Every new thing will have a group of people who insist that it is the devil. Maybe it is, and good for them for saying something. Too bad no one is listening to them.
But then again, maybe some people just hate change...
Systemd was built for a reason, maybe a bad one, but a line of thinking went into it. Booting is not a simple thing, despite what you would like to think, and it could be made better.
One thing is for sure though, OSS is not going to stand still, and IMHO, that is a damn good thing...
This is more than wrong, it is dangerous. Draw it out to its extremes and the issue becomes obvious. Investing in a company that does something indisputably abhorrent (use your imagination) is not in the best interest of the institution that it serves, even if the investment is lucrative.
In the particular case of coal, I suspect that you and Stanford have a difference of opinion on exactly where that line is. There is nothing wrong with having that difference of opinion, but there is a lot wrong with blindly advocating profit for profit's sake.
That would be a reasonable thing to say if the world all ran Windows. This is in fact very much not the case. Apple users are forced to use Silverlight if they wish to use Netflix, and there is no auto-update feature. You have to download the latest DMG to your desktop, shut down your browser, and install it. Very 1995...
Thanks for everything Rob. Back in 1998 when I created my account I thought I had fallen into geek heaven. I found myself compulsively hitting reload hoping for a new story to show up.
I remember many a time reading TFA and finding that it linked to something else that was interesting. I followed those rabbit holes for days sometimes, and some of that was even before tabbed browsing... I wish I had the time to describe all of the wonderful things I learned and the places that knowledge took me... Suffice to say, I appreciate what you started, it means a lot to me.
When you believe there is an afterlife, you are never forced to get comfortable with the idea of death. It takes a long time to deal with the topic of your own demise, perhaps even a lifetime.
This is reminiscent of a teenager who is learning to awkwardly define who they are. Over time, after trying many things and failing at some and succeeding at others, the kid turns into an adult. The path behind them, full of good and bad experiences, defines this person and shapes who they are as an adult.
The other word for this is... maturity... Oddly enough, it is not just for kids. Maturity is a process that defines how you deal with any awkward or uncomfortable situation. You simply muddle your way through it, learn something and use that experience the next time you see the same situation. Over time, you get better at it. Eventually you look pretty polished, and if you're lucky, you'll even feel pretty polished.
Anything that seeks to insulate you from reality, prevents you from maturing. The end result will not be pretty when it comes to a terminal issue like death...
Nice re-iteration of the talking points. Now let's veer back into reality. Theories can and should be taught in schools (you are aware that gravity is still considered theory right?). What should be kept out of *SCIENCE CLASSES* is things that are not falsifiable. YEC (Young Earth Creationism) and creationism in general eventually come down to faith, no matter how you slice it, and faith is not falsifiable. Faith belongs elsewhere in schools (yes, even public schools), but not in science classes.
In science, asking the recursive "why?" question eventually leads to "I don't know, it requires more research". In creationism, the recursive "why?" question always leads back to faith. Faith is not falsifiable, hence it is not science and should not be taught as such.
I'm amazed that no one's mentioned GoDaddy. This is precisely the reason they gave for shutting down seclist.org. One of their spokesdrones even called me after I submitted a comment on that issue. They mentioned that they're "protecting the Internet". This ruling simply affirms the common sense idea that everyone is responsible for their own self.
On the face of it, this struck me as an ignorant thing to do. However, Thailand is a small country and this is a good opportunity to have a "scientific control" in the midst of the rest of the world's technological forward progress. It's similar to what we see in the US with the Amish. They've hardly changed, the rest of the world has. It's interesting to use them to compare.
Note: I am fully aware that the Amish of 2006 are not the same as the Amish of the 1800s.
And if you'd looked into it a *BIT* more, you'd know that this technology (PPMT) has nothing to do with free energy or perpetual motion. Flynn has been done a profound disservice by the cited website. Check out his website for the real scoop. Nowhere in there does it say anything about free energy. What he has is simply a very efficient motor that can act as a generator when an *EXTERNAL FORCE* is applied to the shaft.
The cited web page is wrong, and if I were Flynn, I would be emailing them to explain that their title description is blatantly incorrect and is making him look bad. If anyone bothered to go to his website, they'd quickly be able to see that PPMT is grounded in basic magnetic physics. PPMT is not free energy or crap like that. It is workable technology that produces a very efficient motor.
