Diamond planet many many light years away... absolutely no effect on me, I don't care if you're right or wrong, but I suspect you're wrong anyway. Why? Astrophysicists are usually wrong. You're looking through a telescope making indirect observations that you can only confirm by other indirect observations about the way something works. Too much of it requires faith in guesses with almost nothing to back them up. I know we have to make some assumptions, but the number of assumptions involved at this level are just ridiculous to any scientist who actually understands the subject matter at all.
Someone telling me I have to change my lifestyle because the world is going to end as I know it otherwise? I'm supposed to believe them based on blind faith or a bunch of indirect evidence presented at me with no long term directly observed facts to back it up? Thats not science, its religion, and the people pushing it act like its a religion, again making me trust it less. Its more like a cult than a religion I guess as most people involved with it are fanatical. I was TAUGHT to ignore people like that, or else I'd end up drinking suicide juice the next time a comet swings by so they could beam me up!
They can differentiate themselves in those 2 areas with Android just fine.
No, they can't... they can't because they are just like EVERY OTHER ANDROID PHONE ON THE PLANET.
People don't give a fuck about hardware specs, just that its 'good enough', at that point software makes the difference. And the difference with Android is what? The amount of carrier mandated shit they put on your phone or how long it takes to jailbreak it.... err, root it.
Open and unencumbered standards where anyone can implement the standard without having to sign license agreements or pay royalties. Open but encumbered standards where anyone can buy and read a copy but to implement the standard legally you have to sign a patent license agreement and pay license fees.
You're confusing Open and Free. You seem to think Open means Free. It does not. Open does not have any relation to fees other than they are fair. 0 fee is fair, and so is $100 billion per copy, as long as its the same for everyone.
Stop trying to project your agenda on everyone else by using open to mean something it does not. You clearly want 0 cost, so you want free, not open.
Lion's window reopening is great... right up till you start an app with an old document in it... that the person looking over your shoulder sees... and its about the day they are getting fired.
That was turned off as soon as I could find a way.
when Software Update tells you to restart, you can usually Force-Quit it and continue working.
You do realize that all it does before that is essentially downloads the items, runs the updates on things that don't need restarting, and preps the ones that require restarts... if you kill software update when it says a restart is needed then you aren't actually installing updates that require a restart.
You got a virus because you downloaded something from somewhere you shouldn't have.
Unless you downloaded something from a SSL site, also had your DNS and your upstream DNS compromised to direct you to a fake SSL download site, and then actually downloaded something via SSL with a stolen cert... then well theres no way this had anything to do with it.
You got a virus because you did something stupid, not because someone else did.
You got a virus for the same reason every windows user gets a virus, STOP CLICKING ON RANDOM LINKS FROM EMAIL ADDRESSES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. THERE IS NO PACKAGE WAITING ON YOUR FROM DHL OR REPORT FOR YOU TO REVIEW IN ORDER TO GET YOUR MILLIONS.
Chrome only uses its own store on Linux where there isn't a system wide store, and you have to patch each app individually. On any sane OS it uses the one provided by the OS like a good little application should.
I suffered my first ever virus infection today in my windows machine and I think this may be part of how it got in.
You got it because you're stupid. I can say this because you clearly have absolutely NO IDEA what a root certificate does, or you'd know why the statement was fucking stupid in the first place.
All this cert issue will do is allow someone who isn't say... google, to pretend to be google... over ssl...
Which means in order for it to actually work, they'd also have to compromise your DNS, or someone up the food chain, so your ISPs DNS.
And they would have to have infected a site YOU VISIT via SSL, and of course you would have had to download some virus over SSL. Now considering never in my life have I even thought about the fact that I was downloading something over/not over SSL, I'm pretty sure no one would bother doing a MITM attack just to get you to download a virus to your windows machine... Again, there are easier ways.
You do not need to be posting on slashdot, its WAY over your head, even in the shallow end of the pool.
At this point, there are 9 or 10 million easier ways to infect your computer with a virus
And for any reasonable person, the first statement is true.
Mac's don't get viruses.
Its not that they are immune, we all know thats not the case, its that they aren't targeted.
