as you probably know the Medieval Warm Period had natural causes, (greater activity of the sun), the current warming has no apparent natural causes and one very apparent man/cow made cause.
We don't live under a democratic system, we live under a <a href="http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/uktable.h tm">system where the votes are rigged</a>.
In the UK it's not uncommon for phones to cost over £550/$1000 (cell companies usually spread this out by giving you a 'free' phone so long as you stay in a £40/$80 a month contact for 18 months cosign a total of £720/$1400)
Paypal provide a credit card service where you can put credit card transactions through your site without the user signing up for a paypal account. Great... except.....
If your like me and had a paypal account setup but not fully (bank didn't send a statement until it was too late, and I picked up the phone honest paypal just didn't notice) so the account became useless after your limits were reached, and then you left the account for dead and forgot you login.
And then you tried to by from a company that uses the paypal service with a credit card already registered on paypal your screwed, paypal won't let you put the transaction through because the card is already registered with them.
Yes, paypal sucks.
(There are other sucky reasons why I left my paypal account for dead, things like it doesn't provide anywhere near the level of protection I get when I purchase things with a credit card)
"The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year." according to the BBC. and it will be twice the price (so $300 seems about right as they cost $150 to make at the moment)
Were I work we manage to keep stable interfaces and only change the interfaces at infrequent major release phases, as do many thousands of other companies and all other OSs out there, because they follow best practice. It's not hard, it does take some dicipline and in the end you get a better, more though out product for your time and money.
If you had a micro kernel a crash in one driver wouldn't take down the whole system.
If there was a stable ABI then there would be more drivers for linux (I'm willing not to suspend/resume if it means my hardware actually does something) because driver developers wouldn't have to try and hit a moving target and one of the major problems with Linux on the desktop would become less of a problem so linux adoption should go up.
But that also tells you things about what you are looking for, e.g. you didn't buy keys with a glow in the dark keyring. SETI tells us that there little chance of extramly high powered radio signals being beamed accross space from other civalisations.
What you fail to have noticed is that the parent argument was about someone who had no other problem than being serverialy mentally retarded had the plug pulled.
"I remember the Chaivo case a while back where a lady was determined to be brain dead."
someone would still have to write parts of the modules every time the ABI. That's not one of the benifits of having the modules included in the Linux kernel.
Seeing as every other major os seems to work perfectly well with a stable ABI and given the benifits of a stable ABI (you can write binary drivers, you don't have to keep updating the driver code for every minor change in the OS etc...) you would be stupid to produce an OS without a stable ABI unless you were trying to stop one of the benifits of having a stable ABI. I would say that the huge benifit of binary drivers (wouldn't you like a linux with good hardware support?) is seen as a thorn in the side os OSS given that the goals of OSS is to have software open and not in a close binary format.
BTW, they don't 'wast time' changin the ABI (even though the changing ABI give little benifit) there just failing to do configuration management on it.
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as you probably know the Medieval Warm Period had natural causes, (greater activity of the sun), the current warming has no apparent natural causes and one very apparent man/cow made cause.
can you say real?
You could patent patenting something that doesn't exist and acknowledge every other patent that exists.
Party % of seats %of vote
h tm">system where the votes are rigged</a>.
Labour 55 35.2
Tory 30.5 32.3
Liberal 9.6 22.0
We don't live under a democratic system, we live under a <a href="http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/uktable.
Why do government departments need to know where you live, I spend a lot of time making sure they don't!
"Depriving someone of their rightful income."
that's the theft bit.
1: No one has a right to an income.
2: Who's to say that people who download from pirate bay would have purchased the product in the first place.
he may have used the word steal but he meant it in the context of theft.
They don't steal anything, copyright infringement isn't theft. You been listening to too much **AA babble.
it's not even 3G let alone high end.
In the UK it's not uncommon for phones to cost over £550/$1000 (cell companies usually spread this out by giving you a 'free' phone so long as you stay in a £40/$80 a month contact for 18 months cosign a total of £720/$1400)
Paypal provide a credit card service where you can put credit card transactions through your site without the user signing up for a paypal account. Great... except.....
If your like me and had a paypal account setup but not fully (bank didn't send a statement until it was too late, and I picked up the phone honest paypal just didn't notice) so the account became useless after your limits were reached, and then you left the account for dead and forgot you login.
And then you tried to by from a company that uses the paypal service with a credit card already registered on paypal your screwed, paypal won't let you put the transaction through because the card is already registered with them.
Yes, paypal sucks.
(There are other sucky reasons why I left my paypal account for dead, things like it doesn't provide anywhere near the level of protection I get when I purchase things with a credit card)
"The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year." according to the BBC.
and it will be twice the price (so $300 seems about right as they cost $150 to make at the moment)
Were I work we manage to keep stable interfaces and only change the interfaces at infrequent major release phases, as do many thousands of other companies and all other OSs out there, because they follow best practice. It's not hard, it does take some dicipline and in the end you get a better, more though out product for your time and money.
If a hardware manufacturer realises this and thinks "bugger that I can't be arsed" then I don't want to have anything to do with their hardware. :)
But if there was a stable ABI then.....
because ten and 100 don't have many factors. try working for a third of a day.
If you had a micro kernel a crash in one driver wouldn't take down the whole system.
If there was a stable ABI then there would be more drivers for linux (I'm willing not to suspend/resume if it means my hardware actually does something) because driver developers wouldn't have to try and hit a moving target and one of the major problems with Linux on the desktop would become less of a problem so linux adoption should go up.
I've found quite a few ones with source (even in the kernel source) that make things crash.
But that also tells you things about what you are looking for, e.g. you didn't buy keys with a glow in the dark keyring.
SETI tells us that there little chance of extramly high powered radio signals being beamed accross space from other civalisations.
But that still means that there could be nothing out there
And he stretched out his noodly appendage
What you fail to have noticed is that the parent argument was about someone who had no other problem than being serverialy mentally retarded had the plug pulled.
"I remember the Chaivo case a while back where a lady was determined to be brain dead."
what's the workaround for closed source drivers? provide an open source wrapper that gets out of date very quickly?
someone would still have to write parts of the modules every time the ABI. That's not one of the benifits of having the modules included in the Linux kernel.
Seeing as every other major os seems to work perfectly well with a stable ABI and given the benifits of a stable ABI (you can write binary drivers, you don't have to keep updating the driver code for every minor change in the OS etc...) you would be stupid to produce an OS without a stable ABI unless you were trying to stop one of the benifits of having a stable ABI. I would say that the huge benifit of binary drivers (wouldn't you like a linux with good hardware support?) is seen as a thorn in the side os OSS given that the goals of OSS is to have software open and not in a close binary format.
BTW, they don't 'wast time' changin the ABI (even though the changing ABI give little benifit) there just failing to do configuration management on it.
The reason the linux kernel has no fixed ABI is because having a fixed ABIT would make it easy for people to develop closed source drivers.
obviously the cops can't so what does that say about them?
Nazis win and the Holocaust never occured
Axis and Allies.