Actually, I know that it's not. All information, including this post, are automatically protected by copyright of some sort. But frankly, they probably shouldn't be. It's tantamount to copyrighting language, and stifles the free exchange of ideas. Then we have to go through weird "paraphrasing" hoops in order to retransmit a captivating idea. If we could, language would have been copyrighted too; and then no one would be able to learn anything from anyone else.
No one anywhere is proposing charging you more to look at Slashdot.
Wrong. They've said exactly that: we want to be able to charge profitable internet services more simply because they provide a more valued service than those that do not. It does not have to do with traffic shaping; that's the red herring. Cable execs have been quoted as saying: we think we should have a piece of Google, because we're enabling a profitable service and they can't live without us. Regardless of traffic usage, they want to see the website's books and charge accordingly.
There was another option, which I was wondering if they were going to dare to do: that the God as understood by Cylons was a necessity of their programming/command structure, so essentially was just an elaborate fiction designed by the programmers for their own ends, eg simplify control of artificial intelligence.
It would take balls to describe the Cylon God pure fiction, as those that believe in God in the world might not like the allusion.
Gawd, I do hope that we get to see what the purpose of the Zoe Avatar was, as it was foreshadowed in the pilot but we haven't seen much traction that direction. Now that Zoe is in the game world, and no longer in a cylon, I think that arc is likely pretty dead, anyways. Too bad. Well, I hope Walking Dead doesn't suck.
There is the very real threat that, while we justify endless wars because it suits our macho-ism as well is good for internal politics, we will be beaten in due time by a real enemy that wasn't so distracted.
ie, if we were spending the money on beating China that we're spending on a nebulous "War on Terror", our grandkids (or even kids) might not need to know how to speak Mandarin. As it is now, I'm teaching mine how to use chopstix.
We're basically fighting the wrong enemy, China knows it, and is encouraging it. And they are only too happy to build their dominance in the meantime. One day the country will wake up and curse this generation for being so easily duped, but by then it will be too late.
What's your point? Do you think Apple would choose to build their DC in an area of high density? Reason would tell you that they sought to find the lowest housing density possible before making a multiple acre purchase. More than likely, this region is not useful for housing for one reason or another, such as no sewer, uneven ground, or not pretty.
GUIs can make unknown operations significantly easier
IMO, this is the biggest advantage that GUIs have over CLI: they allow you to see all of the legal choices at once, and as you make a change in one field you can see which other fields are now made illegal. Good "help" in a CLI can help, but it's much more trial and error. Esp if the help isn't good, and you combine illegal choices.
Not if it's multi-multi system administration. I'm familiar with this argument, I have it with my management regularly. And I'm right, not least because I have to actually do the work and they don't.
I would like to see a GUI that allows me to pass 1000 noncontiguous hosts out of a dataset of 10K. (eg: matches cluster foo but not if it also has bar. But always if it has n1 or n2, regardless of if it has foo or bar. Both the host dataset and the target hosts are derived from a query and passed to at least one other operation.
If there's a GUI that can do that in less than 10X the time it takes me on the CLI, I'd like to see it. You can't really sort tables well enough to get the definite solution--it will only approximate. And oh y--once my CLI logic is tested, it will be true forever, since the logic will not fail like a human clicking a mouse might.
This isn't academic; I do this kind of thing on a daily basis. Often, multiple times a day.
The TV manufacturers that are so desperate to sell us TVs that they push technology we don't really need or want, should also invest in TV production and distribution--by improving the quality of the shows, I might be inclined to upgrade my viewing device. As it is, I don't really need a 3D TV to watch Big Bang Theory.
Personally, I'm glad that my ancestor murdered a rival warlord's entire tribe. I much prefer that than the other way around.
As for WWII Japan: sure, it was complicated. That's why the diplomats gave up. I'm just surprised that the Japanese maintain that being nuked was out of bounds of war, that it was somehow unfair. In war, nothing is out of bounds. It should be a reminder to the diplomats when they think they're done talking. Are they really ready to roll the dice on the imagination (and capability) for destruction by their opponents?
It's pretty academic, but I always wondered how Japan and Germany planned to divide the world if the Axis won.
I mean, really planned. Not just what was in treaties. Did the Nazis expect to take on Japan after they were done with the rest of the world? Did Japan think that Germany would let them actually keep Asia?
