I dunno, I tried irate for quite a while, and never found anything I would rate above mediocre (and precious few of those). I don't know if the problem is irate's algorithm, or that there isn't any music out there that I like, or what.
Sometimes the timing will be right, but the rest is wasted.
Wasted? No. If they've got excess power due to a changing tide in the middle of the night, they can throttle down some of the fossil fuel generators and save some oil. Why would they waste it?
Um...did you read the article? 'Cause your post about people grabbing whatever bandwidth they felt they needed makes no sense. The article proposes limiting bandwidth consumption by financial means, not by "whatever they felt they needed".
I guess the moderators don't read the articles either...
I use BT all the time for other stuff, and it works fine. But with this torrent (and the "leaked" torrent earlier) all I'm getting is errors ("connection refused" and "timeout exceeded"). Is the tracker just overwhelmed, or are others still getting good d/l rates?
It's pretty meaningless to compare BT to FTP if the two methods have been allocated unequal resources. I bet the current BT tracker is running on one machine, and I suspect you're comparing it to RedHat's normal distribution method of a monster FTP site plus 50 or so mirrors.
It wouldn't be that difficult for RedHat to publish multiple.torrent files, each pointing to a different tracker: I suspect that this torrent's popularity caught them unaware. Of course, BT could probably handle this pretty easily by allowing multiple trackers in the.torrent file. If a client couldn't connect with the primary tracker, it could attempt the secondary tracker. Maybe trackers could even communicate with each other, swapping clients every once in a while, so you would only have to have 1 seed for multiple trackers.
The biggest problem with BitTorrent is the centralized tracker. There are (I assume) enough people downloading this that I should be getting great download speeds, but instead I'm getting:
error(s): [20:46:22] Problem connecting to tracker - timeout exceeded
I've had problems with Netscape 4 (on a Mac, I think) displaying pngs improperly. In one case that I recall, transparent sections of the png were colored black in that browser.
Sure, Netscape 4 is kinda old, but it was what the client was using, and he didn't understand why it should make any difference what browser he was using.
Nope, I'm aware of the definition. When a sniper is sitting a quarter mile off, he's going to have a hard time telling the difference (discriminating) between a civilian and a combatant, especially if that civilian is behaving in an unruly manner. If he doesn't mean to kill the civilians, but does so anyway, then he's being indiscriminate in his targeting. I don't see it as a criticism (not of the soldier, anyway), but it's indescriminate nonetheless.
I have to say, all the "figure of speech" and [low] "standard of discourse" sounds like a cop-out to me. Using figures of speech is fine, but "You're an idiot" isn't a figure of speech, it's an insult.
The rest of it is a real stretch. Calling Linux a "little helper" implies that it's helping the Marines with their task, but to conclude from that that the author wants to assign blame for the task to an inanimate object is quite a leap. I frequently anthromorphize objects in speech ("My computer doesn't want to save the file."), but I'd never approach my boss and say, "It's my computer's fault I didn't get my work done."
I'm assuming that the "Mr. Smith" quote was a Matrix reference, where a tool written for good ends up accidentally causing evil. In both the Linux and Matrix cases, I suppose you could attribute evil motives to the computer, but without further support for anthromorphization I would assume the author was attributing the motives to the users/creators.
You say that the characterization of the Armed Forces as indiscriminate killers is offensive to you. Well, the Armed Forces are pretty indiscriminate killers. That's not to say that the soldiers aren't doing a good job; for the most part, they are. (Yes, even the ones who in the heat of the moment make despicable quotes.) But in a war, civilans die. In an occupation, innocent people get slaughtered. When a kid runs at a soldier with his hand behind his back, the soldier doesn't know if he has a grenade or a toy and so he shoots. It's not an unreasonable action, but it's indiscriminate killing.
Clay is horrified at the current occupation, and even more horrified that his government is participating in it. And maybe he doesn't make it clear exactly who's to blame, each time he reports on who the Marines have killed. But assuming that he's blaming the soldiers, when there's so much more likely of a target (the government that put them there) isn't reasonable.
