The US auto makers gave Americans exactly what they wanted. Why is this suddenly prison-worthy?
What do you mean suddenly?
Its prison worthy because is their job to plan for the future. Any idiot can say: We're selling SUVs and trucks this year, lets build more! But the declining car sales over the past few years and failure to prepare for the market change, indicated that instead of doing their job, they were fleecing the stockholders and corporation for millions, if not billions of dollars by lining their pockets with the salary and bonuses they did not deserve. The fact that they are asking Congress for a multi-billion dollar bailout is an admission of criminal negligence on their part.
GM doesn't know how to build, sell, or market anything other than a truck or SUV.
The only division of GM with the potential to compete against Toyota, is Saturn. And they're going to shut that division down in 2012 because they've never managed to make money.
The decision makers have been spouting off bullshit about how they deserve to make that kind of money because of their vision and leadership. All they have proved is that they're nothing more the 2nd rate salesmen who's only talent is convincing other 2nd rate sales men of their own value.
The management have fucked themselves, the Corporate Officers, Board of Directors, and all former Officers and Board members withing the statue of limitations all deserve to be sued into bankruptcy by the shareholders and pensioners.
And after they have been bankrupted by civil litigation, and have no money left to pay even a second rate attorney, the FTC needs to go after them for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, and anything else they can come up with and throw them in Federal prison. Then its the state's turn to go after them and make sure they finish out the rest of their miserable lives in the state pen with the gang-bangers and giving blowjobs for drugs. Because that the only thing they think will make their miserable lives a little more bearable.
So does *nix and Mac need AV and software inventory, etc. don't kid yourself. Frequency of patching can be controlled by proper admin procedures, etc. No school corporation will not want and inventory of software to validate they are all within compliance.
I did not get what you were inferring from the previous post. They are saying that finding someone with a basic understanding of Windows/Mac is more readily available than someone who knows how to manage a *nix environment. With the bloat of MCSE and people who own PCs and use windows through every one of the slashdot sponsored "MS monopolistic practices" methods.
What they are saying is that the availability and thus the price of an admin will be less. Granted I don't know if I agree with the outcome (default to Windows), I see no flaw in this users statements.
I'm saying that if a fallacy to assume that if your environment needs a competent Linux admin it does't also need a competent Windows admin. If you need a competent Linux admin to run Linux in a given environment, that same environment would also need a competent Windows admin should you choose that OS.
Sure they're happy, if you pay for the tow yourself. Everywhere I've ever lived, the only way to get a car towed at the driver's expense is to go through the police, which is cumbersome and mostly pointless, unless you somehow live in a magic fantasy land where cops aren't lazy pricks.
In Texas not only can they tow you, but even if they tow you illegally, you still have to pay.
To actually get your money back you have to sue in small claims court.
IMHO, the biggest problems with any computer deployment in our K-12 classrooms are always support and training. If a school district adopts Linux and open source then who is going to be the admin in charge of updates, patches, server, network, and desktop maintenance, etc? Competent Linux admins are harder to find than people with at least basic knowledge of Mac and Windows and are likely to cost more too. So unless someone within the district, who will not be any worse off for saying no, wants to step up and take on the task of learning to be a Linux admin who is going to manage the whole affair? Also, how many teachers know how to use Linux or are willing to invest the time required to learn? After all, they cannot teach their students that which they themselves do not know. These are not insubstantial difficulties.
So let me get this right; you need a competent Linux admin; while Windows/Mac don't need an admin at all, just someone with a basic knowledge?
Windows also has the need for patches, server, network and desktop maintenance that Linux does; in addition to having more expensive license requirements; software inventory requirements; anti-virus requirements?
We're seeing Linux have 33% market share on a general-purpose computer. Yes, I know, it's a certain class of computer but what I driving at is that it's a machine that is suited for a wide variety of tasks (as opposed to only being a router, phone, DVR, text reader, etc.).
I'd love to live in a world where Linux had 33% market share on general-purpose computers. I think that trading one monopoly (MS) for another (Linux) is not a good thing, even if I like Linux.
So long as we have Gnome and KDE, not to mention the myriad of distributions; there will always be competition in Linux.
Actually, DEC programmers were/are on the NT team, You can even see it in some file system quirks. But I don't recall any earlier transfers. *shrug* Guess M$ isn't just crappyly reimplementing UNIX. They are also crappyly reimplementing OpenVMS.
My $0.02.
VMS and Windows were the two reasons I learned UNIX.
Do you want pointless tech gadgets so much you don't care about the consequences of purchasing it?
One could argue that its not the consumer's job to worry about that.
Its the job of the government that allegedly represents the people doing the work to ensure that its people are treated and paid fairly.
