I wish Americans would stop using "gas" when they mean gasoline. Over here we have cars running on actual gas, as in, vapor hydrocarbon.
I'm so sorry our language confuses you. Let me see if I can gather everybody up in the country and get them to change a fundamental word in their vocabulary just to make you happy.
Also, it appears the only reason you think the Chrome UI is inferior to Firefox's is because you're used to Firefox. And you know what, it's perfectly reasonable to say "I stay with Firefox because I'm used to the UI". But to say you don't use Chrome because it's not Firefox is patently ridiculous.
While I agree it's much harder than many people here seem to let on I think you might be too far on the other side.
Not every single device in the world must be switched to IPv6. Only devices that require they be publicly routable might be affected. And even among those. it's not like IPv4 addresses will disappear over night so there's no reason for existing users to necessarily migrate over. This significantly reduces the problem. There's no reason that companies that have vast internal networks on 10.0.0.0/8 need to switch to IPv6. That would be a giant waste of money for them.
By some estimates Firefox has over 270 million users. That is less than 2 cents a user. Can somebody tell me where to send my 2 cents (literally) so I can get on with watching adorable cats struggle to stay awake.
I have seen chefs put lobsters in the freezer so they (presumably) go to sleep and die quietly.
Is this more or less humane I wonder.
Well, think about it. Would you rather get stuck in the freezer and die or stuck in a human sized oven and be cooked? The answer seems completely obvious to me. (It's frozen if you were unable to guess.)
One possibility is that we ask the 'computer' of the universe to do too much computation and end up in an infinite loop, crashed universe, 'dark' part of a mandlebrot-like fractal, etc.
I think that the fact that we are here, almost 14 billion years after the universe began, is a good indication that it's not possible to "crash" the universe.
The original numbers plugged in the Drake Equation estimated 10 intelligent civilizations in our own galaxy. Since there are more than 100 billion galaxies, that means there could potentially be more than 1 trillion advanced civilizations.
I would bet at least 1 out of that trillion are much more advanced than us and have managed not to "crash" the universe. Whatever the hell that means.
In short fixing the last mile will probably only expose problems up stream.
How do you think progress is made? At any given point in time there will be one bottleneck in a system. Things progress by removing the bottlenecks one by one. You fix the slowest part and then move on to the next slowest part. Over time, the system as a whole evolves to become faster as its parts do.
If it exposes problems upstream then great! It means we have removed a bottleneck and the next worst one will be fixed. Otherwise companies will just say "well there's no demand from consumers so we don't need to improve our infrastructure."
However, for those of us who live abroad, i would like to recollect the wise words of Napolean - "Never interrupt your enemy whilst he is making a mistake."
In case you missed it, we're in a globalized economy. This means problems in one country can have negative consequences for another:
Because WINE is not an emulator. It's an implementation of the win32 API. Windows binaries are x86 so they have to run on an x86 platform if they are to run natively. That's why you can run 3D games with it--there's no overhead involved so they can run at their native speeds.
I'd imagine that some chains WILL adopt this technology, but people will not take it well to be ordered around, hired and fired, and generally live their lives around the whims of some computer program.
RTFA. You're over-reacting, not to mention a complete moron.
This isn't about hiring or firing. It's about logistics. Computers can analyze historical data and trends much faster than a human ever could. It can make decisions about what foods need to be cooked and how much to satisfy demand, decrease wait times, and minimize waste. This is what computers are good at.
There's always some idiot who thinks the next technological advancement is going to spell doom for the human race. They're just insecure.
There's a reason we're also still using the combustion engine: it's cheap and it works. It's also been vastly improved over time.
It's like you're saying your Honda Accord needs to be replaced by some new technology because it's the same thing as a Model T. It's obviously not. And the technology nor infrastructure does not yet exist to efficiently replace it.
The same concept applies here. We'll have something "new" as you say when the technology is available at a reasonable price.
And those old-fangled music player things used to be called walkmans. They worked pretty well. They were old, black, got the job done. People used them with their $5 headphones from Wal-Mart.
And then there was the iPod.
