I set toolkit.storage.synchronous to 0 in Firefox when the issue was widely discussed. Now I'm stracing Firefox, and I see zero fsyncs, but still a few fdatasync calls. Can't really figure out when/why it's doing those call, though. Sometimes they don't happen even while browsing, sometimes they occur often even when I'm not doing anything, really. Odd. With the synchronous option set to 1, it fsync'ed once (to store the changed config value). Other than that, there is no change (if anything, the fdatasync calls seem to have gone down in frequency). Fdatasync is similar to fsync, but it usually doesn't update the metadata.
You're suffering from RDF. Clearly developers who distribute using the classic model are put at a disadvantage. Apple owns the platform, and while it isn't hindering classic distribution, they are clearly pushing their own model, and implicitly deprecating the classic model. Sure, some big devs can afford to force people to use their own distribution method, just like they do on repository-based Linux distro -- but in both operating systems, it's (or will be) preferable to use the "proper", repository-based distribution model.
If I have the choice of two otherwise similar apps, one in the official repo and one distributed as source or as a static binary (ouch), there is no choice: of course I will apt-get the former. If the latter was distributed in its own repository (eg a PPA), it'd be a different matter. But Apple doesn't allow third party repositories.
That said, for developers who want to make money off their apps, and whose apps conform with Apple's taste, the app store is a good thing; and I can very well imagine that it'll increase the number of devs (it will certainly increase the number of apps in the 1 to 10 USD range). Access to so many affluent people who can one-click buy your stuff is invaluable.
Clock for clock, an Atom core is slower than a C2D core. I doubt your 1.8 GHz Atom performs anywhere near as well as a 1.4 GHz C2D. Not sure if your Atom is dual core, if not, that's another big factor. That said, a 1.4 GHz C2D is still quite anemic and is the major downside of the MBA. Not sure that Intel had anything more attractive to offer, though, unless you're willing to deal with their craptastic integrated graphics (which would have been okay with me).
What? That is completely wrong. It used to be something only done by people willing to spend a lot of time on it (one might call them hard-core), but it has recently become much easier.
There's no question that the research done originally for the purposes of space exploration has benefited humanity in other areas. The question is whether the money spent on it would have resulted in greater good if spent elsewhere. The answer to that question is relevant to the decision where to spend the money in the present and future. Not that I'm saying the two situtations are the same, but: A country could decide to dig the world deepest hole, and that effort would probably result in a number of benefits and accomplishments (besides the hole): lower unemployment, interesting archeology, high durability shovels, redstone. It's still probably not the best investment.
That's a good philosophy, but it only works as long as you prevent the occassional incident from being a catastrophe. A laptop is just expensive, the data on it with no back up might be priceless...
No it's more like going to a restaurant for a meal, and the restaurant is like a tiger, and I'm wounded, and the tiger attacks me and I'm dead, except I'm not dead, because I am the tiger. You're dead!
I think it's great that they offer this service. And I wouldn't expect them to do it for free. However, I really think they should let people know that doing it yourself at home is possible and free. Chances are they're already doing so, and people still want to pay for this service, which is fair enough.
Huh? Why would you expect the store price to be the same as the online price? Stores incur a huge range of extra expenses (labor, rent, etc). They also have a significant advantage: as a customer you can walk out the store with your merchandise in your hands. Selling items for the same price through both channels is possible, but only if the internet sales cross-finance the store sales. I prefer it the other way, then I can choose whether I prefer cheap stuff I need to wait for for a couple of days vs immediate access to stuff at a markup.
Naturally, they should make the difference between online and store prices very clear.
And, you've just proved my argument by admitting that the majority of pizza you eat is of the pre-formed variety. It doesn't matter if it is sold at a restaurant or not. I'm simply talking about the majority of pizzas sold.
