Actually yast is the reason why lots of people hate suse.
Yast is really slow and a huge resource hog when it comes to package management or software updating time. It was really slow in the 10.2 days and apparently a dev said 10.1 was slower than 10.2 when I complained.
In 10.2 it's not unusual for yast to use up about 200MB of memory just to open the package management screen (and take nearly a minute or more to do it).
I'm fine with the idea of yast (some don't like the idea), but it needs to be much faster and less of a hog.
I heard the freezes are due to some scheduler thing they did - rather than all processes competing equally, you have some weird situation where programs that have root and user instances have problems with one starving out the other.
Actually you could see the Matrix in a different way.
Why should we take that "battery thing" as the real truth?
It makes more sense if you see that the "scorched world with humans as batteries" reality they are "living" in is not the "real reality" either - after all that could explain why Neo could do the stuff he did in that "real world".
And that the whole thing is part of the Oracle's/machines plan to hybrid people and machines and upgrade herself.
She believes there's something that humans have that the machines don't (it's not the bodies of humans that make them different, but something else), and Neo's part of the plan and so's Smith - she feeds cookies to Neo and after each time Neo eats the cookies he "upgrades" in his abilities. She didn't lose herself entirely in Smith. Smith went around merging with humans and finally Neo. Then they restarted a new instance, this time perhaps an upgraded Oracle;).
I believe this is just Brownback doing the usual politician thing. Olympics time + Evil China = political mileage.
Hotel internet access in china has been censored and _logged_ for a long time already. It's been the law and requirement there. It's not just because it's the Olympics.
I know this because the company I work for does internet access for hotels. Some countries (Singapore, China, Italy) logging is mandatory, seems in other countries logging is illegal (Taiwan?). So we try to comply to each country's laws the best that we can. And even if you don't, they mess with some dns packets anyway, so you always get a particular IP when doing dns lookups for some sites.
You can use a VPN if you want to bypass all that, but be careful if you use your Employer's VPN, your employer could be logging your internet access too.
If you're surfing the web in a 5 star hotel in China, who should you be more afraid of - China or your Employer?
You should probably use your own VPN where possible if you're doing non-work related stuff.
"The intent is now just cause you pain and that is well wrong"
I believe it is not legal for cops to mete out extra-judiciary punishments. There has to be due process - e.g. arrest, trial, sentencing then punishment only if found guilty.
Cops are only human, so it's understandable if they get pissed off and give an extra zap or so "just to make sure". But in those notorious taser videos it sure seems like they're doing a lot more than one or two extra zaps.
Cops "teaching somebody a lesson" with a taser is clearly illegal.
Cops don't tase people armed with knives. They shoot them full of holes with guns. If they do things properly they might actually give a warning first and only shoot if necessary.
It's pretty obvious that tasers are only used when cops don't think they are in significant danger, otherwise it's gun them down time. There are cases where cops blow away people trying to show them ID or are just carrying something they just bought.
As for avoiding conflict. It'll help if somebody worked out better "protocols" so that people and cops can interact nonlethally in "charged" situations, and perhaps even avoid escalating things to an arrest.
Currently many police forces appear to have a very antagonistic relationship with civilians - even noncriminal civilians. Such police forces should seriously keep in mind the "Peelian principles":
The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon the public approval of police actions. Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observation of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public. The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force. Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law. Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient. Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent upon every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions, and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.
"The leadership of Iran is just insane enough to USE the bomb they are making"
How are they going to reach USA with that bomb? Their longest range missile does not reach the USA.
They could nuke Israel, but the last I checked Israel has no oil, so why should the USA care so much? The USA could just wait for Iran to nuke Israel, then take over Iran (or nuke it) - it will then have a valid excuse.
They could smuggle the bomb to the USA, but hey so can everyone else.
There are already nukes floating around that countries can buy, and smuggle into the USA, all without the nukes touching home soil. So if smuggling it in is so easy maybe the USA should fix that.
Possession of nukes is a valid defensive strategy especially with the USA doing the stuff it does. I'd say countries at risk need nukes.
It is easier for the current regime to stay in power because of all the USA's sabre rattling.
The scenario to worry about is where Israel nukes Iran (because Iran gives them sufficient excuse to). That would definitely screw up the oil supply, and that's really bad news to the USA.
From the transcript, if Hansen considers himself a member of the intellectual elite and still resorts to that sort of reasoning and argument, then I must be a super genius;).
