While i understand that you want the foundation to be fairly stable that in itself creates a slew of problems. Foremost that stuff like Firefox, OpenOffice and other userend apps wont get upgraded to newer versions until the next rollover.
I'm pretty sure I've had Firefox version upgrades in both CentOS and Ubuntu without an OS version change, so that doesn't seem to be a problem.
Yeah right, even TFS states that among the emissions is not just soot but also sulfur, nitrous oxides and stuff like that. Then again, I bet you wouldn't mind some sulfuric acid in your food either, would you?
Gosh. I might eat a fish which has swallowed some sulfur. Will the horror never stop?
Indeed. The Russians trained dogs to be suicide bombers in WWII. No-one has ever convinced a cat that running under a tank and exploding is a good idea.
I think that alone tells you which one of the two is smarter.
So doing what you're told is now proof of intelligence? Does not compute.
As for anecdotal evidence, one of my parents' three cats used to trick the neighbour's dog into an ambush where the other two would pounce and beat the crap out of it. Somehow I think that's a better example of intelligence than fetching a stick after a human throws it away.
They make their profit and pay their expenses by holding "float", investing the premium money until they need to pay it back out.
Which is why there's a strong incentive for insurance companies to push for bigger payouts: the bigger the payout, the higher the premiums, the more profit from investing that money short-term. That's particularly true in parts of the world where the government restricts their profits to a percentage of their payouts, in order to 'prevent profiteering' and 'help the consumer'.
The whole concept of insurance is broken when there are strong incentives for insurance companies to increase your costs over time to the point where you'd be better off if the insurance industry had never existed.
How much experience do we have designing and building these "advanced" solid-fuel engines and how safe and reliable are they? Has anyone even built an actual rocket using these "advanced" engines yet? How big? Or are they still in the proposal stage?
Several thousand of them, I believe. From what I've read, the solid rockets used for ICBMs are far more sophisticated than those used on the shuttle... they have to be in order to put the warheads on a precise enough trajectory to hit within a few meters of their target.
The solid rocket boosters have always seemed to be the most dangerous piece of the "stack". The problem is, YOU CAN't SWITCH THEM OFF.
If you switch off the engines that early in the flight, you're dead. You can't make a safe abort from the shuttle before it's reached a reasonable altitude to bail out, so you couldn't switch off liquid boosters either.
This is one of the fundamental problems with a vertically launched winged spacecraft: unless it's small enough to have an abort motor like the X-20, or you have ejection seats for all the crew, you have precisely zero abort options early in the launch. Hence you're probably better off with SRBs which won't stop no matter what you do than with liquid boosters which will fail in all kinds of ways.
Let me make sure I have your argument right. Some British guys screwed up going after some criminals, therefore the concept of some Polish guys going after criminals who committed the same type of crime is disgusting.
Again, these lawyers reportedly sent threatening letters to a group of people when they apparently knew that at least some of them were completely innocent.
Is that right? So what's your suggestion, that nobody bother to enforce the law at all?
Enforcing the law would be fine. What I have a problem with is innocent people being sent threatening letters by lawyers who have no proof that they ever broke the law, when they can't afford to pay the hundreds or thousands of pounds required to prove their innocence. In what universe can that possibly be right?
What are you going to do when one of these letters arrives on your doorstep?
And "allegedly" guilty thieves? Explain to me, how do you download from a torrent of copyrighted material without committing copyright infringement?
I take it you missed the story a couple of days ago about some British lawyers apparently sending out threatening letters to 'downloaders' when they knew that some significant fraction were completely innocent?
The simple reality today is the the legal systems in the West are so corrupt and expensive that someone who's completely innocent simply cannot afford to pay the legal fees to prove their innocence.
What is the difference between real multitasking and fake multitasking? I don't think processors with multiple cores existed back then.
Real multitasking doesn't depend on applications to decide when to switch, the OS does it transparently for you. As far as I remember Windows 3.x performed task switching during message processing, so an application which looped forever after receiving a message could hang the entire OS.
I'm sure someone will correct me if my memory is wrong.
By all accounts I heard soon after that time, OS/2 was a glorious thing, so I'm always mildly disappointed I missed out on it. I think I held out in DESQview land (and then Linux without X) until almost Windows 98 times.
I used both in the 3.0 days: OS/2 was architecturally superior, but Windows was cheaper and had more software and hardware support so it was pretty much a no-brainer for home users.
