I will probably be down-modded because this is emotionally charged stuff we're talking about here. What I am about to state is going to probably be unpopular with some of the crowd here on this forum.
We don't know the rationale of the comment about the Reiser story. Someone could be goaded into that sort of thing as described in the comment. I can't say I wholly agree with MikeeUSA's commentary about Nina Reiser- nor can I comment either way on his assessment of the story. I know from personal experience that the world isn't being told the whole truth on this subject- and people that're less strong than I was have snapped at the treatment they received there.
I'll point to the previous comment I just made in this post with regards to the other comment you bring up. If you need to use a label of "Feminism" then you should reconsider your thinking- the bulk of that which labels itself "feminist" are very much guilty of abuse that is honestly unacceptable going back the other way. If you want to see sexism, all one has to do is look back at the Feminist crowd to see sterling, stalwart examples thereof. While MikeeUSA's comments may be over the top- there is some basis thereof for a counter response back the other way.
Now before anyone tries to label me a misogynist or a sexist pig (Of which, I am neither...), I will offer some good examples of what I am talking to:
"All men are rapists and that's all they are" -- Marilyn French, Authoress; (later, advisoress to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign.)
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage." -- Sheila Cronin, prominent member of NOW
"The most merciful thing a family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger - founder of planned parenthood
"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." --Mary Daly, former Professor at Boston College, 2001
There's tons more examples, but that sort of stuff, folks, is what Feminism appears to be all about from their public presence and proclamations and past actions in public- after all, these ARE their luminaries talking with those examples I've given. No rational discourse is typically possible at that point- no sanity present within any of this stuff. It's all about feelings and don't confuse them with the facts, they know what they feel and what they feel is the Truth of the matter. If you don't believe me, all you need do is run afoul of someone in that crowd and you'll be on the receiving end of all of it, male or female- and there will be no shifting them from their "thoughts" on the matter.
Anyone that has ran afoul of this sort of crowd will attest that it's damned easy to arrive at a line of thought like MikeeUSA has expressed. Odds are, he's been on the receiving end of it and has had enough- but doesn't know how to express it in any other way than the way he has. Sure, it's not constructive, but then neither has any of the bulk of the Feminist crowd either- and whenever "sexist" comes up, I always go looking for the cause. And, I've always found that the aphorism of "where there's smoke there is fire" really applies to any of these cases- the smoke or squeaky wheel's guilty of the same sort of thought process that the examples of Feminism have arrived at and publicly stated....and we've been pavlov trained to react to it whenever it gets broached in the manner everyone keeps doing, even now, whether or not there's actually any basis whatsoever in the accusations being flung.
..and if you're not statically linking and not restricting reverse engineering or laying claim to patent coverage in a way that you prevent downstream use of the stuff you supply- along with providing any mods to the library...there's no other issues to speak of.
There's no "subtle" about LGPL any more than there is to GPL, really. GPL's just slightly more restrictive.
A reputable headhunter will typically ask you questions to ascertain if they need you to update your resume and have you do it. If there's an issue with formatting, but not content, the headhunter will show you what they've done.
This guy is a slimeball and I've met a few like him...drop him like a hot potato and make sure your colleagues know about him as well.
"Organic" refers to how it's grown and produced, not how nutritious is is (other than that it is more likely to lack "negatively nutritious" contamination by pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, etcetera).
Indeed. However, you might want to note that even though the aforementioned is true, HFCS isn't in the stuff labeled "Organic" as it doesn't meet the criteria for the same. HFCS is actually nutritionally worse than Sucrose is and we won't get into things like Aspartame. Going with "organic" is likely to be ever so slightly better than the other stuff- it doesn't mean you're going to get nutritious food, but it will assure you that you're mostly not taking in stuff that's actually of more concern than just being not-nutritious.
IF you can convince them that they're not able to require the warranty on the machine to be tied to your acceptance of Vista or Windows 7. My laptop's 90 day refurb warranty from HP had that stipulation boldly stated on the box. They take the position that they sold you that machine with that software on it and they choose to not sell it to you without it.
