Windows 95 only had cooperative multitasking as well. You had to upgrade to Windows NT 3.x to get preemptive multitasking. (and then downgrade to NT 4.0 which was a big step backwards.) The 95/98/me series was just a bunch of stuff piled on top of old DOS- not really an OS at all, just a wad of runtime stuff running on top of DOS.
the glibc libraries that link the code are becoming more and more bloated as the developers have more ram. The same application compiled today would take many times more ram than it would be with old libc gcc 2.95.
More and more cooks' thumbs in the kettle. Which was supposed to be a good thing. Unfortunately everybody needs to leave their mark.
If they are all just going to continue on to grad school why not just get a bunch of NeXT cubes. No other system was ever more divorced from the real world out there. Don't pick Mac. There are real world business uses for a Mac.
Yes. I have NetBSD installed on an SE/30. It has a 300-something by 200-something one bit screen running X11. It's still sort of cool though the resolution and bit-depth has it' limits.
on a power-generation to output-of-bad-stuff comparison...
That's also an irrelevant comparison.
What is needed is an end-to-end 'power delivery to the wheels' comparison. Because it doesn't matter how efficiently power is generated at a big plant somewhere. It has to be delivered to a location for the vehicle to be charged at. The vehicle has to be charged. Then and only then is the power delivered to the motor to propel the vehicle.
Also, the relative efficiency measure has to include the waste power consumed to produce the batteries, the power distribution grid, etc.
But I'm not afraid that you will have an answer regarding all of this. The new car is shiney stuff. The old car is dull and worse yet, those dummies in the garage know how to service them. Not cool at all.
It's all about centralizing control. "We have the means to improve lives for all people. We have assumed control, and will (eventually, maybe) act in your interest."
Kuhn's book is awesome. More people should have a better understanding of the 'Philosophy of Science.' Kuhn presents one viewpoint, obviously, but it's an important topic to explore.
I saw a copy of Kuhn's book recently on a book table at an authentic white-trash flea market here in flyover land. I am talking about a velvet-painting-of-elvis type of flea market. It looked so out of place. I didn't buy it as I have my copy.
It's because the kind of ignorant vacuous people who walk around talking on their cell phone in public have ignorant vacuous conversations. Which the rest of us are annoyed to be exposed to.
There was a ditz like that at my last job. She'd walk around the hallways and into the breakroom having her 'daily crisis' with her husband or son on the phone.
Actually, no. Islam comes down hardest on former believers who have renounced Islam. That makes them Apostates, and subject to an immediate death penalty.
You're just a poor unenlightened fool who they would say there is still a chance at saving.
I had a thought last night regarding religion and science (I've got a lot of Christian fuck-ups in my family too...). "Science is not against Religion; however, Religion tends to be firmly against Science."
It's good that you understand all of Religion well enough to explain it to us so succinctly. I guess we can shut down all the schools of theology, monasteries, and the philosophers who study religion can find new pursuits.
Today's not my best day for arguing against religion, sorry, I'll leave it here.
If you are seriously injured or fall gravely ill, you will not be able to "pay cash directly to the doctor", that's the whole point of insurance.
Then THAT is ALL that insurance should cover. It shouldn't cover routine care, the program shouldn't try to take over the entire Health Care System. All ordinary expenses should be paid out-of-pocket or through elective insurance programs.
It's sort of a moot point, because the program as written is Unconstitutional, and like the crap that FDR tried to cram through, it'll be declared as such*. Same as with FDR, the current Junta can't stack the Supreme Court fast enough to get their way.
(*government can not require us to buy insurance simply because we are alive.)
Up until your last sentence there you were making sense.
You were making the point that most people don't feel like government should stick it's nose in every aspect of our lives.
Then, for some reason, you slapped on the last sentence, describing a mythical stick figure 'Conservative' that seems to have been foisted off on you by someone. Run, don't walk, away from whoever you've been relying on to tell you what conservatives are like. Then grow up, go out, and meet a few. You won't catch cooties from most of them.
