Why wouldn't it? The desktop in front of me has a dual core 64bit processor from AMD from last year, it has a significant number of features added to it to boost efficiency which were not available to the early pentiums, let alone the 486 which the compilers are supposed to allow to run by default. If you're suggesting that removing the older compatibility and using the newer features, I think you need to go back and ask Intel and AMD why they wasted the money developing them in the first place.
Not to mention, the ability to remove cruft that didn't really belong in there to begin with. And the tendency for the package sites to be using older packages. Fundamentally, it's a hard argument to buy that compiling ones own software for ones own personal preference isn't going to run more efficiently than a generic needs to run on many different boxes package.
Umm, I must be missing something. FreeBSD has been able to run Linux binaries for well over a decade. And this was a FreeBSD release, some developers work on both, but it's a different set of priorities and interests.
Not to mention that unlike the second example where the obvious answer is that.deb is better, the other ones are more a matter of philosophy for most people than pragmatism. A sort of choice between having an actual OS or a Kernel plus whatever packages were available to cobble together an OS with. I'm sure there's a reason why people would want the latter, but it makes it a pain in the ass to make stable, fast and reliable. Or to figure out what's gone wrong when it's an application specific mess in the userland.
Linux of late has been becoming a bit too much like Windows in terms of installing components you may or may not ever want or need.
That's a sort of byproduct of the way the last stages of a release go. It isn't put up as a final release until the build is done and it's been distributed to the ftp sites and they've been given a bit of time to prepare.
Which means that the source as well as the ports tree for that release have been hanging out on one server or another for a bit.
So, you purposely voted for the candidate that insulted American values by trotting out a wholly unqualified and dangerously incompetent woman so that he could pretend to be progressive? I'm sorry, but if the candidate for VP can't even say what the VP does, that should be a pretty damning indictment of the Presidential candidates judgment and competence.
The President is the President, but there's a huge number of people pressuring congress to do things that aren't wise. The same idiots that thought that these policies were a good idea in the general populace are still there. And they're still fighting tooth and nail against any effort to make the country a better place, even against their own self interest. Sure that doesn't make it OK, but it's overly simplistic to assume that the people that were putting pressure on candidates to keep up these unwise policies have suddenly gone into hiding.
That's a specious argument to make. Life imprisonment has already been shown to do just that, with or without the death penalty. The third strike tends to be much more violent than the previous two offenses.
Really what that's an argument for is bringing some degree of sanity to the whole process. Which can't really happen since a substantial portion of the populace defines the death penalty as the punishment for murder then says that somebody has been let off the hook if they don't get the death penalty, merely 80 years in prison.
Why shouldn't they? If the manufacturer doesn't offer the opportunity to get a full refund on the OS, when you reject the EULA, then you're not subject to the terms of the license. Which is bad for MS and presumably the manufacturer. The full refund is what you get for not accepting the licensing agreement on the OS which puts you in more or less the same position you would be had you not been forced to by Windows.
Failing to give a full and complete refund for the license is almost assuredly a violation of antitrust law.
Spoken like somebody with a large amount of money. Around here you don't really have that kind of luxury, rent alone here is far more than a mortgage is in many parts of the country.
In some parts of the country you don't get much of a choice. It's very hard around here to get an affordable rental and buying something is usually not affordable. Trust me if the other option is being homeless, they may as well hold a gun to a loved one, because you'll pay the money whether you want to or not. People around here that make minimum wage can pretty much count on rent taking up half or more of their paycheck, niceties like chemical free living aren't necessarily realistic.
As opposed to conservatives that bomb the crap out of oil producing nations, destabilize the middle east by refusing to stand up the the Israelis while overthrowing the country that was keeping Iran in check. At least on the liberal side of things there's some genuine effort going on to minimize the amount of the materials being used, which is far more than can be said for the group that's holding up drastic cuts on oil and other resource waste.
Remind me why that's bad. Flash sucks, period. Sliverlight has it's own issues, but at least it's something that isn't Flash or shockwave. Macromedia and now Adobe have had their chance, completely screwed it up, now it's time for somebody else to try.
No, a similar argument couldn't be made. I have a right to free speech however I do not have the right to libel anybody I wish. I have the right to swing my fist, but it stops at somebody else's nose.
Fox News has a right to free speech, but they don't have the right to force people on the air so that they can engage in their style of sleazy news reporting.