Probably because they want the benefits that connection to the public internet allow, like: remote dumping of logs email/pager alerts remote monitoring graphs
even perhaps remote troubleshooting.
If you take all of these computers off of the internet as you described, the only thing that could talk to them would be other computers on that intranet. And they probably don't want to limit the functionality to that degree.
If you need an A-Team to run your IT, you're doing it wrong. Not only would they be more expensive and harder to find, but losing any single member means that you have put your entire organization at risk.
Probably a better solution is not to try to cover management laziness and ineptitude with an RFP for unicorns and fairies.
You just explained why the web would fail, btw. How could you build an ecommerce web site when you're depending on someone else to provide the bandwidth?
In 1997, five years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI as well as Apple's "QuickTime piracy" lawsuit against Microsoft were settled in direct negotiations. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer their default browser, to the detriment of Netscape. Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for the Mac over the next five years. Microsoft also purchased $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time. Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement.
To resolve the QT code infringement lawsuit, as well as the look-n-feel lawsuit, MSFT agreed to give Apple $150M and continue to make Office for the Mac.
The dude has some funny stuff up at his site, but only because he's an unregenerate asshole. I suspect he's quick to ask for free tech support 'cause he's too important and too busy to have the time to figure it out himself--but regardless of how busy he is, he's still to cheap to want to pay for it.
I actually had an anesthesiologist ask me for tech support on his XP install while he was sedating my wife as she was delivering my second child. I asked him if I would get free anesthesiology if I gave him free tech support, and he got the hint.
That survey is what's paying for your subscription.
That's so obvious that I regularly inflate my standing on those surveys. I figure it doesn't hurt me, and if I control a $1M IT budget it means that the magazine that I'm interested in is likely to get more revenue from the advertisers, than if I merely control a $10K budget . I'm not hurt by it, the magazine is probably helped, at least in the short term, and the only one hurt is the advertiser and screw them. If the results in the aggregate become discredited because others follow my model, well, that's not my problem.
The only way to fix it is for publishers to turn off the faucet.
As mentioned in another reply, that's not accurate. You could also charge more for more popular stories, like Google's ad auction system. Or, you could charge based on results of the ads rather than their placement. The advertisers really only care about results anyways, and if you can demonstrate good results they won't care how that was achieved.
And frankly, the best solution is to provide original content. It's not clear to me that we need anything besides wire services like the AP anymore, since other media outlets simply republish AP stories anyways. An outlet that doesn't provide it's own information, or at least analysis, besides what I can get elsewhere, has no real reason to exist as an independent entity.
iTunes 2.0 erased partitions due to a nasty directory expansion bug. I wasn't bit by this, but I would have been if I downloaded the update right away. Since then, I've been happy to wait 2 weeks for folks like you to be my guinea pig. Please keep posting your reaction to updates, I need to know if it's safe for me to dl! kthxbai.
Google leaks that they're moving away from Windows, cause it's insecure and it's use got them hacked by the Chinese. Microsoft says "Bah! We're more secure than anyone, we rock!". So Google publicly demonstrates evidence to the contrary that proves their point, and makes Microsoft look bizarrely incompetent. Microsoft responds by accusing Google of having the audacity to call their bluff.
I would really like to know who this kind of doublethink hijinks work on. Doesn't Microsoft know that we form our own opinions based on information that we can get anywhere?
One of the major complaints I have always had about the mini is the hard drive choice; I wish they made the unit just a little bigger in order to get 7200 rpm drives, which would also be cheaper than the mobile hard drives that are in there now.
Interesting that the Server version includes 2 500GB 7200 drives, that almost makes it worthwhile. But I don't really need Server, and would like to save the extra hundred bucks or so that Server adds.
Apple, what about offering the Server hardware with OS X client, as a midpoint between the two choices? Or just the ability to upgrade the hard drive selection?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, I know that it's not. All information, including this post, are automatically protected by copyright of some sort. But frankly, they probably shouldn't be. It's tantamount to copyrighting language, and stifles the free exchange of ideas. Then we have to go through weird "paraphrasing" hoops in order to retransmit a captivating idea. If we could, language would have been copyrighted too; and then no one would be able to learn anything from anyone else.
And btw, recipes are actually exempt from copyright rules.
No one anywhere is proposing charging you more to look at Slashdot.
