Except for the one that entirely destroys the planet. Or when eventually, the Sun expands. Or when, Andromeda and Milky Way collide.
Sure, some of those are billions of years in the future but I seriously doubt that life will EVER stop fighting with other forms of life. Even a trillion years later, life will be fighting with life. Let's get some form of human life off of this planet before it all comes crashing down.
Um, I do not think people hate the centralized repository for config files, after all, they use an/etc directory and file structure without complaint. The problem with The Registry is that it is a binary file format that is impossible to decode or repair without a specialized tool that requires a fully functional environment in to utilize.
It is absolutely possible to have high performance userspace graphics, as was proven with some of the more up-to-date drivers. I think it was ATI that first did it, by the way.
From the summary: "In general, the indirect cost of context switch ranges from several microseconds to more than one thousand microseconds for our workload."
If you can skip that "several microseconds to more than one thousand microseconds" blip, you will get MUCH better performance. That is why graphics drivers are in the kernel and why you can NOT say that you can ever get high performance user space graphics drivers (under current architectures).
Actually, the only important thing in all of this is whether or not your child feels like you are someone that they can talk to. If your child can talk to you about their experiences, you will have a chance at helping them.
Both of my children know they can talk to me. One is an adult now and the other one will soon be an adult. Both have _always_ been able to talk to me and as a consequence, they have both have had a much easier childhood than I had. They have had no extreme problems that they felt they could not solve.
Why is information like this on computers that are connected to the internet?
It wasn't.
Unclassified information resides on computers directly connected to the internet. There was no Secret or Top Secret information compromised by hacking internet connected computers. If you think that is what the article is saying, then either the "journalist" is using too much hyperbole or you are misunderstanding the words.
Let me restate that so it is perfectly clear: There are not large hordes of government classified information on computers connected to the public facing internet.
I agree completely that a HUD would be truly freaking awesome. I was quite taken aback when I heard that anything you record automagically gets sent up to Google. *sigh* I guess they have to get their pound of flesh but it makes the device to be something I resent and dislike. Obviously, I will not be purchasing one.:(
We don't need to worry about exoskeletons or genetic upgrades because we do NOT have the tech, not even close, to be able to travel to another solar system.
Who is this WE that you keep talking about? My descendants will surely travel to another star system. Hopefully your descendants break free of the limitations of your thought so they can go too. There is even a (impossibly small) possibility that *I* might get a chance to travel to another star system.
If we do not consider these things now, how will we get there in the future? A journey of an octillion miles starts with one foot step.
Fuck them. They should not be releasing their stuff in a manner compatible with my computer. They do NOT get root just because they choose to release their stuff in certain formats. If they are so worried about piracy, they can create their own dedicated devices. I refuse to accept that there will no longer be ANY computing devices available to me that I have no absolute control over.
It is a shame that you are sitting only at +3 since your comment is the only one that the original poster should need to read. Seriously, it is not up to them to decide what the user of the software *should* do. It is up to them to provide a way to do it. Period.
I also agree that thought should be given to how to present this "dangerous" task. Nothing is more frustrating than clicking somewhere thinking you are clicking one option and instead, you click on another which utterly destroys everything you were working on.
I completely agree. I would also say that if he is not using this device to power his house or some other personal uses, then it is definitely a fraud. If it worked, he would be selling power commercially.
IIRC, our planet will not really be inhabitable by then due to the Sun's growth due to the Sun needing to burn helium and other heavier elements instead of hydrogen.
You are assuming that they are dying due to collisions. It would be a spectacular way to die but I am willing to guess that most of them are dying due to radiation poisoning from all of the star formation and supernova events (huge new stars do not live long!).
In other words, it is likely that entire civilizations are (were) being destroyed from radiation and a constant rain of galactic dust.
Hm. I am not a math major nor a history major. How does multiplying prime numbers and adding 1 create a guaranteed prime number? I can think of smaller examples of multiplying primes and adding 1 that does not equate to a prime: (3*3)+1=10.
Google should be strong enough to shrug the one-way migration off. People who would migrate away from open standards to lock-in are not worth keeping anyways... and for the few who regret it, you should keep the enticing option available. Shutting XMPP off is a weak and reactionary move. Whoever made the decision (or allowed the decision to be made) should be moved to a position where they can do no more harm to Google.
