Actually, no. The defendant must either know it is false or show a reckless disregard for the truth of the statement. There need not be malice, only some expectation of an adverse effect.
Sure, testing is important. But if you believe that your testing will catch 100% of subtle bugs, you are delusional. That's why the ability to roll back fast is a good thing. Tools like Puppet work better if you can get the server to boot and not all subtle bugs leave the server in that state.
Special snowflake software that throws a tantrum if some other component version is even one sub minor version different is not wanted here.
I would be happy to see machines put all of us out of work, but not before we make the necessary changes to our economy and society to allow us to live decently without a job.
But TFA was mostly talking about picking machines of unspecified origin. It's amazing how much clearer things become when you spend more time looking for how someone else's comment makes sense than you do looking for the smallest detail to pounce on for chest thumping purposes.
Actually, you can somewhat increase wages to the workers if the people at the top making enough to retire on every single year accept less. It's not as if they're irreplaceable.
Of course, if workers in general make higher wages, their willingness and ability to pay more for strawberries increases as well.
Funny thing, strawberries haven't suddenly gotten harder to grow than they used to be.They don't require any more labor than they ever did. Wages in general haven't kept up with productivity.
The one increase we can measure is the share of wealth held by the very richest people. That has skyrocketed.
One other clue is the note that the workers are moving a level up the chain where they are paid more. That is, more than they make as pickers, but no doubt less than the legal workers the warehouses used to employ. But I also note that strawberries aren't getting cheaper.
Then someformer middle class hacker pwons the killbots and gives them a new mission. Suddenly, the gated communities are full of 0.1%ers roasting on spits.
Actually, it's quite common in the world of machines that might be vaguely important to something to keep the old kernel around when doing an upgrade. That way if some subtle bug shows up weeks later, you have an immediate path to recovery. That is, the ability to get back to a known good kernel.
Jumping forward doesn't do that for you, since the newer kernel will also be untested and probably contains the same bug introduced in the version you had a problem with.
Nobody who values stability in a server wants a monolithic glueball.
Even worse, if they decided they didn't believe you were you, the account would be terminated. And because it was all tied together, it would take youtube, gmail, and your android phone with it. I don't care too much about most of that, but I actually use my phone for real world stuff. I wasn't about to risk getting my address book and apps screwed up just for a google+ account that I might or might not ever post to. That and I'm obe of those people who feels no need to announce my visits to the toilet to 6 billion+ people. I really don't want all of my logins on everything tied together into a bit glueball.
Couple that with Google's policy of never ever letting you talk to a human being no matter what your question or concern might be and there you go, no google+ for me.
Relaxing their policy meant one of two things, they realized they made a mistake, or google+ had lost internal support and would be pining for the fjords any time now.
Sure, but part of that is recognizing the extent of the real world exposure.Imagining it to be limited to a small portion of farmland is not realistic.
I don't think you appreciate the magnitudes involved. Picture the biggest forest fire you've ever heard of. Here's a dime store squirt gun and a canteen. Go put it out. Good luck, we're all pulling for you.
A better approach is to make the copyright holder a legal steward of the work until it enters the public domain. That is, they have a legal duty to maintain it in the best possible form and make sure it gets handed off to interested parties when it enters the public domain. Failure to do so is a breech of the contract resulting in handing all profits from the work during copyright to the public (that is, a massive fine).
If the cost of maintaining the work exceeds the value, they may choose to terminate the copyright early, but must give sufficient public notice.
Actually, it wasn't my statement, but I did defend it as not too far from true.
Because many over 60 have very little experience with computers, you have more knowledge to backfill in order to teach them about computers (starting with de-mystifying the magic box). Again, not a question of intelligence or educability, just a matter of experience.
That will be true for many (more often than not), but clearly is far from universally true.
I suspect, these are simply magic.
I have little doubt most of those things are magic to most people, but through using them for decades, they have learned to deal with them from a black box perspective. The 60 somethings who have recently found a good enough reason to bother with a computer will get there too.
I can see that, but that group was a small minority of people who are now 60+ years old. It's enough that one shouldn't assume a 60+ year old is a computer novice, but not enough to invalidate the claim that most 60+ year olds are less knowledgeable of computers.
Actually, growing up in the cold war did the opposite for me. I see our government doing more and more of the things that made "the Russians" the bad guys. I guess I'm "doublethink impaired".
Based on the last few years, I'd have to say neither one. They seem more interested in listening to the demographic that has millions to billions of dollars under their control.
With cancer, even the very expensive and carefully researched drugs can't guarantee a cure. A lot of people die of cancer while recieving the best treatments known to medicine. That doesn't mean they are worthless.
However, shame on anyone convincing cancer patients to forgo potentially curative medicine in favor of some unproven home remedy.
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Unless, of course, his resume goes into the round file because it doesn't agree with "known" information about him.
Actually, no. The defendant must either know it is false or show a reckless disregard for the truth of the statement. There need not be malice, only some expectation of an adverse effect.
Well, the kernel is fairly important don't you think?
Given a choice between rolling back everything including fixes to critical bugs, I'd sooner roll my init system back to SysV. In fact, I did.
