I think this is a silly law. Think about a discussion board. Everything you see and write is visible to everybody else. So what is the point of encrypting the name if it visible to everybody anyway?
(Of course the password must be encrypted, even on the live system, but that is another matter)
All drivers are binary only to those who are not willing to compile, fix, debug and test. ALL, even those on kernel tree as they are not tested either.
Very, very few drivers get into the kernel tree within reasonable time period, several years of driver hell is not INMSHO acceptable.
I have had several years of driver hell, when two or three machines have constantly died because FOSS drivers have stopped working in every kernel security update (which occured about monthly for 8.04).
Now the eee.ko driver which gives 900MHz on Eee701 does not even compile (on 10.04beta). How do you explain it? It is FOSS, I did not "bring it myself", but...
All this because some idiot has religious hate against "proprietary".
Was about to say the same. Besides documentation for the libraries are thousands of pages long (for any modern language), so the point is totally irrelevant.
Who has started a socialist or communist government and where? When?
The claim "this is communist government and therefore poor get a share" and "we give tax cuts to the rich and there will be trickle down effect" (the golden shower economic theory) are far too similar, IMHO - both are given just to keep people quiet and obedient.
Claim that "socialism and communism are ripe for dictatorship" is utterly idiotic, the dictators in the history have used pretty much every excuse there is. S&C were just a new fad to convince people to be oppressed.
Besides, isn't "for the people" better than "for the international company"? There are quite a few examples how international companies buy land etc. in the third world. You can claim "free market means fair price", but it isn't (either).
We should oppose too much power, whether it is accomplished in disguise of communism or money - after all, they are the same.
I mean, suppose I got to be a dictator, would I become a monster? What would be needed to make me nutjob, a coup attempt, an assassination attempt or what? How long does it take, after all it seems to happen very, very fast.
When Chavez won the election he seemed like almost-sane (well, about as sane as any president in S-A, I'd say). Not anymore.
He is, maybe, referring to three phase system where the voltage between the "live" wires is 400 volts. Well, at least in Finland, I do not know Portugal or Italy.
The oven in Finland normally uses three phases, but normal washing machine does not.
I did not want to imply public services should always make economic sense, I'm no libertarian.
I just wanted to point out how ridiculously expensive it is. There might have been a cheaper and more sensible alternative, for example dedicate a road for public services (I have no clue about NYC so I am probably totally off).
Just an example: the town where I live abandoned the plan to build car park under the city centre as the latest estimates run around 50 million (euros). That was for about a thousand places.
The problem is that it was the only plan... now they must start from scratch. Whatever they come up will never pay itself either, but they must do something, hopefully spending a fraction of the 50m.
Sometimes government/city/... get too much "involved" (bribed, promised to contractors, politically cannot-back-up-or-lose-face, etc.) in one or two "trees" (plan) and cannot see the forest.
Thankfully I am seeing a counter movement, very faint but existing. Hopefully soon there will be a station which plays independent and/or less known music too.
So is the increase in efficiency 50% or does the fuel consumption go down by 50%? They seem to claim both, but "unfortunately" good old fashioned elementary math has "problems" with that...
Ubuntu (9.10 or 8.04) has constant updates and approximately once a month a kernel fix, which require a reboot. Some other patches has gotten my system into a state which require[1] reboot. You really need to pay attention much more often than "once every 6 months".
One problem with those articles in science journals is that many of them base their data on the "hockey stick" - which is in very much doubt. Another problem is that there has been pressure to publish only one kind of articles. Some articles claim erroneous results on purpose (both ways)!
Now what they are trying to do, hopefully, is to show the raw data (and metadata, etc.), i.e. to show whether the hockey stick article is valid or not. If it is not (i.e. no warming has happened) then... well, who are the "deniers"? If there is warming (which is likely) it will be very interesting to see how much. Tenth of a degree per 100 years is not much, a degree per 30 years is.
As long as data & metadata is secret we just do not know, which is IMHO untenable. Especially if we are going to base our multi billion dollar decisions on that.
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Just if the forest's environmental value could be calculated by number of trees. But alas!
I think this is a silly law. Think about a discussion board. Everything you see and write is visible to everybody else. So what is the point of encrypting the name if it visible to everybody anyway?
(Of course the password must be encrypted, even on the live system, but that is another matter)
All drivers are binary only to those who are not willing to compile, fix, debug and test. ALL, even those on kernel tree as they are not tested either.
Very, very few drivers get into the kernel tree within reasonable time period, several years of driver hell is not INMSHO acceptable.
I have had several years of driver hell, when two or three machines have constantly died because FOSS drivers have stopped working in every kernel security update (which occured about monthly for 8.04).
Now the eee.ko driver which gives 900MHz on Eee701 does not even compile (on 10.04beta). How do you explain it? It is FOSS, I did not "bring it myself", but ...
All this because some idiot has religious hate against "proprietary".
Was about to say the same.
Besides documentation for the libraries are thousands of pages long (for any modern language), so the point is totally irrelevant.
Who has started a socialist or communist government and where? When?
