All electrical items with microelectronics use DC. But that's not the point, is it? Very few electronic items use 110/220v directly? If you tried connecting your laptop to 110v DC, bypassing the transformer/rectifier, you wouild end up with lots of magic blue smoke and quite probably a loud bang or two.
All electronic items that plug into the wall have a built in transformer. ALL of them.
(Note here the distinction between electronic and electrical)
It might hurt more, but it's damage potential is less. "It's the volts that jolts and the mills that kills" Higher voltage may cause more muscle contraction but it's the actual current that kills you. At 220 volts the current in a household system is half that in a 110v system for the same amount of power.
Oh, and to the people claiming AC is safer, poppycock. DC is. "you have 60 times per second chance of letting go"... Muscles don't have that reaction time. If you're gripping something live, your muscles will contract no matter if it's ac or dc.
Why is AC more dangerous then? Simple. Alternating current forces the heart to spasm uncontrollably. Even when the current is removed, the heart can't usually recover and remains in palpitation... Usually, the only way to get it back to its normal rhythm is actually a jolt of DC.
'Course we would. We'd all be using Baird televisualisers. I imagine as the technology improved we'd get more than the 20 vertical lines he had on the original....
We might even have Hi-Def digital televisualisers by now if they'd developed. 600 lines of digitally enhanced goodness.
2 major ones with the huge split? FFS, if you're talking about redhat's RPM and debian's DEB packaging systems, there isn't a "split". A split implies they both forked from the same distro. Those two formed independently in the distant past and now exist quite happily together. RPM and DEB users can even install software from the other side if they deem it neccesary, although it's better to stick with the repositories setup by the distro in question.
So no, there IS no problem. Any more than there's a problem that both manual and automatic geared automobiles exist. The packaging system has only a miniscule affect on how the system operates anyway and most of the time the user won't even notice.
In what way is the driver model a compromise? Where is there a superior driver model? Come on, if you're going to troll, you may as well try to back it up with some facts.
X11 is not worthless. If you want to claim it is you'll have to back it up with some words, rather than just insinuation. Both gnome and KDE are valid desktops, dunno where in hell you got the "thin client" thing from, you've got no idea what a thin client is if you think that.
And finally, the GPL. Like it or not there's no way linux is dropping the GPL, so don't even bother dreaming about it. It's here to stay and any company that decided they were going to WITHDRAW linux support would only be shooting themselves in the foot considering its populariry. 10 years ago, they might've thought "no point supporting it" but now... It'd be a VERY stupid mistake for them to make.
Simple. They fill a need in function. How many distributions are there once you've discounted the ones that are EXTREMELY FOCUSSED? Lose the rescue distros. The distros designed to run from a single floppy, the distros designed to have a single function such as firewall-on-a-floppy types.
Once you've edited the list down to lose all those you get down to a reasonable number.
The 300 distros is too much argument is as brain dead now as it was 5 years ago. A spouting of wintrolls. "Linux has too much choice, how can people know which distro to use when there're so many, blah blah blah". But when more than half of the ones out there are of the type described above, and a third or more of the rest are live cd variations, the actual "desktop linux" and "server linux" focussed distros probably only add up to about 50.
And only 6 of those will be picked by "newbies" anyway.
Do you remember the 1980s? He-Man? Thundercats? With the terrible moralistic crud at the end of every episode?
If kids think they're being lectured at, they'll turn off. (their ears, not the TV) Are these Barbie films transparent enough for your kids to see through them?
Indeed, quite a few BBC comedies get their first airing on radio. On the hour became the day today, goodness gracious me, people like us, on the town with the league of gentlemen...
1: I liked Torchwood. 2: Pilots usually appear months before an actual series. That's their purpose, to test the waters before laying out a wad of cash on a full series.
Same thing happened with little britain. They made a pilot, then about 6 months later we saw the first series.
Besides which, who's to say you can't sue for copyright infringement in the small claims court? I don't know what the general rules on small claims court use are, but I see no reason why copyright infringement should be excluded as long as the award at the end is limited to the small claims limit. The "£edoral government" has absolutely nothing to do with it. And why would they? Just because the MPAA is an american organisation? Rubbish. They broke the law in a different country by "stealing" (their definition) something from the UK. The fact the injured party charges in £ rather than $ for he use of his software proves that.
*ESPECIALLY if it was done using work hardware? You would fire someone for downloading copyright material in their own time at their own home and at their own expense?