Actually, what you said in the first place was Do you really believe that the vast majority of pizza places "flip, toss and stretch" their dough? which is pretty clearly talking about pizzas sold at a restaurant/take-away. Claming otherwise is disingenuous. And even though this has gone back and forth a while now, neither of you has given any solid numbers on the topic.
I don't have any, either, but I can back up his claim that pizza as sold in Pizza Hut is absolutely the exception in all European countries I've been to (which is quite a few). Where I live, Pizza Hut is the only place selling it, and small joints focusing on take-away/delivering pizza are all over the place, along with kebab it's easily the most widespread kind of food joint. There are about a dozen within 5 minutes walking distance. And no, none of them are part of a fast food chain -- I'm not sure what makes you think his observation in this area is incorrect, did you get a different impression? (If so, where?)
As for worldwide consumption, I have no idea, and I don't know how to find out, either. From my own experience, pizza simply isn't very popular either in Africa or in Asia, but that's extrapolating from a extremely small sample.
The file is simply a text file of either 68 or 70 bytes that is a legitimate executable file called a COM file that can be run by Microsoft operating systems and some work-alikes (except for 64-bit due to 16-bit limitations), including OS/2. When executed, it will print "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!" and then stop. The test string was specifically engineered to consist of ASCII human-readable characters, easily created using a standard computer keyboard. It makes use of self-modifying code to work around technical issues that this constraint makes on the execution of the test string.
Wow, that's pretty cool. Here's the string: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
Some stuff actually is 16:9, and for even wider stuff at least the black bars aren't quite as fat. Should be kind of obvious, no? I use my computer for both entertainment and work, and 24" is okay for both. A non-wide display would be incredibly annoying when watching movies. And it easily fits two paper pages at more than 100%, so I don't quite see the problem there.
What. Most of the dirt cheap displays with TN panels may be 16:9, but displays with IPS (etc) panels still are 16:10 more often than not. More expensive but it's worth it for the reduced color shift alone.
I liked the music. You can silence it easy enough if you don't. Narration might have been useful, as would a better angle of the camera or an actual description on the video. I guess it's part of the mystery in revealing this. I'm wondering though -- is this an iPad running Chromium or an iPad running Chrome OS as TFA/TFS claims? It seems as if the former would be far easier to pull off (jailbreak it and get a chromium build running). And even if you buy into the whole the-browser-is-the-OS thing, surely it's significant that the whole Apple software stack is still running the show.
That sounds like an axiom from perfect economics land, close neighbour of perfect physics country, where everyone is omniscient and rational and transactions are frictionless. You even provided solid empirical evidence in the form of a non sequitur!
In reality, your scenario is the exception, not the rule. The reduced unit price is merely a side effect; advertising makes sense as long as it results in increased profit, independent of the number of items sold. And since typically several companies fight each other with increasing advertising budgets, any net gain is quickly canceled, even though it still makes sense for every individual company to increase its budget. I bet you could simplify that to some standard example from game theory.
The UK/US thing is just bizarre -- you can't compare prices like that, the UK also has lots of advertising, and besides, it's not as if both were strictly separate markets, many of the participants/products/factories are the same.
It will stop when enough people band together to stop it. That means discussing these things, meeting up and spreading awareness among other civil rights groups. I'm not sure if anything like that is happening in the UK. And you're right, these things are happening all over the (Western) world; however it's my impression that the discussion in the UK is kind of shifted towards the 1984 side.
Out of curiosity, what kind of hardware did you get? I still think 4500 USD is a lot, and the "big" in big screen really makes spending a few bucks for the real thing worth it -- sometimes.
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I set toolkit.storage.synchronous to 0 in Firefox when the issue was widely discussed. Now I'm stracing Firefox, and I see zero fsyncs, but still a few fdatasync calls. Can't really figure out when/why it's doing those call, though. Sometimes they don't happen even while browsing, sometimes they occur often even when I'm not doing anything, really. Odd. With the synchronous option set to 1, it fsync'ed once (to store the changed config value). Other than that, there is no change (if anything, the fdatasync calls seem to have gone down in frequency). Fdatasync is similar to fsync, but it usually doesn't update the metadata.
