Unless you're still coming from the Windows mindset where you're used to closing an application after every use of it, preload isn't of much use at all. If you never close an application, startup time is not an issue. The firefox window I'm posting this response from now has an uptime longer than any windows box with automatic updates turned on and is only clocking in at 118M/22M resident/shared. I could possibly see it being of some use if you actually open and close OO.o regularly (it's a slow, bloated beast even by Microsoft standards) but that's an argument against OO.o not an argument in favor of preload.
This is linux, people. We like tiny apps that require almost zero load time that you can chain together with pipes. Catering to bloated, poorly coded, Microsoftesque apps shouldn't be an issue for us.
I think I'd rather read the right justified, fubar version than a PDF if it's all the same to you. I'm firmly convinced the idea for the PDF document format came from someone who took a look at how fast html rendered coming over a 14.4kbps modem and thought, "This is way too fast, what can I do to slow it down and make it more cumbersome?"
On the up side, if we're talking a wireless setup with the weak signal most home setups have, anyone attempting to crack it is also within physical ass-kicking distance. Minimalist security, a fair IDS, and a lead pipe are all you need unless we're talking something with a larger coverage than most WAPs.
Nothing has been private when entering or exiting the US for a very long time, same as most other nations. That being said, how else are customs agents supposed to get porn while at work?
At least they're making an effort now. If we had `95 era security as the standard in today's malware bloated security environment the damage done would be catastrophic. On the up side, anyone with an Ubuntu disk would be worshiped by everyone (except us slack users, who would continue our jeering. oh and gentoo users who wouldn't notice because they're busy having to do system recovery yet again.).
I assume so. I mean look how quickly opensource solutions to mp3 encoding,dvd decrypting, and other such things were dropped because of US patents and such. Oh, wait...
Those are important - sure, but i would gather they dont make up more then 40% of all requests. I think you underestimate the popularity of quality American porn.
Engineers are, by nature, problem solvers. All it takes is for them to start seeing people who don't think like them as a problem and the solution is obvious. They can either change the thinking of said people or stop them from thinking at all. The latter is far easier and has a proven track record of working.
Sorry to say but The Government does not make GM's business decisions. GM went with hydrogen research because Bush signed papers that gave them a fat check if they researched hydrogen as a fuel source, nothing was said about stopping hybrids or full electric research and hybrids continue to be produced and sold to this day. As a last little FYI, no other administration has offered a single penny of federal money to spur any type of alternative fuels/energy research, but Bush did. Put that in your bong and smoke it. Freakin kool-aid drinkers...
IANAL but I'm fairly certain the patents held by Borealis Technical Limited for their Power Chips line already covers this. Have a look: http://www.powerchips.gi/
Not remotely. The law in question only keeps website owners from being liable for the actions of every chuckleheaded troll who posts a message on the forums/comments/etc... areas of their site.
Penguin stole his enter/return key so nobody could read his comment and we'd slip deeper into global warming and bring about the inevitable next ice age!
It surely may sound ironic in the case of China, but : a sovereign nation has a right to privacy.
Sovereign nations do not have rights. To have a right it must be secured by a higher authority that all parties concerned are answerable to, otherwise what you have is an argument. Since soverign nations, by definition, are not governed by any higher authority, they have no rights. Q.E.D.
Well, you got the solving the wrong problem bit right. The real problem isn't how to keep the idiots on the outside out, it's what to do with the idiot lusers that management hired.
Kind of telling how not once but twice in the article the author assumes the program was illegal. Witness my daily happy dance that judges rather than partisan hack columnists decide what is illegal.
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Unless you're still coming from the Windows mindset where you're used to closing an application after every use of it, preload isn't of much use at all. If you never close an application, startup time is not an issue. The firefox window I'm posting this response from now has an uptime longer than any windows box with automatic updates turned on and is only clocking in at 118M/22M resident/shared. I could possibly see it being of some use if you actually open and close OO.o regularly (it's a slow, bloated beast even by Microsoft standards) but that's an argument against OO.o not an argument in favor of preload.
