We keep trying to add more raw data to the system - what's needed is to remove irrelevant data from the system.
This is just going to be a boondoggle full of data that can eventually prove Captain America Killed Kennedy in the Library with the Lead Pipe.
We only have so many smart people that can investigate so many leads - sending them off to investigate a speeding ticket because his girlfriend dated bin Laden's father's brother's former roommate is no use whatsoever.
I would posit that it's the relative consistency of Windows that makes the Microsoft Tax feasible. Like most things this is an advantage or disadvantage depending on circumstances; among other things it means when they improve security in badly needed ways, they experience a backlash.
Linux is nimbler, but I'm looking at moving from Ubuntu to Mint (Or maybe just Debian) specifically because the nimbleness is a trade-off with consistency (and well -- the more I know Unity, the less I like it). I prefer Linux, but Windows mediocrity is mediocrity to a purpose.
Wow - I'd say I'd be spanked if we had tantrums like that, but more likely we'd have been made to feel stupid by having a five-year-old put in charge of us with the parents making sure we toed the line and did everything we were told to by an obviously more mature member of the family - {G}.
What's the point of having a "ACs don't bother . .." tagline, then responding to one?
I have nothing against AC's myself, but if I was going to be that kind of asshole (as opposed to my own, completely different kind of asshole) I'd at least be consistent about it - {G}.
Except, Tanenbaum still would not have allowed Minix to be a hobbyist system, so it still would have been his happy beautiful Cathedral worshiping the patron saint of micro-kernels.
I think that space of large, imperfect cooperative behavior was the hole waiting to be filled - Linux grew to fill that hole. If Linus hadn't invented it someone else would have.
Sure it could have - and nothing they did with the fork would have benefited anyone but them. If you think the hundreds of Linux forks are bad, imagine hundreds of forked OS's growing and dying . . . with absolutely none of the knowledge gained going back to the main community.
Windows beats Linux because, however crappy it often is, it's crappy in entirely consistent ways. Linux improves because different distros learn not to be crappy in new and different ways. The way *I* read the BDS license(s), BSD would have been legally forced to be crappy in a new and different way each and every time - unless the failures voluntarily submitted their improvements and new knowledge back to the community he claims they avoided doing in Linux specifically because they didn't want to do that.
Or - to rephrase - as nice as Mac's BSD under the skin OS is, how much has it actually improved the BSD experience of anyone else?
Thus the issue is being handled at the wrong end. Create a spam system yourself, and spam Quebec. Some small number of people will respond positively to your campaign. Use the profits from the campaign to hire assassins and have those people killed.
When you can no longer afford to hire killers to eliminate people that respond positively to spam, the problem will have been defacto resolved.
In order to eliminate ethical concerns, this process should probably be automated - otherwise the profits might actually tempt you and you might forget that we're doing this for a greater good. And that would be wrong.
The long and the short of it is why should anyone trust this person as a moderator.
Jerry Coyne and John Haught agreed to debate on the basis of a set of rules.
Only the height of dishonesty would enable John Haught to claim that when he agreed to the debate being recorded he was not agreeing to the record being made public - a sophistry that would not be recognized even in contract law where sophistry is expected. The "Meeting of the Minds" was clear, that John Haught entered into it with no intent of being held to it equally clear.
John Haught, merely by attempting this, establishes himself as dishonest.
But that Dr. Rabel, acting as a supposedly neutral moderator, vacated the pre-existing agreement arbitrarily based on this kind of weak argument is the real dishonesty - Jerry Coyne entered into an agreement based on a degree of trust that the agreement would be enforced regardless of the outcome. He spent time preparing for the debate, and Dr. Rabel threw out the agreed upon conditions based on a line of argument that would get any 5 year old spanked.
Dishonesty and prevarication in no way means John Haught is not someone to debate - Jerry Coyne is a big boy and can look out for himself, so long as the rules are enforced. As a moderator however, Dr. Rabel should be blacklisted. He cannot be trusted to enforce the rules impartially, or indeed at all.
I ambitiously updated my DVR to 11.10 based on the fact that I thought the Unity interface would be okay for the DVR, and the reported improvements in stability.