However, none of that changes the fact that from a practical perspective, Mac's don't get viruses.
I could defend the second one too, if you stop being so technical and think like users not techies. Users use words like 'secure' to mean a completely different thing than techies.
Having worked in desktop support for any length of time at all, you'd already know that if you had a clue considering the biggest problem in tech support is generally what the user says is not what you think it is, but you clearly aren't bright enough to figure that part out so I doubt you'll get any more of my explanation anyway.
After all we are the leading technology and industries (TM) nation on this world. Don't you agree?
Hahahah no, I don't agree, and I'd guess a few others don't agree either. Its pretty damn funny though. I'd never actually seen anyone exhibit the 'typical' German arrogance, you're diatribe has been a perfect example though, thanks. Its been a real flashback to Douglas Adams story about Latvians, he described you so well.
really? what kind of shape is the colosseum in? Would a massive cache of weapons grade material stored in the colosseum have survived the multiple sackings of Rome that occurred
Yea, but who would store nuclear waste in the middle of a stadium? That'd be pretty dumb. You store it out in BFE where no one is going to be fighting.
, or would the material have been carted off by the victor and turned into WMDs?
Its waste... It wasn't produced for use in weapons. And lets just be honest, if someone takes us over and steals our nuclear waste to make weapons, I really think we're paste the point of worrying about it.
But... again, its stored in BFE, under ground, accessible only from tunnels which can be blown, making it buried so deep that its only marginally more profitable to go after it than mine the ore and process it.
Seems like we would have probably nuked the planet before letting anyone get to it anyway.
But leading into the next question...
How could we maintain SECURITY on said pile for HUNDREDS of years?
Given that we've seen one major nuclear superpower fall apart with no major problems (yet) and we've seen revolution after revolution in recent years (heh, months even) where no one destroyed their OWN infrastructure.
It would appear that a union the size of USSR can fall apart and people still have the good sense to protect the important nuclear materials. Anyone thats going to want the nuclear waste and can take it ALREADY HAS NUKES.
I'm sorry, what OS are you using to which these things don't apply to? OSX, Linux, Windows all are exactly the same here, they all do these things (well, except for hang the system, unless of course we're hanging because we're waiting on something to be paged so the app we're running appears frozen), and are expected too, for obvious reasons. Well, clearly not obvious to you.
So again, what OS are you using, that those things don't apply to? QNX or BeOS?
The point of an FPS benchmark is to get a higher number than some guy on a forum so you can brag about it.
FPS has never been about how well a system can render a scene because its a shitty measure of it. It ignores quality, complexity, accuracy, stuttering (why is this supposed to be new? GPU stuttering is less noticable than disk IO causing jitter, and NOW the framerate no longer matters? Thats just dumb.
There is nothing 'new' about the frame rate being a shitty method of rating performance, well, except this slashvertisement.
Naw, its so bad to use it won't get abused. You can't get more than one or two sms packets every second realistically anyway, limited to 160 characters or whatever trivial amount it is.
You do realize that you simply didn't have to post after you saw the answer to your question.... right? You actually bother to write the question, go find the answer, then come back say nevermind?
Not sure how fast it would be, but using the unlimited SMS to get around bandwidth limits is brilliant.
Brilliant until you realize that if you just limited yourself to these bit rates from the start, you'd never go over your normal bandwidth limit anyway.
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And thats just the reality of it isn't it?
Diamond planet many many light years away ... absolutely no effect on me, I don't care if you're right or wrong, but I suspect you're wrong anyway. Why? Astrophysicists are usually wrong. You're looking through a telescope making indirect observations that you can only confirm by other indirect observations about the way something works. Too much of it requires faith in guesses with almost nothing to back them up. I know we have to make some assumptions, but the number of assumptions involved at this level are just ridiculous to any scientist who actually understands the subject matter at all.
Someone telling me I have to change my lifestyle because the world is going to end as I know it otherwise? I'm supposed to believe them based on blind faith or a bunch of indirect evidence presented at me with no long term directly observed facts to back it up? Thats not science, its religion, and the people pushing it act like its a religion, again making me trust it less. Its more like a cult than a religion I guess as most people involved with it are fanatical. I was TAUGHT to ignore people like that, or else I'd end up drinking suicide juice the next time a comet swings by so they could beam me up!
