Exactly
http://www.agci.org/dB/PDFs/03S2_CMarchetti_CCapacity.pdf
Capacity may be as high as one trillion people, with new practices like super-cities and farming bacteria for food.
Current practices the limit may be as low as ten billion, limited by the amount of farmland and the cost of irrigation and fertilizer. However a bit of genetic engineering can and will brush aside the barrier eventually.
And asking people to accept them is worse than forcing people to accept them as governments do with their currencies how?
And the computer resources are not wasted, they are used to check and verify transactions, incentivized with a small chance of discovering new coins. The transaction are far less costly/profitable for the processor than say a credit card transaction that want's to skim 3-5% of every transaction (Before they start charging interest on any balances). Now that's shady
Copyright arises entirely out of government dictate, and not from private contract. Private contracts about things that exist only by virtue of statute are suspect at best.
You do know that copyright originated as a scheme of censorship, don't you? Being put to it's original purpose is not altogether surprising, but contrary to freedom.
The fire example has nothing to do with speech per se at all. You may not induce certain types of fear or panic whether by speech or other means.. Speech being fee or unemcumbere still does not circumvent this obligation.
I must disagree with that statement. Going 'off trail' damages the very landscape that you and your fellow hikers are there to enjoy!
It depends. Only in really high traffic cases or erodible slopes does it do too much damage. The real danger is that you'll get lost or encounter impassible terrain, and whatever you do don't leave obvious markers behind you, or someone may end up following them and getting lost without even realizing they were taking that chance.
Except that you often had to clear land (cut down all the trees) in order to get a pasture. There is more forested land now than when horses were a popular means of transit.
Right, because the sound library my applications use is exactly the kind of thing I should be thinking about as a user. Why the hell should I have to care what audio library I'm using? Why is that still an issue on Linux? It is 2011 for Chrissake.
Because they provide different functionality and advantages. A lot of the time distros will guess which is best for thier user. kitchen-sink or media-server distros will use pulse, slim will use just plain alsa, and and studio/artsy distros will use jack.
Yes, I used Gentoo years ago and it was the biggest waste of tme of all the Linux distributions... once I got past the novelty of compiling everything tuned for my CPU. I'm getting too old for that shit.
That's not even the biggest advantage though. Constructing from a small base up, along with being able to define system wide use flags makes it relatively easy to customize a system to your needs and expectations.
More straight forward than just dragging, dropping, and renaming app bundles?
Nope, but both packages will link or compile against the newest libraries for it's dependencies rather than keeping old and potentially insecure libraries.
Or... I could copy the app bundle with my mouse. Hmmm..
Sure if you really had the hankering to do so, but I'm not even sure of the advantages unless you don't have root access of the matching.
Are any of those methods easier than just, you know, copying an app bundle? You see where I'm going here?
Will install the daily build of firefox. Sure the first time takes a little longer, but the the second or third time you go to update it your out ahead because you don't have to go find the bundle, and copy/install it where you want it. In fact from that point on you don't have to even think about it. Every time you update the system, you will have the daily build of Firefox with it. See where I'm going here?
Not all rolling releases are binary-only. Gentoo lets you do source based if you want. Keywords let you use pulse audio on every application if you want, or not have that library at all on the system.
It's fairly straightfoward how to keep multiple versions of a package as well. To get custom locations you can copy the ebuild to an overlay and change a couple of the options that get passed to the configuration tool if your into that sort of thing. There are also methods to use versions that are newer of older than the latest stable I don't see how it could get any more flexible unless you're going to do it all by hand or use a separate prefix for every application statically link to libraries within, but either of those options seems fairly inefficient.
While living system have an entropy cost, that is thier arrangement of molecules is unlikely, but a system with living system will be able to produce more enotropy more quickly than without that living system. living systems that can do this most efficiently are entopicaly favored.
Not really. Nebraska is dominated by Luther/ Catholic (Methodists as a long third) religious outlook, rather than the baptist/ Evangelical that dominates where anti-evolutionist is prevalent. Hell, they have a democratic Senator, and it gets way to cold in the Winter to be considered south.
None of the animals of Africa are particularly domesticable, and the domestication of animals seems to be one of the lynch-pins needed for civilization
DRM isn't about stopping piracy, (theres always the analog hole) it's about taking away fair use and turning the world into one where pay per view is universal.
The problem with thier policy is that a rooted device can be programmed to say "I'm not rooted, honest!"
However they had to make this official policy in order to get the media conspiracy to licence their vids. I'm just waiting for the day someone breaks ranks and the most of DRM disappears overnight.
You can alias interpreters on the system to implement that check for you and prompts you whenever the interpreter is opening a non-executable file, but bash itself just considers the file you have a program interpret as just another another parameter. You could try to make the desktop environment need execute bits on launchers, but in reality is seems that launchers are interpreted rather than directly executed. Perhaps it could be solved that launchers need to be signed by the user or added to a white list to run, and that ordinary methods of making launchers automatically sign them, so that random ones off the internet are unlikely to work. It's not technically an exploit, but certainly something where there should be a patch ready to address this if something gets out in the wild that uses this.
