Windows drags smoothly because it updates LESS FREQUENTLY with NO STUTTER. It spends more time per update, and therefore it is slower. However, the brain latches onto the stutter in XFree86, so you PERCIEVE its updates as taking more time.
Whether this is true or not I don't know; I haven't seen the benchmarks. But I have heard it before.
Grub does much, much more than just provide graphical eye candy. The usefulness of having a bootloader command line on which you can type an entirely new boot entry or edit an existing one is something you cannot fully appreciate until your system isn't booting, you're upgrading your kernel, etc.
It's one of those things where, when you first hear it, you think: "But, why would I ever actually want to do that? I can recover from that same situation with LILO if I do this-and-this-and-this." Try it once, however, and you'll be amazed you were ever satisfied without it.
eminent domain n. The right of a government to appropriate private property for public use, usually with compensation to the owner.
Surely you've heard of it. If not, search on google, and you'll discover that it's hardly a foreign concept in the United States, or indeed any country on Earth. The concept dates back to before the Magna Carta. Modern democratic governments sieze private property for "the good of society" on a fairly regular basis--teachers usually give the example of building a highway when explaining the concept. Hell, in my home town the city government is trying to get through the process of seizing the local water company from its owners. (It's currently a regulated private company.)
US patent and copyright law is steeped in language referring to promoting "the good of society", and that's the original language created by the founding fathers.
The parent post you label as communist presents an idea which is much more easily reconciled with the thinking of the founding fathers than your own--none of them would have agreed with you that people have a natural right to control the ideas they create; in fact, they'd probably argue the opposite.
The only reason our representative democracy grants patents is that the benefits to society outweigh the detriment of taking away society's free access to ideas. If the scale tips the other way....
Don't you mean 25x over isotropic? (=10^(14/10)) It's not an order of magnitude difference, but still. So the opponent would need to be 1/5 the distance from the AP to match your power.
I'm not really sure how equal power equates to being "swamped out" either, since the medium access control should divide the bandwidth perfectly in half when the AP can hear the two contending nodes equally well.
Maybe not, never had a class that mentioned wireless MAC, only wired.
MSDN's search function/is/ world-renowned for returning irrelevant results, but I couldn't find what you claim is there. Care to prove your assertion with a link or set of search keywords?
Won't happen. CMOS-on-silicon just cannot get as cheap as it would have to be to be cost-competitive with spinning magnetic media.
Plastic transistors, with their much less costly deposition methods, could make the death of disks feasible. But you cannot achieve the same density--who would want 1GB of solid state memory for $10 if it came on a tarp one meter square?
Compulsory voting gives the incombant party a huge advantage. All they have to do is say "we'll give everyone a free washing machine if we win" (and obviously they have to follow through). The masses then come to the voting both for their free washing machine.
Okay, I don't remember exactly what it was that Pinochet's party promised...washing machine comes to mind, but it doesn't make any sense. I'm probably misremembering it and it was really bread or something. I also don't remember why the opposing party cannot do exactly the same thing, but in any case if they did it apparently didn't work.
Also I realize it's more than a little cynical to assume people will behave that way...but perhaps it isn't unjustified cynicism, as people apparently/did/ in fact behave that way in Chile.
Besides, all voltage is is the difference in the number of electrons between two points.
IANALBIAAEE (I Am Not A Lawyer, But I Am An Electrical Engineer).
That isn't true; voltage and electron density are unrelated.
It's actually pretty easy to prove to yourself. Consider the following facts (anal physics people, cut me some slack so I can expedite things):
The most telling fact: the terminals of a 12V car battery are electrostatically neutral. Try dropping some lint over one to verify this.
Take a very long U-turn of wire, put a very sensitive and very fast oscilliscope voltmeter in the middle and across the two sides, and suddenly touch the two ends to a 12V battery. If density differences were driving electrons down the wire, the voltmeter would read zero, then smoothly run up to 6V (since it's in the middle); the curve would probably look a lot like a fermi distribution function. This would, of course, only take a few microseconds. However, this isn't what happens. In reality, the voltmeter will sit at zero for a time T, then suddenly (but smoothly) jump up to 12V as the voltage wavefront passes, then will sit at 12V for another T, and jump down (as the reflected wavefront passes), then sit for another T and jump up, and so on while asymptotically approaching 6V. There is absolutely no way you can explain this with diffusion gradients. And yet the reflections obviously happen, because the reason you have to put 50ohm coaxial cable into the 50ohm antenna plug on your TV (matched line and load) is to prevent them!
