I hope that you're incorrect. Otherwise, the PC/tablet/slate will become just another consumer media device, like a TV. PC's as they are currently will be like HAM?
It's predicted that meat will be too expensive for most of the world's population by 2050, and some scientists have proposed that westerners should eat insects instead.
Which is more likely; the richest and well armed civilizations dropping meat for bugs, or the richest and well armed civilizations reducing the competition for meat? Like it or not, wars have been fought over resources, food being one of them.
You can choose otherwise is you desire. Yes, you may give up convenience (go to the butcher shop and grocery store instead of just the SUPERSTORE), and there may be a premium on price as you give up the SUPERSTORE's economy of scale, but the choice is there.
Considering, just the first example to come to mind for me, that farmed salmon tastes poorly when compared to wild salmon and requires coloring to look like salmon, I doubt that grown muscle cells will taste or look anything like the real meat. That, or compare the taste of a chicken that walked around eating seeds and bugs versus one that lived in a barn eating corn meal. Mass produced chicken eggs are nothing like the "free" roaming ones.
Synthetic anything is never the same, for better or worse, as the real thing.
As I understand it, the history of this thing is like:
Let me reword that how users understand it:
1. Windows laptop's battery lasts 3 hours.
2. Install Linux, laptop's battery lasts 2 hours.
Users do not care who is at fault, nor are they even interested.
True, but/. is not where the users go. So the headline should be corrected, and the summary changed to explain that a kernel patch will emulate Window's handling of a BIOS bug to improve power usage on laptops.
...Sony Vaio around 2000. Sure I said, and then after 10 hours of stubborn attempts he had it on. Not much worked, but it was dual bootable with win98.
Yep, around 15 years ago.
I'm not sure where dips come in. The hardware I'm thinking about was as little hardware as possible, AMRs and junk like that, with what should have been firmware moved to the driver.
Installing Slackware 4.0 on a Vaio built for Win 98 is something that I would expect to be a challenge.
I guess "proper hardware" should be replaced with "not OS software enabled". If the device is built cheaply, without all of the hardware or firmware necessary for its task, but instead relied upon one OS to fill the gaps, it isn't "proper hardware".
That says quite a bit, about the hardware (winmodem and similar?), and the state of Linux drivers at that time. If you had anything other than proper hardware, any using the OS required for what should be done by firmware, you had an adventure, and often got to do without.
I've not had a similar adventure since 2006 or so. Linux used since '98: Slackware/OpenLinux/Mandrake/Mandriva/Suse/Fedora/Slackware.
Also, if you come in under par, aren't you above average?
Yes, the saying seems backwards from its apparent literal meaning. From dictionary.com:
Also, under par . Not up to the average, normal, or desired standard. For example, I am feeling below par today, but I'm sure I'll recover by tomorrow . This term employs par in the sense of "an average amount or quality," a usage dating from the late 1700s.
It all goes to the passion shown by the leader. If there is none, then good enough to not be terminated becomes the goal. If there is passion to do as well as possible, and everyone is engaged, then the acceptable goal becomes to do as well as possible.
I have worked for several of both types of leader, and led my own teams as the latter (have pride, do as well as possible), in the last twenty years.
My take is that company is run with the wrong goals due to its owner or board, or maybe it is their passion The clue is in how the people describe themselves.
A "restaurant owner" will run a restaurant, that is also a business. The principle goal is to serve customers, at a profit. A "business owner" runs a business that happens to be a restaurant. The principle goal here is to make a profit, serving customers.
I wrote "wrong goals" as my personal bias is to create something, as well as possible, my passion.
A purchased CD/.mp3/whatever format, that is then copied for the purchaser's use is fair. We should be able to copy the CD or it contents for use in multiple personal locations, like have a master on the shelf, a copy in the home CD player, one for the car,.flac/.mp3 on the cell, so on. This is roughly what you describe doing for your sis. There is precedence here as people have done this type of copying for years, LP to C90 as one example. Going back further, who would buy sheet music that could be played at one instrument? No one. You would by the music sheet and play it anywhere, on anything. Copying those sheets for sale or to distribute free of charge would be theft.
Uploading and downloading something which was never purchased is theft. Selling something copied is also theft. Copying/reusing something purchased for personal use is fair usage.
So, the law expanding "theft" to include copying for personal usage is fucked, as is people who copy stuff that they never purchased.
To be "theft" someone does not need to be deprived. If I steal something that you would not miss, like a book not read in years, would it not still be thievery?
