You'll have to explain that to Codeweavers, the Win4BSD people and the other commercial vendors that make software for it. Sure there probably isn't as much stuff aimed at home users as for Linux, Mac or Win, but there is a substantial amount of commercial activity involved. It's odd that some random company would fund a new routing architecture if it's not useful for anything.
Well, with the number of distros out there, it's inevitable that they'd leave out most of them. But I must admit that leaving out every other distro makes it kind of hard to know if Ubuntu is doing better than the pack or about the same.
It's kind of suspect, in my opinion, that the older release was doing so much better than the newer one, considering all the time that's been spent in recent times on optimizing various portions of the source. It's also worth noting that probably a much larger portion of the FreeBSD user base will recompile their kernel pretty much immediately with basic optimizations and removing the cruft that they don't need or want.
I'm sort of curious what the point is of comparing an alpha to a release candidate. Additionally it's a minor update versus a major update. Throwing in an older release makes it all the more pointless as I'm not seeing anywhere in the summary that they disabled debugging.
Generally what has to happen is the original law that institutes the tax has to designate that the tax will got to a specific item only. I'm not sure how it happened specifically, but around here any taxes on gas have to go to roads by law they may not be siphoned off for anything that isn't transportation related.
That's just the thing, taxing soda and things of that nature is just stupid. Alcohol and tobacco make sense as far as things to tax go. They cause huge unwanted consequences beyond the individual who uses them and are poison. Soda, sure it's not healthy, but it's not poisonous.
The goal may be honorable, but the methodology stinks. I'm not obese, and I don't drink a lot of soda, so why on earth should I have to pay a tax on something that's of minimal negative health consequences? It just seems like there might be a better way of going about this which wasn't so paternalistic. At some point we really do have to draw a line as to what's important and what's not important. There's any number of other things that are of similar health risk or marginally better.
OTOH, if it were a relatively small tax that went towards providing everybody with health coverage, I wouldn't necessarily mind that. I just think it's way over the line as far as reasonable public policy goes.
That's bullshit right there, I can understand allowing software that's provided for free without any cost to the end user being free of liability, it seems fair that if you don't charge you shouldn't be financially liable. However, for companies like MS and those that are selling huge numbers of expensive product, there's no reason on earth why MS shouldn't be responsible if Windows has a bug that leads to real damage to the end user. At least around here, you'd still have to prove the damages to collect anything, but it's only fair.
Especially since for software like Windows or Office, the vendor is the only one that can fix the bugs or see the code.
Banking is a similar thing, they make money by you keeping your funds there, they should be liable for much more than a slap on the wrist if they were negligent when they were storing your information. That TD Ameritrade settlement was probably the biggest joke I've seen in a long time. There really should be triple penalties for companies that buy up records then fail to properly secure them.
Perhaps AT&T should spend the time it spends fucking up my voicemail to fix the network. Or god forbid actually invest in infrastructure. Given the ridiculous overpricing that mobile providers commit, one would think that somebody would have money to actually service the equipment and increase bandwidth. I mean they do it other places just fine with less cost per customer.
Indeed, I always used to chuckle at Word's complaints about the essay being 60% passive voice. Word doesn't know anything about that beyond when it's being used. Some writers do use passive language a lot for legitimate reasons, and when one is writing for science one will be using an awful lot of it.
So much of this is completely based upon the context, should one be graded down for using "literally" as a synonym for "virtually?" No, that's perfectly legitimate per the dictionary. And should somebody be graded down because they've chosen to use "can not" rather than "cannot" definitely not. (Well especially since the second one seems to be passing from use)
Have you any idea how arrogant your assumptions and attitude is?
They don't teach grammar in primary school around here, except in an extremely shallow way that only covers a very, very small portion of what it should. Given that people around here are much better educated than they are in most other areas, I'm not sure that what you're suggesting is reality.
Additionally, who cares if some asshole prick won't listen to an argument because they haven't gotten the grammar right. English majors tend to forget that most people think they can go fuck themselves when they issue an unsolicited and unimportant grammar correction. It's a sign of a poor education when one refuses to listen to an argument on the basis of it not being formed in the formal way.
