Umm, that's pretty much been settled. At least to the point where it's agreed upon by virtually all scientists that we have to do something drastic.
The ability to find a nutter that's willing to say it's completely ant farts doesn't make ant farts a credible hypothesis to act upon.
Mars isn't the earth, and it's unlikely that any processes there would bear more than a slight resemblance to our plantet's.
The reality here is that like it or not, we have to assume that global warming is mainly due to our effects. Further delay is not an option. If we are wrong, and it isn't us, then we're screwed either way. It's far easier to ramp down green measures later than to fix the error you're pushing.
The sooner things are dealt with the less costly and easier it is to repair the damage.
The Jeffersonian Democracy is defined by the ability of the three branches of government to over rule each other. And that is why it is called balanced. There is no myth there at all, there is nothing that one branch can do that one or both of the other branches can undo.
Umm, sure they do. The Legislature writes the legislation, can pass it with the 60% and at that point, the President has had precisely 0 to do with it.
Not going to happen often with the kind of fractious political parties we've got, but they definitely can do it.
And besides that the President doesn't get to introduce legislation without somebody in the congress sponsoring it. If they don't want to sponsor it, it doesn't even get to committee.
It's worse than that, due to the proviso that channels may change on their own at any time after Feb 17th, we now have a situation where nobody really knows when the switch is going to happen.
The same people that were still not aware that it was going to happen this month, are going to be caught even more off guard when channels switch over in a random fashion.
I cannot imagine how this is good news for anybody.
That's definitely not going to work. It's highly unlikely that anything with fewer electrons than Li is going to be capable of doing that sort of sorcery. Doing it with Boron is kind of neat.
And on top of that it's unlikely that an odd number of atoms is going to work without the atoms having an even number of electrons.
Of course it's been a long time since I took chemistry so I might be wrong.
That's possible, but my parents computer has 3 cores, and the next one that I'm going to have will probably have at least 4. Meaning that unless the multithreadiness of programs improves drastically that I'd probably not even be able to fill up all of the cores at once on that version.
Seems more of an antitrust MS tax than anything else. I can't imagine why somebody would really want that beyond feeling they have to have Windows.
Kind of a dumb question, but what about 64-bit drivers? 64-bit is definitely the way of the future and it'd be silly to go 32-bit now. I know that you can run a 32-bit version on amd64 and presumably the intel equivalents, but that's kind of wasteful.
I suppose that would be a bit like when win95 came out saying that the dos 7.x that was bundled with it wasn't going to cause people any trouble.
I don't get it, so the OS only runs your programs one day a week? That's a huge improvement over some of their old OSes, Win 95 and Win ME, I'm looking at you.
Try setting up either of those on FreeBSD, I don't believe that they are available and I don't think anybody's managed to hack something that makes them.
The other options might could be better, but if they're not available on your chosen platform that makes them worthless.
It's not necessarily about VMWare being better, it's about having another option, right now pretty much the only options I've seen have been Qemu and it's derivatives. And even having 2 options is immeasurably better than just one, even if both are ultimately free.
Because RPMs suck. RPMs were unbelievably poorly thought. You go with FreeBSD's ports, or Gentoos Portage or Debian's apt-get, and they actually work pretty reliably. Try using RPMs, and you end up with a huge number of headaches trying to get it to track dependencies and pull them in without you specifically asking it to install each and every one.
But that's mainly a problem with the way that Linux is put together not the distros. The Linux kernel last time I checked was something like 30mb. Admittedly that was years ago, but when you've got a kernel that bloated it's going to be difficult to have it also work on a smart phone.
That aside, you can fix most of that stuff by creating things in layers. Base system, CLI, X, GUI, Software suite. Probably 90+% of what people really have preferences over is at the GUI level, and probably 95% is X and up. The rest of it is stuff that most people agree on more stability, reliability and speed.
As for package management, if there's reasonable default chosen, there's really no reason why there can't be a dozen different interface choices. A well designed API and set up should accommodate that.
You can have an incredible amount of diversity between X, GUI and Package management without having the incompatible patches and drivers.