Heh... Well...even those can be, after a fashion DIY put together. They're all made from some of the same names you're familiar with in the desktop space- you can buy motherboards, CPUs, memory, hard disks, DVDs, etc. for Laptops and put 'em together. It's not as easily done or readily available as the desktop stuff is right now, but it can be done.
Correction: You are quoting sales numbers which count things as my laptop as a Vista/Windows 7 sale, which is HIGHLY inaccurate.
My laptop never booted into Vista save at the factory when they imaged it and verified it could come up. I unpacked it, took a paperclip and opened my DVD drive, popped a freshly minted Ubuntu 7.04 disk into the machine and promptly did a nuke-n-pave of the box. There's several machines that factor into the XP "numbers" that don't run XP. I've got a couple of non-OEM licenses (heh...go figure AMD, when they shipped me a couple of Solo2 board based boxes gave me full licenses instead of OEMs...) that are lurking around for a VirtualBox install of XP for the few things that won't work right in WINE. Basically, I've got something on the order of a dozen or so machines that I have responsibility for or own- and only three licenses of their stuff are ever in use- but they count all 12 as their sales.
Heh... Plug-n-pray was purportedly there with Windows 95. USB plug-n-pray was present in Windows 98 and was the source of the infamous BSOD in front of Bill Gates as he was keynoting the feature.
I gave him a new computer. He took an Ubuntu install at my suggestion on the same. As he was moving his music over to the new machine, he discovered that he couldn't play some of his tracks he'd ripped from his CD collection (He has quite a bit of music...) on the new PC's media player. There was a one-to-one correspondence to tracks he had that wouldn't play right on all of his players. He put two and two together on this...
Windows had "protected" his music he'd ripped and unless you have all the right license keys on the device you're playing it on- no music from those files.
We're in the process of remastering his music to MP3 so it'll play on everything and not impede his use of what he legally has copies of. He's not a geek like this crowd- and he's telling his friends and showing them. DRM is defective by design and eventually everyone runs afoul of it, even the non-techies. All it takes is explaining to them that the "broken" they just encountered is DRM and not something that putting in a new Blu-Ray or similar will fix, they won't be very happy about it. It's already happening. It just takes a bit of time as the media companies don't seem to want to leave it at where they had it or have it now- they want absolute control a' la EA and Spore.
Heh... And, if they couldn't get it right after SEVEN years of development time on Vista and took them another two to get the drivers and UI portions right...what else isn't "quite right" and you just don't know about it yet?
I wouldn't give Apple the time of day if this was what they did.
Actually... I spent six months using it while doing sustaining engineering for AMD's OpenGL group.
There's nothing there that's actually useful to most people.
To each their own, but Vista offers little and gives you straight-jackets that never existed before. The I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads highlighted some of those straight-jackets in a humorous manner- but they still exist on Vista.
The CULV may be faster than the A9 by a bit, but clock-for-clock, they'll be similar. Moreover, at 1-1.5GHz, you're talking a power dissipation of about 6-7W peak for the A9. I doubt, beyond words, that the CULV will be at the same TDP at the same clocking.
Considering that you want to LOSE weight in many cases with Type II (Largely with Type I, you have no choices- you take insulin shots...), gaining weight isn't desirable- I should know, I was on three meds before I carved out the sugars in my diet and lost about 40 pounds. Now I'm under control and merely diet and exercise controlled- and have been for the last 3 plus years.
Gaining weight is typically NOT what someone would want to do if they've got Diabetes. It's actually very harmful for many whom have it.
The interesting thing is that it's Metformin... That drug does several things at once (though it's side-effects make it such that you largely don't want it for it's carb-blocking ability...)- diabetics on that med tend to lose weight if they're solely on that one and abide by diet restrictions and are compliant with it. It'd be interesting what comes of the research.
Hands-free's aren't so much of a distraction. It's no worse than having a conversation with someone in the car while driving when it's on speaker or on hands-free. It's when you have it up to your head that it becomes a problem and you lose quite a bit of ability to pay attention to the road when you do that.
