You're right that there were 64 bit MIPS chips 12 years ago, but none of them are in wide use today nor can boast performance within an order of magnitude of recent ARM. Modern Longsoon can. And indeed, it builds upon the designs of those 64 bit mipsen of old.
Uhm, flto. This is a mode of compilation that operates on the whole source together. I haven't compiled Firefox myself, but for example Dungeon Crawl (380kloc) needs 1.5GB, so this seems about right.
Of course, a regular compile needs a small fraction of that.
Why would I install two distinct architectures instead of just one? Heck, I see a reason to have amd64 and armel co-installed so you can easily cross compile and test things, but amd64 and i386? What for?
What's the problem with 64 bits? Firefox worked just fine with it for years. Unless you're using a doorstop machine or a doorstop OS, even having 32 bit libraries is a waste of disk space. Heck, even phones start having 2GB ram, suggesting ARM will need to transition soon. MIPS (Longsoon) is already there.
When project electrolysis finally lands on Firefox trunk, the only current benefit of 64 bits will be gone, but that's still not a reason to have a complete set of 32 bit libraries in memory (or even on disk).
Limits of 32 bits are annoying. For example, gcc-4.6 can partition flto compilation but it still needs to load everything into the memory. It'd be a huge waste of programming time to implement your own swapping if the OS is perfectly capable of doing that. If the address space is big enough, that is. You currently cannot compile Firefox with flto on a 32 bit machine at all, and it gives a huge (~20%) boost on typical C++ code.
Thus, your precious 32 bit systems are a doorstop architecture that would be nice to get rid of.
Let's look at the description (per Wikipedia): It is bestowed by the President in the name of Congress on members of the United States Armed Forces (check) who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life (check) above and beyond the call of duty (sadly, also check while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States (check)." Due to the nature of its criteria, it is often awarded posthumously (likely also check)
Thus, it is certain Manning won't get the medal from this president. He does fit all the requirements, though, so much more than all other participants in this war so far. Direct battlefield bravery can save at most a platoon of comrades, revealing grave misconduct by the chain of command can affect the whole war.
Not Apple, it was Nokia who did it first on a phone. And it's annoying as hell. It can be disabled (a must for sanity), but then you get warnings all the time about the "orientation lock". You see, I'm secure with my orientation and please get the hell away from trying to get me to change it.
But what is a laptop good for? You can get two desktops, each with better performance, for the price of one laptop -- and you don't have to deal with a fiddly keyboard that makes your hands hurt after 15 minutes, a narrow strip of a screen (seemingly no new laptops have 4x3 displays...), several times as big hardware failure rate, and so on.
For when I'm on the go, I have a non-toy smartphone. Runs a compiler, shell, perl, Postgres -- both client and a server, browser, etc. The keyboard is even more fiddly that on a laptop, but since it's not meant for a long work, it's adequate enough. And you can carry it in a pocket, rather than a car's trunk.
In a lot of places, there are no savings whatsoever. CFLs take orders of magnitude more energy to manufacture, which are supposed to be offset by lesser efficiency of incadescents. Except, every bit of energy that is "wasted" in your house lowers your heating bill by just that much. Unless you live in a hot region where air conditioning is needed, this is either a win or neutral. Very few businesses and even fewer private houses use indoor lighting during day (at least around my parts), and during summer... right, neither light nor heating are needed. Thus, incadescent light bulbs end up with almost no waste.
Which cannot be said about manufacture and disposal of CFLs.
Unnatural colour of CFL light being harsher on your eyes is another story...
Have you tried mutt then? Works everywhere with nothing but ssh, and you can customize it or add support for anything you want in a few lines of shell.
And since you're already logged in to the server, procmail with all its power is just nearby. Try to beat that with any GUI client, and especially webmail.
I admit that some of best things I ever ate were during my two trips to the US. You have wonderful pizza (far better than "real" pizza in Italy!), great tex-mex and so on.