Its the job our our government to negotiate trade relationships that help enforce that, because our free workers should not have to compete with slave labor.
Maybe its because they're trying to run a slow OS, Vista/XP (And if you think XP isn't slow just compare it with 2K); with slot graphics, Intel; on a slow CPU, Atom; with a dinky screen size, 8"; and pitiful resolution 1024x600?
So of course people are only running 2 apps at once.
Just wait till you get the "Your ISP doesn't have access to download music to iTunes" and "Your ISP doesn't have access to view trailers hosted by Apple"
The reason why Windows is such a pain in the ass is because Windows was never designed for this.
Actually Windows NT was designed for this. It was a new code base and designed, and marketed as an easier alternative to UN*X. Its just never done it very well.
Portability was one of the goals of KDE4, and it is encouraging to see it works.
Now if only the other parts of it would stop sucking...
How about making it stop sucking before making it portable?
If you want an example as to why you should prioritize this way, look at the popularity of NetBSD.
Today's Daily KDE4 WTF: My clock has two lines. The first line is the time, in military time -- 08:31. This works fine. The second line is the date: Tue, 27 Jan. It might be 27 January, but I can't tell, because the T and half the u in Tue, and most of the n in Jan, are cut off.
Then there's the Gnomification / castration of configuration options.
Ars takes the KDE 4.2 release candidate out for a test drive on Windows. The much criticized open source desktop environment has moved beyond Linux and is becoming increasingly robust on other platforms. Even KDE's Plasma desktop shell is now Windows-compatible."
There I fixed it for you.
And yes I'm a KDE user, have been for around 10 years.
I didn't catch that, where is the gun turn-in done?
You know, that's one of the funny things I see when looking at America from some thousands of kilometres away.
So supposedly, the sacred right to bear arms is there to keep the government in line, in case it oversteps its constitutional bounds. Lemme see, the Bushies did:
- effectively suspending habeas corpus,
- used torture,
- starting a war of aggression, and justified it by
- outright lying about the evidence, (plus, see two paragraphs above, it turns out that all the "witnesses" they had, had been waterboarded until they said what the Bushies wanted to hear,)
- massive surveillace of its own citizens, down to data-mining grocery bills,
- politicizing every branch of the government they could lay their hands on,
- trying to keep official emails from the _legal_ mandated openness, by using private accounts for government business, or by just making excuses (apparently they didn't make backups, ya know)
- saying out loud that the constitution is just a piece of paper and doesn't apply to them,
Etc.
Did I see the gun-loving right at least hinting about the possibility of a revolt over it? (Yes, at the end of the series of other boxes, but still.) Nah, they voted for him again.
But here comes a president which at least promises to undo some of that evil, and restore at least _some_ of those constitutional rights. (Whether he'll keep that promise, remains to be seen.) What does the gun-loving right immediately fear? "OMG, he might take our guns away."
It seems to me that the gun lovers care _only_ about exactly _one_ piece of the constitution: the second amendment. No more, no less. Wipe your ass with the rest constitution if you will, they sure won't mind it. So exactly how does that work as a constitutional safeguard, then?
As long as they still have their guns, wave their bibles everything else is okay.
It certainly does. It forces you to use procedural programming, and tricks people into thinking they aren't because the service boundaries are sometimes separated by a network and cross platforms; thus "justifying" the lack of OO.
Services provide and operate on data. The data itself is exchanged independent from the code/information needed to manipulate the data. This is exactly analogous to linking in a library to pass your data structures to. As opposed to the object oriented paradigm where the definition of operations are encapsulated with the data.
Unless you make your business components all stateless, and use a Value Object Pattern, which is considered OO.
I drill holes in the HDD's from work. If they have glass platters, they shatter, done deal. If they are metal, they get a hole all the way through every platter.
My thoughts - if someone goes through the effort of trying to retrieve data from a drive in that condition, they've "earned" it.
Maybe I'm ignorant to how some data recoverey techniques are used, but, as far as I understand it, it has to be read from a head while the platter spins. When the head comes across a 1/2" hole, good-bye heads...
You should then spray WD-40 into it just to make sure. With the WD-40 coating the platter, you can't even run an SEM over it.
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The US auto makers gave Americans exactly what they wanted. Why is this suddenly prison-worthy?
What do you mean suddenly?
Its prison worthy because is their job to plan for the future. Any idiot can say: We're selling SUVs and trucks this year, lets build more! But the declining car sales over the past few years and failure to prepare for the market change, indicated that instead of doing their job, they were fleecing the stockholders and corporation for millions, if not billions of dollars by lining their pockets with the salary and bonuses they did not deserve. The fact that they are asking Congress for a multi-billion dollar bailout is an admission of criminal negligence on their part.
