Did you read beyond my semicolon, or was it too much text for you?
When you have a single device with only SSD storage, how do you store compressible files belonging to the OS?
Me, I use filesystem compression on them. Not because it's fast or slow; but because that's the solution to the actual problem.
I read it. The comment I replied to was:
SSD = very expensive small storage; mobility = no space for extra storage
You are complaining that I didn't take into account an assumption you didn't type. That was not an OS file specific comment. I don't compress OS files, my OS isn't big enough to make it worth thinking about. However I do uninstall packages I don't need.
They are selling 600GB SSD drives now. Does your OS really take more than 600GB on a mobile device? The problem is the cost of these disks not 'no space for extra storage'.
SSD = very expensive small storage; mobility = no space for extra storage
SSD's are fast. File compression is dead slow. Compressing a filesystem on a SSD would kill that speed advantage and use greatly more CPU time to read or write files. I don't think there are many setups where disk compression would actually be a good thing. That said if people want to use it and know what they are doing they should be able to, hopefully this will be supported in btrfs.
However if the police collect data illegally they can't use it in court.
This isn't the US. "fruit of the poisonous tree" isn't an international rule.
Not sure about the UK but in Germany for example, evidence can be acquired by illegal means (that includes illegal actions by law enforcement) and still be admissible in court. Granted, there may - on paper - be some extreme cases in which evidence is not admissible but these are highly theoretical. Illegal surveillance and anything short of well-documented torture won't get thrown out. Best you can hope for, is the judge saying "nono, bad boy" to the cop who committed the crime.
Then Germany sucks. This story is in the UK were illegal evidence isn't evidence of anything but wrongdoing on the part of whoever collected it. If it was any other way there would be massive police abuse.
Why would the police need to "masquerade" as a phone network. They can just get it from the *real* phone network. All phone companies comply with police requests, as long as they are legal. Oh, I see...
I don't think the phone networks are too fussy about checking the legality of requests. However if the police collect data illegally they can't use it in court. If they are not collecting evidence of wrongdoing what are they collecting this information for? It's either some kind of target selection thing or something altogether more sinister.
So because there may be one bad guy in the area thousands of innocent people get their privacy invaded, and no doubt checked just too make sure they are doing nothing wrong.. I'm sickened by what the UK is becoming.
Not even one bad guy, one suspected bad guy. This trend is disturbing for sure.
If those are important to you, spec Oracle Linux instead. It's like CentOS, in that it derives from RHEL, but you can get the Internet only support contract for the server OS at 1/10th the price of RHEL's annual charge.
Interesting. Is oracle Linux a cut and paste job like CentOS? I've seen perfect binary compatibility on CentOS but I've never even installed Oracle Linux.
Except that Red Hat does provide services people value, they're they top contributor [cnet.com] to the Linux kernel.
They're the leading contributor because the people paying for support need those features/bugfixes they are contributing.
Support contracts aren't just for helping clueless admins do their job because they're too lazy to Google.
Fair point. But mostly support contracts ARE for helping clueless admins do their job. There are some cases where real development work is needed to fix an issue but that's pretty rare.
I dont understand why dont nokia launch in US also? The biggest smartphone market is in US with probably largest no of users. With Europe in deep crisis,i think it will be hard to gain traction in it . Is nokia strategy flawed in ignoring US Holiday season?
Maybe they want to test the beta version on Europe and only set a release date for the US once they have some idea how long it will take them and Microsoft to get the kinks out of this thing.
Personally I once owned a windows phone, I'm not falling for the 'it's better this time' BS. If Nokia go windows only I'm not buying from Nokia.
Europe as a whole calmed down with the warmongering.
That's because the Americans still occupy the continent. Remove all those bases, and it would be back to the same ol' same ol'.. See what happened to Yugoslavia? And the other client states of the former Soviet Union? Austria/Hungary would be on the warpath once again.. A new Napoleon would rise up. It is the American gun which presently suppressing all the old hatred.
You greatly overestimate your importance to Europe, not that I'm saying you have none, just you overestimate what you have.
Trade keeps Europe at peace. We all have things the others want.
There's no need for indexing or backing for a [national] currency. There's a built in limit to money printing so even the normal expectation of not printing obscene amounts is enforced.
That doesn't work when money can be created electronically, by the central bank simply making an unmatched entry in its balance sheet.
According to the data, the US money supply (M2) has doubled since the year 2000, during a time period in which the total size of the backing economy has not kept up. Inflation, in other words. That means that the US has pilfered back between one-third and one-half of the value of the $3 trillion US dollars held in China's central bank.
Funny, isn't it? For the last twenty years, they've told us to worry about China owning too much US debt... and now we just snatched back a huge chunk of it by having some guy in Washington add a row to a spreadsheet.