It is not that Americans dont have the skills - it is just that the ones with the skills didnt want to do the back breaking work for the pay offered.
No, it's that _FARMERS AREN'T PAYING ENOUGH_ for Americans to want to do the work. If you offered $100k to pick crops on farms, you'd see a queue of people ready to do it.
Of course in reality they're using cheap foreign labour to avoid the cost of automating most of those jobs, which is likely consequence of having to pay viable US wages instead.
So I won't be able to give $20 to a friend without: 1) being tracked; and 2) giving a cut to some payment processor like PayPal? I'd rather use cash.
But that's the whole reason for governments wanting to eliminate cash: it means every transaction will be taxed and no transaction will be possible without their permission.
Well, except that everyone will start using US dollars or whatever for their free market transactions.
Now if only Apple could bring a bigger iPad with a bigger battery life. Same display resolution but bigger display. Older people hate "small displays". Give them 13" displays minimum.
Then they could add a keyboard, to make it more useful for when you have to enter lots of text.
As ARM cores are so simple and ARM Holding does not have their own fabs, anyone could come up with their own optimized ARM-compatible CPUs. It's one of those moments when the right economics and the right technology could fuse together and change stuff.
The problem is... Windows. More precisely, proprietary closed-source software which can't just be recompiled for a new architecture.
The huge amount of installed Windows software out there won't run on ARM, so it won't change the mainstream laptop/desktop market any time soon.
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While i understand that you want the foundation to be fairly stable that in itself creates a slew of problems. Foremost that stuff like Firefox, OpenOffice and other userend apps wont get upgraded to newer versions until the next rollover.
I'm pretty sure I've had Firefox version upgrades in both CentOS and Ubuntu without an OS version change, so that doesn't seem to be a problem.
As far as I'm aware, most UK schools don't have metal detectors to check for guns.
Probably because British school kids would shoot you if you tried to make them go through a metal detector.
Why would ANYONE allow their personal device to touch the Exchange Server, BES or whatever?
Because most people don't expect that reading email allows people to remotely wipe their phone?
Yeah right, even TFS states that among the emissions is not just soot but also sulfur, nitrous oxides and stuff like that. Then again, I bet you wouldn't mind some sulfuric acid in your food either, would you?
Gosh. I might eat a fish which has swallowed some sulfur. Will the horror never stop?
That may be true but the emissions may be dissolved in the ocean water and find their way via the fish into your body somehow.
Yeah, just think: we could end up eating some carbon from the soot created by a cargo ship, which has then been eaten by a fish. Carbon, by God!
But do you trust some random idiot who paid some money to Verisign?
No, but I trust them a lot more than an unsigned certificate that says 'I really am your bank, honest'.
I've seen similar comments get marked troll before.
Because it's retarded.
Indeed. The Russians trained dogs to be suicide bombers in WWII. No-one has ever convinced a cat that running under a tank and exploding is a good idea.
I think that alone tells you which one of the two is smarter.
So doing what you're told is now proof of intelligence? Does not compute.
As for anecdotal evidence, one of my parents' three cats used to trick the neighbour's dog into an ambush where the other two would pounce and beat the crap out of it. Somehow I think that's a better example of intelligence than fetching a stick after a human throws it away.
They make their profit and pay their expenses by holding "float", investing the premium money until they need to pay it back out.
Which is why there's a strong incentive for insurance companies to push for bigger payouts: the bigger the payout, the higher the premiums, the more profit from investing that money short-term. That's particularly true in parts of the world where the government restricts their profits to a percentage of their payouts, in order to 'prevent profiteering' and 'help the consumer'.
The whole concept of insurance is broken when there are strong incentives for insurance companies to increase your costs over time to the point where you'd be better off if the insurance industry had never existed.
How much experience do we have designing and building these "advanced" solid-fuel engines and how safe and reliable are they? Has anyone even built an actual rocket using these "advanced" engines yet? How big? Or are they still in the proposal stage?
Several thousand of them, I believe. From what I've read, the solid rockets used for ICBMs are far more sophisticated than those used on the shuttle... they have to be in order to put the warheads on a precise enough trajectory to hit within a few meters of their target.
The solid rocket boosters have always seemed to be the most dangerous piece of the "stack". The problem is, YOU CAN't SWITCH THEM OFF.
If you switch off the engines that early in the flight, you're dead. You can't make a safe abort from the shuttle before it's reached a reasonable altitude to bail out, so you couldn't switch off liquid boosters either.
