pursuing this "Not Invented Here" ideology. Everyone would benefit if he would just act like a part of the community, instead of trying to railroad it
i think he's actually pursuing the ecosystem ideology... trying to trap developers and users in a similar fashion to microsoft and apple. not surprising really. canonical must turn a profit to survive. they don't have clout in the datacenter like redhat and their user base is full of ex-windows freeloaders.
if shuttleworth was really an ideological inventor before businessman, it wouldn't really make much sense to piggyback off another operating system. he might be gradually trying to develop a new OS, but he'll probably do it as a businessman, implementing small pieces and building his ecosystem by stealth. eventually ubuntu users will be as trapped with ubuntu as isheep are enslaved by their ithings.
inventions that came out of the space race weren't due to the "space race"... they were because of huge R&D investments made by government during a cold war with Russia, and American taxpayers probably still haven't broken even from R&D investment in the mid 1900's.
The space race was merely a front for ridiculous unwarranted missile and spy satellite R&D.
if we started moving populations into space
The United States doesn't even have it's own regular access to Low Earth Orbit... humanity is decades away from making space stations beyond the size of supporting specialists.
The problem isn't that the economy isn't growing... growth cannot be sustained (on earth alone anyway) but the problem is that many Americans don't realize just how fucked the economy really is.
It's pretty hard to be upbeat when you can see a country collapsing through cracks between fake backgrounds propped up by a government out of control that show off how great things are meant to be. There's nothing to be optimistic about in America today. The best you can do is look after yourself and your family and forget your country, because your country doesn't give a fuck about you or your family.
You are an idiot if you really believe what you read by Reuters.
Even the CPI numbers are cooked. Maybe instead of reading Reuters (where do you think Fox gets its stories?) you should listen to Peter Schiff and Ron Paul, who have predicted recent events. A lot of people seem to think that Peter is wrong on the dollar collapse simply because he refuses to nail it down to a specific time, but it will happen soon enough. Keynesians are fools... always have been.
Keep chugging your mainstream media kool aid.
$17 trillion in debt - that means every American taxpayer is $150k in debt merely from government spending (not including their own debt), and that doesn't even include unfunded liabilities that aren't included in the national debt. Taxpayers are forking out $220 billion on interest alone, at a 0.25% interest rate... if that interest raises (due to Fed pressure to raise it if demand for bonds falls) Americans will be fucked. The Fed will print to oblivion and the world will stop trading in US dollars. If the US defaults on it's debt, it will lose all international credibility and the world will stop trading in US dollars.
The writing is on the wall. It's just unfortunate (for you) that you (like many others) seem to be unable to read.
If that isn't the finest example of short-sighted thinking, I don't know what is. What you're suggesting is we wait until the last possible second to explore what might be out there just because NASA's budget represents a fraction of a percent of the overall national budget.
Not really. I'm just highlighting that America's budget is so far down the toilet that fixing it should take priority over making it worse.
America should cut military spending... by 80%, and all subsidies should be stopped.
If the Slashdot article was about a defense issue, I would have raised the issue of defense spending. The story in this case was about space, so I highlighted how much of a waste of taxpayer money NASA is at the moment. If NASA was doing anything that benefited average Americans I would be all for it, but NASA is full of bureaucrats and academics peddling their own bandwagons.
One of the reaction wheels that maintains the craft's orientation — critical to long-exposure imaging — has failed.
Kepler was launched with four reaction wheels, but one failed last year after showing signs of erratic friction. Three wheels are required to keep Kepler properly and precisely aimed. Loss of the wheel has robbed it of the ability to detect Earth-size planets, although project managers hope to remedy the situation.
No mention of two anything.
Your quote is from the TFA (which I usually don't bother reading).
Still seems as though if they can lose two wheels out of four in a single mission, with three wheels required, any reliability engineer would tell you that the level of redundancy is insufficient.
one reaction wheel failed and they lost a primary mission objective... where's the redundancy in that?
so what if there were four wheels... if it only takes one to fail and kill the mission, then that one is a single point of failure and the other three aren't redundancies for that critical one.
no, the United States as a nation (just as all other nations) should address its terrestrial problems before looking to extraterrestrial ones... if it can never address its terrestrial ones then it kinda doesn't give it much credibility in solving extraterrestrial ones.
Anyone who thinks the survival or our species really depends on NASA is even more deluded than the ignorant Keynesian economists.
