Robert Reich is certainly right on about the demise of capitalism. Corporations stack the deck so much in their favor that capitalism as we used to have it, as it used to benefit average people, and lift them out of poverty, is pretty much dead. Any attempts to reform the system cause them to scream "socialist wealth redistribution."
I used to think those that picketed at G7 meetings against globalization were luddites. Now I completely understand. Globalization is more and more just bullying on a national scale.
Hopefully in Canada we can get the Conservatives out, though I'm not hopeful. Harper wants Canada to be just like the US in all the bad ways. However a conservative minority government is probably the worst case scenario up here--Harper would be absolutely dictatorial in such a government knowing that the electorate are going to punish anyone who brings the government down and brings on another round of elections. Both opposition parties say they won't even bother reading the TPP in the house (which is honestly a lie, but at least they say they oppose it). I dunno. Plus Trudeau is being an idiot refusing to even talk about a coalition with the NDP. But I digress.
When exactly did Red Hat make this mistake and how did they make it? I have been using Red Hat (later Fedora) since Red Hat 5.0 (original RH linux, circa 1997), so it must have been long before then. I cannot recall any such near disaster. RH has initiated many potentially disruptive changes and came out doing just great. The one that was the hardest was the switch to glibc from the old libc. That broke a lot of things initially, and caused a lot of pain for users and developers. But they worked it out. Of course RH was an extremely small company back then, probably still working out of a garage.
Sorry but that's simply not true. It was Sun and now Oracle that purposely chose an incompatible license for ZFS. Nothing to do with the GPL here. Your complaints are like the people that buy up land around an airport, build houses, and then complain about the noise.
Anyway, if you read the fine articles you'd discover that what Ubuntu is going to do is include ZoL modules in their kernel packages. This takes advantage of GPLv2's aggregation clause which lets you ship non GPL binaries with GPL'd binaries because they aren't linked together (think an OS distribution). Once the modules get loaded, that taints the kernel but since it's the end user that initiates this by choosing to use ZFS, there's no copyright violation. ZoL has always operated this way, actually.
In other words ZoL will not be compiled into the kernel, as to do so by Ubuntu would be a license violation. But Ubuntu plans to ship and support the binary kernel modules. Sounds eminently reasonable to me. Hopefully we'll see this approach adopted by other distributions, athough ZoL is not that hard to get running at all.
No it doesn't have to time out. If no web server is running on 127.0.0.1, the connection attempt fails immediately. This is faster than a 404 even. If you had iptables dropping packets then that would result in a timeout. That's why I have iptables use the REJECT target for outbound things I'm trying to block. That way the connection fails immediately.
Amazon already helpfully stores in the cloud any and all books and documents I send to my kindle via email. They show up in my archive along with all my Amazon-purchased books and I can retrieve them wirelessly on any kindle device or app. This could be a privacy concern for some. I'm not sure if kindle will sync reading position in these third party books. I kind of doubt it.
People sometimes confuse trade secrets and patents. They often act like once something is patented, it's gone forever (big bad company took invention and patented it so we can never see it again). Yet patents are completely opposite of trade secrets. Trade secrets are, well, secret and hidden by nature. Patents are supposed to be open, and should explain exactly how to do something to someone skilled in the art. In terms of knowledge, patents are much better than trade secrets this way. Though the law allows prosecution of someone who violates (steals) a trade secret, once a trade secret is out it's out and it can never be hidden again. I guess the openness of patents is why I get frustrated when companies start getting litigious but get all evasive about exactly which patents they claim are being violated. It's all in the open anyway, so let's see it.
No, they are simply stating facts. This is just the remedy built into the contract being exercised by Apple. I'd go so far as to say most contacts have an agreement over what happens when the is broken. Granted the contact may be one sided with the terms and remedies but iFixit certainly agreed to it.
How is USB C better than micro-USB in terms of wear and tear affecting the plug? It still that fragile contacts tab inside it. Micro USB is indeed terrible, but I don't see how USB C is any more robust, save that it is reversible so people can't break it sticking it in backwards.
