Still, it is pretty damn cool that he dignified the idea with a response. And that the issue was allowed to take first place. Any other politician would probably have tried to sweep the issue under the rug.
Which is what I said.:) Feisty had the 2.6.18 kernel and was quite responsive, so CFQ is in the clear. Gutsy featured 2.6.23 with CFS and was much slower which means it is a possible suspect.
If you haven't used Linux regularly within the last two years, you probably have not noticed that the system has gotten significantly slower with more recent releases. The probable symptom was discussed here. Many Ubuntu users, including me, have noticed that the latency of desktop operations got significantly larger around the time Gutsy was released, which coincides with the Completely Fair Scheduler and kernel upgrade from 2.6.18.
Since it is most likely a latency issue, the problem is extremely hard to diagnose. Alt-tabbing between programs seem a little slower, keyboard input might lag somewhat. You can't measure desktop latency easily.
That's some very gloomy predictions there. In Capitalism, recessions come and go and there is nothing you can do about it. But all throughout the industrial period, demand for technology has increased and so has the job opportunities. The demand for engineers is much higher today than it was 20 years ago and back then it was much higher than 40 years ago. There will always be new gadgets and there will always have to be someone to program them. At the same time, the number of students enrolled in engineering programs is _decreasing_. A whole generation of engineers are about to retire and there isn't enough students to replace them.
Personally, I cannot fathom how any engineer could be afraid of not having a job. It's the safest damn career there is.
And that was the sole reason why they moved there in the first place. Ireland was something of a role-model for neo-liberals all over Europe because of their lowest corporate taxes in Europe. Just lower the taxes and all companies will move here. But now they found an even cheaper place to do business in. Lowering taxes never is the solution because there is always some place even cheaper they will relocate to.
The initial cost outlay of a Windows machine is higher, of course, but did you consider the other costs? Maintaining an application written in.NET is a lot easier than doing the same in, say, Perl or PHP (unless your staff is universally comprised of language virtuosos, which strikes me as unlikely).
Citation needed or something. I only have cursory experience with.NET, but it seems inconceivable to me that it would be "a lot easier" than PHP. Do you mind explaining that part?
What we complained about was stupid management. I have never worked in a place that had to many developers or to dumb developers. I have worked in a few places where the developers had to to very dumb things though... There are a lot of places where there are to many managers and to few engineers. So management has to invent busywork like meetings, reports and metrics to keep themselves busy while the engineers have to work their asses off to make up for all the extra paper work. The best managers imho are those that sit and play world of warcraft all day and just does something when something is in actual need of management. Unfortunately, they are the first to go because they have higher up managers and to them they appear to have nothing to do. So they too have to be meeting makers. I don't envy anyone in that position -- managing engineers can't be easy.
Engineers on the other hand are usually pretty bad at appearing busy. "What did you do this week?" "Uh.. just some random fixes." Reality: Solved five segfaults, each worth 100k a piece to the company. They are the first to go not only because of that but also because of rank.
When I go mountain biking and have trouble with a section I'll back up a 100 meters and take another run at it, I don't go back and restart the entire fucking 10km trail. And sure, there is definitely a feeling of satisfaction upon reaching the level that I can do a given trail in one clean pass... but I certainly don't want to get to that level by restarting the entire fucking trail every time I have to put my foot down.
And for the equally questionable counter-example; Let's say we're playing a game of tennis which I suck at. Each time I miss a point I can just say "oh no, that didn't count" and we continue the game as if nothing happened. No matter how much I suck or how good you are I will still beat you easily because there is no punishment or even possibility in losing. Exactly like with most modern games that you can play through in a few hours because they give you unlimited retries everywhere.
And that is the problem -- the US government won't go into the ISP business. When the same infrastructure investments was made in European countries, what happened was that the governments spent an enormous amount of money laying fiber. Even to rural communities where such investments just doesn't make any sense. Then all this fiber was leased to private companies for a fraction of the cost of what it took to construct it so that they could become high-speed ISP:s. I have already paid for broadband via taxes, but have to pay for it again in subscription fees. With a smarter system the private ISP:s could be thrown out of the loop, their only function is to send invoices.
All information is semantic. This slashdot post is information encoded using English semantics. Unfortunately for the machines, the English semantics are way to complicated for them to understand. So they need a simpler set of grammar rules to be able to parse it. But why would anyone want to waste time marking it up just for the benefit of machine readability when google basically can accomplish the same thing without all that metadata markup cruft?