The claim "this is communist government and therefore poor get a share" and "we give tax cuts to the rich and there will be trickle down effect" (the golden shower economic theory) are far too similar, IMHO - both are given just to keep people quiet and obedient.
Claim that "socialism and communism are ripe for dictatorship" is utterly idiotic, the dictators in the history have used pretty much every excuse there is. S&C were just a new fad to convince people to be oppressed.
Besides, isn't "for the people" better than "for the international company"? There are quite a few examples how international companies buy land etc. in the third world. You can claim "free market means fair price", but it isn't (either).
We should oppose too much power, whether it is accomplished in disguise of communism or money - after all, they are the same.
You are right, we are the slaves of the investment bankers.
I have always wondered how the power corrupts.
I mean, suppose I got to be a dictator, would I become a monster? What would be needed to make me nutjob, a coup attempt, an assassination attempt or what?
How long does it take, after all it seems to happen very, very fast.
When Chavez won the election he seemed like almost-sane (well, about as sane as any president in S-A, I'd say). Not anymore.
So you went to private school and ride on private roads, right.
I bought a brand new computer two weeks ago. Want bet what the OS in it was?
Why? MySQL is a goose laying golden eggs. Why would Oracle kill it?
They will charge for the support and engineering, just like Trolltech and Sun did.
He is, maybe, referring to three phase system where the voltage between the "live" wires is 400 volts. Well, at least in Finland, I do not know Portugal or Italy.
The oven in Finland normally uses three phases, but normal washing machine does not.
I did not want to imply public services should always make economic sense, I'm no libertarian.
I just wanted to point out how ridiculously expensive it is. There might have been a cheaper and more sensible alternative, for example dedicate a road for public services (I have no clue about NYC so I am probably totally off).
Just an example: the town where I live abandoned the plan to build car park under the city centre as the latest estimates run around 50 million (euros). That was for about a thousand places.
The problem is that it was the only plan ... now they must start from scratch. Whatever they come up will never pay itself either, but they must do something, hopefully spending a fraction of the 50m.
Sometimes government/city/... get too much "involved" (bribed, promised to contractors, politically cannot-back-up-or-lose-face, etc.) in one or two "trees" (plan) and cannot see the forest.
How many persons you estimate will use the line daily? A quarter of a million, perhaps? $20 a ride it would never pay itself. I bet taxi is cheaper ...
Just to show how big a number the "18 billion" is.
Back in the 80s radio stations did play music.
Now they play that one song over and over again.
Thankfully I am seeing a counter movement, very faint but existing. Hopefully soon there will be a station which plays independent and/or less known music too.
So is the increase in efficiency 50% or does the fuel consumption go down by 50%? They seem to claim both, but "unfortunately" good old fashioned elementary math has "problems" with that ...
I don't. I'd rather have a system which works than one which needs constant patching.
Linux has the dis-advantage of breaking binary kernel drivers on every kernel update. It is PITA to recompile them (yes, they are FOSS).
What?
Ubuntu (9.10 or 8.04) has constant updates and approximately once a month a kernel fix, which require a reboot. Some other patches has gotten my system into a state which require[1] reboot. You really need to pay attention much more often than "once every 6 months".
[1] The easiest and fastest option.
Some "serial" devices use DTR (etc.) pins for communicating. USB adapters do have difficulties with those.
You are missing the point entirely, apparently on purpose.
The point is, that the "2037" was put there while knowing it is crap. Is there other selected articles or maybe just a bit "adjusted" ones?
One problem with those articles in science journals is that many of them base their data on the "hockey stick" - which is in very much doubt. Another problem is that there has been pressure to publish only one kind of articles. Some articles claim erroneous results on purpose (both ways)!
Now what they are trying to do, hopefully, is to show the raw data (and metadata, etc.), i.e. to show whether the hockey stick article is valid or not. If it is not (i.e. no warming has happened) then ... well, who are the "deniers"? If there is warming (which is likely) it will be very interesting to see how much. Tenth of a degree per 100 years is not much, a degree per 30 years is.
As long as data & metadata is secret we just do not know, which is IMHO untenable. Especially if we are going to base our multi billion dollar decisions on that.
According to the news I have read they will make everything, including raw data (and metadata) open nad freely available to everyone.
How the fuck this can be bad? Because "UN"?
Well ...
Married Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has forced his mistress to
remove her personal blog from the web, according to reports. The
54-year-old CEO has been linked to other women in the past and he is
believed to be either separated or in an open relationship with his
wife Wendy.
How on earth you count "lines of code"???
The .h file had 900 lines and perhaps half of those are "lines of code" (depending what is counted as "code line").
Beside the point, it is extremely misleading to count generated code as "lines of code", for several reasons.
I still do not believe the 100 million figure.
It is quite a lot more than KDE, Gnome, Linux, OpenOffice, a couple of SQLs, GNU utilities and compiler collection put together.
BTW, I did not even bother to check how many lines of code those have (in the ballbark "few millions", take or leave one order of magnitude).
From your example there would need to be about 2 million PID controllers ... which is a tad big figure.