The average PHB would probably say something along the lines of "You don't use couches that are comfy to sit in because you don't want people lounging in them when they could be working."
Kinda makes sense, I know I'd pass the hell out on a comfy couch.
So when you've got a headache from massive eyestrain from staring at your monitors for hours on end, better to continue to *try* to be less than half-productive for hours, than to take 10 on a comfy couch, and actually be productive... sounds about right, as per this post about why managers fail it.
They like right angles and clean surfaces at Austin-based interactive agency Tocquigny's offices. We do too.
The place looks COLD! Who designed it? The same guy who did Blade Runner's interiors?
6 apart still has mostly a cubicle-world look; the "oh gee we have a place to stash your bicycle, and a couch!" don't change that. It takes more than a few "exposed brick" walls to "give character."
Pixar looks interesting - but how come everyone chooses couches that don't look like they'd be all that comfy to SIT IN???
I don't know - they still all look awfully "corporate".
Actually, on second thought, it makes sense to include references to the Britster in code. For example, when someone f*cks up and just keeps introducing the same bug over and over, we could call them a "Britney Coder" as in "Oops, I did it again!"
Well, you could run a subversion or git server, and alias the rm command so that it saves everything in the filespec, then deletes everything. That gives you the best of both worlds.
ext4 is the biggest waste of time and effort in Linux. There are already good extent based filesystems for Linux. Why anyone would consider using what is an experimental filesystem for a multi TB production filesystem is beyond me.
TFA points out that it's NOT for production use yet.
As for why we want more choice - look what happened with reiserFS. The development environment now only runs in a chroot jail...
So if you want some sort of soft delete, don't use rm or del. Use a tool that 'soft deletes' a file by moving it into a trash bin, which you can 'hard delete' when you need more space. This is how Windows and KDE both work.
Know of a command line tool that fits this description that comes with most *nix distributions?
ext4fs is designed to be used in systems requiring many terabytes of storage and vast directory trees. It is unlikely the common desktop (or even, for that matter, the common server) will see appreciable performance increase with it.
Really? My (comparatively) cheap laptop has 640gig of storage, and when you start getting into video, 640g is NOT enough!
You can buy 2 x 500gig desktop hds for the grand total of $150.
At that price, a terrabyte will be the "new pink" within a couple of years. Just like 2 gigs of ram is now the "norm".
dead people don't really care, one way or another.
They may not care, while now dead, but there are deep ethical concerns here. Very little attention has been given to he ethics of post-death, but an illustrative example might help show that you indeed do have ethical views about your person once you die: would you want someone to rape your dead body? Most people will say "no, absolutely not", but why? It's just your body. See, there are ethics after death.
If I die of some horrible communicable disease, I would like to think that ridding the world of a few necrophiliacs post-humously would be rather cool. How bad can it be, compared to the ass-reaming we get at tax time?
There's no evidence that the "confessed serial killer" actually killed anyone...
As for dating someone who's killed someone else, George Bush *married* someone who killed someone else:
I heard a rumor this past weekend concerning our First Lady, Laura Bush, to the effect that she committed manslaughter at one time by backing over her boyfriend with her car.
Driving is one of the most dangerous activities we engage in, and most of us do it every day, little realizing the peril of it. Every year in the U.S. there are approximately 6.5 million traffic accidents, resulting in about 42,000 fatalities.
This is the story of one of those accidents. It resulted in the death of someone you've never heard of, at the hands of someone you have.
In May 2000, a two-page police report pertaining to a fatal accident that had taken place near Midland, Texas, in 1963 was made public. It contained the information that 17-year-old Laura Welch had run a stop sign, causing the death of the sole occupant of the vehicle hers had struck. According to that report, the future First Lady had been driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on 6 November 1963 when she entered an intersection without heeding the stop sign and there collided with the Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Also in the car with Laura Welch was a passenger, 17-year-old Judy Dykes.