They can differentiate themselves in those 2 areas with Android just fine.
No, they can't ... they can't because they are just like EVERY OTHER ANDROID PHONE ON THE PLANET.
People don't give a fuck about hardware specs, just that its 'good enough', at that point software makes the difference. And the difference with Android is what? The amount of carrier mandated shit they put on your phone or how long it takes to jailbreak it .... err, root it.
So explain why there were in that same position before Android existed.
Just because you only recently learned who there are doesn't mean they are actually new kids on the block.
Open and unencumbered standards where anyone can implement the standard without having to sign license agreements or pay royalties.
Open but encumbered standards where anyone can buy and read a copy but to implement the standard legally you have to sign a patent license agreement and pay license fees.
You're confusing Open and Free. You seem to think Open means Free. It does not. Open does not have any relation to fees other than they are fair. 0 fee is fair, and so is $100 billion per copy, as long as its the same for everyone.
Stop trying to project your agenda on everyone else by using open to mean something it does not. You clearly want 0 cost, so you want free, not open.
Windows needed a cert removed. There was no bug, just bad data.
OS X had bad data AND a bug. They fixed both. The bug needed a restart as it was a system wide facility.
Lion's window reopening is great ... right up till you start an app with an old document in it ... that the person looking over your shoulder sees ... and its about the day they are getting fired.
That was turned off as soon as I could find a way.
when Software Update tells you to restart, you can usually Force-Quit it and continue working.
You do realize that all it does before that is essentially downloads the items, runs the updates on things that don't need restarting, and preps the ones that require restarts ... if you kill software update when it says a restart is needed then you aren't actually installing updates that require a restart.
You got a virus because you downloaded something from somewhere you shouldn't have.
Unless you downloaded something from a SSL site, also had your DNS and your upstream DNS compromised to direct you to a fake SSL download site, and then actually downloaded something via SSL with a stolen cert ... then well theres no way this had anything to do with it.
You got a virus because you did something stupid, not because someone else did.
You got a virus for the same reason every windows user gets a virus, STOP CLICKING ON RANDOM LINKS FROM EMAIL ADDRESSES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. THERE IS NO PACKAGE WAITING ON YOUR FROM DHL OR REPORT FOR YOU TO REVIEW IN ORDER TO GET YOUR MILLIONS.
Chrome only uses its own store on Linux where there isn't a system wide store, and you have to patch each app individually. On any sane OS it uses the one provided by the OS like a good little application should.
So you trust a bunch of known criminals over legitimate businesses for your security needs ...
You sir aren't real bright, even if it does appear to work out in your favor this time, this is a really stupid idea.
Stop being a twit and thinking some UNIX variant is somehow magically different and doesn't need updates and security fixes. idiot.
I suffered my first ever virus infection today in my windows machine and I think this may be part of how it got in.
You got it because you're stupid. I can say this because you clearly have absolutely NO IDEA what a root certificate does, or you'd know why the statement was fucking stupid in the first place.
All this cert issue will do is allow someone who isn't say ... google, to pretend to be google ... over ssl ...
Which means in order for it to actually work, they'd also have to compromise your DNS, or someone up the food chain, so your ISPs DNS.
And they would have to have infected a site YOU VISIT via SSL, and of course you would have had to download some virus over SSL. Now considering never in my life have I even thought about the fact that I was downloading something over/not over SSL, I'm pretty sure no one would bother doing a MITM attack just to get you to download a virus to your windows machine ... Again, there are easier ways.
You do not need to be posting on slashdot, its WAY over your head, even in the shallow end of the pool.
At this point, there are 9 or 10 million easier ways to infect your computer with a virus
And for any reasonable person, the first statement is true.
Mac's don't get viruses.
Its not that they are immune, we all know thats not the case, its that they aren't targeted.
However, none of that changes the fact that from a practical perspective, Mac's don't get viruses.
I could defend the second one too, if you stop being so technical and think like users not techies. Users use words like 'secure' to mean a completely different thing than techies.
