Border Agents will still want to see photo ID. This would just let them use an RFID reader to pull up the same citizen information that's on a passport. Your scenario would be the same as waving a closed passport at an immigration official and expecting to be passed through.
You are an asshole. Pure and simple. Minimum specs are just that -- the minimum required to run. It's not lying just because performance is not good. It would only be lying if the OS didn't boot.
But you're just a f**ked up Linux bigot, so your opinion doesn't mean anything anyway. Actually, I should ammend that. It means there's one less reason to use Linux for anything.
You have no real idea what ironic means, do you? If Essex is the home of bad driving, it makes perfect sense for a nearby University to do research in replacing the drivers. It's not ironic in the least.
Most people I know who have died, did so due to old age, disease or disease caused by old age. You really live in a strange place if the automobile is the leading cause of death. In fact, I can think of only 2 people I have known that were killed in automobile crashes. And one was murdered by a drunk driver.
I will not shop at CompUSA unless it's the only place I can get a part needed to get a system up and running. There is both a Best Buy and CompUSA near my office, and I always go to BB first. I know they may not have the best prices, but I'd rather pay a slightly higher mark-up than go to CompUSA.
It's a bad thing when public money has been given to them just so they wouldn't do that. In other circumstances, they would be known as thieves. In Corporate America, it's just business.
"Plus your statement is misleading, very few major apps are single threaded, the OS itself has a ton of stuff going on in the background, there are demons/services running all the time."
Plus, you completely and utterly missed the point of the poster you replied to. Most apps (who cares about major?) are single-threaded. The poster's point is that writing a multi-threaded app JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE CPUs/CORES to handle them is pointless and stupid. If the app only requires a single thread, use just one. The other resources will get used by the OS or by other apps (that may, God forbid, *also* be single-threaded). He wasn't talking about dedicating a computing resource to an app. He was saying that an app should only use what it needs, with the understanding that the OS will make good use of any remaining resources for other tasks.
What a lot of multi-thread-happy people seem to miss is that as long as the OS is multi-tasking, the other resources will not go to waste just because the app in the foreground isn't using them.
To quote someone or another, "you sir, are an idiot." The AC was perfectly correct in stating that XML is nothing more than an overhyped method for organizing elements of a document and that it does nothing what-so-ever to define the semantics of the elements. A CSV file has 99% of the same benefits of XML for most uses. Just about the only thing you can't do with a CSV vs an XML document is easily transmit hierarchical data.
The fact that MS can generate an XML document that has no human-understandable elements is a failure of XML, and nothing less.
Considering that MAX_PATH is defined as 1024 on most OSes (including Linux and Windows), I really don't see why Apple would be wrong to define it that way.
Leaving aside the idea that different companies, even when owned by the same parent, may have different views, there is no contradiction here at all. For T-Mobile, DRM is making them money. For Musicload, it costs them money. You are thinking in terms of whether DRM itself is bad or good. Businesses don't. All they care about is how DRM affects *their* bottom line.
If there is limited capital, there will be monopolies. Innovation is worthless unless the means to produce are attainable. Monopolies become that way by erecting barriers to entry, not by being luddites.
There is nothing especially moral about propping up an industry just for the sake of history. It doesn't matter *why* content producers can't sell their wares, if they can't, they will go out of business. Before the turn of the 20th century, there was no such thing as "content producers" outside of book/magazine publishers. Despite what the RIAA or MPAA may want you to believe, there would be no real loss to our culture if there were no more movies or pop bands published anymore.
"This whole concept of "security by unpopularity" is misleading. Linux is more secure because of it's permmisions system...add SeLinux to that and you have something that there is no Windows equivilent."
And this is why people think Linux fans are rabid, terminally stupid assholes. Because you know nothing at all about Windows, but you bash it anyway.
Windows NT has had a complete ACL permissions system from day one. To this day, there are no complete, standard distributions that make use of ACLs on any filesystem on Linux. The NT permissions system extends to most kernel objects, and not just files. This is not the case on Linux. NT supports capabilities in the guise of User Rights. This is still not standard in Linux.
In other words, in terms of permissions and system access, NT is far and away more complete in its configurability.
I think businesses that use illegal immigrants should be punished for it under the law, but to say they are using slave labor is simply false. These people cross the border looking for these jobs. They are not forced into them. They are also free to leave whenever they feel like, and the business cannot gain-say the decision, if only because even illegals have rights with respect to treatment from private citizens.
"You might not even be able to see that photo ever unless you agree to terms of the license agreement of the encoder, period."
Any such limitations would be technical and not legal. When you take a photo using any type of camera, that photo is yours, no matter what form it is in. (Assuming no complications such as the storage medium or camera belonging to someone else.) Even if the photo is encoded using a patented algorithm, the content (even the encoded bits) are yours to do as you please.
I don't know if it's still done this way, but Solaris used to assign one MAC to the machine, shared amongst all network (Ethernet) interfaces. I don't think MAC works the way you think it does. I also used to use ifconfig to reassign the MAC so that my cable modem would work correctly without dealing with customer (un)support(ed).
Please note that HP is only required to provide source if you obtained the binaries (i.e. a system) from them. They have no obligation to provide source to random people that ask for it.
Ten years ago, Linux was a toy on the desktop. There were virtually zero useful applications that were stable. You didn't even have VMware yet to run Windows while still claiming to be using Linux.
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Border Agents will still want to see photo ID. This would just let them use an RFID reader to pull up the same citizen information that's on a passport. Your scenario would be the same as waving a closed passport at an immigration official and expecting to be passed through.
You are an asshole. Pure and simple. Minimum specs are just that -- the minimum required to run. It's not lying just because performance is not good. It would only be lying if the OS didn't boot.