Sure, testing is important. But if you believe that your testing will catch 100% of subtle bugs, you are delusional. That's why the ability to roll back fast is a good thing. Tools like Puppet work better if you can get the server to boot and not all subtle bugs leave the server in that state.
Special snowflake software that throws a tantrum if some other component version is even one sub minor version different is not wanted here.
It's not that far away when you know that an excess of insulin makes you crave carbs and sweets.
I'm sure you'd like to move on. It's not fun when someone calls you out on being an asshole.
Thjjink REALLY hard, where do many things get assembled before sale in the U.S. I know, it hurts your head but it's probably worth it.
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I would be happy to see machines put all of us out of work, but not before we make the necessary changes to our economy and society to allow us to live decently without a job.
But TFA was mostly talking about picking machines of unspecified origin. It's amazing how much clearer things become when you spend more time looking for how someone else's comment makes sense than you do looking for the smallest detail to pounce on for chest thumping purposes.
Actually, you can somewhat increase wages to the workers if the people at the top making enough to retire on every single year accept less. It's not as if they're irreplaceable.
Of course, if workers in general make higher wages, their willingness and ability to pay more for strawberries increases as well.
Funny thing, strawberries haven't suddenly gotten harder to grow than they used to be.They don't require any more labor than they ever did. Wages in general haven't kept up with productivity.
The one increase we can measure is the share of wealth held by the very richest people. That has skyrocketed.
One other clue is the note that the workers are moving a level up the chain where they are paid more. That is, more than they make as pickers, but no doubt less than the legal workers the warehouses used to employ. But I also note that strawberries aren't getting cheaper.
Then someformer middle class hacker pwons the killbots and gives them a new mission. Suddenly, the gated communities are full of 0.1%ers roasting on spits.
Actually, it's quite common in the world of machines that might be vaguely important to something to keep the old kernel around when doing an upgrade. That way if some subtle bug shows up weeks later, you have an immediate path to recovery. That is, the ability to get back to a known good kernel.
Jumping forward doesn't do that for you, since the newer kernel will also be untested and probably contains the same bug introduced in the version you had a problem with.
Nobody who values stability in a server wants a monolithic glueball.
Even worse, if they decided they didn't believe you were you, the account would be terminated. And because it was all tied together, it would take youtube, gmail, and your android phone with it. I don't care too much about most of that, but I actually use my phone for real world stuff. I wasn't about to risk getting my address book and apps screwed up just for a google+ account that I might or might not ever post to. That and I'm obe of those people who feels no need to announce my visits to the toilet to 6 billion+ people. I really don't want all of my logins on everything tied together into a bit glueball.
Couple that with Google's policy of never ever letting you talk to a human being no matter what your question or concern might be and there you go, no google+ for me.
Relaxing their policy meant one of two things, they realized they made a mistake, or google+ had lost internal support and would be pining for the fjords any time now.
We are Intel, The Almighty, but where is Zylog, now?
Zilog is doing just fine producing microcontrollers based on updates to the Z80.
We'll have to see if sudo is installed.
Sure, but part of that is recognizing the extent of the real world exposure.Imagining it to be limited to a small portion of farmland is not realistic.
It's not just in agriculture though. It's hard to find decorative plants that haven't been treated with it.
I believe you must mean the Democans and Republicrats. I see no evidence that either has any intention of butting out of people's lives.
I don't think you appreciate the magnitudes involved. Picture the biggest forest fire you've ever heard of. Here's a dime store squirt gun and a canteen. Go put it out. Good luck, we're all pulling for you.
Now realize that it's nowhere near that easy.
A better approach is to make the copyright holder a legal steward of the work until it enters the public domain. That is, they have a legal duty to maintain it in the best possible form and make sure it gets handed off to interested parties when it enters the public domain. Failure to do so is a breech of the contract resulting in handing all profits from the work during copyright to the public (that is, a massive fine).
If the cost of maintaining the work exceeds the value, they may choose to terminate the copyright early, but must give sufficient public notice.
Would you provide it just run full speed until it burns out?
Actually, it wasn't my statement, but I did defend it as not too far from true.
Because many over 60 have very little experience with computers, you have more knowledge to backfill in order to teach them about computers (starting with de-mystifying the magic box). Again, not a question of intelligence or educability, just a matter of experience.
That will be true for many (more often than not), but clearly is far from universally true.
I suspect, these are simply magic.
I have little doubt most of those things are magic to most people, but through using them for decades, they have learned to deal with them from a black box perspective. The 60 somethings who have recently found a good enough reason to bother with a computer will get there too.
I can see that, but that group was a small minority of people who are now 60+ years old. It's enough that one shouldn't assume a 60+ year old is a computer novice, but not enough to invalidate the claim that most 60+ year olds are less knowledgeable of computers.
Actually, growing up in the cold war did the opposite for me. I see our government doing more and more of the things that made "the Russians" the bad guys. I guess I'm "doublethink impaired".
Based on the last few years, I'd have to say neither one. They seem more interested in listening to the demographic that has millions to billions of dollars under their control.
With cancer, even the very expensive and carefully researched drugs can't guarantee a cure. A lot of people die of cancer while recieving the best treatments known to medicine. That doesn't mean they are worthless.
However, shame on anyone convincing cancer patients to forgo potentially curative medicine in favor of some unproven home remedy.