Bah, all I want is the installer kernel to be able to grok my SATA RAID set, without having to resort to custom boot disks, or God forbid, using Debian or Gentoo. When will a mainstream, it-just-works distro support these disk controllers?
Is it so much to ask, that a non-fringe distro include SATA RAID support in their installer kernels? Debian and Gentoo are the only ones, AFAIK, that do, and they both are teh suck.
This has been discussed at great length here before on Slashdot. And therefore, it must be true? Talk about an ad hominem argument.
History seems to indicate that you cannot. So it does, or it does not?
The US has been in Afghanistan for all of 3 years, and Iraq for one. Regarding Korea and Vietnam, define "genuine peace"? Point me to an institution or country which has done a better job, and I'll consider conceding the point, based on the cogency and truth of your argument.
Because in a civilized society, the population grants the government a monopoly on the use of force. Extended to the planet, America seems the natural choice. Extending a governmental system with a judiciary, an executive and a legistlative branch to the planet, you end up with the World Court, the United States, and the UN. The US is the world's police force, the US has most of the guns. From a practical standpoint, why NOT grant them the monopoly on force, since they've (typically) shown respect for liberty in the past. Name a country who has shown MORE respect for liberty, not in the "you should be free from being poor" sense, but in the true "you are free to do as you like, but eat what you kill" sense. It reminds me of that scene from the Life of Brian:
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? XERXES: Brought peace.
4 MP, RAW capture mode, Microdrive compatible, 3x optical and 3x digital zoom, very usable interface. My one complaint is some chromatic abberation, but most non-SLR cameras have pretty small lenses, so its hard to get around. 4MP RAW output is sweet, and with the 'dcraw' application, you don't need the Win32 crapware that comes with the camera.
Since 70%+ of the wireless users on my block do not activate WEP, or change the default channel, or use a non-default SSID, I'm willing to bet that nobody went through the effort to manually deactivate the admin interface, or change the password. You could argue that that is merely a de facto flaw, while the listed vulnerability is de jure, but from a practical perspective, this is no less secure than everything was anyway.
Hence my question: are others also worried about poor security of online banking in the U.S.?
I, for one, have never had my bank account hacked into, stolen, or misappropriated. Heck, they've never even fscked up a check. Go back to Europe, with your womb-to-tomb welfare, and oh yes, "free" RSA-style ATM cards. (where do you think the money comes from for all this? That's right... YOU)
The "law of the excluded middle" that you quote is valid, but there is an associated fallacy, which you do not claim I committed. I'm unsure of your point here. Invoking Sturgeon's law is "throwing money at the problem" - you're just assuming that eventually something will happen, and you leave out the _somehow_.
There already ARE a million monkeys hammering away on a million typewriters, and AOL is nothing like Shakespeare.
By your logic, we can cure the ills of the Third World simply by throwing money at their problems. Oh wait...
I went to college, this will get used for warez, pr0n, and Kazaa, nothing more. One kid will keep saying things like "But imagine a Beowulf cluster, we could make a cluster out of the whole dorm!" and hand out Kloppix CDs, which the rest of the dorm will use as coasters under their bongs.
They may have gotten a good deal on this, which means that the vendors can write off an artificially high "price" as a donation, and it means that someone's friend who is a wiring contractor ends up with a new boat.
Whose HD can constantly suck up more than a 100 MB pipe? (Don't quote me some Sandra benchmark off a gamerz site, here) And if 100 people in a dorm are all "on fiber" and the dorm has "fiber" to the campus core router, which has "fiber" somewhere else, at what point does the bandwidth get divided down below 100 MBit anyway? You're not going to get more than that, why run expensive fiber when you can run cheapo Cat 5, and put the phones on the unused pairs as well? The math doesn't work here.
The problem is that the greybeards in Congress remember when they could work on their own cars, before all the computerization and emission-control crap was added. So they sympathize with owners who "want to be able to fix their own cars, but the newfangled ones are too '1337." This contrasts with computers and technology, because the members of Congress never knew how it worked, so of course there's no reason to open the hood, to extend the metaphor. "Computers? Well, them's crazy things, you better ask my 9 year old nephew... take it apart? Why, you'll probably break it anyway!"
Except that AMD chips don't hyperthread. There is no basis for the statement "Win98 and ME might not be optimized to eficiently use the faster proccesor speeds".
You base your entire argument on AMD's Marketing press release that says "Microsoft optimized the DirectX 8.0 interface for Windows XP specifically for the AMD Athlon XP processor".
This is a highly dubious statement at best, since MS would have no incentive to optimize it for AMD at the expense of Intel. DX8 may include 3DNow instructions, but it also may include SSE2 instructions.
Lastly, you qualify your whole counterpoint with "Also this is more of a guess because the manufacturers implied it instead of comming right out and saying it.", thus ripping the foundation out from underneath your shaky argument.
Have you even graduated high school? I suggest taking a critical thinking or logic class, if you hope to accomplish anything in the real world.