Even if the elitist lawyers run the country, they are supposed to make a better show of it and make it look like the law runs the country. Rather than some stupid show of hands in some debate.
When the people who run the country can't be bothered to do it "the proper way", then that's evidence of their arrogance, laziness and unbridled contempt for the people they rule over.
And they call themselves the "intellectual elite"...
"What we need is an acceptable definition of spamming"
I don't mind spam as long as they stuck to not telling lies.
Most spam I see has one or more of the following lies:
1) False return address and sender (recently one of them used my email address as return address) 2) False Subject 3) False names 4) False content e.g. "Email me at xxxx@yyy only, because I am using my friend's email to write this"
When someone has to lie so much it should be pretty obvious they are doing something wrong, even they themselves know they are doing something wrong (otherwise why use someone else's email address instead of their own?).
They just lie to themselves and others that they aren't doing something wrong.
I believe fraud is lying for personal gain.
I doubt fraud is protected speech yet.
I suppose we don't normally categorize political campaign speeches as fraud, but they do seem to fit:).
What they should actually do is start building those spinning space stations that people can actually live on long term without "wasting away" due to weightlessness or getting radiation sickness.
Once you can do that, then you can send people to Mars or the asteroid belt. People are no longer stuck on earth - they can feasibly live in space.
Then people can build telescopes in space if they want - even if it takes a while - the sun and asteroids will be around for quite some time still.
As it is, I think we're doing things the wrong way round - talking about building huge telescopes in space, going to Mars etc. Like trying to jump before being able to crawl or walk.
A space elevator would be nice, but perhaps it's easier to do the space station stuff first.
"The best is to provide good defaults, with particular emphasis on plurality"
Uh and which of the multiple "default" sets is the default set? Shouldn't be random. Think hard about it again.
It's a bit like huffman compression (decision tree compression) as I've mentioned in my other post - the fewer decisions most users have to make the better.
The lazy and crappy way would be:
Default config and: Advanced config - with a huge list of options.
Whereas if you put a lot more thought into it, you could do:
Default config and a) Second most popular config (Description here) b) Third most popular config (Description here) c) See more popular config schemes. d) Custom config (with "normal" custom config but also has an option to show the scarier Custom Advanced Config).
I am not a UI designer but there definitely has to be a default (or a "default default";) ), forcing a user to choose without providing a default is 99% of the time a _cop_out_ and poor design.
"A single set of good defaults can only make a fraction of everyone happy"
I think most people are like most other people. It can take a lot of effort and thought by people with clue and taste, so it's not easy.
Sure not everyone wants a Big Mac, but most people who buy a Big Mac don't really care about customizing it. Not everyone wants Microsoft Word, but most people who buy Microsoft Word don't really care about customizing it.
Sure stuff could be better for them, but that's missing the point.
Most people don't care about having the best hammer for them when they just want to get a nail into piece of wood. A good default hammer will do. If you think a default hammer is obvious, think again. A good default hammer for humans might be obvious for humans, but you should consider what a default hammer should look like for an octopus or dolphin. Many programmers seem to be very different creatures from their target users and don't seem to know or care what the "default hammer" should look like for their target users.
OSS users typically get: a) Poor defaults and zillions of options (or worse just zillions of themes) or b) Only One True Way (really bad if combined with poor defaults).
Holding a gun increases a person's risk of committing a violent crime - for example killing someone.
Driving a car automatically increases a person's risk of killing someone.
Fact is some people can drive fine after 2 drinks, some can drive fine after 5 drinks, some can barely drive after 0 drinks. Same goes for cellphone usage - there are many people who can't drive and talk at the same time (hands free or not), whereas I believe some cops definitely have to drive and talk at the same time - especially when in pursuit of some criminal;).
It's just impractical to test and certify people who can drive while drunk with blood alcohol at X points. So you draw a line somewhere even if it's silly, it's less silly to have a few lines drawn, than hundreds of lines drawn.
Maybe it's less silly to have a license for people who can drive while talking (or even sending text messages) over a cellphone - you can test and certify them, just like you do for people who need to drive special vehicles.
In some cases I don't think they need to add additional logic. They may just need certain stuff to fail when a particular sequence of radio frequencies, or pulses are detected.
"Vista also intelligently manages and virtualizes VRAM to system RAM"
It's still going to be than the real thing. Show me how fast Vista runs Crysis on a fast 256MB/512MB card compared to a fast 1GB card at high res with AA on.
