For people to accept this they'd have to look at actual dollars, and not percentage figures. The politicians who favor higher tax rates on the rich are generally the ones who use percentage points. "Rich Bastard only paid 10% in taxes this year, while this single mother of three paid 24%!" Of course, Rich Bastard's payment was in the millions of dollars, while single mother's was a couple thousand.
Similarly, we hear how it's not "fair" for someone to pay the same 20% no matter how much they make -- after all they should pay into the system that made them successful. Once again, though, we'll carefully avoid the discussion of actual dollar amounts -- else we'd see that the person making 100k a year has paid ten times as much as the one making 10k. Instead, it'll be kept to discussion of percentages only, and how "unfair" that is.
References on th latter? I've found that high- and low- end homes are typically equally undervalued in tax assessments (as a homeowner who's had both). Anything to support that low-end are valued disproportionately?
Clearly it's not important to you. Those of us with laptops and netbooks often prefer to shut them down. I tend to suspend a lot, but 5 seconds is actually as fast as it is for windows to restore from suspend...
Well - the other thing that's rather cool is that it boots to usable system in less than 5 seconds (on the VM). For most OS's I play with, it's 30-90 seconds..
Torrents let you do more with less bandwidth. Take advantage of that!
I think torrents do not work the way you think they work. That's like saying it uses less gas to drive at 100mph than 50, because you get there so much sooner..
There's another factor here too, along the same lines: trust. As a cautious user, I don't install things I can't trust. In an environment in which there's no inspection and approval,t hat means I have to do my own inspection -- and that's something I don't have a lot of time for. Even though I'd probably give up on smartphones before owning a soft-keyboard iphone, I think that the method apple has chosen for distributing apps is very good in making people comfortable in downloading apps.
You can go to the app store,/knowing/ that no matter what app you get, somebody has examined the software and can assure you that it won't Do Bad Things. Hell, if you're a parent you can even be assured that it won't Do Naughty Things to your Child's Mind. That's not an insignificant thing. (It also may not be accurate, but Apple gives that impression - which is all that counts.)
This isn't enough to convince me I actually want an iphone, but I can definitely see a value for end users in a closed system such as apple runs.
Oh, that's right, they run in the background, waking up periodically to see if anything is due to be executed in the crontab / scheduled tasks list.
Yes, they run in the background. A single background process that is capable of launching any number of processes on any given schedule. This means that each individual application does not require its own always-running background process to poll for updates*.
Is it possible to nominate the parent for dumbest comment of the day ?
I bow before your superior intellect. Perhaps one of your mental prowess might also be interested in this concept called "component reuse", it's all the rage.
* (I'm looking at you, java, itunes, adobe, google, various antivirus companies, windows media scheduler... ah, crap, the list is too long)
Can we please stop raising the subject of "zero day" every time someone mentions it in a summary? All that follows are countless* replies arguing the meaning of what "zero day" is.
There's also the fact that FireFox doesn't force you to install an always-running background service whose sole purpose is to wake up periodically and check for updates (I think it is, anyway). You'd think these folks had never heard of "cron" or "task scheduler".
And this story once again proves that MS could improve its public image instantly with one simple statement. SILENCE. MS, really, hire a lawyer as your public relations advisor. A good lawyer who always tells his clients to "SHUT THE FUCK UP".
I had just about forgotten about all the bugs in MS software... and this made me remember the entire long list of highly exploitable bugs unpatched for months or even years. Great job.
Of course, if you read TFA, you'd see that it was Google who credited Microsoft with finding the issue. I saw nothing that indicates MS publicized or announced the issue in any way.
am not saying that Second Life will die, but even if for the sake of argument we say that it will, the idea that it has spawned -- of persistent 3D virtual worlds that are built by users -- will continue to evolve and mutate...
The games Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 have been doing this for years - albeit on a smaller scale. (And without the graphics, MUDs have been doing the same thing, in a way). Each server is a privately owned virtual world that supports a community ranging from a handful to a few thousand players, with its own rules. Combine that with augmented reality, a mix of personal, government and corporate servers (ie, like the web today), and I think it paints a clear picture of the [distant] future. This won't replace the "flat" internet of today, but it will be built atop it.