I don't have issues when driving with a hands-free. I know I'm doing something I probably shouldn't be when the phone's up to the head- I can tell that I'm not paying attention to the road like I should the few, few times I've ended up doing that. So, I don't do that one.
You don't have to ban use of the voice function while driving. Just mandate that they can't do it without using a proper speakerphone mode or other hands-free.
Most of the phones this lot use have Bluetooth as a feature- there's little excuse for not having a "Borg implant" or using a speakerphone device on the visor that ties to their phone while they're driving.
Texting probably is- I'd think it was covered under reckless driving statutes.
You'd think it was a foregone conclusion, really, that this was a BAD thing to do- but people do it right along with the trying to drive whilst the phone's up to the head. But noooo....
Considering that MS is likely unaware of the mod in question- rest assured, if MS knew about that sort of thing being pervasive as Cyanogen's mod was for Google Experience devices such as the G1 and Mytouch, you could bet your bottom dollar they'd do the same thing as Google did.
Just because you're seeing it going on and Microsoft not doing things about it doesn't make it any better on the part the Windows Mobile modders or Google any worse for it all for their actions here.
Actually, he's probably even doing the Voice on the net... I would. VoIP phones to a PBX switch in the wiring closet where the stuff all comes together at.
There's little need for special wireups, etc. these days. Done right, you can just drop a handful of Cat-5 drops into a room along with the mains plugs and light switches and have everything imaginable in this day and age handled in some fashion.
You could just as easily do the connect with fiber (and perhaps better with it if the cables still weren't a bit more fragile than one would like them to be...) because it's all TCP/IP based at that point and the media's less relevant as long as you can either translate it to another format or have devices on that network type.
Actually, if you do your cabling right, yes you can. Ethernet's got distance limitations- fiber has less of one. Power can be ran the same distances if you pair it up around the fiber and make it part of a special connector... Moreover, the crowd they're tailoring this to doesn't care as much about power concerns over the interconnect. They want reliability, ease of cabling, distance, and overall speed- and they're not wanting to dangle all sorts of things like people do with USB stuff.
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I will probably be down-modded because this is emotionally charged stuff we're talking about here. What I am about to state is going to probably be unpopular with some of the crowd here on this forum.
We don't know the rationale of the comment about the Reiser story. Someone could be goaded into that sort of thing as described in the comment. I can't say I wholly agree with MikeeUSA's commentary about Nina Reiser- nor can I comment either way on his assessment of the story. I know from personal experience that the world isn't being told the whole truth on this subject- and people that're less strong than I was have snapped at the treatment they received there.
I'll point to the previous comment I just made in this post with regards to the other comment you bring up. If you need to use a label of "Feminism" then you should reconsider your thinking- the bulk of that which labels itself "feminist" are very much guilty of abuse that is honestly unacceptable going back the other way. If you want to see sexism, all one has to do is look back at the Feminist crowd to see sterling, stalwart examples thereof. While MikeeUSA's comments may be over the top- there is some basis thereof for a counter response back the other way.
Now before anyone tries to label me a misogynist or a sexist pig (Of which, I am neither...), I will offer some good examples of what I am talking to:
There's tons more examples, but that sort of stuff, folks, is what Feminism appears to be all about from their public presence and proclamations and past actions in public- after all, these ARE their luminaries talking with those examples I've given. No rational discourse is typically possible at that point- no sanity present within any of this stuff. It's all about feelings and don't confuse them with the facts, they know what they feel and what they feel is the Truth of the matter. If you don't believe me, all you need do is run afoul of someone in that crowd and you'll be on the receiving end of all of it, male or female- and there will be no shifting them from their "thoughts" on the matter.
Anyone that has ran afoul of this sort of crowd will attest that it's damned easy to arrive at a line of thought like MikeeUSA has expressed. Odds are, he's been on the receiving end of it and has had enough- but doesn't know how to express it in any other way than the way he has. Sure, it's not constructive, but then neither has any of the bulk of the Feminist crowd either- and whenever "sexist" comes up, I always go looking for the cause. And, I've always found that the aphorism of "where there's smoke there is fire" really applies to any of these cases- the smoke or squeaky wheel's guilty of the same sort of thought process that the examples of Feminism have arrived at and publicly stated. ...and we've been pavlov trained to react to it whenever it gets broached in the manner everyone keeps doing, even now, whether or not there's actually any basis whatsoever in the accusations being flung.
