Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid government! If the policy is to have a fuel tax, and the take is going down, then increase the damned fuel tax! Don't remove the inherent progressivity of the fuel tax by treating 3 ton 8 mpg monstrosities the same as my 1.5 ton 48 mpg car. Big monstrosities use more fuel, create far more road wear, and require bigger parking spaces than my car. Why penalize me for doing what my masters want me to do?
As you say, they can easily obtain OpenSSL in Iran or anywhere else in the world. The point is, if you can't send it to them, SO WHAT -- from their viewpoint. They can get it. So if what you ship is open source, just mark OpenSSL as a "requires." If it's not open source... my sympathies for having an unenlightened employer.
The past called and says you shouldn't be living there any more. The days when anybody cared about the U.S. trying to keep the genie in a bottle are long gone. Uh, the rest of the world understands technology too and is fully capable of working with it. GnuPG is mirrored around the world.
You, sir, are about the only insightful commenter on this entire thread. Whether or not Android blows the opportunity in front of it, Linux is totally on top of this.
Oh, for frickin heck. Now we have to wait through ANOTHER Fedora cycle??? RHEL 6 is already years late. Sigh. Let's face it. RHEL 6 will be released a week after the world ends. RHEL is in its death throes. They're just spinning their wheels and making stinky tire smoke trying to get off the line. RHEL 5 is older than Moses and has moldier packages than a frickin mummy. This is just plain embarrassing.
Telecoms is not a free market. It is an oligopoly. As such, there is no meaningful competition. The pricing of SMS is an ABOMINATION. At a personal level, this kind of gouging would be an unforgivable breach of ethics. I for one do not see why corporations should be licensed to disregard ethics.
How does a faceless corporation browbeat tens of millions of customers? One at a time, of course.
If I were a hospital, following your logic, I would negotiate with each patient. "Well, Mr. Gates, how much would you pay for a heart transplant? A billion dollars? OK, make it $1.2 billion and you've got a deal." Then one day this schmuck shows up. "Well, Mr. Schmuck, how much would you pay for a heart transplant? A hundred dollars in installments is all you can come up with? Do you know that just last week another gentleman paid us over a billion? You are insulting me. Go away. There are plenty of wealthy people who need new hearts." (the hospital negotiator seems not to notice that he is describing himself all too literally)
You may say that regulations and planned economies and safety nets do not work. That is arguable. The logical response, however, would be to say, let us apply human ingenuity, work ethic, and compassion, and try to make them work. Not, let's not even try.
The kicker is that display, mass storage, and wireless power start to predominate as you drop well below 10 watts in terms of total system power. These other components have a long way to go. Until then, the CPU could take 0.01 watts and battery life would still be a big disappointment.
What are these specific applications you are talking about? Remember, we're talking netbooks and such. Apps would be mostly browsers, email, simple note taking editors, etc. Seems to me the stuff is mostly written in C and C++. The field of meaningful applications in this area is FAR richer in CPU-agnostic linux than in Windows.
I looked at the pictures in the article and was crestfallen. I don't want some half assed useless handheld toy.. I want an ARM powered real, usable laptop with an 8.9-11.1" display, readable outdoors in daylight, with a real keyboard, that will be everything that all netbooks to date have emphatically not been. Something with true 20+ hour battery life while doing useful work. It should have WiFi and mobile broadband. An ARM would be more than powerful enough for taking notes, surfing, reading and replying to email, etc. Ubuntu 9.04 would be just perfect. I would pay real money for this. I thought the HP2133 would be it, but mine is going unused. You can barely read the display in a dark room, let alone daylight or even a bright office. The Lenovo X301 is about the closest I have come, but it is a long way from where it needs to be, and brutally expensive.
I was with you until I reached the part where you said you converted "all" your file systems from xfs to ext4. Why would you switch from one busted ass corruption prone file system to another busted ass corruption prone file system? There are perfectly reliable file systems available, like ext3 and reiser3 (one could be forgiven for not considering the latter, but ext3 has been solid as a rock since just about the beginning).
If you want to experiment with the unproven, buggy ext4, you are to be commended - but it is unwise to use it for "all" your data.
P.S. My profound compliments to ALL the KDE developers for their remarkably competent and well thought out work over the years!
