Oh it got better than that. On the very old macs which booted off a floppy - if that floppy was corrupted and the machine crashed you'd have to go find a paperclip to get the damn thing out because resetting the machine was a waste of time - it would just attempt to boot of the disk and crash again. Yeah , well thought out that one Apple.
"The biggest wind potential lies off the nation's Atlantic coast, which the Interior report estimates could produce 1,000 gigawatts of electricity..."...when the wind's blowing. Unfortunately being somewhat fickle it doesn't always do that and when it doesn't you need backup generators. In fact you'd need to backup ALL the wind power generators with equal rating backup systems and since these would probably coal and/or nuclear which can't be started up and shut down on a whim and so need to run 24/7 anyway it makes a mockery of the whole enviromental argument for wind.
And thats before you get into power transmission issues - windy sites generally arn't near big cities.
There are easier ways - passwd -u But a locked down root account clearly shows they're not expecting anyone to do any serious sys admin on it because no one is going to want to type sudo for every single command they need to run under root. Which makes it look ever more like a locked down mickey mouse system for the clueless.
Not all of us use or want to use a linux dist clearly designed for the point-and-click brigade. Not to mention the daft name (no I don't care what it means in Zulu, to an English speaker it sounds idiotic), daft release names, moronic default restrictions (to a power user) such as a locked root account. Perhaps I'm just a crusty old git but anything with release names like "gutsy gibbon" and "intrepid ibex" to me sounds like something aimed at pre teens which makes me wonder what other "user friendly" cutesy rubbish they've hacked into the system itself.
How about some benchmarks of Suse or Fedora or even Slackware?
in fact so many that the choice itself could be the problem. Manufacturers can't see a single other format they could settle on that everyone else will agree to so they choose the lowest common denominator - FAT.
Its limitations are probably just that it doesn't have some obscure functionality someone once wanted. No toolkit is ever going to do everything everyone wants - thats where lower level APIs come into play.
"About the same time, GNOME developers started complaining about the limitations of the GTK+ toolkit with which the desktop is built, and looking for ways around those limitations."
Theres one very simple way around them - get off your lazy backside and go and learn Xlib and extension programming. What do these whingers, sorry "GNOME developers" think is lying underneath all these toolkits FFS?
Well what? They've been standard compiler techniques for as long as I can remember. Isn't a renaissance supposed to be forgotten ideas coming back to life?
"but what exactly are these programs doing which takes such an incredible amount of time before they become useful?"
Generally inefficient and badly writtten code plus the OS having to load layers upon layers of libraries because the programming was too fucking clueless and/or lazy to program anywhere close to the metal. Its not just Windows you see this in - FOSS is full of it too. How many times have you downloaded what should be some utility app only for it to require libholdmyhand.so , libdrawlinesonscreen.so and on and so because the code is a witless code monkey who couldn't hack his way out of a paper bag and used 3rd party libraries to do the simplest things.
In a car? The safety issues with the high pressures required aside , how reliable would this be over the cars lifetime and what would the maintenance costs be? Also I don't see how you can provide 150hp for any useful length of time from a pressure vessel that needs to fit into a sports car chassis. Call me cynical but I'll wait for v2.0 before I part with any cash for something like this.
"disable javascript completely, you wouldn't want to use Firefox because of that? Wow"
Not bright are you. If firefox was new and had some feature I thought was pointless and potentially irritating then yes, I'd probably say I don't want it or see the point of it. Ok? Is your hole deep enough now or do you need a spade?
"me as a Muppet (which doesn't seem to make any sense)"
Oh FFS, its common slang for an idiot in most of the english speaking world.
I don't want a revolutionary new phone - the basic idea of the telephone was got pretty much spot on in the 19th century - talk into mic , listen from earpiece. What I want is a phone service thats reliable , cheap and works in an emergency. What I DO NOT want is a phone service that gives me a friggin "select from the following options" load of BS when I lift up the receiver! I have enough of that crap when phoning help desks. As for listening in when someone leaves a message - wooooo! Someone correct me but I believe you've been able to do that with steam powered cassette based answerphones since the 1970s.
Sorry to point this out but it looks like it already has. Anyway , the russians have always been pretty smart when its come to high speed kit whether it be rocket motors or jet fighters. Look how far ahead of their time the Mig 25 foxbat and Mig 29 fulcrum were/are.
"In the current global climate, there's no point in having nuclear missiles"
Right, because russia isn't being beligerant, Iran isn't keeping up its worn out Death to the USA rhetoric and hasn't just developed a ballistic missle capable of carrying nuclear missiles, various islamic groups arn't trying to obtain fissile material etc etc.
"and are now allies "
Really? Tell that to Georgia (the european country).
"who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us"
Yes, because making a rocket go a few extra thousand miles is such a challenge compared to developing a nuclear bomb.
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Its called gambling.
Umm , most CPUs will happily cache globals as well as stack based locals.
Eon and Eternity are some of the best SF I've ever read.
Oh it got better than that. On the very old macs which booted off a floppy - if that floppy was corrupted and the machine crashed you'd have to go find a paperclip to get the damn thing out because resetting the machine was a waste of time - it would just attempt to boot of the disk and crash again. Yeah , well thought out that one Apple.
"Bullshit, there is always wind somewhere, if a windmill is down, another one will be the backup."
