Adding to this: some towns will have laws that allow bicycle riding on sidewalks provided they travel no faster than jogging speed. So you can "become a pedestrian" without even getting off the bike. At some of the more problematic "smart" lights, cyclists simply slow down and use the crosswalk, then back into the road.
That said, ones that run red lights while in the road annoy me. It usually means I have to pass the same cyclist *twice*, since they will have passed me at the red light.
If Uber drivers are private cars, then only a small proportion of them will be able to carry wheelchairs. If they follow the free market, they will charge more. So instead of getting a $20 cab ride to the doctor or a theater, a wheelchair rider may have to pay $50 or $100.
The solution to this is for a company to start up that only caters to disabled passengers, charges the same rates as the other companies, and gets a subsidy from the city. The point is largely moot anyway: many cities already have something like this (though you usually have to call a day in advance), in the form of paratransit services which offer door to door for slightly more than a standard bus fare.
The same goal can be accomplished with better public transportation. If every city > 500k population had a well designed rail system, many more people would be able to use their phones while commuting. I wonder if Google went into that field, would they have less opposition? A "google subway" would also make a great network of tunnels for running fiber...
Sometimes unpaid overtime is an unspoken job requirement for a promotion (which could be done in a manner that benefits everyone). For example, if there's a busy season and a group of employees regularly get overtime of varying lengths, it can be hell on the books. Rather than deal with the fact that these employees could make anywhere from 2-4k extra during that busy time, giving them a promotion to "management" and an annual raise of 5k both gets them more money and distributes that extra payment evenly over the course of the year.
I haven't RTFA, but the 'greeter' is basically the login screen. I am guessing that certain non-default greeters caused issues with setting background pictures. As someone who usually logs in to tty1 and simply runs startx to get a GUI, I haven't much experience with or use for greeters...
While I was in Japan last year, there was a railway service disruption to remove a recently discovered undetonated American bomb in a Tokyo suburb. I am assuming it is not an uncommon occurrence as the only news I'd heard of it was on the railway departure board.
If you had limited the boycott to Sony CDs it may have been more effective. What it comes down to is the average person will evaluate each product on its own merits, rather than someone else's idealism. And this is a good thing, because pretty much every company everywhere has done *something* to piss off some group of people.
What does IBM do? AIX, Mainframes, PowerPC architecture, and z. They are shedding all the divisions where they actually have to compete, and are focusing only on things that people are either already locked in to, or that they are the only vendor of. The stock is going up because when the dust has settled, they still have a huge number of high profile customers who are paying through the nose for their products, but are not wasting resources on things with thin margins.
( The founders of our fair city had a coin toss to determine who named the town, and the winner was from Maine. If he had lost, I'd be typing this from Boston, Oregon.)
Not only that, but as the city would have been the lesser known of the two, the editors would have specified Oregon in the title, and this entire line of conversation would have never happened (nor would I have learned about the coin toss... thanks!).
In that case it should be even easier with separate files: copy the ifcfg-eth0:1 for whatever service you want (if necessary restoring from a backup if the original server is dead) and just ifup it... I fail to see any situation (other than initial learning curve) where one file would be significantly easier than multiple, but can see many where multiple files are significantly easier than one.
Just use straight Winbind with an RID backend to consistently generate UID/GID from SIDs. You can even automate the join to the domain in the kickstart. SSSD just caused more problems than it solved....
Precisely. The Oracle splash screen was the most important "feature" when trying to pitch an MS Office replacement to the type of people who only buy brand name groceries.
I've successfully gotten die-hard MS Office users to use OpenOffice precisely because it had menus rather than the stupid ribbon. The Oracle branding helped, and I think the Apache one probably would be just as effective.
I'm surprised no one is mentioning the elephant in the room on this: Retailers in foreign countries can't (or won't) handle our low-tech credit cards anyway, so it doesn't really matter - when travelling abroad I'm using cash anyway, and not really by choice.
Thank you for reminding me to make sure I am not purchasing Ubisoft games when I browse the Steam store. Steam is good enough DRM, putting stuff on top of it just wastes everyone's time.
I agree on the janitorial work. However, in the past decade I have seen: -College dorm bathroom cleaning go from weekly to every other week. -Trash and recyling emptying at the office go from daily to every other day (3 days of trash, 2 days of recycling). -Weekly office vaccuum became monthly.
