Because some people often have an awful lot of tabs open at the same time. I more often than not have 20 or more at a time. Try fitting all that in the taskbar when you've got other applications running, along with the Start button and a fair few systray applets.
"Traditional communications did not include the same reasonable expectations of privacy that we have today." What do you consider traditional? In the UK you needed (The RIP act made that past tense, hence why I will never vote for whichever party Jack Straw is in) to have a court order to be allowed to read somebodys mail or to tap their telephone.
"there are no grounds for refusing to execute a request on human rights grounds" I'd have thought the Human Rights Act would take care of that. In the UK it is treated as overriding other laws.
It's high time people stopped complaining about what people do in their spare time and give away for free.
The only way you'll stop people from working on either desktop is if they wanted to. Because they want to work on their respective systems, they will not switch, they don't want to.
Should we stop developing FreeBSD, NetBSD and all the other free operating systems? I'd say no, because all you're trying to do is create a dictatorship.
Hmm...I've not seen Ctrl-Alt-Del not work on Windows2000 unless the OS itself has fucked up somehwere. If that's the case, then all bets are off. And yes, I have had things fuck up and drag Explorer down with it. It never stopped me from being able to bring up the task manager.
I do have a KDE application that tends to do funny things at times. The CVS version of Kopete sometimes decides to lock up just as I open a menu, which seems to render nothing else on the screen clickable. The way I get around this is to drop to a terminal and kill Kopete from the command line.
I'd like to point out that in both those cases, adding another CPU doesn't increase your chance of being able to recover. The system might be a bit more responsive, but it doesn't matter how many CPUs you have if your UI is dead or the scheduler has fucked up.
Well that's all well and good, but it doesn't make the statement any more true. It touches on some areas an OS course/module teaches you, but it doesn't cover anywhere near the content the course/module would.
"This is a very good article to read for those who are not really familiar with how a processor actually does it's work. The first three pages or so are generally what a senior-level college OS course will teach you." Not really. For starters, it doesn't go into any detail on how to use threads. They make no mention of things like semaphores, locks, monitors or race conditions, the sort of things that make threaded application development difficult.
It goes into the very basics of that part of the OS module I did at the beginning of my second year, so please don't trivialise such courses.
You have a very significant mis-understanding of pre-emptive multi-tasking. There is no situation where a locked process cannot be killed on a single CPU system but can be on a multiple CPU system.
When the locked application's timeslice runs out, other applications will get a go, and from that it it possible to kill the locked application. This is one of the reasons pre-emptive multi-tasking became popular.
As you get older, your lenses become more firm and hence less flexible. If you're short sighted, this may lead to a better ability to see longer distances, you tend to lose focus at both extremes. This is why bifocals tend to be used by older people.
But you're assuming two things: 1) That we are at the "perfect state" which would represent the works of Shakespear in the monkey example 2) That the monkeys would take forever
Neither state is true. Humans are evolving, I don't know how anybody can refute that. Every time the proverbial monkey hits a key, there is a chance they have produced a work of Shakespear.
We're not at the end of evolution, nor are we at the beginning. Imagine if a monkey managed to produce just one page of Shakespear. It's not the desired end result, but its a step.
Ultimately, needing forever is the worst case scenario. The best case is needing as long as it would take to type out Shakespear's works with no mistakes. The most likely case is that the end result would occur at some point between those times.
Eh? If you read the UT2003 forums, the biggest complaint is that it doesn't feel like UT anymore. Just because there are skin deep similarities doesn't mean it's not a very different beast.
They can either pay the developers, or quit bitching about somebody who developed the theming system in their own time, using their own money for their own enjoyment.
How would you feel if I told you to stop playing a game you loved to instead play a game you find painfully dull?
What about the people who do want to theme? Why not allow it and ship a decent default? After all, if I'm going to stare at my computer for ungodly amounts of time, it's nice to be able to make it look pleasing.
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Because some people often have an awful lot of tabs open at the same time. I more often than not have 20 or more at a time. Try fitting all that in the taskbar when you've got other applications running, along with the Start button and a fair few systray applets.
Err...there's a /home/darren/RealPlayer9 on this system, it's RealONE, and it's been there for 6 months or so. I'm running Linux BTW.
You complain that Mozilla has a few XHTML bugs when IE won't even render a correctly sent XHTML file?
Hint: XHTML is XML. Try sending it as text/xml and see what IE does.
Well, the EU does have a law of human rights, I suggest you read it before considering the human rights argument as too vague to be meaningful.
