No, he didn't set out intending to kill anybody at all. In response to repeated roberries, he set out to defend his business, which he has every right to do. Why the hell are you defending the robbers anyway, instead of the poor old man who was repeatedly victimized? Get your priorities straight!
In my priorities, any human life ranks higher than anybody's property, including my own.
As another poster said, Americans don't even have a clue how fucked up they are. No wonder Bush will get reelected.
That's a myth. Put yourself in a middle manager's shoes. Would you raise all twenty people in your charge all they deserve, or just enough they won't complain?
You may say that if you get paid a lot, you're a bigger target for layoff. That's absolutely true. But then, asking for raises above average is for above average types.
Incidentally, the Handbook is very pro-ReiserFS (although it also says ext3 is "an excellent filesystem," reiserfs is used as the default filesystem in all of the examples). If you spend time on the Gentoo Forums, you will find a number of people who claimed reiserfs tried to kill their computer, and an equal number who swear by it.
It wasn't always like that. When I installed my laptop (eer, ~2yrs ago) they aggresively recommended XFS, stating that reiserfs was unstable. I was very used to reiser (my previous distro was SuSE), but I remember the docs scared me into using XFS. Bad bad decision. On power outages, XFS would null-pad any files that were open for writing at the time. Real real bad. Lasted a month before I reformated with reiser.
Heh, I realize now: Two years without reinstalling the PC is quite a landmark. Go Gentoo...
But went up the chain and removed the reasoning for your implication that IP made rich countries rich.
If you go back to the start of this thread, I was responding to the claim that called FUD on the idea that open source would cause the loss of programming jobs. There are very few third-world nations with a large number of programmers, but those that do are almost exclusively developing closed source software.
Check your numbers. Most programmers work in internal development positions, producing integration code. These aren't affected by OSS, except by being more efficient from having the source available. Closed source, boxed products employ very small numbers. Even the giant Microsoft, absolute king of boxed products, numbers on the tens of thousand developers.
It does not imply that IP protection is essential for a nation wealth. Patent and Copyright law was and is enforced by international trade agreements. Stuff like "Either you accept our patents under these terms, or we tax your cotton 500% on import". If a nation doesn't enter the global trade loop, they can never be rich.
Put it another way. Do you think emergent third-world nations wouldn't circumvent patents if they could? Say, stuff like new AIDS drugs (Brasil attempted this, recently)? They don't because we don't let them.
Note that I don't clearly say patents are good or bad. I know the current patent system does more harm than good, but I have no formed opinion on wether patents are essential for inovation.
Making IP freely available will surely create more work. It becomes pretty obvious if you look at it from a global perspective. Which society will become more efficient? One where IP gives a few priviledged players a head start, or one where all players compete (and the most efficient succeed)? It's the basis of capitalism...
Where IP freedom result is an unknown is on future investigation. IP protection may be necessary to promote investment for investigation. Again, I have my doubts, since IP history has 150 years, and the 18th and 19th centuries were prolific with scientific advances. However, that's another subject entirely.
Flawed logic.There is sooooo much software yet to be written, so many fields where IT hasn't penetrated or where it can be further used. There is no need whatsoever of clutching to rewriting the same old round wheel over and over again. If all common ground were covered today, there would still be jobs for every software developer alive.
Besides, is a 65mph (a little over 100km/h for those who live in metric-land) speed limit on an interstate that hard to follow?
Yes it is. It is unjustified and makes me lose time and money. Speed limit in highways over here is 120km/h. In Germany, the speed limit is 250km/h (with lots of local speed limits due to terrain features). You know what? The accident rate is far lower. It turns out that speed is a rather minor factor in accident rates, and German authorities attacked the problem where it really lies: driver education, road condition, police vigilance.
I lose time as an obvious result of going slower. I lose money, not just because time is money, but also because my car has best efficiency just before 150km/h, where the engine is running a bit over maximum torque point.
Much like operator overloading in C++, this allows you to write in the language of the problem, rather than the language of the language.
Unknowingly, you just summarized beautifuly why I absolutely hate operator overloading. It makes the entering curve on a running project (or new maintenance project) absurdly steep. All of a sudden, you not only have to learn the architecture of the solution, but the goddamn language of the solution.
It's a really nice idea, with great direct effects and horrible side-effects.
...you're actually stuck in interfaces and computing paradigms that are dictated more by technical limitations than the "proper" way to do things.
I absolutely disagree. The "proper" way to do things is the most productive one. I'm one heck of a lot more productive using linux Computer-Human-Interface than I am with Windows. You can complain about steep learning curves, or the inability of the average user to grasp CLI, but don't state GUIs are the proper way to do things. They may be the proper way to do certain things, but they're vastly abused in winland.
No - it's a mystery to me how we could implement an electronic voting system with a "one person, one vote" accountability but still have an anonymous vote.