Respect for the danger would be a good idea. Hypokalemia can cause arrhythmia. And hyperkalemia can also cause... you guessed it, arrhythmia. And arrhythmia can cause death, with little warning. In fact, if your potassium level gets low enough or high enough, it is guaranteed that you will die from it, promptly. A single hypodermic syringe of non-diluted potassium chloride is practically guaranteed to send you to meet your maker within a couple of minutes.
Lots of things can cause the level to get too low or too high. A reasonable consumption of soft drinks, alone, is highly unlikely to do you in, but it is playing with a chemical balance which is extremely critical to life. When you add this factor to a bunch of other potential factors, you best pay attention. And your suggested potassium supplements can be extremely dangerous. They are for cases where serious danger is already proved, and even then require close supervision. It is much too easy to throw the balance off in one direction or the other. The vegetables and fruits you suggest are safer, but even then you would need testing to establish the right balance.
I am not a physician, but my grandfather was. Physiology is an interest of mine.
We constantly hear this. The [Japanese, Germans] did not have the industrial capacity to [develop a nuclear bomb, train pilots, build warships]. Well, why not? The U.S. developed the nuclear bomb with talent plus a tiny fraction of its industrial capacity. Japan and Germany each had more than half the U.S. population. Why were they so feeble?
And don't give me a bunch of crap about free enterprise. Keep it real.
To answer your question, the line is drawn where the Constitution draws it. The Constitution is the authority for the law of the land. The second amendment is there. If you don't like it, try to amend the amendment. As long as it is there, it means what it says.
The second amendment probably requires clarification and limitation, most particularly in an era of WMD. You can't do this in a law because you can't negate the Constitution by mere law.
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Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid government! If the policy is to have a fuel tax, and the take is going down, then increase the damned fuel tax! Don't remove the inherent progressivity of the fuel tax by treating 3 ton 8 mpg monstrosities the same as my 1.5 ton 48 mpg car. Big monstrosities use more fuel, create far more road wear, and require bigger parking spaces than my car. Why penalize me for doing what my masters want me to do?
As you say, they can easily obtain OpenSSL in Iran or anywhere else in the world. The point is, if you can't send it to them, SO WHAT -- from their viewpoint. They can get it. So if what you ship is open source, just mark OpenSSL as a "requires." If it's not open source ... my sympathies for having an unenlightened employer.
The past called and says you shouldn't be living there any more. The days when anybody cared about the U.S. trying to keep the genie in a bottle are long gone. Uh, the rest of the world understands technology too and is fully capable of working with it. GnuPG is mirrored around the world.
You, sir, are about the only insightful commenter on this entire thread. Whether or not Android blows the opportunity in front of it, Linux is totally on top of this.
Wikipedia disagrees with you.
Oh, for frickin heck. Now we have to wait through ANOTHER Fedora cycle??? RHEL 6 is already years late. Sigh. Let's face it. RHEL 6 will be released a week after the world ends. RHEL is in its death throes. They're just spinning their wheels and making stinky tire smoke trying to get off the line. RHEL 5 is older than Moses and has moldier packages than a frickin mummy. This is just plain embarrassing.
Geez, that 4.3 video makes it look horrible. It still has slow screen redraws and weird artifacts when moving windows.
You're judging that from a youtube video with its insanely low framerate? Retard.
Jeeze, how much caffeine was that guy on who was demonstrating KDE 4.3 Beta?
Telecoms is not a free market. It is an oligopoly. As such, there is no meaningful competition. The pricing of SMS is an ABOMINATION. At a personal level, this kind of gouging would be an unforgivable breach of ethics. I for one do not see why corporations should be licensed to disregard ethics.
How does a faceless corporation browbeat tens of millions of customers? One at a time, of course.
If I were a hospital, following your logic, I would negotiate with each patient. "Well, Mr. Gates, how much would you pay for a heart transplant? A billion dollars? OK, make it $1.2 billion and you've got a deal." Then one day this schmuck shows up. "Well, Mr. Schmuck, how much would you pay for a heart transplant? A hundred dollars in installments is all you can come up with? Do you know that just last week another gentleman paid us over a billion? You are insulting me. Go away. There are plenty of wealthy people who need new hearts." (the hospital negotiator seems not to notice that he is describing himself all too literally)
You may say that regulations and planned economies and safety nets do not work. That is arguable. The logical response, however, would be to say, let us apply human ingenuity, work ethic, and compassion, and try to make them work. Not, let's not even try.
