"You lost your right to privacy when you were convicted, along with possibly other rights including your freedom"
ah, so all that's needed for big brother series ten to continue (tv show) is find a felon they can point all the camera's at, and go nuts. They have no rights to privacy at all do they?.... that may be legal, but I, at least, think it is immoral
the same in essence with voting, if for instance, the public were all so outraged by a new law, that no-one paid heed to it and they were all arrested and convicted, only those who followed the party line would be able to vote, sealing the deal.
while I have never committed any crime myself, something tells me it would do you a world of good to ponder the difference between legality and morality, while frequently the same, they can differ.
morals are subjective, however, when thought of from a neutral point of view, most good people tend to come up with the same answer with many topics, it only needs thought.
finally, ending with a qoute The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted â" and you create a nation of law-breakers â" and then you cash in on guilt. - Ayn Rand
I would have assumed cf was being spoken of untill you said "This means that you can clock right down to zero Hertz." for that you need static ram, dynamic ram needs refreshes to keep the data integrity, static does not.
as for the rest of your post, I completely agree with using solid state storage, and using suspend to disk basicly as you said
I have a p3 450 with 128mb ram, running 2.6 and it's instant as can be, but then again it doesn't run X at all, that's the real performance killer.
The poster wasn't specific as to it's uses, but if used say as an ssh terminal, or if whatever use he wants has an ncurses interface, then I don't see the problem
bench was re-done when intel os x came out, results were the same, I should have linked to the newer bench with the same arch, but I wasn't too fussed on it at the time.
first point: yes, however even when tested on x86 when it was available the same results came up, it was indeed an os and not a hardware fault.
it was just the first off-hand example I remembered from a while back, another good one is memory management, while somewhat better than xp, macs are somewhat worse off than linux in that department, I could get into specifics however that is besides the point.
the technological items that differ will change as time goes on, of course, however, so far, and so far as I can imagine for at least the near future, linux will be technically superior.
to your second point: that is not to say apple is not improving their kernel, they are and that is always good, it's just saying that they don't have quite as much resources or developer interest as the linux kernel,
you'd think that, maybe, but copying and improving the improvements to linux to the os x kernel is no trivial task, take a look at the exec proc bench on this http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=8
mac os x took on average a bit over four times as long to create new processes, if os x were always ahead of linux shouldn't they be at least equal, if not slightly more efficient?
as much resources as apple has, there is no way they'd have collectively as much resources going into kernel development as the linux kernel would have in total, and the quality is reflected in that.
"Another nice aspect would be that if you could fix a process to a certain # of cores"
already can in linux, schedtool lets you set hard cpu affinities per process, you can let it only go on certain cores if you like
and why, exactly, does rpm need to die? the very same could be said of deb files, yum and apt-get, they're respective package managers both functionally work the same, user says get this, they resolve all dependencies and get it, install it, and done.
Also, I think having at least two of them would be optimal, at least then they're trying to one-up the other one, a little friendly competition is never a bad thing.
In regards to packaging, I agree that a project shouldn't need to make packages for every platform around, that's why if your popular enough, you get the people who use that distro to package and maintain the package on their distro. Then it can be added to the central repository and checked against dependencies in that repo and made to all work fine, with no effort from yourself as the software developer.
depends entirely on what your doing imho, I mean, if your trying to run a program that expects alsa on an ancient 2.4 kernel that only has OSS, your going to run into problems obviously. but that's a new program on an old kernel.
When it comes to older programs on new kernels it's much better, yes some libraries tend to be updated and replaced, just install the old ones again, and even in so far as matters like oss/alsa are concerned, the new stuff typically supports the old fairly well.
typically I can download random linux x86 binary and run it fine, maybe after installing a library if need be. I imagine the only people who couldn't are maybe those who don't know how to install things except using yum or apt-get.
correlation does not imply causation, take australia for instance, way less crime than the US with firearms, slight increase in crime when all taken away from legal upstanding people, you can still get some small types of firearms there, but it is so heavily regulated and costly that it's way easier to get illegally, laws don't matter to criminals.
The games may have been crappy, however the old school nokia's were built to survive anything you can throw at it, same with the current ones. a while ago I picked up a high-end symbian one, it's been dropped that many times that the silver paint has been almost completely scratched off, still works like a charm. That and the old school and low end phones are instant.
The durability is why I stick with them though, only phones specifically made for harsh environments fare better.
The above is a list of countries that have signed the fourth geneva convention. USA signed in 1949 and ratified in 1955. what is being done is quite illegal and to most people immoral. Even with the convention there are ways of dealing with troublesome people, but it rules torture and the like out. Blaming it on commie's trying to expand is a bit weak. I'm still somewhat amazed you were modded insightful on your initial post when it's premise was incorrect, goes to show how many peoples view on human rights have been twisted by the affair.
