Governments, like it or not, are in the best position to provide certain services like roads, water, sewage, defense and so on. If private industries take over these services, bad things happen, like toll roads, dumped sewage and dirty water. Governments are wasteful because they are not bound by profit. Wasteful includes things like repairing roads that are still passable, but need repair and treating sewage before dumping it back into the water supply, even though it is expensive.
So, why do you think you get so many BSOD's on XP? Do you use bleeding edge hardware? Or incredibly cheap hardware? Actually, I read somewhere that most problems were caused by the HW drivers - mostly video card drivers. This is why drivers have been moved out a ring in the kernel of Vista (as I recall).
There's really no more to it than what's in the/. summary (for a change). Unless you really want to see Linus trying to remember how long the 2.6 kernel has been out and whether they ever had a 4 month gap between releases, you're not missing much. True, there's not even the three minutes of video promised in the article. at 1:56 it you could say that it's closer to 3 than to 0. Which is a pretty bad argument.
Geez. I am a network admin in an office that uses wireless internet access, but that just popped up as an afterthought. Yeah, pretty decent latency and no problems with uptime on that part. (The ISP's backbone is apparently giving trouble though, so we're forced to install a secondary line over copper. Damnit.)
What if my upload is jugging away at max speed and max connections?
That makes me a good sharer, just not to you, right now. However, in the long run, I'm good for the swarm (assuming these settings are set in a sane manner).
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Apple didn't learn the "if you don't want it used, don't ship it" tenet of security. MY guess is that the users willing to tweak QT with a script are more or less just as likely to download and install VLC or whatnot, so they probably decided against using developer hours on it. Even more likely; they want to be able to display full-screen video for some odd purpose, and the third party devs all expect to be able to, also.
I now direct everything through GMail, forward a copy to a Linux mailbox and pop it periodically to my desktop in case Google gets hit by a bus. Could happen.
Nope... Blake is complaining about Google and the article submitter made an offhand remark that its because of this parakey thing. Just continuing the slashdot tradition of injecting flamebait in the article summaries. I didn't see it as flamebait, more like an inside joke that wasn't properly introduced.
I heard that 'Duke Nukem Forever' will be released exclusively for AmigaOS! Hehehe. It's been so long since I've last seen a DNF-joke that it started being funny again.
When I checked out a Windows Mobile phone a while back, the biggest disadvantage was what looked like a user interface designed by Neanderthals. In particular, it seemed incredibly hard to use as a phone. Was this also part of your problem? That was exactly the problem. The entire interface was slow and buggy, especially the phone part of the interface - though that was mostly fixed by firmware upgrade earlier this year (it even upgraded my GPRS to Edge - w00+). Until the firmware upgrade, I would experience that I'd miss calls even though I had pushed the 'Receive Call' button because the phone was slow to react. It would randomly put on the WM5 version of the hour glass (looks like a precursor to the Mac OS X wait cursor actually), and the sluggishness of the system turned me completely off of using it heavily. Which is pretty stupid seeing as I've paid ~600$ for it. Meh. I'll get my boss to buy me a new and better one next time. I'd order a Palm Treo with PalmOS if I was sure that the compatibility with Outlook/Exchange was good, and maybe also a Windows Terminal Services Client (or similar) so I could remote to my server from anywhere. Then again, I've also considered just scrapping the idea of an integrated phone/PDA for a few years, just grab a big iPaq (yeah... HP are evil, I just haven't looked into alternatives yet, and sadly they're the corporate choice, so if I want my boss to shell out...)
Would the increasing power of small devices possibly render this argument obsolete? I seem to remember reading about 300-odd mhz processors in these devices, and I know a 400mhz G4 can run Tiger pretty well. Apples and pears - I have a 196 mhz phone that can barely run Windows Mobile. ("haw haw, I have a 3 ghz desktop that can barely run Windows XP, it's the software makers that are to blame" - not completely). Yeah, they have been achieving very high clock speeds in embedded processors, but the processors themselves are nowhere near as complex as a "real" processor. Seriously, my phone is slow. I purchased it to do away with multiple units (cell phone+palm pda) but in the end, I've been walking around for 6 months with an extra phone for making calls because it is so damned inefficient. I mostly blame the phone designers, I have a hunch they bullocksed up the drivers for the OS.
In a typical apartment complex with 16 units per building, all fire risks are multiplied 16x, because a single tenant can burn down all 16 tenants' apartments. So anything that significantly lowers the fire risk gives a bigger payoff. I always assume that among my neighbours, there are at least enough dolts to easily double that number. For instance, one of my old neighbours (other end of my block, thankfully) once blew off the entire front side of his apartment with some water, oil and heat. ("I was making fondue...") I can't control who is allowed to move into the same building as me. Oh, and another neighbour once owed the local bikers a lot of money. That is also a fire hazard.
