You should read it a bit more carefully. BSG can still be the highest rated (broadcast ratings) show on sci-fi, even if SG is more downloaded (which has nothing to do with broadcast ratings).
Think back to what your parent meant by backronym. Larry wanted to call it perl/pearl and came up with the "practical extraction..." part to justify it.
Why the hell not just include the real-time business as options? Is the maintenance really that much more challenging?
Well, maintenance isn't the worst of it. Having a kernel qualify as "real-time" requires a whole lot of reworking and is probably best attempted at design-time.
Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS's) require that the kernel respond within a certain timeframe, usually in the microseconds. They are especially used for embedded/safety-critical systems, where if the system doesn't respond quickly enough, people die.
In order for a kernel to do this, it must have very, very tight syscall functions, and a really stingy scheduler. Both of these are really hard to do in a simple patch, without, in essence, abstracting away the entire kernel and having a real time microkernel on top of it. In effect you get a very drastic decrease in throughput.
This is fine for certain things like fly-by-wire control systems, where its not important to do something well and often as much as it is to do something NOW. This differs from the server/desktop markets linux is currently oriented towards, for which a RTOS patch may not just add bloat, but rather quite a bit of unnecessary hindrance.
If you want to see the differences first hand, check out QNX (I think they still have feely downloadble developer versions). In it, start a resource intensive task and then from another terminal, load any other program. Notice how the first task stutters? If you imagine the first program to be your company's mission-critical application server, and ther second to be your office's alarm dispatcher, it's very easy to see the dilemna Linus must choose between.
I think he's still wrong out of that respect. The major distros I know support this include:
Gentoo Slackware Debian Redhat Mandrake
This leaves very few major distros that don't. Considering that the majority of the remaining distros are based on one of the above, or on the fringe, I can't see how his point is all that valid.
He believes that people with 10 years experience in C++ have nothing significant to offer over people with 2 years experience.
Sticking to the exact wording, he's exactly correct. It doesn't really take more than two years for a professional to get familiar with all the nuances and nuisances of any programming language, including C++. Technical expertise really doesn't progress transitively beyond those years.
What you should be trying to convince your boss is of everything else around this experience. Mention the depth of your acquisitions -- your understanding of the field, your knowledge of the development process, your success in leading projects, your ability to control (or rather, hide) your ego -- all to whatever extent.
Every skill has its threshold, beyond which advancement is stagnant. Your boss figures he's discovered that point. He might not be in the same ballpark but he's definitely playing the right game.
Because MPlayer never pretends to have written the source for all the dll's they're including. Everyone using them knows where they're from.
KISS, on the other hand, is allegedly using MPlayer source without releasing the sources to their modifications, and in essence are claiming the software as their own. This is a violation of the license MPlayer is released under.
This is quite different from repackaging and redistributing files that were freely available on the net.
I don't know why the xouvert people say that it should be "zoovaire". You don't pronounce "zwindow" or "zeleven", or even "kswindow" or "kseleven", do you ?)
Probably because it's XFree, not Xfree. Xouvert on the other hand is Xouvert, not XOuvert or X-ouvert, which would suggest it's one word, not an acronym/word mutation. Thus you pronounce the 'x' in Xouvert the same way you'd pronounce it in xylophone.
Of course it could go the way of potayto/potahto, lynux/linnix... zylophone/ecksylophone.
I see... so, have you been feeling inexplicable urges to have a shooting spree at your school/church/ place of work?
I can't speak for the grandparent poster but I certainly do dream about shooting up some terrorists with my Desert Eagle. Of course I know killing is wrong and I can't really afford a gun either way so I'm not about to do that.
However, I do see hot studs on TV macking them sexy ladies and I do seek to emulate them whenever I get the chance. I certainly do think it's from television that I learn such techniques because I rarely see any real mack daddies in action, and those of my buds that have such hot shit have certainly only got it from television. I'm not saying pimps wouldn't exist without the mass media, but rather their lifestyle wouldn't be so influential without it.
