Nice. Now the USA troops can kill civilians much easier that are try to hid behind a wall. Like 864,531 in Iraq and 8,813 in Afghanistan. That's like a ratio of 1:317, American to Muslims (there was 8813 civilians killed in the 9/11 attacks). My sources was a quick Google search, and particular this My guess is if you Government get to a ratio of 1:500 then 9/11 was avenged enough. You still wonder why the Muslims hate the USA so much?
After fiddling with settings for hours, I concluded it's too much work to get settings to suit my taste. Do a setting here, and something else doesn't work quite how you want it. Try a setting there, and it doesn't do what you expect, or you see no effect at all. Only to find later there was some override that caused previous setting to be ignored.
Can you give a few examples? Everything in KDE can be setup in the Settings. It's pretty stread forward and easy to do. But you really don't need to "fiddling" with it for hours. The KDE desktop is easy to use out of the box.
More than 40 million people plan to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to AAA, with more than 1.6 million flying — a 3.5 percent increase from last year.
And a 75% decrease from 2000, but never mind that.
The problem is the screening, not what pictures are taken. The screening is unnecessary, an annoyance and an invade of privacy. Even if all pictures are distorted, blurred or are just icons, the screener scans me naked. And that for a 1 in a million chance that a terrorist could possible hide a bomb between his legs? More people die because of a lighting bolts.
You can scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit. Yet multiplying 357 by 289, a task that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves most of us struggling.
Isn't it how you define processing? For a computer it don't make any difference if you process 5*5 or 123565*435456, because the internal representation of the numbers and the hardware paths are basically the same for both tasks. But our brain is a highly specialized device, specialized on tasks that help us to survive in the good old jungle.
So the task to multiply 357 by 289 takes only for our computers a puny amount of processing, because our computers are specialized on this tasks, but for our brain in takes a high amount of processing, because it is specialized for different tasks.
There are for some reasons FPGAs out there which will improve the speed for a specialized task by 10 or 100 times.
Put simply, ISPs are being given the option to offer a "premium" service to those data suppliers who wish for their content to be delivered at a "premium" rate, at a premium price, thereby improving their perceived web experience.
Are the ISPs going to build new premium lines for this service? Why can't they do it now, build a new faster line and sell it?
If they don't going to build new lines then they have to slow down everybody else, and the ones with are paying more will have the same speed (i.e. the speed that ISPs usually selling, the maximum speed of the line).
Do they have included an anti-virtus application that needs to be installed and constantly running in the background for Windows XP and Windows 7?
Do they have included in the benchmark that in Windows 7 Starter edition the user can't even change the desktop background and the Visual Styles? Furthermore, if you are a small business user you have to buy the more expensive Windows 7 Professional edition so you can use your Windows in your network.
Not only you don't need the constant performance drain anti-virus but all Ubuntu versions are Enterprise versions.
You writing so much BS but the problem is that people do believe you and foster their prejudice.
I work with Java applications every day and so do thousands of other developers. Java is widely used in the enterprise world, for client side and server side. The Java applications I use are very stable, very fast and very convenient. The tools and libraries that I use to develop applications are very stable, well tested and good designed. As a bonus I'm not tied to use Windows and all the tools I need are free of charge and open source.
If I would judge applications and languages like you, I would also say to you "Go make a good $YOU_LANGUAGE_HERE app". Maybe you should just stop using bad applications and start and using good ones? I don't know, just name the bad applications that you are using.
So why you hate Java? Because it gives you a powerful VM, which can be used to run multiple languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, Scala, and many more), because it gives you powerful and free development tools (Eclipse, Netbeas, Idea, Maven, Ant, and many more), because it have a very big open source community with free and enterprise ready libraries (like Apache, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse RCP, and many more)? Because you can write application for Windows, Linux, MacOS, desktop and server applications? Keep in mind that all tools involving Java are mostly open source and free of charge and can be run system independent, and that is why you hate Java?
