Bullshit? "Force"? Then what part of "Mozilla will let users change the default silent service to the more traditional mode, where the browser asks permission before downloading and installing any update" did you not understand?
Thank you! I've been looking for a tool that handles MKV subtitles correctly. Handbrake doesn't support burning in MKV subtitles but it seems to work perfectly with this tool.
The problem with that is that often users will want to upgrade some things but not other things. For example people might not be interested in the new themes, or switch from HAL to DeviceKit, or the new kernel, or major desktop environment changes that change UI all over the place and break binary compatibility, but they might want to upgrade Firefox 2 to 3 or being able to use that new app which was released last week.
And how's that an excuse against "do it yourself"? If you live in a household, not knowing how to wash dishes does not exclude you from the duty. Now you didn't sign a contract which states that you *must* wash dishes regularly. You can hire a dish washing person, or the other household members can be nice to you and wash dishes for you. But if neither are true then complaining whenever other household members ask you to wash dishes is a douchy thing to do.
"Escape from listening to feedback and requests"? The developer has to eat, how will immediately doing what you say get him his next meal? It won't, so he has the right to do whatever he wants with your feedback, including postponing to an indefinite time in the future.
Well read this article to get a sense of what the judges are thinking: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28319199 "it is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exists."
As funny as it may be, it's actually possible with X and XEmbed. Even though X haters have been screaming for years that network transparency needs to go.
"My experience has made me believe PostgreSQL is better in every respect."
Except when you insert a row with a specific primary key value instead of having the primary key sequence generate a new value for you. Like for example when you're restoring an SQL dump. That'll totally screw up the sequence which you'll then have to manually fix, otherwise the sequence might generate a primary key that already exists. Insane. PostgreSQL does a lot of things well but when it comes to something simple like this MySQL does it far better.
"Look at Oracle solutions. All their fancy eBusiness software is still Oracle SQL DB backed and some of the biggest companies in the world are using it."
Or maybe people mean that they want to scale to millions of users without having to pay licensing fees that can bankrupt them.
"SQL isn't the problem, it's a tool. Bad programmers are the problem."
"Run Vista and XP on a Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM, see which OS you can do more on."
You measure an OS's superiority by how well it can run on almost obsolete hardware? Then I guess DOS is the best OS of them all, followed by Linux with only a bash shell.
Why do you talk like this phenomenon is exclusive to open source? It happens all the time in closed source projects too, you just never hear about them because of NDAs or whatever.
Then what *is* the point? That caching disk data in RAM is stupid? Pretty much every modern OS does this, and has done it for years. Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, etc. all do this. If you don't like this then I guess you should use DOS.
Why "Linux developers" exactly? If you look at Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, or pretty much any other operating system, they all report memory usage the same way: VM size, RSS, etc. None of them display memory usage in a way that average users understand. I don't think there's even a way to do that, it's like blaming airplane designers for not designing an airplane that average people can operate.
The simple mental model of memory usage that people have is not only wrong, it is also vaguely defined. Virtual memory, along with disk caching, have many optimizations and are complex by nature; there's simply no way to reduce that information to a simple mental model and be 100% accurate at the same time. There are only two ways to display memory usage in a way that average people understand:
- By not using virtual memory and not using disk caching, i.e. by making your computer inefficient, dog slow and prone to crashes. - By only displaying "guesses" of what the "real" memory usage is, for some vague definition of "real".
Actually when it comes to the latter, Linux has an edge here over other operating systems. Recent kernel versions introduced the concept of "Proportional Set Size", which is something like the RSS but it divides the size of each memory page by the number of processes that share it. This is as close as you can come to what people expect to be the "real" memory usage of processes. The standard OS tools don't display this number yet but I'm already incorporating this feature into my own tools.
Suppose that there is an OS which supports that model. The Britney_Spears_Naked email would just come with instructions to check "yes" for all permissions. Since most people have no idea what all those confusing permission dialogs are, and they just want to see the damn pictures, they'll do what the instructions say and click "Yes" for everything. Still nothing solved.
Proof: Android supports the security model that you described. Didn't stop people from publishing Android malware.
Yeah, this just proves how complex memory management is. Unfortunately this does not stop people from thinking that they're experts and concluding that software XYZ is hogging memory.
Definitely the part about HDD caching slowing things down. Even in the DOS age it was well known that hdd caching utilities (I forgot the names, too long ago) improve disk performance tremendously.
Linux does the same things as Windows: it caches as much stuff from disk into main memory as possible. Try running:
cat large_video_file.avi >/dev/null
You'll see that after running the command, your memory usage jumps up by the size of the video file. Now try running the same command again, it's now an order of a magnitude faster.
On Linux things like this are stored in main memory in the form of caches and buffers. I don't know about Windows, but Linux clears some caches and buffers if applications need real memory. Caches and buffers show up in memory usage reporting tools like 'free', so it's quite normal to see Linux systems using 90% or more RAM, most of which go to caches and buffers. It seems that most people who complain about memory usage don't know how memory is managed on modern operating systems, so they go all apeshit about "OMG HELP linux is using so much memory it sux0rz!!!" and I have to explain again and again how they're not getting it. Same goes to you. Now, Windows is suffering from the same problem.
And that would solve what problem, exactly? People open email attachments named Britney_Spears_Naked.exe all the time even if they've never seen the sender before.
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Show me even one user who knows he doesn't want updates, but also doesn't know how to look for a checkbox to disable them.
"And I hope it can be disabled"
Read the summary.
Bullshit? "Force"? Then what part of "Mozilla will let users change the default silent service to the more traditional mode, where the browser asks permission before downloading and installing any update" did you not understand?
Thank you! I've been looking for a tool that handles MKV subtitles correctly. Handbrake doesn't support burning in MKV subtitles but it seems to work perfectly with this tool.