I have to wonder at the Chinese. Wasn't it obvious the US would inflate its way to reduced debt? It seemed the obvious way out to me.
$1.5 trillion is still a crazy large amount of money to owe though.
Money IRL is backed by debt, a promise to honor the debt by a central bank. Currency has some stability because people have fairly reasonable expectations that a government will pay back its debt, but it's not 100% trustworthy (just look at Greece).
The problem with Bitcoin is that it's not tied to an index (e.g. 1 bitcoin = 1 US dollar) nor is it backed by anyone.
Nevermind a little country like Greece, the US came pretty close to defaulting on its debt recently. Massive devaluations can happen to any currency and none of them are tied to anything anymore. US dollars are not a store of value since the gold standard was removed, they are just a promise from the US government who has a good history of keeping promises.
Anyone can "print" bitcoins if they build a powerful enough computer. I don't think a country would adopt bitcoin, because then anyone with a powerful enough supercomputer could game their economy.
Anyone would not have the spare cash to build such a computer but even if they did the system adjusts difficulty to ensure it only generates 50 coins per 10 minutes. With a big enough computer the best you could do long term is get all 50 coins every 10 minutes. There is no way such a supercomputer could pay for itself.
You may have lost money on it, but somebody gained. Currency speculation has been around a long time. Most currencies aren't as volatile because there is a government making a monetary policy to control it. Bitcoin is a real opportunity for speculators.
Most currencies aren't as volatile simply because they are WAY bigger. A central bank isn't required.
Speculators suck in any currency or asset. They extract value and put nothing back. They are the 1% I'd like to see removed.
No, European nations could never be the dickheads that they make the US out to be right? Europe is built upon a history of tolerance and peace. Your smugness and uneducated stance amuses me.
Right but France doesn't treaten millitary action every time Spain farts. Europe as a whole calmed down with the warmongering.
At least we are not under the complete control of corporations as in the US. The EU still has a spine, at times, to stand up for what the citizens want in the face of corporate pressure.
Great, here we go again, it always happens when Europeans disagree, that the US gets drawn in at some point even when they try to remain neutral.
No they don't get drawn in, they interfere. There is a difference.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible
The purpose is easy. Extract money from the citizens. That's the only purpose for which the EU exists. This time, through extra car taxes, measuring exactly how many miles you have driven. You'd expect this to reach the headlines - but no such thing. It's sad that Europeans have to read this news on US sites. Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
Road toll charges have been discussed for many years. It's not worth replacing US GPS just to implement that as their are cheaper ways. We just don't want to be held to ransom over GPS access at some later point.
A lot of Europeans ( I'm one ) don't really trust the EU but that's a long way from considering it evil. The single currency has saved a lot of us a small fortune in transfering money from state to state. Also being free to work in any member state without a visa is a huge advantage.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible, given that the US is, you know, part of NATO and whatnot. And if the EU does turn hostile to the US in some sort of bizarro-world, the US possesses capabilities to shoot them down. So it doesn't make a lot of sense along those lines.
And all you think about is war. Isn't it quite possible that one day the US will realise they can charge for GPS access? Maybe Europe doesn't want to risk being charged a fortune for something they have learned to depend on.
I think you have no idea what Embrace Extend Extinguish means. Contrary to your expectations the terms are not applied to everything MS touches. There are alternative strategies to EEE that MS can use. One of them is Buy.
Ok then: Buy.. Reduce compatability and stability.. Watch all the customers leave.. Kill..
Maybe they'll fix the piss-poor OSX version. I reverted back to 2.x, and try the 5.x revisions occasionally, but they just have the worst interface ever.
On a side note, it would be nice if someone could crack the skype protocol and, say, add it to something like libpurple, then we wouldn't have to worry about things like that.
There is already something in asterix although I think skype tried to kill it.
I use SIP with poivy.com and get calls cheaper than skype rates. If SIP was a little easier to setup and use skype would be dead very quickly.
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Did you read beyond my semicolon, or was it too much text for you?
When you have a single device with only SSD storage, how do you store compressible files belonging to the OS?
Me, I use filesystem compression on them. Not because it's fast or slow; but because that's the solution to the actual problem.
I read it. The comment I replied to was:
SSD = very expensive small storage; mobility = no space for extra storage
You are complaining that I didn't take into account an assumption you didn't type. That was not an OS file specific comment. I don't compress OS files, my OS isn't big enough to make it worth thinking about. However I do uninstall packages I don't need.
They are selling 600GB SSD drives now. Does your OS really take more than 600GB on a mobile device? The problem is the cost of these disks not 'no space for extra storage'.
SSD = very expensive small storage; mobility = no space for extra storage
SSD's are fast. File compression is dead slow. Compressing a filesystem on a SSD would kill that speed advantage and use greatly more CPU time to read or write files. I don't think there are many setups where disk compression would actually be a good thing. That said if people want to use it and know what they are doing they should be able to, hopefully this will be supported in btrfs.
