As I found out when running Windows 7 on a Patriot Warp v2, 30GB is not enough. Unless you spend some time stripping the OS down to barebones, you'll quickly run out of space. And forget about hibernate if you have lots of RAM. Even with fast SSD booting, there are times when you'll want to save your programs state rather then start it up all over again.
The problem is that a "properly nutritious diet" is something of a moving target and the general guidelines are most likely to prevent deficiency diseases in most of the population - it's not, and doesn't or shouldn't try to be a program for optimal health. I tried to follow the recommended guidelines but,after about a year, started to have minor problems, most of which were alleviated by taking a multivitamin.
Other problems persisted until I started taking supplemental Omega 3 (fish oil) - these were issues that all my doctors had told me I'd have to live with. That said, since starting to take fish oil, I find that cuts bleed more and I bruise a bit more easily. Or, I could just be getting old.
"It's hard to imagine how Rogers could have made this process worse."
Don't go throwing down the gauntlet in front of Rogers like that - they'll surpass your worst expectations.
I was a customer 12 years ago and swore I'd never spend another dime on Rogers services again.
My former roommate wouldn't listen and signed up - a year later, he too quit in disgust.
Tsk, tsk, based on the "Troll" moderation I got, I see I hurt someone's feelings. Sucks to be you, but I posted the what I and many others believe to be the truth. I'd heard references ( and I've made facetious remarks ) that the US is the lone superpower - that hasn't been true for a while.
China is clearly at superpower status and in ways that the US hasn't been for decades. About the only thing that could hurt them would be food shortages and, if they can't import enough, I'm sure that they wouldn't hesitate to let millions starve to death to save the rest.
It's called industrial espionage and there have been many reports of China engaged in this for years in every Western country. Of course, they now have a huge number of scientists with advanced degrees but so did the old Soviet Union and they lagged WAY behind in manufacturing.
Thanks to the Western outsourcing of just about every item from shoes to ships, China's manufacturing is very good.
Huge number of Chinese nationals or persons of Asian descent with advanced degrees, a burgeoning economy built by becoming the world's go-to labour market and propped up with currency shenanigans and systemic industrial espionage.
Looks like they covered all the bases - China for the win!
Unless the former leaders get their shit together.
They can't be so smart that we don't appear sentient - we've put men ( briefly ) on the moon. We might be grossly inferior, but certainly sentient and, I hope, unappetizing.
Kudos to you "reducing this conversation to waiting for evidence" - a conversation I started - when from your very first statements, you provided no evidence and plenty of your own "vague assertions".
Your "inclined to view" and "probably just as inexpensively" statements aren't backed up with a shred of evidence but you certainly didn't hesitate to accuse me of being too lazy to search. Quid pro quo, lazypiper.
Where's the evidence for your point A? And, your point B seems very confused - how can you "exclude" last-mile when that is the very subject of the argument.
You don't seem to be able to appreciate my point that a fast, provider-neutral connection to the home is a huge benefit to consumers in an increasingly IP-centric age.
I want HDTV or other hi-def entertainment from my choice of providers, not the regional monopoly; I want to be able to UPLOAD files as quickly as I download them, for various reasons ; I want, like some of my more fortunate friends, to be able to reliably use a VOIP videophone without impeding my other connections or that of my housemates.
Just because Google is in second place doesn't mean they're doing poorly - 29% of a market of 300+ million online users is pretty darn good. If you think that's "irrelevant", have a look at the market share of the 8 or so other search engines that operate in China.
I go with hate them - if they can't make a physical product that kicks ass, then they deserved to have their asses kicked if all they can do is sue. Unfortunately, since the lawmakers don't seem to get it and so long as trollhavens like the East District Court of Texas are around, lame plaintiffs will prosper.
If you If you're running a large number of RHEL boxes / virtual environments, you could split them between fully-supported RHEL and ones of the RHEL-clones like Centos or Scientific ( from CERN - Linux brought to you by particle physicists! That should be their tagline ).
