This is a false dichotomy, plus you sound like you severely underestimate the demand for hot water in warmer climates. Sure, more people take cold showers in hot weather, but plenty still use warm or hot. People also take more showers, wash dishes no less and wash clothing more. In fact the demand for hot water in warm climates averages no less than in cooler ones. Also did you skip right over the other examples? Passive solar designs reduce or eliminate the need for air conditioning.
Much of "dreamtime" and similar bodies of lore elsewhere, but the australian dreamtime is the canonical example by most accounts, is "cultural geography." The stories were adaptive strategies for human groups which travelled great distances and relied on their knowledge of local features for survival. If a person can predict features of geography in an area he has never been before because he remembers stories which encoded those features, this is a huge advantage. So that accurate information can be decoded from them should hardly be surprising.
Nor would it be very surprising that they correctly deduced that craters are caused by meteor impact. The frequency of *large* meteorite collisions may be quite low, but the frequency of medium and small impacts is orders of magnitude greater, and they also leave craters. Simply dropping a rock into a still body of water forms a crater as well, even though it erodes away in the blink of an eye many people have sat dropping rocks into a pond and observing what happens as well.
This is really the biggest problem with the whole system right now. An active citizenry is required to make any democratic or pseudo-democratic system function properly, and a consumer is the precise opposite of an active citizen.
It's very annoying how many ignorant people throw around "solar" as a synonym for photovoltaïc.
Of course solar energy is actually responsible for all life on earth, and the ultimate source of power behind pretty much everything on the planet, but even solely in terms of conscious human implented technology solar energy is a broad field with photovoltaïcs being one small and relatively new and immature branch. Solar thermal technology is often far more efficient and less expensive, and just as much 'solar' as any other sort. The easiest and most efficient use is direct heating of water and air to displace the use of electricity to do the same job. Solar-thermal technologies also show some promise for power production, although this particular project looks to me far less likely to ever be useful than more conventional "power towers" which do not require such extravagances as 2400 foot chimneys (can you imagine the difficulty not just in building, but in maintaining that?) and convert solar energy to electricity using an extremely mature technology - the steam turbine.
The big savings for the forseeable future is still to be found not in using the sun to produce electricity at all, but simply to displace it. The $750million proposed cost of this plant (which is likely to increase several times before a single watt is ever produced by it) would be much better spent replacing electric water heaters with efficient solar water heaters, for instance. The 200 megawatts this plant is touted to eventually produce is only a little more than was displaced in the US in 2008 alone through installation of solar hot water heaters for domestic use alone (keeping in mind that market penetration for this technology in the US is still miniscule there is room for that to expand many times) and is only a little more than a quarter of what solar pool heating units displaced in the same year. Passive solar home design is another potential area of savings where the current market penetration is even lower, and the potential savings enormous.
Given the relative efficiencies and costs, it really makes no sense to me to be throwing all this money at speculative schemes for electrical generation while there remains so much more potential for displacement. Even confining this to the states where solar energy is most reliable and appropriate - the "sun belt" - the potential reduction in electrical usage is staggering and dwarfs what a project like this could possibly produce. One day when >90% of homes located between southern california and the florida/georgia/carolina coast have passive solar designs and thermosiphon hot water systems in place, THEN it might make sense to start throwing money at solar power generation on a large scale, but for the time being I just dont see it.
Havent thought about this for awhile, but IIRC the first three octets are supposed to indicate the manufacturer of the device, so if we can assume the NIC in these frames is always from the same manufacturer, the address space to search becomes much smaller. Still, it's going to be pretty huge, with probably the largest number of possible URLs invalid, and most of the valid ones full of normal junk no one but family/friends really want to see anyhow. The probability of one or two really nice racy pictures in there will no doubt motivate someone to search the space eventually though.
If you see anything good, or even just really strange, be sure and post it here!
What you are advocating is nothing new. It is the return of the constitutional copyright regime, which was superceded by the berne convention laws we have now. Revoking our assent to the berne convention would be the logical first step to that.
For a painful example of this problem, make a wireless network connection with a Linux EeePC. All the GUI gives you is success or failure. Errors are hidden in a text window with incredibly confusing blither from about six programs used to set up the connection, several of which produce error messages in normal operation.