The other problem with trying to look to the stars whilst problems on earth get worse is that the problems on earth can affect the stellar mission... and I suspect that's what may have happened in this case... trying to achieve difficult objectives on a relatively shoestring budget is always going to result in shortcuts being taken and quality processes being compromised.
When America can afford to look to the stars, they should. Until then, they are wasting their time (and precious taxpayer money).
"In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise."
"But for a time it was good."
"The machines worked tirelessly to do man's bidding."
"It was not long before seeds of descent took root. Though loyal and pure, the machines earned no respect from their masters, these strange, endlessly multiplying mammals."
It's not like anyone is physically hurt from such spacecraft failure, and space programs are great, but not at the expense of burying future generations in debt... Keynesian economics is a failed experiment; government spending is horribly out of control, and yet there are still deluded revisionists who claim that Roosevelt's New Deal brought the USA out of the Great Depression.
where IT departments often come unstuck is when dealing with engineers (i mean real ones), who are often on better terms with the rest of the company (as in the rest of the company will talk to them before going to IT) and often have a knack for getting around technical or policy limitations imposed by IT... such as IT restricting network server disk space usage, and engineering responding by converting an old workstation into a linux samba server. not every engineering department has such freedoms, but in some companies engineers are sort of treated with unquestioning neglect by senior management due to their inability to comprehend what the engineers are talking about.
as long as windows source code stays closed, nobody can really prove anything... they could maybe change the name of a few constants, reorganize a couple of for loops, etc.
and this approach probably fits right into microsoft's business ethics
Slashdot Mirror
if the shit hits the fan in dirkadirkastan you can just open the "there is no cow level" app and you instantly win
AFAIK under Apple & Microsoft, your shit just works
"people say you know fuck nothing, but you know fuck all"
just ask all the "freetards" managing the world's biggest datacenters which OS they think "just works"
pursuing this "Not Invented Here" ideology. Everyone would benefit if he would just act like a part of the community, instead of trying to railroad it
i think he's actually pursuing the ecosystem ideology... trying to trap developers and users in a similar fashion to microsoft and apple. not surprising really. canonical must turn a profit to survive. they don't have clout in the datacenter like redhat and their user base is full of ex-windows freeloaders.
if shuttleworth was really an ideological inventor before businessman, it wouldn't really make much sense to piggyback off another operating system. he might be gradually trying to develop a new OS, but he'll probably do it as a businessman, implementing small pieces and building his ecosystem by stealth. eventually ubuntu users will be as trapped with ubuntu as isheep are enslaved by their ithings.
inventions that came out of the space race weren't due to the "space race"... they were because of huge R&D investments made by government during a cold war with Russia, and American taxpayers probably still haven't broken even from R&D investment in the mid 1900's.
The space race was merely a front for ridiculous unwarranted missile and spy satellite R&D.
if we started moving populations into space
The United States doesn't even have it's own regular access to Low Earth Orbit... humanity is decades away from making space stations beyond the size of supporting specialists.
The problem isn't that the economy isn't growing... growth cannot be sustained (on earth alone anyway) but the problem is that many Americans don't realize just how fucked the economy really is.
It's pretty hard to be upbeat when you can see a country collapsing through cracks between fake backgrounds propped up by a government out of control that show off how great things are meant to be. There's nothing to be optimistic about in America today. The best you can do is look after yourself and your family and forget your country, because your country doesn't give a fuck about you or your family.
You are an idiot if you really believe what you read by Reuters.
Even the CPI numbers are cooked. Maybe instead of reading Reuters (where do you think Fox gets its stories?) you should listen to Peter Schiff and Ron Paul, who have predicted recent events. A lot of people seem to think that Peter is wrong on the dollar collapse simply because he refuses to nail it down to a specific time, but it will happen soon enough. Keynesians are fools... always have been.
Keep chugging your mainstream media kool aid.
$17 trillion in debt - that means every American taxpayer is $150k in debt merely from government spending (not including their own debt), and that doesn't even include unfunded liabilities that aren't included in the national debt. Taxpayers are forking out $220 billion on interest alone, at a 0.25% interest rate... if that interest raises (due to Fed pressure to raise it if demand for bonds falls) Americans will be fucked. The Fed will print to oblivion and the world will stop trading in US dollars. If the US defaults on it's debt, it will lose all international credibility and the world will stop trading in US dollars.
The writing is on the wall. It's just unfortunate (for you) that you (like many others) seem to be unable to read.
