Of course not since there are no true prophecies that have come true. I use prophecy as the second definition: 2. a prediction or guess. My guess was based on earlier experiences in other countries and the overall opinion I have of politicians.
If the fish is stupid enough to try and climb a tree, then maybe it is stupid. But anyway, people are not animals and can overcome their physical (and more harder the mental) limitations. So the comparison don't make sense.
For example, there is still no 64 bit build for Firefox or Chromium, for Windows. Why? Because of the 64 bit policy of Microsoft. If Microsoft would came in 2001 with a Windows XP 64 bit for home users, so that every consumer could upgrade to 8GB RAM and more, then we would see a lot more 64 bit software that can leverage the available RAM for speed and features.
Why are you assume that I expect for people to write their own programs? Software will catch up and push the limits if more RAM is available. That was always the case. The problem is that the standard amount of RAM in laptops and desktops is sadly still 4GB, because of Windows. That is why your software is not making use of more then 4 GB RAM even if you upgrade to 8 GB.
My argument was, if not for Windows and their policy on 64 bit, we would have by now a standard of 32GB or more RAM in laptops and desktops, because of market pressure. And also, we would have software today that would use that amount of RAM for speed or features.
But sadly, because of Windows and their policy on 64 bit, the current standard is still 4 GB RAM. And that is why you don't have software that leverage more then 4 GB RAM, even if you have more available.
Just ignore my whole point of my post, that software and hardware are at a cycle and are pushing each other. Why are you not using DOS with Lotus 123 on a 128MB box if all you need is to fetch your emails?
Ok true, I should have written "more speed _and_ more features". Because with more RAM you can have either more speed (even by just caching) or more features, like indexing of your emails.
To say that "the user don't need more RAM because even with 8GB RAM you have xxxx GB free RAM" is like saying "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."
The simple fact that RAM access is an 2 orders of magnitude faster then any hard disk or SSD will make your computer faster if you have more RAM. Even the SSD trend is an extension of that argument, because SSDs are basically RAM chips (of course their memory is not destroyed after power off and they are connected through the SATA interface, instead of the much faster BUS).
To make it clear, anyone who believes this filter will stop at porn or to protect children is on cloud 7. This push is not about that. It is to apply a filter to content that the government can not control. The filter is here the goal. And any means is just to get popular opinion to support it.
Once this filter is in place the scope will increase incrementally, with every new legislation round. Copyright holders will push to include sites like ThePirateBay, never mind TPB is listing a lot of legal torrents; it will include radio streams that somehow slipped paying the PPL;
Later of course the filter will include "terrorists sites". And more later any critics and articles on the government politics and programs, that are deemed crucial "national security", like the Snowden leaks.
The press like the Guardian have rights like freedom of the press. But the Internet does not have any rights. There is no right to Twitter or to Blog.
Interesting. But does DEC had compatibility with x86? Because of Windows you must have compatibility with x86, or you must be as big as Intel so that Microsoft partners and develop an extra Windows for you, like for the IA64 arch. That is also why AMD64 won, at least I think it was one of the main reasons.
Right. If it were true that there was no demand for faster hardware then why do CPU and GPU pushing for faster chips?
Hardware and software are always at a cycle, one pushing the other. You can have more RAM? You get software that uses that RAM. You get more CPU cores? You will get software that pushes for more CPU cores, etc. That was always so, and with every computer component. CPU, GPU, Hard Disks, Monitors, Resolutions.
But somehow it stops on 4GB RAM? More RAM means _always_ more speed. It is a basic concept in IT that you can always trade RAM usage for speed. More RAM usage, the faster the algorithm and vice versa. Because RAM is so much more faster then hard disk access and that includes SSDs.
I'm a software developer and Linux user. If I could have 64GB RAM it would be a dream. I could put the whole Fedora Linux in my RAM, all applications would start at a blink of my eye. Other then to save data the hard disk would not be accessed. Battery life would improve dramatically.