You mean one of those Visual Studios that took over 5 minutes to load a project? I have used VS2008 and VS2010 and both took way more time to startup and load a project on the same machine as my Eclipse. Furthermore, I didn't had any plugins for VS installed, so it didn't tool longer but it was less useful as Eclipse, too.
The overall GUI was slower then Eclipse, too. So I'm really don't know why the people post on forums that Eclipse is slow or whatever and I don't have a high-end computer either. Maybe you can make a video so I can see it for myself?
And there is again the half-knowledge of Java. First, you are free to make such "plugins" with JNI, which you can write C/C++ code and use it in Java. That is how SWT works, the OpenGL Java implementation, and the extensions on MacOS for SWT/Swing. You are free to write your performance critic code in C/C++ and use all the SEE you like.
Second, JavaME have already a ton of extensions, and have profiles. That is the problem with JavaME, that there is no one JavaME for all mobile phones but more or less forked JavaMEs for each mobile phone. Google is successful with Android, because you have only the Android platform and can develop vendor neutral.
Last, the common ground with JavaSE or JavaEE is very much needed and appreciated so as the developer you can say that your application will behave the same on different platforms.
Or maybe you just talking crap? Eclipse, Netbeans, Freemind, Visual Paradigm, Lotus Symphony. All have a lot of users and I'm using Eclipse all the time. For GUI apps I couldn't care less what language is used, for them are 99,99% of the time waiting for user input. In fact, sometimes Firefox is way slower then Eclipse.
What people don't realize is that only because an application is written in C or C++ you don't need the same amount of code and abstractions that you have with the JVM. You need memory management, exceptions, logging, threading, etc. You need it all in a "native" application, and the JVM is a "native" application anyway (it's written in C++). So what you have in Java is a tiny bit more abstraction, which gives you so much more productivity for the developer.
Then don't call it a book sale, or selling books or buying books. Here, an example. Do you see right the button with the text "Buy Now with 1-Click" and it's even more expensive than the hard-cover you can buy.
Call it "licensing" or "renting". Anything else it's just false advertisement and untruthful.
And what that have to do with Open Source? You must be new to I.T. because this happens all the time. Recently Microsoft stated that Silverlight will be more for the Windows Phone and developers should focusing more on HTML5. With Open Source it's more transparent so maybe you have the impression that it's happening more often.
If Wayland will be good, then more distributions will use it but someone have to start to test it otherwise we never know if Wayland is better or not.
"Welcome to the world of Software and I.T. where everything is in a perpetual state of development and a finished release is just a pipe-dream"
If looking at your USER_AGENT reduces the spread between what they promise and what they get, it makes sense for them to do it. But don't let that get in the way of your populist rage.
Fine by me, can you please explain why a FF user will more likely to like a higher promised rate then a Chrome or IE user? Or is your reasoning that a FF user will get a higher rate anyway then a Chrome and IE user? You can argue that a Safari user would get a lower rate because he have more money to spend on Macs, or that a Firefox user is so smart that he/she will not believe in such low rates anyway. But that reasoning is really on thin ice.
I don't think they will ask you what browser you are using if you actually apply for a credit?
Don't worry, maybe in 5 years we will have it for the PC as well. With the Cloud and SaaS it's easier.
Why are people are get along with it? It's not only the marketplace, which now everybody sells as the best thing since sliced bread, not only the kill switches on their e-book readers and smartphones, but the general DRM scheme and the EULAs and licenses. I observe, that if it's software or a digital work, the customers are going to live with every abuse the provider can get away with. I always laugh if I think how different people think with real objects that they buy in contrast of a digital work. Like if you buy a book, you think it's your property and not just a license; you think you can read it however you like; you can do with it whatever you like. In contrast with a DVD with you have the only right to watch it, on predefined devices, on predefined times (you can't skip advertisement).
