Welcome to the world of international organisations.
Those of us observing the ruthless buying of pro-whaling votes by Japan over the last decade have noticed this one long ago. In that case countries that do not even have a coastline or a single ship registered in their name apply for a membership in the International Whaling Commission with Japanese money and go ahead to vote with a yes.
Unfortunately the dead body of a standard is not sufficiently heavy and smelly so it will be difficult for GreenPeace to dump it on the Microsoft doorsteps http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4627178.st m . Pity actually. It would have been quite fitting.
While the Bible never made it onto the prohibited books list it was a reading which was only recommended to priests roughly till the same time the Church abolished Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Second Vatican Congress AFAIK). Eastern Orthodox church was not any different to that respect. The fact that the official and acceptable Bible for either religion was in a dead language (latin and church slavic respectively) helped to enforce the restriction.
Hint - try to find the Bible in any published curicullum of a school in a Catolic country from the days when Latin was a mandatory subject in whatever the equivalent of a grammar school was at the time. You will not find it.
And where does the Catolic church not allowing its followers to read the Bible fit in? It was taken off the list of reading that is not recommnded to the casual parishioner as recent as the mid-20th century. This is just one example of the top of my head. While the prevailing forms of Christianity, Islam and Buddism are nowdays more or less liberal regarding the availability of religious texts to the casual believer that was not always the case. In fact, for many fringe sects it is still not the case.
Of course, likewise, anything good in Linux and BSD will make it's way into OpenSolaris. This means admitting it. This unfortunately has been contrary to Sun's culture. Just a few examples are Sun not being bothered to care about classless networking, broken loopback aliasing, broken DNS, broken syslog due to continuous persistence on the greateness of the streams vs the world, Eclipse and so on. History shows that Sun is very bad in admitting it is worse than someone else in a particular field and actively accepting a superior implementation. It will drag its feet by all means possible for years.
So IMO the technical superiority of OpenSolaris is totally irrelevant. What is relevant is Sun finally changing its culture to learn to lose gracefully and embrace and extend the winning solution. Frankly investing any time and effort into OpenSolaris before that is a waste of time and effort.
I am not saying which is right or wrong. All I am saying which is readable and who is not.
Linux does shitload of things wrong. F*** up bound sockets with UDP if you use connect() send() instead of sendto is a prime example. I suspect this is the one you are mentioning, but it is not in the aforementioned ipv4/tcp.c. It is in ipv4/udp.c
By the way, I had that submitted as a bug 4 years ago and nobody gave a f***. Similarly, it took me less a couple of hours to wade through the nightmare that is udp.c (where the bug is) and figure it out once HPA (the maintainer of tftpd) pointed out that this is a kernel bug and he does not care and does not want to work around it (typical linux guru attitude by the way). It would have taken me a couple of days to get to the bottom of a similar bug in the solaris IP stack. And just to make the comparison fair it would have taken me 20 minutes for FreeBSD if it ever had anything that stupid.
By the way, as far as these "bad" linux habits are concerned there are plenty of workarounds and some of them are necessary for Solaris as well (which has its own can of worms).
Just to clarify myself. Limited or non-slip does not TRANSFER power. What it does is locking the wheels together and limiting the torque difference between the wheels. As a result they try to spin at the same speed. So while it may look like "transferring" it is preventing power disbalance up to parity. At most you get them equal. Now the selective breaking system can actually transfer power beyond equality. You can apply it to the point where you can actively move the power ratio between wheels around the car.
that transfers power to other wheels when one or more wheels is slipping
Wrong - that DOES NOT transfer power to other wheels. With a normal full slip differential if a wheel start to slip it goes into freewheel and the other wheel stop. As a result you get the classic stuck on one side in the mud picture where one wheel is stopped while the other one is spinning madly. This also to a much lesser extent happens on slippery surfaces and is a primary reason for your car "dancing on ice".
If you block the differential both wheels spin with same speed. This also happens on a limited slip if the difference between them exceeds a certain speed. One problem with this is that tuning this to be "consumer friendly" is a nightmare and some of the well known SUV instabilities are actually caused by this alone (Daihatsu Terios comes to mind here).
