I have friends who think the world is 6000 years old and Jesus was white. I think they're stupid.
Dang it. I basically agree with you but, when you write something like that, you really need to proof-read to make sure you don't make that kind of mistake. As for politics, not playing is the sure way to lose. The only way to win WRT politics is to not get into stupid arguments and instead research who the candidates are before heading to the voting booth.
Well, maybe this will prod the Northeastern states into producing a unified curriculum so that the book publishers have to pay attention to them as well.
That depends on your definition of conservative economic policies. If by conservative economic policies, you mean producing balanced budgets and saving money during boom times that can be used to support the economy during recessions according to Keynesian principles, then I don't see how they are incompatible. If you mean the travesty of what is currently peddled as "conservative economic policy" involving cutting taxes for everybody (but especially the rich and corporations) and increasing nepotist spending on corporate welfare, resulting in massive structural deficits, then OK, but I fail to see what is conservative about the latter.
If you liked it you should have put Ubuntu's ring on it.:-)
Although I've got to admit that if you really want good security, it's going to have to be a distro that uses SELinux MAC like the RedHat (& derived) distributions.
How a child small enough to not understand that sticking things in sockets is dangerous is meant to have the strength and ingenuity to push something in there is beyond me.
Small children tend to copy what they see their parents do. They see their parents frequently plug appliances like vacuums into wall sockets. Now it doesn't take a lot of force to push something into a wall socket far enough to get conduction sufficient to electrocute. That spring in there isn't to keep you from making contact, it's there to keep the plug from falling out. So all a child has to do is insert something conductive and thin enough to make contact - the resulting current will make their muscles spasm, and that might push whatever they've got deep enough to really make a solid locking contact.
The kind of thing that really has you scratching your head is when they put a sandwich in the VCR ("feed the tape into the VCR"), which happened to on of my co-workers. Our 2-year old really likes putting DVDs and CDs into our stereo and computers. Most of those electronics are kept out of reach though so we have to help him, but he'll go select a CD or DVD from the rack and bring it to us to play it. He has been doing that since at least 18 months because he saw his parents do it. While I was also somewhat skeptical at first, I now can totally believe that he could have stuck something in an accessible wall socket if they weren't covered.
This has been an unpaid public service announcement.
What is people's obsession with not running scripts?
What is it with people's obsession with not allowing undetermined actors the ability to use features of their computers that have shown a history of vulnerabilities and put their system at risk of a security compromise? Do you also ask "What is it with people's obsession on using rubbers and dental dams during anonymous sex?". If something provides me sufficient benefit and I have reason to believe the provider knows and applies a reasonable minimum of due care and diligence regarding computing security, then I'll allow scripting execution. Few web sites meet that threshold, and I'm OK with that. My scripting experiences are deep and meaningful.
You keep using that word as if it were something like canned meat.
Cubicles? Hello? I don't think people are just resources or canned meat, but far too many people out there in management land do. Sometimes they're even right, but usually because "canned meat" was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Nope. What it is is the natural end-point after 10 years of outsourcing. When you get rid of the growth path for technical resources, eventually you get a profound lack of availability of senior technical resources. At that point you have no choice but to push everything IT-related out to external vendors because you can't hire internal resources to do it (or even just to manage the process) and must rely on external vendors who can maximize use of those types of resources across multiple clients. However you also no longer have the skills available to know if the vendor is taking you to the cleaners, or cutting corners on management/security to raise profits and significantly putting your data at risk. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Madoff-level disaster with a "cloud" provider sometime in the next 10 years.
Apart for only having two vertex shaders, and possibly a narrower bus, it seems to still be using the R300 architecture. Does the R300 driver not support it?
I don't deny that there's something to what you say and most major religions involve some personal code of conduct that amount to a social contract. However, I believe that that's a relatively recent evolutionary feature (the last few millenia) and I don't see that enabling social groups to go beyond the size of a typical tribal group. I think it's religion's power as a common bond and organizing focus beyond relatively short-lived familial/tribal bonds that has allowed mankind to develop the type of specialization necessary to move beyond the neolithic.
