I'll be driving or taking the train to Vancouver, BC the next time I need to fly overseas. I doubt I'm the only one fleeing to Canada just to get on a flight without being sexually assaulted by a bunch of perverts.
Not really, if you're pretty sure what I've said is crap then provide some sort of citation. It's common knowledge that 64-bit code uses more RAM than 32-bit code does. It's one of the inevitable consequences of using 64-bit words. Now, if you need to address more than about 3gb of RAM it might be worthwhile, but for things like web browsers it's a lousy bargain.
Even a cursory look at the wikipedia page for 64-bit covers what I've said and then some.
Itemizing it isn't necessarily the problem, it's the hours it takes to figure out what the various codes mean and it's frequently cheaper to just pay than to take time off work to go through the list with somebody that knows what all those codes mean.
ASBOs are the ones I read about and shake my head. Well, that and the continued war against knife crime. I can only assume that England isn't as dangerous as portrayed by the BBC, but the whole notion that nobody goes around with a knife that isn't up to no good is just bizarre.
That's what Jetpack is about, apparently they just hit the 1.0 release a while back, but I don't know how an end user would gain access to that as the only downloads I see are for SDK. On the plus side it looks like they'll be adding electrolysis support to it as one of the next steps.
My prediction is that this is more about window dressing. There's a lot of people out there that assume that 64-bits are always better than 32-bits and that if I paid for a 64-bit processor I want to run everything possible in 64-bits.
Probably the only reason to ever create a 64-bit processor is for platforms that don't have the 32-bit libraries. But, you add a lot of overhead and for something like a web browser you don't really gain much if anything in terms of performance.
In the long run, I bet this will be abandoned due to it making them look bad when the browser soaks up a lot of extra RAM unnecessarily.
The short answer is that there is no reason to move to 64-bits, and distros that drop the 32-bit libraries by default really shouldn't be doing so. This isn't like the move from 16-bit to 32 bit where most applications would benefit from the extras. In this case you end up using more memory whether or not you get any benefit from it and there's a ton of applications which just don't benefit from the extra bits.
Oddly enough, a browser really should be one of the things that stays at 32bits.
Actually, it's easier than that, just send a DVD or two to mars ever year and they'd be good to go. Plus, they can raise rates periodically because you ought to be grateful that they're letting you have all but season 3 of the Dukes of Hazard by stream.
Google doesn't typically leave out results just for the hell of it. It's in Google's interests to have as broad a slice of the web available as possible at any given time. The only sites I've seen outright removed from their searches have been the results of cybercrime or court orders. They haven't been eliminating sites from their results just for the hell of it.
In fact doing so would likely damage the value of their service immensely as people would start looking elsewhere for more complete results.
I think what happened here was probably more innocent than you're making it out to be. They were successfully sued for providing links and caching sites so they removed all the sites from Belgian newspapers to be safe. Which is easily the most reasonable explanation as well as the most likely one.
It could also have to do with the order being messed up, but in either case, I don't see why Google should continue to cache and index those sites if they're at risk of getting sued for it. If the papers don't want to be removed they can probably sign some sort of licensing deal.
That was my thought, BSD gets a bit of a license in that regards because it isn't trying to take over the desktop space. There are a small number of OSes that are related, some are focused on the desktop environment, but they're more focused on polish and actually working reliably from release to release and evolving the experience over time.
Linux OTOH varies enough that I can't really make a particularly fitting statement on that. Some distros are run by people that know what they're doing and focus on fixing things that are broken, others like Ubuntu are clearly run by crack smoking monkeys and you end up with unusable garbage or releases that have nothing in common with previous releases.
But with the dozens of distros and all the talk of being relevant to the majority of users, it's hard not to view it like the short bus kid that thinks he's going to be valedictorian. At the end of the day, most of what's wrong with Linux is the direct result of trying to copy Windows and scoop up the users even if things like automounting were stupid to begin with.
I rarely if ever will spend more than $5 on a game from Steam. The only exceptions have been when the alternative was buying from somebody I hated even more than Valve and didn't have the patience to wait for the price to drop to next to nothing. In practice that's happened like twice.