How fast Miss Welch might have been driving is open to question. That part of the police report is illegible, although two biographies of the First Lady refer to her as having been going 50 mph at the time of the collision. The speed limit on that portion of road was 55 mph. According to the police report neither driver had been drinking, but no tests were performed. No charges were filed as a result of the accident.
News accounts from 1963 reported the young man as having been thrown from his car and dying of a broken neck; he was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. According to various biographies of Mrs. Bush, the boy's father had been travelling in a car immediately behind his son's and witnessed the whole thing.
The two teen girls were taken to the same hospital and treated for minor injuries that amounted to bumps and bruises.
Michael Douglas, the young man who was killed, had been a member of Laura Welch's crowd at high school and her friend. He had been a star athlete, excelling in track and football, and was looked up to by his peers not just for his athlete prowess, but for his personality and intelligence too. By all reports, he was likeable, outgoing, and funny. He was nominated as the school's most popular boy while a junior, an honor that almost always went to a senior.
There has always been speculation about the nature of his relationship with Laura Welch. One rumor asserts the two had never dated, but that Laura had been romantically interested in him. Another claims he had been Laura's boyfriend when he died, and another that he had once been her boyfriend but the couple had subsequently broken up.
And have you ever tried to find a minister to perform a duck marriage? You say you want to make an honest duck of her and they look at you like you're crazy.
Weird guy: I want to marry this duck!
Minister: We don't marry ducks here!
Weird guy: I'll make a $10,000.00 donation to the church.
Minister: Why didn't you tell me the duck was a "born again" christian?
Clones like this and the Psystar machine must have Jobs and the other control freaks at Apple screaming bloody murder right now.
I doubt it. The psystar is a *noisy* pc, the first thing most people notice about the iMac is it's QUIET!
People will pay a couple of hundred bucks for quiet, hardware and software support, updates, and the ability to just walk into a brick-and-mortar and pick one up off the shelf, etc.
The purpose of OLPC is not to give third world kids a laptop. It's to give them books. You see, those third world countries don't have an annual budget of $100/student to buy kids textbooks. So, OLPC is an efficient means to deliver e-texts to those kids.
I would tend to agree, except I've noticed that, even though *I* value books, a lot of the next generation don't - the 'net is obsoleting dead trees in many areas. Look at newspaper circulation. Or better yet, remember all those encyclopedia salesmen from decades gone by? Obsolete.
The era of the mandatory overpriced textbook (both the dead-tree and the ebook format) is coming to an end. Ubiquitous laptops, wireless comms, the next energy/resource crunch, and educators with an itch to scratch will see to that.
No one should be allowed to post with more than one account, nevermind actually replying to yourself to make it seem like you have a loyal following. That's just lame
Some of us have an account at work, and a different account at home. Less chance of the home account getting compromised if the work machine gets assigned to someone else/p0wned/whatever.
Actually, it doesn't make sense. Under that scenario, you could have different sub-groups interpreting the specs in varying, contradictory ways, and end up with supposedly "conforming" implementations that break other sub-groups' work. We've already got too much of that in the browser world, and the chief villain has always been Microsoft.
The device doesn't have to run on electricity - the slag can be created after the projectile leaves the rifle barrel, by another charge, same general idea as some current tank-busters.
Because if there is one constant I get from/. is how all these people here can do "X" better than someone else and how "Open Source" can do it even better and for free.
When push comes to shove suddenly its "unreasonable" or will result in a crappy product unless lots of money are spent.
Which is it?
I guess some NASA upper crusts bought into all that forum bragging as if it were meaningful.
It's about "scratching an itch." Nobody in the Open Source world has that particular itch, to "develop an educational game for NASA."
Now a "Where in the world is Nina Sharanova?" game, an FPS (First Person Stabber) where players get to play Hans Reiser...
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So when you've got a headache from massive eyestrain from staring at your monitors for hours on end, better to continue to *try* to be less than half-productive for hours, than to take 10 on a comfy couch, and actually be productive ... sounds about right, as per this post about why managers fail it.
