As it turned out, the best way to teach people the world was round was not mass re-education, but by showing them that if you kept sailing, you wouldn't fall off.
You're completely wrong. The vast majority of people who believe the Earth is round learned that fact in school, not by travelling around the Earth. Most people haven't travelled around the Earth, and never will.
Give me Stargate SG1 any day - at least it has thorough and largely accurate technobabble.
I'm surprised you haven't been modded up as "funny" for that statement.
Let's see; wormholes without gravitational sources, just magic rings.
Parallel universes accessible via portable devices.
A magic metal that can explode with thousands of times greater force than an atomic bomb, but isn't radioactive.
Everybody speaks English, even if they were plucked from Norway a thousand years ago.
Magic regeneration machines.
Yeah, that's largely accurate. After a couple of bowls, anyway. Don't get me wrong, I love the show, and record it so I won't miss it; but I'd never make the mistake of calling science fiction, much less accurate. It's science fantasy, and damn good science fantasy at that.
If Nike walked away with it's $0.05 an hour jobs, their workers would either go back to begging in the streets from other companies' $0.05 an hour employees, or go back to the local $0.01 an hour jobs.
With Windows, there can only be one version of a library usually, so you're just screwed unless you have source.
With Linux, you can put as many versions as you need for compatibility, and use symlinks to make as many applications see them as necessary.
If your application requires libfoo.so.1.1 or greater, then libfoo.so.1.1.x (where x is any number at all) should all be compatible. If they aren't, it'll be libfoo.so.1.2.x instead.
So put libfoo.so.1.1.7.8.3 on the system, and create a symlink so that libfoo.so.1.1 points to it, and all is well.
Applications that REQUIRE libfoo.so.1.1.7.8.3 will be happy, and so will applications that require any 1.1 or later, and if necessary you can also put a symlink for libfoo.so.1.1.7 pointing to it.
Can't do that with Windows without putting a seperate file for every one, because symlinks aren't supported.
All I have to say is the farthest lefthand digits my application requires; probably 1.1+.
As for RPM dependencies, that's a packaging system, not an operating system. You can even use it on Windows, but you don't attribute it's failings to Windows, do you?
If somebody chooses to package their application in a certain way and not any other, you should direct your blame to the application distributor, not the OS author.
Let me get this straight; you're wondering what gives his previous employer the right to read a public web forum, and express an opinion about something they read in it?
Take this scenario: The software confuses you with some violent criminal. The police think you're dangerous and knock you senseless and lock you up.
That is no more likely to happen with this system than without it. I'm intimately acquainted with this scenario, my father spent some time at gunpoint over just such a misunderstanding.
In the 1950s, with no digital technology involved.
If there had been, he wouldn't have ended up having the problem, because he didn't look that much like the guy in question.
I reject the notion that this technology will increase false positives. I think it will do the opposite.
Not everything that makes a policeman's job easier is automatically a violation of our civil rights.
When they got semi-automatics instead of revolvers, that wasn't a violation of our rights.
When they got cars instead of horses, that wasn't a violation of our rights.
Hell, when they got polyester/cotton blend uniforms instead of straight cotton, that wasn't a violation of our rights.
I'm all for paranoia against the man, but we only damage the cause when we get knee-jerk stupid about it.
It would be perfectly legal for them to sit there and look at you as you pass. It would be perfectly legal for them to do so over a camera.
It would be perfectly legal for them to hire people for minimum wage, have them memorize pictures of wanted criminals, and then have them sit there and call a cop if they think they see one.
That's all this software does, and it does it cheaper than people.
This power can't be abused any more than the power to stand there and look at faces, and it's *LESS* intimidating (and thus causes less of an economic hit from people who are creeped out by cops deciding to stay home.)
If it causes a few violent assholes to stop going to football games, well, I can't seem to shed a tear over that.
I would like to see the gaming industry do something new, which it really hasn't since Vampire (which itself was a repackaged Call of Cthulu).
Wow, now THAT'S a stretch.
Call of Cthulhu is about a specific mythos that is classified as horror, and vampires are a part of the horror genre, but that's where the similarity ends.
Totally different systems, totally different mythos (there aren't any vampires in the Cthulhu mythos, really; not in the classical sense of a vampire, anyway), totally different intents, totally different markets.
They're more different than Dungeons and Dragons is from Traveller.
A lot of times, the titles are shift around because they're only there as an indicator. One month there might be two people who are primarily responsible for technology issues at a very senior level, so one gets called CIO and the other CTO.
The next month, one of those guys might be gone, and his position not get filled right away, or a restructuring moves one of them to a position that's more or less than just technology.