If you extend that to violence, drug abuse, and other such things the article mentions, it's quite easy to see how television can atleast influence, if not directly cause, how we act.
You won't be too cool to take notes in class you'll be too stoned to even attend them.
Pay more attention to getting a nice desktop rig, with lots of hd space so you can be the man for having the network share with the most pr0n.
But don't actually waste time using it, unlike what they say, the party doesn't have to stop after frosh week.
Oh, I guess for summer school you'll probably want to stick to pen and paper, its really the only fast, effective and convenient way to remember important things once your memory goes.
No it can't. What about a premptive strike? Is that right or wrong? Self-defence?
Your original stance was somewhat different,
So by your arguement, if China starts shooting Americans at random, it's ok because it's part of their culture.
So answer your own questions -- would it be okay if China preemptively starts shooting Americans at random? Is that right or wrong? Self-defence?
I took my particular stance because your original statement did -- it doesn't hurt my point either way. So the criminality of murder cannot be universally agreed upon -- that's why different cultures prescribe different punishments for such crimes.
Values are subjective.
Once again, you aren't hurting my argument. The gist of my point was that if something cannot be universally (ie, objectively and unambiguously) agreed upon, it should be up to the respective governing bodies to determine the laws. Different cultures have different values (which, as you cleverly pointed out, are subjective), thus they should set their laws to match their values. I think this is pretty much what the original poster was saying as well.
How about this one: if someone's work or efforts give us happiness, that someone should be rewarded or shown by us that we value what they did. That's a fair moral/ethical position to take and a good starting point to justify copyright law.
I agree with you that that someone should be rewarded in some way, but why necessarily monetarily, and more specifically in the monopolistic way copyright laws work? Why is giving them credit/recognition/sexual favours not enough?
The problem with rewarding people with how much we value their work is that it's not necessarily the same as rewarding them with how much they deserve. Why does an entertainer earn so much more than a construction worker? Does the former do that much more strenuous work?
I'm not necessarily criticizing the need for copyright law, just pointing out that the moral/ethical position you propose to base it on isn't as fair as you claim it to be.
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Your analogy is stupid.
Using moral criterea, it can be universally agreed upon that murder is a crime. The same cannot be said for stealing, as ownership becomes less and less justifiable as the items in question become less and less tangible.
There are no moral bases for the copyright laws that exist in a country. Why is a song copyrightable, but not speech? Why a sequence of bits of some length copyrightable, but not a sequence of two bits? There's no question the criteria used determine such laws are arbitrary, its just a question of whose ass they've been pulled out of.
If some sort of law is required but one based on universally accepted morals cannot be found, the determinance of that law should be deferred to the next closest thing to universiality, culture.
Your solution works where the animation is hosted on another server, but not with sites that host them on their own. If you only want to see the otherwise interesting content without any flash intro's and such, you can't redefine the host.
Yeah I know it's supposed to be funny but I am stoned out of my ass and I still can't get my head around how the fuck that's supposed to work man.
Say you're running cygwin under wine, and that cygwin is compiling wine, you can't have that wine do anything. First, it's being compiled so it can't be run. Second, you can't run wine under wine or under cygwin if you were on some really good herb.
So, WTF man? Why are you making me think about some infinite loop that cannot exist? Please have the consideration next time for us fellow herbivores (haha, pun intentional) before u try to fuck us up more than we already are.
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You should read it a bit more carefully. BSG can still be the highest rated (broadcast ratings) show on sci-fi, even if SG is more downloaded (which has nothing to do with broadcast ratings).
Let me guess, you also like to dress up like the "top" in this picture?
Think back to what your parent meant by backronym. Larry wanted to call it perl/pearl and came up with the "practical extraction..." part to justify it.
I think he saw this and was scarred for life.
If the thoughts of getting pursued by Gina Gershon and Elizabeth Shue scars anyone perhaps there are much deeper issues invovled?
Why the hell not just include the real-time business as options? Is the maintenance really that much more challenging?
