And I don't argue with it being available. I do argue with calling it 4.0. If it's not finished, how is it release quality? I mean, I'm running Kubuntu, so it could be the packaging of their release of it, but there were major things missing (can't recall which as I've gone back to 3.0 for now).
I really object to this. You should never release something that is unreleasable. It should have been KDE4pre1 or KDE 3.99.x or something. When KDE4 was released, I started to run it briefly. I saw an announcement and I figured "let me check this out." It was basically unusable. I said to myself "holy shit, this is the new release? Who did QA on this thing?" Now I've since heard that the plan is to get people to look at KDE4 by almost tricking them into thinking it was a release, rather than calling it a testing/proving release which it really is. I don't see how that serves anyone.
I can go farther than this -- I have had experience with IRIX, Solaris, and AIX administration in HS. I worked there probably all 4 summers (I was not permitted root access during the actual school year -- this was probably a decent policy), and did some work during the year in my spare time. For all intents and purposes, while I was not working full time for all of that time, between experience running a small Linux server at home that was over-engineered (Samba PDC, etc.), work with the IRIX, Solaris and AIX in school, etc., I have probably at least 10 years of experience. Problem is, no employer will recognize it, even if I had worked with Solaris back as far as 2.5, Linux back as far as 2.0, remember when IRIX 5.3 was new, etc.
Just because you're GenY doesn't mean you're an idiot. In fact, a lot of times I implement off-the-shelf open source products where the old-timers would write their own software. That's fine until the requirements change and we're still stuck using this turkey. Most of the people I work with now freely admit that the stuff that we still run was never meant to do the stuff they're trying to make it do now, but still the first thing they think of is writing a tool to do a job, not looking for one that is good at doing the general type of work they want done. It's silly not to take advantage of community support when you have it (and when you have real support from your organization).
Which is unfortunate frankly. Maybe this is my odd set of circumstances talking (I am a unionized employee at a large medical university that has been there longer than almost anyone in my group, though I am about half of most of their age), but I can't understand why people are accepting this shit as deteriorating. If there's a problem, you organize, you vote for people that will pass rules that you need, and you do something to stop things from deteriorating. This contract shit that people think they are doing to protect themselves -- I just don't understand it. I go to work, I come home, I can pay the bills, and my healthcare is still free. I am actually VERY loyal. I just don't understand why anyone would want to jerk around with 6 month contracts and 1099 work and all of this shit.
It is generally not done. We saw this in cases like ValuJet 592, where the FDR had very little information on it compared to modern aircraft. I seem to remember reading that the older aircraft had an FDR that recorded 9 or 11 parameters whereby modern aircraft generally watch hundreds of things. According to all-knowing Wikipedia, in 2002 the minimum number of parameters was raised from 29 to 88. Retrofits are not required in any case I know of.
I was thinking of this myself, when I was reading about TWA flight 800 the other day. Apparently the black boxes stopped recording almost immediately, since power was lost. I thought about it a little harder and figured, well, the chances of there being anything to record if the rest of the airplane has no power might be pretty low. If the instruments for recording are actually IN the box though, and not just recording data sent from the rest of the plane, I suppose it would be possible.
Neat to see them mandate something I was just thinking about this week though.
I was actually looking for information on these as I ran across them in the restroom of our co-location space. Never seen anything like it... some sort of gravity/pressure situation causes blue liquid to come out of the bottom of the urinal as waste goes in. I see their website is broken.
In case you hadn't noticed, this whole discussion is rooted in finding the cheapest PC in a Wal*Mart. How good can anyone feel about anything that goes on in there? I suspect monopoly, child labor, etc., are not on most of these folks' collective radar.
As an often-scientific athiest, I'm prepared to date people from any different religions, as long as we're both content to let one anothers belief systems not interfere with our love life. But I have difficulty talking to anyone who believes a few miniscule globules of rock millions of miles away can effect something as complex as our personalities and day-to-day activities. Easier said than done, I'd think. If their religion/beliefs make them do things or act a certain way that would make you lose respect for them (for example if they were part of this nonsense, it really can be a big deal even if it does not really affect you directly. I don't want to think the person I'm dating is a horrible human being.
I had FIOS for a few months and was severely disappointed. The Actiontec router they force upon you is a complete piece of junk - the thing went down on me at least once a day, With service like that, who needs a girlfriend?
Are you using the driver that that page recommends for that printer? There are often a few of them and one or more of them are often lousy (which is another bit of foolishness).
Ah, I generally fly whatever airline is going where I'm going non-stop for the cheapest. I've found that connections don't generally buy you enough to be worth it (there was only once I found that the flight was about half the price with a connection, so I took it) if you book far enough in advance. I also never fly for business as my business never takes me out of state, so loyalty doesn't mean much.
Even so, SkyTeam and StarAlliance allow you use miles on each other's flights... so it's sorta like having two different airlines to decide between, so miles aren't really all that fragmented (though airlines like JetBlue and Southwest are left out).
Which is basically what I do now. Alright, I guess that's not so bad.
Now, Southwest has never been an option for me (PHL is the nearest airport and any price savings is pretty much eliminated by the travel distance), but it sounds like they've got their act together at this point.
Trouble is, I'm not someone who likes to get to the airport 2 hours early and hang around. That pretty much dooms me to a middle seat someplace unpleasant, doesn't it?
That is likely the airport she was talking about as that was one of the few places she went.
What all do they ask for security questions? I really wouldn't want to answer more than "I'm heading home," if that's what I was doing (which I likely would be).
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It was more noticeable, in fact, with sgi. Old hardware cost double to support.
It gotten modded funny because it's really amusing how fucking stupid you are.