And that's *without* a minimum wage hike. I fully expect in the coming years our janitorial staff to be replaced with directions to the cleaning supply cabinet and a map to where to bring our trash to when we'd like to empty it...
Nobody gets rich by having clean floors, or mowed lawns, or bagged groceries. However, these are examples of tasks that arguable have to be done by someone, and the cost of not having them done can, at least in some cases, be argued to be greater than $15/hr.
Bagged groceries? Over here not only do you bag your own groceries, it's all self checkout. Four lines watched by one staff member to verify IDs and deal with coupons. If we had a $15/hr minimum wage I could see them turning four more lines into self checkouts.
Nobody got rich pumping gas either, and that's why in 48 states we have to pump our own.
Windows 2012 - I''ll have to say crap, due to the new UI, and mainly because there are a lot of bad Windows admins. Anecdote: Something about AD or DNS was corrupted on the only 2012 DC in the domain because it was not being shut down properly. It turns out, one of the Windows admins couldn't figure out where the shut down/reboot buttons were, so he was simply right clicking it in VMware and hitting reboot. To his credit, VMware tools was installed so it did a smoother-looking shutdown than just yanking the power, but that one isn't as polite as the proper shutdown off the "settings" charm.
Recall that RedHat anticipates UI frustration w/r/t Gnome 3 and is going with classic desktop, to try and minimize it. Yet, Microsoft is intentionally imposing this problem. In this respect maybe Windows 2012 is "good" in that it will be what pushes server rooms back towards Linux.
Longer days but fewer of them may work for some occupations, but my guess is that the current length of the day is designed for the child's learning capacity and ability to retain information that is given to them in faster, larger quantities.
I had suggested a longer school year as another alternative. Longer days would be more for high school level - I can see that being a disaster at earlier grades, unless nap time was included. High schoolers often work a part time job after school anyway; this would open up the possibility of them taking a weekday shift in place of random 2 hour blocks throughout the week. Same amount of school and work happening, just shuffled more efficiently.
The other consideration is who is going to teach longer school days and more of them? Most teachers are overworked, underpaid, and underfunded for what all they do. And you'd want them to work longer days in the classroom? And give up a weekend day?
They aren't giving up a "weekend" day: there would be the same number of teacher shifts as student shifts, so they will also have 4 day weeks. Basically the point is to get 1/3 more usage out of the same building, facilities, etc. You still need to have 1/3 more staff to handle the 1/3 more students.
As for who would do it? I know / knew many teachers who have / had an hour commute each way. They certainly would benefit from a shorter week. And again, this is why I said to only implement it in a *handful* of schools - for those that it would work for, they will have the option, and if the popularity of 4 day work weeks outside the education sector is any indication, you would have to beat them away with a stick.
I don't think you'll have any trouble staffing a school with such an arrangement, or getting students willing to try it. The hardest part would be parent buy-in (those who don't trust their teenager home alone all day in the middle of the week). This arrangement does not lend itself to helecopter parenting.
One solution would be time separation. Some overcrowded NYC high schools would have an AM / PM shift. Another novel idea would be 4 day school weeks, accomplished either via longer days or a longer school year. One group M-TH, a second W-SAT, and an unlucky third shift (M,TU,F,SAT). In this manner, you have 2/3 the students and teachers in the school at any given moment. Only a handful of schools need to do it in order to reduce the pressure on the entire system, and I'd imagine with the draw of 3 days off a week there'd be no shortage of both student and staff applicants for those schools (thus no one would be forced into it).
It's at least more obvious than changing a gmail password nowadays... at least ebay has your name, indicating that clicking there may be vaguely related to your account. Gmail I had to click on a silouette, then something account sounding, then finally a "security" tab. Forget buried, you need an archaeologist to find that one...
Such an experiment is directly at odds with terraforming. Figuring out which simple (yet useful) life foms can survive both the trip and the environment is one step that can be taken. Since colonization of Mars is the best chance we have at putting some of our eggs in another basket, figuring out what we can put there to start the process of changing the atmospheric composition to be more human-friendly would seem to be a worthy experiment as well.
