Convection happens on Earth because the top of the mantle is cooler than the bottom, and the top is cooler BECAUSE it can let off heat through tectonics. It's a self perpetuating process.
Friction and cooling should've killed it long ago — what is the energy source, that perpetuates it? Why has not the planet's core cooled yet?
If they can't solve the age-related muscle- and bone-deterioration problems by the time I get frail, I want to be able to retire on the Moon. Yes, I know, getting there once will be difficult, but I hope, I'll be able to make it.
And then — many more years of free movement in a comfortable nursing home. With beautiful views, miles of walkways, high-speed Internet (even if some latency remains talking to Earthlings), and monthly visits from family...
If people push Novell too hard I predict Novell will move to FreeBSD and that would be a shame...
No, that would, actually, be a great thing — they should've started with a better OS to begin with (ha-ha). But it would not help the problem, which is largely with applications — Evolution, Samba, et al. are licensed the same way, independently of the underlying OS' license.
The way it is set up these days, even a small court case can wind up generating $25k-50k per month in billings to your firm
Ok... So, how long did this last?
before you ever get anywhere near court, and then the fees go dramatically up during trial.
How dramatically? Like 10K per day? Maybe... But by these numbers, this case should've been like 10-20 months in the making ($500K) plus 20 days of arguing in court (another $200K). I don't think, it was anywhere near this long — was it?
nice(1) should be doing that (with the help of the kernel-provided mechanisms) then, in my not so humble opinion. Some kind of ionice can be used for finer tuning, but by default a nicer process should be nicer on everything — IO included.
I was once attacked by a big company... We settled quickly, and my legal expenses were about $6K. I suppose, it could've become 10 times that, if it lasted longer, but $700K?..
You (the submitter) are taking images of the real world, where light moves around somewhat randomly in energy packets called photons, not in perfect rays.
Are you really suggesting, a digital camera is capable of capturing fluctuations among photons? They really are "perfect rays" as far today's (and tomorrow's) equipment is concerned...
CFQ now uses a time slice concept for disk sharing, similar to what the process scheduler does. Classic work conserving IO schedulers tend to perform really poorly for shared workloads.
I wonder, if the originating process' priority is taken into account at all... It has always annoyed me, that the "nice" (and especially the idle-only) processes are still treated equally, when it comes to I/O...
[...] no one seems to be proposing that all minors have permission to visit the park. [...] Why even push this legislation if there is no practical way to implement it?
At least one aspect of the law makes sense. Currently, a mother contacting MySpace/Yahoo/whatever to know, who her child associating with, can not be given an answer — because of the existing federal law, which prohibits divulging such information to anyone (BTW, remember the story about a dead soldier's family trying to access his Yahoo! mailbox — they ran into the same law, AFAIR).
Allowing legal guardians to access all such information is not an equivalent to demanding a written permission to access park, it is more like an equivalent to allowing them access to their locker... And it makes sense...
Not to mention, at some level, this isn't a "human rights" thing, it's a "sovereignty" thing -- companies are bound to obey the laws of the countries they do business in. This ridiculous proposed law giving Google the "freedom" to disobey Chinese censorship laws is a complete non-starter, for the obvious reason that a Chinese court isn't going to care what the relevant US law is...
What, I wonder, is your opinion of the FCPA — law, which prohibits American companies from bribing foreign officials? Granted, this new law is going a step further, since bribery is illegal in all countries...
All this will do is prevent Google, Yahoo, et al., from doing business in China, and I suspect guys like Baidu.com will be more than happy about it.
Then so be it. I doubt, this will be the case in practice, though. Faced with this new law, and certain, that all of their American competitors will have to do the same (this assurance is, really, what each of the companies in question really wanted), each company will find a way — possibly by locating their servers in Mongolia, India, or South Korea, for example...
Indeed, this will likely have a detrimental effect on Chinese freedom, since US-owned companies are more free to bend Chinese laws without fear of physical reprisal or of nationalization.
Err, sorry, I don't follow this logic... American companies' ability to bend China's oppressive laws should contribute to, rather than detriment from the freedom of ordinary Chinese...
Explain the difference between a regular military boosted by foreign fighters fighting a guerrilla war and an irregular force consisting of former members of the regular military boosted by foreign fighters fighting a guerrilla war.
