In general, don't you think most Atom motherboards are severely crippled in I/O? If you have some handy links from you research for Atom motherboards for a NAS , please post them.
because one of the most common uses of GM is to allow vastly stronger herbicides / pesticides
Many times it is the reverse. In fact, in India, the reverse kind is much more popular. That is to say, the GM advertisement says that expensive seed is more than offset by lower pesticide expense. And surprisingly, this part of the advertisement is true too.
So in India, for many crops, there is a choice between GM and poisoning water supply by indiscriminate use of (subsidized) pesticide.
All that is true, but most commenters here, probably you too, would have been rejected if they had applied for the post of CEO of Netgear around the same time as this guy.
So questioning the credentials of someone else for commenting on Apple, having less credentials than that guy, and then commenting on Apple anyway? There must be some latin name for this fallacy.
About your market expertise, 1000+ posts on Slashdot surely counts as a negative, because you could have done something productive during that time:). Rest of it seems only a fraction of this CEO of Netgear.
While I almost agree with your analysis, but casting doubt on the guy's credentials is not warranted.
Copying can be innovation if your copy is better. See any Apple product in the past ten years.
Agreed.
Releasing the best AV on the market for free is innovation, even if it is to protect your own system. If it's not innovative, then why can't Kaspersky or Eset or Norton keep up?
Because Microsoft has the source code, and Kaspersky or Eset or Norton do not. Microsoft also has internal discussion records of the time when the vulnerability was introduced - knowingly or unknowingly. Why is that so hard to understand?
On the other hand, it was incredibly shameful that third parties were doing a better job of protecting Microsoft's closed source, closed bug-database, closed internal discussion product earlier. So much so that Microsoft themselves displayed a warning if you ran without anti-virus.
Microsoft isn't really the evil monopoly they used to be. They are oftentimes inept (Zune, Surface, Kin, Vista, Office '07....) but they do have their hits as well (Xbox, Windows 7, MSSE). To deny that really just shows prejudice against them.
Agreed. Though I think their new found non-evil-ness is not from lack of trying.
1. Very misleading logic. By this logic, I can say mass is independent of mass. Only under a very special condition (same object, no mass altering circumstance change) does mass has a linear relationship of equality with mass.
2. Coming back to normal logic, when one says weight and mass are linearly related, it implicitly means all else remaining equal, weight and mass are linearly related.
So point 1 proves you fail in pedantry. Point 2 proves you fail in common sense.
Unlike the GGP, you seem to have thought about your views a bit. See my reply (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1972610&cid=35048388/ ) to the GGP to a similar question as yours. In essence, it says that the question "why we are here?" is wrong.
This question can be framed in English language due to a defect in English language. Otherwise, it is not a valid question.
"Why" is a linguistic construct fit to annotate actions, but not events. If some agency deliberately performs some action, it can be asked "why" he/she/it performed the action. Answer to the "why" is "the positive expectation of the agency by performing the action". So far, the ability of deliberately performing actions has only been detected in humans, and in animals in a certain sense.
It should be obvious now that "why" cannot be applied to events. By the very act of asking "why" for an event, you have falsely assumed it to be an action. This compels you to search for an agency that performed the action. That leads you, mistakenly, to God.
Well, for me, Google deliberately degraded the quality of their search engine when they started refreshing the page even while the user is typing. This killed the 1% of the time when I tried this on www.google.com with javascript enabled.
That behaviour was a trap by Google to acquire this power over their users. You surrendered, by gettting used to it.
Should? Google doesn't agree, obviously. Guess whose idea of "should" has more traction in Google search - yours or Google's.
So many other ways of Google search are popular, and arguably even more convenient than opeing www.google.com and typing in your query, that it isn't even funny.
If I say the flowers come from fairies present in water, does the fact that flowers grow when you water them prove that fairies exist?
Yes, this is conclusive proof of the existence of fairies. Definition of "fairies" is extremely important here.
Notably, no other attributes of fairies have been proven by this experiment - only that fairies in water make flowers grow. No conclusion about the appearances/size/other behaviour/shape or otherwise can be drawn from this experiment.
I was developing an embedded system for a road-roller. A core-dump in a data structure make the road-roller roll over 10 cute puppies. The symbol of that data structure was realityimpaired. Please don't use this symbol as your/. username.
Even a somewhat power-user can do this. A distro can do it trivially.
1. Menu item can run as root by default, then assume the identity of the logged in user. Might need to play with sudoers file a bit, possibly remove "requiretty" option.
