This ability to defer reading the message is actually very useful in 95% of cases, being disturbed by someone who wants to ask you a non urgent question is extremely annoying and derails your concentration... Being able to ignore these distractions until you have time to respond to them is extremely useful.
Well doing something last means you should be able to learn from the mistakes made by others, and therefore not be saddled with lots of unmaintainable legacy cruft... Unfortunately, late adopters seem to want to just copy everyone else - mistakes and all.
Exactly, there are plenty more sources of unnecessary pollution and gross inefficiency that could be reduced or eliminated without harming people's quality of life...
Think of the amount of paper in the form of junkmail thats produced, delivered and subsequently discarded every year... I throw out several pieces a day, it serves no useful function. Think of all the wasted fuel because so many people travel long distances to work, at the same time into congested business districts with no affordable residential properties nearby... Imagine the savings of people worked from home, or were able to live close to where they worked. So many other stupid wastes of resources and energy.
Depends on your hypervisor.. KVM presents a generic model of cpu by default, and can be configured to specify any arbitrary processor model with whatever feature set.
The generic cpu is meant to be a common subset of features, so if you have a cluster containing different models of processors you can still migrate between vm images between nodes without having problems.
The problem is that people like wilders and trump are actually offering a solution to the problems people are facing, while many of the mainstream politicians are not... Wether that solution will work or not is not really the point, the people want a solution and will vote for the only candidate offering one. It's up to the other candidates to offer a better solution.
You make a good point.. If you left the country you started in, to permanently go to another country chances are you did so because there was something about that country which makes it preferable to the one you came from (or else you could easily have stayed there)...
So why then would you want to change this country to be more like the one you wanted to leave? You may think it's only small things your changing, but it's all these small things added up over the years that resulted in the differences between the country you came from and the country you chose to move to. If you start changing these things then you will end up ruining this country to the extent that you now want to move somewhere else instead.
Instead, embrace what makes the country different, because it's those differences that made you choose that country over the one you came from.
The amusing thing is how short sighted this is... When you outsource all your work to poorer countries, who's going to be left with enough money to buy your products at home? And as conditions improve in those poorer countries, they will start demanding higher wages too.
None of this has any relation to what it says on the clock when you go to work... And the idea of working during daylight hours comes from the days of working in fields and needing sunlight to do so. It would make far more sense for indoor workers to work at night, and have the daytime free, but people are too set on the idea of 9-5 that the only way to make them go to work an hour earlier is to change the clock.
Microsoft set arbitrary limits on what constitutes a "netbook", as soon as you go over those specs the cost of a windows license goes up significantly...
What's to stop them simply playing the blackhawks game when there are different numbers displayed on the clock? Or how about going to work in the winter when it gets light irrespective of what arbitrary numbers are displayed on a clock?
DST doesn't change anything except the arbitrary numbers assigned to a particular portion of the day.
Init always had automatic service restarting, the "respawn" option of/etc/inittab...
Of course having a service automatically restart just masks the true problem - namely that your service doesn't stay running on its own for whatever reason.
Exactly... I had a friend of mine come to me for assistance because his sister kept defacing one of his social media accounts... His "security question"? It was the standard "mother's maiden name" one, whatever made him think that his own sister wouldn't know the answer to that?
When ARM was first developed it *was* a high performance processor, beating x86 designs of the day quite easily... In those days, x86 was the cheap low performance processor that was considered a joke, virtually everything else outperformed it and was a superior design. But being faster and more expensive just results in lower sales, look at Alpha, MIPS, PPC, HPPA, SPARC, m68k, m88k etc... Intel had a cheap inferior product, but sold them by the millions and it was more profitable than selling a small handful of superior processors. ARM is now doing exactly the same, millions of their processors are sold every day in a huge range of different devices. Most people likely own and use far more ARM processors on a daily basis than they do x86.
I ran a bunch of Linux servers on Alphas... The vast majority of drivers for x86 also compiled and worked on alpha, as did the vast majority of userland software. There was virtually nothing you could do on an x86 linux box that you couldn't do on an alpha, only the alpha would be much faster.
The problem was cost, the hardware was too expensive and never came down in price. ARM doesn't have this problem, they are already widely available cheaply... If anything it's the opposite of Alpha, with x86 now being the expensive high performance option.
