Practically speaking, for sysadmins, whether source is available is not always (or often) going to be terribly relevant.
... allows us to patch bugs or patch to add new features....
At that point, your job is half developer, half admin
I've found a nice chunk of the job of admin is convincing the developer that the problem the users are seeing exists in the code and is not just a system misbehaving.
How do you manage to do things where the advice has mostly become outdated or obsolete in 3 years? Have you considered that maybe you focus way too much on ephemeral crap?
Welcome to the world of technology. That's how it works. I'm not searching for how to shoe a horse. I'm looking for the best way to fix the broken glass on my phone, product reviews for holidays gifts, etc.
Yeah, poor people who were there in pockets of land when and where rents were reasonable, before a bunch of yuppies drove rents and commoddities through the roof, don't like expensive cities? Pack your shit on your Ford Pinto or bicycle and move 3000 miles across the country! It's easy! Anybody can do THAT!
No one said it was easy. But yeah, people in the US used to do that quite a bit, before we decided that sitting at home and whining was easier instead.
Or, maybe they'll just learn to like dirty streets. Just look at NYC. There's lots of very wealthy people there who don't seem to mind that the sidewalks are all nasty and it smells like a sewer.
Ah! I can tell you've smelled Market Street in SF then.:-)
All the usual illusions to make people think you care about them and their lives, when really you only wanted power and money and control over everyone else.
What a sad, angry life you must live if you can't think of people in any other vein.
Altruism is an extremely poor choice to base your living off of, yes.
2) Buy stuff with money you don't have
Mobility has been the story of the people of this country for hundreds of years. Some people starved in the dust bowl, while others had the sense to get out. Some people go where jobs are, and they arrive with nothing more than the shirt off their back.
Of course it does. The GNU foundation acknowledges it's use/need of copyright while simultaneously working to make such copyright systems unnecessary. The GPL relies upon the notion that if you do not agree to the GPL, the GPLed code reverts to standard copyright, making it illegal to integrate that code into a released proprietary work.
Cost is relative. I've done it all myself, but the time it took to write the scripts and maintain them for changes wasn't cost effective for me once it was no longer an interesting problem to solve.
I used to use MythTV as well, and I don't miss having to fiddle with it, or get annoyed with MythTV's then-buggy interface. When I found out MythTV was incapable of using the cable cards that were the only way to decrypt my cable company's HD channels, I went with Tivo.
You must work for DirecTV. I guess you don't have anything better to do than troll Slashdot. Maybe you could watch TV since you don't have anything else going on.
The grandparent post points out a huge problem with the streaming model (mostly that selection is absolutely terrible). You can pretend that it's not a problem, but it's one of the two biggest reasons why those of us who aren't on the streaming bandwagon don't like it.
Straw that broke the camel's back for me was several hours of CSI on Spike TV every weekday after work
And that's how the DVR changed my life. Now I have 40+ hours at any time of shows I actually like and -want- to watch, ready for viewing. No more cruising through listings looking for something to watch. I'm not nearly as aware now of the day and time of the shows I like to watch air. I'm usually busy on many weeknights, so I've gotten divorced from the notion that I have to watch things live.
What's on TV right now? I never care, and it's not because I don't like watching TV.
Whoa, wait a second, how rich do you think the owners actually are? Yeah, they are pretty rich, but I think you're underestimating the enormous cost of a high-quality stadium. Just about every large structure requires investment firms to front the money; they don't have the owner paying out of pocket.
Now the question of course is... why aren't stadiums able to get enough private investment? My guess is because at the moment, team owners can get away with public investment. The cities are desperate enough for the substantial revenue stream (depends on the team, but yes, that revenue stream is pretty substantial) that the public will vote such deals in. You see the same thing with Twitter and other companies that have gotten good deals from their host cities. Cities like the people they bring in and feel the benefits from that are worth the payout.
Unless of course you meant you were going to pick up your whole family and move to somewhere with a stronger economy?
It surprises me that something that used to be common in down times is now just considered laughable. I thought technological advancement was supposed to make us more mobile.
Have you ever heard the phrase "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime?" That's exactly what's wrong with your proposal.
The problem I have is when you bail out a company, you reward its bad behavior (or ignorance). Rather than learning how to fish, the company knows that it can sit beside the ice hole and do nothing and eventually someone else will come by and give it a fish.
So really you're on the bad end of the analogy whatever you do.
The government should not have allowed mergers into just 3 companies anyhow. If there were say 7 or so car companies, then one or two failing wouldn't topple the whole north.
100% agree. If something is "too big to fail," then it's too big to be allowed to exist in its current form. We seem to be ok at handling that first part, but the second is just as necessary.
You could sack the entire top tier of every Fortune 500 company tomorrow and there'd be plenty enough equally or even more competent people lining up to replace them for only a fraction of their salaries.
