I can't imagine surviving with anything less than 20GB or so these days.
Ah, those were the days, when we had 10Mb harddrives. And a typical console Game took a 200k ROM. Yes, you can run _anything_ on 1Gb. Just remember, the 9Mb Emacs was once considered the epitome of bloatware. And that is a program you can actually do everything with.
Just because you shouldn't use a SUV when you are a single in a town. You yourself won't see the consequences immediately, but inevitably it will sooner or later have big consequences for everybody, and not good ones at that.
Well, this isn't OS or instruction set here, it's the firmware interface of EFI that can allow changing the Firmware from the operating system via a defined C interface. That's just trouble waiting to happen.
The mmu of x36 is pretty awkward and page protection has some flaws too, but that can be worked around (well, doing anything on x386 is pretty much a workaround, it's actually rare to be able to do anything just straight forward there).
The biggest protection advantage of other archtectures is though, that there are fewer people who really know it and can exploit instruction level insecurities. Trying a buffer overflow with well placed x386 code on a non x86 processor won't do much.
If you are not programming on very low level yourself, probably nothing. If you don't care about being DRMs with EFI (really good for implementing such things, though they didn't yet), also probably nothing. If you don't care about the possibility of viruses actually destroying your firmware, making your Computer completely unusable and unrepariable without expert tools, also probably nothing. Power consumption is much higher. So less runtime and higher bills. If you don't care aobut all the awkwardness and legacy crutches system programmers and driver programmers have to put up with on the x86 architecture, and how many man years are spent to work around this just to be able to run on it and make it more dominant in the process. And you know, awkward things are hard to make reliable. A vicious cycle, that has to be broken at some point. The x86 architecture is so crufted, that you need a boot loader of several MB size, just to get an operating system running (ok, that was for cheap effect, but it has a point).
I used this comparison already, but using x86 today is like using steam trains today. Sure, you can bring steam trains to speeds of 400mp/h. It's just not economic and waste of ressources. It was just needed for compatibility, because the where so many old tracks without electric wiring. But building new tracks without electric wiring, but with coal and water stations on the road, as Apple is doing right now, is idiocy.
Well, I bought Apple for Power CPUs and OpenFirmware. I have one Server, one Workstation and a Laptop that each have a Power CPU and OpenFirmware. Won't buy Apple Hardware anymore, since it has architecturally inferior Replacements now. Simple as that. What I have will be suitable in the next years. And then I decide what I will buy next. Maybe Cells will be affordable by then.
Oh well, "pretty much correct". Right, there are only very few differences in the DNA/Clump of cells right after insemination. But that is only the quantitative aspect. A tiny teeny difference in only one gene can decide everything, over death and life. And that isn't just an exception. It's happening millions/billions of times every second in every human, in every organism. Every germ that enters our body, every chmical that enters our body, every radiation we are exposed to and all the other factors, one tiny differeny in just one gene can make us die from it, or live. And that life/death is just the most severe consequence it can have on an individual. It has the most profound influence on every aspect of our development. The start may be very very similar for all. But it's not. Not even there. And this very fact is, what made us what we are, is the premise for all biological evolution. It may only be a small difference in quantity. But it's a crucial difference. A difference in quality. It's like barely being missed by a truck or being distributed over 100m of asphalt.
The only way to infer from my post that I am a racist asshole is, when you define everyone who uses the word nigger in any circumstances as a racist asshole. But that would also imply that Mark Twain is a racist asshole.
I have very little contact to blacks where I live since there are so few of them around here. The fact that one of my closest friend is one despite of this "short supply" of them over here should maybe convince you that I'm not, in fact, a racist asshole.
And Berlin 1945 was only possible because of Versailles 1918. And Versailles 1918 was only possible because of Imperialism/Colonialism of all European/Wesetern nations wich was only possible because of trade and commerce which is only possible because of greed. But wait, greed is the recurring theme in anything that has been mentioned so far. So if you want to do anything about it, fight greed and all it's symptoms.
"Don't use goto" is sort of and absolute/godly moral. It's good for those that can't think and decide for themselves. People that can think and decide for themselves know that there are no absoltue morals and occasionally decide to use a goto, when it's appropriate for their use.
While I can understand why structrured programming was introduced, I still think it is sort of funny to use like a dozen syntactical constructions, that all can have their own quirks, for flow control, while all those things are done with one machine code on a proper RISC machine, meaning the jump instruction.
