Most evangelicals I've met are the same. The bible is god's literal word and there shall be no interpretation. Until Revelation, then they get all kinds of metaphorical:
"See where it says 'Giant Locusts' kids? Now don't modern apache helicopters look a lot like big grasshoppers? This is all proof we are in the END TIMES!"
20 years later and I'm still waiting for those end times...
Exactly. I wouldn't say it was quite as good as "This is the end"; but it was still exactly what I thought it would be and was fun entertainment. Seems like with the hype the critics went in looking for an Oscar winning think-piece. They must have missed all the trailers...
Sad and lonely, yes, but I wouldn't hang the "watch the world burn" label on them. Just kids wanting to desperately be recognized as "cool". Once school is back in session, I give it two weeks before they start dropping hints and end up reported and charged.
Binary logfiles: You're not supposed to keep important log files on the local machine. Send them to your central logging facility where they are stored in a database.
And when I need to know what happened on a box that stopped sending it's log files to the central repository? Or even better, mission critical server is down, but i can't view the logs because they're on a server thats also down for an unrelated reason. I know, I know, backups/redundancies/etc. but planning for the worst and all that.
If the machine is still running, you can use the appropriate tools to look at the binary log files for debug.
And binary log files never become "corrupt and unreadable"... Sorry, but binary logs are high on my list of reasons to not use Windows, I just can't see the benefit.
All your logging, stats and alerting should be centralized anyway.
Agreed. But they should still be available on the local machine in an easily accessible form. I've not paid much attention to the great systemd debate as of yet, but now I think I'll have to.
I'll agree that things do change and the constant evolution is part of what makes Linux great, but change for the sake of change and a "It is what it is, dealt with it" attitude is quite troubling.
Not far off. I was once on a plane waiting to take off, when the pilot came over the PA and announced that they were going to "reboot the plane" to fix the problem with turning the nose-gear; because, "Just like with your home computer, sometimes a reboot works wonders."
Thankfully it didn't change anything and a tech replaced the faulty part before we took off.
Comcast already has been doing this for some time where I live (SLC) and I've already found several suspicious open networks in various spots, all named "Cable WiFi". There's only one cable provider in town, and they're not shy about branding.
So close. Not sticking the "Beowulf Cluster" on landing really cost you points with the judges; it's solid 9's across the board. Not bad by any means, but far from perfect...
I say auction it off and use the proceeds for charity. Get the Sheiks all together in a room and see which 7 walk out with billion dollar cars. Hype the auction enough and you could sell it on pay-per-view to make back the initial investment.
(The only condition is that after the auction is final the Stig takes one around the track.)
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Actually where I live it's the safest place to ride. That's where the bike/shared-use lanes are and where drivers are used to seeing and most of the time respectful to cyclists.
Once you get out into the suburbs, you'll encounter a much different environment. People are obsessed with their over-sized cars and obsessed with getting to whatever useless task they are on the way to. You're much more likely to be cursed out, have objects thrown at you and just plain ran off the road out where the housing's cheap (in every sense of the word) and the driveways are full of "toys".
More and more people are riding, but I fear it may be a "millennial thing" and that the majority will simply migrate out to the burbs like they're supposed to do once they reach the standard child rearing age of 22 (at least around here that's the standard)...
Random stranger? You mean the guy following him for no reason other than the color of his skin?
That's the point, that's why he's a symbol. He was profiled and harassed for being black. He chose to confront his accuser and died because of it. He may have been a little shit his whole life, but that had nothing to do with the incident. Remembering him and what happened is important for all of us; and if someone wants to name a rock flying through space after him I say go for it.
I'm not concerned that they are releasing updates, my concern is with how long it takes before they acknowledge a bug and release a fix. With OSS, the fix is released ASAP (at least that's the theory), with proprietary software... Well, here's a car analogy that might help:
"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
Man, we sure do love conspiracy theories. I'm betting more on that this was just some guy, not part of any "network" or "cell", just another mentally unstable individual that fell through the cracks of our selfish "I got mine, screw the rest of you" culture. Already the first thing people are talking about is what rights will the government deprive them of. Yes individual freedoms are important, but nothing is truly black and white.
