Let me point out that it was the market that brought Enron down, not the government.
Actually, it was good, old-fashioned investigative journalism that brought Enron down.
The market is what made Enron massive, because it took its lies at face value, and the investors were so blinded by the appeal of a quick profit they didn't even stop to think "Doesn't this seem too good to be true?"
Has been for months. There's a fairly intense price war going on between budget airlines RyanAir and EasyJet, which means you can frequently fly to places like Paris or Rome for about 20UKP return. Needless to say, people are taking advantage of this, and going on weekend trips left, right and centre.
I think he's talking about the RedHat community, which is nothing like it once was. On the corporate side of things, RedHat is stronger than ever.
But wouldn't that make RedHat more like Microsoft, whereas the OP suggests that this withering made them less like MS. Credit to you for finding a coherent interpretation of what he said, but I think he's just talking nonsense.
I remember entering BASIC code from a magazine onto C64, Vic20, Dragon32 and my ZX Spectrum. Man that was a lot of hard work for some fairly lousy games. Learnt a lot about programming though.
I liked Crash! magazine in particularly, and not only for its occasionally pervy cover art.
if anyone's going to know about talent attention seekers, its Whitedust Security, the people who published the array of conjecture, guesswork, faux outrage and outright wrongitude that was : "Walmarts Wikipedia War"
I was wondering could someone explain to my why this (IMHO) good development model was abandoned in favour of continuous feature-adding in the 2.6 kernel?
It was very, very slow, (ironically, even Andrew Morton complained about this). This meant that desirable new features would be backported to the stable branch anyway, either in mainstream or vendor kernels (with all new bugs), which kind of defeated the object.
So it increased the workload, didn't seem to offer massive stability benefits (although, maybe it did, in retrospect), it reduced the amount of testing the new features got, and limited the workloads on which they were tested.
Personally, I find the present -stable branch of non-bleeding edge kernels to be as solid as 2.4 and 2.2 ever were. I do think we've a tendency to look back at that dev-cycle with rose-tinted glasses. It's not as if 2.4 or 2.2 were reasonably bug-free until the twentieth cycle or so.
I was using an analogy to point out how bad his analogy was. I could've said "It's no use comparing a ship to a kernel, because ships and kernels have different flexibility requirements of their data (i.e. cargo)."
The ship metaphor is fundamentally flawed, and Andrew T shouldn't have used it. I pointed out its flaw, but chose to do it through his metaphor, because I am not a prosaic dullard.
Container ships don't have to move cargo from one part of the ship to another, on a regular basis. You load it up, sail off, and then unload at the other end of the journey. If the stuff in the bow had to be transported to the stern every twelve hours, you'd probably find fewer enormous steel bulkheads between them, and more wide doors.
FWIW, this practice predates BSG by about 40 years. In Norman Mailer's "The Naked And The Dead", the characters (US Marines on an island offensive in WW2) say "Fug" just about every third word. It's pretty effective, and doesn't break the flow.
Unless you've donated all your property to others and survive only on bread and water, it strikes me that you are being selfish and therefore a hypocrite.
Dude, if your first sentence is such an idiotic false dichotomy, no-one's going to read the second sentence. I know I didn't.
Since someone mentioned Ayn Rand, and J. K. Galbraith just died, here's an apposite quote from JKG:
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
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The market is what made Enron massive, because it took its lies at face value, and the investors were so blinded by the appeal of a quick profit they didn't even stop to think "Doesn't this seem too good to be true?"
Has been for months. There's a fairly intense price war going on between budget airlines RyanAir and EasyJet, which means you can frequently fly to places like Paris or Rome for about 20UKP return. Needless to say, people are taking advantage of this, and going on weekend trips left, right and centre.
Why is "Chuck Norris" the #1 search term in Poland?
Seriously. What the hell?
Replying to myself is bad, but you can retrieve the dodgy Crash cover art from ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazin es/Crash/Issue18/CRCover18.jpg
I remember entering BASIC code from a magazine onto C64, Vic20, Dragon32 and my ZX Spectrum. Man that was a lot of hard work for some fairly lousy games. Learnt a lot about programming though.
I liked Crash! magazine in particularly, and not only for its occasionally pervy cover art.
All the best and most important Mangas are found in Bethlehem.
Oh, wait...
Sorry, that's "Mangers".
The only stupid generalisations are in Whitedust's articles.
if anyone's going to know about talent attention seekers, its Whitedust Security, the people who published the array of conjecture, guesswork, faux outrage and outright wrongitude that was : "Walmarts Wikipedia War"
These days, if 2.6.x works for you 2.6.x.y will almost certainly work better. That's the bug fix branch for 2.6.x.
2.6.z might work, but your mileage may vary.
Really, besides games, what do you actually use that extra performance for?
So it increased the workload, didn't seem to offer massive stability benefits (although, maybe it did, in retrospect), it reduced the amount of testing the new features got, and limited the workloads on which they were tested.
Personally, I find the present -stable branch of non-bleeding edge kernels to be as solid as 2.4 and 2.2 ever were. I do think we've a tendency to look back at that dev-cycle with rose-tinted glasses. It's not as if 2.4 or 2.2 were reasonably bug-free until the twentieth cycle or so.
I was using an analogy to point out how bad his analogy was.
I could've said "It's no use comparing a ship to a kernel, because ships and kernels have different flexibility requirements of their data (i.e. cargo)."
The ship metaphor is fundamentally flawed, and Andrew T shouldn't have used it. I pointed out its flaw, but chose to do it through his metaphor, because I am not a prosaic dullard.
Container ships don't have to move cargo from one part of the ship to another, on a regular basis. You load it up, sail off, and then unload at the other end of the journey. If the stuff in the bow had to be transported to the stern every twelve hours, you'd probably find fewer enormous steel bulkheads between them, and more wide doors.
They were thinking of settling out of court, and it was going quite well for Apple Corp until, in the middle of negotiation, they broke down.
FWIW, this practice predates BSG by about 40 years. In Norman Mailer's "The Naked And The Dead", the characters (US Marines on an island offensive in WW2) say "Fug" just about every third word. It's pretty effective, and doesn't break the flow.
But, hey, we're all right jack, so the Chinese can whistle.
I'm Keith Hernandez, 1979 National League MVP.
(There was no second spitter, that was one magic loogie).
"I'm the only one allowed to endlessly recycle the plot of 'The DaVinci Code' into other works", said Brown.
Any chance you could rewrite that sentence in English?