And that virtual video RAM seems to mean that if you have 2GB of real RAM, Vista takes 1GB for the O/S, and 512-1GB for the vidcard and that leaves you with nothing much left over for the game.
As long as the O/S is still 32bit you'll also have the problem of only 4GB of easily addressable space. So no point installing 4GB of system RAM on your board. You might as well stick to 2 or 3GB system RAM and spend the extra money on a video card with real video RAM.
So it's a good idea to ignore that crap till 64 bit O/Ses become mainstream.
Lastly, I don't seem to have problems running multiple 3D apps at the same time on Win2K. So what's the big deal?
"It's just an abundance of extra options would be overwhelming"
Pick decent defaults, and hide the extra options under "advanced settings". If you pick decent defaults most normal users won't need to visit "advanced settings" and be overwhelmed by them.
This way if you got the defaults wrong at least it's not such a big problem - people can change it, and you can change the defaults in the next release.
Decent defaults are critical.
It's a bit like having decent huffman coding - decision tree compression.
The fewer decisions most users need to make to do what most of them want, the more likely it is considered easy to use.
But if you don't allow extra UI options at all, you blow away a whole section of the decision tree and you risk making some things very hard or impossible for users.
A lot of alleged UI people seem to think removing whole sections of the decision tree = making things user friendly.
That's wrong. You can remove whole sections of the decision tree because your programmers don't have enough time and/or will to make it sanely configurable even by advanced users, but don't fool yourself into thinking it makes things user friendly.
Losing a previously available feature = very user unfriendly.
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Actually yast is the reason why lots of people hate suse.
Yast is really slow and a huge resource hog when it comes to package management or software updating time. It was really slow in the 10.2 days and apparently a dev said 10.1 was slower than 10.2 when I complained.
In 10.2 it's not unusual for yast to use up about 200MB of memory just to open the package management screen (and take nearly a minute or more to do it).
I'm fine with the idea of yast (some don't like the idea), but it needs to be much faster and less of a hog.
OK bothered to relook it up, could be this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/188226
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/177713
I heard the freezes are due to some scheduler thing they did - rather than all processes competing equally, you have some weird situation where programs that have root and user instances have problems with one starving out the other.
Actually you could see the Matrix in a different way.
;).
Why should we take that "battery thing" as the real truth?
It makes more sense if you see that the "scorched world with humans as batteries" reality they are "living" in is not the "real reality" either - after all that could explain why Neo could do the stuff he did in that "real world".
And that the whole thing is part of the Oracle's/machines plan to hybrid people and machines and upgrade herself.
She believes there's something that humans have that the machines don't (it's not the bodies of humans that make them different, but something else), and Neo's part of the plan and so's Smith - she feeds cookies to Neo and after each time Neo eats the cookies he "upgrades" in his abilities. She didn't lose herself entirely in Smith. Smith went around merging with humans and finally Neo. Then they restarted a new instance, this time perhaps an upgraded Oracle
I believe this is just Brownback doing the usual politician thing. Olympics time + Evil China = political mileage.
Hotel internet access in china has been censored and _logged_ for a long time already. It's been the law and requirement there. It's not just because it's the Olympics.
I know this because the company I work for does internet access for hotels. Some countries (Singapore, China, Italy) logging is mandatory, seems in other countries logging is illegal (Taiwan?). So we try to comply to each country's laws the best that we can. And even if you don't, they mess with some dns packets anyway, so you always get a particular IP when doing dns lookups for some sites.
You can use a VPN if you want to bypass all that, but be careful if you use your Employer's VPN, your employer could be logging your internet access too.
If you're surfing the web in a 5 star hotel in China, who should you be more afraid of - China or your Employer?
You should probably use your own VPN where possible if you're doing non-work related stuff.
Yep, you're right there are some results that show cops taking down armed people in the USA.
So yeah, they now have an option.
BTW from some of those results it looks like lots of cops are also using tasers instead of just asking people to comply and waiting.
Killed by lag...
That's in the UK, where the cops don't generally have guns.
See the thing is, is the taser effective?
If it really is effective, then they shouldn't need to tase people so many times to get them under control.
What I don't understand is how cops expect people not to move if you electrocute them. "Hold still while I zap you".
"The intent is now just cause you pain and that is well wrong"
I believe it is not legal for cops to mete out extra-judiciary punishments. There has to be due process - e.g. arrest, trial, sentencing then punishment only if found guilty.
