I always thought that building drivers into the kernel was going to be Linux's downfall. There is an un-ending supply of equipment that requires drivers and they can't all go into the kernel without some repercussions. Let alone being a black hole that continually sucks up stuff and never deletes it. This design may work well for a small system with limited hardware but is doomed to fail at some point when trying to scale it up for the real world.
I know what the TFA is about but the OP was saying that with codes you can rule.. do anything you want. What I am saying (and you even agree) is that you need codes plus experience. Without the experience you still need someone to do the work for you.
The funny thing is that just this week I just had to look at OBD codes on my car. I used this as an excuse to by a $80 code reader. The code that came up basically said "Misfire on Cylinder #4". Now as someone who does somewhat about how cars work, but is not a mechanic I sat there wondering what the hell was actually wrong with car.
Without the experience to understand what those codes imply I am still in the dark as to what the problem actually is.
So in the end I *still* ended up taking it in to be fixed as I don't have time to sit around analyzing my cars faults when I have paid work I could be doing.
And that it is the quandary behind any DIY repairs of anything - is your time worth $0 per hour, or can you leverage your money earning capacity and pay a professional (with lots of experience) to quickly track down your problem?>/p>
I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
I am not going to claim that all of Mapplethorpes work is art worthy as I don't know the full extent of his catalogue and you can like or dislike his work as you see fit. However in defense of Mapplethorpe he was documenting the world around him as it happened in a subculture that few people knew about at the time. So it is of historical significance in the very least.
Images like this are not meant to make you feel good. They are meant to challenge you and make you confront your own feelings and beliefs. Would you say the same thing about documentary photos showing the atrocities of war? Or poverty or starvation? These are all subjects that other canonical photographers have sought out and created famous images from - Have you seen the classical figure of the napalmed girl running down the road in Vietnam? Or even the Farm Bureau pics of depression era USA?
Art is not all about cute kittens and puppies and flowers
In which case you should probably nuke the USA ahead of Australia - after all just 2 seconds of seeing Janet's naked breast was enough to traumatize the whole country
Maplethorpe had an "interesting" career documenting the gay S&M culture of NYC, but as such he is a canonical 20th century photographer. Some of his pics can be very disturbing (ie genitalia mutilations) but he has also taken some fantastic classical nude images. But in a twist of reality he has also taken some of the most beautiful photos of flowers that I have ever seen. Hopefully the flowers are not being censored.
One ironic thing about Maplethorpe is that as a teen he struggled to win his fathers approval because of Maplethorpes artistic leanings and his struggle with his obvious gay sexuality. In order to "prove" himself to his father, Maplethrpe joined the most hardcore ROTC unit at his college and the irony was in the hazing routine - pure homoerotic S&M. So he seemed to be doomed! It all makes for his biography to be an interesting read
The 'business community' wants to put Climate Change on trial to test the veracity of the data. However this really means that the don't believe the data is true and just want someone powerful to side with them
But if the trial goes through and the judge supports the climate change data, will this actually convince these people that the data is correct? I'm guessing not.
I was interested in a new smart phone and did a comparison between the MyTouch and the iPhone by playing around with each for about 15 minutes in a store. I wanted to like the MyTouch, but overall the iPhone experience was much nicer when playing with all the Apps. But one thing that really got me (and my older eyes) was that the iPhones screen (and hence icons) were much larger than the MyTouch - so it was a no brainer if I wanted to be able to see things on the phone. However in the end I still couldn't justify the cost of a 3GS for the way I use a phone.
Love his books to death - especially "the Andriods Dream", but like all authors his own books have more holes than swiss cheese.
Like computers built into peoples heads that seem to have unlimited bandwidth data links over huge distances - yet there is no power requirements and the enemy can't detect the transmissions
How are these companies "businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux?" I've heard of at least the top 8, and they are all pro-Linux companies as far as I know.
Can you give me some info on "Independent Consultant"?.. they sound like a company I want to work for
Why is it that in this day and age the movement of the market (and the whole underpinnings of the global economy) is based on things like the perception of how someone wrote a press release? It seems crazy to me that we put up with things like this. However IANAE (economist) so I have no idea how structure our economy differently
And/. is now the 2nd highest returned link. Pretty soon it will be #1 and we will have an infinite loop for searching for 58.44 - at which point the whole interweb may collapse to a singularity.
