I hesitate to write this, because it almost, even to me, appears to be a troll (my reply, that is, not your post)
I made an observation. It may not be true, but it's an obervation. However, I still think it is true.
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But the answer is money. It's always money. And money, when it comes to the entertainment industry, doesn't just sing (ironically enough), it fscking yodels. The FTC is the Federal Trade Comission. They're governed and directed by laws. Politicians make the laws. The politicians get a significant amount of support from Political Interest Groups.
I don't think this is true either. The FTC and a number of Government regulators have gone after companies and groups for colusion and price-fixing. Take alook at the Oil, Banking system, Cars, Stock sales, and Airline industries. In this case, the modern Music industry is new and it takes Government to react and move on something.
The music industry, I think, tries to stay off the FTC radar so it does not get busted. That is why were not seeing the FTC go after them.
By now, no one is surpised by price fixing and record companies. Even my 60 year old mother, who buys about 12 CD's in a year, made a comment to me about how the cost of making CD's goes down, but the cost to consumers does not.
I just don't see how the FTC can not bring the hammer down on these companies. It is just plain obvious that they price fix.
If you don't have the authority to do your job, manage your limited resources or ever get the authority to do so, you will never be able to do your job. If you can't tell someone to stop, and they will never be punished for doing so, then they never will stop doing what they are doing.
I would simply brush up my resume and tell the school district that if you don't get the complete and absolute authority to manage the limited resources they have given you, you will quit. Make sure back it up if they say no. If you pull a hollow threat, you can kiss any future ability to manage your limited resources goodbye.
Drug use and prostitution are somewhat victimless crimes.
Drug use is not victimless crime since hardcore users are going to knock people over the head or steal for their next fix. Drug Abusers rarely have jobs that can support thier habit.
The groups that import drugs into this country are most violent and cause a lot of coruption in countries that grow, process and transport drugs. A good example would be Mexico; it would be a much nicer country if their were no drugs flowing through it.
A major problem with alot of linux admins is shown in the article. It's not about how fast your kernel is, especially when it comes to a 2 second difference in 50 seconds of computing time, but how long your machine will stay up.
If a user compiles 35 gigs of code on a 6 processor box and it takes 5 minutes longer, he is not going to complain. If he compiles 35 gigs of code on a 6 processor box and it crashes half-way through the compile, your going to here it from your boss.
Benchmarking kernels is plain pointless. Take a machine for each kernel, put it under real load and tell me how many times it crashes in 100 days, and I will you which kernel I want to use.
I work for Amazon.com and hurting a retailer like us does not effect higher ups like Jeff Bezos, it effects people like me, the lower level owners of the company. My stock is not worth much, so when you damage the company your not hurting someone who owns a million or so shares of stock that they bought at 25 cents or less, your hurting people like me who own a few thousand where the buying and selling price is very narrow. If I sell stock, I do not get much, or worse yet, my buying price is above the market price!
The second flaw is that everyone who works at a large company is evil does not care about customers and thus desires to be hurt. Most employees of large companies care alot about the customer and thier experiences with thier company. Alot of the large companies spend lots of money and time figuring out how to make the shopping experience better and more enjoyable.
Third, you make the assumption that Mom and Pop stores are not motivated by pure profit. Mom and Pop places are just as motivated by profit as any large company, they just do it on a smaller scale. In the free market, all persons who own a business are motivated by pure profit, if they are not, they quickly go out of business.
But a refrigerator from the 1970's is almost twice as inefficent as a moden one, and the price a new one will be quickly recuouped through electrical bill savings
In many cases, the local eletric company will give you a steep discount with leading brand name if you tell them you have an old refrigerator. Same goes for low flow toliets. If you have the old 9 gallon toliets, the local water company will almost pay for new low-flows.
Your in the exact same postion I was in when I was finishing up my CS degree. It got really boring, I had a crappy GPA because I was bored, I really hate being told what to do, I was poor, and I hated where I lived.
What seperates school from being out in the work force is the money! In school your more or less told what to work on, at work, it's pretty much the same way. But when I was in school I went home to a ran down house, ate really bad food, drank cheap booze on the weekend, and still had homework to do. Oh ya, I paid the school for the pleasure of doing this!
Now I work on stuff that is needed by the company, but when I go home, I go home to a nice apartment, eat good food, drink nice booze on the weekends, and I can do what I want with *my* free time!
So if you think your going to make money that you live on doing some enjoyable profession, forget it! The only people who get to do what they want their whole life are children of rich parents. However, for the rest of us, there is work. Just try to enjoy what you can at work and use your free time to do the stuff you want.
As a Sys Admin who is in a group that runs alot of 6 way 4 gig systems, Linux 2.4.x sucks.
Yes, it has all the cool stuff we want; support for alot of devices, better SMP, and larger memory handling, however, its just not stable under high load.
I just hope that the Linux Kernel people can get their stuff together and make a stable kernel.
Developers commentary channel?
Option to view deleted code?
See previews for other OS's?
Multi-Language stero channel. FreeBSD Code in spanish!
Making of FreeBSD?
Multi-Angle FreeBSD coding?
