A desperate attempt to get some upgrade income by forcing people to buy yet another version of Windows if they want the next DirectX which no game other than those developed by Microsoft will use for five years?
I am not a web developer, and this is the thing I have never understood. Why in the world do the web developers want a page to look consistent on all user agents? That's dumb. As a user, I just want your content: hypertext--text and hyperlinks. I don't care what color, width, or fonts you want stuff to be rendered in.
But then most web page designers would be out of a job. Someone has to decide whether the page should use 36-point Comic Sans or 12-point Times Vogon.
It will be a long time before the top GPU is going to be fused with the top CPU.
Yeah, a long time like never.
If you 'fused' the top GPU and the top CPU in the same package, you'd end up with a fused lump of silicon because you couldn't get the 500+W of heat out of the thing without exotic cooling.
And who, out of the performance fanatics who buy the top CPU or top GPU, would want to have to replace both of them at the same time when they could be two different devices?
Which part of "the cost of solar cells has dropped 21 percent this year" didn't you understand?
The part where they're still expensive and you can only use them during the day -- when most people are out of their house working -- unless you put in an expensive power storage system?
The cost of cells is only part of the cost of powering a house with solar power. And that cost is still well above the cost of free market electricity.
You forgot the part where they take temperature records wihch show no trend and create a warming trend by 'adjusting' it, then average that new trend out across large areas of the planet so that a few results from New Zealand which showed no warming become a warming trend over a significant part of the Pacific.
Basilcally the data is garbage, the models are garbage and the 'science' has been totally politicised.
Every year, even though standards continue to get stricter and stricter, this continues to happen.
That's because those 'tighter emission controls' push energy intensive business out of Western nations to countries like China which are far less efficient.
The whole 'global warming' scam would be depressing if it wasn't so freaking hilarious. It's almost as though the Chinese have paid Western leaders to destroy their own economies and ship all their manufacturing to China.
The simple truth is that humans have demonstrated themselves to be generally incapable of safely operating nuclear plants under capitalism, which is how the entire world is run.
So EVIL CAPITALIST nuclear plants have killed far less people than hydro or coal while the Glorious People's Communist Nuclear Power Plant at Chernobly killed large numbers and spread radiation across Europe, and that means that capitalist reactors are bad?
You my friend must be a young kid and have no earthly idea what the hell you are talking about Dos, Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 were revolutionary. You should take a look at what was available at that time in history.
Like, say, Sun workstations? Or Macs?
Windows was 'revolutionary' only because it was cheap; that's why I had a Windows laptop at home wihle I had a Sun at work. But it was really doing nothing that hadn't already been done long before by other companies.
It's certainly a nice story but it's not for the right reasons. They're just aiming for some good press by putting a positive spin on the fact that their DRM was defective to the point of breaking the game for its users.
While that's true, they sold the game DRM-free from day one through gog.com. From what I understand the DRM was only there because the retail publisher demanded it.
And from what I've read the DRM was cracked by day zero, as the Polish retail version was available a day before the rest of the world and apparently available on torrent sites.
Do you think we could feed 6 billion+ people with all natural foods? Think again.
In my experience, most of the 'direct action' eco-loons I've met on the Internet also believe that there are far too many humans on the planet and want to reduce the population to a fraction of its current level. Of course when you ask them how they plan to do that, and whether they plan to start by killing themselves, they generally shut up.
You don't have to choose between coal and nuclear. Since they are both bad, you should choose renewable (solar and wind).
Which are great, so long as you don't actually need reliable power. I'm sure that Germany can maintain a huge manufacturing economy when the power goes out at random times.
Actually, it appears that only the EU, Australia and New Zealand are determined to destroy themselves; Canada, America and some other countries recently announced that they're having nothing to do with any more Kyoto-style suicide pacts.
As for "end to end" blockages -- If you don't know how to port-forward, enable UPnP -- everything supports it these days, even ports of old games like Doom.
Never, ever, ever enable UPnP if you care about security. Allowing random applications to open up random ports is just asking to be pwned.
Are all up in arms that the computer crashed this airplane. That is 100% incorrect. The computer dropped offline and the pilots had to take teh controls. That is what crashed this airplane and most modern airplane crashes. Pilots simply do not know how to fly anymore.>
But, uh, the computer didn't know how to fly in those conditions either; that's why it gave control back to the pilots. This is the real problem, pilots are taught to trust the computer 99% of the time, then when things get really bad they're expected to suddenly take over.
Other crews have survived loss of airspeed indication in an Airbus, but I believe this is the first time it's happened in bad weather at night when disorientation is highly likely.
Linux is evolving into the latter. It's becoming smarter, so that you don't have to bewilder users with an array of esoteric choices. Linux isn't getting dumbed down, it's getting smarter.