And soon it will be the right screaming that the left isn't tough on criminals and can't protect us the way they can, and the left screaming at the right that they're ignorant and savage and cause more harm than good.
Preppers will step up their efforts and stockpile weapons, occupiers will chant some more to a drum circle, and the majority who simply shake their head at both will continue to be ignored in favor of ratings. Divisions will grow, flame wars will commence, and I can't help but wonder what it will take to get everyone to grow up and start thinking clearly.
Theres plenty of cheap "hybrid" bikes (think mountain bike with thinner road tires) out there with flat bars that work great in the city. Or you can just pick up an old mountain bike off craigslist/thriftstore and put road tires on it.
The problem is most consumers get fat tire mountain bikes with dual suspension for the same reason they get SUVs, they think they're getting more for their money. Why get a small, light bike with thin tires, when for the same price you get a mean all terrain machine that'll be sure to impress the ladies.
If there were side by side road tests, people would pick the road/hybrid hands down; and then go and buy the fat tire mountain bike or the single speed cruiser anyway based on looks alone, never to ride again.
Believe me, most drivers in the US do identify cyclists. They identify them as "One of those poor people/hipsters/weirdos is riding in the road like he's a car." And then promptly lay on the horn screaming obscenities while frothing at the mouth. In all my life I'd never seen road rage until I started using the "shared use" lane. And no, I don't wear a helmet or fancy shoes and would not like any mandates requiring either.
Except "The American Dream" would have to change first.
The goal of most people is the big house in the 'burbs (cause that's the cheapest) with a big lawn and 2 cars and multiple "toys". Anything less is seen as being "poor" and "unsuccessful".
Never mind that once out there, you have no choice but to drive everywhere. Never mind that your choices for food are limited to the processed crap in a frozen box (due to the cost of that big home and all those vehicles and your shrinking wages). Never mind the stress and worry caused by your increasing inability to keep up with your debt.
Here we are in 2012 and there's still a stigma attached to public transit. And of course we all know riding bikes is for hipsters and kids.
Thanks, greed, you gave (some of) us a great run, but now we're all screwed.
You forgot the qualifier of "eventually". Also acceptable would be "maybe". There's plenty of good shows I've found on netflix that won't see the light of day on BBCA.
Given that BBC America has most of the better stuff from the BBC
Like Star Trek: TNG? Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? Battlestar Galactica? Gordon Ramsay cursing at people?
Add in that it's only available with a giant expensive bundle of crap cable/sat subscription, and is not even HD for most providers. And then the biggest insult, having to watch the few good shows cut down and defaced with horribly targeted ads.
I would gladly pay to access an iplayer app on my roku. Not quite the $18/month that UK residents do, but make it $10 and I'm there...
Except more and more people want that touch control (with bluetooth keyboard/mouse/gamepad as needed) and with easy ways to put the image on any screen you want (Wi-Di, etc.) What's left?
I would love to detach my display from my macbook and use it as a tablet, and dock it when I need the keyboard. Granted, thats not shirt pocket size, but with multi-core Ghz smartphones already in production, how long until the desktop is truly dead for 90% of the population? I know several people already that don't even have one, not even a laptop. Everything they need is available in their phone or tablet.
Which was the whole point of the public option. You can pay some 3rd party for-profit corporation that you have zero say with, or you can hop on the public option where you and other citizens have a say in how it's run. But no, that's evil socialism... We can't have our government providing basic services for our citizens, that'd make too much sense. From what I can tell, anything that doesn't make the richest citizens even richer is now socialism.
Stupid shortsighted corporate greed and personal "I got mine, screw the rest of you" greed will be our downfall.
Piracy isn't a solution, though. The (exaggerated) point made by Cap'n DB Emmanuel is valid. If no one pays, no more (overly-hyped/produced/shitty) content.
