If you'd pay attention, the things they "pointed out" were things that cannot be abused unless the system was designed by complete retards. Also, the assumption that bugs and glitches cannot be fixed and smoothed out is fundamentally incapacitating for any sort of future development.
Liberals is something that once stood for great principals and freedom - but since have been twisted, violated and transformed int the abomination it now is - a suicidal attitude that favors the perpetrator over the victim.
The liberal lefties at work, trying to castrate an idea before it has even manifested itself.
You're so sure technology cannot be polished and that everything's going to fail, then why risk driving a car? why risk going on a bus? the under paid bitter driver might smash into a wall for fun. Or why eat out? the underpaid bitter waiter might poo in your food for entertainment. Why aren't police officers shooting people for fun?
Why do you think someone cannot create a system which is good enough to not zap wrongfully?
How about requiring an authorization password from the operator - which immediately logs the operator name, time and the location of the prisoner - to guarantee accountability? no. liberal hippies are no better than small minded bigots.
Well, the answer is, that a remote operator will need to authorize the zapping.
And if it still wrongfully zaps someone, then they have the right to sue. Practically speaking, it's going to be less than 1 in a 1000000 that gets zapped wrongly.
You're talking about a something that simply tracks the prisoner, but does not take an enforcement measures.
If a prisoner walks out of his allowed boundary - the police is notified and they should dispatch someone to get the prisoner back...
however, imagine something that would deal an extremely painful, incapacitating electric shock whenever one steps out of his allowed boundary. That's what "swift, certain punishment for any deviations" is all about.
Of course, that's just wishful thinking. Let the liberal, hippies castrate this until it won't "scar" the delicate souls of the inmates, limiting it to such a stupidity and rendering it completely incompetent - after which they would complain how it failed miserably.
Personally, I would give my vote to something that delivers a lethal injection on confirmed violation.
You'd be surprised what a small subset of of features mainstream users use on their day to day. Software can be designed modularly in a way that not all features are "loaded" and consume resources when they are not in use.
Firefox is ridiculously slow on my quad core/8gb ram system at work. Chrome feels 10x faster - gui is snappy, graphics is rendered quickly, practically starts up instantly. I don't care about memory foot-print, I wouldn't care if firefox were using 1gb of ram as long as it would be as snappy and fast as chrome. And guess what? I don't notice any missing features from chrome. Sure, adblock isn't perfect - but it's good enough. I don't care about any other plugin. You think i care about the XUL gui rendering framework? why would I?
Firefox is no longer catering to the mainstream. It's an over-engineered piece of bloated software. bloat != features... bloat == mostly useless features that cause slowdowns. A well designed browser will have an extremely fast core and very flxeible extension mechanisms... firefox is slow without any extensions. A complete failure.
That's the other point... they're not anonymous. the manufacturer keeps the specs closed, the chip is undocumented... you rely on the manufacturer's software engineers to write your drivers.. and the manufacturer doesn't care about new kernel versions. they made it work once with the 'current' thing when the chip came out - from then you're on your own.
You would download newer versions of the drivers... right? you wouldn't complain to microsoft that your win98 drivers aren't working anymore, would you?
So why do you think the same situation should just magically work in Linux?
The problem is that the RT2500 chipset is proprietary, closed-source that's "maintained" by a Taiwanese manufacturer who doesn't care about his users at all and only wants to sell cheap hardware and as much of it as possible.
Why would you get quality, polished drivers that are updated to support newer paradigms in newer kernels if the manufacturer isn't cooperating?
I think it's magic that these drivers work at all.
Next time, buy better kit with a reputable mfr that cares about linux support.
Why is an OS that you can only use web applications on better than one that you can use web applications on and native apps on?
I think apple answered that one for you:
because the vast majority of the consumers are absolute retards who want LESS flexibility and more simplicity. as sad as it is, for a lot of people the less choice you give them the happier they are.
This happens all the time with laptops and cell phones. I've had a cellphone confiscated when it was shipped over, friends had laptops confiscated the exact same way.
Maybe you didn't hear about it because no one cares when an anonymous Taiwanese manufacturer has its products confiscated? But when such a hyped product like the iPad gets confiscated, the fanbois just go mental, filled with self importance they make outrageous claims like Israel would change their policy specifically for the iPad - because it's THAT cool.
