How are news sites paid? Advertising. How much you get paid for a specific ad depends upon how many people click on it. If you want to sell lots of advertising it helps to have lots of page views. Think about this, a troll posts an idiotic comment, say 90 percent of the comments made about President Obama over the last five years or 99 percent of anything coming out of the mouths of Republicans or their buttboys, the Libertarians. Other readers jump on the troll and tell him what a fucking idiot he is, and every time they do so it counts as a page view. Sure, it's sleazy and contemptible, but it brings in the bucks the way that the old "letters to the editor" section of your local newspaper ever did, and if there's anything that the advent of the internet has done it's completely kick the shit out of the advertising supported content model used by newspapers, radio and television.
Motor sport racing, while silly on a lot of levels (NASCAR especially) requires quite a bit of athleticism from it's participants. YOU try to muscle a 5000 pound vehicle at close proximity to others going close to 200 mph for several hours. YOU probably couldn't get the thing out of the garage without having a heart attack. Ignorant Bozo.
I have done that fuckhead, it's called "driving on the Autobahn" and it's a Hell of a lot more difficult than driving on a NASCAR track, especially the first weekend of August when everyone in Germany decides to go on vacation. Only worthless fucking retards think that NASCAR is in any way, shape or form an athletic event.
The same place you would have been if Yucca Mountain had opened you fucking stupid right-wing cunt. Yucca Mountain was never going to be used to store waste from Hanford. Oh, and by the way you stupid piece of shit it's not like any of the Republicans in Nevada were all that thrilled about Yucca Mountain either. John Ensign, the Republican Senator from Nevada worked just as hard to kill Yucca Mountain as Harry Reid did. Not that I'd expect a useless, good for nothing, ignorant, lying piece of right-wing trash such as yourself to do some basic research before posting your crap. Try googling "Yucca Mountain, Senator John Ensign" and see what comes up.
Because the whole fucking Hanford reservation is near a river, the Columbia, and it was put there for several reasons. One was that they needed a lot of electricity for the separation plants that separated plutonium from uranium after it had been processed through a reactor and Hanford is just down the road from Grand Coulee and a few other dams that produce lots of electricity. Another was that they needed lots of water to cool the reactors. Yet another was that Hanford was out in the middle of fucking nowhere so if something bad happened and scattered a lot of radioactive crap around it wouldn't affect too many people.
Really, which 1,000 targets are we going to strike? Do you have any sources for your information other than the usual right-wing war porn websites run by conservative chickenhawks who never wore a uniform? Bear in mind that the nukes we would use have about 20 times the power of the Nagasaki bomb, so you're saying that there are more than 1,000 targets that need to have the equivalent of 400kt of TNT dropped on them.
And if that stupid fucking asshole Bush hadn't gotten us into a war in the middle east with a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and that had no WMD, despite the lies told by Cheney, Rice, et al we could have paid for the cleanup many times over and we wouldn't have nearly as much debt as we do now.
Seriously, as a Gedankenexperiment imagine what might happen if the next time one of these patent trolls set up shop every single one of them was gunned down within a week of them mailing their first extortion letter. I'd be willing to bet that you'd have a lot of people who were considering this line of business suddenly decide that getting a real job looked pretty good.
What utter bullshit. If all of the Jews in Germany had been armed and had decided in 1934 to resist Hitler they still would have been killed, armed Jewish resistance wouldn't have made the Nazis back down, it would have given them the excuse they needed to start the Holocaust a few years earlier. Or let's take the example of the Japanese American internment. What do you think would have happened if Japanese Americans had decided to arm themselves and resist deportation to camps such as Manzanar? Would the government have backed down on deporting the Japanese Americans if a couple of prominent advocates of internment, say Earl Warren, the AG of California at the time, and FDR, had been assassinated by Japanese Americans? No, given the racist tenor of the times the Japanese Americans would have been slaughtered.
That leaves removing the opportunity... which also can't be done, not completely, but the window of opportunity can be dramatically reduced if the potential victims have access to the tools and skills they need to fight back.
Oh, so you're a member of the "let's arm the children crowd". Guess what, you're full of shit. Being trained and having guns didn't prevent four Lakewood police officers from being gunned down by Maurice Clemmons. Having a bunch of guys with guns around them didn't prevent Ronald Reagan and James Brady from being shot in 1981. You need to pull your head out of your ass and stop masturbating to Death Wish.