Guerrillas don't have heavy weaponry. No tanks, no airplanes, no artillery.
Defeating the Iraqi military is not exactly a big deal.
Maybe. But that was the mission, which the President, justly, called accomplished. That's all...
It's almost 4 years later and we've spent nearly $300 billion so far, with no end in sight. Let me know when they actually accomplish something over there.
I shall. Korea, mind you, was far bloodier and costlier (in today's dollars). And the South was a military dictatorship for many years before becoming the prosperous Democracy it is today...
But a comparative analysis of U.S. casualty statistics from Iraq tells a different story. After factoring in medical, doctrinal, and technological improvements [...]
Exactly: "after factoring in"... A helicopter can only fly, if you "factor in" air-resistance...
At any rate, the adventure in Iraq was just that [...]
The talk was, whether or not there was a mission to be called accomplished. Your rant is on a different topic — whether or not we should've done that mission at all. Sorry, I'm not interested in another shouting match on this (different) subject.
I wonder how long your sort of blind party loyalty [...]
My loyalty is to the man, who put Saddam Hussein behind bars. But that too is off-topic here...
It is a long trip from Galapagos Islands (the far-North penguins habitat), but it may be doable for an elite commando unit dedicated to punish Microsoft...
I heard a survivor recount how flesh peeled from people's bodies
Wars suck. It does not matter, if the flesh is peeling off by itself after radiation exposure, or if it is peeled off by the victor's sword. Wars are to be avoided, but that's off-topic.
We are discussing (and comparing) weapons, which are used at war — regardless of how the particular war came about.
Anybody who thinks atomic bombs are "humane" [...]
No weapon is humane, but some weapons are more humane than others. For example, a precise ICBM, which can be aimed directly at a military installation near Saratov, is more humane than imprecise one, because you'd have to use a bunch of them and obliterate the entire Saratov along with the darn military installation...
And semantics is all the argument is about — whether or not there was mission that was accomplished. And there was...
Saying we defeated their military is absolutely meaningless when our people are getting blown up daily by guys with guns and bombs.
About 3K of our troops have been killed in four years and, what 20-30K more have been wounded. Although a numbers on their own, they very small compared to Korean or Vietnam war loses, which were fought against regular militaries. So defeating and disbanding Iraq's regular military was an important mission, its accomplishment worthy of congratulations.
You discount it, because it turned out easy. It is a mistake to consider the ease of doing something, while trying to estimate the importance of doing it.
[...] was to stop Iraq's threat to the US, which has been totally screwed up into a much greater threat than the one under control before the war.
And Iraq is no longer a threat to US indeed...
You're one of those "not as bad as Saddam" people.
Kindly dispense with labeling...
Well, most Iraqis want us out, because we've now made it worse by instigating their civil war that they want to themselves.
Sorry, can't parse...
Enough to notice that it's too late for you to claim that you 'shall not comment on whether we "should do it again in Iran"'
Off-topic.
You have learned nothing from the worst strategic catastrophe
The worst? Really? Do you have any idea, how devastating and expensive the Korean War was? Iraq war is a cake walk in comparison, and even if only half of Iraq ends up decent 30 years later, this war would still be more successful than Korean.
by the worst presidency [...] in American history
Yada-yada... You forgot to mention "court-appointed":-)
Strangely, all security restrictions seem to work that way.... Thusly, when "think of the children" protections are put into place, they have a funny way to affecting those who are not children.
Well, you seem to reject all other restrictions placed on the younger citizens by our (and all other, BTW) society. Thus you don't really qualify for the condition spelled out in the subject-line of my first posting in this thread: "If we accept restrictions on children in general..."
I brought up hypocrisy because out of all important issues (crime, poverty, education, war, health care, etc.)
Oh, yeah, that's right — as long as there is a single sick person in the world, nothing else should be done by anyone but treat her/him, right? Why are you posting to/. instead of working on an AIDS-vaccine, hypocrite?
I brought up KKK because the only goal of this law is to instate fear.
Bullshit. It does not instate fear. It tries to logically extend control, that parents already have over their kids social lives into the Internet realm.
As far as senator's true inspirations I can think of only two: greed or stupidity.
