in gentoo, there is also a prefetch script which will prefetch any files which would be required for bootup. haven't actually tried it myself yet since I only boot up about once ~5-6 months for kernel updates.
inherent nature of a bureacracy. Beuracrats care about one thing: continued garantee of their (usually) parasitic position. The way to ensure this is a continual increase in your own power, continued decrease in oversight, etc.. Democracies by their very nature encourage bureacracies since nobody pays attention to how a politician cut down so many bureacratic money wasters. Thus we end up such governments.
uh The fuel in any transport class airplane (ie. carrying a lot of stuff/people) is kept in the wings. Even if the bomb was stuck right up as close as possible, it wouldn't get to the wing or do enough damage to bring down the plane.
I am typically not a fan of ODF (aaarrrgh why XML everywhere. What happened to the so much better SGML but back to the topic at hand...) ODF is just a style specification. providing modified DTDs for it would not be that hard and ammending the standard to account for those DTDs would not be very duifficult either (if a decent job were done to prevent massive breakage that is). It should be noted that ODF is not the magical file format for everything (heck, XML isn't suited to 90% of the things people use it for today for that matter). One good reason for using a custom format for keynote could be speed (XML parsers are not very fast). For example, PDFs are optimized for very fast reading. They do this by tossing th address of the start of the object reference list at the very end of the file. The structures are also designed to be fast to parse. Using ODF would definately be a bad idea because of the speed hit that would ensue (and to those who think PDFs are slow, they are not. Acrobat reader is extremely slow but not PDFs in general).
I personally think that half of the openoffice devs should go to lyx and work on perfecting it while the other half go to tex4ht so that I can make odt files out of latex sources and who ever has a problem with this can go and develop a super format conversion kit to convert any document format to any other document format. Now... bring on the aplause.
If you buy it at a shop you could ask a clerk to wipe the disk or ask them to watch as you wiped it yourself. If you ordered it, take a vid. of you opening the box and wiping the harddrive. lots of ways to do it though none of them are convenient but they are there.
>No difference between Linux and Windows? Just wait until they use their shell scripts, customizations, and self-written software with Windows.
Not like that microsoft is providing a free C++ compiler, free C# compiler, free documentations which put to shame any docs in the "free software market", scripting possibilities or customizations, free IDE ( with the visual express ) etc etc.
free C++ compiler:gcc
free C# compiler: gcc
free docs: Man pages + info pages + tutorials + wikis >>>>>>>>> MSDN
Scripting: Bash + Python + tons other >>>>>>>>>>>x100000>>>>>>>> Batch files.
Customizations: Do I even need to put anything here? maybe/etc...
Free IDE: Emacs, vi, vim, Eclipse...
now, my turn.
Where is Microsoft's package manager. Or their source code for their OS, or free copies of their OS??
interesting note on that. If you can prove to microsoft that you did not boot up the OS on that brand new computer, you can request to get the cash for the OS back (i.e. the $100 you will have to pay) so there is still a sizable cost difference.
hey don't apply to customized distro images either... so you definitely got a point.;) Hmm... On my distro (gentoo) I know the package manager carries out MD5 and SHA1 checking on all downloaded material. I am pretty sure that happened in fedora too. Don't know about the others.
Wouldn't it be a better idea to um... prevent buffer overflows from happening in the first place. Yes I know that C doesn't make this easy but them OS writing was never easy to begin with. Having buffer overflows is itself an bad situation. having so many that you have to start randomizing memory allocation (and incur some overhead from that) is pretty sad...
name me a corporation with >600 people at the top wasting their time arguing... Then name me a private school which needs to have 2,000+ people mking its tests Then name me a private corporation which has $7 trillion+ of debt. Running out of names? Now, lets compare the food production of soviet Russia with foodproduction of pre-soviet and present day Russia Or for even more fun, compare china under mao ze dong and china now. Governments especially the current ones are possibly the most inefficient things in existance. And why shouldn't they be. They have absolutely no profit incentive.
I would like to point out that he would have to a lot worse to come to par with any politician in the US gov. He would be more like a welcome change right now. Atleast he knows how to run a business.
The first things that polits are taught is how to control the plane without relying on the controls too much. I would need flight instruments for precision adjustments (ie. turn to 010 N or reduce airspeed to 90 knots etc...) but I can tell is the instruments start going haywire. For example, if the airspeed indicater suddenly drops to zero, I know that its an instrument error. I can also land and takeoff without instruments (though there is no way I would try to do this if I had an option not to). Given that redundancy and case by case programming may go a long way towards solving such a problem, there is no way a pre-programmed computer can deal with all those scenarios. this applies even more strongly to airline pilots who have to have atleast 1000 ~ 1500 hours of flight time.
wrong. the way to defeat the US is to just kill a lot of soldiers. the US gets war weary way too quickley to be ably to fight any serious wars. proof: vietnam and now iraq. the US withdrew from irq when they had clearly superiour forces and they might withdraw from iraq when they have already won there.
interesting to notice that dofferent forms of gov do this at different speeds. communistic/socialist with single party systems seem to be the fastest. they are followed by democracies and monarchies/dicatatorships take a while to develope a beauracracy and may actually cut it down sometimes (something nearly impossible in the other forms of gov.)
I think you are missing the point of the windows registry here. its purpose is to make the settings legible to a computer and obfuscate them for the user. this way, it is hard to clone and thus alternative APIs (like wine and reactOS) are hard to write. easy readability for the user never enters into the equation.
