I take it you don't object to the police searching your house or randomly stopping you and giving you a cavity search either? That could also help in catching criminals.
Book twelve will be exactly the same as the other eleven books. If you've read one you've read them all. He should have stopped at seven as initially planned, but no, he had to carry on trying to milk the dead cow -- no doubt he was going to announce that he'd changed his mind and was going to make the series fifteen books long...
In most jurisdictions it is only theft if the object is physically moved entirely away from its original location. Thus, it is impossible to 'steal' copyright. Copyright violation is copyright violation, not theft.
It's hardly the lightest... My entire windowmanager fits in less space than one of those pretty icons they use. Sure, it's not as bloated as KDE or Gnome, but that doesn't make it light any more than a Hummer is fuel efficient because it uses less petrol than a 747.
If anyone's looking to understand this, the book you need is "How the Universe Got Its Spots" by Janna Levine. It covers all the apparently valid but actually nonsensical questions that people have when they first hear about this (what's the universe inside then? what happens at a boundary? etc), and it explains it in such a way that you don't need a degree in topology to understand it.
Except that Wikipedia and its denizens are doing a huge amount of marketing trying to convince people that it is the most reliable source of information out there -- and it's being bought even more than Fox's claim of being "Fair and Balanced".
Except that Linux does preemptive swapping long before you run out of RAM, so that if something suddenly needs it, there's no huge delay whilst things get swapped out.
Not the compiler. Compilers are complicated enough that making them threaded is just a recipe for disaster. The build system is what should be doing the work -- in a project with lots of files, a decent build system (like, say, make) will be able to use all cores quite happily. Heck, make -j can use all 32 CPUs on our big release box without any difficulties.
If your build system doesn't support parallelisation, you should look into switching build systems. Developer time is not cheap.
Speaking as a software developer, I need the extra cores. Not for customers to run the software. For me, to compile things.
My previous development box was an Athlon XP 1700+. It did a full compile and test run of my current project in about sixteen minutes. I've just been upgraded to a Core Duo 2, which does it in three (make has a parallelise option, so it can use both cores). Give me a box that's twice as fast (which twice as many cores is, for compiling) and the compiler will finally be able to keep up with the coding, which means no time wasted sitting around.
Is it worth the money? For some people, yes. For others, clearly not. I couldn't justify getting a super expensive IBM pSeries box as a development system, but a cheapo x86 desktop doesn't even show up on the budget...
Whereas now, they're behaving in the "American Way" by doing anything they think they can get away with, screwing over customers and replacing innovation with corporate politics.
"However, the technology is so secret that even the engineers working on different detection systems worked in isolation - not even they know how the other detection methods work."
Aaah, yes, the sweet smell of bullshit. You, sir, have been had. The only detection technology they have that detects whether there's a TV turned on is a dude with binoculars. The rest of it is simple cross referencing and a whole lot of PR stunts to fool the kind of people who buy into secret government technologies.
Popular myth that they like to perpetuate. The way it really works is that they know who owns a TV because you have to provide a name and postcode when buying one (UK postcodes are far more specific than US ones), and they know who doesn't own a TV licence.
Those dishes strapped to the sides of their highly visible detector vans don't do anything except make people think they're infalliable.
Building lots of cities and micromanaging is the only way to win. It's the same in CivIII, CivIV and Alpha Centauri. Whilst letting the computer handle things is passable if you're on super-easy difficulty, it's nowhere near good enough to get an impressive victory.
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Most people haven't been able to log in for the past two days, and there's no information on when it'll be fixed.
https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php/topic,832.0.html
Alas, reliability is rather important for this kind of service.
Normal users on a Unix system have more than enough privileges to send out a million emails a day.
I take it you don't object to the police searching your house or randomly stopping you and giving you a cavity search either? That could also help in catching criminals.
Book twelve will be exactly the same as the other eleven books. If you've read one you've read them all. He should have stopped at seven as initially planned, but no, he had to carry on trying to milk the dead cow -- no doubt he was going to announce that he'd changed his mind and was going to make the series fifteen books long...
