Seriously, you aren't going to learn anything about computers, if you don't have the source code to work with.
That excludes Mac's and Windows.
That is a fact of life in your computer science education which, won't change regardless of what your professors or the idiots in the I.T. department would have you believe.
A very few handful of people are holding back humanities potential.
This will change, but before it does people will have to be taught a very painful lesson about being indifferent, careless and uninvolved in their communities.
Greed has humanity in a grip right now, and won't let go.
Once it does, and people are permitted to achieve, the Stars will beckon.
But before that happens, all of you are about to experience a very very historic and troubling time in humanities history.
Terrible weapons are about to be released by the few who are trying to hold onto their power, and have so many million enslaved in poverty and hopelessness.
Even now they meet and discuss how they will build a 1,000 year dark age where they are the masters.
I would be in favor of GMO foods as long as they are:
1) Not patented. 2) Are marked. 3) Cannot contaminate the biosphere with naturally growing varieties with some of the interesting side effect proteins they produce as part of the GMO process.
If they really are superior foods, then people will naturally pick them. That is how the free market works.
But for some reason, the large GMO companies don't want you to know what corn you eat is GMO.
1) Wall Street fascist pig CEO types who need that 5th mansion and stupid Board directors and shareholders who let him get away with it while the companies network infrastructure rots to hell.
That doesn't help my wifi either.
2) Closed proprietary crap hardware primarily by CISCO that makes it impossible to produce decent firmware via a 3rd party even after you bought the damn thing.
Apparently in a fascist system you really don't get to own anything you buy and can go to jail if you try and figure out how it works or make your own improvements.
Poor WRT guys, how they must suffer. Even though they work really hard, their firmware still sucks because the binary blobs they get with the radios suck it and my Wireless N router (WRT600N) still, has to auto reboot every 24 hours or it just plain stops working.
3) Finally I would like to thank all of the fascist members in Congress for creating laws that pretty much guarantees our wifi will suck.on a country wide basis, insuring intellectual property nonsense will continue to make wifi blow.
However, even a turkey could see that would cause problems given the plans the "New World Order" has for the region.
I would have not accept funds in the first place from any political organization over there for transportation.
I would have a independent source of funds for travel expenses. I would then ask for donations from both sides when I got there to pay for the trip.
Richard runs the risk of looking like he is choosing sides by doing this, even though he might not feel that way about the politics of the region.
I say that because his mission is somewhat political due to the economics he will be discussing and social systems that make open source software very profitable as well as technically superior than close source commercial software.
Ok, this was a shock too me when I first read this because there was huge amounts and still is of Lunar research going on and I can see the moon having some water tucked away in an impact crater...here and there in the shadows.
But the moon has the same amount of water content as the earth?
That is a _huge_ amount of water to miss for the pass 50 plus years of research.
It is a gigantic amount of water. They have done TONS of seismic studies of the moon and how is it possible that this has been missed?
It isn't a college application form, or a Building that says "UW-Madison" on it for example.
You make the decision to become educated every day of your life.
College is a requirement in our society because it is tied into what could best be described as a fascist economic dictatorship model, where it is a corporate requirement in many cases to have "your papers" in order. (i.e. diplomas)
Not because corporations want the best or the brightest. If you want the best in the brightest, you wouldn't build a structure that allows only those who can pay to play participate in it.
The G8 are not there to accept your discussion about internet freedom, they are there specifically to destroy it.
They are extremely freaked out about what happened when a single man lit himself on fire and the social networks ended up focusing an entire regional uprising, that continues till this day in Libya, Egypt..etc.
They want the internet stopped, they want it destroyed, they want it controlled.
If your document has any suggestions on how to do this, they will listen.
The company itself has a lot of explaining to do, and has more skeletons in its closet than a quest to the bone pile in Razorfen Downs.
Anything for a buck, even if it has to sell out the very political system that allows its existence.
I don't buy anything from CISCO anymore, and when I am confronted with customers or equipment with CISCO on the label, my first action is too immediately budget a replacement.
The company needs to be outed for the people murdered, sentenced to life imprisonment. Lets be adults here, China's human rights issues are infamous. Any company would have to be head quartered on Mars not too know setting up and selling security gear to the Chinese will mean lots of things.
Is your idea of being "owed" equity your idea, or did others approach you and say: "You have contributed work and skill sets that would have been extremely difficult to find for us during the execution of the startup. We would like you to stay in some sort of equity arrangement."