Your manners make me think, you simply fear the power, this law might give to your parents:-)
Pretty convenient for you to ignore the Iraqi Civil War we precipitated which will turn Iraq into Iranian territory, a new terrorist hothouse, or most likely both.
Let's talk when it happens. I think, it never will, but speculating (which is what you are doing) is pointless here...
Or are you going to pretend that we're doing a great job in Iraq, so we should do it again in Iran?
The mission of our military, whom Bush was congratulating in his famous "Mission Accomplished" speech, was indeed accomplished. Enemy's army was disbanded, our bases covering the whole country, enemy leadership killed, captured, or in hiding... At this point the victors of the Antiquity would've killed all males older than 14 and sold all others into slavery. Victors of Middle Ages would've converted everyone to their religion at weapon-point. We — the modern-day victors — began building a new, better government. That's still in progress (I believe, we'll succeed, you don't), but — I repeat — the original military mission of defeating the enemy's armed forces was accomplished...
I shall not comment on whether we "should do it again in Iran", for that's a different topic. But I do think, we can should we decide to — and the defenses described in TFA may help...
Why did you feel it was necessary to add "(with doctors assistance)"?
To make it easier to understand, what I'm talking about. You may be right in that I may have made it too distracting from the point I was actually making.
I did and still do try to avoid expressing my own point of view on the subject here so as to avoid topic-changing. For this reason, I shall not respond on the matter in this thread again.
This means they are actually enforcible. On the net, there is no real way to duplicate that age verification.
That's a potential problem with implementation. But something tells me, even if a way to verify the age was found, you (and most of the rest of/.-tters) would not approve of the measure...
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Friction and cooling should've killed it long ago — what is the energy source, that perpetuates it? Why has not the planet's core cooled yet?
If they can't solve the age-related muscle- and bone-deterioration problems by the time I get frail, I want to be able to retire on the Moon. Yes, I know, getting there once will be difficult, but I hope, I'll be able to make it.
And then — many more years of free movement in a comfortable nursing home. With beautiful views, miles of walkways, high-speed Internet (even if some latency remains talking to Earthlings), and monthly visits from family...
Yes, yes, indeed!
No, that would, actually, be a great thing — they should've started with a better OS to begin with (ha-ha). But it would not help the problem, which is largely with applications — Evolution, Samba, et al. are licensed the same way, independently of the underlying OS' license.
Ok... So, how long did this last?
How dramatically? Like 10K per day? Maybe... But by these numbers, this case should've been like 10-20 months in the making ($500K) plus 20 days of arguing in court (another $200K). I don't think, it was anywhere near this long — was it?
nice(1) should be doing that (with the help of the kernel-provided mechanisms) then, in my not so humble opinion. Some kind of ionice can be used for finer tuning, but by default a nicer process should be nicer on everything — IO included.
I was once attacked by a big company... We settled quickly, and my legal expenses were about $6K. I suppose, it could've become 10 times that, if it lasted longer, but $700K?..
Are you really suggesting, a digital camera is capable of capturing fluctuations among photons? They really are "perfect rays" as far today's (and tomorrow's) equipment is concerned...
Indeed, it does — but should not the I/O-niceness be automatically derived from the process' niceness?
I wonder, if the originating process' priority is taken into account at all... It has always annoyed me, that the "nice" (and especially the idle-only) processes are still treated equally, when it comes to I/O...
At least one aspect of the law makes sense. Currently, a mother contacting MySpace/Yahoo/whatever to know, who her child associating with, can not be given an answer — because of the existing federal law, which prohibits divulging such information to anyone (BTW, remember the story about a dead soldier's family trying to access his Yahoo! mailbox — they ran into the same law, AFAIR).
Allowing legal guardians to access all such information is not an equivalent to demanding a written permission to access park, it is more like an equivalent to allowing them access to their locker... And it makes sense...
FreeBSD dispensed with them altogether years ago...
Character devices only, thank you very much.
*Duck*
What, I wonder, is your opinion of the FCPA — law, which prohibits American companies from bribing foreign officials? Granted, this new law is going a step further, since bribery is illegal in all countries...
