Fighting poverty would require such things like raising the minimum wage to something you can live off of (this just failed to happen in DC, for people employed by major retailers like Walmart)
So you're going to 'fight poverty' by increasing the labour cost in the stores where poor people shop, so those poor people will have to pay more for the things they buy there, in order to fund those increased wages.
I think you mean a War against the Poor, aka the War on Drugs. A war on poverty would include things like access to healthcare, or equalizing education funds for schools, or job training, or any attempt to make folks other than entertainers famous.
You don't know much about American history, do you?
Windows also has 64-bit builds. Either you're retarded and can't find any or you're trolling. Get a grip.
I have no idea. I just know Windows users keep complaining that Firefox is only 32-bit, whereas I've been running 64-bit Firefox on Linux since at least 2008.
I can't help it that Windows is crippled by backward compatibility and closed source applications.
Would you please switch to 64-bit already? It's the year 2013, no one who uses the newest Firefox has a 32-bit system anymore, and it's not possible in practice to fix crashes due to running out of memory in C/C++.
If you were using a real operating system, you could have been running 64-bit Firefox for five years or more. It's only people running an old clunker like Windows who are mostly stuck running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS.
Indeed. They've basically re-implemented the amazing idea of running multiple applications on one machine with a security layer to stop them from interfering with each other.
If they don't have any real security inside the VM, they might as well just get rid of it. The underlying OS will probably be Linux anyway, so they're trusting Linux security in the first place.
Where are they "badmouthing" Linux? All they said was that Linux is over-kill for running a single application within a VM.
Considering we used to run Linux and our applications in 32MB of RAM and 64MB of Flash in embedded systems, I have a hard time seeing Linux as over-kill for running anything in a VM. The application will probably require more RAM and CPU than the kernel.
Mandatory xorg.conf went away a few years ago. You can still tweak parameters with one if you want to. Are you suggesting removing the ability to tweak it?
Must be a Gnome developer. Configurability confuses users, so we make make them write 'extensions' in Javascript instead, etc.
GM wants to make cars that people want to buy. Most people don't want to buy electric cars that are twice the cost of a Civic and can only drive a couple of hundred miles before they have to stop for an hour to 'refuel'.
But they would be lease only, GM would refuse to sell them to anyone and then they would for no reason take them all back and destroy them.
Sure, if you live in Hippie Fantasy World.
In the real world, the EV1 was hugely expensive, the lease didn't even begin to pay for the cost of the car, and GM had very good reasons to trash them when it decided to scrap the program.
I read an article (can't remember where), saying that companies are actually FORBIDING their employees from checking the patent database, just in case they find out that another patent might perhaps cover something they are working on.
Yes. In my previous job, we weren't allowed to read patents for that reason.
I wonder why booting is the ultimate test of your pc?
'Cause, uh, the OP said 'Anyone who isnt using a SSD by now for at least their boot drive is stuck in the past.'
See. BOOT DISK. The disk you BOOT from.
If you actually DO anything other than start firefox once a day or something. It's a HUGE speedup. Huge.
I got 32GB of RAM. After a few days, anything worth running is in the disk cache for the next few months until it's rebooted.
Seriously, buy a real PC and you won't make silly comments about 'an SSD is the best upgrade EVAH!' any more. It was a great upgrade for a our netbook, because we're often booting it to check a web page and shut it down. It's not a great upgrade for a PC with lots of RAM that's booted every few months.
Even on Windows it's easy to move "My Documents" off of C:.
Uh, no, it's not.
Kludgily moving some files out of there to a different drive is easy enough, but getting the whole user tree onto another drive is a huge pain; I had to boot into some special hidden mode during the Windows install to do it. And some programs still continue to write to the C: drive regardless.
Call me back when the a version not running an Atom CPU. For $400, you can easily get yourself a notebook with a *real* quad core and 4 GiB of RAM.
And two hours of battery life.
I was looking at potential netbook replacements recently, and there certainly were a number of non-Atom options in the $400-600 price range, but according to the reviews, if you actually tried to use the CPU power, it overheated due to the small form factor and throttled back, and still sucked the battery dry very quickly.
But you don't have to actually use Metro to get things done. The normal desktop is still there, and if you start typing in Metro, then what you are looking for quickly pops up in a search result.
If I wanted to type to run programs, I wouldn't be using a fscking GUI.
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Fighting poverty would require such things like raising the minimum wage to something you can live off of (this just failed to happen in DC, for people employed by major retailers like Walmart)
So you're going to 'fight poverty' by increasing the labour cost in the stores where poor people shop, so those poor people will have to pay more for the things they buy there, in order to fund those increased wages.
That's why the left can't have nice things.
I think you mean a War against the Poor, aka the War on Drugs. A war on poverty would include things like access to healthcare, or equalizing education funds for schools, or job training, or any attempt to make folks other than entertainers famous.
You don't know much about American history, do you?
You do realise that poverty will never go away, because 'poverty' is defined as being some level below the mean or median income?
America has been fighting a 'War on Poverty' since the 60s, and it's been a dismal failure for that very reason.
Windows also has 64-bit builds. Either you're retarded and can't find any or you're trolling. Get a grip.
I have no idea. I just know Windows users keep complaining that Firefox is only 32-bit, whereas I've been running 64-bit Firefox on Linux since at least 2008.
