I think you bring up the fact that there are two facets to Sun. There's hardware and there's their services division. How important you think Sun is to the ecosystem seems to revolve more around whether you're a sysadmin or developer. Most of us developers don't even think about Sun as developing hardware. Most of the SysAdmins don't seem to think of Sun as the controlling force behind Java.
I wasn't really attacking your premise. My point was just that they would portray it the same way. I can hear them saying, "Who could take over these IBM contracts? Why there is no one in the world with the breadth of experience IBM had. No one with the requisite experience to touch these critical systems." Those of us reading slashdot would call BS, but that doesn't mean that they would be able to convince the American public.
I live in Texas. I'd love for them to debate something that had even this much of a tenous link to reality.
We're considering Voter IDs and whether to teach creationism in schools. Making cars use different paint to improve fuel efficiency seems like a real improvement from where I'm sitting. It may be trivial, but it's at least productive and based in the real world.
Sure because it's not like much of the government and private sector are running on IBM software or hardware. Their contracts becoming worthless would not cascade at all. You've bought into AIG being too big to fail. Wait until IBM makes their case.
If it was socialism or communism we would have bought, re-orged and consolidated the banks. Sold off all the bad debt at fire-sale prices and moved on from this whole mess. If we were capitalists we would have let all the jackasses fail and let the secure banks that didn't dabble in these securities move into a huge and unrealized market. Instead we get the downside to communism (government propping up useless industry to save jobs) and capitalism (investors lose lots of money). And (to my dismay) I see no difference between Obama and Bush's plans.
You believe a bunch of myths about Democrats. You believe myths about capitalism being somehow enshrined in the constitution. The sooner you realize this, the sooner we can all become productive again.
The Dark Night was an R-rated super hero movie with a PG-13 rating. Obviously they're referring to the fact that if you put a superhero in it the MPAA is willing to give you a PG-13 rating. There won't be any further superhero movies with blood, since that appears to be the dividing line.
Have we learned nothing from the recent "too big to fail" mess? I realize IBM is already too big to fail, but do we want to let them add to it? Sun failing would be fine for the market. Lots of small companies would jump in to take its place. Sun being bought by IBM would stifle the marketplace and would exert far too much control.
Sometimes to have a free-ish market we have to think about unpleasant topics like anti-trust.
Except that cheap energy would lead to a larger middle class. And as the middle class grows eventually population decreases. Lots of children are a function of poverty. More children are economic security, since you can have your children work to provide for your family. As you grow more wealthy more children become an economic liability.
Large families are not a function of race. They are a function of economics. How many Irish-Americans do you know still having 11 children per family?
No because it's not the plot that was objected to. It's the images. And the images from the trailer were of a white superman going into an African country. For most Europeans and Africans that evokes memories of not particularly distant colonial adventures.
I haven't heard anyone object to the plot, nor have I heard these concerns voiced as much in the context of the game. But in the trailer the images definitely played out like some sort of colonial wet dream. My point was just to point out what people objected to in the trailer, because I think so many people heard racism and interpreted it completely wrong.
Imagine if they had shown a trailer where Chris was battling African-American zombies with the help of his trusty canine companion and firehose. The plot context wouldn't matter that much because the first thing people would see would be reflections of their own experiences during the mid-twentieth century.
I'm glad that the game was not indeed racist. I think Capcom could have saved themselves some grief, however, if they'd had that trailer vetted by someone with knowledge of European and African history.
It's not "white people shooting black people racist". The images people are objecting reflect back to colonial days. It's the image of a white strong superman coming in to aid the poor impoverished dark skinned people.
It's Curious George racist, not Rodney King racist.
We have an 80 degree data center. It's not particularly pleasant to be in (as you get buffeted by hotter winds coming off of power supplies), but we haven't seen any more failures than normal.
I don't think this is a "quirky" developer. A "quirky" developer is one who talks obsessively about Pokemon or has trouble making eye contact. Then again, I've met my share of sociopath managers too, so I don't think development is the only place you find them. Let's not confuse "quirkiness" with severe personality disorders.
My health insurance (family, employer pays half of my premium) through blue cross blue shield is closer to $3,800/month. Single person is well over $1000. So yeah, your figures are wildly out of date. But yes I realize there are ways for a small business to pay fees in order to pool their resources to get better rates. You can call it the chamber of commerce, but you're still describing an ad hoc form of government.
