And frankly, i never use the different runlevels like you're supposed to anyways.
I don't think anyone else does either. It's far more complex than the "problem" it was trying to solve. Somewhere deep within the bowels of Sun is a sysadmin who truly uses the SysV init system, but everyone else can get by with a far simpler system... like rc.d.
In this case you would be wrong. MS Project and similar programs help you manage your resources. As a lone developer sitting in your parent's basement, that probably doesn't mean much. But for a manager with twenty employees that he has to allocate to three different projects, it's invaluable.
Project gives you the hard numbers you need to tell your vice president that you have too few employees for too many projects. It gives you the numbers to tell the VP that Project A will be two months late because Joe Splotnik was sick two weeks with the flu.
Even better, it gives you the hard numbers to tell the CEO that the group in Bangalore isn't producing, and that the project desperately needs twenty local engineers, and that we should hire back those twenty engineers we laid off and outsourced to India...
They're not "shoving KDE onto a cellphone", they'e using a single component, KHTML. They're not using X, they're using Qt/Embedded. And KHTML is under the LGPL license, so as long as they make their KHTML modifications available, they don't need to open their browsing application that uses it.
Can I still make phone calls of this phone?
A cell phone that let's you make phone calls. How quaint...
The GPL has absolutely nothing to do with it whether or not it can be ported to FreeBSD.
Yes it does. A filesystem is a part of the kernel. The kernel is under the BSD license. The inclusion of Reiserfs code in the kernel would require it to be under the GPL license instead.
So is Ext2 & Ext3 file systems.
The ability to read ext2 file systems is included, but it is not the ext2 file system itself. You cannot create and write to ext2 file systems with FreeBSD.
First, "privatized" does not mean "laissez faire". Second, attributing Africa's problems to a lack of anti-capitalism is harmful to Africa as it ignores the real problems. When you look at those nations with the highest amount of capitalism and economic freedom you'll find them with far far less poverty than Africa.
Africa is a giant war raging example of what 'could' happen if they try switching to a capitalist imposed Western system as so many African countries have done and collapsed
Mentioning capitalism as the source of Africa's problems is, let's say, a unique perspective. Many of Africa's problems can be attributed to Western colonialism, but that is NOT capitalism.
As my dear mother would say, "if you were supposed to jump off a cliff, would you?" What does "supposed to" mean? You just downloaded it because someone told you? Or did you download it because you thought you were going to get Doom 3?
I must be a bad person, because try as I might, I just can't seem to dredge up any sympathy. Downloading a game from a portal is like buying a watch off of a guy standing on a New York street corner. "But it was supposed to be a Rolex!"
p.s. Yes, I am not immune to trojans. I'm sure that one of these days I will get duped. But I can certainly do a lot to postpone that day by not downloading software from portals or buying watches off the street.
I would have more sympathy, except that the threat of spyware is a KNOWN threat! To take my analogy further, if all your neighbors ended up with outrageous phone bills because they invited people they did not know into their home, then why the hell would you do the same? That's stupidity.
I know a guy at work who complains that he *keeps* getting infected with spyware! Didn't he learn the first time? It's like complaining that you keep getting syphilis and you wish the government would do something about it!
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Why the hell do people install shit like this? If people weren't so stupid then all the stupid people wouldn't be clamouring for governemnt to pass laws protecting stupid people from being stupid.
In twenty five years of computing, I have never once received a virus, trojan, worm or other piece of malware. I especially have never been infected by spyware. While I might have some sympathy for those accidentally infected by viruses and those duped by trojans, I have absolutely no sympathy for people who deliberately and knowingly install spyware on their systems and then complain about it.
If an anonymous stranger asks to come into your house, and furthermore asks to bring several of his anonymous friends with him, and you *agree*, then it's your own damned fault if his lowlife friends plug up your toilet and run up your phone bill.
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Amazing how networks went from communal workspaces to protected territories.
Not really. Rural folks rarely lock their doors, everyone in the city does. Rural fences aren't meant to keep people out, but to keep cattle from straying. When the internet had only a few thousand users, no one cared much about security. But the internet isn't "rural" anymore, it's global with millions of people on it.
Socialism is the state/public ownership of the means of production. So tecnically the Nazis were not socialist. But technically, neither are a lot of things called "socialist." However, if you replace "ownership" with "control", then the Nazis were indeed socialist. Yes, it was a corrupt form of socialism, but it was still socialism. Private companies didn't exist in Nazi Germany without obeying the Nazi economic dictates. If the state told you to produce cannon shells, then you produced cannon shells, regardless of whose name was on the factory's deed.