I don't get your question. Just target Android 1.5. Aren't future versions backwards compatible?
The problem with that is that often users will want to upgrade some things but not other things. For example people might not be interested in the new themes, or switch from HAL to DeviceKit, or the new kernel, or major desktop environment changes that change UI all over the place and break binary compatibility, but they might want to upgrade Firefox 2 to 3 or being able to use that new app which was released last week.
And how's that an excuse against "do it yourself"? If you live in a household, not knowing how to wash dishes does not exclude you from the duty. Now you didn't sign a contract which states that you *must* wash dishes regularly. You can hire a dish washing person, or the other household members can be nice to you and wash dishes for you. But if neither are true then complaining whenever other household members ask you to wash dishes is a douchy thing to do.
"Escape from listening to feedback and requests"? The developer has to eat, how will immediately doing what you say get him his next meal? It won't, so he has the right to do whatever he wants with your feedback, including postponing to an indefinite time in the future.
It's still a rumor that hasn't been confirmed by Google.
Well read this article to get a sense of what the judges are thinking: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28319199
"it is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exists."
Several Americans have in fact been jailed for possessing lolicon. The judge deemed lolicon manga just as harmful as the real thing.
What? I live in the Netherlands and my Android phone has this "Market" thing. If that's not the Android app store then what is it?
As funny as it may be, it's actually possible with X and XEmbed. Even though X haters have been screaming for years that network transparency needs to go.
Except when you insert a row with a specific primary key value instead of having the primary key sequence generate a new value for you. Like for example when you're restoring an SQL dump. That'll totally screw up the sequence which you'll then have to manually fix, otherwise the sequence might generate a primary key that already exists. Insane. PostgreSQL does a lot of things well but when it comes to something simple like this MySQL does it far better.
Or maybe people mean that they want to scale to millions of users without having to pay licensing fees that can bankrupt them.
And money.
Rumor has it that anyone who eats those mushrooms will become twice as tall and have the power to break bricks.
"Run Vista and XP on a Pentium 4 with 512 MB of RAM, see which OS you can do more on."
You measure an OS's superiority by how well it can run on almost obsolete hardware? Then I guess DOS is the best OS of them all, followed by Linux with only a bash shell.
Why do you talk like this phenomenon is exclusive to open source? It happens all the time in closed source projects too, you just never hear about them because of NDAs or whatever.
Your point? The article is talking about VP8, what does that have to do with OGV?
Then what *is* the point? That caching disk data in RAM is stupid? Pretty much every modern OS does this, and has done it for years. Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, etc. all do this. If you don't like this then I guess you should use DOS.
Why "Linux developers" exactly? If you look at Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, or pretty much any other operating system, they all report memory usage the same way: VM size, RSS, etc. None of them display memory usage in a way that average users understand. I don't think there's even a way to do that, it's like blaming airplane designers for not designing an airplane that average people can operate.
The simple mental model of memory usage that people have is not only wrong, it is also vaguely defined. Virtual memory, along with disk caching, have many optimizations and are complex by nature; there's simply no way to reduce that information to a simple mental model and be 100% accurate at the same time. There are only two ways to display memory usage in a way that average people understand:
- By not using virtual memory and not using disk caching, i.e. by making your computer inefficient, dog slow and prone to crashes.
- By only displaying "guesses" of what the "real" memory usage is, for some vague definition of "real".
Actually when it comes to the latter, Linux has an edge here over other operating systems. Recent kernel versions introduced the concept of "Proportional Set Size", which is something like the RSS but it divides the size of each memory page by the number of processes that share it. This is as close as you can come to what people expect to be the "real" memory usage of processes. The standard OS tools don't display this number yet but I'm already incorporating this feature into my own tools.
I think that's probably the main reason.
Suppose that there is an OS which supports that model. The Britney_Spears_Naked email would just come with instructions to check "yes" for all permissions. Since most people have no idea what all those confusing permission dialogs are, and they just want to see the damn pictures, they'll do what the instructions say and click "Yes" for everything. Still nothing solved.
Proof: Android supports the security model that you described. Didn't stop people from publishing Android malware.
Yeah, this just proves how complex memory management is. Unfortunately this does not stop people from thinking that they're experts and concluding that software XYZ is hogging memory.
Definitely the part about HDD caching slowing things down. Even in the DOS age it was well known that hdd caching utilities (I forgot the names, too long ago) improve disk performance tremendously.
/dev/null
Linux does the same things as Windows: it caches as much stuff from disk into main memory as possible. Try running:
cat large_video_file.avi >
You'll see that after running the command, your memory usage jumps up by the size of the video file. Now try running the same command again, it's now an order of a magnitude faster.
On Linux things like this are stored in main memory in the form of caches and buffers. I don't know about Windows, but Linux clears some caches and buffers if applications need real memory. Caches and buffers show up in memory usage reporting tools like 'free', so it's quite normal to see Linux systems using 90% or more RAM, most of which go to caches and buffers. It seems that most people who complain about memory usage don't know how memory is managed on modern operating systems, so they go all apeshit about "OMG HELP linux is using so much memory it sux0rz!!!" and I have to explain again and again how they're not getting it. Same goes to you. Now, Windows is suffering from the same problem.
FYI, here's the memory usage of my Linux server:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 720 702 17 0 55 510
-/+ buffers/cache: 136 583
Swap: 399 0 399
It says 702 MB of used memory. Now look at "-/+ buffers/cache", it says 136 MB. That's the amount of memory *actually* used by applications.
That was sarcasm. :) Slashdot stripped out my [/sarcasm] tag.
And that would solve what problem, exactly? People open email attachments named Britney_Spears_Naked.exe all the time even if they've never seen the sender before.