I doubt that comes into the picture. Criminals in general don't assume that they're going to be caught, there are exceptions, but most don't think they'll be caught. Especially for cybercrime where they frequently hide out in places where the government can't or won't prosecute them.
That was one of my biggest complaints. I have two monitors one of which is 1900x1200 and Unity was a serious pain on that monitor. Plus because I can't move the bar it ends up in the middle of the set up. Sure I could move my monitors or change which one is the primary display, but I shouldn't have to, I should be able to move the damned bar. The space savings are moot and the interface itself doesn't work well. Windows randomly maximize and windows don't move around the screen smoothly when dragged. Sometimes the bar stays open and other times it randomly closes.
It's clear enough that the developers of Ubuntu don't want me to use their product, so I'm switching to something else. Somebody recommended Mint so I'll probably try that for a while and see if I like it. Ubuntu's been getting worse and worse with every release lately.
You could turn it off with Vista, or at least I think you could. I ran it for a bit with a half gig of RAM and didn't have any trouble doing it. I did turn off Aero, but then again my video card didn't support it anyways.
Because, most people don't load up with 4gigs of ram (or more) just to run the desktop environment. Sure Unity doesn't use anywhere near 4 gigs, but every megabyte that's used by the desktop environment is a megabyte that's not available for whatever it is that you're using the computer for.
But more than that, the sort of sloppy coding practices which lead to bloat also lead to other problems, ones which are of larger importance.
At the end of the day, I know that it's not realistic to eliminate all the bloat, but there shouldn't be huge gobs of RAM being wasted because the developer couldn't be arsed to optimize things.
I use that, however it's really not an adequate replacement as if you don't know what the name of the software you're looking for is, good luck finding it with the search mechanism.
It really depends, but as a general rule, the OS and the environment shouldn't take up very much memory as that's not typically why one buys a computer. As much memory as possible should be available for the applications the person wants to use. A half gig isn't really that much, however if you're into programs that use a lot of memory, that's memory that could be used for your rendering software or VM.
Using more memory isn't automatically a bad thing, but if it's software that you have to run in order to do anything, then it had better be really useful.
That was my thought, I'm not sure where I'm going to be working next, but it's definitely possible that my next job will involve the use of skype on a regular basis. In my personal life I rarely use the phone for actual talking, usually it's checking the email, looking up information or texting, but I do have voice service and use it from time to time.
No, it was a reasonably observation. I don't own any Apple products, never have and likely never will, but you have to recognize that if they haven't finished whatever investigation they need to do, they can easily make things worse by making the wrong recommendation.
Most likely yes, but without knowing to what extent Apple has looked into the issue or what the status with that is, it might be a legitimate policy when they don't have firm answers. Bad information can definitely be worse than no information.
Canada has even more guns than we do, and Mexico, well, let's just say that folks have a hard time keeping their heads down there. So, really, North America is safe, so long as zombies can't figure out how to fly airplanes or operate ships.
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This is indeed a very big deal. Normally it would be relatively ho hum, but there's still a lot of economic trouble in the world and the IMF is involved in trying to solve it. So anything which might adversely affect it's ability to function is legitimate news.
But, I'm not sure that it's really appropriate to this particular topic.
The problem is that there are a lot of people out there that think this is an appropriate use of governmental power, and will be more likely to vote for the politicians who support it. Ultimately, there is no protection available that can protect us from ourselves in a democratic society.
That tends to be how that works. Unfortunately the people voting on those bills have forgotten that they're supposed to be voting in good faith about the legislation, not counting on the courts to overturn unconstitutional legislation. In recent years the courts have taken a disturbingly deferential view on their jobs. Largely because of all the right wing nut jobs screaming their heads off whenever SCOTUS or the judicial branch in general overturns a law that they like.
Which would be comical if it didn't mean that they feel it's OK to challenge healthcare reform, the one that made it through congress and was signed by the President is suddenly a valid use of the judicial system.
The argument works, Windows for a long time wasn't as good as the competition and it was very clear to anybody that had used anything else. The only people who thought that it worked well were individuals who didn't actually have to fix it. I remember times when the CDROM would inexplicably disappear or the monitor resolution could only be changed via a registry tweak which would have to be applied every time the computer loaded. Fixing those sorts of problems shouldn't even be necessary. Consequently, I have to say that it's not really a negotiable point that Windows wasn't working well. Nobody in their right mind would suggest that an OS which does that is working well.
And if you've been paying attention MS implicitly agrees, which is why there's little if any actual code left in Windows from the 9x era and before, the code was just crap and didn't work reliably. Whereas for some other OSes, there's still code going back a lot longer than that, with just fixes and extensions where needed.
When they come up with something that's even more flexible and even more useful, then I'll consider.
Because you're greatly increasing the learning curve and decreasing the actual usefulness when you do it. The previous model lasted so long because the main limitation was ones imagination. With the objects version, all of a sudden you have to know a lot more in order to get started. I've tried to get started with it, and quite frankly, the learning curve is a headache for those that don't know a lot about programming, whereas previously you needed to know very little to get started and could readily tweak the output.
