If I'm not in a nasty mood, I'd say "not likely". If I'm in a nasty mood, I'd say "only in your dreams".:-)
Yeah because there's nothing more embarrassing than enjoying male/male sex?
No, but being some cranky homophobe (somebody whining that "Maybe they will start sending around anal rape squads in the future to ensure that everyone is forced to be a sodomite." sure sounds homophobic) who really has gay rape fantasies (which is rather different from just "enjoying male/male sex") would be embarrassing.
So how are you enjoying being groped by random strangers every time you travel? Do you like living in a police state? Well, at least the gays can have their marriages. Who cares if everyone lost their most fundamental rights and privileges just as long as some group that makes up less than 1% of the population got their way right?
A police state that doesn't persecute gays is, ceteris paribus, better than one that does.
And a state that's not a police state and that doesn't persecute gays is vastly better than either of them.
PS. Maybe they will start sending around anal rape squads in the future to ensure that everyone is forced to be a sodomite.
If I'm not in a nasty mood, I'd say "not likely". If I'm in a nasty mood, I'd say "only in your dreams".:-)
You are a fool. There is a VAST difference between consensual homosexual sex between two adults and a 15 year old succumbing to his hormones.
...and, furthermore, said 15-year-old forcing somebody else to commit non-consensual sexual acts, that being what "rape" involves, so the difference is even more vast.
turin was convicted of commiting an act of gross indecency in a public place, not for being gay
Perhaps there was some person named "Turin" who was convicted of committing an act of gross indecency in a public place. Alan Turing, however, was, as I understand it, convicted of committing homosexual acts in private.
Part of maintaining that structure requires a clear sexual values system, including a sense of what is normal.
OK, if we need a sense of what's normal, I propose that sex that starts when the hour of the day is an even number is normal and sex that starts when the hour of the day is an odd number is not normal.
Sure, Sparc stations were pretty cool...back in the 90's. But then they got leapfrogged by commodity servers and never caught up.
Did you mean "commodity desktops" there? Sun's still selling SPARC servers, but the SPARCstation line's dead at the hands of PC's running {Windows,Linux,whatever}.
Much like Windows 3.11 the GUI in GUN/Linux isn't a core part of the OS - but a graphics server with window managers on top and all the real work being done by the OS under the manager.
So in NT-based versions of Windows, how much work (if any) would it take to have it boot up with a 25x80 console accepting cmd.exe-style (or PowerShell-style?) commands and no GUI? I.e., to what extent are there any OSes where the GUI is a "core part of the OS" in whatever sense is meant by that? (If you think you have such an OS, try logging in as ">console" first.:-))
And Canonical, Ubuntu, Gnome3 , Wayland... it's all coming from that same bunch of mock-educated retards with the same fucked up "KISS"/Apple mindset.
Please offer evidence (rather than a rant) that Wayland is "coming from that same bunch of mock-educated retards with the same fucked up "KISS"/Apple mindset".
iOS uses some very low level hardware based systems that don't work with X11. X11 for example doesn't allow for an h.264 movie as a graphical primitive with its own hardware based rendering system that can't go back and forth between buffers. Similarly for the camera.
More importantly the ram requirements would be a substantial problem. 1.2m per screen with 3 screens for layers with 60 ftps. Double that up again for the extra X11 buffers and you are out of ram already before you have any code. Which means you either have to finish your screen computations twice as fast or not use X11's buffering strategy.
I wasn't saying "why couldn't X11 be used for iOS?", I was saying "which of the various sins ascribed to iOS couldn't be done atop X11?", with "the various sins ascribed to iOS" referring to the "ZOMG IT DOESN'T DO MULTITASKING"/"ZOMG IT HAS DRM"/"ZOMG ONLY APPLE-APPROVED APPS CAN RUN ON IT"/"ZOMG IT DOESN'T LET APPS DO XXX" stuff that shows up here. The poster to whom I replied spoke of "MS Clippy / iOS / autocorrect (/ ShowView / automatic gearbox) land", in which context "iOS" sounds as if it's referring to that sort of higher-level stuff, not to low-level window system details (which is why that poster was being so spectacularly silly).
At least you have a clean client/server model instead of riding the short bus to MS Clippy / iOS / autocorrect (/ ShowView / automatic gearbox) land.
And you couldn't implement Clippy and auto-correct in an X11 desktop or desktop atop another "clean" client/server window system? (And if "iOS" refers to any of the various sins ascribed to iOS, what about them couldn't be implemented in an X11 interface?)
Intel supplies all of the CPUs used in Apple's desktop and laptop computers, yes.
