In the Linux world, the distributions try to take responsibility for the entirety of the end-user's computing experience.
They deliver it. Take responsibility for it? They're the first to outsource it to "upstream" like no other than open source distros would get away with. They do an important job yes, but this holistic layer is razor thin.
Not to be insensitive, but marginal or total costs? After all there are very few astronauts and quite a large fixed cost, adding one more astronaut to the team to go through all the systems training, physical training etc. is somewhat expensive yes but not hundreds of millions of dollars worth.
I think God has prior art on that one. Once man can also trap gravity, strong and weak electromagnetic forces and time, I'll concede to your assertion.
If that was in list of increasing difficulty, already done as I know several school teachers who could turn an hour into eternity.
What is somewhat surprising is that the efficiencies gained seem to be immediately taken up by new forms of consumption, so there is never any decrease in resource usage, just a growth in what we accomplish with our endless accelerating depletion of those resources.
Why should that be such a surprise? The world is not only about things, it's also a lot about services that take people's time. I'd love to be rich enough to have a butler and a chef and a gardener and a personal trainer and whatnot at my disposal, but obviously everyone can't have it that way no matter the wages. It's not enough that you make the same as everyone else, you must make much more than everybody else and pay those people out of your income. Until we can really replace humans with robots for most services, there'll always be good reasons to make lots of money.
From what I've understood companies in the US are extremely tightfisted about giving information about employees, so you'd better take what little you get. If you were a DBA but all your resume says is "IT department" and that's all they'll confirm then you have an uphill battle just to convince them that you were in fact a DBA, and not the guy replacing broken keyboards and fixing paper jams who is now desperately seeking a new job.
Of course there's such a thing as title inflation so too excessive a title will set off bullshit detectors, but there's no reason to sell yourself short either. I'm hardly a career ladder climber, but I would react negatively to a job title that would sell me short with my next employer. While it's not as bad here as in the US, the resumes do get screen by recruiting companies and HR and not having the title could lose me interviews before I even got to talk about what I've been doing.
The first two things listed may not be directly related to the number of editors - but that's the point! "Number of editors leaving" is a rather meaningless figure. You have to look at the whole picture, which is what he's doing. And the second one is related - they're still getting new articles, so there's yet to be any problem.
Editors are meaningless? No more than developers are meaningless to open source software, readers and users just come to consume. This is bit like a CEO looking at his financial statement saying it looks great after he fired R&D and marketing, sure current products and sales will last a while but magic 8-ball would say "outlook not so good".
Humans are generally considered a form of advanced life and we've transported ourselves and microbes across space. The thing I don't understand is why it's such a wild and crazy concept to consider the possibility of advanced life traversing space from Mars to Earth millions or billions of years ago.
Depending on how you guess the numbers of the Drake equation everything is possible, but the biggest question then is "where are they now?". I mean it's good for sci-fi and whatnot that there's lots of ancient and extinct and "let's stand aside and let younger races grow", but it'd be like asking humans to abandon most of Earth to give chimps a chance to evolve. There's very few places humanity has actually abandoned, on the other hand it could just be assuming too much. Who knows, maybe we were farmland that was seeded and later abandoned, and just left to grow wild. But that's all speculation, what we'd need is some evidence to suggest there was advanced life here before us and there's none to my knowledge.
As a iochemist, it was my understanding that the habitable zone was already known to extend out toward Mars.
Well. there's a difference between being potentially habitable for a species, and finding remnants of actual life. Either life appear on both Earth and Mars independently, meaning there's actually a quite wide band of possible conditions - or life really transports across space. Either way is much more compelling arguments for the habitable zone actually being habitable than a theoretical zone based on temperature.
In the USA they would be protected by the "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA.
Some languages are so limited that limited minds can create limited applications for limited niches of software.
Computers are infuriatingly frustrating because they have none of the "built in" routines people do. For example, let's take two people cooking, a regular everyday event. Do you see them run into race conditions and deadlocks and resource conflicts like computers? Yes, but they resolve themselves. And you don't see them grabbing for stuff that isn't there and panic or one guy pouring something into the same pot where the other was making a dish, or them repeatedly headbutting because they need to switch places. Or that if you tell one of them to take a break while he's still holding the knife, he won't automatically put it back, and the other guy will just stall waiting for it. Or that if they peel potatoes, and if you don't tell them to garbage collect the peels will just pile up and up until it's not possible to cook anymore.