Also win9x and me might not be able to take full advantage of the spped. (but that more of a guess then anything) This sentence lacks any cognitive value, but I'll refute your point, since I'm bored at work. To claim that an OS doesn't "take full advantage of the speed" is like saying your car engine doesn't take full advantage of all 32 valves. Either you have MHz, or you don't. Just because you're running WinME doesn't make your CPU any slower. It may have poorer memory management, but that has no impact on CPU utilization.
Since you admittedly don't know, and are guessing, how about you keep quiet, since all you're doing is serving to bloat the Slashdot DB more with your content-less posts? And try capitalizing where appropriate.
IANACD (I am not a CPU Designer), but I'd imagine that they're redesigning these things for a reason, NOT just to screw users and force an upgrade cycle. Intel did the same thing with their CPUs, and IBM/everyone did the same when they went from 30 pin to 72 pin SIMMS, then to DIMMS, then to DDR DIMMS. Was this all a vast Taiwanese component manufacturer conspiracy? I somehow doubt it. When it first came out, the PCI bus was limited to 3 slots due to physical 'ring' characteristics on the signal lines. Some propeller-heads at HP figured out a way to get 4 slots, and everyone ooh'd and aaah'd over it. Nowadays we have more slots due to bridge chips, are we going to complain that those pesky motherboard manufacturers keep updating their chipsets? Are you also angry at the music industry cabal that forced everyone to upgrade from vinyl to 8-track to cassette to CD to DVD ?
Schernau's 2nd law: bolding part of your post actually detracts from your argument
Thank you for not screaming that Sun must PROVIDE the sources with JDS. As everyone (should) know, the GPL only mandates that you provide a means for the end-user to acquire the sources.
Here in Rhode Island, USA, we have several propane filling stations, however they're all clearly marked "State Vehicles Only". So while its nice to see the State Troopers and trolley buses cruising around on propane, there needs to be more filling stations, and they need to be available to the general public. These sorts of alternative energy options always require a certain critical mass, or number of cars, or number of users, before they're economically viable. (No comments from the anti-gasoline tinfoil hat crowd, please)
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Bah, all I want is the installer kernel to be able to grok my SATA RAID set, without having to resort to custom boot disks, or God forbid, using Debian or Gentoo. When will a mainstream, it-just-works distro support these disk controllers?
Is it so much to ask, that a non-fringe distro include SATA RAID support in their installer kernels? Debian and Gentoo are the only ones, AFAIK, that do, and they both are teh suck.
This has been discussed at great length here before on Slashdot.
And therefore, it must be true? Talk about an ad hominem argument.
History seems to indicate that you cannot.
So it does, or it does not?
The US has been in Afghanistan for all of 3 years, and Iraq for one. Regarding Korea and Vietnam, define "genuine peace"?
Point me to an institution or country which has done a better job, and I'll consider conceding the point, based on the cogency and truth of your argument.
Because in a civilized society, the population grants the government a monopoly on the use of force. Extended to the planet, America seems the natural choice. Extending a governmental system with a judiciary, an executive and a legistlative branch to the planet, you end up with the World Court, the United States, and the UN.
The US is the world's police force, the US has most of the guns. From a practical standpoint, why NOT grant them the monopoly on force, since they've (typically) shown respect for liberty in the past. Name a country who has shown MORE respect for liberty, not in the "you should be free from being poor" sense, but in the true "you are free to do as you like, but eat what you kill" sense. It reminds me of that scene from the Life of Brian:
REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
XERXES: Brought peace.
So hey, I'm already supporting your cause!
4 MP, RAW capture mode, Microdrive compatible, 3x optical and 3x digital zoom, very usable interface. My one complaint is some chromatic abberation, but most non-SLR cameras have pretty small lenses, so its hard to get around. 4MP RAW output is sweet, and with the 'dcraw' application, you don't need the Win32 crapware that comes with the camera.
Stop sodomizing goats in primitive and savage places, and you wouldn't have to worry about your little pr0n stash.
ARP! ARP! FSCK ME! FSCK ME!
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Since 70%+ of the wireless users on my block do not activate WEP, or change the default channel, or use a non-default SSID, I'm willing to bet that nobody went through the effort to manually deactivate the admin interface, or change the password. You could argue that that is merely a de facto flaw, while the listed vulnerability is de jure, but from a practical perspective, this is no less secure than everything was anyway.
I live now in Switzerland
and
Hence my question: are others also worried about poor security of online banking in the U.S.?
I, for one, have never had my bank account hacked into, stolen, or misappropriated. Heck, they've never even fscked up a check. Go back to Europe, with your womb-to-tomb welfare, and oh yes, "free" RSA-style ATM cards. (where do you think the money comes from for all this? That's right... YOU)
The "law of the excluded middle" that you quote is valid, but there is an associated fallacy, which you do not claim I committed. I'm unsure of your point here.