In most jurisdictions it is only theft if the object is physically moved entirely away from its original location. Thus, it is impossible to 'steal' copyright. Copyright violation is copyright violation, not theft.
Do you really expect to get meaningful results when you a) use "Hello world" as your test program and b) static link?
Yes, because this makes a huge difference. It's good to see you complaining about things that matter, rather than attacking small irrelevant wastage.
Requiring registration will only screw over the little guy.
It's hardly the lightest... My entire windowmanager fits in less space than one of those pretty icons they use. Sure, it's not as bloated as KDE or Gnome, but that doesn't make it light any more than a Hummer is fuel efficient because it uses less petrol than a 747.
If anyone's looking to understand this, the book you need is "How the Universe Got Its Spots" by Janna Levine. It covers all the apparently valid but actually nonsensical questions that people have when they first hear about this (what's the universe inside then? what happens at a boundary? etc), and it explains it in such a way that you don't need a degree in topology to understand it.
Except that Wikipedia and its denizens are doing a huge amount of marketing trying to convince people that it is the most reliable source of information out there -- and it's being bought even more than Fox's claim of being "Fair and Balanced".
You're aware that not too long ago, there weren't any icebergs at all, right?
What's this? A court that gets it and actually understands technology issues? Amazing.
Oh, there're easy ways around that. Give people multiple passwords / keys, only one of which shows the real vote, with the rest showing preset fakes.
Except that Linux does preemptive swapping long before you run out of RAM, so that if something suddenly needs it, there's no huge delay whilst things get swapped out.
Don't bother even trying, you'll just make a fool out of yourself. Your kids already know about everything you think they shouldn't.
Heck, my mother thinks I (who am 23 years old with long term significant other) shouldn't be using the Internet at night in case I find pornography.
Not the compiler. Compilers are complicated enough that making them threaded is just a recipe for disaster. The build system is what should be doing the work -- in a project with lots of files, a decent build system (like, say, make) will be able to use all cores quite happily. Heck, make -j can use all 32 CPUs on our big release box without any difficulties.
If your build system doesn't support parallelisation, you should look into switching build systems. Developer time is not cheap.
Speaking as a software developer, I need the extra cores. Not for customers to run the software. For me, to compile things.
My previous development box was an Athlon XP 1700+. It did a full compile and test run of my current project in about sixteen minutes. I've just been upgraded to a Core Duo 2, which does it in three (make has a parallelise option, so it can use both cores). Give me a box that's twice as fast (which twice as many cores is, for compiling) and the compiler will finally be able to keep up with the coding, which means no time wasted sitting around.
Is it worth the money? For some people, yes. For others, clearly not. I couldn't justify getting a super expensive IBM pSeries box as a development system, but a cheapo x86 desktop doesn't even show up on the budget...
Whereas now, they're behaving in the "American Way" by doing anything they think they can get away with, screwing over customers and replacing innovation with corporate politics.
Nice to see Microsoft taking user interface design tips from the Gnome guys. We all know that users don't want to be able to change things anyway.
Unix *is* an IDE. You just need an efficient editor component, and once you learn how to use it, gvim 7 (code completion, baby!) is ideal.
The problem, of course, is that the learning part takes several years.
More kneejerk reactionary pandering to tabloid fearmongering by a government that bases policy upon headlines from the Daily Mail.
"However, the technology is so secret that even the engineers working on different detection systems worked in isolation - not even they know how the other detection methods work."
Aaah, yes, the sweet smell of bullshit. You, sir, have been had. The only detection technology they have that detects whether there's a TV turned on is a dude with binoculars. The rest of it is simple cross referencing and a whole lot of PR stunts to fool the kind of people who buy into secret government technologies.
Popular myth that they like to perpetuate. The way it really works is that they know who owns a TV because you have to provide a name and postcode when buying one (UK postcodes are far more specific than US ones), and they know who doesn't own a TV licence.
Those dishes strapped to the sides of their highly visible detector vans don't do anything except make people think they're infalliable.
Building lots of cities and micromanaging is the only way to win. It's the same in CivIII, CivIV and Alpha Centauri. Whilst letting the computer handle things is passable if you're on super-easy difficulty, it's nowhere near good enough to get an impressive victory.