Maybe it's duct tape. Given the technical problems the Enterprise is always having, duct tape would be Scotty's most important tool!
I'm fond of a quote from Burn Notice, an otherwise boring TV show. "Guns make you stupid. Better to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart."
Not at all true, at least not on a properly configured network. I work at Sun, where all the network file systems are NFS (with Samba used to support PCs). I also have root access to a system in my group. Let's see... (tries to access the CEO's private files). Nope, doesn't work.
Dude, have been to the theater lately? Everything is recycled. Old movies, old TV shows. foreign movies, comic books, video games... The biggest blockbuster last summer was the third installment in franchise that started out as a theme park ride. (Not a very good one, either.) Martin Scorsese not only recycled a Hong Kong action flick, he won an Oscar for doing it!
For some reason, it's much harder to get an expensive movie or TV production greenlighted if it's totally original. It has to be a copy of something else. The original doesn't even have been successful!
Look at Battlestar Galactica. The remake only caries over the barest elements of the premise and a lot of not very important details. Creatively, it would have made more sense to start from scratch. But no, in order to get made, the series had to be based on a older series by one of TV's most notorious hacks and ripoff artists that barely lasted a single season.
Like they say on the show, "It has happened before, it will happen again!"
It's pretty unsurprising that OS X would be good with NFS, given its origins. (Good CIFS/SMB support is more impressive.) And I seem to recall seeing some cook network share discovery tools the last time I used a Mac — much better than anything on Windows.
But support for NFS and SMB isn't the issue here. Developers are complaining about the shortcomings of AFS. Obviously they wouldn't be doing that if their networks used NFS or SMB shares. I'm speculating that Apple networks tend to have AFS-only networks because their administrators don't know any better. And one you have a bunch of file servers in place that use a particular network file protocol, it's pretty painful to change.
Ooh, keeping your Unix files on a Windows file system. Fun for the whole family!
NFS would be more to the point. OS X supports it (I guess it would be pretty hard for a BSD-derived OS to avoid supporting it!) but it seems to be kind of an afterthought on all the Apple pages I googled. Perhaps the problem is not with OS X as such, but with Apple's OS-X-based servers. I'm guessing that by default, they serve AFS partitions only. Presumably they can be made to serve NFS as well, but if you already have an AFS network infrastructure in place, converting can be painful.
You can have open standards without conforming to some weird ideological definition of "free software".
That's the problem with the FS crowd. They're so caught up in their little anti-IP jihad that they've forgotten how to achieve any realistic goals. (Speaking of which, how is Hurd doing?) Meanwhile, those of us who have to work for a living are creating useful products using mere "free as in beer" Open Source.
And x86_64 is not the only 64-bit platform; what about Sparc and Itanic users, for example?
Who would use them? Sun just discontinued its last SPARC workstation, and Itanium workstations disappeared years ago. These chips are still used in servers, but the utility of Flash on a server isn't obvious.
It's bad enough that niche platform fanboys refuse to understand why ISVs can't afford to support platforms with a few thousand users. Expecting them to support dead platforms is just plain absurd.
my point was that the very concept of angles can be vague and open to interpretation, where as being followed is not.
Why? There actually are secret agents out there spying on people. You can actually document this activity, which is rather more than you can say for angels. It may be silly to believe that an ordinary person is important enough to rate a CIA entourage. But silliness is not insanity. If it were, most of Slashdot would have been locked up long ago!
It's big factor, but it's not the whole equation. I'd like to have a Kindle, but I'm waiting until it comes down $200 or so. That's probably a pretty common attitude. So to me and people like me, the convenience factor is worth about $150.
The submitter's spreadsheet says that buying the latest bestseller on a Kindle saves you about $4 per book. Sounds about right. So if I were one of those people who just can't wait for books to come out in paperback (or for my turn with the library copy) I'd only have to read 25 books to make up that extra $200.
I'm not one of those people, but millions of people do have exactly that attitude. If everybody they know is talking about a book, or if Oprah mentions it in passing, they have to read it, and they have to read it now.
It's the same economics that makes people spend absurd amounts of money for cable just so they can catch the latest ep of Big Love the day it comes out. I happen to like that show, but I'm content to wait for the DVD. Still, if all my friends were rabid fans...
It is someone persistently sending huge amounts of money to someone doing a VERY well-known type of con, despite being warned. It doesn't take a genius to avoid doing that.
No it doesn't. What it does take is for the mark to say to themselves, "Shit! I've done something really stupid! I've given this guy thousands of bucks, and I'll never see any of it again!"
Why didn't she? Because people hate admitting to themselves that they can be idiots. You certainly do, or we wouldn't be having this conversation. I'm no different. And what's the alternative to admitting that you've fucked up? Denial.