Nope, American English being the most prevalent form of English in existence is the closest thing we have to "real" English. Americans, for better or for worse. make up roughly half of all native speakers and are by far the largest chunk of native speakers in the world.
Either that or we should just tell the Brits to fuck off and just accept that it's American. Either solution is fine by me. The language argument is more about how they refuse to admit that they lost the revolutionary war than anything real. Hearing them now claim to have given back all of their colonies is pretty pathetic.
I'm so tempted to ask if it runs Linux, but I won't.
I love dosbox for that very reason. Being able to run some oldish programs like Commander Keen or Willy Beamish on a much newer computer is really nice.
The main reason why they can't do it is that if they sold the bonds, they'd have to deal with the likelihood of the people rioting in the streets. The money that the Chinese government invests in the US is invested here so that they don't have to pay it to their workers.
As such it allows them to keep the value of their currency weak and the cost of doing business low. If they were to call their loans, their currency would strengthen, and not just with respect to the US, it would strengthen across the board, making it much more difficult to keep people employed.
But ultimately, it probably would end as MAD, it would be good for the US manufacturing sector had we not allowed one party to dismantle it so completely.
You mean, except for the part where the party doing the infringement is now China rather than a two bit pirate. It's not any different, it just happens to be a bribe. Pay up for protection, or perhaps we'll use the bootlegs to undermine your business.
China has a large military, but they run it like the Communists in Russia did. Sure there's a huge number of people in their military, but I'd wager just about anything that it'd end up going down like Russia versus Germany. With huge losses on both sides, but with the larger military losing far more personnel during most of the campaign. It wasn't until winter and the cold that the Russians were able to keep up.
Communal weapons aren't effective during military campaigns, either you have the weapons or you don't. And I'd be skeptical as to whether or not the Chinese have the other components to succeed.
They definitely wouldn't put forth a brilliant strategic campaign. The Chinese have many, many virtues, but creativity isn't one of them. Creativity doesn't really go down well in a country that focused on harmony and stability.
You mean: many people everywhere is guilty of violating them, esp. in countries where the cost of software is a much greater proportion of income than in developed countries.
So then it's OK for the developed world to subsidize software that people don't really need in the first place?
The Chinese government currency manipulates to take American jobs, invest in the US to avoid paying it's workers a decent wage, and somehow they're entitled to free ride on my purchases.
I'm sorry, I'm not really seeing the justification. I could sort of understand if it were something like medicine or the means to grow food, but this is a set of items that for the most part can be replaced and are definitely not vital to life.
And for non-China countries, there's still that last paragraph. I'm not sure what the point of pirating software is when there are more pressing things to do, and software programs for free that do just fine.
Well, there's two issues there. One is that Vendors haven't cared a lot about getting it right, and two that the BIOS itself as a specification is pretty limited.
Replacing the BIOS with EFI or something more up to date and extensible could potentially solve the second problem.
But, ultimately vendors are lazy and tend not to bother doing it right. More often than not they just use a stock BIOS which is itself buggy. Really it's probably the BIOS manufacturers that ought to be taken to task for screwing it up.
Hmm, I'll bite. So, it's perfectly fine if I have to pick up the slack for people that are smoking pot and as a result not as sharp as they ought to be? I'm sorry, but I'm failing to see how it is that it's not any of my business.
Whether you care to admit it or not, pot smoking does adversely affect people's ability to get work accomplished in a reasonable way. Yes it's not as bad as what is generally depicted in the media, but it is a cost to those that don't toke up all the same.
The absolute best case scenario is that pot screws up sleep and memory in the short term. Yes those problems do tend to go away more or less completely within a couple of weeks, but that's still a couple of weeks where one isn't fully functioning. Assuming that somebody stops using at that point.
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Umm, that's pretty much been settled. At least to the point where it's agreed upon by virtually all scientists that we have to do something drastic.
The ability to find a nutter that's willing to say it's completely ant farts doesn't make ant farts a credible hypothesis to act upon.