Or the means, or the opportunity. Removing the means for mass murder is impossible, because there are so very many ways to do it, and all of those means have alternative, productive, useful uses to the non-mass-murdering segment of society.
Bullshit. Fully automatic weapons were banned in 1934 and guess what, no one has been going around and shooting up schools with fully automatic weapons because they're not available to the average nutjob. Enforcing a ban on semi-automatic weapons would be difficult but could be done. At the very least the government could just ban their sale to private citizens and ban sales and transfers of existing semi-automatic weapons. If you already have a semi-automatic weapon you get to keep it, but nobody else gets to buy a Bushmaster and you can't sell your Bushmaster to anyone else. And guess what gun nutz, if you read Scalia's opinion in DC versus Heller this would be entirely constitutional.
Or the government could just ban sales of semi-automatic weapons with detachable magazines. This would be entirely legal and constitutional under Heller. You want a semi-automatic rifle for hunting, hey, you can buy an M1 Garand and have eight shots, which is all you need for hunting. If you need a weapon for defending your house you can buy a revolver, and if you can't resolve a home defense situation with six shots or less then you probably shouldn't have a gun at all.
You're just blustering and repeating right-wing NRA talking points and blowing smoke up everyone's ass.
Wow, spoken like a true racist dogfucker. Let me guess, you're also one of those fucktards who believes that President Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Socialist.
Yes, have you ever heard of Oracle Enterprise Linux? Oracle went out and took RedHat Linux, added OCFS2 and other Oracle enhancements and started selling OEL. Oh, and if you were already licensing Oracle for your database OEL was compelling because it meant that you had one less throat to choke if you were trying to solve a problem with the system and because it was cheaper to add support for OEL to your Oracle license than it was to purchase a support contract from RedHat. Needless to say RedHat was not happy about this but there wasn't anything they could do about it except suck it up and watch as they lost customers to Oracle. Now Oracle has a brilliant business model here. Develop a proprietary product and then let someone else develop an operating system that your product runs on and then you copy their OS and use it to drive sales for your product.
Yeah, and RedHat doesn't (and can't) stop anyone from redistributing its OS. Since CentOS already does it for them, and since non-commercial users use Fedora, they don't have to bother too much about that.
A few years ago I worked for a company that was running Oracle on RedHat. We reached a point where it was time to buy new servers and instead of buying RedHat licenses we bought licenses for Oracle Enterprise Linux, which is basically RedHat Linux except someone downloaded the RedHat source and ran
find . -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/Red Hat/Oracle/g"
Man the RedHat rep was pissed off when I told him that we were switching to OEL from RedHat. I got a big lecture on how Oracle was just piggy-backing on all of RedHat's hard work. It was rather hilarious.
So you hacked together something based upon the Tanenbaum book. Big fucking deal. Just because you created a kernel and boot loader in x86 ASM in two weeks doesn't mean that it was worth a shit. If creating a kernel is so fucking easy then why didn't the GNU project have one back in the late 1980s? Well there are two reasons, one because creating a real kernel for an OS that's going to run in the real world is fairly difficult, regardless of whether or not it's a "micro" kernel or a "monolithic" one, and of course because the GNU project spent three years dicking around and waiting for a license for the Mach Microkernel to become available. But eventually that issue was resolved and as soon as it was GNU wrote a kernel and shipped it right? No, GNU has spent 20 years fucking around with the Hurd, and even after twenty years it's still a piece of shit that nobody uses. So on the one hand you have Linus Torvalds who was able to put together a working monolithic kernel using the GNU tools in a fairly short period of time. On the other hand you have the GNU project, who developed the GNU tools (and you'd think that this would give them an advantage) and who have had over 20 years to develop a kernel and the best that they can do is the Hurd.
Oh, and yeah, people develop monolithic kernels all the time because monolithic kernels work and have decent performance. Mach was a great idea and a cool project but Mach kernels never delivered on their initial promise of improved performance and most operating systems that claimed to use Mach based kernels (OSF/1) were actually using hybrid kernels that combined features from Mach with a more traditional monolithic kernel design.
*Windoze crashed constantly when I used it. The acronym BSOD is a household name, because of that "stability" on the MS desktop.
Have you ever considered that perhaps your system had bad hardware, or that perhaps you're just a fucking retard who can't get a Windows system to work?