Another now obsolete way to do that was for rear wheel drive cars to pull the handbrake. While this does not work any more for front wheel drive Honda, Mini and many others have reinvented this by applying selective breaking to free spinning wheels. There is a similar option on many military all terrain vehicles where you can hit the break on a selected wheel of your choice (or on a selected side). It is quite a strange effect. You break the free spinning wheel and as it encounters resistance the other one starts to spin. As a result the car is no longer skidding.
So can IBM and Sun. Votes at standard bodies are not that expensive. On top of that as the IEEE 802.11 work proves pulling a filibuster at a standard's setting meeting is absolutely trivial. By the time all comments are handled and by the time it is approved most of us will be retired anyway. Nothing to see here, move along.
I would love to see a newbie doing all that guesswork just to recover a fucked MBR.
As someone who has had to recover Solaris software raid out of f*** state on multiple occasions I can ensure you that it did not use to be any better. In fact it was worse. Booting, repopulating devices, devices missing, having your MBT f**** up. Yep. Been there seen that. An all of the great three - linux, bsd and solaris. All of them suck equally bad so I will not recommend a newbie doing any software raid in the first place. Disclaimer - I have not tried opensolaris for this though
I lost, completely lost, 320GB of data due to the piece of shit Truecrypt for Linux, supposedly "stable". If you have 320GB of data, if you are brave enough to play with LVM and software RAID and you also smack TrueCrypt on it. Well... You are expected to have enough clue to have backups... If you do not...
The great about solaris is that it WORKS. Right there and then: it just works. May I suggest that you run a couple of hundred of servers with it in an Internet facing environment first. I have suffered from it and I have seen the lot. F*** up filesystems, MBR cockups, software raid bloopers, applications managing to make the kernel through the Sparc equivalent of GPF from the depth of the scheduler (something linux has not done for a very long time), the lot. Granted it has been a while, and most of it was not under OpenSolaris which has supposedly been "improved". Though as people say, once you get burned you stay away from it.
the scheduler, while this isn't an issue on Solaris. Now do not get me started here either. Since the day of 2.5 every Solaris release has been released with a scheduler that has been heralded as the best and above the rest. In every f*** release the marketing droids has screamed that Solaris is right, everyone else is wrong everyone's else scheduler sucks and Solaris is the best. After that they accepted "everyone else" scheduler concepts in the next release. Sorry mate, people here have not forgotten the abomination of lightweight threads. People have not forgotten the screams of Solaris marketing droids about the greatness of the N:M model. There are also people who have had to program the actual scheduler internal priority tables and retune it for job loads different from default. All of this just to find out that the next release completely fucks it up to move to different semantics from the ground up. Rinse, repeat...
Do you like it or not scheduler is always a flamewar because every scheduler sucks. Just it sucks differently for different people so there will always be one to flame away (especially after failing a testcase miserably).
After a quick check with the russian websites they have played with it for a long time and have thrown it away as useless anyway. Russian fleet units have the design remit to be able to operate in the Arctic ocean and there is no current catapult capable of operating there. It will freeze once in a while and as a result you will lose a plane straight away. At least if the russians are to be believed on the matter this is the primary reason why they went for a ramp and a very short takeoff and landing design. This actually rings true as I have yet to recall any case of seeing an USA carrier group going to exercises anywhere very cold.
While they do not want to confess to it the primary reason is the Hitler/Doenitz/Goering syndrome also known as "everything that flies is mine". It was absolutely the same in Soviet Russia.
Their navy never ordered a pure aircraft carrier so it does not fall under the command of the air force and AA. All of their aircraft carriers are actually aircraft carrying cruisers carrying a significant air-to-surface and naval warfare capability. Same as remit of the Graf Zeppelin in Nazi Germany which had some heavy artillery mounted on it just in case Goering decides to stake its claim to it. This is also the reason why they carry considerably less aircraft than a UK, French or US carrier group. All those Granit missiles on the Kuznetsov (and earlier generations on the Kiev class) take quite a lot of space. This is also one of the reasons why the Navy continued to order special aircraft different from the ones used by the airforce.
