Due most of the time to poor teacher comp.sci literacy at school (whatever degree).
Sometime is also mind laziness that drives people not to literate themselves.
In Italy is already this way: you cannot buy a SIM without proper identification.
And if you sell or give it away, both parties should update the registration details.
Since 1994.
We are ahead!
OK. You design a brand new fantastic super eco-friendly car, but you leave behind the steering wheel, the door locks and one of the windows.
The new thing is actually exciting, but can also be useless.
The new re-design is to be released when it can replace the old one.
It'd be: which team leaves the less behind?
The KDE team seems very interested in new things and leaves a lot of old feature behind.
The GNOME is more conservative but slower in advances.
Try XFCE in the doubltd.
First of all,
New technologies = new techno waste.
Second, will the new technologies be more environment friendly for production and disposal?
What about energy consumption?
And finally, do the pros surpass cons?
It's clearly an impossible project announced just to leverage on the green and CO2 buzz to make money.
Wireless power transmission? Not yet possible!
Wired power transmission? Only in low-end comics and sci.fi.
Ground based receiving plant? Not yet designed!
Security? Not even taken into account!
Money from investments and stock markets? Yeah!
That would mean that parents should be actually and actively looking after their children during their spare time. That's unlikely to happen as they use Internet as a baby sitter.
Thus in the end, the panic button will cost money and resources with very little usefulness.
That's my point.
My laptop is ASUS G1s which is labelled as "gaming" and should not be using cheap chips.
I run Linux and cannot cope with high I/O loads despite the CPU power and the memory bandwidth.
So I argue I/O subsystem is the bottleneck.
All that power will prove being useless because of constraints on the PC architecture.
Because of I/O bottlenecks, on a gaming laptop with 64-bit dual core system and 2+ GB RAM, burning a DVD while copying a file from disk to disk (SATA) will kill the system to low responsiveness.
In theory the CPU is powerful enough to juggle the I/O requests (SATA, nvidia, keyboard and mouse) with the actual computing things in a manner that the user won't experience low responsiveness a-la pre-1990. In the practice all that power is weasted, unless you run tasks with low I/O needs.
How would that tax apply to, say, companies and people that just use the Internet for anything but pirated copy downloads?
How would that money be distributed? Worldwide? Europe? UK only?
I would finally prefer ISP to fine labels for poor content protection which causes network congestion and degradation!
I got the points, both yours and (of course) mine.
That is MY OWN policy, as stated, and I won't upgrade. My best wishes to ANYONE ELSE BUT ME upgrading.
> Specifically where is my logic bad?
After the upgrade I was unable to go on working as a number of things were actually missing, not even broken. So no extra feature was worth it, to me.
And I clearly stated in my original post this is my personal point of view.
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Due most of the time to poor teacher comp.sci literacy at school (whatever degree).
Sometime is also mind laziness that drives people not to literate themselves.
If one cubic centimetre weighs 130Kg, its density is to be 130,000 higher than water, not 100,000!
And what about these other "trivialized violence" examples?
There must be some new technology I've missed!
Maybe they are the only ones to ask such kind of questions.
Really.
In Italy is already this way: you cannot buy a SIM without proper identification.
And if you sell or give it away, both parties should update the registration details.
Since 1994. We are ahead!
OK.
You design a brand new fantastic super eco-friendly car, but you leave behind the steering wheel, the door locks and one of the windows.
The new thing is actually exciting, but can also be useless.
The new re-design is to be released when it can replace the old one.
It'd be: which team leaves the less behind? The KDE team seems very interested in new things and leaves a lot of old feature behind. The GNOME is more conservative but slower in advances. Try XFCE in the doubltd.
That's all I want. And, at least for the first item, you don't need supr-pro-plus cameras!
First of all, New technologies = new techno waste.
Second, will the new technologies be more environment friendly for production and disposal?
What about energy consumption?
And finally, do the pros surpass cons?
I don't think so!
I remember that flying car flying from London, close to King's Cross!
And it was a Ford Anglia, not a Terrafugia Whatever!
It's clearly an impossible project announced just to leverage on the green and CO2 buzz to make money.
Wireless power transmission? Not yet possible!
Wired power transmission? Only in low-end comics and sci.fi.
Ground based receiving plant? Not yet designed!
Security? Not even taken into account!
Money from investments and stock markets? Yeah!
It's easy!
That would mean that parents should be actually and actively looking after their children during their spare time.
That's unlikely to happen as they use Internet as a baby sitter.
Thus in the end, the panic button will cost money and resources with very little usefulness.
It depends on when the are going to launch and where the two bits will separate.
If you can wait, you can save.
Why not?
A single mission to drop two probes!
to suffer some disease?
That's my point.
My laptop is ASUS G1s which is labelled as "gaming" and should not be using cheap chips.
I run Linux and cannot cope with high I/O loads despite the CPU power and the memory bandwidth.
So I argue I/O subsystem is the bottleneck.
You guessed right: I do am spastic.
Doubling the RAM won't make my system more responsive, as the virtual memory on disk is never used.
All that power will prove being useless because of constraints on the PC architecture.
Because of I/O bottlenecks, on a gaming laptop with 64-bit dual core system and 2+ GB RAM, burning a DVD while copying a file from disk to disk (SATA) will kill the system to low responsiveness.
In theory the CPU is powerful enough to juggle the I/O requests (SATA, nvidia, keyboard and mouse) with the actual computing things in a manner that the user won't experience low responsiveness a-la pre-1990.
In the practice all that power is weasted, unless you run tasks with low I/O needs.
How would that tax apply to, say, companies and people that just use the Internet for anything but pirated copy downloads?
How would that money be distributed? Worldwide? Europe? UK only?
I would finally prefer ISP to fine labels for poor content protection which causes network congestion and degradation!
I have Offline gmail since long now, thanks to IMAP4 and the "disconnected IMAP" by KMail.
I got the points, both yours and (of course) mine.
That is MY OWN policy, as stated, and I won't upgrade.
My best wishes to ANYONE ELSE BUT ME upgrading.
> Specifically where is my logic bad?
After the upgrade I was unable to go on working as a number of things were actually missing, not even broken.
So no extra feature was worth it, to me.
And I clearly stated in my original post this is my personal point of view.