*OSX is a Unix based OS. It is, by its very design, in the same league as Linux.
Wow, and here you were accusing someone else of inane babbling. OS X is not in the same league as Linux. OS/X is based upon BSD, which, under the hood, is completely different from Linux. OS/X has a great GUI. Linux GUIs are stupid, derivative and bloated. Apple spends lots of time making sure that all of the components of OS/X work with each other, they aren't perfect but they're a Hell of a lot better than any Linux distro out there. When Apple updates a major component of the system, such as the init manager they do it right. Migrating to launchd was transparent and painless, things just worked. Compare and contrast this to the fucked up and retarded way that the dickheads at Ubuntu grafted Upstart on to Debian. Upstart has been shipping with every Ubuntu distro since Lucid, and it's still buggy as Hell and even now, after almost three years there aren't any third party packages that support it.
Linux does have better memory management than MacOS X, although that's not saying much, and if you've never had OOM killer fuck up something important then you obviously haven't run too many Linux systems, and it has better filesystems available (XFS) and it's had logical volume management since 2001, whereas Apple didn't introduce volume management until MacOS Lion (10.7).
Yes, I've used both, and I've been using Linux for almost 20 years now and do you know what? It's a shitty desktop operating system. Linux on the desktop fucking sucks ass, Ubuntu is every bit as stupidly bloated as anything Microsoft has ever shipped, don't believe me? Well go install Ubuntu without a GUI and then add Gnome or KDE and watch as Ubuntu downloads several gigabytes of dependencies and loads your system up with crap. And what do you get? A piece of shit desktop that's basically just a ripoff of what Microsoft and Apple are doing, except that it's a piss poorly implemented ripoff.
Then there's the fact that Linux has bugs and for the most part companies that sell Linux aren't any better at fixing those bugs than Microsoft or Apple. Canonical certainly isn't. I've been using Ubuntu for the last three years. Upstart is still a buggy, fucked up piece of shit, if you want services to start reliably on a Linux system, you end up having to edit the Upstart scripts in/etc/init, because otherwise Upstart is too fucking stupid to properly mount your NFS filesystems and you end up with orphaned inodes because Upstart doesn't properly unmount the root filesystem before the system is shut down. These are major bugs that were reported over two years ago and they still haven't been fixed. I keep hearing all of you fucking Linux fanbois bitching about how bad Microsoft is but you never bring stuff like this up, either because you're dishonest or you're just ignorant little shits who aren't actually using Linux in a production environment and but who think that because you installed it at home you're super duper 1337.
Linux does a lot of things really well. Linux virtualization with libvirt/KVM is amazing. It's not as fully featured as VMware yet, but it's made huge leaps and bounds in the last three years. Companies such as Tivo and DataDomain have shown that Linux is a great operating system for dedicated devices. Companies such as Amazon run on Linux and have been for over a decade. But Linux on the desktop fucking sucks, it's nothing more than stupid, bloated, imitative shit.
and how much porn they could download with a terabit ethernet connection? But seriously, fuck terabit ethernet, that's for pussies. I say we go with free space communications between nodes over high powered laser links. Sure, there are a few things to work out, such as how to avoid being sliced in half, burned or blinded whenever you have to go into the machine room, but think of the bandwidth! Besides, it would be really cool to be able to repurpose old NICs as death rays.
Canonical have provided the community with a polished and free OS
Free yes, polished? Are you fucking kidding me? I can tell that you've never used Ubuntu for any serious server work. If you had you'd know that it's anything but polished. Take the Upstart init manager as an example. In theory Upstart was supposed to replace the old SYS V init scripts with a leaner, event driven mechanism for system start up. In practice it has done anything but. Some services start through Upstart, some start through init.d and others, such as sshd have different behavior depending upon whether or not you control them via upstart or start and stop them via init.d. Then there's the fact that the braindead dildos who wrote Upstart set it up so that it kills services via kill -9. Yeah, because nothing bad could ever happen if you ran kill -9 to shut your database down, which is exactly what Upstart does when you run
stop mysql
Apparently no one at Canonical understands that "kill -9" is something that you use only as a last resort and certainly isn't something you want to use when you're stopping and starting a database. Then there's the piece of shit Plymouth boot manager. Guess what, servers don't need splash screens. Really, they don't. My servers live in remote sites or are hosted in the cloud. I don't need a cutesy picture when they start, I want screen after screen of detailed output telling me what the system is doing. But go ahead and try to remove Plymouth from your Ubuntu system. Guess what! You can't. Some useless son-of-a-crack-whore set up the package dependencies such that attempting to remove Plymouth, which is a real piece of shit from an Ubuntu system also removes the core system.
