/ Base of entire system "My Computer"/usr User programs "Program Files"/etc configuration Registry/bin (sbin) Important programs "Windows"/lib Libraries "Windows dlls"/tmp Temporary files \tmp/home/me your files "My Documents"/var data
(OK so there are more directories on some systems, but this gets the important ones explained in 2 minutes)
He's raised some valid points, and his contributions to Linux development are great, but I think he's suffering from ego overload here. Often with patch submission, it seems that timing is everything, and it appears Ingo just did the right thing at the right time.
He's correctly pointed out that lkml is a scary place, but it has to be. Ideas have to be fought for and tested. The solution probably is to have a "polite" lkml (lkml-users?) where people who are intimidated by the real thing get to express their views. This would allow the developers to get a feel for how their efforts are percieved by everyone. Even if this list got loads of AOL "Me too" responses, it would be valuable.
I bet that Wikipedia editors secretly read the Encyclopedia Britannica The editors aren't coy about it. In some articles they explicitly quote the last edition of EB which is now out of copyright. Unfortunately, this is about 1919, but obviously is good for 19th century information!
I happened to write software in about 1990 for one of the early GPS Navigation systems for boats. Cost about $4000:-). During Gulf War I, the British forces were a bit short on GPS units, so they improvised, these units worked quite happily in aircraft like Tornados and also for land units i.e. well outside the velocities they expected to be travelling at.:-). I quite happily trusted this unit (hooked up to an autopilot) to drive me around the coast at 40kts, only inputting waypoints and checking that we reached the right destination. And we didn't have 100% coverage then:-)
Oh, one more: which is harder: sending a few people to fix a broken radar in a few hours, or sending people up to fix a satellite in six months ? Umm, GPS is composed of 30 satellites in operation currently. From what I vaguely remember, you need between 18 and 21 for full coverage. A number of spares are already in orbit, and on top of that the European based Gallileo system is expected to be broadly compatible when/if it gets going. Also the Russion GLONASS system may be migrating its standards to be GPS compatible.
Additionally, which is harder: disrupting radar systems, or shooting down a few satellites ? Radar has multiple single points of failure. It would be easier for teh mythical terrorists to kill a radar dish than to shoot down a satellite.
Its quite cheap to put 2/3 GPS units in a plane to cross check each other. In addition you can have multiple differential GPS transmitters for a low cost.
don't want to trust my life on the optimistic hope that solar flars won't be at peak when I'm traveling, or that thw GPS will update itself for 20 seconds just when we're approaching an airport in fog at night you know GPS navigation units normally also have inputs to take readins from backup navigational equipment in the vent of failure. Even on boats, it'll accept inputs from boat autopilots/ dead reckoning systems and use that info if all else fails. GPS units normally update position several times a second too.
There is no one particular type of car. When you buy a car, you can go for a product from a mainstream manufacturer (Ford, GM, Toyota,...) or you can buy a car from a specialist ( e.g. Lamborghini). The specialist manufacturers make vehicles for niche markets in the same way that the majority of smaller Linux distributions target specialist applications and the mainstream (Ubuntu, Red Hat...) target the mainstream. In addition, you can select what you want from a distribution in the same way you can put alloy wheels or neon lighting (shudder) on your car.
Having worked on 5 or 6 different distributions, I will confess that the different installation practises are sometimes a nuisance, but no more than finding out where the controls are on your new vehicle before driving it around.
I could extend this analogy to things like cross fertilisation of ideas and technology, but I have other things to to.
I'm not disputing that it may be of interest to people of the Slashdot community. I read legal and political news as much as the next person, maybe more. Hell, I even read the linked article to the story.
The point was that this news item had nothing to do with Slashdot's raison d'etre, where even political news has some link to technology. This one didn't even pretend to.
The length of copyright terms is important to everyone.
For example, if copyright were 14 years, you'd be able to happily P2P every single piece of music, film and literature created before 1993, and more importantly create works derived from it. This would have a positive economic and social benefit. The many would benefit at minor expense to the few, which is what I thought economic redistribution was all about.
Early DOS and Windows, old Arcade machines and even early Linux would be out of copyright restrictions.