I really wish these kooks could separate the perpetual motion crap from reality here. They are not "over-unity", perpetual motion, or what have you. The do in fact obey all laws of thermodynamics. These motors are real and can deliver as much as 98% efficiency. We've seen them, they work. I was at the presentation recently by Boeing Phanton Works that featured these things...Chuck..
CmdrTaco has been trying to do this for years with his comment moderation system. I think a key problem is that he dosen't use a big enough sample size. It only takes a few people to moderate a comment up to the highest level. The rules of crowd wisdom state that the larger your sample size, the more likely you are to arrive at the "correct" answer. Granted, with something like a story comment, there is no "correct" answer, only interesting and relevant responses. CmdrTaco's goal was not to tease out the interesting comments though, it was to filter out the irrelevant and wasteful spam.
In essence, CmdrTaco had no choice. Spam was starting to choke slashdot comments and making them less than useful. The moderation system saved the comment system, but didn't, as many people assume that it should have done, make the comments more interesting.
I believe that if the prevailing attitude among slashdot developers is to "weed out the spam", we'll see a slow decline of slashdot's popularity until it's made irrelevant by RSS feed aggregators.
IMHO, the attitude *SHOULD* be to exploit slashdot's major differentiator over simple aggregators, which is the community it has created. In other words, they should invert the "weed out the spam" attitude into a "make the comments more interesting" attitude. It's a subtle difference and, on the face of it, it would appear that one begets the other. I contend that weeding out spam does not make comments more interesting and conversely, making comments more interesting won't weed out the spam. Thus we come to the root of the problem, two crosswise goals.
CmdrTaco has to worry about the system from a performance standpoint. Weeding out the spam means less bandwidth and storage costs. That's immediate ROI, and a good thing on many levels. The community, however, needs more than 1,2,3,4 or 5 to determine what comments to read and which to ignore, to make them interesting. I can conjecture at a few ideas that would make it better, but I do not know the ultimate solution, and I doubt anyone else does either. I believe the problem requires more than just CmdrTaco playing whack-a-mole with ideas, meta-ideas and meta-meta-ideas etc. It requires serious PhD dissertation level study.
The whole thing that differentiates Google is the quality of their results, not the quantity of pages indexed. Anyone crew of morons can download 20 billion web pages onto a disk array. It takes some real talent to create a tool that will give you relevant results in less than.1 seconds when you search that cache of data.
Yahoo is just blowing smoke. Move along... nothing to see here folks...
And with that you have shown that you haven't the faintest clue about how AdWords works. It's an auction style system. Having the top ad on the page can cost the advertiser as much as $10.00 or more, per click. A few thousand stockholders clicking random ads at the top of the page, can *INDEED* make a difference in Google's bottomline.
Since these things were made out of animal skins there's got to be some sort of genetic residue left over from the original 'er owner.
Clearly most of the DNA will be destroyed over time and in the process of processing the skin to make the parchment. However, I can't imagine that there wouldn't be enough genetic matter left over to uniquely identify the document.
Interesting that Debian calls it AMD64. Even the kernel calls it x86_64 (ia64 referrs to Itanium). Granted, AMD *DID* come up with the instruction set and all...
"You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs, *grin*."
That's great and all, but your management really did a good job pissing off those who spent, literally, *YEARS* stumping to their bosses on your behalf. Perhaps you can send them a message from us?
It's simple really. Each distribution has it's own quirks and "isms". It took us years but we learned RedHat like the back of our hands. We were loyal and knew that RedHat was a good investment of our time. We purchased RedHat support for our critical servers and used the free RedHat OS for our non-critical servers and (of course) desktops. We know how hard it is to upgrade servers, so we want it to happen as little as possible (have you *SEEN* the sheer volume of servers we have to maintain lately???). The boss was happy, we were happy, life was good. Then RedHat announces that there's no more "free lunch" and everyone would have to pay if they wanted anything supported for a sane amount of time. "Aw crap" we said. Our bosses are never going to be willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars for RHL.
Well, time to start learning a new distribution... Let's be careful this time though, let's learn a new distribution that has a true commitment to its users so we don't feel like our valuable time is wasted.