IE9 don't run on Linux, neither does IE8. Just tried to install it for fun, and see if how IE looks now. Didn't used IE since IE6 with Windows 2000, or something.
an advertisement is essentially a form of seduction.
No, it's not. Ads are so you see and hear the product so next time you have a choice you will choose the one that you know. That's why there is no such thing as bad publicity and that's why the companies are paying for ads online, even if only 1% of the site visitors really click on that ad. That's why in the TV they always try to interrupt your show and that's why there are so many banners in car racing, which are only the company name.
This is a good thing. Aren't we always harping on about Facebook/Google deliberatly violating our privacy? This guy is suggesting a mechanism whereby that kind of privacy violation can be limited, and everyone immediatly leaps to censorship hysteria.
Why can't we take then Facebook/Google to the court why we need to involve the ISPs? You can take any other company to the court what makes Google or Facebook so special that we need to have the ISPs involved?
You can already sue your Daily Mail or your local super market for slander and demand that they pay and remove the offensive content. What makes companies on the internet so special?
And do you know why we see now the multi-touch technology used everywhere and every company is so aggressive to push it? Because the multi-touch technology was developed in the 1980/1990 years and now all the patents on the basic technologies are expiring. What all the companies are now doing is to improve on the expired patents and get their own patents to sue the competition.
It's like why the price for pills and medicine is dropping significant after the patents expired and you start to see only slightly different pills and medicine in the pharmacy to buy instead of the generics. That's also the reason why the pharmacy industry put so much money into advertising the new pills, so the people think that the slightly different pills are so much better instead of the now really cheap generics. For more information visit Wikipedia on Generic Drugs
What patents basically did was to make the multi-touch technology so expensive that the devices were on hold for about 20 years.
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Nice. Now the USA troops can kill civilians much easier that are try to hid behind a wall. Like 864,531 in Iraq and 8,813 in Afghanistan. That's like a ratio of 1:317, American to Muslims (there was 8813 civilians killed in the 9/11 attacks). My sources was a quick Google search, and particular this My guess is if you Government get to a ratio of 1:500 then 9/11 was avenged enough. You still wonder why the Muslims hate the USA so much?
Anyone known on what grounds is USCG suing? As far as I know you need to break a law before anyone can put you before a judge.
After fiddling with settings for hours, I concluded it's too much work to get settings to suit my taste. Do a setting here, and something else doesn't work quite how you want it. Try a setting there, and it doesn't do what you expect, or you see no effect at all. Only to find later there was some override that caused previous setting to be ignored.
Can you give a few examples? Everything in KDE can be setup in the Settings. It's pretty stread forward and easy to do. But you really don't need to "fiddling" with it for hours. The KDE desktop is easy to use out of the box.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/24/state/n000112S70.DTL
More than 40 million people plan to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to AAA, with more than 1.6 million flying — a 3.5 percent increase from last year.
And a 75% decrease from 2000, but never mind that.
The problem is the screening, not what pictures are taken. The screening is unnecessary, an annoyance and an invade of privacy. Even if all pictures are distorted, blurred or are just icons, the screener scans me naked. And that for a 1 in a million chance that a terrorist could possible hide a bomb between his legs? More people die because of a lighting bolts.
You can scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit. Yet multiplying 357 by 289, a task that demands a puny amount of processing, leaves most of us struggling.
Isn't it how you define processing? For a computer it don't make any difference if you process 5*5 or 123565*435456, because the internal representation of the numbers and the hardware paths are basically the same for both tasks. But our brain is a highly specialized device, specialized on tasks that help us to survive in the good old jungle.
So the task to multiply 357 by 289 takes only for our computers a puny amount of processing, because our computers are specialized on this tasks, but for our brain in takes a high amount of processing, because it is specialized for different tasks.
There are for some reasons FPGAs out there which will improve the speed for a specialized task by 10 or 100 times.
Put simply, ISPs are being given the option to offer a "premium" service to those data suppliers who wish for their content to be delivered at a "premium" rate, at a premium price, thereby improving their perceived web experience.
