The Libertarian ones. Too bad the party doesn't really adhere to the planks, nor have a good crank/wacko filter -- which can only mean most of the members are themselves cranks/wackos.
1. Individual Rights
2. Individual Responsibility
3. Minimal government intervention
4. Minimal government taxation
That's really it. Those things encompass everything else.
I'd like to see some serious punishments, as in criminal punishments, for elected officials who don't bother to show up for votes/debates or who even try to pass laws based on lies or emotional appeals. Paying people six figure salaries to vacation half the year from a job where their primary function is to lie to each other and the public is sheer idiocy.
Very consumer oriented viewpoint, but that's the one that drives sales, or at least used to, so no fault in it. These days I think the corporate market is a much bigger slice of the pie over at MS than individual consumers.
I didn't buy XP or Win7 for the enhanced security or any of that, I bought them to play games. My job doesn't require anything that Win2k can't do; hell, If the latest JVM/JDK or recent browsers will run on NT4, that's all I need for work. Edit text files. SSH to servers. Manage vCenter. That's all I need to do with a computer beyond the realm of entertainment.
Others have similar requirements, be it using Eagle or ArcGIS or whatever other specialist software package they need in order to do their jobs.
Win8 is not even a slight improvement over Win7 or XP at such tasks. Not only is it "dead" on the consumer side due to a dying desktop PC market, it's dead on the corporate side because all it brings to the table for existing users of XP, Vista, or Win7 is aggravation. MS needs to refocus Windows on corporate and business users and drop all the 'fluff' or I have a feeling they'll lose even those markets entirely.
Which sucks, because despite their faults, the NT based OSes have always made stellar workstations.
It's not that I know for certain, it's that you don't -- certainly not when it applies to anyone other than yourself. Telling me or anyone else here what would or wouldn't make them happy is the height of arrogance. Saccharine coated feelgood thoughts like "family", "helping others" and "appreciating what you have" may work for you, that doesn't mean they work for everyone.
You don't sound quite sanctimonious *enough*, try harder.
The whole "You don't know what makes you happy, that's just an opinion, but I KNOW in truth what will make you happy" has been a really good start though. Sorry bub, "in truth" you have no idea what makes me or any other random stranger happy.
I have a great job that I enjoy in the easiest environment possible (home). I'm in the "bank always in the black, don't think about it" category. However, having enough money that to ensure I never had to work again, while maintaining or improving my current standard of living, would certainly make me happier.
The happiness of being able to sleep until noon every day if I so desired may be a small measure, but it's not nil, as is the happiness of never having to consider the possibility of losing my job (and thus my income) when planning for the future.
To paraphrase one of your own replies here, No, you only THINK it would NOT make me happier.
I assure you, your opinion is wrong, and trying to speak in such broad strokes while citing the plight of a few lottery winners isn't even enough of an argument to qualify as anecdotal.
..haters gonna hate.
"You do crime in 3rd person in a city.. OMG GTA RIPOFF". The only games that have been ripping off GTA... are GTA sequels.
SR2 and SR3 are both better than any GTA game ever made, except the first, which of course I still own for PC. Sadly I no longer have a 3dfx/glide card to enjoy it with.
When you're on the bottom, the only way to do is up. It would be difficult to build a new GUI and do *worse* than X11, though if that's too difficult for Canonical I can't say. If they take direction from XP, OSX, and Win7 it may be good. If they all have eyes glazed over by words like "mobile" and "cloud" and take more direction from Android, iOS, and Win8, it may well be worse than X11.
I don't think they do. If they did, they would be saying the current ice age, rather than the "last" ice age, as we are in a glacial period RFN, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
The "less technical" meaning is meaningless. Basically when the media or average person says "ice age" they mean glacial maximum, or more personally, ice sheets extending from the pole to... wherever they happen to live.