I do acknowledge where this money is coming from. Higher taxes. Our taxes are ridiculously low. We haven't even been paying for what we've been spending. Once we get out of this recession we're obviously going to have higher taxes. Trickle-down doesn't work in any substantial way. Otherwise we would have had surpluses during the most recent boom years. I think the American taxpayer is beginning to realize that health care is something like roads or electricity. We're not willing to compromise on it. We think it's a basic right, and we're willing to pay for it. The federal government already is insuring an enormous number of Americans. Our taxes are already paying for the uninsured when they hit hospitals and cost a ridiculous amount more than preventative care. Let's finish the deal and ensure a right to health as a fundamental American right.
"The effect is that you don't save anything, the companies don't save anything, but instead of you having a choice to spend that money on a computer instead or to buy a nicer car or to buy a boat or put your kids in a better school or whatever, it will now be forced out of you in the terms of taxes."
You are correct. I question anyone who thinks that a new computer, nice car, boat, or private school is a priority over having health coverage. I know there are lots of these people. You're making the assumption that it would be cheaper for the tax payer to foot the bill of paying for those people's emergency room bills rather than their preventative care. Considering how much an emergency room costs, I find that hard to believe.
I think you haven't considered that there are rational Americans who are willing to pay taxes to the Federal Government to get what they need. They may chafe at Alaskan bridges to nowhere, but when you propose something sensible, like educating children or making sure no one dies of preventable diseases, they're willing to pay for it.
Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean I haven't considered the facts.
Let's remember correlation is not necessarily causation. You don't get some sort of free pass to ignore all correlations.
Standard Slashdot reaction - "Ah, it's a correlation! Scientific proof it's completely unrelated thanks to the 'correlation is not causation' rule"
I find this very easy to believe. I have pretty bad allergies and in recent years I've started running a few miles a day. If I run my allergies stay mostly under control, if I skip for a few days I often end up with a sinus infection. So even though pretty much all the allergens I'm allergic to are outside (this has been proven with a skin test), I stay healthier if I go outside every day.
They should take these statistics and run some tests to see if the asthma of these kids improves if they cut their TV by an hour, or completely out.
This also goes to show that Republicans aren't really the party of small business. One of the biggest ways that small business struggles to compete with big business is in the realm of health care costs. Big businesses have better bargaining power and pay less per employee. Small business can't simply compete with salaries, they have to compete on benefits, and they have to pay more for them than largeer businesses.
The best way to create a boom in all sectors is to nationalize health care premiums. Companies and employees would have more in their pocket. Employers could hire more, and could pay their current employees more, which would be great for the economy.
But he uses the UI for clueless users in the article. Then complains it doesn't have the package he needs. He basically wants an OS he doesn't have to learn or that works exactly the same as Windows.
So he complains about synaptic being too hard to use. Then he complains about Add/Remove Software (which exists because we realize synaptic is a bit of a power tool) doesn't have the package he wants. Does he want to be a power user or a beginner? Anything past beginner is going to take some education regardless of OS.
His diatribe about the update manager is especially bizarre. Last time I check windows update manager listed updates with obscure names often referencing knowledge base articles. If you're a beginner you're just supposed to install the updates, whether Windows or Linux.
I have a feeling his review of MacOS would be much the same...
This was on ant, but I think they're fairly applicable elsewhere:
1) Making the build less object oriented. Code reuse is not as important as speed in a build. Try to limit the creep of including all sorts of build task libraries. 2) Map your build and dist directories to a tmpfs.
I halved our build time just with these two steps.
Yeah, but if GM was competing in the turbodiesel market in the US, I'm quite confident they'd get their lunch eaten by the other manufacturers anyway. They'd probably find a way to make their turbodiesels pollute more and get lower mpg than a standard gasoline engine.
It doesn't make sense, right now. Right this second. But last time I checked they didn't have it in any showrooms yet, so that point is moot. Just because a global economic meltdown happened that made driving a gas-guzzling GM make sense for approx 6-12 more months, doesn't mean GM should bet the future of its company on gas prices staying low. That's basically what they've been doing. If gas prices stay low it will be because the economy is horrible, and GM will go out of business because no one buys their trucks. If gas prices rise GM will go out of business because they still don't build vehicles that anyone will want to buy at $6/gallon of gas.
The Volt is the ONLY thing GM is doing that makes the tiniest bit of sense. For goodness sakes, they released a passenger car hybrid that costs about the same as a prius, but gets about the same gas mileage as a minivan.
But I'm more worried about legislation that has a chance of passing. Legislation proposed by a minority party to pander to its crazy-base is not particularly interesting, or likely to pass.
This is different from service animals, how? I'm pretty sure the law would see it that way. If you train an animal to do something for you, it's actually proving intent. Not only did you intend to click that EULA, you spent hours figuring out a way for your cat to click the EULA.