The name of their only "proper" carrier is actually quite significant. It is called Admiral Kuznetcov who is renouned for a number of things:
He disobeyed Stalin direct order and put the Soviet Naval forces on red alert on the eve of 22nd of June 1941. As a result the fleet suffered very few casualties with some units like the Black Sea Fleet having no ships lost on the 22nd. Stalin never forgot that and two years after the war he had him demoted, exiled and the heavy line cruiser and aircraft carrier building programme terminated. The nearly finished Soviet Union class heavy cruiser whose hull design was also supposed to be used for the first USSR aircraft carrier was scrapped.
Stalin reinstated him in preparation to WW3 in 1951, but the damage to the fleet was already done. USSR no longer had a shipbuilding programme. Kuznetcov tried to reinstate it only to be demoted and retired soon after Stalin's death in the ensuing power tussle. Zhukov diverted all finances diverted to the army, air force and the development of missile forces.
From there on, the development of navy hardware in Russia practically stalled till the 1970-es when the analysis of the use of carrier groups by US in the Vietnam war reawoke it. By that time it was too late, it was 30 years behind and most navy planners were still afraid to order a proper carrier design.
The OAP has the possibility to elevate his privileges to install an applications and has the instructions on how to do it.
Based on experience the OAPs never ever uses that. He/She always coopts visiting grandchildren to do that. While you can create them an account as well it always ends up being done from the OAP account as well so no need to do that./
In the meantime he/she has 0 privileges on the machine and keeps on using it and it does not break.
By the way - these are simple practical observations on a number of Linux installs done by me or some of my friends for the parents. While they may seem weird, that is the way it turns out to be in real life.
I recently had to try to read the spagetty which is the OpenSolaris TCP implementation and frankly it felt exactly like this "--". Great documentation--; for very line, through the entire monolythic single multimegabyte.c file.
No thanks, compared to that I will actually take BSD any day. That is actually documented. Both outside the code and inside it.
It is quite entertaining to see Murdock making such claims. He actually forgets that the greatest strength of Linux is that most of its codebase is understandable. While it may be missing some high end enterprise bells and whistles a relative newbe can sit down and understand most of the code straight away. Granted, his attempts at coding anything for it may end up being futile, but he will like it none the less. On top of it he has the greatest possible documentation - the code and it is readable.
Solaris codebase is anything but understandable. I have read some of the code and the best way to describe it is "brainnumbing exercise". As such it will always have a limited appeal to any new developer who is facing a choice of where to put his efforts.
This is as far as developers are concerned. And as far as users Solaris is late to the party as well. Apple got there before it.
Same here with the sole difference of Yahoo Mail instead of Google Mail.
I will also add the following trick to this. You can safely test any improvements, configs, desktop settings, locks etc with a 5 year old prior to deployment. If it works and he does not break it, you can safely roll it out onto the unsuspecting golden age population.
Not that they needed as Kiev class aircraft carrying cruisers did not use a steam catapult anyway. They did not need to as all of their aircraft are VTOL. It is just about now they start looking into using steam catapults on the latest generation of aircraft carriers.
It is a classic example of cold war military idiotism playing stupid secrecy games. Reminds me of one of my dad stories. He got forcefully drafted by the Bulgarian Intelligence service (IIRC with KGB involved) to evaluate a number of "highly valuable articles" obtained by "our great spies". These ended up being the foreign presenter notes for an international conference held a couple of weeks prior to that. The idiots from the intelligence service ruffled through the guests luggage and took photocopies of everything they could find including what the guests intended to present. So my dad took the piss and sent them the official copy as well as the official reviewers notes on each of the publications prior to their acceptance for presentation as well as a complaint that they presented him with very low quality material for review and oh, by the way, here is the same thing photocopied properly. IIRC they did not bother him after that.
Simon is a typical manufactured semi-synthetic UK celebrity. Someone suitable for OK, Hello and the like. His track as a producer is laughable. 15 or so albums out of which he got lucky with the Westlife ones.