Look at the download page: http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
See the link to BitTorrent? Torrents are a sanctioned and encouraged method of download.
Click the link and read. Educate yourself, Jackson.
Yes, I'm sure they'd be getting screwed infinitely less without a union. How insightful!
And I don't argue with it being available. I do argue with calling it 4.0. If it's not finished, how is it release quality? I mean, I'm running Kubuntu, so it could be the packaging of their release of it, but there were major things missing (can't recall which as I've gone back to 3.0 for now).
I really object to this. You should never release something that is unreleasable. It should have been KDE4pre1 or KDE 3.99.x or something. When KDE4 was released, I started to run it briefly. I saw an announcement and I figured "let me check this out." It was basically unusable. I said to myself "holy shit, this is the new release? Who did QA on this thing?" Now I've since heard that the plan is to get people to look at KDE4 by almost tricking them into thinking it was a release, rather than calling it a testing/proving release which it really is. I don't see how that serves anyone.
I can go farther than this -- I have had experience with IRIX, Solaris, and AIX administration in HS. I worked there probably all 4 summers (I was not permitted root access during the actual school year -- this was probably a decent policy), and did some work during the year in my spare time. For all intents and purposes, while I was not working full time for all of that time, between experience running a small Linux server at home that was over-engineered (Samba PDC, etc.), work with the IRIX, Solaris and AIX in school, etc., I have probably at least 10 years of experience. Problem is, no employer will recognize it, even if I had worked with Solaris back as far as 2.5, Linux back as far as 2.0, remember when IRIX 5.3 was new, etc.
Just because you're GenY doesn't mean you're an idiot. In fact, a lot of times I implement off-the-shelf open source products where the old-timers would write their own software. That's fine until the requirements change and we're still stuck using this turkey. Most of the people I work with now freely admit that the stuff that we still run was never meant to do the stuff they're trying to make it do now, but still the first thing they think of is writing a tool to do a job, not looking for one that is good at doing the general type of work they want done. It's silly not to take advantage of community support when you have it (and when you have real support from your organization).
Which is unfortunate frankly. Maybe this is my odd set of circumstances talking (I am a unionized employee at a large medical university that has been there longer than almost anyone in my group, though I am about half of most of their age), but I can't understand why people are accepting this shit as deteriorating. If there's a problem, you organize, you vote for people that will pass rules that you need, and you do something to stop things from deteriorating. This contract shit that people think they are doing to protect themselves -- I just don't understand it. I go to work, I come home, I can pay the bills, and my healthcare is still free. I am actually VERY loyal. I just don't understand why anyone would want to jerk around with 6 month contracts and 1099 work and all of this shit.
What happens if you get an illness that costs a million dollars (there are lots of them these days). Are you still covered somehow?
They're in the tail, which has been repeated many times.
I thought this too, but you're forgetting the fact that figuring out what happened to an aircraft can often prevent future accidents.
It is generally not done. We saw this in cases like ValuJet 592, where the FDR had very little information on it compared to modern aircraft. I seem to remember reading that the older aircraft had an FDR that recorded 9 or 11 parameters whereby modern aircraft generally watch hundreds of things. According to all-knowing Wikipedia, in 2002 the minimum number of parameters was raised from 29 to 88. Retrofits are not required in any case I know of.
I was thinking of this myself, when I was reading about TWA flight 800 the other day. Apparently the black boxes stopped recording almost immediately, since power was lost. I thought about it a little harder and figured, well, the chances of there being anything to record if the rest of the airplane has no power might be pretty low. If the instruments for recording are actually IN the box though, and not just recording data sent from the rest of the plane, I suppose it would be possible.
Neat to see them mandate something I was just thinking about this week though.
I was actually looking for information on these as I ran across them in the restroom of our co-location space. Never seen anything like it... some sort of gravity/pressure situation causes blue liquid to come out of the bottom of the urinal as waste goes in. I see their website is broken.
In case you hadn't noticed, this whole discussion is rooted in finding the cheapest PC in a Wal*Mart. How good can anyone feel about anything that goes on in there? I suspect monopoly, child labor, etc., are not on most of these folks' collective radar.
OK.
Are you using the driver that that page recommends for that printer? There are often a few of them and one or more of them are often lousy (which is another bit of foolishness).
Possible this stuff falls into the "out of date" category, but if not, that's precisely the kind of information that does exist for printers:
http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Brother
Nope, you didn't understand the article. NDISwrapper has nothing to do with Flash.
Ah, I generally fly whatever airline is going where I'm going non-stop for the cheapest. I've found that connections don't generally buy you enough to be worth it (there was only once I found that the flight was about half the price with a connection, so I took it) if you book far enough in advance. I also never fly for business as my business never takes me out of state, so loyalty doesn't mean much.
Even so, SkyTeam and StarAlliance allow you use miles on each other's flights... so it's sorta like having two different airlines to decide between, so miles aren't really all that fragmented (though airlines like JetBlue and Southwest are left out).
Which is basically what I do now. Alright, I guess that's not so bad.
Now, Southwest has never been an option for me (PHL is the nearest airport and any price savings is pretty much eliminated by the travel distance), but it sounds like they've got their act together at this point.
Nearly 100% of the time I take direct flights. I've connected once that I can recall, but there may have been another time.
I'm confused about why anyone wouldn't, unless they don't live near an airport that has a decent set of flights.
Trouble is, I'm not someone who likes to get to the airport 2 hours early and hang around. That pretty much dooms me to a middle seat someplace unpleasant, doesn't it?
That is likely the airport she was talking about as that was one of the few places she went.
What all do they ask for security questions? I really wouldn't want to answer more than "I'm heading home," if that's what I was doing (which I likely would be).