Sure you can dumb it down, you can make sure there's only one person cooking. You can make it so that for each time he cuts something, he has to pick up the knife, cut and return it so it's never lost. In short, you can make so that there's less situations to deal with, at a cost of capability, efficiency, scalability, speed and so on. Because that's what I find most issues are about, finding all the ways the computer will "leap off" the track you think it's on. Because usually, even with the worst developers it's usually passed the one test case they tried, it just fails horribly the moment one of the hidden and unchecked assumptions are different.
Of course, then the fingerprints will be wrong. Granted, very few people check them but there are cases like you having a laptop locally and ssh stores the fingerprint. Then you take your laptop on a trip and suddenly ssh throws nasty "this fingerprint doesn't match" because you're being MITM'd, or paranoid people verifying it via email or phone or obfuscated in the message - the last could be replaced, but then they've have to have a perfect obfuscation search and replace, unlikely. So yeah, MITM works but mass MITM surveillance would be noted quite quickly. And once it's off by default, you risk that the keys have been cached up already and will throw nasty warnings before you turn on MITM. So yeah targeted attacks are possbile, but it's not as big a threat for the masses as one might think.
Pardon me if this post contains legal reality and not how it should be. Copyright infringement under US law is a strict liability offense, that means that even if you can prove you had no idea you were violating copyright you are still liable at a minimum of 200$/work and up to 30000$/work. However, ISPs are covered by some common carrier-like protections - the legal term has a specific meaning and ISPs are not common carriers - that grant them relief from liability if they meet certain conditions. Without going into much detail, one of these conditions is to respond to DMCA takedown requests. If they do not comply with that requirement they will default back to standard copyright law, which says they are liable.
And even if I accepted your premise that intent somehow changes the impact of the crime, I for one do not care to have the government determining my intent. Leave trials to provable facts, not nebulous interferences about people's motivations.
You mean like the difference between manslaughter and murder? Or things that without intent are simply accidents, while with intent they're assault/theft/willful destruction of property/whatever? I think that kind of system would either be very unfair or very unrealistic.
If a magazine or website is really scoring out of 10 or out of 100, then we ought to see some 1's and 2's. But we don't do we ?
Why do you expect that? This isn't school where everybody gets a grade, if the game sucked so badly it'll bomb in the reviews, you just don't publish it because publishing costs lots of money and will tar your name. The only time you see epic fails being released is typically struggling or VC funded companies on their first game that has had their supply cut off, release now or file for bankrupcy.
I see the 1-10 scale more like a playability scale, and honestly most games, even the buggy, illogical and ugly ones are mostly playable these days. They're not good games, they're not fun games, but I don't see much unplayably bad games anymore. Just games I shouldn't waste my time on because there's better games to play.
In any case, review scores aren't that important to me but they are an important "sanity check", the game might sound great but if the reviews have low scores on quality then no go. Usually I look at one of the worst reviews - there's always a grumpy reviewer out there and see "what was the worst he came up with". If I don't think what he describes is a big deal, then it's usually a solid buy.
KDE3 was a very solid house. But the foundation just can't take building anything more on top. Qt3 is dead, arts is dead, so much of the technlogy is dead. Maybe they got a little bit carried away when they designed KDE4 but the foundation had to change. Going back to KDE3 just isn't an option.
Why would a racially charged comparisson fall into a different category?
If some guy gets beaten up in an argument between those two people, it's between them. If some guy gets beat up over his race, it's also a warning/threat to all others of his race.
Racism is more like terrorism light, trying to dehumanize them, segregate them, make them fear walking the street because they're not safe for "their kind", vandalizing and destroying property to scare them way. We don't all like each other, but the world has many, many bad experiences creating classes of people, be it masters and slaves, believers and heretics, über- and untermenschen and so on. Intent is crucial in many crimes, and "because he's not an equal human being" has been singled out as a very bad intent, worse then "I was mad at him". I tend to agree.
