Shoddy design? You mean, like those poor excuses for engineers who didn't equip 1904 cars with basic safety necessities like airbags and crumple zones? How could they be so careless!
Bzzzt wrong. It makes ALL cookies temporary, including those you specifically want to keep. I don't want to have to log in to reputable sites like Slashdot or Wikipedia every single time.
That's new, but still bad. Inconvenient -- you need 5 clicks instead of one, and it still breaks your first visit by telling the site you don't have cookies.
There's a crapload of sites which work noticeably worse if you have cookies completely off, so in a vast majority of cases the answer will be "allow for session".
Browsers already have the ability to warn per cookies. You can't possibly browse the web like that. Even a once-off per site setup is absurd.
For you. For me, it's a vital functionality, and one of reasons I don't touch Chrome with a ten foot pole.
Of course, I use once-off, with Cookie Monster to be able to alter the decision later as the built-in UI takes a couple minutes (!) to alter it.
Most third-party bastards get onto my DNS-do-not-resolve list, too. Just blocking their cookie does hardly anything, they can use your IP and headers to get almost as much info. To the contrary, being warned about a new cookie is good since I know there's scum I didn't know of before. And there is not that many trackers around, I haven't added any to my list in two months already.
Cookie Monster is damn nice, it just lacks one thing: the ability to let permanent cookies stay if you allow the site to do so. Currently, you need to go to that site again and login/set up/etc once more.
I guess it's a problem in Firefox core -- if set to session cookies by default, it probably overwrites the cookie's expiration so Cookie Monster can't restore it
Are you sure we are talking about the same Windows 7?
XP runs barely on 64MB, adequately for small tasks on 256MB, ok on 512MB. 7 runs barely on 512MB, adequately for small tasks on 2GB, ok on 4GB. Let's not even mention Vista...
There are reasons for running 7: some hardware, especially shitty laptops, doesn't get drivers for XP. Also, XP 64 is a bad joke, meaning you can't use more than ~3GB due to sketchy PAE support. None of these matter for old boxes, though.
There's no excuse to skimp on memory on new systems, but on old hardware and virtual machines, you'd want to use the more efficient edition. Especially businesses don't want to throw perfectly functional hardware away -- and around here, companies have piles of boxes that can't handle 7 but work just fine for all tasks thrown at them. Having some XP and some 7 would be a maintenance nightmare, thus no wonders I haven't seen a _single_ Win7 desktop at any customer (mostly car dealers).
And Win7 is full of gems like transfer speed of ~20KBps over wired Ethernet when XP and Linux on the very same hardware get roughly the nominal speed.
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Not really since in this example link itself takes more than 10 minutes and can't be parallelized.
Most of current software is woefully single-threated too. I can't really think of any thing other than compilation (with makefiles that allow -j6) which uses more than one core. At most, it's decompression (a small portion of a core) feeding a thread that uses 100% of another, or something in this vein.
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A single amd64 core can emulate an arm core from about the same market segment via qemu. A cross-compile which on my lousy $400 6 core desktop takes 44 seconds needs 132 minutes natively on 1 core n900. For any activity that actually needs CPU power, x86 chips are not going away. If something replaces them, it'd be something designed for speed -- rather than 8086 compatibility or low power.
Yet, for most daily uses, you don't need much CPU power. We got so used to "Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away" that most people forget they ran software with about the same functionality ten years ago on machines a hundred times slower. Dropping some of worst software bloat can get us a really long way.
I'd say that a big spam campaign should have the same penalty as a single murder. Deleting a single piece of spam takes only a few seconds on the average, but even after spam filters, you have hundreds of millions messages that do pass through. Collect that together and they can easily take out a whole life.
Fake drug scams take out lives too, it is reasonable to assume a number of people affected will lose enough from their life expectancy to make a penalty equivalent to one for a murder fair.
I think measuring any crime's effects by adding the time others lose to your act is a simple and fair scheme. It would also lead to decriminalizing things that harm no one.
Wrong, there are cases where the preferred form for modification is assembly or even raw binary (think shellcode).
Also, if you go outside languages like C, there is no clear-cut compiler anymore.
