For a long time, Hurd was merely a part of the GNU system, that just happened to be not functional "yet". You had GNU/Linux vs plain "GNU". It's only decades of Linux' dominance and Debian's concept of the kernel being interchangeable (linux vs kfreebsd vs hurd) that caused us to think about Hurd as something on its own.
AdBlock is done on the client side, this means the government can't issue a law or make a deal with Wikipedia to force it upon you. They'd have to disable SSL access and run man-in-the-middle proxies on all traffic.
The problem is that the moment such a filter is implemented, organizations that already use other methods to get rid of images they don't approve, will demand such filter to be enabled on their whim, without allowing people to opt out.
Except that the whole war was about folks harboring uncle Osama and refusing to hand him over. Which makes any claim for Pakistan to be "allies" pretty dubious.
HyperThreading. One core can handle two threads at nearly full speed (only certain instructions need the entire core and stall the other thread). This has an effect of doubling the number of cores, at the cost of running individual threads somewhat slower.
Have you looked at the power-to-price curve of AMD and Intel? AMD beats Intel so thoroughly on the performance/price curve that I wonder why anyone bothers with Intel. The only part where Intel wins is the performance of high-end CPUs, but that's only because they pack more effective cores into one unit. Performance of single-threaded programs is roughly equal, so Intel can't claim an edge there as well.
You can care about performance of either single-threaded or multi-threaded programs. In the former case, AMD wins thanks to lower price, in the latter, it still wins as you can pile more CPUs and still get it cheaper. The only case when choosing Intel might be a rational choice is the sudden jump between prices of 1-CPU and 2-CPU systems if your needs are just above the top performance of best AMDs but below the point Intel would need two CPUs as well.
Intel's advertising tries to compare CPUs with different prices. To get a meaningful comparison, you need to compare performance with a fixed price or prices with a fixed performance.
Sorry, the thirteenth amendment was held off by courts as it would ban lawyers from titling themselves "esq" (and an unrelated amendment got its number). Thus, being an US citizen doesn't prevent Tim Berners-Lee from being granted nobility by the country of his birth.
There is nothing databases use that regular file handling doesn't. In other words, SMB2 cannot ensure basic consistency.
Avoiding data corruption in corner cases is hard to do, and NFS doesn't go that stellar either, but this regression is something we need to be aware of.
Uhm, VNC/SSH stops working the very second you get away from a reliable network connection. Which usually means going out of home.
Do you want a computer on the train, bus, plane? Or one when going in the boonies? Or in the middle of a freaking city but somehow with no network coverage at all (my uncle's house, 500m from the center of a population:50k town)? Or near a thick concrete wall?
Not to mention phone companies claiming that $150 for 3MB of data is a fair price -- this is what roaming costs these days.
Sorry, but comparing a full Pentium3-class machine (Pentium4 for N950) to a dumb thin client is a joke.
Does this mean they're dropping their smartbooks as well? N900 is worlds better than anything iOS/Android-laden: instead of a limited toy OS with a browser, media player and fart apps, it has a general purpose operating system in a smartphone-sized form -- effectively a very, very small laptop. Nokia failed to polish it so for ordinary users it doesn't have so much appeal, but for hardcore programmers and sysadmins it's godsent.
That's nothing. I was going to install a stand-alone game once, and the installer wanted admin rights! It could have done anything behind my back!
Jesus Christ, get a grip on yourself.
Any game actually sold has 'admin rights', at least during the install, and can do things behind your back. I've never seen a windows game willing to install in a user's home directory before.
I hope you're joking. Have you, uhm, tried installing a Windows program some day? A good majority is distributed as.msi -- which, unless specifically marked as requiring admin rights, can be installed as non-root just fine. On Win7 for example, it goes to C:\Users\Bill Gates\AppData\Local\. Every well-behaved program does this or an equivalent. And that DRM-infested games are not well behaved is an argument against them.
I love how some people have to try to justify some reason to hate Steam. Steam is pretty much the least bad DRM we're ever going to see.
"But Tommy will butt rape you with a CONDOM while Bubba does this with a spiked dildo! Tommy is so good, pretty much the least bad cell mate you can have!". Newsflash: it is possible for a game to come with no DRM at all
Wait, mandatory worse-than-WGA activation is now "very light" "unintrusive" DRM? If that's not a slippery slope, I don't know what is.
I'm not ever going to install an uncracked game with a rootkit anywhere near a computer I care about. Steam might do less damage than SecuROM, but it still sits there with administrative rights to do things beyond your back.
Exactly same as for Gnome. And, unlike Gnome, whatever decent network manager you want works out of the box without having to uniinstall "network-manager".
It seems perfectly rational to me:
* works with array types (as c0lo said)
* no crippling limit of 255 characters if length is 1
* no waste for sane lengths, memory was at a great premium at the time
* no urge to have even weirder limits, like 65535 for 2-byte length
* all code works the same no matter if strings are short or long
* many string operations were more efficient: with Pascal strings you need to hold both the pointer and an offset inside every loop that goes over the string, this made things more complex on tiny computers of the time. On the other hand, some other operations were worse, so this goes neutral.
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For a long time, Hurd was merely a part of the GNU system, that just happened to be not functional "yet". You had GNU/Linux vs plain "GNU". It's only decades of Linux' dominance and Debian's concept of the kernel being interchangeable (linux vs kfreebsd vs hurd) that caused us to think about Hurd as something on its own.
Well, if your OS is less relevant than Hurd these days -- and less capable -- you might have a problem.