What business is it of the employer WHAT someone gets up to in the privacy of their own home?
The employer has no right to order someone about in that someone's own time. They aren't property, they're their own "man"
Fine, if someone gets imprisoned, maybe then, sack 'em because they're not available for work, but otherwise...
Kids will ALWAYS find ways to injure themselves (sometimes fatally) And yes, fine, protecting them from some things like toys that break to reveal sharp impaling needles and things should be banned. But some of those toys?
As someone mentioned elsewhere, have sticks, trees, stairs, lakes etc been "banned"?
Because thousands more kids have been injured doing what kids do without the aid of a plastic toy.
They're going over the top with safety, if you deny that then I refer you to the story of schools banning the playing of conkers. One of THE traditional playground games from time immemorial.
(For the americans out there, a "conker" is a horsechestnut and the game involves drilling a hole down the centre of the conker and threading some string through it. Then each player holds his conker out at arms length while the other uses his to try to smash it, each taking turns. Each hit scores a point. Destroying a conker gains the points of that conker too... leading to the phrase "Mine's a 50'er" or "mine's a 102'er".
During the summer months we had a similar game based on wooden lolly sticks.
Playgrounds nowadays do have mainly woodchips, sand or that rubber matting.
But when I were a lad, we didn't 'ave any of that poncy stuff. We 'ad proper 'ard tarmac. Under all the playground rides, slide? tarmac. Swings? Tarmac. Metal climbing frames and roundabouts? Tarmac.
And our swings were the proper ones, no "harnesses" to hold the child in. No Tires. Just hard plastic seat connected by 2 chains to the metal crossbar 15 feet up.
We used to have competitions to see who could swing and jump off the furthest. Kids should NEVER be wrapped in cotton wool. A few cuts and grazes are part of growing up.
Yesss... He started talking about italy. But by the end of it, he'd lumped the entirety of europe into his gripe. Every country in europe has its own tax and social security policies. Its own policing policies. And its own national health infrastructure. In the UK you'd get that painkiller for your broken leg on prescription. You would in most european countries. (In some, you may have to pay a smaller amount for the drug than it would cost without. In some, you may get the drug free of charge with the prescription. In others the prescription may possibly cost MORE and you'd be better off buying the drug off the shelf if it's available. So saying the whole of europe is crap just because Italyis... That's like saying every single american's stupid because George W Bush is.
Rubbish. OK. Most computer users with 6502 based systems were FORCED to resort to assembler because their basic was so abominable (commode 64/vic20). But even the CPU's instruction set wasn't that "easy" or "good" for beginners.
What with all that zero page nonsense. Limited 8 bit registers. Etc.
People haven't made full use of a computer's abilities since the 8 bits. (in those days, the programmers would often use every trick in the book to squeeze every last ounce of capability from a machine)
And when will microsoft realise that "Taking full advantage of a processor's power" is *NOT* something you want an operating system to DO? An OS is supposed to sit unobtrusively in the background handling context switches, I/O and memory management. It's not supposed to use massive chunks of processor power that should be available to the apps themselves!
That quote has been used to much it's entered the common vernacular, hardly worth attributing it these days. (besides, I wasn't sure it was mr Clemmens and couldn't be bothered checking)
So, where did you read that windows is more secure all of a sudden?
You didn't take those figures at face value did you? Those figures said they were for linux AND other univx variants like OSX...
So, 2500 between OSX, openBSD, netBSD, freeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc... (not to mention all the flaws listed for the dfifferent linux distributions probably got duplicated across several distros)
versus 900 for windows (I'm rounding up) Was this 900 split between 95/98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista? or just for XP?
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All electrical items with microelectronics use DC.
But that's not the point, is it? Very few electronic items use 110/220v directly?
If you tried connecting your laptop to 110v DC, bypassing the transformer/rectifier, you wouild end up with lots of magic blue smoke and quite probably a loud bang or two.
All electronic items that plug into the wall have a built in transformer.
ALL of them.
(Note here the distinction between electronic and electrical)
It might hurt more, but it's damage potential is less.
"It's the volts that jolts and the mills that kills"
Higher voltage may cause more muscle contraction but it's the actual current that kills you.
At 220 volts the current in a household system is half that in a 110v system for the same amount of power.
Oh, and to the people claiming AC is safer, poppycock.
