Nice trolling! You should check the gun laws in the UK - you'll see you can own a gun if you want, you just have to demonstrate why you need it. "I'm scared of immigrants and black people" is not a valid reason, btw, so you're probably better off staying where you are.
Well, people are agreeing to the conditions when they voluntarily enter the premises. If they don't want to be cavity searched, then they shouldn't go to your house. It isn't assault if the other party agrees to it, otherwise shaking hands with someone would land both parties in jail.
Indeed. CPUs have been doing that for the last decade or so. The early AMDs didn't monitor the temperature changes fast enough to realise when the fan was taken off, and so by the time the chip realised it was too hot, it was already spewing its magic smoke. Intel's chips, back in those days, used to monitor the temperature changes a lot faster, and could indeed throttle back the clock speed to cool the chip. I remember seeing a comparison between an AMD CPU and an Intel one, back when P4s were brand new. They took the fan off the AMD chip and it burst into flames. The Intel one, with fan removed, throttled its speed and kept on working. AMD chips are muuuuch better now, and act pretty much the same as Intel ones.
That statement really doesn't need rethinking, even if you disagree with it.
Of course a VM will be slower - it's a virtual machine - you're adding an aditional level of abstraction between the hardware and the software. Each level decreases performance. Just having your software directly access your hardware (as DirectX essentially allows) gets rid of that.
I doubt your suggestion would work well, as people just want to click an icon to play a game, as they do now. Your suggestion seems to add masses of complexity for no benefit, in fact for a serious setback in the way people play on PCs.
Then just buy a console:) Reboot to play games? This isn't 1989! It sounds like back in the good ol' days when people had their DOS boot menues configured with options for what they wanted to do, affecting how QEMM/himem/emm386 would be used. Personally, I don't want to stop my torrents before playing a game, and I like my computer still checking for emails when I play. And IM. And, heck, anything I want. That's why I have a computer:)
That sounds nasty. Really nasty. I'd rather run games as I currently do (on XP, using DirectX). Running games in a VM is a terrible idea also, unless the game in question is FreeCell. Rebooting your computer to play a game also smacks of the 1980s. Using the linux-in-ram to run games would be a terrible step back, as linux isn't exactly a great advert for gaming. That's one area where windows really does do better, obviously due to the massive adoption of windows around the world.
I hate to say it, but kind of like Vista's performance index. It takes into consideration all the hardware in your computer that affects the performance of Vista, and gives you a single, solitary number. It tells you which component is slowing your computer down, and you can re-run it every time you get a new driver/bit-o'-hardware and see the difference. Now we just need one for games.
I imagine if they had a bunch of people PAID to decode the message, they'd find it just as quickly. Your post really has nothing to do with open source bug fixing, apart from the fact that they both include people. Great work:)
No, the article spells out why concern is not warranted. The store kept its name secret because it didn't want its customers to jump to the same ridiculous conclusions as you did. Sensible bastards, more like.
I doubt people will settle for "good enough" when they can get the best apps on the market for Windows. Asking for people to accept second-best when they don't give two hoots about the free aspect of linux is unreasonable, to say the least. The use of linux shouldn't be qualified. It should be able to stand on its own two feet and beat Windows at its own game - not ask for the rules to be changed to give it a better chance.
Not to mention the centimetric radar fitted to some of the first ASW planes ever put in action, but most definitely - Bletchley park changed the world.
Exactly. The Naval Enigma used an extra rotor, and had a far more complicated encrypting procedure, making the breaking of it far more difficult than the already-daunting task of breaking the 3-rotor Enigma.
You're making one hell of an assumption. They're not the cost of doing business, but the cost of not caring enough to ensure they don't get transported along with your cargo. That's it. They're not unavoidable.
The ship sank because they were changing the water in the tanks, not emptying or filling the tanks. They were trying to maintain a constant amount of ballast. If their pumps failed when they were taking on or emptying ballast, the problems wouldn't have been so severe as capsizing in international waters, as the buoyancy difference across the ship wouldn't be anyway near so high.
No government in Europe assumed immigration would be temporary. That smacks of the ol' "they came over here and abused our charity" self-righteousness I hear so many anti-immigrant people bang on about.
Heck, if 51% of a country is muslim immigrants, so be it. Democracy demands their voices be heard.
As you say, even domestically-produced hardware can theoretically have trojans in it, so it should be standard practice to certify everything they use, regardless of where it came from.
The outsourcing boogeyman has nothing to do with this - relying on the "USA A-OK" school of thought as some sort of defense against malicious hardware is obviously not a good idea.
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Nice trolling! You should check the gun laws in the UK - you'll see you can own a gun if you want, you just have to demonstrate why you need it. "I'm scared of immigrants and black people" is not a valid reason, btw, so you're probably better off staying where you are.
And I think you should read 1984 again so you see how ridiculous it is saying "big brother" in such a context.
Idiot.