It has been bad, to a point of Windows ME bad. I've had a log file error generating 1.5 Gb kernal logs.
One day it wouldn't recognize the DVD burner - in the end I finally had to restart. Except it won't actually restart, the restart won't leave past the login screen - finally, regretfully, I do a hard reset. The DVD Burner is re-recognized, and all is good . . . except Evidently the restart was being stopped by Banshee refusing to exit . . . and it will no longer run, at all. Doing a complete uninstall does nothing - something in Banshee has fallen and won't get up even after config files are removed and reinstall. Try to install Amarok - it won't run; Rythymbox no longer comes up in the repositories. Totem is 75% stable. That is to say, the first time I play a large movie file, it get's 75% through it, then locks up.
Various other programs that never had problems running in the background consistently crash after a time.
Despite the vaunted Linux community, I have virtually never gotten a response to any problem I posted with Ubuntu -- but by and large before now I never had *that* many issues, and they were typically irritations that I eventually figured out on my own, not genuine problems. I'm *not* a power-user though, and this last version is an unmitigated disaster - if you haven't upgraded yet, I highly recommend just holding off until the next release.
I really love how the house, taken over by the Tea Party "Bastions of Democracy" that they are, are such corporate whores that they can't even keep the nice dresses on like they do in the Senate but *want* everyone to see them on their knees before their corporate masters.
Yes, but as the pressure gets lower, it necessarily get larger until you have
The BLOB!!!
Beware of The Blob, it creeps And leaps and glides and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch Be careful of The Blob
That's pretty much where I'm at - I can believe it's not *as* fast as Chrome, but it's negligible, and I've never had stability problem even with copious extendage used.
And I've been using since 1.0 on numerous computers and OS's.
Jury nullification *is* the letter of the law - as affirmed by multiple court decisions.
That a Judge does not like it makes no difference to my willingness to affirm that I will follow the letter of the law - including my responsibility to judge the law and application of the law.
The judge can hold an attorney in contempt for informing them of this power - which is as it should be. Personally I understand the dislike of jury nullification - it was often used in the defense of lynching and assorted other viciousness in the south - and absolutely no case should depend upon a Jury being aware of the capacity. I also think it's the responsibility of the citizen to be aware they do have a constitutional right and responsibility to judge both the law and whether it is being misapplied. It is an unappealable prerogative of the Jury system and it's is on the jurors themselves to be aware of it in the same way they are aware of their right to vote.
More to the point, the Supreme Court has declared quite definitively that punitive damages in excess of ten times the actual damages are violations of the "No cruel and unusual punishment" clause.
Oddly enough, that concept only seems to be applicable when corporations are caught red-handed falsifying data for generations in order to maintain a market for an addictive and carcinogenic substance and punished by a jury. When when a student is found guilty of sharing a $20 CD and punished by financially destroying him with a punishment over 375 times the worth of the 100 copies that were shared, there's absolutely no problem.
Feh - I've not been around forever, but I've been around long enough to know none of the programmers I've ever met called assembler machine language.
Assembler is, at it's basis, homomorphic to machine language (although even that's not true any more), but unless you're actually twiddling 1's and 0's it's not machine code and that's a distinction every programmer I've ever met is thoroughly aware of - and indeed will hit you with a cluex4 for forgetting.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Translate: WAAAAH! I want it forever! WAAAAH! I want to charge, no matter what the Constitution says.
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You said it better - thanks.
I don't find it so much creepy as, well, useless.
We keep trying to add more raw data to the system - what's needed is to remove irrelevant data from the system.
This is just going to be a boondoggle full of data that can eventually prove Captain America Killed Kennedy in the Library with the Lead Pipe.
We only have so many smart people that can investigate so many leads - sending them off to investigate a speeding ticket because his girlfriend dated bin Laden's father's brother's former roommate is no use whatsoever.
Idiots.
Pug
Eh - fair 'nuff I suppose - {G}.
Pug
I would posit that it's the relative consistency of Windows that makes the Microsoft Tax feasible. Like most things this is an advantage or disadvantage depending on circumstances; among other things it means when they improve security in badly needed ways, they experience a backlash.