There really is resistance to urea here in NA. It's seen as a burden by just about everyone and it really does play into consumers' buying decisions. $20 worth of chemical can translate into thousands of dollars in lost sales. Especially in a market dominated by gasoline cars.
It's also entirely possible that in real-world conditions the EPAs regulations are simply unattainable in any acceptable way. Now that the EPA is going to have to move to real-world testing, this could be a good thing to let the government know just how realistic or unrealistic their targets are. They say they are already testing big diesel engines this way. Makes me really wonder, though, as I'm sure that a big rig could meet standards on a flat stretch of road, but start climbing a hill and I guarantee particulates go up an order of magnitude, despite pollution controls. NOx too.
This idea that one can simply legislate fuel efficiency and emissions can only go so far and I wonder if we aren't at the limit, particularly when emissions and efficiency often work against each other.
Sounds great to me. I don't need any improvements or enhancements. Nice to know I can keep Windows 7 around for another 5 years. After that maybe Wine will be good enough to run the few windows apps I might want to use. Or ReactOS.;)
Actually, no. Urea does require hotter temperatures, true, but it surely doesn't impact performance. The way diesel pollution works is that you can either lower compression and combustion through EGR to reduce NOx, but this tends to produce particulates and reduces fuel efficiency. Or you can increase efficiency and run the engine hotter, possibly with more compression, which virtually eliminates particulates, but hotter combustion temperatures increase NOx production.
If anything Urea lets the engine run a lot closer to its more efficient state with more compression and higher temperatures. As you say the urea plus the catalyzing exhaust chamber does add weight. But the biggest problem is the availability of urea (in north America) and the handling of it. Especially in the winter.
We run a machine on the farm with Tier 4I emissions on it, and every year we buy about 800 L of urea. It's about $1 CAD/L. So it does add overall cost, though to put it in perspective, it costs nearly $400 a day in diesel fuel during harvest for the same machine, totaling $800 a day for the two machines. But this engine is also more efficient than previous models, so fuel consumption is lower. We don't run the machine in the winter so we've never had any problems with it gelling, and we've never had the machine derate due to urea problems. In my mind, urea injection is really the only practical way to produce cleaner diesels. This is important with biologically-derived fuels as well, such as biodiesel. The carbon cost of urea production and handling probably makes it a wash in terms of CO2 emissions, despite higher efficiency engines. Urea is made from natural gas reformation.
The waste issue is as much a political thing as a technological thing. Storing radioactive waste for thousands of years is really silly to begin with. If the waste is still radioactive, then there's still energy that can be extracted. If waste could be reprocessed and reacted again until it had a half life of say a hundred years, then waste would simply not be an issue that it is today. And the main reason we aren't reprocessing waste is political, with fears of plutonium bomb production.
Absolutely. I have an older phone and lately it's been getting slower and slower and kills apps more frequently as memory is tighter now. I don't have many apps, and I don't auto update the apps. The only thing on the phone that automatically updates are the Google Play Services and the Google Play apps, which update often and silently. Both are much much bigger than they used to be. It's kind of out of control.
The worse thing about the Android ecosystem is the complete lack of version control. Once an update is pushed to the store, all traces of the older versions are gone forever it seems. I've learned the hard way to back all apps up with titanium backup before upgrading any app because you can't roll back updates any other way. And several times an app I really like gets "upgraded" to be completely less useful than it was before. I've been burned a few times that ways so now I always check the little change log in google play and if it doesn't mention security I am much less likely to bother, especially if the app works well. I really wish there was an option to make google play updates and google play services updates such that I am informed when they are ready to update.
There's a Concorde in Seattle at the museum of flight. It belongs to Air France I think and it's on extended loan. As part of the conditions of the loan, the museum has to keep the airplane in near-flying condition at all times should they ever want it back. This does not mean it could fly without serious work, but it does mean they keep the plane clean and free from corrosion, inside and out. This means that on certain days they cannot open the airplane for tourists when the humidity is too high. The engines are intact and sealed off.