The main problem is this idea that cord-cutter = pirate. I cut the cable cord because I didn't want to pay for a ton of ads and crappy channels I don't watch. But instead of piracy, I moved to the netflix+hulu+espn3 on my xbox. I pay a fair price to see the content I want, when I want. I'm not happy about the ads on hulu, but it's infinitely better than cable/sat where just under half of the "content" is advertising. And to get the equivalent functionality from cable would cost 3-4 times as much.
Soon, every "premium" channel will be selling it's own subscription available on whatever device we want. I'd pay for HBO Go right now, but not while it requires a cable package. HBO wants to get paid, and if they can cut out the middlemen, they will. The cable/sat providers won't give us à la carte, but the content providers eventually will.
Nutrition info is on everything, it hasn't helped. It's on bottled water. It's at the counter at burger king. We all know for a fact that drinking large amounts of sugar water is incredibly bad for us, yet we still do it. If education has failed, and the healthcare industry has failed (MDs are just pill dispensers now) then all we have left is legislation. And for those who scream "personal responsibility!", the unhealthier we all get, the higher the cost of health care for everyone. It's not about big scary government control of your life, it's about regulation of harmful substances.
Even if they do "open the lines", they still own the lines. They'll still fear accountability and still mandate throttling/packet inspection.
The only way to get around this is if these new players lay their own lines or come up with a wifi/sat service that actually works. But then those still need to connect to backbones owned by someone else. And eventually the media corporations will lobby hard enough to get all their dirty work done upstream.
As for competition and price gouging, just look at the current cell providers to see where it's all going. Contracts, high monthly rates, fees out the wazoo and being nickel and dimed to death for every little bit that traverses their network. Not concerned? Two words for you: "Canadian Data."
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Most evangelicals I've met are the same. The bible is god's literal word and there shall be no interpretation. Until Revelation, then they get all kinds of metaphorical:
"See where it says 'Giant Locusts' kids? Now don't modern apache helicopters look a lot like big grasshoppers? This is all proof we are in the END TIMES!"
20 years later and I'm still waiting for those end times...
Exactly. I wouldn't say it was quite as good as "This is the end"; but it was still exactly what I thought it would be and was fun entertainment. Seems like with the hype the critics went in looking for an Oscar winning think-piece. They must have missed all the trailers...
Sad and lonely, yes, but I wouldn't hang the "watch the world burn" label on them. Just kids wanting to desperately be recognized as "cool". Once school is back in session, I give it two weeks before they start dropping hints and end up reported and charged.
Binary logfiles: You're not supposed to keep important log files on the local machine. Send them to your central logging facility where they are stored in a database.
And when I need to know what happened on a box that stopped sending it's log files to the central repository? Or even better, mission critical server is down, but i can't view the logs because they're on a server thats also down for an unrelated reason. I know, I know, backups/redundancies/etc. but planning for the worst and all that.
If the machine is still running, you can use the appropriate tools to look at the binary log files for debug.
And binary log files never become "corrupt and unreadable"... Sorry, but binary logs are high on my list of reasons to not use Windows, I just can't see the benefit.
All your logging, stats and alerting should be centralized anyway.
Agreed. But they should still be available on the local machine in an easily accessible form. I've not paid much attention to the great systemd debate as of yet, but now I think I'll have to.
I'll agree that things do change and the constant evolution is part of what makes Linux great, but change for the sake of change and a "It is what it is, dealt with it" attitude is quite troubling.
Not far off. I was once on a plane waiting to take off, when the pilot came over the PA and announced that they were going to "reboot the plane" to fix the problem with turning the nose-gear; because, "Just like with your home computer, sometimes a reboot works wonders."
Thankfully it didn't change anything and a tech replaced the faulty part before we took off.
Comcast already has been doing this for some time where I live (SLC) and I've already found several suspicious open networks in various spots, all named "Cable WiFi". There's only one cable provider in town, and they're not shy about branding.