But where it comes to bread, beer, chocolate... it's a disaster. I know you can find any food for any taste somewhere, but if every sample taken from what is in plain sight is not edible, something is wrong with the majority of people there. Shops wouldn't stock nearly exclusively the trash if no one bought it. Thus, I think it's a safe assumption going into a shop and taking a bunch of samples can accurately tell what an AVERAGE american eats.
in the States, because if there's one thing we need in this country, it's more chocolate products
Yes you do, the last time I was there, chocolate one takes at random from the shelf is completely unedible. The brand I've seen to be most popular, "Hershey", is the worst of it all. And looking at the ingredients, I see that in Europe that junk would be hard pressed to qualify as "chocolate-like".
I guess that you might have real chocolate somewhere in an obscure stand in a corner, like that mythical "drinkable American beer" people keep mentioning here on Slashdot -- my sampling was just a few random pieces taken without prior knowledge. You know, to get a fair idea what people on the other side of the pond eat.
I've visited last quite a few years ago, but googling around, I see that recently the law there has been changed to allow calling a product "chocolate" even if it doesn't contain any cocoa or milk. This doesn't bode well for the taste...
for prot in tcp udp;do iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i lan0 -p $prot --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 1.2.3.4;done
There are other reasons for DNS hijacking, too. For one, it lets the ISP do SiteFinder-like spewing of adverts. Another reason is to "fix" broken local settings -- here, a bunch of "computer repair" bozos used to hard-code people's DNS settings to a big ISP's DNS server, and when that ISP reconfigured it, suddenly "the Internet broke, fix it!", making small local ISPs go the easy way rather than argue with customers.
partly due to LLVM+Clang being quite an improvement over GCC
Strange, then why I'm getting way over twice as long execution times on clang as on gcc? Both on amd64 and armel.
Not tested on Macs, but I doubt code that does little I/O would be markedly different between platforms. For example: git clone git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl.git (compile, both with flto and -O9) time./crawl -rc test/stress/woken_rest -sprint -sprint-map dungeon_sprint_1 gcc: 12.609s clang: 28.570s
Having an abysmal support for C++ standards and terrible diagnostics doesn't sway things towards clang as well.
Visa and Mastercard are one of worst promoters of censorship. For example, look at this case of outrageous religious censorship. Exiern is a webcomic with a PGish level of violence and some nudity. This is enough for an outright ban from the big three (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal), so the author was forced to split it into two sites, one with any violence, one with any nudity. Then they came up with another outlandish rule: that "mythical characters" cannot be displayed with any nudity. Yes, I'm not making it up.
Because the rootkit can lie to the OS that what they read is something nice, not what actually resides in sector 0. Or any other sector or file for that matter.
Seriously, AV software might at most prevent an infection by known agents if it hogs the CPU and check every single executable that starts up, but is fundamentally worthless when ran on an already infected system. I'm quite surprised malware has regressed so far that this is news these days, in the days of yore pretty much every virus not written by a 13 years old tried to hide its presence. But fear not, once reminded of this technique, other malware makers will follow and add this.
You mean, "excellent" with nothing the very poor excuse for an input dev I'm complaining about? For a non-blind person, a touch screen keyboard might be adequate for naming a contact in a phone book, but not much more.
On N900, I write long SQL queries and do minor system administration when away from a regular computer. In fact, I gave up using laptops for that, I'm either at home or in office and want a comfortable screen and keyboard, or on the move and can't stand lugging a huge thing. Are you saying this is doable on a touch screen?
A worse case: on n900, a device with a keyboard, Nokia in their infinite wisdom decided that to set an alarm you need to swipe a number of times to scroll to the hour and minute you want.
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You're right that there were 64 bit MIPS chips 12 years ago, but none of them are in wide use today nor can boast performance within an order of magnitude of recent ARM. Modern Longsoon can. And indeed, it builds upon the designs of those 64 bit mipsen of old.
Uhm, flto. This is a mode of compilation that operates on the whole source together. I haven't compiled Firefox myself, but for example Dungeon Crawl (380kloc) needs 1.5GB, so this seems about right.
Of course, a regular compile needs a small fraction of that.
Why would I install two distinct architectures instead of just one?