It's feasible with cryptography, but highly unfriendly to the user (requires everyone digitally signing everybody else's votes).
My approach would be something replicating the current paper trail. You go to the voting desk, get your number scratched from the voting list, and receive a token (a ballot). With this ballot, you go to the voting machine and cast your vote. The ballot may be a large number, and should be taken out of a pre-generated pool; no association to you should be kept. The ballot may as well be a regular one, in paper, where you mark your vote and upon entering the black box it gets counted immediatly. Paper trails are absolutely necessary as a backup mechanism for recount, anyway.
I have IBM R40 and the only thing that I don't have working properly is suspend-to-disk, but I don't mind, the time it takes is about the same as turning the computer off and on again.
I got it to work. You have to leave some space in the disk unpartitioned. My instructions are right here.
Resuming sometimes borks due to the graphics driver not restoring state perfectly. I didn't manage to get it to work; I didn't even isolate the conditions that cause the driver to fail.
I agree with you, to an extent... IE is actually quite standards-compliant, just not up-to-date. I'm not saying that's a whole lot better, but a standards-compliant site that isn't using the latest specs works quite well.
Only if the standard you are talking about is HTML4. IE's CSS support is bad enough for the box model itself to be wrong, leading to all kinds of weird behaviours. There are workarounds, but it's poor standards support anyway you look at it. You can do amazing stuff with HTML+javascript/vbscript, I'm not questioning that. What you can't do is write style into CSS in a predictable manner, which costs uncountable development hours. MS did a poor job, and web developers pay the price.
believe me, IE allows you to do some incredibly cool things on the client that you either can't do with other browsers, or more likely is just harder and will obviously increase development time to make work on both
You can do pretty amazing stuff with IE. However, you're mistaken on the cost of doing the same stuff with other browsers, namely mozilla. XUL allows you to write interfaces that are pretty much as powerful as native applications' (fat clients, if you put it that way). XUL is, today, the power for web development that Microsoft is promising to deliver two years from now.
What we really need is ability to break such big projects as OpenOffice or Gimp into small pieces to be developed separately.
Openoffice is really huge and bloated, but I wouldn't place GIMP in the same boat. I find GIMP very friendly to simple hacking, because it retains its roots as a LISP library.
You fail to grasp the sheer scale of development communities. Regular developers never need to grasp anything near a handful of projects. If every developer were involved with just one OSS project, the OSS development speed would scale tenfold.
I think the original author didn't grasp the concept either. OSS is much like having the base ground for development for free. There's enough money to be made on customization to feed every developer alive. Closed source, and consequent wheel reinventing hurts productivity and stiffles overall economic development. Artists, used in the article for comparison, have the base development done for free. Nobody patented and excluded derived works from Blues' chords or solo scales.
If this doesn't convince you, try another approach. OSS is the response to three decades worth of proven inability, by the computer industry, to maintain public data formats and high levels of interoperability. If the source is open, interop is guaranteed.
Interfaces with implementations are called "abstract classes", and PHP has them. And they don't support multiple inheritance, which is one of the raison d'être for interfaces.
Largely it is. If the user hits a table header to sort on the selected row, are we are supposed go back to the database and do a different 'order by'?... I dont think so!
Then think again. It's far from a black and white question. If data transfer between persistence and presentation tier isn't costly, you're better off passing the sort to the database. It may have the data already ordered, either because the a similar query or subquery is cached, or because the database has an index on the sorted column. Moreover, if you're writing the sorting algorithm yourself, rest assured you won't do as good a job as your db vendor, whose code has already been pounded and cleansed by heavy usage.
The purpose of putting someone in jail is NOT to rehabilitate them, its to remove them from the rest of us who do not go around committing crimes, in the hopes that they will not want to do that again. If they keep doing it again and again, then permanant removal *IS* the answer.
I don't know what is more frightening: That the "Land of the Free" removes people from society, or that north-americans take it so lightly. FYI in most European countries, the prision system has, as primary objective, the rehabilitation of individuals to society. And in no case is anyone considered unrecoverable (in my country, the maximum sentence, for any given crime, is 20 years). After a large enough time period, you can't be positive that the former criminal will be reincident, and everyone deserves another chance.
GPFS from IBM and GFS from Sistina (now acquired by Redhat) are the best two, with large (for the niche) userbases. We studied all the options you indicate and, you're right, most have pretty serious problems. If you need cluster FS, go with one of the two (or wait to see if the Google FileSystem will be GPLed on the bunch of software being released Open Source by Google).
I could achieve that next time Euro comes around; just do what Portugal and Greece did this time. Bribing the referee is no longer against FIFA rules.:-)
I can only answer with a "Daily Show" Whaaaa?