Javascript? Would you call the output of minify "source"? It is syntactically correct program text that you can feed to a compiler, yet it's unfit for modification by humans. PostScript? Unless hand-made (ie, never), it is completely unreadable. Yet it is text and a correct program. AutoConf? Here the output is a shell script. Does your definition include them?
And what about images? There the "preferred form" is usually not what you'd want to have but the best you can have. Even the author often wishes he kept them in xcf format rather than just flattened files.
GPL clearly says "preferred form of modification". A huge tarball with large undocumented changes is not one if a git repository with everything well-organized is known to exist. There's no way to bisect it to find where a regression is, to find which of Red Hat's modifications caused a breakage, what they modified, and so on.
There wasn't a SINGLE race/species that Tolkien invented himself.
Orcs? Beowulf.
Hobbits? The name is listed on an early 19th century list of folk tale creatures without description, the creature itself comes from early 20th century children books, including "Babbit".
Elves, dwarves, trolls? Norse mythology.
Tolkien did a great job digging those creatures out of obscurity. It is so much better to not have to learn what "qwerts" or "asdfaks" are in every single book, which is what copyright (*spit*) requires these days.
It's a great book, I've read it ten years ago, in the Polish translation.
Quoting Wikipedia: "fear of the vigilant and litigious Tolkien estate has heretofore prevented its publication in English". Tell me again, how exactly copyright encourages creation of new works?
Not till DosBox gets mouse reporting right:p Also, it allows you to remap physical keys only, and both n900 and droids with keyboards have less than 101 keys, You can't double-click the right "mouse" button, too. You can't use that era's ISA cards or similar hardware extensions, but this applies to modern PCs as well.
These are the only kinks I can think of that keep DosBox on phones from being strictly more powerful than the 1990 x86 PC you're talking about.
The plan is working as intended. Elop doesn't hold a single Nokia share, but is one of biggest shareholders of Microsoft -- trashing the company will make him lose nothing and get a nice severance payout once the investors finally get rid of him. All of his efforts go towards increasing Microsoft's stock.
iOS is a toy for technically-illiterate people. I do use my n900 as a full-blown small laptop.
After sanitizing the layout[1], its keyboard is just a notch below laptops -- just like laptops, unfit for long-term use but good for doing something quickly. And instead of lugging a huge bag you need a car trunk for, you can carry n900 in your pocket. Heck, last time at a customer, my laptop was sitting in a corner while I ran from place to place, running postgres queries from the n900. In this particular case, it was over ssh so an iPhone would be enough if it had a keyboard -- but it doesn't so it's useless. On other occasions, though, I wrote actual C++ and Perl programs while travelling to places you wouldn't take a laptop with you to.
For games, I play old DOS games -- which are orders of magnitude more plentiful than native stuff on either platform. But for you, it's a no go since Der Führer won't let you have anything Turing-complete.
[1]. What the heck was Nokia thinking? Having no keys like PgUp, PgDn, Esc, , {, }, ~, ^, | but at the same time having shifted physical keys unbound makes no sense. Fortunately, on an open platform, you can edit that any way you like.
Right click is emulated by holding the stylus/fingernail for a while. This works pretty well. Heck, I hardly ever click on links any other way in Fennec.
MeeGo, unlike iOS or Android, is a desktop environment rather than a whole operating system. It's no different from Gnome or XFCE. Ie, you can run any regular Linux program on it, at most suffering from it not being well-integrated, just as if you ran a KDE program on Gnome.
And the last time I checked, your average Linux distribution has orders of magnitude more software than either iOS or Android.
Interesting that this bugfix was released only for XP. In 7, there's a dialog, but autorun.inf can show anything there, so most users will be just as easily fooled.
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Shoddy design? You mean, like those poor excuses for engineers who didn't equip 1904 cars with basic safety necessities like airbags and crumple zones? How could they be so careless!
Bzzzt wrong. It makes ALL cookies temporary, including those you specifically want to keep. I don't want to have to log in to reputable sites like Slashdot or Wikipedia every single time.