I can't help it that Windows is crippled by backward compatibility and closed source applications.
Would you please switch to 64-bit already? It's the year 2013, no one who uses the newest Firefox has a 32-bit system anymore, and it's not possible in practice to fix crashes due to running out of memory in C/C++.
If you were using a real operating system, you could have been running 64-bit Firefox for five years or more. It's only people running an old clunker like Windows who are mostly stuck running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS.
Netbooks tended to be 32-bit because (due to Windows license pricing) they shipped with less than 4 GB of RAM.
Netbooks tendded to be 32-bit because the cheap Atoms used in netbooks were 32-bit only.
Indeed. They've basically re-implemented the amazing idea of running multiple applications on one machine with a security layer to stop them from interfering with each other.
If they don't have any real security inside the VM, they might as well just get rid of it. The underlying OS will probably be Linux anyway, so they're trusting Linux security in the first place.
Where are they "badmouthing" Linux? All they said was that Linux is over-kill for running a single application within a VM.
Considering we used to run Linux and our applications in 32MB of RAM and 64MB of Flash in embedded systems, I have a hard time seeing Linux as over-kill for running anything in a VM. The application will probably require more RAM and CPU than the kernel.
Mandatory xorg.conf went away a few years ago. You can still tweak parameters with one if you want to. Are you suggesting removing the ability to tweak it?
Must be a Gnome developer. Configurability confuses users, so we make make them write 'extensions' in Javascript instead, etc.
GM wants to make cars that people want to buy. Most people don't want to buy electric cars that are twice the cost of a Civic and can only drive a couple of hundred miles before they have to stop for an hour to 'refuel'.
But they would be lease only, GM would refuse to sell them to anyone and then they would for no reason take them all back and destroy them.
Sure, if you live in Hippie Fantasy World.
In the real world, the EV1 was hugely expensive, the lease didn't even begin to pay for the cost of the car, and GM had very good reasons to trash them when it decided to scrap the program.
By God, you're right! No-one could possibly lend money or invest without banks!
I read an article (can't remember where), saying that companies are actually FORBIDING their employees from checking the patent database, just in case they find out that another patent might perhaps cover something they are working on.
Yes. In my previous job, we weren't allowed to read patents for that reason.
There's a reason people back up data rather than relying on data recovery on a broken drive.
You must know different people to the ones I know.
I wonder why booting is the ultimate test of your pc?
'Cause, uh, the OP said 'Anyone who isnt using a SSD by now for at least their boot drive is stuck in the past.'
See. BOOT DISK. The disk you BOOT from.
If you actually DO anything other than start firefox once a day or something. It's a HUGE speedup. Huge.
I got 32GB of RAM. After a few days, anything worth running is in the disk cache for the next few months until it's rebooted.
Seriously, buy a real PC and you won't make silly comments about 'an SSD is the best upgrade EVAH!' any more. It was a great upgrade for a our netbook, because we're often booting it to check a web page and shut it down. It's not a great upgrade for a PC with lots of RAM that's booted every few months.
And since in C++ linking is the slowest part by FAR on rotating disks, SSD offers an immense benefit.
How?
You've just built those files, so they're sitting in the disk cache. Is writing out the linked file really that slow?
Oh, hang on, you're compiling in Windows. Doing a clean build of our C++ source tree in Linux, we spend about 99% compiling and 1% linking.
Even on Windows it's easy to move "My Documents" off of C:.
Uh, no, it's not.
Kludgily moving some files out of there to a different drive is easy enough, but getting the whole user tree onto another drive is a huge pain; I had to boot into some special hidden mode during the Windows install to do it. And some programs still continue to write to the C: drive regardless.
RAM disks are for compiling? how small are you projects?
How big are yours, if the generated files won't fit in a few gigabytes of RAM?
Because the compiler spends most of its time waiting on disk IO, reading and writing all those intermediate files.
That's why smart people put any intermediate files in a RAM disk.
Anyone who isnt using a SSD by now for at least their boot drive is stuck in the past.
I boot my work PC about every two months.
It's the single best upgrade you can make anymore.
If you spend all day just booting your PC. Otherwise, a faster CPU or GPU or more RAM is likely to be far more useful.
11" display, SSD, running a cut-down Linux, intended primarily for use when connected to the Internet.
Hang on. Didn't we used to call these netbooks?
Call me back when the a version not running an Atom CPU. For $400, you can easily get yourself a notebook with a *real* quad core and 4 GiB of RAM.
And two hours of battery life.
I was looking at potential netbook replacements recently, and there certainly were a number of non-Atom options in the $400-600 price range, but according to the reviews, if you actually tried to use the CPU power, it overheated due to the small form factor and throttled back, and still sucked the battery dry very quickly.
How long will people think that x86 and/or x64 instruction set compatibility is a selling point?
So long as they have crusty old x86 Windows software they need to run.
As i understand it, the EU issued an edict that all postal services must be privatized, and this is just Parliament doing what the EU told it.
But you don't have to actually use Metro to get things done. The normal desktop is still there, and if you start typing in Metro, then what you are looking for quickly pops up in a search result.
If I wanted to type to run programs, I wouldn't be using a fscking GUI.