Just because Nazi Germany didn't have a complete and total replacement of the existing economic structure doesn't mean it wasn't socialist. If Nazi Germany had won the war, and had been content to stop its expansion, then it would have settled into a socialism much as you see today in the Scandanavian countries that call themselves "socialist".
Socialists don't like the Nazis being called "socialist" simply because they don't like the negative association. It's the same reason they try to distance themselves from Stalin.
The Nazis were national socialists. While they had a particularly virulent streak of racism posing as nationalism, in economic terms they were still a socialist variant.
You fail to make a distinction between news and opinion. The news part of Fox News isn't that biased, but the opinion parts are. O'Reilly isn't the news, he's the opinion. The reason "liberals" think Fox is terribly biased is because the mainstream press is increasingly failing to distinguish between news, commentary and opinion.
Don't mistake the editorial page for the front page.
I'm currently writing a piece of software to compete with a commercial proprietary offering. I'm using "bloated" STL and "bloated" C++ to manipulate "bloated" XML. Frankly, I'm shocked at its poor performance, and I might have to do some optimizations. It takes about a half of a second to load and process 200k worth of XML.
ON THE OTHER HAND, the commercial proprietary alternative I'm competing against loads the equivalent data. But that data consumes 25Megs, and takes five seconds to load! You would think if they're going to use a proprietary data format, they could at least make one that works!
I'm not going to apologize anymore for using "bloated" tools.
There are optimizations and then there are optimizations. If you run this particular loop once, or twice, it won't matter. Run it ten times or even a hundred, it won't matter. In these cases it would be a pointless optimization. Profile your software before you optimize. That way you can optimize where you need it and not waste time where you don't.
I remember one code review where someone told me to use prefix instead of postfix notation, for optimization reasons. Yet it occured in an initialization routine in a background thread that would run once per day. That's like worrying about a memory leak in a power-off interrupt handler...
I remember when Rational demoed Rose to us. They said "here's the actual diagram for Rose itself" and put up UML on the projector. They zoomed in and out during the presentation, and all the managers in the room were going "oooh aaah".
However, all the real programmers were aghast at the horrible spiderweb. I don't know if it was a good design or not, because you could not tell. They had EVERY class with every member and association. You couldn't make sense of it.
I think that CMM Level 5 is the only environment where one can actually be assured of reasonable quality code.
I've seen lots of bad code come out of CMM 5 organizations. While my company isn't CMM 5, one of our contracting companies is.
In corporatese, "quality" is synonymous with "process". If the softare adheres to the requirements, it is of high quality, regardless of any "defects" discovered by the user. In fact, a bug is not a bug until it has been determined to be a bug. Until such time it's not a bug. As long as you don't have a metric for customer satisfaction, actual real world quality doesn't matter.
By and large, though, CMM 5 software does have better quality. But that's only a correlation. Companies that feel the need to get to level 5 are usually companies that have had quality problems in the past, and are trying to rectify them.
Sounds like the effort to ban blogs hasn't gone away. Write a letter-to-the-editor to your local paper and ink newspaper, and it's "free speech" and "free press". Write a personal opinion piece and post it to your personal blog hosted on your personal server, and suddenly it's a "monetary campaign contribution" that must be regulated.
Put a bumper sticker on your car and it's free speech. Put a banner on your site and it's a monetary campaign contribution.
How the "liberals" got caught up in this illiberal crusade is beyond me. It smacks more of anti-Republicanism than anything else.
Where have you been since 2000? Liberal and progressive ideology and philosophy have been abandoned in favor of pure unadulterated unthinking partisanship.
What's really sad, is that I can't tell if your post is sincere or satire. If it's sincere, you need to adjust your prozac medication. If it's satire, you need to make it sound less like a Daily Kos comment.
In context you used "Republican", so I could only assume that you meant "Democrat" as the opposite. Also, you use of "Boxer" completely threw me for a loop, as she's one of the last people I would consider to be on "the peoples' side".
My apologies for mistaking your post as being partisan in nature.
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And frankly, i never use the different runlevels like you're supposed to anyways.
I don't think anyone else does either. It's far more complex than the "problem" it was trying to solve. Somewhere deep within the bowels of Sun is a sysadmin who truly uses the SysV init system, but everyone else can get by with a far simpler system... like rc.d.