I imagine the Concorde at Orly is operating under similar protocols. That's possibly why the second day you saw it and it was all closed up. I don't know for sure though.
Was a pretty amazing aircraft for it's time. Like others have said it is dated now. And it's really not that comfortable inside as the cabin is really tiny.
Why? So you can pass ad hominem judgement based on the team he plays for? Coming from outside the US I've always found the American penchant for naming politicians with a little letter beside their name a bit odd. Particularly when from an outside perspective both main parties are virtually identical in policy terms. I think I'd prefer to judge congress people on their own merit rather than painting them with a broad team brush all the time.
A complicated and nuanced situation that's not nearly so clear-cut as you maintain.
If you get a chance, it's very much worth a visit to Israel and Palestine. Will give you a chance to see how things really are on the ground. Palestinians who live within the green line (pre-1967 boundaries) are as you say Israeli citizens that the Israelis call Israeli Arabs. They can vote, and they have relative freedom of movement. However they are treated by many as second-class citizens. The Knesset system is badly broken and as such doesn't really represent people, Jewish or Arab, since seats are apportioned according to a party's percentage of the popular vote. Arab MKs are often marginalized by government. They have never been a part of the government coalitions as far as I know. Israeli Arabs feel like the Israeli government favors Jewish school districts and cities when it comes to funding. In some parts of Israel, such as around Haifa, there has been relatively good integration between Palestinian and Jewish villages and neighbors. But in other parts of the Galilee things are often tense.
In the West Bank, Palestinians are not Israeli citizens, and crossing Israel to get to Gaza to see relatives has always been a difficult task. The vast majority of Palestinians live in the West Bank and aren't citizens, though Israel very much controls their movements.
Inside Jerusalem, things are the most apartheid. Though Israel has annexed Jerusalem, none of the Palestinians there have been granted citizenship. Also, they are not considered residents of the West Bank by the Israelis either. So while a Palestinian in the west bank can travel from one part to another, Palestinians in Jerusalem cannot travel anywhere without getting Israeli paperwork. It's the worst of both worlds. Israel acts like Palestinian Jerusalem residents are favored, but in reality they are more restricted.
So I can understand how people draw parallels between apartheid in SA and Israel. The situation is very much the same. The demographics is why Israel can never annex the west bank too, as doing so would absolutely make them just like SA.
Whenever I read about some new archeological site that is deemed to be of religious importance, I think of this wonderful piece of satire (great art too) about uncovering the remains of 1980s hotel in the year 4022:
A partial answer to this is to build your own CPU and system in software. Like Bochs. But you could build this virtual system on any number of other completely incompatible platforms for verification. Would be slow. But at least it would be consistent and verifiable. You couldn't use hardware virtualization for this. Would have to be completely implemented in software. And if different people implemented the same reference platform independently (using their own preferred language and programming techniques) that would add an additional layer of verification. Even the deepest NSA compromise would have a hard time completely influencing this.
Maybe you should actually read what he wrote before jumping on the hate bandwagon. He's absolutely right that for many years and applications traditional package systems fall down. That's not to say they aren't important. They are and will continue to be. But they have their limitations when it comes to fast moving software like libre office on a nice stable slow moving distro like the lts releases of Linux distros.
As a matter of fact docker is really one attempt to solve this problem. Coreos is based on this idea. Chromeos also eschews packages entirely. Now snappy.
And as experimental distros like snappy try things, new utilities will have to be created to manage the images. This is what Poettering is talking about. In the meantime you're free to not use any of this. It's just a bunch of ideas, many of which happen to be really good, and natural extensions of the traditional package model. It's exciting stuff.
Sure but these factory dislikes that were purchased don't even correspond to any views whatsoever.
Personally I found his video very enlightening. I appreciated how in-depth he was explaining from the various data sheets what really happens to batteries.