That's the thing. If they were providing any value for the money it probably would work, but as it is they're taking away value unless you pay them $10.
There's all sorts of services they could provide that would be worth $10 to the consumer without costing them $10 to provide. And yet they go the lazy route and just raise prices on their games. Hardly as brazen as the 60% that Netflix managed, but it's still pretty insulting to suggest that they're entitled to something for nothing.
Precisely, things like anniversaries and birthdays are precisely the sort of thing that you should be delegating to a machine to remember. With the plus side being that you can even set it up to remind you early enough to do something about it.
There's a reason for that. It's a prediction that's made primarily by constructivists. What you refer to as trivia is probably a random fact with no particular connection to anything else you know. The facts you know are probably integrated into other bits of knowledge or other interests you have, meaning that they've got more connections than the random trivia does. The more connections a particular idea has the less easily it is forgotten as the more connections have to be disconnected before the information is gone.
Right which is a common observation of students in any field. You'll find a few people that learn everything they can, but most students just want to know what's on the test. In language classes, most students just want enough of the language to get by. And the result is virtually always inferior to a more thorough learning of the subject, but people being lazy, that's what they want to learn.
He was not suggesting that one shouldn't memorize things, just that certain thins aren't worth memorizing. There's no good reason why anybody should need to memorize the value of Pi, e or other constants when memorizing the presence of that particular constant will suffice. You'll get shit accuracy if you try to memorize it anyways.
In general, the Internet isn't so much affecting memory as the sloth of average individuals is. I've got an astonishing memory in large part because I use it, I've practiced with it and I've developed it. I only use the internet for information I don't know or to double check what I know. But even for finding information in the first place the internet is a bad place to get it.
You do realize that those are at least tested for efficacy and safety, right. Antidepressants were never intended to be a stand alone treatment for depression, they were always intended to be a part of a treatment program. So, ultimately, if they don't turn out to be any more effective than a placebo it isn't that big of a deal, as the therapy is what's supposed to make the difference in the long run.
But with this stuff, it might be dangerous, it might work, it might be safe and perhaps it doesn't work. Not to mention the possible drug interactions and counter indications which the shops don't necessarily know about.
But, I'm sure that Big Pharma is just completely evil in every way and that nobody ever benefits from their products.
The stimulus didn't fail. The economy was in free fall, whereas now it's just stagnant. Had we done another round of stimulus the odds are pretty good that we'd be going in the right direction. But, it's pretty dishonest to say that it didn't work when rather than free fall we're moving in the right direction, albeit slowly.
At any rate, cutting taxes for the wealthy hasn't exactly been working out so well. And we've got more than enough capital right now in the markets. What we don't have is consumer spending because all that money is going to the wealthiest.
We're cutting the current arsenal by about 2/3, I'd say that's pretty significant even if they are mostly obsolete designs. And hell, what sort of moron is going to be opposed to more accurate weapons? Nobody in their right mind says that they want a weapon that's likely to go off target and hit something else. Except for terrorists, I suppose.
This is a variant of not gaining ground with air power. Unless you're interested in ending the world when Russia gets concerned about those nukes flying, this is a complete non-starter.
Ultimately, all you'd do with that is isolate the US whilst everybody buddies up the Russia, the only other MAD capable nuclear arsenal and nukes the crap out of us. Killing civilians is never a popular choice amongst non-participants. Occasionally, you end up having to do it, but it's never a good idea.
NK, doesn't really have any nukes. The nuclear warheads they've got are still so large that they aren't of any actual use. They can't mount them on a missile and they can't fly a plane to the US without getting shot down over an unpopulated area.
And we've already signed and ratified the new START treaty to reduce that number by about two thirds to 1550 nuclear warheads and drastically reduce the number of launchers available.
So, I'm not really sure what exactly you're problem is. You can't just dispose of nukes by detonating them. You have to go through the steps of disassembling them, weapons inspections and dispose of the waste. Even chemical weapons which have been banned for years take time to properly dispose of once they get banned.