However if the police collect data illegally they can't use it in court.
This isn't the US. "fruit of the poisonous tree" isn't an international rule.
Not sure about the UK but in Germany for example, evidence can be acquired by illegal means (that includes illegal actions by law enforcement) and still be admissible in court. Granted, there may - on paper - be some extreme cases in which evidence is not admissible but these are highly theoretical. Illegal surveillance and anything short of well-documented torture won't get thrown out. Best you can hope for, is the judge saying "nono, bad boy" to the cop who committed the crime.
Then Germany sucks. This story is in the UK were illegal evidence isn't evidence of anything but wrongdoing on the part of whoever collected it. If it was any other way there would be massive police abuse.
Why would the police need to "masquerade" as a phone network. They can just get it from the *real* phone network. All phone companies comply with police requests, as long as they are legal. Oh, I see...
I don't think the phone networks are too fussy about checking the legality of requests.
However if the police collect data illegally they can't use it in court. If they are not collecting evidence of wrongdoing what are they collecting this information for? It's either some kind of target selection thing or something altogether more sinister.
What use is a phone in flight mode though? It might still be a mini-computer
There's your answer. My current phone is more powerful than all but one of the laptops that I've ever owned.
But as a communication device it's worthless. No phone network, no wifi. Mobile or not most computers are networked these days.
If you want to develop software on a tiny screen or just play angry birds that's great.
So because there may be one bad guy in the area thousands of innocent people get their privacy invaded, and no doubt checked just too make sure they are doing nothing wrong.. I'm sickened by what the UK is becoming.
Not even one bad guy, one suspected bad guy. This trend is disturbing for sure.
Will a phone in flight mode release its IMSI and IMEI identity codes?
How could it? Its radio is off.
What use is a phone in flight mode though? It might still be a mini-computer but it's useless as a communication device.
Good companies provide their own professional support. You don't have to buy everything from outside.
Of course support might make sense for companies that don't have a few good Linux people.
If those are important to you, spec Oracle Linux instead. It's like CentOS, in that it derives from RHEL, but you can get the Internet only support contract for the server OS at 1/10th the price of RHEL's annual charge.
Interesting. Is oracle Linux a cut and paste job like CentOS? I've seen perfect binary compatibility on CentOS but I've never even installed Oracle Linux.
Except that Red Hat does provide services people value, they're they top contributor [cnet.com] to the Linux kernel.
They're the leading contributor because the people paying for support need those features/bugfixes they are contributing.
Support contracts aren't just for helping clueless admins do their job because they're too lazy to Google.
Fair point. But mostly support contracts ARE for helping clueless admins do their job. There are some cases where real development work is needed to fix an issue but that's pretty rare.
What's the point of a 'debt ceiling' if you just raise it every time you reach it?
Don't you think that a 'debt ceiling' is supposed to, you know, stop the government from going further into debt?
The idea is at some point the government will pay back the debt. As that isn't actually going to happen they should scrap the debt ceiling.
I dont understand why dont nokia launch in US also? The biggest smartphone market is in US with probably largest no of users. With Europe in deep crisis ,i think it will be hard to gain traction in it . Is nokia strategy flawed in ignoring US Holiday season?
Maybe they want to test the beta version on Europe and only set a release date for the US once they have some idea how long it will take them and Microsoft to get the kinks out of this thing.
Personally I once owned a windows phone, I'm not falling for the 'it's better this time' BS. If Nokia go windows only I'm not buying from Nokia.
Europe as a whole calmed down with the warmongering.
That's because the Americans still occupy the continent. Remove all those bases, and it would be back to the same ol' same ol'.. See what happened to Yugoslavia? And the other client states of the former Soviet Union? Austria/Hungary would be on the warpath once again.. A new Napoleon would rise up. It is the American gun which presently suppressing all the old hatred.
You greatly overestimate your importance to Europe, not that I'm saying you have none, just you overestimate what you have.
Trade keeps Europe at peace. We all have things the others want.
There's no need for indexing or backing for a [national] currency. There's a built in limit to money printing so even the normal expectation of not printing obscene amounts is enforced.
That doesn't work when money can be created electronically, by the central bank simply making an unmatched entry in its balance sheet.
According to the data, the US money supply (M2) has doubled since the year 2000, during a time period in which the total size of the backing economy has not kept up. Inflation, in other words. That means that the US has pilfered back between one-third and one-half of the value of the $3 trillion US dollars held in China's central bank.
Funny, isn't it? For the last twenty years, they've told us to worry about China owning too much US debt... and now we just snatched back a huge chunk of it by having some guy in Washington add a row to a spreadsheet.
