Well, *every single pistol* falls firmly into the "semi-auto" territory. You want to ban all pistols? Good luck with that. Since you cannot ban semi-auto firearms, clearly you have to ban everything that takes a detachable magazine, which is still almost every single semi-auto firearm. Well, clearly that won't work. We can't ban uncle Fred's deer gun. Hmmm. Let's just ban the ones that look evil. It won't really accomplish anything, but it will look like we do something.
I am sorry, but "common sense" when it comes to guns is anything but common if you don't know something about firearms. This is like asking the government to make laws concerning the internet when they really do not know enough about it -- just like SOPA. I am sure that the congressmen who tried to push SOPA thought that they were doing something that was "common sense" and the right thing.
The AR-15 fires ONE bullet each time you pull the trigger -- just like any semi-automatic firearm. If you compare the AR-15 to a semi-auto.223 hunting rifle, they are functionally IDENTICAL! But, the AR-15 is black and had handles, so it MUST BE EVIL (insert cackling laugh). I don't know about you, but if somebody were shooting at me, I would be a LOT more worried about the bullets, and I would not care whether the gun has a handle or what color it is.
Really, the ONLY thing about an any sort of ban that makes any sort of sense is limiting magazine size, but since a magazine swap takes about three seconds, even that will not stop a determined criminal.
and any hint of putting more procedure between "I want a gun" and "Here is your gun" is treated like the world's greatest evil.
We already have a background check. I would not mind requiring any first-time purchaser to take a manditory safety class. Beyond that, what more "procedure" do you think that we need?
Now, see... if he'd just gone and written a microkernel in ther first place, we could support multiple processor architectures with a single codetree anyway....
Well, Linus went with a monolithic kernel, but others already HAVE made a microkernel. Every heard of Hurd? I understand that, after only 20 years of development, it will go stable any year now.
So, how many 386 computers actually have enough RAM to handle a modern kernel?
The size of the kernel had certainly bloated with module & stuff. Yes, I am aware that you COULD custom-compile a kernel with just what you need, but would that even fit in 32Mb RAM (probably a pretty good amount of memory when the 386 was king)?
Are you serious? Let's assume that the head really IS heavier on some drives. My question is: so what? If you are ripping a CD, or a DVD, then the head is moving very slowly. There is no random seeking going with a read. Once you read sector X, the next thing you read is X+1. Please tell me how the size of the head makes one whit of difference in a situation like this...
EAC *IS* a great program, but still not anywhere NEAR being considered fast. One thing that annoys me is that it rips a track, compresses it, and does not even begin the next rip until the last track is compressed. Ever heard of "multitasking?" I am pretty sure that my computer could handle a rip and a compress at the same time.
First of all, you have to keep in mind the intended use. A calculator is a tool for doing math. Period. How much space do you need for that? I added some very cool stuff to my old HP-48, which only had 32K. For math stuff, you simply do not need a lot of extra space. A few megs seems like overkill.
A calculator is NOT a PDA. A PDA has always been intended to be more of a general-purpose device. While phone numbers and appointments were the strong point of a PDA, word processors, spreadsheets, and games have always been in the picture. Calculators, on the other hand, anre not designed for games and word processing. If that is the sort of stuff that you want, just buy a tablet instead and throw a $5 calculator app on there.
You always have to keep in mind the intended usage. Even the cheapest graphic calculator has more memory than my digital wristwatch (and I am primitive enough to still think that digital wristwatches are a good idea). I would argue that my watch has enough memory to do its job, and really does not need more -- just like calculators.
OK. Let me modify that. Memory for the sake of memory is not really a necessary. If you stuff a calculator full of memory and put more advanced math stuff in there (like a mini-matlab or mini-mathemtica), then that is probably a good idea, but if you are doing a lot of symbolic stuff, you probably need a rea; alphabetic keyboard -- which means computer or tablet anyways.
In my current career (ASIC design), I very seldom need a calculator. But, if I DID need one, an HP48 (or an Android simulation) would be my 1st choice. Nothing can ever replace RPN.
