They are nowhere near as fast, IME. Gnome apps are far faster if you are running gnome or xfce, simply because the libs you need are already loaded, but that's to be expected and the same is true in reverse when running KDE.
This is crap. Any decent system is perfectly safe outside a firewall. The amount of ports I need exposed, I'd fill up my rule table allowing them case-by-case. If a system needs a firewall, there are only two things to blame: the OS maker, and the makers of any services you enabled manually.
Secure by default. The users who are likely to be unable to keep up with patches are exactly the same users who don't know how to turn off services. So ffs don't have services running on a default install.
They shouldn't need to protect them. All OSes should ship with all services disabled. No services means no vulnerabilities (unless you have a buggy TCP stack, but they've been around a while and been thoroughly audited). Someone who needs the services should be competent enough to turn them on.
Since you seem to know constitution, one thing I've always wondered about: in the other parts, the word "being" is always used as an if-then clause. (If an order is disapproved by the president, then it must be repassed with a two-thirds majority, if someone denied a vote is over 21, then the state's representation is reduced) It seems to me the correct way to parse the second amendment is "If a well regulated militia is essential to the security of a free state, then the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". I know you say that the first part is a declaration of intent, but if so, why the use of the word being?
The airlines have said it's a government requirement. The government officials have said it is a government requirement, but he can't see it. This "requirement" seems to him to be a law (looks like a duck, quacks like a duck etc.) and yet he can't read it, and he's tried.
You are right but for the wrong reasons. The fact is Perl (your example, not mine) would do fine for the majority of programming. Yes, the OS and the interpreter have to be in C or C++. But those should not be the majority of the programming; the OS is meant to serve the applications, not the other way around.
And there is a working Java OS knocking around somewhere. A little assembly stub to get the boot going, then it's all Java. Sure, you can have errors in that stub, but that's not much of the code, and you can restrict it to the best coders.
If you are a bad coder you will have problems. But you will have less problems in a language where mistakes are harder to make. And what if you're a good coder? Even the best make mistakes occasionally, and in C they are more likely to be fatal.
I think a good analogy is live wires. Every halfway competent electrician can work with live wires without killing himself. But every halfway competent electrician will avoid working on a live wire whenever he can.
Now, sitting here, it's easy. But at 5am a week after the product was meant to ship, things like that tend to take a back seat to getting the coding done.
OK, technically it's abuse of a quintopoly. But I'm pretty sure those two auction houses recently were both colluding and abusing a monopoly.
And I'm not trying to say that necessarily they're doing any of those things. I'm just saying it's possible for them to do those things. It's not a question of "nothing they do with the price can be wrong because it's their product".
How does it drive up the cost for music though, when it hasn't cost them anything to produce it? If I was on alpha centurai and no-one knew I existed, but I listened to music without paying for it, would I still be a "thief"?
OK, but CD is lossless as far as human hearing is concerned. Wheras the music sold at many online music stores has audible compression flaws in some places.
Huh? The money allofmp3.com paid went to a music industry federation which redistributes it to the artists. They probably have more chance of seeing some of it than when you buy them from iTMS or the cd.
In fact, there is no apostrophe in the possessive "its", which should tell you something.
That's the exception that proves the rule, and as I'm sure you know it's to distinguish the possessive from the contraction. In any case I fail to make the leap between "there's a possessive without an apostrophe" and "you can chuck apostrophes on random plurals".
but there is no rule in English that says you cannot have an apostrophe there (in fact, even if there was, many apostrophe rules are broken all the time in standard English).
The first place I looked (Wikipedia) I found " It is not necessary where there is no ambiguity, so CDs not CD's". The apostrophe is used in a few plurals where there would be ambiguity otherwise, that is all.
I accept that english is in flux, but I do complain, and I complain because I get confused. When I see a sentence like that, I search futilely for what it is that belongs to the live cd for a few seconds. I agree that you should use it where it clarifies things, regardless of rules, but it genuinely confuses me. Not to the extent that I can't read it, but like when there's a hanging clause that doesn't refer to anything, it takes me a while to parse the sentence properly and disrupts the flow of my reading.
Well, my oven works in celsius, I could tell you to cook cakes at 170 (fan oven, 180 for a normal one) and wouldn't have a clue in fahrenheit. But I think temperature is one place where the metric version is obviously far more logical, wheras that isn't so much the case for other units, so switching wrt temperature is easier.
There is some benefit to JIT, but a lot of what is being claimed simply isn't true. I have yet to see any real performance increase over an ordinary interpreter except in some specialised benchmarks, and the slowness of java apps belies the claims of faster performance than compiled code. Yes, Itanium was perhaps too dependent on the compiler. But there are good modern compilers, and I think if it had been launched today it would work. I don't blame intel for overestimating compiler ability, I would have done so too.
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They are nowhere near as fast, IME. Gnome apps are far faster if you are running gnome or xfce, simply because the libs you need are already loaded, but that's to be expected and the same is true in reverse when running KDE.
