people haven't actually been surviving long enough to want to nullify their marriage until the past five hundred years.
Even if you believe the Bible was written by men sometime during the Temple era, it certainly is older than 500 years. And the Bible gives the (Jewish) process for divorce. There is an entire tractate of the Babylonian Talmud dedicated to the laws of divorce. This was written roughly 1600 years ago.
Private schools take those who pay. They have no IQ test as part of the application. If all schools were privatized and the Government provided scholarships instead of funding schools directly, you'd have a much better system than exists today.
Additionally, school should be completely optional, to be decided by the parent. Forcing kids who have no desire to learn to be in a classroom for most of the day lowers your precious test scores more than any factor.
In the Orthodox Jewish community, teen pregnancy (outside of marriage) is practically unheard of. In fact, I have personally never heard of it happening. Yet our schools treat sex as practically taboo in High School. Certainly abstinence is the only "recommended" method.
Obviously we're doing something right (if one considers low teen-pregnancy rates a good thing). Today's super-selfish culture has way more of an influence on teen sex than any method of birth control. Teaching abstinence fails because it implies that there are consequences to one's actions. Modern culture is based on the idea that there are no consequences.
Christianity, especially Catholicism, teaches that there are no consequences to one's actions. (Just be contrite and all is forgiven.) Judaism teaches the opposite. So I'd say that Christianity, rather than religion, is responsible for the mess we're in.
Right. Its the rant of a fucked-up asshole. If the developer does not use a mechanism that GUARANTEEs writes to disk, how the fuck is at anyone else's fault? It isn't, you brain-damaged idiot.
You are an idiot. The design of the POSIX API dictates that fsync (or equivalent) is required to ensure data is flushed to disk. This has been true forever. If an abstraction in an i/o library is not using the API correctly, it is the fault of the library.
You are correct that the user of the abstraction should not care, but you are putting the blame in the wrong place. The whole point of using an abstraction is to hide details such as this. If the library author is too stupid to learn the API he is abstracting that is HIS fault.
If performance drops through the floor, the application is poorly designed. Opening/rewriting/closing/syncing hundreds of files (no matter the size) is going to be slow. Period. It doesn't matter which filesystem is in use. The only difference is that ext3 would sync automatically after a few seconds, so the app got a free ride. But that's an implementation detail and should NEVER be relied upon.
One of the key benefits of a well-defined API is implementation independence. The app developers screwed up.
The idiocy is in expecting the FS to do something it was never asked to do. There is one way to commit data to disk in Posix systems. That function has existed for well over 20 years. It's probably going on 35 years now, but I don't know my Unix history well enough to be sure.
The idiocy is in expecting a deterministic system to conform to desires instead of commands.
You know, that exact scenario has happened to me exactly zero times. And I've only been using Windows since 3.1. Perhaps I am simply more intelligent than you. I truly feel for you.
And from what I read of your post, you completely missed his point. So really it doesn't matter what he knows about the history of the personal computer and the operating environments available to it.
When will copy+paste work properly on Linux? Whenever I have to use Linux, that's the one aspect of the system I cannot stand. I use that function all the time in both Windows and OS X. And it "just plain works" (tm).
I really hate how you all focus on one tiny aspect of the system and shake your heads in disappointment that others can't see the light. Guess what? I use my computers for much more time than I spend configuring them. And one aspect of that is that I don't have to waste time configuring them. They just work. Linux doesn't.
The whole point of FOSS is that there isn't one "true" path.
How did you come up with this stupid and completely incorrect idea?
The "point" of FOSS is to promote source code availability. That's it.
And I've used Synaptic (default GUI installer for Ubuntu). Compared to OS X, it's much harder to understand. The actual process, once you know what you have to do, is fairly simple on either platform. But Synaptic mixes installation, removal and updating into one process. That is harder to understand than a single drag-n-drop to install. A single drag-n-drop to remove. In code, you would never write a function to do more than one process, but FOSS coders create UIs to do that all the time. And then wonder why the real world just doesn't want to bother with them.
x86 runs hotter because the instruction set is larger, thus the chips do more. See the Atom line of x86 processors if you want power efficiency, or look at VIA's offerings.
Except that MS's trademark is on "Microsoft Windows", not just on Windows. And Lindows was clearly trying to trade on the Windows name. Only an idiot (or a rabid/. poster) would think otherwise.
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What kind of strange Unix do you run where that would happen?
And so what? Does Britain prevent the same patient from getting the drug on their own, through their own resources? I suspect not.
The iPhone can't disable the autolock? On the iPod Touch, it's under Settings -> General.
people haven't actually been surviving long enough to want to nullify their marriage until the past five hundred years.
Even if you believe the Bible was written by men sometime during the Temple era, it certainly is older than 500 years. And the Bible gives the (Jewish) process for divorce. There is an entire tractate of the Babylonian Talmud dedicated to the laws of divorce. This was written roughly 1600 years ago.