Then there's ureadahead. Ureadahead is an OK idea on laptops I guess but does nothing for you when you're on a server and I've started disabling it on the systems I run. Interestingly enough despite ureadahead's supposed performance benefits I haven't seen any penalty for doing so. I could go on and on and on, the out of date rsyslog that ships with Ubuntu (yeah, because collecting log information is boring and old school, who needs that stuff?), bugs in mdraid that cause it to incorrectly detect disk size when it creates your disk label, thus creating a ticking time bomb that can go off and result in massive file corruption, etc, etc, etc. Oh, and the Ubuntu desktop, what a piece of shit. I'd take Windows XP over this POS any day of the week. Newsflash Ubuntu developers, larding your desktop up with shiny crap doesn't make it more useful. The Gnome and Unity UIs are every bit as bloated and stupid as the Windows Vista UI and if any real functionality or value has been added I have yet to see what it is. Gnome and Unity are nothing more than a shiny coat of paint on top of a nasty, stinky turd.
About a year ago I set up a desktop using straight Debian, and it was fucking amazing. Shit just worked and I realized that the only reason why Ubuntu has been able to stay in business so long is because they've been able to ride on Debian's coat tails and that even though they're idiots they haven't been able to fuck up the solid work that the folks at Debian have done over the years. This cartoon describes Ubuntu best.
Seriously, what a fucking load of crap. Apple has introduced one new connector in ten years. OMFG, they're as evil as Hitler times Stalin raised to the power of Osama bin Laden (Hitler*Stalin)^(Osama bin Laden). Let's see, we have people bitching because Apple is using a proprietary connector. Hey, it's their product, they can do what they want with it. Then we have a bunch of useless eco-cunts bitching because of the impact on the environment. What impact? The only thing you need to charge this phone with any device with a USB A port is a $19 cable that weighs a couple of ounces, anyone who is concerned about the impact this might have on the environment should put their money where their mouth is and reduce their carbon footprint by killing themselves. Then we have people saying that Apple should put a micro-USB connector on and a Lightning connector, which would make the device more expensive and complicated because you'd have to put two connectors on the phone and then design the charging circuitry so that it could handle edge cases such as someone plugging chargers into both ports. Then you have a bunch of twats wailing and saying that Apple should use USB 3.0, which is a real piece of shit as standards go, in fact USB 3.0 is such a piece of shit that even Intel, some of you fucks might have heard of them, they invented USB, lagged behind in implementing it on their own chipsets and didn't ship a chipset with integrated USB 3.0 until this year. Oh, and USB 3.0 still isn't finalized, the standards committee is dicking around with power delivery to increase the amount of power that a USB 3.0 port can deliver, so there's a very good chance that any USB 3.0 device you purchase today won't be able to support higher power charging on USB 3.0 devices made in the future. Then there's the USB 3.0 connector itself. The connector design isn't a bad idea, it takes the micro USB connector and adds an additional connector on the side for the new USB 3.0 signals, that's actually a pretty good design. The problem with this is that every single USB 3.0 cable I've seen so far is really flimsy.
There also isn't any standard for how you can get video data off of a USB 3.0 port in On-the-Go mode. In theory you can do this, USB 3.0 has the bandwidth to to this, but converting that signal into something that you can connect to a monitor is going to require some sort of external adapter circuitry. Some of the whiny fucks who are bitching about this will shit themselves and wail and say "well Apple should have put an HDMI port on the phone". Really? Why? I have an HTC Evo, it has a micro USB port and a mini HDMI port for connecting to an external monitor. In the two years I've had this phone I've used that adapter exactly zero fucking times. Are there any other useless ports that you twats would like to see on the new iPhone 5? How about an RS-232 serial port, oh, and a Centronics parallel port in case I want to connect the phone to my old HP LaserWriter, and a pair of PS/2 ports would be nice too, you can never tell when you'll want to plug in an old Logitech keyboard and mouse.
