Just one question - will eating pizza every day (not that cardboard crap they sell at the stores or at pizza chains - I'm talking REAL pizza) actually cause a heart attack? Seems to me that a slice of pizza with lots of green peppers and red peppers and tomato sauce and mushrooms and olives and 3 different cheeses and sausage and pepperoni and bacon and salami and onions and anchovies and jalapenos and would be pretty nutritious.
Bad analogy - the problem isn't drunks - it's drunks who drive. That's why in many countries it's a criminal offense to be drunk behind the wheel - even if you're not actually driving, just having the keys in your pocket while you sleep it off in the back seat - because you have the care and control of the vehicle while intoxicated.
There are plenty of Americans who don't realize that a simple DUI means that they are inadmissible to Canada because, while it's not a criminal offense in the US, it is in Canada, and a US DUI requires they be treated as any other criminal offense.
It's also why even though some states still criminalize adultery, because it's not a criminal offense in Canada, a criminal conviction of adultery isn't a bar to coming into Canada.
If you're already broke and you insist on spending what little you have on smoking, maybe you SHOULD be ashamed. Actually, there's no "maybe" about it. There is nobody alive today who has not heard about the ill effects of smoking, so there really is no excuse. Governments have implemented free patch and drug programs to help those same poor people quit, and their excuse is always the same - "I'll quit when I'm ready. I'm not ready yet." The whole idea of nicotine replacements and antidepressants that remove the urge to smoke as much is to help you quit even though you're "not ready" - because we all know that you will never be ready otherwise, or you would have already quit.
Back in the real world, it's because of the lack of donors. There are plenty of smokers who quit to get on the heart transplant list, get a transplant, and then, ingrateful fucktards that they are, light up again.
Most civilized countries have a public health care system. Smokers who quit will cost less to the public health care system, so that helps with the loss of revenue from taxing smokers. Also, since they'll live longer they can work longer and consume longer - and sales taxes and other consumer levies are must-haves for most tax systems.
A Rolex - lasts for generations, holds and even increases in value with time. The next generation will value it.
An iWatch - 5 years from now, it will be removed from the drawer where it's been gathering dust and given to some infant as a chew toy because it no longer works with the latest phones, and it no longer gets updates anyway.
And worse, it's been proven that smartwatches and fitness trackers in general don't result in better health for users. Calling it the "ultimate device for a healthy lifestyle" is about as stupid as buying a rowing machine and sticking it in the corner to gather dust. It's just marketing. Yet another reason why actual numbers aren't released.
You realize that Gorilla Glass (1960) has been around longer than Apple (1976-1977), right? It was only a matter of time before one of the manufacturers latched onto it. It's also why Apple doesn't have exclusivity. It was even used in racing in 1968 for 100 Dodge Darts and Plymouth Barracudas (you need a minimum number of cars with an option, such as Gorilla Glass, to be considered "stock"), and having "stock" cars with lighter window glass was an advantage.
And if it weren't for the calendar oddity of Apple's last financial quarter having 14 weeks instead of 13, sales would have been down again, even during peak holiday season. We won't have another leap year until 2020.
Well, let's throw in that Apple sales numbers are down if you adjust for the calendar fluke of a 14-week financial quarter. Based on a 13-week quarter, they're down again. Car manufacturers normalize sales figures by also reporting the number of days in a quarter, as well as the number of weekends, to give a more accurate indication of trends. Saying "sales are up this quarter" without also pointing out that there's an extra week in that quarter - a quarter that includes the extra push from christmas - hides the true extend of the decline in the last quarter, and in mind share overall.
And yet it's only because of a statistical fluke - Apple having a financial quarter with 14 weeks instead of 13 - that total sales were up. Take out that 14th week, and sales were down AGAIN.
Again, that's because people were buying pimped-out iphone 6s. Apple has done everything to avoid putting real numbers on the table. And even the "sales increase in the last quarter" is bogus - it's based on a calendar fluke that gave them a 14-week fiscal quarter. Normalize the numbers to 13 weeks, and sales were down again.
Hibernation does NOT require hardware support. All it requires is an OS that can write out a memory image to disk excluding the region of ram that is executing the write-to-disk command, and an OS that upon reboot can read that memory image back, and restore the cpu registers to where they were before the "write-to-disk" command was executed. Same as the software task swapper in DOS 4 or 5 (or other task swappers that weren't cpu-dependent) running on a 286 or even an 8088.
If you look at the numbers, Apple sales went up because the last quarter was a statistical fluke - a calendar quarter with 14 weeks instead of 13. Take out the 14th week, and sales were down YET AGAIN.