Because if they actually applied the Geneva Conventions as actually written there is no crime.
you couldn't be further from the truth, "The assumption that such a category as unlawful combatant exists is not contradicted by the findings by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Celebici Judgment. The judgement quoted the 1958 ICRC commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention: Every person in enemy hands must be either a prisoner of war and, as such, be covered by the Third Convention; or a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention. Furthermore, "There is no intermediate status; nobody in enemy hands can be outside the law," because in the opinion of the ICRC "If civilians directly engage in hostilities, they are considered 'unlawful' or 'unprivileged' combatants or belligerents (the treaties of humanitarian law do not expressly contain these terms). They may be prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action"."
The "we can do what we like to people legally" deal was invented by bush, and one that most people seem to be caught by, nobody's man enough to stand up to him internationally, is all
only way they could break even to the pal taxed countries would be to raise it a very non-trivial amount. e.g. AU wii is $400AU or $385 US, even if they raised it to $350US it would be making less money, and consumers would flock to other options when the price difference isn't so much there between a wii and a ps3 or x360. also randomly though, ps3 initial price here was $1k AU, now that's insane.
Funnyily enough I agree with all of your post except the ***
For starters "DEP" known to the rest of the world as the NX bit, has been supported in linux kernels since 2004, now this should not require any code changes at all to utilize. The kernel handles memory protection, and when the binary is loaded I'd imagine everything in.data and.bss should be protected, aswell as every malloc.
now, on to ASLR, since linux 2.6.12 it's on by default, and also, requires no special code, it just works, as it should (and hopefully does) do on vista.
now onto vista 'protected mode', essentially this reduces the privilege level, awesome, now windows isn't running it's browser as root essentially, but every decent windows person should have a restricted personal account themselves in which they do things regardless, making it moot, and nobody sane in linux does everything as root.
as said, I agree with the rest of your post, but the *** part makes you sound like you listen to too much microsoft advertising, the people who code firefox are smart, don't bash them without looking into things.
your thinking of people saturing a bandwidth of an isp, and not in terms of a line you have from them. aren't you?
think of it in terms of say, couple people on a lan trying to download an iso from ftp, both connections fully saturating the line. now, third person on a lan tries to google something, but his connection is slow as a bitch because of the other two, even though he's using a minimal amount of the line in question. QOS would solve this in one of several ways, either by always giving http traffic higher precedence, or giving each user a gauranteed minimum of the whole connection speed (more if others aren't using it)
I'm sorry my prior post did not clear up the meaning of what it is about to you. I fear this one won't either, but at least I'll try.
Also an isp itself should never hit 100% usage of a big pipe, moment it does shit would hit the fan in regards to latency with some things.
1. c, not sure on c++ as I just use c, c++ tends to want an os of some kind.
2. libogc contains bits for everything you like, the graphical bits are similar to opengl but not the same. There are some handy bits for creating text consoles and the like also.
3. libogc supported the gamecube bba and it's own tcp/ip stack using the sockets interface, however not sure if it has support for the wii wireless though
4. look at the gamecube examples, it's pretty much the same deal, wii has some extras but gamecube homebrew is very similar, as it's the same library bit with some extra bits enabled.
I agree charges different amounts in different locations makes sense, but sometimes it's just plain stupid, e.g. US vs AU prices on a wii, $250USD in the US, $360 USD in AU (about $400 AUD)
*sigh* least it's not as bad as the games, hear most of them are only $50, $100 is the standard, some up to $130, that's some nice pal tax
in the end it's cheaper and faster for people here to just import their console and all the games, still comes out cheaper than buying locally
incorrect, putting qos upstream on a line effects everyone using said line. it has nothing to do with bittorrent etc at all, works with any sort of traffic going over a line.
as far as the cpu is concerned I agree with you, a working cpu is something that's just assumed,
but in so far as drivers for other things are concerned, I find linux detects dying hardware way better than windows, what would equate to a bsod in windows typically results in dmesg bits to the effect of ' warning, sanity check failed, xxx screwed up, should never reach that state, resetting it and trying again' then attempts to get it going again.
failing hardware is failing hardware, but less crashing is always a good thing.