Heck, I see a reason to have amd64 and armel co-installed so you can easily cross compile and test things, but amd64 and i386? What for?
What's the problem with 64 bits? Firefox worked just fine with it for years. Unless you're using a doorstop machine or a doorstop OS, even having 32 bit libraries is a waste of disk space. Heck, even phones start having 2GB ram, suggesting ARM will need to transition soon. MIPS (Longsoon) is already there.
When project electrolysis finally lands on Firefox trunk, the only current benefit of 64 bits will be gone, but that's still not a reason to have a complete set of 32 bit libraries in memory (or even on disk).
Limits of 32 bits are annoying. For example, gcc-4.6 can partition flto compilation but it still needs to load everything into the memory. It'd be a huge waste of programming time to implement your own swapping if the OS is perfectly capable of doing that. If the address space is big enough, that is. You currently cannot compile Firefox with flto on a 32 bit machine at all, and it gives a huge (~20%) boost on typical C++ code.
Thus, your precious 32 bit systems are a doorstop architecture that would be nice to get rid of.
I don't think civilian journalists can be awarded the Medal of Honour. But it's the thought that counts.
Yeah, Assange is not even an US citizen.
Let's look at the description (per Wikipedia): ." Due to the nature of its criteria, it is often awarded posthumously (likely also check)
It is bestowed by the President in the name of Congress on members of the United States Armed Forces (check) who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her life (check) above and beyond the call of duty (sadly, also check while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States (check)
Thus, it is certain Manning won't get the medal from this president. He does fit all the requirements, though, so much more than all other participants in this war so far. Direct battlefield bravery can save at most a platoon of comrades, revealing grave misconduct by the chain of command can affect the whole war.
Let's just hope his Medal of Honor won't be posthumous...
Not Apple, it was Nokia who did it first on a phone. And it's annoying as hell. It can be disabled (a must for sanity), but then you get warnings all the time about the "orientation lock". You see, I'm secure with my orientation and please get the hell away from trying to get me to change it.
But what is a laptop good for? You can get two desktops, each with better performance, for the price of one laptop -- and you don't have to deal with a fiddly keyboard that makes your hands hurt after 15 minutes, a narrow strip of a screen (seemingly no new laptops have 4x3 displays...), several times as big hardware failure rate, and so on.
For when I'm on the go, I have a non-toy smartphone. Runs a compiler, shell, perl, Postgres -- both client and a server, browser, etc. The keyboard is even more fiddly that on a laptop, but since it's not meant for a long work, it's adequate enough. And you can carry it in a pocket, rather than a car's trunk.
More like Hitler expressing concern over the well-being of Jews. Or Stalin claiming things he does are meant to improve life of the working class.
This brand new Lenovo laptop my mother bought on Friday (guess why I had it in my hands...) had Bluetooth on, out of the box.
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data", thus to be accurate let's keep it to this single sample :p (Honestly, I basically never deal with laptops.)
And in the summertime, puts your air conditioning bill up correspondingly.
There were four days with temperatures higher than 24 degrees this year so far here (mid-northern Poland).
In a lot of places, there are no savings whatsoever. CFLs take orders of magnitude more energy to manufacture, which are supposed to be offset by lesser efficiency of incadescents. Except, every bit of energy that is "wasted" in your house lowers your heating bill by just that much. Unless you live in a hot region where air conditioning is needed, this is either a win or neutral. Very few businesses and even fewer private houses use indoor lighting during day (at least around my parts), and during summer... right, neither light nor heating are needed. Thus, incadescent light bulbs end up with almost no waste.
Which cannot be said about manufacture and disposal of CFLs.
Unnatural colour of CFL light being harsher on your eyes is another story...
This is not flamebait: 3.6 has security support, 4.0 is EOLed already. And 3.5 has third-party support from Debian and Red Hat for long years to come.
Have you tried mutt then? Works everywhere with nothing but ssh, and you can customize it or add support for anything you want in a few lines of shell.
And since you're already logged in to the server, procmail with all its power is just nearby. Try to beat that with any GUI client, and especially webmail.