Perhaps you ought to go back to college, get yourself a decent education, then consider whether you really want to make this sort of asinine comment. A paper can be read or it can't or it can be somewhere in the middle, if one can comprehend what's being said, then one has to interpret the points as intended by the writer. It's a sign of a poor education when one can't or won't do that.
No, at least in theory, those rules should've been taught well before college in a progressive way working towards a reasonable command of grammar. As it stands now English 101 has become a place where the teacher ends up cleaning up the mess that the high school didn't bother with.
But, besides that grammar is highly over rated as far as creative writing goes. Yes you need to know it, but no you don't need to have a deep knowledge of it. It is perfectly legitimate to pick words in other ways, and most of the meaning comes from places other than grammar anyways, at least in the case of writers worth reading.
The take home lesson from all of this is that perhaps creative writing isn't meant to be graded in such a fashion. Some things like photography just do not have a definite and fixed value to them.
My eee PC tends to burn 5% of it's battery per hour when it's suspended, and I haven't gotten around to setting it up to hibernate. It's not just the boot time, it's that a lot of what causes the boot times to increase is bloat that is generally problematic for the system.
A large part of the problem is that historically Windows has allowed everything you want to start on boot to start at the same time. Meaning that they're all competing with each other for CPU time, disk access and other resources. Even in Win XP with quite a few items going, if you spread them out over a few minutes from critical to non-critical you can get an actual usable desktop fairly quickly upon boot.
I refuse to buy via Steam. Unless a distributor gives me the right to keep it in perpetuity or sell it, I'm not willing to be locked in. Worse is the ability of Valve to deactivate entire accounts because they feel like it without paying the customer back for basically stealing their money.
It's what they're doing when they're not stopping smugglers from smuggling weapons into Mexico. It seems kind of ridiculous that we're wasting resources on that, when we could slow the tide of illegal immigrants somewhat by stopping the firearms from being smuggled into Mexico.
But then again, the 2nd amendment clearly says that we can't regulate firearms and must allow their use by drug gangs in foreign states.
It's not a claim, firewire was developed specifically for that purpose. It also happens to have other ones, but the main reason for creating it was for digital video cameras.
I was wondering when somebody would point that out. 480mbps is the burst rate, and because of the architecture it has to go through extra steps to go anywhere. Firewire is 400mbps but a pretty consistent 400 and it's a much shorter path to RAM. Which is also one of the reasons why one probably ought to use USB2 anyways. You don't have to be quite as particular about a USB device as it isn't able to directly access RAM.
OTOH, firewire is excellent at investigating truly frozen computers to try and figure out what happened, I'm not sure of any other commonly available technology that can do that.
That really depends who you are and what you're doing. For a home user, what you suggest is pretty fair, however if you're trying to run a proxy or firewall server, you might not want to be so casual about blobs.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the Ribbon isn't that much different than the standard menu, it just presents the same hierarchy in a different way. A better solution would be to do it more or less the way that Apple does and have some sort of sane standard that people use. The only thing unintuitive about the menu is that you don't know where a particular developer felt something belonged.
If they really want to improve the interface, I'm sure there's better things to work on.
OK, then how do you explain the Google data liberation efforts? Seems like a lot of effort to fix IE if one can take ones files back whenever one chooses to.
And where exactly are they going to go? There's a reason why MS and so many other tech firms are located in the greater Seattle area. You've got relatively easy access to a highly educated populace, some of the cheapest electricity in the country and convenient access to ports for shipping your products out.
Yes, but MS has to pay its taxes the way that other businesses do. And that's the point, other businesses pay the tax and their employees pay sales tax as well.
And if you're seriously suggesting that a sales tax is better than an income tax of similar income, then you really need an economics lesson, badly.
Don't mind him, he's just from the small government crowd. Obviously, we should just remove all regulation and let the markets decide who lives and who dies.
Really, that's funny because who is it that implements software that the manufacturer didn't think of or didn't want to spend time on? It's kind of an odd statement to make, because having a thriving enthusiast community is something which sells an awful lot of units. People tend to be pretty jaded about certain things like marketing, having enthusiasts to make the recommendations and help out new owners is a pretty significant resource to have.