Cops are only human, so it's understandable if they get pissed off and give an extra zap or so "just to make sure". But in those notorious taser videos it sure seems like they're doing a lot more than one or two extra zaps.
Cops "teaching somebody a lesson" with a taser is clearly illegal.
Never underestimate someone armed with a knife.
Cops don't tase people armed with knives. They shoot them full of holes with guns. If they do things properly they might actually give a warning first and only shoot if necessary.
It's pretty obvious that tasers are only used when cops don't think they are in significant danger, otherwise it's gun them down time. There are cases where cops blow away people trying to show them ID or are just carrying something they just bought.
As for avoiding conflict. It'll help if somebody worked out better "protocols" so that people and cops can interact nonlethally in "charged" situations, and perhaps even avoid escalating things to an arrest.
Currently many police forces appear to have a very antagonistic relationship with civilians - even noncriminal civilians. Such police forces should seriously keep in mind the "Peelian principles":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles
The basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder.
The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon the public approval of police actions.
Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observation of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public.
The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.
Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.
Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient.
Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent upon every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions, and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.
The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.
Bringing Surgical Robots Into the Mainsteam?
Sure sounds like a promising Anime scenario: robots, surgery, steam.
Just throw a few pretty high school girls in sailor suits and you have a winner.
"The leadership of Iran is just insane enough to USE the bomb they are making"
How are they going to reach USA with that bomb? Their longest range missile does not reach the USA.
They could nuke Israel, but the last I checked Israel has no oil, so why should the USA care so much? The USA could just wait for Iran to nuke Israel, then take over Iran (or nuke it) - it will then have a valid excuse.
They could smuggle the bomb to the USA, but hey so can everyone else.
There are already nukes floating around that countries can buy, and smuggle into the USA, all without the nukes touching home soil. So if smuggling it in is so easy maybe the USA should fix that.
Possession of nukes is a valid defensive strategy especially with the USA doing the stuff it does. I'd say countries at risk need nukes.
It is easier for the current regime to stay in power because of all the USA's sabre rattling.
The scenario to worry about is where Israel nukes Iran (because Iran gives them sufficient excuse to). That would definitely screw up the oil supply, and that's really bad news to the USA.
Mod parent up.
;).
From the transcript, if Hansen considers himself a member of the intellectual elite and still resorts to that sort of reasoning and argument, then I must be a super genius
Even if the elitist lawyers run the country, they are supposed to make a better show of it and make it look like the law runs the country. Rather than some stupid show of hands in some debate.
When the people who run the country can't be bothered to do it "the proper way", then that's evidence of their arrogance, laziness and unbridled contempt for the people they rule over.
And they call themselves the "intellectual elite"...
"What we need is an acceptable definition of spamming"
:).
I don't mind spam as long as they stuck to not telling lies.
Most spam I see has one or more of the following lies:
1) False return address and sender (recently one of them used my email address as return address)
2) False Subject
3) False names
4) False content e.g. "Email me at xxxx@yyy only, because I am using my friend's email to write this"
When someone has to lie so much it should be pretty obvious they are doing something wrong, even they themselves know they are doing something wrong (otherwise why use someone else's email address instead of their own?).
They just lie to themselves and others that they aren't doing something wrong.
I believe fraud is lying for personal gain.
I doubt fraud is protected speech yet.
I suppose we don't normally categorize political campaign speeches as fraud, but they do seem to fit
What they should actually do is start building those spinning space stations that people can actually live on long term without "wasting away" due to weightlessness or getting radiation sickness.
Once you can do that, then you can send people to Mars or the asteroid belt. People are no longer stuck on earth - they can feasibly live in space.
Then people can build telescopes in space if they want - even if it takes a while - the sun and asteroids will be around for quite some time still.
As it is, I think we're doing things the wrong way round - talking about building huge telescopes in space, going to Mars etc. Like trying to jump before being able to crawl or walk.
A space elevator would be nice, but perhaps it's easier to do the space station stuff first.
Most people go for "typical peak" capacity rather than average capacity.
Motorcycles fit the 1.13 average occupancy rate. Trouble is they are a lot more dangerous, and not nice in bad weather.
"The best is to provide good defaults, with particular emphasis on plurality"
;) ), forcing a user to choose without providing a default is 99% of the time a _cop_out_ and poor design.
Uh and which of the multiple "default" sets is the default set? Shouldn't be random. Think hard about it again.
It's a bit like huffman compression (decision tree compression) as I've mentioned in my other post - the fewer decisions most users have to make the better.