DC is. "you have 60 times per second chance of letting go"... Muscles don't have that reaction time. If you're gripping something live, your muscles will contract no matter if it's ac or dc.
Why is AC more dangerous then? Simple. Alternating current forces the heart to spasm uncontrollably.
Even when the current is removed, the heart can't usually recover and remains in palpitation... Usually, the only way to get it back to its normal rhythm is actually a jolt of DC.
CLEAR! *BADOOMP*
'Course we would.
We'd all be using Baird televisualisers.
I imagine as the technology improved we'd get more than the 20 vertical lines he had on the original....
We might even have Hi-Def digital televisualisers by now if they'd developed.
600 lines of digitally enhanced goodness.
2 major ones with the huge split?
FFS, if you're talking about redhat's RPM and debian's DEB packaging systems, there isn't a "split". A split implies they both forked from the same distro. Those two formed independently in the distant past and now exist quite happily together. RPM and DEB users can even install software from the other side if they deem it neccesary, although it's better to stick with the repositories setup by the distro in question.
So no, there IS no problem. Any more than there's a problem that both manual and automatic geared automobiles exist.
The packaging system has only a miniscule affect on how the system operates anyway and most of the time the user won't even notice.
In what way is the driver model a compromise? Where is there a superior driver model?
Come on, if you're going to troll, you may as well try to back it up with some facts.
X11 is not worthless. If you want to claim it is you'll have to back it up with some words, rather than just insinuation.
Both gnome and KDE are valid desktops, dunno where in hell you got the "thin client" thing from, you've got no idea what a thin client is if you think that.
And finally, the GPL. Like it or not there's no way linux is dropping the GPL, so don't even bother dreaming about it. It's here to stay and any company that decided they were going to WITHDRAW linux support would only be shooting themselves in the foot considering its populariry. 10 years ago, they might've thought "no point supporting it" but now... It'd be a VERY stupid mistake for them to make.
Simple.
They fill a need in function.
How many distributions are there once you've discounted the ones that are EXTREMELY FOCUSSED?
Lose the rescue distros. The distros designed to run from a single floppy, the distros designed to have a single function such as firewall-on-a-floppy types.
Once you've edited the list down to lose all those you get down to a reasonable number.
The 300 distros is too much argument is as brain dead now as it was 5 years ago.
A spouting of wintrolls. "Linux has too much choice, how can people know which distro to use when there're so many, blah blah blah". But when more than half of the ones out there are of the type described above, and a third or more of the rest are live cd variations, the actual "desktop linux" and "server linux" focussed distros probably only add up to about 50.
And only 6 of those will be picked by "newbies" anyway.
What does the american constitution have to do with this issue?
Apart from nothing at all, that is?
Do you remember the 1980s?
He-Man? Thundercats?
With the terrible moralistic crud at the end of every episode?
If kids think they're being lectured at, they'll turn off. (their ears, not the TV)
Are these Barbie films transparent enough for your kids to see through them?
Indeed, quite a few BBC comedies get their first airing on radio.
On the hour became the day today, goodness gracious me, people like us, on the town with the league of gentlemen...
1: I liked Torchwood.
2: Pilots usually appear months before an actual series. That's their purpose, to test the waters before laying out a wad of cash on a full series.
Same thing happened with little britain. They made a pilot, then about 6 months later we saw the first series.
The chicken represented your "food" or "life energy". :)
Not your score.
Don't forget, that when pointing out an error, they'll never learn if you don't offer them the correct words. :)
Which is supposedly, supposedly.
Besides which, who's to say you can't sue for copyright infringement in the small claims court?
I don't know what the general rules on small claims court use are, but I see no reason why copyright infringement should be excluded as long as the award at the end is limited to the small claims limit.
The "£edoral government" has absolutely nothing to do with it. And why would they?
Just because the MPAA is an american organisation?
Rubbish. They broke the law in a different country by "stealing" (their definition) something from the UK.
The fact the injured party charges in £ rather than $ for he use of his software proves that.
*ESPECIALLY if it was done using work hardware?
You would fire someone for downloading copyright material in their own time at their own home and at their own expense?
What business is it of the employer WHAT someone gets up to in the privacy of their own home?
The employer has no right to order someone about in that someone's own time. They aren't property, they're their own "man"
Fine, if someone gets imprisoned, maybe then, sack 'em because they're not available for work, but otherwise...
