Simply put, without big countries there would be no wars.
I'm not convinced of that. There were plenty of wars on a local level when Europe was still a collection of vest-pocket pricipalities, and Muslims have been slaughtering their neighbors in the horn of Africa for quite a few years now; you can't really blame that on countries, per se.
Ah, there you go with your nice, broad brush. For your information, I'm a hard-line Libertarian. My "support" of George Bush is limited to speaking up when people like you ascribe all manner of absurd motivations to him. As for "global warming deniers", I take exception to the term, since it's an obvious and transparent attempt to lump skeptics of global warming in with neo-nazis.
My bogometer pegs every time I listen to one of the GW deniers
My knee-jerk-o-meter pegs every time I hear someone rail against George Bush just because someone doesn't conform to your orthodoxy on the climate change question.
Something like 20 years ago, I heard about a device that used interference in a crystal with the upshot that the presence of light on one facet of a crystal determined whether light could go through the crystal along another path. This was supposed to form the basis for entirely-optical logic devices. Does this ring a bell? Anyone?
When somebody with a degree in finance or architecture or can grab a Linux laptop and watch episodes of The Daily Show off of Comedy Central's website without a bearded Linux geek walking them through an elaborate hand-configuration process first, maybe we'll have a prayer.
People use Windows because (believe it or not), for all its faults, it's easier to use than Linux.
The real solution to make Linux more mainstream is to make users more computer litterate.
NO!
Way to miss the point, dude. The whole need for "computer literacy" stems from the failure of the computer industry to get a lid on needless complexity. When I want to vacuum my floor, I don't have to know how to series-wind a motor, do I? When I want to drive to the store, I don't have to know how to manually advance the spark timing as my engine warms up. When I want to read a book, I don't have to know how to fill a glass bulb with an inert gas so that the filament doesn't burn out a second after I turn it on.
Don't kid yourself, we are still in the stone knives and bearskins era of computing. Apple's almost into the bronze age, but just barely. I hope to see the iron age before I retire.
The "real solution" is to advance computers to the point where they just work.
only one backing store for the screen rather than one for each window or widget
DPS has three backing-store modes: retained, buffered, and unbuffered. Retained and Buffered both kept a separate backing store for each window, and unbuffered was used very rarely (usually for something like a video playback window).
OS X's window system is more computationally expensive, but most of the heavy lifting happens on the GPU. Display Postscript had to run entirely on the CPU. Running DPS on your mini would be a lose.
I fail to see the reasoning behind the censorship,
The person in question agreed to a contract as a condition for access to classified materials as part of his job. Those terms persist for many years after he leaves the position. He also (probably) has to tell the FBI if he travels to any foreign country, and report any contact with foreign officials.
My business partner spent 12 years at the CIA. He left them years ago, but he'll still have the travel restrictions for several more years, and anything he writes about the agency or his work there has to be submitted for review by the agency.
I don't think this scheme helps. It just adds a level of indirection to mail retrieval, and makes potential spams even smaller (that is, faster) to send.
He can't just shoot off 20 million random messages. He now has to store all of them on his server for some period of time so that you can pick them up.
No, he can send off N million pointers to the same message just as easily.
iTunes, RealPlayer and several other apps prove that it's possible to implement DRM without buggering the host OS. Sony's not in trouble for using DRM, they're int trouble for installing a rootkit.
Why is this story packed with commentors who comprehend jack shit about the study and are determined to poke specious holes in it?
It seems to be a common pastime for many commentors to look for any way at all to denigrate the subject at hand. They really come out in force when there's a story about a major technical advancement.
In my experience, just being well-rested seems to be a major factor in susceptibility to infections. The last time I had the flu was more than four years ago, and the last time before that was easily ten years earlier.
Of course, it's also possible that large quantities of Coca-Cola are the deciding factor in my case.;-)
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Simply put, without big countries there would be no wars.
I'm not convinced of that. There were plenty of wars on a local level when Europe was still a collection of vest-pocket pricipalities, and Muslims have been slaughtering their neighbors in the horn of Africa for quite a few years now; you can't really blame that on countries, per se.
-jcr
You want to watch out; hysteria is the rule of the day when it comes to global warming.
Tell me about it! Some of these Kyoto-pushers are as loopy as PETA volunteers.
-jcr
Ah, there you go with your nice, broad brush. For your information, I'm a hard-line Libertarian. My "support" of George Bush is limited to speaking up when people like you ascribe all manner of absurd motivations to him. As for "global warming deniers", I take exception to the term, since it's an obvious and transparent attempt to lump skeptics of global warming in with neo-nazis.
-jcr
My bogometer pegs every time I listen to one of the GW deniers
My knee-jerk-o-meter pegs every time I hear someone rail against George Bush just because someone doesn't conform to your orthodoxy on the climate change question.
