Well, I've never used Windows 7 and it's unlikely I ever will. The distro is unimportant; the fact that it doesn't have secret closed-source software and therefore is less likely to have hidden sneaky backdoors in it makes it more secure.
The main reason I use Linux is because the software I use simply isn't available for Windows.
"Might want to use an alternate OS" because it's less bother to keep Linux secure than Windows?
That's only one of the reasons I use Linux. Why would I go out of my way to use an OS that takes extra work to secure? I'm sure there's a car analogy in there involving buying a Yugo with no doorlocks, or being given a Mercedes with central locking and an alarm already fitted, but I can't be bothered making it.
What, even when it's massively inappropriate to do so? I can't think of any circumstances under which I'd ever use even FS encryption, never mind full-disk encryption. Disks are slow enough as it is.
Yes, some characters do. The Slashdot Janitors have decreed that only 7-bit ASCII can be used on the site and everything else should be presented in as broken a way as possible.
Because obviously, we're geeks so we're all using 30-year-old ADM3A terminals.
In terms of GUI, the OSX interface is simply superior to anything Microsoft, or any of the other *nixes (who all seem to make the mistake of copying Windows) have to offer.
The OSX GUI is a straight ripoff of very early XFCE.
Well, its tough, but am I truly my brothers keeper? Should that not be my choice rather than forced on me by the government?
Well, what do you suggest? I don't want to live in a country full of sick beggars. It's cheaper to spend a small amount of money on socialised heathcare to stop people getting sick than it is to deal with the rampant spread of disease that having expensive private healthcare causes. What would you do when the sickly beggars die on the streets? Leave them there to rot and spread more disease, because you can't bear the thought of your precious pennies being spent on burying them?
Forget all that Ayn Rand shit and live in the real world.
Actually no; it works by a trick of the suspension geometry. The torque from the rear brakes cause the suspension arm to try to pivot up into the body, lowering the rear of the car, and on the DS and ID with leading-arm front suspension the front brake torque would try to pull the suspension arm down, lifting the front.
GSes, CXes, BXes and XMs with more conventional wishbones (parallel link wishbones on the CX and GS(A), single wishbone and strut on the BX, XM and Xantia) don't dive but they do sink towards the road perfectly level, when everything is working properly.
They are probably talking about pressurised hydraulic systems. You'd be surprised how much the coffee mug sized hydraulic pump on a hydropneumatic Citroen takes to run - possibly as much as 2hp with a heavy demand on the hydraulics. That said, most of the demand is from the power steering; the brakes use about a tablespoon of fluid every time you press the pedal and once the car is up to normal ride height it only takes a little trickle of fluid to keep it there (usually it'll take two hours for it to settle back to the ground).
The cost-reduced version of the Citroen hydraulics used on Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars uses a slightly different design of pump, but they have a bit more power to drive it...
The Citroen Xantia Activa used a pair of hydraulic rams to counteract roll forces, as well as the four hydraulic rams that comprise the normal suspension. Apparently they maintain grip to 0.98G lateral force - they certainly can be flung round tight corners much faster than anything with those obsolete old sofa springs at the corners.
If you can remember analogue video recorders (those things that took the big plastic boxes called "video tapes") then they would quite happily record 405 line or 625 line video. The lack of colour subcarrier was no problem (stick a black and white TV camera into a video recorder, and it'll be perfectly happy to record it) and since a single frame of video is recorded on each scan of the tape, it doesn't really matter how many lines are in it as long as you've got 50 of the per second.
I've actually got some old Philips N1700 tapes with 405-line Schools TV programmes from the late 1970s. Well, that's if they haven't all stuck together or gone foosty.
It's worth pointing out that on theSecret Life of Machines website it tell you that you are explicitly allowed to download copies from the Internet. It's worth getting all three series.
You know, not everyone lives in the middle of a city with a Tesco every 100 yards and buses every two minutes. See all the food you just bought in the neat little plastic packet, from the shop that you walked to at the end of your busy little street? Someone grew that. That someone probably has to drive a couple of hundred miles a day at times, trying to keep everything on their farm working properly.
Which is sad, as fifteen years ago it was a serious motoring programme. Quentin Wilson, Tiff Needel and Vicky-whatshername presented dependable test reviews, second-hand buying tips and general motoring news.
... and people stayed away in droves. It was boring. It was cancelled because the viewing figures were abysmal.
