So what if there is a 25% different in performance? Hardware is cheap. Software maintenance, administration, and licensing is expensive. The most compelling reason to use Java is that I can run it on Linux. That means I can clone VMs for development and testing, copy OS installations, and ship VMs to customers and resellers without having to spend time and money on licensing and activation. It makes development, testing, and deployment easier to automate when possible and hack when necessary for the small guys that don't have volume license agreements..NET isn't the problem. Windows is.
If we had started transitioning seriously a few years ago
Some of us did. All the computers and network equipment at my house has been ready for IPv6 for years. I am just waiting for my ISP to get with the program.
ISPs are the problem here. But with government-granted monopolies without regulation, they have no incentive to support IPv6.
If you keep a second machine up with the Spideroak program running, it will mirror your data. It would be nice if there was an option to run the program and pull the encrypted data but not decrypt it, so you would have the backup if Spideroak's systems go down, but your data would not be compromized if that machine was.
Gas revenue subsidizes construction and maintenance of state and national roads, but NOT local roads. Those are covered mostly by general taxes.
Some other countries do have all or a majority of road funds come from gas taxes. They pay $10 a gallon. The advantage of this is that it directly ties the financial burden to the expenditure requirement. The downside is that it further cements the stupid idea that "roads are for cars" (roads were invented in 1896, don't you konw?) that pushes pedestrians and cyclists off the road and encourages our car culture that leads to more waste, pollution, isolation, government spending, and - you got it - car sales.
And that's not to mention parking spots, of which there are more than 2 for every car in the US. Many of them are publicly subsidized (even if metered) and are taking up prime real estate. Non-drivers are paying taxes so tens of millions of cars can sit unoccupied all day.
I got an Android tablet last week. It is very frustrating. Half of the stuff does not work if you do not have a Google acount or are not willing to tie your device that closely to an advertising company. The one-app-at-a-time UI is constraining. I would much rather a system like APT to manage installed packages. An Ubuntu distribution on a tablet with a tiling window manager and the ability to run Android apps would be awesome.
A good solution would be to have the government-granted last-mile monopoly be as limited as possible - only handling the last mile. Allow one company to handle the last mile and terminate the connections in a central office. Then other companies can provide the internet connection from there. The company handling the last mile cannot also be an ISP.
I have chosen to avoid any trust in or allegiance to Google, Apple, Facebook, or Microsoft. I have to trust my hardware, but I can switch that easily enough. I chose to trust Debian, but could easily enough switch that too. Everybody is free to make these decisions. I can use end-to-end encryption to hide my data from anyone else.
I am at the mercy of my ISP. If they fail to route properly I have no recourse and no alternative faster than 56k dial-up. Network neutrality and fairness from recipients of government-granted monopolies is where the regulation is required.
I would be extremely surprised if he gets anything less than life. He, presumably, did what he thought was right, and the government is torturing him for it. They made sure he would be a liability if he ever got out.
I have a ThinkPad W520. If I set the BIOS to use either Optimus or Discreet, the system hangs on boot at "Waiting for dev to be fully populated." If I set it to use the integrated card, it works.
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Only if you do not have rudundant systems. Not good.
So what if there is a 25% different in performance? Hardware is cheap. Software maintenance, administration, and licensing is expensive. The most compelling reason to use Java is that I can run it on Linux. That means I can clone VMs for development and testing, copy OS installations, and ship VMs to customers and resellers without having to spend time and money on licensing and activation. It makes development, testing, and deployment easier to automate when possible and hack when necessary for the small guys that don't have volume license agreements. .NET isn't the problem. Windows is.
ISPs could support IPv6 and let users disable it at the modem.
Some of us did. All the computers and network equipment at my house has been ready for IPv6 for years. I am just waiting for my ISP to get with the program.
ISPs are the problem here. But with government-granted monopolies without regulation, they have no incentive to support IPv6.
If you keep a second machine up with the Spideroak program running, it will mirror your data. It would be nice if there was an option to run the program and pull the encrypted data but not decrypt it, so you would have the backup if Spideroak's systems go down, but your data would not be compromized if that machine was.
Spideroak (http://www.spideroak.com) does what you want. It encryptes data on your machine before sending it to the cloud.
You could. The tax and yearly fee would have to be a LOT higher than they currently are.
Gas revenue subsidizes construction and maintenance of state and national roads, but NOT local roads. Those are covered mostly by general taxes.
Some other countries do have all or a majority of road funds come from gas taxes. They pay $10 a gallon. The advantage of this is that it directly ties the financial burden to the expenditure requirement. The downside is that it further cements the stupid idea that "roads are for cars" (roads were invented in 1896, don't you konw?) that pushes pedestrians and cyclists off the road and encourages our car culture that leads to more waste, pollution, isolation, government spending, and - you got it - car sales.
And that's not to mention parking spots, of which there are more than 2 for every car in the US. Many of them are publicly subsidized (even if metered) and are taking up prime real estate. Non-drivers are paying taxes so tens of millions of cars can sit unoccupied all day.
In the US, a majority of money for road maintenance comes out of general taxes. Non drivers are subsidizing the drivers.
You can easily remove all of the cloud integration crap from Ubuntu Desktop. Presumably you would be able to do the same with Ubuntu Tablet.
I got an Android tablet last week. It is very frustrating. Half of the stuff does not work if you do not have a Google acount or are not willing to tie your device that closely to an advertising company. The one-app-at-a-time UI is constraining. I would much rather a system like APT to manage installed packages. An Ubuntu distribution on a tablet with a tiling window manager and the ability to run Android apps would be awesome.
Did they give you a 20% discount because you joined the army, or because you left?
If you are after highly productive and do not need the hand holding that things like Unity provide, why are you even using Ubuntu? Just use Debian.
End-to-end encryption. Problem solved.
A good solution would be to have the government-granted last-mile monopoly be as limited as possible - only handling the last mile. Allow one company to handle the last mile and terminate the connections in a central office. Then other companies can provide the internet connection from there. The company handling the last mile cannot also be an ISP.
I have chosen to avoid any trust in or allegiance to Google, Apple, Facebook, or Microsoft. I have to trust my hardware, but I can switch that easily enough. I chose to trust Debian, but could easily enough switch that too. Everybody is free to make these decisions. I can use end-to-end encryption to hide my data from anyone else.
I am at the mercy of my ISP. If they fail to route properly I have no recourse and no alternative faster than 56k dial-up. Network neutrality and fairness from recipients of government-granted monopolies is where the regulation is required.
Angry Birds.
Exchange is just what managers dick around with when they don't want to do any actual work, right?
What do you do when the mission was good when you joined, but went sour before your term is up? Going AWAL is frowned upon.
What if the mission is wrong?
I would be extremely surprised if he gets anything less than life. He, presumably, did what he thought was right, and the government is torturing him for it. They made sure he would be a liability if he ever got out.
I have a ThinkPad W520. If I set the BIOS to use either Optimus or Discreet, the system hangs on boot at "Waiting for dev to be fully populated." If I set it to use the integrated card, it works.
Not if you have an nVidia Optimus card.
Does DOCSIS 3 require that the ISP actually route IPv6 packets? Because if it does not, they will not.
Also: Big Macs, 64 oz. sodas, and no exercise.
Oh no! They're going to write angry comments on /.! Whatever shall we do?