Actually, Tad William's "otherland' series comes to mind -- I got bored with it after the first book and a half (gee, let's just slap these characters into whatever setting my imagination come sup with and keep doing it... and doing it... and doing it...)... but I think it's also not far off the mark in terms of how it will be run.
I've also had good experience with dropbox. I share not only between computers, but also project files between developers. It supports file versioning and all the other stuf you'd expect out of a VCS. Download and upload speeds are consistently fast for both American and European team members. I'm running this on windows and linux flavors.
That's funny, I see nothing but criticism here so far... I sometimes think people's preconceived notions of how slashdot will react to something are often much more amusing than the actual reactions.
Actually, I can't find fault with this one at all. If you're stuck deep in WoW while a tornado bears down on you, I daresay you'll get over having your game interrupted and even be thankful for it. Obviously they're not going to deliver breaking news this way, but actual emergencies in the same way they use it for radio and then television. It's pretty pointless to notify you of an emergency in mediums you're not watching.
That would be interesting to see - not just on Windows, but also on linux with compiz et al. I often have periods when my CPU monitor reports idle, but my fans suddenly start running at mid-speed...
Just checked my Firefox memory usage after having 20+ tabs open all day... 250 Meg. I understand older versions had a problem with memory and would gradually take over the machine but not in the last year or so.
And 20+MB per tab is somehow reasonable? The competition is no better, but... this isn't something that seems acceptable to me. The improvements they've made are great - but they seem to have stopped at "we're not leaking anymore".
As far as explorer: it's also the desktop interface, providing task bar and desktop functionality. Also provides your shortcut keys (Win+whatever), bitmap caching, etc. 40MB is still probably higher than it should be, but it does do more than just providing your directory views.
Google Chrome, with a separate process for each tab, has used more memory than FF in my own experience. Still, I might consider going with it, if it had adblock - it has a cleaner and faster "feel".
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He was just getting the anti-insurance-company rhetoric mixed up with the anti-pharma rhetoric...
I suspect that the congressional law will have little affect on Canadian insurers.
Similarly, we hear how it's not "fair" for someone to pay the same 20% no matter how much they make -- after all they should pay into the system that made them successful. Once again, though, we'll carefully avoid the discussion of actual dollar amounts -- else we'd see that the person making 100k a year has paid ten times as much as the one making 10k. Instead, it'll be kept to discussion of percentages only, and how "unfair" that is.
References on th latter? I've found that high- and low- end homes are typically equally undervalued in tax assessments (as a homeowner who's had both). Anything to support that low-end are valued disproportionately?
Yeah, it's like that time when the state of Montana lowered the poverty level and the very next year Delaware paid for a new parking garage.
But the act of embedding the correct fingerprint signature into the RFID tag might change the signature! How's that cat doing, anyway.
Clearly it's not important to you. Those of us with laptops and netbooks often prefer to shut them down. I tend to suspend a lot, but 5 seconds is actually as fast as it is for windows to restore from suspend...
password: password
It will work until some wanker changes the password. .
Well - the other thing that's rather cool is that it boots to usable system in less than 5 seconds (on the VM). For most OS's I play with, it's 30-90 seconds..
Torrents let you do more with less bandwidth. Take advantage of that!
I think torrents do not work the way you think they work. That's like saying it uses less gas to drive at 100mph than 50, because you get there so much sooner..
There's another factor here too, along the same lines: trust. As a cautious user, I don't install things I can't trust. In an environment in which there's no inspection and approval,t hat means I have to do my own inspection -- and that's something I don't have a lot of time for. Even though I'd probably give up on smartphones before owning a soft-keyboard iphone, I think that the method apple has chosen for distributing apps is very good in making people comfortable in downloading apps.
You can go to the app store, /knowing/ that no matter what app you get, somebody has examined the software and can assure you that it won't Do Bad Things. Hell, if you're a parent you can even be assured that it won't Do Naughty Things to your Child's Mind. That's not an insignificant thing. (It also may not be accurate, but Apple gives that impression - which is all that counts.)
This isn't enough to convince me I actually want an iphone, but I can definitely see a value for end users in a closed system such as apple runs.