Are the ISPs going to build new premium lines for this service? Why can't they do it now, build a new faster line and sell it?
If they don't going to build new lines then they have to slow down everybody else, and the ones with are paying more will have the same speed (i.e. the speed that ISPs usually selling, the maximum speed of the line).
Strange how the manufacturers don't reflect that in their pricing / OS availability any more.
What a surprise, there is no open market in the operation systems anymore. It all locked down with MS dictating the prices and the hardware.
Do they have included an anti-virtus application that needs to be installed and constantly running in the background for Windows XP and Windows 7?
Do they have included in the benchmark that in Windows 7 Starter edition the user can't even change the desktop background and the Visual Styles? Furthermore, if you are a small business user you have to buy the more expensive Windows 7 Professional edition so you can use your Windows in your network.
Not only you don't need the constant performance drain anti-virus but all Ubuntu versions are Enterprise versions.
Maybe Exchange, Outlook and ActiveDirectory?
You writing so much BS but the problem is that people do believe you and foster their prejudice.
I work with Java applications every day and so do thousands of other developers. Java is widely used in the enterprise world, for client side and server side. The Java applications I use are very stable, very fast and very convenient. The tools and libraries that I use to develop applications are very stable, well tested and good designed. As a bonus I'm not tied to use Windows and all the tools I need are free of charge and open source.
If I would judge applications and languages like you, I would also say to you "Go make a good $YOU_LANGUAGE_HERE app". Maybe you should just stop using bad applications and start and using good ones? I don't know, just name the bad applications that you are using.
So why you hate Java? Because it gives you a powerful VM, which can be used to run multiple languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, Scala, and many more), because it gives you powerful and free development tools (Eclipse, Netbeas, Idea, Maven, Ant, and many more), because it have a very big open source community with free and enterprise ready libraries (like Apache, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse RCP, and many more)? Because you can write application for Windows, Linux, MacOS, desktop and server applications? Keep in mind that all tools involving Java are mostly open source and free of charge and can be run system independent, and that is why you hate Java?
You mean one of those Visual Studios that took over 5 minutes to load a project? I have used VS2008 and VS2010 and both took way more time to startup and load a project on the same machine as my Eclipse. Furthermore, I didn't had any plugins for VS installed, so it didn't tool longer but it was less useful as Eclipse, too.
The overall GUI was slower then Eclipse, too. So I'm really don't know why the people post on forums that Eclipse is slow or whatever and I don't have a high-end computer either. Maybe you can make a video so I can see it for myself?
And there is again the half-knowledge of Java. First, you are free to make such "plugins" with JNI, which you can write C/C++ code and use it in Java. That is how SWT works, the OpenGL Java implementation, and the extensions on MacOS for SWT/Swing. You are free to write your performance critic code in C/C++ and use all the SEE you like.
Second, JavaME have already a ton of extensions, and have profiles. That is the problem with JavaME, that there is no one JavaME for all mobile phones but more or less forked JavaMEs for each mobile phone. Google is successful with Android, because you have only the Android platform and can develop vendor neutral.
Last, the common ground with JavaSE or JavaEE is very much needed and appreciated so as the developer you can say that your application will behave the same on different platforms.
Or maybe you just talking crap? Eclipse, Netbeans, Freemind, Visual Paradigm, Lotus Symphony. All have a lot of users and I'm using Eclipse all the time. For GUI apps I couldn't care less what language is used, for them are 99,99% of the time waiting for user input. In fact, sometimes Firefox is way slower then Eclipse.
What people don't realize is that only because an application is written in C or C++ you don't need the same amount of code and abstractions that you have with the JVM. You need memory management, exceptions, logging, threading, etc. You need it all in a "native" application, and the JVM is a "native" application anyway (it's written in C++). So what you have in Java is a tiny bit more abstraction, which gives you so much more productivity for the developer.