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"You lost your right to privacy when you were convicted, along with possibly other rights including your freedom"
ah, so all that's needed for big brother series ten to continue (tv show) is find a felon they can point all the camera's at, and go nuts. They have no rights to privacy at all do they?.... that may be legal, but I, at least, think it is immoral
the same in essence with voting, if for instance, the public were all so outraged by a new law, that no-one paid heed to it and they were all arrested and convicted, only those who followed the party line would be able to vote, sealing the deal.
while I have never committed any crime myself, something tells me it would do you a world of good to ponder the difference between legality and morality, while frequently the same, they can differ.
morals are subjective, however, when thought of from a neutral point of view, most good people tend to come up with the same answer with many topics, it only needs thought.
finally, ending with a qoute
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted â" and you create a nation of law-breakers â" and then you cash in on guilt.
- Ayn Rand
"The act of circumventing copy protection, for whatever reason, is against the DMCA. Period."
changing firmware is not removing copy protection, that is the flaw in your argument.
by your logic, everyone with a WRT54G is breaking the law when they change their firmware to linux.
You do have a point, but it's a misplaced one, you didn't look at the argument properly.
I would have assumed cf was being spoken of untill you said "This means that you can clock right down to zero Hertz." for that you need static ram, dynamic ram needs refreshes to keep the data integrity, static does not.
as for the rest of your post, I completely agree with using solid state storage, and using suspend to disk basicly as you said
your thinking static memory instead of dynamic memory, solid state like flash cannot be used as ram because it is not byte addressable.
I have a p3 450 with 128mb ram, running 2.6 and it's instant as can be, but then again it doesn't run X at all, that's the real performance killer.
The poster wasn't specific as to it's uses, but if used say as an ssh terminal, or if whatever use he wants has an ncurses interface, then I don't see the problem
finch is great for IM uses, lynx for web, etc etc
gp2x, google it
bench was re-done when intel os x came out, results were the same, I should have linked to the newer bench with the same arch, but I wasn't too fussed on it at the time.
first point: yes, however even when tested on x86 when it was available the same results came up, it was indeed an os and not a hardware fault.
it was just the first off-hand example I remembered from a while back, another good one is memory management, while somewhat better than xp, macs are somewhat worse off than linux in that department, I could get into specifics however that is besides the point.
the technological items that differ will change as time goes on, of course, however, so far, and so far as I can imagine for at least the near future, linux will be technically superior.
to your second point: that is not to say apple is not improving their kernel, they are and that is always good, it's just saying that they don't have quite as much resources or developer interest as the linux kernel,
you'd think that, maybe, but copying and improving the improvements to linux to the os x kernel is no trivial task, take a look at the exec proc bench on this http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=8
mac os x took on average a bit over four times as long to create new processes, if os x were always ahead of linux shouldn't they be at least equal, if not slightly more efficient?
as much resources as apple has, there is no way they'd have collectively as much resources going into kernel development as the linux kernel would have in total, and the quality is reflected in that.
"Another nice aspect would be that if you could fix a process to a certain # of cores" already can in linux, schedtool lets you set hard cpu affinities per process, you can let it only go on certain cores if you like
err... openGL? seems to be on every platform under the sun. can even write opengl code on the ds and have it run.
and why, exactly, does rpm need to die? the very same could be said of deb files, yum and apt-get, they're respective package managers both functionally work the same, user says get this, they resolve all dependencies and get it, install it, and done.
Also, I think having at least two of them would be optimal, at least then they're trying to one-up the other one, a little friendly competition is never a bad thing.
In regards to packaging, I agree that a project shouldn't need to make packages for every platform around, that's why if your popular enough, you get the people who use that distro to package and maintain the package on their distro. Then it can be added to the central repository and checked against dependencies in that repo and made to all work fine, with no effort from yourself as the software developer.
depends entirely on what your doing imho, I mean, if your trying to run a program that expects alsa on an ancient 2.4 kernel that only has OSS, your going to run into problems obviously. but that's a new program on an old kernel.
When it comes to older programs on new kernels it's much better, yes some libraries tend to be updated and replaced, just install the old ones again, and even in so far as matters like oss/alsa are concerned, the new stuff typically supports the old fairly well.
typically I can download random linux x86 binary and run it fine, maybe after installing a library if need be. I imagine the only people who couldn't are maybe those who don't know how to install things except using yum or apt-get.
correlation does not imply causation, take australia for instance, way less crime than the US with firearms, slight increase in crime when all taken away from legal upstanding people, you can still get some small types of firearms there, but it is so heavily regulated and costly that it's way easier to get illegally, laws don't matter to criminals.
The games may have been crappy, however the old school nokia's were built to survive anything you can throw at it, same with the current ones. a while ago I picked up a high-end symbian one, it's been dropped that many times that the silver paint has been almost completely scratched off, still works like a charm. That and the old school and low end phones are instant.