If you have an R300 to R700 -based ATI card, the open source drivers are providing increasingly sophisticated 3D support. It's not at the speed or level of the ATI fglrx driver but it's improving rapidly. You'll have basic 3D and compositing support with both Mesa DRI ATI drivers in Lucid, and if you want to be bleeding edge, there's the xorg-edgers PPA. The only part that's a little lacking is the 32-bit lib support (used by Wine for instance) on 64-bit Ubuntu. In the long run, the open source drivers will be a win because there won't be a need to wait for updated builds of the proprietary fglrx drivers to be released after Ubuntu itself is already released, which is what has happened for the last few releases.
Suppression of the majority by the minority, I suspect.
That's almost certainly the case with most religions at some point in their lifecycle, because most religions involve static undemocratic hierarchies which, if they wield any power, will attract and be exploited by the unscrupulous. That doesn't mean they are inherently about the control of the majority by a majority. On the other hand, certain religions do seem to have certain concepts structured to reinforce the control of the majority by the minority. For example,. karma as it pertains to reincarnation, where your current station is life is preordained by behaviour in a past life and must be borne with stoicism. It's good for social stability, but doesn't allow much progress and can result in substantial waste of human potential.
However back to the original poster's point, I suspect that religion provided an organizational foundation or focus that allowed social groups to grow beyond the natural size of primate tribal groups. That allowed those cultural groups to tackle bigger problems than those accessible to pure tribal groups and gave them a competitive advantage. The altruistic components of many religions also probably make those groups more resistant to natural disasters since they can draw upon a greater geographical base which is more likely to have some part that escaped the disaster. Whether those advantages are still necessary in an era with nationalism and democratic institutions is an open question. However it would appears that the significant decline of religious adherence in many Westernized countries is an answer to that question.
However the above lessons that we can garner from the history of religions is why I'm rather sanguine about the claims of proponents of libertarianism and small government.
Nope. From what I remember hearing about one of those cases, the tissue was removed in a surgical operation to remove a cancerous growth. The cells were therefore "medical waste". Think of it as a variation on salvage laws.
Yep. It's the "War on Piracy by individuals". More of your tax dollars and peoples lives to be wasted, like on all those other "War on " efforts. There's ways to change public perceptions and alter behaviour via education and public policy, at least when it's in the public interest (see smoking, drunk driving). The problem for ACTA proponents is that the continuation of media publishing and distribution cartels is not in the public interest.
Actually a more apt description is: unwillingness to migrate from obsolete business methods based on now-defunct scarcity to less profitable business methods adapted to the new operating environment.
Well, most of them probably are smart enough to understand Global Warming/Climate Change and related arguments if they had the time to study it properly. Unfortunately doing so would take years and they don't have that time available. So instead they listen to the reactionary PR from business interests who tune their sales pitch to superficially sound good and who reinforce most peoples' natural desire to avoid change.
If a safe form of nicotine ingestion is what you want, there's the patch. I can't think of a safe form of nicotine ingestion that's still going to allow you to "look cool" though.
Oh, for goodness sake. When the constitution was written, doctors still thought bloodletting was a commonly useful treatment. Modern medicine didn't really get started until nearly 100 years later when the American Civil War demonstrated the usefulness of things like aseptic work areas. Of course the Founding Fathers wouldn't have thought it was important to socialize the support of glorified witch doctors! They didn't foresee the potential of modern medicine just like they didn't foresee Ingram Mac 10s or whatever the drug dealers' automatic pistol of choice is these days. The question is, would they think it's worthwhile if they were alive today? For the most part, they were really bright rational people who would look after the common interest, unlike nearly all Republican politicians (and far too many Democrats) around these days.
Well, the boomers will eventually have to retire, even if the great recession has delayed that somewhat. When they do, the newer generations that have grown up with this stuff will be more adaptable and more willing to cast off those bronze shackles.
It should depend on whether supporting them increases your costs by enough that the profit margin from the potential extra 12% can't cover it. The problem is that the percentage of your clients that have one or more IE6 clients may be much higher than the 12% of individual browsers that are still IE6. But at this point those IE6 numbers are getting low enough that you should be able to tell your clients, for the few remaining machines that need IE6 for old custom apps, load a modern browser that's properly supported for everything except that old custom app. Whether that browser is Firefox, Chrome, or something else doesn't matter. At this point it's a smart choice from a security standpoint anyways because Microsoft won't be as aggressive about fixing IE6 bugs as they will with IE7 and IE8.