"Having no testing cycles, never having enough testing, doing irrelevant testing"
Not properly testing is the worst flaw. We barely test if a package works, as designed, and under the planned circumstances. Testing for security just does not happen.
The cost of testing properly is likely no where near as large as the potential loss. The compromise against great and secure code in exchange for profit is made. There is no business sense in making the existing code faster or more efficient either, as the leased hardware will be swapped out for faster stuff in the next couple of years.
No, I do not like it, but, another compromise is made; we need to eat.
Now, of course, I watch people scanning in a few pages and then spending 20 minutes fixing all the spelling mistakes, and thinking "Ah, my, 15 years ago I could have typed that two or three times over."
Typing was without doubt one of the top five most useful classes in High School.
All of those term papers/reports in HS and college really emphasized accuracy for me. I literally did not have the ribbon, Whiteout, or paper to spare for silly typographical errors. Knowing how to manually center text is also occasionally useful.
The typo's that show up when someone relies heavily upon autocompletion are cute though.
In all the housing developments and shopping centers I've worked around in the last twenty-five years, the service line is underground.
Dig a trench, put in conduit, run new line, defray some of the cost by recycling the old wiring and poles. To do it really right, put is a nice fiber optic connection to each building too, in separate conduit of course. Everything that can be put underground gets buried.
We get upgraded electric, ungraded data, get rid of the problems from overhead lines, and generate a lot of jobs.
How and who to pay for it? I say the utilities. Let them finance it with some of those nice 1-2% loans. Otherwise, we will keep experiencing the same outages, in the same areas, for another one hundred years, with the same excuses.
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I hope that you're incorrect. Otherwise, the PC/tablet/slate will become just another consumer media device, like a TV. PC's as they are currently will be like HAM?
There are certainly choices in how you get your meat, but the cry of "lab" and "chemicals" is being totally dishonest.
Sorry, didn't check the prior post correctly. I agree.
Okay, I was lame.
Good, but still lame. Editors, don't we check links?
It's predicted that meat will be too expensive for most of the world's population by 2050, and some scientists have proposed that westerners should eat insects instead.
Which is more likely; the richest and well armed civilizations dropping meat for bugs, or the richest and well armed civilizations reducing the competition for meat? Like it or not, wars have been fought over resources, food being one of them.
Your current meat is processed in a factory too.
You can choose otherwise is you desire. Yes, you may give up convenience (go to the butcher shop and grocery store instead of just the SUPERSTORE), and there may be a premium on price as you give up the SUPERSTORE's economy of scale, but the choice is there.
Considering, just the first example to come to mind for me, that farmed salmon tastes poorly when compared to wild salmon and requires coloring to look like salmon, I doubt that grown muscle cells will taste or look anything like the real meat. That, or compare the taste of a chicken that walked around eating seeds and bugs versus one that lived in a barn eating corn meal. Mass produced chicken eggs are nothing like the "free" roaming ones.
Synthetic anything is never the same, for better or worse, as the real thing.
As I understand it, the history of this thing is like:
Let me reword that how users understand it:
1. Windows laptop's battery lasts 3 hours.
2. Install Linux, laptop's battery lasts 2 hours.
Users do not care who is at fault, nor are they even interested.
True, but /. is not where the users go. So the headline should be corrected, and the summary changed to explain that a kernel patch will emulate Window's handling of a BIOS bug to improve power usage on laptops.
They were also known to be tamper-proof, no adjustments to be made in developing.
OTOH... maybe the perfect virus does exist and it's everywhere but nobody knows they have it...
It is the process that appears to do nothing that is a real concern.
Ummm, from the parent post of my first reply:
...Sony Vaio around 2000. Sure I said, and then after 10 hours of stubborn attempts he had it on. Not much worked, but it was dual bootable with win98.
Yep, around 15 years ago.
I'm not sure where dips come in. The hardware I'm thinking about was as little hardware as possible, AMRs and junk like that, with what should have been firmware moved to the driver.
Installing Slackware 4.0 on a Vaio built for Win 98 is something that I would expect to be a challenge.
I guess "proper hardware" should be replaced with "not OS software enabled". If the device is built cheaply, without all of the hardware or firmware necessary for its task, but instead relied upon one OS to fill the gaps, it isn't "proper hardware".
This is what I was meant by Winmodem
Agreed.
One bit of "bling" that I have found useful is transparent consoles on single monitor PCs.