And it's not really the same at all, not even close, Fox News doesn't further the discourse in this country. Whereas people really do need to have broadband to properly participate in the nation. It's difficult enough to keep up with the affairs of state when things are continuously being moved over to the internet if you don't have a decent connection. Especially resources which are bandwidth intensive. This should be something that we've done in the US, as soon as government services started to migrate online.
That's largely the point. The "good enough" mark is largely dependent upon the complexity of the music more than just about anything. Some very simple music might sound very good at only 128kbps, whereas more complex music might demand to have the entire 192kbps.
I thought the conclusion going back quite a while was that 192kbps was good enough for pretty much anybody and that anymore than that was really just for specialty use.
I take it you haven't noticed the 6 decade wait for a 64bit version of flash or the countless security bugs that resulted from somebody not thinking things through in an analytical manner before actually writing the code.
Sure there's going to be bugs and exploits, and it can take a long time to port code, but a lot of it is self inflicted because of changes to the objectives or a failure to ensure that the code was properly engineered, commented and audited.
Properly formatted and written code should be relatively easy to maintain or at least not a total nightmare.
It does when they then demand that you go over and replace their video card with one that isn't so blurry or demand that you get the monitor cleaned.
OTOH, allowing them to use their cup holder is known to create more time for a Sysadmin as that's less time that they have to load things from the CDROM.
No, they wouldn't. Apple's main strategy for most of the last decade was to be somewhat less evil than MS and somewhat more efficient than Win XP. They haven't had to compete on actual merit in quite some time.
Maybe an incompetent marketing specialist. The whole idea that there's no such thing as bad publicity clearly hasn't worked for companies like Sony, Apple or any of the other companies that have gotten bitten by it. Exploding batteries and root kits tend to drive people away from a product. It's an axiom that people throw around without any actual knowledge of this stuff. Were it actually true you wouldn't find companies changing their name to avoid a history of bad publicity.
Which is shocking, I mean why wouldn't a person want a free leg wound with their purchase.
For the same reason that we typically lead the world in BDSM. There's a lot of us that think that we're all evil and in need of a good old fashioned spanking. And a lot of us that are complete morons.
We've been bad so no universal health care for us, don't deserve consumer protection laws or laws to protect us in general from corporate malfeasance. And how dare anybody suggest that they deserve better than a Federal reserve that causes bubbles and solves it by giving tax payer dollars to private institutions.
This is the next best thing to the work going to the public domain. All us "pirates" that refuse to pay for music that goes to fund lawsuits against music lovers could theoretically then go and buy music from the Eagles without having to line the pocket books of a RIAA affiliated label.
I don't personally have a problem with them continuing to have copyright protection, but really the moment the last of them is dead, it should go to the public pretty soon after.
The word you're looking for is "complement." As to the rest of this, the materials are created as work for hire which means that they shouldn't be sold in this fashion.
As for pay, teachers make more than is often times acknowledged, sure it's not enough for the time actually worked, but the income is higher than it is for the general populace. And they certainly make more than I do for less work. http://www.worldsalaries.org/usa.shtml
To some extent, however people of a similar genetic make up are much more likely to be alike than people often times realize. A couple of people with similar looks and similar levels of intellect are likely to run into a lot of similar things and hence develop along a similar track. Sure it's tied down to chance and with enough people it's bound to happen, but a surprising amount of personality is a byproduct of perceiving various things in a particular manner.
Things as subtle as taste buds, eye color and ability to process auditory information make a substantial contribution to the formation of an identity.
I'm sure that happens, that's the whole reason why we have that stupid Tanker deal being punted about. It was always more about Boeing's bottom line than needing to upgrade the fleet.
That being said, creating initiatives that are just to spend money is bad policy. Spending money on longshots isn't necessarily bad neither is spending money on long term goals. The ISS/Space shuttle despite all the opinions to the contrary has been very productive. There's a lot of technology that gets designed for that which spills over in to more practical day to day life. Battery technology being a good example, but also technologies that rely upon crystals have gotten a boost from the research.
Not really, people people get outraged over having to pay extra taxes. And without the extra taxes you wind up in the paradox of efficiency, where there's no net gain. As energy gets cheaper, people drive more and development tends to get spread out more. Which leads in nearly all cases to the efficiencies being overshadowed by greater use.
Seattle has the some of the greatest fuel efficiency in the US largely because it resides in a part of the country with a high gas tax. We've got the same vehicles available to us that are in most parts of the country, but because of the gas taxes we tend to consider more carefully whether we drive and how far and what we drive.
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You're not trying hard enough. Isn't virtualbox available for both OSes?
