I think a PSU-powered fan would be very much necessary still. It's unclear what they're measuring when they say "efficient" but if this means it can't remove 100% of the heat that exists, then it's only going to slow the rate of warming, not eliminate, stabilise, or control it.
You raise an interesting point there. Acceptance of new laws might often depend on the ability of the affected to become involved. In that case, smokers might be more likely to be depressed, uninvolved in politics because of class, uninvolved because of age, uninvolved because of rebelliousness, etc., therefore, the public's acceptance of that law becomes more questionable.
Likewise, acceptance of internet laws becomes highly questionable, given the absence of live, real-time direct voting on issues (i.e., direct democracy, or something like it).
Are you trying to claim that Oracle release binaries for every conceivable linux variant, including PS3s, new supercomputers, etc.? Or do you just not understand what you're arguing about?
Firefox is slow compared to Konqueror on Linux too, and KDE's APIs and code are completely open. Taken with the fact that the firefox folks are complaining about undocumented APIs that bypass design features not being available for long-term use (which is somewhere between an argument that needs more evidence, and an argument that's just crazy), I'd say this is a case of the firefox folks being pissed that their hugely bloated GUI+threading+web+ftp+mail client is slow by design.
(this was posted in firefox btw... well, Iceweasel actually... so I'm not as biased as you might think, just calling it as I see it.)
there are plenty of proprietary binaries available for Linux
Congratulations on completely missing my point.
But really that covers the vast majority of Linux users anyway.
Oh, I see. It's not that you missed the point. It's just that you don't care about the rest of the community that's worked their butts off for years to give you freedom. As long as YOU have an executable, it's OK. Great solidarity there.
But did they port it, or was that one of the apps that was designed that way, and was equally unreviewed by Adobe in terms of moving away from Unix, as others were in terms of porting TO unix?
It's virtually impossible to port a closed-source app to "Linux" or any other reasonably successful open source OS. "Linux" is not "Linux i386" it's not even "Linux x86" or "32-bit Linux and 64-bit Linux". Nor is it "Linux on Intel and Linux on PowerPC". Nor is it "Linux from Linus's tree", nor "Linux with Debian patches", nor "The custom version of Linux that autobuilds on my machine every time there's a new release of a kernel or a patch". Nor is it "Linux with glibc x.x".
Open source OS's require open source software just as much as open source drivers. If companies aren't willing to provide that, then we should make our own. Preferably following a lot more standards than AIR.
If I built soapbox racers in my garage at home and branded them BMW
Building a soapbox racer hardly a fair comparison to modifying an OS. For one thing, when people modify windows, they generally end up with something better than the original.
XML is still horrible though. I'd much prefer a (somewhat) latex-like \command([arg1[,...argN]]) { block } system. Braces are so much less verbose than end tags.
Personally, I'd rather by from ANY of those vendors. The sooner they stop being designers of proprietary tech, and start building from/contributing to open CPU designs, the better.
Program A writes a bunch of stuff to RAM. Program A goes idle. OS says "okay, they're idle, I need more working room" and flushes Program A's state to disk.
It's good thinking, but thankfully the people who write (properly done) apps that store passwords in RAM already thought of this, and so standard practice is to keep passwords in non-swappable memory areas.
Put it this way: a lot of small ISPs are either struggling to stay in business, or have gone bust competing with the big operators. Interestingly, this probably suits the government just fine, as it's much easier to install black-box monitoring equipment in a national ISP's head office, than in every local ISP's regional office.
NAT is a really, really bad solution. It creates two classes of internet user: those that may run servers, and those that may not
There are already many classes of users: those who own a/8, those who own less, those who have their own AS, those who can modify their reverse DNS entry...
I agree that considering equality is very important in the net's future, but it's certainly not equal now, and the first step to fixing it would be recognising that.
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You mean, like replacing a windows desktop?
Possibly, but they'd have done better to just quote the article:
Somehow, I think this will have porn applications...