Well, people are agreeing to the conditions when they voluntarily enter the premises. If they don't want to be cavity searched, then they shouldn't go to your house. It isn't assault if the other party agrees to it, otherwise shaking hands with someone would land both parties in jail.
Nearly all smartphones have both, which makes me wonder why you mentioned the iPhone. Fanboy, much? :)
Indeed. CPUs have been doing that for the last decade or so. The early AMDs didn't monitor the temperature changes fast enough to realise when the fan was taken off, and so by the time the chip realised it was too hot, it was already spewing its magic smoke. Intel's chips, back in those days, used to monitor the temperature changes a lot faster, and could indeed throttle back the clock speed to cool the chip. I remember seeing a comparison between an AMD CPU and an Intel one, back when P4s were brand new. They took the fan off the AMD chip and it burst into flames. The Intel one, with fan removed, throttled its speed and kept on working. AMD chips are muuuuch better now, and act pretty much the same as Intel ones.
Most definitely. Heck, some of the most intriguing uses of SQL I've seen are self joins, turning a flat table into a tree of relationships.
That statement really doesn't need rethinking, even if you disagree with it.
Of course a VM will be slower - it's a virtual machine - you're adding an aditional level of abstraction between the hardware and the software. Each level decreases performance. Just having your software directly access your hardware (as DirectX essentially allows) gets rid of that.
I doubt your suggestion would work well, as people just want to click an icon to play a game, as they do now. Your suggestion seems to add masses of complexity for no benefit, in fact for a serious setback in the way people play on PCs.
Then just buy a console :) Reboot to play games? This isn't 1989! It sounds like back in the good ol' days when people had their DOS boot menues configured with options for what they wanted to do, affecting how QEMM/himem/emm386 would be used. Personally, I don't want to stop my torrents before playing a game, and I like my computer still checking for emails when I play. And IM. And, heck, anything I want. That's why I have a computer :)
That sounds nasty. Really nasty. I'd rather run games as I currently do (on XP, using DirectX). Running games in a VM is a terrible idea also, unless the game in question is FreeCell. Rebooting your computer to play a game also smacks of the 1980s. Using the linux-in-ram to run games would be a terrible step back, as linux isn't exactly a great advert for gaming. That's one area where windows really does do better, obviously due to the massive adoption of windows around the world.
I hate to say it, but kind of like Vista's performance index. It takes into consideration all the hardware in your computer that affects the performance of Vista, and gives you a single, solitary number. It tells you which component is slowing your computer down, and you can re-run it every time you get a new driver/bit-o'-hardware and see the difference. Now we just need one for games.
I imagine if they had a bunch of people PAID to decode the message, they'd find it just as quickly. Your post really has nothing to do with open source bug fixing, apart from the fact that they both include people. Great work :)
No, the article spells out why concern is not warranted. The store kept its name secret because it didn't want its customers to jump to the same ridiculous conclusions as you did. Sensible bastards, more like.
Changing your IMEI is illegal in the UK, a measure intended to clamp down on stolen phones.
I doubt people will settle for "good enough" when they can get the best apps on the market for Windows. Asking for people to accept second-best when they don't give two hoots about the free aspect of linux is unreasonable, to say the least. The use of linux shouldn't be qualified. It should be able to stand on its own two feet and beat Windows at its own game - not ask for the rules to be changed to give it a better chance.
Not to mention the centimetric radar fitted to some of the first ASW planes ever put in action, but most definitely - Bletchley park changed the world.
Exactly. The Naval Enigma used an extra rotor, and had a far more complicated encrypting procedure, making the breaking of it far more difficult than the already-daunting task of breaking the 3-rotor Enigma.
You're making one hell of an assumption. They're not the cost of doing business, but the cost of not caring enough to ensure they don't get transported along with your cargo. That's it. They're not unavoidable.
The ship sank because they were changing the water in the tanks, not emptying or filling the tanks. They were trying to maintain a constant amount of ballast. If their pumps failed when they were taking on or emptying ballast, the problems wouldn't have been so severe as capsizing in international waters, as the buoyancy difference across the ship wouldn't be anyway near so high.
Why do US troops hate America??
No government in Europe assumed immigration would be temporary. That smacks of the ol' "they came over here and abused our charity" self-righteousness I hear so many anti-immigrant people bang on about.
Heck, if 51% of a country is muslim immigrants, so be it. Democracy demands their voices be heard.
But then I'm not shit-scared of brown people.
IBM thinks SOAP is Web2.0. The fact anyone thinks anything is Web2.0 is beyond me. I feel dirty for writing Web2.0. Ugh.
As you say, even domestically-produced hardware can theoretically have trojans in it, so it should be standard practice to certify everything they use, regardless of where it came from.
The outsourcing boogeyman has nothing to do with this - relying on the "USA A-OK" school of thought as some sort of defense against malicious hardware is obviously not a good idea.
He didn't download the game. No copyright infringement took place.
So the linux one should be cheaper, as it runs less software?