Oh yeah? Want to bet an entire city on that always being the case? Because it'll have to be true 100% of the time, not 99.9999%, 100%
And if you use wind turbines as backups to ther wind turbines then you'll have the damn things all over the place, you won't be able to move for them.
"The biggest wind potential lies off the nation's Atlantic coast, which the Interior report estimates could produce 1,000 gigawatts of electricity ..." ...when the wind's blowing. Unfortunately being somewhat fickle it doesn't always do that and when it doesn't you need backup generators. In fact you'd need to backup ALL the wind power generators with equal rating backup systems and since these would probably coal and/or nuclear which can't be started up and shut down on a whim and so need to run 24/7 anyway it makes a mockery of the whole enviromental argument for wind.
And thats before you get into power transmission issues - windy sites generally arn't near big cities.
So what exactly is special about any of that?
There are easier ways - passwd -u But a locked down root account clearly shows they're not expecting anyone to do any serious sys admin on it because no one is going to want to type sudo for every single command they need to run under root. Which makes it look ever more like a locked down mickey mouse system for the clueless.
Not all of us use or want to use a linux dist clearly designed for the point-and-click brigade. Not to mention the daft name (no I don't care what it means in Zulu, to an English speaker it sounds idiotic), daft release names, moronic default restrictions (to a power user) such as a locked root account. Perhaps I'm just a crusty old git but anything with release names like "gutsy gibbon" and "intrepid ibex" to me sounds like something aimed at pre teens which makes me wonder what other "user friendly" cutesy rubbish they've hacked into the system itself.
How about some benchmarks of Suse or Fedora or even Slackware?
in fact so many that the choice itself could be the problem. Manufacturers can't see a single other format they could settle on that everyone else will agree to so they choose the lowest common denominator - FAT.
Its limitations are probably just that it doesn't have some obscure functionality someone once wanted. No toolkit is ever going to do everything everyone wants - thats where lower level APIs come into play.
FTA:
"About the same time, GNOME developers started complaining about the limitations of the GTK+ toolkit with which the desktop is built, and looking for ways around those limitations."
Theres one very simple way around them - get off your lazy backside and go and learn Xlib and extension programming. What do these whingers, sorry "GNOME developers" think is lying underneath all these toolkits FFS?
Well what? They've been standard compiler techniques for as long as I can remember. Isn't a renaissance supposed to be forgotten ideas coming back to life?
"LLVM supports effective optimization at compile time, link-time (particularly interprocedural), run-time"
Amazing, truly unique ideas. If only someone had thought of doing this 30 years ago... oh wait...
"but what exactly are these programs doing which takes such an incredible amount of time before they become useful?"
Generally inefficient and badly writtten code plus the OS having to load layers upon layers of libraries because the programming was too fucking clueless and/or lazy to program anywhere close to the metal. Its not just Windows you see this in - FOSS is full of it too. How many times have you downloaded what should be some utility app only for it to require libholdmyhand.so , libdrawlinesonscreen.so and on and so because the code is a witless code monkey who couldn't hack his way out of a paper bag and used 3rd party libraries to do the simplest things.
In a car? The safety issues with the high pressures required aside , how reliable would this be over the cars lifetime and what would the maintenance costs be? Also I don't see how you can provide 150hp for any useful length of time from a pressure vessel that needs to fit into a sports car chassis. Call me cynical but I'll wait for v2.0 before I part with any cash for something like this.
"disable javascript completely, you wouldn't want to use Firefox because of that? Wow"
Not bright are you. If firefox was new and had some feature I thought was pointless and potentially irritating then yes, I'd probably say I don't want it or see the point of it. Ok? Is your hole deep enough now or do you need a spade?
"me as a Muppet (which doesn't seem to make any sense)"
Oh FFS, its common slang for an idiot in most of the english speaking world.
"yet you didn't seem to know it said that."
Which bit of "I don't want" means "I don't realise they're optional"??
Muppet.
Right, I never RTFA , I'm just clairevoyant and just magically knew it mentioned the options when you lifted the phone.
Muppet.
I don't want a revolutionary new phone - the basic idea of the telephone was got pretty much spot on in the 19th century - talk into mic , listen from earpiece. What I want is a phone service thats reliable , cheap and works in an emergency. What I DO NOT want is a phone service that gives me a friggin "select from the following options" load of BS when I lift up the receiver! I have enough of that crap when phoning help desks. As for listening in when someone leaves a message - wooooo! Someone correct me but I believe you've been able to do that with steam powered cassette based answerphones since the 1970s.
*sigh* Or even Pacman. If only typos could be made a thing of the past too...
What , you mean we should go back to the complex narrative of Pacmac for example? :)
After the ossetians spend how many months shelling georgia?
Sorry to point this out but it looks like it already has. Anyway , the russians have always been pretty smart when its come to high speed kit whether it be rocket motors or jet fighters. Look how far ahead of their time the Mig 25 foxbat and Mig 29 fulcrum were/are.
"In the current global climate, there's no point in having nuclear missiles"
Right, because russia isn't being beligerant, Iran isn't keeping up its worn out Death to the USA rhetoric and hasn't just developed a ballistic missle capable of carrying nuclear missiles, various islamic groups arn't trying to obtain fissile material etc etc.
"and are now allies "
Really? Tell that to Georgia (the european country).
"who are hostile and nuclear capable can't reach us"
Yes, because making a rocket go a few extra thousand miles is such a challenge compared to developing a nuclear bomb.