In this case you would be wrong. MS Project and similar programs help you manage your resources. As a lone developer sitting in your parent's basement, that probably doesn't mean much. But for a manager with twenty employees that he has to allocate to three different projects, it's invaluable.
Project gives you the hard numbers you need to tell your vice president that you have too few employees for too many projects. It gives you the numbers to tell the VP that Project A will be two months late because Joe Splotnik was sick two weeks with the flu.
Even better, it gives you the hard numbers to tell the CEO that the group in Bangalore isn't producing, and that the project desperately needs twenty local engineers, and that we should hire back those twenty engineers we laid off and outsourced to India...
They're not "shoving KDE onto a cellphone", they'e using a single component, KHTML. They're not using X, they're using Qt/Embedded. And KHTML is under the LGPL license, so as long as they make their KHTML modifications available, they don't need to open their browsing application that uses it.
Can I still make phone calls of this phone?
A cell phone that let's you make phone calls. How quaint...
The GPL has absolutely nothing to do with it whether or not it can be ported to FreeBSD.
Yes it does. A filesystem is a part of the kernel. The kernel is under the BSD license. The inclusion of Reiserfs code in the kernel would require it to be under the GPL license instead.
So is Ext2 & Ext3 file systems.
The ability to read ext2 file systems is included, but it is not the ext2 file system itself. You cannot create and write to ext2 file systems with FreeBSD.
First, "privatized" does not mean "laissez faire". Second, attributing Africa's problems to a lack of anti-capitalism is harmful to Africa as it ignores the real problems. When you look at those nations with the highest amount of capitalism and economic freedom you'll find them with far far less poverty than Africa.
Africa is a giant war raging example of what 'could' happen if they try switching to a capitalist imposed Western system as so many African countries have done and collapsed
Mentioning capitalism as the source of Africa's problems is, let's say, a unique perspective. Many of Africa's problems can be attributed to Western colonialism, but that is NOT capitalism.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this one. I learned all of those things as a kid in school, thirty years ago.
I don't seem to recall any modern history books written from a Western viewpoint disputing ANYTHING you mentioned.
Oooh, good site. I especially love the Quick Ramen in a Cup recipe. Wow, quick ramen in a cup. I am overwhelmed by the creativity.
It was supposed to download and install *a* game.
As my dear mother would say, "if you were supposed to jump off a cliff, would you?" What does "supposed to" mean? You just downloaded it because someone told you? Or did you download it because you thought you were going to get Doom 3?
I must be a bad person, because try as I might, I just can't seem to dredge up any sympathy. Downloading a game from a portal is like buying a watch off of a guy standing on a New York street corner. "But it was supposed to be a Rolex!"
p.s. Yes, I am not immune to trojans. I'm sure that one of these days I will get duped. But I can certainly do a lot to postpone that day by not downloading software from portals or buying watches off the street.
I would have more sympathy, except that the threat of spyware is a KNOWN threat! To take my analogy further, if all your neighbors ended up with outrageous phone bills because they invited people they did not know into their home, then why the hell would you do the same? That's stupidity.
I know a guy at work who complains that he *keeps* getting infected with spyware! Didn't he learn the first time? It's like complaining that you keep getting syphilis and you wish the government would do something about it!
Why the hell do people install shit like this? If people weren't so stupid then all the stupid people wouldn't be clamouring for governemnt to pass laws protecting stupid people from being stupid.
In twenty five years of computing, I have never once received a virus, trojan, worm or other piece of malware. I especially have never been infected by spyware. While I might have some sympathy for those accidentally infected by viruses and those duped by trojans, I have absolutely no sympathy for people who deliberately and knowingly install spyware on their systems and then complain about it.
If an anonymous stranger asks to come into your house, and furthermore asks to bring several of his anonymous friends with him, and you *agree*, then it's your own damned fault if his lowlife friends plug up your toilet and run up your phone bill.
Amazing how networks went from communal workspaces to protected territories.
Not really. Rural folks rarely lock their doors, everyone in the city does. Rural fences aren't meant to keep people out, but to keep cattle from straying. When the internet had only a few thousand users, no one cared much about security. But the internet isn't "rural" anymore, it's global with millions of people on it.