I've been in contact with a dozen companies that all use the community version of MySQL. Without paying any support because none is needed when you have a semi-competent DBA around. If MySQL wasn't there, then it would have been PostgreSQL instead. If there was no MySQL, PostgreSQL nor any other high quality free RDBMS, they would have to use a commercial system instead. There are thousands of companies out there in the same situation and I don't think that MySQL has gained as much money as the commercial vendors has lost thanks to MySQL:s freeness.
We all know there are lots of anonymous slashdot trolls that like to regurgitate the same old baseless anti-union propaganda. But what does that have to do with the claim that NEA is bribed by Microsoft? BTW, in the US only about 10% of the workforce is organized, in the rest of the Industrialized world it is between 40-80%. But please, continue to blame your suckiness on evil devil worshipping unions if that makes you feel better.
Exactly. Ken Starks reply is borderline libellous in that it claims that the NEA union has been bribed by Microsoft. Unless he can back it up with some sort of evidence it is he, not the woman, that is the one being most wrong here.
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Sorry, you are misinformed. The Andorid platform was announced 20071105. JavaFX framework was announced at Java One in May 2007 six months earlier. Calling JavaFX a response to Android is plain incorrect and an apples to oranges comparison to boot.
Wrong again, HateBreeder. Oh how ironic it is that that is your choosen nick..
The indirect costs in goodwill the Israeli-American special relationship is causing American companies is orders of magnitudes bigger than the direct aid cost which is 5 billions/year. Companies have a much harder time penetrating Arab markets thanks to the US pro-Israeli stance. Coca-Cola for example was boycotted in Middle East. The whole oil embargo which caused the US economic recession in the late 70's was a direct result of the aid to Israel. From a purely economic viewpoint, the aid has been a huge freaking burden with no return whatsoever. Not even gratefulness.
That's actually a common misconception.
US foreign aid to Israel is limited to commodities purchased back from US companies: Israel cannot spend that money in any other way.
The money goes back to US companies like Boeing or Lockheed martin when Israel purchases fighter jets.
You can rest assured, that university research projects in Israel don't see a dime from US tax payer money. (Unless it's some US D.O.D joint effort)
Totally false. In contrast to other receivers of US foreign aid, Israel is allowed to spend the money in what ever way it wants. And they do have a strong domestic weapon industry which means that the aid goes to the Israeli military buying Israeli planes and Israeli tanks.
I don't think you realize the potential a site like this one can have for integration with package managers. Instead of going to google, you click on the package name and immediately see some representative screen shots of the program. The package manager can also add thumbnails to the list of packages so that you can at glance see if an application is console app, GNOME or KDE based.
Seriously, all stupid iPhone articles are getting annoying. There are hundreds of handsets and other gadgets out there that are more powerful than it. Not to mention, better designed.
How come there is about 3-4 articles about iPhone on/. every fucking week when there is about 0/month from all other mobile phone manufacturers combined.?
This is some sloppy neuroscience journalism for sure. For example, Phineas Gage *didn't* recover, he was left with an altered and uncontrolled psyche by his tamping rod accident--they missed the entire point of his story.
One of the most important lessons in life is to learn to value your your time highly. Because if you don't, no one else will either. Working for free does not teach that lesson, quite the opposite.
There is no trace of the avian influenza (H5N1) panic from a year or two ago in the statistics. Things like that should distort the search data and it is pretty strange that it seems it doesn't.
Well put. There's no denying in him being black is part of it. Ten years ago 2pac wrote Changes, and thruthfully, I don't think anyone until recently would have expected a black president. It disproves the belief that the US is a Racist country. Though I am a fan of hip-hop, it takes away most of the authenticity in their whining about how black people are discriminated. If Obama could, then so can you and so can I! This is truly a great day.
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How exactly? From the facts it just seem he just thinks legalizing weed is a bad idea. How is stating that sweeping the issue under the rug?
Still, it is pretty damn cool that he dignified the idea with a response. And that the issue was allowed to take first place. Any other politician would probably have tried to sweep the issue under the rug.
Which is what I said. :) Feisty had the 2.6.18 kernel and was quite responsive, so CFQ is in the clear. Gutsy featured 2.6.23 with CFS and was much slower which means it is a possible suspect.