Uh, no. Removing those 'esoteric choices', like, say starting applications from menus that take two seconds rather than clunky touchscreen-style big meaningless icon lists that take ten and require moving the mouse repeatedly around the sceen, is pretty much the definition of 'dumbing down'.
The new Linux UIs like Unity and Gnome 3 are absymal for anyone who uses their computer for real work rather than Facebook. Slow, unconfigurable, missing features we've used for years and more interested in fancy effects than being effective.
The stupid part is that dumbing Linux down won't bring in new users, it will drive away those who use it today.
Linux distributions have been trying to make Linux easier to use forever. We've been demanding it all along. Now that some distributions are trying to make it actually happen everyone is screaming bloody murder.
There's a difference between not having to edit RC files directly and removing any feature that a moron can't understand. Linux used to be the OS for competent computer users, but the recent GUI changes have been aimed at making it the OS for people of no clue.
Their dominance has generally been due to sheer momentum from their success in the 90s, not because anything they do is especially good. Their success in the 90s wasn't anything to do with being technically good either.
Through the 90s Windows offered the best bang for the buck of any operating system I ever worked with; today it's an also-ran security nightmare lumbered with supporting compatibility with thirty years of crappy old software, but for those who couldn't afford a Sun workstation even Windows 3.1 was a huge step up from DOS.
Sure, they could have bought an Amiga or something, but when I looked at them back then they cost significantly more than a PC and didn't run the old DOS software that most people had collected by that time.
Under linux you have to download it, turn on the execute bit and set the permissions and THEN execute it.
"To install the Cute Kitty screensaver, download malware.sh, open a Terminal window and type 'bash malware.sh'."
Yeah, it's a pain, but more than a few people will do it in order to see cute kitties or b00b13s. The only way to stop them from doing it is to ensure they can't run anything that isn't in a system directory.
And, even then, they'll still install random Firefox plugins which don't require execute permission or root access.
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A desperate attempt to get some upgrade income by forcing people to buy yet another version of Windows if they want the next DirectX which no game other than those developed by Microsoft will use for five years?
I am not a web developer, and this is the thing I have never understood. Why in the world do the web developers want a page to look consistent on all user agents? That's dumb. As a user, I just want your content: hypertext--text and hyperlinks. I don't care what color, width, or fonts you want stuff to be rendered in.
But then most web page designers would be out of a job. Someone has to decide whether the page should use 36-point Comic Sans or 12-point Times Vogon.
It will be a long time before the top GPU is going to be fused with the top CPU.
Yeah, a long time like never.
If you 'fused' the top GPU and the top CPU in the same package, you'd end up with a fused lump of silicon because you couldn't get the 500+W of heat out of the thing without exotic cooling.
And who, out of the performance fanatics who buy the top CPU or top GPU, would want to have to replace both of them at the same time when they could be two different devices?
If you really think that reactor belonged to the people, then you're a sucker of the worst kind.
Ah, so Chernobyl was an EVIL CAPITALIST reactor. Now it all makes sense.
Which part of "the cost of solar cells has dropped 21 percent this year" didn't you understand?
The part where they're still expensive and you can only use them during the day -- when most people are out of their house working -- unless you put in an expensive power storage system?
The cost of cells is only part of the cost of powering a house with solar power. And that cost is still well above the cost of free market electricity.
You forgot the part where they take temperature records wihch show no trend and create a warming trend by 'adjusting' it, then average that new trend out across large areas of the planet so that a few results from New Zealand which showed no warming become a warming trend over a significant part of the Pacific.
Basilcally the data is garbage, the models are garbage and the 'science' has been totally politicised.
In case you haven't noticed, fossil fuels are being depleted, and will all be gone pretty soon anyway. Oil will be gone in ~50 years.
That can't possibly be true. Back in the 70s the media was telling me that oil would be gone by the year 2000.
Every year, even though standards continue to get stricter and stricter, this continues to happen.
That's because those 'tighter emission controls' push energy intensive business out of Western nations to countries like China which are far less efficient.
The whole 'global warming' scam would be depressing if it wasn't so freaking hilarious. It's almost as though the Chinese have paid Western leaders to destroy their own economies and ship all their manufacturing to China.
The simple truth is that humans have demonstrated themselves to be generally incapable of safely operating nuclear plants under capitalism, which is how the entire world is run.
So EVIL CAPITALIST nuclear plants have killed far less people than hydro or coal while the Glorious People's Communist Nuclear Power Plant at Chernobly killed large numbers and spread radiation across Europe, and that means that capitalist reactors are bad?
You my friend must be a young kid and have no earthly idea what the hell you are talking about Dos, Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 were revolutionary. You should take a look at what was available at that time in history.
Like, say, Sun workstations? Or Macs?
Windows was 'revolutionary' only because it was cheap; that's why I had a Windows laptop at home wihle I had a Sun at work. But it was really doing nothing that hadn't already been done long before by other companies.