The place looks COLD! Who designed it? The same guy who did Blade Runner's interiors?
6 apart still has mostly a cubicle-world look; the "oh gee we have a place to stash your bicycle, and a couch!" don't change that. It takes more than a few "exposed brick" walls to "give character."
Pixar looks interesting - but how come everyone chooses couches that don't look like they'd be all that comfy to SIT IN???
I don't know - they still all look awfully "corporate".
Actually, on second thought, it makes sense to include references to the Britster in code. For example, when someone f*cks up and just keeps introducing the same bug over and over, we could call them a "Britney Coder" as in "Oops, I did it again!"
Well, you could run a subversion or git server, and alias the rm command so that it saves everything in the filespec, then deletes everything. That gives you the best of both worlds.
TFA points out that it's NOT for production use yet.
As for why we want more choice - look what happened with reiserFS. The development environment now only runs in a chroot jail ...
alias rm='mv $1 /home/$USER/archives/$1'
Really? My (comparatively) cheap laptop has 640gig of storage, and when you start getting into video, 640g is NOT enough!
You can buy 2 x 500gig desktop hds for the grand total of $150.
At that price, a terrabyte will be the "new pink" within a couple of years. Just like 2 gigs of ram is now the "norm".
Satan I can understand (BSD Devil, references to the Beast from Redmond, Chipzilla, etc), but Britney Speares? That's EVIL!
The first amendment doesn't cover theft of resources, scamming, lies, shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre, etc.
The "theft of resources" was already dealt with by people who successfully sued for junk faxes. The first amendment doesn't apply.
The scamming and lies are covered by various legislation that requires truth in advertising.
The "shouting fire" was decided LONG ago ...
Hopefully, this is only going to appeal so that the guy wastes more $$$ and still gets the door slammed on his much-pounded-upon ass.
Most non-trivial programs also need the context they were written in, to be fully grokked.
It wasn't originally a book, but a short story.
Oh, it really IS like a Harry Potter story after all ...
If I die of some horrible communicable disease, I would like to think that ridding the world of a few necrophiliacs post-humously would be rather cool. How bad can it be, compared to the ass-reaming we get at tax time?
There's no evidence that the "confessed serial killer" actually killed anyone ...
As for dating someone who's killed someone else, George Bush *married* someone who killed someone else:
Click the linky for more ...
Don't worry, I heard he's spooning with Bubba and Co. for the foreseeable future.
I can't hear the hd on my laptop, and I rarely hear the fan. The newest 2.5" drives are super-quiet.
Just look at the videos of the psystar - it's NOISY as SHIT after a bunch of bad tacos!!
Weird guy: I want to marry this duck!
Minister: We don't marry ducks here!
Weird guy: I'll make a $10,000.00 donation to the church.
Minister: Why didn't you tell me the duck was a "born again" christian?
I doubt it. The psystar is a *noisy* pc, the first thing most people notice about the iMac is it's QUIET!
People will pay a couple of hundred bucks for quiet, hardware and software support, updates, and the ability to just walk into a brick-and-mortar and pick one up off the shelf, etc.
Some of us have an account at work, and a different account at home. Less chance of the home account getting compromised if the work machine gets assigned to someone else/p0wned/whatever.
Actually, it doesn't make sense. Under that scenario, you could have different sub-groups interpreting the specs in varying, contradictory ways, and end up with supposedly "conforming" implementations that break other sub-groups' work. We've already got too much of that in the browser world, and the chief villain has always been Microsoft.
The device doesn't have to run on electricity - the slag can be created after the projectile leaves the rifle barrel, by another charge, same general idea as some current tank-busters.
It's about "scratching an itch." Nobody in the Open Source world has that particular itch, to "develop an educational game for NASA."
Now a "Where in the world is Nina Sharanova?" game, an FPS (First Person Stabber) where players get to play Hans Reiser ...
What's interesting is what's NOT said ... that, shrunken down to the point where it is man-portable, this makes one really NASTY rifle.