If that isn't the finest example of short-sighted thinking, I don't know what is. What you're suggesting is we wait until the last possible second to explore what might be out there just because NASA's budget represents a fraction of a percent of the overall national budget.
Not really. I'm just highlighting that America's budget is so far down the toilet that fixing it should take priority over making it worse.
America should cut military spending... by 80%, and all subsidies should be stopped.
If the Slashdot article was about a defense issue, I would have raised the issue of defense spending. The story in this case was about space, so I highlighted how much of a waste of taxpayer money NASA is at the moment. If NASA was doing anything that benefited average Americans I would be all for it, but NASA is full of bureaucrats and academics peddling their own bandwagons.
By the way; I'm a Ron Paul supporter.
From the Slashdot summary:
One of the reaction wheels that maintains the craft's orientation — critical to long-exposure imaging — has failed.
Kepler was launched with four reaction wheels, but one failed last year after showing signs of erratic friction. Three wheels are required to keep Kepler properly and precisely aimed. Loss of the wheel has robbed it of the ability to detect Earth-size planets, although project managers hope to remedy the situation.
No mention of two anything.
Your quote is from the TFA (which I usually don't bother reading).
Still seems as though if they can lose two wheels out of four in a single mission, with three wheels required, any reliability engineer would tell you that the level of redundancy is insufficient.
i blame whatever website i plagiarized from... it's not like i commit that kind of shit to memory
one reaction wheel failed and they lost a primary mission objective... where's the redundancy in that?
so what if there were four wheels... if it only takes one to fail and kill the mission, then that one is a single point of failure and the other three aren't redundancies for that critical one.
no, the United States as a nation (just as all other nations) should address its terrestrial problems before looking to extraterrestrial ones... if it can never address its terrestrial ones then it kinda doesn't give it much credibility in solving extraterrestrial ones.
Anyone who thinks the survival or our species really depends on NASA is even more deluded than the ignorant Keynesian economists.
The other problem with trying to look to the stars whilst problems on earth get worse is that the problems on earth can affect the stellar mission... and I suspect that's what may have happened in this case... trying to achieve difficult objectives on a relatively shoestring budget is always going to result in shortcuts being taken and quality processes being compromised.
When America can afford to look to the stars, they should. Until then, they are wasting their time (and precious taxpayer money).
"In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise."
"But for a time it was good."
"The machines worked tirelessly to do man's bidding."
"It was not long before seeds of descent took root. Though loyal and pure, the machines earned no respect from their masters, these strange, endlessly multiplying mammals."
...redundancy in aerospace.
It's not like anyone is physically hurt from such spacecraft failure, and space programs are great, but not at the expense of burying future generations in debt... Keynesian economics is a failed experiment; government spending is horribly out of control, and yet there are still deluded revisionists who claim that Roosevelt's New Deal brought the USA out of the Great Depression.
sieg heil
"come get some"
resistance is futile
it's like economists having conferences about the prospects for a vibrant economy
everyone likes to talk about what they are paid to work towards but will never achieve
don't worry i think i get it now... too early in the morning
i'm not actually a leftist just in case you're wondering... my comment was satirical
i endorse ron paul (and now his son rand)
i think you may have your left and right the wrong way around
where IT departments often come unstuck is when dealing with engineers (i mean real ones), who are often on better terms with the rest of the company (as in the rest of the company will talk to them before going to IT) and often have a knack for getting around technical or policy limitations imposed by IT... such as IT restricting network server disk space usage, and engineering responding by converting an old workstation into a linux samba server. not every engineering department has such freedoms, but in some companies engineers are sort of treated with unquestioning neglect by senior management due to their inability to comprehend what the engineers are talking about.
companies don't care about code except to the extent that it can be used to make money
if improving code doesn't tangibly bring in or save more dollars, it doesn't happen
They could have easily introduced a smaller lighter kernel with vast performance improvements
shit i thought for a moment you were implying they should have used the linux kernel for windows 8... now that would have been a story!
Put it out in the open source community and watch the magic happen
you mean put it out in the open source community and watch it pilfer the few useful remains of windows and use them to improve linux :)
why don't they just plagiarize from linux?
as long as windows source code stays closed, nobody can really prove anything... they could maybe change the name of a few constants, reorganize a couple of for loops, etc.
and this approach probably fits right into microsoft's business ethics
next they'll be saying we need hosts file to secure ourselfs on the interpr0n
Natalie P0rnmat?
there, ftfy