That way you have fully supported boxes for critical stuff and save some support bucks with some unsupported clone boxes / VMs. I don't see a lot of risk here - at least not any more than environments where the Dev boxes are smaller and cheaper than the Prod boxes even though both might be running the same fully-supported OS.
I'm not sure what you mean by "capitalizing on the work of Linux developers" or if that's intended as a slight against RH. If so, I should point out that a number of the top names in kernel development are or have been RH employees.
Feel free to prove me wrong. I would point out that it's been widely reported for years that those 2 countries are leaders in 'net bandwidth to the home.
| Who cares what "connection" it comes over? I can get on-demand HDTV as well, and probably just as inexpensively as they do.
Let's see you prove it - since proof seems to be so important to you. I imagine you must live in a monopoly-free TV paradise where the channel or program of your choice is magically beamed to your set but many are not so lucky.
| A better last mile empowers the end-user and makes it possible for more services to be delivered
You've completely failed to provide evidence of any of this so far. The ONE example you mentioned is nonsense. --
Back to requesting evidence, Your Honor? You may HDTV-over-internet is nonsense but I and many other don't. Look at how much trouble and expense many have gone to to get satellite feeds in areas where no provider existed. But, as someone who has had very poor luck with hard / tape drives in the last several years, a fatter pipe ( in both directions, of course ) would make my life so much less stressful since backing up to the cloud, quickly and affordably, would be feasible. At present, I'm restricted to 1.5 mbps/400 kpbs up/down and would have to switch to monopoly, over-priced, unreliable, tech-support-sucks-nasty-ass cable to do better until the (monopoly) telco gets around to improving the phone lines in my area.
I know that many MySQL folks are antsy about this, but let's face it, this was the best hope for Solaris & related technologies. Being swallowed by IBM, I believe, would have led to the swift death of many SUN technologies / divisions. I'm firmly of the opinion that IBM's major interest was in acquiring and converting SUN's existing enterprise userbase.
Of course, they got a good chunk of that practically for free by the EU's foot-dragging. I imagine SUN / Oracle have no recourse?
Several theories exist to explain the link between periodontal disease and heart disease. One theory is that oral bacteria can affect the heart when they enter the blood stream, attaching to fatty plaques in the coronary arteries (heart blood vessels) and contributing to clot formation. Coronary artery disease is characterized by a thickening of the walls of the coronary arteries due to the buildup of fatty proteins. Blood clots can obstruct normal blood flow, restricting the amount of nutrients and oxygen required for the heart to function properly. This may lead to heart attacks.
Another possibility is that the inflammation caused by periodontal disease increases plaque build up, which may contribute to swelling of the arteries.
A newly published study in the Journal of Periodontology confirms recent findings that people with periodontal disease are at a greater risk of systemic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. Study Abstract *
Researchers found diseased gums released significantly higher levels of bacterial pro-inflammatory components, such as endotoxins, into the bloodstream in patients with severe periodontal disease compared to healthy patients. As a result, these harmful bacterial components in the blood could travel to other organs in the body, such as the heart, and cause harm.
The study is in line with recent findings by the University of Buffalo where researchers suggest periodontal disease may cause oral bacterial components to enter the bloodstream and trigger the liver to make C-reactive proteins, which are a predictor for increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
Sorry about that. But hey, sugar cane is great stuff - I grew up surrounded by it. It's when you turn it into nothing but plain white sweetener that it's really a problem. On the other hand, white sugar does better in baked goods that UNrefined sweeteners - think I got it right this time - especially in appearance.
I've never read that he claimed sugar caused tuberculosis. It's more a claim that a sugary diet weakened the immune system ( although I don't think it was called this back then). As for the root canals, the claim was that there was a high potential to admit bacteria and toxins into the body and bloodstream. Perhaps he was wrong but so were many other well-respected authorities that came before and after him. And, let's not forget that it's now suspected that gum disease can lead to heart attacks. You do have to admire his dedication and adventurous spirit - he studied people on every inhabited continent in a time when transportation was infinitely more tedious and slow that today, and when awful diseases that most of us in the West have only heard or read about was part of the daily life of every class and creed. But, hey, at least we have SARS, AIDS, bird flu and Ebola.