So one cold winter day, I walked into a warm convenience store and reached into a refrigerator (which I could feel heat emanating off of) and pulled out a bottle of cold chocolate milk. I wondered to myself: Why don't they just create an opening from outside of the store, where the temps were well below freezing, to the inside of the refrigerator? Instead, they were paying to heat the store in a freezing environment and then paying to chill some stuff inside of an environment that they had paid to heat up. BoGgLe bOgGlE?!
Because if they raise the limit to 75, people will drive 85.
Citation needed.
Americans have been conditioned to believe that the "real" speed limit is at least 10 mph over the posted limit.
Personal opinion does not qualify. Regardless, speed limits are absurd anyways. Speed advisories should be used and dangerous driving should be punished severely.
I apologize. I should have provided links to start with. The most important link for you is to the XDA forums. That is where ALL of the interesting stuff is discussed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1493
The forum Android Development will be full of ROMs modified at the binary level (like Blackstar).
The forum Original Android Development will be full of ROMs modified at the source code level (like CyanogenMod).
I recommend ensuring that you have the latest modem firmware installed as the original firmware that was on my phone was absolutely terrible. You can find whatever the latest is via the XDA forums.
Speaking as someone who lives in a country with a history of consistently corrupt, dysfunctional governments, without any kind of police presence in the community, with disgustingly poor health and education services, this litany of complaint and hopelessness sounds to me like nothing more than childish whining.
What is sad is that when I started reading this sentence, I had to double-check to ensure you were not describing America. I thought to myself, "Sure, things are bad here but not THAT bad." But so many of those words resonate: corrupt, dysfunctional governments (lobbying, sequestration), and: with disgustingly poor health and education services (I am not able to see a doctor without paying obscene amounts of money and my children would be reading at a third grade level if I had not taught them myself). Concerning the police presence, it is only police cars and you should _never_ interact with the police as they will only try to find some way to arrest you. You are their enemy.
I guess the only difference between America and your terrible country is really only a matter of degree at this point. A crying shame. America, despite its warts, was at one time, the most incredibly awesome country this world has ever seen. I want it to be that way again.
The Samsung ROM was horrifically slow and ugly and filled with unremovable apps I didn't want, plus it contacted the AT&T mothership constantly even though I don't use AT&T and the phone is unlocked.
So I wiped and downgraded to CM10 stable. This one lets me make calls, but randomly reboots at least half a dozen times a day.
I assume you are talking about the AT&T Galaxy Note using the quincyatt rom.
The Jelly Bean versions all have severe issues, especially with the camera app; however, if you go to XDA developers forums and use a custom ROM based off of CM 10, you should be okay.
For myself, ICS was the most stable version... but even then, I had some really tough times until I upgraded the modem firmware.
If you are having rebooting issues, try doing a full wipe (including/system) through TWRP and then fresh installing (do not use any backups of your apps) a ROM. One additional procedure I tried which may (but probably not) have helped was to let the phone do its initial boot without touching anything. Let it sit for a few minutes and then reboot it. Once it boots back up, then go through the standard setting up procedures.
I finally got my Note to be extremely stable but battery life was still a problem until I tried the Blackstar ROM. I should check which governor it uses and see if CM will also save as much battery power.
I have never understood this metric: "America consumes more per person than any other country."
So did someone follow an American around for a year and measure that person's energy use? It appears to me that what is being measured is the output of Industry and distributing that measurement amongst a population... which makes zero sense as a metric.
If CO2 output will be measured vs population, then Industry CO2 MUST be removed for the number to make any sense. The same is true for energy use. Industrial output has no absolute relation to total population.
I will grant without argument that an American driving a gas guzzling SUV will consume more energy than a nomadic herder deep in the plains of wtfistan.
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Except for the one that entirely destroys the planet. Or when eventually, the Sun expands. Or when, Andromeda and Milky Way collide.
Sure, some of those are billions of years in the future but I seriously doubt that life will EVER stop fighting with other forms of life. Even a trillion years later, life will be fighting with life. Let's get some form of human life off of this planet before it all comes crashing down.
Um, I do not think people hate the centralized repository for config files, after all, they use an /etc directory and file structure without complaint. The problem with The Registry is that it is a binary file format that is impossible to decode or repair without a specialized tool that requires a fully functional environment in to utilize.