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I think you bring up the fact that there are two facets to Sun. There's hardware and there's their services division. How important you think Sun is to the ecosystem seems to revolve more around whether you're a sysadmin or developer. Most of us developers don't even think about Sun as developing hardware. Most of the SysAdmins don't seem to think of Sun as the controlling force behind Java.
I wasn't really attacking your premise. My point was just that they would portray it the same way. I can hear them saying, "Who could take over these IBM contracts? Why there is no one in the world with the breadth of experience IBM had. No one with the requisite experience to touch these critical systems." Those of us reading slashdot would call BS, but that doesn't mean that they would be able to convince the American public.
I live in Texas. I'd love for them to debate something that had even this much of a tenous link to reality.
We're considering Voter IDs and whether to teach creationism in schools. Making cars use different paint to improve fuel efficiency seems like a real improvement from where I'm sitting. It may be trivial, but it's at least productive and based in the real world.
Sure because it's not like much of the government and private sector are running on IBM software or hardware. Their contracts becoming worthless would not cascade at all. You've bought into AIG being too big to fail. Wait until IBM makes their case.
If it was socialism or communism we would have bought, re-orged and consolidated the banks. Sold off all the bad debt at fire-sale prices and moved on from this whole mess. If we were capitalists we would have let all the jackasses fail and let the secure banks that didn't dabble in these securities move into a huge and unrealized market. Instead we get the downside to communism (government propping up useless industry to save jobs) and capitalism (investors lose lots of money). And (to my dismay) I see no difference between Obama and Bush's plans.
You believe a bunch of myths about Democrats. You believe myths about capitalism being somehow enshrined in the constitution. The sooner you realize this, the sooner we can all become productive again.
The Dark Night was an R-rated super hero movie with a PG-13 rating. Obviously they're referring to the fact that if you put a superhero in it the MPAA is willing to give you a PG-13 rating. There won't be any further superhero movies with blood, since that appears to be the dividing line.
Have we learned nothing from the recent "too big to fail" mess? I realize IBM is already too big to fail, but do we want to let them add to it? Sun failing would be fine for the market. Lots of small companies would jump in to take its place. Sun being bought by IBM would stifle the marketplace and would exert far too much control.
Sometimes to have a free-ish market we have to think about unpleasant topics like anti-trust.
Except that cheap energy would lead to a larger middle class. And as the middle class grows eventually population decreases. Lots of children are a function of poverty. More children are economic security, since you can have your children work to provide for your family. As you grow more wealthy more children become an economic liability.
Large families are not a function of race. They are a function of economics. How many Irish-Americans do you know still having 11 children per family?
This is why we need a national voter ID bill, to prevent election fraud! Oh wait...
No because it's not the plot that was objected to. It's the images. And the images from the trailer were of a white superman going into an African country. For most Europeans and Africans that evokes memories of not particularly distant colonial adventures.
I haven't heard anyone object to the plot, nor have I heard these concerns voiced as much in the context of the game. But in the trailer the images definitely played out like some sort of colonial wet dream. My point was just to point out what people objected to in the trailer, because I think so many people heard racism and interpreted it completely wrong.
Imagine if they had shown a trailer where Chris was battling African-American zombies with the help of his trusty canine companion and firehose. The plot context wouldn't matter that much because the first thing people would see would be reflections of their own experiences during the mid-twentieth century.
I'm glad that the game was not indeed racist. I think Capcom could have saved themselves some grief, however, if they'd had that trailer vetted by someone with knowledge of European and African history.
It's not "white people shooting black people racist". The images people are objecting reflect back to colonial days. It's the image of a white strong superman coming in to aid the poor impoverished dark skinned people.
It's Curious George racist, not Rodney King racist.
We have an 80 degree data center. It's not particularly pleasant to be in (as you get buffeted by hotter winds coming off of power supplies), but we haven't seen any more failures than normal.
Have a really, really common name.
I don't think this is a "quirky" developer. A "quirky" developer is one who talks obsessively about Pokemon or has trouble making eye contact. Then again, I've met my share of sociopath managers too, so I don't think development is the only place you find them. Let's not confuse "quirkiness" with severe personality disorders.
My health insurance (family, employer pays half of my premium) through blue cross blue shield is closer to $3,800/month. Single person is well over $1000. So yeah, your figures are wildly out of date. But yes I realize there are ways for a small business to pay fees in order to pool their resources to get better rates. You can call it the chamber of commerce, but you're still describing an ad hoc form of government.
I do acknowledge where this money is coming from. Higher taxes. Our taxes are ridiculously low. We haven't even been paying for what we've been spending. Once we get out of this recession we're obviously going to have higher taxes. Trickle-down doesn't work in any substantial way. Otherwise we would have had surpluses during the most recent boom years. I think the American taxpayer is beginning to realize that health care is something like roads or electricity. We're not willing to compromise on it. We think it's a basic right, and we're willing to pay for it. The federal government already is insuring an enormous number of Americans. Our taxes are already paying for the uninsured when they hit hospitals and cost a ridiculous amount more than preventative care. Let's finish the deal and ensure a right to health as a fundamental American right.