Kids will ALWAYS find ways to injure themselves (sometimes fatally)
And yes, fine, protecting them from some things like toys that break to reveal sharp impaling needles and things should be banned. But some of those toys?
As someone mentioned elsewhere, have sticks, trees, stairs, lakes etc been "banned"?
Because thousands more kids have been injured doing what kids do without the aid of a plastic toy.
They're going over the top with safety, if you deny that then I refer you to the story of schools banning the playing of conkers. One of THE traditional playground games from time immemorial.
(For the americans out there, a "conker" is a horsechestnut and the game involves drilling a hole down the centre of the conker and threading some string through it. Then each player holds his conker out at arms length while the other uses his to try to smash it, each taking turns. Each hit scores a point. Destroying a conker gains the points of that conker too... leading to the phrase "Mine's a 50'er" or "mine's a 102'er".
During the summer months we had a similar game based on wooden lolly sticks.
Playgrounds nowadays do have mainly woodchips, sand or that rubber matting.
But when I were a lad, we didn't 'ave any of that poncy stuff. We 'ad proper 'ard tarmac.
Under all the playground rides, slide? tarmac. Swings? Tarmac. Metal climbing frames and roundabouts? Tarmac.
And our swings were the proper ones, no "harnesses" to hold the child in.
No Tires. Just hard plastic seat connected by 2 chains to the metal crossbar 15 feet up.
We used to have competitions to see who could swing and jump off the furthest.
Kids should NEVER be wrapped in cotton wool. A few cuts and grazes are part of growing up.
There're too many good characters to pick one favourite... But one of the best lesser charactrers has to be...
Lurr of omicron persei 8.
Woaaaaa... I think there was something funny in that hippy...
Or... alternatively, he heard Arthur call him Ford.
He did say it whilst in the waiting room.
"Ford! you're turning into a penguin! Stop it!"
Yesss...
He started talking about italy.
But by the end of it, he'd lumped the entirety of europe into his gripe.
Every country in europe has its own tax and social security policies.
Its own policing policies.
And its own national health infrastructure.
In the UK you'd get that painkiller for your broken leg on prescription.
You would in most european countries.
(In some, you may have to pay a smaller amount for the drug than it would cost without. In some, you may get the drug free of charge with the prescription. In others the prescription may possibly cost MORE and you'd be better off buying the drug off the shelf if it's available. So saying the whole of europe is crap just because Italyis... That's like saying every single american's stupid because George W Bush is.
6502?
Rubbish. OK. Most computer users with 6502 based systems were FORCED to resort to assembler because their basic was so abominable (commode 64/vic20). But even the CPU's instruction set wasn't that "easy" or "good" for beginners.
What with all that zero page nonsense. Limited 8 bit registers. Etc.
Z80 and MC68000 were by far the nicer cpus.
Indeed.
People haven't made full use of a computer's abilities since the 8 bits.
(in those days, the programmers would often use every trick in the book to squeeze every last ounce of capability from a machine)
And when will microsoft realise that "Taking full advantage of a processor's power" is *NOT* something you want an operating system to DO?
An OS is supposed to sit unobtrusively in the background handling context switches, I/O and memory management. It's not supposed to use massive chunks of processor power that should be available to the apps themselves!
The slashdot front page article did have something to say about that though didn;t it...
They're not releasing any of the violating code (in their eyes)
They're releasing "2.5 kernel technology with recent sco additions"
I think all their "IBM stole from SCO" arguments were over the 2.6 kernel.
So, they're releasing a 4 year old unstable branch patched with their additions back into the market as an "enterprise" operating system?
They don't stand a chance either way.
Consumption never went away...
Oh, we all got the jabs, but it's mutated into a resistant strain since then and is starting to be a problem again.
(You may remember it as TB or Tuberculosis)
That quote has been used to much it's entered the common vernacular, hardly worth attributing it these days.
(besides, I wasn't sure it was mr Clemmens and couldn't be bothered checking)
So, where did you read that windows is more secure all of a sudden?
You didn't take those figures at face value did you?
Those figures said they were for linux AND other univx variants like OSX...
So, 2500 between OSX, openBSD, netBSD, freeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc... (not to mention all the flaws listed for the dfifferent linux distributions probably got duplicated across several distros)
versus 900 for windows
(I'm rounding up)
Was this 900 split between 95/98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista?
or just for XP?
There're lies, damned lies, and statistics
Who you are, where you are and when you last had lunch with Zaphod Beeblebrox?