If you haven't used Linux regularly within the last two years, you probably have not noticed that the system has gotten significantly slower with more recent releases. The probable symptom was discussed here. Many Ubuntu users, including me, have noticed that the latency of desktop operations got significantly larger around the time Gutsy was released, which coincides with the Completely Fair Scheduler and kernel upgrade from 2.6.18.
Since it is most likely a latency issue, the problem is extremely hard to diagnose. Alt-tabbing between programs seem a little slower, keyboard input might lag somewhat. You can't measure desktop latency easily.
That's some very gloomy predictions there. In Capitalism, recessions come and go and there is nothing you can do about it. But all throughout the industrial period, demand for technology has increased and so has the job opportunities. The demand for engineers is much higher today than it was 20 years ago and back then it was much higher than 40 years ago. There will always be new gadgets and there will always have to be someone to program them. At the same time, the number of students enrolled in engineering programs is _decreasing_. A whole generation of engineers are about to retire and there isn't enough students to replace them.
Personally, I cannot fathom how any engineer could be afraid of not having a job. It's the safest damn career there is.
And that was the sole reason why they moved there in the first place. Ireland was something of a role-model for neo-liberals all over Europe because of their lowest corporate taxes in Europe. Just lower the taxes and all companies will move here. But now they found an even cheaper place to do business in. Lowering taxes never is the solution because there is always some place even cheaper they will relocate to.
The initial cost outlay of a Windows machine is higher, of course, but did you consider the other costs? Maintaining an application written in .NET is a lot easier than doing the same in, say, Perl or PHP (unless your staff is universally comprised of language virtuosos, which strikes me as unlikely).
Citation needed or something. I only have cursory experience with .NET, but it seems inconceivable to me that it would be "a lot easier" than PHP. Do you mind explaining that part?
What we complained about was stupid management. I have never worked in a place that had to many developers or to dumb developers. I have worked in a few places where the developers had to to very dumb things though... There are a lot of places where there are to many managers and to few engineers. So management has to invent busywork like meetings, reports and metrics to keep themselves busy while the engineers have to work their asses off to make up for all the extra paper work. The best managers imho are those that sit and play world of warcraft all day and just does something when something is in actual need of management. Unfortunately, they are the first to go because they have higher up managers and to them they appear to have nothing to do. So they too have to be meeting makers. I don't envy anyone in that position -- managing engineers can't be easy.
Engineers on the other hand are usually pretty bad at appearing busy. "What did you do this week?" "Uh.. just some random fixes." Reality: Solved five segfaults, each worth 100k a piece to the company. They are the first to go not only because of that but also because of rank.
When I go mountain biking and have trouble with a section I'll back up a 100 meters and take another run at it, I don't go back and restart the entire fucking 10km trail. And sure, there is definitely a feeling of satisfaction upon reaching the level that I can do a given trail in one clean pass... but I certainly don't want to get to that level by restarting the entire fucking trail every time I have to put my foot down.
And for the equally questionable counter-example; Let's say we're playing a game of tennis which I suck at. Each time I miss a point I can just say "oh no, that didn't count" and we continue the game as if nothing happened. No matter how much I suck or how good you are I will still beat you easily because there is no punishment or even possibility in losing. Exactly like with most modern games that you can play through in a few hours because they give you unlimited retries everywhere.
And that is the problem -- the US government won't go into the ISP business. When the same infrastructure investments was made in European countries, what happened was that the governments spent an enormous amount of money laying fiber. Even to rural communities where such investments just doesn't make any sense. Then all this fiber was leased to private companies for a fraction of the cost of what it took to construct it so that they could become high-speed ISP:s. I have already paid for broadband via taxes, but have to pay for it again in subscription fees. With a smarter system the private ISP:s could be thrown out of the loop, their only function is to send invoices.
All information is semantic. This slashdot post is information encoded using English semantics. Unfortunately for the machines, the English semantics are way to complicated for them to understand. So they need a simpler set of grammar rules to be able to parse it. But why would anyone want to waste time marking it up just for the benefit of machine readability when google basically can accomplish the same thing without all that metadata markup cruft?