The dell you talk about had a GMA 500 chipset, whose drivers were not in-tree. All of intels other graphics chip-set are open drivers and have excellent linux support (still a few kinks getting worked out on sandy bridge though).The problems you talk about, while something you absolutely want of avoid on an OS for general consumers, about can be avoided with careful choice of hardware. I have a Samsung N120 without a single closed driver and it works perfectly. If I update the kernel, the drivers upgrade with it. Ubuntu does have an install addition drivers GUI that will track down a lot of the drivers
A destop or menu launcher doesn't need to be marked as executable (for most distros) for it to call any shell command. With it you could call a program with a known vulnerability and deliver the payload to exploit it, or wget or curl a malware python script, which does not need to be marked executable to execute if you pass the file containing commands as an argument to python.,
The userspace is not tied to the kernel. The userspace to kernel api is extremely stable and things are almost never broken. There is really no reason you can't drop in a kernel several versions in either direction with some config changes.
. It's the drivers and internals which can change from release to release, but it has several advantages, not the leas of which is the ability to properly fix security bugs, and to only support the most up-to-date interfaces in the kernel, increasing maintainability and reducing total lines of code. Windows XP has to give 4 interfaces for USB devices to make sure nothing breaks, Linux while it has give through 4 interfaces, only has to support one. It also allows drivers to share a lot of code and infrastructure, reducing development and maintenance costs for hardware manufacturers.In fact Vista ended up breaking a lot of drivers just because the old interfaces were found to be both insecure and unmaintainable. Just because everyone else does it, doesn't mean its the Right Thing TM
Symbolic integration requires a certain amount of 1. constancy and 2. ability to apply rules for symbol manipulation. Long division requires a certain amount of 1. constancy, and 2. ability to apply rules for symbolic manipulation. Symbols being just numbers rather than just numbers and variables, but a very similar process. You would not have been allowed in that class if you hadn't mastered long division. You practice Long division until you can do it quickly and accurately so you have the mental foundation and focus to move up. You don't teach long division because you need a student to do particularly well with Long division any more than Mr. Miyagi really needed his car waxed.
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Exactly http://www.agci.org/dB/PDFs/03S2_CMarchetti_CCapacity.pdf Capacity may be as high as one trillion people, with new practices like super-cities and farming bacteria for food. Current practices the limit may be as low as ten billion, limited by the amount of farmland and the cost of irrigation and fertilizer. However a bit of genetic engineering can and will brush aside the barrier eventually.
And asking people to accept them is worse than forcing people to accept them as governments do with their currencies how?
And the computer resources are not wasted, they are used to check and verify transactions, incentivized with a small chance of discovering new coins. The transaction are far less costly/profitable for the processor than say a credit card transaction that want's to skim 3-5% of every transaction (Before they start charging interest on any balances). Now that's shady
You do know that copyright originated as a scheme of censorship, don't you? Being put to it's original purpose is not altogether surprising, but contrary to freedom.
The fire example has nothing to do with speech per se at all. You may not induce certain types of fear or panic whether by speech or other means.. Speech being fee or unemcumbere still does not circumvent this obligation.
I must disagree with that statement. Going 'off trail' damages the very landscape that you and your fellow hikers are there to enjoy!
It depends. Only in really high traffic cases or erodible slopes does it do too much damage. The real danger is that you'll get lost or encounter impassible terrain, and whatever you do don't leave obvious markers behind you, or someone may end up following them and getting lost without even realizing they were taking that chance.
you lay it in a small trench, or on top of a fence, not need to get fancy.
Except that you often had to clear land (cut down all the trees) in order to get a pasture. There is more forested land now than when horses were a popular means of transit.
High intensity bulbs are more efficient that fluorescent. LED's are too expensive for anything other than a light supplement on a small scale.
What would be real nice is an ARM SoC with circuits specially for the bitcoin mining process.
Filters are for pussies, real men smoke cigars.
Right, because the sound library my applications use is exactly the kind of thing I should be thinking about as a user. Why the hell should I have to care what audio library I'm using? Why is that still an issue on Linux? It is 2011 for Chrissake.
Because they provide different functionality and advantages. A lot of the time distros will guess which is best for thier user. kitchen-sink or media-server distros will use pulse, slim will use just plain alsa, and and studio/artsy distros will use jack.
Yes, I used Gentoo years ago and it was the biggest waste of tme of all the Linux distributions... once I got past the novelty of compiling everything tuned for my CPU. I'm getting too old for that shit.
That's not even the biggest advantage though. Constructing from a small base up, along with being able to define system wide use flags makes it relatively easy to customize a system to your needs and expectations.
More straight forward than just dragging, dropping, and renaming app bundles?
Nope, but both packages will link or compile against the newest libraries for it's dependencies rather than keeping old and potentially insecure libraries.