Around the turn of the 20th century, Dr Weston A. Price, a dentist, found indgenous peoples who avoided unrefined foods to have much better dental health than city dwellers.
You don't see any irony in your statement? Wasn't America founded on the idea of changing the way the world works? Just like the separation of church and state that the founding fathers envisioned has long been nothing but lip service, so too has the idea that the US sells itself on it being the good guys long been a lie.
Oh and not all of us went to a high school in the USofA.
He didn't say it was unique to America, just that it's ( or has long been ) the American way. I think Eisenhower was the first to bemoan the American military industrial complex - I bet he never thought they'd find a way to enforce their will without firing a shot.
The US has a lot more clout than Costa Rica. There aren't many countries that can't be bought or bullied by the US. As others have posted, Costa Rica should make a case to the WTO or the other members of CAFTA to try strongarming the US - something of an uphill battle.
Where did you learn to read? It's obvious I was looking for input from experienced programmers. Yes, I could have listed off any number of tools but I've never used any of them so why would I start a discussion on tools I don't and can't use?
What I did was list TYPES of flaws and invited those who KNOW to discuss. Feel free to refer to some of the other replies to my post to see what others have used or their opinion on why this is an intractable problem.
Right - so we're coming down to relying on (expensive) greybeards but most of the work is being done by whippersnappers who can spin out code but aren't obeying best practices with powerful but unsafe tools.
Perhaps a secure coding certification is mandatory? I know this will be an unpopular idea and that some terrific code has been crafted by amateurs but something has to be done. How about free code analysis for FOSS apps?
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As I found out when running Windows 7 on a Patriot Warp v2, 30GB is not enough. Unless you spend some time stripping
the OS down to barebones, you'll quickly run out of space. And forget about hibernate if you have lots of RAM.
Even with fast SSD booting, there are times when you'll want to save your programs state rather then start it up all over again.
The problem is that a "properly nutritious diet" is something of a moving target and the general guidelines are most ,after about a year, started to have minor problems, most of which were alleviated by taking a multivitamin.
likely to prevent deficiency diseases in most of the population - it's not, and doesn't or shouldn't try to be a program for optimal health. I tried to follow the recommended guidelines but
Other problems persisted until I started taking supplemental Omega 3 (fish oil) - these were issues that all my doctors had told me I'd have to live with.
That said, since starting to take fish oil, I find that cuts bleed more and I bruise a bit more easily. Or, I could just be getting old.
"It's hard to imagine how Rogers could have made this process worse."
Don't go throwing down the gauntlet in front of Rogers like that - they'll surpass your worst expectations.
I was a customer 12 years ago and swore I'd never spend another dime on Rogers services again.
My former roommate wouldn't listen and signed up - a year later, he too quit in disgust.
Tsk, tsk, based on the "Troll" moderation I got, I see I hurt someone's feelings.
Sucks to be you, but I posted the what I and many others believe to be the truth. I'd heard references ( and I've made facetious remarks ) that the US is the lone superpower - that hasn't been true for a while.
China is clearly at superpower status and in ways that the US hasn't been for decades. About the only thing that could hurt them would be food shortages and, if they can't import enough, I'm sure that they wouldn't hesitate to let millions starve to death to save the rest.
It's called industrial espionage and there have been many reports of China engaged in this for years in every Western country.
Of course, they now have a huge number of scientists with advanced degrees but so did the old Soviet Union and they
lagged WAY behind in manufacturing.
Thanks to the Western outsourcing of just about every item from shoes to ships, China's manufacturing is very good.
Huge number of Chinese nationals or persons of Asian descent with advanced degrees, a burgeoning economy
built by becoming the world's go-to labour market and propped up with currency shenanigans and systemic
industrial espionage.
Looks like they covered all the bases - China for the win!
Unless the former leaders get their shit together.