That Root-kit is using 1-2% of your CPU all the time. Now imagine the next company has the next DRM, that uses also 1-2% of your CPU all the time ( the won't use the same, sinc ethey o course cannot agree on a standard). Now if only every major record company puts such a DRM on your computer you suddenly have 20% less bang on your machine. That's neat huh? And you even pay them for that.
So let me get this straight: you crane your neck for a better look at his legs, he sized you up, your eyes met, and then you smiled at each other?
Why do I get the feeling that you two walked away from that little encounter with vastly different ideas about what happened?
How did you notice the subtle social implications of that? Do you belong to slashdot? Is that how flirting works? Where did you learn that? Can you teach me?
So what, egg yolk has more chlesterol than the white! But it certainly ha less fat than oil;)
And as I said, I only eat mayonnaise when I make i myself, and that is not that often. So how do I care about an egg more or less?
Also, when you see discovery channel, and a lion or leopard just killed an antelope, what do you notice? The first thing they eat is guts and liver and kidneys and all the innards. And before they go to the steak and T-Bones they go for the legs and necks. That what we call the high quality meat, they couldn't care less for that. And why is that? Because all the important stuff is in the innards.
That doesn't mean I eat tons of raw liver though;)
Well, the only mayonnaise I eat is the one I made myself. Preferably from more exotic oils and vinegars. But more importantly, much more egg yellows than any industry mayonnaise. My own has maybe 40% fat. Industry mayonnaise around 80%.
Well, there is actually only once rule for food. The more it is processed the more likely it is that it is useless or even harmful for your metabolism. Our metablosism is just best adapted to that. Soylent Green is probably better for you than anything packaged from a supermarket. Eat the fattest meat, eat all fried, revel in carbs whatever. But don't eat it once a food corporation had it's chemistry fingers on it.
Just a reminder...the only plant fat that is solid in room temperature is coco fat. Can you imagine what chemicals are needed to turn plant fats into something you can put on your bread? Just eat butter instead.
Was the main exercise that tought me English pretty early. You just cannot go on without understanding, and you cannot go on without writing yourself. That forces you to learn the language in contrast to just cross-reading books or (blasphemy for actually learning English) chatting.
Well, there has been open source software before there where Software comanies, and there will be open source software after Software companies are gone. Software companies will be gone. Mankind will be gone. And I'm pretty sure Software companies will be gone before Mankind is gone.
Well, they try to spread their sytem everywhere, and they call it freedom and democracy. Who am I to argue with them? They have big red buttons to press on.
Yep. It's the next best thing to abolishing patents altogether for spurring innovation. And it's the furthest they can get in that area. Noone can abolish any laws in a democracy when there is a rich lobby that depends on them.
Wait. I know how to solve this dispute once and for all. You know, in every monotheistic religion you only get the goods (e.g. go to heaven) when you believe in their god and accept their teachings. You don't even have to know or even understand them (I know far too many christians that know less of the Bible than I do). Ok. Let's do it the other way around too. You only get the goods of science (e.g. antibiotics, vaccinations, inteferons against cancer to name only the ones that are based on evolution) if you believe in the scientific principles and accept their teachings. Again, they are not required to know or understand it all. Not even scientists can do that. By applying this simple rule, they can have their heaven all for themselves (well, according to their teachings they have it already, and I'm not overly sad about that, thinking about having to spend eternity with them). And the whole dispute will be solved in about one generation.
But you also seem to have the "Spiritualists Dream" that listening to your hears and spirituality will always make decisions more socially and emotionally acceptable/right. It doesn't. You have no idea how often I feel the urge to kill someone. The important thing is, that I don't do it.
Also, anothother problem I have, is the notion of responisbility. The more neuro science advances, the more the concept of actual responisnility crumbles down. It is just a mental construct (and an unconcious mental construct at that) to make us feel...well - in charge. I think one of the most important things and realizations one can achieve is life is, to accept that you are not responsible for anything, but at the same time acting and thinking as if you where responsible. The whole history of modern commerce can be summarized something like "The removement of responibility(liability) for those people who make the decisions." And it is a dangerous development. People just act irresponible if they don't have to fear consequences. I certainly don't want to return to the times when a creditor could demand the depts back by cutting as much meat from the body of the indebted as he was due in weight of gold. But sometimes I think such laws would prevent a lot of misdevelopments we had in economy in the last decades.