Invoking Sturgeon's law is "throwing money at the problem" - you're just assuming that eventually something will happen, and you leave out the _somehow_.
If I can hear it, I can rip it.
There already ARE a million monkeys hammering away on a million typewriters, and AOL is nothing like Shakespeare.
By your logic, we can cure the ills of the Third World simply by throwing money at their problems. Oh wait...
I went to college, this will get used for warez, pr0n, and Kazaa, nothing more. One kid will keep saying things like "But imagine a Beowulf cluster, we could make a cluster out of the whole dorm!" and hand out Kloppix CDs, which the rest of the dorm will use as coasters under their bongs.
They may have gotten a good deal on this, which means that the vendors can write off an artificially high "price" as a donation, and it means that someone's friend who is a wiring contractor ends up with a new boat.
Whose HD can constantly suck up more than a 100 MB pipe? (Don't quote me some Sandra benchmark off a gamerz site, here) And if 100 people in a dorm are all "on fiber" and the dorm has "fiber" to the campus core router, which has "fiber" somewhere else, at what point does the bandwidth get divided down below 100 MBit anyway? You're not going to get more than that, why run expensive fiber when you can run cheapo Cat 5, and put the phones on the unused pairs as well? The math doesn't work here.
The problem is that the greybeards in Congress remember when they could work on their own cars, before all the computerization and emission-control crap was added. So they sympathize with owners who "want to be able to fix their own cars, but the newfangled ones are too '1337."
This contrasts with computers and technology, because the members of Congress never knew how it worked, so of course there's no reason to open the hood, to extend the metaphor. "Computers? Well, them's crazy things, you better ask my 9 year old nephew... take it apart? Why, you'll probably break it anyway!"
The IRS can kiss my greasy ass if they think I'll declare this.
Except that AMD chips don't hyperthread. There is no basis for the statement "Win98 and ME might not be optimized to eficiently use the faster proccesor speeds".
You base your entire argument on AMD's Marketing press release that says "Microsoft optimized the DirectX 8.0 interface for Windows XP specifically for the AMD Athlon XP processor".
This is a highly dubious statement at best, since MS would have no incentive to optimize it for AMD at the expense of Intel. DX8 may include 3DNow instructions, but it also may include SSE2 instructions.
Lastly, you qualify your whole counterpoint with "Also this is more of a guess because the manufacturers implied it instead of comming right out and saying it.", thus ripping the foundation out from underneath your shaky argument.
Have you even graduated high school? I suggest taking a critical thinking or logic class, if you hope to accomplish anything in the real world.
Also win9x and me might not be able to take full advantage of the spped. (but that more of a guess then anything)
This sentence lacks any cognitive value, but I'll refute your point, since I'm bored at work. To claim that an OS doesn't "take full advantage of the speed" is like saying your car engine doesn't take full advantage of all 32 valves. Either you have MHz, or you don't. Just because you're running WinME doesn't make your CPU any slower. It may have poorer memory management, but that has no impact on CPU utilization.
Since you admittedly don't know, and are guessing, how about you keep quiet, since all you're doing is serving to bloat the Slashdot DB more with your content-less posts? And try capitalizing where appropriate.
"I don't own a car; I use pubtrans"
My, aren't we trendy and modern? ABB, right? How was your morning chat with Darth Nader?
IANACD (I am not a CPU Designer), but I'd imagine that they're redesigning these things for a reason, NOT just to screw users and force an upgrade cycle. Intel did the same thing with their CPUs, and IBM/everyone did the same when they went from 30 pin to 72 pin SIMMS, then to DIMMS, then to DDR DIMMS. Was this all a vast Taiwanese component manufacturer conspiracy? I somehow doubt it. When it first came out, the PCI bus was limited to 3 slots due to physical 'ring' characteristics on the signal lines. Some propeller-heads at HP figured out a way to get 4 slots, and everyone ooh'd and aaah'd over it. Nowadays we have more slots due to bridge chips, are we going to complain that those pesky motherboard manufacturers keep updating their chipsets?
Are you also angry at the music industry cabal that forced everyone to upgrade from vinyl to 8-track to cassette to CD to DVD ?
Schernau's 2nd law: bolding part of your post actually detracts from your argument
Thank you for not screaming that Sun must PROVIDE the sources with JDS. As everyone (should) know, the GPL only mandates that you provide a means for the end-user to acquire the sources.
So what you're saying is that if I buy a Mac, I pay for hardware that I might not need, while if I buy a PC, I can add it as I go? Oh, ok.
Who gives a fuck that you have a swamp cooler? What is this, your blog?
Here in Rhode Island, USA, we have several propane filling stations, however they're all clearly marked "State Vehicles Only". So while its nice to see the State Troopers and trolley buses cruising around on propane, there needs to be more filling stations, and they need to be available to the general public.
These sorts of alternative energy options always require a certain critical mass, or number of cars, or number of users, before they're economically viable. (No comments from the anti-gasoline tinfoil hat crowd, please)