Mars isn't the earth, and it's unlikely that any processes there would bear more than a slight resemblance to our plantet's.
The reality here is that like it or not, we have to assume that global warming is mainly due to our effects. Further delay is not an option. If we are wrong, and it isn't us, then we're screwed either way. It's far easier to ramp down green measures later than to fix the error you're pushing.
The sooner things are dealt with the less costly and easier it is to repair the damage.
Citation necessary.
The Jeffersonian Democracy is defined by the ability of the three branches of government to over rule each other. And that is why it is called balanced. There is no myth there at all, there is nothing that one branch can do that one or both of the other branches can undo.
Umm, sure they do. The Legislature writes the legislation, can pass it with the 60% and at that point, the President has had precisely 0 to do with it.
Not going to happen often with the kind of fractious political parties we've got, but they definitely can do it.
And besides that the President doesn't get to introduce legislation without somebody in the congress sponsoring it. If they don't want to sponsor it, it doesn't even get to committee.
I lost my squiggly porn you insensitive clod! Now what am I supposed to oggle hoping that the pictures really are indecent?
It's worse than that, due to the proviso that channels may change on their own at any time after Feb 17th, we now have a situation where nobody really knows when the switch is going to happen.
The same people that were still not aware that it was going to happen this month, are going to be caught even more off guard when channels switch over in a random fashion.
I cannot imagine how this is good news for anybody.
Or haxxor Cowboy Neil to make it possible to get karma from funny.
I know that you're joking but...
That's definitely not going to work. It's highly unlikely that anything with fewer electrons than Li is going to be capable of doing that sort of sorcery. Doing it with Boron is kind of neat.
And on top of that it's unlikely that an odd number of atoms is going to work without the atoms having an even number of electrons.
Of course it's been a long time since I took chemistry so I might be wrong.
That's possible, but my parents computer has 3 cores, and the next one that I'm going to have will probably have at least 4. Meaning that unless the multithreadiness of programs improves drastically that I'd probably not even be able to fill up all of the cores at once on that version.
Seems more of an antitrust MS tax than anything else. I can't imagine why somebody would really want that beyond feeling they have to have Windows.
Kind of a dumb question, but what about 64-bit drivers? 64-bit is definitely the way of the future and it'd be silly to go 32-bit now. I know that you can run a 32-bit version on amd64 and presumably the intel equivalents, but that's kind of wasteful.
I suppose that would be a bit like when win95 came out saying that the dos 7.x that was bundled with it wasn't going to cause people any trouble.
I don't get it, so the OS only runs your programs one day a week? That's a huge improvement over some of their old OSes, Win 95 and Win ME, I'm looking at you.
Try setting up either of those on FreeBSD, I don't believe that they are available and I don't think anybody's managed to hack something that makes them.
The other options might could be better, but if they're not available on your chosen platform that makes them worthless.
It's not necessarily about VMWare being better, it's about having another option, right now pretty much the only options I've seen have been Qemu and it's derivatives. And even having 2 options is immeasurably better than just one, even if both are ultimately free.
The Zune store?
Whoooosh, haven't you read the rest of this subthread?
Also, we won that campaign, IIRC.
Because RPMs suck. RPMs were unbelievably poorly thought. You go with FreeBSD's ports, or Gentoos Portage or Debian's apt-get, and they actually work pretty reliably. Try using RPMs, and you end up with a huge number of headaches trying to get it to track dependencies and pull them in without you specifically asking it to install each and every one.
But that's mainly a problem with the way that Linux is put together not the distros. The Linux kernel last time I checked was something like 30mb. Admittedly that was years ago, but when you've got a kernel that bloated it's going to be difficult to have it also work on a smart phone.
That aside, you can fix most of that stuff by creating things in layers. Base system, CLI, X, GUI, Software suite. Probably 90+% of what people really have preferences over is at the GUI level, and probably 95% is X and up. The rest of it is stuff that most people agree on more stability, reliability and speed.
As for package management, if there's reasonable default chosen, there's really no reason why there can't be a dozen different interface choices. A well designed API and set up should accommodate that.
