Dev: The software is done, can you deploy it to production?
Admin: Sure.
(30 minutes later) Admin: it doesn't work.
Dev: Strange, it works on the dev machine.
Admin: It crashes with permission errors. Probably because you ran it under your account.
Dev: Oh, just run it under admin privileges, then it'll work OK.
Admin: No way in hell I'm going to run just everything under elevated privileges. Please reconfigure your deployment so it can run under an unprivileged account.
Dev: Stop being so obstructive!
You'd be surprised how many developers expect that their software can be deployed to production under the same privileges as on their development workstations. And its not only in-house development either. I have seen plenty of commercial packages that don't deploy correctly in a multi-user environment.
But there is no physical mechanism linking pirates to CO2. There is one for temperature, a mechanism that has been known for over a century.
I specifically and explicitly mentioned this by the way, to cut off the stupid kiddies who try to outshout each other 'correlation is not causation!'. Guess what you just have proven yourself to be?
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing.
Measurements of isotope ratios prove that a significant portion of this increase comes from burning fossil fuels.
The global mean temperature is rising.
Now, you might scream like a little kid 'correlation does not imply causation' all you want, but science doesn't work on misunderstood soundbites. Correlation does imply these facts are linked, and in the presence of a causative mechanism (the centuries-old known properties of CO2 as a greenhouse gas), only an idiot like you would accept that stupid soundbite as enough reason to doubt the peer-reviewed science.
Yes, climate scientists are overwhelmingly biased in favour of a theory of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change. I'll give you that.
However, I'll point out that historians are overwhelmingly biased in favour of the theory that some 10 million civilians were systematically murdered by the Nazis during World War II, the largest group for no better reason than who they were born to.
And biologists are overwhelmingly biased in favour of the theory that complex life evolved from less complex lifeforms over a period of millions of years.
And rocket scientists are overwhelmingly biased in favour of the theory that we did send people to the Moon. So you see, it both figurativelay and literally isn't rocket science: rational people are biased in favour of scientific reasoning.
The most immediate consequence for people now living outside the Roman Empire was being raped and plundered by the next Germanic tribe migrating across their land.
Geez, if you're going to use analogies, for fucks sake learn the history first, will you?
You're not addressing the point. Maybe you missed it. If colonising space is not about getting elbow room on Earth, why in the name of all that is sacred would anyone pay money for someone else's elbow room in space?
Again: it's not practical to ship off enough folks to make a appreciable difference in elbow room on Earth, and who would be willing to pay through the nose to give someone else elbow room in space while remaining on earth themselves?
There are good reasons for space colonisation, but creating elbow room is not one of them.
What do you think is out there that's so important?
Space. Elbow room. Infinite amounts of it.
I keep hearing that. And yet nobody seems to do the math: we have 7 billion people on this planet. How are we going to ship them off fast enough to create elbow room? It can't be done.
Of course, you might say 'elbow room' for those lucky enough to be able to migrate to space. In which case you're advocating elbow room for the privileged only. This might be practical, but hardly a view that most people would think deserves respect.
So there's another solution: shoot the media tycoons, starting with the Murdochs.
And for good measure, shoot their bootlickers in the media industry with them. That's about 75% of all journalists, so that makes a bit of room for people who take up the lesson of the shooting: "Don't fuck around with the public".
I could have assumed that. Your little rant fairly reeked of privilege, but I was being charitable and not assuming you actually did belong to the privileged class.
Enjoy it while you can. The rapine of those above you will only make the masses mad. History tells us that the real 1% always manages to get out before the blood flows in the streets, and its their hangers-on that meet the guillotine.
And a month ago people were saying the protests would be over by the weekend. They're still there, and in fact popping up in places all over the world.
But hey, criticising from your easy chair while believing the lie that you too can be a millionaire, while one by one your fellows are being chopped out of the middle class is easier, isn't it?
Why should I spent 15 minutes in a queue if I can save time by just pushing to the front?
Answer: because that is what well-mannered civilised people do, and those kind of manners are necessary to get along without getting your face smashed in.
Geez. Why do people on Slashdot insist on defending the most jerkish behaviour?
Currently there's some 450 files in/usr/share/applications. They all get read and parsed, and then their icons loaded, whenever I open the Applications view.
And multisecond is maybe 2 or 3 seconds, I haven't timed it precisely, but it is a noticeable and irritating delay. I wish they'd cache the results a little more aggressively.
So nice that you actually post links to objective measurements...oh wait.
I find it to be perfectly workable, even on an underpowered Intel GPU. The only thing slow is the build up of the Applications menu, because it re-reads the/usr/share/applications/ directory every time you open the menu. I can see why they did that, but I have rather a lot of packages installed, so I get a multisecond delay when opening the Applications view.
Otherwise I find Gnome Shell to be no slower than Gnome2, and a perfectly good UI. The way the various views and panels stay out of sight gives me a nice, large, and especially uncluttered workspace. I only have a few minor nits to pick, and aside from one design issue, none of them are deal breakers, and I expect most of them to be solved with an extension within the next 6 months or so.
