Um... No. Some money will exchange hands (under the table), some favors will be called, a couple of scapegoats will be sacrificed and the whole ordeal will be swept under the rug.
What is your exact complaint about Firefox's memory use? Are you still experiencing the huge memory leakage and growth from the 2.0 series?
Not the poster you replied to, but I do.
I restart FF between once a week and twice a day when it's memory usage tops 1GB (when it reaches 1.5GB the browser locks hard and the task has to be killed). It could be FF itself or one of the extensions, plugins or GreaseMonkey script I have installed but without them it feels like using stone-age technology.
Unfortunately, I could not find any tool that will tell me what allocated the leaked memory.
It is mostly a general feeling of sluggishness compared to Safari (on OS X) and high memory use compared to Opera (on Windows). As an example, I had to restart it earlier today after it topped 1 GiB of RAM
I have a somewhat similar experience. FF often tops 1GB and freezes hard when it reaches about 1.5GB. There is obviously a memory leak somewhere. IT could be in one (or more) of the multitude of plugins, extensions and GreaseMonkey scripts that I have installed but: 1. I have no way of finding out where this memory was allocated, and 2. Those addons are installed because I use them. Safe mode feels like using an abacus to calculate trig functions.
If there was some sort of tool that would track and display memory allocations/deallocations by component it could help a lot.
I know a lot of officers in various branches (police, *BI, sheriff, etc.) and count several as close friends.. but I wouldn't trust a single one of them to not go beyond the mandate of the warrant without something official binding them. The egos of most officers I have met have all been "I _am_ the law" style of bullshit that leads to people being hanged before their guilt has been proven and then "Whoops, we made a mistake. Oh well. I'm sure s/he was guilty of something." Meanwhile, the innocent person has been vilified in the news and can't do business where they live anymore.
And yet, you "count [those miscreants] as close friends".
Atheism is an absence of faith, not another type of religious belief. FULL STOP!
Since when did excessive use of capitals became an accepted substitute for facts?
Theism - belief in the existence of a god or gods Monotheism - belief in the existence of a single god Polytheism - belief in the existence of multiple gods Antitheism - belief in the non-existence of gods Atheism - the lack of belief in the existence of a god or gods (although often used as synonymous to anti-theism)
The GP is correct stating that: "Atheism" is about the belief in god(s). It is not about "faith" in the generic sense of the word.
I can understand the frustration with my statements. However, one must look from the perspective an outsider to the U.S. to grasp what I am saying. It is quite realistic to expect people to lump disparate pieces into something more monolithic.
Why is that? I am "an outsider to the U.S." yet I do not do that, nor do any of my friends.
One only has to take an American perspective, historical or modern of countries and cultures around the world to see this is the case. The reason this church wishes to burn Korans is no exception. Their reasoning must flow something along the lines of "If Muslims were responsible for 9/11 then certainly all Muslims are evil..."
It is quite ironic how in one paragraph you complain about lumping all Muslims into the same bin while in the other you argue that it is "realistic" to do so with Americans. Perhaps some emotional detachment will help.
After all, is the U.S. not "for the people, by the people, and of the people?"
Roughly in the same way that North Korea is a "Democratic People's Republic".
the American media is an arm of the people.
You have a a very skewed view of the American media.
If this were not so neither would be in business for very long.
The American government is still "in business" because of the two-party system which is based on distracting the people with false dichotomies and capitalizing on the "us vs. them" mentality. The American media is in business thanks to local, virtual and actual monopolies on providing entertainment and communication. Neither of which would last long if respective alternatives were allowed to get traction.
Back to the topic.
1) Announcing the intent to burn religious texts by a private individual is a form of protest. Abhorrent to you, perhaps, but trying to present it as state-sponsored intimidation is specious reasoning at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst. Judging by your double standards as demonstrated above, I conclude the latter.
2) In the US, the people that actually threaten (and sometimes commit) violence over religious disagreements fall predominantly into two groups: Scientologists and Muslims.
* Memory leaks: FF memory use grows to ~1.5GB and then it hangs with 100% CPU usage. it may be a plugin or GM script issue but I could not isolate it. Seems to happen more frequently when browsing picture-heavy pages (google image seach, galleries, etc.)
I don't keep 3G on, and the battery will last around 36 hours with average usage. While idling with background sync on, it uses around 1% an hour.