You can have an incredible amount of diversity between X, GUI and Package management without having the incompatible patches and drivers.
Wow, have we really gotten to the point where we're this thin skinned? Perhaps somebody needs their mod points revoked.
Nope, American English being the most prevalent form of English in existence is the closest thing we have to "real" English. Americans, for better or for worse. make up roughly half of all native speakers and are by far the largest chunk of native speakers in the world.
Either that or we should just tell the Brits to fuck off and just accept that it's American. Either solution is fine by me. The language argument is more about how they refuse to admit that they lost the revolutionary war than anything real. Hearing them now claim to have given back all of their colonies is pretty pathetic.
I'm so tempted to ask if it runs Linux, but I won't.
I love dosbox for that very reason. Being able to run some oldish programs like Commander Keen or Willy Beamish on a much newer computer is really nice.
The main reason why they can't do it is that if they sold the bonds, they'd have to deal with the likelihood of the people rioting in the streets. The money that the Chinese government invests in the US is invested here so that they don't have to pay it to their workers.
As such it allows them to keep the value of their currency weak and the cost of doing business low. If they were to call their loans, their currency would strengthen, and not just with respect to the US, it would strengthen across the board, making it much more difficult to keep people employed.
But ultimately, it probably would end as MAD, it would be good for the US manufacturing sector had we not allowed one party to dismantle it so completely.
You mean, except for the part where the party doing the infringement is now China rather than a two bit pirate. It's not any different, it just happens to be a bribe. Pay up for protection, or perhaps we'll use the bootlegs to undermine your business.
China has a large military, but they run it like the Communists in Russia did. Sure there's a huge number of people in their military, but I'd wager just about anything that it'd end up going down like Russia versus Germany. With huge losses on both sides, but with the larger military losing far more personnel during most of the campaign. It wasn't until winter and the cold that the Russians were able to keep up.
Communal weapons aren't effective during military campaigns, either you have the weapons or you don't. And I'd be skeptical as to whether or not the Chinese have the other components to succeed.
They definitely wouldn't put forth a brilliant strategic campaign. The Chinese have many, many virtues, but creativity isn't one of them. Creativity doesn't really go down well in a country that focused on harmony and stability.
You mean: many people everywhere is guilty of violating them, esp. in countries where the cost of software is a much greater proportion of income than in developed countries.
So then it's OK for the developed world to subsidize software that people don't really need in the first place?
The Chinese government currency manipulates to take American jobs, invest in the US to avoid paying it's workers a decent wage, and somehow they're entitled to free ride on my purchases.
I'm sorry, I'm not really seeing the justification. I could sort of understand if it were something like medicine or the means to grow food, but this is a set of items that for the most part can be replaced and are definitely not vital to life.
And for non-China countries, there's still that last paragraph. I'm not sure what the point of pirating software is when there are more pressing things to do, and software programs for free that do just fine.
Hmm, perhaps like this guy does.
Well, there's two issues there. One is that Vendors haven't cared a lot about getting it right, and two that the BIOS itself as a specification is pretty limited.
Replacing the BIOS with EFI or something more up to date and extensible could potentially solve the second problem.
But, ultimately vendors are lazy and tend not to bother doing it right. More often than not they just use a stock BIOS which is itself buggy. Really it's probably the BIOS manufacturers that ought to be taken to task for screwing it up.
Hmm, I'll bite. So, it's perfectly fine if I have to pick up the slack for people that are smoking pot and as a result not as sharp as they ought to be? I'm sorry, but I'm failing to see how it is that it's not any of my business.
Whether you care to admit it or not, pot smoking does adversely affect people's ability to get work accomplished in a reasonable way. Yes it's not as bad as what is generally depicted in the media, but it is a cost to those that don't toke up all the same.
The absolute best case scenario is that pot screws up sleep and memory in the short term. Yes those problems do tend to go away more or less completely within a couple of weeks, but that's still a couple of weeks where one isn't fully functioning. Assuming that somebody stops using at that point.