As a person who plays Tribes 2 alot, I am agaist putting the VoiceIP stuff into the game. Tribes2 VoiceIP is horiable and I know that other companies can do alot better job at the VoiceIP than the makers of Tribes2.
Indy music would be music that comes from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Yah, RIAA "Indie" music is much like the Indianapolis 500.
It goes around in one big circle for a long time and is really boring. It only gets exciting when something crashs with tragic effects and is no longer with us.
They want to cut funding to any publicly fund colleges that have anonymous usuage. Well, if my memory servers me right, would that not kill funding for just about every College Computer Lab?
I have use a number of computer labs at number of colleges and most were 'no accounts required'. Does this guy require that every person card-in and then sign-in using an account?
Yeah, games like Starcraft, Diablo 2, Everquest, Ultima Online, Age of Empires 2, and Myth were complete failures until Linux and BSD ports of the servers became available.
Let me restate that. Not successful, just suck. Online playing where a Client is also the Server are horrible. Starcraft, AOE2, and Myth 1 and 2 suck online (I own Starcraft and Myth 1 and 2, and I have played AOE2 online).
Diable 2, Everquest, and Ultime Online are different, as I understand, you connect to the game makers servers. There are no independent servers.
The Linux game market is never going to be big nor profitable, no matter how many Linux machines are out there.
People who run Linux on the desktop are not hardcore gamers. They are people who want a Unix Workstation on their desktop, either at work or at home. On the other end of the scale, people who buy gaming machines don't put Linux on it. They want something that is simple to install and maintain and you can run lots of games on; Win32 is that. Linux is great for games, don't get me wrong, but there is no market for games on it.
The best that us rare Linux gamers can hope for are the token Linux ports that people like John Carmack insist on putting out.
Linux server ports are another story. I don't think a online game would make it if it did not have a Linux and/or BSD port. Win32 just sucks to much to host big online games. I speak from experience as a former game server admin and current online game player.
Now if I could just my copy of Tribes2 shipped, I would be a happy camper.;)
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I made an observation. It may not be true, but it's an obervation. However, I still think it is true.
. But the answer is money. It's always money. And money, when it comes to the entertainment industry, doesn't just sing (ironically enough), it fscking yodels. The FTC is the Federal Trade Comission. They're governed and directed by laws. Politicians make the laws. The politicians get a significant amount of support from Political Interest Groups.
I don't think this is true either. The FTC and a number of Government regulators have gone after companies and groups for colusion and price-fixing. Take alook at the Oil, Banking system, Cars, Stock sales, and Airline industries. In this case, the modern Music industry is new and it takes Government to react and move on something.
The music industry, I think, tries to stay off the FTC radar so it does not get busted. That is why were not seeing the FTC go after them.
By now, no one is surpised by price fixing and record companies. Even my 60 year old mother, who buys about 12 CD's in a year, made a comment to me about how the cost of making CD's goes down, but the cost to consumers does not.
I just don't see how the FTC can not bring the hammer down on these companies. It is just plain obvious that they price fix.
If you don't have the authority to do your job, manage your limited resources or ever get the authority to do so, you will never be able to do your job. If you can't tell someone to stop, and they will never be punished for doing so, then they never will stop doing what they are doing.
I would simply brush up my resume and tell the school district that if you don't get the complete and absolute authority to manage the limited resources they have given you, you will quit. Make sure back it up if they say no. If you pull a hollow threat, you can kiss any future ability to manage your limited resources goodbye.
Drug use and prostitution are somewhat victimless crimes.
Drug use is not victimless crime since hardcore users are going to knock people over the head or steal for their next fix. Drug Abusers rarely have jobs that can support thier habit.
The groups that import drugs into this country are most violent and cause a lot of coruption in countries that grow, process and transport drugs. A good example would be Mexico; it would be a much nicer country if their were no drugs flowing through it.
How do I mark the STORY down as a troll?
A major problem with alot of linux admins is shown in the article. It's not about how fast your kernel is, especially when it comes to a 2 second difference in 50 seconds of computing time, but how long your machine will stay up.
If a user compiles 35 gigs of code on a 6 processor box and it takes 5 minutes longer, he is not going to complain. If he compiles 35 gigs of code on a 6 processor box and it crashes half-way through the compile, your going to here it from your boss.
Benchmarking kernels is plain pointless. Take a machine for each kernel, put it under real load and tell me how many times it crashes in 100 days, and I will you which kernel I want to use.
Your argument is pure crap.
You make three incorrect assumptions:
I work for Amazon.com and hurting a retailer like us does not effect higher ups like Jeff Bezos, it effects people like me, the lower level owners of the company. My stock is not worth much, so when you damage the company your not hurting someone who owns a million or so shares of stock that they bought at 25 cents or less, your hurting people like me who own a few thousand where the buying and selling price is very narrow. If I sell stock, I do not get much, or worse yet, my buying price is above the market price!
The second flaw is that everyone who works at a large company is evil does not care about customers and thus desires to be hurt. Most employees of large companies care alot about the customer and thier experiences with thier company. Alot of the large companies spend lots of money and time figuring out how to make the shopping experience better and more enjoyable.