I do not dispute your experience. However, your usage patterns are not comparable to those that Anand used to compare battery life on different phone.
That is, if you were to get an iPhone and use it for several days in exactly the same way that you use your Galaxy S, then you would have a valid basis for comparison.
American media giving an American church free and abundant publicity about their burning of the Koran gives them legitimacy and a notion of prevalence.
Speaking of the "American media" is lumping together a multitude of mostly private organizations that are loosely connected (if at all).
The U.S. has spent both the 20th century and thus far the 21st sticking its nose into the affairs of countries around the world whose policies, political makeup, etc. it does not agree with. The extent of which ranges from saber rattling at UN council and other venues, to effecting economic sanctions, inciting civil wars, supporting terrorists, political assassinations, as well as outright military invasions.
"The U.S." that you're referring to is the US government.
To suggest that such a Koran burning event--especially the manner in which it is being treated/covered in the media--is not able to be viewed as a form of intimidation toward Muslims demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding about the situation.
To suggest that the US media is an arm of the US government demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding about the American system. Also, to suggest that the American media can "give legitimacy" to anything demonstrates a very charitable but extremely naive spirit.
We host the Church of Scientology, so hosting this site was mildly tame compared to some of the customers we host. The media just so happens to be making a sensation out of this, and it will come across in our favor to drop them as a customer rather than to keep them and stand behind their free speech rights.
And there you have it, folks: it's all about the bottom line.
This just in! Rate of burning of "War and Peace" falls dramatically with new "inculcate before you immolate" policy. Unforeseen consequences include hyperliterate pyromaniacs...
My i9000 (European Galaxy S variant) had very poor battery life on the stock firmware. After updating it to newer firmware (leaked beta firmware from www.samfirmware.com) my battery life has improved immensely.
How significantly?
I'm not sure what gsmarena did, but they got very impressive results when they were reviewing the Galaxy S.
Yet most commenters challenge their result (the word "bulshit" is tossed around).
Anand's methodology is usually solid, he does comparative reviews so there's context.
A4 has a PowerVR SGX535 GPU, which can push 28 million triangles/sec whilst the Galaxy S has a PowerVR SGX540 GPU that pushes 90 million triangles/sec.
You can't equate prostitution with serving fast food. The former carries all sorts of risks, even when it's a licensed and regulated brothel. You think every customer is going to have a HIV and STD test first? Condoms are 100% effective? Sleeping with some disgusting old lard-arse who could never get a real date because you need the money has no psychological ramifications?
You are right, comparing prostitution to the fast food industry is wrong. Instead, let's compare prostitution to to social work / nursing.
A friend of mine used to be one. Yes, she didn't sleep with "disgusting old lard-arses", she just fed them, cleaned them, changed their diapers and was regularly abused by them (verbally, psychologically and sometimes even physically -- dementia has a funny way of altering one's behaviour). There are differences of course: she had to get a diploma and pass tests, not to mention that she earned quite a bit less then a prostitute.
Yes, I do. I just don't think much of your assumption that this exploit is only useful to those that want to pirate games. I also like to direct my post to the/. readership as a whole which, at my last count, had more than one member.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
tolerance
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
acceptance
Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;... Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the lord do sanctify them.
equality
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
taking good care of your family
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
critical thought
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don't lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way.
responsibility.
O lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
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Speaking of Amazon reviews, nothing beats this. They should publish the collection in a book.
Um... No.
Some money will exchange hands (under the table), some favors will be called, a couple of scapegoats will be sacrificed and the whole ordeal will be swept under the rug.
And cows like hay, so the feeling is mutual.
Not the poster you replied to, but I do.
I restart FF between once a week and twice a day when it's memory usage tops 1GB (when it reaches 1.5GB the browser locks hard and the task has to be killed). It could be FF itself or one of the extensions, plugins or GreaseMonkey script I have installed but without them it feels like using stone-age technology.
Unfortunately, I could not find any tool that will tell me what allocated the leaked memory.
I have a somewhat similar experience. FF often tops 1GB and freezes hard when it reaches about 1.5GB. There is obviously a memory leak somewhere. IT could be in one (or more) of the multitude of plugins, extensions and GreaseMonkey scripts that I have installed but:
1. I have no way of finding out where this memory was allocated, and
2. Those addons are installed because I use them. Safe mode feels like using an abacus to calculate trig functions.
If there was some sort of tool that would track and display memory allocations/deallocations by component it could help a lot.