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It is absolutely possible to have high performance userspace graphics, as was proven with some of the more up-to-date drivers. I think it was ATI that first did it, by the way.
Absolutely not. Read this and understand it (first link I found that was useful): http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/cli/research/switch.pdf
From the summary: "In general, the indirect cost of context switch ranges from several microseconds to more than one thousand microseconds for our workload."
If you can skip that "several microseconds to more than one thousand microseconds" blip, you will get MUCH better performance. That is why graphics drivers are in the kernel and why you can NOT say that you can ever get high performance user space graphics drivers (under current architectures).
Actually, the only important thing in all of this is whether or not your child feels like you are someone that they can talk to. If your child can talk to you about their experiences, you will have a chance at helping them.
Both of my children know they can talk to me. One is an adult now and the other one will soon be an adult. Both have _always_ been able to talk to me and as a consequence, they have both have had a much easier childhood than I had. They have had no extreme problems that they felt they could not solve.
Why is information like this on computers that are connected to the internet?
It wasn't.
Unclassified information resides on computers directly connected to the internet. There was no Secret or Top Secret information compromised by hacking internet connected computers. If you think that is what the article is saying, then either the "journalist" is using too much hyperbole or you are misunderstanding the words.
Let me restate that so it is perfectly clear: There are not large hordes of government classified information on computers connected to the public facing internet.
I agree completely that a HUD would be truly freaking awesome. I was quite taken aback when I heard that anything you record automagically gets sent up to Google. *sigh* I guess they have to get their pound of flesh but it makes the device to be something I resent and dislike. Obviously, I will not be purchasing one. :(
I want the camera to facial-recognize people and put their names over their heads, because I am bad with names.
I kind of like that idea. I do not like that I will be geo-tagged, recorded, and all of it uploaded to some corporations servers.
We don't need to worry about exoskeletons or genetic upgrades because we do NOT have the tech, not even close, to be able to travel to another solar system.
Who is this WE that you keep talking about? My descendants will surely travel to another star system. Hopefully your descendants break free of the limitations of your thought so they can go too. There is even a (impossibly small) possibility that *I* might get a chance to travel to another star system.
If we do not consider these things now, how will we get there in the future? A journey of an octillion miles starts with one foot step.
Fuck them. They should not be releasing their stuff in a manner compatible with my computer. They do NOT get root just because they choose to release their stuff in certain formats. If they are so worried about piracy, they can create their own dedicated devices. I refuse to accept that there will no longer be ANY computing devices available to me that I have no absolute control over.
It is a shame that you are sitting only at +3 since your comment is the only one that the original poster should need to read. Seriously, it is not up to them to decide what the user of the software *should* do. It is up to them to provide a way to do it. Period.
I also agree that thought should be given to how to present this "dangerous" task. Nothing is more frustrating than clicking somewhere thinking you are clicking one option and instead, you click on another which utterly destroys everything you were working on.
At least you logged in to be a jackass. :)
I read bluefoxlucid's response and I did not get the same things from it that you did. Weird.
Very nice troll from an Anonymous Coward.
Microsoft deliberately obfuscates the controls for their operating system and Android does not.
To put it another way: You can not defend yourself in a Microsoft world but you can defend yourself in a non-carrier ROM Android world.
Cheers
I completely agree. I would also say that if he is not using this device to power his house or some other personal uses, then it is definitely a fraud. If it worked, he would be selling power commercially.
will collide in about four billion years.
IIRC, our planet will not really be inhabitable by then due to the Sun's growth due to the Sun needing to burn helium and other heavier elements instead of hydrogen.
You are assuming that they are dying due to collisions. It would be a spectacular way to die but I am willing to guess that most of them are dying due to radiation poisoning from all of the star formation and supernova events (huge new stars do not live long!).
In other words, it is likely that entire civilizations are (were) being destroyed from radiation and a constant rain of galactic dust.
Hm. I am not a math major nor a history major. How does multiplying prime numbers and adding 1 create a guaranteed prime number? I can think of smaller examples of multiplying primes and adding 1 that does not equate to a prime: (3*3)+1=10.