A VM can burst easily if load spikes, a physical server cannot unless you build the software to cluster and add more physical servers... Having 32 VMs in a 1u server is no problem, i have a 1U server with 144gb ram that's a few years old now (hp dl160 g6) that runs many linux instances, some with as little as 128mb of ram. These VMs may be small, but they will beat small arm servers on processor bound tasks assuming that only a small number of them are under load at any one time (which is the case)... The only thing to consider with a highly virtualized setup is changing the daily crontab times otherwise you get a big load spike at the default time.
That all depends on what software you're running, only certain things are licensed per core... Some things are licensed per socket, while a lot of licenses are per machine or entirely unrestricted.
But the point is that a desktop was always a toy for geeks and not really a suitable tool for typical users, it just happened to be the only thing available that fulfilled several requirements those users had such as browsing and email. Think of all the unnecessary complexity and knowledge required to keep a typical desktop os working and malware free - not suitable for typical users.
Now there are more suitable tools available for those average users, so users are moving to them.
Microsoft was pushing windows 10 upgrades very heavily on anyone running 7/8, not just selling it with new hardware... A significant portion of that 25% will be upgrades (intentional or otherwise) from earlier versions.
Many people suffer from motion sickness, which usually doesn't occur when you're in control of the motion (ie driving) and is usually worse if you're not concentrating on the motion (ie doing something else like reading)...
I can just about survive a ride as a passenger if i watch and concentrate on where i'm going, otherwise i'm likely to vomit. If i tried to read something on the journey i would certainly vomit within a few minutes.
And for me to get to work it's 2 and a half hours standing in discomfort public transport (bus, plus 3 different trains followed by another bus) or 20 minutes sitting comfortable in a car...
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This ability to defer reading the message is actually very useful in 95% of cases, being disturbed by someone who wants to ask you a non urgent question is extremely annoying and derails your concentration... Being able to ignore these distractions until you have time to respond to them is extremely useful.
Except if people can afford to keep buying new hardware, they can probably afford to buy a mac instead, so that what they'll end up doing...
Mac is a mess with non-expandable hardware
Most people never expand their hardware, they buy a machine, use it as-is for a few years then throw it out and replace it with a newer one...
and an OS that has gotten nothing but half-assed "borrowed from the iPad" updates over the last few years.
Well what updates would you like it to have? There's been nothing really compelling added for years to any os...
Well doing something last means you should be able to learn from the mistakes made by others, and therefore not be saddled with lots of unmaintainable legacy cruft...
Unfortunately, late adopters seem to want to just copy everyone else - mistakes and all.
Exactly, there are plenty more sources of unnecessary pollution and gross inefficiency that could be reduced or eliminated without harming people's quality of life...
Think of the amount of paper in the form of junkmail thats produced, delivered and subsequently discarded every year... I throw out several pieces a day, it serves no useful function.
Think of all the wasted fuel because so many people travel long distances to work, at the same time into congested business districts with no affordable residential properties nearby... Imagine the savings of people worked from home, or were able to live close to where they worked.
So many other stupid wastes of resources and energy.
Depends on your hypervisor..
KVM presents a generic model of cpu by default, and can be configured to specify any arbitrary processor model with whatever feature set.
The generic cpu is meant to be a common subset of features, so if you have a cluster containing different models of processors you can still migrate between vm images between nodes without having problems.
The problem is that people like wilders and trump are actually offering a solution to the problems people are facing, while many of the mainstream politicians are not...
Wether that solution will work or not is not really the point, the people want a solution and will vote for the only candidate offering one. It's up to the other candidates to offer a better solution.
You make a good point..
If you left the country you started in, to permanently go to another country chances are you did so because there was something about that country which makes it preferable to the one you came from (or else you could easily have stayed there)...
So why then would you want to change this country to be more like the one you wanted to leave?
You may think it's only small things your changing, but it's all these small things added up over the years that resulted in the differences between the country you came from and the country you chose to move to. If you start changing these things then you will end up ruining this country to the extent that you now want to move somewhere else instead.
Instead, embrace what makes the country different, because it's those differences that made you choose that country over the one you came from.
The amusing thing is how short sighted this is...