I have an EeePC and I know *precisely* what you are talking about. I agree it is bad, but I disagree with your solution entirely. This problem is amenable to a much simpler solution, there is no need for any drastic architectural changes. The basic architecture here is sound, there is no reason why the GUI-box should not just report success or failure and leave the actual diagnostic output to another box that the user only has cause to invoke if there is a problem. The real problem here is that errors are reported even when nothing is wrong. The best I can see this is due quite simply to the fact that no one is willing to pay one or two employees (they dont have to be highly skilled, just computer literate enough to track down scripts and edit them) to finish the job when they make a distribution. In this case, there are error on the EeePC that are normal all over the place, not just in this one box, but bloody everywhere. They are caused by using generic scripts, designed to work on an extraordinarily broad range of different installations, with no customisation. It is a relatively tiny amount of work to go through these scripts, figure out which lines are actually unneeded and inappropriate on *this* distribution, and remove them. Simple as that.
Now, when I fire up a newly installed white-box, I see a lot of similar spurious error messages scroll by. This is to be expected - I am using a general purpose distribution and it makes sense for the default scripts to have this result and to expect the person installing it to go ahead and take a few minutes to customise the scripts and get rid of the spurious commands, either by deletion or simply commenting them out. The only complaint I have in that setting is that it does, on occasion, seem unreasonably difficult to track down the scripts in question, as if the builders of the distro never even thought of anyone wanting to clean the thing up post-install. This attitude, or my perception of it, grates the nerves, it is just shoddy engineering. Error messages should NOT be normal, and an OS installation cannot be said to be complete until they are all cleaned up. When the user sees an error message they should be able to have confidence it is a real error. Instead they learn that it is 'normal' to have spurious error messages all over the place, they learn to ignore them, and then when there is a real error message that does need attention - it is ignored too.
On the EeePC, however, it is not excusable at all. This is a very specialised distribution created *specifically* for this hardware. There is no excuse whatsoever for these scripts not to have been cleaned up so that they produce no error messages on their intended hardware before the image was burned, period.
Another very annoying feature of that particular Operating System is that it does not support swap partitions. This really boils down to the same problem - the company producing it obviously couldnt be bothered to budget just a handful of hours with someone familiar with linux for this thing! More specifically, it appears that Asus was told by the manufacturer of the SSD used that it should absolutely never be used for virtual memory. This advice could only have come with someone that is familiar with Windows, but not with computers in general and certainly not with linux specifically. SSDs do have a limited number of read/write cycles, you see, and Windows WILL thrash virtual memory whenever given it, without rhyme or reason, it just insists on rewriting it fairly often. Allowing Windows to use an SSD for virtual memory is a very bad idea. But Linux does
Keep in mind who we're discussing here. When your goal is to leverage your monopoly -- to lock your customers in and your competitors out -- then open standards are deliberately obstructive!:)
Precisely!
More people need to understand this. It's clear MS does - but on our side most people still seem to be under the illusion that it is somehow possible to play fair and get along with MS. It isnt. It never was. From their point of view you are either helping them develop lock-in and total control of each and every PC in the world, or you are against them and they will stop at nothing to destroy you.
I remember I used to use it in the mid 90s, I actually found it quite useful because it is (was?) an unroutable protocol - IIRC it could be set up so that windows shares were available only through NetBIOS and thus only across one local segment. A couple of other admins were pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to keep those shares from being exploited without cutting them off entirely (and making the users very unhappy) and binding them to NetBIOS only seemed to do the trick nicely. Of course we had control of the local segment and the users who needed the shares were all on it - otherwise it wouldnt have been very useful. But it's been ages since I remember using it for anything at all.
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Don't like what it came from OR what it's turned into. And in reality that distinction is null - it's both simultaneously right now. I have religious kooks yelling about jeebus on one side and supposedly secular kooks (people that think drinking beer proves beyond a doubt they are not religious kooks) on the other.
What it came from, btw, has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the stuff you mentioned. It started just as rotten. It started with Bishops angling for secular power who realised they could convert the peasants a lot easier if they invented a reason for a celebration on the day the peasants already celebrated (for good reason, outside the tropics the winter solstice is a big deal, and the closer to the pole you get the bigger a deal it is) and "progressed" to business interests manipulating poor children to pressure their parents into spending money they didnt have. Rotten at the start and rotten to the end.