There is, in case you didn't know, a thing called "market research". It's where you go out and try to figure out what people will want to buy so you can make stuff that they'll want to buy. Apple did some market research and said "hey, you know what, most people don't connect their phones to their TV sets and don't really want to, so let's do something other than put a useless mini HDMI connector on our phones. Apple is really good at this and always has been. In the 1970s Jobs and Wozniak said "Hey, we think people would like to buy an affordable computer that's easily programmable and expandable" and the Apple I was born. Which every other manufacturer then proceeded to copy with varying degrees of success. Then in the 1980s Apple looked at the Xerox Star and said "Hey, we think that people would like to buy a computer that's easier to use". They made a few fumbles along the way (the Lisa, the original 128k Mac) but eventually got it right with the Ma
Assuming of course that the Micro plug is correctly attached to the system. I have an HTC Evo and have seen a lot of reports by EVO users of the connector on the phone failing, thus making it impossible to sync the phone or charge it.
You can add VirtualBox to that list. You need to rebuild its kernel modules after an update. Supposedly it uses DKMS, but it seems like every time I upgrade my kernel I need to manually rebuild the Virtualbox drivers before it will work again.
I got linux on desktop. It works perfectly. Seriously, what's the problem?
Well it is annoying to have to rebuild things when the kernel is updated, vmware comes to mind.
Add VirtualBox to that list. In fact you can add almost anything that uses loadable kernel modules. DKMS provides some improvement here, but not much and it's hardly transparent to the end user.
Linux had failed on the desktop was because all of the desktop versions of Linux were utter shit, monstrous, bloated abortions that make even Microsoft Vista look good. KDE isn't too terrible but it sucks compared to Windows, it's user interface is inconsistent, features may or may not work depending upon what kind of hardware you have and even cut and paste doesn't work properly all the time. Then there's GNOME. Jesus Christ GNOME is a fucking load of shit, it is, if anything even more intrusive than Windows is. You can't install just GNOME and use it as a desktop. No, you have to install all of the shit that comes with GNOME such as the shitty browser / file manager, the shitty picture management software, the shitty video software, etc, etc, etc. In the end what you end up with is a system that is every bit as bloated, stupid and annoying as any Windows box is. More so, installing GNOME on a pristine Linux system is painting a beautiful picture, and then taking a big, wet, runny shit all over it.
GNOME is shit. I've got news for all of the desktop Linux developers out there, especially the fucks at Canonical, the war is over and the bums lost. Do you hear me, the bums lost! Seriously, if I want a desktop I use a Macintosh or a Windows box. It has a browser and productivity apps (Oh, by the way, Open Office is every bit as much of a bloated piece of shit as Microsoft Office is, and it's ugly, I'll take Office any day of the week) and I can open up lots and lots of terminal windows and run ssh to connect to my Linux system where I do development and in general things just work. I wouldn't want to run mission critical apps on a Windows system or a Macintosh because they're not good for that sort of thing and I don't want to run a desktop on Linux because Linux desktops suck and the more heavily oriented a Linux distro is to desktop usage (Ubuntu) the more likely it is to suck as well.
The GNOME developers are some of the most worthless motherfuckers alive, seriously. I work with Linux every day and it's damned impressive. Take XEN and KVM as examples. KVM isn't to the point where it's serious competition for VMware yet, but it's damned good and constantly getting better. XEN is impressive as well, Amazon runs EC2 on a modified version of XEN. The DataDomain DDR series of disk de-duplication appliances use a Linux back end with a shell developed by DataDomain and they're great. There's all sorts of incredible software out there that has been written for Linux that let you do incredible and crazy things with it, and then there's GNOME, which turns your Linux system into a piss-poor imitation of a Windows Vista box. Fuck GNOME. My life is better because Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux kernel, it's not any better because Miguel de Icaza created GNOME.
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How are news sites paid? Advertising. How much you get paid for a specific ad depends upon how many people click on it. If you want to sell lots of advertising it helps to have lots of page views. Think about this, a troll posts an idiotic comment, say 90 percent of the comments made about President Obama over the last five years or 99 percent of anything coming out of the mouths of Republicans or their buttboys, the Libertarians. Other readers jump on the troll and tell him what a fucking idiot he is, and every time they do so it counts as a page view. Sure, it's sleazy and contemptible, but it brings in the bucks the way that the old "letters to the editor" section of your local newspaper ever did, and if there's anything that the advent of the internet has done it's completely kick the shit out of the advertising supported content model used by newspapers, radio and television.