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Dang it. I basically agree with you but, when you write something like that, you really need to proof-read to make sure you don't make that kind of mistake. As for politics, not playing is the sure way to lose. The only way to win WRT politics is to not get into stupid arguments and instead research who the candidates are before heading to the voting booth.
Well, maybe this will prod the Northeastern states into producing a unified curriculum so that the book publishers have to pay attention to them as well.
Of course not. Though after 2008-2009, you would think coverage of Friedman and Hayek would be less than complimentary.
That depends on your definition of conservative economic policies. If by conservative economic policies, you mean producing balanced budgets and saving money during boom times that can be used to support the economy during recessions according to Keynesian principles, then I don't see how they are incompatible. If you mean the travesty of what is currently peddled as "conservative economic policy" involving cutting taxes for everybody (but especially the rich and corporations) and increasing nepotist spending on corporate welfare, resulting in massive structural deficits, then OK, but I fail to see what is conservative about the latter.
If you liked it you should have put Ubuntu's ring on it. :-)
Although I've got to admit that if you really want good security, it's going to have to be a distro that uses SELinux MAC like the RedHat (& derived) distributions.
Small children tend to copy what they see their parents do. They see their parents frequently plug appliances like vacuums into wall sockets. Now it doesn't take a lot of force to push something into a wall socket far enough to get conduction sufficient to electrocute. That spring in there isn't to keep you from making contact, it's there to keep the plug from falling out. So all a child has to do is insert something conductive and thin enough to make contact - the resulting current will make their muscles spasm, and that might push whatever they've got deep enough to really make a solid locking contact.
The kind of thing that really has you scratching your head is when they put a sandwich in the VCR ("feed the tape into the VCR"), which happened to on of my co-workers. Our 2-year old really likes putting DVDs and CDs into our stereo and computers. Most of those electronics are kept out of reach though so we have to help him, but he'll go select a CD or DVD from the rack and bring it to us to play it. He has been doing that since at least 18 months because he saw his parents do it. While I was also somewhat skeptical at first, I now can totally believe that he could have stuck something in an accessible wall socket if they weren't covered.
This has been an unpaid public service announcement.
What is it with people's obsession with not allowing undetermined actors the ability to use features of their computers that have shown a history of vulnerabilities and put their system at risk of a security compromise? Do you also ask "What is it with people's obsession on using rubbers and dental dams during anonymous sex?". If something provides me sufficient benefit and I have reason to believe the provider knows and applies a reasonable minimum of due care and diligence regarding computing security, then I'll allow scripting execution. Few web sites meet that threshold, and I'm OK with that. My scripting experiences are deep and meaningful.
Cubicles? Hello? I don't think people are just resources or canned meat, but far too many people out there in management land do. Sometimes they're even right, but usually because "canned meat" was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Nope. What it is is the natural end-point after 10 years of outsourcing. When you get rid of the growth path for technical resources, eventually you get a profound lack of availability of senior technical resources. At that point you have no choice but to push everything IT-related out to external vendors because you can't hire internal resources to do it (or even just to manage the process) and must rely on external vendors who can maximize use of those types of resources across multiple clients. However you also no longer have the skills available to know if the vendor is taking you to the cleaners, or cutting corners on management/security to raise profits and significantly putting your data at risk. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Madoff-level disaster with a "cloud" provider sometime in the next 10 years.
The version in Karmic was still preliminary and only 2D. You might be better off to wait until Lucid is available since that's only 2 months away.
Replying to myself - just checked and it seems to be on the list
Apart for only having two vertex shaders, and possibly a narrower bus, it seems to still be using the R300 architecture. Does the R300 driver not support it?
I don't deny that there's something to what you say and most major religions involve some personal code of conduct that amount to a social contract. However, I believe that that's a relatively recent evolutionary feature (the last few millenia) and I don't see that enabling social groups to go beyond the size of a typical tribal group. I think it's religion's power as a common bond and organizing focus beyond relatively short-lived familial/tribal bonds that has allowed mankind to develop the type of specialization necessary to move beyond the neolithic.