Pay is irrelevant.
GM doesn't know how to build, sell, or market anything other than a truck or SUV.
The only division of GM with the potential to compete against Toyota, is Saturn. And they're going to shut that division down in 2012 because they've never managed to make money.
The decision makers have been spouting off bullshit about how they deserve to make that kind of money because of their vision and leadership. All they have proved is that they're nothing more the 2nd rate salesmen who's only talent is convincing other 2nd rate sales men of their own value.
The management have fucked themselves, the Corporate Officers, Board of Directors, and all former Officers and Board members withing the statue of limitations all deserve to be sued into bankruptcy by the shareholders and pensioners.
And after they have been bankrupted by civil litigation, and have no money left to pay even a second rate attorney, the FTC needs to go after them for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, and anything else they can come up with and throw them in Federal prison. Then its the state's turn to go after them and make sure they finish out the rest of their miserable lives in the state pen with the gang-bangers and giving blowjobs for drugs. Because that the only thing they think will make their miserable lives a little more bearable.
So does *nix and Mac need AV and software inventory, etc. don't kid yourself. Frequency of patching can be controlled by proper admin procedures, etc. No school corporation will not want and inventory of software to validate they are all within compliance. I did not get what you were inferring from the previous post. They are saying that finding someone with a basic understanding of Windows/Mac is more readily available than someone who knows how to manage a *nix environment. With the bloat of MCSE and people who own PCs and use windows through every one of the slashdot sponsored "MS monopolistic practices" methods. What they are saying is that the availability and thus the price of an admin will be less. Granted I don't know if I agree with the outcome (default to Windows), I see no flaw in this users statements.
I'm saying that if a fallacy to assume that if your environment needs a competent Linux admin it does't also need a competent Windows admin. If you need a competent Linux admin to run Linux in a given environment, that same environment would also need a competent Windows admin should you choose that OS.
Sure they're happy, if you pay for the tow yourself. Everywhere I've ever lived, the only way to get a car towed at the driver's expense is to go through the police, which is cumbersome and mostly pointless, unless you somehow live in a magic fantasy land where cops aren't lazy pricks.
In Texas not only can they tow you, but even if they tow you illegally, you still have to pay.
To actually get your money back you have to sue in small claims court.
IMHO, the biggest problems with any computer deployment in our K-12 classrooms are always support and training. If a school district adopts Linux and open source then who is going to be the admin in charge of updates, patches, server, network, and desktop maintenance, etc? Competent Linux admins are harder to find than people with at least basic knowledge of Mac and Windows and are likely to cost more too. So unless someone within the district, who will not be any worse off for saying no, wants to step up and take on the task of learning to be a Linux admin who is going to manage the whole affair? Also, how many teachers know how to use Linux or are willing to invest the time required to learn? After all, they cannot teach their students that which they themselves do not know. These are not insubstantial difficulties.
So let me get this right; you need a competent Linux admin; while Windows/Mac don't need an admin at all, just someone with a basic knowledge?
Windows also has the need for patches, server, network and desktop maintenance that Linux does; in addition to having more expensive license requirements; software inventory requirements; anti-virus requirements?
What? I'm sorry, What???
We're seeing Linux have 33% market share on a general-purpose computer. Yes, I know, it's a certain class of computer but what I driving at is that it's a machine that is suited for a wide variety of tasks (as opposed to only being a router, phone, DVR, text reader, etc.).
I'd love to live in a world where Linux had 33% market share on general-purpose computers. I think that trading one monopoly (MS) for another (Linux) is not a good thing, even if I like Linux.
So long as we have Gnome and KDE, not to mention the myriad of distributions; there will always be competition in Linux.
Actually, DEC programmers were/are on the NT team, You can even see it in some file system quirks. But I don't recall any earlier transfers. *shrug* Guess M$ isn't just crappyly reimplementing UNIX. They are also crappyly reimplementing OpenVMS.
My $0.02.
VMS and Windows were the two reasons I learned UNIX.
Do you want pointless tech gadgets so much you don't care about the consequences of purchasing it?
One could argue that its not the consumer's job to worry about that.
Its the job of the government that allegedly represents the people doing the work to ensure that its people are treated and paid fairly.
Its the job our our government to negotiate trade relationships that help enforce that, because our free workers should not have to compete with slave labor.
Just install Cygwin and run Emacs.
But you're still going to need a text editor.
Maybe its because they're trying to run a slow OS, Vista/XP (And if you think XP isn't slow just compare it with 2K); with slot graphics, Intel; on a slow CPU, Atom; with a dinky screen size, 8"; and pitiful resolution 1024x600?
So of course people are only running 2 apps at once.
