Funnily enough, I can run 64 bit Windows on my 3 year old MBP, but only 32 bit OS X. It appears that the Atheros wireless drivers are 32 bit only on OS X, yet Apple supplies 64 bit versions with BootCamp drivers!
Of course, it's not really that big a deal because 32 bit OS X can run 64 bit apps. It just goes to show though that Apple aren't always that great with their own systems.
Of course I didn't RTFA, but of that 30% that doesn't reach our stomaches, how much is being diverted to keep things like our cars running (e.g. converted to ethanol)?
Because that's not enough, and also not so severe in the places that are growing the fastest. The Economist also ran a special report on this recently. There are other factors such as yields not rising fast enough, destruction of habitats, increasing dependence on poor soils, or diets become more meat heavy (requires more energy and water to produce). And as demand closes on supply, we become less able to cope with a crop failure in a major producer of a staple, which will cause price shocks. Increasing efficiency in the third world is a good place to start, considering their yields are a fraction of those in the industrialised nations.
I think the key part of the story was the "young" bit. These so called entrepreneurs paused and looked unsure because they had been caught unprepared. These things are definitely alive and kicking, and very useful.
Portable support is not the point. Being able to batch encode is. I've been ripping my CDs for years. When I gave up on the whole OGG Vorbis thing and went back to MP3, no problem. When I switched to iTunes + iPhone, no problem encoding to AAC. No decrease in quality transcoding from one lossy format to another. No doubt I'll want to re-enocde again in the future if there is an improvement in the encoders.
I wish they'd try and compete on some useful things, like just trying to catch up with the competition on the multi-process front. Netscape/Mozilla have always been bad about monolithic archs. Besides better security and stability, I went to be close just the bits that are using all the CPU and memory without having to reload all of me tabs.
Haha - I was think about both, and in this case the difference between jurisprudence in both places. Jurisdiction is indeed what I meant. It's been a long day...
Hmmm, bad car analogy. As an owner and driver, I already have control over that. Perhaps it would be more like manufacturers putting a feature or governor in your car that makes it drive past some advertising slowly, without your permission... in which in my case I'd want the EU to regulate, just like I'm happy to see them doing something about abusive companies trying to track me for their benefit rather than mine.
Hosts your sites as you like, but companies doing business in the EU will still need to comply or it will become expensive for them. Perhaps advertisers in this situation won't want to pay per click if they're not doing business in the EU any way, which will affect US hosted sites too. Also, the US courts have set plenty of precedent by feeling free to take legal action outside their own jurisprudence
I couldn't give a rat's arse how much it costs sites to comply. I'm glad somebody with sufficient authority is looking out for my privacy, because it's hard enough to do it by myself. Cookies have been a fundamental feature of the web for a long time as a way to make the web a better experience for users, but I certainly didn't ask advertisers et al to abuse this functionality for things that aren't in my interest.
Yeah, my gf has an Android based from Samsung. I don't think it's had an OS upgrade from them. At least Apple keep pushing the updates to current and older phones without expecting you to buy a newer model. Also, Samsung's software (Keyes or something like that) is absolutely horrible to use (yes, worse than iTunes), and Windows only (we have a Mac at home). It's enough to put me off Samsung/Android.
Yeah, I gotta agree with ya. If I have insomnia and give up trying to sleep for a while, reading online means I will be awake for 2-4 hours, but reading a book will generally mean I can get to sleep in 30-60 mins.
BTW, I just wiped the original XP install on my old work laptop and installed Windows 7, a Dell M60 from 2004. The only issue I had was a finding an inf hack to allow newer nVidia drivers to enable Aero. Don't talk to me about how much of my live I've wasted on X11.
Dude, I was downloading kernel updates to floppy to take home every other day at the university and updating my slackware install on my DX4-100 longer ago than I wish to admit. I had enough of that shit after a decade. If it's still turning tricks for you, then great, I'm glad you're having fun.
I gave up on Linux years ago. It's like the Linux devs work in a little closed box that they can't see out of, and don't seem to see the bigger picture or just have a general understanding beyond the small group with whom they share that box. These days I still with Windows at work, and OS X at home. They both work out of the box, and don't overly annoy me.
I recently had to work on a project with Samsung, that required me to install Red Hat. I spent more time fiddling with the installation than actually doing productive work. I was reminded why I ditched Linux.