Well, maintenance isn't the worst of it. Having a kernel qualify as "real-time" requires a whole lot of reworking and is probably best attempted at design-time.
Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS's) require that the kernel respond within a certain timeframe, usually in the microseconds. They are especially used for embedded/safety-critical systems, where if the system doesn't respond quickly enough, people die.
In order for a kernel to do this, it must have very, very tight syscall functions, and a really stingy scheduler. Both of these are really hard to do in a simple patch, without, in essence, abstracting away the entire kernel and having a real time microkernel on top of it. In effect you get a very drastic decrease in throughput.
This is fine for certain things like fly-by-wire control systems, where its not important to do something well and often as much as it is to do something NOW. This differs from the server/desktop markets linux is currently oriented towards, for which a RTOS patch may not just add bloat, but rather quite a bit of unnecessary hindrance.
If you want to see the differences first hand, check out QNX (I think they still have feely downloadble developer versions). In it, start a resource intensive task and then from another terminal, load any other program. Notice how the first task stutters? If you imagine the first program to be your company's mission-critical application server, and ther second to be your office's alarm dispatcher, it's very easy to see the dilemna Linus must choose between.
Whoa, that's the quickest M$FUD (tm) rebuttal I've ever seen -- props!
Well, yeah, that's why he said "most".
I think he's still wrong out of that respect. The major distros I know support this include:
Gentoo
Slackware
Debian
Redhat
Mandrake
This leaves very few major distros that don't. Considering that the majority of the remaining distros are based on one of the above, or on the fringe, I can't see how his point is all that valid.
He believes that people with 10 years experience in C++ have nothing significant to offer over people with 2 years experience.
Sticking to the exact wording, he's exactly correct. It doesn't really take more than two years for a professional to get familiar with all the nuances and nuisances of any programming language, including C++. Technical expertise really doesn't progress transitively beyond those years.
What you should be trying to convince your boss is of everything else around this experience. Mention the depth of your acquisitions -- your understanding of the field, your knowledge of the development process, your success in leading projects, your ability to control (or rather, hide) your ego -- all to whatever extent.
Every skill has its threshold, beyond which advancement is stagnant. Your boss figures he's discovered that point. He might not be in the same ballpark but he's definitely playing the right game.
So that's the guy standing up in this picture! (note the url)
Well right arm gets REALLY sore if I try anything above 10fps...
Trolls love to see people blow gaskets...I didn't.
:-p
Which says nothing of your ability to spot trolls, only that you weren't the best catch this troll baited.
and get yourself media player classic.
Why bother when it already comes on your machine? Look for "mplayer2.exe" in your latest Windows Media Player folder.
Because MPlayer never pretends to have written the source for all the dll's they're including. Everyone using them knows where they're from.
KISS, on the other hand, is allegedly using MPlayer source without releasing the sources to their modifications, and in essence are claiming the software as their own. This is a violation of the license MPlayer is released under.
This is quite different from repackaging and redistributing files that were freely available on the net.
Both of you really missed that joke. Decimal 8 is binary 1000. I'm fairly certain 8 bits is a byte.
>>> No one else,,,,,, I know,,,,, but I kill me
Yo man, you sure you weren't just stoooned???
I don't know why the xouvert people say that it should be "zoovaire". You don't pronounce "zwindow" or "zeleven", or even "kswindow" or "kseleven", do you ?)
Probably because it's XFree, not Xfree. Xouvert on the other hand is Xouvert, not XOuvert or X-ouvert, which would suggest it's one word, not an acronym/word mutation. Thus you pronounce the 'x' in Xouvert the same way you'd pronounce it in xylophone.
Of course it could go the way of potayto/potahto, lynux/linnix... zylophone/ecksylophone.
I see... so, have you been feeling inexplicable urges to have a shooting spree at your school/church/ place of work?
I can't speak for the grandparent poster but I certainly do dream about shooting up some terrorists with my Desert Eagle. Of course I know killing is wrong and I can't really afford a gun either way so I'm not about to do that.