I think a PSU-powered fan would be very much necessary still. It's unclear what they're measuring when they say "efficient" but if this means it can't remove 100% of the heat that exists, then it's only going to slow the rate of warming, not eliminate, stabilise, or control it.
You raise an interesting point there. Acceptance of new laws might often depend on the ability of the affected to become involved. In that case, smokers might be more likely to be depressed, uninvolved in politics because of class, uninvolved because of age, uninvolved because of rebelliousness, etc., therefore, the public's acceptance of that law becomes more questionable.
Likewise, acceptance of internet laws becomes highly questionable, given the absence of live, real-time direct voting on issues (i.e., direct democracy, or something like it).
If you think that's funny to most of the single readers here, you've probably never been single for years (or a lifetime) like they have.
Are you trying to claim that Oracle release binaries for every conceivable linux variant, including PS3s, new supercomputers, etc.? Or do you just not understand what you're arguing about?
Sticking to principles, not fashions
Firefox is slow compared to Konqueror on Linux too, and KDE's APIs and code are completely open. Taken with the fact that the firefox folks are complaining about undocumented APIs that bypass design features not being available for long-term use (which is somewhere between an argument that needs more evidence, and an argument that's just crazy), I'd say this is a case of the firefox folks being pissed that their hugely bloated GUI+threading+web+ftp+mail client is slow by design.
(this was posted in firefox btw... well, Iceweasel actually... so I'm not as biased as you might think, just calling it as I see it.)
To which the correct response would be "Yes, and I'm proud of it."
Congratulations on completely missing my point.
Oh, I see. It's not that you missed the point. It's just that you don't care about the rest of the community that's worked their butts off for years to give you freedom. As long as YOU have an executable, it's OK. Great solidarity there.
But did they port it, or was that one of the apps that was designed that way, and was equally unreviewed by Adobe in terms of moving away from Unix, as others were in terms of porting TO unix?
It's virtually impossible to port a closed-source app to "Linux" or any other reasonably successful open source OS. "Linux" is not "Linux i386" it's not even "Linux x86" or "32-bit Linux and 64-bit Linux". Nor is it "Linux on Intel and Linux on PowerPC". Nor is it "Linux from Linus's tree", nor "Linux with Debian patches", nor "The custom version of Linux that autobuilds on my machine every time there's a new release of a kernel or a patch". Nor is it "Linux with glibc x.x".
Open source OS's require open source software just as much as open source drivers. If companies aren't willing to provide that, then we should make our own. Preferably following a lot more standards than AIR.
Everyone misquotes this. The full microsoft behaviour pattern goes as follows:
Granted, they rarely reach step 5.
Building a soapbox racer hardly a fair comparison to modifying an OS. For one thing, when people modify windows, they generally end up with something better than the original.
Didn't satan take over microsoft.com in a similar fashion some years back?
XML is still horrible though. I'd much prefer a (somewhat) latex-like \command([arg1[,...argN]]) { block } system. Braces are so much less verbose than end tags.
Spoken by someone who's obviously never sincerely tried it.
Funny, I interpreted that as "cleaner with a camera and access to the Air guy's notes"
You're assuming the exploited software HAS lots of privileges. THAT is ridiculous, for any modern security (i.e., rbac) system.
Bugs allow remote access. Passwords are as much a method of providing bulkheads as they are of providing a first line of defense.
Personally, I'd rather by from ANY of those vendors. The sooner they stop being designers of proprietary tech, and start building from/contributing to open CPU designs, the better.
It's good thinking, but thankfully the people who write (properly done) apps that store passwords in RAM already thought of this, and so standard practice is to keep passwords in non-swappable memory areas.
Put it this way: a lot of small ISPs are either struggling to stay in business, or have gone bust competing with the big operators. Interestingly, this probably suits the government just fine, as it's much easier to install black-box monitoring equipment in a national ISP's head office, than in every local ISP's regional office.
Every login account on an internet-connected computer needs a secure password.
There are already many classes of users: those who own a
I agree that considering equality is very important in the net's future, but it's certainly not equal now, and the first step to fixing it would be recognising that.