If you have an R300 to R700 -based ATI card, the open source drivers are providing increasingly sophisticated 3D support. It's not at the speed or level of the ATI fglrx driver but it's improving rapidly. You'll have basic 3D and compositing support with both Mesa DRI ATI drivers in Lucid, and if you want to be bleeding edge, there's the xorg-edgers PPA. The only part that's a little lacking is the 32-bit lib support (used by Wine for instance) on 64-bit Ubuntu. In the long run, the open source drivers will be a win because there won't be a need to wait for updated builds of the proprietary fglrx drivers to be released after Ubuntu itself is already released, which is what has happened for the last few releases.
That's almost certainly the case with most religions at some point in their lifecycle, because most religions involve static undemocratic hierarchies which, if they wield any power, will attract and be exploited by the unscrupulous. That doesn't mean they are inherently about the control of the majority by a majority. On the other hand, certain religions do seem to have certain concepts structured to reinforce the control of the majority by the minority. For example,. karma as it pertains to reincarnation, where your current station is life is preordained by behaviour in a past life and must be borne with stoicism. It's good for social stability, but doesn't allow much progress and can result in substantial waste of human potential.
However back to the original poster's point, I suspect that religion provided an organizational foundation or focus that allowed social groups to grow beyond the natural size of primate tribal groups. That allowed those cultural groups to tackle bigger problems than those accessible to pure tribal groups and gave them a competitive advantage. The altruistic components of many religions also probably make those groups more resistant to natural disasters since they can draw upon a greater geographical base which is more likely to have some part that escaped the disaster. Whether those advantages are still necessary in an era with nationalism and democratic institutions is an open question. However it would appears that the significant decline of religious adherence in many Westernized countries is an answer to that question.
However the above lessons that we can garner from the history of religions is why I'm rather sanguine about the claims of proponents of libertarianism and small government.
Nope. From what I remember hearing about one of those cases, the tissue was removed in a surgical operation to remove a cancerous growth. The cells were therefore "medical waste". Think of it as a variation on salvage laws.
Yep. It's the "War on Piracy by individuals". More of your tax dollars and peoples lives to be wasted, like on all those other "War on " efforts. There's ways to change public perceptions and alter behaviour via education and public policy, at least when it's in the public interest (see smoking, drunk driving). The problem for ACTA proponents is that the continuation of media publishing and distribution cartels is not in the public interest.
Actually a more apt description is: unwillingness to migrate from obsolete business methods based on now-defunct scarcity to less profitable business methods adapted to the new operating environment.
Nexus One users with quality control problems probably wish it was.
Well, most of them probably are smart enough to understand Global Warming/Climate Change and related arguments if they had the time to study it properly. Unfortunately doing so would take years and they don't have that time available. So instead they listen to the reactionary PR from business interests who tune their sales pitch to superficially sound good and who reinforce most peoples' natural desire to avoid change.
If a safe form of nicotine ingestion is what you want, there's the patch. I can't think of a safe form of nicotine ingestion that's still going to allow you to "look cool" though.
Oh, for goodness sake. When the constitution was written, doctors still thought bloodletting was a commonly useful treatment. Modern medicine didn't really get started until nearly 100 years later when the American Civil War demonstrated the usefulness of things like aseptic work areas. Of course the Founding Fathers wouldn't have thought it was important to socialize the support of glorified witch doctors! They didn't foresee the potential of modern medicine just like they didn't foresee Ingram Mac 10s or whatever the drug dealers' automatic pistol of choice is these days. The question is, would they think it's worthwhile if they were alive today? For the most part, they were really bright rational people who would look after the common interest, unlike nearly all Republican politicians (and far too many Democrats) around these days.
It's not men's posting if it doesn't have a quad woosh. - Evgeni Wooshenko
Well, the boomers will eventually have to retire, even if the great recession has delayed that somewhat. When they do, the newer generations that have grown up with this stuff will be more adaptable and more willing to cast off those bronze shackles.
It should depend on whether supporting them increases your costs by enough that the profit margin from the potential extra 12% can't cover it. The problem is that the percentage of your clients that have one or more IE6 clients may be much higher than the 12% of individual browsers that are still IE6. But at this point those IE6 numbers are getting low enough that you should be able to tell your clients, for the few remaining machines that need IE6 for old custom apps, load a modern browser that's properly supported for everything except that old custom app. Whether that browser is Firefox, Chrome, or something else doesn't matter. At this point it's a smart choice from a security standpoint anyways because Microsoft won't be as aggressive about fixing IE6 bugs as they will with IE7 and IE8.