Citation please. Almost all batteries can be recycled to some extend and the only truly dangerous types are nickel cadmium because of the cadmium , but that type of battery is falling out of favour anyway.
Don't be naive. How hard do you think it is for them to trace an IP address? It doesn't matter how many hops you do , they only need to monitor the connections from your machine and what you're downloading.
Autoraties know they can't block P2P systems , so they monitor them instead. Don't think P2P is a get out of jail free card, more like a get into jail with the book being thrown in after you.
Blame it on all the women behind the scenes who come up with this stuff. They're all on hormonal autopilot and rarely engage their brains for anything.
He has a valid point though - this to me just seems to be technology for its own sake rather than some actual practical use - even as entertainment its a gag that'll wear very thin after about 30 secs.
I happen to know someone who worked at Airbus in the 90s. Lets just say the early software had a few bugs that needed to be ironed out. But of course its far easier to blame the pilot in a rigged trial than ruin a large proportion of the european aircraft manufacturing industry.
Sometimes people rationalise things correctly. I've been in 4 car crashes in my life , 2 were my fault, 2 weren't. I'm still here uninjured to write about them. What are the chances I'd still be alive if I'd been involved in 4 plane crashes? Pretty damn close to zero I'd say.
.. this wouldn't have been a sidebar on page 5 of most papers. There would be 200 dead people lying in pieces near perth. Any computer malfunction which causes an aircraft to nosedive 650 feet in seconds is a VERY serious bug.
I've never come across an assembler instruction named "BNE". In x86 its "jne" and in Z80 IIRC its "jr". So save the patronising for someone who didn't do real assembler and keep your dumb made up opcodes to yourself.
... its used in niche areas (yes , games are a niche compared to the rest of the computing world) and its reach is microscopic in comparison to other scripting languages. As for its use in embedded devices, yeah right, name some.
Stop trying to appear clever by using acronyms no one understands.
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So you start off with a mess and end up with a bit less of a mess. Yes you could do that. The other issue is that many distributions have their own build options so just dumping/proc/config.gz into the default source tree doesn't always work.
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If you do that why bother building your own FFS? The whole point of builing your own is to get a lean efficient kernel, not one that has everything including the sink bundled in plus hundreds of modules to build after.
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The pentium bug didn't have a spec for it either. And why would you have to reverse engineer windows? You just study the way the hardware operates as has been done for every other bit of hardware that the manufacturer couldn't be arsed to release a spec for.
Thats all very well in theory...
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.. but in practice the OS has to deal with hardware in the real world. If the hardware is consistently off spec in a consistent way and Windows can handle this, then I don't see any reason why Linux can't handle it too. Just huffing and puffing about specs helps no one. Besides , its been done for other dodgy hardware in the past such as the pentium bug so whats the big deal with ACPI?
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Last time I looked about 9 months ago there were well over 3000 build options for the 2.6 kernel. Thats probably gone up a lot. I used to build my own kernels , anything up to 2.4 was do-able. But 2.6 is so complex with so many options which frankly mean nothing to me , that you would end up with a right dogs dinner thats far worse than anything the distributions could produce and you'll probably find you missed out some important functionality and/or dependency for something to work correctly and have to start again.
I mean really , Linux getting used for some large public function might have been news back in 1998 , but whats the big deal in 2008? Some stories about some unusual OS's being used in unusual situations , say CP/M still controlling a nuclear reactor , now THAT would be interesting. Linux gets used in voting system? ZZZzzzz......
Theres a difference between something still being around (friends reunited is still around FFS) but thats rather different to it being a major attractor of the web. Give it another few years when something better has come along and Facebook will be another footnote in web history.
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Citation please. Almost all batteries can be recycled to some extend and the only truly dangerous types are nickel cadmium because of the cadmium , but that type of battery is falling out of favour anyway.
Don't be naive. How hard do you think it is for them to trace an IP address? It doesn't matter how many hops you do , they only need to monitor the connections from your machine and what you're downloading.