Personally, I think Apple should take their cash and make their own processors
Is that "Apple should take their cash and build their own foundries" or "Apple should take their cash and buy an existing foundry"? In either case, it's "Apple should continue to invest in foundries to update to new processes", and, in either case, I'm not sure how easy that would be.
allowing for their OS to have a firmware component
If by "firmware component" you mean on-chip firmware, how is owning your own foundry, rather than having another foundry fab your design, a requirement for that? Or does this mean that "Apple should take their cash and build their own foundries" means "Apple should do their own chip designs" rather than "Apple should do their own chip fabrication"?
and thereby boosting performance and security.
What sort of firmware customization are you talking about here?
I agree. Also, if you rewrite structured code into a "performance oriented approach", you are doing it wrong.
Write code so it is easy to understand. Then compilers should understand how to make it fast.
I.e., code should be written in high-level descriptive languages, and the compiler should choose the algorithm, so that a tricky-to-understand but much-faster algorithm doesn't show up in the code as written, but shows up in the generated code?
Not all rewrites-for-performance involve low-level trickiness.
Wow. Ironically Apple could have manufactured themselves under Steve Jobs regime but instead chose through cost saving go elsewhere(Samsung).
Manufactured what? Chips? Apple never did that, and I'm not sure it would have made sense for them to own Their Very Own Foundry. LCD panels? See previous comment. Systems? Samsung doesn't do that for Apple, an assortment of companies, most but not all Chinese/Taiwanese, do so (although that page claims some company named "Apple" also assembles Macs in Cork, so they're probably Irish:-)).
Now thousands of patents are on various hardware components by various Korean and Chinese companies....with Apple having relatively few design & interface patents,
Just out of curiosity, has anybody trawled through various patent databases to get numbers on that? Apple has a number of patents (at least in a quick US Patent Office search, looking for "Apple" in the assignee name and "Cupertino" in the assignee city, the number is 6581), and pulling out the hardware patents might be a bit of work. The same applies to the Korean and Chinese/Taiwanese companies, but you then have to pull out the relevant hardware patents; for example, U.S. Patent 8,471,469, assigned to Samsung, is probably not particularly relevant unless we start putting plasma displays into laptops, tablets, or smartphones.
At least Dell finally got to say I told you so.
No, not yet. Maybe at some time he'll be able to say that, although it'll be interesting to see where Dell Computer is at that point.
A simple sure-fire plan:
1. Outsource all of your core competencies - parts, production, everything. Keep nothing in house.
So to what company are you referring here? Apple never fabbed their own chips; they have designed their own support chips (although, these days, the Mac probably mainly use Intel and/or Nvidia support chips); they do much of the design (and, no, I don't mean just "styling") work on their machines; and they do a lot of the software engineering. I don't know whether assembly was ever a core competency, but a lot of the other stuff Apple doesn't do is stuff they never did, and the design and engineering work, which I'd consider core competencies, haven't been outsourced.
He's saying it's one component of the ranking, not the only component.
What he said was:
The heritage foundation places a huge focus on "economic freedom" AKA the right to exploit your serfs, any nation with a low tax rate on their high income brackets gets a lot of bonuses for "freedom".
The first part speaks of "economic freedom", which isn't a component of the ranking, it is the ranking. "The right to exploit your serfs" could refer to "labor freedom" - the Regulatory Efficiency page says
The labor freedom component is a quantitative measure that looks into various aspects of the legal and regulatory framework of a country’s labor market. It provides cross-country data on regulations concerning minimum wages; laws inhibiting layoffs; severance requirements; and measurable regulatory burdens on hiring, hours, and so on.
Fiscal freedom is a measure of the tax burden imposed by government. It includes both the direct tax burden in terms of the top tax rates on individual and corporate incomes and the overall amount of tax revenue as a percentage of GDP.
which is the "low tax rate on their high income brackets" part, and which I view as less directly connected to labor exploitation than the "labor freedom" is.
The corollary is that, given the U.S's low tax rates, what does it say about their other freedoms that they only placed 10th?
Perhaps that even countries with socialized medicine and stronger labor unions can still be more "economically free" than The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave.
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Well at least something good came out of the NSA then...
Yes, some open-source software did come from the NSA.
However, as others have noted, this is a different meaning of "open source".
If I'm not in a nasty mood, I'd say "not likely". If I'm in a nasty mood, I'd say "only in your dreams". :-)
Yeah because there's nothing more embarrassing than enjoying male/male sex?
No, but being some cranky homophobe (somebody whining that "Maybe they will start sending around anal rape squads in the future to ensure that everyone is forced to be a sodomite." sure sounds homophobic) who really has gay rape fantasies (which is rather different from just "enjoying male/male sex") would be embarrassing.
