After four decades that brought 12 million current immigrants -- more than half of whom came illegally -- the net migration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped and may have reversed.
The standstill appears to be the result of many factors, including the weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets, heightened border enforcement, a rise in deportations, the growing dangers associated with illegal border crossings and the long-term decline in Mexico's birth rates.
How are you supposed to assign a fair cash value to it? Is the government then going to give you tax credits and rebates and subsidies based on it? For example, fix a few computers via barter, and claim not just deductions for expenses, but also subsidies for creating a new hi-tech job (subsidies that in some places are larger than all the taxes combined)?
Or help someone with their gardening in exchange for that computer fixing and claim farm credits to offset the tax burden? And cheaper fuel for "being a farmer"?
Good hearted sports where, in the riots following the game, people are killed, cars are burned, and storefronts are destroyed - even if your team wins.
Welcome to Kanuckistan, where the only thing worse than a hockey riot when the team wins is a hockey riot when the team loses. Hockey riots have been a fact of life for almost 60 years.
Where daily massive student demonstrations have been going on for more than 3 months, complete with riot squads getting their own tear gas kicked back at them, rubber bullets, simultaneous smoke bombs in the subways, and where the education minister has no credibility after being caught taking campaign donations from the mafia.
So it's not just the Europeans and Asians.
In the US, on the other hand, riots are more of a race thing - see the Rodney King beating video, etc.
I'm sure the docs have already told him that (obesity is a contributing factor) but "a waist is a terrible thing to mind."
Much easier to just nail him to his perch and say he's pining for the fjords (just make sure you use Wilson's Nails if you decide to do it before his "best-before date").
After all, he likes parrots. And as one poster in that thread points out, most fatties don't eat breakfast...
Those long interruptions are great for channel surfing, as well as the aforementioned using the washroom, making a quick phone call, doing the dishes, or deciding "do I really want to spend another 30 minutes watching this crap?"
Most of the time, "do I really want to spend another 30 minutes watching this crap" wins. About the only exception is Two Broke Girls (when I remember to watch it), reruns of Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, and Rules of Engagement (I missed them the first time around) and the occasional TV interview (George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC, Denis Levesque on TVA).
To do what? Download the pirated copies so they don't have to watch the unskippable content?
Exactly my thought. And it is disingenuous to call these "government warnings" when they are really industry warnings. My warning to the industry is: "you are losing me".
They lost me a long time ago. The last time I went to a movie, I brought a laser pointer - after all, if I'm going there for entertainment, I'm going to have some fun while they insult my intelligence by running an anti-piracy commercial IN A MOVIE THEATRE!!???
Don't download either... I just wait 6 months to 2 years and it comes right over the airwaves, in 50" 1920 x 1080 hi-def, for free, no "shoes sticking to the floor of the movie house from spilled soda" crap, convenient "intermissions" several times an hour to use the bathroom or visit the kitchen, etc.
I think I've seen Iron Man three times, Transformers a couple of times, and avoided crap like The Green Lantern. When there's nothing on, there's always the net, a good book, walk the dogs, call someone, go out, game console, whatever...
an 8/16-bit 68E09B - a cpu that was way ahead of its time. Supported position-independent and re-entrant code, etc. Much better design than Intel. You can still buy OS9 for the 68k series, and OS9000 for Power and x86.
Not unless you can tack on at least 2 separate large screens (and just use the laptop screen for things like running email in the background - even a 17" laptop screen really is crappy for developing on).
By the time you also add a fill-size external keyboard and mouse, the benefits the laptop has over a regular desktop are noise (which is not to be under-estimated) and power consumption (portability? USB keys, external hds, and let's be honest, you're an idiot begging for a mugging or a laptop-killing drop if you're programming on the subway). However, the desktop wins on storage (both # of disks and size of each disk) and ram.
Better off just to buy a smallish desktop semi-portable "cube" case and low-noise PS, stuff it with laptop hds and a motherboard capable of handling 64 or 128 gigs of ram, and load it up with VMs for the various OSes you'll be using (because Ubuntu by itself won't cut it for most people).
It wasn't until the very early 1990's that police stopped using handheld radar guns. The reason.... the Michigan state police had 4 or 5 times the national average of testicular cancer, they believe the cause was the officers were setting the gun in their laps when they were not aiming it our the window.
That adds a whole new meaning to the term "radar trap."
This is another example of how things that are obvious in retrospect may not be so at the time. Another example is the problem motorcycle cops had from constantly wearing gloves, esp. in colder climates, where thicker gloves are worn - eventually it lead to circulation problems in the hands, "pins and needles", and nerve damage.