So you will rather buy an Xbox than a PS3? Because Sony tries to get control of your computer with a rootkit?
Think again, who has more power over your Windows computer, Sony or Microsoft? Who doesn't even need to install a root kit to do anything on it they want to?
Yep. Bush and Iraq are bad, and it's old news. But do you remember the times when Bush and Iraq where all good at least only in the US? When all the media was full of articles pointing out how good all this is going to be? How thos was so off back then? How all the important topics where drained by it? Now, the Bush administration got what it wanted, speaking the war. But they also got more than they wanted, speaking still the war and no sign of it stopping anytime soon. How long is Israel bantering with the Palestines already, and still no real sign of it ever stopping? Expect a similar timescale in Iraq, just that it will be worse. Oh...and the other thing they got more is the backlash of the people and the media. The Bush Administration will be remembered for what he did, will become the synonym for what he did in pretty much the same way as Hitler became it. And figure, Hitler is still the standard example of so many bad things. If you pissed with those references already today...imagin how pissed you will be in 60 years when those referneces still will be made, just as Hitler references are still made today!
Just that Tom Cruise never was on an enjoyable movie. I have been told he wasn't half bad in Magnolia, but that I haven't seen yet. The furthest I would go is, that Tom Cruse was in a few movies that could have been good, if it wasn't for him being in them. He is just flat out a terrible actor. See Rain Man where you see him next to Dustin Hoffman. It jumps into your face whenever you see him "I can't act!". Or Vanilla Sky. That movie got a lot of problems and was one of the worst I have ever seen. But the main problem it has is, that it has to rely on the leading role being a good actor. Too bad the leading role was given to Tom Cruise.
The old Michale Jackson records are still some of the best out there. I can't comment on O.J. Simpson's football. And I can even enjoy a lot of passages from the Bible, although all it's authors where either religous nutheads or freaking hypocrites.
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I can't imagine surviving with anything less than 20GB or so these days.
Ah, those were the days, when we had 10Mb harddrives. And a typical console Game took a 200k ROM.
Yes, you can run _anything_ on 1Gb. Just remember, the 9Mb Emacs was once considered the epitome of bloatware. And that is a program you can actually do everything with.
Just because you shouldn't use a SUV when you are a single in a town. You yourself won't see the consequences immediately, but inevitably it will sooner or later have big consequences for everybody, and not good ones at that.
Well, this isn't OS or instruction set here, it's the firmware interface of EFI that can allow changing the Firmware from the operating system via a defined C interface. That's just trouble waiting to happen.
The mmu of x36 is pretty awkward and page protection has some flaws too, but that can be worked around (well, doing anything on x386 is pretty much a workaround, it's actually rare to be able to do anything just straight forward there).
The biggest protection advantage of other archtectures is though, that there are fewer people who really know it and can exploit instruction level insecurities. Trying a buffer overflow with well placed x386 code on a non x86 processor won't do much.
If you are not programming on very low level yourself, probably nothing.
If you don't care about being DRMs with EFI (really good for implementing such things, though they didn't yet), also probably nothing.
If you don't care about the possibility of viruses actually destroying your firmware, making your Computer completely unusable and unrepariable without expert tools, also probably nothing.
Power consumption is much higher. So less runtime and higher bills.
If you don't care aobut all the awkwardness and legacy crutches system programmers and driver programmers have to put up with on the x86 architecture, and how many man years are spent to work around this just to be able to run on it and make it more dominant in the process. And you know, awkward things are hard to make reliable. A vicious cycle, that has to be broken at some point.
The x86 architecture is so crufted, that you need a boot loader of several MB size, just to get an operating system running (ok, that was for cheap effect, but it has a point).
I used this comparison already, but using x86 today is like using steam trains today. Sure, you can bring steam trains to speeds of 400mp/h. It's just not economic and waste of ressources. It was just needed for compatibility, because the where so many old tracks without electric wiring. But building new tracks without electric wiring, but with coal and water stations on the road, as Apple is doing right now, is idiocy.
Well, I bought Apple for Power CPUs and OpenFirmware. I have one Server, one Workstation and a Laptop that each have a Power CPU and OpenFirmware. Won't buy Apple Hardware anymore, since it has architecturally inferior Replacements now. Simple as that. What I have will be suitable in the next years. And then I decide what I will buy next. Maybe Cells will be affordable by then.