2. Use ionice if you are worried about I/O and running linux > 2.6.13.
No, there are more productivity enhancement tools/devices these days than the 40x days. E.g. technology / management techniques etc.
Among technology, computers are an example. Correct usage of such technology can heavily boost the productivity per dollar paid to workers. Incorrect usage could hurt this productivity. The ultimate decision is with CEO or the people controlled by CEO. So 40x has become 1000x. Not surprising.
I agree and I was very happy to learn its reason one day. I was working on a software product and had a meeting with the product manager (the guy who meets the customers and tells their requirements and points of view to us developers). It was quite a revelation that us developers wanted to give more and more features to the customer, and it was the product manager who is sort of the representative of customers, refused for the features. Reason?
"If you give this feature, I will have to explain this feature to the customers. They will ask so and so questions. In fact one customer that I talked to recently asked me . That is how stupid the customers are, hence no need to add this feature or that."
This was for a reasonably big software company. The most stupid customer drives the requirement. Proprietary software companies never respect the customer. On the other hand, OSS developers respect the customer because they are their own customer. Hence if they can add a feature in reasonable effort, they do.
Exception to this is software for professional use. E.g. pro-engineer / photoshop etc. Professional users of such software rarely know enough about software to be open source software developers in their free time.
I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers.
There is no such ideal. I guess you are being confused between programming and scripting. Learn the difference and you won't have such disturbing thoughts anymore.
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The trick is to live in China, so they can only narrow it down to 750 million. India might be second best, 550 million.
Which one is that?
In general, don't you think most Atom motherboards are severely crippled in I/O? If you have some handy links from you research for Atom motherboards for a NAS , please post them.
thanks
Slashdot IS about whining about other slashdot users.
because one of the most common uses of GM is to allow vastly stronger herbicides / pesticides
Many times it is the reverse. In fact, in India, the reverse kind is much more popular. That is to say, the GM advertisement says that expensive seed is more than offset by lower pesticide expense. And surprisingly, this part of the advertisement is true too.
So in India, for many crops, there is a choice between GM and poisoning water supply by indiscriminate use of (subsidized) pesticide.
Source and some other concerns http://www.biotech-info.net/bt_cotton_economics.html
All that is true, but most commenters here, probably you too, would have been rejected if they had applied for the post of CEO of Netgear around the same time as this guy.
So questioning the credentials of someone else for commenting on Apple, having less credentials than that guy, and then commenting on Apple anyway? There must be some latin name for this fallacy.
About your market expertise, 1000+ posts on Slashdot surely counts as a negative, because you could have done something productive during that time :). Rest of it seems only a fraction of this CEO of Netgear.
While I almost agree with your analysis, but casting doubt on the guy's credentials is not warranted.
Copying can be innovation if your copy is better. See any Apple product in the past ten years.
Agreed.
Releasing the best AV on the market for free is innovation, even if it is to protect your own system. If it's not innovative, then why can't Kaspersky or Eset or Norton keep up?
Because Microsoft has the source code, and Kaspersky or Eset or Norton do not. Microsoft also has internal discussion records of the time when the vulnerability was introduced - knowingly or unknowingly. Why is that so hard to understand?
On the other hand, it was incredibly shameful that third parties were doing a better job of protecting Microsoft's closed source, closed bug-database, closed internal discussion product earlier. So much so that Microsoft themselves displayed a warning if you ran without anti-virus.
Microsoft isn't really the evil monopoly they used to be. They are oftentimes inept (Zune, Surface, Kin, Vista, Office '07....) but they do have their hits as well (Xbox, Windows 7, MSSE). To deny that really just shows prejudice against them.
Agreed. Though I think their new found non-evil-ness is not from lack of trying.
As for Netgear - they make cheap-ass routers, switches, and home NAS boxes. Where are they getting this market expertise?
As for jht, he makes score 2 comments on slashdot. Where is he getting this market expertise?
Just wanted to say that I think the guy is speaking simply as a person with an opinion, and not as the CEO of Netgear.
1. Very misleading logic. By this logic, I can say mass is independent of mass. Only under a very special condition (same object, no mass altering circumstance change) does mass has a linear relationship of equality with mass.
2. Coming back to normal logic, when one says weight and mass are linearly related, it implicitly means all else remaining equal, weight and mass are linearly related.
So point 1 proves you fail in pedantry. Point 2 proves you fail in common sense.
