I'd say you can split the whole family of distributions into two types. Firstly, ones where the linux OS is bundled with the standard GNU or BSD style command line tools, and then everything else is entirely the freedom of the user. No standardised window manager, widget set, desktop environment, presumed dbus services, etc. I guess Gentoo and Debian fall into that category.
Then there are the "we've coordinated the whole GUI for you" distributions, which covers the rest. A sub-class of these are the ones that add additional restictions such as "we've chosen your screen size for you" (Such as the Maemos).
In general, in the former context, poeple view the "OS" as just being the kernel and shell. However, in the latter, in particular in the sub-class, the "OS" is viewed as including the whole GUI too.
So unfortunately there's ambiguity and even equivocation in these kinds of discussions. First you need to agree what you mean by the terms before any sensible discussion can begin.
As an obsessive about performance computing, I can assure you that Sparc never really got above the radar. There may have been a slight blip visible a while back, but I think that was just snot on the screen.
There is of course the idea of OIL (optimal inner loop) compilation, such that there's pcode in the binary, and it gets compiled locally for the target architecture upon loading. (And you'd only need one copy of the compiler, in the same way that there's only one loader.) Or of course you could just go the whole hog and JIT it.
Apple pitched PowerPC as their logical successor to 68K rather than x86. They'd already thumbed their nose at x86 with their 68k choice. (But yes, the 68K whilst vastly more orthogonal, and more easily decoded, than x86, so having some RISK-like traits, was still a CISC.)
(Opinion: the POWER architecture rocks! (disclaimer, I've not only worked for Freescale Semiconductor, but also run linux/ppc64 as my primary OS).)
That's not an official complaint - you've not complained to anyone official. You've just gone "wah-wah-wah I don't like this guy's stereotypes wah wah wah" to the masses.
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And, if you wish the authorities to curb his freedom of expression, then you are, by definition, for censorship.
Whilst you raise a point that I normally find myself raising (there's no such thing as the government paying for anything), there are taxes on sales, and presumably there'll be a whole bunch of foreigners buying a whole load of goods and services whilst they're there. So the wifi might end up paying for itself in the end. The olympics as a whole won't, obviosuly, but at least I think the cost of the wifi can be covered.
It's not a necessity. It should only be providing non-necessities when the masses are happy with how it's providing the necessities. Like education and training. And enough shopping streets to set fire to and loot.
1,339,646 here. We have a fantastic news service, and I'm not jesting.
Of course, whilst the news may be vitally important and exciting for nationals, it's likely to be of very little interest to foreigners. Whereas when things are happening in the US or Russia, even if we'd prefer it didn't affect us, we still have to wonder how far away the poor victim country will be and whether we'll get any fall-out.
I don't know why you were marked funny, it's more worth "insightful". You raise a good point, and it's one that predates web-based communities like/.. There would often be loons on usenet who would like to assert copyright over everything they posted (grand theories about how something impossible was true, usually), who used to get all riled up when people would reply quoting everything. The general consensus was that such posts, whilst copyrighted by the original poster, have been explicitly sent into a medium which by design permits, or even requires, mass duplication and sometimes cosmetic rewriting. So permission to copy has already been granted as soon as the initial "send" was clicked.
I don't recall this precise (fora) idea being tested in court, but I'm far from confident that the decision would go the right way. Similar requires-duplication-in-order-to-even-ever-work scenarios have been tested, and decided upon in the braindead fashion. (Namely that the person who issued a HTTP GET for an image, and who was then willingly send a copy of the image by the web server, was found guilty of copyright infringement.)
"Strenuously", eh? I'm glad it was such a strain to disagree with me.
You appear to have confused "didn't provide any references" with "has no references". However, that confusion is all yours.
Do a web search for "political compass". It should lead you to something vaguely like www.politicalcompass.org . Look at the charts of how parties have have migrated over time. Take the test yourself, it only takes 15 minutes max. The UK one is the most enlightening, as all the evidence documenting the shifts is in living memory, and thus incontravertible (basically the last 20 years for the final "indistinguishable" flip).
Well stabbed. My g/f is from the US, and almost certainly agrees with _everything_ you wrote. Last time I was living in the UK, there was a very good public transport system, and a reasonable number of cycle paths, which suited me fine, stigma or no. (Cambridge, for reference, the first town I'd consider moving back to were I to head back to the UK.)
Only because your current enemy are who they are. If your enemy was the IRA, as it was when and where I grew up, then the "terror" aspect was the most important part, and avoiding London pubs full of dismembered body parts was indeed a very high priority. Sure, the building would inevitably be toast, but that was of secondary importance.
Louis Brandeis in the US was campaigning for a state of Israel while the Qutbs were still in nappies. But you're right, the situation is more complicated than it just being a single-issue one.
You appear to be of the belief that your vote makes a difference. Even if you and your 10 buddies vote for Kucinich, or the 100 people on the mailing list, or the 1000 readers of your political-cartoon webcomic, you'll still not even be a drop in the ocean. You have lost your democracy through 100 years of not being able to predict the obvious. Duverger's Law reigns supreme, and always will, in particular in systems with such glaring rounding errors as first-past-the-post.