From the end of TFA where they are talking about jail broken phones crashing cell toweres
Charlie: This is complete BS. You can diff a jailbroken kernel with a standard iPhone kernel and there are very few places that are changed. In particular, it doesn't mess with anything that has to do with the communication with the carrier. Even if it did do something crazy, which it doesn't, I would hope that the towers are robust enough to handle it. Just as the software in the iPhone should be able to handle any type of input it receives, the cell towers should too. I hope the carriers adequately test their equipment. If not, they can always give me a call, I'd be happy to help. In other words, if all it takes for a terrorist to take down cellular communication in this country is have a jailbroken iPhone, we're in trouble.
He starts of by asserting that it is BS, but then goes on to invoke an awful lot of belief in unicorns and pixie dust to support his statement. And even applies the same logic to the iPhone, even though the entire FA is all about how the real world isn't so magical.
It sort of leaves me wondering about the quality of his off-the-cuff statements about things that he hasn't tested (which I suppose is a bit ad-hominem-ish, but it does come across as wishful thinking)
But believe me there are better motivators than money still today.
No Money -> No food -> Starve
Yes there are better motivators than money, but unless your basic needs are met (food, shelter, clothing etc) then all the other motivation in the world won't help you. The only solution in that case is you better hope that the dedication to a cause is more addictive than crack.
Otherwise eventually there has to be money somewhere
Slashdot Mirror
You mean like QNX is slow?
I always thought that building drivers into the kernel was going to be Linux's downfall. There is an un-ending supply of equipment that requires drivers and they can't all go into the kernel without some repercussions. Let alone being a black hole that continually sucks up stuff and never deletes it. This design may work well for a small system with limited hardware but is doomed to fail at some point when trying to scale it up for the real world.
I know what the TFA is about but the OP was saying that with codes you can rule .. do anything you want. What I am saying (and you even agree) is that you need codes plus experience. Without the experience you still need someone to do the work for you.
The funny thing is that just this week I just had to look at OBD codes on my car. I used this as an excuse to by a $80 code reader. The code that came up basically said "Misfire on Cylinder #4". Now as someone who does somewhat about how cars work, but is not a mechanic I sat there wondering what the hell was actually wrong with car.
Without the experience to understand what those codes imply I am still in the dark as to what the problem actually is.
So in the end I *still* ended up taking it in to be fixed as I don't have time to sit around analyzing my cars faults when I have paid work I could be doing.
And that it is the quandary behind any DIY repairs of anything - is your time worth $0 per hour, or can you leverage your money earning capacity and pay a professional (with lots of experience) to quickly track down your problem?>/p>
It may be "art" to the artist and the subjects, but that doesn't make it so.
Eye of the beholder, and all.
Those two statements are contardictory
I'm not even 30 yet, and quite frankly I've grown sick of the self-assured, hipster posers who think this trash is edgy and avant-garde.
I am not going to claim that all of Mapplethorpes work is art worthy as I don't know the full extent of his catalogue and you can like or dislike his work as you see fit. However in defense of Mapplethorpe he was documenting the world around him as it happened in a subculture that few people knew about at the time. So it is of historical significance in the very least.
Images like this are not meant to make you feel good. They are meant to challenge you and make you confront your own feelings and beliefs. Would you say the same thing about documentary photos showing the atrocities of war? Or poverty or starvation? These are all subjects that other canonical photographers have sought out and created famous images from - Have you seen the classical figure of the napalmed girl running down the road in Vietnam? Or even the Farm Bureau pics of depression era USA?
Art is not all about cute kittens and puppies and flowers
kill the disease before it spreads
In which case you should probably nuke the USA ahead of Australia - after all just 2 seconds of seeing Janet's naked breast was enough to traumatize the whole country
Guilty as charged. Can I blame it on my keyboard?
Given Maplethorpe's body of work, those images were on the tame end of what he did.