Yes, well, after a few years of the economy tanking, it managed to take out GM.
GM managed to do that on its own by building poor quality cars that people didn't want anymore. After years of losing ground to the Japanese and Germans, GM had little to rely on when the housing bubble burst.
They also provided for that retirement abomination known as the pension, which was basically kicking the can down the road 30-40 years to let the next generation worry about it.
Also, benefits. Health care is staggeringly expensive compared to the old days, partly due to rising costs, and partly due to better coverage and more advanced procedures.
So your a "real true" GOD, but your scared that the little people will think someone else is god and not you? Insecure baby much?
I suppose if you're God, you have the right to act in a way that your followers might classify as being an insecure baby. If you're responsible for existence, life, and thought, and anything and everything regarding morality flows from you, then such a classification would be your mistake, and you should adjust as such.
Unless this is one of those weird mistranslations, I think Jehovah even admits as such: "I am a jealous god.."
Myself, I felt that a god that acts the way the Old Testament lord acts isn't worth worshipping.
Bin Laden's stated goal for 9/11 was to bankrupt Western powers (the US specifically) until they can no longer afford to keep Muslim holy lands under "oppression."
The outrages he listed were support for "attacks against Muslims" in Chechnya, Kashmir, Somalia (though he said nothing about the aid given to Muslims in Serbia. To Bin Laden, if a non-Muslim and a Muslim fight, the Muslim is always right), support of Israel, presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, Iraqi sanctions. Well, the sanctions are gone, but not quite for the reasons he would have wanted.
Forcing Americans to replace the Constitution with Sharia law? To convert or die? While he might have agreed with those goals, he didn't set them out as a rationale for major terrorist operations. It would have made no sense.
The gods of theistic religions tend to act like petulant, primitive children. Guess who most religions were invented by?
I'm guessing because if the God of the religion was true, then the others would naturally be false. Worshipping of non-existent gods would be seen as ungrateful rejection.
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... allows us to patch bugs or patch to add new features....
At that point, your job is half developer, half admin
I've found a nice chunk of the job of admin is convincing the developer that the problem the users are seeing exists in the code and is not just a system misbehaving.
Have you seriously posted 6 times in this thread to say the same thing?
How do you manage to do things where the advice has mostly become outdated or obsolete in 3 years? Have you considered that maybe you focus way too much on ephemeral crap?
Welcome to the world of technology. That's how it works.
I'm not searching for how to shoe a horse. I'm looking for the best way to fix the broken glass on my phone, product reviews for holidays gifts, etc.
Yeah, poor people who were there in pockets of land when and where rents were reasonable, before a bunch of yuppies drove rents and commoddities through the roof, don't like expensive cities? Pack your shit on your Ford Pinto or bicycle and move 3000 miles across the country! It's easy! Anybody can do THAT!
No one said it was easy. But yeah, people in the US used to do that quite a bit, before we decided that sitting at home and whining was easier instead.
Or, maybe they'll just learn to like dirty streets. Just look at NYC. There's lots of very wealthy people there who don't seem to mind that the sidewalks are all nasty and it smells like a sewer.
Ah! I can tell you've smelled Market Street in SF then. :-)
All the usual illusions to make people think you care about them and their lives, when really you only wanted power and money and control over everyone else.
What a sad, angry life you must live if you can't think of people in any other vein.
1) Fuck altruism
Altruism is an extremely poor choice to base your living off of, yes.
2) Buy stuff with money you don't have
Mobility has been the story of the people of this country for hundreds of years. Some people starved in the dust bowl, while others had the sense to get out. Some people go where jobs are, and they arrive with nothing more than the shirt off their back.
So you think a libertarian government is going to care about hunting people down for copying CDs and DVDs?
Enforcing property law is one of the few things that libertarians think the government is actually supposed to do.
You can argue whether libertarians believe 'intellectual property' is just as deserving as physical property. I haven't heard either way.
Linux depends on copyright for their operation.
Of course it does. The GNU foundation acknowledges it's use/need of copyright while simultaneously working to make such copyright systems unnecessary.
The GPL relies upon the notion that if you do not agree to the GPL, the GPLed code reverts to standard copyright, making it illegal to integrate that code into a released proprietary work.
Cost is relative. I've done it all myself, but the time it took to write the scripts and maintain them for changes wasn't cost effective for me once it was no longer an interesting problem to solve.
I used to use MythTV as well, and I don't miss having to fiddle with it, or get annoyed with MythTV's then-buggy interface. When I found out MythTV was incapable of using the cable cards that were the only way to decrypt my cable company's HD channels, I went with Tivo.
You must work for DirecTV. I guess you don't have anything better to do than troll Slashdot. Maybe you could watch TV since you don't have anything else going on.
