If you even bother installing executables on more than one physical disk (counting arrays as one) by today, you're doing something wrong. All programs in one system take a few GB, that's peanuts compared not only to smallest disks produced today but even to flash storage on modern ARM rigs. It's only actual data that's bulky.
You may have ten VMs on one disk and five on another, or have a database/porn stash/backups exceed a disk, but it's better to think of programs installed as an unit.
Right, but do you know what happens if you send a plain text e-mail to a business person? They'll print it out, highlight a few places with a color marker, add comments in pen, scan it, put the image into a Word document then send it to you with a subject of "Sending e-mail message" (apparently Word's default subject, might be translated differently in English versions).
The first time I received a mail like this, I hoped this is a joke done on purpose. After seeing this multiple times from different people from far away parts of the country, from different business sectors, I think I really don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Code that uses STL for its data structures, and doesn't hold large blobs, tends to behave in quite similar ways. For example, I benchmarked the speed difference between i396 and x32 on five separate C++ modules, and the slowest had a 20% gain, the fastest 27% (CPU) -- nearly the same considering that stuff in other languages tends to jump wildly between -2% and 40%.
And as neighbour poster notices, Firefox's memory usage is mostly DOM/Javascript.
Firefox already runs 64 bit just fine -- over half of Debian installations are pure amd64. The problems here are caused by quirks in 64 bit versions of Windows only.
Since Windows doesn't have pure 64 bit versions, there is little reason to insist on 64 bit Firefox. Unlike most other systems, almost all libraries have to be compiled into Firefox anyway so better ABI doesn't win you much, and going 64 bit has a significant memory cost -- for typical C++ code, around 33% extra.
N900, even after all these years, is worlds better than any competition, in terms of hackability and input method. Sorry, but the keyboard is not optional -- with one, you lay down and start coding, noticing you could have been sitting at your big computer only after a few hours. You need to beat some sense into the keyboard layout, but after some customization it ends up on par with a small laptop when it comes to typing efficiency. And unlike a laptop, it fits into a pocket rather than a backpack or a car trunk.
It's just the CPU and RAM of N900 that puts it in a dire need of upgrading. Hear me, Jolla! Hear me, HTC!
10.0 will still be supported by Debian and a number of other distributions -- heck, the support STARTS in a few months.
If indeed the Mozilla foundation wants to drop 10.0 "ESR" so quickly, then it's not an ESR, it is well below standards for a regular release for most software.
If your enemy respects treaties, sure. But it's islamists who are we talking about here. They are literally COMMANDED to lie to "infidels" by their holy book.
Don't forget Avahi -- a network-facing daemon included in the default GUI install that has a remote security hole at least once a year. And what it's for? So you can have a link-local chat (compatible only with itself) and some autodetection of rare Apple's printers.
you must absolutely be shitting me if you think a $700bn bailout did more harm than a couple of wars where hundreds of thousands of people (lots of them, lots of us) have been killed
I'd say even mere suicide rate due to economic hardships caused by the new economic direction by itself caused more deaths than the wars. And then there's a significant decrease of the quality of life for over a billion people.
It's not the absolute amount of money that counts, this bailout had an enormous leverage with respect to which companies thrived and which did not. Instead of free market, we have crooks having effective rule. And they steal -- sometimes almost directly (like flash trading), sometimes in more subtle ways. It's not just the single $700bn bailout, it's also all the bailouts that followed. Without the US, Europe would let the banksters suffer at least some losses they caused.
If you're uneasy about comparing deaths to hardships, here's a similar case: a spam message not caught by spam filters takes several seconds of disruption (on the average, it might be less when batched or more when it causes a context switch). This means, a single decent-(or rather indecent)-sized spam run can rob people of more life than a single murder. People get upset when I claim that a spammer is worse than a murderer, but this is what numbers show.
How is that partisan? *All* recent Thieves-in-Chief blow trillions, what changes is who the main beneficents are. Dubya: big oil, military contractors B. Hussein: wall street, big media, big pharma [would be] Mittens: wall street, wall street, wall street
And Obama's bailout has been more harmful that all recent wars put together. It ensured no financial companies not connected to the main mafia can thrive: they were either bankrupted, bought out or marginalized, while investors received a clear message that their money can be safe if they go with those "too big to fail". And even worse, the wave of bailouts spread to Europe and rest of the word, and shows no signs of subsiding.
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If you even bother installing executables on more than one physical disk (counting arrays as one) by today, you're doing something wrong. All programs in one system take a few GB, that's peanuts compared not only to smallest disks produced today but even to flash storage on modern ARM rigs. It's only actual data that's bulky.
You may have ten VMs on one disk and five on another, or have a database/porn stash/backups exceed a disk, but it's better to think of programs installed as an unit.
Duh, just run an openGL port of Doom.
They differ by headers and the exact spelling of "me too" above the quoted text.
Right, but do you know what happens if you send a plain text e-mail to a business person? They'll print it out, highlight a few places with a color marker, add comments in pen, scan it, put the image into a Word document then send it to you with a subject of "Sending e-mail message" (apparently Word's default subject, might be translated differently in English versions).