I have done that fuckhead, it's called "driving on the Autobahn" and it's a Hell of a lot more difficult than driving on a NASCAR track, especially the first weekend of August when everyone in Germany decides to go on vacation. Only worthless fucking retards think that NASCAR is in any way, shape or form an athletic event.
The same place you would have been if Yucca Mountain had opened you fucking stupid right-wing cunt. Yucca Mountain was never going to be used to store waste from Hanford. Oh, and by the way you stupid piece of shit it's not like any of the Republicans in Nevada were all that thrilled about Yucca Mountain either. John Ensign, the Republican Senator from Nevada worked just as hard to kill Yucca Mountain as Harry Reid did. Not that I'd expect a useless, good for nothing, ignorant, lying piece of right-wing trash such as yourself to do some basic research before posting your crap. Try googling "Yucca Mountain, Senator John Ensign" and see what comes up.
Because the whole fucking Hanford reservation is near a river, the Columbia, and it was put there for several reasons. One was that they needed a lot of electricity for the separation plants that separated plutonium from uranium after it had been processed through a reactor and Hanford is just down the road from Grand Coulee and a few other dams that produce lots of electricity. Another was that they needed lots of water to cool the reactors. Yet another was that Hanford was out in the middle of fucking nowhere so if something bad happened and scattered a lot of radioactive crap around it wouldn't affect too many people.
Really, which 1,000 targets are we going to strike? Do you have any sources for your information other than the usual right-wing war porn websites run by conservative chickenhawks who never wore a uniform? Bear in mind that the nukes we would use have about 20 times the power of the Nagasaki bomb, so you're saying that there are more than 1,000 targets that need to have the equivalent of 400kt of TNT dropped on them.
And if that stupid fucking asshole Bush hadn't gotten us into a war in the middle east with a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks and that had no WMD, despite the lies told by Cheney, Rice, et al we could have paid for the cleanup many times over and we wouldn't have nearly as much debt as we do now.
Seriously, as a Gedankenexperiment imagine what might happen if the next time one of these patent trolls set up shop every single one of them was gunned down within a week of them mailing their first extortion letter. I'd be willing to bet that you'd have a lot of people who were considering this line of business suddenly decide that getting a real job looked pretty good.
What utter bullshit. If all of the Jews in Germany had been armed and had decided in 1934 to resist Hitler they still would have been killed, armed Jewish resistance wouldn't have made the Nazis back down, it would have given them the excuse they needed to start the Holocaust a few years earlier. Or let's take the example of the Japanese American internment. What do you think would have happened if Japanese Americans had decided to arm themselves and resist deportation to camps such as Manzanar? Would the government have backed down on deporting the Japanese Americans if a couple of prominent advocates of internment, say Earl Warren, the AG of California at the time, and FDR, had been assassinated by Japanese Americans? No, given the racist tenor of the times the Japanese Americans would have been slaughtered.
Oh, so you're a member of the "let's arm the children crowd". Guess what, you're full of shit. Being trained and having guns didn't prevent four Lakewood police officers from being gunned down by Maurice Clemmons. Having a bunch of guys with guns around them didn't prevent Ronald Reagan and James Brady from being shot in 1981. You need to pull your head out of your ass and stop masturbating to Death Wish.
Bullshit. Fully automatic weapons were banned in 1934 and guess what, no one has been going around and shooting up schools with fully automatic weapons because they're not available to the average nutjob. Enforcing a ban on semi-automatic weapons would be difficult but could be done. At the very least the government could just ban their sale to private citizens and ban sales and transfers of existing semi-automatic weapons. If you already have a semi-automatic weapon you get to keep it, but nobody else gets to buy a Bushmaster and you can't sell your Bushmaster to anyone else. And guess what gun nutz, if you read Scalia's opinion in DC versus Heller this would be entirely constitutional.
Or the government could just ban sales of semi-automatic weapons with detachable magazines. This would be entirely legal and constitutional under Heller. You want a semi-automatic rifle for hunting, hey, you can buy an M1 Garand and have eight shots, which is all you need for hunting. If you need a weapon for defending your house you can buy a revolver, and if you can't resolve a home defense situation with six shots or less then you probably shouldn't have a gun at all.
You're just blustering and repeating right-wing NRA talking points and blowing smoke up everyone's ass.
Wow, spoken like a true racist dogfucker. Let me guess, you're also one of those fucktards who believes that President Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Socialist.