There's a vast difference between "public education" and educating the public.
Private schools take those who pay. They have no IQ test as part of the application. If all schools were privatized and the Government provided scholarships instead of funding schools directly, you'd have a much better system than exists today.
Additionally, school should be completely optional, to be decided by the parent. Forcing kids who have no desire to learn to be in a classroom for most of the day lowers your precious test scores more than any factor.
In the Orthodox Jewish community, teen pregnancy (outside of marriage) is practically unheard of. In fact, I have personally never heard of it happening. Yet our schools treat sex as practically taboo in High School. Certainly abstinence is the only "recommended" method.
Obviously we're doing something right (if one considers low teen-pregnancy rates a good thing). Today's super-selfish culture has way more of an influence on teen sex than any method of birth control. Teaching abstinence fails because it implies that there are consequences to one's actions. Modern culture is based on the idea that there are no consequences.
Christianity, especially Catholicism, teaches that there are no consequences to one's actions. (Just be contrite and all is forgiven.) Judaism teaches the opposite. So I'd say that Christianity, rather than religion, is responsible for the mess we're in.
Where do you live? In the US, we have number portability.
Right. Its the rant of a fucked-up asshole. If the developer does not use a mechanism that GUARANTEEs writes to disk, how the fuck is at anyone else's fault? It isn't, you brain-damaged idiot.
You are an idiot. The design of the POSIX API dictates that fsync (or equivalent) is required to ensure data is flushed to disk. This has been true forever. If an abstraction in an i/o library is not using the API correctly, it is the fault of the library.
You are correct that the user of the abstraction should not care, but you are putting the blame in the wrong place. The whole point of using an abstraction is to hide details such as this. If the library author is too stupid to learn the API he is abstracting that is HIS fault.
If performance drops through the floor, the application is poorly designed. Opening/rewriting/closing/syncing hundreds of files (no matter the size) is going to be slow. Period. It doesn't matter which filesystem is in use. The only difference is that ext3 would sync automatically after a few seconds, so the app got a free ride. But that's an implementation detail and should NEVER be relied upon.
One of the key benefits of a well-defined API is implementation independence. The app developers screwed up.
Please kill yourself and all your friends (just to be sure).
The idiocy is in expecting the FS to do something it was never asked to do. There is one way to commit data to disk in Posix systems. That function has existed for well over 20 years. It's probably going on 35 years now, but I don't know my Unix history well enough to be sure.
The idiocy is in expecting a deterministic system to conform to desires instead of commands.
He may not know the purpose, but he certainly understands POSIX filesystems. On the other hand, you are completely clueless.
Why doesn't copy+paste work like it does in any version of Windows (that matters)?
You know, that exact scenario has happened to me exactly zero times. And I've only been using Windows since 3.1. Perhaps I am simply more intelligent than you. I truly feel for you.
And from what I read of your post, you completely missed his point. So really it doesn't matter what he knows about the history of the personal computer and the operating environments available to it.
When will copy+paste work properly on Linux? Whenever I have to use Linux, that's the one aspect of the system I cannot stand. I use that function all the time in both Windows and OS X. And it "just plain works" (tm).
I really hate how you all focus on one tiny aspect of the system and shake your heads in disappointment that others can't see the light. Guess what? I use my computers for much more time than I spend configuring them. And one aspect of that is that I don't have to waste time configuring them. They just work. Linux doesn't.
You realize this thread is comparing OS X to Linux, right?
Are you really trying to imply that Linux is overflowing with games in comparison?
The whole point of FOSS is that there isn't one "true" path.
How did you come up with this stupid and completely incorrect idea?
The "point" of FOSS is to promote source code availability. That's it.
And I've used Synaptic (default GUI installer for Ubuntu). Compared to OS X, it's much harder to understand. The actual process, once you know what you have to do, is fairly simple on either platform. But Synaptic mixes installation, removal and updating into one process. That is harder to understand than a single drag-n-drop to install. A single drag-n-drop to remove. In code, you would never write a function to do more than one process, but FOSS coders create UIs to do that all the time. And then wonder why the real world just doesn't want to bother with them.
x86 runs hotter because the instruction set is larger, thus the chips do more. See the Atom line of x86 processors if you want power efficiency, or look at VIA's offerings.
Not that the US did not create the situation, but more Iraqis killed other Iraqis than US soldiers killed anyone in the past 8 years.
At its heart, radical, fundamentalist Islam is a death cult.
Except that MS's trademark is on "Microsoft Windows", not just on Windows. And Lindows was clearly trying to trade on the Windows name. Only an idiot (or a rabid /. poster) would think otherwise.
So, where are these terrorists?
Political office.
And in Object Pascal, all strings are null-terminated along with having Pascal-like attributes.
Such qualities are not mutually-exclusive.