I admit that some of best things I ever ate were during my two trips to the US. You have wonderful pizza (far better than "real" pizza in Italy!), great tex-mex and so on.
But where it comes to bread, beer, chocolate... it's a disaster. I know you can find any food for any taste somewhere, but if every sample taken from what is in plain sight is not edible, something is wrong with the majority of people there. Shops wouldn't stock nearly exclusively the trash if no one bought it. Thus, I think it's a safe assumption going into a shop and taking a bunch of samples can accurately tell what an AVERAGE american eats.
in the States, because if there's one thing we need in this country, it's more chocolate products
Yes you do, the last time I was there, chocolate one takes at random from the shelf is completely unedible. The brand I've seen to be most popular, "Hershey", is the worst of it all. And looking at the ingredients, I see that in Europe that junk would be hard pressed to qualify as "chocolate-like".
I guess that you might have real chocolate somewhere in an obscure stand in a corner, like that mythical "drinkable American beer" people keep mentioning here on Slashdot -- my sampling was just a few random pieces taken without prior knowledge. You know, to get a fair idea what people on the other side of the pond eat.
I've visited last quite a few years ago, but googling around, I see that recently the law there has been changed to allow calling a product "chocolate" even if it doesn't contain any cocoa or milk. This doesn't bode well for the taste...
for prot in tcp udp;do iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i lan0 -p $prot --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 1.2.3.4;done
There are other reasons for DNS hijacking, too. For one, it lets the ISP do SiteFinder-like spewing of adverts. Another reason is to "fix" broken local settings -- here, a bunch of "computer repair" bozos used to hard-code people's DNS settings to a big ISP's DNS server, and when that ISP reconfigured it, suddenly "the Internet broke, fix it!", making small local ISPs go the easy way rather than argue with customers.
Thus, don't expect this workaround to last long.
partly due to LLVM+Clang being quite an improvement over GCC
Strange, then why I'm getting way over twice as long execution times on clang as on gcc? Both on amd64 and armel.
Not tested on Macs, but I doubt code that does little I/O would be markedly different between platforms. ./crawl -rc test/stress/woken_rest -sprint -sprint-map dungeon_sprint_1
For example:
git clone git://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl.git
(compile, both with flto and -O9)
time
gcc: 12.609s
clang: 28.570s
Having an abysmal support for C++ standards and terrible diagnostics doesn't sway things towards clang as well.
Visa and Mastercard are one of worst promoters of censorship. For example, look at this case of outrageous religious censorship. Exiern is a webcomic with a PGish level of violence and some nudity. This is enough for an outright ban from the big three (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal), so the author was forced to split it into two sites, one with any violence, one with any nudity. Then they came up with another outlandish rule: that "mythical characters" cannot be displayed with any nudity. Yes, I'm not making it up.
And even more important, unlike StatCounter and other junk, they do show users with properly configured AdBlock.
Chrome's AdBlock is crippled, it allows you to remove only visual components but not tracking junk, that's why Chrome's stats seem better.
A netbook has to be lugged in a bag, you can put n900 into a pocket.
Because the rootkit can lie to the OS that what they read is something nice, not what actually resides in sector 0. Or any other sector or file for that matter.
Seriously, AV software might at most prevent an infection by known agents if it hogs the CPU and check every single executable that starts up, but is fundamentally worthless when ran on an already infected system. I'm quite surprised malware has regressed so far that this is news these days, in the days of yore pretty much every virus not written by a 13 years old tried to hide its presence. But fear not, once reminded of this technique, other malware makers will follow and add this.
You mean, "excellent" with nothing the very poor excuse for an input dev I'm complaining about? For a non-blind person, a touch screen keyboard might be adequate for naming a contact in a phone book, but not much more.
On N900, I write long SQL queries and do minor system administration when away from a regular computer. In fact, I gave up using laptops for that, I'm either at home or in office and want a comfortable screen and keyboard, or on the move and can't stand lugging a huge thing. Are you saying this is doable on a touch screen?
A worse case: on n900, a device with a keyboard, Nokia in their infinite wisdom decided that to set an alarm you need to swipe a number of times to scroll to the hour and minute you want.