Well, you have similar problems with sockets. I have not really turned a motherboard over to examine the soldering, but I am pretty sure that LGA sockets are surface-mount. Having a PGA that dense would be suicide. Also, soldering high-density BGA packages is really not a problem these days. All laptops have soldered-down CPUs.
Yes, this is technically true. AMD has done a fairly decent job of sticking with a socket longer than AMD.... BUT.... Most "enthusiasts" want the latest shinies: latest USB, lasest SATA, PCI flavor, etc. I suspect that the person who pops a new processor in a three-year-old MOBO are a tiny minority.
Also, soldering the CPU directly on the board saves the rather complicated (and I assume expensive) socket. I do not know what the cost difference is between LGA and BGA, though. I would suspect not much.
I certainly agree with this. If the CPU/Mobo are a pair, it WILL make it a little bit more expensive to upgrade, but then again, that is what craigslist is for. Want a new processor, sell the old mobo/CPU pair for a good price and go ahead and upgrade. I only upgrade every couple of years. By the time I am ready for a new CPU, it already has a new socket associated with it.
This might hurt the guys who upgrade every 3 months. For the rest of us, not a big deal.
Ohhh. OK. Thanks. I was not aware that the upgrade was for the pro version. I might just have to give it a try. Worst case if I don't like it is that I have to re-format and re-install W7.
I know all about VLC. I kind of prefer Windows Meda Center UI to VLC.
And as to the other link, instead of upgrading for $15, I have to upgrade for $40 to get 8-pro in order to get the software that comes for free with Window 7 Home Premium. No thanks.
I chose VirtualBox for use at my office -- for one simple reason: the ability to run it as a server.
First, I run Linux on my desktop at work, but I have a Windows 7 VM running in the background.
For desktop applications where you will always have a GUI up, either one is just fine (VirtualBox or VMware Player), and I doubt that you would be able to tell much difference between them -- both are really about the same to install and set up.
On the other hand, if you want to be able to have teh Windows VM start up whenever you power on your Linux box, VirtualBox has a headless mode that works great. I can then use rdesktop to fire up a windows screen from any machine on the network, or use remote desktop from any Windows box. I had to do a little digging in the manuals and make a couple of scripts to get everything to work the way I wanted it to, but I am quite happy now.
VMWare Player, on the other hand, will only run if you active have the GUI up an running -- which means that you have to be logged in. This was the deal breaker for me.
There is also VMWare Server, which is an entirely different beast. That WILL let you run machines in the background, but it is not free, and the GUI is considerably more complicated. It is really intended for a rack-mount server hosting a dozen virtual machines, so it is really a LOT more complicated than it needs to be for somebody playing around with another OS.
This is my experience running on a Red Hat 6 box. If you use Windows as a host, your mileage may vary.
Maybe true, but I did read TFA, and I think that the point is that any language that almost forces you to use and IDE is doing something wrong.
For the record, my primary languages are Verilog and Perl (plus TCL if I am forced to), so I really do not use any OO languages. But I still read these articles with facination.
I have seen this before -- good word, IF you are using old-fashioned mechanical drives. S.M.A.R.T has a couple of things about it -- I have heard that sometimes it tends to fib -- manufacturers do not want people to think that their drives are bad. The other big thing is that S.M.A.R.T. was invented BEFORE SSD drives became commercially viable.
I have approximately 0% experience with SSD drives. You said ~5 blocks is a death rattle. Is this the sort of thing that S.M.A.R.T. can detect, or do you have to use special SSD monitoring software? In short: how do you detect this condition?
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Well, *every single pistol* falls firmly into the "semi-auto" territory. You want to ban all pistols? Good luck with that. Since you cannot ban semi-auto firearms, clearly you have to ban everything that takes a detachable magazine, which is still almost every single semi-auto firearm. Well, clearly that won't work. We can't ban uncle Fred's deer gun. Hmmm. Let's just ban the ones that look evil. It won't really accomplish anything, but it will look like we do something.