I guess the experience is highly anecdotal. Around here, the sound occasionally and randomly fails to start when I play something, Plasma gives me a nice little notification in the corner that initializing the audio failed. Then I use a different app or wait 30 seconds for the stars to align and it works - this is on KDE 4.3. After they got rid of the ghost notifications in the 4.2.x series somewhere (notifications would pop up, leave the border around the notification and stay forever) I'm overall happy with it. But I have been using Win7 now and let me put it this way, if they'd released Win7 instead of Vista I wouldn't have gone through the effort of moving to Linux.
Well, I would guess the difference between KDE desktop and netbook would be like Ubuntu and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, not heard any complaints there. And for the other part, there the division already exists you just don't hear much about it. Many KDE4 applications run on Windows now, so already there's a confusion since KOffice does in fact run outside KDE the environment.
In theory, yes. In practice, there's quite a huge mass of people that input good information, boring facts, nothing that there's any point of holding a moderator/admin war over. Those are the ones you'd struggle to keep up to date simply because WP is a top google entry and so lots of people will do that data entry there. The turf wars are somehow just on the turfs, not all over WP.
Oh, get a grip. This is more like your kid telling you there was this creepy guy with candy who wanted kids to go with him for a ride, but your kid didn't go. Maaaaaaaybe it wouldn't hurt to tip the police about it. Why should this button go to the police and not to the parents? Well duh, because it's the parents. They're likely to freak, revoke computer permissions which is exactly why it won't get pushed. As if you'd need your child to push a panic button to reach you, you wonder what kind of parent that'd be. As far as I know there is a system like this in place in Norway and the only real issue was that nearly nobody pushed it.
For starters: This is not a clever approach to deal with the European commision. Oracle could sell MySQL and there would be no problem at all. But no, ol' Larry decided to get confrontational.
A confrontation is hard, but that's more of a showdown. What's even worse than a confrontation is the kind of death march you get when only your side is bleeding. The EU buereucracy isn't "losing" money in the same way Oracle does even though it's very wasteful.
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...and a DeLorean, which is so the obvious choice.
In the Linux world, the distributions try to take responsibility for the entirety of the end-user's computing experience.
They deliver it. Take responsibility for it? They're the first to outsource it to "upstream" like no other than open source distros would get away with. They do an important job yes, but this holistic layer is razor thin.
Not to be insensitive, but marginal or total costs? After all there are very few astronauts and quite a large fixed cost, adding one more astronaut to the team to go through all the systems training, physical training etc. is somewhat expensive yes but not hundreds of millions of dollars worth.
I think God has prior art on that one. Once man can also trap gravity, strong and weak electromagnetic forces and time, I'll concede to your assertion.
If that was in list of increasing difficulty, already done as I know several school teachers who could turn an hour into eternity.
What is somewhat surprising is that the efficiencies gained seem to be immediately taken up by new forms of consumption, so there is never any decrease in resource usage, just a growth in what we accomplish with our endless accelerating depletion of those resources.
Why should that be such a surprise? The world is not only about things, it's also a lot about services that take people's time. I'd love to be rich enough to have a butler and a chef and a gardener and a personal trainer and whatnot at my disposal, but obviously everyone can't have it that way no matter the wages. It's not enough that you make the same as everyone else, you must make much more than everybody else and pay those people out of your income. Until we can really replace humans with robots for most services, there'll always be good reasons to make lots of money.
From what I've understood companies in the US are extremely tightfisted about giving information about employees, so you'd better take what little you get. If you were a DBA but all your resume says is "IT department" and that's all they'll confirm then you have an uphill battle just to convince them that you were in fact a DBA, and not the guy replacing broken keyboards and fixing paper jams who is now desperately seeking a new job.
Of course there's such a thing as title inflation so too excessive a title will set off bullshit detectors, but there's no reason to sell yourself short either. I'm hardly a career ladder climber, but I would react negatively to a job title that would sell me short with my next employer. While it's not as bad here as in the US, the resumes do get screen by recruiting companies and HR and not having the title could lose me interviews before I even got to talk about what I've been doing.
The first two things listed may not be directly related to the number of editors - but that's the point! "Number of editors leaving" is a rather meaningless figure. You have to look at the whole picture, which is what he's doing. And the second one is related - they're still getting new articles, so there's yet to be any problem.