Linux is nimbler, but I'm looking at moving from Ubuntu to Mint (Or maybe just Debian) specifically because the nimbleness is a trade-off with consistency (and well -- the more I know Unity, the less I like it). I prefer Linux, but Windows mediocrity is mediocrity to a purpose.
Pug
Wow - I have a public opinion that differs from yours! I must be unread, or else I would obviously agree with you.
Because after all, changes never get merged back into Linux . . . no, wait, happens all the time. Or so I read.
In your defense, you may have intended to post this to the threads about how BSD elitism has in no way hindered it either.
Pug
Wow - I'd say I'd be spanked if we had tantrums like that, but more likely we'd have been made to feel stupid by having a five-year-old put in charge of us with the parents making sure we toed the line and did everything we were told to by an obviously more mature member of the family - {G}.
More to the point, it seems to me to fly in the face of the Bell inequality.
Look Mom, more people telling God he shouldn't play dice!
Pug
What's the point of having a "ACs don't bother . . ." tagline, then responding to one?
I have nothing against AC's myself, but if I was going to be that kind of asshole (as opposed to my own, completely different kind of asshole) I'd at least be consistent about it - {G}.
Pug
Except, Tanenbaum still would not have allowed Minix to be a hobbyist system, so it still would have been his happy beautiful Cathedral worshiping the patron saint of micro-kernels.
I think that space of large, imperfect cooperative behavior was the hole waiting to be filled - Linux grew to fill that hole. If Linus hadn't invented it someone else would have.
Pug
Sure it could have - and nothing they did with the fork would have benefited anyone but them. If you think the hundreds of Linux forks are bad, imagine hundreds of forked OS's growing and dying . . . with absolutely none of the knowledge gained going back to the main community.
Windows beats Linux because, however crappy it often is, it's crappy in entirely consistent ways. Linux improves because different distros learn not to be crappy in new and different ways. The way *I* read the BDS license(s), BSD would have been legally forced to be crappy in a new and different way each and every time - unless the failures voluntarily submitted their improvements and new knowledge back to the community he claims they avoided doing in Linux specifically because they didn't want to do that.
Or - to rephrase - as nice as Mac's BSD under the skin OS is, how much has it actually improved the BSD experience of anyone else?
Pug
There's a lot to like, and dislike, in Unity style-wise, but as a practical matter I have had more crashes under Unity than I have ever had on Linux.
I've had Gui's that are goofed up, previously stable programs like Miro, easytag, and Totem that crash consistently, lock-ups -
It has just been an unholy mess.
Pug
Thus the issue is being handled at the wrong end. Create a spam system yourself, and spam Quebec. Some small number of people will respond positively to your campaign. Use the profits from the campaign to hire assassins and have those people killed.
When you can no longer afford to hire killers to eliminate people that respond positively to spam, the problem will have been defacto resolved.
In order to eliminate ethical concerns, this process should probably be automated - otherwise the profits might actually tempt you and you might forget that we're doing this for a greater good. And that would be wrong.
Pug
The long and the short of it is why should anyone trust this person as a moderator.
Jerry Coyne and John Haught agreed to debate on the basis of a set of rules.
Only the height of dishonesty would enable John Haught to claim that when he agreed to the debate being recorded he was not agreeing to the record being made public - a sophistry that would not be recognized even in contract law where sophistry is expected. The "Meeting of the Minds" was clear, that John Haught entered into it with no intent of being held to it equally clear.
John Haught, merely by attempting this, establishes himself as dishonest.
But that Dr. Rabel, acting as a supposedly neutral moderator, vacated the pre-existing agreement arbitrarily based on this kind of weak argument is the real dishonesty - Jerry Coyne entered into an agreement based on a degree of trust that the agreement would be enforced regardless of the outcome. He spent time preparing for the debate, and Dr. Rabel threw out the agreed upon conditions based on a line of argument that would get any 5 year old spanked.
Dishonesty and prevarication in no way means John Haught is not someone to debate - Jerry Coyne is a big boy and can look out for himself, so long as the rules are enforced.