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Tracking Santa? Credibility? Wow. Just wow.
To a nine-year old? Who is hearing it from every side, from all her teachers, all the other kids in her class, other parents, basically everyone, including authority figures? Yes, it's absurd. It's absurd that it's more socially acceptable to tell a kid that her family is abusing her by not "giving you a xmas." That's my point.
No one said you had to participate. Isn't freedom great?
Actually, again, pretty much every xmas-keeper does indeed STRONGLY imply just that. Reams and reams of propaganda has been produced to that effect, and it all gets trotted back out and rammed down our throats every year. All those idiotic xmas movies. Oh noes! He doesnt like xmas, he's a grinch!
I wouldnt have a problem with it at all if they would simply leave those of us that arent interested alone. But they dont. They persecute us at every possible opportunity, and the most annoying thing is that smug certainty that they are really trying to do us a favour.
While I respect your right to not celebrate holidays you consider groundless I think to insist that this is a "culture of lies" is taking it to the extremes a bit.
Then you need to look closer. Open up a newspaper. Turn on the TV. Lies, more lies, a few minutes of filler which is at best neither true nor false, just meaningless... and back to the lies. Here's a word from our sponsors... lies.
I personally am not a holiday person but if that's what it takes to help get someone through the day I'd say it's relatively harmless.
I'll agree with you when I get through a single end-of-year without being treated like I am insane or worse for not wanting to take part.
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Norad Tracks Santa uses 1,200 volunteers and money from several corporate sponsors. Only 1 person is assigned from Norad to manage it year-round, and it's not his/her full time job.
Even if that's true (which I doubt) that's still 1 part-time employ too many, PLUS THE NAME. The use of the Norad name gives this unwarranted credibility.
Santa is also not a Christian symbol at all anymore, but is really the symbol of the secular Christmas.
Which is even worse. At least misguided religious celebrants intend well. Your "secular xmas" is an invention of pure greed devised consciously to exploit and manipulate people into spending money they dont have to raise the bottom line for wealthy commercial interests.
I'm sorry you had a bunch of crappy Christmases as a child, but there's no need to take it out on everyone else.
I am sorry you were raised so immersed in a culture of lies that you dont even understand that lying to children is evil, but no need to take it out on everyone else. ^_^
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Who said I am an atheist? You dont know, dont assume. There are plenty of religious people who are not christians. Jews and muslims both exist in fair quantities in the US, and supposedly have equal rights under the law. Brainwashing their children with fairy tales and 'christmas spirit' is offensive, forcing them to pay for it doubly so.
This is the season all you arseholes who cant imagine why anyone wouldnt want to be part of your insanely offensive "festivities" make life hell for the rest of us, nothing more.
That said, it is damn fun being a parent and following santa and all that.
I know this may be hard, but try, just for a moment, to imagine that you are a Jewish parent who is trying to raise your children properly, and everywhere they go, from every direction, they are getting fed full of this bullshit. Still fun? Right.
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I mean, really, they are using tax money to put on this insanely stupid bit of play-acting, aimed at propagandising children no less, endorsing christian fairy-tales and giving them the imprimatur of the state (and let's not forget that a lot of taxpayers are NOT xtians) and the only problem you can see is that it doesnt display on linux?!?! Get a little perspective, please.
Well I cant test it because I dont have mono (thankfully!) I mention debug symbols because I have seen that - some developers have more resources than they know what to do with and assume everyone else does too. I tend to stick to Slackware because Patrick has never done anything like that (at least that I have noticed) and doesnt ship GNOME (which can be a big hassle to get rid of with other distros.)
However, I have another explanation for you after searching the old memory banks. Free isnt very useful because of the way the kernel allocates memory. If you unload that program and check free again, I dont think you'll see the 10 megs back. And even if free tells you you have no free memory, you may still be able to load another program, even a relatively large one. IIRC this all has to do with dynamic cache sizes - the kernel will let the cache grow to consume all or almost all free memory, then take pages back out of it on demand when a program needs space. When a program releases the memory, it just gets marked available for caching again. So I am *guessing* that what happened was the program took considerably more than 10 megs, however most of that was allocated out of a bank formerly marked for caching (but not actually in use for such, of course) so you dont see the difference when you check with free.