The grandparent post points out a huge problem with the streaming model (mostly that selection is absolutely terrible). You can pretend that it's not a problem, but it's one of the two biggest reasons why those of us who aren't on the streaming bandwagon don't like it.
Straw that broke the camel's back for me was several hours of CSI on Spike TV every weekday after work
And that's how the DVR changed my life. Now I have 40+ hours at any time of shows I actually like and -want- to watch, ready for viewing. No more cruising through listings looking for something to watch. I'm not nearly as aware now of the day and time of the shows I like to watch air. I'm usually busy on many weeknights, so I've gotten divorced from the notion that I have to watch things live.
What's on TV right now? I never care, and it's not because I don't like watching TV.
when the team owner could easily afford it
Whoa, wait a second, how rich do you think the owners actually are? Yeah, they are pretty rich, but I think you're underestimating the enormous cost of a high-quality stadium. Just about every large structure requires investment firms to front the money; they don't have the owner paying out of pocket.
Now the question of course is... why aren't stadiums able to get enough private investment? My guess is because at the moment, team owners can get away with public investment. The cities are desperate enough for the substantial revenue stream (depends on the team, but yes, that revenue stream is pretty substantial) that the public will vote such deals in. You see the same thing with Twitter and other companies that have gotten good deals from their host cities. Cities like the people they bring in and feel the benefits from that are worth the payout.
Unless of course you meant you were going to pick up your whole family and move to somewhere with a stronger economy?
It surprises me that something that used to be common in down times is now just considered laughable. I thought technological advancement was supposed to make us more mobile.
Have you ever heard the phrase "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime?" That's exactly what's wrong with your proposal.
The problem I have is when you bail out a company, you reward its bad behavior (or ignorance). Rather than learning how to fish, the company knows that it can sit beside the ice hole and do nothing and eventually someone else will come by and give it a fish.
So really you're on the bad end of the analogy whatever you do.
The government should not have allowed mergers into just 3 companies anyhow. If there were say 7 or so car companies, then one or two failing wouldn't topple the whole north.
100% agree. If something is "too big to fail," then it's too big to be allowed to exist in its current form. We seem to be ok at handling that first part, but the second is just as necessary.
Oye. What is it about economics that draws all the armchair "experts"? You don't see any armchair surgeons.
Because Economics is far more subjective than, say, surgery. A look at the Nobel Prize winners in Economics should tell you that.
You could sack the entire top tier of every Fortune 500 company tomorrow and there'd be plenty enough equally or even more competent people lining up to replace them for only a fraction of their salaries.
Hahaha, that's funny!
Does betting your pension on the rigged crap shoot called the Stock Market seem like a god idea?
Yes. Absolutely it does.
Far far better and safer to go the 401k route than the pension system.
Yes, well, after a few years of the economy tanking, it managed to take out GM.
GM managed to do that on its own by building poor quality cars that people didn't want anymore. After years of losing ground to the Japanese and Germans, GM had little to rely on when the housing bubble burst.
Unions provided higher wages back then.
They also provided for that retirement abomination known as the pension, which was basically kicking the can down the road 30-40 years to let the next generation worry about it.
Also, benefits. Health care is staggeringly expensive compared to the old days, partly due to rising costs, and partly due to better coverage and more advanced procedures.
So your a "real true" GOD, but your scared that the little people will think someone else is god and not you?
Insecure baby much?
I suppose if you're God, you have the right to act in a way that your followers might classify as being an insecure baby. If you're responsible for existence, life, and thought, and anything and everything regarding morality flows from you, then such a classification would be your mistake, and you should adjust as such.
Unless this is one of those weird mistranslations, I think Jehovah even admits as such: "I am a jealous god.."
Myself, I felt that a god that acts the way the Old Testament lord acts isn't worth worshipping.
For lots of other countries, that would have been a week or two of attacks.
Eh, terrorists taking down 110-floor skyscrapers is pretty newsworthy no matter what the country.
Bin Laden's stated goal for 9/11 was to bankrupt Western powers (the US specifically) until they can no longer afford to keep Muslim holy lands under "oppression."
The outrages he listed were support for "attacks against Muslims" in Chechnya, Kashmir, Somalia (though he said nothing about the aid given to Muslims in Serbia. To Bin Laden, if a non-Muslim and a Muslim fight, the Muslim is always right), support of Israel, presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, Iraqi sanctions. Well, the sanctions are gone, but not quite for the reasons he would have wanted.
Forcing Americans to replace the Constitution with Sharia law? To convert or die? While he might have agreed with those goals, he didn't set them out as a rationale for major terrorist operations. It would have made no sense.
The gods of theistic religions tend to act like petulant, primitive children. Guess who most religions were invented by?
I'm guessing because if the God of the religion was true, then the others would naturally be false. Worshipping of non-existent gods would be seen as ungrateful rejection.