Let's just say the backbone of the Portuguese national team are FC Porto players: Nuno Valente, Ricardo Carvalho, Jorge Andrade (former player), Paulo Ferreira, Costinha, Maniche and Deco. Finish up the Champions' League winner team with players the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Figo, and only ignorance could claim Portugal needs referee work to win against any Euro'2004 team. We did stumble the first time, because a naive Scolari thought he could rely on former glory players like Couto. No longer. He's on the right track, and now we're poised to be European Champions.
Just use a datagram service, like UDP instead of TCP. Have your protocol not reply to requests until the authentication is done. Presto! It works, has all the benefits of port knocking, and uses no clever trick.
From the requisite of mass transfer automation, I deduced you managed a medium to large account. Those can get their requests heard. Heck, my bank updated the homebanking service to support Netscape (mozilla) browsers after I pointed the changes they needed to do to the webapp (and I'm nowhere near a large account).
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As another poster said, Americans don't even have a clue how fucked up they are. No wonder Bush will get reelected.
That's a myth. Put yourself in a middle manager's shoes. Would you raise all twenty people in your charge all they deserve, or just enough they won't complain? You may say that if you get paid a lot, you're a bigger target for layoff. That's absolutely true. But then, asking for raises above average is for above average types.
Heh, I realize now: Two years without reinstalling the PC is quite a landmark. Go Gentoo...
Put it another way. Do you think emergent third-world nations wouldn't circumvent patents if they could? Say, stuff like new AIDS drugs (Brasil attempted this, recently)? They don't because we don't let them.
Note that I don't clearly say patents are good or bad. I know the current patent system does more harm than good, but I have no formed opinion on wether patents are essential for inovation.
Where IP freedom result is an unknown is on future investigation. IP protection may be necessary to promote investment for investigation. Again, I have my doubts, since IP history has 150 years, and the 18th and 19th centuries were prolific with scientific advances. However, that's another subject entirely.
Flawed logic.There is sooooo much software yet to be written, so many fields where IT hasn't penetrated or where it can be further used. There is no need whatsoever of clutching to rewriting the same old round wheel over and over again. If all common ground were covered today, there would still be jobs for every software developer alive.
I lose time as an obvious result of going slower. I lose money, not just because time is money, but also because my car has best efficiency just before 150km/h, where the engine is running a bit over maximum torque point.
It's a really nice idea, with great direct effects and horrible side-effects.
My approach would be something replicating the current paper trail. You go to the voting desk, get your number scratched from the voting list, and receive a token (a ballot). With this ballot, you go to the voting machine and cast your vote. The ballot may be a large number, and should be taken out of a pre-generated pool; no association to you should be kept. The ballot may as well be a regular one, in paper, where you mark your vote and upon entering the black box it gets counted immediatly. Paper trails are absolutely necessary as a backup mechanism for recount, anyway.
Resuming sometimes borks due to the graphics driver not restoring state perfectly. I didn't manage to get it to work; I didn't even isolate the conditions that cause the driver to fail.
But, alas, no standards compliance yet. This is an extremely important point, as any half-decent web developer can explain you.
I think the original author didn't grasp the concept either. OSS is much like having the base ground for development for free. There's enough money to be made on customization to feed every developer alive. Closed source, and consequent wheel reinventing hurts productivity and stiffles overall economic development. Artists, used in the article for comparison, have the base development done for free. Nobody patented and excluded derived works from Blues' chords or solo scales.
If this doesn't convince you, try another approach. OSS is the response to three decades worth of proven inability, by the computer industry, to maintain public data formats and high levels of interoperability. If the source is open, interop is guaranteed.
Interfaces with implementations are called "abstract classes", and PHP has them. And they don't support multiple inheritance, which is one of the raison d'être for interfaces.
GPFS from IBM and GFS from Sistina (now acquired by Redhat) are the best two, with large (for the niche) userbases. We studied all the options you indicate and, you're right, most have pretty serious problems. If you need cluster FS, go with one of the two (or wait to see if the Google FileSystem will be GPLed on the bunch of software being released Open Source by Google).
Let's just say the backbone of the Portuguese national team are FC Porto players: Nuno Valente, Ricardo Carvalho, Jorge Andrade (former player), Paulo Ferreira, Costinha, Maniche and Deco. Finish up the Champions' League winner team with players the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Figo, and only ignorance could claim Portugal needs referee work to win against any Euro'2004 team. We did stumble the first time, because a naive Scolari thought he could rely on former glory players like Couto. No longer. He's on the right track, and now we're poised to be European Champions.
This is a solution in search of a problem....
From the requisite of mass transfer automation, I deduced you managed a medium to large account. Those can get their requests heard. Heck, my bank updated the homebanking service to support Netscape (mozilla) browsers after I pointed the changes they needed to do to the webapp (and I'm nowhere near a large account).