To be honest, I suspect that it is. If the police don't have a warrant, then how exactly is the home owner to know that it's a search rather than burglary. Any police officer can flash a badge, but without a warrant there's no way of knowing the difference between a legitimate action and one that's criminal in nature.
I'm trying to figure out what precisely is wrong with the "everything is a file" philosophy. Seems to me that it's still around here after all these years and still works well, that it's probably doing something right.
That's not generally the case. Footage tends to be retained for a month or some fixed period of time, unless there's a law mandating a longer retention time or their is something particularly interesting about a segment of tape.
The big problem had been that if you retained tape for more than a few months the chances of actually finding anything useful was pretty remote, but with this new technology there's the possibility of rendering much older sections of tape much more useful.
But, in general security doesn't bother to go through old tapes unless there's some reason to do so, it's just not cost effective to look at what's already happened unless you've already determined that the record might be useful. Typically that's if there's been a disturbance or security has had to interact with somebody that's doing something illegal or suspicious and there's some suspicion that the tapes might be subpoenaed.
Of course, for smaller sites, or ones where the owner wants to keep longer records, there's no guarantee that the tapes will be destroyed promptly.
I had a VAIO back when I was still buying Sony products which had a 1600x1200 display, in 16", it was a really nice display. By comparison my large 1920x1200 display is just the same but somewhat wider. And those are starting to get difficult to find, which is a shame because at 1920x1200, you can effectively partition it in half and still have a decent screen size.
Well, Canonical is already in favor of that unpolished turd that is Unity, so, they're not going to be hurt by this particular move. They just haven't yet removed Gnome.
You do realize that some people do use *BSD for a desktop, right? It's stable, flexible, and with the coming of projects like PC-BSD and DesktopBSD, it's more or less trivial to get it running for a user. As trivial as it is to get some of the more consumer oriented Linux distros up and running.
Personally, I'd shed no tears at all if both KDE and Gnome were to disappear, the environments seem to want to install all sorts of things which I may or may not want, and while they are useful for some people, it's annoying to have to install them just for a couple of irreplaceable applications.
To be honest, there really isn't any honest debate about GUI vs CLI that can be had. CLI beats the crap out of GUI on pretty much everything other than learning curve and ease of use. And even that is mostly because of the way that it's typically set up, giving people a set of menu options from which to start would eliminate that bit.
AFAICT, the only folks that claim GUI superiority are ones that haven't ever used a decent CLI. Particularly in the modern era when high res consoles are a reality.
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I doubt that comes into the picture. Criminals in general don't assume that they're going to be caught, there are exceptions, but most don't think they'll be caught. Especially for cybercrime where they frequently hide out in places where the government can't or won't prosecute them.
That was one of my biggest complaints. I have two monitors one of which is 1900x1200 and Unity was a serious pain on that monitor. Plus because I can't move the bar it ends up in the middle of the set up. Sure I could move my monitors or change which one is the primary display, but I shouldn't have to, I should be able to move the damned bar. The space savings are moot and the interface itself doesn't work well. Windows randomly maximize and windows don't move around the screen smoothly when dragged. Sometimes the bar stays open and other times it randomly closes.
It's clear enough that the developers of Ubuntu don't want me to use their product, so I'm switching to something else. Somebody recommended Mint so I'll probably try that for a while and see if I like it. Ubuntu's been getting worse and worse with every release lately.
You could turn it off with Vista, or at least I think you could. I ran it for a bit with a half gig of RAM and didn't have any trouble doing it. I did turn off Aero, but then again my video card didn't support it anyways.
Because, most people don't load up with 4gigs of ram (or more) just to run the desktop environment. Sure Unity doesn't use anywhere near 4 gigs, but every megabyte that's used by the desktop environment is a megabyte that's not available for whatever it is that you're using the computer for.
But more than that, the sort of sloppy coding practices which lead to bloat also lead to other problems, ones which are of larger importance.
At the end of the day, I know that it's not realistic to eliminate all the bloat, but there shouldn't be huge gobs of RAM being wasted because the developer couldn't be arsed to optimize things.
I use that, however it's really not an adequate replacement as if you don't know what the name of the software you're looking for is, good luck finding it with the search mechanism.
It really depends, but as a general rule, the OS and the environment shouldn't take up very much memory as that's not typically why one buys a computer. As much memory as possible should be available for the applications the person wants to use. A half gig isn't really that much, however if you're into programs that use a lot of memory, that's memory that could be used for your rendering software or VM.
Using more memory isn't automatically a bad thing, but if it's software that you have to run in order to do anything, then it had better be really useful.
That was my thought, I'm not sure where I'm going to be working next, but it's definitely possible that my next job will involve the use of skype on a regular basis. In my personal life I rarely use the phone for actual talking, usually it's checking the email, looking up information or texting, but I do have voice service and use it from time to time.
No, it was a reasonably observation. I don't own any Apple products, never have and likely never will, but you have to recognize that if they haven't finished whatever investigation they need to do, they can easily make things worse by making the wrong recommendation.
Most likely yes, but without knowing to what extent Apple has looked into the issue or what the status with that is, it might be a legitimate policy when they don't have firm answers. Bad information can definitely be worse than no information.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. That would be like saying that turning the doorknob on somebody's home qualifies as breaking and entering.