FedEx had both positions, then they reorganized and split the IT out into a seperate company (FedEx Services, you won't see them on the web page), and the old CTO became CIO. He's actually CIO in both FedEx Corporation and FedEx Services, but he's basically doing the exact same thing he did as CTO at what is now FedEx Express, only for 5,000 people instead of 3,000. There is no CTO at either company now.
If one of Rob's helpers needs a serious promotion, they'll probably recreate the CTO position and give him a new nameplate for his office.
The one time I ever got fired, the manager waited around until after I left, then paged one of the junior admins and had her come back in and run a backup. Which was asinine, since a backup would have run automatically before I came in the next morning anyway.
I had left something at the office, so I dropped by to pick it up. I noticed her running the backup, and asked what was going on. She just said "I dunno, Mark said to take a backup."
So I went across the street to Wal-mart and bought some resume paper, and came back to my desk and printed a few dozen copies of my resume. Then I called my other junior admin and asked if he knew what was going on, and he said "Mark was acting all funny and asking questions about the backups".
Sure enough, next morning they fired me. I had a new job for 37% more money lined up before I got to my car.
It was about a week later when they called me asking how to recover their backups. Seems they deleted the documentation on that, and none of the junior admins remembered how to do it. I managed to stop laughing long enough to tell them it'd cost them $165 an hour if they wanted me to come recover a backup for them, and that they'd pay from the moment I left my driveway to the moment I left their office.
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As it turned out, the best way to teach people the world was round was not mass re-education, but by showing them that if you kept sailing, you wouldn't fall off.
You're completely wrong. The vast majority of people who believe the Earth is round learned that fact in school, not by travelling around the Earth. Most people haven't travelled around the Earth, and never will.
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Give me Stargate SG1 any day - at least it has thorough and largely accurate technobabble.
I'm surprised you haven't been modded up as "funny" for that statement.
Let's see; wormholes without gravitational sources, just magic rings.
Parallel universes accessible via portable devices.
A magic metal that can explode with thousands of times greater force than an atomic bomb, but isn't radioactive.
Everybody speaks English, even if they were plucked from Norway a thousand years ago.
Magic regeneration machines.
Yeah, that's largely accurate. After a couple of bowls, anyway. Don't get me wrong, I love the show, and record it so I won't miss it; but I'd never make the mistake of calling science fiction, much less accurate. It's science fantasy, and damn good science fantasy at that.
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You think the government of India is trapped there, unable to leave?
Or was your analogy just stupidly unrelated to the discussion at hand?
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If India wants those rules, they'll implement them. If they don't, who are you and I to tell them they must?
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If Nike walked away with it's $0.05 an hour jobs, their workers would either go back to begging in the streets from other companies' $0.05 an hour employees, or go back to the local $0.01 an hour jobs.
Either way you're not doing them a favor.
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I've got news for you; the first time Og solved a problem by hitting it with a rock, that was technology.
It was also the first "kinetic adjustment", known by some as "percussive maintainance".
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You have no clue what you're talking about.
Here, I'll make it simple:
With Windows, there can only be one version of a library usually, so you're just screwed unless you have source.
With Linux, you can put as many versions as you need for compatibility, and use symlinks to make as many applications see them as necessary.
If your application requires libfoo.so.1.1 or greater, then libfoo.so.1.1.x (where x is any number at all) should all be compatible. If they aren't, it'll be libfoo.so.1.2.x instead.
So put libfoo.so.1.1.7.8.3 on the system, and create a symlink so that libfoo.so.1.1 points to it, and all is well.
Applications that REQUIRE libfoo.so.1.1.7.8.3 will be happy, and so will applications that require any 1.1 or later, and if necessary you can also put a symlink for libfoo.so.1.1.7 pointing to it.
Can't do that with Windows without putting a seperate file for every one, because symlinks aren't supported.
All I have to say is the farthest lefthand digits my application requires; probably 1.1+.
As for RPM dependencies, that's a packaging system, not an operating system. You can even use it on Windows, but you don't attribute it's failings to Windows, do you?
If somebody chooses to package their application in a certain way and not any other, you should direct your blame to the application distributor, not the OS author.
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I can't believe so many people thought you were serious.
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Ask your mom.
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So its appropriate to start worrying about the 'grey ooze' now, correct??
Only if you're playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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Let me get this straight; you're wondering what gives his previous employer the right to read a public web forum, and express an opinion about something they read in it?
Uhm, the First Amendment?
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When you're older, you'll understand why.
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Take this scenario: The software confuses you with some violent criminal. The police think you're dangerous and knock you senseless and lock you up.