Editors are meaningless? No more than developers are meaningless to open source software, readers and users just come to consume. This is bit like a CEO looking at his financial statement saying it looks great after he fired R&D and marketing, sure current products and sales will last a while but magic 8-ball would say "outlook not so good".
But a Wikipedia administrator with a bunch of tags and article locks isn't too far away from inventing a fourth type of lie.
Orwell has prior art, methinks.
You speak as if we have been to the moon in my lifetime...
Humans are generally considered a form of advanced life and we've transported ourselves and microbes across space. The thing I don't understand is why it's such a wild and crazy concept to consider the possibility of advanced life traversing space from Mars to Earth millions or billions of years ago.
Depending on how you guess the numbers of the Drake equation everything is possible, but the biggest question then is "where are they now?". I mean it's good for sci-fi and whatnot that there's lots of ancient and extinct and "let's stand aside and let younger races grow", but it'd be like asking humans to abandon most of Earth to give chimps a chance to evolve. There's very few places humanity has actually abandoned, on the other hand it could just be assuming too much. Who knows, maybe we were farmland that was seeded and later abandoned, and just left to grow wild. But that's all speculation, what we'd need is some evidence to suggest there was advanced life here before us and there's none to my knowledge.
As a iochemist, it was my understanding that the habitable zone was already known to extend out toward Mars.
Well. there's a difference between being potentially habitable for a species, and finding remnants of actual life. Either life appear on both Earth and Mars independently, meaning there's actually a quite wide band of possible conditions - or life really transports across space. Either way is much more compelling arguments for the habitable zone actually being habitable than a theoretical zone based on temperature.
ps. No, NRLA doesn't exist. I made that up.
Don't give him any ideas.
The only reason we're still stuck with SWIFT is when making a transfer to/from outside the EU anyway, which invariably means US / Canada,
Aren't you proud to know twice as many continents as most Americans?
In the USA they would be protected by the "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA.
Some languages are so limited that limited minds can create limited applications for limited niches of software.
Computers are infuriatingly frustrating because they have none of the "built in" routines people do. For example, let's take two people cooking, a regular everyday event. Do you see them run into race conditions and deadlocks and resource conflicts like computers? Yes, but they resolve themselves. And you don't see them grabbing for stuff that isn't there and panic or one guy pouring something into the same pot where the other was making a dish, or them repeatedly headbutting because they need to switch places. Or that if you tell one of them to take a break while he's still holding the knife, he won't automatically put it back, and the other guy will just stall waiting for it. Or that if they peel potatoes, and if you don't tell them to garbage collect the peels will just pile up and up until it's not possible to cook anymore.
Sure you can dumb it down, you can make sure there's only one person cooking. You can make it so that for each time he cuts something, he has to pick up the knife, cut and return it so it's never lost. In short, you can make so that there's less situations to deal with, at a cost of capability, efficiency, scalability, speed and so on. Because that's what I find most issues are about, finding all the ways the computer will "leap off" the track you think it's on. Because usually, even with the worst developers it's usually passed the one test case they tried, it just fails horribly the moment one of the hidden and unchecked assumptions are different.
Of course, then the fingerprints will be wrong. Granted, very few people check them but there are cases like you having a laptop locally and ssh stores the fingerprint. Then you take your laptop on a trip and suddenly ssh throws nasty "this fingerprint doesn't match" because you're being MITM'd, or paranoid people verifying it via email or phone or obfuscated in the message - the last could be replaced, but then they've have to have a perfect obfuscation search and replace, unlikely. So yeah, MITM works but mass MITM surveillance would be noted quite quickly. And once it's off by default, you risk that the keys have been cached up already and will throw nasty warnings before you turn on MITM. So yeah targeted attacks are possbile, but it's not as big a threat for the masses as one might think.
Pardon me if this post contains legal reality and not how it should be. Copyright infringement under US law is a strict liability offense, that means that even if you can prove you had no idea you were violating copyright you are still liable at a minimum of 200$/work and up to 30000$/work. However, ISPs are covered by some common carrier-like protections - the legal term has a specific meaning and ISPs are not common carriers - that grant them relief from liability if they meet certain conditions. Without going into much detail, one of these conditions is to respond to DMCA takedown requests. If they do not comply with that requirement they will default back to standard copyright law, which says they are liable.