The tea party movement started as a campaign to mail tea bags to congress.
Now you're just being silly. The Tea Party movement was NOT started by Lipton to encourage people to buy and use up more tea bags. The Tea Party movement was started so people with certain political ideas could gather together and make their opinions known. Same as for any other political movement.
Your bit about Fox News, like they are the secret undercarriage of a 'Teabagger Movement' is just ridiculous.
I would never say that everyone who attends tea party rallies was racist, but there's some ugly stuff percolating in the movement.
The same could be said about any 'movement.' Those black panther dudes in the paramilitary outfits hefting clubs at the entry to the polling place. Clearly they were working on the behalf of Obama's being elected. Are they part of 'the movement' and should their actions be allowed to discredit every person who advocated Obama's election?
The funny thing is, I use gmail for my email, but I download it from their POP server.
And I almost never, ever, log into Google using my browser, and generally log out as soon after as possible.
So they might be reading my email, but when you use POP it doesn't add any advertising to email message you download. And they can't spam my browser view with anything connected to my email.
listservs are really good. You obviously can't be anonymous, and you have to subscribe. Or read the archives which means you probably can't respond or directly contact any of the participants. But they're still very useful for specific-topic type discussions.
I subscribe to a few. gEDA-user, netbsd-vax, and the softrock list at the moment.
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Windows 95 only had cooperative multitasking as well. You had to upgrade to Windows NT 3.x to get preemptive multitasking. (and then downgrade to NT 4.0 which was a big step backwards.)
The 95/98/me series was just a bunch of stuff piled on top of old DOS- not really an OS at all, just a wad of runtime stuff running on top of DOS.
Do a base install of NetBSD. Snip back services by editing /etc/rc.conf. Then install the limited packages that you need.
It galls me how much crap gets dragged in without the user having any choice in most linux-based OSes. It's gotten so even Slackware is a big mess.
the glibc libraries that link the code are becoming more and more bloated as the developers have more ram. The same application compiled today would take many times more ram than it would be with old libc gcc 2.95.
More and more cooks' thumbs in the kettle. Which was supposed to be a good thing. Unfortunately everybody needs to leave their mark.
If they are all just going to continue on to grad school why not just get a bunch of NeXT cubes. No other system was ever more divorced from the real world out there. Don't pick Mac. There are real world business uses for a Mac.
Yes. I have NetBSD installed on an SE/30. It has a 300-something by 200-something one bit screen running X11. It's still sort of cool though the resolution and bit-depth has it' limits.
Let me rearrange some of what you posted:
on a power-generation to output-of-bad-stuff comparison...
That's also an irrelevant comparison.
What is needed is an end-to-end 'power delivery to the wheels' comparison. Because it doesn't matter how efficiently power is generated at a big plant somewhere. It has to be delivered to a location for the vehicle to be charged at. The vehicle has to be charged. Then and only then is the power delivered to the motor to propel the vehicle.
Also, the relative efficiency measure has to include the waste power consumed to produce the batteries, the power distribution grid, etc.
But I'm not afraid that you will have an answer regarding all of this. The new car is shiney stuff. The old car is dull and worse yet, those dummies in the garage know how to service them. Not cool at all.
You missed where they said 'monitor/control.'
It's all about centralizing control. "We have the means to improve lives for all people. We have assumed control, and will (eventually, maybe) act in your interest."
Never mind the $12,000 replacement battery they will require, or the $900 'disposal fee' charged to get rid of the old battery.
Kuhn's book is awesome. More people should have a better understanding of the 'Philosophy of Science.' Kuhn presents one viewpoint, obviously, but it's an important topic to explore.
I saw a copy of Kuhn's book recently on a book table at an authentic white-trash flea market here in flyover land. I am talking about a velvet-painting-of-elvis type of flea market. It looked so out of place. I didn't buy it as I have my copy.
It's because the kind of ignorant vacuous people who walk around talking on their cell phone in public have ignorant vacuous conversations. Which the rest of us are annoyed to be exposed to.