Seriously, this is really not news-worthy and wouldn't make it to a page 50 random headlines section unless crazy apple fanboys were involved.
The reason it was singled out was because a few visitors were actually trying to pass the devices through customs so that they could legitimately use them in Israel.
I suspect most of the Japanese visitors to the US don't declare their phones as taxable goods since they have no intent of keeping/selling them in the US.
People who didn't declare their iPads when entering the country were not specifically searched for iPads.
Israel was taking stuff that didn't belong to it in the name of "safety".
didn't belong to it? In the name of saftey? Why do you make these things up? The iPad has never passed the israeli communication ministry tests for wireless devices. it's not qualified for use in Israel. Every wireless device MUST pass these tests before it can be admitted into the country. Israel has been doing the same for many different type of cellular phones since forever, but no one gives a shit because they weren't apple products.
When a wireless device goes to the US, it needs to be approved by the FCC. if it isn't, then it is illegal for use in the US. that simple. no "saftey" reasons, no "terror" reasons. It's just a fucking wireless device that needs to approved first.
And "taking stuff that didn't belong to it"??? would you say the same when some drug dealer tries to smuggle illicit substances into your country and the government confiscates the drugs? Besides, the iPads were kept in storage until you left the country. You could alternatively ship them back home straight from the border stop.
This is not your private development repository we're talking about.
Companies normally don't include "clutter" and left over files in a release tree. Normally, you would have a carefully prepared and checked distribution tree, where every file is accounted for. If steam now includes some linux libraries, I would take it as a very strong indication that they intend to use them.
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Actually for tablets it is a big indicator given that they don't really run multiple applications that we can test them out on.
I would argue this is only a limitation on apple device.
Furthermore, you say:
What the good responsiveness shows is that the chip is capable to running the OS very smoothly.
But not more than that. You can't possibly begin to compare processors through UI responsiveness when they're running different operating systems.
The Nintendo Wii in particular has proven a very important point. Hardware spec wise, it's a pile of crap. Yet it's also a wildly popular platform. Why? Affordability is a significant factor. Also it's because instead of focusing on massive polygon counts and 1600x antialiasing and whatnot other geewhizbang features, they make games that are enjoyable to play.
Popularity has nothing to do with quality. Wii is popular because it's a very social platform. people like to have friends over and play things together. they never really care for game quality, as most Wii games are a pile of crap (just like the hardware), but they are fun when you're with friends.
Games as a business probably make more sense on the console. but just because most people are happy with crappy games and equally shitty hardware is that a reason to stop pursuing new frontiers?
Most people don't need high levels of education. Most people don't need anything sophisticated in their lives. Most people would be perfectly happy if we close down NASA and stop exploring space. Most people don't care about the Higgs Boson and the LHC.
Is that really a reason to stop trying to push the envelope?
You don't need to flip individual bits in a chip to cause problems with car electronics. I suspect if something flipped dozens or thousands it would still cause problems. So you shouldn't get so fixated on individual bit flips.
Seriously? are you trolling?
Flipping 1 bit is pretty rare, the probability of flipping more than 1 bit is almost non-existent.. so dozens or thousands?
Clearly, if everyone were being "thought racist" then you wouldn't know racism even exists! but since racist often act upon their thoughts, you have a serious problem.
Where's your sense of justice? why are you applying patterns without thinking at all?
Turkey is a perpetrator trying to cover up a crime. When they arrest someone it's because they are closer to a tyrannical state than a democracy.
The holocaust has without a shade of a doubt happened, the Germans even took responsibility and admitted. Therefore, by denying its existence you should rightfully be arrested for antisemitism and racism.
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Agreed. my utter disgust of these people got the better of me.
Ooh.. defensive.
If you'd pay attention, the things they "pointed out" were things that cannot be abused unless the system was designed by complete retards. Also, the assumption that bugs and glitches cannot be fixed and smoothed out is fundamentally incapacitating for any sort of future development.
Liberals is something that once stood for great principals and freedom - but since have been twisted, violated and transformed int the abomination it now is - a suicidal attitude that favors the perpetrator over the victim.
Not talking about you specifically, but about most people. If you don't drive - maybe we shouldn't have cars?... silly.
My point is, that the abuse is worth it if the system works the absolute majority of the time.
Whenever a way to abuse it is found, then it should be fixed.