We will be out of the current ice age when Greenland and even Antarctica are ice-sheet free... Which is the normal (average) state of the planet. Cool glacial periods, like the one we're in now, are the exceptional periods vs. the rule Average global temperature, geologically speaking, is about 10C higher than present. The cool periods when ice sheets are possible tend to only last a few million years at most, separated by warmer (than now) periods lasting a hundred million years or longer.
The next glacial maximum may be 50,000 years off. If we cut CO2 concentrations to 2/3 current levels, the next glacial maximum may only be 15,000 years off.
Is there a point buried somewhere in there? If you're an honest person, you'll do your job if you're going to cash your check, hate it or not. If you're a dishonest person, you'll collect the money and then whine about not being "motivated" enough to do what you're being paid to do. It really is that simple.
Funny.
I thought what caused people to slack off was a shitty work ethic. If you need 'motivation' beyond your paycheck to do your job and do it well, perhaps you're more suited to the position of walmart greeter than you are to an IT role : remote or local.
Disclaimer: I've been working from home for the past 3 years.
1. Switchgrass average production: 14.6 tons / hectare
2. Ethanol 100 gallons/ton
3. Total land area (not arable, total for CONUS, period) 766 million hectares
Total fuel production per year: 1.1 trillion gallons
Gasoline and diesel consumption in 2011: 200 billion gallons.
So you tell me. Do you think it's realistic to convert 20% of the total land area of the country to switchgrass production? It would certainly make sense to use it to replace corn, once the technology matures, but it's never going to replace petroleum unless they figure out a way go grow it much more densely without raising the cost of production too much. There are better alternatives to solve the oil crunch than plants-as-fuel. CNG is one. LPG is another.
What is with these people that think we can meet any reasonable amount of our energy needs, nationally or globally, with alcohol? It takes literally seconds to look up the maximum arable land in a country, determine how much fuel you could make if you used all of it at 100% efficiency, and then see that this is nowhere near enough fuel to replace gasoline. During this exercise you're allowed to ignore the impact this would have when that land is no longer available for current purposes.
Until there are major advances in where this stuff can be grown, to get the energy produced per acre much higher than it actually is, and prevent "simple" natural disasters from ruining entire crops for the season, this stuff is never going to take off no matter the hype.
Anyone with a WAP connected directly to a LAN deserves *exactly* what they will eventually get. External firewall, internal firewall, and the area between them (the DMZ) is where the WAP belongs, if it belongs on your network at all. Chances are, it does not.
As someone who's worked for a defense contractor, wireless devices were not restricted when I worked there, because there was no on-site wireless access. Anything that had a camera or could act as external storage *was* restricted though. Check it in when you get to work, pick it up when you leave. This is not a bad policy for non-governmental entities either. Only the me me me generation thinks they have any legitimate need (or "right", *snort*) to have any personal devices of any sort with them when the are *at work*.
We don't know that human life and advanced civilization can thrive in a Cretaceous-like climate.
Of course we do. If it weren't for that climate, there wouldn't be any human life to begin with. The explosion of mammalian life, including one of our direct evolutionary ancestors, first appeared during the PETM. As for advanced civilization, it seems to thrive just fine in the tropics now, thus it will also thrive if there are more such areas.
The position of those who call themselves conservatives is "I want my Hummer, consequences be damned!"
No, this is just the pigeonhole the liberals want to put them in, to feel better about themselves while they envision themselves as environmental and social stewards. It's the same mentality that leads to them to call voter ID laws "racist", as if that word doesn't actually mean something already. The overall conservative position is economic and pragmatic. Spending money trying to avert something we cannot avert in the long run is pointless, and nothing the industrialized world can do WRT CO2 output is going to have any impact if the developing nations won't also play ball -- and they won't. You're not going to convince China or India to curb growth due to environmental concerns a century out.
I don't know how accurate the stats are, but w3techs puts FreeBSD at 1.1% of all web servers [w3techs.com]
Yes, but so what? It's not as though 99% of sites aren't also useless wordpress blogs and other "small fry" VPS solutions. % of websites means nothing. Why not look at % of traffic served, or % of money handled.