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I'll be driving or taking the train to Vancouver, BC the next time I need to fly overseas. I doubt I'm the only one fleeing to Canada just to get on a flight without being sexually assaulted by a bunch of perverts.
Not really, if you're pretty sure what I've said is crap then provide some sort of citation. It's common knowledge that 64-bit code uses more RAM than 32-bit code does. It's one of the inevitable consequences of using 64-bit words. Now, if you need to address more than about 3gb of RAM it might be worthwhile, but for things like web browsers it's a lousy bargain.
Even a cursory look at the wikipedia page for 64-bit covers what I've said and then some.
Itemizing it isn't necessarily the problem, it's the hours it takes to figure out what the various codes mean and it's frequently cheaper to just pay than to take time off work to go through the list with somebody that knows what all those codes mean.
ASBOs are the ones I read about and shake my head. Well, that and the continued war against knife crime. I can only assume that England isn't as dangerous as portrayed by the BBC, but the whole notion that nobody goes around with a knife that isn't up to no good is just bizarre.
That's what Jetpack is about, apparently they just hit the 1.0 release a while back, but I don't know how an end user would gain access to that as the only downloads I see are for SDK. On the plus side it looks like they'll be adding electrolysis support to it as one of the next steps.
My prediction is that this is more about window dressing. There's a lot of people out there that assume that 64-bits are always better than 32-bits and that if I paid for a 64-bit processor I want to run everything possible in 64-bits.
Probably the only reason to ever create a 64-bit processor is for platforms that don't have the 32-bit libraries. But, you add a lot of overhead and for something like a web browser you don't really gain much if anything in terms of performance.
In the long run, I bet this will be abandoned due to it making them look bad when the browser soaks up a lot of extra RAM unnecessarily.
The short answer is that there is no reason to move to 64-bits, and distros that drop the 32-bit libraries by default really shouldn't be doing so. This isn't like the move from 16-bit to 32 bit where most applications would benefit from the extras. In this case you end up using more memory whether or not you get any benefit from it and there's a ton of applications which just don't benefit from the extra bits.
Oddly enough, a browser really should be one of the things that stays at 32bits.
I thought the bigger problem was that people were headed to Mars to avoid Arnold...
Actually, it's easier than that, just send a DVD or two to mars ever year and they'd be good to go. Plus, they can raise rates periodically because you ought to be grateful that they're letting you have all but season 3 of the Dukes of Hazard by stream.
Google doesn't typically leave out results just for the hell of it. It's in Google's interests to have as broad a slice of the web available as possible at any given time. The only sites I've seen outright removed from their searches have been the results of cybercrime or court orders. They haven't been eliminating sites from their results just for the hell of it.
In fact doing so would likely damage the value of their service immensely as people would start looking elsewhere for more complete results.
I think what happened here was probably more innocent than you're making it out to be. They were successfully sued for providing links and caching sites so they removed all the sites from Belgian newspapers to be safe. Which is easily the most reasonable explanation as well as the most likely one.
It could also have to do with the order being messed up, but in either case, I don't see why Google should continue to cache and index those sites if they're at risk of getting sued for it. If the papers don't want to be removed they can probably sign some sort of licensing deal.
That was my thought, BSD gets a bit of a license in that regards because it isn't trying to take over the desktop space. There are a small number of OSes that are related, some are focused on the desktop environment, but they're more focused on polish and actually working reliably from release to release and evolving the experience over time.
Linux OTOH varies enough that I can't really make a particularly fitting statement on that. Some distros are run by people that know what they're doing and focus on fixing things that are broken, others like Ubuntu are clearly run by crack smoking monkeys and you end up with unusable garbage or releases that have nothing in common with previous releases.
But with the dozens of distros and all the talk of being relevant to the majority of users, it's hard not to view it like the short bus kid that thinks he's going to be valedictorian. At the end of the day, most of what's wrong with Linux is the direct result of trying to copy Windows and scoop up the users even if things like automounting were stupid to begin with.
Here's a hint, it's unlikely that you would be on slashdot if not for BSD.
I rarely if ever will spend more than $5 on a game from Steam. The only exceptions have been when the alternative was buying from somebody I hated even more than Valve and didn't have the patience to wait for the price to drop to next to nothing. In practice that's happened like twice.