"Traditional communications did not include the same reasonable expectations of privacy that we have today."
What do you consider traditional? In the UK you needed (The RIP act made that past tense, hence why I will never vote for whichever party Jack Straw is in) to have a court order to be allowed to read somebodys mail or to tap their telephone.
"there are no grounds for refusing to execute a request on human rights grounds"
I'd have thought the Human Rights Act would take care of that. In the UK it is treated as overriding other laws.
Because every second I have to wait for a compile to complete is a second wasted.
Err...you don't need RandR for that. When I play RtCW, I can happily switch resolutions to my heart's content.
Actually, if Tony Blair told Bush where to shove it he would probably gain more supporters than he would lose.
I highly doubt many users would pay up. After all, I'm already donating CPU cycles, which aren't free, I'm not going to pay to donate my CPU cycles.
It's high time people stopped complaining about what people do in their spare time and give away for free.
The only way you'll stop people from working on either desktop is if they wanted to. Because they want to work on their respective systems, they will not switch, they don't want to.
Should we stop developing FreeBSD, NetBSD and all the other free operating systems? I'd say no, because all you're trying to do is create a dictatorship.
Hmm...I've not seen Ctrl-Alt-Del not work on Windows2000 unless the OS itself has fucked up somehwere. If that's the case, then all bets are off. And yes, I have had things fuck up and drag Explorer down with it. It never stopped me from being able to bring up the task manager.
I do have a KDE application that tends to do funny things at times. The CVS version of Kopete sometimes decides to lock up just as I open a menu, which seems to render nothing else on the screen clickable. The way I get around this is to drop to a terminal and kill Kopete from the command line.
I'd like to point out that in both those cases, adding another CPU doesn't increase your chance of being able to recover. The system might be a bit more responsive, but it doesn't matter how many CPUs you have if your UI is dead or the scheduler has fucked up.
Well that's all well and good, but it doesn't make the statement any more true. It touches on some areas an OS course/module teaches you, but it doesn't cover anywhere near the content the course/module would.
"This is a very good article to read for those who are not really familiar with how a processor actually does it's work. The first three pages or so are generally what a senior-level college OS course will teach you."
Not really. For starters, it doesn't go into any detail on how to use threads. They make no mention of things like semaphores, locks, monitors or race conditions, the sort of things that make threaded application development difficult.
It goes into the very basics of that part of the OS module I did at the beginning of my second year, so please don't trivialise such courses.
You have a very significant mis-understanding of pre-emptive multi-tasking. There is no situation where a locked process cannot be killed on a single CPU system but can be on a multiple CPU system.
When the locked application's timeslice runs out, other applications will get a go, and from that it it possible to kill the locked application. This is one of the reasons pre-emptive multi-tasking became popular.
Wouldn't it suck if I couldn't adapt my own car to my own needs?
As you get older, your lenses become more firm and hence less flexible. If you're short sighted, this may lead to a better ability to see longer distances, you tend to lose focus at both extremes. This is why bifocals tend to be used by older people.
Well, that is true, I wasn't intending to imply evolution had a ultimate goal of perfection, or any goal in particular.
Err...everything possible has a probability. I assume to mean a probability of > 0.5, which means the event is more likely to happen than not.
But you're assuming two things:
1) That we are at the "perfect state" which would represent the works of Shakespear in the monkey example
2) That the monkeys would take forever
Neither state is true. Humans are evolving, I don't know how anybody can refute that. Every time the proverbial monkey hits a key, there is a chance they have produced a work of Shakespear.
We're not at the end of evolution, nor are we at the beginning. Imagine if a monkey managed to produce just one page of Shakespear. It's not the desired end result, but its a step.
Ultimately, needing forever is the worst case scenario. The best case is needing as long as it would take to type out Shakespear's works with no mistakes. The most likely case is that the end result would occur at some point between those times.
But there is no law explicitly stating P2P networks are illegal, therefore they are legal until a court ruling says otherwise.
Err...no. Seeing as 110/2=55, how can 65.3 be less than 50% of 110?
Eh? If you read the UT2003 forums, the biggest complaint is that it doesn't feel like UT anymore. Just because there are skin deep similarities doesn't mean it's not a very different beast.
They can either pay the developers, or quit bitching about somebody who developed the theming system in their own time, using their own money for their own enjoyment.
How would you feel if I told you to stop playing a game you loved to instead play a game you find painfully dull?
What about the people who do want to theme? Why not allow it and ship a decent default? After all, if I'm going to stare at my computer for ungodly amounts of time, it's nice to be able to make it look pleasing.