Those days are years in the rear view now though. I upgraded all of my laptops from 8GB to 16GB of RAM recently,
Proves my point doesn't it? Because now finally you can get a Windows with good 64 bit support.
I'm just not using more than 8GB very often, unless I get crazy with the number of web browser tabs going at once.
Because you don't have the software today. Because of the 6 years gap of no progress. But imagine if you could have 8GB 6 or 8 years ego.
Sadly it's not true. I really wish we would already have 32GB RAM or more as default for desktop or laptop computers. But (in my opinion) Windows stopped the progress with their inability to implement Windows 64 bit. Only Windows 7 got finally 64 bit as the norm.
As far as I understand, Windows XP 64 was developed in 2001 for the Intel IA64 arch., not the AMD64 (x86_64) arch. Then later came Windows XP Professional x64 Edition in 2005 for the AMD64 arch. But of course being "Professional" most of the end-users does not got it from their OEMs. So almost all of the desktop and laptops have used Windows XP Home Edition.
Windows 7 came 2009 and brought finally 64 support for "Home" users. So from 2003 to 2009 most home users don't knew anything about 64 bit and could not use more then 4GB RAM. Of course Linux was the first kernel to support AMD64 in 2001.
Given the hard competition in the OEMs market for laptops and desktops, I think get a +12GB or +24GB edge would be really good to have. Since also Windows was not really know for performance and double the RAM would mean double the speed. Given the price for RAM it would costs the OEMs nothing. But the maximum was 4 GB for years and so the OEMs could not compete by increasing the RAM.
Now we still only get 6 or 8 GB in laptops, in "business" or "gamer" laptops. By now the standard should be 64GB RAM and more. Given that anything else have increased rapidly, like CPU and GPU speed, L1/L2 cache RAM, hard disk size.
No he or she does NOT have a "fundamental right" to profit off his or her created work. Where is this "fundamental right" to make profit bullshit comes from? In no other industry or service anybody is claiming some magical "fundamental right" to make profit. So where is this bullshit comes from for authors?
Copyright law is a state granted monopoly right to copy and distribute works of art. There is no limit on how little copyright protection the government can give. The copyright term can be 0 years. There just is no "fundamental right".
The report says that instead of simply throwing people in jail those suspected of stealing could be fined if they did not reply to warnings, with a relatively low fine (€60) to begin, and the size of the fine would increase depending on the number of infractions. (change mine)
Ah brave new world. And some people are asking me why I have such strong opinion on copyright. Because to serve a few special interests we throw every common sense out the window, we criminalize whole demographics for a crime that have no impact on anything. We reward monopolies, stifle our culture and create legal frameworks that would be just brain-dead for any real property.
The new government agency is headed by a board of nine members, three appointed by the government, two by the legislative bodies, three by judicial bodies and one by the Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique (Superior Council of Artistic and Literary Property), a government council responsible to the French Ministry of Culture.[15] The agency is vested with the power to police Internet users.
So you have some people, 6 from the current legislative, 3 from the judicial to "police Internet users". You know, normally the power to "police" is given to the executive, the judicial are the courts and assume innocent before proven guilty and the legislative forging out the laws. This is usually called "Separation of powers".
To ensure that internet subscribers "screen their internet connections in order to prevent the exchange of copyrighted material without prior agreement from the copyright holders"
Ah ok. So I am suppose to know in advance that the web site have the copyrights to present me the content? How am I suppose to do that? How am I suppose to know if the work is already in public domains, is licensed under a free license like the Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/who-uses-cc which about over 100,000,000 works are using the CC license or the site have some contract with the publisher?
(1) An email message is sent to the offending internet access subscriber, derived from the IP address involved in the claim. The email specifies the time of the claim but neither the object of the claim nor the identity of the claimant.
What email address are they using? My gmail address? My company address? My hotmail or yahoo address? There is no law that requires me to register an email address with the government.
