Except for your insistence on referring to climate change as "hypothetical", I have to agree with everything you said. The traditional environmental issues are quite enough to explain events like these.
Climate scientists keep reminding us that it's difficult to trace a connection between any given event and climate change. If we're going argue about climate change, we need to start arguing about the scientific models and stop arguing about specific events that can be explained in terms of either theory.
What exactly do you mean by "out of the box"? There are tons of devices whose Linux drivers haven't found their way into distros yet. You download them from the vendor's web site.
I have a clue, but I can't share it in a public forum. If I did, I'd lose my job faster than you can say "vaporware litigation". You might try talking to Sun field people and hope for some discreet hints.
According to an in-character message posted on the game's official site, the world of Tabula Rasa... will become overrun by an unstoppable tide of alien enemies, with humanity's only response being mutually assured destruction.
Can't we all just get along? Stupid question, there's no money in it!
Slipstreaming is a kludgy way of working around a painfully complicated process. And although MS doesn't create new install media every week, they do issue an endless stream of patches, service packs, and hotfixes.
Servers need to be extremely cautious with drivers in order to provide the sort of 99.999% uptime expected for industry.
Dude, I work for a server company. I'm the documentation lead for our current high-end x64 server. For this platform, we support Linux (both RHEL and SLES), Solaris, Windows (both 2003 and 2008) and VMware.
And yes, we do put a lot of effort into making sure various drivers, firmware, and hardware work together. Half the people I work with do nothing else. But we work just as hard to do it for the Open Source operating systems as for the proprietary ones.
The difference is that getting your drivers into a proprietary OS is longer, slower process. More legal issues, more technical issues. Everybody having access to everybody's source code really speeds things up. So does not having to worry about who you can communicate proprietary information to.
Changes that took 10 years to take place are more like a long hard slog than an about-face.
This has been an LHS not just for the Linux community, but for the larger Open Source community. OS has gone from a weird little movement supposedly based on programmers being willing to work for free to a serious player in enterprise computing. This has been based on changed business models and changed attitudes on all sides. Not the least of this is the end of the all-or-nothing attitude towards "free" software, at least on the part of the serious decision makers.
Basic Open Source versus Proprietary issue. It's a lot easier for a hardware company to get drivers added to Linux distros than to Windows install disks.
That's the kicker, though, isn't it? Being able to pick and choose what you want to buy is killing their craft.
No, the institutional stupidity of the big media companies is killing their craft. That's why, for example, broadcast TV has sucked for many decades -- any sign of creativity or orginality is promptly stamped out.
Looser IP rules would actually help the craft. Even the de facto loosening that you get from the difficulty of enforcing old laws as they apply to new technology is helping the craft. Big organizations just don't know how to adapt to the new technology.
I really, really doubt that there is zero loss to piracy. It goes against all I know of human nature to suggest that there are no people out there who look for ways to get something for free before they look to pay for it. Besides, there are a lot of people who simply don't believe that authors and artists deserve more than a flat fee for their work. David Pogue certainly heard from a lot of them when he complained about people pirating his work.
That said, it is credible that unauthorized copying can lead to a net gain by IP owners, with extra sales from viral spread of a work offsetting piracy losses. Certainly authors who make their books available online don't seem to suffer for it.
Here's my definition of stupid: tearing into somebody without reading their post carefully. You, in fact, did not even finish reading the first sentence.
Just because I admitted that it's my laptop, I now can't take the 5th? In movies at least, that's not how it works:-)
I haven't read TFA, but when I see "initial cooperation" in this context, I don't think "Yes, that's my laptop." I think "Yes, you can look at it" with maybe an implicit "Good thing my porn files are all encrypted."
It's even worse than you think! Not only do I have a low UID, but I've actually been using computers for a really really long time. I started in 1971 (PDP-11 running RSTS), didn't even see a GUI machine until 1983 (when the company I was working for bought a Mac to do competitive analysis on it), and didn't start using one day-to-day until 1990 (when Windows 3.0 came out). Even then, it was some years before Windows file managers progressed enough to that I could use them for most complicated operations.
That's over a decade when I used various command lines (mostly csh until I became a MS-DOS person, when I relied on something called 4DOS) because there was no alternative. Than some years before the alternatives got good enough so that I could rely on them most of the time. I got pretty good at hacking shell scripts and aliases.
