Ok, lets say I'm a plumber, you have a clogged toilet. You aren't going to call some guy from China who will fly out and meet you there.
Nope, but here in the UK you may well call a Pole, or a Romanian, or some other nationality who's moved to this country because he can earn more here than he can back home. And in case you think this is some kind of rant against foreigners, think of Auf Weidershein, Pet (i.e. Brits doing the exact same thing in another country).
"All subjects except Maths evolve. Even staple subjects like History and English. Even if some of the basics remain similar you'll find that they're tort in a way that makes them more applicable in today's society and world."
So the word "taught" has evolved into the word "tort" ?
The whole concept of working hard to earn a good income and have a good quality of life seems to be disappearing.
You also have the national lottery. Sod this idea of building a career, let's just do the national lottery once a week and hope we get lucky. Never have to work again.....
The other huge problem has been the City of London, and the vast salaries and bonuses paid to people in the financial sectors, even very young people.
Seeing people earn that kind of money, however hard they work (and I'm sure many do work very hard), breaks any sort of link between what you *earn* being linked to how hard you work. Why work hard, just get a "job in the city"? Why work that bit harder, put in lots of extra hours, etc, etc, for an extra thousand pounds or two, when people in their twenties in the city are getting million-pound bonuses ? I'm sure many are thinking "why should I bother"? Indeed, why should they bother, when they don't need to earn the money, just borrow it?
This whole credit crunch has been brought about by people borrowing (and being lent) too much money, rather than being made to earn it first. A large part of the recession we are now facing will be reality hitting home, and people finally getting round to repaying some of what they have borrowed, rather than continuing to spend, spend, spend.
I hope at least one positive outcome will be the end of the worship the City of London, the cutting back of their ridiculous salaries, fewer of our brightest young people being sucked into a career of playing games with money instead of doing something more productive for society as a whole, and a re-appreciation of the idea of the rewards you receive being more proportionate to the effort you put in.
The post above has already highlighted some advantages, so this is just to point out how easy it is to try out.
Just download the OpenSolaris ISO (the last one was 2008.05, with 2008.11 imminent): OpenSolaris
If you're a little masochistic, try running it as a live CD.
A better way is to download VirtualBox (another Sun open-source product, although there is a more-complete non-open-source version that is also free (of charge)): VirtualBox Just install OpenSolaris as a guest OS and try it - no need to re-partition or dual-boot, and no problems with unsupported PC hardware either.
Of course, you'll be limited in your ability to try out some of its more advanced features with this approach, but for just trying it out and kicking the tyres a bit, it's very simple.
A brilliant hand of poker played by Mr Balmer, I think.
I do wonder whether they ever would have actually bought Yahoo. There's no way they could buy them now at the price they originally offerred, thanks to the economic downturn. But if it wasn't for the downturn, I do wonder whether Microsoft would instead have done "due diligence" into the state of Yahoo the company, and then loudly and publicly walked away, claiming they didn't like what they saw, screwing Yahoo's credibility.
So without spending anything, Balmer's caused turmoil in one competitor (Yahoo), while getting the competition watchdogs interested in the power of another (Google) - and distracting them both, perhaps causing them to take their eye off the ball for a while.
I don't think models were anywhere near that simple.
Citation needed.
There's another assumption that people made that led to the problems with the ratings:.....
Citation needed.
That one, again, turns out to be a recurring problem with financial modeling:.....
Citation needed.
1. The supar-smart quant financiers make models that assume that some assets' returns are uncorrelated, using historical data from a relatively short time period.
Citation needed.
2. The supar-smart quants then build "safe," diversified portfolios out of the assets in question, using those models.
Citation needed.
3. When the shit hits the fan, the "safe," diversified portfolios' assets plunge in lockstep (yay for mixed metaphors!), and the portfolios crash.
Citation needed.
The financial model failures we're seeing now are remarkably similar to.....
Citation needed.
More generally, there's a bigger problem here (and I'm paraphrasing Buffett in the following):.....
Citation needed.
The grandparent gave a valid opinion. If you're going to be a dick and just chant "citation needed", you should expect to give some yourself if your answer contains alternate opinions. Otherwise, don't be a snarky git, and just answer with your opinions.
I'm surprised I've heard very little about using Unix/Linux partitioning to get the best out of SSDs.
Seems to me that the best use of an SSD on a normal system is to buy a smallish one (say 16GB) and use it for the read-mainly partitions: say/usr,/opt, maybe/lib.