They can't be so smart that we don't appear sentient - we've put men ( briefly ) on the moon.
We might be grossly inferior, but certainly sentient and, I hope, unappetizing.
Kudos to you "reducing this conversation to waiting for evidence" - a conversation I started - when from your very first statements, you provided no evidence and plenty of your own "vague assertions".
Your "inclined to view" and "probably just as inexpensively" statements aren't backed up with a shred of evidence but you certainly didn't hesitate to accuse me of being too lazy to search.
Quid pro quo, lazypiper.
Where's the evidence for your point A?
And, your point B seems very confused - how can you "exclude" last-mile when that is the very subject of the argument.
You don't seem to be able to appreciate my point that a fast, provider-neutral connection to the home is a huge benefit to consumers in an increasingly IP-centric age.
I want HDTV or other hi-def entertainment from my choice of providers, not the regional monopoly; I want to be able to UPLOAD files as quickly as I download them, for various reasons ; I want, like some of my more fortunate friends, to be able to reliably use a VOIP videophone without impeding my other connections or that of my housemates.
Just because Google is in second place doesn't mean they're doing poorly - 29% of a market of 300+ million online users is
pretty darn good. If you think that's "irrelevant", have a look at the market share of the 8 or so other search engines that
operate in China.
I go with hate them - if they can't make a physical product that kicks ass, then they deserved to have their asses kicked
if all they can do is sue. Unfortunately, since the lawmakers don't seem to get it and so long as trollhavens like the
East District Court of Texas are around, lame plaintiffs will prosper.
If you If you're running a large number of RHEL boxes / virtual environments, you could split them between fully-supported RHEL and ones of
the RHEL-clones like Centos or Scientific ( from CERN - Linux brought to you by particle physicists! That should be their tagline ).
That way you have fully supported boxes for critical stuff and save some support bucks with some unsupported clone boxes / VMs.
I don't see a lot of risk here - at least not any more than environments where the Dev boxes are smaller and cheaper than the Prod
boxes even though both might be running the same fully-supported OS.
I'm not sure what you mean by "capitalizing on the work of Linux developers" or if that's intended as a slight against RH.
If so, I should point out that a number of the top names in kernel development are or have been RH employees.
| Feel free to prove it...
Feel free to prove me wrong. I would point out that it's been widely reported for years that those 2 countries are leaders in 'net bandwidth to the home.
| Who cares what "connection" it comes over? I can get on-demand HDTV as well, and probably just as inexpensively as they do.
Let's see you prove it - since proof seems to be so important to you. I imagine you must live in a monopoly-free TV paradise where the channel or program of your choice is magically beamed to your set but many are not so lucky.
| A better last mile empowers the end-user and makes it possible for more services to be delivered
You've completely failed to provide evidence of any of this so far. The ONE example you mentioned is nonsense.
--
Back to requesting evidence, Your Honor? You may HDTV-over-internet is nonsense but I and many other don't. Look at how much trouble and expense many have gone to to get satellite feeds in areas where no provider existed.
But, as someone who has had very poor luck with hard / tape drives in the last several years, a fatter pipe ( in both directions, of course ) would make my life so much less stressful since backing up to the cloud, quickly and affordably, would be feasible.
At present, I'm restricted to 1.5 mbps/400 kpbs up/down and would have to switch to monopoly, over-priced, unreliable, tech-support-sucks-nasty-ass cable to do better until the (monopoly) telco gets around to improving the phone lines in my area.
Big Blue was willing to cough up $4.5 Billion for Java, which has been FOSS for a few years?
I can't how it could have been worth so much to them.
I know that many MySQL folks are antsy about this, but let's face it, this was the best hope for Solaris & related technologies.
Being swallowed by IBM, I believe, would have led to the swift death of many SUN technologies / divisions. I'm firmly of the opinion
that IBM's major interest was in acquiring and converting SUN's existing enterprise userbase.
Of course, they got a good chunk of that practically for free by the EU's foot-dragging.