Is it me having hallucinations or the most commonly undocumented and partially documented settings are the ones that surprise, surprise deal with MicroWhoreShaft compatibility? Closely followed by another renouned standard setting product - WP.
There is an easier way to do it with Linux than live CD. Much higher performance as well.
Start with a full install of Debian or Ubuntu or any other distribution that strictly complies to the fs standard and does not write into/usr. Build it with separate/,/var,usr and use tmpfs/tmp/var/tmp. Install all necessary plugins. Once you are happy with the result switch/usr to read-only mode. Do not give them a root password and provide sudo instructions for the visiting grandchildren if the golden age customer asks them to install something in addition.
This has been tested on a Golden Age customer (my mom) and this setup is the first machine she has had so far that does not require any maintenance. It just works regardless of powercuts, cats sleeping on the keyboard, etc. She had a windows before that and it got trojaned with a dialer hijacker which clocked her an insane phone bill. It also worked 10% of the time. During the rest it was suffering from various windowsy degenerative diseases. Prior to that she had a linux with a normal read-write install and she successfully managed to f*** it up by pressing the power button during fsck a couple of times.
Probably more than 45. 45 is just the cost of the intellectual property for an average GSM phone. The hardware BOM will be at least that much. Add to that the cost of certification, cost of testing (you will not believe how often it is broken), etc. So cost 100+, retail 150+ is more like it for the lowest end. Prices in the 400+ range are the norm for the higher end.
I have found powerpoint to be a walking stick for the people who suck as teachers.
You take your assumptions about the audience and you take them with you to the auditorium. If you are wrong even in the slightest the audience ends up being "shocked and awed" or bored stiff. Neither of this is good.
Further to this even the best projector is merely 1024x768. Some plasma and LCD screens are better, but not by much. All of that is actually worse than a high quality large whiteboard. Further to this, if you work on a whiteboard:
You can actually alter your presentation and change it on the fly.
You are limited by your writing speed. This is actually good. It decreases the likelihood that you can overload the audience.
If you want to assist yourself with a diagram display a overhead projector is still better than a powerpoint:
It provides higher resolution for diagrams compared to the 1024x768
It is much better than powerpoint in providing specific illustrations because it is much easier to use for random addressing.
If you want to assist yourself with non-diagram materials like photos, short clips, slides, etc, powerpoint again sucks rotten eggz.
It is designed for sequential display, not random so bringing up a slide as an illustration ends up in clicking through loads of unrelated slides as well as showing unrelated material from your desktop. This distracts the audience quite a bit and decreases the value of your presentation.
Powerpoint dualhead support and especially keeping the second monitor off is rudimentary. As a result even if you have a proper setup to show illustrative slides without distracting the audience, you cannot really use it.
Add to that the fact that 99% of people writing powerpoint presentations have no clue how to write them and end up brain-raping the user cognition. For example, here is a list of classic powerpoint errors:
The slides must not contain the same material as presented and you must not read from the slide in repetition. This is actually scientifically proven to result in a brainfuck. You provide the same input on the audio and video channels to the brain and the result is that it understands less, not more.
The handouts must contain a full handout view with notes, proper text, explanations, etc and not a printout of the slides. This is same as above actually. The handout is intended as a reference to be read offline and should contain what your presentation contains.
Powerpoint, especially used in the classic idiot way, belongs to the world of marketing and sales where the brainfuck is part of the experience. It belongs in places where you have to deliver very little material while making sure that it sticks in the brain of the victim. It also belongs in a place where you are not in control of the equipment and the same material has to be presented again and again on different equipment in different locations.
Neither of these are descriptive of a classroom environment. Powerpoint does not belong in a classroom.
As far as classroom tech a good very large LCD (or plasma) screen hooked up to a dual head system to show slides selected on the control monitor is probably the only tool worth having. It is simply the modern replacement for a slide projector which has always been one of the best and probably most underused classroom tools (granted a good one with selection of slides by number and less than 10s for slide load used to cost a fortune).
