finally control the water supply and the toilet paper industry they will find out that you have a shit and wipe your arse twice a day.
I use Arch too but there are some things that stack against it for consumer devices this will run on.
Pacman lacks a stable/polished gui and has no built in downgrade support (you have to manually install an old package from/var/cache which you hopefully didn't clean out). Apt also has other features like the gpg keys that though you and I may not miss, but I'm sure others may.
Agreed. But I am sure you can create a nice polished GUI easily and also somehow allow downgrading without a dpkg-apt mess. There has to be another way.
RPM, says Intel. Can't find a link, but there is much gnashing of teeth over that at work here. I would prefer to keep the repository apt, at the very least. But apt+dpkg would be lovely.
I don't get why people say this. I use Debian and Archlinux but I find Archlinux's pacman much more comfortable than the apt(-get -cache -search itute) + dpkg* mess
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What are you talking about? Where is this happening?
So, they are just like communists.
The difference here being that Communism led to labor camps and mass executions while your perceived libertarian free market (which is debatable) leads to you not being able to use VHS.
heh, I remember that joke. Mort Drucker ftw.
My basic strategy is to add 50% to the minimum required Watts and buy the one that costs 20% more than the cheapest. Not very scientific, but the PSUs I bought with that strategy haven't failed me yet.
Thanks for the info though, I will consider it when I have to buy some new ones.
It is still advisable to get a high-end PSU with more power than you actually need since they are manufactured better.
The PSU is the unit to fail most often in my experience (and most spectacularly). I don't buy cheap ones anymore.
I'd say that 1984 is a valid comparison for what Sovjet Russia was under Stalin and what North Korea is today.
But I totally agree with you that the comparison it is overused.
You haven't read all the source code of Firefox I suppose?
I seriously doubt that the Obama demo image is real. There is no way that the teeth and the little badge on his jacket are produced, and that no visual artifacts were created.
Rationalism and and anti-dogmatism?
You are privileging the hypothesis. Amanda Knox and her Boyfriend are obviously innocent. Rudy Guede is obviously the sole perpetrator.
Thanks for the insight - never saw it that way
And if you still decide to travel there, be sure that your wife wears something else than jeans.
First of all, he is advocating pessimization of install on good operating systems (like BSDs or Linux) for the sake of the bad ones (like Windows). Second, and most important, is that the changes need not be so invasive as to change the entire APIs. If one must rely on a 3rd-party packages, one may provide that 3rd-party product — but without bundling it with one's own.
Most of the changes seem to be very small or necessary.
Look, for example, how pidgin installs itself on Windows — the GTK and spell-checker(s) are necessary and usually are installed during the pidgin install. But they aren't forked by the pidgin developers...
I don't think the comparison is valid. Pidgin is a Gnome project, so patches can go directly to the gnome source.
The extent, to which Google modifies the bundled 3rd-party stuff is also too great: go through the guy's own list and look for his own "fork severity" ratings...
Most severities are low, the ones that are high seem justified.
Not to mention, that things like JPEG, XML, and PNG, probably, didn't have to be installed on Windows at all — such basic building blocks are available from Microsoft themselves...
There certainly aren't any high-quality platform-independent libraries from Microsoft, otherwise Pidgin wouldn't require the GTK runtime.
Google could have picked GTK or Qt as the Framework, but I think they decided against it because they wanted to have more control over the libraries and maybe because of licensing issues.
Why aren't you convinced by their argument if I may ask?
Multiple things actually. The "See the Setup log files for more information" message is somewhat infuriating when you don't know *how* to do it.
I'm not sure what kind of experience lead you to believe that Windows 7 can only install with a single drive present, but it is very much not true.
It can be difficult.
Windows 7 may fail to install, giving the error message “Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information.” Generally this error occurs in situations in which multiple disks are connected to the system.
Fix
In order to eliminate this issue, disconnect any disks that are formatted as “dynamic disks.” Dynamic disk volumes cannot be changed back to partitions, causing the Windows 7 installation process to fail. Simply disconnect any external or internal hard disks that are formatted as dynamic disks then re-attempt installation.
I don't know what a "dynamic disk" is, but my Arch Linux partitions seemed to qualify. I had to kick all partitions off the hard drive before I could install Windows 7. The OS itself is ok though
no, that somebody had the same idea
this is spooky
Yeah, and when they finally control the water supply and the toilet paper industry they will find out that you have a shit and wipe your arse twice a day.
Get real.
I use Arch too but there are some things that stack against it for consumer devices this will run on.
Pacman lacks a stable/polished gui and has no built in downgrade support (you have to manually install an old package from /var/cache which you hopefully didn't clean out). Apt also has other features like the gpg keys that though you and I may not miss, but I'm sure others may.
Agreed. But I am sure you can create a nice polished GUI easily and also somehow allow downgrading without a dpkg-apt mess. There has to be another way.
RPM, says Intel. Can't find a link, but there is much gnashing of teeth over that at work here. I would prefer to keep the repository apt, at the very least. But apt+dpkg would be lovely.
I don't get why people say this. I use Debian and Archlinux but I find Archlinux's pacman much more comfortable than the apt(-get -cache -search itute) + dpkg* mess
Chrome?
You are seriously cynical and highly lacking empathy.
Sell my used ebooks at a used ebook store.
And lose yours?
The news on heise is ok but the comments are crap.