It's not Islam or Christianity or any religion that is full of love, it's the people. And people are also full of greed and stupidity.
All religion is doing is giving people a tool to make stupidity and love useful for greed.
Oh well, "pretty much correct".
Right, there are only very few differences in the DNA/Clump of cells right after insemination. But that is only the quantitative aspect. A tiny teeny difference in only one gene can decide everything, over death and life. And that isn't just an exception. It's happening millions/billions of times every second in every human, in every organism. Every germ that enters our body, every chmical that enters our body, every radiation we are exposed to and all the other factors, one tiny differeny in just one gene can make us die from it, or live. And that life/death is just the most severe consequence it can have on an individual. It has the most profound influence on every aspect of our development.
The start may be very very similar for all. But it's not. Not even there. And this very fact is, what made us what we are, is the premise for all biological evolution. It may only be a small difference in quantity. But it's a crucial difference. A difference in quality. It's like barely being missed by a truck or being distributed over 100m of asphalt.
The only way to infer from my post that I am a racist asshole is, when you define everyone who uses the word nigger in any circumstances as a racist asshole. But that would also imply that Mark Twain is a racist asshole.
I have very little contact to blacks where I live since there are so few of them around here. The fact that one of my closest friend is one despite of this "short supply" of them over here should maybe convince you that I'm not, in fact, a racist asshole.
And Berlin 1945 was only possible because of Versailles 1918. And Versailles 1918 was only possible because of Imperialism/Colonialism of all European/Wesetern nations wich was only possible because of trade and commerce which is only possible because of greed. But wait, greed is the recurring theme in anything that has been mentioned so far.
So if you want to do anything about it, fight greed and all it's symptoms.
Well, not knowing what is to be blamed on genetics is far more dangerous.
;)
See...I have heard that some people are niggers, and it's their own fault
"Don't use goto" is sort of and absolute/godly moral. It's good for those that can't think and decide for themselves. People that can think and decide for themselves know that there are no absoltue morals and occasionally decide to use a goto, when it's appropriate for their use.
While I can understand why structrured programming was introduced, I still think it is sort of funny to use like a dozen syntactical constructions, that all can have their own quirks, for flow control, while all those things are done with one machine code on a proper RISC machine, meaning the jump instruction.
That Root-kit is using 1-2% of your CPU all the time. Now imagine the next company has the next DRM, that uses also 1-2% of your CPU all the time ( the won't use the same, sinc ethey o course cannot agree on a standard). Now if only every major record company puts such a DRM on your computer you suddenly have 20% less bang on your machine. That's neat huh? And you even pay them for that.
So let me get this straight: you crane your neck for a better look at his legs, he sized you up, your eyes met, and then you smiled at each other?
Why do I get the feeling that you two walked away from that little encounter with vastly different ideas about what happened?
How did you notice the subtle social implications of that? Do you belong to slashdot? Is that how flirting works? Where did you learn that? Can you teach me?
So what, egg yolk has more chlesterol than the white! But it certainly ha less fat than oil ;)
;)
And as I said, I only eat mayonnaise when I make i myself, and that is not that often. So how do I care about an egg more or less?
Also, when you see discovery channel, and a lion or leopard just killed an antelope, what do you notice? The first thing they eat is guts and liver and kidneys and all the innards. And before they go to the steak and T-Bones they go for the legs and necks. That what we call the high quality meat, they couldn't care less for that. And why is that? Because all the important stuff is in the innards.
That doesn't mean I eat tons of raw liver though
Well, the only mayonnaise I eat is the one I made myself. Preferably from more exotic oils and vinegars. But more importantly, much more egg yellows than any industry mayonnaise. My own has maybe 40% fat. Industry mayonnaise around 80%.
Well, there is actually only once rule for food. The more it is processed the more likely it is that it is useless or even harmful for your metabolism. Our metablosism is just best adapted to that. Soylent Green is probably better for you than anything packaged from a supermarket. Eat the fattest meat, eat all fried, revel in carbs whatever. But don't eat it once a food corporation had it's chemistry fingers on it.
Just a reminder...the only plant fat that is solid in room temperature is coco fat. Can you imagine what chemicals are needed to turn plant fats into something you can put on your bread? Just eat butter instead.
