um actually? no. not all men are created equal. those of african descent are adapted, in theory.. those of us with lighter skin are adapted to cooler climates.. please take your generalizations and your arrogant presumptions and shove them up your ass, thanks.
because people should be able to keep the property they've earned? socialism just ensures that we all live in squalor. Just look at the ex-soviet state lifestyle.. look, I'm no bill gates fan, but the socialist rhetoric spewing forth lately scares me... you don't have a right to another's property without his permission.
yeah well I didn't buy 12GB so that my word processor can take 50-80MB instead of 5-8MB while offering little of value over the old version. using managed runtimes DOES incur a cost, just not one devs seem to care about: the user's time/hardware resources.
As an application user, I find using C/C++ programmed applications over java/.NET because they don't lag and eat tons of ram for their tasks. they really are that much slower.
yeah but when simple applications gobble 50+MB of ram and suffer laggy GUIs on modern desktops, it's unacceptable.. Java and.NET apps are where I see this the most, which makes me avoid them when possible.
usually there are patterns in the filenames and directories that can be regex'd...or if the user's smart about it, he can id the files wanted by pulling the headers/metadata from the files themselves using cmd line tools.. it just depends on the situation. however, if they're all labeled PICTxxx.JPG and a random selection is wanted, it would be about equally tough either way because the bottleneck isn't with the computer, it's with the user's selection process and file management (or lack thereof). he'll have to look at the pictures one at a time to figure out which ones he wants.
right but the pinning is done once.. then it's one click away.. if it's on the start menu, it's two or three clicks.. if you're going all keyboard, then a GUI isn't needed at all..
which is stupid.. it's slower to move the mouse to the menu, then move hand back to keyboard to type.. either use the menu, or use all hotkeys.. search is band-aid for a shitty GUI.
there are things CLI is much more efficient at, and others that a GUI is better for. For the moment, an operating system isn't complete without competent implementations of both. both have binds to the physical realities of user input.. until those change, we'll need both.
My point was that people who do buy beefy machines don't want their hardware sapped by needless abstractions like 'overvirtualization,' whether it be needless 'managed' runtime bloat or guestOS stuff. Unlike protected memory management for applications, I don't think virtualizing the whole OS on workstations gains anyone much, and works against your point about needed hardware for common tasks.
remote ASP based solutions will work in certain situations, but not all of them. I'm not sure I'd want my business's tactical processes dependent on an internet connection for basic services.
why can't I just click an icon in the menu instead of shifting my hand from mouse to keyboard and back? maybe gnome should just delete everything on the desktop except one big search box. idiocy.
if all the user is doing is browsing and text chatting, I'll agree, though it still demands a much beefier machine than what is otherwise required. If the user has a beefy machine for a reason, he'll object to the useless sapping of the extra cpu cycles he bought the hardware for.
1. latency - especially with audio/video/3D/cad or anything else that's shoving gigabyte chunks of data around the system per second or needs as close to instant response as possible. 2. cpu overhead.. it's not a fixed 10%.. it can be as much as 80% depending on what system resources are being called and how rapidly. 3. a driver is a driver.. for every piece of hardware and OS, someone will have to write a driver. what happens when, inevitably, that hypervisor OS is patched/revised in a way that breaks drivers? same old problem all over again. 4. relates to 1 and 2. battery/power consumption.. the overhead doesn't come free.
In fact, the whole hypervisor thing is pitched as a solution to the problems that protected memory management enabled OSs have solved 15 years ago. Hypervisors have their uses and their conveniences, but they're too much of a tradeoff for 'workstation' applications. If security is a concern for a workstation, use a hardened OS.
not when someone points out hypocrisies in a left wing 'social justice' group. Then they dig their heels in as much as the most devout baptist preacher does over evolution.
perhaps, but if the masses are ignorant, the clueful must also submit to the LCD assumption. In this case, if companies are encouraged to make products with firmware like this, it will become impossible to defend personal security once they become the norm.
the problem with climate change (the new leftwing moniker) is that it's been so politically charged as a power/money grab for the left, and as an easy rabidly emotional counter by the right, that it's impossible for the average citizen to get unbiased information. The GOP is right in one area: The scientists themselves are graduating from the ivy leagues, which are heavily dipped in leftwing ideology and groupthink on a variety of issues. While science can eventually prove the truth, I'm afraid their heads are far too deep in the ground to help us before it's too late, assuming the science is sound. This is similar to the way the GOP ties religion to 'correctness' as a means to imply legitimacy it doesn't deserve, and justifies giving it preemptive control over the culture. In contrast the left is treating climate change as a religion. It shouldn't.