I think you're underestimating the market and an entire generation of people. Young, the desire to be hip, and lots of disposable income. It's a marketer's dream. Computing will only continue to be more integrated into everyday life. And if you don't think somebody won't capitalize on making it a status symbol I think you're sorely mistaking. Apple is definitely on the way to capturing it.
Why would multiple users be using it at a time? The main use case for NTFS is recovery and people who need access to their files on dual boot laptops and desktops.
You can change the memory allocation in VMWare Player. Player -> Troubleshoot -> Change memory allocation. I'd say putting it under troubleshoot is rather far-fetched. I guess for lesser tech people they might consider not having enough memory a "problem" which should be troubleshooted, but I see it more as a configuration option.
On Linux you just need to install ruby1.8 then download the gems package from online, install it, then do "gem install --remote rails". After that it's easy to keep things up-to-date and install more Ruby add-ons. I've never had any trouble.
He's talking about a modular components of the overall architecture, not the design of the Linux and NT kernels.
Linux is more modular in that, for example, Firefox is not embedded into the core of the operating system, as Internet Explorer is. You can swap one component out (say GNOME for KDE) and not affect the rest of the system.
There will be another Ubuntu release sometime in October (if they continue to follow their schedule, maybe Novemeber if this push back is reflected in the next release). Even given that, how will this release be competing with Vista? Nobody even knows for sure when Vista is coming out.
One major advantage of Turbogears is that it is built out of several existing projects that have had lots of use and development, SQLObject (for Object-Relational mapping) and CherryPy.
Actually, I see cherry picking (no pun intended) as a disadvantage to Python. You have all these disjunct components created by different groups not necessarily designed to be used together. (This argument also applies to the Java lanscape, too.)
On the other hand, Rails was created by a core group with all components tightly integrated, using the same naming, API, and logical conventions. It's a one-stop shop for an entire framework.
Frankly, I think "includes useless junk" is a ricer argument. Disk space is *very cheap*. Your *time* wasted tuning diskpace is priceless.
Cluttering up the menu with useless junk when trying to find the program you want to run does indeed waste priceless time. It is not a ricer argument. It's a usability argument.
I think the real purpose of putting this in the GPL is to sucker people into GPLing their own code. If you create something really useful internally and GPL fanatics get wind of it, you can bet their intrepretation of distribution will be very broad.
Yeah, like Google, who runs a custom Linux kernel. Sure would be nice to get ahold of that. You don't hear anybody clamoring for it and claiming to have rights to it now do you?
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I wish Americans would stop using "gas" when they mean gasoline. Over here we have cars running on actual gas, as in, vapor hydrocarbon.
I'm so sorry our language confuses you. Let me see if I can gather everybody up in the country and get them to change a fundamental word in their vocabulary just to make you happy.
Please explain why tabs on top are "ridiculous".
Also, it appears the only reason you think the Chrome UI is inferior to Firefox's is because you're used to Firefox. And you know what, it's perfectly reasonable to say "I stay with Firefox because I'm used to the UI". But to say you don't use Chrome because it's not Firefox is patently ridiculous.
Trillions? I need to see those numbers.
While I agree it's much harder than many people here seem to let on I think you might be too far on the other side.
Not every single device in the world must be switched to IPv6. Only devices that require they be publicly routable might be affected. And even among those. it's not like IPv4 addresses will disappear over night so there's no reason for existing users to necessarily migrate over. This significantly reduces the problem. There's no reason that companies that have vast internal networks on 10.0.0.0/8 need to switch to IPv6. That would be a giant waste of money for them.
By some estimates Firefox has over 270 million users. That is less than 2 cents a user. Can somebody tell me where to send my 2 cents (literally) so I can get on with watching adorable cats struggle to stay awake.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, that you're not their target audience?
I have seen chefs put lobsters in the freezer so they (presumably) go to sleep and die quietly.
Is this more or less humane I wonder.
Well, think about it. Would you rather get stuck in the freezer and die or stuck in a human sized oven and be cooked? The answer seems completely obvious to me. (It's frozen if you were unable to guess.)
That's like saying since drag racing cars are the fastest cars everybody should be driving one.