It would be good to get users' "dot" files in there too. Maybe create a/homedot on the SSD and symlink/home/myname/.example to/homedot/myname/.example.
Even if this doesn't make your applications run much faster, the faster read and seek times are going to make the machine boot faster, load applications faster (especially including the desktop environments, if user directories like.kde and.gnome are on SSD) and compile code faster (with/usr/include, etc on SSD).
Setup dialog box fails to appear: The verification that occurs under User Account Control (UAC) with all installations delays the appearance of the initial setup dialog box. Delays of more than one hour have been reported.
A simple switch when his lawyer isn't paying attention, and his lawyer spends the rest of his life in jail............while Hans gets paid all the money he paid him in fees.
"It does "use" a lot of resources, but it does so intelligently. If it wants to use up all my memory, it does so to improve performance, and if applications need it, it is relinquished."
Am I the only to whom this particular bit just sounds like marketing-speak?
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Now, can we please stop seeing topics like this based entirely on nostalgia?
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Ok, lets say I'm a plumber, you have a clogged toilet. You aren't going to call some guy from China who will fly out and meet you there.
Nope, but here in the UK you may well call a Pole, or a Romanian, or some other nationality who's moved to this country because he can earn more here than he can back home. And in case you think this is some kind of rant against foreigners, think of Auf Weidershein, Pet (i.e. Brits doing the exact same thing in another country).
Yep....unless someone other than IE8.1 has been scoring on Acid :D
"We had on average 4 bugs a week due to the indentation bullshit, each of which took multiple hours to debug."
Any chance you could name the company you work for?
Because I want to avoid your products.
"All subjects except Maths evolve. Even staple subjects like History and English. Even if some of the basics remain similar you'll find that they're tort in a way that makes them more applicable in today's society and world."
So the word "taught" has evolved into the word "tort" ?
It's more than just that.
The whole concept of working hard to earn a good income and have a good quality of life seems to be disappearing.
You also have the national lottery. Sod this idea of building a career, let's just do the national lottery once a week and hope we get lucky. Never have to work again.....
The other huge problem has been the City of London, and the vast salaries and bonuses paid to people in the financial sectors, even very young people.
Seeing people earn that kind of money, however hard they work (and I'm sure many do work very hard), breaks any sort of link between what you *earn* being linked to how hard you work. Why work hard, just get a "job in the city"? Why work that bit harder, put in lots of extra hours, etc, etc, for an extra thousand pounds or two, when people in their twenties in the city are getting million-pound bonuses ? I'm sure many are thinking "why should I bother"? Indeed, why should they bother, when they don't need to earn the money, just borrow it?
This whole credit crunch has been brought about by people borrowing (and being lent) too much money, rather than being made to earn it first. A large part of the recession we are now facing will be reality hitting home, and people finally getting round to repaying some of what they have borrowed, rather than continuing to spend, spend, spend.
I hope at least one positive outcome will be the end of the worship the City of London, the cutting back of their ridiculous salaries, fewer of our brightest young people being sucked into a career of playing games with money instead of doing something more productive for society as a whole, and a re-appreciation of the idea of the rewards you receive being more proportionate to the effort you put in.
Starting in school.
The post above has already highlighted some advantages, so this is just to point out how easy it is to try out.
Just download the OpenSolaris ISO (the last one was 2008.05, with 2008.11 imminent): OpenSolaris
If you're a little masochistic, try running it as a live CD.
A better way is to download VirtualBox (another Sun open-source product, although there is a more-complete non-open-source version that is also free (of charge)): VirtualBox
Just install OpenSolaris as a guest OS and try it - no need to re-partition or dual-boot, and no problems with unsupported PC hardware either.
Of course, you'll be limited in your ability to try out some of its more advanced features with this approach, but for just trying it out and kicking the tyres a bit, it's very simple.
So you fucking know--you KNOW--that when I say .........., you better fucking listen.
Your way of expressing yourself would suggest otherwise.
A brilliant hand of poker played by Mr Balmer, I think.
I do wonder whether they ever would have actually bought Yahoo. There's no way they could buy them now at the price they originally offerred, thanks to the economic downturn. But if it wasn't for the downturn, I do wonder whether Microsoft would instead have done "due diligence" into the state of Yahoo the company, and then loudly and publicly walked away, claiming they didn't like what they saw, screwing Yahoo's credibility.