That's new, but still bad. Inconvenient -- you need 5 clicks instead of one, and it still breaks your first visit by telling the site you don't have cookies.
There's a crapload of sites which work noticeably worse if you have cookies completely off, so in a vast majority of cases the answer will be "allow for session".
Browsers already have the ability to warn per cookies. You can't possibly browse the web like that. Even a once-off per site setup is absurd.
For you. For me, it's a vital functionality, and one of reasons I don't touch Chrome with a ten foot pole.
Of course, I use once-off, with Cookie Monster to be able to alter the decision later as the built-in UI takes a couple minutes (!) to alter it.
Most third-party bastards get onto my DNS-do-not-resolve list, too. Just blocking their cookie does hardly anything, they can use your IP and headers to get almost as much info. To the contrary, being warned about a new cookie is good since I know there's scum I didn't know of before. And there is not that many trackers around, I haven't added any to my list in two months already.
Cookie Monster is damn nice, it just lacks one thing: the ability to let permanent cookies stay if you allow the site to do so. Currently, you need to go to that site again and login/set up/etc once more.
I guess it's a problem in Firefox core -- if set to session cookies by default, it probably overwrites the cookie's expiration so Cookie Monster can't restore it
Are you sure we are talking about the same Windows 7?
XP runs barely on 64MB, adequately for small tasks on 256MB, ok on 512MB.
7 runs barely on 512MB, adequately for small tasks on 2GB, ok on 4GB.
Let's not even mention Vista...
There are reasons for running 7: some hardware, especially shitty laptops, doesn't get drivers for XP. Also, XP 64 is a bad joke, meaning you can't use more than ~3GB due to sketchy PAE support. None of these matter for old boxes, though.
There's no excuse to skimp on memory on new systems, but on old hardware and virtual machines, you'd want to use the more efficient edition. Especially businesses don't want to throw perfectly functional hardware away -- and around here, companies have piles of boxes that can't handle 7 but work just fine for all tasks thrown at them. Having some XP and some 7 would be a maintenance nightmare, thus no wonders I haven't seen a _single_ Win7 desktop at any customer (mostly car dealers).
And Win7 is full of gems like transfer speed of ~20KBps over wired Ethernet when XP and Linux on the very same hardware get roughly the nominal speed.
Not really since in this example link itself takes more than 10 minutes and can't be parallelized.
Most of current software is woefully single-threated too. I can't really think of any thing other than compilation (with makefiles that allow -j6) which uses more than one core. At most, it's decompression (a small portion of a core) feeding a thread that uses 100% of another, or something in this vein.
"Nine women can't make a baby in one month" -- Fred Brooks
A single amd64 core can emulate an arm core from about the same market segment via qemu. A cross-compile which on my lousy $400 6 core desktop takes 44 seconds needs 132 minutes natively on 1 core n900. For any activity that actually needs CPU power, x86 chips are not going away. If something replaces them, it'd be something designed for speed -- rather than 8086 compatibility or low power.
Yet, for most daily uses, you don't need much CPU power. We got so used to "Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away" that most people forget they ran software with about the same functionality ten years ago on machines a hundred times slower. Dropping some of worst software bloat can get us a really long way.
How can it be illegal if a single 4G WiFi device blocks GPS in a radius of several kilometers?
I'd say that a big spam campaign should have the same penalty as a single murder. Deleting a single piece of spam takes only a few seconds on the average, but even after spam filters, you have hundreds of millions messages that do pass through. Collect that together and they can easily take out a whole life.
Fake drug scams take out lives too, it is reasonable to assume a number of people affected will lose enough from their life expectancy to make a penalty equivalent to one for a murder fair.
I think measuring any crime's effects by adding the time others lose to your act is a simple and fair scheme. It would also lead to decriminalizing things that harm no one.
And on about any other website. It makes me wonder why some people don't have everything related to FaceBook adblocked yet.
Of course, AdSense is already blocked by everyone I know, so both culprits of this article would be happily together.
Wrong, there are cases where the preferred form for modification is assembly or even raw binary (think shellcode).
Also, if you go outside languages like C, there is no clear-cut compiler anymore.
