, muggers and such start a suit in defense of their jobs? Finally forbidding thievery forced SO many of them work illegally and risk law consequences...
Don't you think implementing IPv6 (which works transparently for top-layer apps, they aren't really interested if they connect through ipv4 or 6) is much simpler than adding a layer two levers higher, that would intrude into core of mostly all userspace software? (programs ARE interested to connect to a port and shifting from port-based architecture to some other IS a difference.)
Someone thought of the same thing but came out with a better solution, which requires far less work AND can coexist with IPv4: IPv6.
The argument is that the economy would take a hit because of the conversion costs.
This argument is a fake to calm down people. The true reason is military - that US is a superpower. Same as 110V, and quite a few other "oddities".
Exactly the same as railway tracks of different width, the GOST sizing standard (all machine parts sizes being some mm + a fraction instead of (int) mm size as everywhere else), keeping different alphabet and all such oddities in former Soviet Union: Make things useless or much harder to use for the enemy in case of attack. They take over an ammo factory - so what, the ammo fits none of their weapons. They take over some railway line but they can't use their trains to transfer troops.
At least Soviet Union didn't lie about their reasons.
A guy has a gun pointed at crowd. Whoever goes to attack him, will be shot. If they rushed all, they would surely overpower him, but the first 2-3 would be killed, for sure. Who wants to be first?
RIAA doesn't need to sue everyone. Just some suitcases and "Who wants to be next?"
come on, a comment several lines above has all this stuff with links. I myself hacked together a system to send command by SMS->email, execute it and retrieve results by www->SMS, about 4 years ago.
Some M2 please show those who trolled the above down that what's beyond their tiny imagination may actually be true.
Note years before XP there were 3rd party add-ons to 98 that were making the desktop of windows look about like Gnome. We're talking about defaults, stuff that comes "out of the box". And are you purposedly ignoring my sentence "I'm not saying Gnome was first to implement all that, but I think it brought together all that so nicely first." on purpose? Nice troll. Anti-aliased fonts were available in 98 too but they are one of many elements that make up an interesting-looking GUI.
But lm-sensors, alsa, modutils, losetup, devfsd and several other packages are very kernel-specific and stuff depends on them. Some of them are strictly version-specific (install patches) and some are just required in new versions after certain threshold (since about 2.5.60 new version of modutils is needed.)
1) You need to put the data in the memory somehow, don't you? It's RAM, not FLASH. 2) Compare prices of 1G RAM, 1G HDD and (~700M CD drive+256M RAM). We need a CHEAP solution. 3) Read-only device, you can't save what you do. 4) ext2/3 makes good enough use of spare memory. No need for ramdisks to speed up reading. Just put a standard harddrive and 1G mem and without any extra actions like mirroring the disk in RAM you'll feel the effects.
Re:CD drives last a lot longer than that, I think.
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And my home tower used the same 4x CD drive for years until I finally shelled out for a CD-R a few months ago.
Note the ^2 in E=mv^2? Applies to angular velocity too. Twice as fast drive uses 4 times as much energy, which gets dissipated amongst all by vibrations of the mechanism. A 52x drive will produce about 170 times more energy than 4x one with mechanisms just slightly more durable than in old models.
Of course if you spin it down to 4x, that's a different story...
Difference in cost between 1G and 10G drive is nowadays nearly null. Besides, instead of copying the CD, wouldn't it be simpler just to keep 1G of Linux installed and give up the CD completely?
I guess they may "spin down" the CD to some 4x-10x after boot-up, saving it considerably. If they don't - "oops".
...unless you start diferent apps. The usage is similar to that of/usr partition. Not terribly high but not null either. (just enough to kill the drive berfore the warranty expires;)
I wonder what lifetime a system that's CD-only (and with a fast CD drive) will have - lifetime of an average CD drive is about a week without break and at full speed and only thanks to stopping frequently and lowering read speed, plus working rarely more than several minutes a day at full speed, they survive more than a year. But replacing HDD with CD...