People in denial do amazingly stupid things. Doesn't mean they have no brains. Quite the contrary: it takes a lot of creativity and intelligence to work up really good denial. You see it every day here on Slashdot. Somebody's throws out an opinion that's ignorant or illogical, and people call them on it. Rather than admit to "being stupid" they come up with arguments that get sillier and more convoluted with every iteration. And it's a vicious cycle: the more people tell you you're being an asshole, the more determined you are to prove them wrong.
The problem here is not stupidity, it's cowardice. It takes courage to admit a mistake. Do you think you'll never be a coward? Then you really are stupid.
If the girl's that smart, she'll figure things out. There are artistic disciplines where math skills are useful, but I'm not going to name them. She can find them if she wants to. and if she doesn't, a lot of unwanted advice isn't going to accomplish anything.
Besides, she might well change her tune one she's been in college a while. If she has a natural talent for math, but hates the subject, she's probably been forced to sit through a lot of uninspired teaching. If she gets into a decent school, she'll be exposed to instructors with some capacity for instilling intellectual excitement. Then her math skills might begin to blossom. Provided a lot of meddling older relatives don't make her dig in her heels.
No, I'm not saying that there are no differences. I'm saying that you're much too smug about where on the spectrum you lie. The fact that you reduce the whole thing to "need a functioning brain" tells me you're not as smart as you think you are. Really smart people know what they don't know.
Right, all you need is some lame aphorisms to armor yourself from a con. If that were true, con artists would have disappeared long ago.
It's really depressing to listen to folks like you sneer at other people's mistakes, assuming that you'd never be that stupid. The fact that you feel so smugly superior means you probably would be so stupid.
How is "believing in" causality-breaking time travel (travel back in time), which is counter to many well-tested scientific principles, substantially different from "believing in" angels?
Dude, I'm saying it's not. You're the one that's saying that belief in the unscientific is "delusional".
Aha, you're one of those smug assholes who think he's immune to any kind of con. Could I get your email? I have a friend with a business opportunity I'm sure you'll be interested in.
So everybody who believes that time travel is possible is delusional? You've just invented a new form of mental illness: "Failure to accept standard scientific paradigms." I don't think that's going to fly. It would put an end to scientific progress, for one thing.
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You mean, crack a book?
Maybe it's duct tape. Given the technical problems the Enterprise is always having, duct tape would be Scotty's most important tool!
I'm fond of a quote from Burn Notice, an otherwise boring TV show. "Guns make you stupid. Better to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart."
Not at all true, at least not on a properly configured network. I work at Sun, where all the network file systems are NFS (with Samba used to support PCs). I also have root access to a system in my group. Let's see ... (tries to access the CEO's private files). Nope, doesn't work.
It has run its course, move on.
Dude, have been to the theater lately? Everything is recycled. Old movies, old TV shows. foreign movies, comic books, video games... The biggest blockbuster last summer was the third installment in franchise that started out as a theme park ride. (Not a very good one, either.) Martin Scorsese not only recycled a Hong Kong action flick, he won an Oscar for doing it!
For some reason, it's much harder to get an expensive movie or TV production greenlighted if it's totally original. It has to be a copy of something else. The original doesn't even have been successful!
Look at Battlestar Galactica. The remake only caries over the barest elements of the premise and a lot of not very important details. Creatively, it would have made more sense to start from scratch. But no, in order to get made, the series had to be based on a older series by one of TV's most notorious hacks and ripoff artists that barely lasted a single season.
Like they say on the show, "It has happened before, it will happen again!"
The MAF has been battling for the soul of the franchise for a long time. Remember all those endless space battles in the last season of DS9?
Is it a reboot if the new version comes from a time traveler from the old version going back and changing the past?
Speaking of which, why did they bother to bring in J.J. Abrams if he's going to recycle all the old lame Bermanesque plot gimmicks?
It's pretty unsurprising that OS X would be good with NFS, given its origins. (Good CIFS/SMB support is more impressive.) And I seem to recall seeing some cook network share discovery tools the last time I used a Mac — much better than anything on Windows.
But support for NFS and SMB isn't the issue here. Developers are complaining about the shortcomings of AFS. Obviously they wouldn't be doing that if their networks used NFS or SMB shares. I'm speculating that Apple networks tend to have AFS-only networks because their administrators don't know any better. And one you have a bunch of file servers in place that use a particular network file protocol, it's pretty painful to change.
Ooh, keeping your Unix files on a Windows file system. Fun for the whole family!
NFS would be more to the point. OS X supports it (I guess it would be pretty hard for a BSD-derived OS to avoid supporting it!) but it seems to be kind of an afterthought on all the Apple pages I googled. Perhaps the problem is not with OS X as such, but with Apple's OS-X-based servers. I'm guessing that by default, they serve AFS partitions only. Presumably they can be made to serve NFS as well, but if you already have an AFS network infrastructure in place, converting can be painful.
You can have open standards without conforming to some weird ideological definition of "free software".