Oh, that's right, they run in the background, waking up periodically to see if anything is due to be executed in the crontab / scheduled tasks list.
Yes, they run in the background. A single background process that is capable of launching any number of processes on any given schedule. This means that each individual application does not require its own always-running background process to poll for updates*.
Is it possible to nominate the parent for dumbest comment of the day ?
I bow before your superior intellect. Perhaps one of your mental prowess might also be interested in this concept called "component reuse", it's all the rage.
* (I'm looking at you, java, itunes, adobe, google, various antivirus companies, windows media scheduler... ah, crap, the list is too long)
I have mod points, but alas there is no "+1 wait, what?" moderation available.
*hyperbole may have been applied here.
There's also the fact that FireFox doesn't force you to install an always-running background service whose sole purpose is to wake up periodically and check for updates (I think it is, anyway). You'd think these folks had never heard of "cron" or "task scheduler".
And this story once again proves that MS could improve its public image instantly with one simple statement. SILENCE. MS, really, hire a lawyer as your public relations advisor. A good lawyer who always tells his clients to "SHUT THE FUCK UP".
I had just about forgotten about all the bugs in MS software... and this made me remember the entire long list of highly exploitable bugs unpatched for months or even years. Great job.
Of course, if you read TFA, you'd see that it was Google who credited Microsoft with finding the issue. I saw nothing that indicates MS publicized or announced the issue in any way.
am not saying that Second Life will die, but even if for the sake of argument we say that it will, the idea that it has spawned -- of persistent 3D virtual worlds that are built by users -- will continue to evolve and mutate ...
The games Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 have been doing this for years - albeit on a smaller scale. (And without the graphics, MUDs have been doing the same thing, in a way). Each server is a privately owned virtual world that supports a community ranging from a handful to a few thousand players, with its own rules. Combine that with augmented reality, a mix of personal, government and corporate servers (ie, like the web today), and I think it paints a clear picture of the [distant] future. This won't replace the "flat" internet of today, but it will be built atop it.
Actually, Tad William's "otherland' series comes to mind -- I got bored with it after the first book and a half (gee, let's just slap these characters into whatever setting my imagination come sup with and keep doing it... and doing it... and doing it...) ... but I think it's also not far off the mark in terms of how it will be run.
I've also had good experience with dropbox. I share not only between computers, but also project files between developers. It supports file versioning and all the other stuf you'd expect out of a VCS. Download and upload speeds are consistently fast for both American and European team members. I'm running this on windows and linux flavors.
Hmm, shameless plug - you get yourself and me an extra 250 MB free storage by using this link to sign up... https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTExNzI1MzE5
That's funny, I see nothing but criticism here so far... I sometimes think people's preconceived notions of how slashdot will react to something are often much more amusing than the actual reactions.
How do you keep a moron is suspense? MWahahahaha!
Hang around for a bit, I'll tell you later.
Actually, I can't find fault with this one at all. If you're stuck deep in WoW while a tornado bears down on you, I daresay you'll get over having your game interrupted and even be thankful for it. Obviously they're not going to deliver breaking news this way, but actual emergencies in the same way they use it for radio and then television. It's pretty pointless to notify you of an emergency in mediums you're not watching.
WHy would a windows game necessitate deleting linux?
That would be interesting to see - not just on Windows, but also on linux with compiz et al. I often have periods when my CPU monitor reports idle, but my fans suddenly start running at mid-speed...
Just checked my Firefox memory usage after having 20+ tabs open all day... 250 Meg. I understand older versions had a problem with memory and would gradually take over the machine but not in the last year or so.
And 20+MB per tab is somehow reasonable? The competition is no better, but ... this isn't something that seems acceptable to me. The improvements they've made are great - but they seem to have stopped at "we're not leaking anymore".
As far as explorer: it's also the desktop interface, providing task bar and desktop functionality. Also provides your shortcut keys (Win+whatever), bitmap caching, etc. 40MB is still probably higher than it should be, but it does do more than just providing your directory views.
Google Chrome, with a separate process for each tab, has used more memory than FF in my own experience. Still, I might consider going with it, if it had adblock - it has a cleaner and faster "feel".