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You'll have to explain that to Codeweavers, the Win4BSD people and the other commercial vendors that make software for it. Sure there probably isn't as much stuff aimed at home users as for Linux, Mac or Win, but there is a substantial amount of commercial activity involved. It's odd that some random company would fund a new routing architecture if it's not useful for anything.
Well, with the number of distros out there, it's inevitable that they'd leave out most of them. But I must admit that leaving out every other distro makes it kind of hard to know if Ubuntu is doing better than the pack or about the same.
It's kind of suspect, in my opinion, that the older release was doing so much better than the newer one, considering all the time that's been spent in recent times on optimizing various portions of the source. It's also worth noting that probably a much larger portion of the FreeBSD user base will recompile their kernel pretty much immediately with basic optimizations and removing the cruft that they don't need or want.
I'm sort of curious what the point is of comparing an alpha to a release candidate. Additionally it's a minor update versus a major update. Throwing in an older release makes it all the more pointless as I'm not seeing anywhere in the summary that they disabled debugging.
Generally what has to happen is the original law that institutes the tax has to designate that the tax will got to a specific item only. I'm not sure how it happened specifically, but around here any taxes on gas have to go to roads by law they may not be siphoned off for anything that isn't transportation related.
That's just the thing, taxing soda and things of that nature is just stupid. Alcohol and tobacco make sense as far as things to tax go. They cause huge unwanted consequences beyond the individual who uses them and are poison. Soda, sure it's not healthy, but it's not poisonous.
The goal may be honorable, but the methodology stinks. I'm not obese, and I don't drink a lot of soda, so why on earth should I have to pay a tax on something that's of minimal negative health consequences? It just seems like there might be a better way of going about this which wasn't so paternalistic. At some point we really do have to draw a line as to what's important and what's not important. There's any number of other things that are of similar health risk or marginally better.
OTOH, if it were a relatively small tax that went towards providing everybody with health coverage, I wouldn't necessarily mind that. I just think it's way over the line as far as reasonable public policy goes.
That's bullshit right there, I can understand allowing software that's provided for free without any cost to the end user being free of liability, it seems fair that if you don't charge you shouldn't be financially liable. However, for companies like MS and those that are selling huge numbers of expensive product, there's no reason on earth why MS shouldn't be responsible if Windows has a bug that leads to real damage to the end user. At least around here, you'd still have to prove the damages to collect anything, but it's only fair.
Especially since for software like Windows or Office, the vendor is the only one that can fix the bugs or see the code.
Banking is a similar thing, they make money by you keeping your funds there, they should be liable for much more than a slap on the wrist if they were negligent when they were storing your information. That TD Ameritrade settlement was probably the biggest joke I've seen in a long time. There really should be triple penalties for companies that buy up records then fail to properly secure them.
You know, Kelsey Grammer is only one man. You can't expect him to go out and fix all the worlds English language issues, now can you?
Perhaps AT&T should spend the time it spends fucking up my voicemail to fix the network. Or god forbid actually invest in infrastructure. Given the ridiculous overpricing that mobile providers commit, one would think that somebody would have money to actually service the equipment and increase bandwidth. I mean they do it other places just fine with less cost per customer.
Indeed, I always used to chuckle at Word's complaints about the essay being 60% passive voice. Word doesn't know anything about that beyond when it's being used. Some writers do use passive language a lot for legitimate reasons, and when one is writing for science one will be using an awful lot of it.
So much of this is completely based upon the context, should one be graded down for using "literally" as a synonym for "virtually?" No, that's perfectly legitimate per the dictionary. And should somebody be graded down because they've chosen to use "can not" rather than "cannot" definitely not. (Well especially since the second one seems to be passing from use)
Have you any idea how arrogant your assumptions and attitude is?
They don't teach grammar in primary school around here, except in an extremely shallow way that only covers a very, very small portion of what it should. Given that people around here are much better educated than they are in most other areas, I'm not sure that what you're suggesting is reality.
Additionally, who cares if some asshole prick won't listen to an argument because they haven't gotten the grammar right. English majors tend to forget that most people think they can go fuck themselves when they issue an unsolicited and unimportant grammar correction. It's a sign of a poor education when one refuses to listen to an argument on the basis of it not being formed in the formal way.