Having worked in desktop support for any length of time at all, you'd already know that if you had a clue considering the biggest problem in tech support is generally what the user says is not what you think it is, but you clearly aren't bright enough to figure that part out so I doubt you'll get any more of my explanation anyway.
After all we are the leading technology and industries (TM) nation on this world. Don't you agree?
Hahahah no, I don't agree, and I'd guess a few others don't agree either. Its pretty damn funny though. I'd never actually seen anyone exhibit the 'typical' German arrogance, you're diatribe has been a perfect example though, thanks. Its been a real flashback to Douglas Adams story about Latvians, he described you so well.
really? what kind of shape is the colosseum in? Would a massive cache of weapons grade material stored in the colosseum have survived the multiple sackings of Rome that occurred
Yea, but who would store nuclear waste in the middle of a stadium? That'd be pretty dumb. You store it out in BFE where no one is going to be fighting.
, or would the material have been carted off by the victor and turned into WMDs?
Its waste ... It wasn't produced for use in weapons. And lets just be honest, if someone takes us over and steals our nuclear waste to make weapons, I really think we're paste the point of worrying about it.
But ... again, its stored in BFE, under ground, accessible only from tunnels which can be blown, making it buried so deep that its only marginally more profitable to go after it than mine the ore and process it.
Seems like we would have probably nuked the planet before letting anyone get to it anyway.
But leading into the next question ...
How could we maintain SECURITY on said pile for HUNDREDS of years?
Given that we've seen one major nuclear superpower fall apart with no major problems (yet) and we've seen revolution after revolution in recent years (heh, months even) where no one destroyed their OWN infrastructure.
It would appear that a union the size of USSR can fall apart and people still have the good sense to protect the important nuclear materials. Anyone thats going to want the nuclear waste and can take it ALREADY HAS NUKES.
Wind gusts cause surges for wind power.
No it doesn't. The turbine throttles itself. Windmills have had the ability to do this for hundreds of years.
Solar doesn't produce anything at night.
Several types of solar generation store heat during the day for use generating energy at night, as again, you're wrong.
and that only on shorelines that are never flat.
Wave energy can be harnessed slightly offshore easily as well, if the shorelines were flat, their would be no waves to harness.
Whats your next excuse?
Of course, in some places like Boston or NYC, that would be virtually everybody.
Considering the actual speed you move in a car in those cities, all you need is 20-30 centimeters ti have plenty of stopping distance.
Communism PRODUCED the Soyuz
Yea, in about the same way that capitalism produced cotton in America before the Civil War.
No, because its consistent, every frame, at vsync and it doesn't hold back the rendering process.
I'm sorry, what OS are you using to which these things don't apply to? OSX, Linux, Windows all are exactly the same here, they all do these things (well, except for hang the system, unless of course we're hanging because we're waiting on something to be paged so the app we're running appears frozen), and are expected too, for obvious reasons. Well, clearly not obvious to you.
So again, what OS are you using, that those things don't apply to? QNX or BeOS?
Wrong.
The point of an FPS benchmark is to get a higher number than some guy on a forum so you can brag about it.
FPS has never been about how well a system can render a scene because its a shitty measure of it. It ignores quality, complexity, accuracy, stuttering (why is this supposed to be new? GPU stuttering is less noticable than disk IO causing jitter, and NOW the framerate no longer matters? Thats just dumb.
There is nothing 'new' about the frame rate being a shitty method of rating performance, well, except this slashvertisement.
Yea, or 29 minutes ... depending on if you want correct math or not. Hope thats not what you're using that GPU for :/
Naw, its so bad to use it won't get abused. You can't get more than one or two sms packets every second realistically anyway, limited to 160 characters or whatever trivial amount it is.
It may work, but you won't be able to use it.
You get dropped to 128k max at best when you hit the cap.
Which is still about 12.8k times faster than SMS.
You do realize that you simply didn't have to post after you saw the answer to your question .... right? You actually bother to write the question, go find the answer, then come back say nevermind?
Not sure how fast it would be, but using the unlimited SMS to get around bandwidth limits is brilliant.
Brilliant until you realize that if you just limited yourself to these bit rates from the start, you'd never go over your normal bandwidth limit anyway.