DRM (Digital Rights Management) would probably be acceptable to the general public if it had a 14 year time limit.
...are very good at avoiding handing over billions of dollars to taxpayers. I seem to remember companies like Microsoft have avoided doing so through clever balance sheet manipulation.
Just cross the beagle with Naomi Campbell or Kate Moss or (insert favourite shallow celebrity here) and you'd have a pooch that could ferret out drugs in no time.
Actually yes, some items are more in demand than others and prices can vary quite widely.
For instance, Auction House trading range of a stack of light leather can be from 20s to about 1g50s (1g = 100s = 10,000c), and this fluctuates according to supply and demand. Weapons fairly stable in Alliance/ Horde Auction houses, but a rare pickups at bargain price can be had, especially in the Neutral houses.
Fun can be had watching the neutral houses as its the only way to get items from an Alliance character to a Horde character. You can intercapt items placed at a low level to facilitate this by AH watching.
The particulates emitted by fuels at that time were masking the general trend. Over the last few decades we have cleaned up our act and revealed what else was affecting our environment. As a result of those 1970's experts we are poisoned less; now its time to solve the other problem.
You can farm with your lvl 70 character and hand off dealing and trading to lower level chars on a possibly separate account. Little to no likelihood of being reported.
They should try cornering sectors of the market in the AH. I make more money trading there with my lvl 20 char than I do questing, buying from people at low prices and selling at higher.
This is just Linus speaking bluntly as always. In fact its comparatively mild compared to some of the things he says. He is never afraid to call a dirt extraction device a spade.
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...is not that complicated
/usr User programs "Program Files" /etc configuration Registry /bin (sbin) Important programs "Windows" /lib Libraries "Windows dlls" /tmp Temporary files \tmp /home/me your files "My Documents" /var data
/ Base of entire system "My Computer"
(OK so there are more directories on some systems, but this gets the important ones explained in 2 minutes)
He's raised some valid points, and his contributions to Linux development are great, but I think he's suffering from ego overload here. Often with patch submission, it seems that timing is everything, and it appears Ingo just did the right thing at the right time.
He's correctly pointed out that lkml is a scary place, but it has to be. Ideas have to be fought for and tested. The solution probably is to have a "polite" lkml (lkml-users?) where people who are intimidated by the real thing get to express their views. This would allow the developers to get a feel for how their efforts are percieved by everyone. Even if this list got loads of AOL "Me too" responses, it would be valuable.
I bet that Wikipedia editors secretly read the Encyclopedia Britannica
The editors aren't coy about it. In some articles they explicitly quote the last edition of EB which is now out of copyright. Unfortunately, this is about 1919, but obviously is good for 19th century information!
I happened to write software in about 1990 for one of the early GPS Navigation systems for boats. Cost about $4000 :-). During Gulf War I, the British forces were a bit short on GPS units, so they improvised, these units worked quite happily in aircraft like Tornados and also for land units i.e. well outside the velocities they expected to be travelling at. :-). I quite happily trusted this unit (hooked up to an autopilot) to drive me around the coast at 40kts, only inputting waypoints and checking that we reached the right destination. And we didn't have 100% coverage then :-)
Oh, one more: which is harder: sending a few people to fix a broken radar in a few hours, or sending people up to fix a satellite in six months ?
Umm, GPS is composed of 30 satellites in operation currently. From what I vaguely remember, you need between 18 and 21 for full coverage. A number of spares are already in orbit, and on top of that the European based Gallileo system is expected to be broadly compatible when/if it gets going. Also the Russion GLONASS system may be migrating its standards to be GPS compatible.
Additionally, which is harder: disrupting radar systems, or shooting down a few satellites ?
Radar has multiple single points of failure. It would be easier for teh mythical terrorists to kill a radar dish than to shoot down a satellite.
Its quite cheap to put 2/3 GPS units in a plane to cross check each other. In addition you can have multiple differential GPS transmitters for a low cost.
don't want to trust my life on the optimistic hope that solar flars won't be at peak when I'm traveling, or that thw GPS will update itself for 20 seconds just when we're approaching an airport in fog at night you know
GPS navigation units normally also have inputs to take readins from backup navigational equipment in the vent of failure. Even on boats, it'll accept inputs from boat autopilots/ dead reckoning systems and use that info if all else fails. GPS units normally update position several times a second too.