Yes, have you ever heard of Oracle Enterprise Linux? Oracle went out and took RedHat Linux, added OCFS2 and other Oracle enhancements and started selling OEL. Oh, and if you were already licensing Oracle for your database OEL was compelling because it meant that you had one less throat to choke if you were trying to solve a problem with the system and because it was cheaper to add support for OEL to your Oracle license than it was to purchase a support contract from RedHat. Needless to say RedHat was not happy about this but there wasn't anything they could do about it except suck it up and watch as they lost customers to Oracle. Now Oracle has a brilliant business model here. Develop a proprietary product and then let someone else develop an operating system that your product runs on and then you copy their OS and use it to drive sales for your product.
A few years ago I worked for a company that was running Oracle on RedHat. We reached a point where it was time to buy new servers and instead of buying RedHat licenses we bought licenses for Oracle Enterprise Linux, which is basically RedHat Linux except someone downloaded the RedHat source and ran
find . -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/Red Hat/Oracle/g"
Man the RedHat rep was pissed off when I told him that we were switching to OEL from RedHat. I got a big lecture on how Oracle was just piggy-backing on all of RedHat's hard work. It was rather hilarious.
So you hacked together something based upon the Tanenbaum book. Big fucking deal. Just because you created a kernel and boot loader in x86 ASM in two weeks doesn't mean that it was worth a shit. If creating a kernel is so fucking easy then why didn't the GNU project have one back in the late 1980s? Well there are two reasons, one because creating a real kernel for an OS that's going to run in the real world is fairly difficult, regardless of whether or not it's a "micro" kernel or a "monolithic" one, and of course because the GNU project spent three years dicking around and waiting for a license for the Mach Microkernel to become available. But eventually that issue was resolved and as soon as it was GNU wrote a kernel and shipped it right? No, GNU has spent 20 years fucking around with the Hurd, and even after twenty years it's still a piece of shit that nobody uses. So on the one hand you have Linus Torvalds who was able to put together a working monolithic kernel using the GNU tools in a fairly short period of time. On the other hand you have the GNU project, who developed the GNU tools (and you'd think that this would give them an advantage) and who have had over 20 years to develop a kernel and the best that they can do is the Hurd. Oh, and yeah, people develop monolithic kernels all the time because monolithic kernels work and have decent performance. Mach was a great idea and a cool project but Mach kernels never delivered on their initial promise of improved performance and most operating systems that claimed to use Mach based kernels (OSF/1) were actually using hybrid kernels that combined features from Mach with a more traditional monolithic kernel design.
Have you ever considered that perhaps your system had bad hardware, or that perhaps you're just a fucking retard who can't get a Windows system to work?
Wow, and here you were accusing someone else of inane babbling. OS X is not in the same league as Linux. OS/X is based upon BSD, which, under the hood, is completely different from Linux. OS/X has a great GUI. Linux GUIs are stupid, derivative and bloated. Apple spends lots of time making sure that all of the components of OS/X work with each other, they aren't perfect but they're a Hell of a lot better than any Linux distro out there. When Apple updates a major component of the system, such as the init manager they do it right. Migrating to launchd was transparent and painless, things just worked. Compare and contrast this to the fucked up and retarded way that the dickheads at Ubuntu grafted Upstart on to Debian. Upstart has been shipping with every Ubuntu distro since Lucid, and it's still buggy as Hell and even now, after almost three years there aren't any third party packages that support it. Linux does have better memory management than MacOS X, although that's not saying much, and if you've never had OOM killer fuck up something important then you obviously haven't run too many Linux systems, and it has better filesystems available (XFS) and it's had logical volume management since 2001, whereas Apple didn't introduce volume management until MacOS Lion (10.7).