Try opening up dolphin with image previews and scroll through a directory with a few thousand images - it's a known problem. Do the same thing with pcmanfm in LXDE - much faster.
So, since other DEs and programs (not using QT) are able to run circles around it on the exact same hardware, the problem is KDE-centric.
The same applies to the text component (Kate/Kwrite) not being able to handle files with long lines, such as sql dumps, where the average line is 50,000 characters. A poorly designed and implemented piece of code, that doesn't treat the file as a huge block of data that you can just grab an offset and a length, dump it into a buffer, and then format the buffer on-screen - so even a smallish (18-meg) file becomes uneditable on multi-core machines (gedit suffers from the same problem wrt cursor movement in files with lines longer than a couple of k). In the case of KDE, bloated libraries that promote what can at best be called naive implementations; in gedit, probably laziness or a lack of foresight. This problem was solved decades ago, and yet we still see it coming up on "modern" software. Even file formats that have "state" information (bold, italics, font styles, etc), there's no reason not to be able to scan the file, accumulate the current format properties, and then just apply them to the current buffer. For going forward in the file, just continue to accumulate properties. For going backward, pop off properties when the close of that format is encountered. No big deal.
And yet, instead, "oh, we'll use this slow, bloated library that encourages us to do things the stupid way because we'd rather concentrate on the next piece of bling rather than take the time to write something that is efficient and less likely to inherit any bugs in the underlying libs because we use fewer of the libs functions."
Performance matters, not just to end users, but also to things like saving energy. Compared to either XP (Windows) or LXDE (Linux), both KDE and Win8 are sick, and need to be either taken to the vets for some major work, or out behind the barn and shot.
One of my friends used ME for years for video editing (used an entire separate hd just for his video "scratch file"). Many of todays apps are just bloated because programmers use bloated generic frameworks, rather than coding directly to the OS API.
My XP install doesn't run on only half a gigabyte and no swapfile.
Too many patches, too many added programs that insert their crap into the running processes list. Try a fresh install and just the service packs. It'll run fine.
BTW - Microware OS9 Level 1 could multi-task in 64k, and level 2 in 128k - but if you wanted to run half a dozen copies of ms flight sim at once (just to show you could) it was easy enough to upgrade to a half-meg.
I'm rather surprised that the TSA doesn't (appear) to have a manual to deal with
Whistle-blowers have already testified that even they are not allowed to see the manual. Other countries consider the TSA to be a joke and a money-scam.
If the insulin pump is that easy to break, surely some blame lies there as well?
We are talking about something that should be required to withstand basically a lot of punishment, because the owners life depends on it - if subjecting it to a small amount of radiation (and no matter how the TSA likes to get piled on here, their scanners do emit a small amount of radiation in the scheme of things) in the course of a pretty routine activity, then the pumps manufacturer needs to look to resolving that flaw with their equipment.
First, there was absolutely no need for her to pass through any sort of scanner, as is evidenced by her previous flights, when she produced the documentation and was given a pat-down search instead.
Second, the circuitry wasn't designed for this sort of radiation, since it's never encountered outside a lab - as even the summary makes clear.
Third, the scanners routinely emit a lot more radiation than the makers claim.
This of course means if you access something new (or unexpected), it has to first swap out something from RAM to the HDD
No, it just has to use that memory for whatever you want to load. When the cpu generates a page fault, the OS will just have to load the code that used to be cached off the hard disk, same as any other cache miss.
You're probably comparing Windows ME on hardware at that time with Windows 8 on today's hardware. Put ME on the same hardware and it will FLY.
Just for fun, I once made a boot cd that loaded dos 7.0 (just 'cuz). I'd then launch Windows for Workgroups from the cd. Remembered how slow it was back in its' day - but launch time was under a second on a stupid 900mhz machine with a quarter gig of ram - and all the ram was available to WfW.
Both ME and Vista were real bugfest when they came out - and both improved with updates. Win8 stinks for an entirely different reason - it gets in the way of just using your computer as a computer, trying to "redefine the experience".
It's why I was so surprised to see how much faster a fresh install of XP is than I remember it... hardware has changed significantly, so what was "omg this is so sloooowww" is now "hey - it compiled in just a couple of seconds!!!" (and then you upgrade the RAD tools and are back to omg this is so sloooowwww).
You can run XP on a half-gig of ram and no swapfile.
Just like a lightweight desktop such as LXDE runs fine in 1 gig with no swap, even when running something like eclipse or libreoffice.