The durability is why I stick with them though, only phones specifically made for harsh environments fare better.
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/WebSign?ReadForm&id=375&ps=P
The above is a list of countries that have signed the fourth geneva convention. USA signed in 1949 and ratified in 1955.
what is being done is quite illegal and to most people immoral. Even with the convention there are ways of dealing with troublesome people, but it rules torture and the like out. Blaming it on commie's trying to expand is a bit weak. I'm still somewhat amazed you were modded insightful on your initial post when it's premise was incorrect, goes to show how many peoples view on human rights have been twisted by the affair.
you couldn't be further from the truth, "The assumption that such a category as unlawful combatant exists is not contradicted by the findings by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Celebici Judgment. The judgement quoted the 1958 ICRC commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention: Every person in enemy hands must be either a prisoner of war and, as such, be covered by the Third Convention; or a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention. Furthermore, "There is no intermediate status; nobody in enemy hands can be outside the law," because in the opinion of the ICRC "If civilians directly engage in hostilities, they are considered 'unlawful' or 'unprivileged' combatants or belligerents (the treaties of humanitarian law do not expressly contain these terms). They may be prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action"."
The "we can do what we like to people legally" deal was invented by bush, and one that most people seem to be caught by, nobody's man enough to stand up to him internationally, is all
only way they could break even to the pal taxed countries would be to raise it a very non-trivial amount. e.g. AU wii is $400AU or $385 US, even if they raised it to $350US it would be making less money, and consumers would flock to other options when the price difference isn't so much there between a wii and a ps3 or x360. also randomly though, ps3 initial price here was $1k AU, now that's insane.
Funnyily enough I agree with all of your post except the ***
For starters "DEP" known to the rest of the world as the NX bit, has been supported in linux kernels since 2004, now this should not require any code changes at all to utilize. The kernel handles memory protection, and when the binary is loaded I'd imagine everything in .data and .bss should be protected, aswell as every malloc.
now, on to ASLR, since linux 2.6.12 it's on by default, and also, requires no special code, it just works, as it should (and hopefully does) do on vista.
now onto vista 'protected mode', essentially this reduces the privilege level, awesome, now windows isn't running it's browser as root essentially, but every decent windows person should have a restricted personal account themselves in which they do things regardless, making it moot, and nobody sane in linux does everything as root.
as said, I agree with the rest of your post, but the *** part makes you sound like you listen to too much microsoft advertising, the people who code firefox are smart, don't bash them without looking into things.
your thinking of people saturing a bandwidth of an isp, and not in terms of a line you have from them. aren't you?
think of it in terms of say, couple people on a lan trying to download an iso from ftp, both connections fully saturating the line. now, third person on a lan tries to google something, but his connection is slow as a bitch because of the other two, even though he's using a minimal amount of the line in question. QOS would solve this in one of several ways, either by always giving http traffic higher precedence, or giving each user a gauranteed minimum of the whole connection speed (more if others aren't using it)
I'm sorry my prior post did not clear up the meaning of what it is about to you. I fear this one won't either, but at least I'll try.
Also an isp itself should never hit 100% usage of a big pipe, moment it does shit would hit the fan in regards to latency with some things.
1. c, not sure on c++ as I just use c, c++ tends to want an os of some kind.
2. libogc contains bits for everything you like, the graphical bits are similar to opengl but not the same. There are some handy bits for creating text consoles and the like also.
3. libogc supported the gamecube bba and it's own tcp/ip stack using the sockets interface, however not sure if it has support for the wii wireless though
4. look at the gamecube examples, it's pretty much the same deal, wii has some extras but gamecube homebrew is very similar, as it's the same library bit with some extra bits enabled.
I agree charges different amounts in different locations makes sense, but sometimes it's just plain stupid, e.g. US vs AU prices on a wii, $250USD in the US, $360 USD in AU (about $400 AUD)
*sigh* least it's not as bad as the games, hear most of them are only $50, $100 is the standard, some up to $130, that's some nice pal tax
in the end it's cheaper and faster for people here to just import their console and all the games, still comes out cheaper than buying locally
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incorrect, putting qos upstream on a line effects everyone using said line. it has nothing to do with bittorrent etc at all, works with any sort of traffic going over a line.
as far as the cpu is concerned I agree with you, a working cpu is something that's just assumed,
but in so far as drivers for other things are concerned, I find linux detects dying hardware way better than windows, what would equate to a bsod in windows typically results in dmesg bits to the effect of ' warning, sanity check failed, xxx screwed up, should never reach that state, resetting it and trying again' then attempts to get it going again.
failing hardware is failing hardware, but less crashing is always a good thing.