I could go on. You can read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law This bill stinks. It is a shame for a democratic country. It is a shame for Europe.
Ah ok I don't use Pidgin nor Gchar. But it beats the Windows model in which every app have an icon and pop-ups separately. I sure think you can just switch to "BRB" or "Do not disturb" mode in Pidgin.
I find the notifications in KDE the best of the whole desktop (maybe a little bit exaggerated). It stays out of my way and only shows up if something noteworthy have happened. But if I need the information about the current process I have a very informative window.
I very much like how KDE have integrated the notifications in one widget, for copy, download, system updates, errors, etc. Windows for example have not manage to do that at all.
What a BS. Do you know how easy it is to prevent a "cyber attack" on the light infrastructure? JUST DON"T PLUG THE LIGHTS TO THE INTERNET. You know, either create a local LAN or use a VPN. It's called a "virtual private network" and you can not hack it from the internet. To get the idea please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Virtual_Private_Network_overview.svg See the grey cloud? That's the Internet and it have no access what-so-ever to the VPN.
The only risk is an insider with access to the local LAN or VPN. But if you have an insider then he or she can do much more harm then switch off the lights.
The command "poweroff" will shutdown the computer and kill all applications without any further confirmations. Now you only need to bind the command to the poweroff button.
In KDE4 you can also just set "Shutdown" to the event "When power button pressed" in the "Energy Savings" settings panel.
In KDE4 I just go "Menu Button" -> "Computer" -> "System Settings" -> "Power Management" -> and there is "Button events handling: When laptop lid is closed / When power button pressed". There I can set up anything I like. For "On AC Power" "On Battery" "On Low Power".
First, the kernel developers have a strict policy for not breaking API or ABI with applications. See for example: Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug "Userspace" means applications. Secondly, the developers of low level stuff like GUI toolkids (Qt, KDE, GDK+, PluseAudio, etc) are also very strict about breaking compatibility.
On the plus side, Linux don't costs you anything. It's not like you have to pay 80 or 100 Euro to update from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze. When Debian Squeeze was finished you just download it and update your system. Costs you maybe half a hour time.
Oh I think it will have a negative economic effect, on the ads firms. But that is a broken window fallacy. If the ads firms do not contribute to economic growth in the first place, then money spend on them is wasted money, just like the military spending. So the money spend useless on the ads firms is now spend for more productive use.
I don't know anyhow how that logic is suppose to work. "We remove ads, it causes $X economic harm" No, because the $X that is not spend on ads is spend somewhere else. It's not like the city major of Sau Paulo is going to burn the $X moneys that was spend on ads.
An economic is a closed system. Money that was not spend on A is either saved or it is spend on B. It is not gone. Maybe ads are really useless and are really a drag on the economy, like copyrights and patent trolls.
See, that is why you are a hypocrite. Oh how glad the developers of PHPBB must be that dgatwood is using their software. In that discussions I sometime wish that there would be no GPL, AGPL or BSD or any other open source software so that people like you would not get a free ride.
Interesting, and also proves my point. 9/11 is very real, it's not a movie. So of course people can be traumatized by it. The same is if you show real violence to people, even in movie form. Like a CCTV clip, or a police video.
I don't know why it's so difficult to understand. Virtual, fake, violence is not real. People can watch and even enjoy virtual violence because they know that it's not real. Case in point, every action, horror, splatter, thriller, etc. movie. But if it's real, then people know it's real and are affected completely different.
But you also need to know about "we vs. them" psychology, People also react and affected differently depending what group is done violence against. If the group is a "we" group, then we are affected. If the group is a "them" group people are not affected. That explains genocide, enjoyment of gladiator fights and so on.
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Of course not since there are no true prophecies that have come true. I use prophecy as the second definition: 2. a prediction or guess. My guess was based on earlier experiences in other countries and the overall opinion I have of politicians.