Xbox still has a long way to go before its profitable. There was some serious money sunk into it for a very long time before it even broke even.
And pretty soon they're going to have to blow more billions building a next generation machine.
It's certainly a nice story but it's not for the right reasons. They're just aiming for some good press by putting a positive spin on the fact that their DRM was defective to the point of breaking the game for its users.
While that's true, they sold the game DRM-free from day one through gog.com. From what I understand the DRM was only there because the retail publisher demanded it.
And from what I've read the DRM was cracked by day zero, as the Polish retail version was available a day before the rest of the world and apparently available on torrent sites.
Because an overall more educated populace is a net gain for itself? With more educated voters you'll get a better government.
Interesting theory, but reality has clearly disproved it.
And why do you think that any government would want voters who'll vote for a better government and put them out of a job?
Do you think we could feed 6 billion+ people with all natural foods? Think again.
In my experience, most of the 'direct action' eco-loons I've met on the Internet also believe that there are far too many humans on the planet and want to reduce the population to a fraction of its current level. Of course when you ask them how they plan to do that, and whether they plan to start by killing themselves, they generally shut up.
Since when did the police start actively guarding privatized scientific research?
When thugs are planning to destroy other people's property?
Presumably you don't want the police protecting your house from vandals either.
unless humans are injured/die, its just vandalism isn't it?
So when the IRA blew up a large chunk of the City of London in the 80s or 90s, that was just vandalism?
You don't have to choose between coal and nuclear. Since they are both bad, you should choose renewable (solar and wind).
Which are great, so long as you don't actually need reliable power. I'm sure that Germany can maintain a huge manufacturing economy when the power goes out at random times.
Actually, it appears that only the EU, Australia and New Zealand are determined to destroy themselves; Canada, America and some other countries recently announced that they're having nothing to do with any more Kyoto-style suicide pacts.
As for "end to end" blockages -- If you don't know how to port-forward, enable UPnP -- everything supports it these days, even ports of old games like Doom.
Never, ever, ever enable UPnP if you care about security. Allowing random applications to open up random ports is just asking to be pwned.
The report states that "the engine N1's were at about 55%". I'm not a pilot, but 55% doesn't sound like anywhere near full thrust to me.
Could the engines have stalled due to the high angle of attack?
Are all up in arms that the computer crashed this airplane. That is 100% incorrect. The computer dropped offline and the pilots had to take teh controls. That is what crashed this airplane and most modern airplane crashes. Pilots simply do not know how to fly anymore.>
But, uh, the computer didn't know how to fly in those conditions either; that's why it gave control back to the pilots. This is the real problem, pilots are taught to trust the computer 99% of the time, then when things get really bad they're expected to suddenly take over.
Other crews have survived loss of airspeed indication in an Airbus, but I believe this is the first time it's happened in bad weather at night when disorientation is highly likely.
Linux is evolving into the latter. It's becoming smarter, so that you don't have to bewilder users with an array of esoteric choices. Linux isn't getting dumbed down, it's getting smarter.
Uh, no. Removing those 'esoteric choices', like, say starting applications from menus that take two seconds rather than clunky touchscreen-style big meaningless icon lists that take ten and require moving the mouse repeatedly around the sceen, is pretty much the definition of 'dumbing down'.
The new Linux UIs like Unity and Gnome 3 are absymal for anyone who uses their computer for real work rather than Facebook. Slow, unconfigurable, missing features we've used for years and more interested in fancy effects than being effective.
The stupid part is that dumbing Linux down won't bring in new users, it will drive away those who use it today.
Linux distributions have been trying to make Linux easier to use forever. We've been demanding it all along. Now that some distributions are trying to make it actually happen everyone is screaming bloody murder.
There's a difference between not having to edit RC files directly and removing any feature that a moron can't understand. Linux used to be the OS for competent computer users, but the recent GUI changes have been aimed at making it the OS for people of no clue.
Their dominance has generally been due to sheer momentum from their success in the 90s, not because anything they do is especially good. Their success in the 90s wasn't anything to do with being technically good either.
Through the 90s Windows offered the best bang for the buck of any operating system I ever worked with; today it's an also-ran security nightmare lumbered with supporting compatibility with thirty years of crappy old software, but for those who couldn't afford a Sun workstation even Windows 3.1 was a huge step up from DOS.
Sure, they could have bought an Amiga or something, but when I looked at them back then they cost significantly more than a PC and didn't run the old DOS software that most people had collected by that time.
Under linux you have to download it, turn on the execute bit and set the permissions and THEN execute it.
"To install the Cute Kitty screensaver, download malware.sh, open a Terminal window and type 'bash malware.sh'."
Yeah, it's a pain, but more than a few people will do it in order to see cute kitties or b00b13s. The only way to stop them from doing it is to ensure they can't run anything that isn't in a system directory.
And, even then, they'll still install random Firefox plugins which don't require execute permission or root access.