So close. Not sticking the "Beowulf Cluster" on landing really cost you points with the judges; it's solid 9's across the board. Not bad by any means, but far from perfect...
I say auction it off and use the proceeds for charity. Get the Sheiks all together in a room and see which 7 walk out with billion dollar cars. Hype the auction enough and you could sell it on pay-per-view to make back the initial investment.
(The only condition is that after the auction is final the Stig takes one around the track.)
Actually where I live it's the safest place to ride. That's where the bike/shared-use lanes are and where drivers are used to seeing and most of the time respectful to cyclists.
Once you get out into the suburbs, you'll encounter a much different environment. People are obsessed with their over-sized cars and obsessed with getting to whatever useless task they are on the way to. You're much more likely to be cursed out, have objects thrown at you and just plain ran off the road out where the housing's cheap (in every sense of the word) and the driveways are full of "toys".
More and more people are riding, but I fear it may be a "millennial thing" and that the majority will simply migrate out to the burbs like they're supposed to do once they reach the standard child rearing age of 22 (at least around here that's the standard)...
I think they'd rather people get Netflix through their box than say a Roku or even the TV itself. At least then they still get their subs.
They got the page loads back to 20th century times at least...
Random stranger? You mean the guy following him for no reason other than the color of his skin?
That's the point, that's why he's a symbol. He was profiled and harassed for being black. He chose to confront his accuser and died because of it. He may have been a little shit his whole life, but that had nothing to do with the incident. Remembering him and what happened is important for all of us; and if someone wants to name a rock flying through space after him I say go for it.
I'm not concerned that they are releasing updates, my concern is with how long it takes before they acknowledge a bug and release a fix. With OSS, the fix is released ASAP (at least that's the theory), with proprietary software... Well, here's a car analogy that might help:
Man, we sure do love conspiracy theories. I'm betting more on that this was just some guy, not part of any "network" or "cell", just another mentally unstable individual that fell through the cracks of our selfish "I got mine, screw the rest of you" culture. Already the first thing people are talking about is what rights will the government deprive them of. Yes individual freedoms are important, but nothing is truly black and white.
And soon it will be the right screaming that the left isn't tough on criminals and can't protect us the way they can, and the left screaming at the right that they're ignorant and savage and cause more harm than good.
Preppers will step up their efforts and stockpile weapons, occupiers will chant some more to a drum circle, and the majority who simply shake their head at both will continue to be ignored in favor of ratings. Divisions will grow, flame wars will commence, and I can't help but wonder what it will take to get everyone to grow up and start thinking clearly.
Theres plenty of cheap "hybrid" bikes (think mountain bike with thinner road tires) out there with flat bars that work great in the city. Or you can just pick up an old mountain bike off craigslist/thriftstore and put road tires on it.
The problem is most consumers get fat tire mountain bikes with dual suspension for the same reason they get SUVs, they think they're getting more for their money. Why get a small, light bike with thin tires, when for the same price you get a mean all terrain machine that'll be sure to impress the ladies.
If there were side by side road tests, people would pick the road/hybrid hands down; and then go and buy the fat tire mountain bike or the single speed cruiser anyway based on looks alone, never to ride again.
Believe me, most drivers in the US do identify cyclists. They identify them as "One of those poor people/hipsters/weirdos is riding in the road like he's a car." And then promptly lay on the horn screaming obscenities while frothing at the mouth. In all my life I'd never seen road rage until I started using the "shared use" lane. And no, I don't wear a helmet or fancy shoes and would not like any mandates requiring either.
Except "The American Dream" would have to change first.
The goal of most people is the big house in the 'burbs (cause that's the cheapest) with a big lawn and 2 cars and multiple "toys". Anything less is seen as being "poor" and "unsuccessful".
Never mind that once out there, you have no choice but to drive everywhere. Never mind that your choices for food are limited to the processed crap in a frozen box (due to the cost of that big home and all those vehicles and your shrinking wages). Never mind the stress and worry caused by your increasing inability to keep up with your debt.