Remember back when it was called APPLE COMPUTER? Now it should be called APPLE IPHONE - and they don't have anything in the pipeline to take over when the iPhone gets too long in the tooth.
Yep, continuous indexing and swap memory are two things almost nobody needs any more, and yet all OSes default to it.
I'd like the option to buy a cpu that doesn't have the circuitry to swap memory to disk. Hibernation can be completely done in software, same as task swapping (see DOS 5 on pre-386 cpus as an example), but with today's pcs, it's just not necessary unless you're running badly designed and implemented shit like Android Studio.
Of course I know about Alt+Left Drag and Alt+Right Drag. They were standard under X back in the distro I was referring to - Mandrake Linux 6 and 7 - back in the late '90s. X might have been getting long in the tooth - but Wayland wasn't the solution.
The iPhone 7 IS failing. Notice how Cook purposefully weaved his comment to avoid saying the truth - that the iPhone 6s has more demand:
the more-expensive iPhone 7 Plus made up a “higher portion of new product mix than we’ve ever seen with Plus models in the past,”
A direct comparison with products like the iPhone 6/6s are specifically excluded. All we can say from that comment is that the ratio of iPhone Plus models was higher than previous iterations, not that the iPhone 7 sold more.
Then again, Cook is no Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs brought "Gorilla Glass" to the masses. Tim Cook tried and failed with "Sapphire Glass". Steve Jobs was the iMac, iPad, iPhone, iPod - Cook was iWatch and iBuds - and dwindling sales of computers, iPads, and loss of market share for iPhones.
Jobs could have made the masses buy this bs thanks to his RDF. Cook - nope.
"Global Menus have returned. KDE's pioneering feature to separate the menu bar from the application window allows for new user interface paradigm with either a Plasma Widget showing the menu or neatly tucked away in the window bar,"
You mean stuff that other DEs have had for ages? Same with clicking on an empty area to drag a window - which KDE had back (ISTR) in the days of Mandrake Linux... must be a lot of work taking stuff out and putting it back in again all the time. They must be taking notes from Microsoft...
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Just one question - will eating pizza every day (not that cardboard crap they sell at the stores or at pizza chains - I'm talking REAL pizza) actually cause a heart attack? Seems to me that a slice of pizza with lots of green peppers and red peppers and tomato sauce and mushrooms and olives and 3 different cheeses and sausage and pepperoni and bacon and salami and onions and anchovies and jalapenos and would be pretty nutritious.
Bad analogy - the problem isn't drunks - it's drunks who drive. That's why in many countries it's a criminal offense to be drunk behind the wheel - even if you're not actually driving, just having the keys in your pocket while you sleep it off in the back seat - because you have the care and control of the vehicle while intoxicated.
There are plenty of Americans who don't realize that a simple DUI means that they are inadmissible to Canada because, while it's not a criminal offense in the US, it is in Canada, and a US DUI requires they be treated as any other criminal offense.
It's also why even though some states still criminalize adultery, because it's not a criminal offense in Canada, a criminal conviction of adultery isn't a bar to coming into Canada.
Then by your reasoning you should ban cars too, as they do harm people walking on the roads.
And cities are doing exactly that, because the air is an unbreathable unhealthy smog. Banning cars from parts of cities is spreading.
If you're already broke and you insist on spending what little you have on smoking, maybe you SHOULD be ashamed. Actually, there's no "maybe" about it. There is nobody alive today who has not heard about the ill effects of smoking, so there really is no excuse. Governments have implemented free patch and drug programs to help those same poor people quit, and their excuse is always the same - "I'll quit when I'm ready. I'm not ready yet." The whole idea of nicotine replacements and antidepressants that remove the urge to smoke as much is to help you quit even though you're "not ready" - because we all know that you will never be ready otherwise, or you would have already quit.
Bullcrap. Illegal drugs are cheaper than pizza.
Back in the real world, it's because of the lack of donors. There are plenty of smokers who quit to get on the heart transplant list, get a transplant, and then, ingrateful fucktards that they are, light up again.
Except that second hand smoke DOES inflict harm on others.
Most civilized countries have a public health care system. Smokers who quit will cost less to the public health care system, so that helps with the loss of revenue from taxing smokers. Also, since they'll live longer they can work longer and consume longer - and sales taxes and other consumer levies are must-haves for most tax systems.
An iWatch - 5 years from now, it will be removed from the drawer where it's been gathering dust and given to some infant as a chew toy because it no longer works with the latest phones, and it no longer gets updates anyway.