Not to mention Linus has by some small miracle managed to keep it together under one banner instead of forking into three branches with duplication of effort.
It's laughable to say Net/Free/Open are forks while Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat/CentOS/Gentoo/etc/etc/etc/etc are not. The BSDs all share a great deal of their code with one another.
BSD is popular with some companies and in colleges, but when you get into the real world it's either Linux or Solaris and Solaris is fading fast
I've been doing IT and development in the "real world" for ~20 years, and you are absolutely wrong. There is a lot of Windows infrastructure out there. Nothing competes with AD/Exchange/Sharepoint in corporate environments. Nothing. There's a ton of BSD as well..Net is far more prevalent then you seem to have any clue about.
I'm not dissing BSD, but I'd never recommend it for anything in the enterprise.
The only reason for that can be that you don't know what you're doing / talking about.
I'm not a mac person. I recognize their strengths as desktops however, and don't fault those who prefer them over windows. You won't find me suggesting anyone run an OSX or Mini as a server. Your rock however must be small indeed because BSD is certainly "mainstream", as has been discussed on/. ad nauseam. You don't *see* it in your line of work perhaps, but it's there, in the background, making everything *work*. It's in every Juniper device. Hell, the os that runs the playstation3 is part FreeBSD, as is OSX itself.
your assertion that windows 7 or OS X is better than a Linux server shows how out of touch you are with enterprise computing.
RIF. I made no such assertion. I said they make a better desktop than Linux because, well, they do. The BSDs make better servers.
'motivated reasoning,' where 'high belief certainty influenced perceptions of personal experience,'
"I believe GW is happening and that it causes bad things. Today bad weather happened, must be due to GW."
or
"I do not believe GW is happening or that it causes bad things. Today bad weather happened, as it does from time to time."
'experiential learning,' where 'perceived personal experience of global warming led to increased belief certainty.'
"I did not believe GW was happening, but did believe it would cause worse hurricane. Today a bad hurricane happened, so now I have more faith in GW."
or
"I did not believe GW was happening, but did believe it would cause hotter summers.. We had snowfall in June so, therefore, no GW.
The far more interesting thing than the conclusion reached by the source is that none of these is a remotely scientific line of reasoning. Correlating personal experience (i.e., weather events) with climate is long acknowledged as foolish, just like jumping to the conclusion that you live in the most unsafe city in the world because you got mugged -- or that you live in the safest one because you've never been mugged.
Because as good as OS X is, it's not a particularly good server platform and requires Mac hardware, while Linux has been around for ages, runs on commodity hardware, has a very well supported number of open source packages and is considered mainstream by most Unix admins.
Exactly what OSX binaries do you desire to run on your "server"?
I don't mention BSD since it's not really mainstream any longer
How big is the rock you're living under?
All that being said, I prefer OS X systems for my workstation and CentOS or Scientific Linux for servers. Redhat's nice, but overpriced when you need to deploy a lot of systems
1. CentOS =~ s/Red Hat/CentOS/g.
2. (Win7 || OSX) > Linux desktop; *BSD > Linux server.
Perhaps the reverse. If you have OSX already, why are you messing around with linux? That's like being married to the hottest babe in the universe and then cheating on her with rosie.
When it comes to a mandated piece of equipment in company and personal vehicles, the situation gets a little more complicated. The operator is responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle. So the question is, what benefit is there in this?
The benefit is in the judicial system. No more people lying that their car suddenly accelerated with the brakes fully depressed. No more lying about how fast you were going when you plow into a school bus full of nuns. No more lying about how long you were parked. No more kids lying to their parents about how fast they were driving, how far they drove, etc. That is, of course, if it retains data for any length of time. The bill only requires it record data for a "reasonable" amount of time before a crash or airbag deployment, so it's likely that no more than 1-5 minutes of data will be recorded.
Absolutely everything the box records is in the public domain already, collecting it is just expensive or manpower intensive.