KDE 4's eye candy looked cool, but got in the way. I focused on the window wobbling, not the contents or placement of the window.
but it was dual bootable with win98
That says quite a bit, about the hardware (winmodem and similar?), and the state of Linux drivers at that time. If you had anything other than proper hardware, any using the OS required for what should be done by firmware, you had an adventure, and often got to do without.
I've not had a similar adventure since 2006 or so. Linux used since '98: Slackware/OpenLinux/Mandrake/Mandriva/Suse/Fedora/Slackware.
Dude, seriously, "she"?
Also, if you come in under par, aren't you above average?
Yes, the saying seems backwards from its apparent literal meaning. From dictionary.com:
Also, under par . Not up to the average, normal, or desired standard. For example, I am feeling below par today, but I'm sure I'll recover by tomorrow . This term employs par in the sense of "an average amount or quality," a usage dating from the late 1700s.
It all goes to the passion shown by the leader. If there is none, then good enough to not be terminated becomes the goal. If there is passion to do as well as possible, and everyone is engaged, then the acceptable goal becomes to do as well as possible.
I have worked for several of both types of leader, and led my own teams as the latter (have pride, do as well as possible), in the last twenty years.
My take is that company is run with the wrong goals due to its owner or board, or maybe it is their passion The clue is in how the people describe themselves.
A "restaurant owner" will run a restaurant, that is also a business. The principle goal is to serve customers, at a profit. A "business owner" runs a business that happens to be a restaurant. The principle goal here is to make a profit, serving customers.
I wrote "wrong goals" as my personal bias is to create something, as well as possible, my passion.
Both the law, and people, are fucked.
A purchased CD/.mp3/whatever format, that is then copied for the purchaser's use is fair. We should be able to copy the CD or it contents for use in multiple personal locations, like have a master on the shelf, a copy in the home CD player, one for the car, .flac/.mp3 on the cell, so on. This is roughly what you describe doing for your sis. There is precedence here as people have done this type of copying for years, LP to C90 as one example. Going back further, who would buy sheet music that could be played at one instrument? No one. You would by the music sheet and play it anywhere, on anything. Copying those sheets for sale or to distribute free of charge would be theft.
Uploading and downloading something which was never purchased is theft. Selling something copied is also theft. Copying/reusing something purchased for personal use is fair usage.
So, the law expanding "theft" to include copying for personal usage is fucked, as is people who copy stuff that they never purchased.
To be "theft" someone does not need to be deprived. If I steal something that you would not miss, like a book not read in years, would it not still be thievery?
Yep.
"Having no testing cycles, never having enough testing, doing irrelevant testing"
Not properly testing is the worst flaw. We barely test if a package works, as designed, and under the planned circumstances. Testing for security just does not happen.
The cost of testing properly is likely no where near as large as the potential loss. The compromise against great and secure code in exchange for profit is made. There is no business sense in making the existing code faster or more efficient either, as the leased hardware will be swapped out for faster stuff in the next couple of years.
No, I do not like it, but, another compromise is made; we need to eat.
OT for this post, but the original one regarding kernel.org may be stale for /. readers.
Other items hosted on kernel.org, like Cygwin, are also impacted.
Making a plural of an abbreviation is proper use of the apostrophe. "Typo" here is as an abbreviation for "typographical error" .
Kinda kinky, ants and honey, though not my style.
Now, of course, I watch people scanning in a few pages and then spending 20 minutes fixing all the spelling mistakes, and thinking "Ah, my, 15 years ago I could have typed that two or three times over."
Typing was without doubt one of the top five most useful classes in High School.
All of those term papers/reports in HS and college really emphasized accuracy for me. I literally did not have the ribbon, Whiteout, or paper to spare for silly typographical errors. Knowing how to manually center text is also occasionally useful.
The typo's that show up when someone relies heavily upon autocompletion are cute though.
In all the housing developments and shopping centers I've worked around in the last twenty-five years, the service line is underground.
Dig a trench, put in conduit, run new line, defray some of the cost by recycling the old wiring and poles. To do it really right, put is a nice fiber optic connection to each building too, in separate conduit of course. Everything that can be put underground gets buried.
We get upgraded electric, ungraded data, get rid of the problems from overhead lines, and generate a lot of jobs.
How and who to pay for it? I say the utilities. Let them finance it with some of those nice 1-2% loans. Otherwise, we will keep experiencing the same outages, in the same areas, for another one hundred years, with the same excuses.