Federal ID makes sense if you consider the state as a default benign entity. It's not. It's a bureaucracy made up of people, and like any other group (like a corporation perhaps), coalitions are formed, personality cults are encouraged which result in natural tendencies to attack the rights of the citizens it rules over. These people will look for ANY excuse to grab resources to their own ends. If they can convince you with irrational fear mongering rhetoric that the other side(s) is just flat out wrong just to make you a reliable voter, they'll do it. This is no different than the mentality of advertisers. Of course, you're right about the GOP's stance on it too. Either we have state ID or we don't. That doesn't mean we shouldn't defend our borders, keep illegals out, and reign in H1B programs.
If religious groups can be directed to compromise, then they have no reason for being. The whole point is absolute consistency (note I'm an atheist) of belief because it provides psychological comfort (at the expense of knowledge). While I find faith laughable, I do respect the right of others to believe as they wish. They just shouldn't have the right to dictate that I believe as well. They should also not be immune to critique. In a free society, no one should. Criticism and judgment are key components of discourse, which is something the left is also having more and more trouble with these days (criticizing a non white straight male = 'hate' speech etc). Many leftists would love to see the first amendment curtailed just for these groups!
the fact is, corporal punishment does work.. in the short term, the same way state sponsored censorship works in the short term. in the long term, both create psychological damage, especially when used to silence legitimate questioning or expression. The 'zero tolerance' ideology used today comes straight from interpretations of socialist theory. Both bullies and victims are punished equally..or worse, the kids are taught to run to authority with their conflicts, which then tells them to play patty cake and make up without resolving the underlying issues (which the faculty then ignores). Then 4 years later, a columbine occurs and everyone wonders what happened. The kids should be taught to stand up for themselves. This is how bullies are dealt with, but the left has such an anathema to physical violence which precludes them allowing situations where children learn to grow thicker skins. In fact, most of today's social problems are rooted in the passive aggression caused by this.
The schools' public funding conduits provide easy ways to push ideological agendas down the pipe.. even if the teachers and local staff are honest, the people in washington are not. I certainly don't agree with the GOP in terms of biology, but I don't agree with the left's attempts at brainwashing students (and thus society) into thinking stupid shit like:
1. men are always the aggressors and women are always the victims, that men have sole proprietorship of sexual responsibility, while the women have sole proprietorship of childbirth, 2. the long winded yearly prattling about black and women's history months.. seriousl
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I didn't say white.. I said lighter.
I meant that the increase in resource doesn't scale well with increases in functionality.. there's really no reason gedit should take 20MB..
reread the gp.. it reads like a cpusa flyer..
um actually? no. not all men are created equal. those of african descent are adapted, in theory.. those of us with lighter skin are adapted to cooler climates.. please take your generalizations and your arrogant presumptions and shove them up your ass, thanks.
because people should be able to keep the property they've earned? socialism just ensures that we all live in squalor. Just look at the ex-soviet state lifestyle.. look, I'm no bill gates fan, but the socialist rhetoric spewing forth lately scares me... you don't have a right to another's property without his permission.
she's not a hottie if she's close to his age.
yeah well I didn't buy 12GB so that my word processor can take 50-80MB instead of 5-8MB while offering little of value over the old version. using managed runtimes DOES incur a cost, just not one devs seem to care about: the user's time/hardware resources.
this is the attitude that prevents more and more people from being employed.. I hope they show up at your door and rob you of everything you own.
As an application user, I find using C/C++ programmed applications over java/.NET because they don't lag and eat tons of ram for their tasks. they really are that much slower.
yeah but when simple applications gobble 50+MB of ram and suffer laggy GUIs on modern desktops, it's unacceptable.. Java and .NET apps are where I see this the most, which makes me avoid them when possible.
usually there are patterns in the filenames and directories that can be regex'd...or if the user's smart about it, he can id the files wanted by pulling the headers/metadata from the files themselves using cmd line tools.. it just depends on the situation. however, if they're all labeled PICTxxx.JPG and a random selection is wanted, it would be about equally tough either way because the bottleneck isn't with the computer, it's with the user's selection process and file management (or lack thereof). he'll have to look at the pictures one at a time to figure out which ones he wants.
right but the pinning is done once.. then it's one click away.. if it's on the start menu, it's two or three clicks.. if you're going all keyboard, then a GUI isn't needed at all..
which is stupid.. it's slower to move the mouse to the menu, then move hand back to keyboard to type.. either use the menu, or use all hotkeys.. search is band-aid for a shitty GUI.
there are things CLI is much more efficient at, and others that a GUI is better for. For the moment, an operating system isn't complete without competent implementations of both. both have binds to the physical realities of user input.. until those change, we'll need both.
My point was that people who do buy beefy machines don't want their hardware sapped by needless abstractions like 'overvirtualization,' whether it be needless 'managed' runtime bloat or guestOS stuff. Unlike protected memory management for applications, I don't think virtualizing the whole OS on workstations gains anyone much, and works against your point about needed hardware for common tasks.