I imagine SUN / Oracle have no recourse?
While Lister made very significant contributions, credit for the idea of sterilization belongs to Ignaz Semmelweis or Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Have a look at these:
http://www.perio.org/consumer/mbc.heart.htm
Several theories exist to explain the link between periodontal disease and heart disease. One theory is that oral bacteria can affect the heart when they enter the blood stream, attaching to fatty plaques in the coronary arteries (heart blood vessels) and contributing to clot formation. Coronary artery disease is characterized by a thickening of the walls of the coronary arteries due to the buildup of fatty proteins. Blood clots can obstruct normal blood flow, restricting the amount of nutrients and oxygen required for the heart to function properly. This may lead to heart attacks.
Another possibility is that the inflammation caused by periodontal disease increases plaque build up, which may contribute to swelling of the arteries.
And, from http://www.perio.org/consumer/bacteria.htm
A newly published study in the Journal of Periodontology confirms recent findings that people with periodontal disease are at a greater risk of systemic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. Study Abstract *
Researchers found diseased gums released significantly higher levels of bacterial pro-inflammatory components, such as endotoxins, into the bloodstream in patients with severe periodontal disease compared to healthy patients. As a result, these harmful bacterial components in the blood could travel to other organs in the body, such as the heart, and cause harm.
The study is in line with recent findings by the University of Buffalo where researchers suggest periodontal disease may cause oral bacterial components to enter the bloodstream and trigger the liver to make C-reactive proteins, which are a predictor for increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
Sorry about that. But hey, sugar cane is great stuff - I grew up surrounded by it. It's when you turn it into nothing but plain white sweetener that it's really a problem.
On the other hand, white sugar does better in baked goods that UNrefined sweeteners - think I got it right this time - especially in appearance.
I've never read that he claimed sugar caused tuberculosis. It's more a claim that a sugary diet weakened the immune system ( although I don't think it was called this back then). As for the root canals, the claim was that there was a high potential to admit bacteria and toxins into the body and bloodstream.
Perhaps he was wrong but so were many other well-respected authorities that came before and after him. And, let's not forget that it's now suspected that gum disease can lead to heart attacks.
You do have to admire his dedication and adventurous spirit - he studied people on every inhabited continent in a time when transportation was infinitely more tedious and slow that today, and when awful diseases that most of us in the West have only heard or read about was part of the daily life of every class and creed.
But, hey, at least we have SARS, AIDS, bird flu and Ebola.
Around the turn of the 20th century, Dr Weston A. Price, a dentist, found indgenous peoples who avoided unrefined foods to
have much better dental health than city dwellers.
You don't see any irony in your statement? Wasn't America founded on the idea of changing the way the world works?
Just like the separation of church and state that the founding fathers envisioned has long been nothing but lip service,
so too has the idea that the US sells itself on it being the good guys long been a lie.
Oh and not all of us went to a high school in the USofA.
He didn't say it was unique to America, just that it's ( or has long been ) the American way. I think Eisenhower was the first to bemoan the
American military industrial complex - I bet he never thought they'd find a way to enforce their will without firing a shot.
The US has a lot more clout than Costa Rica. There aren't many countries that can't be bought or bullied by the US.
As others have posted, Costa Rica should make a case to the WTO or the other members of CAFTA to try strongarming
the US - something of an uphill battle.
Where did you learn to read? It's obvious I was looking for input from experienced programmers.
Yes, I could have listed off any number of tools but I've never used any of them so why would I start a discussion on tools I don't and can't use?
What I did was list TYPES of flaws and invited those who KNOW to discuss. Feel free to refer to some of the other replies to my post to see what others have used or their opinion on why this is an intractable problem.
Right - so we're coming down to relying on (expensive) greybeards but most of the work is being done by whippersnappers who can spin out code but aren't obeying best practices with powerful but unsafe tools.
Perhaps a secure coding certification is mandatory?
I know this will be an unpopular idea and that some terrific code has been crafted by amateurs but something has to be done.
How about free code analysis for FOSS apps?