And worse, it's been proven that smartwatches and fitness trackers in general don't result in better health for users. Calling it the "ultimate device for a healthy lifestyle" is about as stupid as buying a rowing machine and sticking it in the corner to gather dust. It's just marketing. Yet another reason why actual numbers aren't released.
You realize that Gorilla Glass (1960) has been around longer than Apple (1976-1977), right? It was only a matter of time before one of the manufacturers latched onto it. It's also why Apple doesn't have exclusivity. It was even used in racing in 1968 for 100 Dodge Darts and Plymouth Barracudas (you need a minimum number of cars with an option, such as Gorilla Glass, to be considered "stock"), and having "stock" cars with lighter window glass was an advantage.
And if it weren't for the calendar oddity of Apple's last financial quarter having 14 weeks instead of 13, sales would have been down again, even during peak holiday season. We won't have another leap year until 2020.
Well, let's throw in that Apple sales numbers are down if you adjust for the calendar fluke of a 14-week financial quarter. Based on a 13-week quarter, they're down again. Car manufacturers normalize sales figures by also reporting the number of days in a quarter, as well as the number of weekends, to give a more accurate indication of trends. Saying "sales are up this quarter" without also pointing out that there's an extra week in that quarter - a quarter that includes the extra push from christmas - hides the true extend of the decline in the last quarter, and in mind share overall.
You made it about the definition of the word "fair". Fair has more than one meaning, even in legal agreements.
And yet it's only because of a statistical fluke - Apple having a financial quarter with 14 weeks instead of 13 - that total sales were up. Take out that 14th week, and sales were down AGAIN.
Again, that's because people were buying pimped-out iphone 6s. Apple has done everything to avoid putting real numbers on the table. And even the "sales increase in the last quarter" is bogus - it's based on a calendar fluke that gave them a 14-week fiscal quarter. Normalize the numbers to 13 weeks, and sales were down again.
Hibernation does NOT require hardware support. All it requires is an OS that can write out a memory image to disk excluding the region of ram that is executing the write-to-disk command, and an OS that upon reboot can read that memory image back, and restore the cpu registers to where they were before the "write-to-disk" command was executed. Same as the software task swapper in DOS 4 or 5 (or other task swappers that weren't cpu-dependent) running on a 286 or even an 8088.
If you look at the numbers, Apple sales went up because the last quarter was a statistical fluke - a calendar quarter with 14 weeks instead of 13. Take out the 14th week, and sales were down YET AGAIN.
Remember back when it was called APPLE COMPUTER? Now it should be called APPLE IPHONE - and they don't have anything in the pipeline to take over when the iPhone gets too long in the tooth.
The point is that Wayland and KDE are only now catching up (sort of) to where X and KDE were 20 years ago. Takes real courage to boast about that.
Yep, continuous indexing and swap memory are two things almost nobody needs any more, and yet all OSes default to it.
I'd like the option to buy a cpu that doesn't have the circuitry to swap memory to disk. Hibernation can be completely done in software, same as task swapping (see DOS 5 on pre-386 cpus as an example), but with today's pcs, it's just not necessary unless you're running badly designed and implemented shit like Android Studio.
Of course I know about Alt+Left Drag and Alt+Right Drag. They were standard under X back in the distro I was referring to - Mandrake Linux 6 and 7 - back in the late '90s. X might have been getting long in the tooth - but Wayland wasn't the solution.
No, they had it is X Windows. Long before Wayland. Learn to read, fool. I never once mentioned Wayland.
the more-expensive iPhone 7 Plus made up a “higher portion of new product mix than we’ve ever seen with Plus models in the past,”
A direct comparison with products like the iPhone 6/6s are specifically excluded. All we can say from that comment is that the ratio of iPhone Plus models was higher than previous iterations, not that the iPhone 7 sold more.
Then again, Cook is no Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs brought "Gorilla Glass" to the masses. Tim Cook tried and failed with "Sapphire Glass". Steve Jobs was the iMac, iPad, iPhone, iPod - Cook was iWatch and iBuds - and dwindling sales of computers, iPads, and loss of market share for iPhones.
Jobs could have made the masses buy this bs thanks to his RDF. Cook - nope.
"Global Menus have returned. KDE's pioneering feature to separate the menu bar from the application window allows for new user interface paradigm with either a Plasma Widget showing the menu or neatly tucked away in the window bar,"
You mean stuff that other DEs have had for ages? Same with clicking on an empty area to drag a window - which KDE had back (ISTR) in the days of Mandrake Linux ... must be a lot of work taking stuff out and putting it back in again all the time. They must be taking notes from Microsoft ...
So I give you an example that contradicts your "point", and instead of addressing it, you post more bullshit? You got Trumpitis or something?
Here's a better link.