You're suffering from RDF. Clearly developers who distribute using the classic model are put at a disadvantage. Apple owns the platform, and while it isn't hindering classic distribution, they are clearly pushing their own model, and implicitly deprecating the classic model. Sure, some big devs can afford to force people to use their own distribution method, just like they do on repository-based Linux distro -- but in both operating systems, it's (or will be) preferable to use the "proper", repository-based distribution model.
If I have the choice of two otherwise similar apps, one in the official repo and one distributed as source or as a static binary (ouch), there is no choice: of course I will apt-get the former. If the latter was distributed in its own repository (eg a PPA), it'd be a different matter. But Apple doesn't allow third party repositories.
That said, for developers who want to make money off their apps, and whose apps conform with Apple's taste, the app store is a good thing; and I can very well imagine that it'll increase the number of devs (it will certainly increase the number of apps in the 1 to 10 USD range). Access to so many affluent people who can one-click buy your stuff is invaluable.
Clock for clock, an Atom core is slower than a C2D core. I doubt your 1.8 GHz Atom performs anywhere near as well as a 1.4 GHz C2D. Not sure if your Atom is dual core, if not, that's another big factor. That said, a 1.4 GHz C2D is still quite anemic and is the major downside of the MBA. Not sure that Intel had anything more attractive to offer, though, unless you're willing to deal with their craptastic integrated graphics (which would have been okay with me).
What? That is completely wrong. It used to be something only done by people willing to spend a lot of time on it (one might call them hard-core), but it has recently become much easier.
Tuna tastes pretty good to me. Lots of other reasons for not eating it all that often, though.
I agree that rabbit should generally not be part of a trifle. That said, it's originally a British dish, so who knows.
Did two steps a couple of days ago. No trepidation and no problems at all. The netbook remix interface (Unity) is slow as molasses and buggy, though.
You make a pretty convincing argument. :)
One has to understand the the USSR scientific potential was the one of the former Soviet Union countries plus current Israel.
The stupid "socialist" enthusiasm was a result of an ugly massive civil war, which had roots in 19th century's deep social conflicts.
... and is still going on, even today.
There's no question that the research done originally for the purposes of space exploration has benefited humanity in other areas. The question is whether the money spent on it would have resulted in greater good if spent elsewhere. The answer to that question is relevant to the decision where to spend the money in the present and future. Not that I'm saying the two situtations are the same, but: A country could decide to dig the world deepest hole, and that effort would probably result in a number of benefits and accomplishments (besides the hole): lower unemployment, interesting archeology, high durability shovels, redstone. It's still probably not the best investment.
That's a good philosophy, but it only works as long as you prevent the occassional incident from being a catastrophe. A laptop is just expensive, the data on it with no back up might be priceless...
No it's more like going to a restaurant for a meal, and the restaurant is like a tiger, and I'm wounded, and the tiger attacks me and I'm dead, except I'm not dead, because I am the tiger. You're dead!
I think it's great that they offer this service. And I wouldn't expect them to do it for free. However, I really think they should let people know that doing it yourself at home is possible and free. Chances are they're already doing so, and people still want to pay for this service, which is fair enough.
Huh? Why would you expect the store price to be the same as the online price? Stores incur a huge range of extra expenses (labor, rent, etc). They also have a significant advantage: as a customer you can walk out the store with your merchandise in your hands. Selling items for the same price through both channels is possible, but only if the internet sales cross-finance the store sales. I prefer it the other way, then I can choose whether I prefer cheap stuff I need to wait for for a couple of days vs immediate access to stuff at a markup.
Naturally, they should make the difference between online and store prices very clear.
And, you've just proved my argument by admitting that the majority of pizza you eat is of the pre-formed variety. It doesn't matter if it is sold at a restaurant or not. I'm simply talking about the majority of pizzas sold.