Probably. They were actively looking into alternative designs as far back as 80-es. Probably the coolest was using propellers with a free spinning counterpropeller. 3-5 blades on a main propeller preceded by a free spinning one with twice the number angled to rotate in the opposite direction. As a result you get the flow set up in a way where the main is considerably quieter and considerably more efficient. Loaaaaaaaaaads of caveats in getting it right though so no idea if this has made it into their nowdays submarines. Oh, and they were even more stupid than the USA Navy. The actual idea got first published in their equivalent of Scientific American at the time before the navy realised what it is and slapped top secret all over it.
He is definitely un-'Merican. Wee means small is Glaswegian and the last time I have heard Glasgow is still part of the UK though some fishy characters want it to secede.
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t m . Pity actually. It would have been quite fitting.
Those of us observing the ruthless buying of pro-whaling votes by Japan over the last decade have noticed this one long ago. In that case countries that do not even have a coastline or a single ship registered in their name apply for a membership in the International Whaling Commission with Japanese money and go ahead to vote with a yes.
Unfortunately the dead body of a standard is not sufficiently heavy and smelly so it will be difficult for GreenPeace to dump it on the Microsoft doorsteps http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4627178.s
Correct.
While the Bible never made it onto the prohibited books list it was a reading which was only recommended to priests roughly till the same time the Church abolished Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Second Vatican Congress AFAIK). Eastern Orthodox church was not any different to that respect. The fact that the official and acceptable Bible for either religion was in a dead language (latin and church slavic respectively) helped to enforce the restriction.
Hint - try to find the Bible in any published curicullum of a school in a Catolic country from the days when Latin was a mandatory subject in whatever the equivalent of a grammar school was at the time. You will not find it.
Neah, they will not. Unless we train them first.
And where does the Catolic church not allowing its followers to read the Bible fit in? It was taken off the list of reading that is not recommnded to the casual parishioner as recent as the mid-20th century. This is just one example of the top of my head. While the prevailing forms of Christianity, Islam and Buddism are nowdays more or less liberal regarding the availability of religious texts to the casual believer that was not always the case. In fact, for many fringe sects it is still not the case.
So IMO the technical superiority of OpenSolaris is totally irrelevant. What is relevant is Sun finally changing its culture to learn to lose gracefully and embrace and extend the winning solution. Frankly investing any time and effort into OpenSolaris before that is a waste of time and effort.
I am not saying which is right or wrong. All I am saying which is readable and who is not.
Linux does shitload of things wrong. F*** up bound sockets with UDP if you use connect() send() instead of sendto is a prime example. I suspect this is the one you are mentioning, but it is not in the aforementioned ipv4/tcp.c. It is in ipv4/udp.c
By the way, I had that submitted as a bug 4 years ago and nobody gave a f***. Similarly, it took me less a couple of hours to wade through the nightmare that is udp.c (where the bug is) and figure it out once HPA (the maintainer of tftpd) pointed out that this is a kernel bug and he does not care and does not want to work around it (typical linux guru attitude by the way). It would have taken me a couple of days to get to the bottom of a similar bug in the solaris IP stack. And just to make the comparison fair it would have taken me 20 minutes for FreeBSD if it ever had anything that stupid.
By the way, as far as these "bad" linux habits are concerned there are plenty of workarounds and some of them are necessary for Solaris as well (which has its own can of worms).
Just to clarify myself. Limited or non-slip does not TRANSFER power. What it does is locking the wheels together and limiting the torque difference between the wheels. As a result they try to spin at the same speed. So while it may look like "transferring" it is preventing power disbalance up to parity. At most you get them equal. Now the selective breaking system can actually transfer power beyond equality. You can apply it to the point where you can actively move the power ratio between wheels around the car.
Wrong - that DOES NOT transfer power to other wheels. With a normal full slip differential if a wheel start to slip it goes into freewheel and the other wheel stop. As a result you get the classic stuck on one side in the mud picture where one wheel is stopped while the other one is spinning madly. This also to a much lesser extent happens on slippery surfaces and is a primary reason for your car "dancing on ice".