Maplethorpe had an "interesting" career documenting the gay S&M culture of NYC, but as such he is a canonical 20th century photographer. Some of his pics can be very disturbing (ie genitalia mutilations) but he has also taken some fantastic classical nude images. But in a twist of reality he has also taken some of the most beautiful photos of flowers that I have ever seen. Hopefully the flowers are not being censored.
One ironic thing about Maplethorpe is that as a teen he struggled to win his fathers approval because of Maplethorpes artistic leanings and his struggle with his obvious gay sexuality. In order to "prove" himself to his father, Maplethrpe joined the most hardcore ROTC unit at his college and the irony was in the hazing routine - pure homoerotic S&M. So he seemed to be doomed! It all makes for his biography to be an interesting read
The DHS knows a shitload more about than just my travel records. And I had to pay a shitload of money for the privilege.
And you haven't thought through the consequences yet? That my friend is a project that has failure written all over it.
Alternatively use an entirely separate login to browse what you do want people to see
The 'business community' wants to put Climate Change on trial to test the veracity of the data. However this really means that the don't believe the data is true and just want someone powerful to side with them
But if the trial goes through and the judge supports the climate change data, will this actually convince these people that the data is correct? I'm guessing not.
Yeah .. gravity sucks.
I was interested in a new smart phone and did a comparison between the MyTouch and the iPhone by playing around with each for about 15 minutes in a store. I wanted to like the MyTouch, but overall the iPhone experience was much nicer when playing with all the Apps. But one thing that really got me (and my older eyes) was that the iPhones screen (and hence icons) were much larger than the MyTouch - so it was a no brainer if I wanted to be able to see things on the phone. However in the end I still couldn't justify the cost of a 3GS for the way I use a phone.
Love his books to death - especially "the Andriods Dream", but like all authors his own books have more holes than swiss cheese.
Like computers built into peoples heads that seem to have unlimited bandwidth data links over huge distances - yet there is no power requirements and the enemy can't detect the transmissions
How are these companies "businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux?" I've heard of at least the top 8, and they are all pro-Linux companies as far as I know.
Can you give me some info on "Independent Consultant"? .. they sound like a company I want to work for
For various reasons the industry in the US has shunned diesel for private vehicles. That has to change before any headway can be made.
Why is it that in this day and age the movement of the market (and the whole underpinnings of the global economy) is based on things like the perception of how someone wrote a press release? It seems crazy to me that we put up with things like this. However IANAE (economist) so I have no idea how structure our economy differently
There was an interesting segment on NPR a few months ago about people who had been issued this number (or requested it)
And /. is now the 2nd highest returned link. Pretty soon it will be #1 and we will have an infinite loop for searching for 58.44 - at which point the whole interweb may collapse to a singularity.
From the end of TFA where they are talking about jail broken phones crashing cell toweres
Charlie: This is complete BS. You can diff a jailbroken kernel with a standard iPhone kernel and there are very few places that are changed. In particular, it doesn't mess with anything that has to do with the communication with the carrier. Even if it did do something crazy, which it doesn't, I would hope that the towers are robust enough to handle it. Just as the software in the iPhone should be able to handle any type of input it receives, the cell towers should too. I hope the carriers adequately test their equipment. If not, they can always give me a call, I'd be happy to help. In other words, if all it takes for a terrorist to take down cellular communication in this country is have a jailbroken iPhone, we're in trouble.
He starts of by asserting that it is BS, but then goes on to invoke an awful lot of belief in unicorns and pixie dust to support his statement. And even applies the same logic to the iPhone, even though the entire FA is all about how the real world isn't so magical.
It sort of leaves me wondering about the quality of his off-the-cuff statements about things that he hasn't tested (which I suppose is a bit ad-hominem-ish, but it does come across as wishful thinking)
But believe me there are better motivators than money still today.
No Money -> No food -> Starve
Yes there are better motivators than money, but unless your basic needs are met (food, shelter, clothing etc) then all the other motivation in the world won't help you. The only solution in that case is you better hope that the dedication to a cause is more addictive than crack.
Otherwise eventually there has to be money somewhere
You can't really blame Comcast for denying access to hulu.com or tnt.com or scifi.com.....
Just something to think about - the motives for these denials are clear.
Except that I am on comcast and I can get to all three of those sites.