I think that the fact that we are here, almost 14 billion years after the universe began, is a good indication that it's not possible to "crash" the universe.
The original numbers plugged in the Drake Equation estimated 10 intelligent civilizations in our own galaxy. Since there are more than 100 billion galaxies, that means there could potentially be more than 1 trillion advanced civilizations.
I would bet at least 1 out of that trillion are much more advanced than us and have managed not to "crash" the universe. Whatever the hell that means.
How do you think progress is made? At any given point in time there will be one bottleneck in a system. Things progress by removing the bottlenecks one by one. You fix the slowest part and then move on to the next slowest part. Over time, the system as a whole evolves to become faster as its parts do.
If it exposes problems upstream then great! It means we have removed a bottleneck and the next worst one will be fixed. Otherwise companies will just say "well there's no demand from consumers so we don't need to improve our infrastructure."
In case you missed it, we're in a globalized economy. This means problems in one country can have negative consequences for another:
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Because WINE is not an emulator. It's an implementation of the win32 API. Windows binaries are x86 so they have to run on an x86 platform if they are to run natively. That's why you can run 3D games with it--there's no overhead involved so they can run at their native speeds.
RTFA. You're over-reacting, not to mention a complete moron.
This isn't about hiring or firing. It's about logistics. Computers can analyze historical data and trends much faster than a human ever could. It can make decisions about what foods need to be cooked and how much to satisfy demand, decrease wait times, and minimize waste. This is what computers are good at.
There's always some idiot who thinks the next technological advancement is going to spell doom for the human race. They're just insecure.
There's a reason we're also still using the combustion engine: it's cheap and it works. It's also been vastly improved over time.
It's like you're saying your Honda Accord needs to be replaced by some new technology because it's the same thing as a Model T. It's obviously not. And the technology nor infrastructure does not yet exist to efficiently replace it.
The same concept applies here. We'll have something "new" as you say when the technology is available at a reasonable price.
And those old-fangled music player things used to be called walkmans. They worked pretty well. They were old, black, got the job done. People used them with their $5 headphones from Wal-Mart.
And then there was the iPod.
I think you're underestimating the market and an entire generation of people. Young, the desire to be hip, and lots of disposable income. It's a marketer's dream. Computing will only continue to be more integrated into everyday life. And if you don't think somebody won't capitalize on making it a status symbol I think you're sorely mistaking. Apple is definitely on the way to capturing it.
Why would multiple users be using it at a time? The main use case for NTFS is recovery and people who need access to their files on dual boot laptops and desktops.
You can change the memory allocation in VMWare Player. Player -> Troubleshoot -> Change memory allocation. I'd say putting it under troubleshoot is rather far-fetched. I guess for lesser tech people they might consider not having enough memory a "problem" which should be troubleshooted, but I see it more as a configuration option.
On Linux you just need to install ruby1.8 then download the gems package from online, install it, then do "gem install --remote rails". After that it's easy to keep things up-to-date and install more Ruby add-ons. I've never had any trouble.
Some stuff is currently not doable using only closed source software. By your logic, that makes it useless and open source the only option.
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He's talking about a modular components of the overall architecture, not the design of the Linux and NT kernels.
Linux is more modular in that, for example, Firefox is not embedded into the core of the operating system, as Internet Explorer is. You can swap one component out (say GNOME for KDE) and not affect the rest of the system.
There will be another Ubuntu release sometime in October (if they continue to follow their schedule, maybe Novemeber if this push back is reflected in the next release). Even given that, how will this release be competing with Vista? Nobody even knows for sure when Vista is coming out.
On the other hand, Rails was created by a core group with all components tightly integrated, using the same naming, API, and logical conventions. It's a one-stop shop for an entire framework.
Most users don't even know what the hell an RSS feed is. Much less will they be calmoring for the Microsoft specific one. This is not an issue.
Right, because we all know how well that UN thing has turned out.
Yeah, like Google, who runs a custom Linux kernel. Sure would be nice to get ahold of that. You don't hear anybody clamoring for it and claiming to have rights to it now do you?