There is no request by any government agency, and no plan put out by any auto manufacturer, to have the data available remotely. Most new vehicles already *have* these data recorders in them, and have for some time, there is just no standard on what must be recorded or what protocol the interface must speak.
If you're concerned about what data it is going to record, and who has the (legal) rights to access that data, you could always -- you know -- read the bill. It's already been passed by the Senate, S. 1813, sec 31406. Reading the entire bill would reveal far more heinous things that are worth fighting, like empowering the IRS to revoke the passport of anyone owing more than $50k in back taxes.
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The Libertarian ones. Too bad the party doesn't really adhere to the planks, nor have a good crank/wacko filter -- which can only mean most of the members are themselves cranks/wackos.
1. Individual Rights
2. Individual Responsibility
3. Minimal government intervention
4. Minimal government taxation
That's really it. Those things encompass everything else.
I'd like to see some serious punishments, as in criminal punishments, for elected officials who don't bother to show up for votes/debates or who even try to pass laws based on lies or emotional appeals. Paying people six figure salaries to vacation half the year from a job where their primary function is to lie to each other and the public is sheer idiocy.
Very consumer oriented viewpoint, but that's the one that drives sales, or at least used to, so no fault in it. These days I think the corporate market is a much bigger slice of the pie over at MS than individual consumers. I didn't buy XP or Win7 for the enhanced security or any of that, I bought them to play games. My job doesn't require anything that Win2k can't do; hell, If the latest JVM/JDK or recent browsers will run on NT4, that's all I need for work. Edit text files. SSH to servers. Manage vCenter. That's all I need to do with a computer beyond the realm of entertainment.
Others have similar requirements, be it using Eagle or ArcGIS or whatever other specialist software package they need in order to do their jobs.
Win8 is not even a slight improvement over Win7 or XP at such tasks. Not only is it "dead" on the consumer side due to a dying desktop PC market, it's dead on the corporate side because all it brings to the table for existing users of XP, Vista, or Win7 is aggravation. MS needs to refocus Windows on corporate and business users and drop all the 'fluff' or I have a feeling they'll lose even those markets entirely.
Which sucks, because despite their faults, the NT based OSes have always made stellar workstations.
IRV. Hanging, dimpled, spindled, and mutilated chads be damned.
It's not that I know for certain, it's that you don't -- certainly not when it applies to anyone other than yourself. Telling me or anyone else here what would or wouldn't make them happy is the height of arrogance. Saccharine coated feelgood thoughts like "family", "helping others" and "appreciating what you have" may work for you, that doesn't mean they work for everyone.
You don't sound quite sanctimonious *enough*, try harder.
The whole "You don't know what makes you happy, that's just an opinion, but I KNOW in truth what will make you happy" has been a really good start though. Sorry bub, "in truth" you have no idea what makes me or any other random stranger happy.
I have a great job that I enjoy in the easiest environment possible (home). I'm in the "bank always in the black, don't think about it" category. However, having enough money that to ensure I never had to work again, while maintaining or improving my current standard of living, would certainly make me happier.
The happiness of being able to sleep until noon every day if I so desired may be a small measure, but it's not nil, as is the happiness of never having to consider the possibility of losing my job (and thus my income) when planning for the future.
To paraphrase one of your own replies here, No, you only THINK it would NOT make me happier.
I assure you, your opinion is wrong, and trying to speak in such broad strokes while citing the plight of a few lottery winners isn't even enough of an argument to qualify as anecdotal.
..haters gonna hate. "You do crime in 3rd person in a city.. OMG GTA RIPOFF". The only games that have been ripping off GTA... are GTA sequels. SR2 and SR3 are both better than any GTA game ever made, except the first, which of course I still own for PC. Sadly I no longer have a 3dfx/glide card to enjoy it with.