The kicker is that display, mass storage, and wireless power start to predominate as you drop well below 10 watts in terms of total system power. These other components have a long way to go. Until then, the CPU could take 0.01 watts and battery life would still be a big disappointment.
What are these specific applications you are talking about? Remember, we're talking netbooks and such. Apps would be mostly browsers, email, simple note taking editors, etc. Seems to me the stuff is mostly written in C and C++. The field of meaningful applications in this area is FAR richer in CPU-agnostic linux than in Windows.
Of course ARM isn't going to replace x86 mainstream. It isn't designed to. But something will. Something without the laughable amount of baggage.
As for replacing Windows, I for one don't want it replaced. I WANT IT TO DIE. It's mostly irrelevant in my life already.
No one has to stop it. It's collapsing under its own weight.
Transflective.
Try to pay attention. I never said dirt cheap. In fact I plainly said I would pay real money for it.
I looked at the pictures in the article and was crestfallen. I don't want some half assed useless handheld toy.. I want an ARM powered real, usable laptop with an 8.9-11.1" display, readable outdoors in daylight , with a real keyboard, that will be everything that all netbooks to date have emphatically not been. Something with true 20+ hour battery life while doing useful work. It should have WiFi and mobile broadband. An ARM would be more than powerful enough for taking notes, surfing, reading and replying to email, etc. Ubuntu 9.04 would be just perfect. I would pay real money for this. I thought the HP2133 would be it, but mine is going unused. You can barely read the display in a dark room, let alone daylight or even a bright office. The Lenovo X301 is about the closest I have come, but it is a long way from where it needs to be, and brutally expensive.
I was with you until I reached the part where you said you converted "all" your file systems from xfs to ext4. Why would you switch from one busted ass corruption prone file system to another busted ass corruption prone file system? There are perfectly reliable file systems available, like ext3 and reiser3 (one could be forgiven for not considering the latter, but ext3 has been solid as a rock since just about the beginning).
If you want to experiment with the unproven, buggy ext4, you are to be commended - but it is unwise to use it for "all" your data.
P.S. My profound compliments to ALL the KDE developers for their remarkably competent and well thought out work over the years!
Respect for the danger would be a good idea. Hypokalemia can cause arrhythmia. And hyperkalemia can also cause ... you guessed it, arrhythmia. And arrhythmia can cause death, with little warning. In fact, if your potassium level gets low enough or high enough, it is guaranteed that you will die from it, promptly. A single hypodermic syringe of non-diluted potassium chloride is practically guaranteed to send you to meet your maker within a couple of minutes.
Lots of things can cause the level to get too low or too high. A reasonable consumption of soft drinks, alone, is highly unlikely to do you in, but it is playing with a chemical balance which is extremely critical to life. When you add this factor to a bunch of other potential factors, you best pay attention. And your suggested potassium supplements can be extremely dangerous. They are for cases where serious danger is already proved, and even then require close supervision. It is much too easy to throw the balance off in one direction or the other. The vegetables and fruits you suggest are safer, but even then you would need testing to establish the right balance.
I am not a physician, but my grandfather was. Physiology is an interest of mine.
the biggest problem with having 20 tabs open is... you have 20 tabs open. Are you seriously reading all those websites at the one time?
20 tabs? Are you serious? I usually get up over 100, sometimes 200. Not everyone is a lightweight when it comes to browsing.
Anyway, by DEFINITION you're only reading one AT A TIME. The others are to preserve context and facilitate cross referencing.
"Magic wand" is now a synonym for "etchings."
Bullshit.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1000000
fdisk
We constantly hear this. The [Japanese, Germans] did not have the industrial capacity to [develop a nuclear bomb, train pilots, build warships]. Well, why not? The U.S. developed the nuclear bomb with talent plus a tiny fraction of its industrial capacity. Japan and Germany each had more than half the U.S. population. Why were they so feeble?
And don't give me a bunch of crap about free enterprise. Keep it real.
To answer your question, the line is drawn where the Constitution draws it. The Constitution is the authority for the law of the land. The second amendment is there. If you don't like it, try to amend the amendment. As long as it is there, it means what it says.
The second amendment probably requires clarification and limitation, most particularly in an era of WMD. You can't do this in a law because you can't negate the Constitution by mere law.
Apparently not.
Yes. What brain-dead prick dreamed up that idea anyway? I really want to know. What were the political origins of treating corporations as people?