If he did not read the GPL or he did and did not understand, we should be grateful he is abandoning the FLOSS movement altogether.
Wrong, twice. First, he's not abandoning anything other than the presidency of the LUG. He's still going to be part of it, and he's still going to support Linux through the LUG and through his Linux company.
Second, what makes you think he didn't understand the GPL? Even if he were abandoning Linux (which he's not), there's nothing in the GPL which obligates him to provide support. He's free to cease support for any reason, including if he doesn't like the way the tool is being used.
People are getting all worked up here as if he had said, "We should sue them for breach of the GPL". He's not saying that. He's saying that what's happening is bad, and he's sad that his tool is being used to do something bad.
But it's still my fault as a Westerner that Saddam has a fetish for tanks instead of penicillin and bread.
Well, whether you bear personal responsibility really depends more on your personal actions than your governments.
But if you're asking why the US is at fault for Saddam's tank fetish, I think it has something to do with the CIA's role in getting him into power in the first place, and our selling him weapons along the way.
Who the hell cares whether he uttered an untruth, or he tried to get us to believe something that was untrue without actually saying it, or got someone else (Fleischer, Cheney?) to lie for him, or refused to let journalists ask hard questions, or simply stonewalled when they did manage to get a hard question in?
The point is, none of the above crap is in the job description, and he shouldn't be doing it, and since he is doing it, we need to put him right or put him out.
What seems to be advocated is a preference for death by inaction, rather than death by action.
Why the dichotomy? What about "smart sanctions", which target certain commodities to try to shift the pain of the sanctions from the people onto their (misbehaving) leaders?
Here's my response, having read as much of your actual statement that I could stomach:
If you won't bother to read the whole thing, then how the hell do you pretend to know what he's saying?
You're an idiot.
Ad hominem. Try again.
You're blaming a tool
Straw man. Where does he say Linux is to blame? Or are you just assuming it's in the part of his statement that you didn't bother to read?
Is anybody attacking the makers of Linux for making Linux? Nobody sane. You, however, are.
Again, straw man. Or just plain wrong, I'm not sure which.
I'm not really sure what you're talking about when you say he's mischaracterizing "the brave men and women of the US armed forces", so I'll just leave it alone and assume it's about as accurate as the rest of your post.
What are we supposed to do about it anyway? Put a clause in the license to say only good people can use it?
No, we don't put such a clause in the license. What we do is we make it available for all to use, and then we scream and holler and make a big stink when somebody uses our tool immorally.
Which, coincidentally, is exactly what Clay is doing.
This person appears to have the thinking skills of a duck. He stops supporting Linux because the Military in using it,
Straw man. Where does he say that he's going to stop supporting Linux? He actually says quite the opposite: that he will still participate in the LUG.
Is he serious about his outrage or is he just being selective in his outrage and trying to play his leaving the LUG into an opportunity to get a better job with one of the LA antiwar groups?
He's already got an excellent job as president of a successful computer company. What makes you think he has ulterior motives, other than the fact that his opinion on Iraq differs from yours?
I think it's shameful the way you've attacked his intelligence and motives without any evidence whatsoever. He feels very strongly that there were better ways to liberate Iraq, he wants to get that message out to try to improve the lives of both Iraqis and Americans, and he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. What have you done that is similarly meritorious?
As string-trick masters execute complex, multistep maneuvers, they parse the yo-yo's string into multiple segments, some of them switched back into the shaft's gap.
I parse strings all the time, but that's the first time I've heard anyone claim to "parse the yo-yo's string".
Does anyone have a regexp for the syntax of a yo-yo string?
I've asked at least one well-credentialed tech person who uses Linux heavily, and he says dual-booting is still fraught with complications.
Huh? What complications? I dual-booted for several years before ridding myself of Windows entirely, and never ran into any complication that a reinstall of the bootloader wouldn't fix. (And even that can be avoided, if you install Windows before Linux.)