Javascript? Would you call the output of minify "source"? It is syntactically correct program text that you can feed to a compiler, yet it's unfit for modification by humans.
PostScript? Unless hand-made (ie, never), it is completely unreadable. Yet it is text and a correct program.
AutoConf? Here the output is a shell script. Does your definition include them?
And what about images? There the "preferred form" is usually not what you'd want to have but the best you can have. Even the author often wishes he kept them in xcf format rather than just flattened files.
GPL clearly says "preferred form of modification". A huge tarball with large undocumented changes is not one if a git repository with everything well-organized is known to exist. There's no way to bisect it to find where a regression is, to find which of Red Hat's modifications caused a breakage, what they modified, and so on.
There wasn't a SINGLE race/species that Tolkien invented himself.
Orcs? Beowulf.
Hobbits? The name is listed on an early 19th century list of folk tale creatures without description, the creature itself comes from early 20th century children books, including "Babbit".
Elves, dwarves, trolls? Norse mythology.
Tolkien did a great job digging those creatures out of obscurity. It is so much better to not have to learn what "qwerts" or "asdfaks" are in every single book, which is what copyright (*spit*) requires these days.
E-mail is free and can pass more than a single sentence, unlike SMS.
Facebook is like TV: no one I give a damn about uses either of them.
It's a great book, I've read it ten years ago, in the Polish translation.
Quoting Wikipedia: "fear of the vigilant and litigious Tolkien estate has heretofore prevented its publication in English". Tell me again, how exactly copyright encourages creation of new works?
Not till DosBox gets mouse reporting right :p
Also, it allows you to remap physical keys only, and both n900 and droids with keyboards have less than 101 keys, You can't double-click the right "mouse" button, too. You can't use that era's ISA cards or similar hardware extensions, but this applies to modern PCs as well.
These are the only kinks I can think of that keep DosBox on phones from being strictly more powerful than the 1990 x86 PC you're talking about.
The plan is working as intended. Elop doesn't hold a single Nokia share, but is one of biggest shareholders of Microsoft -- trashing the company will make him lose nothing and get a nice severance payout once the investors finally get rid of him. All of his efforts go towards increasing Microsoft's stock.
iOS is a toy for technically-illiterate people. I do use my n900 as a full-blown small laptop.
After sanitizing the layout[1], its keyboard is just a notch below laptops -- just like laptops, unfit for long-term use but good for doing something quickly. And instead of lugging a huge bag you need a car trunk for, you can carry n900 in your pocket. Heck, last time at a customer, my laptop was sitting in a corner while I ran from place to place, running postgres queries from the n900. In this particular case, it was over ssh so an iPhone would be enough if it had a keyboard -- but it doesn't so it's useless. On other occasions, though, I wrote actual C++ and Perl programs while travelling to places you wouldn't take a laptop with you to.
For games, I play old DOS games -- which are orders of magnitude more plentiful than native stuff on either platform. But for you, it's a no go since Der Führer won't let you have anything Turing-complete.
[1]. What the heck was Nokia thinking? Having no keys like PgUp, PgDn, Esc, , {, }, ~, ^, | but at the same time having shifted physical keys unbound makes no sense. Fortunately, on an open platform, you can edit that any way you like.
Right click is emulated by holding the stylus/fingernail for a while. This works pretty well. Heck, I hardly ever click on links any other way in Fennec.
MeeGo, unlike iOS or Android, is a desktop environment rather than a whole operating system. It's no different from Gnome or XFCE. Ie, you can run any regular Linux program on it, at most suffering from it not being well-integrated, just as if you ran a KDE program on Gnome.
And the last time I checked, your average Linux distribution has orders of magnitude more software than either iOS or Android.
Freedom to end freedom and equality, cannot be a freedom.
Yeah, that's why I prefer GPL over BSD.
And you're right, the 196MB printer queue is anything but competent.
Say who? If you're going to call others irrelevant, shouldn't you first have some modicum of relevancy yourself?
Interesting that this bugfix was released only for XP. In 7, there's a dialog, but autorun.inf can show anything there, so most users will be just as easily fooled.