That is no more likely to happen with this system than without it. I'm intimately acquainted with this scenario, my father spent some time at gunpoint over just such a misunderstanding.
In the 1950s, with no digital technology involved.
If there had been, he wouldn't have ended up having the problem, because he didn't look that much like the guy in question.
I reject the notion that this technology will increase false positives. I think it will do the opposite.
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Not everything that makes a policeman's job easier is automatically a violation of our civil rights.
When they got semi-automatics instead of revolvers, that wasn't a violation of our rights.
When they got cars instead of horses, that wasn't a violation of our rights.
Hell, when they got polyester/cotton blend uniforms instead of straight cotton, that wasn't a violation of our rights.
I'm all for paranoia against the man, but we only damage the cause when we get knee-jerk stupid about it.
It would be perfectly legal for them to sit there and look at you as you pass. It would be perfectly legal for them to do so over a camera.
It would be perfectly legal for them to hire people for minimum wage, have them memorize pictures of wanted criminals, and then have them sit there and call a cop if they think they see one.
That's all this software does, and it does it cheaper than people.
This power can't be abused any more than the power to stand there and look at faces, and it's *LESS* intimidating (and thus causes less of an economic hit from people who are creeped out by cops deciding to stay home.)
If it causes a few violent assholes to stop going to football games, well, I can't seem to shed a tear over that.
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I would like to see the gaming industry do something new, which it really hasn't since Vampire (which itself was a repackaged Call of Cthulu).
Wow, now THAT'S a stretch.
Call of Cthulhu is about a specific mythos that is classified as horror, and vampires are a part of the horror genre, but that's where the similarity ends.
Totally different systems, totally different mythos (there aren't any vampires in the Cthulhu mythos, really; not in the classical sense of a vampire, anyway), totally different intents, totally different markets.
They're more different than Dungeons and Dragons is from Traveller.
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Somehow, I think a slice of depleted uranium would be more expensive to you than to them.
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When it's all said and done, you're the one who has to live with your decision.
So it doesn't really matter what our opinion is; what matters is yours.
If you think you should leave, you should probably leave; but do you really think you should, or are you just unhappy about something specific?
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I've heard of, but never witnessed, people wrapping a brick in paper and taping the reply envelope to it.
This is probably illegal, and I don't recommend you do it.
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At least he got a cup!
Why, when I was a kid, we had to follow the dogs around with our tongue, and do the drug test by taste.
And the dogs ran through 10 feet of snow, uphill.
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Congratulations, your mind has been completely destroyed, you actually ENJOY telephone technical support now.
Some day you'll be the manager, and make a whole $40,000 a year until they fire you or you die.
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If they want to be rude about it, don't cover them any more.
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$799 for a system you can duplicate with Wintel for $400.
$1299 for a system you can duplicate with Wintel for $800.
Get the point on price yet?
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A lot of times, the titles are shift around because they're only there as an indicator. One month there might be two people who are primarily responsible for technology issues at a very senior level, so one gets called CIO and the other CTO.
The next month, one of those guys might be gone, and his position not get filled right away, or a restructuring moves one of them to a position that's more or less than just technology.
FedEx had both positions, then they reorganized and split the IT out into a seperate company (FedEx Services, you won't see them on the web page), and the old CTO became CIO. He's actually CIO in both FedEx Corporation and FedEx Services, but he's basically doing the exact same thing he did as CTO at what is now FedEx Express, only for 5,000 people instead of 3,000. There is no CTO at either company now.
If one of Rob's helpers needs a serious promotion, they'll probably recreate the CTO position and give him a new nameplate for his office.
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The one time I ever got fired, the manager waited around until after I left, then paged one of the junior admins and had her come back in and run a backup. Which was asinine, since a backup would have run automatically before I came in the next morning anyway.
I had left something at the office, so I dropped by to pick it up. I noticed her running the backup, and asked what was going on. She just said "I dunno, Mark said to take a backup."
So I went across the street to Wal-mart and bought some resume paper, and came back to my desk and printed a few dozen copies of my resume. Then I called my other junior admin and asked if he knew what was going on, and he said "Mark was acting all funny and asking questions about the backups".
Sure enough, next morning they fired me. I had a new job for 37% more money lined up before I got to my car.
It was about a week later when they called me asking how to recover their backups. Seems they deleted the documentation on that, and none of the junior admins remembered how to do it. I managed to stop laughing long enough to tell them it'd cost them $165 an hour if they wanted me to come recover a backup for them, and that they'd pay from the moment I left my driveway to the moment I left their office.
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Mind you my backyard is a small carpark so I'd probably notice if an 85 foot radio satellite dish appeared there one morning...
You're more observant than Cartman, then.
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