That's the thing. If they were providing any value for the money it probably would work, but as it is they're taking away value unless you pay them $10.
There's all sorts of services they could provide that would be worth $10 to the consumer without costing them $10 to provide. And yet they go the lazy route and just raise prices on their games. Hardly as brazen as the 60% that Netflix managed, but it's still pretty insulting to suggest that they're entitled to something for nothing.
Precisely, things like anniversaries and birthdays are precisely the sort of thing that you should be delegating to a machine to remember. With the plus side being that you can even set it up to remind you early enough to do something about it.
There's a reason for that. It's a prediction that's made primarily by constructivists. What you refer to as trivia is probably a random fact with no particular connection to anything else you know. The facts you know are probably integrated into other bits of knowledge or other interests you have, meaning that they've got more connections than the random trivia does. The more connections a particular idea has the less easily it is forgotten as the more connections have to be disconnected before the information is gone.
Right which is a common observation of students in any field. You'll find a few people that learn everything they can, but most students just want to know what's on the test. In language classes, most students just want enough of the language to get by. And the result is virtually always inferior to a more thorough learning of the subject, but people being lazy, that's what they want to learn.
He was not suggesting that one shouldn't memorize things, just that certain thins aren't worth memorizing. There's no good reason why anybody should need to memorize the value of Pi, e or other constants when memorizing the presence of that particular constant will suffice. You'll get shit accuracy if you try to memorize it anyways.
In general, the Internet isn't so much affecting memory as the sloth of average individuals is. I've got an astonishing memory in large part because I use it, I've practiced with it and I've developed it. I only use the internet for information I don't know or to double check what I know. But even for finding information in the first place the internet is a bad place to get it.
You do realize that those are at least tested for efficacy and safety, right. Antidepressants were never intended to be a stand alone treatment for depression, they were always intended to be a part of a treatment program. So, ultimately, if they don't turn out to be any more effective than a placebo it isn't that big of a deal, as the therapy is what's supposed to make the difference in the long run.
But with this stuff, it might be dangerous, it might work, it might be safe and perhaps it doesn't work. Not to mention the possible drug interactions and counter indications which the shops don't necessarily know about.
But, I'm sure that Big Pharma is just completely evil in every way and that nobody ever benefits from their products.
The stimulus didn't fail. The economy was in free fall, whereas now it's just stagnant. Had we done another round of stimulus the odds are pretty good that we'd be going in the right direction. But, it's pretty dishonest to say that it didn't work when rather than free fall we're moving in the right direction, albeit slowly.
At any rate, cutting taxes for the wealthy hasn't exactly been working out so well. And we've got more than enough capital right now in the markets. What we don't have is consumer spending because all that money is going to the wealthiest.
We're cutting the current arsenal by about 2/3, I'd say that's pretty significant even if they are mostly obsolete designs. And hell, what sort of moron is going to be opposed to more accurate weapons? Nobody in their right mind says that they want a weapon that's likely to go off target and hit something else. Except for terrorists, I suppose.
This is a variant of not gaining ground with air power. Unless you're interested in ending the world when Russia gets concerned about those nukes flying, this is a complete non-starter.
Ultimately, all you'd do with that is isolate the US whilst everybody buddies up the Russia, the only other MAD capable nuclear arsenal and nukes the crap out of us. Killing civilians is never a popular choice amongst non-participants. Occasionally, you end up having to do it, but it's never a good idea.
NK, doesn't really have any nukes. The nuclear warheads they've got are still so large that they aren't of any actual use. They can't mount them on a missile and they can't fly a plane to the US without getting shot down over an unpopulated area.
And we've already signed and ratified the new START treaty to reduce that number by about two thirds to 1550 nuclear warheads and drastically reduce the number of launchers available.
So, I'm not really sure what exactly you're problem is. You can't just dispose of nukes by detonating them. You have to go through the steps of disassembling them, weapons inspections and dispose of the waste. Even chemical weapons which have been banned for years take time to properly dispose of once they get banned.