But you're just a f**ked up Linux bigot, so your opinion doesn't mean anything anyway. Actually, I should ammend that. It means there's one less reason to use Linux for anything.
You have no real idea what ironic means, do you? If Essex is the home of bad driving, it makes perfect sense for a nearby University to do research in replacing the drivers. It's not ironic in the least.
Most people I know who have died, did so due to old age, disease or disease caused by old age. You really live in a strange place if the automobile is the leading cause of death. In fact, I can think of only 2 people I have known that were killed in automobile crashes. And one was murdered by a drunk driver.
I will not shop at CompUSA unless it's the only place I can get a part needed to get a system up and running. There is both a Best Buy and CompUSA near my office, and I always go to BB first. I know they may not have the best prices, but I'd rather pay a slightly higher mark-up than go to CompUSA.
It's a bad thing when public money has been given to them just so they wouldn't do that. In other circumstances, they would be known as thieves. In Corporate America, it's just business.
"Plus your statement is misleading, very few major apps are single threaded, the OS itself has a ton of stuff going on in the background, there are demons/services running all the time."
Plus, you completely and utterly missed the point of the poster you replied to. Most apps (who cares about major?) are single-threaded. The poster's point is that writing a multi-threaded app JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE CPUs/CORES to handle them is pointless and stupid. If the app only requires a single thread, use just one. The other resources will get used by the OS or by other apps (that may, God forbid, *also* be single-threaded). He wasn't talking about dedicating a computing resource to an app. He was saying that an app should only use what it needs, with the understanding that the OS will make good use of any remaining resources for other tasks.
What a lot of multi-thread-happy people seem to miss is that as long as the OS is multi-tasking, the other resources will not go to waste just because the app in the foreground isn't using them.
If you don't understand why preventing conception is not comparable to murder, there is really no hope at all for you.
To quote someone or another, "you sir, are an idiot." The AC was perfectly correct in stating that XML is nothing more than an overhyped method for organizing elements of a document and that it does nothing what-so-ever to define the semantics of the elements. A CSV file has 99% of the same benefits of XML for most uses. Just about the only thing you can't do with a CSV vs an XML document is easily transmit hierarchical data.
The fact that MS can generate an XML document that has no human-understandable elements is a failure of XML, and nothing less.
Considering that MAX_PATH is defined as 1024 on most OSes (including Linux and Windows), I really don't see why Apple would be wrong to define it that way.
Leaving aside the idea that different companies, even when owned by the same parent, may have different views, there is no contradiction here at all. For T-Mobile, DRM is making them money. For Musicload, it costs them money. You are thinking in terms of whether DRM itself is bad or good. Businesses don't. All they care about is how DRM affects *their* bottom line.
If there is limited capital, there will be monopolies. Innovation is worthless unless the means to produce are attainable. Monopolies become that way by erecting barriers to entry, not by being luddites.
I can not think of anything more certain to create a homocidal maniac than being forced to watch Barney for any length of time.
There is nothing especially moral about propping up an industry just for the sake of history. It doesn't matter *why* content producers can't sell their wares, if they can't, they will go out of business. Before the turn of the 20th century, there was no such thing as "content producers" outside of book/magazine publishers. Despite what the RIAA or MPAA may want you to believe, there would be no real loss to our culture if there were no more movies or pop bands published anymore.
"This whole concept of "security by unpopularity" is misleading. Linux is more secure because of it's permmisions system...add SeLinux to that and you have something that there is no Windows equivilent."
And this is why people think Linux fans are rabid, terminally stupid assholes. Because you know nothing at all about Windows, but you bash it anyway.
Windows NT has had a complete ACL permissions system from day one. To this day, there are no complete, standard distributions that make use of ACLs on any filesystem on Linux. The NT permissions system extends to most kernel objects, and not just files. This is not the case on Linux. NT supports capabilities in the guise of User Rights. This is still not standard in Linux.
In other words, in terms of permissions and system access, NT is far and away more complete in its configurability.
Adult movies *can* be rated G. If the government mandated that they could not, that would also be (government) censorship.
"Cowards need not reply. If you don't care to sign your name, I don't care to believe anything you say."
This may be hard to believe, but my name isn't Dog-Cow. However, you are still an ass.
I think businesses that use illegal immigrants should be punished for it under the law, but to say they are using slave labor is simply false. These people cross the border looking for these jobs. They are not forced into them. They are also free to leave whenever they feel like, and the business cannot gain-say the decision, if only because even illegals have rights with respect to treatment from private citizens.
Apparently academia does nothing what-so-ever for one's intelligence. You need a life.
"You might not even be able to see that photo ever unless you agree to terms of the license agreement of the encoder, period."
Any such limitations would be technical and not legal. When you take a photo using any type of camera, that photo is yours, no matter what form it is in. (Assuming no complications such as the storage medium or camera belonging to someone else.) Even if the photo is encoded using a patented algorithm, the content (even the encoded bits) are yours to do as you please.
I don't know if it's still done this way, but Solaris used to assign one MAC to the machine, shared amongst all network (Ethernet) interfaces. I don't think MAC works the way you think it does. I also used to use ifconfig to reassign the MAC so that my cable modem would work correctly without dealing with customer (un)support(ed).
Please note that HP is only required to provide source if you obtained the binaries (i.e. a system) from them. They have no obligation to provide source to random people that ask for it.
Ten years ago, Linux was a toy on the desktop. There were virtually zero useful applications that were stable. You didn't even have VMware yet to run Windows while still claiming to be using Linux.
Don't worry, nothing was sent to Microsoft. We think.