Actually, what you said in the first place was Do you really believe that the vast majority of pizza places "flip, toss and stretch" their dough? which is pretty clearly talking about pizzas sold at a restaurant/take-away. Claming otherwise is disingenuous. And even though this has gone back and forth a while now, neither of you has given any solid numbers on the topic.
I don't have any, either, but I can back up his claim that pizza as sold in Pizza Hut is absolutely the exception in all European countries I've been to (which is quite a few). Where I live, Pizza Hut is the only place selling it, and small joints focusing on take-away/delivering pizza are all over the place, along with kebab it's easily the most widespread kind of food joint. There are about a dozen within 5 minutes walking distance. And no, none of them are part of a fast food chain -- I'm not sure what makes you think his observation in this area is incorrect, did you get a different impression? (If so, where?)
As for worldwide consumption, I have no idea, and I don't know how to find out, either. From my own experience, pizza simply isn't very popular either in Africa or in Asia, but that's extrapolating from a extremely small sample.
The file is simply a text file of either 68 or 70 bytes that is a legitimate executable file called a COM file that can be run by Microsoft operating systems and some work-alikes (except for 64-bit due to 16-bit limitations), including OS/2. When executed, it will print "EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!" and then stop. The test string was specifically engineered to consist of ASCII human-readable characters, easily created using a standard computer keyboard. It makes use of self-modifying code to work around technical issues that this constraint makes on the execution of the test string.
Wow, that's pretty cool. Here's the string: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
Tree Style Tabs is another great extension for using Firefox on a widescreen, particularly if you often use a dozen tabs or (much) more.
Some stuff actually is 16:9, and for even wider stuff at least the black bars aren't quite as fat. Should be kind of obvious, no? I use my computer for both entertainment and work, and 24" is okay for both. A non-wide display would be incredibly annoying when watching movies. And it easily fits two paper pages at more than 100%, so I don't quite see the problem there.
What. Most of the dirt cheap displays with TN panels may be 16:9, but displays with IPS (etc) panels still are 16:10 more often than not. More expensive but it's worth it for the reduced color shift alone.
I liked the music. You can silence it easy enough if you don't. Narration might have been useful, as would a better angle of the camera or an actual description on the video. I guess it's part of the mystery in revealing this. I'm wondering though -- is this an iPad running Chromium or an iPad running Chrome OS as TFA/TFS claims? It seems as if the former would be far easier to pull off (jailbreak it and get a chromium build running). And even if you buy into the whole the-browser-is-the-OS thing, surely it's significant that the whole Apple software stack is still running the show.
That sounds like an axiom from perfect economics land, close neighbour of perfect physics country, where everyone is omniscient and rational and transactions are frictionless. You even provided solid empirical evidence in the form of a non sequitur!
In reality, your scenario is the exception, not the rule. The reduced unit price is merely a side effect; advertising makes sense as long as it results in increased profit, independent of the number of items sold. And since typically several companies fight each other with increasing advertising budgets, any net gain is quickly canceled, even though it still makes sense for every individual company to increase its budget. I bet you could simplify that to some standard example from game theory.
The UK/US thing is just bizarre -- you can't compare prices like that, the UK also has lots of advertising, and besides, it's not as if both were strictly separate markets, many of the participants/products/factories are the same.
It will stop when enough people band together to stop it. That means discussing these things, meeting up and spreading awareness among other civil rights groups. I'm not sure if anything like that is happening in the UK. And you're right, these things are happening all over the (Western) world; however it's my impression that the discussion in the UK is kind of shifted towards the 1984 side.
The Dark Knight, apparently.
Out of curiosity, what kind of hardware did you get? I still think 4500 USD is a lot, and the "big" in big screen really makes spending a few bucks for the real thing worth it -- sometimes.
By smuggling jujubes into the cinema you are basically stealing the movie. I bet you also go to the bathroom during the commercials. Thief.