Did I write "played with Gnome"? I can't see that? I said "saw Gnome".
- Round button corners - Shaded icons - Gradients on icons - Colorful GUI - Half-opaque windows dragging - Soft-feeling background colors - Anti-aliased logos and many, many more. In 'looks' dept, not 'feel'.
I'm not saying Gnome was first to implement all that, but I think it brought together all that so nicely first.
And to your point, no amount of clicking and picking "end task"/"close" could get XP to shut down when I clicked "close" of VC++ and it said it can't save configuration and refused to quit. But I don't think Gnome team could sue them for copying their bug...;)
Sonce all their software is not only proprietary but also "closed-source" so nobody can see the source code, automatically nobody can copy or include their sources into other software.
Technically impossoble.
Unless of course you come with the same solution to the same problem and your code looks very much alike. But then I want to sue Gates for violating copyright of my software. Back in the times of Atari I wrote a screen blanker that looks similar to one of Windows blankers. I never released my code, just showed it to several friends, but no doubt one of them told Gates about it and he stole my program!
The first organization that learns to grow these organs individually will make a killing.
Doh. Killing makes growing them redundant. (I just imagine a big crime sindicate which catches people and then sell them in parts, just like they do with cars. With about $10k a pretty slave girl nowadays, this seems to be a better business.)
...when I saw "Ending organ donor shortage" was "Did Honda, Yamaha or Suzuki release a new kind of motocycle with all the standard features but at 1/10 the price?" That would surely provide us with a fresh wave of organ supply...
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...in such context, I remember Al Capone, he was "protecting" people too, and he was doing it just the same way as the government does now.
, muggers and such start a suit in defense of their jobs? Finally forbidding thievery forced SO many of them work illegally and risk law consequences...
Don't you think implementing IPv6 (which works transparently for top-layer apps, they aren't really interested if they connect through ipv4 or 6) is much simpler than adding a layer two levers higher, that would intrude into core of mostly all userspace software? (programs ARE interested to connect to a port and shifting from port-based architecture to some other IS a difference.)
Someone thought of the same thing but came out with a better solution, which requires far less work AND can coexist with IPv4: IPv6.
The argument is that the economy would take a hit because of the conversion costs.
This argument is a fake to calm down people.
The true reason is military - that US is a superpower.
Same as 110V, and quite a few other "oddities".
Exactly the same as railway tracks of different width, the GOST sizing standard (all machine parts sizes being some mm + a fraction instead of (int) mm size as everywhere else), keeping different alphabet and all such oddities in former Soviet Union: Make things useless or much harder to use for the enemy in case of attack. They take over an ammo factory - so what, the ammo fits none of their weapons. They take over some railway line but they can't use their trains to transfer troops.
At least Soviet Union didn't lie about their reasons.
A guy has a gun pointed at crowd. Whoever goes to attack him, will be shot. If they rushed all, they would surely overpower him, but the first 2-3 would be killed, for sure. Who wants to be first?
RIAA doesn't need to sue everyone. Just some suitcases and "Who wants to be next?"
come on, a comment several lines above has all this stuff with links. I myself hacked together a system to send command by SMS->email, execute it and retrieve results by www->SMS, about 4 years ago.
Some M2 please show those who trolled the above down that what's beyond their tiny imagination may actually be true.
Note years before XP there were 3rd party add-ons to 98 that were making the desktop of windows look about like Gnome. We're talking about defaults, stuff that comes "out of the box". And are you purposedly ignoring my sentence "I'm not saying Gnome was first to implement all that, but I think it brought together all that so nicely first." on purpose? Nice troll.
Anti-aliased fonts were available in 98 too but they are one of many elements that make up an interesting-looking GUI.
Atacama Desert, Chile--the driest place on the planet
Dry Valleys, Antarctica, probably beat it by several hundreds of thousands years without any kind of water. (be it snow, ground water or air humidity)
Technically...
But lm-sensors, alsa, modutils, losetup, devfsd and several other packages are very kernel-specific and stuff depends on them. Some of them are strictly version-specific (install patches) and some are just required in new versions after certain threshold (since about 2.5.60 new version of modutils is needed.)
