I have a quad core with 8GB of RAM. Let me tell you that after a cold start, Firefox starts up in SEVERAL seconds, not just one. Chrome is blazingly fast in comparison. Plus, whenever a stupid plugin freezes, it's the whole browser that freezes. In Chrome, just the tab.
Overall, Firefox feels much more responsive and modular, where Firefox feels just monolithic.
Both consume huge amounts of memory, but that's cheap these days.
He did something illegal in the country he was in. Period. This has nothing to do with rape, or with anything else really.
He did something illegal, and he bloody well knew it was illegal. I mean, it's illegal in most countries around the world to rape a woman. Even more to rape a child.
He then escaped the country to escape the charges, because facing his own crime was too much for him. Two counts so far: A criminal and a coward.
Tourism is fine. Sex tourism is generally considered borderline.
The thing is, everyone will find something objectionable to every presidential candidate. So what you are proposing (if followed by the population) would amouunt to have everyone vote blank. So what you are proposing is that the government should step down permanently. Basically, you are saying that what we know as "democracy" is worthless.
Fine. We are on some agreement there.
What you don't say is what you would propose to replace the current system... Care to elaborate?
The thing is, you don't vote for an individual idea, you vote for a whole bunch of ideas. Obviously you don't agree with 100% of the program of the guy you vote for.
So what do you propose? Who would be "less stupid" than Sarkozy on this subject? Marine Le Pen?
Mitterrand couldn't do anything short of changing the law...
Still, he didn't have to sympathize with Polanski. What a dumbass. The guy is a the head of the ministry of culture... And he doesn't know squat about the net or information as a whole. And what does culture produces exactly?
Just like the rest of them. We need new politicians.
How comes everytime some idiot comes, talks a lot of crap and ends with something like "but hey, that's just my opinion mod me down if you want to!" it gets actually moded up?
You know that sometimes they get modded down? But how would you know? They are modded down, so probably below your threshold.
I have no mac at home, so no fanboy here. The fact is that Apple only caters the high end part of the market. But the fact remains that an equivalent Dell PC is not necessarily less expensive.
Now, is a Mac the answer to all needs? No. Is a Dell? Not either, even if Dell covers a wider spectrum.
Don't feed the trolls./. people are convinced that Macs are more expensive than their PC counterpart. This is just because you can't find a cheap mac, but you can find craploads of cheap PCs. Which will give you no satisfaction, save a few corner cases.
We are very fortunate in France that ISPs are very generous. I don"t know of one that would prevent a website, mail server or any other service. Heck, they don't even throttle P2P !
The real issue with this setup is uptime, not so much bandwidth. If your web pages are set up correctly (say, 100KB) , you can probably serve two pages per second, meaning ~200k hits/day if the load is even around the clock. The reality is probably not that good, but the point is that if you monitor that thing closely, you will see the limit approaching and you'll have some time to anticipate a proper hosting.
Plus, I can go cable instead of DSL and get 30Mbps up. That'll give me an extra margin. Pretty comfortable margin actually.
For my websites, I have a PC in my garage, running on my DSL box. It works perfectly. I have some downtimes, sure. Just this morning, my kid found my router's plug and thought it was fine to unplug it because his DSi was out of battery... It lasted 5 minutes.
When I'll have bandwidth issues (which will come before HW issues - 1.5Mbps up) we'll see. For now, I have about 1000 hits/day and my DSL box is doing fine. It is most likely that my outage of 5 minutes went completely unnoticed.
That said, to do this, you'll have to be comfortable running a PC, administering a database, managing backups, etc. But you get the liberty of your own house.
Ok for the nitpicking, fair enough. The point being that whenever Apple changed their underlying platform, all (not too old) apps running the old platform were also running on the new one.
I can recognize a goatse-like link when I see one. This one is, however, very far to deserve the credit. This image is moderately disturbing, but nothing like the real thing really.
The point is not whether it was emulated or not. The day they shipped it, all apps kept working.
With windows, MS is announcing that the day they'll ship it, no apps at all are going to work.
That's a hell of a difference. Plus the GP was bitching about the fact that "It's a different architecture, of course apps will not work." It could. It won't.
For me, this whole story is a HUGE OPPORTUNITY. I mean, grab a few authors, start an editing company and sell your books on a more academic-friendly terms.
You are fairly sure that you'll get a fair marketshare. They want unreasonable terms? Get your books from publishers that do have friendly terms!!!
Oh, he is not in his first assault offense, or so it would seem. He is known for his love of sex, yes, but also for his temperamental behavior.
That said, was it an "assault" or just an advance that was a little too harsh? Where does the law draws the line there? Plus, the maid saying "I didn't know who he was" is also laughable. If she didn't know he was full of money, she'd never had sued in the first place.
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This seems like bullshit if you were to ask me.
No no, in this world, it is called "intellectual property". Welcome to the world where money can buy ideas.
I have a quad core with 8GB of RAM. Let me tell you that after a cold start, Firefox starts up in SEVERAL seconds, not just one. Chrome is blazingly fast in comparison.
Plus, whenever a stupid plugin freezes, it's the whole browser that freezes. In Chrome, just the tab.
Overall, Firefox feels much more responsive and modular, where Firefox feels just monolithic.
Both consume huge amounts of memory, but that's cheap these days.