The US political system knows no "right" and "left", as it's entirely "right", as predicted by Duverger's Law (not that they'd be "right", but that they'd be as close to indistinguishable as possible while still maintaining the pretence of a difference, in order to catch the stragglers unhappy with the other party).
Your democracy has failed. Which makes it even more tragic that so many wars are declared in its name.
What poor people with old vehicles? Here, the poor people don't have *any* vehicles, and they all use the busses, trolley busses, trams, or trains. And as those don't run for profit as they're state (i.e. taxpayer) supported, increasing the consumer cost of diesel won't affect the poor at all. Farm vehicles and delivery vehicles are not personal transportation, so it's trivial to include special dispensation for those, so you don't need to hinder those involved in labour where a vehicle is an intrinsic part of the work being done.
If you look at the more concrete concept of "OPEC" rather than the rather nebulous concept of "the middle east", then you'll be including a south american country and at least 2 african countries from that top exporters list. And OPEC have pledged to support each other in such (geopolitical and economic) issues, that's pretty much their entire/raison d'etre/.
But you're right - apart from what he said that was demonstrably false, he remains correct.
Search engines henceforth will now be obliged to associate Lyonnaise de Garantie and crooks, for if they don't they wouldn't be very good search engines. Even if it isn't true that Lyonnaise de Garantie are crooks, they're definitely idiots.
I refuse to take part in any such gaming, clearly.
Apparently about a quarter of my workmates have all decided to get camera upgrades (or at least fill niches that that their current camera doesn't satisfy) recently, and I know the Canon G12 has been mentioned more than once as being at the pinacle of point and shoot. Did you get a chance to compare the LX5 with the G12 (or even G11) at all? (And spot the novel trend - the G10 has more megapixels than the two models that came after it - Canon seemed to realise that fewer pixels grabbing more photons each was better than continuing the inane megapixel wars.)
I'm interseted, and will pass LX5 recommendations on, even though I just pulled myself out of the game by stumping up for a 2nd hand EOS 500D, which I've yet to take out and play with as it's so bloody dull and grey here currently.:(
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I'd say you can split the whole family of distributions into two types. Firstly, ones where the linux OS is bundled with the standard GNU or BSD style command line tools, and then everything else is entirely the freedom of the user. No standardised window manager, widget set, desktop environment, presumed dbus services, etc. I guess Gentoo and Debian fall into that category.
Then there are the "we've coordinated the whole GUI for you" distributions, which covers the rest. A sub-class of these are the ones that add additional restictions such as "we've chosen your screen size for you" (Such as the Maemos).
In general, in the former context, poeple view the "OS" as just being the kernel and shell. However, in the latter, in particular in the sub-class, the "OS" is viewed as including the whole GUI too.
So unfortunately there's ambiguity and even equivocation in these kinds of discussions. First you need to agree what you mean by the terms before any sensible discussion can begin.
As an obsessive about performance computing, I can assure you that Sparc never really got above the radar. There may have been a slight blip visible a while back, but I think that was just snot on the screen.
There is of course the idea of OIL (optimal inner loop) compilation, such that there's pcode in the binary, and it gets compiled locally for the target architecture upon loading. (And you'd only need one copy of the compiler, in the same way that there's only one loader.) Or of course you could just go the whole hog and JIT it.
Apple pitched PowerPC as their logical successor to 68K rather than x86. They'd already thumbed their nose at x86 with their 68k choice. (But yes, the 68K whilst vastly more orthogonal, and more easily decoded, than x86, so having some RISK-like traits, was still a CISC.)
(Opinion: the POWER architecture rocks! (disclaimer, I've not only worked for Freescale Semiconductor, but also run linux/ppc64 as my primary OS).)
That's not an official complaint - you've not complained to anyone official. You've just gone "wah-wah-wah I don't like this guy's stereotypes wah wah wah" to the masses.
If you want to make an official complaint, the feedback link is down
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And, if you wish the authorities to curb his freedom of expression, then you are, by definition, for censorship.
If they were counting down from 10 to 1, and only 2 and 1 are still on sale, then it looks like they've shipped 8, at least.
Kentucky. That's presumably where your parent poster was edumacated.
Whilst you raise a point that I normally find myself raising (there's no such thing as the government paying for anything), there are taxes on sales, and presumably there'll be a whole bunch of foreigners buying a whole load of goods and services whilst they're there. So the wifi might end up paying for itself in the end. The olympics as a whole won't, obviosuly, but at least I think the cost of the wifi can be covered.
It's not a necessity. It should only be providing non-necessities when the masses are happy with how it's providing the necessities. Like education and training. And enough shopping streets to set fire to and loot.
1,339,646 here. We have a fantastic news service, and I'm not jesting.
Of course, whilst the news may be vitally important and exciting for nationals, it's likely to be of very little interest to foreigners. Whereas when things are happening in the US or Russia, even if we'd prefer it didn't affect us, we still have to wonder how far away the poor victim country will be and whether we'll get any fall-out.