1) You need to put the data in the memory somehow, don't you? It's RAM, not FLASH.
2) Compare prices of 1G RAM, 1G HDD and (~700M CD drive+256M RAM). We need a CHEAP solution.
3) Read-only device, you can't save what you do.
4) ext2/3 makes good enough use of spare memory. No need for ramdisks to speed up reading. Just put a standard harddrive and 1G mem and without any extra actions like mirroring the disk in RAM you'll feel the effects.
And my home tower used the same 4x CD drive for years until I finally shelled out for a CD-R a few months ago.
Note the ^2 in E=mv^2? Applies to angular velocity too. Twice as fast drive uses 4 times as much energy, which gets dissipated amongst all by vibrations of the mechanism.
A 52x drive will produce about 170 times more energy than 4x one with mechanisms just slightly more durable than in old models.
Of course if you spin it down to 4x, that's a different story...
when/where to gfind a .deb - patched version - I'm not going to corrupt my dependencies...
Difference in cost between 1G and 10G drive is nowadays nearly null. Besides, instead of copying the CD, wouldn't it be simpler just to keep 1G of Linux installed and give up the CD completely?
I guess they may "spin down" the CD to some 4x-10x after boot-up, saving it considerably. If they don't - "oops".
...unless you start diferent apps. The usage is similar to that of /usr partition. Not terribly high but not null either. (just enough to kill the drive berfore the warranty expires ;)
I wonder what lifetime a system that's CD-only (and with a fast CD drive) will have - lifetime of an average CD drive is about a week without break and at full speed and only thanks to stopping frequently and lowering read speed, plus working rarely more than several minutes a day at full speed, they survive more than a year. But replacing HDD with CD...
First thing to start getting your work done: QUIT READING THE FRIGGIN /.
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OS is a necessary overhead. You can't avoid it but you can minimise it.
In this context Linux is the least of the evils.
Did I write "played with Gnome"? I can't see that? I said "saw Gnome".
;)
- Round button corners
- Shaded icons
- Gradients on icons
- Colorful GUI
- Half-opaque windows dragging
- Soft-feeling background colors
- Anti-aliased logos
and many, many more. In 'looks' dept, not 'feel'.
I'm not saying Gnome was first to implement all that, but I think it brought together all that so nicely first.
And to your point, no amount of clicking and picking "end task"/"close" could get XP to shut down when I clicked "close" of VC++ and it said it can't save configuration and refused to quit. But I don't think Gnome team could sue them for copying their bug...
Oh well. I just meant XP tries to imitate Gnome. I never said it does it well...
The new supercomputer will run a Chinese-designed Linux operating system.
;)
I thought Torvalds comes from Finland?
Or are some obscure RMS ancestors chineese?
...when I saw XP first, was "Finally one of the guys at M$ saw Gnome and understood Windows UI was years behind current standards".
Sonce all their software is not only proprietary but also "closed-source" so nobody can see the source code, automatically nobody can copy or include their sources into other software.
Technically impossoble.
Unless of course you come with the same solution to the same problem and your code looks very much alike. But then I want to sue Gates for violating copyright of my software. Back in the times of Atari I wrote a screen blanker that looks similar to one of Windows blankers. I never released my code, just showed it to several friends, but no doubt one of them told Gates about it and he stole my program!
The first organization that learns to grow these organs individually will make a killing.
Doh. Killing makes growing them redundant.
(I just imagine a big crime sindicate which catches people and then sell them in parts, just like they do with cars. With about $10k a pretty slave girl nowadays, this seems to be a better business.)
...when I saw "Ending organ donor shortage" was "Did Honda, Yamaha or Suzuki release a new kind of motocycle with all the standard features but at 1/10 the price?"
That would surely provide us with a fresh wave of organ supply...
* polish! polish! polish!
I'm happy you want to support my native language so enthusiastically, but don't you think people from other countries could feel a bit neglected?