I guess I'm one of the few who just customizes the menu so it's actually useful.. when done, it's faster than using search for everything.
remote ASP based solutions will work in certain situations, but not all of them. I'm not sure I'd want my business's tactical processes dependent on an internet connection for basic services.
why can't I just click an icon in the menu instead of shifting my hand from mouse to keyboard and back? maybe gnome should just delete everything on the desktop except one big search box. idiocy.
if all the user is doing is browsing and text chatting, I'll agree, though it still demands a much beefier machine than what is otherwise required. If the user has a beefy machine for a reason, he'll object to the useless sapping of the extra cpu cycles he bought the hardware for.
reasons why this sucks:
1. latency - especially with audio/video/3D/cad or anything else that's shoving gigabyte chunks of data around the system per second or needs as close to instant response as possible.
2. cpu overhead.. it's not a fixed 10%.. it can be as much as 80% depending on what system resources are being called and how rapidly.
3. a driver is a driver.. for every piece of hardware and OS, someone will have to write a driver. what happens when, inevitably, that hypervisor OS is patched/revised in a way that breaks drivers? same old problem all over again.
4. relates to 1 and 2. battery/power consumption.. the overhead doesn't come free.
In fact, the whole hypervisor thing is pitched as a solution to the problems that protected memory management enabled OSs have solved 15 years ago. Hypervisors have their uses and their conveniences, but they're too much of a tradeoff for 'workstation' applications. If security is a concern for a workstation, use a hardened OS.
not when someone points out hypocrisies in a left wing 'social justice' group. Then they dig their heels in as much as the most devout baptist preacher does over evolution.
maybe you don't need a desktop for your work and could make do with a tablet..
perhaps, but if the masses are ignorant, the clueful must also submit to the LCD assumption. In this case, if companies are encouraged to make products with firmware like this, it will become impossible to defend personal security once they become the norm.
the problem with climate change (the new leftwing moniker) is that it's been so politically charged as a power/money grab for the left, and as an easy rabidly emotional counter by the right, that it's impossible for the average citizen to get unbiased information. The GOP is right in one area: The scientists themselves are graduating from the ivy leagues, which are heavily dipped in leftwing ideology and groupthink on a variety of issues. While science can eventually prove the truth, I'm afraid their heads are far too deep in the ground to help us before it's too late, assuming the science is sound. This is similar to the way the GOP ties religion to 'correctness' as a means to imply legitimacy it doesn't deserve, and justifies giving it preemptive control over the culture. In contrast the left is treating climate change as a religion. It shouldn't.
Federal ID makes sense if you consider the state as a default benign entity. It's not. It's a bureaucracy made up of people, and like any other group (like a corporation perhaps), coalitions are formed, personality cults are encouraged which result in natural tendencies to attack the rights of the citizens it rules over. These people will look for ANY excuse to grab resources to their own ends. If they can convince you with irrational fear mongering rhetoric that the other side(s) is just flat out wrong just to make you a reliable voter, they'll do it. This is no different than the mentality of advertisers. Of course, you're right about the GOP's stance on it too. Either we have state ID or we don't. That doesn't mean we shouldn't defend our borders, keep illegals out, and reign in H1B programs.
If religious groups can be directed to compromise, then they have no reason for being. The whole point is absolute consistency (note I'm an atheist) of belief because it provides psychological comfort (at the expense of knowledge). While I find faith laughable, I do respect the right of others to believe as they wish. They just shouldn't have the right to dictate that I believe as well. They should also not be immune to critique. In a free society, no one should. Criticism and judgment are key components of discourse, which is something the left is also having more and more trouble with these days (criticizing a non white straight male = 'hate' speech etc). Many leftists would love to see the first amendment curtailed just for these groups!
the fact is, corporal punishment does work.. in the short term, the same way state sponsored censorship works in the short term. in the long term, both create psychological damage, especially when used to silence legitimate questioning or expression. The 'zero tolerance' ideology used today comes straight from interpretations of socialist theory. Both bullies and victims are punished equally..or worse, the kids are taught to run to authority with their conflicts, which then tells them to play patty cake and make up without resolving the underlying issues (which the faculty then ignores). Then 4 years later, a columbine occurs and everyone wonders what happened. The kids should be taught to stand up for themselves. This is how bullies are dealt with, but the left has such an anathema to physical violence which precludes them allowing situations where children learn to grow thicker skins. In fact, most of today's social problems are rooted in the passive aggression caused by this.
The schools' public funding conduits provide easy ways to push ideological agendas down the pipe.. even if the teachers and local staff are honest, the people in washington are not. I certainly don't agree with the GOP in terms of biology, but I don't agree with the left's attempts at brainwashing students (and thus society) into thinking stupid shit like:
1. men are always the aggressors and women are always the victims, that men have sole proprietorship of sexual responsibility, while the women have sole proprietorship of childbirth,
2. the long winded yearly prattling about black and women's history months.. seriousl
I agree.. right now, both sides are useless. Hell, it's the dynamics created between the parties year after year that will kill this country..