This is one of the fundamental problems with a vertically launched winged spacecraft: unless it's small enough to have an abort motor like the X-20, or you have ejection seats for all the crew, you have precisely zero abort options early in the launch. Hence you're probably better off with SRBs which won't stop no matter what you do than with liquid boosters which will fail in all kinds of ways.
Let me make sure I have your argument right. Some British guys screwed up going after some criminals, therefore the concept of some Polish guys going after criminals who committed the same type of crime is disgusting.
Again, these lawyers reportedly sent threatening letters to a group of people when they apparently knew that at least some of them were completely innocent.
Is that right? So what's your suggestion, that nobody bother to enforce the law at all?
Enforcing the law would be fine. What I have a problem with is innocent people being sent threatening letters by lawyers who have no proof that they ever broke the law, when they can't afford to pay the hundreds or thousands of pounds required to prove their innocence. In what universe can that possibly be right?
What are you going to do when one of these letters arrives on your doorstep?
And "allegedly" guilty thieves? Explain to me, how do you download from a torrent of copyrighted material without committing copyright infringement?
I take it you missed the story a couple of days ago about some British lawyers apparently sending out threatening letters to 'downloaders' when they knew that some significant fraction were completely innocent?
The simple reality today is the the legal systems in the West are so corrupt and expensive that someone who's completely innocent simply cannot afford to pay the legal fees to prove their innocence.
Now that I think about it I'm not sure whether MS's OS/2 development project was called OS/2 NT or OS/2 3.0.
It was certainly referred to in the media as OS/2 NT for some time before it vanished and Windows NT suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
What is the difference between real multitasking and fake multitasking? I don't think processors with multiple cores existed back then.
Real multitasking doesn't depend on applications to decide when to switch, the OS does it transparently for you. As far as I remember Windows 3.x performed task switching during message processing, so an application which looped forever after receiving a message could hang the entire OS.
I'm sure someone will correct me if my memory is wrong.
By all accounts I heard soon after that time, OS/2 was a glorious thing, so I'm always mildly disappointed I missed out on it. I think I held out in DESQview land (and then Linux without X) until almost Windows 98 times.
I used both in the 3.0 days: OS/2 was architecturally superior, but Windows was cheaper and had more software and hardware support so it was pretty much a no-brainer for home users.
There are plenty of motor car manufacturers, and most people don't just drive a Ford (or whatever). So why is the computing market so different ?
Windows programs run on Windows. Some of them run on Linux through Wine, but that's still a crapshoot.
So if you have thousands of dollars of Windows software, you can't just switch to a different OS and continue to use it.
It is not that Americans dont have the skills - it is just that the ones with the skills didnt want to do the back breaking work for the pay offered.
No, it's that _FARMERS AREN'T PAYING ENOUGH_ for Americans to want to do the work. If you offered $100k to pick crops on farms, you'd see a queue of people ready to do it.
Of course in reality they're using cheap foreign labour to avoid the cost of automating most of those jobs, which is likely consequence of having to pay viable US wages instead.
Dude. Nuclear stuff would be top secret - meaning foreign scientists wouldn't be allowed to work on them.
Uh, dude, nuclear weapons were largely developed by foreign scientists in America.
But that's the whole reason for governments wanting to eliminate cash: it means every transaction will be taxed
Actually, I meant to write 'tracked', but it's pretty much the same thing :).
So I won't be able to give $20 to a friend without: 1) being tracked; and 2) giving a cut to some payment processor like PayPal? I'd rather use cash.
But that's the whole reason for governments wanting to eliminate cash: it means every transaction will be taxed and no transaction will be possible without their permission.
Well, except that everyone will start using US dollars or whatever for their free market transactions.
Now if only Apple could bring a bigger iPad with a bigger battery life. Same display resolution but bigger display. Older people hate "small displays". Give them 13" displays minimum.
Then they could add a keyboard, to make it more useful for when you have to enter lots of text.
The people who downloaded it should be suing her for allowing Uwe Boll to continue making movies.
As ARM cores are so simple and ARM Holding does not have their own fabs, anyone could come up with their own optimized ARM-compatible CPUs. It's one of those moments when the right economics and the right technology could fuse together and change stuff.
The problem is... Windows. More precisely, proprietary closed-source software which can't just be recompiled for a new architecture.
The huge amount of installed Windows software out there won't run on ARM, so it won't change the mainstream laptop/desktop market any time soon.