Oh that is absolute bull. There aint no such thing as a free school, anymore than a free lunch. Puhlease. Do you believe in the tooth fairy and santa claus too?
Schooling in Sweden is paid for by compulsory taxation, as in the US. However, in the US, the tax funding goes to specific state-owned schools exclusively. Those who choose a private school instead essentially are forced to pay for BOTH schools simultaneously. This discourages private schooling and effectively reserves it to the higher economic strata and traps everyone else in public schools, while simultaneously insulating those public schools from market pressure and giving them both a captive population and guaranteed funding no matter how poorly they perform. In Sweden, by contrast, the pupil can take that funding with her to the school of her choice. Municipal schools compete directly with private schools for the same students and the same funds. Municipal schools which fail to compete effectively with private alternatives actually go out of business in Sweden - not in the US.
And for the fucktards who think that piracy only harms corporations? Think again. I find a ton of stuff from small shops and indie artists floating around these sites.
That means it is *benefiting* small shops and indie artists as well as the big corporations, actually. You completely misunderstand/misrepresent the dynamic. Grey-market downloads, *particularly* those from "small shops and indie artists" increase their exposure and (if the content isnt total crap, and the seller doesnt shoot their own foot by making the product for sale obviously *inferior* to the grey-market version) drive sales up, not down.
"Only" 10 MB? How utterly absurd. And yes I get that in context to the claim made by the GP you have a point. (Possibly the GP has binaries compiled with debug symbols, or possibly *you* already have over a hundred megs of mono libraries loaded for something else and dont realise it.)
But just wow, only 10MB for a silly little virtual notepad. That's 256 times the entire system memory on my first PC. Which was a much more accessible and "user-friendly" machine than you can buy today, with a good DE built right in. It appears computer science in the intervening time has been exclusively focused on driving hardware purchases...
Having lived in Sweden, and grown up in "red-state America" I think I have a bit of perspective on this.
Yes, Sweden is noticeably socialist in some areas. But not in all. In fact I was shocked to find in some ways it is much *less* socialist than the US is. Their education system seems to be considerably closer to a free-market system than you will find in the US for instance, so it is hardly surprising that children are as a result more upwardly mobile.
Of course Faux News and the GOP are more interested in sound-bites and supporting the status quo than in disseminating accurate information. Does this surprise anyone?
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This is a false dichotomy, plus you sound like you severely underestimate the demand for hot water in warmer climates. Sure, more people take cold showers in hot weather, but plenty still use warm or hot. People also take more showers, wash dishes no less and wash clothing more. In fact the demand for hot water in warm climates averages no less than in cooler ones. Also did you skip right over the other examples? Passive solar designs reduce or eliminate the need for air conditioning.
Much of "dreamtime" and similar bodies of lore elsewhere, but the australian dreamtime is the canonical example by most accounts, is "cultural geography." The stories were adaptive strategies for human groups which travelled great distances and relied on their knowledge of local features for survival. If a person can predict features of geography in an area he has never been before because he remembers stories which encoded those features, this is a huge advantage. So that accurate information can be decoded from them should hardly be surprising.
Nor would it be very surprising that they correctly deduced that craters are caused by meteor impact. The frequency of *large* meteorite collisions may be quite low, but the frequency of medium and small impacts is orders of magnitude greater, and they also leave craters. Simply dropping a rock into a still body of water forms a crater as well, even though it erodes away in the blink of an eye many people have sat dropping rocks into a pond and observing what happens as well.
This is really the biggest problem with the whole system right now. An active citizenry is required to make any democratic or pseudo-democratic system function properly, and a consumer is the precise opposite of an active citizen.
It's very annoying how many ignorant people throw around "solar" as a synonym for photovoltaïc.