When you're on the bottom, the only way to do is up. It would be difficult to build a new GUI and do *worse* than X11, though if that's too difficult for Canonical I can't say. If they take direction from XP, OSX, and Win7 it may be good. If they all have eyes glazed over by words like "mobile" and "cloud" and take more direction from Android, iOS, and Win8, it may well be worse than X11.
I don't think they do. If they did, they would be saying the current ice age, rather than the "last" ice age, as we are in a glacial period RFN, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
The "less technical" meaning is meaningless. Basically when the media or average person says "ice age" they mean glacial maximum, or more personally, ice sheets extending from the pole to... wherever they happen to live.
We will be out of the current ice age when Greenland and even Antarctica are ice-sheet free... Which is the normal (average) state of the planet. Cool glacial periods, like the one we're in now, are the exceptional periods vs. the rule Average global temperature, geologically speaking, is about 10C higher than present. The cool periods when ice sheets are possible tend to only last a few million years at most, separated by warmer (than now) periods lasting a hundred million years or longer.
The next glacial maximum may be 50,000 years off. If we cut CO2 concentrations to 2/3 current levels, the next glacial maximum may only be 15,000 years off.
Is there a point buried somewhere in there? If you're an honest person, you'll do your job if you're going to cash your check, hate it or not. If you're a dishonest person, you'll collect the money and then whine about not being "motivated" enough to do what you're being paid to do. It really is that simple.
Funny. I thought what caused people to slack off was a shitty work ethic. If you need 'motivation' beyond your paycheck to do your job and do it well, perhaps you're more suited to the position of walmart greeter than you are to an IT role : remote or local. Disclaimer: I've been working from home for the past 3 years.
1. Switchgrass average production: 14.6 tons / hectare
2. Ethanol 100 gallons/ton
3. Total land area (not arable, total for CONUS, period) 766 million hectares
Total fuel production per year: 1.1 trillion gallons
Gasoline and diesel consumption in 2011: 200 billion gallons.
So you tell me. Do you think it's realistic to convert 20% of the total land area of the country to switchgrass production? It would certainly make sense to use it to replace corn, once the technology matures, but it's never going to replace petroleum unless they figure out a way go grow it much more densely without raising the cost of production too much. There are better alternatives to solve the oil crunch than plants-as-fuel. CNG is one. LPG is another.
What is with these people that think we can meet any reasonable amount of our energy needs, nationally or globally, with alcohol? It takes literally seconds to look up the maximum arable land in a country, determine how much fuel you could make if you used all of it at 100% efficiency, and then see that this is nowhere near enough fuel to replace gasoline. During this exercise you're allowed to ignore the impact this would have when that land is no longer available for current purposes.
Until there are major advances in where this stuff can be grown, to get the energy produced per acre much higher than it actually is, and prevent "simple" natural disasters from ruining entire crops for the season, this stuff is never going to take off no matter the hype.
Indeed! We should never discuss things we do not "fully understand!" Just imagine the chaos that could result!
Anyone with a WAP connected directly to a LAN deserves *exactly* what they will eventually get. External firewall, internal firewall, and the area between them (the DMZ) is where the WAP belongs, if it belongs on your network at all. Chances are, it does not.
As someone who's worked for a defense contractor, wireless devices were not restricted when I worked there, because there was no on-site wireless access. Anything that had a camera or could act as external storage *was* restricted though. Check it in when you get to work, pick it up when you leave. This is not a bad policy for non-governmental entities either. Only the me me me generation thinks they have any legitimate need (or "right", *snort*) to have any personal devices of any sort with them when the are *at work*.
Our citizens are already bad enough at simple math. Making it easier on them is not going to help the situation.
Of course we do. If it weren't for that climate, there wouldn't be any human life to begin with. The explosion of mammalian life, including one of our direct evolutionary ancestors, first appeared during the PETM. As for advanced civilization, it seems to thrive just fine in the tropics now, thus it will also thrive if there are more such areas.