Then so be it. I doubt, this will be the case in practice, though. Faced with this new law, and certain, that all of their American competitors will have to do the same (this assurance is, really, what each of the companies in question really wanted), each company will find a way — possibly by locating their servers in Mongolia, India, or South Korea, for example...
Err, sorry, I don't follow this logic... American companies' ability to bend China's oppressive laws should contribute to, rather than detriment from the freedom of ordinary Chinese...
Guerrillas don't have heavy weaponry. No tanks, no airplanes, no artillery.
Maybe. But that was the mission, which the President, justly, called accomplished. That's all...
I shall. Korea, mind you, was far bloodier and costlier (in today's dollars). And the South was a military dictatorship for many years before becoming the prosperous Democracy it is today...
It is a long trip from Galapagos Islands (the far-North penguins habitat), but it may be doable for an elite commando unit dedicated to punish Microsoft...
Ubcr, ur vf nyvir naq jryy, bs pbhefr...
Bzzz... Attempt to change topic detected.
Wars suck. It does not matter, if the flesh is peeling off by itself after radiation exposure, or if it is peeled off by the victor's sword. Wars are to be avoided, but that's off-topic.
We are discussing (and comparing) weapons, which are used at war — regardless of how the particular war came about.
No weapon is humane, but some weapons are more humane than others. For example, a precise ICBM, which can be aimed directly at a military installation near Saratov, is more humane than imprecise one, because you'd have to use a bunch of them and obliterate the entire Saratov along with the darn military installation...
And semantics is all the argument is about — whether or not there was mission that was accomplished. And there was...
About 3K of our troops have been killed in four years and, what 20-30K more have been wounded. Although a numbers on their own, they very small compared to Korean or Vietnam war loses, which were fought against regular militaries. So defeating and disbanding Iraq's regular military was an important mission, its accomplishment worthy of congratulations.
You discount it, because it turned out easy. It is a mistake to consider the ease of doing something, while trying to estimate the importance of doing it.
And Iraq is no longer a threat to US indeed...
Kindly dispense with labeling...
Sorry, can't parse...
Off-topic.
The worst? Really? Do you have any idea, how devastating and expensive the Korean War was? Iraq war is a cake walk in comparison, and even if only half of Iraq ends up decent 30 years later, this war would still be more successful than Korean.
Yada-yada... You forgot to mention "court-appointed" :-)
Well, you seem to reject all other restrictions placed on the younger citizens by our (and all other, BTW) society. Thus you don't really qualify for the condition spelled out in the subject-line of my first posting in this thread: "If we accept restrictions on children in general..."
You should not have responded at all...
Oh, yeah, that's right — as long as there is a single sick person in the world, nothing else should be done by anyone but treat her/him, right? Why are you posting to /. instead of working on an AIDS-vaccine, hypocrite?
Bullshit. It does not instate fear. It tries to logically extend control, that parents already have over their kids social lives into the Internet realm.
Your manners make me think, you simply fear the power, this law might give to your parents :-)
Let's talk when it happens. I think, it never will, but speculating (which is what you are doing) is pointless here...
The mission of our military, whom Bush was congratulating in his famous "Mission Accomplished" speech, was indeed accomplished. Enemy's army was disbanded, our bases covering the whole country, enemy leadership killed, captured, or in hiding... At this point the victors of the Antiquity would've killed all males older than 14 and sold all others into slavery. Victors of Middle Ages would've converted everyone to their religion at weapon-point. We — the modern-day victors — began building a new, better government. That's still in progress (I believe, we'll succeed, you don't), but — I repeat — the original military mission of defeating the enemy's armed forces was accomplished...
I shall not comment on whether we "should do it again in Iran", for that's a different topic. But I do think, we can should we decide to — and the defenses described in TFA may help...
To make it easier to understand, what I'm talking about. You may be right in that I may have made it too distracting from the point I was actually making.
I did and still do try to avoid expressing my own point of view on the subject here so as to avoid topic-changing. For this reason, I shall not respond on the matter in this thread again.
No, first you have to answer, why you brought up the "KKK" and "hypocrisy"...
And "greed".
WTF is the connection between KKK and helping parents control their children's activities?
That's a potential problem with implementation. But something tells me, even if a way to verify the age was found, you (and most of the rest of /.-tters) would not approve of the measure...