PN semiconductor junctions (AKA diodes) work because diffusion forces resulting from differences in electron concentration are opposed by a voltage difference that developes across the junction. They can't be the same thing if they oppose one another.
If you have a very large loop of low-impedance wire (to minimize confounding influences), with a battery and a multi-megaohm resistor opposite one another in the circuit, nearly all the voltage drop will be across the resistor. If voltage were a difference in electron density, two two ends of the resistor would have different electrostatic charges, and you could detect this with a piece of electrostaticaly charged string held over the resistor. Even with the resistor dissipating millions of watts (implying a huge difference in electron density between the two sides), the string would hang straight down.
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Sigh. What he's saying is simple.
Windows drags smoothly because it updates LESS FREQUENTLY with NO STUTTER. It spends more time per update, and therefore it is slower. However, the brain latches onto the stutter in XFree86, so you PERCIEVE its updates as taking more time.
Whether this is true or not I don't know; I haven't seen the benchmarks. But I have heard it before.
Grub does much, much more than just provide graphical eye candy. The usefulness of having a bootloader command line on which you can type an entirely new boot entry or edit an existing one is something you cannot fully appreciate until your system isn't booting, you're upgrading your kernel, etc.
It's one of those things where, when you first hear it, you think: "But, why would I ever actually want to do that? I can recover from that same situation with LILO if I do this-and-this-and-this." Try it once, however, and you'll be amazed you were ever satisfied without it.
eminent domain n. The right of a government to appropriate private property for public use, usually with compensation to the owner.
Surely you've heard of it. If not, search on google, and you'll discover that it's hardly a foreign concept in the United States, or indeed any country on Earth. The concept dates back to before the Magna Carta. Modern democratic governments sieze private property for "the good of society" on a fairly regular basis--teachers usually give the example of building a highway when explaining the concept. Hell, in my home town the city government is trying to get through the process of seizing the local water company from its owners. (It's currently a regulated private company.)
US patent and copyright law is steeped in language referring to promoting "the good of society", and that's the original language created by the founding fathers.
The parent post you label as communist presents an idea which is much more easily reconciled with the thinking of the founding fathers than your own--none of them would have agreed with you that people have a natural right to control the ideas they create; in fact, they'd probably argue the opposite.
The only reason our representative democracy grants patents is that the benefits to society outweigh the detriment of taking away society's free access to ideas. If the scale tips the other way....
Don't you mean 25x over isotropic? (=10^(14/10)) It's not an order of magnitude difference, but still. So the opponent would need to be 1/5 the distance from the AP to match your power.
I'm not really sure how equal power equates to being "swamped out" either, since the medium access control should divide the bandwidth perfectly in half when the AP can hear the two contending nodes equally well.
Maybe not, never had a class that mentioned wireless MAC, only wired.
MSDN's search function /is/ world-renowned for returning irrelevant results, but I couldn't find what you claim is there. Care to prove your assertion with a link or set of search keywords?
Won't happen. CMOS-on-silicon just cannot get as cheap as it would have to be to be cost-competitive with spinning magnetic media. Plastic transistors, with their much less costly deposition methods, could make the death of disks feasible. But you cannot achieve the same density--who would want 1GB of solid state memory for $10 if it came on a tarp one meter square?
I mean compulsory in the same sense you do.
/did/ in fact behave that way in Chile.
Compulsory voting gives the incombant party a huge advantage. All they have to do is say "we'll give everyone a free washing machine if we win" (and obviously they have to follow through). The masses then come to the voting both for their free washing machine.
Okay, I don't remember exactly what it was that Pinochet's party promised...washing machine comes to mind, but it doesn't make any sense. I'm probably misremembering it and it was really bread or something. I also don't remember why the opposing party cannot do exactly the same thing, but in any case if they did it apparently didn't work.
Also I realize it's more than a little cynical to assume people will behave that way...but perhaps it isn't unjustified cynicism, as people apparently
Cumpulsory voting is, in my opinion, much more dangerous than it is advantageous. After all, that's how Pinochet kept himself in power IIRC.
Besides, all voltage is is the difference in the number of electrons between two points.
IANALBIAAEE (I Am Not A Lawyer, But I Am An Electrical Engineer).
That isn't true; voltage and electron density are unrelated.
It's actually pretty easy to prove to yourself. Consider the following facts (anal physics people, cut me some slack so I can expedite things):