So how are you enjoying being groped by random strangers every time you travel? Do you like living in a police state? Well, at least the gays can have their marriages. Who cares if everyone lost their most fundamental rights and privileges just as long as some group that makes up less than 1% of the population got their way right?
A police state that doesn't persecute gays is, ceteris paribus, better than one that does.
And a state that's not a police state and that doesn't persecute gays is vastly better than either of them.
PS. Maybe they will start sending around anal rape squads in the future to ensure that everyone is forced to be a sodomite.
If I'm not in a nasty mood, I'd say "not likely". If I'm in a nasty mood, I'd say "only in your dreams". :-)
You are a fool. There is a VAST difference between consensual homosexual sex between two adults and a 15 year old succumbing to his hormones.
...and, furthermore, said 15-year-old forcing somebody else to commit non-consensual sexual acts, that being what "rape" involves, so the difference is even more vast.
turin was convicted of commiting an act of gross indecency in a public place, not for being gay
Perhaps there was some person named "Turin" who was convicted of committing an act of gross indecency in a public place. Alan Turing, however, was, as I understand it, convicted of committing homosexual acts in private.
Part of maintaining that structure requires a clear sexual values system, including a sense of what is normal.
OK, if we need a sense of what's normal, I propose that sex that starts when the hour of the day is an even number is normal and sex that starts when the hour of the day is an odd number is not normal.
we have no designer goats
Or designer goatse.
I'm intrigued - what is a Faget
An US physician in New Orleans in the 19th century?
Is this something about you picking up these Fagets on the piss we're all missing?
Well, Faget worked with yellow fever patients, and we all know what else is often yellow....
left-handed dentists without tonsils (thank you, Berkeley Breathed).
Blind, left-handed dentists without tonsils.
Sure, Sparc stations were pretty cool...back in the 90's. But then they got leapfrogged by commodity servers and never caught up.
Did you mean "commodity desktops" there? Sun's still selling SPARC servers, but the SPARCstation line's dead at the hands of PC's running {Windows,Linux,whatever}.
Nope. Read up more, he was fired repeatedly.
OK, what should we read that indicates that Larry Ellison was fired repeatedly from Oracle?
And now having re-read the article, I realize that this man is patently insane.
Gee, ya think so?
They can always implement NetBEUI and watch as we one by one shoot ourselves.
2000 called; they want their software announcement back. This appears to be based on that code, from the references to Procom.
There are some uncomfortable comparisons here -
Much like Windows 3.11 the GUI in GUN/Linux isn't a core part of the OS - but a graphics server with window managers on top and all the real work being done by the OS under the manager.
So in NT-based versions of Windows, how much work (if any) would it take to have it boot up with a 25x80 console accepting cmd.exe-style (or PowerShell-style?) commands and no GUI? I.e., to what extent are there any OSes where the GUI is a "core part of the OS" in whatever sense is meant by that? (If you think you have such an OS, try logging in as ">console" first. :-))
And Canonical, Ubuntu, Gnome3 , Wayland... it's all coming from that same bunch of mock-educated retards with the same fucked up "KISS"/Apple mindset.
Please offer evidence (rather than a rant) that Wayland is "coming from that same bunch of mock-educated retards with the same fucked up "KISS"/Apple mindset".
iOS uses some very low level hardware based systems that don't work with X11. X11 for example doesn't allow for an h.264 movie as a graphical primitive with its own hardware based rendering system that can't go back and forth between buffers. Similarly for the camera.
More importantly the ram requirements would be a substantial problem. 1.2m per screen with 3 screens for layers with 60 ftps. Double that up again for the extra X11 buffers and you are out of ram already before you have any code. Which means you either have to finish your screen computations twice as fast or not use X11's buffering strategy.
I wasn't saying "why couldn't X11 be used for iOS?", I was saying "which of the various sins ascribed to iOS couldn't be done atop X11?", with "the various sins ascribed to iOS" referring to the "ZOMG IT DOESN'T DO MULTITASKING"/"ZOMG IT HAS DRM"/"ZOMG ONLY APPLE-APPROVED APPS CAN RUN ON IT"/"ZOMG IT DOESN'T LET APPS DO XXX" stuff that shows up here. The poster to whom I replied spoke of "MS Clippy / iOS / autocorrect (/ ShowView / automatic gearbox) land", in which context "iOS" sounds as if it's referring to that sort of higher-level stuff, not to low-level window system details (which is why that poster was being so spectacularly silly).