..and if you're not statically linking and not restricting reverse engineering or laying claim to patent coverage in a way that you prevent downstream use of the stuff you supply- along with providing any mods to the library...there's no other issues to speak of.
There's no "subtle" about LGPL any more than there is to GPL, really. GPL's just slightly more restrictive.
I would have to concur.
A reputable headhunter will typically ask you questions to ascertain if they need you to update your resume and have you do it. If there's an issue with formatting, but not content, the headhunter will show you what they've done.
This guy is a slimeball and I've met a few like him...drop him like a hot potato and make sure your colleagues know about him as well.
Ah...but NVidia said WinCE was the way to go on ARM...
Indeed. However, you might want to note that even though the aforementioned is true, HFCS isn't in the stuff labeled "Organic" as it doesn't meet the criteria for the same. HFCS is actually nutritionally worse than Sucrose is and we won't get into things like Aspartame. Going with "organic" is likely to be ever so slightly better than the other stuff- it doesn't mean you're going to get nutritious food, but it will assure you that you're mostly not taking in stuff that's actually of more concern than just being not-nutritious.
Food's nothing more than a specific set of chemicals we consume.
IF you can convince them that they're not able to require the warranty on the machine to be tied to your acceptance of Vista or Windows 7. My laptop's 90 day refurb warranty from HP had that stipulation boldly stated on the box. They take the position that they sold you that machine with that software on it and they choose to not sell it to you without it.
Heh... Well...even those can be, after a fashion DIY put together. They're all made from some of the same names you're familiar with in the desktop space- you can buy motherboards, CPUs, memory, hard disks, DVDs, etc. for Laptops and put 'em together. It's not as easily done or readily available as the desktop stuff is right now, but it can be done.
Here's a starting point for some:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/diy_notebooks/
Correction: You are quoting sales numbers which count things as my laptop as a Vista/Windows 7 sale, which is HIGHLY inaccurate.
My laptop never booted into Vista save at the factory when they imaged it and verified it could come up. I unpacked it, took a paperclip and opened my DVD drive, popped a freshly minted Ubuntu 7.04 disk into the machine and promptly did a nuke-n-pave of the box. There's several machines that factor into the XP "numbers" that don't run XP. I've got a couple of non-OEM licenses (heh...go figure AMD, when they shipped me a couple of Solo2 board based boxes gave me full licenses instead of OEMs...) that are lurking around for a VirtualBox install of XP for the few things that won't work right in WINE. Basically, I've got something on the order of a dozen or so machines that I have responsibility for or own- and only three licenses of their stuff are ever in use- but they count all 12 as their sales.
Heh... Plug-n-pray was purportedly there with Windows 95. USB plug-n-pray was present in Windows 98 and was the source of the infamous BSOD in front of Bill Gates as he was keynoting the feature.
Actually... My GF's kid found out what DRM means.
I gave him a new computer. He took an Ubuntu install at my suggestion on the same. As he was moving his music over to the new machine, he discovered that he couldn't play some of his tracks he'd ripped from his CD collection (He has quite a bit of music...) on the new PC's media player. There was a one-to-one correspondence to tracks he had that wouldn't play right on all of his players. He put two and two together on this...
Windows had "protected" his music he'd ripped and unless you have all the right license keys on the device you're playing it on- no music from those files.
We're in the process of remastering his music to MP3 so it'll play on everything and not impede his use of what he legally has copies of. He's not a geek like this crowd- and he's telling his friends and showing them. DRM is defective by design and eventually everyone runs afoul of it, even the non-techies. All it takes is explaining to them that the "broken" they just encountered is DRM and not something that putting in a new Blu-Ray or similar will fix, they won't be very happy about it. It's already happening. It just takes a bit of time as the media companies don't seem to want to leave it at where they had it or have it now- they want absolute control a' la EA and Spore.