Of course solar energy is actually responsible for all life on earth, and the ultimate source of power behind pretty much everything on the planet, but even solely in terms of conscious human implented technology solar energy is a broad field with photovoltaïcs being one small and relatively new and immature branch. Solar thermal technology is often far more efficient and less expensive, and just as much 'solar' as any other sort. The easiest and most efficient use is direct heating of water and air to displace the use of electricity to do the same job. Solar-thermal technologies also show some promise for power production, although this particular project looks to me far less likely to ever be useful than more conventional "power towers" which do not require such extravagances as 2400 foot chimneys (can you imagine the difficulty not just in building, but in maintaining that?) and convert solar energy to electricity using an extremely mature technology - the steam turbine.
The big savings for the forseeable future is still to be found not in using the sun to produce electricity at all, but simply to displace it. The $750million proposed cost of this plant (which is likely to increase several times before a single watt is ever produced by it) would be much better spent replacing electric water heaters with efficient solar water heaters, for instance. The 200 megawatts this plant is touted to eventually produce is only a little more than was displaced in the US in 2008 alone through installation of solar hot water heaters for domestic use alone (keeping in mind that market penetration for this technology in the US is still miniscule there is room for that to expand many times) and is only a little more than a quarter of what solar pool heating units displaced in the same year. Passive solar home design is another potential area of savings where the current market penetration is even lower, and the potential savings enormous.
Given the relative efficiencies and costs, it really makes no sense to me to be throwing all this money at speculative schemes for electrical generation while there remains so much more potential for displacement. Even confining this to the states where solar energy is most reliable and appropriate - the "sun belt" - the potential reduction in electrical usage is staggering and dwarfs what a project like this could possibly produce. One day when >90% of homes located between southern california and the florida/georgia/carolina coast have passive solar designs and thermosiphon hot water systems in place, THEN it might make sense to start throwing money at solar power generation on a large scale, but for the time being I just dont see it.
Havent thought about this for awhile, but IIRC the first three octets are supposed to indicate the manufacturer of the device, so if we can assume the NIC in these frames is always from the same manufacturer, the address space to search becomes much smaller. Still, it's going to be pretty huge, with probably the largest number of possible URLs invalid, and most of the valid ones full of normal junk no one but family/friends really want to see anyhow. The probability of one or two really nice racy pictures in there will no doubt motivate someone to search the space eventually though.
If you see anything good, or even just really strange, be sure and post it here!
What you are advocating is nothing new. It is the return of the constitutional copyright regime, which was superceded by the berne convention laws we have now. Revoking our assent to the berne convention would be the logical first step to that.
You are almost right, partly. :)
I have an EeePC and I know *precisely* what you are talking about. I agree it is bad, but I disagree with your solution entirely. This problem is amenable to a much simpler solution, there is no need for any drastic architectural changes. The basic architecture here is sound, there is no reason why the GUI-box should not just report success or failure and leave the actual diagnostic output to another box that the user only has cause to invoke if there is a problem. The real problem here is that errors are reported even when nothing is wrong. The best I can see this is due quite simply to the fact that no one is willing to pay one or two employees (they dont have to be highly skilled, just computer literate enough to track down scripts and edit them) to finish the job when they make a distribution. In this case, there are error on the EeePC that are normal all over the place, not just in this one box, but bloody everywhere. They are caused by using generic scripts, designed to work on an extraordinarily broad range of different installations, with no customisation. It is a relatively tiny amount of work to go through these scripts, figure out which lines are actually unneeded and inappropriate on *this* distribution, and remove them. Simple as that.
Now, when I fire up a newly installed white-box, I see a lot of similar spurious error messages scroll by. This is to be expected - I am using a general purpose distribution and it makes sense for the default scripts to have this result and to expect the person installing it to go ahead and take a few minutes to customise the scripts and get rid of the spurious commands, either by deletion or simply commenting them out. The only complaint I have in that setting is that it does, on occasion, seem unreasonably difficult to track down the scripts in question, as if the builders of the distro never even thought of anyone wanting to clean the thing up post-install. This attitude, or my perception of it, grates the nerves, it is just shoddy engineering. Error messages should NOT be normal, and an OS installation cannot be said to be complete until they are all cleaned up. When the user sees an error message they should be able to have confidence it is a real error. Instead they learn that it is 'normal' to have spurious error messages all over the place, they learn to ignore them, and then when there is a real error message that does need attention - it is ignored too.
On the EeePC, however, it is not excusable at all. This is a very specialised distribution created *specifically* for this hardware. There is no excuse whatsoever for these scripts not to have been cleaned up so that they produce no error messages on their intended hardware before the image was burned, period.