Or... I could copy the app bundle with my mouse. Hmmm..
Sure if you really had the hankering to do so, but I'm not even sure of the advantages unless you don't have root access of the matching.
Are any of those methods easier than just, you know, copying an app bundle? You see where I'm going here?
Sure.
echo "www-client/firefox-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.USE
emerge -uD world
Will install the daily build of firefox. Sure the first time takes a little longer, but the the second or third time you go to update it your out ahead because you don't have to go find the bundle, and copy/install it where you want it. In fact from that point on you don't have to even think about it. Every time you update the system, you will have the daily build of Firefox with it. See where I'm going here?
Not all rolling releases are binary-only. Gentoo lets you do source based if you want. Keywords let you use pulse audio on every application if you want, or not have that library at all on the system. It's fairly straightfoward how to keep multiple versions of a package as well. To get custom locations you can copy the ebuild to an overlay and change a couple of the options that get passed to the configuration tool if your into that sort of thing. There are also methods to use versions that are newer of older than the latest stable I don't see how it could get any more flexible unless you're going to do it all by hand or use a separate prefix for every application statically link to libraries within, but either of those options seems fairly inefficient.
Or upgrade to something with a rolling release.
While living system have an entropy cost, that is thier arrangement of molecules is unlikely, but a system with living system will be able to produce more enotropy more quickly than without that living system. living systems that can do this most efficiently are entopicaly favored.
Not really. Nebraska is dominated by Luther/ Catholic (Methodists as a long third) religious outlook, rather than the baptist/ Evangelical that dominates where anti-evolutionist is prevalent. Hell, they have a democratic Senator, and it gets way to cold in the Winter to be considered south.
nor domesticated animals..
None of the animals of Africa are particularly domesticable, and the domestication of animals seems to be one of the lynch-pins needed for civilization
DRM isn't about stopping piracy, (theres always the analog hole) it's about taking away fair use and turning the world into one where pay per view is universal.
The problem with thier policy is that a rooted device can be programmed to say "I'm not rooted, honest!"
However they had to make this official policy in order to get the media conspiracy to licence their vids. I'm just waiting for the day someone breaks ranks and the most of DRM disappears overnight.
You can alias interpreters on the system to implement that check for you and prompts you whenever the interpreter is opening a non-executable file, but bash itself just considers the file you have a program interpret as just another another parameter. You could try to make the desktop environment need execute bits on launchers, but in reality is seems that launchers are interpreted rather than directly executed. Perhaps it could be solved that launchers need to be signed by the user or added to a white list to run, and that ordinary methods of making launchers automatically sign them, so that random ones off the internet are unlikely to work. It's not technically an exploit, but certainly something where there should be a patch ready to address this if something gets out in the wild that uses this.
The dell you talk about had a GMA 500 chipset, whose drivers were not in-tree. All of intels other graphics chip-set are open drivers and have excellent linux support (still a few kinks getting worked out on sandy bridge though).The problems you talk about, while something you absolutely want of avoid on an OS for general consumers, about can be avoided with careful choice of hardware. I have a Samsung N120 without a single closed driver and it works perfectly. If I update the kernel, the drivers upgrade with it. Ubuntu does have an install addition drivers GUI that will track down a lot of the drivers
A destop or menu launcher doesn't need to be marked as executable (for most distros) for it to call any shell command. With it you could call a program with a known vulnerability and deliver the payload to exploit it, or wget or curl a malware python script, which does not need to be marked executable to execute if you pass the file containing commands as an argument to python.,
The userspace is not tied to the kernel. The userspace to kernel api is extremely stable and things are almost never broken. There is really no reason you can't drop in a kernel several versions in either direction with some config changes.
. It's the drivers and internals which can change from release to release, but it has several advantages, not the leas of which is the ability to properly fix security bugs, and to only support the most up-to-date interfaces in the kernel, increasing maintainability and reducing total lines of code. Windows XP has to give 4 interfaces for USB devices to make sure nothing breaks, Linux while it has give through 4 interfaces, only has to support one. It also allows drivers to share a lot of code and infrastructure, reducing development and maintenance costs for hardware manufacturers.In fact Vista ended up breaking a lot of drivers just because the old interfaces were found to be both insecure and unmaintainable. Just because everyone else does it, doesn't mean its the Right Thing TM
3. Not really, a launcher doesn't need to be marked executable in most distros.
Symbolic integration requires a certain amount of 1. constancy and 2. ability to apply rules for symbol manipulation. Long division requires a certain amount of 1. constancy, and 2. ability to apply rules for symbolic manipulation. Symbols being just numbers rather than just numbers and variables, but a very similar process. You would not have been allowed in that class if you hadn't mastered long division. You practice Long division until you can do it quickly and accurately so you have the mental foundation and focus to move up. You don't teach long division because you need a student to do particularly well with Long division any more than Mr. Miyagi really needed his car waxed.
And mortgage payments can count as deduction on your income taxes whereas rent does not.