The day FF will start up as fast as Chrome, I'll switch back. Never before.
He did something illegal in the country he was in. Period. This has nothing to do with rape, or with anything else really.
He did something illegal, and he bloody well knew it was illegal. I mean, it's illegal in most countries around the world to rape a woman. Even more to rape a child.
He then escaped the country to escape the charges, because facing his own crime was too much for him. Two counts so far: A criminal and a coward.
Tourism is fine. Sex tourism is generally considered borderline.
The problem is that political stability is a given for most people these days. They're not hungry anymore, so why bother?
We'll keep electing the same cretins until something really bad happens. Then, we'll wake up, but it'll be too late.
In the meantime, we're whining. What else can we do? Build a protest website?
The thing is, everyone will find something objectionable to every presidential candidate. So what you are proposing (if followed by the population) would amouunt to have everyone vote blank. So what you are proposing is that the government should step down permanently. Basically, you are saying that what we know as "democracy" is worthless.
Fine. We are on some agreement there.
What you don't say is what you would propose to replace the current system... Care to elaborate?
Refusing discussion if giving away your right to have one. It is stupid in every occasion.
The thing is, you don't vote for an individual idea, you vote for a whole bunch of ideas. Obviously you don't agree with 100% of the program of the guy you vote for.
So what do you propose? Who would be "less stupid" than Sarkozy on this subject? Marine Le Pen?
Mitterrand couldn't do anything short of changing the law...
Still, he didn't have to sympathize with Polanski. What a dumbass. The guy is a the head of the ministry of culture... And he doesn't know squat about the net or information as a whole. And what does culture produces exactly?
Just like the rest of them. We need new politicians.
I just don't understand you then... I guess my question is: What are the advantages of a Sun workstation over a PC - on the desktop?
So... They are reinventing Seti@Home? I guess there is a news here, but where?
How comes everytime some idiot comes, talks a lot of crap and ends with something like "but hey, that's just my opinion mod me down if you want to!" it gets actually moded up?
You know that sometimes they get modded down? But how would you know? They are modded down, so probably below your threshold.
Because it's not their stuff. It's the RIAA's affiliate's stuff.
I have no mac at home, so no fanboy here. The fact is that Apple only caters the high end part of the market. But the fact remains that an equivalent Dell PC is not necessarily less expensive.
Now, is a Mac the answer to all needs? No. Is a Dell? Not either, even if Dell covers a wider spectrum.
Don't feed the trolls. /. people are convinced that Macs are more expensive than their PC counterpart. This is just because you can't find a cheap mac, but you can find craploads of cheap PCs. Which will give you no satisfaction, save a few corner cases.
We are very fortunate in France that ISPs are very generous. I don"t know of one that would prevent a website, mail server or any other service. Heck, they don't even throttle P2P !
The real issue with this setup is uptime, not so much bandwidth. If your web pages are set up correctly (say, 100KB) , you can probably serve two pages per second, meaning ~200k hits/day if the load is even around the clock. The reality is probably not that good, but the point is that if you monitor that thing closely, you will see the limit approaching and you'll have some time to anticipate a proper hosting.
Plus, I can go cable instead of DSL and get 30Mbps up. That'll give me an extra margin. Pretty comfortable margin actually.
For my websites, I have a PC in my garage, running on my DSL box. It works perfectly. I have some downtimes, sure. Just this morning, my kid found my router's plug and thought it was fine to unplug it because his DSi was out of battery... It lasted 5 minutes.
When I'll have bandwidth issues (which will come before HW issues - 1.5Mbps up) we'll see. For now, I have about 1000 hits/day and my DSL box is doing fine. It is most likely that my outage of 5 minutes went completely unnoticed.
That said, to do this, you'll have to be comfortable running a PC, administering a database, managing backups, etc. But you get the liberty of your own house.
Do you really think this will affect their sales in a significant manner? I don't think so.
denyhosts and fail2ban are fine against the script kiddies operating from a single source IP, but not so good against the larger adversaries.
That's still something, right?
Ok for the nitpicking, fair enough. The point being that whenever Apple changed their underlying platform, all (not too old) apps running the old platform were also running on the new one.
Sorry about that. Here they are.
I can recognize a goatse-like link when I see one. This one is, however, very far to deserve the credit. This image is moderately disturbing, but nothing like the real thing really.
The point is not whether it was emulated or not. The day they shipped it, all apps kept working.
With windows, MS is announcing that the day they'll ship it, no apps at all are going to work.
That's a hell of a difference. Plus the GP was bitching about the fact that "It's a different architecture, of course apps will not work." It could. It won't.
For me, this whole story is a HUGE OPPORTUNITY. I mean, grab a few authors, start an editing company and sell your books on a more academic-friendly terms.
You are fairly sure that you'll get a fair marketshare. They want unreasonable terms? Get your books from publishers that do have friendly terms!!!
Oh, he is not in his first assault offense, or so it would seem. He is known for his love of sex, yes, but also for his temperamental behavior.
That said, was it an "assault" or just an advance that was a little too harsh? Where does the law draws the line there?
Plus, the maid saying "I didn't know who he was" is also laughable. If she didn't know he was full of money, she'd never had sued in the first place.
+1 on this.
What should we expect to see next? Topless photos of taken with a digital camera! See all the photos here!
Just out of curiosity, you forgot to put the link on the "here". Care to share?