Will Schrödinger's cat have the answer to the question?
Possibly, but if the cat is dead then we're no better off!
There is no one particular type of car. When you buy a car, you can go for a product from a mainstream manufacturer (Ford, GM, Toyota, ...) or you can buy a car from a specialist ( e.g. Lamborghini). The specialist manufacturers make vehicles for niche markets in the same way that the majority of smaller Linux distributions target specialist applications and the mainstream (Ubuntu, Red Hat...) target the mainstream. In addition, you can select what you want from a distribution in the same way you can put alloy wheels or neon lighting (shudder) on your car.
Having worked on 5 or 6 different distributions, I will confess that the different installation practises are sometimes a nuisance, but no more than finding out where the controls are on your new vehicle before driving it around.
I could extend this analogy to things like cross fertilisation of ideas and technology, but I have other things to to.
We really are going to have to imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
I'm not disputing that it may be of interest to people of the Slashdot community. I read legal and political news as much as the next person, maybe more. Hell, I even read the linked article to the story.
The point was that this news item had nothing to do with Slashdot's raison d'etre, where even political news has some link to technology. This one didn't even pretend to.
When I want to read about corrupt politicians, I'll read CNN.
How is this of interest to the Slashdot community?
The length of copyright terms is important to everyone.
For example, if copyright were 14 years, you'd be able to happily P2P every single piece of music, film and literature created before 1993, and more importantly create works derived from it. This would have a positive economic and social benefit. The many would benefit at minor expense to the few, which is what I thought economic redistribution was all about.
Early DOS and Windows, old Arcade machines and even early Linux would be out of copyright restrictions.
DRM (Digital Rights Management) would probably be acceptable to the general public if it had a 14 year time limit.
Thats just for starters.
...are very good at avoiding handing over billions of dollars to taxpayers. I seem to remember companies like Microsoft have avoided doing so through clever balance sheet manipulation.
Just cross the beagle with Naomi Campbell or Kate Moss or (insert favourite shallow celebrity here) and you'd have a pooch that could ferret out drugs in no time.
He had mine, but I've written to complain and if he follows up this path, I'm voting for someone else.
I didn't suggest a CitroenBot Transformer, just using the guys who made the ads.
Anyway, I wouldn't call a Camaro beautiful. Brutal & unsubtle maybe, but then that fits in with the Transformers ethos.
..simply hired the guys who did the Citroen adverts.
In Soviet Russia, your website is 0wnd, haxx0rs!
Hey, wait......
Actually yes, some items are more in demand than others and prices can vary quite widely.
For instance, Auction House trading range of a stack of light leather can be from 20s to about 1g50s (1g = 100s = 10,000c), and this fluctuates according to supply and demand. Weapons fairly stable in Alliance/ Horde Auction houses, but a rare pickups at bargain price can be had, especially in the Neutral houses.
Fun can be had watching the neutral houses as its the only way to get items from an Alliance character to a Horde character. You can intercapt items placed at a low level to facilitate this by AH watching.
..and they were partially right at the time.
The particulates emitted by fuels at that time were masking the general trend. Over the last few decades we have cleaned up our act and revealed what else was affecting our environment. As a result of those 1970's experts we are poisoned less; now its time to solve the other problem.
at that point I think you're meant to click on the link to page 2
Most dating sites have the same problem
Inflation and deflation happen "naturally" as supply and demand of good fluctuates.
The only thing missing in WoW is the idea of credit and loans.
You can farm with your lvl 70 character and hand off dealing and trading to lower level chars on a possibly separate account. Little to no likelihood of being reported.
They should try cornering sectors of the market in the AH. I make more money trading there with my lvl 20 char than I do questing, buying from people at low prices and selling at higher.
You're thinking of Charles. (unless he inherited them from his paw)
This is just Linus speaking bluntly as always. In fact its comparatively mild compared to some of the things he says. He is never afraid to call a dirt extraction device a spade.