Then don't call it a book sale, or selling books or buying books. Here, an example. Do you see right the button with the text "Buy Now with 1-Click" and it's even more expensive than the hard-cover you can buy.
Call it "licensing" or "renting". Anything else it's just false advertisement and untruthful.
And what that have to do with Open Source? You must be new to I.T. because this happens all the time. Recently Microsoft stated that Silverlight will be more for the Windows Phone and developers should focusing more on HTML5. With Open Source it's more transparent so maybe you have the impression that it's happening more often.
If Wayland will be good, then more distributions will use it but someone have to start to test it otherwise we never know if Wayland is better or not.
"Welcome to the world of Software and I.T. where everything is in a perpetual state of development and a finished release is just a pipe-dream"
If looking at your USER_AGENT reduces the spread between what they promise and what they get, it makes sense for them to do it. But don't let that get in the way of your populist rage.
Fine by me, can you please explain why a FF user will more likely to like a higher promised rate then a Chrome or IE user? Or is your reasoning that a FF user will get a higher rate anyway then a Chrome and IE user? You can argue that a Safari user would get a lower rate because he have more money to spend on Macs, or that a Firefox user is so smart that he/she will not believe in such low rates anyway. But that reasoning is really on thin ice.
I don't think they will ask you what browser you are using if you actually apply for a credit?
Don't worry, maybe in 5 years we will have it for the PC as well. With the Cloud and SaaS it's easier.
Why are people are get along with it? It's not only the marketplace, which now everybody sells as the best thing since sliced bread, not only the kill switches on their e-book readers and smartphones, but the general DRM scheme and the EULAs and licenses. I observe, that if it's software or a digital work, the customers are going to live with every abuse the provider can get away with. I always laugh if I think how different people think with real objects that they buy in contrast of a digital work. Like if you buy a book, you think it's your property and not just a license; you think you can read it however you like; you can do with it whatever you like. In contrast with a DVD with you have the only right to watch it, on predefined devices, on predefined times (you can't skip advertisement).
Another factor that could skew results is the Robopoll effect
How about the Fox effect? On which site is Fox "News" in your country now?
Did you try out Lotus Symphony or Eclipse? It's written 100% Java and it's not slower then OO.org.
IE9 don't run on Linux, neither does IE8. Just tried to install it for fun, and see if how IE looks now. Didn't used IE since IE6 with Windows 2000, or something.
an advertisement is essentially a form of seduction.
No, it's not. Ads are so you see and hear the product so next time you have a choice you will choose the one that you know. That's why there is no such thing as bad publicity and that's why the companies are paying for ads online, even if only 1% of the site visitors really click on that ad. That's why in the TV they always try to interrupt your show and that's why there are so many banners in car racing, which are only the company name.
This is a good thing. Aren't we always harping on about Facebook/Google deliberatly violating our privacy? This guy is suggesting a mechanism whereby that kind of privacy violation can be limited, and everyone immediatly leaps to censorship hysteria.
Why can't we take then Facebook/Google to the court why we need to involve the ISPs? You can take any other company to the court what makes Google or Facebook so special that we need to have the ISPs involved?
You can already sue your Daily Mail or your local super market for slander and demand that they pay and remove the offensive content. What makes companies on the internet so special?
And do you know why we see now the multi-touch technology used everywhere and every company is so aggressive to push it? Because the multi-touch technology was developed in the 1980/1990 years and now all the patents on the basic technologies are expiring. What all the companies are now doing is to improve on the expired patents and get their own patents to sue the competition.
It's like why the price for pills and medicine is dropping significant after the patents expired and you start to see only slightly different pills and medicine in the pharmacy to buy instead of the generics. That's also the reason why the pharmacy industry put so much money into advertising the new pills, so the people think that the slightly different pills are so much better instead of the now really cheap generics. For more information visit Wikipedia on Generic Drugs
What patents basically did was to make the multi-touch technology so expensive that the devices were on hold for about 20 years.