I am sorry, but "common sense" when it comes to guns is anything but common if you don't know something about firearms. This is like asking the government to make laws concerning the internet when they really do not know enough about it -- just like SOPA. I am sure that the congressmen who tried to push SOPA thought that they were doing something that was "common sense" and the right thing.
For the record, please define "assault weapon."
The AR-15 fires ONE bullet each time you pull the trigger -- just like any semi-automatic firearm. If you compare the AR-15 to a semi-auto .223 hunting rifle, they are functionally IDENTICAL! But, the AR-15 is black and had handles, so it MUST BE EVIL (insert cackling laugh). I don't know about you, but if somebody were shooting at me, I would be a LOT more worried about the bullets, and I would not care whether the gun has a handle or what color it is.
Really, the ONLY thing about an any sort of ban that makes any sort of sense is limiting magazine size, but since a magazine swap takes about three seconds, even that will not stop a determined criminal.
We already have a background check. I would not mind requiring any first-time purchaser to take a manditory safety class. Beyond that, what more "procedure" do you think that we need?
I'm sorry. I though that we were talking about Linux, which is open-source, so I mentioned the only open-source microkernel OS that I know of.
QNX is NOT open-source.
Well, Linus went with a monolithic kernel, but others already HAVE made a microkernel. Every heard of Hurd? I understand that, after only 20 years of development, it will go stable any year now.
So, how many 386 computers actually have enough RAM to handle a modern kernel?
The size of the kernel had certainly bloated with module & stuff. Yes, I am aware that you COULD custom-compile a kernel with just what you need, but would that even fit in 32Mb RAM (probably a pretty good amount of memory when the 386 was king)?
In the jpegs, the girl will be simultaneously clothed and nude at the same time.
Are you serious? Let's assume that the head really IS heavier on some drives. My question is: so what? If you are ripping a CD, or a DVD, then the head is moving very slowly. There is no random seeking going with a read. Once you read sector X, the next thing you read is X+1. Please tell me how the size of the head makes one whit of difference in a situation like this...
EAC *IS* a great program, but still not anywhere NEAR being considered fast. One thing that annoys me is that it rips a track, compresses it, and does not even begin the next rip until the last track is compressed. Ever heard of "multitasking?" I am pretty sure that my computer could handle a rip and a compress at the same time.
Reliving history? How so?
First of all, you have to keep in mind the intended use. A calculator is a tool for doing math. Period. How much space do you need for that? I added some very cool stuff to my old HP-48, which only had 32K. For math stuff, you simply do not need a lot of extra space. A few megs seems like overkill.
A calculator is NOT a PDA. A PDA has always been intended to be more of a general-purpose device. While phone numbers and appointments were the strong point of a PDA, word processors, spreadsheets, and games have always been in the picture. Calculators, on the other hand, anre not designed for games and word processing. If that is the sort of stuff that you want, just buy a tablet instead and throw a $5 calculator app on there.
You always have to keep in mind the intended usage. Even the cheapest graphic calculator has more memory than my digital wristwatch (and I am primitive enough to still think that digital wristwatches are a good idea). I would argue that my watch has enough memory to do its job, and really does not need more -- just like calculators.
OK. Let me modify that. Memory for the sake of memory is not really a necessary. If you stuff a calculator full of memory and put more advanced math stuff in there (like a mini-matlab or mini-mathemtica), then that is probably a good idea, but if you are doing a lot of symbolic stuff, you probably need a rea; alphabetic keyboard -- which means computer or tablet anyways.
In my current career (ASIC design), I very seldom need a calculator. But, if I DID need one, an HP48 (or an Android simulation) would be my 1st choice. Nothing can ever replace RPN.
Well, you have similar problems with sockets. I have not really turned a motherboard over to examine the soldering, but I am pretty sure that LGA sockets are surface-mount. Having a PGA that dense would be suicide. Also, soldering high-density BGA packages is really not a problem these days. All laptops have soldered-down CPUs.