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Please stop calling them "pro-life". They are not "pro-life", they are "anti-abortion". Anyone who is not actively killing themselves, is "pro-life".
Yes, anti-abortion people chose the name "pro-life". It is time we steal it back from them in the name of truth in advertising.
Every new thing will have a group of people who insist that it is the devil. Maybe it is, and good for them for saying something. Too bad no one is listening to them.
But then again, maybe some people just hate change...
Systemd was built for a reason, maybe a bad one, but a line of thinking went into it. Booting is not a simple thing, despite what you would like to think, and it could be made better.
One thing is for sure though, OSS is not going to stand still, and IMHO, that is a damn good thing...
This is more than wrong, it is dangerous. Draw it out to its extremes and the issue becomes obvious. Investing in a company that does something indisputably abhorrent (use your imagination) is not in the best interest of the institution that it serves, even if the investment is lucrative.
In the particular case of coal, I suspect that you and Stanford have a difference of opinion on exactly where that line is. There is nothing wrong with having that difference of opinion, but there is a lot wrong with blindly advocating profit for profit's sake.
That would be a reasonable thing to say if the world all ran Windows. This is in fact very much not the case. Apple users are forced to use Silverlight if they wish to use Netflix, and there is no auto-update feature. You have to download the latest DMG to your desktop, shut down your browser, and install it. Very 1995...
Take a quick peek at this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiP1z9qfojA
Can you put yourself in that woman's place? Do you get why making inappropriate jokes behind a woman's back is intimidating and uncomfortable?
Thanks for everything Rob. Back in 1998 when I created my account I thought I had fallen into geek heaven. I found myself compulsively hitting reload hoping for a new story to show up.
I remember many a time reading TFA and finding that it linked to something else that was interesting. I followed those rabbit holes for days sometimes, and some of that was even before tabbed browsing... I wish I had the time to describe all of the wonderful things I learned and the places that knowledge took me... Suffice to say, I appreciate what you started, it means a lot to me.
This information is not surprising to me.
When you believe there is an afterlife, you are never forced to get comfortable with the idea of death. It takes a long time to deal with the topic of your own demise, perhaps even a lifetime.
This is reminiscent of a teenager who is learning to awkwardly define who they are. Over time, after trying many things and failing at some and succeeding at others, the kid turns into an adult. The path behind them, full of good and bad experiences, defines this person and shapes who they are as an adult.
The other word for this is ... maturity... Oddly enough, it is not just for kids. Maturity is a process that defines how you deal with any awkward or uncomfortable situation. You simply muddle your way through it, learn something and use that experience the next time you see the same situation. Over time, you get better at it. Eventually you look pretty polished, and if you're lucky, you'll even feel pretty polished.
Anything that seeks to insulate you from reality, prevents you from maturing. The end result will not be pretty when it comes to a terminal issue like death...
In science, asking the recursive "why?" question eventually leads to "I don't know, it requires more research". In creationism, the recursive "why?" question always leads back to faith. Faith is not falsifiable, hence it is not science and should not be taught as such.
Note: I am fully aware that the Amish of 2006 are not the same as the Amish of the 1800s.
I'm very much interested in the archive as well. Wanna work on the script together? ..Chuck..
And if you'd looked into it a *BIT* more, you'd know that this technology (PPMT) has nothing to do with free energy or perpetual motion. Flynn has been done a profound disservice by the cited website. Check out his website for the real scoop. Nowhere in there does it say anything about free energy. What he has is simply a very efficient motor that can act as a generator when an *EXTERNAL FORCE* is applied to the shaft.
The cited web page is wrong, and if I were Flynn, I would be emailing them to explain that their title description is blatantly incorrect and is making him look bad. If anyone bothered to go to his website, they'd quickly be able to see that PPMT is grounded in basic magnetic physics. PPMT is not free energy or crap like that. It is workable technology that produces a very efficient motor.
I really wish these kooks could separate the perpetual motion crap from reality here. They are not "over-unity", perpetual motion, or what have you. The do in fact obey all laws of thermodynamics. These motors are real and can deliver as much as 98% efficiency. We've seen them, they work. I was at the presentation recently by Boeing Phanton Works that featured these things. ..Chuck..