Hey, Apple is too rabidly hating the GPL to use Gimp :p
AdBlock is done on the client side, this means the government can't issue a law or make a deal with Wikipedia to force it upon you. They'd have to disable SSL access and run man-in-the-middle proxies on all traffic.
You assume no one will force that cookie onto you -- or onto Wikipedia itself.
Even in this very comment you already included an example of someone opting a third party in.
The problem is that the moment such a filter is implemented, organizations that already use other methods to get rid of images they don't approve, will demand such filter to be enabled on their whim, without allowing people to opt out.
Except that the whole war was about folks harboring uncle Osama and refusing to hand him over. Which makes any claim for Pakistan to be "allies" pretty dubious.
HyperThreading. One core can handle two threads at nearly full speed (only certain instructions need the entire core and stall the other thread). This has an effect of doubling the number of cores, at the cost of running individual threads somewhat slower.
Have you looked at the power-to-price curve of AMD and Intel? AMD beats Intel so thoroughly on the performance/price curve that I wonder why anyone bothers with Intel. The only part where Intel wins is the performance of high-end CPUs, but that's only because they pack more effective cores into one unit. Performance of single-threaded programs is roughly equal, so Intel can't claim an edge there as well.
You can care about performance of either single-threaded or multi-threaded programs. In the former case, AMD wins thanks to lower price, in the latter, it still wins as you can pile more CPUs and still get it cheaper. The only case when choosing Intel might be a rational choice is the sudden jump between prices of 1-CPU and 2-CPU systems if your needs are just above the top performance of best AMDs but below the point Intel would need two CPUs as well.
Intel's advertising tries to compare CPUs with different prices. To get a meaningful comparison, you need to compare performance with a fixed price or prices with a fixed performance.
Sorry, the thirteenth amendment was held off by courts as it would ban lawyers from titling themselves "esq" (and an unrelated amendment got its number). Thus, being an US citizen doesn't prevent Tim Berners-Lee from being granted nobility by the country of his birth.
Your fallacy is trying to apply logic to the patent system.
Android is at most a thin client, N900 is a computer on its own.
There is nothing databases use that regular file handling doesn't. In other words, SMB2 cannot ensure basic consistency.
Avoiding data corruption in corner cases is hard to do, and NFS doesn't go that stellar either, but this regression is something we need to be aware of.
Uhm, VNC/SSH stops working the very second you get away from a reliable network connection. Which usually means going out of home.
Do you want a computer on the train, bus, plane? Or one when going in the boonies? Or in the middle of a freaking city but somehow with no network coverage at all (my uncle's house, 500m from the center of a population:50k town)? Or near a thick concrete wall?
Not to mention phone companies claiming that $150 for 3MB of data is a fair price -- this is what roaming costs these days.
Sorry, but comparing a full Pentium3-class machine (Pentium4 for N950) to a dumb thin client is a joke.
Does this mean they're dropping their smartbooks as well? N900 is worlds better than anything iOS/Android-laden: instead of a limited toy OS with a browser, media player and fart apps, it has a general purpose operating system in a smartphone-sized form -- effectively a very, very small laptop. Nokia failed to polish it so for ordinary users it doesn't have so much appeal, but for hardcore programmers and sysadmins it's godsent.
That's nothing. I was going to install a stand-alone game once, and the installer wanted admin rights! It could have done anything behind my back!
Jesus Christ, get a grip on yourself.
Any game actually sold has 'admin rights', at least during the install, and can do things behind your back. I've never seen a windows game willing to install in a user's home directory before.
I hope you're joking. Have you, uhm, tried installing a Windows program some day? A good majority is distributed as .msi -- which, unless specifically marked as requiring admin rights, can be installed as non-root just fine. On Win7 for example, it goes to C:\Users\Bill Gates\AppData\Local\. Every well-behaved program does this or an equivalent. And that DRM-infested games are not well behaved is an argument against them.
I love how some people have to try to justify some reason to hate Steam. Steam is pretty much the least bad DRM we're ever going to see.
"But Tommy will butt rape you with a CONDOM while Bubba does this with a spiked dildo! Tommy is so good, pretty much the least bad cell mate you can have!".
Newsflash: it is possible for a game to come with no DRM at all
Wait, mandatory worse-than-WGA activation is now "very light" "unintrusive" DRM? If that's not a slippery slope, I don't know what is.
I'm not ever going to install an uncracked game with a rootkit anywhere near a computer I care about. Steam might do less damage than SecuROM, but it still sits there with administrative rights to do things beyond your back.
Windows is a glasser's fallacy -- harmful for anyone but glass makers and fixers.
Except that caps are not possible anymore. Which, considering the way most ISPs go, is awesome.
Exactly same as for Gnome. And, unlike Gnome, whatever decent network manager you want works out of the box without having to uniinstall "network-manager".
As a roguelike player/developer, I can tell you many of the glyphs above BMP are hawt.
I see people abusing "mathematical" letters a lot, too.
Not to mention Chinese and Japanese family names -- some people care about writing them properly as well.
UTF-16 is not fixed width. It combines all disadvantages of UTF-8 and UCS4 while having no advantages of either.
It seems perfectly rational to me:
* works with array types (as c0lo said)
* no crippling limit of 255 characters if length is 1
* no waste for sane lengths, memory was at a great premium at the time
* no urge to have even weirder limits, like 65535 for 2-byte length
* all code works the same no matter if strings are short or long
* many string operations were more efficient: with Pascal strings you need to hold both the pointer and an offset inside every loop that goes over the string, this made things more complex on tiny computers of the time. On the other hand, some other operations were worse, so this goes neutral.
BSD has strlcpy() which works sanely, but Ulrich Drepper refused all requests to add it to glibc.