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Adding to this: some towns will have laws that allow bicycle riding on sidewalks provided they travel no faster than jogging speed. So you can "become a pedestrian" without even getting off the bike. At some of the more problematic "smart" lights, cyclists simply slow down and use the crosswalk, then back into the road.
That said, ones that run red lights while in the road annoy me. It usually means I have to pass the same cyclist *twice*, since they will have passed me at the red light.
If Uber drivers are private cars, then only a small proportion of them will be able to carry wheelchairs. If they follow the free market, they will charge more. So instead of getting a $20 cab ride to the doctor or a theater, a wheelchair rider may have to pay $50 or $100.
The solution to this is for a company to start up that only caters to disabled passengers, charges the same rates as the other companies, and gets a subsidy from the city. The point is largely moot anyway: many cities already have something like this (though you usually have to call a day in advance), in the form of paratransit services which offer door to door for slightly more than a standard bus fare.
The same goal can be accomplished with better public transportation. If every city > 500k population had a well designed rail system, many more people would be able to use their phones while commuting. I wonder if Google went into that field, would they have less opposition? A "google subway" would also make a great network of tunnels for running fiber...
Sometimes unpaid overtime is an unspoken job requirement for a promotion (which could be done in a manner that benefits everyone). For example, if there's a busy season and a group of employees regularly get overtime of varying lengths, it can be hell on the books. Rather than deal with the fact that these employees could make anywhere from 2-4k extra during that busy time, giving them a promotion to "management" and an annual raise of 5k both gets them more money and distributes that extra payment evenly over the course of the year.
I haven't RTFA, but the 'greeter' is basically the login screen. I am guessing that certain non-default greeters caused issues with setting background pictures. As someone who usually logs in to tty1 and simply runs startx to get a GUI, I haven't much experience with or use for greeters...
While I was in Japan last year, there was a railway service disruption to remove a recently discovered undetonated American bomb in a Tokyo suburb. I am assuming it is not an uncommon occurrence as the only news I'd heard of it was on the railway departure board.
If you had limited the boycott to Sony CDs it may have been more effective. What it comes down to is the average person will evaluate each product on its own merits, rather than someone else's idealism. And this is a good thing, because pretty much every company everywhere has done *something* to piss off some group of people.
What does IBM do? AIX, Mainframes, PowerPC architecture, and z. They are shedding all the divisions where they actually have to compete, and are focusing only on things that people are either already locked in to, or that they are the only vendor of. The stock is going up because when the dust has settled, they still have a huge number of high profile customers who are paying through the nose for their products, but are not wasting resources on things with thin margins.
( The founders of our fair city had a coin toss to determine who named the town, and the winner was from Maine. If he had lost, I'd be typing this from Boston, Oregon.)
Not only that, but as the city would have been the lesser known of the two, the editors would have specified Oregon in the title, and this entire line of conversation would have never happened (nor would I have learned about the coin toss... thanks!).
In that case it should be even easier with separate files: copy the ifcfg-eth0:1 for whatever service you want (if necessary restoring from a backup if the original server is dead) and just ifup it... I fail to see any situation (other than initial learning curve) where one file would be significantly easier than multiple, but can see many where multiple files are significantly easier than one.
Just use straight Winbind with an RID backend to consistently generate UID/GID from SIDs. You can even automate the join to the domain in the kickstart. SSSD just caused more problems than it solved....
That's what RH Clustering Services are for...
Precisely. The Oracle splash screen was the most important "feature" when trying to pitch an MS Office replacement to the type of people who only buy brand name groceries.
I've successfully gotten die-hard MS Office users to use OpenOffice precisely because it had menus rather than the stupid ribbon. The Oracle branding helped, and I think the Apache one probably would be just as effective.
I'm surprised no one is mentioning the elephant in the room on this: Retailers in foreign countries can't (or won't) handle our low-tech credit cards anyway, so it doesn't really matter - when travelling abroad I'm using cash anyway, and not really by choice.
Thank you for reminding me to make sure I am not purchasing Ubisoft games when I browse the Steam store. Steam is good enough DRM, putting stuff on top of it just wastes everyone's time.
I agree on the janitorial work. However, in the past decade I have seen:
-College dorm bathroom cleaning go from weekly to every other week.
-Trash and recyling emptying at the office go from daily to every other day (3 days of trash, 2 days of recycling).
-Weekly office vaccuum became monthly.