The lazy and crappy way would be:
Default config
and:
Advanced config - with a huge list of options.
Whereas if you put a lot more thought into it, you could do:
Default config
and
a) Second most popular config (Description here)
b) Third most popular config (Description here)
c) See more popular config schemes.
d) Custom config (with "normal" custom config but also has an option to show the scarier Custom Advanced Config).
I am not a UI designer but there definitely has to be a default (or a "default default"
"A single set of good defaults can only make a fraction of everyone happy"
I think most people are like most other people. It can take a lot of effort and thought by people with clue and taste, so it's not easy.
Sure not everyone wants a Big Mac, but most people who buy a Big Mac don't really care about customizing it.
Not everyone wants Microsoft Word, but most people who buy Microsoft Word don't really care about customizing it.
Sure stuff could be better for them, but that's missing the point.
Most people don't care about having the best hammer for them when they just want to get a nail into piece of wood. A good default hammer will do. If you think a default hammer is obvious, think again. A good default hammer for humans might be obvious for humans, but you should consider what a default hammer should look like for an octopus or dolphin. Many programmers seem to be very different creatures from their target users and don't seem to know or care what the "default hammer" should look like for their target users.
OSS users typically get:
a) Poor defaults and zillions of options (or worse just zillions of themes)
or
b) Only One True Way (really bad if combined with poor defaults).
Holding a gun increases a person's risk of committing a violent crime - for example killing someone.
;).
Driving a car automatically increases a person's risk of killing someone.
Fact is some people can drive fine after 2 drinks, some can drive fine after 5 drinks, some can barely drive after 0 drinks. Same goes for cellphone usage - there are many people who can't drive and talk at the same time (hands free or not), whereas I believe some cops definitely have to drive and talk at the same time - especially when in pursuit of some criminal
It's just impractical to test and certify people who can drive while drunk with blood alcohol at X points. So you draw a line somewhere even if it's silly, it's less silly to have a few lines drawn, than hundreds of lines drawn.
Maybe it's less silly to have a license for people who can drive while talking (or even sending text messages) over a cellphone - you can test and certify them, just like you do for people who need to drive special vehicles.
I am not a chip designer.
In some cases I don't think they need to add additional logic. They may just need certain stuff to fail when a particular sequence of radio frequencies, or pulses are detected.
"Vista also intelligently manages and virtualizes VRAM to system RAM"
It's still going to be than the real thing. Show me how fast Vista runs Crysis on a fast 256MB/512MB card compared to a fast 1GB card at high res with AA on.
And that virtual video RAM seems to mean that if you have 2GB of real RAM, Vista takes 1GB for the O/S, and 512-1GB for the vidcard and that leaves you with nothing much left over for the game.
As long as the O/S is still 32bit you'll also have the problem of only 4GB of easily addressable space. So no point installing 4GB of system RAM on your board. You might as well stick to 2 or 3GB system RAM and spend the extra money on a video card with real video RAM.
So it's a good idea to ignore that crap till 64 bit O/Ses become mainstream.
Lastly, I don't seem to have problems running multiple 3D apps at the same time on Win2K. So what's the big deal?
"It's just an abundance of extra options would be overwhelming"
Pick decent defaults, and hide the extra options under "advanced settings". If you pick decent defaults most normal users won't need to visit "advanced settings" and be overwhelmed by them.
This way if you got the defaults wrong at least it's not such a big problem - people can change it, and you can change the defaults in the next release.
Decent defaults are critical.
It's a bit like having decent huffman coding - decision tree compression.
The fewer decisions most users need to make to do what most of them want, the more likely it is considered easy to use.
But if you don't allow extra UI options at all, you blow away a whole section of the decision tree and you risk making some things very hard or impossible for users.
A lot of alleged UI people seem to think removing whole sections of the decision tree = making things user friendly.
That's wrong. You can remove whole sections of the decision tree because your programmers don't have enough time and/or will to make it sanely configurable even by advanced users, but don't fool yourself into thinking it makes things user friendly.
Losing a previously available feature = very user unfriendly.
I say the trick is in picking good defaults (and allowing the users to change the settings and the defaults).
That way you have a spaghetti sauce that most people will think is good enough. And the rest can go add whatever they like.
"The desert is Linux on the desktop"
;).
Yeah, and the Linux fanatics keep saying how great a beach it is...
And if you don't like the way things are, you always have full unhindered access to the C.
Uh huh, desktop users want to "swim in the sea", not swim in the C