If you block the differential both wheels spin with same speed. This also happens on a limited slip if the difference between them exceeds a certain speed. One problem with this is that tuning this to be "consumer friendly" is a nightmare and some of the well known SUV instabilities are actually caused by this alone (Daihatsu Terios comes to mind here).
Another now obsolete way to do that was for rear wheel drive cars to pull the handbrake. While this does not work any more for front wheel drive Honda, Mini and many others have reinvented this by applying selective breaking to free spinning wheels. There is a similar option on many military all terrain vehicles where you can hit the break on a selected wheel of your choice (or on a selected side). It is quite a strange effect. You break the free spinning wheel and as it encounters resistance the other one starts to spin. As a result the car is no longer skidding.
So can IBM and Sun. Votes at standard bodies are not that expensive. On top of that as the IEEE 802.11 work proves pulling a filibuster at a standard's setting meeting is absolutely trivial. By the time all comments are handled and by the time it is approved most of us will be retired anyway. Nothing to see here, move along.
As someone who has had to recover Solaris software raid out of f*** state on multiple occasions I can ensure you that it did not use to be any better. In fact it was worse. Booting, repopulating devices, devices missing, having your MBT f**** up. Yep. Been there seen that. An all of the great three - linux, bsd and solaris. All of them suck equally bad so I will not recommend a newbie doing any software raid in the first place. Disclaimer - I have not tried opensolaris for this though
I lost, completely lost, 320GB of data due to the piece of shit Truecrypt for Linux, supposedly "stable". If you have 320GB of data, if you are brave enough to play with LVM and software RAID and you also smack TrueCrypt on it. Well... You are expected to have enough clue to have backups... If you do not...
The great about solaris is that it WORKS. Right there and then: it just works. May I suggest that you run a couple of hundred of servers with it in an Internet facing environment first. I have suffered from it and I have seen the lot. F*** up filesystems, MBR cockups, software raid bloopers, applications managing to make the kernel through the Sparc equivalent of GPF from the depth of the scheduler (something linux has not done for a very long time), the lot. Granted it has been a while, and most of it was not under OpenSolaris which has supposedly been "improved". Though as people say, once you get burned you stay away from it.
the scheduler, while this isn't an issue on Solaris. Now do not get me started here either. Since the day of 2.5 every Solaris release has been released with a scheduler that has been heralded as the best and above the rest. In every f*** release the marketing droids has screamed that Solaris is right, everyone else is wrong everyone's else scheduler sucks and Solaris is the best. After that they accepted "everyone else" scheduler concepts in the next release. Sorry mate, people here have not forgotten the abomination of lightweight threads. People have not forgotten the screams of Solaris marketing droids about the greatness of the N:M model. There are also people who have had to program the actual scheduler internal priority tables and retune it for job loads different from default. All of this just to find out that the next release completely fucks it up to move to different semantics from the ground up. Rinse, repeat...
Do you like it or not scheduler is always a flamewar because every scheduler sucks. Just it sucks differently for different people so there will always be one to flame away (especially after failing a testcase miserably).
After a quick check with the russian websites they have played with it for a long time and have thrown it away as useless anyway. Russian fleet units have the design remit to be able to operate in the Arctic ocean and there is no current catapult capable of operating there. It will freeze once in a while and as a result you will lose a plane straight away. At least if the russians are to be believed on the matter this is the primary reason why they went for a ramp and a very short takeoff and landing design.
This actually rings true as I have yet to recall any case of seeing an USA carrier group going to exercises anywhere very cold.
While they do not want to confess to it the primary reason is the Hitler/Doenitz/Goering syndrome also known as "everything that flies is mine". It was absolutely the same in Soviet Russia.
Their navy never ordered a pure aircraft carrier so it does not fall under the command of the air force and AA. All of their aircraft carriers are actually aircraft carrying cruisers carrying a significant air-to-surface and naval warfare capability. Same as remit of the Graf Zeppelin in Nazi Germany which had some heavy artillery mounted on it just in case Goering decides to stake its claim to it. This is also the reason why they carry considerably less aircraft than a UK, French or US carrier group. All those Granit missiles on the Kuznetsov (and earlier generations on the Kiev class) take quite a lot of space. This is also one of the reasons why the Navy continued to order special aircraft different from the ones used by the airforce.