I still am, though certainly not in your league. Nowadays I go back and forth between Solaris and Windows, and on the Solaris side there's still a lot of things that are easier to do in the command line.
So, with all this command line experience, why am I a GUI apostate? Because it suits the way I think better. Visual metaphors means that I don't have to devote brain cells to remembering and elaborating the idiom I need. Visual feedback tells me immediately whether the idiom I used did what I thought it did.
You see these mechanisms as crutches and that interfere with your ability to work efficiently, and prefer more powerful tools. If that works for you fine. Despite the way most people read my original post, I am not saying that only idiots use the command line. Though I strongly suspect that a powerful command line appeals to you more for the intellectual stimulation and pleasure you get from using it, rather than any increase in your efficiency.
When did bash become the "de-facto standard"? I work at Sun, which has been in the Unix business for a couple decades. The most common interactive command line here is csh. (Bill Joy being the original head of software probably had something to do with that.) Most software developers here do prefer bash to csh, especially for scripting. But if somebody tried to tell them they couldn't use any other scripting language, they'd probably quit all at once. If you asked them what the de-facto standard was, I think they'd all say Perl. Even the ones that hate Perl.
Your religiousity about bash may work for you, but it wouldn't for most people. I'm a writer, not a developer, but I do need to write the odd small program now and then. The other day I wrote a 20-line Perl script that pulls a list of names off a web site, looks them up in an LDAP database, and saves retrieved user data in a text file. (The point is to synchronize a web site user access list that I maintain with one that I don't.) I'm sure I could do it as a shell script, but it would be a lot more complicated, and probably a bit less efficient.
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Except for your insistence on referring to climate change as "hypothetical", I have to agree with everything you said. The traditional environmental issues are quite enough to explain events like these.
Climate scientists keep reminding us that it's difficult to trace a connection between any given event and climate change. If we're going argue about climate change, we need to start arguing about the scientific models and stop arguing about specific events that can be explained in terms of either theory.
What exactly do you mean by "out of the box"? There are tons of devices whose Linux drivers haven't found their way into distros yet. You download them from the vendor's web site.
I have a clue, but I can't share it in a public forum. If I did, I'd lose my job faster than you can say "vaporware litigation". You might try talking to Sun field people and hope for some discreet hints.
According to an in-character message posted on the game's official site, the world of Tabula Rasa ... will become overrun by an unstoppable tide of alien enemies, with humanity's only response being mutually assured destruction.
Can't we all just get along? Stupid question, there's no money in it!
Is Schroedinger's cat dead, or is it just pining for the fjords? Only The Shadow knows!
Slipstreaming is a kludgy way of working around a painfully complicated process. And although MS doesn't create new install media every week, they do issue an endless stream of patches, service packs, and hotfixes.
Servers need to be extremely cautious with drivers in order to provide the sort of 99.999% uptime expected for industry.
Dude, I work for a server company. I'm the documentation lead for our current high-end x64 server. For this platform, we support Linux (both RHEL and SLES), Solaris, Windows (both 2003 and 2008) and VMware.
And yes, we do put a lot of effort into making sure various drivers, firmware, and hardware work together. Half the people I work with do nothing else. But we work just as hard to do it for the Open Source operating systems as for the proprietary ones.
The difference is that getting your drivers into a proprietary OS is longer, slower process. More legal issues, more technical issues. Everybody having access to everybody's source code really speeds things up. So does not having to worry about who you can communicate proprietary information to.
Good point. It would be interesting to compare this problem on Debian/Ubuntu versus Red Hat or SUSE.
This is really an about face... 10 years ago...
Changes that took 10 years to take place are more like a long hard slog than an about-face.
This has been an LHS not just for the Linux community, but for the larger Open Source community. OS has gone from a weird little movement supposedly based on programmers being willing to work for free to a serious player in enterprise computing. This has been based on changed business models and changed attitudes on all sides. Not the least of this is the end of the all-or-nothing attitude towards "free" software, at least on the part of the serious decision makers.
Basic Open Source versus Proprietary issue. It's a lot easier for a hardware company to get drivers added to Linux distros than to Windows install disks.
I will refer back to this in half a decade and you will acknowledge my brilliance.
Only if the definition of "brilliance" is officially changed to "ability to state the obvious"!