It's a little more complicated if you want to share files between systems, but it's not that hard to work around.
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I dunno, I tried irate for quite a while, and never found anything I would rate above mediocre (and precious few of those). I don't know if the problem is irate's algorithm, or that there isn't any music out there that I like, or what.
Great, now the Mozilla mail reader's going to need yet another new name...
So Penguin was unwilling to promote girl.com as the title of the book because girl.com is a pr0n site, right?
So if Katie Jones wants Penguin to leave her alone, maybe she should just post some pr0n.
Or, better yet, tell Penguin that unless they buy the site from her for $$$, she'll sell it for same $$$ to a pr0n company.
Wasted? No. If they've got excess power due to a changing tide in the middle of the night, they can throttle down some of the fossil fuel generators and save some oil. Why would they waste it?
"vibration"?
Is that what they're calling being kicked off an 8-foot precipice onto a concrete floor, nowadays?
I've seen how UPS treats my property. The only thing I'll ship with them now is stuff that's pretty much indestructable.
"yardstick", actually.
Um...did you read the article? 'Cause your post about people grabbing whatever bandwidth they felt they needed makes no sense. The article proposes limiting bandwidth consumption by financial means, not by "whatever they felt they needed".
I guess the moderators don't read the articles either...
The joysticks are just there for show. Everyone knows you control these things by manipulating big metal rods in your mouth and rectum.
I use BT all the time for other stuff, and it works fine. But with this torrent (and the "leaked" torrent earlier) all I'm getting is errors ("connection refused" and "timeout exceeded"). Is the tracker just overwhelmed, or are others still getting good d/l rates?
It's pretty meaningless to compare BT to FTP if the two methods have been allocated unequal resources. I bet the current BT tracker is running on one machine, and I suspect you're comparing it to RedHat's normal distribution method of a monster FTP site plus 50 or so mirrors.
It wouldn't be that difficult for RedHat to publish multiple .torrent files, each pointing to a different tracker: I suspect that this torrent's popularity caught them unaware. Of course, BT could probably handle this pretty easily by allowing multiple trackers in the .torrent file. If a client couldn't connect with the primary tracker, it could attempt the secondary tracker. Maybe trackers could even communicate with each other, swapping clients every once in a while, so you would only have to have 1 seed for multiple trackers.
The biggest problem with BitTorrent is the centralized tracker. There are (I assume) enough people downloading this that I should be getting great download speeds, but instead I'm getting:
error(s): [20:46:22] Problem connecting to tracker - timeout exceeded
I've had problems with Netscape 4 (on a Mac, I think) displaying pngs improperly. In one case that I recall, transparent sections of the png were colored black in that browser.
Sure, Netscape 4 is kinda old, but it was what the client was using, and he didn't understand why it should make any difference what browser he was using.
That's 'cause "swappiness" was just added in the 2.5 series. It hasn't been around that long.
Nope, I'm aware of the definition. When a sniper is sitting a quarter mile off, he's going to have a hard time telling the difference (discriminating) between a civilian and a combatant, especially if that civilian is behaving in an unruly manner. If he doesn't mean to kill the civilians, but does so anyway, then he's being indiscriminate in his targeting. I don't see it as a criticism (not of the soldier, anyway), but it's indescriminate nonetheless.
I have to say, all the "figure of speech" and [low] "standard of discourse" sounds like a cop-out to me. Using figures of speech is fine, but "You're an idiot" isn't a figure of speech, it's an insult.
The rest of it is a real stretch. Calling Linux a "little helper" implies that it's helping the Marines with their task, but to conclude from that that the author wants to assign blame for the task to an inanimate object is quite a leap. I frequently anthromorphize objects in speech ("My computer doesn't want to save the file."), but I'd never approach my boss and say, "It's my computer's fault I didn't get my work done."
I'm assuming that the "Mr. Smith" quote was a Matrix reference, where a tool written for good ends up accidentally causing evil. In both the Linux and Matrix cases, I suppose you could attribute evil motives to the computer, but without further support for anthromorphization I would assume the author was attributing the motives to the users/creators.