In the news of http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/07/16/0030227/leaked-letter-shows-uk-isps-and-government-at-war-over-default-filters
I have prophesied that it is not about porn and that the filter will expand beyond porn.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3977245&cid=44294083
If the fish is stupid enough to try and climb a tree, then maybe it is stupid.
But anyway, people are not animals and can overcome their physical (and more harder the mental) limitations. So the comparison don't make sense.
For example, there is still no 64 bit build for Firefox or Chromium, for Windows. Why? Because of the 64 bit policy of Microsoft. If Microsoft would came in 2001 with a Windows XP 64 bit for home users, so that every consumer could upgrade to 8GB RAM and more, then we would see a lot more 64 bit software that can leverage the available RAM for speed and features.
Why are you assume that I expect for people to write their own programs?
Software will catch up and push the limits if more RAM is available. That was always the case. The problem is that the standard amount of RAM in laptops and desktops is sadly still 4GB, because of Windows. That is why your software is not making use of more then 4 GB RAM even if you upgrade to 8 GB.
My argument was, if not for Windows and their policy on 64 bit, we would have by now a standard of 32GB or more RAM in laptops and desktops, because of market pressure. And also, we would have software today that would use that amount of RAM for speed or features.
But sadly, because of Windows and their policy on 64 bit, the current standard is still 4 GB RAM. And that is why you don't have software that leverage more then 4 GB RAM, even if you have more available.
Just ignore my whole point of my post, that software and hardware are at a cycle and are pushing each other. Why are you not using DOS with Lotus 123 on a 128MB box if all you need is to fetch your emails?
Ok true, I should have written "more speed _and_ more features". Because with more RAM you can have either more speed (even by just caching) or more features, like indexing of your emails.
To say that "the user don't need more RAM because even with 8GB RAM you have xxxx GB free RAM" is like saying "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."
The simple fact that RAM access is an 2 orders of magnitude faster then any hard disk or SSD will make your computer faster if you have more RAM. Even the SSD trend is an extension of that argument, because SSDs are basically RAM chips (of course their memory is not destroyed after power off and they are connected through the SATA interface, instead of the much faster BUS).
To make it clear, anyone who believes this filter will stop at porn or to protect children is on cloud 7.
This push is not about that. It is to apply a filter to content that the government can not control. The filter is here the goal. And any means is just to get popular opinion to support it.
Once this filter is in place the scope will increase incrementally, with every new legislation round. Copyright holders will push to include sites like ThePirateBay, never mind TPB is listing a lot of legal torrents; it will include radio streams that somehow slipped paying the PPL;
Later of course the filter will include "terrorists sites". And more later any critics and articles on the government politics and programs, that are deemed crucial "national security", like the Snowden leaks.
The press like the Guardian have rights like freedom of the press. But the Internet does not have any rights. There is no right to Twitter or to Blog.
Interesting. But does DEC had compatibility with x86?
Because of Windows you must have compatibility with x86, or you must be as big as Intel so that Microsoft partners and develop an extra Windows for you, like for the IA64 arch. That is also why AMD64 won, at least I think it was one of the main reasons.
Right. If it were true that there was no demand for faster hardware then why do CPU and GPU pushing for faster chips?
Hardware and software are always at a cycle, one pushing the other. You can have more RAM? You get software that uses that RAM. You get more CPU cores? You will get software that pushes for more CPU cores, etc. That was always so, and with every computer component. CPU, GPU, Hard Disks, Monitors, Resolutions.
But somehow it stops on 4GB RAM?
More RAM means _always_ more speed. It is a basic concept in IT that you can always trade RAM usage for speed. More RAM usage, the faster the algorithm and vice versa. Because RAM is so much more faster then hard disk access and that includes SSDs.
I'm a software developer and Linux user. If I could have 64GB RAM it would be a dream. I could put the whole Fedora Linux in my RAM, all applications would start at a blink of my eye. Other then to save data the hard disk would not be accessed. Battery life would improve dramatically.