As usual /. is a day behind. This was posted on digg yesterday.
..Chuck..
CmdrTaco has been trying to do this for years with his comment moderation system. I think a key problem is that he dosen't use a big enough sample size. It only takes a few people to moderate a comment up to the highest level. The rules of crowd wisdom state that the larger your sample size, the more likely you are to arrive at the "correct" answer. Granted, with something like a story comment, there is no "correct" answer, only interesting and relevant responses. CmdrTaco's goal was not to tease out the interesting comments though, it was to filter out the irrelevant and wasteful spam.
In essence, CmdrTaco had no choice. Spam was starting to choke slashdot comments and making them less than useful. The moderation system saved the comment system, but didn't, as many people assume that it should have done, make the comments more interesting.
I believe that if the prevailing attitude among slashdot developers is to "weed out the spam", we'll see a slow decline of slashdot's popularity until it's made irrelevant by RSS feed aggregators.
IMHO, the attitude *SHOULD* be to exploit slashdot's major differentiator over simple aggregators, which is the community it has created. In other words, they should invert the "weed out the spam" attitude into a "make the comments more interesting" attitude. It's a subtle difference and, on the face of it, it would appear that one begets the other. I contend that weeding out spam does not make comments more interesting and conversely, making comments more interesting won't weed out the spam. Thus we come to the root of the problem, two crosswise goals.
CmdrTaco has to worry about the system from a performance standpoint. Weeding out the spam means less bandwidth and storage costs. That's immediate ROI, and a good thing on many levels. The community, however, needs more than 1,2,3,4 or 5 to determine what comments to read and which to ignore, to make them interesting. I can conjecture at a few ideas that would make it better, but I do not know the ultimate solution, and I doubt anyone else does either. I believe the problem requires more than just CmdrTaco playing whack-a-mole with ideas, meta-ideas and meta-meta-ideas etc. It requires serious PhD dissertation level study.
The whole thing that differentiates Google is the quality of their results, not the quantity of pages indexed. Anyone crew of morons can download 20 billion web pages onto a disk array. It takes some real talent to create a tool that will give you relevant results in less than .1 seconds when you search that cache of data.
Yahoo is just blowing smoke. Move along... nothing to see here folks...
And with that you have shown that you haven't the faintest clue about how AdWords works. It's an auction style system. Having the top ad on the page can cost the advertiser as much as $10.00 or more, per click. A few thousand stockholders clicking random ads at the top of the page, can *INDEED* make a difference in Google's bottomline.
Clearly most of the DNA will be destroyed over time and in the process of processing the skin to make the parchment. However, I can't imagine that there wouldn't be enough genetic matter left over to uniquely identify the document.
Was it just me, or did anyone else notice the search phrase in the find box at the bottom of the screen in some of those screenshots?
Since when is dual core so exciting? Dual processor machines do the same thing and they've been around forever...
Response from ISPs: "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Come on, did Bob send you? That joker is always pulling shit like this!"
Uhhh, is it just me or is France making a big deal out of nothing here?
Interesting that Debian calls it AMD64. Even the kernel calls it x86_64 (ia64 referrs to Itanium). Granted, AMD *DID* come up with the instruction set and all...
"You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs, *grin*."
That's great and all, but your management really did a good job pissing off those who spent, literally, *YEARS* stumping to their bosses on your behalf. Perhaps you can send them a message from us?
It's simple really. Each distribution has it's own quirks and "isms". It took us years but we learned RedHat like the back of our hands. We were loyal and knew that RedHat was a good investment of our time. We purchased RedHat support for our critical servers and used the free RedHat OS for our non-critical servers and (of course) desktops. We know how hard it is to upgrade servers, so we want it to happen as little as possible (have you *SEEN* the sheer volume of servers we have to maintain lately???). The boss was happy, we were happy, life was good. Then RedHat announces that there's no more "free lunch" and everyone would have to pay if they wanted anything supported for a sane amount of time. "Aw crap" we said. Our bosses are never going to be willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars for RHL.
Well, time to start learning a new distribution... Let's be careful this time though, let's learn a new distribution that has a true commitment to its users so we don't feel like our valuable time is wasted.