You say that the characterization of the Armed Forces as indiscriminate killers is offensive to you. Well, the Armed Forces are pretty indiscriminate killers. That's not to say that the soldiers aren't doing a good job; for the most part, they are. (Yes, even the ones who in the heat of the moment make despicable quotes.) But in a war, civilans die. In an occupation, innocent people get slaughtered. When a kid runs at a soldier with his hand behind his back, the soldier doesn't know if he has a grenade or a toy and so he shoots. It's not an unreasonable action, but it's indiscriminate killing.
Clay is horrified at the current occupation, and even more horrified that his government is participating in it. And maybe he doesn't make it clear exactly who's to blame, each time he reports on who the Marines have killed. But assuming that he's blaming the soldiers, when there's so much more likely of a target (the government that put them there) isn't reasonable.
Wrong, twice. First, he's not abandoning anything other than the presidency of the LUG. He's still going to be part of it, and he's still going to support Linux through the LUG and through his Linux company.
Second, what makes you think he didn't understand the GPL? Even if he were abandoning Linux (which he's not), there's nothing in the GPL which obligates him to provide support. He's free to cease support for any reason, including if he doesn't like the way the tool is being used.
People are getting all worked up here as if he had said, "We should sue them for breach of the GPL". He's not saying that. He's saying that what's happening is bad, and he's sad that his tool is being used to do something bad.
Well, whether you bear personal responsibility really depends more on your personal actions than your governments.
But if you're asking why the US is at fault for Saddam's tank fetish, I think it has something to do with the CIA's role in getting him into power in the first place, and our selling him weapons along the way.
Oh, fer Chrissake!
Who the hell cares whether he uttered an untruth, or he tried to get us to believe something that was untrue without actually saying it, or got someone else (Fleischer, Cheney?) to lie for him, or refused to let journalists ask hard questions, or simply stonewalled when they did manage to get a hard question in?
The point is, none of the above crap is in the job description, and he shouldn't be doing it, and since he is doing it, we need to put him right or put him out.
Why the dichotomy? What about "smart sanctions", which target certain commodities to try to shift the pain of the sanctions from the people onto their (misbehaving) leaders?
If you won't bother to read the whole thing, then how the hell do you pretend to know what he's saying?
Ad hominem. Try again.
Straw man. Where does he say Linux is to blame? Or are you just assuming it's in the part of his statement that you didn't bother to read?
Again, straw man. Or just plain wrong, I'm not sure which.
I'm not really sure what you're talking about when you say he's mischaracterizing "the brave men and women of the US armed forces", so I'll just leave it alone and assume it's about as accurate as the rest of your post.
No, we don't put such a clause in the license. What we do is we make it available for all to use, and then we scream and holler and make a big stink when somebody uses our tool immorally.
Which, coincidentally, is exactly what Clay is doing.
Straw man. Where does he say that he's going to stop supporting Linux? He actually says quite the opposite: that he will still participate in the LUG.
He's already got an excellent job as president of a successful computer company. What makes you think he has ulterior motives, other than the fact that his opinion on Iraq differs from yours?
I think it's shameful the way you've attacked his intelligence and motives without any evidence whatsoever. He feels very strongly that there were better ways to liberate Iraq, he wants to get that message out to try to improve the lives of both Iraqis and Americans, and he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. What have you done that is similarly meritorious?
I parse strings all the time, but that's the first time I've heard anyone claim to "parse the yo-yo's string".
Does anyone have a regexp for the syntax of a yo-yo string?
Aha! An inside look at patent examination, presented to you in WeensyFont (patent pending).
Why do web "designers" persist in thinking that they know what size font looks better on my screen for my eyes than I do?
Huh? What complications? I dual-booted for several years before ridding myself of Windows entirely, and never ran into any complication that a reinstall of the bootloader wouldn't fix. (And even that can be avoided, if you install Windows before Linux.)
It's a little more complicated if you want to share files between systems, but it's not that hard to work around.