Autoraties know they can't block P2P systems , so they monitor them instead. Don't think P2P is a get out of jail free card, more like a get into jail with the book being thrown in after you.
Blame it on all the women behind the scenes who come up with this stuff. They're all on hormonal autopilot and rarely engage their brains for anything.
He has a valid point though - this to me just seems to be technology for its own sake rather than some actual practical use - even as entertainment its a gag that'll wear very thin after about 30 secs.
Seems pointless to me but each to their own.
Yeah , because there'll be confidential files lying around that you can google for and disprove an entire trial.
This crash was in 1988. Don't you think they might have fixed that bug by now?
I happen to know someone who worked at Airbus in the 90s. Lets just say the early software had a few bugs that needed to be ironed out. But of course its far easier to blame the pilot in a rigged trial than ruin a large proportion of the european aircraft manufacturing industry.
Sometimes people rationalise things correctly. I've been in 4 car crashes in my life , 2 were my fault, 2 weren't. I'm still here uninjured to write about them. What are the chances I'd still be alive if I'd been involved in 4 plane crashes? Pretty damn close to zero I'd say.
Oh yes there have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296
And don't retort with that old guff about it being the pilots fault.
.. this wouldn't have been a sidebar on page 5 of most papers. There would be 200 dead people lying in pieces near perth. Any computer malfunction which causes an aircraft to nosedive 650 feet in seconds is a VERY serious bug.
Btw loser , I've karma to burn , so keep getting your sad little friends to mod me flamebait and see where it gets you.
"The assembler is the program that converts the assembly into binary."
No shit, you look that up in Google too?
I've never come across an assembler instruction named "BNE". In x86 its "jne" and in Z80 IIRC its "jr". So save the patronising for someone who didn't do real assembler and keep your dumb made up opcodes to yourself.
"BNE = Branch No Equals"
In what assembler exactly? In X86 I think you'll find its called "jne"
"P.S: I'm assuming psuedo-assembler here,"
Oh thats alright then , just chuck out some pseudo code your lecturer in Obscure University made up, silly me , why didn't I know that.
... its used in niche areas (yes , games are a niche compared to the rest of the computing world) and its reach is microscopic in comparison to other scripting languages. As for its use in embedded devices, yeah right, name some.
Stop trying to appear clever by using acronyms no one understands.
So you start off with a mess and end up with a bit less of a mess. Yes you could do that. The other issue is that many distributions have their own build options so just dumping /proc/config.gz into the default source tree doesn't always work.
If you do that why bother building your own FFS? The whole point of builing your own is to get a lean efficient kernel, not one that has everything including the sink bundled in plus hundreds of modules to build after.
The pentium bug didn't have a spec for it either. And why would you have to reverse engineer windows? You just study the way the hardware operates as has been done for every other bit of hardware that the manufacturer couldn't be arsed to release a spec for.
.. but in practice the OS has to deal with hardware in the real world. If the hardware is consistently off spec in a consistent way and Windows can handle this, then I don't see any reason why Linux can't handle it too. Just huffing and puffing about specs helps no one. Besides , its been done for other dodgy hardware in the past such as the pentium bug so whats the big deal with ACPI?
Last time I looked about 9 months ago there were well over 3000 build options for the 2.6 kernel. Thats probably gone up a lot. I used to build my own kernels , anything up to 2.4 was do-able. But 2.6 is so complex with so many options which frankly mean nothing to me , that you would end up with a right dogs dinner thats far worse than anything the distributions could produce and you'll probably find you missed out some important functionality and/or dependency for something to work correctly and have to start again.
I mean really , Linux getting used for some large public function might have been news back in 1998 , but whats the big deal in 2008? Some stories about some unusual OS's being used in unusual situations , say CP/M still controlling a nuclear reactor , now THAT would be interesting. Linux gets used in voting system? ZZZzzzz......
Theres a difference between something still being around (friends reunited is still around FFS) but thats rather different to it being a major attractor of the web. Give it another few years when something better has come along and Facebook will be another footnote in web history.