I got approached by two gents after two years and got equity and CIO status because back in 1994, building IP networks was not a widely known skill. Also, putting a internet connection in a company was a significant engineering under taking. Sure they could have found someone else, but not very easily and it would have been a big risk.
If this doesn't apply to you, I would not ask as you will be told no first of all and they will think you are a future risk as you didn't get something you asked for.
I would use something like cloud services to minimize startup costs if it made sense.
I would not use the cloud though if:
1) Your startup requires security. Cloud services you have to remember own your data. If they decide to give it out with or without your permission, you have no control over the outcome. In fact, you may not even have any legal recourse either.
2) Lots of storage. It is not clear what the track record is on Cloud Storage. I may be cheaper for sure, but it may not be very reliable. Further if your project or startup is going to need lots of storage, it might not be practical to consider cloud storage.
All told, there is now about 2-3 Trillion in revenue going to a huge bureaucracy now that is supposedly protecting us from Mr. Goldstein. If any of you actually think that this will be peacefully dismantled, I you are living in a dream world.
Folks it is time to face the unpleasant facts, this government is not going to stop there, it will continue. If any of you out there are angry, I would advise you to be very very careful about what you say and do moving forward because we are way past the point of making any sort of changes using the voting box.
Meanwhile we will have endure:
1) Endless wars...Pakistan is now up to bat. 2) 1/3rd of the human population in the US on food stamps. At the rate it is increasing, half of all Americans will be on public assistance in just 4-5 years. 3) Rampant destruction of our currency by foreign interests. 4) Our cities crumbling, once shining jewels of industry and innovation and opportunity for the future of children, now destroyed by this government and its policies to the fascist corporate state. Our youth will know no security, will own no home and will have no food let alone a career. 5) Congress is plotting with the centralized agricultural fascists to make it illegal to grow food. This government has blown up levies and damns and has siphoned away millions to destroy private farmland to protect commercial real estate for the bankers. Meanwhile food prices have hit record all time highs in wheat, corn and more Americans everyday can't feed themselves.
The Europeans get it. The Icelander's got it. Americans unfortunately don't get it yet. I am left wondering when they will?
Maybe when half of the population is on food stamps, will that be what it takes? Watch your kids die with rationed health care? Maybe it is the 27 trillion in currency maniuplation illegally transferring the wealth of the country to the Black Nobility in Germany, Great Britain? Maybe it will be the fact the brightest spotlight this year in jobs was McDonalds hiring 50,000 workers? Or maybe watching our wife and kid be sexually molested in public by the TSA?
Or maybe, just maybe....it will be when the government declares everyone in the USA a terrorist if you disagree with these outcomes?
I want GNOME to be a competitor to KDE, and I want it to work on a variety of platforms or the KDE guys could get complacent.
It might also complicate the idea of a Universal Desktop standard API. Essentially, the direction I think the open source community is heading with KDE, which would mean GNOME would have potentially a lot more work to do themselves reinventing the wheel.
I also don't like the packager ramifications of GNOME desktops existing with KDE in the future where is GNOME sets out by itself could put it against the freedesktop.org guidelines.
Not even mentioned in the IMF report on global warming. Even Al Gore, the worlds expert on Global Warming who won a Nobel prize for his break through research on the subject doesn't mention methane.
I mean if a world class expert like Al Gore doesn't mention methane, it really isn't talked about much.
There is so many things wrong with this paper I am not sure where to begin.
First of all, it suffers from the "we want it to be habitable" syndrome.
The authors point out that they believe the planet receives even less stellar energy than Mars (by a whopping 35%), but then turn around and "fudge" the habitable zone out to the planets orbital circumference by giving it the correct atmosphere to do "green house warming" of the surface. CO2 is a very poor greenhouse gas. (Despite what you hear in the news who want carbon taxes and Eugenics programs imposed on nations.)
Venus I would like to point out only has a temperature to melt lead at its surface, and has many atmospheres of CO2...that would crush you like a bug at its surface. Plus, VENUS is outside of the habitable zone, and even without the CO2 would not be classified as a habitable world due to solar input. (Methane however, is a _very_ dangerous gas, but you won't here anyone talk about that very real problem because you can't tax methane.)
This does not correctly describe our own system either, where anything outside of Mars orbit in our system, which Mars itself is barely in the habitable zone, is pretty much dead if you are talking about surface life anyway and not any fancy gravity assisted habitable zones. (Like Europa for example, which may have have a under ground ocean due to tidal energy which heats the body up enough to have liquid water.)
I am not sure what their definition of the "habitable zone" is after reading the paper.