When you outsource all your work to poorer countries, who's going to be left with enough money to buy your products at home?
And as conditions improve in those poorer countries, they will start demanding higher wages too.
Not yet they can't, but how long before they integrate similar checks to what you have at automated passport gates in airports?
None of this has any relation to what it says on the clock when you go to work...
And the idea of working during daylight hours comes from the days of working in fields and needing sunlight to do so. It would make far more sense for indoor workers to work at night, and have the daytime free, but people are too set on the idea of 9-5 that the only way to make them go to work an hour earlier is to change the clock.
Microsoft set arbitrary limits on what constitutes a "netbook", as soon as you go over those specs the cost of a windows license goes up significantly...
What's to stop them simply playing the blackhawks game when there are different numbers displayed on the clock? Or how about going to work in the winter when it gets light irrespective of what arbitrary numbers are displayed on a clock?
DST doesn't change anything except the arbitrary numbers assigned to a particular portion of the day.
Init always had automatic service restarting, the "respawn" option of /etc/inittab...
Of course having a service automatically restart just masks the true problem - namely that your service doesn't stay running on its own for whatever reason.
Exactly... I had a friend of mine come to me for assistance because his sister kept defacing one of his social media accounts...
His "security question"? It was the standard "mother's maiden name" one, whatever made him think that his own sister wouldn't know the answer to that?
Large 1080p tv sets are widely available and very cheap these days...
Interesting list, there is only one "Korea" on there...
When ARM was first developed it *was* a high performance processor, beating x86 designs of the day quite easily...
In those days, x86 was the cheap low performance processor that was considered a joke, virtually everything else outperformed it and was a superior design.
But being faster and more expensive just results in lower sales, look at Alpha, MIPS, PPC, HPPA, SPARC, m68k, m88k etc... Intel had a cheap inferior product, but sold them by the millions and it was more profitable than selling a small handful of superior processors. ARM is now doing exactly the same, millions of their processors are sold every day in a huge range of different devices.
Most people likely own and use far more ARM processors on a daily basis than they do x86.
I ran a bunch of Linux servers on Alphas... The vast majority of drivers for x86 also compiled and worked on alpha, as did the vast majority of userland software. There was virtually nothing you could do on an x86 linux box that you couldn't do on an alpha, only the alpha would be much faster.
The problem was cost, the hardware was too expensive and never came down in price. ARM doesn't have this problem, they are already widely available cheaply... If anything it's the opposite of Alpha, with x86 now being the expensive high performance option.
A VM can burst easily if load spikes, a physical server cannot unless you build the software to cluster and add more physical servers...
Having 32 VMs in a 1u server is no problem, i have a 1U server with 144gb ram that's a few years old now (hp dl160 g6) that runs many linux instances, some with as little as 128mb of ram.
These VMs may be small, but they will beat small arm servers on processor bound tasks assuming that only a small number of them are under load at any one time (which is the case)... The only thing to consider with a highly virtualized setup is changing the daily crontab times otherwise you get a big load spike at the default time.
That all depends on what software you're running, only certain things are licensed per core... Some things are licensed per socket, while a lot of licenses are per machine or entirely unrestricted.
But the point is that a desktop was always a toy for geeks and not really a suitable tool for typical users, it just happened to be the only thing available that fulfilled several requirements those users had such as browsing and email. Think of all the unnecessary complexity and knowledge required to keep a typical desktop os working and malware free - not suitable for typical users.
Now there are more suitable tools available for those average users, so users are moving to them.
Microsoft was pushing windows 10 upgrades very heavily on anyone running 7/8, not just selling it with new hardware... A significant portion of that 25% will be upgrades (intentional or otherwise) from earlier versions.
Many people suffer from motion sickness, which usually doesn't occur when you're in control of the motion (ie driving) and is usually worse if you're not concentrating on the motion (ie doing something else like reading)...
I can just about survive a ride as a passenger if i watch and concentrate on where i'm going, otherwise i'm likely to vomit. If i tried to read something on the journey i would certainly vomit within a few minutes.
And for me to get to work it's 2 and a half hours standing in discomfort public transport (bus, plus 3 different trains followed by another bus) or 20 minutes sitting comfortable in a car...