As a moderator however, Dr. Rabel should be blacklisted. He cannot be trusted to enforce the rules impartially, or indeed at all.
Pug
Simpler than that is that God created us both just before you posted that, memories in place.
Simpler that *that* God created just me, and you don't even count, 10 seconds ago . . .
Pug
I ambitiously updated my DVR to 11.10 based on the fact that I thought the Unity interface would be okay for the DVR, and the reported improvements in stability.
It has been bad, to a point of Windows ME bad. I've had a log file error generating 1.5 Gb kernal logs.
One day it wouldn't recognize the DVD burner - in the end I finally had to restart. Except it won't actually restart, the restart won't leave past the login screen - finally, regretfully, I do a hard reset. The DVD Burner is re-recognized, and all is good . . . except
Evidently the restart was being stopped by Banshee refusing to exit . . . and it will no longer run, at all. Doing a complete uninstall does nothing - something in Banshee has fallen and won't get up even after config files are removed and reinstall. Try to install Amarok - it won't run; Rythymbox no longer comes up in the repositories. Totem is 75% stable. That is to say, the first time I play a large movie file, it get's 75% through it, then locks up.
Various other programs that never had problems running in the background consistently crash after a time.
Despite the vaunted Linux community, I have virtually never gotten a response to any problem I posted with Ubuntu -- but by and large before now I never had *that* many issues, and they were typically irritations that I eventually figured out on my own, not genuine problems. I'm *not* a power-user though, and this last version is an unmitigated disaster - if you haven't upgraded yet, I highly recommend just holding off until the next release.
Pug
Actually promoted when it's found there's nothing else near it's orbital path.
I really love how the house, taken over by the Tea Party "Bastions of Democracy" that they are, are such corporate whores that they can't even keep the nice dresses on like they do in the Senate but *want* everyone to see them on their knees before their corporate masters.
Pug
Yes, but as the pressure gets lower, it necessarily get larger until you have
The BLOB!!!
Beware of The Blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of The Blob
{G} - Pug
That's pretty much where I'm at - I can believe it's not *as* fast as Chrome, but it's negligible, and I've never had stability problem even with copious extendage used.
And I've been using since 1.0 on numerous computers and OS's.
Pug
... people ... are too stupid to realize the power they have.
Fixed that for you.
Jury nullification *is* the letter of the law - as affirmed by multiple court decisions.
That a Judge does not like it makes no difference to my willingness to affirm that I will follow the letter of the law - including my responsibility to judge the law and application of the law.
Pug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification_in_the_United_States#Court_rulings
The judge can hold an attorney in contempt for informing them of this power - which is as it should be. Personally I understand the dislike of jury nullification - it was often used in the defense of lynching and assorted other viciousness in the south - and absolutely no case should depend upon a Jury being aware of the capacity. I also think it's the responsibility of the citizen to be aware they do have a constitutional right and responsibility to judge both the law and whether it is being misapplied. It is an unappealable prerogative of the Jury system and it's is on the jurors themselves to be aware of it in the same way they are aware of their right to vote.
Pug
More to the point, the Supreme Court has declared quite definitively that punitive damages in excess of ten times the actual damages are violations of the "No cruel and unusual punishment" clause.
Oddly enough, that concept only seems to be applicable when corporations are caught red-handed falsifying data for generations in order to maintain a market for an addictive and carcinogenic substance and punished by a jury. When when a student is found guilty of sharing a $20 CD and punished by financially destroying him with a punishment over 375 times the worth of the 100 copies that were shared, there's absolutely no problem.
Can I be a corporation please?
Pug
Feh - I've not been around forever, but I've been around long enough to know none of the programmers I've ever met called assembler machine language.
Assembler is, at it's basis, homomorphic to machine language (although even that's not true any more), but unless you're actually twiddling 1's and 0's it's not machine code and that's a distinction every programmer I've ever met is thoroughly aware of - and indeed will hit you with a cluex4 for forgetting.
Pug
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Translate: WAAAAH! I want it forever! WAAAAH! I want to charge, no matter what the Constitution says.
Pug