Socialism is the state/public ownership of the means of production. So tecnically the Nazis were not socialist. But technically, neither are a lot of things called "socialist." However, if you replace "ownership" with "control", then the Nazis were indeed socialist. Yes, it was a corrupt form of socialism, but it was still socialism. Private companies didn't exist in Nazi Germany without obeying the Nazi economic dictates. If the state told you to produce cannon shells, then you produced cannon shells, regardless of whose name was on the factory's deed.
Just because Nazi Germany didn't have a complete and total replacement of the existing economic structure doesn't mean it wasn't socialist. If Nazi Germany had won the war, and had been content to stop its expansion, then it would have settled into a socialism much as you see today in the Scandanavian countries that call themselves "socialist".
Socialists don't like the Nazis being called "socialist" simply because they don't like the negative association. It's the same reason they try to distance themselves from Stalin.
The Nazis were national socialists. While they had a particularly virulent streak of racism posing as nationalism, in economic terms they were still a socialist variant.
You fail to make a distinction between news and opinion. The news part of Fox News isn't that biased, but the opinion parts are. O'Reilly isn't the news, he's the opinion. The reason "liberals" think Fox is terribly biased is because the mainstream press is increasingly failing to distinguish between news, commentary and opinion.
Don't mistake the editorial page for the front page.
I'm currently writing a piece of software to compete with a commercial proprietary offering. I'm using "bloated" STL and "bloated" C++ to manipulate "bloated" XML. Frankly, I'm shocked at its poor performance, and I might have to do some optimizations. It takes about a half of a second to load and process 200k worth of XML.
ON THE OTHER HAND, the commercial proprietary alternative I'm competing against loads the equivalent data. But that data consumes 25Megs, and takes five seconds to load! You would think if they're going to use a proprietary data format, they could at least make one that works!
I'm not going to apologize anymore for using "bloated" tools.
There are optimizations and then there are optimizations. If you run this particular loop once, or twice, it won't matter. Run it ten times or even a hundred, it won't matter. In these cases it would be a pointless optimization. Profile your software before you optimize. That way you can optimize where you need it and not waste time where you don't.
I remember one code review where someone told me to use prefix instead of postfix notation, for optimization reasons. Yet it occured in an initialization routine in a background thread that would run once per day. That's like worrying about a memory leak in a power-off interrupt handler...
I remember when Rational demoed Rose to us. They said "here's the actual diagram for Rose itself" and put up UML on the projector. They zoomed in and out during the presentation, and all the managers in the room were going "oooh aaah".
However, all the real programmers were aghast at the horrible spiderweb. I don't know if it was a good design or not, because you could not tell. They had EVERY class with every member and association. You couldn't make sense of it.
I think that CMM Level 5 is the only environment where one can actually be assured of reasonable quality code.
I've seen lots of bad code come out of CMM 5 organizations. While my company isn't CMM 5, one of our contracting companies is.
In corporatese, "quality" is synonymous with "process". If the softare adheres to the requirements, it is of high quality, regardless of any "defects" discovered by the user. In fact, a bug is not a bug until it has been determined to be a bug. Until such time it's not a bug. As long as you don't have a metric for customer satisfaction, actual real world quality doesn't matter.
By and large, though, CMM 5 software does have better quality. But that's only a correlation. Companies that feel the need to get to level 5 are usually companies that have had quality problems in the past, and are trying to rectify them.
Sounds like the effort to ban blogs hasn't gone away. Write a letter-to-the-editor to your local paper and ink newspaper, and it's "free speech" and "free press". Write a personal opinion piece and post it to your personal blog hosted on your personal server, and suddenly it's a "monetary campaign contribution" that must be regulated.
Put a bumper sticker on your car and it's free speech. Put a banner on your site and it's a monetary campaign contribution.
How the "liberals" got caught up in this illiberal crusade is beyond me. It smacks more of anti-Republicanism than anything else.
Where have you been since 2000? Liberal and progressive ideology and philosophy have been abandoned in favor of pure unadulterated unthinking partisanship.
What's really sad, is that I can't tell if your post is sincere or satire. If it's sincere, you need to adjust your prozac medication. If it's satire, you need to make it sound less like a Daily Kos comment.
In context you used "Republican", so I could only assume that you meant "Democrat" as the opposite. Also, you use of "Boxer" completely threw me for a loop, as she's one of the last people I would consider to be on "the peoples' side".
My apologies for mistaking your post as being partisan in nature.
...or maybe it's Karl Rove. Oh hell, I don't know, someone tell me what to think!