Another very annoying feature of that particular Operating System is that it does not support swap partitions. This really boils down to the same problem - the company producing it obviously couldnt be bothered to budget just a handful of hours with someone familiar with linux for this thing! More specifically, it appears that Asus was told by the manufacturer of the SSD used that it should absolutely never be used for virtual memory. This advice could only have come with someone that is familiar with Windows, but not with computers in general and certainly not with linux specifically. SSDs do have a limited number of read/write cycles, you see, and Windows WILL thrash virtual memory whenever given it, without rhyme or reason, it just insists on rewriting it fairly often. Allowing Windows to use an SSD for virtual memory is a very bad idea. But Linux does
You have obviously never heard of Cricket.
Actually, patents do work that way, which is why even "legitimate" patents obstruct progress.
Precisely!
More people need to understand this. It's clear MS does - but on our side most people still seem to be under the illusion that it is somehow possible to play fair and get along with MS. It isnt. It never was. From their point of view you are either helping them develop lock-in and total control of each and every PC in the world, or you are against them and they will stop at nothing to destroy you.
Ahh yes that would have been the trick I was remembering. It has been a few years.
I remember I used to use it in the mid 90s, I actually found it quite useful because it is (was?) an unroutable protocol - IIRC it could be set up so that windows shares were available only through NetBIOS and thus only across one local segment. A couple of other admins were pulling their hair out trying to figure out how to keep those shares from being exploited without cutting them off entirely (and making the users very unhappy) and binding them to NetBIOS only seemed to do the trick nicely. Of course we had control of the local segment and the users who needed the shares were all on it - otherwise it wouldnt have been very useful. But it's been ages since I remember using it for anything at all.
Don't like what it came from OR what it's turned into. And in reality that distinction is null - it's both simultaneously right now. I have religious kooks yelling about jeebus on one side and supposedly secular kooks (people that think drinking beer proves beyond a doubt they are not religious kooks) on the other.
What it came from, btw, has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the stuff you mentioned. It started just as rotten. It started with Bishops angling for secular power who realised they could convert the peasants a lot easier if they invented a reason for a celebration on the day the peasants already celebrated (for good reason, outside the tropics the winter solstice is a big deal, and the closer to the pole you get the bigger a deal it is) and "progressed" to business interests manipulating poor children to pressure their parents into spending money they didnt have. Rotten at the start and rotten to the end.
To a nine-year old? Who is hearing it from every side, from all her teachers, all the other kids in her class, other parents, basically everyone, including authority figures? Yes, it's absurd. It's absurd that it's more socially acceptable to tell a kid that her family is abusing her by not "giving you a xmas." That's my point.
Actually, again, pretty much every xmas-keeper does indeed STRONGLY imply just that. Reams and reams of propaganda has been produced to that effect, and it all gets trotted back out and rammed down our throats every year. All those idiotic xmas movies. Oh noes! He doesnt like xmas, he's a grinch!
I wouldnt have a problem with it at all if they would simply leave those of us that arent interested alone. But they dont. They persecute us at every possible opportunity, and the most annoying thing is that smug certainty that they are really trying to do us a favour.
Then you need to look closer. Open up a newspaper. Turn on the TV. Lies, more lies, a few minutes of filler which is at best neither true nor false, just meaningless... and back to the lies. Here's a word from our sponsors... lies.
I'll agree with you when I get through a single end-of-year without being treated like I am insane or worse for not wanting to take part.
Even if that's true (which I doubt) that's still 1 part-time employ too many, PLUS THE NAME. The use of the Norad name gives this unwarranted credibility.
Which is even worse. At least misguided religious celebrants intend well. Your "secular xmas" is an invention of pure greed devised consciously to exploit and manipulate people into spending money they dont have to raise the bottom line for wealthy commercial interests.
I am sorry you were raised so immersed in a culture of lies that you dont even understand that lying to children is evil, but no need to take it out on everyone else. ^_^
Who said I am an atheist? You dont know, dont assume. There are plenty of religious people who are not christians. Jews and muslims both exist in fair quantities in the US, and supposedly have equal rights under the law. Brainwashing their children with fairy tales and 'christmas spirit' is offensive, forcing them to pay for it doubly so.
