And I'm sorry, while I may agree with some of what the pirate party stand for , the access or not of content on the internet is irrelevant compared to the ecomonic crisis affecting most of europe. This isn't the time or the place for grandstanding an insignificant issue such as this and while she may be very bright there is no way a 24 year old has enough life experience to deal with the issues that need resolving before europe collapses into an economic black hole.
"that we've been eating trace amounts of penicillin for tens of thousands of years."
Some modern antibiotics can get into the soft tissue of an animal and stay there until it is slaughtered and can then survive the cooking process. Penicillin can't.
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Of course I bloody use it - what you do think I watch youtube with? And what exactly doesn't it do? I've never had an issue with it.
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Except with less rationale to it. Why anyone gets worked up about a plugin that does what its supposed to do reasonably well and has some very comprehensive development tools I have no idea. Its probably the sort of people who really have nothing to complain about in their lives but are still at the age where they need a "cause" to feel worthy who are making the most noise about it.
And the radical new technology is what? This was done in the 1960s. Sure, there may be a bit more accuracy and finesse with this version, but really, cutting edge this is not.
... Ferrari have just announced that they will be installing a 125cc engine into their 458 Italia. A spokeman said: "It works'a fine in'a the moped, whats'a the problem?"
"A cheap Sun workstation is still likely to be a few hundred dollars more than an equivalent x86 system"
A couple of hundred I could handle. What annoyed me was back in the day a desktop sparc would be at least 50% more than the equvalent x86 and when you'd added in the optional (!) keyboard, monitor etc it could easily be twice as much. For high end kit you'd be looking at 3 or 4x the price.
As for ebay , there are some bargains on there but I need up to date hardware and OS really, to match what I use at work.
"OS X is a full fledged UNIX and as such, you'll always be able to do *Nixy things such as wget/curl a file, gunzip, configure and make"
I wouldn't bet on it. Its entirely possible to make the kernel limit what a user can do above and beyond a chroot jail - SELinux does it already. That doesn't make it any less of a version of unix. All you'd see on the command line is the "Operation not permitted" error and that would be that.
As for apple being dead if they messed about with the unix roots of OS/X , very unlikely. 99% of apple users couldn't care less and most of them don't even know their OS is a version of unix.
With the world moving to 64 bits to accomodate huge databases in memory and on disk they must be aiming for low hanging fruit here. Still, I'd like to get hold of one IF they ever convert it into a desktop version - would be nice to have a linux installation at home that doesn't pay homage to wintel in any way.
Maybe, who knows, Depends on the task. But thats besides the point, which is that even an unpatched Win95 machine is safe if its totally locked down and there's no way for any software or data to be loaded onto it either via a network connection or via the machine itself.
I mean really, thats the level of your argument. Because A can be caused by B then there's no chance C could ever cause it, in fact C can't exist. So I guess those guys in check shirts with a chainsaw must all be off to a chippendales gig.
... this wouldn't be an issue. And make sure workers can't plug in USB sticks or DVD/CD-ROMS. Really , I do wonder whether people running IT in critical industries have all had a collective lobotomy.
Doubling the size of the registers requires a LOT of work internally to a CPU and is not done lightly - thats why 32bit held on for so long in the consumer world. Also there are 2 (main) types of bit measurement - address bus size and data bus size. An increase to 128 or more for the data bus size may be useful for some applications and that has already been done in some areas - eg graphics cards - but increasing the address bus size to 128 bits will bring no conceivable benefits as we're still a long way off being able to manufacture memory chips that can even approach the 2^64 bit size set by 64 bit never mind 2^128.
"But nonsense decisions like this are usually caused by simple bribery."
If only, then these judges could be put out to pasture where they belong. Unfortunately its down to simple ignorance. Most people in the UK legal industry including the judiciary are utterly fecking clueless when it comes to technology but they assume because they've got law qualifications (which in their eyes are the acme of intellectual achievment) this means they can become an instant expert in every field of human endeavour.
Manufacturers will simply ignore US patents everywhere else in the world and provide a crippled product with various functions disabled for the US market if this sort of nonsense continues. It strikes me the US patent office still thinks its 1950 with the US deciding the direction of technological advances. Someone should throw some strong coffee in their faces and wake them up to the reality of the 21st century before they fuck up US industry for good.
"Electricity is one of those things that can't be stored efficiently when generated"
I guess you've never heard of hydro storage then whereby you pump water up to a lake using spare power and let it flow down during the day when its needed. There are quite a few in the UK.
And in the UK its not cheap so yes, I shut my desktop down when I'm not using it and fully switch off the monitor. Aside from that it has an enviromental benefit downstream at the power station. Sleep mode might not use much power but it still uses some and with all the computers in the world that probably adds up to a lot of CO2 for nothing.
I've never understood the attraction of eating chillies. It hurts (or is that just me?) so whats pleasant about it? Or is it just macho i-can-eat-more-than-you BS? Is it the same sort of people who do it who visit S&M dungeons because they like the pain?
Come on, Latex was a good if awkward choice when decent word processors and DTP apps couldn't handle scientific notation, but really, those days are long gone. Its 2011 , not 1990. Why go through the pain?
This is a farce. Neither windows, nor linux or OS/X or commodity PC hardware should be let within 100 miles of these systems. Wtf are the military playing at? Is their trillion dollar budget not enough to afford some proper kit and in house software FFS?
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And I'm sorry, while I may agree with some of what the pirate party stand for , the access or not of content on the internet is irrelevant compared to the ecomonic crisis affecting most of europe. This isn't the time or the place for grandstanding an insignificant issue such as this and while she may be very bright there is no way a 24 year old has enough life experience to deal with the issues that need resolving before europe collapses into an economic black hole.