I don't know why you were marked funny, it's more worth "insightful". You raise a good point, and it's one that predates web-based communities like /.. There would often be loons on usenet who would like to assert copyright over everything they posted (grand theories about how something impossible was true, usually), who used to get all riled up when people would reply quoting everything. The general consensus was that such posts, whilst copyrighted by the original poster, have been explicitly sent into a medium which by design permits, or even requires, mass duplication and sometimes cosmetic rewriting. So permission to copy has already been granted as soon as the initial "send" was clicked.
I don't recall this precise (fora) idea being tested in court, but I'm far from confident that the decision would go the right way. Similar requires-duplication-in-order-to-even-ever-work scenarios have been tested, and decided upon in the braindead fashion. (Namely that the person who issued a HTTP GET for an image, and who was then willingly send a copy of the image by the web server, was found guilty of copyright infringement.)
"all you can do is "vote for the lesser evil" (if you even bother)."
I would like to see a "none of the above" option on ballots, so that people could express disapproval rather than just approval.
"Strenuously", eh? I'm glad it was such a strain to disagree with me.
You appear to have confused "didn't provide any references" with "has no references". However, that confusion is all yours.
Do a web search for "political compass". It should lead you to something vaguely like www.politicalcompass.org . Look at the charts of how parties have have migrated over time. Take the test yourself, it only takes 15 minutes max. The UK one is the most enlightening, as all the evidence documenting the shifts is in living memory, and thus incontravertible (basically the last 20 years for the final "indistinguishable" flip).
Well stabbed. My g/f is from the US, and almost certainly agrees with _everything_ you wrote. Last time I was living in the UK, there was a very good public transport system, and a reasonable number of cycle paths, which suited me fine, stigma or no. (Cambridge, for reference, the first town I'd consider moving back to were I to head back to the UK.)
Even those who've read his bio think he's full of crackpottery!
Only because your current enemy are who they are. If your enemy was the IRA, as it was when and where I grew up, then the "terror" aspect was the most important part, and avoiding London pubs full of dismembered body parts was indeed a very high priority. Sure, the building would inevitably be toast, but that was of secondary importance.
Louis Brandeis in the US was campaigning for a state of Israel while the Qutbs were still in nappies. But you're right, the situation is more complicated than it just being a single-issue one.
Swift enough contact with a lead slug would cause significant change.
Look on the bright side - you'd be legally able to drink at 20 years, 3 months.
You appear to be of the belief that your vote makes a difference. Even if you and your 10 buddies vote for Kucinich, or the 100 people on the mailing list, or the 1000 readers of your political-cartoon webcomic, you'll still not even be a drop in the ocean. You have lost your democracy through 100 years of not being able to predict the obvious. Duverger's Law reigns supreme, and always will, in particular in systems with such glaring rounding errors as first-past-the-post.
The US political system knows no "right" and "left", as it's entirely "right", as predicted by Duverger's Law (not that they'd be "right", but that they'd be as close to indistinguishable as possible while still maintaining the pretence of a difference, in order to catch the stragglers unhappy with the other party).
Your democracy has failed. Which makes it even more tragic that so many wars are declared in its name.
"Gas taxes hit poor people with old vehicles "
What poor people with old vehicles? Here, the poor people don't have *any* vehicles, and they all use the busses, trolley busses, trams, or trains. And as those don't run for profit as they're state (i.e. taxpayer) supported, increasing the consumer cost of diesel won't affect the poor at all. Farm vehicles and delivery vehicles are not personal transportation, so it's trivial to include special dispensation for those, so you don't need to hinder those involved in labour where a vehicle is an intrinsic part of the work being done.
If you look at the more concrete concept of "OPEC" rather than the rather nebulous concept of "the middle east", then you'll be including a south american country and at least 2 african countries from that top exporters list. And OPEC have pledged to support each other in such (geopolitical and economic) issues, that's pretty much their entire /raison d'etre/.
But you're right - apart from what he said that was demonstrably false, he remains correct.
A self-requested google bomb, n'est pas?
Search engines henceforth will now be obliged to associate Lyonnaise de Garantie and crooks, for if they don't they wouldn't be very good search engines. Even if it isn't true that Lyonnaise de Garantie are crooks, they're definitely idiots.
I refuse to take part in any such gaming, clearly.
Apparently about a quarter of my workmates have all decided to get camera upgrades (or at least fill niches that that their current camera doesn't satisfy) recently, and I know the Canon G12 has been mentioned more than once as being at the pinacle of point and shoot. Did you get a chance to compare the LX5 with the G12 (or even G11) at all? (And spot the novel trend - the G10 has more megapixels than the two models that came after it - Canon seemed to realise that fewer pixels grabbing more photons each was better than continuing the inane megapixel wars.)
:(
I'm interseted, and will pass LX5 recommendations on, even though I just pulled myself out of the game by stumping up for a 2nd hand EOS 500D, which I've yet to take out and play with as it's so bloody dull and grey here currently.