Then AMD gets a lot of enthusiast dollars!
Yes, this is technically true. AMD has done a fairly decent job of sticking with a socket longer than AMD.... BUT.... Most "enthusiasts" want the latest shinies: latest USB, lasest SATA, PCI flavor, etc. I suspect that the person who pops a new processor in a three-year-old MOBO are a tiny minority.
Also, soldering the CPU directly on the board saves the rather complicated (and I assume expensive) socket. I do not know what the cost difference is between LGA and BGA, though. I would suspect not much.
I certainly agree with this. If the CPU/Mobo are a pair, it WILL make it a little bit more expensive to upgrade, but then again, that is what craigslist is for. Want a new processor, sell the old mobo/CPU pair for a good price and go ahead and upgrade. I only upgrade every couple of years. By the time I am ready for a new CPU, it already has a new socket associated with it.
This might hurt the guys who upgrade every 3 months. For the rest of us, not a big deal.
Ohhh. OK. Thanks. I was not aware that the upgrade was for the pro version. I might just have to give it a try. Worst case if I don't like it is that I have to re-format and re-install W7.
I know all about VLC. I kind of prefer Windows Meda Center UI to VLC.
And as to the other link, instead of upgrading for $15, I have to upgrade for $40 to get 8-pro in order to get the software that comes for free with Window 7 Home Premium. No thanks.
I was tempted to jump on the $15 upgrade to Windows 8, but two things killed it for me:
* Ripped out DVD playback (duh, how dumb is that).
* Ripped out Media Center.
Yup, upgrading from 7 to 8 would cost $15, and take away two features that are important to me. Good move, Microsoft!
I chose VirtualBox for use at my office -- for one simple reason: the ability to run it as a server.
First, I run Linux on my desktop at work, but I have a Windows 7 VM running in the background.
For desktop applications where you will always have a GUI up, either one is just fine (VirtualBox or VMware Player), and I doubt that you would be able to tell much difference between them -- both are really about the same to install and set up.
On the other hand, if you want to be able to have teh Windows VM start up whenever you power on your Linux box, VirtualBox has a headless mode that works great. I can then use rdesktop to fire up a windows screen from any machine on the network, or use remote desktop from any Windows box. I had to do a little digging in the manuals and make a couple of scripts to get everything to work the way I wanted it to, but I am quite happy now.
VMWare Player, on the other hand, will only run if you active have the GUI up an running -- which means that you have to be logged in. This was the deal breaker for me.
There is also VMWare Server, which is an entirely different beast. That WILL let you run machines in the background, but it is not free, and the GUI is considerably more complicated. It is really intended for a rack-mount server hosting a dozen virtual machines, so it is really a LOT more complicated than it needs to be for somebody playing around with another OS.
This is my experience running on a Red Hat 6 box. If you use Windows as a host, your mileage may vary.
I visited Disneyland a little over a year ago. While there, I happened upon Muppets Star Wars figures, which you can find http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Tours-Muppets-Collectible/dp/B001DSAEH2/ That looks pretty close, with Miss Piggy as Leia.
Maybe true, but I did read TFA, and I think that the point is that any language that almost forces you to use and IDE is doing something wrong.
For the record, my primary languages are Verilog and Perl (plus TCL if I am forced to), so I really do not use any OO languages. But I still read these articles with facination.
I have seen this before -- good word, IF you are using old-fashioned mechanical drives. S.M.A.R.T has a couple of things about it -- I have heard that sometimes it tends to fib -- manufacturers do not want people to think that their drives are bad. The other big thing is that S.M.A.R.T. was invented BEFORE SSD drives became commercially viable.
I have approximately 0% experience with SSD drives. You said ~5 blocks is a death rattle. Is this the sort of thing that S.M.A.R.T. can detect, or do you have to use special SSD monitoring software? In short: how do you detect this condition?
Funny. She doesn't look Druish.
Michael Bay? Pfffff. Uwe Boll is and always will be the best!