He could have shortened things a lot with the following summary: - most electrical devices are engineered to work with lower-voltage rechargeable batteries which have a cutoff of 1.1 volts - Thus most devices work on a voltage all the way down to 1.1 volts per cell, not the 1.35 or 1.4 volts claimed by the company - hence there's very little "wasted" power in an alkaline cell once it hits this 1.1 cutoff. - Claims of 8x battery life are completely false - Even if a badly-designed device cut off at 1.4v, the efficiencies of the voltage booster circuit would eat up a lot of the remaining power trying to hold the voltage to 1.5v, especially at low amperages.
Like I say I appreciated his clear explanations of the physics, electronics, and science behind battery operation.
Exactly. X11 has too many round trips to the server for things to be usable over anything but a LAN link. X2Go, however, can easily run Thunderbird remotely.
That said, a terminal window is so darn handy that it's nice to have nice text-mode programs we can use from it. Especially when working with a remote system that doesn't even have the X11 client libraries installed.
Systemd is not monolithic. It's highly modular and only a few small parts are mandatory for systemd's init to function. Saying systemd is monolithic does not make it so.
As for the evolution of launchd and it's current usability, the same exact things can be said of systemd. systemd is not a creation of theoretitists. It actually solves practical problems in a practical way, as does launchd.
It's just ironic to me that slashdotters will come to launchd's defense while lambasting systemd.
Israel and Palestine have been having strife over water for decades. Israel diverts nearly 100% of the Jordan river now, mostly for its own agricultural purposes. To add insult to injury this water is piped right through the west bank to Israeli farms and communities in the south. Palestinian farms and communities get less and less of this water as time goes on. And as the aquifers that feed the Jordan river fluctuate, guess who gets the short end of the stick? Certainly not Israelis. Water is certainly used as a passive weapon, that's for sure.
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Robert Reich is certainly right on about the demise of capitalism. Corporations stack the deck so much in their favor that capitalism as we used to have it, as it used to benefit average people, and lift them out of poverty, is pretty much dead. Any attempts to reform the system cause them to scream "socialist wealth redistribution."
I used to think those that picketed at G7 meetings against globalization were luddites. Now I completely understand. Globalization is more and more just bullying on a national scale.
Hopefully in Canada we can get the Conservatives out, though I'm not hopeful. Harper wants Canada to be just like the US in all the bad ways. However a conservative minority government is probably the worst case scenario up here--Harper would be absolutely dictatorial in such a government knowing that the electorate are going to punish anyone who brings the government down and brings on another round of elections. Both opposition parties say they won't even bother reading the TPP in the house (which is honestly a lie, but at least they say they oppose it). I dunno. Plus Trudeau is being an idiot refusing to even talk about a coalition with the NDP. But I digress.
When exactly did Red Hat make this mistake and how did they make it? I have been using Red Hat (later Fedora) since Red Hat 5.0 (original RH linux, circa 1997), so it must have been long before then. I cannot recall any such near disaster. RH has initiated many potentially disruptive changes and came out doing just great. The one that was the hardest was the switch to glibc from the old libc. That broke a lot of things initially, and caused a lot of pain for users and developers. But they worked it out. Of course RH was an extremely small company back then, probably still working out of a garage.
Sorry but that's simply not true. It was Sun and now Oracle that purposely chose an incompatible license for ZFS. Nothing to do with the GPL here. Your complaints are like the people that buy up land around an airport, build houses, and then complain about the noise.
Anyway, if you read the fine articles you'd discover that what Ubuntu is going to do is include ZoL modules in their kernel packages. This takes advantage of GPLv2's aggregation clause which lets you ship non GPL binaries with GPL'd binaries because they aren't linked together (think an OS distribution). Once the modules get loaded, that taints the kernel but since it's the end user that initiates this by choosing to use ZFS, there's no copyright violation. ZoL has always operated this way, actually.
In other words ZoL will not be compiled into the kernel, as to do so by Ubuntu would be a license violation. But Ubuntu plans to ship and support the binary kernel modules. Sounds eminently reasonable to me. Hopefully we'll see this approach adopted by other distributions, athough ZoL is not that hard to get running at all.