The name of their only "proper" carrier is actually quite significant. It is called Admiral Kuznetcov who is renouned for a number of things:
From there on, the development of navy hardware in Russia practically stalled till the 1970-es when the analysis of the use of carrier groups by US in the Vietnam war reawoke it. By that time it was too late, it was 30 years behind and most navy planners were still afraid to order a proper carrier design.
No.
The OAP has the possibility to elevate his privileges to install an applications and has the instructions on how to do it.
Based on experience the OAPs never ever uses that. He/She always coopts visiting grandchildren to do that. While you can create them an account as well it always ends up being done from the OAP account as well so no need to do that./
In the meantime he/she has 0 privileges on the machine and keeps on using it and it does not break.
By the way - these are simple practical observations on a number of Linux installs done by me or some of my friends for the parents. While they may seem weird, that is the way it turns out to be in real life.
Great documentation--
.c file.
This is probably correct. With a "--".
I recently had to try to read the spagetty which is the OpenSolaris TCP implementation and frankly it felt exactly like this "--". Great documentation--; for very line, through the entire monolythic single multimegabyte
No thanks, compared to that I will actually take BSD any day. That is actually documented. Both outside the code and inside it.
It is quite entertaining to see Murdock making such claims. He actually forgets that the greatest strength of Linux is that most of its codebase is understandable. While it may be missing some high end enterprise bells and whistles a relative newbe can sit down and understand most of the code straight away. Granted, his attempts at coding anything for it may end up being futile, but he will like it none the less. On top of it he has the greatest possible documentation - the code and it is readable.
Solaris codebase is anything but understandable. I have read some of the code and the best way to describe it is "brainnumbing exercise". As such it will always have a limited appeal to any new developer who is facing a choice of where to put his efforts.
This is as far as developers are concerned. And as far as users Solaris is late to the party as well. Apple got there before it.
Same here with the sole difference of Yahoo Mail instead of Google Mail.
I will also add the following trick to this. You can safely test any improvements, configs, desktop settings, locks etc with a 5 year old prior to deployment. If it works and he does not break it, you can safely roll it out onto the unsuspecting golden age population.
Depends which Yak. If it is the Yak 141 "testicle" grading board it should probably be the first one to be hit.
Not that they needed as Kiev class aircraft carrying cruisers did not use a steam catapult anyway. They did not need to as all of their aircraft are VTOL. It is just about now they start looking into using steam catapults on the latest generation of aircraft carriers.
It is a classic example of cold war military idiotism playing stupid secrecy games. Reminds me of one of my dad stories. He got forcefully drafted by the Bulgarian Intelligence service (IIRC with KGB involved) to evaluate a number of "highly valuable articles" obtained by "our great spies". These ended up being the foreign presenter notes for an international conference held a couple of weeks prior to that. The idiots from the intelligence service ruffled through the guests luggage and took photocopies of everything they could find including what the guests intended to present. So my dad took the piss and sent them the official copy as well as the official reviewers notes on each of the publications prior to their acceptance for presentation as well as a complaint that they presented him with very low quality material for review and oh, by the way, here is the same thing photocopied properly. IIRC they did not bother him after that.
Agree.
Simon is a typical manufactured semi-synthetic UK celebrity. Someone suitable for OK, Hello and the like. His track as a producer is laughable. 15 or so albums out of which he got lucky with the Westlife ones.
What a laugh.
Yep.
Is it me having hallucinations or the most commonly undocumented and partially documented settings are the ones that surprise, surprise deal with MicroWhoreShaft compatibility? Closely followed by another renouned standard setting product - WP.
Examples: shapeLayoutLikeWW8, mwSmallCaps, lineWrapLikeWord6, footnoteLayoutLikeWW8, autoSpaceLikeWord95
There is an easier way to do it with Linux than live CD. Much higher performance as well.