So without spending anything, Balmer's caused turmoil in one competitor (Yahoo), while getting the competition watchdogs interested in the power of another (Google) - and distracting them both, perhaps causing them to take their eye off the ball for a while.
I just want something that is fast, easy to use and gives me as little of a headache as possible.
:
Mod the parent up, I'm in the exact same boat.
:
I was pretty much exactly the same.
Then why the hell were any of you running Gentoo in the first place ?
Gentoo is all about tinkering and customising, and being offered the flexibility to do so, not ease of setting up.
I don't think models were anywhere near that simple.
Citation needed.
There's another assumption that people made that led to the problems with the ratings:.....
Citation needed.
That one, again, turns out to be a recurring problem with financial modeling:.....
Citation needed.
1. The supar-smart quant financiers make models that assume that some assets' returns are uncorrelated, using historical data from a relatively short time period.
Citation needed.
2. The supar-smart quants then build "safe," diversified portfolios out of the assets in question, using those models.
Citation needed.
3. When the shit hits the fan, the "safe," diversified portfolios' assets plunge in lockstep (yay for mixed metaphors!), and the portfolios crash.
Citation needed.
The financial model failures we're seeing now are remarkably similar to.....
Citation needed.
More generally, there's a bigger problem here (and I'm paraphrasing Buffett in the following):.....
Citation needed.
The grandparent gave a valid opinion. If you're going to be a dick and just chant "citation needed", you should expect to give some yourself if your answer contains alternate opinions. Otherwise, don't be a snarky git, and just answer with your opinions.
I have one in my house that belongs to my girlfriend. I don't play with her much because she is too aggressive with me
And this, boys and girls, is an example of the fact that pronouns do not always enhance readability.
Yes, but she's a fox.
I'm surprised I've heard very little about using Unix/Linux partitioning to get the best out of SSDs.
Seems to me that the best use of an SSD on a normal system is to buy a smallish one (say 16GB) and use it for the read-mainly partitions: say /usr, /opt, maybe /lib.
It would be good to get users' "dot" files in there too. Maybe create a /homedot on the SSD and symlink /home/myname/.example to /homedot/myname/.example.
Even if this doesn't make your applications run much faster, the faster read and seek times are going to make the machine boot faster, load applications faster (especially including the desktop environments, if user directories like .kde and .gnome are on SSD) and compile code faster (with /usr/include, etc on SSD).
How big is a Formula 1 car, and what does it weigh?
Ever seen some of the crashes that those F1 drivers just walk away from?
"So, why then is Vista so much slower then XP even with all the extra eye-candy and features turned off?"
Not sure, but I found the following, from Microsoft themselves, astounding:
From the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Release Notes:
Installation Issues - Windows Vista
Setup dialog box fails to appear:
The verification that occurs under User Account Control (UAC) with all installations delays the appearance of the initial setup dialog box. Delays of more than one hour have been reported.
"What's the point?"
Maybe just because it's cool - in more ways than one.
Now let's just be glad that *they* paid for the war and not us.
Oh yes, of course.
No way that the customer will end up paying, no siree.
...I hope someone sues the Village People for the damage they've done to popular music :-P
Well the BBC article mentions 6 million people downloading "illegally".
Bearing in mind that most internet connections will be shared by more than one person, that could easily mean 10-15 million people.
So potentially 10-15 million people getting their internet connections cut off.
So potentially 10-15 million voters getting pissed off with the particular party in government at the moment because of their over-bearing actions.
That might get you some attention.
Is the free version for Windows call Opera Win-free ?
"CO2 emissions are pretty poorly tied to gasoline consumption"
Sorry, but this statement just puzzled me. I can understand where the O2 in CO2 comes from, but where does the C come from, if not from fuel ?
Wow, he's a smart one, this Hans Reiser.
.....while Hans gets paid all the money he paid him in fees.
A simple switch when his lawyer isn't paying attention, and his lawyer spends the rest of his life in jail.......
That's just cunning.
"I am pretty much a pragmatist when it comes to on-line anonymity: I think it is, on balance, overwhelmingly a bad thing."
....says Anonymous Brave Guy"
Why not practise what you preach ?
Especially from someone claiming to be brave.
"It does "use" a lot of resources, but it does so intelligently. If it wants to use up all my memory, it does so to improve performance, and if applications need it, it is relinquished."
Am I the only to whom this particular bit just sounds like marketing-speak?