"The effect is that you don't save anything, the companies don't save anything, but instead of you having a choice to spend that money on a computer instead or to buy a nicer car or to buy a boat or put your kids in a better school or whatever, it will now be forced out of you in the terms of taxes."
You are correct. I question anyone who thinks that a new computer, nice car, boat, or private school is a priority over having health coverage. I know there are lots of these people. You're making the assumption that it would be cheaper for the tax payer to foot the bill of paying for those people's emergency room bills rather than their preventative care. Considering how much an emergency room costs, I find that hard to believe.
I think you haven't considered that there are rational Americans who are willing to pay taxes to the Federal Government to get what they need. They may chafe at Alaskan bridges to nowhere, but when you propose something sensible, like educating children or making sure no one dies of preventable diseases, they're willing to pay for it.
Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean I haven't considered the facts.
Let's remember correlation is not necessarily causation. You don't get some sort of free pass to ignore all correlations.
Standard Slashdot reaction - "Ah, it's a correlation! Scientific proof it's completely unrelated thanks to the 'correlation is not causation' rule"
I find this very easy to believe. I have pretty bad allergies and in recent years I've started running a few miles a day. If I run my allergies stay mostly under control, if I skip for a few days I often end up with a sinus infection. So even though pretty much all the allergens I'm allergic to are outside (this has been proven with a skin test), I stay healthier if I go outside every day.
They should take these statistics and run some tests to see if the asthma of these kids improves if they cut their TV by an hour, or completely out.
It's people. Politicans are PEEEEOPPPLEEEE!!! They're using people to make decisions. Next thing you know they'll create a democracy and make us vote!
This also goes to show that Republicans aren't really the party of small business. One of the biggest ways that small business struggles to compete with big business is in the realm of health care costs. Big businesses have better bargaining power and pay less per employee. Small business can't simply compete with salaries, they have to compete on benefits, and they have to pay more for them than largeer businesses.
The best way to create a boom in all sectors is to nationalize health care premiums. Companies and employees would have more in their pocket. Employers could hire more, and could pay their current employees more, which would be great for the economy.
But he uses the UI for clueless users in the article. Then complains it doesn't have the package he needs. He basically wants an OS he doesn't have to learn or that works exactly the same as Windows.
So he complains about synaptic being too hard to use. Then he complains about Add/Remove Software (which exists because we realize synaptic is a bit of a power tool) doesn't have the package he wants. Does he want to be a power user or a beginner? Anything past beginner is going to take some education regardless of OS.
His diatribe about the update manager is especially bizarre. Last time I check windows update manager listed updates with obscure names often referencing knowledge base articles. If you're a beginner you're just supposed to install the updates, whether Windows or Linux.
I have a feeling his review of MacOS would be much the same...
This was on ant, but I think they're fairly applicable elsewhere:
1) Making the build less object oriented. Code reuse is not as important as speed in a build. Try to limit the creep of including all sorts of build task libraries.
2) Map your build and dist directories to a tmpfs.
I halved our build time just with these two steps.
Yeah, but if GM was competing in the turbodiesel market in the US, I'm quite confident they'd get their lunch eaten by the other manufacturers anyway. They'd probably find a way to make their turbodiesels pollute more and get lower mpg than a standard gasoline engine.
I feel like GM is trying not to win.
It doesn't make sense, right now. Right this second. But last time I checked they didn't have it in any showrooms yet, so that point is moot. Just because a global economic meltdown happened that made driving a gas-guzzling GM make sense for approx 6-12 more months, doesn't mean GM should bet the future of its company on gas prices staying low. That's basically what they've been doing. If gas prices stay low it will be because the economy is horrible, and GM will go out of business because no one buys their trucks. If gas prices rise GM will go out of business because they still don't build vehicles that anyone will want to buy at $6/gallon of gas.
The Volt is the ONLY thing GM is doing that makes the tiniest bit of sense. For goodness sakes, they released a passenger car hybrid that costs about the same as a prius, but gets about the same gas mileage as a minivan.
But I'm more worried about legislation that has a chance of passing. Legislation proposed by a minority party to pander to its crazy-base is not particularly interesting, or likely to pass.
This is different from service animals, how? I'm pretty sure the law would see it that way. If you train an animal to do something for you, it's actually proving intent. Not only did you intend to click that EULA, you spent hours figuring out a way for your cat to click the EULA.