Those days are years in the rear view now though. I upgraded all of my laptops from 8GB to 16GB of RAM recently,
Proves my point doesn't it? Because now finally you can get a Windows with good 64 bit support.
I'm just not using more than 8GB very often, unless I get crazy with the number of web browser tabs going at once.
Because you don't have the software today. Because of the 6 years gap of no progress. But imagine if you could have 8GB 6 or 8 years ego.
Sadly it's not true. I really wish we would already have 32GB RAM or more as default for desktop or laptop computers. But (in my opinion) Windows stopped the progress with their inability to implement Windows 64 bit. Only Windows 7 got finally 64 bit as the norm.
As far as I understand, Windows XP 64 was developed in 2001 for the Intel IA64 arch., not the AMD64 (x86_64) arch. Then later came Windows XP Professional x64 Edition in 2005 for the AMD64 arch. But of course being "Professional" most of the end-users does not got it from their OEMs. So almost all of the desktop and laptops have used Windows XP Home Edition.
Windows 7 came 2009 and brought finally 64 support for "Home" users. So from 2003 to 2009 most home users don't knew anything about 64 bit and could not use more then 4GB RAM. Of course Linux was the first kernel to support AMD64 in 2001.
Given the hard competition in the OEMs market for laptops and desktops, I think get a +12GB or +24GB edge would be really good to have. Since also Windows was not really know for performance and double the RAM would mean double the speed. Given the price for RAM it would costs the OEMs nothing. But the maximum was 4 GB for years and so the OEMs could not compete by increasing the RAM.
Now we still only get 6 or 8 GB in laptops, in "business" or "gamer" laptops. By now the standard should be 64GB RAM and more. Given that anything else have increased rapidly, like CPU and GPU speed, L1/L2 cache RAM, hard disk size.
No he or she does NOT have a "fundamental right" to profit off his or her created work.
Where is this "fundamental right" to make profit bullshit comes from? In no other industry or service anybody is claiming some magical "fundamental right" to make profit. So where is this bullshit comes from for authors?
Copyright law is a state granted monopoly right to copy and distribute works of art. There is no limit on how little copyright protection the government can give. The copyright term can be 0 years. There just is no "fundamental right".
The report says that instead of simply throwing people in jail those suspected of stealing could be fined if they did not reply to warnings, with a relatively low fine (€60) to begin, and the size of the fine would increase depending on the number of infractions. (change mine)
Ah brave new world. And some people are asking me why I have such strong opinion on copyright. Because to serve a few special interests we throw every common sense out the window, we criminalize whole demographics for a crime that have no impact on anything. We reward monopolies, stifle our culture and create legal frameworks that would be just brain-dead for any real property.
The new government agency is headed by a board of nine members, three appointed by the government, two by the legislative bodies, three by judicial bodies and one by the Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique (Superior Council of Artistic and Literary Property), a government council responsible to the French Ministry of Culture.[15] The agency is vested with the power to police Internet users.
So you have some people, 6 from the current legislative, 3 from the judicial to "police Internet users". You know, normally the power to "police" is given to the executive, the judicial are the courts and assume innocent before proven guilty and the legislative forging out the laws. This is usually called "Separation of powers".
To ensure that internet subscribers "screen their internet connections in order to prevent the exchange of copyrighted material without prior agreement from the copyright holders"
Ah ok. So I am suppose to know in advance that the web site have the copyrights to present me the content? How am I suppose to do that? How am I suppose to know if the work is already in public domains, is licensed under a free license like the Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/who-uses-cc which about over 100,000,000 works are using the CC license or the site have some contract with the publisher?
(1) An email message is sent to the offending internet access subscriber, derived from the IP address involved in the claim. The email specifies the time of the claim but neither the object of the claim nor the identity of the claimant.
What email address are they using? My gmail address? My company address? My hotmail or yahoo address? There is no law that requires me to register an email address with the government.
I could go on. You can read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law
This bill stinks. It is a shame for a democratic country. It is a shame for Europe.
Ah ok I don't use Pidgin nor Gchar.