And that's *without* a minimum wage hike. I fully expect in the coming years our janitorial staff to be replaced with directions to the cleaning supply cabinet and a map to where to bring our trash to when we'd like to empty it...
Nobody gets rich by having clean floors, or mowed lawns, or bagged groceries. However, these are examples of tasks that arguable have to be done by someone, and the cost of not having them done can, at least in some cases, be argued to be greater than $15/hr.
Bagged groceries? Over here not only do you bag your own groceries, it's all self checkout. Four lines watched by one staff member to verify IDs and deal with coupons. If we had a $15/hr minimum wage I could see them turning four more lines into self checkouts.
Nobody got rich pumping gas either, and that's why in 48 states we have to pump our own.
There were server editions of both. You used NT 4.0 Workstation, he is talking about NT 4.0 Server and Windows 2000 server.
Windows 2012 - I''ll have to say crap, due to the new UI, and mainly because there are a lot of bad Windows admins.
Anecdote: Something about AD or DNS was corrupted on the only 2012 DC in the domain because it was not being shut down properly. It turns out, one of the Windows admins couldn't figure out where the shut down/reboot buttons were, so he was simply right clicking it in VMware and hitting reboot. To his credit, VMware tools was installed so it did a smoother-looking shutdown than just yanking the power, but that one isn't as polite as the proper shutdown off the "settings" charm.
Recall that RedHat anticipates UI frustration w/r/t Gnome 3 and is going with classic desktop, to try and minimize it. Yet, Microsoft is intentionally imposing this problem. In this respect maybe Windows 2012 is "good" in that it will be what pushes server rooms back towards Linux.
... and *you're* the reason they have to ban smartphones during trivia night at the local bar...
Longer days but fewer of them may work for some occupations, but my guess is that the current length of the day is designed for the child's learning capacity and ability to retain information that is given to them in faster, larger quantities.
I had suggested a longer school year as another alternative. Longer days would be more for high school level - I can see that being a disaster at earlier grades, unless nap time was included. High schoolers often work a part time job after school anyway; this would open up the possibility of them taking a weekday shift in place of random 2 hour blocks throughout the week. Same amount of school and work happening, just shuffled more efficiently.
The other consideration is who is going to teach longer school days and more of them? Most teachers are overworked, underpaid, and underfunded for what all they do. And you'd want them to work longer days in the classroom? And give up a weekend day?
They aren't giving up a "weekend" day: there would be the same number of teacher shifts as student shifts, so they will also have 4 day weeks. Basically the point is to get 1/3 more usage out of the same building, facilities, etc. You still need to have 1/3 more staff to handle the 1/3 more students.
As for who would do it? I know / knew many teachers who have / had an hour commute each way. They certainly would benefit from a shorter week. And again, this is why I said to only implement it in a *handful* of schools - for those that it would work for, they will have the option, and if the popularity of 4 day work weeks outside the education sector is any indication, you would have to beat them away with a stick.
I don't think you'll have any trouble staffing a school with such an arrangement, or getting students willing to try it. The hardest part would be parent buy-in (those who don't trust their teenager home alone all day in the middle of the week). This arrangement does not lend itself to helecopter parenting.
One solution would be time separation. Some overcrowded NYC high schools would have an AM / PM shift. Another novel idea would be 4 day school weeks, accomplished either via longer days or a longer school year. One group M-TH, a second W-SAT, and an unlucky third shift (M,TU,F,SAT). In this manner, you have 2/3 the students and teachers in the school at any given moment. Only a handful of schools need to do it in order to reduce the pressure on the entire system, and I'd imagine with the draw of 3 days off a week there'd be no shortage of both student and staff applicants for those schools (thus no one would be forced into it).
It's at least more obvious than changing a gmail password nowadays... at least ebay has your name, indicating that clicking there may be vaguely related to your account. Gmail I had to click on a silouette, then something account sounding, then finally a "security" tab. Forget buried, you need an archaeologist to find that one...
Such an experiment is directly at odds with terraforming. Figuring out which simple (yet useful) life foms can survive both the trip and the environment is one step that can be taken. Since colonization of Mars is the best chance we have at putting some of our eggs in another basket, figuring out what we can put there to start the process of changing the atmospheric composition to be more human-friendly would seem to be a worthy experiment as well.