Heh... And, if they couldn't get it right after SEVEN years of development time on Vista and took them another two to get the drivers and UI portions right...what else isn't "quite right" and you just don't know about it yet?
I wouldn't give Apple the time of day if this was what they did.
I wouldn't use LINUX if it went down that way.
Indeed... This IS /. after all... ;-)
Actually... I spent six months using it while doing sustaining engineering for AMD's OpenGL group.
There's nothing there that's actually useful to most people.
To each their own, but Vista offers little and gives you straight-jackets that never existed before. The I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads highlighted some of those straight-jackets in a humorous manner- but they still exist on Vista.
So, is Montebello a MVL6 variant?
Heh... Comparing close matches:
Cortex-A8 -> Atom
Cortex-A9 -> CULV
The CULV may be faster than the A9 by a bit, but clock-for-clock, they'll be similar. Moreover, at 1-1.5GHz, you're talking a power dissipation of about 6-7W peak for the A9. I doubt, beyond words, that the CULV will be at the same TDP at the same clocking.
Considering that you want to LOSE weight in many cases with Type II (Largely with Type I, you have no choices- you take insulin shots...), gaining weight isn't desirable- I should know, I was on three meds before I carved out the sugars in my diet and lost about 40 pounds. Now I'm under control and merely diet and exercise controlled- and have been for the last 3 plus years.
Gaining weight is typically NOT what someone would want to do if they've got Diabetes. It's actually very harmful for many whom have it.
The interesting thing is that it's Metformin... That drug does several things at once (though it's side-effects make it such that you largely don't want it for it's carb-blocking ability...)- diabetics on that med tend to lose weight if they're solely on that one and abide by diet restrictions and are compliant with it. It'd be interesting what comes of the research.
Hands-free's aren't so much of a distraction. It's no worse than having a conversation with someone in the car while driving when it's on speaker or on hands-free. It's when you have it up to your head that it becomes a problem and you lose quite a bit of ability to pay attention to the road when you do that.
I don't have issues when driving with a hands-free. I know I'm doing something I probably shouldn't be when the phone's up to the head- I can tell that I'm not paying attention to the road like I should the few, few times I've ended up doing that. So, I don't do that one.
You don't have to ban use of the voice function while driving. Just mandate that they can't do it without using a proper speakerphone mode or other hands-free.
Most of the phones this lot use have Bluetooth as a feature- there's little excuse for not having a "Borg implant" or using a speakerphone device on the visor that ties to their phone while they're driving.
Texting probably is- I'd think it was covered under reckless driving statutes.
You'd think it was a foregone conclusion, really, that this was a BAD thing to do- but people do it right along with the trying to drive whilst the phone's up to the head. But noooo....
Considering that MS is likely unaware of the mod in question- rest assured, if MS knew about that sort of thing being pervasive as Cyanogen's mod was for Google Experience devices such as the G1 and Mytouch, you could bet your bottom dollar they'd do the same thing as Google did.
Just because you're seeing it going on and Microsoft not doing things about it doesn't make it any better on the part the Windows Mobile modders or Google any worse for it all for their actions here.
No kidding. They ruined a classic car (not that I'd have painted the thing PINK like the one they ruined...but c'mon...).
Actually, he's probably even doing the Voice on the net... I would. VoIP phones to a PBX switch in the wiring closet where the stuff all comes together at.
There's little need for special wireups, etc. these days. Done right, you can just drop a handful of Cat-5 drops into a room along with the mains plugs and light switches and have everything imaginable in this day and age handled in some fashion.
You could just as easily do the connect with fiber (and perhaps better with it if the cables still weren't a bit more fragile than one would like them to be...) because it's all TCP/IP based at that point and the media's less relevant as long as you can either translate it to another format or have devices on that network type.
Actually, if you do your cabling right, yes you can. Ethernet's got distance limitations- fiber has less of one. Power can be ran the same distances if you pair it up around the fiber and make it part of a special connector... Moreover, the crowd they're tailoring this to doesn't care as much about power concerns over the interconnect. They want reliability, ease of cabling, distance, and overall speed- and they're not wanting to dangle all sorts of things like people do with USB stuff.