Wrong. They've said exactly that: we want to be able to charge profitable internet services more simply because they provide a more valued service than those that do not. It does not have to do with traffic shaping; that's the red herring. Cable execs have been quoted as saying: we think we should have a piece of Google, because we're enabling a profitable service and they can't live without us. Regardless of traffic usage, they want to see the website's books and charge accordingly.
There was another option, which I was wondering if they were going to dare to do: that the God as understood by Cylons was a necessity of their programming/command structure, so essentially was just an elaborate fiction designed by the programmers for their own ends, eg simplify control of artificial intelligence.
It would take balls to describe the Cylon God pure fiction, as those that believe in God in the world might not like the allusion.
Gawd, I do hope that we get to see what the purpose of the Zoe Avatar was, as it was foreshadowed in the pilot but we haven't seen much traction that direction. Now that Zoe is in the game world, and no longer in a cylon, I think that arc is likely pretty dead, anyways. Too bad. Well, I hope Walking Dead doesn't suck.
Well, it won't go on forever forever.
There is the very real threat that, while we justify endless wars because it suits our macho-ism as well is good for internal politics, we will be beaten in due time by a real enemy that wasn't so distracted.
ie, if we were spending the money on beating China that we're spending on a nebulous "War on Terror", our grandkids (or even kids) might not need to know how to speak Mandarin. As it is now, I'm teaching mine how to use chopstix.
We're basically fighting the wrong enemy, China knows it, and is encouraging it. And they are only too happy to build their dominance in the meantime. One day the country will wake up and curse this generation for being so easily duped, but by then it will be too late.
Typical engineer. Here's the operations perspective: .999... means "sometime fail".
a reliability of 1.0 equates to never fail.
a reliability of
The sales guy will sell 1.0, and when failure happens, explain that what was really meant was .999...
Good luck with that.
What's your point? Do you think Apple would choose to build their DC in an area of high density? Reason would tell you that they sought to find the lowest housing density possible before making a multiple acre purchase. More than likely, this region is not useful for housing for one reason or another, such as no sewer, uneven ground, or not pretty.
Google purchased a Church near their DC in Iowa, as well.
GUIs can make unknown operations significantly easier
IMO, this is the biggest advantage that GUIs have over CLI: they allow you to see all of the legal choices at once, and as you make a change in one field you can see which other fields are now made illegal. Good "help" in a CLI can help, but it's much more trial and error. Esp if the help isn't good, and you combine illegal choices.
Not if it's multi-multi system administration. I'm familiar with this argument, I have it with my management regularly. And I'm right, not least because I have to actually do the work and they don't.
I would like to see a GUI that allows me to pass 1000 noncontiguous hosts out of a dataset of 10K. (eg: matches cluster foo but not if it also has bar. But always if it has n1 or n2, regardless of if it has foo or bar. Both the host dataset and the target hosts are derived from a query and passed to at least one other operation.
If there's a GUI that can do that in less than 10X the time it takes me on the CLI, I'd like to see it. You can't really sort tables well enough to get the definite solution--it will only approximate. And oh y--once my CLI logic is tested, it will be true forever, since the logic will not fail like a human clicking a mouse might.
This isn't academic; I do this kind of thing on a daily basis. Often, multiple times a day.
Yes.
The TV manufacturers that are so desperate to sell us TVs that they push technology we don't really need or want, should also invest in TV production and distribution--by improving the quality of the shows, I might be inclined to upgrade my viewing device. As it is, I don't really need a 3D TV to watch Big Bang Theory.
Personally, I'm glad that my ancestor murdered a rival warlord's entire tribe. I much prefer that than the other way around.
As for WWII Japan: sure, it was complicated. That's why the diplomats gave up. I'm just surprised that the Japanese maintain that being nuked was out of bounds of war, that it was somehow unfair. In war, nothing is out of bounds. It should be a reminder to the diplomats when they think they're done talking. Are they really ready to roll the dice on the imagination (and capability) for destruction by their opponents?
It's pretty academic, but I always wondered how Japan and Germany planned to divide the world if the Axis won.
I mean, really planned. Not just what was in treaties. Did the Nazis expect to take on Japan after they were done with the rest of the world? Did Japan think that Germany would let them actually keep Asia?
No more or less so than what gets done on Slashdot. And yet you post here.
Probably because they want the benefits that connection to the public internet allow, like:
remote dumping of logs
email/pager alerts
remote monitoring graphs
even perhaps remote troubleshooting.