However, I do see hot studs on TV macking them sexy ladies and I do seek to emulate them whenever I get the chance. I certainly do think it's from television that I learn such techniques because I rarely see any real mack daddies in action, and those of my buds that have such hot shit have certainly only got it from television. I'm not saying pimps wouldn't exist without the mass media, but rather their lifestyle wouldn't be so influential without it.
If you extend that to violence, drug abuse, and other such things the article mentions, it's quite easy to see how television can atleast influence, if not directly cause, how we act.
You won't be too cool to take notes in class you'll be too stoned to even attend them.
Pay more attention to getting a nice desktop rig, with lots of hd space so you can be the man for having the network share with the most pr0n.
But don't actually waste time using it, unlike what they say, the party doesn't have to stop after frosh week.
Oh, I guess for summer school you'll probably want to stick to pen and paper, its really the only fast, effective and convenient way to remember important things once your memory goes.
My apologies, I didn't realize you weren't the original poster.
The arguments still stand if you assume a similar mindset.
No it can't. What about a premptive strike? Is that right or wrong? Self-defence?
Your original stance was somewhat different,
So by your arguement, if China starts shooting Americans at random, it's ok because it's part of their culture.
So answer your own questions -- would it be okay if China preemptively starts shooting Americans at random? Is that right or wrong? Self-defence?
I took my particular stance because your original statement did -- it doesn't hurt my point either way. So the criminality of murder cannot be universally agreed upon -- that's why different cultures prescribe different punishments for such crimes.
Values are subjective.
Once again, you aren't hurting my argument. The gist of my point was that if something cannot be universally (ie, objectively and unambiguously) agreed upon, it should be up to the respective governing bodies to determine the laws. Different cultures have different values (which, as you cleverly pointed out, are subjective), thus they should set their laws to match their values. I think this is pretty much what the original poster was saying as well.
How about this one: if someone's work or efforts give us happiness, that someone should be rewarded or shown by us that we value what they did. That's a fair moral/ethical position to take and a good starting point to justify copyright law.
I agree with you that that someone should be rewarded in some way, but why necessarily monetarily, and more specifically in the monopolistic way copyright laws work? Why is giving them credit/recognition/sexual favours not enough?
The problem with rewarding people with how much we value their work is that it's not necessarily the same as rewarding them with how much they deserve. Why does an entertainer earn so much more than a construction worker? Does the former do that much more strenuous work?
I'm not necessarily criticizing the need for copyright law, just pointing out that the moral/ethical position you propose to base it on isn't as fair as you claim it to be.
Your analogy is stupid.
Using moral criterea, it can be universally agreed upon that murder is a crime. The same cannot be said for stealing, as ownership becomes less and less justifiable as the items in question become less and less tangible.
There are no moral bases for the copyright laws that exist in a country. Why is a song copyrightable, but not speech? Why a sequence of bits of some length copyrightable, but not a sequence of two bits? There's no question the criteria used determine such laws are arbitrary, its just a question of whose ass they've been pulled out of.
If some sort of law is required but one based on universally accepted morals cannot be found, the determinance of that law should be deferred to the next closest thing to universiality, culture.
Your solution works where the animation is hosted on another server, but not with sites that host them on their own. If you only want to see the otherwise interesting content without any flash intro's and such, you can't redefine the host.
Yeah I know it's supposed to be funny but I am stoned out of my ass and I still can't get my head around how the fuck that's supposed to work man.
Say you're running cygwin under wine, and that cygwin is compiling wine, you can't have that wine do anything. First, it's being compiled so it can't be run. Second, you can't run wine under wine or under cygwin if you were on some really good herb.
So, WTF man? Why are you making me think about some infinite loop that cannot exist? Please have the consideration next time for us fellow herbivores (haha, pun intentional) before u try to fuck us up more than we already are.
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Retarded yes, but atleast consistently so.
If you look at your example, infamous, the in doesn't mean you aren't famous, just that you are for the wrong reasons.
I'd venture out to guess that the meaning of the prefix, in this context, is more like en than un, and in is just a retardation of those two.