Unlike the GGP, you seem to have thought about your views a bit. See my reply (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1972610&cid=35048388/ ) to the GGP to a similar question as yours. In essence, it says that the question "why we are here?" is wrong.
Do you know why you exist?
This question can be framed in English language due to a defect in English language. Otherwise, it is not a valid question.
"Why" is a linguistic construct fit to annotate actions, but not events. If some agency deliberately performs some action, it can be asked "why" he/she/it performed the action. Answer to the "why" is "the positive expectation of the agency by performing the action". So far, the ability of deliberately performing actions has only been detected in humans, and in animals in a certain sense.
It should be obvious now that "why" cannot be applied to events. By the very act of asking "why" for an event, you have falsely assumed it to be an action. This compels you to search for an agency that performed the action. That leads you, mistakenly, to God.
Well, for me, Google deliberately degraded the quality of their search engine when they started refreshing the page even while the user is typing. This killed the 1% of the time when I tried this on www.google.com with javascript enabled.
That behaviour was a trap by Google to acquire this power over their users. You surrendered, by gettting used to it.
??? Egg white and milk whey are both white and no low-carb fanatic was ever against it. I guess you met some seriously uneducated low-carb fanatics.
Low-carb frenzy is at least scientifically falsifiable. "Religion" thrives on being non-falsifiable. Hence the comparison is extremely invalid
You haven't tried "modprobe shakespeare" on a robot ever? It is good fun.
Should? Google doesn't agree, obviously. Guess whose idea of "should" has more traction in Google search - yours or Google's.
So many other ways of Google search are popular, and arguably even more convenient than opeing www.google.com and typing in your query, that it isn't even funny.
Search for "ubuntu torrent" and watch as autosuggest/autocomplete completely leaves you flat
But if you want to search for "ubuntu torrent", why not hit "enter" after typing those 2 words?
If I say the flowers come from fairies present in water, does the fact that flowers grow when you water them prove that fairies exist?
Yes, this is conclusive proof of the existence of fairies. Definition of "fairies" is extremely important here.
Notably, no other attributes of fairies have been proven by this experiment - only that fairies in water make flowers grow. No conclusion about the appearances/size/other behaviour/shape or otherwise can be drawn from this experiment.
Hey! I respond strongly to the mood of my dog!!!
The canines in both - control group and experiment group are deprived of their owners. Hence double blind is possible.
I was developing an embedded system for a road-roller. A core-dump in a data structure make the road-roller roll over 10 cute puppies. The symbol of that data structure was realityimpaired. Please don't use this symbol as your /. username.
thanks
Do 1024 cores constitute a kilocore? Or 1000? I'd love to see that debate move from hard disks to processors.
Even a somewhat power-user can do this. A distro can do it trivially.
1. Menu item can run as root by default, then assume the identity of the logged in user. Might need to play with sudoers file a bit, possibly remove "requiretty" option.
2. Use ionice if you are worried about I/O and running linux > 2.6.13.
No, there are more productivity enhancement tools/devices these days than the 40x days. E.g. technology / management techniques etc.
Among technology, computers are an example. Correct usage of such technology can heavily boost the productivity per dollar paid to workers. Incorrect usage could hurt this productivity. The ultimate decision is with CEO or the people controlled by CEO. So 40x has become 1000x. Not surprising.
No, that is because ARSEHOLE is his password. So slashdot makes it * for us but he can see it all right.
I agree and I was very happy to learn its reason one day. I was working on a software product and had a meeting with the product manager (the guy who meets the customers and tells their requirements and points of view to us developers). It was quite a revelation that us developers wanted to give more and more features to the customer, and it was the product manager who is sort of the representative of customers, refused for the features. Reason?
"If you give this feature, I will have to explain this feature to the customers. They will ask so and so questions. In fact one customer that I talked to recently asked me . That is how stupid the customers are, hence no need to add this feature or that."
This was for a reasonably big software company. The most stupid customer drives the requirement. Proprietary software companies never respect the customer. On the other hand, OSS developers respect the customer because they are their own customer. Hence if they can add a feature in reasonable effort, they do.
Exception to this is software for professional use. E.g. pro-engineer / photoshop etc. Professional users of such software rarely know enough about software to be open source software developers in their free time.
I find it rather disturbing the UNIX ideal that sysadmins should be programmers.
There is no such ideal. I guess you are being confused between programming and scripting. Learn the difference and you won't have such disturbing thoughts anymore.