The last time I used anything GNOME based were some ports to Windows of things like GIMP and Ethereal (now Wireshark).... again the GNOME implementation was clueless using it's own totally unusable open/save dialog for instance. They could have at least copied Windows or OS X functionally, but no, they had to come up with some new twisted bastardisation. It beats me why they wouldn't have just delegated that kind of functionality to the OS (Win32 API) and used the existing common (standard) dialog.
I don't know what planet those GNOME guys are on, but thankfully I can just ignore them.
If it was that good eight months ago, then why didn't they release it? That sounds like a management problem.
OTOH, I don't want a constant stream of updates. That's just annoying, especially if they haven't been through sufficient QA. In fact the SQLite plug-in for FF is a prime example. They constantly update the plug-in with minor bug fixes that I don't care about. Gather them all up and make bigger less frequent releases, unless they're critical. If there are so many critical issues, then fix your QA process. I only install it so that I can edit my form history, which is infrequently and so the constant interruption of my browser loading on multiple computers is unwarranted. I've started uninstalling this plug-in. It remains to be seen what the new FF experience will be like. I hope they don't use this release philosophy to hide problems with their QA process.
Interesting topical article over at The Economist that's basically saying the public sector workers earn less when they have a degree (e.g. District Attorney vs. corp. lawyer). Workers without degrees earn more (e.g. janitor at the District Attorney's office earns more than a janitor at a private law firm, unless the city has outsourced the work).
They've also been running articles for a while now explaining that people with public pensions are screwed. The States have been allowed to get away with bad accounting or rather far too lenient forecasting and so there's a huge pension liability So maybe public worker's lower wages won't be compensated for by better pensions.
This is not a version 1 system. We had HTC mobiles running Windows four or five years ago. Then again, Windows Update never worked on that version of the OS (depended upon the vendor, not Microsoft).
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Funnily enough, I can run 64 bit Windows on my 3 year old MBP, but only 32 bit OS X. It appears that the Atheros wireless drivers are 32 bit only on OS X, yet Apple supplies 64 bit versions with BootCamp drivers!
Of course, it's not really that big a deal because 32 bit OS X can run 64 bit apps. It just goes to show though that Apple aren't always that great with their own systems.
Of course I didn't RTFA, but of that 30% that doesn't reach our stomaches, how much is being diverted to keep things like our cars running (e.g. converted to ethanol)?
Because that's not enough, and also not so severe in the places that are growing the fastest. The Economist also ran a special report on this recently. There are other factors such as yields not rising fast enough, destruction of habitats, increasing dependence on poor soils, or diets become more meat heavy (requires more energy and water to produce). And as demand closes on supply, we become less able to cope with a crop failure in a major producer of a staple, which will cause price shocks. Increasing efficiency in the third world is a good place to start, considering their yields are a fraction of those in the industrialised nations.
Don't even bother responding... I'm being dense today. I can see why that won't work.
1) Isn't SSL done on a per domain name basis?
2) Can't virtual hosts be NATed or something and each domain given it's own private IP address?
I think the key part of the story was the "young" bit. These so called entrepreneurs paused and looked unsure because they had been caught unprepared. These things are definitely alive and kicking, and very useful.
Don't Candu or pebble bed reactors feature better passive safety?
We should expect it in five years then, at the pace Mozilla develops things.
Portable support is not the point. Being able to batch encode is. I've been ripping my CDs for years. When I gave up on the whole OGG Vorbis thing and went back to MP3, no problem. When I switched to iTunes + iPhone, no problem encoding to AAC. No decrease in quality transcoding from one lossy format to another. No doubt I'll want to re-enocde again in the future if there is an improvement in the encoders.
I wish they'd try and compete on some useful things, like just trying to catch up with the competition on the multi-process front. Netscape/Mozilla have always been bad about monolithic archs. Besides better security and stability, I went to be close just the bits that are using all the CPU and memory without having to reload all of me tabs.
Haha - I was think about both, and in this case the difference between jurisprudence in both places. Jurisdiction is indeed what I meant. It's been a long day...
Hmmm, bad car analogy. As an owner and driver, I already have control over that. Perhaps it would be more like manufacturers putting a feature or governor in your car that makes it drive past some advertising slowly, without your permission... in which in my case I'd want the EU to regulate, just like I'm happy to see them doing something about abusive companies trying to track me for their benefit rather than mine.