I have to wonder at the Chinese. Wasn't it obvious the US would inflate its way to reduced debt? It seemed the obvious way out to me.
$1.5 trillion is still a crazy large amount of money to owe though.
Money IRL is backed by debt, a promise to honor the debt by a central bank. Currency has some stability because people have fairly reasonable expectations that a government will pay back its debt, but it's not 100% trustworthy (just look at Greece).
The problem with Bitcoin is that it's not tied to an index (e.g. 1 bitcoin = 1 US dollar) nor is it backed by anyone.
Nevermind a little country like Greece, the US came pretty close to defaulting on its debt recently. Massive devaluations can happen to any currency and none of them are tied to anything anymore. US dollars are not a store of value since the gold standard was removed, they are just a promise from the US government who has a good history of keeping promises.
Anyone can "print" bitcoins if they build a powerful enough computer. I don't think a country would adopt bitcoin, because then anyone with a powerful enough supercomputer could game their economy.
Anyone would not have the spare cash to build such a computer but even if they did the system adjusts difficulty to ensure it only generates 50 coins per 10 minutes. With a big enough computer the best you could do long term is get all 50 coins every 10 minutes. There is no way such a supercomputer could pay for itself.
You may have lost money on it, but somebody gained. Currency speculation has been around a long time. Most currencies aren't as volatile because there is a government making a monetary policy to control it. Bitcoin is a real opportunity for speculators.
Most currencies aren't as volatile simply because they are WAY bigger. A central bank isn't required.
Speculators suck in any currency or asset. They extract value and put nothing back. They are the 1% I'd like to see removed.
No, European nations could never be the dickheads that they make the US out to be right? Europe is built upon a history of tolerance and peace. Your smugness and uneducated stance amuses me.
Right but France doesn't treaten millitary action every time Spain farts. Europe as a whole calmed down with the warmongering.
At least we are not under the complete control of corporations as in the US. The EU still has a spine, at times, to stand up for what the citizens want in the face of corporate pressure.
Great, here we go again, it always happens when Europeans disagree, that the US gets drawn in at some point even when they try to remain neutral.
No they don't get drawn in, they interfere. There is a difference.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible
The purpose is easy. Extract money from the citizens. That's the only purpose for which the EU exists. This time, through extra car taxes, measuring exactly how many miles you have driven. You'd expect this to reach the headlines - but no such thing. It's sad that Europeans have to read this news on US sites. Maybe that explains why so many Europeans feel the EU is an evil institute. But I bet nobody outside the EU ever hears about tat.
Road toll charges have been discussed for many years. It's not worth replacing US GPS just to implement that as their are cheaper ways. We just don't want to be held to ransom over GPS access at some later point.
A lot of Europeans ( I'm one ) don't really trust the EU but that's a long way from considering it evil. The single currency has saved a lot of us a small fortune in transfering money from state to state. Also being free to work in any member state without a visa is a huge advantage.
I don't buy that the stated purpose for the system (independence from the US's military) is very credible, given that the US is, you know, part of NATO and whatnot. And if the EU does turn hostile to the US in some sort of bizarro-world, the US possesses capabilities to shoot them down. So it doesn't make a lot of sense along those lines.
And all you think about is war. Isn't it quite possible that one day the US will realise they can charge for GPS access? Maybe Europe doesn't want to risk being charged a fortune for something they have learned to depend on.
Skype isn't a competitor. If they did what you're describing they'd just be throwing $8bn into a huge fire for no advantage to themselves.
At what point did I saw Microsoft isn't delusional?
As you say they will buy skype for a fat pile of cash and watch their purchase stagnate and its customers leave.
Microsoft has done all this before.
I think you have no idea what Embrace Extend Extinguish means. Contrary to your expectations the terms are not applied to everything MS touches. There are alternative strategies to EEE that MS can use. One of them is Buy.
Ok then: Buy.. Reduce compatability and stability.. Watch all the customers leave.. Kill..
'Embrace.. Extend.. Extinguish..' sounds better though.
I love (and hate) SIP but it's rare you'll get as good call quality as Skype. Both ends need a wideband codec which is rare.
Actually I never make SIP to SIP calls but SIP to normal phones via poivy.com sounds way better than skype on every number I've tried both on.
I use a normal phone on my end connected to a fritz!box and normal domestic ADSL. Nothing fancy or expensive.
Maybe they'll fix the piss-poor OSX version. I reverted back to 2.x, and try the 5.x revisions occasionally, but they just have the worst interface ever.
On a side note, it would be nice if someone could crack the skype protocol and, say, add it to something like libpurple, then we wouldn't have to worry about things like that.
There is already something in asterix although I think skype tried to kill it.
I use SIP with poivy.com and get calls cheaper than skype rates. If SIP was a little easier to setup and use skype would be dead very quickly.