At least you have a clean client/server model instead of riding the short bus to MS Clippy / iOS / autocorrect (/ ShowView / automatic gearbox) land.
And you couldn't implement Clippy and auto-correct in an X11 desktop or desktop atop another "clean" client/server window system? (And if "iOS" refers to any of the various sins ascribed to iOS, what about them couldn't be implemented in an X11 interface?)
Most modern *nix systems defeat fork bombs by capping the number of processes allowed to be spawned by a user.
Most *nix systems since 1979's V7 at least try to defeat fork bombs by capping the number of processes allowed to be spawned by a user.
We all know that Intel wasn't even an option. They're simply not in the business of fabricating third-party designs, for anyone.
Actually, that's exactly what Intel Custom Foundry does.
Intel supplies most of Apple's CPUs, yes?
Intel supplies all of the CPUs used in Apple's desktop and laptop computers, yes.
Personally, I think Apple should take their cash and make their own processors
Is that "Apple should take their cash and build their own foundries" or "Apple should take their cash and buy an existing foundry"? In either case, it's "Apple should continue to invest in foundries to update to new processes", and, in either case, I'm not sure how easy that would be.
Or is that "Apple should do their own chip designs"? Anandtech suspects they're already doing that.
allowing for their OS to have a firmware component
If by "firmware component" you mean on-chip firmware, how is owning your own foundry, rather than having another foundry fab your design, a requirement for that? Or does this mean that "Apple should take their cash and build their own foundries" means "Apple should do their own chip designs" rather than "Apple should do their own chip fabrication"?
and thereby boosting performance and security.
What sort of firmware customization are you talking about here?
I agree. Also, if you rewrite structured code into a "performance oriented approach", you are doing it wrong. Write code so it is easy to understand. Then compilers should understand how to make it fast.
I.e., code should be written in high-level descriptive languages, and the compiler should choose the algorithm, so that a tricky-to-understand but much-faster algorithm doesn't show up in the code as written, but shows up in the generated code?
Not all rewrites-for-performance involve low-level trickiness.
Wow. Ironically Apple could have manufactured themselves under Steve Jobs regime but instead chose through cost saving go elsewhere(Samsung).
Manufactured what? Chips? Apple never did that, and I'm not sure it would have made sense for them to own Their Very Own Foundry. LCD panels? See previous comment. Systems? Samsung doesn't do that for Apple, an assortment of companies, most but not all Chinese/Taiwanese, do so (although that page claims some company named "Apple" also assembles Macs in Cork, so they're probably Irish :-)).
Now thousands of patents are on various hardware components by various Korean and Chinese companies....with Apple having relatively few design & interface patents,
Just out of curiosity, has anybody trawled through various patent databases to get numbers on that? Apple has a number of patents (at least in a quick US Patent Office search, looking for "Apple" in the assignee name and "Cupertino" in the assignee city, the number is 6581), and pulling out the hardware patents might be a bit of work. The same applies to the Korean and Chinese/Taiwanese companies, but you then have to pull out the relevant hardware patents; for example, U.S. Patent 8,471,469, assigned to Samsung, is probably not particularly relevant unless we start putting plasma displays into laptops, tablets, or smartphones.
At least Dell finally got to say I told you so.
No, not yet. Maybe at some time he'll be able to say that, although it'll be interesting to see where Dell Computer is at that point.
Alliance: two thieves who have their hands so deeply insert into each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
That sounds like something out of Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary.
That's because it is.
A simple sure-fire plan: 1. Outsource all of your core competencies - parts, production, everything. Keep nothing in house.
So to what company are you referring here? Apple never fabbed their own chips; they have designed their own support chips (although, these days, the Mac probably mainly use Intel and/or Nvidia support chips); they do much of the design (and, no, I don't mean just "styling") work on their machines; and they do a lot of the software engineering. I don't know whether assembly was ever a core competency, but a lot of the other stuff Apple doesn't do is stuff they never did, and the design and engineering work, which I'd consider core competencies, haven't been outsourced.
He's saying it's one component of the ranking, not the only component.
What he said was:
The first part speaks of "economic freedom", which isn't a component of the ranking, it is the ranking. "The right to exploit your serfs" could refer to "labor freedom" - the Regulatory Efficiency page says
They also speak of "Fiscal Freedom" - the Limited Government page says
which is the "low tax rate on their high income brackets" part, and which I view as less directly connected to labor exploitation than the "labor freedom" is.
The corollary is that, given the U.S's low tax rates, what does it say about their other freedoms that they only placed 10th?
Perhaps that even countries with socialized medicine and stronger labor unions can still be more "economically free" than The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave.