In Haiti right now, there are thousands of people stranded without access to food or shelter. Their only lifeline is the money that we Westerners send. Without this aid, they would surely perish in unspeakable squalor.
We care deeply now, but at some point we will declare that enough is enough and pull funding. Then they will need to walk on their own. Pull support too early and they will suffer a major crash. Pull support too slowly and they will grow dependent upon us.
Google may do a lot of things right, but not pulling the plug on Mozilla/Firefox earlier is something they handled extremely poorly. If a project can only exist with the charitable funding of a major company, then its existence is going to always be tenuous at best.
Pretend for a moment that every not-completely-stupid attempt at terrorism against the US had succeeded. The shoe and underpants bombers succeed. The USS Cole sinks.
The number of Americans killed in terrorist attacks would go from roughly 3000 to roughly 10,000 (being generous to Al Qaida and the Bush administration). You'd still be looking at a fraction of the number of deaths that you see annually for car accidents.
Obama spends some of his time watching basketball games. Bush spent a lot of his time clearing brush from his Crawford ranch. Clinton was a workaholic, but even he was able to squeeze in a blowjob while he used the phone.
You don't need to spend all your energy focusing on one thing all the time. In fact, there are many important things to focus and act upon simultaneously.
So yes, car safety is important. Is that what you wanted to hear? But god help me if I'm going to spend every waking minute trying to make my car safer when I have other things I need to do.
Yeah, why don't you pass me some of that global warming Kool-aid while you're at it. After all, if we're going to start ignoring things we can't see, we might as well start with greenhouse gases.
I'm sorry I'm not tough enough to hang with an ITG like yourself. Being wary of danger isn't common sense, it's "cowering" now. Ever since Bush's second term I've had trouble keeping up with the changing doublespeak vocabulary.
When I went to buy a printer the other day I was confronted with a dizzying array of choices. Do I want a laser printer or inkjet? Do I want one that supports Linux or is Windows-only OK? What is the cost of maintenance after purchase?
Then I remembered I don't have a personal PC to connect it to.
So too, in this case, I have to wonder what the benefit of having "civil liberties" is if the end result is being killed by a terrorist attack. Being alive is a prerequisite to enjoying civil liberties, so being dead means being unable to enjoy them. We should be preserving life now, as the most important first step, and we can focus on preserving our civil liberties later since we'll still be alive to fight for them.
Look at the bigger picture. There are hundreds of thousands upon millions of smartphone users out there who want applications for their phones.
Who is next to set up a viable store? Microsoft? Google? A carrier?
Piracy is a minor problem. Monetizing users is the major problem. Can you interest users into buying your phone? What sales model can you use to get them to part with their money?
Who cares about Apple? They are just another player.
When I was a kid, we'd take a trip every summer down the Mississippi to visit my auntie in her antebellum house. She'd always play a trick on me that even today I play on my kids and their friends.
Pull my finger.
It seems like yesterday that I was installing Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) on all the computers in my house. Nowadays, these newfangled operating systems update themselves with their service packs and hotfixes and whatnot.
I'll tell you, just like pulling my finger, pulling the trigger on Windows 7 is something that everyone wants to do. Unfortunately for them, the outcome is the same.
By requiring you to have the disc, they make it difficult for most people to use the system without proper authorization.
Will it hinder most Slashbots? No. But it isn't meant to stop hardcore copyright infringers. It's meant to stop the average guy from sharing his copy of Netflix with everyone in the neighborhood.
I hate to break it to you, but there is a large (albeit a minority) evangelical contingent here on Slashdot. We don't troll, and we try to stay away from controversy as much as possible, but we are here in the midst of you. If anyone can be saved by our good witness, then our participation in this site's conversation is a good thing.
I'm looking forward to a day when China throws off its totalitarian shackles and embraces freedom. Unfortunately, as Solzhenitsyn frequently wrote and Hayek wrote in The Road to Serfdom, there can be no freedom within such a political system.
Lemons are an interesting fruit. They are incredibly sour to the point of being inedible as-is, this makes it evolutionarily disadvantaged since more tasty fruits would seemingly have an advantage. However, here we are with literally millions of lemon trees. What can we do with these sour fruits? Lemonade!
So when life hands you cadmium, make Ni-Cad batteries!
Maybe the problem is in your presentation. Even here, you tell programmers that you want to kill them for not understanding a topic that even you are unwilling to acknowledge mastery of. Then you tell us how hard the topic is to understand, even though you've spent so much time trying to learn it.
Is it any wonder that no one takes your suggestions seriously? You are practically sabotaging yourself with self-effacement.
These aren't homework problems you're tackling here. They are business problems and you need to sell yourself and your ideas if you want to get any traction. Do you have any evidence that your methods are better than the SOP thus far? Do you have any case studies that show how effective statistic analysis is in *any* of your projects?
Or are you simply taking something that seems like a data point and extrapolating it to cover a vast swath of applications?
Lots of people thought that the German National Socialist party was going to be able to turn the German economy around, restore Germany's relevance in the world, and ultimately defeat the countries that put them in that situation at the Treaty of Versailles.
I am amazed at the resilience of the game industry in this time of massive unemployment and layoffs.
In hard times when most of the economy is tanking, there are some products which see a heyday. Bologna, for example, seems a dramatic rise in sales during economic slowdowns. Now too, I think it might be possible to say that the game industry is a contra indicator of economic success. Not only does it hold that game sales goes up during downturns, but that the people who play them are more likely to be affected negatively by the economic environment.
It'd be an interesting phenomenon to research, I think.
There is no reason FF couldn't use separate threads to handle the threading of separate tabs. As it is, if any tab locks up, then the whole set of tabs gets stuck. Whether you use a process to separate each tab or you simulate it with threads, the difference is merely architectural.
The shared memory and object resources is the bottleneck with threads, but there is no reason why a single process couldn't render separate tabs completely separately.
Multithreading still relies on a single point of failure - the shared memory space.
By doing what Chrome did, and breaking each tab instance into its own process, any single tab can crash/hang without affecting any other page.
I know when I load an MPG video that it sometimes hangs the browser, and I can't do anything (close/minimize/switch away) while the media player is being loaded. This sometimes causes me stress.
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Rocks are the precursor to water.
By that logic we should probably have sent food instead of soldiers to Iraq.
Couldn't have been less effective than invading...
Does the old saying "gimme liberty or gimme death" tell you something?
Yes, that hyperbole is nothing new, especially among youths involved in radical organizations.
In Haiti right now, there are thousands of people stranded without access to food or shelter. Their only lifeline is the money that we Westerners send. Without this aid, they would surely perish in unspeakable squalor.
We care deeply now, but at some point we will declare that enough is enough and pull funding. Then they will need to walk on their own. Pull support too early and they will suffer a major crash. Pull support too slowly and they will grow dependent upon us.
Google may do a lot of things right, but not pulling the plug on Mozilla/Firefox earlier is something they handled extremely poorly. If a project can only exist with the charitable funding of a major company, then its existence is going to always be tenuous at best.
That's just what that Dutch bastard wants you to think.
I'm going to guess Danish or Dutch.
Pretend for a moment that every not-completely-stupid attempt at terrorism against the US had succeeded. The shoe and underpants bombers succeed. The USS Cole sinks.
The number of Americans killed in terrorist attacks would go from roughly 3000 to roughly 10,000 (being generous to Al Qaida and the Bush administration). You'd still be looking at a fraction of the number of deaths that you see annually for car accidents.
So what?
Obama spends some of his time watching basketball games. Bush spent a lot of his time clearing brush from his Crawford ranch. Clinton was a workaholic, but even he was able to squeeze in a blowjob while he used the phone.
You don't need to spend all your energy focusing on one thing all the time. In fact, there are many important things to focus and act upon simultaneously.
So yes, car safety is important. Is that what you wanted to hear? But god help me if I'm going to spend every waking minute trying to make my car safer when I have other things I need to do.
Yeah, why don't you pass me some of that global warming Kool-aid while you're at it. After all, if we're going to start ignoring things we can't see, we might as well start with greenhouse gases.
I'm sorry I'm not tough enough to hang with an ITG like yourself. Being wary of danger isn't common sense, it's "cowering" now. Ever since Bush's second term I've had trouble keeping up with the changing doublespeak vocabulary.
Unless you are trying to show how effective the counter-terrorism operations have been, it's unclear exactly what your numbers are meant to show.
There are billions of mosquitos in the world. Only a small fraction of them are killed by humans. Therefore we shouldn't kill them?
Your logic is astounding.
Ben Franklin said: those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.
Voltaire said, "A witty saying proves nothing"
Most successful revolutions have had a large chunk of the army on their side as well.
And most unsuccessful revolutions have been crushed by the army. Funny how that works out.
When I went to buy a printer the other day I was confronted with a dizzying array of choices. Do I want a laser printer or inkjet? Do I want one that supports Linux or is Windows-only OK? What is the cost of maintenance after purchase?
Then I remembered I don't have a personal PC to connect it to.
So too, in this case, I have to wonder what the benefit of having "civil liberties" is if the end result is being killed by a terrorist attack. Being alive is a prerequisite to enjoying civil liberties, so being dead means being unable to enjoy them. We should be preserving life now, as the most important first step, and we can focus on preserving our civil liberties later since we'll still be alive to fight for them.
Look at the bigger picture. There are hundreds of thousands upon millions of smartphone users out there who want applications for their phones.
Who is next to set up a viable store? Microsoft? Google? A carrier?
Piracy is a minor problem. Monetizing users is the major problem. Can you interest users into buying your phone? What sales model can you use to get them to part with their money?
Who cares about Apple? They are just another player.
When I was a kid, we'd take a trip every summer down the Mississippi to visit my auntie in her antebellum house. She'd always play a trick on me that even today I play on my kids and their friends.
Pull my finger.
It seems like yesterday that I was installing Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) on all the computers in my house. Nowadays, these newfangled operating systems update themselves with their service packs and hotfixes and whatnot.
I'll tell you, just like pulling my finger, pulling the trigger on Windows 7 is something that everyone wants to do. Unfortunately for them, the outcome is the same.
It stinks.
By requiring you to have the disc, they make it difficult for most people to use the system without proper authorization.
Will it hinder most Slashbots? No. But it isn't meant to stop hardcore copyright infringers. It's meant to stop the average guy from sharing his copy of Netflix with everyone in the neighborhood.
I hate to break it to you, but there is a large (albeit a minority) evangelical contingent here on Slashdot. We don't troll, and we try to stay away from controversy as much as possible, but we are here in the midst of you. If anyone can be saved by our good witness, then our participation in this site's conversation is a good thing.
I'm looking forward to a day when China throws off its totalitarian shackles and embraces freedom. Unfortunately, as Solzhenitsyn frequently wrote and Hayek wrote in The Road to Serfdom, there can be no freedom within such a political system.
Lemons are an interesting fruit. They are incredibly sour to the point of being inedible as-is, this makes it evolutionarily disadvantaged since more tasty fruits would seemingly have an advantage. However, here we are with literally millions of lemon trees. What can we do with these sour fruits? Lemonade!
So when life hands you cadmium, make Ni-Cad batteries!
Maybe the problem is in your presentation. Even here, you tell programmers that you want to kill them for not understanding a topic that even you are unwilling to acknowledge mastery of. Then you tell us how hard the topic is to understand, even though you've spent so much time trying to learn it.
Is it any wonder that no one takes your suggestions seriously? You are practically sabotaging yourself with self-effacement.
These aren't homework problems you're tackling here. They are business problems and you need to sell yourself and your ideas if you want to get any traction. Do you have any evidence that your methods are better than the SOP thus far? Do you have any case studies that show how effective statistic analysis is in *any* of your projects?
Or are you simply taking something that seems like a data point and extrapolating it to cover a vast swath of applications?
I think she was one of the new X-men.
Lots of people thought that the German National Socialist party was going to be able to turn the German economy around, restore Germany's relevance in the world, and ultimately defeat the countries that put them in that situation at the Treaty of Versailles.
Look, not every horse can place.
Surely they could have included a picture of the offending cups...
I am amazed at the resilience of the game industry in this time of massive unemployment and layoffs.
In hard times when most of the economy is tanking, there are some products which see a heyday. Bologna, for example, seems a dramatic rise in sales during economic slowdowns. Now too, I think it might be possible to say that the game industry is a contra indicator of economic success. Not only does it hold that game sales goes up during downturns, but that the people who play them are more likely to be affected negatively by the economic environment.
It'd be an interesting phenomenon to research, I think.
Fast enough for ya?
There is no reason FF couldn't use separate threads to handle the threading of separate tabs. As it is, if any tab locks up, then the whole set of tabs gets stuck. Whether you use a process to separate each tab or you simulate it with threads, the difference is merely architectural.
The shared memory and object resources is the bottleneck with threads, but there is no reason why a single process couldn't render separate tabs completely separately.
Multithreading still relies on a single point of failure - the shared memory space.
By doing what Chrome did, and breaking each tab instance into its own process, any single tab can crash/hang without affecting any other page.
I know when I load an MPG video that it sometimes hangs the browser, and I can't do anything (close/minimize/switch away) while the media player is being loaded. This sometimes causes me stress.