The idea is not 'flawed' or 'cannot ever be made to work'.
The liberal lefties at work, trying to castrate an idea before it has even manifested itself.
You're so sure technology cannot be polished and that everything's going to fail, then why risk driving a car? why risk going on a bus? the under paid bitter driver might smash into a wall for fun.
Or why eat out? the underpaid bitter waiter might poo in your food for entertainment.
Why aren't police officers shooting people for fun?
Why do you think someone cannot create a system which is good enough to not zap wrongfully?
How about requiring an authorization password from the operator - which immediately logs the operator name, time and the location of the prisoner - to guarantee accountability? no. liberal hippies are no better than small minded bigots.
I knew someone's going to say that.
Well, the answer is, that a remote operator will need to authorize the zapping.
And if it still wrongfully zaps someone, then they have the right to sue. Practically speaking, it's going to be less than 1 in a 1000000 that gets zapped wrongly.
Almost the same, except for the whole TV game show bit.
It's not the same thing.
You're talking about a something that simply tracks the prisoner, but does not take an enforcement measures.
If a prisoner walks out of his allowed boundary - the police is notified and they should dispatch someone to get the prisoner back...
however, imagine something that would deal an extremely painful, incapacitating electric shock whenever one steps out of his allowed boundary.
That's what "swift, certain punishment for any deviations" is all about.
Of course, that's just wishful thinking. Let the liberal, hippies castrate this until it won't "scar" the delicate souls of the inmates, limiting it to such a stupidity and rendering it completely incompetent - after which they would complain how it failed miserably.
Personally, I would give my vote to something that delivers a lethal injection on confirmed violation.
Funny you mention the mainstream.
You'd be surprised what a small subset of of features mainstream users use on their day to day.
Software can be designed modularly in a way that not all features are "loaded" and consume resources when they are not in use.
Firefox is ridiculously slow on my quad core/8gb ram system at work. Chrome feels 10x faster - gui is snappy, graphics is rendered quickly, practically starts up instantly. I don't care about memory foot-print, I wouldn't care if firefox were using 1gb of ram as long as it would be as snappy and fast as chrome.
And guess what? I don't notice any missing features from chrome. Sure, adblock isn't perfect - but it's good enough. I don't care about any other plugin. You think i care about the XUL gui rendering framework? why would I?
Firefox is no longer catering to the mainstream. It's an over-engineered piece of bloated software. bloat != features... bloat == mostly useless features that cause slowdowns. A well designed browser will have an extremely fast core and very flxeible extension mechanisms... firefox is slow without any extensions. A complete failure.
That's the other point... they're not anonymous. the manufacturer keeps the specs closed, the chip is undocumented... you rely on the manufacturer's software engineers to write your drivers.. and the manufacturer doesn't care about new kernel versions. they made it work once with the 'current' thing when the chip came out - from then you're on your own.
do you bother reading anything before you post?
My point was that the kernel should move ahead and have the driver developers keep up - not the other way around.
Would you use windows 98 drivers with windows 7?
They most likely would not work.
You would download newer versions of the drivers... right? you wouldn't complain to microsoft that your win98 drivers aren't working anymore, would you?
So why do you think the same situation should just magically work in Linux?
The problem is that the RT2500 chipset is proprietary, closed-source that's "maintained" by a Taiwanese manufacturer who doesn't care about his users at all and only wants to sell cheap hardware and as much of it as possible.
Why would you get quality, polished drivers that are updated to support newer paradigms in newer kernels if the manufacturer isn't cooperating?
I think it's magic that these drivers work at all.
Next time, buy better kit with a reputable mfr that cares about linux support.
Why is an OS that you can only use web applications on better than one that you can use web applications on and native apps on?
I think apple answered that one for you:
because the vast majority of the consumers are absolute retards who want LESS flexibility and more simplicity. as sad as it is, for a lot of people the less choice you give them the happier they are.
how could you have missed the joke? do you have no sense of humour? he even put a /s(arcasm) in the end!
You're so frustrating.
As an airline traveller, when you enter the country, you have 2 routes: 1. declare goods for tax purposes 2. nothing to declare
Generally speaking, if you bought something abroad then you need to go through 1 and pay the appropriate tax.
If you go through 2, you would normally not be searched. Although, you might be chosen randomly for a search.