The current format is good entertainment and a hugely profitable global brand, with many countries shooting their own Top Gear episodes locally *and* showing UK Top Gear alongside that.
Can't help but think they're doing *something* right.
The "true-life" users might not be entirely suitable for sticking in front of a camera. Maybe they get nervous and clam up, or maybe they don't look or sound "right" for the video. Maybe there are issues with performing rights. It's far simpler to get the "true-life" user stories, write them up into something that flows, and get someone that can get a line out without sounding like a total idiot to perform them.
That's overly simplistic, though. Animals eat plants that humans can't. Until you figure out a way for humans with their resolutely omnivorous digestive system to eat the kind of tough grasses and heathers that ruminants thrive on, we can't eat the kind of plants that animals do.
Most of the world is not arable farmland. It's either too wet, too rocky, too precipitous or has the wrong type of soil to grow crops. Again, if you can figure out a way to grow your lettuce and carrots in an acidic peat bog slanted at 45 degrees then great, but right now it's really more suitable for grazing sheep on. You could drain it and slather it with all sorts of chemical fertilisers, but that would make a mess of other parts of the environment. When the oil runs out, those fertilisers will be really, really expensive, and without grazing livestock the PETA types are going to starve.
It's also a great fuel for nuclear reactors. Keep two fast-breeder plants running in slightly different configurations, and you never have nuclear waste to worry about - you can take "waste" from older reactor designs and burn that up.
I'm guessing you're not running your P4 isn't stuffed into a cheap Chinese laptop with an expensive sticker on the front?
My point still stands - people buying crappy cheap commodity hardware shouldn't be surprised when it has problems. No amount of groovy industrial design can make up for a dodgy Foxconn motherboard that's as crap as a Chinese motorbike.
How is this in any way newsworthy? A two-line description linking to an ad-heavy forum post about how computers sometimes don't work well when you have a lot of heavy processes running isn't really "News for Nerds".
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Well, I've never used Windows 7 and it's unlikely I ever will. The distro is unimportant; the fact that it doesn't have secret closed-source software and therefore is less likely to have hidden sneaky backdoors in it makes it more secure.
The main reason I use Linux is because the software I use simply isn't available for Windows.
"Might want to use an alternate OS" because it's less bother to keep Linux secure than Windows?
That's only one of the reasons I use Linux. Why would I go out of my way to use an OS that takes extra work to secure? I'm sure there's a car analogy in there involving buying a Yugo with no doorlocks, or being given a Mercedes with central locking and an alarm already fitted, but I can't be bothered making it.
... because you might need it later.
Gratuitous plug for a friend's CW site
You should encrypt the disks on every computer.
What, even when it's massively inappropriate to do so? I can't think of any circumstances under which I'd ever use even FS encryption, never mind full-disk encryption. Disks are slow enough as it is.
Just like the Wankel engine, it just needs someone to invent a magic seal material for the rotor and then it will take over the world!
How are those litre-of-oil-every-100-km Mazdas working out these days?
Yes, some characters do. The Slashdot Janitors have decreed that only 7-bit ASCII can be used on the site and everything else should be presented in as broken a way as possible.
Because obviously, we're geeks so we're all using 30-year-old ADM3A terminals.
In terms of GUI, the OSX interface is simply superior to anything Microsoft, or any of the other *nixes (who all seem to make the mistake of copying Windows) have to offer.
The OSX GUI is a straight ripoff of very early XFCE.
Well, its tough, but am I truly my brothers keeper? Should that not be my choice rather than forced on me by the government?
Well, what do you suggest? I don't want to live in a country full of sick beggars. It's cheaper to spend a small amount of money on socialised heathcare to stop people getting sick than it is to deal with the rampant spread of disease that having expensive private healthcare causes. What would you do when the sickly beggars die on the streets? Leave them there to rot and spread more disease, because you can't bear the thought of your precious pennies being spent on burying them?
Forget all that Ayn Rand shit and live in the real world.
Actually no; it works by a trick of the suspension geometry. The torque from the rear brakes cause the suspension arm to try to pivot up into the body, lowering the rear of the car, and on the DS and ID with leading-arm front suspension the front brake torque would try to pull the suspension arm down, lifting the front.
GSes, CXes, BXes and XMs with more conventional wishbones (parallel link wishbones on the CX and GS(A), single wishbone and strut on the BX, XM and Xantia) don't dive but they do sink towards the road perfectly level, when everything is working properly.