Why wouldn't it? The desktop in front of me has a dual core 64bit processor from AMD from last year, it has a significant number of features added to it to boost efficiency which were not available to the early pentiums, let alone the 486 which the compilers are supposed to allow to run by default. If you're suggesting that removing the older compatibility and using the newer features, I think you need to go back and ask Intel and AMD why they wasted the money developing them in the first place.
Not to mention, the ability to remove cruft that didn't really belong in there to begin with. And the tendency for the package sites to be using older packages. Fundamentally, it's a hard argument to buy that compiling ones own software for ones own personal preference isn't going to run more efficiently than a generic needs to run on many different boxes package.
Umm, I must be missing something. FreeBSD has been able to run Linux binaries for well over a decade. And this was a FreeBSD release, some developers work on both, but it's a different set of priorities and interests.
.deb is better, the other ones are more a matter of philosophy for most people than pragmatism. A sort of choice between having an actual OS or a Kernel plus whatever packages were available to cobble together an OS with. I'm sure there's a reason why people would want the latter, but it makes it a pain in the ass to make stable, fast and reliable. Or to figure out what's gone wrong when it's an application specific mess in the userland.
Not to mention that unlike the second example where the obvious answer is that
Linux of late has been becoming a bit too much like Windows in terms of installing components you may or may not ever want or need.
That's a sort of byproduct of the way the last stages of a release go. It isn't put up as a final release until the build is done and it's been distributed to the ftp sites and they've been given a bit of time to prepare.
Which means that the source as well as the ports tree for that release have been hanging out on one server or another for a bit.
So, you purposely voted for the candidate that insulted American values by trotting out a wholly unqualified and dangerously incompetent woman so that he could pretend to be progressive? I'm sorry, but if the candidate for VP can't even say what the VP does, that should be a pretty damning indictment of the Presidential candidates judgment and competence.
The President is the President, but there's a huge number of people pressuring congress to do things that aren't wise. The same idiots that thought that these policies were a good idea in the general populace are still there. And they're still fighting tooth and nail against any effort to make the country a better place, even against their own self interest. Sure that doesn't make it OK, but it's overly simplistic to assume that the people that were putting pressure on candidates to keep up these unwise policies have suddenly gone into hiding.
That's a specious argument to make. Life imprisonment has already been shown to do just that, with or without the death penalty. The third strike tends to be much more violent than the previous two offenses.
Really what that's an argument for is bringing some degree of sanity to the whole process. Which can't really happen since a substantial portion of the populace defines the death penalty as the punishment for murder then says that somebody has been let off the hook if they don't get the death penalty, merely 80 years in prison.
Then you don't tell anybody about the porn that the disk was choking to death on?
Why shouldn't they? If the manufacturer doesn't offer the opportunity to get a full refund on the OS, when you reject the EULA, then you're not subject to the terms of the license. Which is bad for MS and presumably the manufacturer. The full refund is what you get for not accepting the licensing agreement on the OS which puts you in more or less the same position you would be had you not been forced to by Windows.
Failing to give a full and complete refund for the license is almost assuredly a violation of antitrust law.
Spoken like somebody with a large amount of money. Around here you don't really have that kind of luxury, rent alone here is far more than a mortgage is in many parts of the country.
In some parts of the country you don't get much of a choice. It's very hard around here to get an affordable rental and buying something is usually not affordable. Trust me if the other option is being homeless, they may as well hold a gun to a loved one, because you'll pay the money whether you want to or not. People around here that make minimum wage can pretty much count on rent taking up half or more of their paycheck, niceties like chemical free living aren't necessarily realistic.
As opposed to conservatives that bomb the crap out of oil producing nations, destabilize the middle east by refusing to stand up the the Israelis while overthrowing the country that was keeping Iran in check. At least on the liberal side of things there's some genuine effort going on to minimize the amount of the materials being used, which is far more than can be said for the group that's holding up drastic cuts on oil and other resource waste.
Remind me why that's bad. Flash sucks, period. Sliverlight has it's own issues, but at least it's something that isn't Flash or shockwave. Macromedia and now Adobe have had their chance, completely screwed it up, now it's time for somebody else to try.
No, a similar argument couldn't be made. I have a right to free speech however I do not have the right to libel anybody I wish. I have the right to swing my fist, but it stops at somebody else's nose.
Fox News has a right to free speech, but they don't have the right to force people on the air so that they can engage in their style of sleazy news reporting.