This is the season all you arseholes who cant imagine why anyone wouldnt want to be part of your insanely offensive "festivities" make life hell for the rest of us, nothing more.
I know this may be hard, but try, just for a moment, to imagine that you are a Jewish parent who is trying to raise your children properly, and everywhere they go, from every direction, they are getting fed full of this bullshit. Still fun? Right.
I mean, really, they are using tax money to put on this insanely stupid bit of play-acting, aimed at propagandising children no less, endorsing christian fairy-tales and giving them the imprimatur of the state (and let's not forget that a lot of taxpayers are NOT xtians) and the only problem you can see is that it doesnt display on linux?!?! Get a little perspective, please.
Well I cant test it because I dont have mono (thankfully!) I mention debug symbols because I have seen that - some developers have more resources than they know what to do with and assume everyone else does too. I tend to stick to Slackware because Patrick has never done anything like that (at least that I have noticed) and doesnt ship GNOME (which can be a big hassle to get rid of with other distros.)
However, I have another explanation for you after searching the old memory banks. Free isnt very useful because of the way the kernel allocates memory. If you unload that program and check free again, I dont think you'll see the 10 megs back. And even if free tells you you have no free memory, you may still be able to load another program, even a relatively large one. IIRC this all has to do with dynamic cache sizes - the kernel will let the cache grow to consume all or almost all free memory, then take pages back out of it on demand when a program needs space. When a program releases the memory, it just gets marked available for caching again. So I am *guessing* that what happened was the program took considerably more than 10 megs, however most of that was allocated out of a bank formerly marked for caching (but not actually in use for such, of course) so you dont see the difference when you check with free.
Oh that is absolute bull. There aint no such thing as a free school, anymore than a free lunch. Puhlease. Do you believe in the tooth fairy and santa claus too?
Schooling in Sweden is paid for by compulsory taxation, as in the US. However, in the US, the tax funding goes to specific state-owned schools exclusively. Those who choose a private school instead essentially are forced to pay for BOTH schools simultaneously. This discourages private schooling and effectively reserves it to the higher economic strata and traps everyone else in public schools, while simultaneously insulating those public schools from market pressure and giving them both a captive population and guaranteed funding no matter how poorly they perform. In Sweden, by contrast, the pupil can take that funding with her to the school of her choice. Municipal schools compete directly with private schools for the same students and the same funds. Municipal schools which fail to compete effectively with private alternatives actually go out of business in Sweden - not in the US.
Open Office is NOT a text editor, nor does it contain one. ^_^
That means it is *benefiting* small shops and indie artists as well as the big corporations, actually. You completely misunderstand/misrepresent the dynamic. Grey-market downloads, *particularly* those from "small shops and indie artists" increase their exposure and (if the content isnt total crap, and the seller doesnt shoot their own foot by making the product for sale obviously *inferior* to the grey-market version) drive sales up, not down.
"Only" 10 MB? How utterly absurd. And yes I get that in context to the claim made by the GP you have a point. (Possibly the GP has binaries compiled with debug symbols, or possibly *you* already have over a hundred megs of mono libraries loaded for something else and dont realise it.)
But just wow, only 10MB for a silly little virtual notepad. That's 256 times the entire system memory on my first PC. Which was a much more accessible and "user-friendly" machine than you can buy today, with a good DE built right in. It appears computer science in the intervening time has been exclusively focused on driving hardware purchases...
Correction, LGPL is a Free Software License.
However if MonoDevelop cannot be used fully and freely because of patent concerns, it's not really Free Software, even with a Free license.
Au contraire, there is a fundamental problem with running proprietary software - it takes away your freedom, which is the entire point.
Having lived in Sweden, and grown up in "red-state America" I think I have a bit of perspective on this.
Yes, Sweden is noticeably socialist in some areas. But not in all. In fact I was shocked to find in some ways it is much *less* socialist than the US is. Their education system seems to be considerably closer to a free-market system than you will find in the US for instance, so it is hardly surprising that children are as a result more upwardly mobile.
Of course Faux News and the GOP are more interested in sound-bites and supporting the status quo than in disseminating accurate information. Does this surprise anyone?