I've been in contact with a dozen companies that all use the community version of MySQL. Without paying any support because none is needed when you have a semi-competent DBA around. If MySQL wasn't there, then it would have been PostgreSQL instead. If there was no MySQL, PostgreSQL nor any other high quality free RDBMS, they would have to use a commercial system instead. There are thousands of companies out there in the same situation and I don't think that MySQL has gained as much money as the commercial vendors has lost thanks to MySQL:s freeness.
We all know there are lots of anonymous slashdot trolls that like to regurgitate the same old baseless anti-union propaganda. But what does that have to do with the claim that NEA is bribed by Microsoft? BTW, in the US only about 10% of the workforce is organized, in the rest of the Industrialized world it is between 40-80%. But please, continue to blame your suckiness on evil devil worshipping unions if that makes you feel better.
Exactly. Ken Starks reply is borderline libellous in that it claims that the NEA union has been bribed by Microsoft. Unless he can back it up with some sort of evidence it is he, not the woman, that is the one being most wrong here.
Sorry, you are misinformed. The Andorid platform was announced 20071105. JavaFX framework was announced at Java One in May 2007 six months earlier. Calling JavaFX a response to Android is plain incorrect and an apples to oranges comparison to boot.
Wrong again, HateBreeder. Oh how ironic it is that that is your choosen nick..
The indirect costs in goodwill the Israeli-American special relationship is causing American companies is orders of magnitudes bigger than the direct aid cost which is 5 billions/year. Companies have a much harder time penetrating Arab markets thanks to the US pro-Israeli stance. Coca-Cola for example was boycotted in Middle East. The whole oil embargo which caused the US economic recession in the late 70's was a direct result of the aid to Israel. From a purely economic viewpoint, the aid has been a huge freaking burden with no return whatsoever. Not even gratefulness.
Oh, and "the Jews" do tick, coerce and bribe politicians to keep giving money.
That's actually a common misconception. US foreign aid to Israel is limited to commodities purchased back from US companies: Israel cannot spend that money in any other way. The money goes back to US companies like Boeing or Lockheed martin when Israel purchases fighter jets. You can rest assured, that university research projects in Israel don't see a dime from US tax payer money. (Unless it's some US D.O.D joint effort)
Totally false. In contrast to other receivers of US foreign aid, Israel is allowed to spend the money in what ever way it wants. And they do have a strong domestic weapon industry which means that the aid goes to the Israeli military buying Israeli planes and Israeli tanks.
I don't think you realize the potential a site like this one can have for integration with package managers. Instead of going to google, you click on the package name and immediately see some representative screen shots of the program. The package manager can also add thumbnails to the list of packages so that you can at glance see if an application is console app, GNOME or KDE based.
Seriously, all stupid iPhone articles are getting annoying. There are hundreds of handsets and other gadgets out there that are more powerful than it. Not to mention, better designed.
How come there is about 3-4 articles about iPhone on /. every fucking week when there is about 0/month from all other mobile phone manufacturers combined.?
This is some sloppy neuroscience journalism for sure. For example, Phineas Gage *didn't* recover, he was left with an altered and uncontrolled psyche by his tamping rod accident--they missed the entire point of his story.
Wikipedia disagrees with you.
One of the most important lessons in life is to learn to value your your time highly. Because if you don't, no one else will either. Working for free does not teach that lesson, quite the opposite.
There is no trace of the avian influenza (H5N1) panic from a year or two ago in the statistics. Things like that should distort the search data and it is pretty strange that it seems it doesn't.
True, but it requires three simultaneous keypresses on my keboard (two for ';').
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c c") 'comment-dwim)
C-c c to either comment out a region or uncomment it depending on context. Lovely feature.
(global-set-key "\M-g" 'goto-line)
M-g to go to specified line in buffer. Useful for emacs 21.x users where the keybinding is not yet standard.
(menu-bar-mode nil) (scroll-bar-mode nil) (tool-bar-mode nil)
Gets rid of the ugly TK widgets.
(iswitchb-mode t)
Superboosts C-x b.
(global-set-key "\C-z" 'undo)
The normal binding for C-z is suspend-emacs but having it bound as undo is much more useful imo.
Well put. There's no denying in him being black is part of it. Ten years ago 2pac wrote Changes, and thruthfully, I don't think anyone until recently would have expected a black president. It disproves the belief that the US is a Racist country. Though I am a fan of hip-hop, it takes away most of the authenticity in their whining about how black people are discriminated. If Obama could, then so can you and so can I! This is truly a great day.
God bless America!