Every piece? Got a citation for that?
No, didn't think so.
"that we've been eating trace amounts of penicillin for tens of thousands of years."
Some modern antibiotics can get into the soft tissue of an animal and stay there until it is slaughtered and can then survive the cooking process. Penicillin can't.
Of course I bloody use it - what you do think I watch youtube with? And what exactly doesn't it do? I've never had an issue with it.
Except with less rationale to it. Why anyone gets worked up about a plugin that does what its supposed to do reasonably well and has some very comprehensive development tools I have no idea. Its probably the sort of people who really have nothing to complain about in their lives but are still at the age where they need a "cause" to feel worthy who are making the most noise about it.
... they used analogue electronics.
And the radical new technology is what? This was done in the 1960s. Sure, there may be a bit more accuracy and finesse with this version, but really, cutting edge this is not.
... Ferrari have just announced that they will be installing a 125cc engine into their 458 Italia. A spokeman said: "It works'a fine in'a the moped, whats'a the problem?"
"A cheap Sun workstation is still likely to be a few hundred dollars more than an equivalent x86 system"
A couple of hundred I could handle. What annoyed me was back in the day a desktop sparc would be at least 50% more than the equvalent x86 and when you'd added in the optional (!) keyboard, monitor etc it could easily be twice as much. For high end kit you'd be looking at 3 or 4x the price.
As for ebay , there are some bargains on there but I need up to date hardware and OS really, to match what I use at work.
Its no longer supported and wasn't as good as sparc solaris anyway. Plus I'd like something other than x86 for a change.
But for a reasonable price , not the silly money that Sun wanted for their desktop systems. I'd love to have an up to date solaris box to develop on.
"OS X is a full fledged UNIX and as such, you'll always be able to do *Nixy things such as wget/curl a file, gunzip, configure and make"
I wouldn't bet on it. Its entirely possible to make the kernel limit what a user can do above and beyond a chroot jail - SELinux does it already. That doesn't make it any less of a version of unix. All you'd see on the command line is the "Operation not permitted" error and that would be that.
As for apple being dead if they messed about with the unix roots of OS/X , very unlikely. 99% of apple users couldn't care less and most of them don't even know their OS is a version of unix.
With the world moving to 64 bits to accomodate huge databases in memory and on disk they must be aiming for low hanging fruit here. Still, I'd like to get hold of one IF they ever convert it into a desktop version - would be nice to have a linux installation at home that doesn't pay homage to wintel in any way.
Maybe, who knows, Depends on the task. But thats besides the point, which is that even an unpatched Win95 machine is safe if its totally locked down and there's no way for any software or data to be loaded onto it either via a network connection or via the machine itself.
I mean really, thats the level of your argument. Because A can be caused by B then there's no chance C could ever cause it, in fact C can't exist. So I guess those guys in check shirts with a chainsaw must all be off to a chippendales gig.
... this wouldn't be an issue. And make sure workers can't plug in USB sticks or DVD/CD-ROMS. Really , I do wonder whether people running IT in critical industries have all had a collective lobotomy.
Doubling the size of the registers requires a LOT of work internally to a CPU and is not done lightly - thats why 32bit held on for so long in the consumer world. Also there are 2 (main) types of bit measurement - address bus size and data bus size. An increase to 128 or more for the data bus size may be useful for some applications and that has already been done in some areas - eg graphics cards - but increasing the address bus size to 128 bits will bring no conceivable benefits as we're still a long way off being able to manufacture memory chips that can even approach the 2^64 bit size set by 64 bit never mind 2^128.
"But nonsense decisions like this are usually caused by simple bribery."
If only, then these judges could be put out to pasture where they belong. Unfortunately its down to simple ignorance. Most people in the UK legal industry including the judiciary are utterly fecking clueless when it comes to technology but they assume because they've got law qualifications (which in their eyes are the acme of intellectual achievment) this means they can become an instant expert in every field of human endeavour.
They can't, and boy does it show.
Manufacturers will simply ignore US patents everywhere else in the world and provide a crippled product with various functions disabled for the US market if this sort of nonsense continues. It strikes me the US patent office still thinks its 1950 with the US deciding the direction of technological advances. Someone should throw some strong coffee in their faces and wake them up to the reality of the 21st century before they fuck up US industry for good.
(And I'm not a US citizen).
"Electricity is one of those things that can't be stored efficiently when generated"
I guess you've never heard of hydro storage then whereby you pump water up to a lake using spare power and let it flow down during the day when its needed. There are quite a few in the UK.
And in the UK its not cheap so yes, I shut my desktop down when I'm not using it and fully switch off the monitor. Aside from that it has an enviromental benefit downstream at the power station. Sleep mode might not use much power but it still uses some and with all the computers in the world that probably adds up to a lot of CO2 for nothing.
But at least with hiking the payoff is that you get fit.
I've never understood the attraction of eating chillies. It hurts (or is that just me?) so whats pleasant about it? Or is it just macho i-can-eat-more-than-you BS? Is it the same sort of people who do it who visit S&M dungeons because they like the pain?
Come on, Latex was a good if awkward choice when decent word processors and DTP apps couldn't handle scientific notation, but really, those days are long gone. Its 2011 , not 1990. Why go through the pain?
This is a farce. Neither windows, nor linux or OS/X or commodity PC hardware should be let within 100 miles of these systems. Wtf are the military playing at? Is their trillion dollar budget not enough to afford some proper kit and in house software FFS?
Well at least he could foresee what hacks were coming and when!
Couldn't he...? Whaddyamean no?