It is the government's job to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Choosing winners in competitive markets is most emphatically NOT the government's job. When one of the product types is less harmful than the other (to the environment in this case), why shouldn't the government step in and offer incentives? The environment can't take any more hits for the team, so not reducing the hit on the environment because of ideological warfare is nonsensical...
So it pays to replace a brand new bulb, but not one with 20 hours remaining? I think his math was off. Why should it be off? The excess power usage in a brand new bulb easily pays for several power-saving bulbs. You can always wait the 20 hours; that's just a few cents.
Yes, Widgets are copied. But not from Apple. I haven't read your entire post through, admittedly, but that is because it is a giant block of text. If you have typed in lineshifts, you should have either set the text type as 'Plain Text' or used BR tags as lineshifts. That's set in the box right next to the 'Preview' button. (If it's not apparent, I'm not trying to be an arse, just trying to help)
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What the hell is Quality of Life issues anyway?
I really have no idea. Maybe it is because I live in Europe.
Governments, like it or not, are in the best position to provide certain services like roads, water, sewage, defense and so on. If private industries take over these services, bad things happen, like toll roads, dumped sewage and dirty water. Governments are wasteful because they are not bound by profit. Wasteful includes things like repairing roads that are still passable, but need repair and treating sewage before dumping it back into the water supply, even though it is expensive.
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Or, put in another way, TANSTAAFL
Geez. I am a network admin in an office that uses wireless internet access, but that just popped up as an afterthought.
Yeah, pretty decent latency and no problems with uptime on that part. (The ISP's backbone is apparently giving trouble though, so we're forced to install a secondary line over copper. Damnit.)
He's doing something to his ass. He's not pwning his ass, but he's definitely doing something to his ass.
Latency?
Now that is funny. I laughed. They'res not enough grammer nazis on /.
Obviously, MMO Patching Problems==Real World Money Transferring Problems.
What if my upload is jugging away at max speed and max connections? That makes me a good sharer, just not to you, right now. However, in the long run, I'm good for the swarm (assuming these settings are set in a sane manner).
Even more likely; they want to be able to display full-screen video for some odd purpose, and the third party devs all expect to be able to, also.
Oh, and if you'd like further specs on the specific phone in question; it's a Qtek 9100 (it's being marketed in the US as HTC Wizard )
Until the firmware upgrade, I would experience that I'd miss calls even though I had pushed the 'Receive Call' button because the phone was slow to react. It would randomly put on the WM5 version of the hour glass (looks like a precursor to the Mac OS X wait cursor actually), and the sluggishness of the system turned me completely off of using it heavily. Which is pretty stupid seeing as I've paid ~600$ for it. Meh. I'll get my boss to buy me a new and better one next time.
I'd order a Palm Treo with PalmOS if I was sure that the compatibility with Outlook/Exchange was good, and maybe also a Windows Terminal Services Client (or similar) so I could remote to my server from anywhere.
Then again, I've also considered just scrapping the idea of an integrated phone/PDA for a few years, just grab a big iPaq (yeah... HP are evil, I just haven't looked into alternatives yet, and sadly they're the corporate choice, so if I want my boss to shell out...)
God(s)damnit. Please don't blog-spam. It is not that I disagree with your views, but at least put that link in your sig instead of inline.
Yeah, they have been achieving very high clock speeds in embedded processors, but the processors themselves are nowhere near as complex as a "real" processor.
Seriously, my phone is slow. I purchased it to do away with multiple units (cell phone+palm pda) but in the end, I've been walking around for 6 months with an extra phone for making calls because it is so damned inefficient. I mostly blame the phone designers, I have a hunch they bullocksed up the drivers for the OS.
Well, I have the heavy arms in place to protect against raptors.
"It may it rain on you on a day when you have not brought an umbrella."
"You may once be unable to find your keys, even though you put them down just a minute ago, and now they're mysteriously missing."
(Freely adapted from memory since it's been years since I've read about Rincewind's curses)
I can't control who is allowed to move into the same building as me.
Oh, and another neighbour once owed the local bikers a lot of money. That is also a fire hazard.
Yes, Widgets are copied. But not from Apple.
I haven't read your entire post through, admittedly, but that is because it is a giant block of text.
If you have typed in lineshifts, you should have either set the text type as 'Plain Text' or used BR tags as lineshifts. That's set in the box right next to the 'Preview' button.
(If it's not apparent, I'm not trying to be an arse, just trying to help)