Start with a full install of Debian or Ubuntu or any other distribution that strictly complies to the fs standard and does not write into /usr. Build it with separate /,/var,usr and use tmpfs /tmp /var/tmp. Install all necessary plugins. Once you are happy with the result switch /usr to read-only mode. Do not give them a root password and provide sudo instructions for the visiting grandchildren if the golden age customer asks them to install something in addition.
This has been tested on a Golden Age customer (my mom) and this setup is the first machine she has had so far that does not require any maintenance. It just works regardless of powercuts, cats sleeping on the keyboard, etc. She had a windows before that and it got trojaned with a dialer hijacker which clocked her an insane phone bill. It also worked 10% of the time. During the rest it was suffering from various windowsy degenerative diseases. Prior to that she had a linux with a normal read-write install and she successfully managed to f*** it up by pressing the power button during fsck a couple of times.
Probably more than 45. 45 is just the cost of the intellectual property for an average GSM phone. The hardware BOM will be at least that much. Add to that the cost of certification, cost of testing (you will not believe how often it is broken), etc. So cost 100+, retail 150+ is more like it for the lowest end. Prices in the 400+ range are the norm for the higher end.
I have found powerpoint to be a walking stick for the people who suck as teachers.
You take your assumptions about the audience and you take them with you to the auditorium. If you are wrong even in the slightest the audience ends up being "shocked and awed" or bored stiff. Neither of this is good.
Further to this even the best projector is merely 1024x768. Some plasma and LCD screens are better, but not by much. All of that is actually worse than a high quality large whiteboard. Further to this, if you work on a whiteboard:
- You can actually alter your presentation and change it on the fly.
- You are limited by your writing speed. This is actually good. It decreases the likelihood that you can overload the audience.
If you want to assist yourself with a diagram display a overhead projector is still better than a powerpoint:- It provides higher resolution for diagrams compared to the 1024x768
- It is much better than powerpoint in providing specific illustrations because it is much easier to use for random addressing.
If you want to assist yourself with non-diagram materials like photos, short clips, slides, etc, powerpoint again sucks rotten eggz.Add to that the fact that 99% of people writing powerpoint presentations have no clue how to write them and end up brain-raping the user cognition. For example, here is a list of classic powerpoint errors:
- The slides must not contain the same material as presented and you must not read from the slide in repetition. This is actually scientifically proven to result in a brainfuck. You provide the same input on the audio and video channels to the brain and the result is that it understands less, not more.
- The handouts must contain a full handout view with notes, proper text, explanations, etc and not a printout of the slides. This is same as above actually. The handout is intended as a reference to be read offline and should contain what your presentation contains.
Powerpoint, especially used in the classic idiot way, belongs to the world of marketing and sales where the brainfuck is part of the experience. It belongs in places where you have to deliver very little material while making sure that it sticks in the brain of the victim. It also belongs in a place where you are not in control of the equipment and the same material has to be presented again and again on different equipment in different locations.Neither of these are descriptive of a classroom environment. Powerpoint does not belong in a classroom.
As far as classroom tech a good very large LCD (or plasma) screen hooked up to a dual head system to show slides selected on the control monitor is probably the only tool worth having. It is simply the modern replacement for a slide projector which has always been one of the best and probably most underused classroom tools (granted a good one with selection of slides by number and less than 10s for slide load used to cost a fortune).
Probably. They were actively looking into alternative designs as far back as 80-es. Probably the coolest was using propellers with a free spinning counterpropeller. 3-5 blades on a main propeller preceded by a free spinning one with twice the number angled to rotate in the opposite direction. As a result you get the flow set up in a way where the main is considerably quieter and considerably more efficient. Loaaaaaaaaaads of caveats in getting it right though so no idea if this has made it into their nowdays submarines. Oh, and they were even more stupid than the USA Navy. The actual idea got first published in their equivalent of Scientific American at the time before the navy realised what it is and slapped top secret all over it.
Surely, weapons of mass distraction, right?
He is definitely un-'Merican. Wee means small is Glaswegian and the last time I have heard Glasgow is still part of the UK though some fishy characters want it to secede.