Oh goody. Another Friend Of Israel with reading comprehension problems.
Again: Syria does not have the military power to do anything significant with the Golan. Three and half wars have proven that.
And I wasn't talking about the past when I mentioned Israel's backing by the USA. In fact, you made my point for me: when the Arab states were backed by a Superpower, and Israel was not, Israel still wiped the floor with them. Now that the situation is even more lopsided, they suddenly need a Golan security blanket?
What is it with the Israel/Palestinian conflict that makes people throw logic out the window?
Oh yeah, the West Bank and those Golan heights, that were so crucial to Arab victory in the previous wars...Oh wait.
Israel has by far the strongest military in the region, and the full backing of the USA. In case you hadn't noticed, the remaining Arab states have no superpower backing them any more. So the argument that the Palestinians must suffer a second-class existence to satisfy Israel's safety from its neighbours is pure nonsense.
Here's a hint for you, stupid: I was comparing his 'use conductive mittens' with 'you're holding it wrong', not necessarily with the iPhone touch screen itself.
But hey, I'm expecting reason from a guy who seems to enjoy being as abrasive as possible on Slashdot, so much so that his nick is an almost '-1,Troll' on sight. And that guy complains when someone is a bit rude?
Your posts are incoherent, and since you pretend to know something about technical subjects, someone chastising you for your incoherence is not a douchebag.
The douchebag is the one who, when told of his unclear communication, does not adapt but blame the critic for his own failings.
Let me oppose your anecdote with mine: I run Skype on three different platforms:
Linux x86 on my laptop.
Linux amd64, the most difficult environment, on my gf's workstation.
Windows XP x86, my gf's gaming partition.
None of them have any problems, at least not after I removed PulseAudio (Skype is an old fashioned app that directly wants to talk to the sound device).
Objectively, the Windows version has gotten worse with each release. The Linux client is a lean and mean app, only displaying a contact list and concentrating on chat and voice calling, it's core competencies. The Windows version has bloated up and takes up half the screen at 1600x1200 resolution with all manner of useless bling.
In short, Skype on Linux works perfectly fine in my experience, and a lot better than on Windows.
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And then you have this lovely dialog:
Dev: The software is done, can you deploy it to production?
Admin: Sure.
(30 minutes later) Admin: it doesn't work.
Dev: Strange, it works on the dev machine.
Admin: It crashes with permission errors. Probably because you ran it under your account.
Dev: Oh, just run it under admin privileges, then it'll work OK.
Admin: No way in hell I'm going to run just everything under elevated privileges. Please reconfigure your deployment so it can run under an unprivileged account.
Dev: Stop being so obstructive!
You'd be surprised how many developers expect that their software can be deployed to production under the same privileges as on their development workstations. And its not only in-house development either. I have seen plenty of commercial packages that don't deploy correctly in a multi-user environment.
Mart
But there is no physical mechanism linking pirates to CO2. There is one for temperature, a mechanism that has been known for over a century.
I specifically and explicitly mentioned this by the way, to cut off the stupid kiddies who try to outshout each other 'correlation is not causation!'. Guess what you just have proven yourself to be?
Mar
Typical denier bullshit: when presented with the facts, start whining about something else.
Mart
Oh shut the bloody fuck up, will you?
We have the following facts:
Now, you might scream like a little kid 'correlation does not imply causation' all you want, but science doesn't work on misunderstood soundbites. Correlation does imply these facts are linked, and in the presence of a causative mechanism (the centuries-old known properties of CO2 as a greenhouse gas), only an idiot like you would accept that stupid soundbite as enough reason to doubt the peer-reviewed science.
Mart
Yes, I believe that is generally called 'scientific progress'.
Mart
Yes, climate scientists are overwhelmingly biased in favour of a theory of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change. I'll give you that.
However, I'll point out that historians are overwhelmingly biased in favour of the theory that some 10 million civilians were systematically murdered by the Nazis during World War II, the largest group for no better reason than who they were born to.
And biologists are overwhelmingly biased in favour of the theory that complex life evolved from less complex lifeforms over a period of millions of years.
And rocket scientists are overwhelmingly biased in favour of the theory that we did send people to the Moon. So you see, it both figurativelay and literally isn't rocket science: rational people are biased in favour of scientific reasoning.
Mart
The most immediate consequence for people now living outside the Roman Empire was being raped and plundered by the next Germanic tribe migrating across their land.
Geez, if you're going to use analogies, for fucks sake learn the history first, will you?
Mart
So you're not actually replying to me or to the poster I originally replied to then. I guess we're talking at cross-purposes here.
Mart
You're not addressing the point. Maybe you missed it. If colonising space is not about getting elbow room on Earth, why in the name of all that is sacred would anyone pay money for someone else's elbow room in space?
Again: it's not practical to ship off enough folks to make a appreciable difference in elbow room on Earth, and who would be willing to pay through the nose to give someone else elbow room in space while remaining on earth themselves?
There are good reasons for space colonisation, but creating elbow room is not one of them.