Google should be strong enough to shrug the one-way migration off. People who would migrate away from open standards to lock-in are not worth keeping anyways... and for the few who regret it, you should keep the enticing option available. Shutting XMPP off is a weak and reactionary move. Whoever made the decision (or allowed the decision to be made) should be moved to a position where they can do no more harm to Google.
You were very lucky. That low-flying Whoosh! almost took your head off. ;)
So one cold winter day, I walked into a warm convenience store and reached into a refrigerator (which I could feel heat emanating off of) and pulled out a bottle of cold chocolate milk. I wondered to myself: Why don't they just create an opening from outside of the store, where the temps were well below freezing, to the inside of the refrigerator? Instead, they were paying to heat the store in a freezing environment and then paying to chill some stuff inside of an environment that they had paid to heat up. BoGgLe bOgGlE?!
Because if they raise the limit to 75, people will drive 85.
Citation needed.
Americans have been conditioned to believe that the "real" speed limit is at least 10 mph over the posted limit.
Personal opinion does not qualify. Regardless, speed limits are absurd anyways. Speed advisories should be used and dangerous driving should be punished severely.
I apologize. I should have provided links to start with. The most important link for you is to the XDA forums. That is where ALL of the interesting stuff is discussed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1493
The Blackstar ROM I was discussing can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1676086
The forum Android Development will be full of ROMs modified at the binary level (like Blackstar).
The forum Original Android Development will be full of ROMs modified at the source code level (like CyanogenMod).
I recommend ensuring that you have the latest modem firmware installed as the original firmware that was on my phone was absolutely terrible. You can find whatever the latest is via the XDA forums.
Speaking as someone who lives in a country with a history of consistently corrupt, dysfunctional governments, without any kind of police presence in the community, with disgustingly poor health and education services, this litany of complaint and hopelessness sounds to me like nothing more than childish whining.
What is sad is that when I started reading this sentence, I had to double-check to ensure you were not describing America. I thought to myself, "Sure, things are bad here but not THAT bad." But so many of those words resonate: corrupt, dysfunctional governments (lobbying, sequestration), and: with disgustingly poor health and education services (I am not able to see a doctor without paying obscene amounts of money and my children would be reading at a third grade level if I had not taught them myself). Concerning the police presence, it is only police cars and you should _never_ interact with the police as they will only try to find some way to arrest you. You are their enemy.
I guess the only difference between America and your terrible country is really only a matter of degree at this point. A crying shame. America, despite its warts, was at one time, the most incredibly awesome country this world has ever seen. I want it to be that way again.
The Samsung ROM was horrifically slow and ugly and filled with unremovable apps I didn't want, plus it contacted the AT&T mothership constantly even though I don't use AT&T and the phone is unlocked.
So I wiped and downgraded to CM10 stable. This one lets me make calls, but randomly reboots at least half a dozen times a day.
I assume you are talking about the AT&T Galaxy Note using the quincyatt rom.
The Jelly Bean versions all have severe issues, especially with the camera app; however, if you go to XDA developers forums and use a custom ROM based off of CM 10, you should be okay.
For myself, ICS was the most stable version... but even then, I had some really tough times until I upgraded the modem firmware.
If you are having rebooting issues, try doing a full wipe (including /system) through TWRP and then fresh installing (do not use any backups of your apps) a ROM. One additional procedure I tried which may (but probably not) have helped was to let the phone do its initial boot without touching anything. Let it sit for a few minutes and then reboot it. Once it boots back up, then go through the standard setting up procedures.
I finally got my Note to be extremely stable but battery life was still a problem until I tried the Blackstar ROM. I should check which governor it uses and see if CM will also save as much battery power.
Good luck sir.
I have never understood this metric: "America consumes more per person than any other country."
So did someone follow an American around for a year and measure that person's energy use? It appears to me that what is being measured is the output of Industry and distributing that measurement amongst a population... which makes zero sense as a metric.
If CO2 output will be measured vs population, then Industry CO2 MUST be removed for the number to make any sense. The same is true for energy use. Industrial output has no absolute relation to total population.
I will grant without argument that an American driving a gas guzzling SUV will consume more energy than a nomadic herder deep in the plains of wtfistan.
You have got to be kidding, or have your head all the way up your ass. The GOP is the party that refuses to compromise in this round of budget cuts.
That does not make the Democrats angels. BOTH parties are terrible.