Honestly I cannot understand why you would virtualize anything but commercial software. It is a pain to manage without virtualization, it suffers from legacy problems due to all of the very big risks you take when you buy the license. You really have no benefits at all I can think of running commercial software.
Thanks to KVM, the commercial software I do have to buy, I can virtualize it, freeze the hardware requirements in time so it will always work forever and ever. Never need to reinstall it and it isn't if, but when the company goes tits up I am protected. I can dump the software on my terms.
I can even make a copy of it in case the hardware virtualizing the commercial software breaks.
Deploy it to a disaster recovery site and I don't have to have a huge checklist to go through to make sure it is configured right during recovery.
No stupid specific backup agents for commercial software's little proprietary databases they all like to create to make things even more expensive to use.
I left with the opinion that Hyper-V is a solution in search of a problem.
I would be using Cent OS with KVM to virtualize Microsoft's OS, where it is safely under the flipper of my penguin, where it can't make my life hell.
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I would leave.
Seriously, you aren't going to learn anything about computers, if you don't have the source code to work with.
That excludes Mac's and Windows.
That is a fact of life in your computer science education which, won't change regardless of what your professors or the idiots in the I.T. department would have you believe.
You are wasting your money.
-Hack
A very few handful of people are holding back humanities potential.
This will change, but before it does people will have to be taught a very painful lesson about being indifferent, careless and uninvolved in their communities.
Greed has humanity in a grip right now, and won't let go.
Once it does, and people are permitted to achieve, the Stars will beckon.
But before that happens, all of you are about to experience a very very historic and troubling time in humanities history.
Terrible weapons are about to be released by the few who are trying to hold onto their power, and have so many million enslaved in poverty and hopelessness.
Even now they meet and discuss how they will build a 1,000 year dark age where they are the masters.
They won't succeed.
-Hackus
Since I was born in this country I have never seen so much lawlessness by financial institutions, politicians and law enforcement.
If this continues the USA will break up. If the USA becomes politically unstable we could see civil war.
There are already indications of this as state legislatures ignore their constituents and yield to the criminals in Washington.
We have states desperate to save the currency Washington is destroying, by declaring new issues of monetary and economic rules in their own states.
Meanwhile you have Federal powers trying to make it illegal to put anything other than Federal Reserve notes and arresting anyone who dares try.
A confrontation is coming between those who have looted and stole everything in this country and those who have been stolen from.
Be sure you pick the correct side when the crap hits the fan, because it is going to get very very ugly.
-Hack
Any of them ironically labled..
"Its not my weiner."
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/123109063.html
-Hack
I would be in favor of GMO foods as long as they are:
1) Not patented.
2) Are marked.
3) Cannot contaminate the biosphere with naturally growing varieties with some of the interesting side effect proteins they produce as part of the GMO process.
If they really are superior foods, then people will naturally pick them. That is how the free market works.
But for some reason, the large GMO companies don't want you to know what corn you eat is GMO.
Why?
????
-gc
Crap firmware and products.
That is what is killing my wifi.
I would also like to add:
1) Wall Street fascist pig CEO types who need that 5th mansion and stupid Board directors and shareholders who let him get away with it while the companies network infrastructure rots to hell.
That doesn't help my wifi either.
2) Closed proprietary crap hardware primarily by CISCO that makes it impossible to produce decent firmware via a 3rd party even after you bought the damn thing.
Apparently in a fascist system you really don't get to own anything you buy and can go to jail if you try and figure out how it works or make your own improvements.
Poor WRT guys, how they must suffer. Even though they work really hard, their firmware still sucks because the binary blobs they get with the radios suck it and my Wireless N router (WRT600N) still, has to auto reboot every 24 hours or it just plain stops working.
3) Finally I would like to thank all of the fascist members in Congress for creating laws that pretty much guarantees our wifi will suck.on a country wide basis, insuring intellectual property nonsense will continue to make wifi blow.
-Hack
However, even a turkey could see that would cause problems given the plans the "New World Order" has for the region.
I would have not accept funds in the first place from any political organization over there for transportation.
I would have a independent source of funds for travel expenses. I would then ask for donations from both sides when I got there to pay for the trip.
Richard runs the risk of looking like he is choosing sides by doing this, even though he might not feel that way about the politics of the region.
I say that because his mission is somewhat political due to the economics he will be discussing and social systems that make open source software very profitable as well as technically superior than close source commercial software.
-Hack.
Ok, this was a shock too me when I first read this because there was huge amounts and still is of Lunar research going on and I can see the moon having some water tucked away in an impact crater...here and there in the shadows.
But the moon has the same amount of water content as the earth?