There was a ditz like that at my last job. She'd walk around the hallways and into the breakroom having her 'daily crisis' with her husband or son on the phone.
That happened right in the UK. You don't have to go off in any distance to find it.
Actually, no. Islam comes down hardest on former believers who have renounced Islam. That makes them Apostates, and subject to an immediate death penalty.
You're just a poor unenlightened fool who they would say there is still a chance at saving.
I had a thought last night regarding religion and science (I've got a lot of Christian fuck-ups in my family too...). "Science is not against Religion; however, Religion tends to be firmly against Science."
It's good that you understand all of Religion well enough to explain it to us so succinctly. I guess we can shut down all the schools of theology, monasteries, and the philosophers who study religion can find new pursuits.
Today's not my best day for arguing against religion, sorry, I'll leave it here.
Whoops. Never mind.
If you are seriously injured or fall gravely ill, you will not be able to "pay cash directly to the doctor", that's the whole point of insurance.
Then THAT is ALL that insurance should cover. It shouldn't cover routine care, the program shouldn't try to take over the entire Health Care System. All ordinary expenses should be paid out-of-pocket or through elective insurance programs.
It's sort of a moot point, because the program as written is Unconstitutional, and like the crap that FDR tried to cram through, it'll be declared as such*. Same as with FDR, the current Junta can't stack the Supreme Court fast enough to get their way.
(*government can not require us to buy insurance simply because we are alive.)
You capitalized it properly. Because for 'Open Minded Liberals' the term is a proper noun.
Rush is an entertainer. Like Jon Stewart. Or like Al Franken. We're not supposed to take anything they say completely seriously.
(Except for some reason they've let Franken put on big-boy pants now.)
Up until your last sentence there you were making sense.
You were making the point that most people don't feel like government should stick it's nose in every aspect of our lives.
Then, for some reason, you slapped on the last sentence, describing a mythical stick figure 'Conservative' that seems to have been foisted off on you by someone. Run, don't walk, away from whoever you've been relying on to tell you what conservatives are like. Then grow up, go out, and meet a few. You won't catch cooties from most of them.
The tea party movement started as a campaign to mail tea bags to congress.
Now you're just being silly. The Tea Party movement was NOT started by Lipton to encourage people to buy and use up more tea bags. The Tea Party movement was started so people with certain political ideas could gather together and make their opinions known. Same as for any other political movement.
Your bit about Fox News, like they are the secret undercarriage of a 'Teabagger Movement' is just ridiculous.
I would never say that everyone who attends tea party rallies was racist, but there's some ugly stuff percolating in the movement.
The same could be said about any 'movement.' Those black panther dudes in the paramilitary outfits hefting clubs at the entry to the polling place. Clearly they were working on the behalf of Obama's being elected. Are they part of 'the movement' and should their actions be allowed to discredit every person who advocated Obama's election?
The funny thing is, I use gmail for my email, but I download it from their POP server.
And I almost never, ever, log into Google using my browser, and generally log out as soon after as possible.
So they might be reading my email, but when you use POP it doesn't add any advertising to email message you download. And they can't spam my browser view with anything connected to my email.
Advertisements were anathema on usenet. Usenet culture was and is diametrically opposed to advertising. It's an oil/water thing.
Hmm. Maybe that's why Google killed it. They're nothing but slick advertisers when you get right down to it.
listservs are really good. You obviously can't be anonymous, and you have to subscribe. Or read the archives which means you probably can't respond or directly contact any of the participants. But they're still very useful for specific-topic type discussions.
I subscribe to a few. gEDA-user, netbsd-vax, and the softrock list at the moment.
It's a teeter-totter. If the people came back to usenet, the spammers would, too.
A trial took place in California as well. He was found guilty. He skipped out to avoid sentencing.
If you don't have a fence you can yell "Get off my lawn!!!" at me, but you cannot arrest me for trespassing.
No, you do not need to have a fence to enforce trespassing rules on your property.