Here we are in 2012 and there's still a stigma attached to public transit. And of course we all know riding bikes is for hipsters and kids.
Thanks, greed, you gave (some of) us a great run, but now we're all screwed.
I think you mean "Announce Chuck Norris is aware of the asteroid, and watch it break itself to pieces out of pure respect."
most of the good stuff from the BBC makes it here
You forgot the qualifier of "eventually". Also acceptable would be "maybe". There's plenty of good shows I've found on netflix that won't see the light of day on BBCA.
Given that BBC America has most of the better stuff from the BBC
Like Star Trek: TNG? Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? Battlestar Galactica? Gordon Ramsay cursing at people?
Add in that it's only available with a giant expensive bundle of crap cable/sat subscription, and is not even HD for most providers. And then the biggest insult, having to watch the few good shows cut down and defaced with horribly targeted ads.
I would gladly pay to access an iplayer app on my roku. Not quite the $18/month that UK residents do, but make it $10 and I'm there...
Except more and more people want that touch control (with bluetooth keyboard/mouse/gamepad as needed) and with easy ways to put the image on any screen you want (Wi-Di, etc.) What's left?
I would love to detach my display from my macbook and use it as a tablet, and dock it when I need the keyboard. Granted, thats not shirt pocket size, but with multi-core Ghz smartphones already in production, how long until the desktop is truly dead for 90% of the population? I know several people already that don't even have one, not even a laptop. Everything they need is available in their phone or tablet.
Which was the whole point of the public option. You can pay some 3rd party for-profit corporation that you have zero say with, or you can hop on the public option where you and other citizens have a say in how it's run. But no, that's evil socialism... We can't have our government providing basic services for our citizens, that'd make too much sense. From what I can tell, anything that doesn't make the richest citizens even richer is now socialism.
Stupid shortsighted corporate greed and personal "I got mine, screw the rest of you" greed will be our downfall.
Piracy isn't a solution, though. The (exaggerated) point made by Cap'n DB Emmanuel is valid. If no one pays, no more (overly-hyped/produced/shitty) content.
The main problem is this idea that cord-cutter = pirate. I cut the cable cord because I didn't want to pay for a ton of ads and crappy channels I don't watch. But instead of piracy, I moved to the netflix+hulu+espn3 on my xbox. I pay a fair price to see the content I want, when I want. I'm not happy about the ads on hulu, but it's infinitely better than cable/sat where just under half of the "content" is advertising. And to get the equivalent functionality from cable would cost 3-4 times as much.
Soon, every "premium" channel will be selling it's own subscription available on whatever device we want. I'd pay for HBO Go right now, but not while it requires a cable package. HBO wants to get paid, and if they can cut out the middlemen, they will. The cable/sat providers won't give us à la carte, but the content providers eventually will.
Nutrition info is on everything, it hasn't helped. It's on bottled water. It's at the counter at burger king. We all know for a fact that drinking large amounts of sugar water is incredibly bad for us, yet we still do it. If education has failed, and the healthcare industry has failed (MDs are just pill dispensers now) then all we have left is legislation. And for those who scream "personal responsibility!", the unhealthier we all get, the higher the cost of health care for everyone. It's not about big scary government control of your life, it's about regulation of harmful substances.
Even if they do "open the lines", they still own the lines. They'll still fear accountability and still mandate throttling/packet inspection.
The only way to get around this is if these new players lay their own lines or come up with a wifi/sat service that actually works. But then those still need to connect to backbones owned by someone else. And eventually the media corporations will lobby hard enough to get all their dirty work done upstream.
As for competition and price gouging, just look at the current cell providers to see where it's all going. Contracts, high monthly rates, fees out the wazoo and being nickel and dimed to death for every little bit that traverses their network. Not concerned? Two words for you: "Canadian Data."
Or possibly more lobbying of the Democrats is required because Republicans are "Corporate Profits First" by nature...