That is a _huge_ amount of water to miss for the pass 50 plus years of research.
It is a gigantic amount of water. They have done TONS of seismic studies of the moon and how is it possible that this has been missed?
WTF?
-Hack
Since when did discussion of censorship of any kind in a republic become fashionable?
I immediately identified myself as an undesirable.
Thank god to, I always thought I was a terrorist and chixs dig it!
Hack
Everybody knows it is never going to go away.
Why not just make it permanent and stop pussy footing around.
-Hack
Education is a personal decision.
It isn't a college application form, or a Building that says "UW-Madison" on it for example.
You make the decision to become educated every day of your life.
College is a requirement in our society because it is tied into what could best be described as a fascist economic dictatorship model, where it is a corporate requirement in many cases to have "your papers" in order. (i.e. diplomas)
Not because corporations want the best or the brightest. If you want the best in the brightest, you wouldn't build a structure that allows only those who can pay to play participate in it.
-Hack
Presents a promise that the vehicle could go to Mars and Deep space, but then turns around and says:
"The MPCV holds 4 astronauts, is currently capable of 3-week missions..."
To Mars? In what, 7 days?
That is impressive. But it would require an open mind, and revelation of physics people have been killed for even discussing.
So, no way
You don't get it.
The G8 are not there to accept your discussion about internet freedom, they are there specifically to destroy it.
They are extremely freaked out about what happened when a single man lit himself on fire and the social networks ended up focusing an entire regional uprising, that continues till this day in Libya, Egypt..etc.
They want the internet stopped, they want it destroyed, they want it controlled.
If your document has any suggestions on how to do this, they will listen.
If not, you are a terrorist.
-Hack
You should only have enough electricity for your Television to watch IDOL, FOX and CNN and that is all!!
Anything more and you are a terrorist!!!!
We will send the TSA immediately into your home to grab your balls, your breasts or open your kids diapers!!!!
That will show everyone that we just need to keep people safe to stop these terrorists!!!
Mr. Goldstein is _everywhere_ but with your sacrifices we _WILL_ _GET_ _HIM_!!!
Report anything you see to your local threat fusion center immediately!!!
Keep an eye on your neighbors so we can keep you safe!
-DHS
Making generalizations that religions are stupid our harmful doesn't help your argument.
-Hack
I have been writing about CISCO for a long time.
The company itself has a lot of explaining to do, and has more skeletons in its closet than a quest to the bone pile in Razorfen Downs.
Anything for a buck, even if it has to sell out the very political system that allows its existence.
I don't buy anything from CISCO anymore, and when I am confronted with customers or equipment with CISCO on the label, my first action is too immediately budget a replacement.
The company needs to be outed for the people murdered, sentenced to life imprisonment. Lets be adults here, China's human rights issues are infamous. Any company would have to be head quartered on Mars not too know setting up and selling security gear to the Chinese will mean lots of things.
All bad for human rights.
-Hack
Which will depend on a number of things:
Is your idea of being "owed" equity your idea, or did others approach you and say: "You have contributed work and skill sets that would have been extremely difficult to find for us during the execution of the startup. We would like you to stay in some sort of equity arrangement."
I got approached by two gents after two years and got equity and CIO status because back in 1994, building IP networks was not a widely known skill. Also, putting a internet connection in a company was a significant engineering under taking. Sure they could have found someone else, but not very easily and it would have been a big risk.
If this doesn't apply to you, I would not ask as you will be told no first of all and they will think you are a future risk as you didn't get something you asked for.
-Hack
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Can't we through these carbon credit proponents in prison for running a scam?
What a bunch of crap.
-Hack
Depends.
I would use something like cloud services to minimize startup costs if it made sense.
I would not use the cloud though if:
1) Your startup requires security. Cloud services you have to remember own your data. If they decide to give it out with or without your permission, you have no control over the outcome. In fact, you may not even have any legal recourse either.
2) Lots of storage. It is not clear what the track record is on Cloud Storage. I may be cheaper for sure, but it may not be very reliable. Further if your project or startup is going to need lots of storage, it might not be practical to consider cloud storage.
-Hack
So confess.
How many of you losers actually program in that gibberish? ;-)
-Hack
Nobody is really surprised right?
All told, there is now about 2-3 Trillion in revenue going to a huge bureaucracy now that is supposedly protecting us from Mr. Goldstein. If any of you actually think that this will be peacefully dismantled, I you are living in a dream world.