-jcr
Something like 20 years ago, I heard about a device that used interference in a crystal with the upshot that the presence of light on one facet of a crystal determined whether light could go through the crystal along another path. This was supposed to form the basis for entirely-optical logic devices. Does this ring a bell? Anyone?
-jcr
this island sank due to carryover from the Industrial Revolution and the massive industrialization of the developed world in the last half century.
Either that, or the same ordinary process of erosion that sunk the former islands (now seamounts) of the northern part of the Hawaiian chain.
-jcr
Not just installation. From TFA:
When somebody with a degree in finance or architecture or can grab a Linux laptop and watch episodes of The Daily Show off of Comedy Central's website without a bearded Linux geek walking them through an elaborate hand-configuration process first, maybe we'll have a prayer.
People use Windows because (believe it or not), for all its faults, it's easier to use than Linux.
The real solution to make Linux more mainstream is to make users more computer litterate.
NO!
Way to miss the point, dude. The whole need for "computer literacy" stems from the failure of the computer industry to get a lid on needless complexity. When I want to vacuum my floor, I don't have to know how to series-wind a motor, do I? When I want to drive to the store, I don't have to know how to manually advance the spark timing as my engine warms up. When I want to read a book, I don't have to know how to fill a glass bulb with an inert gas so that the filament doesn't burn out a second after I turn it on.
Don't kid yourself, we are still in the stone knives and bearskins era of computing. Apple's almost into the bronze age, but just barely. I hope to see the iron age before I retire.
The "real solution" is to advance computers to the point where they just work.
-jcr
HP docked your pay for the week? Was that a Carly idea?
Apple closes from December 23 to January 2, and they paid us our regular salary for that time.
-jcr
only one backing store for the screen rather than one for each window or widget
DPS has three backing-store modes: retained, buffered, and unbuffered. Retained and Buffered both kept a separate backing store for each window, and unbuffered was used very rarely (usually for something like a video playback window).
-jcr
Breach of contract is a civil matter.
Ordinarly, yes, but the contracts you sign to gain access to classified materials also come under special legislation
-jcr
OS X's window system is more computationally expensive, but most of the heavy lifting happens on the GPU. Display Postscript had to run entirely on the CPU. Running DPS on your mini would be a lose.
-jcr
Although quite different from QNX, Darwin's kernel is still not all that big:
8488 -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 4343332 Sep 8 17:19 mach_kernel
4.3 megabytes, roughly speaking.
-jcr
You've gotta be kidding! iTV is basically Front Row with a couple of minor tweaks.
If that's all it is, it would have shipped in time for Christmas this year.
-jcr
Rights cannot be surrendered.
Sure they can. Contracts are written every day where one party or the other gives up a right in exchange for some benefit.
-jcr
this should have only been decided by a federal magistrate.
That would be the case if the author hadn't signed a contract that said otherwise.
-jcr
I fail to see the reasoning behind the censorship,
The person in question agreed to a contract as a condition for access to classified materials as part of his job. Those terms persist for many years after he leaves the position. He also (probably) has to tell the FBI if he travels to any foreign country, and report any contact with foreign officials.
My business partner spent 12 years at the CIA. He left them years ago, but he'll still have the travel restrictions for several more years, and anything he writes about the agency or his work there has to be submitted for review by the agency.
-jcr
I don't think this scheme helps. It just adds a level of indirection to mail retrieval, and makes potential spams even smaller (that is, faster) to send.
He can't just shoot off 20 million random messages. He now has to store all of them on his server for some period of time so that you can pick them up.
No, he can send off N million pointers to the same message just as easily.
-jcr
Maybe common knowledge where you live, but I've never met a heroin addict.
-jcr
iTunes, RealPlayer and several other apps prove that it's possible to implement DRM without buggering the host OS. Sony's not in trouble for using DRM, they're int trouble for installing a rootkit.
-jcr
Granted, $175 is still a decent amount of money.
Nope. Sony got off very lightly here.
-jcr
It seems to be the fate of those who try to help others
How would you know?
-jcr
Why is this story packed with commentors who comprehend jack shit about the study and are determined to poke specious holes in it?
It seems to be a common pastime for many commentors to look for any way at all to denigrate the subject at hand. They really come out in force when there's a story about a major technical advancement.
-jcr
I've never heard before that withdrawal from opiates causes cold/flu-like symptoms.
I do hope your friend manages to kick that habit.
-jcr
In my experience, just being well-rested seems to be a major factor in susceptibility to infections. The last time I had the flu was more than four years ago, and the last time before that was easily ten years earlier.
;-)
Of course, it's also possible that large quantities of Coca-Cola are the deciding factor in my case.
-jcr
I guess the best I can do is continue to help you out
You have never helped me in any way. Fuck off already.
-jcr