No it doesn't have to time out. If no web server is running on 127.0.0.1, the connection attempt fails immediately. This is faster than a 404 even. If you had iptables dropping packets then that would result in a timeout. That's why I have iptables use the REJECT target for outbound things I'm trying to block. That way the connection fails immediately.
Amazon already helpfully stores in the cloud any and all books and documents I send to my kindle via email. They show up in my archive along with all my Amazon-purchased books and I can retrieve them wirelessly on any kindle device or app. This could be a privacy concern for some. I'm not sure if kindle will sync reading position in these third party books. I kind of doubt it.
Great post.
People sometimes confuse trade secrets and patents. They often act like once something is patented, it's gone forever (big bad company took invention and patented it so we can never see it again). Yet patents are completely opposite of trade secrets. Trade secrets are, well, secret and hidden by nature. Patents are supposed to be open, and should explain exactly how to do something to someone skilled in the art. In terms of knowledge, patents are much better than trade secrets this way. Though the law allows prosecution of someone who violates (steals) a trade secret, once a trade secret is out it's out and it can never be hidden again. I guess the openness of patents is why I get frustrated when companies start getting litigious but get all evasive about exactly which patents they claim are being violated. It's all in the open anyway, so let's see it.
No, they are simply stating facts. This is just the remedy built into the contract being exercised by Apple. I'd go so far as to say most contacts have an agreement over what happens when the is broken. Granted the contact may be one sided with the terms and remedies but iFixit certainly agreed to it.
How is USB C better than micro-USB in terms of wear and tear affecting the plug? It still that fragile contacts tab inside it. Micro USB is indeed terrible, but I don't see how USB C is any more robust, save that it is reversible so people can't break it sticking it in backwards.
There really is resistance to urea here in NA. It's seen as a burden by just about everyone and it really does play into consumers' buying decisions. $20 worth of chemical can translate into thousands of dollars in lost sales. Especially in a market dominated by gasoline cars.
It's also entirely possible that in real-world conditions the EPAs regulations are simply unattainable in any acceptable way. Now that the EPA is going to have to move to real-world testing, this could be a good thing to let the government know just how realistic or unrealistic their targets are. They say they are already testing big diesel engines this way. Makes me really wonder, though, as I'm sure that a big rig could meet standards on a flat stretch of road, but start climbing a hill and I guarantee particulates go up an order of magnitude, despite pollution controls. NOx too.
This idea that one can simply legislate fuel efficiency and emissions can only go so far and I wonder if we aren't at the limit, particularly when emissions and efficiency often work against each other.
Sounds great to me. I don't need any improvements or enhancements. Nice to know I can keep Windows 7 around for another 5 years. After that maybe Wine will be good enough to run the few windows apps I might want to use. Or ReactOS. ;)
Actually, no. Urea does require hotter temperatures, true, but it surely doesn't impact performance. The way diesel pollution works is that you can either lower compression and combustion through EGR to reduce NOx, but this tends to produce particulates and reduces fuel efficiency. Or you can increase efficiency and run the engine hotter, possibly with more compression, which virtually eliminates particulates, but hotter combustion temperatures increase NOx production.
If anything Urea lets the engine run a lot closer to its more efficient state with more compression and higher temperatures. As you say the urea plus the catalyzing exhaust chamber does add weight. But the biggest problem is the availability of urea (in north America) and the handling of it. Especially in the winter.
We run a machine on the farm with Tier 4I emissions on it, and every year we buy about 800 L of urea. It's about $1 CAD/L. So it does add overall cost, though to put it in perspective, it costs nearly $400 a day in diesel fuel during harvest for the same machine, totaling $800 a day for the two machines. But this engine is also more efficient than previous models, so fuel consumption is lower. We don't run the machine in the winter so we've never had any problems with it gelling, and we've never had the machine derate due to urea problems. In my mind, urea injection is really the only practical way to produce cleaner diesels. This is important with biologically-derived fuels as well, such as biodiesel. The carbon cost of urea production and handling probably makes it a wash in terms of CO2 emissions, despite higher efficiency engines. Urea is made from natural gas reformation.