That's the kicker, though, isn't it? Being able to pick and choose what you want to buy is killing their craft.
No, the institutional stupidity of the big media companies is killing their craft. That's why, for example, broadcast TV has sucked for many decades -- any sign of creativity or orginality is promptly stamped out.
Looser IP rules would actually help the craft. Even the de facto loosening that you get from the difficulty of enforcing old laws as they apply to new technology is helping the craft. Big organizations just don't know how to adapt to the new technology.
Sigh. I'm tired of Slashdot articles about Facebook. I think I'll start a Facebook group about it.
I really, really doubt that there is zero loss to piracy. It goes against all I know of human nature to suggest that there are no people out there who look for ways to get something for free before they look to pay for it. Besides, there are a lot of people who simply don't believe that authors and artists deserve more than a flat fee for their work. David Pogue certainly heard from a lot of them when he complained about people pirating his work.
That said, it is credible that unauthorized copying can lead to a net gain by IP owners, with extra sales from viral spread of a work offsetting piracy losses. Certainly authors who make their books available online don't seem to suffer for it.
Yes, but is there a Facebook group that tracks Facebook groups about Facebook?
Here's my definition of stupid: tearing into somebody without reading their post carefully. You, in fact, did not even finish reading the first sentence.
Too true! Not only is rebooting a pain, but you miss a lot of calls that way....
Just because I admitted that it's my laptop, I now can't take the 5th? In movies at least, that's not how it works :-)
I haven't read TFA, but when I see "initial cooperation" in this context, I don't think "Yes, that's my laptop." I think "Yes, you can look at it" with maybe an implicit "Good thing my porn files are all encrypted."
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But wasn't the first solar eclipse a really long time ago?
Pudge is straight!
Gawd, revenge is sweet!
It's even worse than you think! Not only do I have a low UID, but I've actually been using computers for a really really long time. I started in 1971 (PDP-11 running RSTS), didn't even see a GUI machine until 1983 (when the company I was working for bought a Mac to do competitive analysis on it), and didn't start using one day-to-day until 1990 (when Windows 3.0 came out). Even then, it was some years before Windows file managers progressed enough to that I could use them for most complicated operations.
That's over a decade when I used various command lines (mostly csh until I became a MS-DOS person, when I relied on something called 4DOS) because there was no alternative. Than some years before the alternatives got good enough so that I could rely on them most of the time. I got pretty good at hacking shell scripts and aliases.
I still am, though certainly not in your league. Nowadays I go back and forth between Solaris and Windows, and on the Solaris side there's still a lot of things that are easier to do in the command line.
So, with all this command line experience, why am I a GUI apostate? Because it suits the way I think better. Visual metaphors means that I don't have to devote brain cells to remembering and elaborating the idiom I need. Visual feedback tells me immediately whether the idiom I used did what I thought it did.
You see these mechanisms as crutches and that interfere with your ability to work efficiently, and prefer more powerful tools. If that works for you fine. Despite the way most people read my original post, I am not saying that only idiots use the command line. Though I strongly suspect that a powerful command line appeals to you more for the intellectual stimulation and pleasure you get from using it, rather than any increase in your efficiency.
Well, the good news is that Bright doesn't seem very interested in Linux development. The had news is that he'll sell you the source for $10!
Sigh. They reading my post all the way through. It's not that long.
You skip all testing. Just the sort of thing I want to install in my system.
When did bash become the "de-facto standard"? I work at Sun, which has been in the Unix business for a couple decades. The most common interactive command line here is csh. (Bill Joy being the original head of software probably had something to do with that.) Most software developers here do prefer bash to csh, especially for scripting. But if somebody tried to tell them they couldn't use any other scripting language, they'd probably quit all at once. If you asked them what the de-facto standard was, I think they'd all say Perl. Even the ones that hate Perl.
Your religiousity about bash may work for you, but it wouldn't for most people. I'm a writer, not a developer, but I do need to write the odd small program now and then. The other day I wrote a 20-line Perl script that pulls a list of names off a web site, looks them up in an LDAP database, and saves retrieved user data in a text file. (The point is to synchronize a web site user access list that I maintain with one that I don't.) I'm sure I could do it as a shell script, but it would be a lot more complicated, and probably a bit less efficient.