If you go through 1, you need to show all the items that you've bought abroad and pay whatever custom taxes you need to pay.
Have a look here. The order was given to customs - i.e. only to people who opted to go through route 1.
This happens all the time with laptops and cell phones. I've had a cellphone confiscated when it was shipped over, friends had laptops confiscated the exact same way.
Maybe you didn't hear about it because no one cares when an anonymous Taiwanese manufacturer has its products confiscated? But when such a hyped product like the iPad gets confiscated, the fanbois just go mental, filled with self importance they make outrageous claims like Israel would change their policy specifically for the iPad - because it's THAT cool.
Seriously, this is really not news-worthy and wouldn't make it to a page 50 random headlines section unless crazy apple fanboys were involved.
The reason it was singled out was because a few visitors were actually trying to pass the devices through customs so that they could legitimately use them in Israel.
I suspect most of the Japanese visitors to the US don't declare their phones as taxable goods since they have no intent of keeping/selling them in the US.
People who didn't declare their iPads when entering the country were not specifically searched for iPads.
Israel was taking stuff that didn't belong to it in the name of "safety".
didn't belong to it? In the name of saftey? Why do you make these things up?
The iPad has never passed the israeli communication ministry tests for wireless devices. it's not qualified for use in Israel. Every wireless device MUST pass these tests before it can be admitted into the country. Israel has been doing the same for many different type of cellular phones since forever, but no one gives a shit because they weren't apple products.
When a wireless device goes to the US, it needs to be approved by the FCC. if it isn't, then it is illegal for use in the US. that simple. no "saftey" reasons, no "terror" reasons. It's just a fucking wireless device that needs to approved first.
And "taking stuff that didn't belong to it"??? would you say the same when some drug dealer tries to smuggle illicit substances into your country and the government confiscates the drugs? Besides, the iPads were kept in storage until you left the country. You could alternatively ship them back home straight from the border stop.
Sucks to be you.
Almost took you seriously, but then I read that.
This is not your private development repository we're talking about.
Companies normally don't include "clutter" and left over files in a release tree. Normally, you would have a carefully prepared and checked distribution tree, where every file is accounted for. If steam now includes some linux libraries, I would take it as a very strong indication that they intend to use them.
Actually for tablets it is a big indicator given that they don't really run multiple applications that we can test them out on.
I would argue this is only a limitation on apple device.
Furthermore, you say:
What the good responsiveness shows is that the chip is capable to running the OS very smoothly.
But not more than that. You can't possibly begin to compare processors through UI responsiveness when they're running different operating systems.
The Nintendo Wii in particular has proven a very important point. Hardware spec wise, it's a pile of crap. Yet it's also a wildly popular platform. Why? Affordability is a significant factor. Also it's because instead of focusing on massive polygon counts and 1600x antialiasing and whatnot other geewhizbang features, they make games that are enjoyable to play.
Popularity has nothing to do with quality. Wii is popular because it's a very social platform. people like to have friends over and play things together. they never really care for game quality, as most Wii games are a pile of crap (just like the hardware), but they are fun when you're with friends.
Games as a business probably make more sense on the console. but just because most people are happy with crappy games and equally shitty hardware is that a reason to stop pursuing new frontiers?
Most people don't need high levels of education. Most people don't need anything sophisticated in their lives. Most people would be perfectly happy if we close down NASA and stop exploring space. Most people don't care about the Higgs Boson and the LHC.
Is that really a reason to stop trying to push the envelope?
You don't need to flip individual bits in a chip to cause problems with car electronics. I suspect if something flipped dozens or thousands it would still cause problems. So you shouldn't get so fixated on individual bit flips.
Seriously? are you trolling?
Flipping 1 bit is pretty rare, the probability of flipping more than 1 bit is almost non-existent.. so dozens or thousands?
Thoughts are not arrest-able... but actions are.
Clearly, if everyone were being "thought racist" then you wouldn't know racism even exists! but since racist often act upon their thoughts, you have a serious problem.
Where's your sense of justice? why are you applying patterns without thinking at all?
Turkey is a perpetrator trying to cover up a crime. When they arrest someone it's because they are closer to a tyrannical state than a democracy.
The holocaust has without a shade of a doubt happened, the Germans even took responsibility and admitted. Therefore, by denying its existence you should rightfully be arrested for antisemitism and racism.