That's the problem with the FS crowd. They're so caught up in their little anti-IP jihad that they've forgotten how to achieve any realistic goals. (Speaking of which, how is Hurd doing?) Meanwhile, those of us who have to work for a living are creating useful products using mere "free as in beer" Open Source.
And x86_64 is not the only 64-bit platform; what about Sparc and Itanic users, for example?
Who would use them? Sun just discontinued its last SPARC workstation, and Itanium workstations disappeared years ago. These chips are still used in servers, but the utility of Flash on a server isn't obvious.
It's bad enough that niche platform fanboys refuse to understand why ISVs can't afford to support platforms with a few thousand users. Expecting them to support dead platforms is just plain absurd.
Dunno. I actually am an idiot on a regular basis and it never much bothered me to admit it.
Never? That makes you a unique human being.
my point was that the very concept of angles can be vague and open to interpretation, where as being followed is not.
Why? There actually are secret agents out there spying on people. You can actually document this activity, which is rather more than you can say for angels. It may be silly to believe that an ordinary person is important enough to rate a CIA entourage. But silliness is not insanity. If it were, most of Slashdot would have been locked up long ago!
Dude, it's a book reader. If you only read books with color pictures, you need to move on to the young adults section already.
It's big factor, but it's not the whole equation. I'd like to have a Kindle, but I'm waiting until it comes down $200 or so. That's probably a pretty common attitude. So to me and people like me, the convenience factor is worth about $150.
The submitter's spreadsheet says that buying the latest bestseller on a Kindle saves you about $4 per book. Sounds about right. So if I were one of those people who just can't wait for books to come out in paperback (or for my turn with the library copy) I'd only have to read 25 books to make up that extra $200.
I'm not one of those people, but millions of people do have exactly that attitude. If everybody they know is talking about a book, or if Oprah mentions it in passing, they have to read it, and they have to read it now.
It's the same economics that makes people spend absurd amounts of money for cable just so they can catch the latest ep of Big Love the day it comes out. I happen to like that show, but I'm content to wait for the DVD. Still, if all my friends were rabid fans...
It is someone persistently sending huge amounts of money to someone doing a VERY well-known type of con, despite being warned. It doesn't take a genius to avoid doing that.
No it doesn't. What it does take is for the mark to say to themselves, "Shit! I've done something really stupid! I've given this guy thousands of bucks, and I'll never see any of it again!"
Why didn't she? Because people hate admitting to themselves that they can be idiots. You certainly do, or we wouldn't be having this conversation. I'm no different. And what's the alternative to admitting that you've fucked up? Denial.
People in denial do amazingly stupid things. Doesn't mean they have no brains. Quite the contrary: it takes a lot of creativity and intelligence to work up really good denial. You see it every day here on Slashdot. Somebody's throws out an opinion that's ignorant or illogical, and people call them on it. Rather than admit to "being stupid" they come up with arguments that get sillier and more convoluted with every iteration. And it's a vicious cycle: the more people tell you you're being an asshole, the more determined you are to prove them wrong.
The problem here is not stupidity, it's cowardice. It takes courage to admit a mistake. Do you think you'll never be a coward? Then you really are stupid.
If the girl's that smart, she'll figure things out. There are artistic disciplines where math skills are useful, but I'm not going to name them. She can find them if she wants to. and if she doesn't, a lot of unwanted advice isn't going to accomplish anything.
Besides, she might well change her tune one she's been in college a while. If she has a natural talent for math, but hates the subject, she's probably been forced to sit through a lot of uninspired teaching. If she gets into a decent school, she'll be exposed to instructors with some capacity for instilling intellectual excitement. Then her math skills might begin to blossom. Provided a lot of meddling older relatives don't make her dig in her heels.
No, I'm not saying that there are no differences. I'm saying that you're much too smug about where on the spectrum you lie. The fact that you reduce the whole thing to "need a functioning brain" tells me you're not as smart as you think you are. Really smart people know what they don't know.
Right, all you need is some lame aphorisms to armor yourself from a con. If that were true, con artists would have disappeared long ago.
It's really depressing to listen to folks like you sneer at other people's mistakes, assuming that you'd never be that stupid. The fact that you feel so smugly superior means you probably would be so stupid.
Jeez, I was just making a joke. No need to have a flame war over German semantics. Between two ACs, yet!
Just for that:
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die flipperwaldt gersput!
You're being followed by secret agents in red cars. Disprove.
How is "believing in" causality-breaking time travel (travel back in time), which is counter to many well-tested scientific principles, substantially different from "believing in" angels?
Dude, I'm saying it's not. You're the one that's saying that belief in the unscientific is "delusional".
Aha, you're one of those smug assholes who think he's immune to any kind of con. Could I get your email? I have a friend with a business opportunity I'm sure you'll be interested in.
Here's where junkscience.com comes from:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steve_Milloy
So everybody who believes that time travel is possible is delusional? You've just invented a new form of mental illness: "Failure to accept standard scientific paradigms." I don't think that's going to fly. It would put an end to scientific progress, for one thing.