Of course, all of these are still bloated compared to the days when a multitasking OS (microware OS9 Level 2) would run multiple copies of Flight Simulator in separate full-screen windows, a bunch of text terminals, and a copy or two of Rogue, all in a half-meg of ram.
This is *so* true of so many projects. It's a pervasive problem - nobody likes to do a bughunt - you're basically seen as the maid cleaning up after other people's messes.
Maybe there should be a "you can only add 1 feature for every x number of bugs you've removed - and your 'x' reverts to zero every time someone else finds a bug you created."
Similar to "you can only add n bytes of code for new features if you first remove n+1 bytes of code w/o losing any existing features or introducing any bugs". Even n/2 instead of n+1 would be an improvement.
I also use KDE on the desktop and I've used LXDE. Guess what? KDE is faster for my use because of the ability to reconfigure its setup. I don't want or need a taskbar to switch between apps,
Guess what - you don't need a taskbar to either launch or switch between apps in LXDE. It makes me wonder if you even tried it, or are just repeating someone else's BS.
Firefox under KDE starts up in the same amount of time as on LXDE.. and so does every other application I try. Windows don't move faster across the screen on LXDE either and they resize at the same speed on both desktops!
Both the LXDE terminal and LXDE file manager under LXDE open up faster than any program under KDE. It's pretty bad when a file manager under one DE opens up quicker than a minimal shell under another. It also doesn't hurt that, unlike KDe Dolphin, lxde pcmanfm actually works the way people expect, and pretty much all file operations are also quicker. Add the KDE "oops we made our stupid text editor convert every line to an object so don't try to open evan a smallish (say 20mb) SQL dump file with a 50,000 character line length because we haz no brainz and still don't know how to do proper buffer windows or multi-tasking in individual applications". A real "winner." And don't get me started on the latest stupidity with Akonadai.
Windows 8 isn't just the worst product Microsoft has ever made - it's also bloatware
Funny how less memory, CPU, while booting faster turns into "bloatware". I would love to see your definition for the word.
Less cpu and memory? Get real. Unlike you, I actually did a fresh install on clean hard drives, first Win8, then XP. Win8 was unusable. XP flew - even faster than LXDE on the same machine.
To give an idea - Win8 by itself takes up more ram than LXDE+eclipse ide + libreoffice + firefox + a couple of terminals + gedit + jedit. Win8 is craptacular, and SLOOOWWWW to the point of unusability on what Microsoft optimistically calls "minimum hardware". This is the whole "Vista false minimum requirements sticker" thing all over again.
Relative speeds (real-world testing):
Fastest : XP
LXDE (close, but not quite)
Gnome 3 (fallback mode - acceptable)
KDE (noticable lag)
Slowest: Win8 (unusable)
And that "unusable" is not just in terms of speed - the UI is also a total failure - worse than I had imagined it could ever be, which is why many people are saying this is Microsofts' worst product ever, not just "worst OS".
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Nothing. He's dead, Jim!
I guess you didn't get the memo - thanks to the failing US economy, Jesus and his buddies went back to Mexico.
How are you supposed to assign a fair cash value to it? Is the government then going to give you tax credits and rebates and subsidies based on it? For example, fix a few computers via barter, and claim not just deductions for expenses, but also subsidies for creating a new hi-tech job (subsidies that in some places are larger than all the taxes combined)?
Or help someone with their gardening in exchange for that computer fixing and claim farm credits to offset the tax burden? And cheaper fuel for "being a farmer"?
Welcome to Kanuckistan, where the only thing worse than a hockey riot when the team wins is a hockey riot when the team loses. Hockey riots have been a fact of life for almost 60 years.
Where daily massive student demonstrations have been going on for more than 3 months, complete with riot squads getting their own tear gas kicked back at them, rubber bullets, simultaneous smoke bombs in the subways, and where the education minister has no credibility after being caught taking campaign donations from the mafia.
So it's not just the Europeans and Asians.
In the US, on the other hand, riots are more of a race thing - see the Rodney King beating video, etc.
I'm sure the docs have already told him that (obesity is a contributing factor) but "a waist is a terrible thing to mind."
Much easier to just nail him to his perch and say he's pining for the fjords (just make sure you use Wilson's Nails if you decide to do it before his "best-before date").
After all, he likes parrots. And as one poster in that thread points out, most fatties don't eat breakfast ...
Those long interruptions are great for channel surfing, as well as the aforementioned using the washroom, making a quick phone call, doing the dishes, or deciding "do I really want to spend another 30 minutes watching this crap?"