Mart
I keep hearing that. And yet nobody seems to do the math: we have 7 billion people on this planet. How are we going to ship them off fast enough to create elbow room? It can't be done.
Of course, you might say 'elbow room' for those lucky enough to be able to migrate to space. In which case you're advocating elbow room for the privileged only. This might be practical, but hardly a view that most people would think deserves respect.
Mart
So there's another solution: shoot the media tycoons, starting with the Murdochs.
And for good measure, shoot their bootlickers in the media industry with them. That's about 75% of all journalists, so that makes a bit of room for people who take up the lesson of the shooting: "Don't fuck around with the public".
I only wish I weren't joking.
Mart
I could have assumed that. Your little rant fairly reeked of privilege, but I was being charitable and not assuming you actually did belong to the privileged class.
Enjoy it while you can. The rapine of those above you will only make the masses mad. History tells us that the real 1% always manages to get out before the blood flows in the streets, and its their hangers-on that meet the guillotine.
Mart
And a month ago people were saying the protests would be over by the weekend. They're still there, and in fact popping up in places all over the world.
But hey, criticising from your easy chair while believing the lie that you too can be a millionaire, while one by one your fellows are being chopped out of the middle class is easier, isn't it?
Mart
You're talking union here. Good fucking luck with that with your brainwashed compatriots.
Mart
Why should I spent 15 minutes in a queue if I can save time by just pushing to the front?
Answer: because that is what well-mannered civilised people do, and those kind of manners are necessary to get along without getting your face smashed in.
Geez. Why do people on Slashdot insist on defending the most jerkish behaviour?
Currently there's some 450 files in /usr/share/applications. They all get read and parsed, and then their icons loaded, whenever I open the Applications view.
And multisecond is maybe 2 or 3 seconds, I haven't timed it precisely, but it is a noticeable and irritating delay. I wish they'd cache the results a little more aggressively.
Mart
If they want to get off a legitimate mailing list, they should read the documentation and use the unsubscribe feature.
Bouncing mail and annoying people who run a legitimate service is antisocial at best.
So nice that you actually post links to objective measurements...oh wait.
I find it to be perfectly workable, even on an underpowered Intel GPU. The only thing slow is the build up of the Applications menu, because it re-reads the /usr/share/applications/ directory every time you open the menu. I can see why they did that, but I have rather a lot of packages installed, so I get a multisecond delay when opening the Applications view.
Otherwise I find Gnome Shell to be no slower than Gnome2, and a perfectly good UI. The way the various views and panels stay out of sight gives me a nice, large, and especially uncluttered workspace. I only have a few minor nits to pick, and aside from one design issue, none of them are deal breakers, and I expect most of them to be solved with an extension within the next 6 months or so.
Mart
They must be holding them right then.
Mart
Oh goody. Another Friend Of Israel with reading comprehension problems.
Again: Syria does not have the military power to do anything significant with the Golan. Three and half wars have proven that.
And I wasn't talking about the past when I mentioned Israel's backing by the USA. In fact, you made my point for me: when the Arab states were backed by a Superpower, and Israel was not, Israel still wiped the floor with them. Now that the situation is even more lopsided, they suddenly need a Golan security blanket?
What is it with the Israel/Palestinian conflict that makes people throw logic out the window?
Mart
Oh yeah, the West Bank and those Golan heights, that were so crucial to Arab victory in the previous wars...Oh wait.
Israel has by far the strongest military in the region, and the full backing of the USA. In case you hadn't noticed, the remaining Arab states have no superpower backing them any more. So the argument that the Palestinians must suffer a second-class existence to satisfy Israel's safety from its neighbours is pure nonsense.
Mart
Awww, did I step on your tiny iDick?
Here's a hint for you, stupid: I was comparing his 'use conductive mittens' with 'you're holding it wrong', not necessarily with the iPhone touch screen itself.
But hey, I'm expecting reason from a guy who seems to enjoy being as abrasive as possible on Slashdot, so much so that his nick is an almost '-1,Troll' on sight. And that guy complains when someone is a bit rude?
Why don't you stop being such an iPansy?
Mart
So I should jump through hoops to get a device working for me, instead of the manufacturer fixing the obvious defect.
Let me guess, you're an Apple fanboi?
No, he's right.
Your posts are incoherent, and since you pretend to know something about technical subjects, someone chastising you for your incoherence is not a douchebag.
The douchebag is the one who, when told of his unclear communication, does not adapt but blame the critic for his own failings.
Mart
You're kidding, right?
Let me oppose your anecdote with mine: I run Skype on three different platforms:
None of them have any problems, at least not after I removed PulseAudio (Skype is an old fashioned app that directly wants to talk to the sound device).
Objectively, the Windows version has gotten worse with each release. The Linux client is a lean and mean app, only displaying a contact list and concentrating on chat and voice calling, it's core competencies. The Windows version has bloated up and takes up half the screen at 1600x1200 resolution with all manner of useless bling.
In short, Skype on Linux works perfectly fine in my experience, and a lot better than on Windows.
Mart