Folks it is time to face the unpleasant facts, this government is not going to stop there, it will continue. If any of you out there are angry, I would advise you to be very very careful about what you say and do moving forward because we are way past the point of making any sort of changes using the voting box.
Meanwhile we will have endure:
1) Endless wars...Pakistan is now up to bat.
2) 1/3rd of the human population in the US on food stamps. At the rate it is increasing, half of all Americans will be on public assistance in just 4-5 years.
3) Rampant destruction of our currency by foreign interests.
4) Our cities crumbling, once shining jewels of industry and innovation and opportunity for the future of children, now destroyed by this government and its policies to the fascist corporate state. Our youth will know no security, will own no home and will have no food let alone a career.
5) Congress is plotting with the centralized agricultural fascists to make it illegal to grow food. This government has blown up levies and damns and has siphoned away millions to destroy private farmland to protect commercial real estate for the bankers. Meanwhile food prices have hit record all time highs in wheat, corn and more Americans everyday can't feed themselves.
The Europeans get it. The Icelander's got it. Americans unfortunately don't get it yet. I am left wondering when they will?
Maybe when half of the population is on food stamps, will that be what it takes?
Watch your kids die with rationed health care?
Maybe it is the 27 trillion in currency maniuplation illegally transferring the wealth of the country to the Black Nobility in Germany, Great Britain?
Maybe it will be the fact the brightest spotlight this year in jobs was McDonalds hiring 50,000 workers?
Or maybe watching our wife and kid be sexually molested in public by the TSA?
Or maybe, just maybe....it will be when the government declares everyone in the USA a terrorist if you disagree with these outcomes?
-Hack
I am not so sure this is a good idea.
I want GNOME to be a competitor to KDE, and I want it to work on a variety of platforms or the KDE guys could get complacent.
It might also complicate the idea of a Universal Desktop standard API. Essentially, the direction I think the open source community is heading with KDE, which would mean GNOME would have potentially a lot more work to do themselves reinventing the wheel.
I also don't like the packager ramifications of GNOME desktops existing with KDE in the future where is GNOME sets out by itself could put it against the freedesktop.org guidelines.
-Hack
Nope. People do not talk about methane.
Not even mentioned in the IMF report on global warming. Even Al Gore, the worlds expert on Global Warming who won a Nobel prize for his break through research on the subject doesn't mention methane.
I mean if a world class expert like Al Gore doesn't mention methane, it really isn't talked about much.
-Hack
There is so many things wrong with this paper I am not sure where to begin.
First of all, it suffers from the "we want it to be habitable" syndrome.
The authors point out that they believe the planet receives even less stellar energy than Mars (by a whopping 35%), but then turn around and "fudge" the habitable zone out to the planets orbital circumference by giving it the correct atmosphere to do "green house warming" of the surface. CO2 is a very poor greenhouse gas.
(Despite what you hear in the news who want carbon taxes and Eugenics programs imposed on nations.)
Venus I would like to point out only has a temperature to melt lead at its surface, and has many atmospheres of CO2...that would crush you like a bug at its surface. Plus, VENUS is outside of the habitable zone, and even without the CO2 would not be classified as a habitable world due to solar input.
(Methane however, is a _very_ dangerous gas, but you won't here anyone talk about that very real problem because you can't tax methane.)
This does not correctly describe our own system either, where anything outside of Mars orbit in our system, which Mars itself is barely in the habitable zone, is pretty much dead if you are talking about surface life anyway and not any fancy gravity assisted habitable zones. (Like Europa for example, which may have have a under ground ocean due to tidal energy which heats the body up enough to have liquid water.)
I am not sure what their definition of the "habitable zone" is after reading the paper.
-Hack
Honestly I cannot understand why you would virtualize anything but commercial software. It is a pain to manage without virtualization, it suffers from legacy problems due to all of the very big risks you take when you buy the license. You really have no benefits at all I can think of running commercial software.
Thanks to KVM, the commercial software I do have to buy, I can virtualize it, freeze the hardware requirements in time so it will always work forever and ever. Never need to reinstall it and it isn't if, but when the company goes tits up I am protected. I can dump the software on my terms.
I can even make a copy of it in case the hardware virtualizing the commercial software breaks.
Deploy it to a disaster recovery site and I don't have to have a huge checklist to go through to make sure it is configured right during recovery.
No stupid specific backup agents for commercial software's little proprietary databases they all like to create to make things even more expensive to use.
I left with the opinion that Hyper-V is a solution in search of a problem.
I would be using Cent OS with KVM to virtualize Microsoft's OS, where it is safely under the flipper of my penguin, where it can't make my life hell.
-Hack