This is crap. Any decent system is perfectly safe outside a firewall. The amount of ports I need exposed, I'd fill up my rule table allowing them case-by-case. If a system needs a firewall, there are only two things to blame: the OS maker, and the makers of any services you enabled manually.
Secure by default. The users who are likely to be unable to keep up with patches are exactly the same users who don't know how to turn off services. So ffs don't have services running on a default install.
They shouldn't need to protect them. All OSes should ship with all services disabled. No services means no vulnerabilities (unless you have a buggy TCP stack, but they've been around a while and been thoroughly audited). Someone who needs the services should be competent enough to turn them on.
No. If you need a hardware firewall that's a bad system. It shouldn't be required.
Bye-bye free speech then. (remember the survey a few months back?)
Since you seem to know constitution, one thing I've always wondered about: in the other parts, the word "being" is always used as an if-then clause. (If an order is disapproved by the president, then it must be repassed with a two-thirds majority, if someone denied a vote is over 21, then the state's representation is reduced) It seems to me the correct way to parse the second amendment is "If a well regulated militia is essential to the security of a free state, then the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". I know you say that the first part is a declaration of intent, but if so, why the use of the word being?
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The airlines have said it's a government requirement. The government officials have said it is a government requirement, but he can't see it. This "requirement" seems to him to be a law (looks like a duck, quacks like a duck etc.) and yet he can't read it, and he's tried.
Terrorists are generally much better funded.
And there is a working Java OS knocking around somewhere. A little assembly stub to get the boot going, then it's all Java. Sure, you can have errors in that stub, but that's not much of the code, and you can restrict it to the best coders.
If you are a bad coder you will have problems. But you will have less problems in a language where mistakes are harder to make. And what if you're a good coder? Even the best make mistakes occasionally, and in C they are more likely to be fatal.
I think a good analogy is live wires. Every halfway competent electrician can work with live wires without killing himself. But every halfway competent electrician will avoid working on a live wire whenever he can.
When you're running it, yes. That's why you only use it when debugging to hunt for the overflows, not all the time.
You got half? Lucky bastard. I have seen, no joke, a 3GHz Dell sold with 64mb of ram.
Now, sitting here, it's easy. But at 5am a week after the product was meant to ship, things like that tend to take a back seat to getting the coding done.
And I'm not trying to say that necessarily they're doing any of those things. I'm just saying it's possible for them to do those things. It's not a question of "nothing they do with the price can be wrong because it's their product".
I'd settle for just being able to transfer files in kopete. Please, AOL, open it up.
How does it drive up the cost for music though, when it hasn't cost them anything to produce it? If I was on alpha centurai and no-one knew I existed, but I listened to music without paying for it, would I still be a "thief"?
But everything you say about ringtones is true of major-label music.
OK, but CD is lossless as far as human hearing is concerned. Wheras the music sold at many online music stores has audible compression flaws in some places.
Yes, but if they're colluding to raise prices, that's price-fixing, abuse of monopoly, and illegal.
Huh? The money allofmp3.com paid went to a music industry federation which redistributes it to the artists. They probably have more chance of seeing some of it than when you buy them from iTMS or the cd.
That's the exception that proves the rule, and as I'm sure you know it's to distinguish the possessive from the contraction. In any case I fail to make the leap between "there's a possessive without an apostrophe" and "you can chuck apostrophes on random plurals".
but there is no rule in English that says you cannot have an apostrophe there (in fact, even if there was, many apostrophe rules are broken all the time in standard English).
The first place I looked (Wikipedia) I found " It is not necessary where there is no ambiguity, so CDs not CD's". The apostrophe is used in a few plurals where there would be ambiguity otherwise, that is all.
I accept that english is in flux, but I do complain, and I complain because I get confused. When I see a sentence like that, I search futilely for what it is that belongs to the live cd for a few seconds. I agree that you should use it where it clarifies things, regardless of rules, but it genuinely confuses me. Not to the extent that I can't read it, but like when there's a hanging clause that doesn't refer to anything, it takes me a while to parse the sentence properly and disrupts the flow of my reading.
That doesn't matter to me. FWIW I think he was honest, though incorrect in some matters.
Well, my oven works in celsius, I could tell you to cook cakes at 170 (fan oven, 180 for a normal one) and wouldn't have a clue in fahrenheit. But I think temperature is one place where the metric version is obviously far more logical, wheras that isn't so much the case for other units, so switching wrt temperature is easier.
There is some benefit to JIT, but a lot of what is being claimed simply isn't true. I have yet to see any real performance increase over an ordinary interpreter except in some specialised benchmarks, and the slowness of java apps belies the claims of faster performance than compiled code. Yes, Itanium was perhaps too dependent on the compiler. But there are good modern compilers, and I think if it had been launched today it would work. I don't blame intel for overestimating compiler ability, I would have done so too.