But it beats the Windows model in which every app have an icon and pop-ups separately. I sure think you can just switch to "BRB" or "Do not disturb" mode in Pidgin.
I find the notifications in KDE the best of the whole desktop (maybe a little bit exaggerated).
It stays out of my way and only shows up if something noteworthy have happened. But if I need the information about the current process I have a very informative window.
I very much like how KDE have integrated the notifications in one widget, for copy, download, system updates, errors, etc. Windows for example have not manage to do that at all.
What a BS. Do you know how easy it is to prevent a "cyber attack" on the light infrastructure? JUST DON"T PLUG THE LIGHTS TO THE INTERNET. You know, either create a local LAN or use a VPN. It's called a "virtual private network" and you can not hack it from the internet. To get the idea please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Virtual_Private_Network_overview.svg
See the grey cloud? That's the Internet and it have no access what-so-ever to the VPN.
The only risk is an insider with access to the local LAN or VPN. But if you have an insider then he or she can do much more harm then switch off the lights.
The command "poweroff" will shutdown the computer and kill all applications without any further confirmations. Now you only need to bind the command to the poweroff button.
In KDE4 you can also just set "Shutdown" to the event "When power button pressed" in the "Energy Savings" settings panel.
In KDE4 I just go "Menu Button" -> "Computer" -> "System Settings" -> "Power Management" -> and there is "Button events handling: When laptop lid is closed / When power button pressed".
There I can set up anything I like. For "On AC Power" "On Battery" "On Low Power".
> Try to make it so your screen wont blank using GUI tools
What that even suppose to mean?
> The control panel is missing well over 50 elements compared to win or mac.
Like what?
PS: I'm a full time Linux user, Fedora with KDE4.
Sorry that is just not true.
First, the kernel developers have a strict policy for not breaking API or ABI with applications.
See for example: Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug "Userspace" means applications.
Secondly, the developers of low level stuff like GUI toolkids (Qt, KDE, GDK+, PluseAudio, etc) are also very strict about breaking compatibility.
On the plus side, Linux don't costs you anything. It's not like you have to pay 80 or 100 Euro to update from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze. When Debian Squeeze was finished you just download it and update your system. Costs you maybe half a hour time.
Good point.
OMG I love Sao Paulo, I wish I would live there.
Oh I think it will have a negative economic effect, on the ads firms.
But that is a broken window fallacy. If the ads firms do not contribute to economic growth in the first place, then money spend on them is wasted money, just like the military spending. So the money spend useless on the ads firms is now spend for more productive use.
I don't know anyhow how that logic is suppose to work. "We remove ads, it causes $X economic harm" No, because the $X that is not spend on ads is spend somewhere else. It's not like the city major of Sau Paulo is going to burn the $X moneys that was spend on ads.
An economic is a closed system. Money that was not spend on A is either saved or it is spend on B. It is not gone.
Maybe ads are really useless and are really a drag on the economy, like copyrights and patent trolls.
See, that is why you are a hypocrite.
Oh how glad the developers of PHPBB must be that dgatwood is using their software.
In that discussions I sometime wish that there would be no GPL, AGPL or BSD or any other open source software so that people like you would not get a free ride.
Then you need to define "excessive" which is a subjective term.
Interesting, and also proves my point.
9/11 is very real, it's not a movie. So of course people can be traumatized by it.
The same is if you show real violence to people, even in movie form. Like a CCTV clip, or a police video.
I don't know why it's so difficult to understand. Virtual, fake, violence is not real.
People can watch and even enjoy virtual violence because they know that it's not real. Case in point, every action, horror, splatter, thriller, etc. movie.
But if it's real, then people know it's real and are affected completely different.
But you also need to know about "we vs. them" psychology, People also react and affected differently depending what group is done violence against. If the group is a "we" group, then we are affected. If the group is a "them" group people are not affected. That explains genocide, enjoyment of gladiator fights and so on.