The first time I received a mail like this, I hoped this is a joke done on purpose. After seeing this multiple times from different people from far away parts of the country, from different business sectors, I think I really don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Except that you cannot use extra registers on 32 bit kernels, as they won't save them past interrupts or task switches.
Stylish, Greasemonkey, and so on.
You can't use x32 on a 32 bit OS, as interrupts or task switches won't preserve additional registers.
Code that uses STL for its data structures, and doesn't hold large blobs, tends to behave in quite similar ways. For example, I benchmarked the speed difference between i396 and x32 on five separate C++ modules, and the slowest had a 20% gain, the fastest 27% (CPU) -- nearly the same considering that stuff in other languages tends to jump wildly between -2% and 40%.
And as neighbour poster notices, Firefox's memory usage is mostly DOM/Javascript.
Firefox already runs 64 bit just fine -- over half of Debian installations are pure amd64. The problems here are caused by quirks in 64 bit versions of Windows only.
Since Windows doesn't have pure 64 bit versions, there is little reason to insist on 64 bit Firefox. Unlike most other systems, almost all libraries have to be compiled into Firefox anyway so better ABI doesn't win you much, and going 64 bit has a significant memory cost -- for typical C++ code, around 33% extra.
The laptop's owner no longer has it. So a theft did occur, under false colour of law.
Screw the OS, gimme a J950, quickly!
N900, even after all these years, is worlds better than any competition, in terms of hackability and input method. Sorry, but the keyboard is not optional -- with one, you lay down and start coding, noticing you could have been sitting at your big computer only after a few hours. You need to beat some sense into the keyboard layout, but after some customization it ends up on par with a small laptop when it comes to typing efficiency. And unlike a laptop, it fits into a pocket rather than a backpack or a car trunk.
It's just the CPU and RAM of N900 that puts it in a dire need of upgrading. Hear me, Jolla! Hear me, HTC!
I prefer the length of copyright in Roman, Ur-Nammu's or Hammurabi's law.
10.0 will still be supported by Debian and a number of other distributions -- heck, the support STARTS in a few months.
If indeed the Mozilla foundation wants to drop 10.0 "ESR" so quickly, then it's not an ESR, it is well below standards for a regular release for most software.
The US tends to keep Texas separatists from getting a foothold in the U.N. as well.
If your enemy respects treaties, sure. But it's islamists who are we talking about here. They are literally COMMANDED to lie to "infidels" by their holy book.
[Ottawa treaty] .. which hasn't been signed by a single country that might actually be involved in warfare anytime soon.
Don't forget Avahi -- a network-facing daemon included in the default GUI install that has a remote security hole at least once a year. And what it's for? So you can have a link-local chat (compatible only with itself) and some autodetection of rare Apple's printers.
Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be attributed to stupidity.
I guess you haven't seen enough of Microsoft's actions, who are doing their utmost to disprove Hanlon's razor.
Like VeriSign's Site Finder, offshots of which are currently operated by the usual batch of bad ISPs?
you must absolutely be shitting me if you think a $700bn bailout did more harm than a couple of wars where hundreds of thousands of people (lots of them, lots of us) have been killed
I'd say even mere suicide rate due to economic hardships caused by the new economic direction by itself caused more deaths than the wars. And then there's a significant decrease of the quality of life for over a billion people.
It's not the absolute amount of money that counts, this bailout had an enormous leverage with respect to which companies thrived and which did not. Instead of free market, we have crooks having effective rule. And they steal -- sometimes almost directly (like flash trading), sometimes in more subtle ways. It's not just the single $700bn bailout, it's also all the bailouts that followed. Without the US, Europe would let the banksters suffer at least some losses they caused.
If you're uneasy about comparing deaths to hardships, here's a similar case: a spam message not caught by spam filters takes several seconds of disruption (on the average, it might be less when batched or more when it causes a context switch). This means, a single decent-(or rather indecent)-sized spam run can rob people of more life than a single murder. People get upset when I claim that a spammer is worse than a murderer, but this is what numbers show.
How is that partisan? *All* recent Thieves-in-Chief blow trillions, what changes is who the main beneficents are.
Dubya: big oil, military contractors
B. Hussein: wall street, big media, big pharma
[would be] Mittens: wall street, wall street, wall street
And Obama's bailout has been more harmful that all recent wars put together. It ensured no financial companies not connected to the main mafia can thrive: they were either bankrupted, bought out or marginalized, while investors received a clear message that their money can be safe if they go with those "too big to fail". And even worse, the wave of bailouts spread to Europe and rest of the word, and shows no signs of subsiding.
this is why I use apple - you never know who hijacked a domain and is now serving malicous software packages.
Judging from stories here on /. and elsewhere, indeed apple.com is serving malicious software packages through its app store.
Earth is stown only as a dot with a label, zooming in doesn't work. Beh, and I wanted to see how good data they have around my home :p.
I can't see how one can reasonably include overhead that's suffered only on the first hop into the "traffic" measurement.