Was the main exercise that tought me English pretty early. You just cannot go on without understanding, and you cannot go on without writing yourself. That forces you to learn the language in contrast to just cross-reading books or (blasphemy for actually learning English) chatting.
Well, there has been open source software before there where Software comanies, and there will be open source software after Software companies are gone. Software companies will be gone. Mankind will be gone. And I'm pretty sure Software companies will be gone before Mankind is gone.
Well, they try to spread their sytem everywhere, and they call it freedom and democracy. Who am I to argue with them? They have big red buttons to press on.
Yep. It's the next best thing to abolishing patents altogether for spurring innovation. And it's the furthest they can get in that area. Noone can abolish any laws in a democracy when there is a rich lobby that depends on them.
Wait. I know how to solve this dispute once and for all.
You know, in every monotheistic religion you only get the goods (e.g. go to heaven) when you believe in their god and accept their teachings. You don't even have to know or even understand them (I know far too many christians that know less of the Bible than I do). Ok. Let's do it the other way around too. You only get the goods of science (e.g. antibiotics, vaccinations, inteferons against cancer to name only the ones that are based on evolution) if you believe in the scientific principles and accept their teachings. Again, they are not required to know or understand it all. Not even scientists can do that.
By applying this simple rule, they can have their heaven all for themselves (well, according to their teachings they have it already, and I'm not overly sad about that, thinking about having to spend eternity with them). And the whole dispute will be solved in about one generation.
Good post, and a basical agreement.
But you also seem to have the "Spiritualists Dream" that listening to your hears and spirituality will always make decisions more socially and emotionally acceptable/right. It doesn't. You have no idea how often I feel the urge to kill someone. The important thing is, that I don't do it.
Also, anothother problem I have, is the notion of responisbility. The more neuro science advances, the more the concept of actual responisnility crumbles down. It is just a mental construct (and an unconcious mental construct at that) to make us feel...well - in charge. I think one of the most important things and realizations one can achieve is life is, to accept that you are not responsible for anything, but at the same time acting and thinking as if you where responsible.
The whole history of modern commerce can be summarized something like "The removement of responibility(liability) for those people who make the decisions." And it is a dangerous development. People just act irresponible if they don't have to fear consequences. I certainly don't want to return to the times when a creditor could demand the depts back by cutting as much meat from the body of the indebted as he was due in weight of gold. But sometimes I think such laws would prevent a lot of misdevelopments we had in economy in the last decades.
So you will rather buy an Xbox than a PS3? Because Sony tries to get control of your computer with a rootkit?
Think again, who has more power over your Windows computer, Sony or Microsoft? Who doesn't even need to install a root kit to do anything on it they want to?
Yep. Bush and Iraq are bad, and it's old news. But do you remember the times when Bush and Iraq where all good at least only in the US? When all the media was full of articles pointing out how good all this is going to be? How thos was so off back then? How all the important topics where drained by it?
Now, the Bush administration got what it wanted, speaking the war. But they also got more than they wanted, speaking still the war and no sign of it stopping anytime soon. How long is Israel bantering with the Palestines already, and still no real sign of it ever stopping? Expect a similar timescale in Iraq, just that it will be worse. Oh...and the other thing they got more is the backlash of the people and the media. The Bush Administration will be remembered for what he did, will become the synonym for what he did in pretty much the same way as Hitler became it. And figure, Hitler is still the standard example of so many bad things. If you pissed with those references already today...imagin how pissed you will be in 60 years when those referneces still will be made, just as Hitler references are still made today!
Just that Tom Cruise never was on an enjoyable movie. I have been told he wasn't half bad in Magnolia, but that I haven't seen yet. The furthest I would go is, that Tom Cruse was in a few movies that could have been good, if it wasn't for him being in them. He is just flat out a terrible actor. See Rain Man where you see him next to Dustin Hoffman. It jumps into your face whenever you see him "I can't act!". Or Vanilla Sky. That movie got a lot of problems and was one of the worst I have ever seen. But the main problem it has is, that it has to rely on the leading role being a good actor. Too bad the leading role was given to Tom Cruise.
The old Michale Jackson records are still some of the best out there. I can't comment on O.J. Simpson's football. And I can even enjoy a lot of passages from the Bible, although all it's authors where either religous nutheads or freaking hypocrites.