Hosts your sites as you like, but companies doing business in the EU will still need to comply or it will become expensive for them. Perhaps advertisers in this situation won't want to pay per click if they're not doing business in the EU any way, which will affect US hosted sites too. Also, the US courts have set plenty of precedent by feeling free to take legal action outside their own jurisprudence
I couldn't give a rat's arse how much it costs sites to comply. I'm glad somebody with sufficient authority is looking out for my privacy, because it's hard enough to do it by myself. Cookies have been a fundamental feature of the web for a long time as a way to make the web a better experience for users, but I certainly didn't ask advertisers et al to abuse this functionality for things that aren't in my interest.
Yeah, my gf has an Android based from Samsung. I don't think it's had an OS upgrade from them. At least Apple keep pushing the updates to current and older phones without expecting you to buy a newer model. Also, Samsung's software (Keyes or something like that) is absolutely horrible to use (yes, worse than iTunes), and Windows only (we have a Mac at home). It's enough to put me off Samsung/Android.
The only supersonic commercial airliner (Concorde) has been retired...
Light is bad for melatonin production...
Oh, and I've been wondering if it's the light stimulation from screens too. Maybe kills the melatonin production?
Yeah, I gotta agree with ya. If I have insomnia and give up trying to sleep for a while, reading online means I will be awake for 2-4 hours, but reading a book will generally mean I can get to sleep in 30-60 mins.
BTW, I just wiped the original XP install on my old work laptop and installed Windows 7, a Dell M60 from 2004. The only issue I had was a finding an inf hack to allow newer nVidia drivers to enable Aero. Don't talk to me about how much of my live I've wasted on X11.
Dude, I was downloading kernel updates to floppy to take home every other day at the university and updating my slackware install on my DX4-100 longer ago than I wish to admit. I had enough of that shit after a decade. If it's still turning tricks for you, then great, I'm glad you're having fun.
I gave up on Linux years ago. It's like the Linux devs work in a little closed box that they can't see out of, and don't seem to see the bigger picture or just have a general understanding beyond the small group with whom they share that box. These days I still with Windows at work, and OS X at home. They both work out of the box, and don't overly annoy me.
I recently had to work on a project with Samsung, that required me to install Red Hat. I spent more time fiddling with the installation than actually doing productive work. I was reminded why I ditched Linux.
The last time I used anything GNOME based were some ports to Windows of things like GIMP and Ethereal (now Wireshark).... again the GNOME implementation was clueless using it's own totally unusable open/save dialog for instance. They could have at least copied Windows or OS X functionally, but no, they had to come up with some new twisted bastardisation. It beats me why they wouldn't have just delegated that kind of functionality to the OS (Win32 API) and used the existing common (standard) dialog.
I don't know what planet those GNOME guys are on, but thankfully I can just ignore them.
If it was that good eight months ago, then why didn't they release it? That sounds like a management problem.
OTOH, I don't want a constant stream of updates. That's just annoying, especially if they haven't been through sufficient QA. In fact the SQLite plug-in for FF is a prime example. They constantly update the plug-in with minor bug fixes that I don't care about. Gather them all up and make bigger less frequent releases, unless they're critical. If there are so many critical issues, then fix your QA process. I only install it so that I can edit my form history, which is infrequently and so the constant interruption of my browser loading on multiple computers is unwarranted. I've started uninstalling this plug-in. It remains to be seen what the new FF experience will be like. I hope they don't use this release philosophy to hide problems with their QA process.
Interesting topical article over at The Economist that's basically saying the public sector workers earn less when they have a degree (e.g. District Attorney vs. corp. lawyer). Workers without degrees earn more (e.g. janitor at the District Attorney's office earns more than a janitor at a private law firm, unless the city has outsourced the work).
They've also been running articles for a while now explaining that people with public pensions are screwed. The States have been allowed to get away with bad accounting or rather far too lenient forecasting and so there's a huge pension liability So maybe public worker's lower wages won't be compensated for by better pensions.
This is not a version 1 system. We had HTC mobiles running Windows four or five years ago. Then again, Windows Update never worked on that version of the OS (depended upon the vendor, not Microsoft).