Perhaps you ought to go back to college, get yourself a decent education, then consider whether you really want to make this sort of asinine comment. A paper can be read or it can't or it can be somewhere in the middle, if one can comprehend what's being said, then one has to interpret the points as intended by the writer. It's a sign of a poor education when one can't or won't do that.
No, at least in theory, those rules should've been taught well before college in a progressive way working towards a reasonable command of grammar. As it stands now English 101 has become a place where the teacher ends up cleaning up the mess that the high school didn't bother with.
But, besides that grammar is highly over rated as far as creative writing goes. Yes you need to know it, but no you don't need to have a deep knowledge of it. It is perfectly legitimate to pick words in other ways, and most of the meaning comes from places other than grammar anyways, at least in the case of writers worth reading.
The take home lesson from all of this is that perhaps creative writing isn't meant to be graded in such a fashion. Some things like photography just do not have a definite and fixed value to them.
My eee PC tends to burn 5% of it's battery per hour when it's suspended, and I haven't gotten around to setting it up to hibernate. It's not just the boot time, it's that a lot of what causes the boot times to increase is bloat that is generally problematic for the system.
A large part of the problem is that historically Windows has allowed everything you want to start on boot to start at the same time. Meaning that they're all competing with each other for CPU time, disk access and other resources. Even in Win XP with quite a few items going, if you spread them out over a few minutes from critical to non-critical you can get an actual usable desktop fairly quickly upon boot.
I refuse to buy via Steam. Unless a distributor gives me the right to keep it in perpetuity or sell it, I'm not willing to be locked in. Worse is the ability of Valve to deactivate entire accounts because they feel like it without paying the customer back for basically stealing their money.
It's what they're doing when they're not stopping smugglers from smuggling weapons into Mexico. It seems kind of ridiculous that we're wasting resources on that, when we could slow the tide of illegal immigrants somewhat by stopping the firearms from being smuggled into Mexico.
But then again, the 2nd amendment clearly says that we can't regulate firearms and must allow their use by drug gangs in foreign states.
It's not a claim, firewire was developed specifically for that purpose. It also happens to have other ones, but the main reason for creating it was for digital video cameras.
I was wondering when somebody would point that out. 480mbps is the burst rate, and because of the architecture it has to go through extra steps to go anywhere. Firewire is 400mbps but a pretty consistent 400 and it's a much shorter path to RAM. Which is also one of the reasons why one probably ought to use USB2 anyways. You don't have to be quite as particular about a USB device as it isn't able to directly access RAM.
OTOH, firewire is excellent at investigating truly frozen computers to try and figure out what happened, I'm not sure of any other commonly available technology that can do that.
That really depends who you are and what you're doing. For a home user, what you suggest is pretty fair, however if you're trying to run a proxy or firewall server, you might not want to be so casual about blobs.
And for those that use netbooks or other small screened devices Meerkat does a much better job of recovering wasted space.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the Ribbon isn't that much different than the standard menu, it just presents the same hierarchy in a different way. A better solution would be to do it more or less the way that Apple does and have some sort of sane standard that people use. The only thing unintuitive about the menu is that you don't know where a particular developer felt something belonged.
If they really want to improve the interface, I'm sure there's better things to work on.
OK, then how do you explain the Google data liberation efforts? Seems like a lot of effort to fix IE if one can take ones files back whenever one chooses to.
And where exactly are they going to go? There's a reason why MS and so many other tech firms are located in the greater Seattle area. You've got relatively easy access to a highly educated populace, some of the cheapest electricity in the country and convenient access to ports for shipping your products out.
Yes, but MS has to pay its taxes the way that other businesses do. And that's the point, other businesses pay the tax and their employees pay sales tax as well.
And if you're seriously suggesting that a sales tax is better than an income tax of similar income, then you really need an economics lesson, badly.
Don't mind him, he's just from the small government crowd. Obviously, we should just remove all regulation and let the markets decide who lives and who dies.
Really, that's funny because who is it that implements software that the manufacturer didn't think of or didn't want to spend time on? It's kind of an odd statement to make, because having a thriving enthusiast community is something which sells an awful lot of units. People tend to be pretty jaded about certain things like marketing, having enthusiasts to make the recommendations and help out new owners is a pretty significant resource to have.