Most of the time, "do I really want to spend another 30 minutes watching this crap" wins. About the only exception is Two Broke Girls (when I remember to watch it), reruns of Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, and Rules of Engagement (I missed them the first time around) and the occasional TV interview (George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC, Denis Levesque on TVA).
Sure, because HTML always renders the same on every browser and platform, always has, always will.
Except that it never had, and never will. Even Flash had better cross-platform compatibility (and better performance).
s/Wet Paint/Fresh Cement/g;
They lost me a long time ago. The last time I went to a movie, I brought a laser pointer - after all, if I'm going there for entertainment, I'm going to have some fun while they insult my intelligence by running an anti-piracy commercial IN A MOVIE THEATRE!!???
Don't download either ... I just wait 6 months to 2 years and it comes right over the airwaves, in 50" 1920 x 1080 hi-def, for free, no "shoes sticking to the floor of the movie house from spilled soda" crap, convenient "intermissions" several times an hour to use the bathroom or visit the kitchen, etc.
I think I've seen Iron Man three times, Transformers a couple of times, and avoided crap like The Green Lantern. When there's nothing on, there's always the net, a good book, walk the dogs, call someone, go out, game console, whatever ...
I could never understand why people pay twice the price for a name-brand, region-locked dvd player that won't even do what you tell it to.
Seriously though, two points:
1. Given his stand in favour of pedophilia, I'm surprised that he's not on a no-fly list, and that other countries give him a visitors' visa;
2. Given his age (59), and apparently that knew he had hypertension, it could be a side effect of medication.
an 8/16-bit 68E09B - a cpu that was way ahead of its time. Supported position-independent and re-entrant code, etc. Much better design than Intel. You can still buy OS9 for the 68k series, and OS9000 for Power and x86.
Not unless you can tack on at least 2 separate large screens (and just use the laptop screen for things like running email in the background - even a 17" laptop screen really is crappy for developing on).
By the time you also add a fill-size external keyboard and mouse, the benefits the laptop has over a regular desktop are noise (which is not to be under-estimated) and power consumption (portability? USB keys, external hds, and let's be honest, you're an idiot begging for a mugging or a laptop-killing drop if you're programming on the subway). However, the desktop wins on storage (both # of disks and size of each disk) and ram.
Better off just to buy a smallish desktop semi-portable "cube" case and low-noise PS, stuff it with laptop hds and a motherboard capable of handling 64 or 128 gigs of ram, and load it up with VMs for the various OSes you'll be using (because Ubuntu by itself won't cut it for most people).
That adds a whole new meaning to the term "radar trap."
This is another example of how things that are obvious in retrospect may not be so at the time. Another example is the problem motorcycle cops had from constantly wearing gloves, esp. in colder climates, where thicker gloves are worn - eventually it lead to circulation problems in the hands, "pins and needles", and nerve damage.
Try opening up dolphin with image previews and scroll through a directory with a few thousand images - it's a known problem. Do the same thing with pcmanfm in LXDE - much faster.
So, since other DEs and programs (not using QT) are able to run circles around it on the exact same hardware, the problem is KDE-centric.
The same applies to the text component (Kate/Kwrite) not being able to handle files with long lines, such as sql dumps, where the average line is 50,000 characters. A poorly designed and implemented piece of code, that doesn't treat the file as a huge block of data that you can just grab an offset and a length, dump it into a buffer, and then format the buffer on-screen - so even a smallish (18-meg) file becomes uneditable on multi-core machines (gedit suffers from the same problem wrt cursor movement in files with lines longer than a couple of k). In the case of KDE, bloated libraries that promote what can at best be called naive implementations; in gedit, probably laziness or a lack of foresight. This problem was solved decades ago, and yet we still see it coming up on "modern" software. Even file formats that have "state" information (bold, italics, font styles, etc), there's no reason not to be able to scan the file, accumulate the current format properties, and then just apply them to the current buffer. For going forward in the file, just continue to accumulate properties. For going backward, pop off properties when the close of that format is encountered. No big deal.
And yet, instead, "oh, we'll use this slow, bloated library that encourages us to do things the stupid way because we'd rather concentrate on the next piece of bling rather than take the time to write something that is efficient and less likely to inherit any bugs in the underlying libs because we use fewer of the libs functions."
Performance matters, not just to end users, but also to things like saving energy. Compared to either XP (Windows) or LXDE (Linux), both KDE and Win8 are sick, and need to be either taken to the vets for some major work, or out behind the barn and shot.