This is linux, people. We like tiny apps that require almost zero load time that you can chain together with pipes. Catering to bloated, poorly coded, Microsoftesque apps shouldn't be an issue for us.
Well, this is /. so it goes without saying that most of us won't bother reading either.
I think I'd rather read the right justified, fubar version than a PDF if it's all the same to you. I'm firmly convinced the idea for the PDF document format came from someone who took a look at how fast html rendered coming over a 14.4kbps modem and thought, "This is way too fast, what can I do to slow it down and make it more cumbersome?"
On the up side, if we're talking a wireless setup with the weak signal most home setups have, anyone attempting to crack it is also within physical ass-kicking distance. Minimalist security, a fair IDS, and a lead pipe are all you need unless we're talking something with a larger coverage than most WAPs.
Microsoft Reader worked fine under wine last time I checked.
don't want to hear the music? What if I just want to share it with a few million of my closest friends?
Nothing has been private when entering or exiting the US for a very long time, same as most other nations. That being said, how else are customs agents supposed to get porn while at work?
At least they're making an effort now. If we had `95 era security as the standard in today's malware bloated security environment the damage done would be catastrophic. On the up side, anyone with an Ubuntu disk would be worshiped by everyone (except us slack users, who would continue our jeering. oh and gentoo users who wouldn't notice because they're busy having to do system recovery yet again.).
You obviously don't know very many humans then. Of course you are posting on /. so I suppose that's to be expected.
You passed up a chance to use a recursive acronym (RIAA is Against Artists) in a /. post? Are you feeling OK?
I assume so. I mean look how quickly opensource solutions to mp3 encoding,dvd decrypting, and other such things were dropped because of US patents and such. Oh, wait...
Engineers are, by nature, problem solvers. All it takes is for them to start seeing people who don't think like them as a problem and the solution is obvious. They can either change the thinking of said people or stop them from thinking at all. The latter is far easier and has a proven track record of working.
Sorry to say but The Government does not make GM's business decisions. GM went with hydrogen research because Bush signed papers that gave them a fat check if they researched hydrogen as a fuel source, nothing was said about stopping hybrids or full electric research and hybrids continue to be produced and sold to this day. As a last little FYI, no other administration has offered a single penny of federal money to spur any type of alternative fuels/energy research, but Bush did. Put that in your bong and smoke it. Freakin kool-aid drinkers...
So it's not a herd of co-eds running around showing their breasts to unsuspecting people? Damn.
They could have hired the guys responsible for the EMACS UI to redo the UI.
You can also put them in a sock and smite your enemies with them. They're versatile like that.
Anyone who trusts and respects the choices of a teenager has obviously forgotten their own stint as one.
IANAL but I'm fairly certain the patents held by Borealis Technical Limited for their Power Chips line already covers this.
Have a look: http://www.powerchips.gi/
Not remotely. The law in question only keeps website owners from being liable for the actions of every chuckleheaded troll who posts a message on the forums/comments/etc... areas of their site.
Penguin stole his enter/return key so nobody could read his comment and we'd slip deeper into global warming and bring about the inevitable next ice age!
It surely may sound ironic in the case of China, but : a sovereign nation has a right to privacy.
Sovereign nations do not have rights. To have a right it must be secured by a higher authority that all parties concerned are answerable to, otherwise what you have is an argument. Since soverign nations, by definition, are not governed by any higher authority, they have no rights. Q.E.D.
Well, you got the solving the wrong problem bit right. The real problem isn't how to keep the idiots on the outside out, it's what to do with the idiot lusers that management hired.
Kind of telling how not once but twice in the article the author assumes the program was illegal. Witness my daily happy dance that judges rather than partisan hack columnists decide what is illegal.
But of course...
Some of this is periodically pumped out as a vapor and