Third, you make the assumption that Mom and Pop stores are not motivated by pure profit. Mom and Pop places are just as motivated by profit as any large company, they just do it on a smaller scale. In the free market, all persons who own a business are motivated by pure profit, if they are not, they quickly go out of business.
Wow, al Qaeda is evil, they worked for Microsoft!
But a refrigerator from the 1970's is almost twice as inefficent as a moden one, and the price a new one will be quickly recuouped through electrical bill savings
In many cases, the local eletric company will give you a steep discount with leading brand name if you tell them you have an old refrigerator. Same goes for low flow toliets. If you have the old 9 gallon toliets, the local water company will almost pay for new low-flows.
Just a small side note.
Actually it's more like:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 (Just to make sure)
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 /whereever
umount
fsck.ext2 -y -f
fsck.ext2 -y -f
tune2fs -j -C 0 -i 0d -c
mount
You have to make sure to check the filesystem before you put the journal on it. Also, set the fsck checktime to 0 so it will never be fsck'ed.
Your in the exact same postion I was in when I was finishing up my CS degree. It got really boring, I had a crappy GPA because I was bored, I really hate being told what to do, I was poor, and I hated where I lived.
What seperates school from being out in the work force is the money! In school your more or less told what to work on, at work, it's pretty much the same way. But when I was in school I went home to a ran down house, ate really bad food, drank cheap booze on the weekend, and still had homework to do. Oh ya, I paid the school for the pleasure of doing this!
Now I work on stuff that is needed by the company, but when I go home, I go home to a nice apartment, eat good food, drink nice booze on the weekends, and I can do what I want with *my* free time!
So if you think your going to make money that you live on doing some enjoyable profession, forget it! The only people who get to do what they want their whole life are children of rich parents. However, for the rest of us, there is work. Just try to enjoy what you can at work and use your free time to do the stuff you want.
I would enter without a ZIP code, since Amazon.com US is geered to America addresses, your Swedish ZIP won't work.
Also note, that if they dont give it to you, you can call up the Utilities Commision and complain. Its illegal.
I would love to see the face of the Judge that handles this case when those facts are reveiled.
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Not really, since there are a some NICs out there that you can reprogram the MAC addresses.
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As a Sys Admin who is in a group that runs alot of 6 way 4 gig systems, Linux 2.4.x sucks.
Yes, it has all the cool stuff we want; support for alot of devices, better SMP, and larger memory handling, however, its just not stable under high load.
I just hope that the Linux Kernel people can get their stuff together and make a stable kernel.
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Now with this DVD with there be:
Developers commentary channel?
Option to view deleted code?
See previews for other OS's?
Multi-Language stero channel. FreeBSD Code in spanish!
Making of FreeBSD?
Multi-Angle FreeBSD coding?
I look forward to watching this puppy.
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Ironically, when Quake came out, my social life disappeared! Thanks John!
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As a person who plays Tribes 2 alot, I am agaist putting the VoiceIP stuff into the game. Tribes2 VoiceIP is horiable and I know that other companies can do alot better job at the VoiceIP than the makers of Tribes2.
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Amazon being 0wned?
Thats news to me, and I am in a group that would know.
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Yah, RIAA "Indie" music is much like the Indianapolis 500.
It goes around in one big circle for a long time and is really boring. It only gets exciting when something crashs with tragic effects and is no longer with us.
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Yah, those worthless little things; faster recovery, preserving data and faster boot-ups.
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They want to cut funding to any publicly fund colleges that have anonymous usuage. Well, if my memory servers me right, would that not kill funding for just about every College Computer Lab?
I have use a number of computer labs at number of colleges and most were 'no accounts required'. Does this guy require that every person card-in and then sign-in using an account?
Typical shorted sightness.
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Yeah, games like Starcraft, Diablo 2, Everquest, Ultima Online, Age of Empires 2, and Myth were complete failures until Linux and BSD ports of the servers became available.
Let me restate that. Not successful, just suck. Online playing where a Client is also the Server are horrible. Starcraft, AOE2, and Myth 1 and 2 suck online (I own Starcraft and Myth 1 and 2, and I have played AOE2 online).
Diable 2, Everquest, and Ultime Online are different, as I understand, you connect to the game makers servers. There are no independent servers.
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The Linux game market is never going to be big nor profitable, no matter how many Linux machines are out there.
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People who run Linux on the desktop are not hardcore gamers. They are people who want a Unix Workstation on their desktop, either at work or at home. On the other end of the scale, people who buy gaming machines don't put Linux on it. They want something that is simple to install and maintain and you can run lots of games on; Win32 is that. Linux is great for games, don't get me wrong, but there is no market for games on it.
The best that us rare Linux gamers can hope for are the token Linux ports that people like John Carmack insist on putting out.
Linux server ports are another story. I don't think a online game would make it if it did not have a Linux and/or BSD port. Win32 just sucks to much to host big online games. I speak from experience as a former game server admin and current online game player.
Now if I could just my copy of Tribes2 shipped, I would be a happy camper.
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