If you take all of these computers off of the internet as you described, the only thing that could talk to them would be other computers on that intranet. And they probably don't want to limit the functionality to that degree.
If you need an A-Team to run your IT, you're doing it wrong. Not only would they be more expensive and harder to find, but losing any single member means that you have put your entire organization at risk.
Probably a better solution is not to try to cover management laziness and ineptitude with an RFP for unicorns and fairies.
We already used ours. To the degree that we don't even need to keep one around anymore--no more kings, you see.
If you had the courage of your conviction you'd eliminate your regency altogether.
You just explained why the web would fail, btw. How could you build an ecommerce web site when you're depending on someone else to provide the bandwidth?
Did you follow your own link?
In 1997, five years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI as well as Apple's "QuickTime piracy" lawsuit against Microsoft were settled in direct negotiations. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer their default browser, to the detriment of Netscape. Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for the Mac over the next five years. Microsoft also purchased $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time. Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement.
To resolve the QT code infringement lawsuit, as well as the look-n-feel lawsuit, MSFT agreed to give Apple $150M and continue to make Office for the Mac.
...to be creating something that people really want to buy.
The only surprising thing about this is that Microsoft is ealizing that's the best strategy only now.
I read this when http://www.27bslash6.com/ was linked to in a comment.
The dude has some funny stuff up at his site, but only because he's an unregenerate asshole. I suspect he's quick to ask for free tech support 'cause he's too important and too busy to have the time to figure it out himself--but regardless of how busy he is, he's still to cheap to want to pay for it.
I actually had an anesthesiologist ask me for tech support on his XP install while he was sedating my wife as she was delivering my second child. I asked him if I would get free anesthesiology if I gave him free tech support, and he got the hint.
The reverse detection might be useful too: you are sounding too much like a equivocating manager type. You need to show more pathos, not less!
That survey is what's paying for your subscription.
That's so obvious that I regularly inflate my standing on those surveys. I figure it doesn't hurt me, and if I control a $1M IT budget it means that the magazine that I'm interested in is likely to get more revenue from the advertisers, than if I merely control a $10K budget . I'm not hurt by it, the magazine is probably helped, at least in the short term, and the only one hurt is the advertiser and screw them. If the results in the aggregate become discredited because others follow my model, well, that's not my problem.
The only way to fix it is for publishers to turn off the faucet.
As mentioned in another reply, that's not accurate. You could also charge more for more popular stories, like Google's ad auction system. Or, you could charge based on results of the ads rather than their placement. The advertisers really only care about results anyways, and if you can demonstrate good results they won't care how that was achieved.
And frankly, the best solution is to provide original content. It's not clear to me that we need anything besides wire services like the AP anymore, since other media outlets simply republish AP stories anyways. An outlet that doesn't provide it's own information, or at least analysis, besides what I can get elsewhere, has no real reason to exist as an independent entity.
I've never seen an update break anything.
iTunes 2.0 erased partitions due to a nasty directory expansion bug. I wasn't bit by this, but I would have been if I downloaded the update right away. Since then, I've been happy to wait 2 weeks for folks like you to be my guinea pig. Please keep posting your reaction to updates, I need to know if it's safe for me to dl! kthxbai.
I haven't seen the context of this exploit-discovery-and-release mentioned. Lest we all forget:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20006509-265.html
Google leaks that they're moving away from Windows, cause it's insecure and it's use got them hacked by the Chinese. Microsoft says "Bah! We're more secure than anyone, we rock!". So Google publicly demonstrates evidence to the contrary that proves their point, and makes Microsoft look bizarrely incompetent. Microsoft responds by accusing Google of having the audacity to call their bluff.
I would really like to know who this kind of doublethink hijinks work on. Doesn't Microsoft know that we form our own opinions based on information that we can get anywhere?
One of the major complaints I have always had about the mini is the hard drive choice; I wish they made the unit just a little bigger in order to get 7200 rpm drives, which would also be cheaper than the mobile hard drives that are in there now.
Interesting that the Server version includes 2 500GB 7200 drives, that almost makes it worthwhile. But I don't really need Server, and would like to save the extra hundred bucks or so that Server adds.
Apple, what about offering the Server hardware with OS X client, as a midpoint between the two choices? Or just the ability to upgrade the hard drive selection?