The books were good. Douglas Adams' unfinished episode Shada was turned into a novel and it was excellent. I listened to it in audio book form.
I have also really enjoyed the various doctor who audio dramas over the years.
The waste issue is as much a political thing as a technological thing. Storing radioactive waste for thousands of years is really silly to begin with. If the waste is still radioactive, then there's still energy that can be extracted. If waste could be reprocessed and reacted again until it had a half life of say a hundred years, then waste would simply not be an issue that it is today. And the main reason we aren't reprocessing waste is political, with fears of plutonium bomb production.
Absolutely. I have an older phone and lately it's been getting slower and slower and kills apps more frequently as memory is tighter now. I don't have many apps, and I don't auto update the apps. The only thing on the phone that automatically updates are the Google Play Services and the Google Play apps, which update often and silently. Both are much much bigger than they used to be. It's kind of out of control.
The worse thing about the Android ecosystem is the complete lack of version control. Once an update is pushed to the store, all traces of the older versions are gone forever it seems. I've learned the hard way to back all apps up with titanium backup before upgrading any app because you can't roll back updates any other way. And several times an app I really like gets "upgraded" to be completely less useful than it was before. I've been burned a few times that ways so now I always check the little change log in google play and if it doesn't mention security I am much less likely to bother, especially if the app works well. I really wish there was an option to make google play updates and google play services updates such that I am informed when they are ready to update.
There's a Concorde in Seattle at the museum of flight. It belongs to Air France I think and it's on extended loan. As part of the conditions of the loan, the museum has to keep the airplane in near-flying condition at all times should they ever want it back. This does not mean it could fly without serious work, but it does mean they keep the plane clean and free from corrosion, inside and out. This means that on certain days they cannot open the airplane for tourists when the humidity is too high. The engines are intact and sealed off.
I imagine the Concorde at Orly is operating under similar protocols. That's possibly why the second day you saw it and it was all closed up. I don't know for sure though.
Was a pretty amazing aircraft for it's time. Like others have said it is dated now. And it's really not that comfortable inside as the cabin is really tiny.
Why? So you can pass ad hominem judgement based on the team he plays for? Coming from outside the US I've always found the American penchant for naming politicians with a little letter beside their name a bit odd. Particularly when from an outside perspective both main parties are virtually identical in policy terms. I think I'd prefer to judge congress people on their own merit rather than painting them with a broad team brush all the time.
A complicated and nuanced situation that's not nearly so clear-cut as you maintain.
If you get a chance, it's very much worth a visit to Israel and Palestine. Will give you a chance to see how things really are on the ground. Palestinians who live within the green line (pre-1967 boundaries) are as you say Israeli citizens that the Israelis call Israeli Arabs. They can vote, and they have relative freedom of movement. However they are treated by many as second-class citizens. The Knesset system is badly broken and as such doesn't really represent people, Jewish or Arab, since seats are apportioned according to a party's percentage of the popular vote. Arab MKs are often marginalized by government. They have never been a part of the government coalitions as far as I know. Israeli Arabs feel like the Israeli government favors Jewish school districts and cities when it comes to funding. In some parts of Israel, such as around Haifa, there has been relatively good integration between Palestinian and Jewish villages and neighbors. But in other parts of the Galilee things are often tense.
In the West Bank, Palestinians are not Israeli citizens, and crossing Israel to get to Gaza to see relatives has always been a difficult task. The vast majority of Palestinians live in the West Bank and aren't citizens, though Israel very much controls their movements.
Inside Jerusalem, things are the most apartheid. Though Israel has annexed Jerusalem, none of the Palestinians there have been granted citizenship. Also, they are not considered residents of the West Bank by the Israelis either. So while a Palestinian in the west bank can travel from one part to another, Palestinians in Jerusalem cannot travel anywhere without getting Israeli paperwork. It's the worst of both worlds. Israel acts like Palestinian Jerusalem residents are favored, but in reality they are more restricted.