And yet, you "count [those miscreants] as close friends".
Anything reasonable available in Canada?
Isn't that a given?
Spherical horses in vacuum and all that.
Um...
Phillip J. Fry.
Since when did excessive use of capitals became an accepted substitute for facts?
Theism - belief in the existence of a god or gods
Monotheism - belief in the existence of a single god
Polytheism - belief in the existence of multiple gods
Antitheism - belief in the non-existence of gods
Atheism - the lack of belief in the existence of a god or gods (although often used as synonymous to anti-theism)
The GP is correct stating that: "Atheism" is about the belief in god(s). It is not about "faith" in the generic sense of the word.
Why is that? I am "an outsider to the U.S." yet I do not do that, nor do any of my friends.
It is quite ironic how in one paragraph you complain about lumping all Muslims into the same bin while in the other you argue that it is "realistic" to do so with Americans. Perhaps some emotional detachment will help.
Roughly in the same way that North Korea is a "Democratic People's Republic".
You have a a very skewed view of the American media.
The American government is still "in business" because of the two-party system which is based on distracting the people with false dichotomies and capitalizing on the "us vs. them" mentality. The American media is in business thanks to local, virtual and actual monopolies on providing entertainment and communication. Neither of which would last long if respective alternatives were allowed to get traction.
Back to the topic.
1) Announcing the intent to burn religious texts by a private individual is a form of protest. Abhorrent to you, perhaps, but trying to present it as state-sponsored intimidation is specious reasoning at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst. Judging by your double standards as demonstrated above, I conclude the latter.
2) In the US, the people that actually threaten (and sometimes commit) violence over religious disagreements fall predominantly into two groups: Scientologists and Muslims.
There are several bugs that make FF a pain to use for me (although I still use it because of the plugins).
* Bug 490122 - Firefox periodically becomes unresponsive/freezes: video jerks/pauses/halts; links, tabs, menus stop responding.
* Memory leaks: FF memory use grows to ~1.5GB and then it hangs with 100% CPU usage.
it may be a plugin or GM script issue but I could not isolate it. Seems to happen more frequently when browsing picture-heavy pages (google image seach, galleries, etc.)
I do not dispute your experience. However, your usage patterns are not comparable to those that Anand used to compare battery life on different phone.
That is, if you were to get an iPhone and use it for several days in exactly the same way that you use your Galaxy S, then you would have a valid basis for comparison.
Speaking of the "American media" is lumping together a multitude of mostly private organizations that are loosely connected (if at all).
"The U.S." that you're referring to is the US government.
To suggest that the US media is an arm of the US government demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding about the American system. Also, to suggest that the American media can "give legitimacy" to anything demonstrates a very charitable but extremely naive spirit.
Would you agree that a private newspaper should not be allowed to discriminate based on speech? Why?
And there you have it, folks: it's all about the bottom line.
Please get a user id.
A nation of cowards is easier to rule.
Unfortunately, it has half the battery life of the A4.
Still waiting for a smartphone that is powerful, has good battery life and has a physical keyboard.
You are right, comparing prostitution to the fast food industry is wrong. Instead, let's compare prostitution to to social work / nursing.
A friend of mine used to be one. Yes, she didn't sleep with "disgusting old lard-arses", she just fed them, cleaned them, changed their diapers and was regularly abused by them (verbally, psychologically and sometimes even physically -- dementia has a funny way of altering one's behaviour). There are differences of course: she had to get a diploma and pass tests, not to mention that she earned quite a bit less then a prostitute.
Yes, I do. /. readership as a whole which, at my last count, had more than one member.
I just don't think much of your assumption that this exploit is only useful to those that want to pirate games.
I also like to direct my post to the
For you, it isn't; for some others it is.
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, Or crookbacked, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; ... Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the lord do sanctify them.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don't lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way.
O lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Or running Linux.
Or homebrew apps.
Or having back-ups of legally-purchased-but-easily-scratchable-by-the-kids disks.
But you're right, it's not about pirating games, it's about sticking it to a conglomerate that installed root-kits on your PCs.