No, this is just the pigeonhole the liberals want to put them in, to feel better about themselves while they envision themselves as environmental and social stewards. It's the same mentality that leads to them to call voter ID laws "racist", as if that word doesn't actually mean something already. The overall conservative position is economic and pragmatic. Spending money trying to avert something we cannot avert in the long run is pointless, and nothing the industrialized world can do WRT CO2 output is going to have any impact if the developing nations won't also play ball -- and they won't. You're not going to convince China or India to curb growth due to environmental concerns a century out.
Yes, but so what? It's not as though 99% of sites aren't also useless wordpress blogs and other "small fry" VPS solutions. % of websites means nothing. Why not look at % of traffic served, or % of money handled.
It's laughable to say Net/Free/Open are forks while Ubuntu/Debian/Redhat/CentOS/Gentoo/etc/etc/etc/etc are not. The BSDs all share a great deal of their code with one another.
I've been doing IT and development in the "real world" for ~20 years, and you are absolutely wrong. There is a lot of Windows infrastructure out there. Nothing competes with AD/Exchange/Sharepoint in corporate environments. Nothing. There's a ton of BSD as well. .Net is far more prevalent then you seem to have any clue about.
The only reason for that can be that you don't know what you're doing / talking about.
I'm not a mac person. I recognize their strengths as desktops however, and don't fault those who prefer them over windows. You won't find me suggesting anyone run an OSX or Mini as a server. Your rock however must be small indeed because BSD is certainly "mainstream", as has been discussed on /. ad nauseam. You don't *see* it in your line of work perhaps, but it's there, in the background, making everything *work*. It's in every Juniper device. Hell, the os that runs the playstation3 is part FreeBSD, as is OSX itself.
RIF. I made no such assertion. I said they make a better desktop than Linux because, well, they do. The BSDs make better servers.
"I believe GW is happening and that it causes bad things. Today bad weather happened, must be due to GW."
or
"I do not believe GW is happening or that it causes bad things. Today bad weather happened, as it does from time to time."
"I did not believe GW was happening, but did believe it would cause worse hurricane. Today a bad hurricane happened, so now I have more faith in GW."
or
"I did not believe GW was happening, but did believe it would cause hotter summers.. We had snowfall in June so, therefore, no GW.
The far more interesting thing than the conclusion reached by the source is that none of these is a remotely scientific line of reasoning. Correlating personal experience (i.e., weather events) with climate is long acknowledged as foolish, just like jumping to the conclusion that you live in the most unsafe city in the world because you got mugged -- or that you live in the safest one because you've never been mugged.
Exactly what OSX binaries do you desire to run on your "server"?
How big is the rock you're living under?
1. CentOS =~ s/Red Hat/CentOS/g.
2. (Win7 || OSX) > Linux desktop; *BSD > Linux server.
Perhaps the reverse. If you have OSX already, why are you messing around with linux? That's like being married to the hottest babe in the universe and then cheating on her with rosie.
The benefit is in the judicial system. No more people lying that their car suddenly accelerated with the brakes fully depressed. No more lying about how fast you were going when you plow into a school bus full of nuns. No more lying about how long you were parked. No more kids lying to their parents about how fast they were driving, how far they drove, etc. That is, of course, if it retains data for any length of time. The bill only requires it record data for a "reasonable" amount of time before a crash or airbag deployment, so it's likely that no more than 1-5 minutes of data will be recorded.
Absolutely everything the box records is in the public domain already, collecting it is just expensive or manpower intensive.
There is no request by any government agency, and no plan put out by any auto manufacturer, to have the data available remotely. Most new vehicles already *have* these data recorders in them, and have for some time, there is just no standard on what must be recorded or what protocol the interface must speak.
If you're concerned about what data it is going to record, and who has the (legal) rights to access that data, you could always -- you know -- read the bill. It's already been passed by the Senate, S. 1813, sec 31406. Reading the entire bill would reveal far more heinous things that are worth fighting, like empowering the IRS to revoke the passport of anyone owing more than $50k in back taxes.