I'm guessing the label covering the "Zombie mutation virus" label fell off on that bottle the DoD had them storing.
Canada has even more guns than we do, and Mexico, well, let's just say that folks have a hard time keeping their heads down there. So, really, North America is safe, so long as zombies can't figure out how to fly airplanes or operate ships.
This is indeed a very big deal. Normally it would be relatively ho hum, but there's still a lot of economic trouble in the world and the IMF is involved in trying to solve it. So anything which might adversely affect it's ability to function is legitimate news.
But, I'm not sure that it's really appropriate to this particular topic.
The problem is that there are a lot of people out there that think this is an appropriate use of governmental power, and will be more likely to vote for the politicians who support it. Ultimately, there is no protection available that can protect us from ourselves in a democratic society.
That tends to be how that works. Unfortunately the people voting on those bills have forgotten that they're supposed to be voting in good faith about the legislation, not counting on the courts to overturn unconstitutional legislation. In recent years the courts have taken a disturbingly deferential view on their jobs. Largely because of all the right wing nut jobs screaming their heads off whenever SCOTUS or the judicial branch in general overturns a law that they like.
Which would be comical if it didn't mean that they feel it's OK to challenge healthcare reform, the one that made it through congress and was signed by the President is suddenly a valid use of the judicial system.
The argument works, Windows for a long time wasn't as good as the competition and it was very clear to anybody that had used anything else. The only people who thought that it worked well were individuals who didn't actually have to fix it. I remember times when the CDROM would inexplicably disappear or the monitor resolution could only be changed via a registry tweak which would have to be applied every time the computer loaded. Fixing those sorts of problems shouldn't even be necessary. Consequently, I have to say that it's not really a negotiable point that Windows wasn't working well. Nobody in their right mind would suggest that an OS which does that is working well.
And if you've been paying attention MS implicitly agrees, which is why there's little if any actual code left in Windows from the 9x era and before, the code was just crap and didn't work reliably. Whereas for some other OSes, there's still code going back a lot longer than that, with just fixes and extensions where needed.
When they come up with something that's even more flexible and even more useful, then I'll consider.
Because you're greatly increasing the learning curve and decreasing the actual usefulness when you do it. The previous model lasted so long because the main limitation was ones imagination. With the objects version, all of a sudden you have to know a lot more in order to get started. I've tried to get started with it, and quite frankly, the learning curve is a headache for those that don't know a lot about programming, whereas previously you needed to know very little to get started and could readily tweak the output.
To be honest, I suspect that it is. If the police don't have a warrant, then how exactly is the home owner to know that it's a search rather than burglary. Any police officer can flash a badge, but without a warrant there's no way of knowing the difference between a legitimate action and one that's criminal in nature.
I'm trying to figure out what precisely is wrong with the "everything is a file" philosophy. Seems to me that it's still around here after all these years and still works well, that it's probably doing something right.
Typically it's because they were dumb enough to sign with Fox.
That's not generally the case. Footage tends to be retained for a month or some fixed period of time, unless there's a law mandating a longer retention time or their is something particularly interesting about a segment of tape.
The big problem had been that if you retained tape for more than a few months the chances of actually finding anything useful was pretty remote, but with this new technology there's the possibility of rendering much older sections of tape much more useful.
But, in general security doesn't bother to go through old tapes unless there's some reason to do so, it's just not cost effective to look at what's already happened unless you've already determined that the record might be useful. Typically that's if there's been a disturbance or security has had to interact with somebody that's doing something illegal or suspicious and there's some suspicion that the tapes might be subpoenaed.
Of course, for smaller sites, or ones where the owner wants to keep longer records, there's no guarantee that the tapes will be destroyed promptly.
Oh, great, now we're all going to have to shave, thanks a lot.
I had a VAIO back when I was still buying Sony products which had a 1600x1200 display, in 16", it was a really nice display. By comparison my large 1920x1200 display is just the same but somewhat wider. And those are starting to get difficult to find, which is a shame because at 1920x1200, you can effectively partition it in half and still have a decent screen size.
Well, Canonical is already in favor of that unpolished turd that is Unity, so, they're not going to be hurt by this particular move. They just haven't yet removed Gnome.
You do realize that some people do use *BSD for a desktop, right? It's stable, flexible, and with the coming of projects like PC-BSD and DesktopBSD, it's more or less trivial to get it running for a user. As trivial as it is to get some of the more consumer oriented Linux distros up and running.
Personally, I'd shed no tears at all if both KDE and Gnome were to disappear, the environments seem to want to install all sorts of things which I may or may not want, and while they are useful for some people, it's annoying to have to install them just for a couple of irreplaceable applications.
To be honest, there really isn't any honest debate about GUI vs CLI that can be had. CLI beats the crap out of GUI on pretty much everything other than learning curve and ease of use. And even that is mostly because of the way that it's typically set up, giving people a set of menu options from which to start would eliminate that bit.
AFAICT, the only folks that claim GUI superiority are ones that haven't ever used a decent CLI. Particularly in the modern era when high res consoles are a reality.