They are probably talking about pressurised hydraulic systems. You'd be surprised how much the coffee mug sized hydraulic pump on a hydropneumatic Citroen takes to run - possibly as much as 2hp with a heavy demand on the hydraulics. That said, most of the demand is from the power steering; the brakes use about a tablespoon of fluid every time you press the pedal and once the car is up to normal ride height it only takes a little trickle of fluid to keep it there (usually it'll take two hours for it to settle back to the ground).
The cost-reduced version of the Citroen hydraulics used on Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars uses a slightly different design of pump, but they have a bit more power to drive it...
The Citroen Xantia Activa used a pair of hydraulic rams to counteract roll forces, as well as the four hydraulic rams that comprise the normal suspension. Apparently they maintain grip to 0.98G lateral force - they certainly can be flung round tight corners much faster than anything with those obsolete old sofa springs at the corners.
If you can remember analogue video recorders (those things that took the big plastic boxes called "video tapes") then they would quite happily record 405 line or 625 line video. The lack of colour subcarrier was no problem (stick a black and white TV camera into a video recorder, and it'll be perfectly happy to record it) and since a single frame of video is recorded on each scan of the tape, it doesn't really matter how many lines are in it as long as you've got 50 of the per second.
I've actually got some old Philips N1700 tapes with 405-line Schools TV programmes from the late 1970s. Well, that's if they haven't all stuck together or gone foosty.
It's worth pointing out that on theSecret Life of Machines website it tell you that you are explicitly allowed to download copies from the Internet. It's worth getting all three series.
You know, not everyone lives in the middle of a city with a Tesco every 100 yards and buses every two minutes. See all the food you just bought in the neat little plastic packet, from the shop that you walked to at the end of your busy little street? Someone grew that. That someone probably has to drive a couple of hundred miles a day at times, trying to keep everything on their farm working properly.
I can show you the fuel receipts, if you like.
Which is sad, as fifteen years ago it was a serious motoring programme. Quentin Wilson, Tiff Needel and Vicky-whatshername presented dependable test reviews, second-hand buying tips and general motoring news.
The current format is good entertainment and a hugely profitable global brand, with many countries shooting their own Top Gear episodes locally *and* showing UK Top Gear alongside that.
Can't help but think they're doing *something* right.
The person *does* exist, but he sounds like Emo Philips and looks like RMS. Are you going to have him marketing your Android tablet?
The "true-life" users might not be entirely suitable for sticking in front of a camera. Maybe they get nervous and clam up, or maybe they don't look or sound "right" for the video. Maybe there are issues with performing rights. It's far simpler to get the "true-life" user stories, write them up into something that flows, and get someone that can get a line out without sounding like a total idiot to perform them.
... with a sort of round dome thing on the front? And little giggle voices?
Irony again?
The red bits, yes.
That's overly simplistic, though. Animals eat plants that humans can't. Until you figure out a way for humans with their resolutely omnivorous digestive system to eat the kind of tough grasses and heathers that ruminants thrive on, we can't eat the kind of plants that animals do.
Most of the world is not arable farmland. It's either too wet, too rocky, too precipitous or has the wrong type of soil to grow crops. Again, if you can figure out a way to grow your lettuce and carrots in an acidic peat bog slanted at 45 degrees then great, but right now it's really more suitable for grazing sheep on. You could drain it and slather it with all sorts of chemical fertilisers, but that would make a mess of other parts of the environment. When the oil runs out, those fertilisers will be really, really expensive, and without grazing livestock the PETA types are going to starve.
It's also a great fuel for nuclear reactors. Keep two fast-breeder plants running in slightly different configurations, and you never have nuclear waste to worry about - you can take "waste" from older reactor designs and burn that up.
I've got a MicroVAX II sitting in bits that I really should finish, but VMS is so much nicer on the Alpha.
Sorry, when you said "table" I thought you meant as in database table.
I'm guessing you're not running your P4 isn't stuffed into a cheap Chinese laptop with an expensive sticker on the front?
My point still stands - people buying crappy cheap commodity hardware shouldn't be surprised when it has problems. No amount of groovy industrial design can make up for a dodgy Foxconn motherboard that's as crap as a Chinese motorbike.
How is this in any way newsworthy? A two-line description linking to an ad-heavy forum post about how computers sometimes don't work well when you have a lot of heavy processes running isn't really "News for Nerds".