Re: MP criticises ID card opposition
- From: Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:45:07 +0100
On 2006-09-02, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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(it's not the typing that I dislike about CLI tools, it's the bloody
documentation)
Think of it as a learning curve; the things you do often, soon become
almost instinctive.
But if you can't find out how to do them in the first place, you can't
do them and you can't do them and you can't do them. Which is the
position I'm in.
I don't see the problem; but then, I started out with text-only interfaces
to everything, and printed instructions ;))
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It could become almost impossible to avoid what R M Stallman calls
'treacherous computing'
<http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=5858>
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4360793.stm>
<https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/about/members/>
<heh> Oh yeah? Do you think they'll put up with it in China? And what
about the Russians? They don't like being controlled. India might well
join in with one or other - or maybe both. And if so, that's a pretty
hefty chunk of the world's population that'll be going another way.
Not all 'trusted computers' will be trusted by the CIA, that's for sure.
<grin> I can see Stallman in some ashram in the Himalayan foothills,
can't you? ;-)
Easily :))
And what about the `open source' and `free software' crowds.? Nah, it
might get to be a problem, but it won't take over everything and I think
it'll turn out to be a blip. After all, when the race has set up shop
off planet? ...
While Intel and AMD are actively involved, it will be hard to find new
hardware that is free of the intrusion.
[1] I remember being very happy when we got the 16K RAM pack for the
ZX81. And now I've got a computer with 2.5GB RAM and 550GB nominal HD
space. Eek! I keep asking `Why'? The answer, of course, is that I
know damned well that in a few years time, the software will be
stretching the machine's resources. Mad, innit?
The word is 'bloat'.
Ish, ish - but what's bloat? What we've got over here in Mac-land is a
bit different to what those who suffer MS have to put up with.
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For example, some of the MacOS X speedups come from its manic caching -
if you've got RAM, and there's an excuse to cache data in it, the OS
will do so. This speeds things up - but you do find yourself using
stupid amounts of RAM for no apparent reason.
What is RAM for if not to use it? The Linux newsgroups often get posts
from Windows users complaining that "there isn't any free RAM after I've
started the system so how can I run anything? This is a stupid bloated
operating system ...". Windows is stupid at handling RAM the way it does.
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Enough!
Rowland.
It was fun :))
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