And even if I accepted your premise that intent somehow changes the impact of the crime, I for one do not care to have the government determining my intent. Leave trials to provable facts, not nebulous interferences about people's motivations.
You mean like the difference between manslaughter and murder? Or things that without intent are simply accidents, while with intent they're assault/theft/willful destruction of property/whatever? I think that kind of system would either be very unfair or very unrealistic.
If a magazine or website is really scoring out of 10 or out of 100, then we ought to see some 1's and 2's. But we don't do we ?
Why do you expect that? This isn't school where everybody gets a grade, if the game sucked so badly it'll bomb in the reviews, you just don't publish it because publishing costs lots of money and will tar your name. The only time you see epic fails being released is typically struggling or VC funded companies on their first game that has had their supply cut off, release now or file for bankrupcy.
I see the 1-10 scale more like a playability scale, and honestly most games, even the buggy, illogical and ugly ones are mostly playable these days. They're not good games, they're not fun games, but I don't see much unplayably bad games anymore. Just games I shouldn't waste my time on because there's better games to play.
In any case, review scores aren't that important to me but they are an important "sanity check", the game might sound great but if the reviews have low scores on quality then no go. Usually I look at one of the worst reviews - there's always a grumpy reviewer out there and see "what was the worst he came up with". If I don't think what he describes is a big deal, then it's usually a solid buy.
KDE3 was a very solid house. But the foundation just can't take building anything more on top. Qt3 is dead, arts is dead, so much of the technlogy is dead. Maybe they got a little bit carried away when they designed KDE4 but the foundation had to change. Going back to KDE3 just isn't an option.
Why would a racially charged comparisson fall into a different category?
If some guy gets beaten up in an argument between those two people, it's between them.
If some guy gets beat up over his race, it's also a warning/threat to all others of his race.
Racism is more like terrorism light, trying to dehumanize them, segregate them, make them fear walking the street because they're not safe for "their kind", vandalizing and destroying property to scare them way. We don't all like each other, but the world has many, many bad experiences creating classes of people, be it masters and slaves, believers and heretics, über- and untermenschen and so on. Intent is crucial in many crimes, and "because he's not an equal human being" has been singled out as a very bad intent, worse then "I was mad at him". I tend to agree.
I guess the experience is highly anecdotal. Around here, the sound occasionally and randomly fails to start when I play something, Plasma gives me a nice little notification in the corner that initializing the audio failed. Then I use a different app or wait 30 seconds for the stars to align and it works - this is on KDE 4.3. After they got rid of the ghost notifications in the 4.2.x series somewhere (notifications would pop up, leave the border around the notification and stay forever) I'm overall happy with it. But I have been using Win7 now and let me put it this way, if they'd released Win7 instead of Vista I wouldn't have gone through the effort of moving to Linux.
Well, I would guess the difference between KDE desktop and netbook would be like Ubuntu and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, not heard any complaints there. And for the other part, there the division already exists you just don't hear much about it. Many KDE4 applications run on Windows now, so already there's a confusion since KOffice does in fact run outside KDE the environment.
In theory, yes. In practice, there's quite a huge mass of people that input good information, boring facts, nothing that there's any point of holding a moderator/admin war over. Those are the ones you'd struggle to keep up to date simply because WP is a top google entry and so lots of people will do that data entry there. The turf wars are somehow just on the turfs, not all over WP.
Oh, get a grip. This is more like your kid telling you there was this creepy guy with candy who wanted kids to go with him for a ride, but your kid didn't go. Maaaaaaaybe it wouldn't hurt to tip the police about it. Why should this button go to the police and not to the parents? Well duh, because it's the parents. They're likely to freak, revoke computer permissions which is exactly why it won't get pushed. As if you'd need your child to push a panic button to reach you, you wonder what kind of parent that'd be. As far as I know there is a system like this in place in Norway and the only real issue was that nearly nobody pushed it.
For starters: This is not a clever approach to deal with the European commision. Oracle could sell MySQL and there would be no problem at all. But no, ol' Larry decided to get confrontational.
A confrontation is hard, but that's more of a showdown. What's even worse than a confrontation is the kind of death march you get when only your side is bleeding. The EU buereucracy isn't "losing" money in the same way Oracle does even though it's very wasteful.