So I can understand how people draw parallels between apartheid in SA and Israel. The situation is very much the same. The demographics is why Israel can never annex the west bank too, as doing so would absolutely make them just like SA.
Whenever I read about some new archeological site that is deemed to be of religious importance, I think of this wonderful piece of satire (great art too) about uncovering the remains of 1980s hotel in the year 4022:
http://www.amazon.com/Motel-My...
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu...
Great stuff. Especially the picture of the archaeologist demonstrating how to wear the ceremonial toilet seat, I mean head dress.
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu...
http://people.virginia.edu/~sf...
A partial answer to this is to build your own CPU and system in software. Like Bochs. But you could build this virtual system on any number of other completely incompatible platforms for verification. Would be slow. But at least it would be consistent and verifiable. You couldn't use hardware virtualization for this. Would have to be completely implemented in software. And if different people implemented the same reference platform independently (using their own preferred language and programming techniques) that would add an additional layer of verification. Even the deepest NSA compromise would have a hard time completely influencing this.
Sigh. That should have read, for many types of applications. Not many years. Google's swiping keyboard is pretty good but always makes a few mistakes.
Maybe you should actually read what he wrote before jumping on the hate bandwagon. He's absolutely right that for many years and applications traditional package systems fall down. That's not to say they aren't important. They are and will continue to be. But they have their limitations when it comes to fast moving software like libre office on a nice stable slow moving distro like the lts releases of Linux distros.
As a matter of fact docker is really one attempt to solve this problem. Coreos is based on this idea. Chromeos also eschews packages entirely. Now snappy.
And as experimental distros like snappy try things, new utilities will have to be created to manage the images. This is what Poettering is talking about. In the meantime you're free to not use any of this. It's just a bunch of ideas, many of which happen to be really good, and natural extensions of the traditional package model. It's exciting stuff.
Sure but these factory dislikes that were purchased don't even correspond to any views whatsoever.
Personally I found his video very enlightening. I appreciated how in-depth he was explaining from the various data sheets what really happens to batteries.
He could have shortened things a lot with the following summary:
- most electrical devices are engineered to work with lower-voltage rechargeable batteries which have a cutoff of 1.1 volts
- Thus most devices work on a voltage all the way down to 1.1 volts per cell, not the 1.35 or 1.4 volts claimed by the company
- hence there's very little "wasted" power in an alkaline cell once it hits this 1.1 cutoff.
- Claims of 8x battery life are completely false
- Even if a badly-designed device cut off at 1.4v, the efficiencies of the voltage booster circuit would eat up a lot of the remaining power trying to hold the voltage to 1.5v, especially at low amperages.
Like I say I appreciated his clear explanations of the physics, electronics, and science behind battery operation.
Exactly. X11 has too many round trips to the server for things to be usable over anything but a LAN link. X2Go, however, can easily run Thunderbird remotely.
That said, a terminal window is so darn handy that it's nice to have nice text-mode programs we can use from it. Especially when working with a remote system that doesn't even have the X11 client libraries installed.
Systemd is not monolithic. It's highly modular and only a few small parts are mandatory for systemd's init to function. Saying systemd is monolithic does not make it so.
As for the evolution of launchd and it's current usability, the same exact things can be said of systemd. systemd is not a creation of theoretitists. It actually solves practical problems in a practical way, as does launchd.
It's just ironic to me that slashdotters will come to launchd's defense while lambasting systemd.
Israel and Palestine have been having strife over water for decades. Israel diverts nearly 100% of the Jordan river now, mostly for its own agricultural purposes. To add insult to injury this water is piped right through the west bank to Israeli farms and communities in the south. Palestinian farms and communities get less and less of this water as time goes on. And as the aquifers that feed the Jordan river fluctuate, guess who gets the short end of the stick? Certainly not Israelis. Water is certainly used as a passive weapon, that's for sure.