And it's not really the same at all, not even close, Fox News doesn't further the discourse in this country. Whereas people really do need to have broadband to properly participate in the nation. It's difficult enough to keep up with the affairs of state when things are continuously being moved over to the internet if you don't have a decent connection. Especially resources which are bandwidth intensive. This should be something that we've done in the US, as soon as government services started to migrate online.
That's largely the point. The "good enough" mark is largely dependent upon the complexity of the music more than just about anything. Some very simple music might sound very good at only 128kbps, whereas more complex music might demand to have the entire 192kbps.
I thought the conclusion going back quite a while was that 192kbps was good enough for pretty much anybody and that anymore than that was really just for specialty use.
I take it you haven't noticed the 6 decade wait for a 64bit version of flash or the countless security bugs that resulted from somebody not thinking things through in an analytical manner before actually writing the code.
Sure there's going to be bugs and exploits, and it can take a long time to port code, but a lot of it is self inflicted because of changes to the objectives or a failure to ensure that the code was properly engineered, commented and audited.
Properly formatted and written code should be relatively easy to maintain or at least not a total nightmare.
It does when they then demand that you go over and replace their video card with one that isn't so blurry or demand that you get the monitor cleaned.
OTOH, allowing them to use their cup holder is known to create more time for a Sysadmin as that's less time that they have to load things from the CDROM.
No, they wouldn't. Apple's main strategy for most of the last decade was to be somewhat less evil than MS and somewhat more efficient than Win XP. They haven't had to compete on actual merit in quite some time.
Maybe an incompetent marketing specialist. The whole idea that there's no such thing as bad publicity clearly hasn't worked for companies like Sony, Apple or any of the other companies that have gotten bitten by it. Exploding batteries and root kits tend to drive people away from a product. It's an axiom that people throw around without any actual knowledge of this stuff. Were it actually true you wouldn't find companies changing their name to avoid a history of bad publicity.
Which is shocking, I mean why wouldn't a person want a free leg wound with their purchase.
For the same reason that we typically lead the world in BDSM. There's a lot of us that think that we're all evil and in need of a good old fashioned spanking. And a lot of us that are complete morons.
We've been bad so no universal health care for us, don't deserve consumer protection laws or laws to protect us in general from corporate malfeasance. And how dare anybody suggest that they deserve better than a Federal reserve that causes bubbles and solves it by giving tax payer dollars to private institutions.
This is the next best thing to the work going to the public domain. All us "pirates" that refuse to pay for music that goes to fund lawsuits against music lovers could theoretically then go and buy music from the Eagles without having to line the pocket books of a RIAA affiliated label.
I don't personally have a problem with them continuing to have copyright protection, but really the moment the last of them is dead, it should go to the public pretty soon after.
The word you're looking for is "complement." As to the rest of this, the materials are created as work for hire which means that they shouldn't be sold in this fashion.
As for pay, teachers make more than is often times acknowledged, sure it's not enough for the time actually worked, but the income is higher than it is for the general populace. And they certainly make more than I do for less work. http://www.worldsalaries.org/usa.shtml
To some extent, however people of a similar genetic make up are much more likely to be alike than people often times realize. A couple of people with similar looks and similar levels of intellect are likely to run into a lot of similar things and hence develop along a similar track. Sure it's tied down to chance and with enough people it's bound to happen, but a surprising amount of personality is a byproduct of perceiving various things in a particular manner.
Things as subtle as taste buds, eye color and ability to process auditory information make a substantial contribution to the formation of an identity.
I'm sure that happens, that's the whole reason why we have that stupid Tanker deal being punted about. It was always more about Boeing's bottom line than needing to upgrade the fleet.
That being said, creating initiatives that are just to spend money is bad policy. Spending money on longshots isn't necessarily bad neither is spending money on long term goals. The ISS/Space shuttle despite all the opinions to the contrary has been very productive. There's a lot of technology that gets designed for that which spills over in to more practical day to day life. Battery technology being a good example, but also technologies that rely upon crystals have gotten a boost from the research.
Not really, people people get outraged over having to pay extra taxes. And without the extra taxes you wind up in the paradox of efficiency, where there's no net gain. As energy gets cheaper, people drive more and development tends to get spread out more. Which leads in nearly all cases to the efficiencies being overshadowed by greater use.
Seattle has the some of the greatest fuel efficiency in the US largely because it resides in a part of the country with a high gas tax. We've got the same vehicles available to us that are in most parts of the country, but because of the gas taxes we tend to consider more carefully whether we drive and how far and what we drive.