Just wait till you get the "Your ISP doesn't have access to download music to iTunes" and "Your ISP doesn't have access to view trailers hosted by Apple"
Wow, I don't think I'll ever notice this.
There's money to be made in expensive execution techniques.
A second hand Renalut is cheaper, and does the job perfectly well.
The reason why Windows is such a pain in the ass is because Windows was never designed for this.
Actually Windows NT was designed for this. It was a new code base and designed, and marketed as an easier alternative to UN*X. Its just never done it very well.
News for nerds, rantings of crazy people?
Jack has no authority anymore. Until such a time as he actually gets some, please ignore him.
What do you mean "anymore"?
I don't believe that he ever actually had any.
Portability was one of the goals of KDE4, and it is encouraging to see it works.
Now if only the other parts of it would stop sucking...
How about making it stop sucking before making it portable?
If you want an example as to why you should prioritize this way, look at the popularity of NetBSD.
Today's Daily KDE4 WTF: My clock has two lines. The first line is the time, in military time -- 08:31. This works fine. The second line is the date: Tue, 27 Jan. It might be 27 January, but I can't tell, because the T and half the u in Tue, and most of the n in Jan, are cut off.
Then there's the Gnomification / castration of configuration options.
There I fixed it for you.
And yes I'm a KDE user, have been for around 10 years.
You think they're going to bundle Firefox or Opera?
Their lawyer will be able to keep a vendor specified judgment in court for for a very long time.
What they will probably do is get a compromise agreement to add in an un-named third party browser.
Then they'll stuff something like pre-jpeg support NCSA Mosaic, or Lynx into Windows to adhere to the letter judgment.
You and what army are going to hold them accountable when they destroy the planet?
Yeah. Exactly.
Any what exactly makes you think they could destroy the planet?
Some sensationalist twit who's never taken a real physics course?
Yeah. Exactly.
C pound is a total waste of time and effort.[...]I know they want it pronounced c sharp
I'm a music major, you insensitive clod!
Would calling it D-Flat make you feel any better?
So Microsoft putting out a patch, and charging for it, because their current OS is garbage; is improving their image?
No
You know, that's one of the funny things I see when looking at America from some thousands of kilometres away.
So supposedly, the sacred right to bear arms is there to keep the government in line, in case it oversteps its constitutional bounds. Lemme see, the Bushies did:
- effectively suspending habeas corpus,
- used torture,
- starting a war of aggression, and justified it by
- outright lying about the evidence, (plus, see two paragraphs above, it turns out that all the "witnesses" they had, had been waterboarded until they said what the Bushies wanted to hear,)
- massive surveillace of its own citizens, down to data-mining grocery bills,
- politicizing every branch of the government they could lay their hands on,
- trying to keep official emails from the _legal_ mandated openness, by using private accounts for government business, or by just making excuses (apparently they didn't make backups, ya know)
- saying out loud that the constitution is just a piece of paper and doesn't apply to them,
Etc.
Did I see the gun-loving right at least hinting about the possibility of a revolt over it? (Yes, at the end of the series of other boxes, but still.) Nah, they voted for him again.
But here comes a president which at least promises to undo some of that evil, and restore at least _some_ of those constitutional rights. (Whether he'll keep that promise, remains to be seen.) What does the gun-loving right immediately fear? "OMG, he might take our guns away."
It seems to me that the gun lovers care _only_ about exactly _one_ piece of the constitution: the second amendment. No more, no less. Wipe your ass with the rest constitution if you will, they sure won't mind it. So exactly how does that work as a constitutional safeguard, then?
As long as they still have their guns, wave their bibles everything else is okay.
Corporate America is always looking for free labor. If you want to work for free, that's the place.
It certainly does. It forces you to use procedural programming, and tricks people into thinking they aren't because the service boundaries are sometimes separated by a network and cross platforms; thus "justifying" the lack of OO.
Services provide and operate on data. The data itself is exchanged independent from the code/information needed to manipulate the data. This is exactly analogous to linking in a library to pass your data structures to. As opposed to the object oriented paradigm where the definition of operations are encapsulated with the data.
Unless you make your business components all stateless, and use a Value Object Pattern, which is considered OO.
I drill holes in the HDD's from work. If they have glass platters, they shatter, done deal. If they are metal, they get a hole all the way through every platter.
My thoughts - if someone goes through the effort of trying to retrieve data from a drive in that condition, they've "earned" it.
Maybe I'm ignorant to how some data recoverey techniques are used, but, as far as I understand it, it has to be read from a head while the platter spins. When the head comes across a 1/2" hole, good-bye heads...
You should then spray WD-40 into it just to make sure. With the WD-40 coating the platter, you can't even run an SEM over it.
Go after the people backing the legislation, report the lobbyists, lawyers, and copyright cartels.