One of my friends used ME for years for video editing (used an entire separate hd just for his video "scratch file"). Many of todays apps are just bloated because programmers use bloated generic frameworks, rather than coding directly to the OS API.
Too many patches, too many added programs that insert their crap into the running processes list. Try a fresh install and just the service packs. It'll run fine.
BTW - Microware OS9 Level 1 could multi-task in 64k, and level 2 in 128k - but if you wanted to run half a dozen copies of ms flight sim at once (just to show you could) it was easy enough to upgrade to a half-meg.
Whistle-blowers have already testified that even they are not allowed to see the manual. Other countries consider the TSA to be a joke and a money-scam.
First, there was absolutely no need for her to pass through any sort of scanner, as is evidenced by her previous flights, when she produced the documentation and was given a pat-down search instead.
Second, the circuitry wasn't designed for this sort of radiation, since it's never encountered outside a lab - as even the summary makes clear.
Third, the scanners routinely emit a lot more radiation than the makers claim.
No, it just has to use that memory for whatever you want to load. When the cpu generates a page fault, the OS will just have to load the code that used to be cached off the hard disk, same as any other cache miss.
You're probably comparing Windows ME on hardware at that time with Windows 8 on today's hardware. Put ME on the same hardware and it will FLY.
Just for fun, I once made a boot cd that loaded dos 7.0 (just 'cuz). I'd then launch Windows for Workgroups from the cd. Remembered how slow it was back in its' day - but launch time was under a second on a stupid 900mhz machine with a quarter gig of ram - and all the ram was available to WfW.
Both ME and Vista were real bugfest when they came out - and both improved with updates. Win8 stinks for an entirely different reason - it gets in the way of just using your computer as a computer, trying to "redefine the experience".
It's why I was so surprised to see how much faster a fresh install of XP is than I remember it ... hardware has changed significantly, so what was "omg this is so sloooowww" is now "hey - it compiled in just a couple of seconds!!!" (and then you upgrade the RAD tools and are back to omg this is so sloooowwww).
You can run XP on a half-gig of ram and no swapfile.
Just like a lightweight desktop such as LXDE runs fine in 1 gig with no swap, even when running something like eclipse or libreoffice.
Of course, all of these are still bloated compared to the days when a multitasking OS (microware OS9 Level 2) would run multiple copies of Flight Simulator in separate full-screen windows, a bunch of text terminals, and a copy or two of Rogue, all in a half-meg of ram.
This is *so* true of so many projects. It's a pervasive problem - nobody likes to do a bughunt - you're basically seen as the maid cleaning up after other people's messes.
Maybe there should be a "you can only add 1 feature for every x number of bugs you've removed - and your 'x' reverts to zero every time someone else finds a bug you created."
Similar to "you can only add n bytes of code for new features if you first remove n+1 bytes of code w/o losing any existing features or introducing any bugs". Even n/2 instead of n+1 would be an improvement.
Guess what - you don't need a taskbar to either launch or switch between apps in LXDE. It makes me wonder if you even tried it, or are just repeating someone else's BS.
Both the LXDE terminal and LXDE file manager under LXDE open up faster than any program under KDE. It's pretty bad when a file manager under one DE opens up quicker than a minimal shell under another. It also doesn't hurt that, unlike KDe Dolphin, lxde pcmanfm actually works the way people expect, and pretty much all file operations are also quicker. Add the KDE "oops we made our stupid text editor convert every line to an object so don't try to open evan a smallish (say 20mb) SQL dump file with a 50,000 character line length because we haz no brainz and still don't know how to do proper buffer windows or multi-tasking in individual applications". A real "winner." And don't get me started on the latest stupidity with Akonadai.
Less cpu and memory? Get real. Unlike you, I actually did a fresh install on clean hard drives, first Win8, then XP. Win8 was unusable. XP flew - even faster than LXDE on the same machine.
To give an idea - Win8 by itself takes up more ram than LXDE+eclipse ide + libreoffice + firefox + a couple of terminals + gedit + jedit. Win8 is craptacular, and SLOOOWWWW to the point of unusability on what Microsoft optimistically calls "minimum hardware". This is the whole "Vista false minimum requirements sticker" thing all over again.
Relative speeds (real-world testing):
Fastest : XP
LXDE (close, but not quite)
Gnome 3 (fallback mode - acceptable)
KDE (noticable lag)
Slowest: Win8 (unusable)
And that "unusable" is not just in terms of speed - the UI is also a total failure - worse than I had imagined it could ever be, which is why many people are saying this is Microsofts' worst product ever, not just "worst OS".