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in gentoo, there is also a prefetch script which will prefetch any files which would be required for bootup. haven't actually tried it myself yet since I only boot up about once ~5-6 months for kernel updates.
inherent nature of a bureacracy. Beuracrats care about one thing: continued garantee of their (usually) parasitic position. The way to ensure this is a continual increase in your own power, continued decrease in oversight, etc.. Democracies by their very nature encourage bureacracies since nobody pays attention to how a politician cut down so many bureacratic money wasters. Thus we end up such governments.
uh The fuel in any transport class airplane (ie. carrying a lot of stuff/people) is kept in the wings. Even if the bomb was stuck right up as close as possible, it wouldn't get to the wing or do enough damage to bring down the plane.
the HTML docs for pg_hba are actually really good and practically walk you through setting up a ssl equiped server for remote access.
atleast it has decent support for transactions, key constraints, and procedural languages.
I am typically not a fan of ODF (aaarrrgh why XML everywhere. What happened to the so much better SGML but back to the topic at hand...) ODF is just a style specification. providing modified DTDs for it would not be that hard and ammending the standard to account for those DTDs would not be very duifficult either (if a decent job were done to prevent massive breakage that is). It should be noted that ODF is not the magical file format for everything (heck, XML isn't suited to 90% of the things people use it for today for that matter). One good reason for using a custom format for keynote could be speed (XML parsers are not very fast). For example, PDFs are optimized for very fast reading. They do this by tossing th address of the start of the object reference list at the very end of the file. The structures are also designed to be fast to parse. Using ODF would definately be a bad idea because of the speed hit that would ensue (and to those who think PDFs are slow, they are not. Acrobat reader is extremely slow but not PDFs in general).
Python integration comes to mind but that may not be what the parent is looking for really...
HHaaahhh you nub at bash. Every bash geek would know to use yes... Now I can out ROFL you... in C!!!
I personally think that half of the openoffice devs should go to lyx and work on perfecting it while the other half go to tex4ht so that I can make odt files out of latex sources and who ever has a problem with this can go and develop a super format conversion kit to convert any document format to any other document format. Now... bring on the aplause.
If you buy it at a shop you could ask a clerk to wipe the disk or ask them to watch as you wiped it yourself. If you ordered it, take a vid. of you opening the box and wiping the harddrive. lots of ways to do it though none of them are convenient but they are there.
free C# compiler: gcc
free docs: Man pages + info pages + tutorials + wikis >>>>>>>>> MSDN
Scripting: Bash + Python + tons other >>>>>>>>>>>x100000>>>>>>>> Batch files.
Customizations: Do I even need to put anything here? maybe
Free IDE: Emacs, vi, vim, Eclipse...
now, my turn. Where is Microsoft's package manager. Or their source code for their OS, or free copies of their OS??
interesting note on that. If you can prove to microsoft that you did not boot up the OS on that brand new computer, you can request to get the cash for the OS back (i.e. the $100 you will have to pay) so there is still a sizable cost difference.
Hey, don't insult those WMs... I use them (actually FVWM2 but same thing). They look only as bad as you want them to look.
Wouldn't it be a better idea to um... prevent buffer overflows from happening in the first place. Yes I know that C doesn't make this easy but them OS writing was never easy to begin with. Having buffer overflows is itself an bad situation. having so many that you have to start randomizing memory allocation (and incur some overhead from that) is pretty sad...
name me a corporation with >600 people at the top wasting their time arguing...
Then name me a private school which needs to have 2,000+ people mking its tests
Then name me a private corporation which has $7 trillion+ of debt.
Running out of names?
Now, lets compare the food production of soviet Russia with foodproduction of pre-soviet and present day Russia
Or for even more fun, compare china under mao ze dong and china now.
Governments especially the current ones are possibly the most inefficient things in existance. And why shouldn't they be. They have absolutely no profit incentive.
Goodwins law is ineffectual if it is specifically invoked.
I would like to point out that he would have to a lot worse to come to par with any politician in the US gov. He would be more like a welcome change right now. Atleast he knows how to run a business.
* From a person who has flown a plane before
The first things that polits are taught is how to control the plane without relying on the controls too much. I would need flight instruments for precision adjustments (ie. turn to 010 N or reduce airspeed to 90 knots etc...) but I can tell is the instruments start going haywire. For example, if the airspeed indicater suddenly drops to zero, I know that its an instrument error. I can also land and takeoff without instruments (though there is no way I would try to do this if I had an option not to). Given that redundancy and case by case programming may go a long way towards solving such a problem, there is no way a pre-programmed computer can deal with all those scenarios. this applies even more strongly to airline pilots who have to have atleast 1000 ~ 1500 hours of flight time.
wrong. the way to defeat the US is to just kill a lot of soldiers. the US gets war weary way too quickley to be ably to fight any serious wars. proof: vietnam and now iraq. the US withdrew from irq when they had clearly superiour forces and they might withdraw from iraq when they have already won there.
so... tell me, why do kernel develepors have to be involved in how the caller for the sleep and hibernate function looks?
8 kernel people. WTF??? why are kernel devs concerned with a GUI element??
interesting to notice that dofferent forms of gov do this at different speeds. communistic/socialist with single party systems seem to be the fastest. they are followed by democracies and monarchies/dicatatorships take a while to develope a beauracracy and may actually cut it down sometimes (something nearly impossible in the other forms of gov.)
I think you are missing the point of the windows registry here. its purpose is to make the settings legible to a computer and obfuscate them for the user. this way, it is hard to clone and thus alternative APIs (like wine and reactOS) are hard to write. easy readability for the user never enters into the equation.