Yes, I've used both, and I've been using Linux for almost 20 years now and do you know what? It's a shitty desktop operating system. Linux on the desktop fucking sucks ass, Ubuntu is every bit as stupidly bloated as anything Microsoft has ever shipped, don't believe me? Well go install Ubuntu without a GUI and then add Gnome or KDE and watch as Ubuntu downloads several gigabytes of dependencies and loads your system up with crap. And what do you get? A piece of shit desktop that's basically just a ripoff of what Microsoft and Apple are doing, except that it's a piss poorly implemented ripoff. Then there's the fact that Linux has bugs and for the most part companies that sell Linux aren't any better at fixing those bugs than Microsoft or Apple. Canonical certainly isn't. I've been using Ubuntu for the last three years. Upstart is still a buggy, fucked up piece of shit, if you want services to start reliably on a Linux system, you end up having to edit the Upstart scripts in /etc/init, because otherwise Upstart is too fucking stupid to properly mount your NFS filesystems and you end up with orphaned inodes because Upstart doesn't properly unmount the root filesystem before the system is shut down. These are major bugs that were reported over two years ago and they still haven't been fixed. I keep hearing all of you fucking Linux fanbois bitching about how bad Microsoft is but you never bring stuff like this up, either because you're dishonest or you're just ignorant little shits who aren't actually using Linux in a production environment and but who think that because you installed it at home you're super duper 1337.
Linux does a lot of things really well. Linux virtualization with libvirt/KVM is amazing. It's not as fully featured as VMware yet, but it's made huge leaps and bounds in the last three years. Companies such as Tivo and DataDomain have shown that Linux is a great operating system for dedicated devices. Companies such as Amazon run on Linux and have been for over a decade. But Linux on the desktop fucking sucks, it's nothing more than stupid, bloated, imitative shit.
You kids these days with your gadgets. Back in my day we had thing-a-ma-jigs, and whatcha-mcallits and we were darned lucky to have even those!
and how much porn they could download with a terabit ethernet connection? But seriously, fuck terabit ethernet, that's for pussies. I say we go with free space communications between nodes over high powered laser links. Sure, there are a few things to work out, such as how to avoid being sliced in half, burned or blinded whenever you have to go into the machine room, but think of the bandwidth! Besides, it would be really cool to be able to repurpose old NICs as death rays.
Free yes, polished? Are you fucking kidding me? I can tell that you've never used Ubuntu for any serious server work. If you had you'd know that it's anything but polished. Take the Upstart init manager as an example. In theory Upstart was supposed to replace the old SYS V init scripts with a leaner, event driven mechanism for system start up. In practice it has done anything but. Some services start through Upstart, some start through init.d and others, such as sshd have different behavior depending upon whether or not you control them via upstart or start and stop them via init.d. Then there's the fact that the braindead dildos who wrote Upstart set it up so that it kills services via kill -9. Yeah, because nothing bad could ever happen if you ran kill -9 to shut your database down, which is exactly what Upstart does when you run
stop mysql
Apparently no one at Canonical understands that "kill -9" is something that you use only as a last resort and certainly isn't something you want to use when you're stopping and starting a database. Then there's the piece of shit Plymouth boot manager. Guess what, servers don't need splash screens. Really, they don't. My servers live in remote sites or are hosted in the cloud. I don't need a cutesy picture when they start, I want screen after screen of detailed output telling me what the system is doing. But go ahead and try to remove Plymouth from your Ubuntu system. Guess what! You can't. Some useless son-of-a-crack-whore set up the package dependencies such that attempting to remove Plymouth, which is a real piece of shit from an Ubuntu system also removes the core system.
Then there's ureadahead. Ureadahead is an OK idea on laptops I guess but does nothing for you when you're on a server and I've started disabling it on the systems I run. Interestingly enough despite ureadahead's supposed performance benefits I haven't seen any penalty for doing so. I could go on and on and on, the out of date rsyslog that ships with Ubuntu (yeah, because collecting log information is boring and old school, who needs that stuff?), bugs in mdraid that cause it to incorrectly detect disk size when it creates your disk label, thus creating a ticking time bomb that can go off and result in massive file corruption, etc, etc, etc. Oh, and the Ubuntu desktop, what a piece of shit. I'd take Windows XP over this POS any day of the week. Newsflash Ubuntu developers, larding your desktop up with shiny crap doesn't make it more useful. The Gnome and Unity UIs are every bit as bloated and stupid as the Windows Vista UI and if any real functionality or value has been added I have yet to see what it is. Gnome and Unity are nothing more than a shiny coat of paint on top of a nasty, stinky turd.
About a year ago I set up a desktop using straight Debian, and it was fucking amazing. Shit just worked and I realized that the only reason why Ubuntu has been able to stay in business so long is because they've been able to ride on Debian's coat tails and that even though they're idiots they haven't been able to fuck up the solid work that the folks at Debian have done over the years. This cartoon describes Ubuntu best.
http://www.xkcd.com/424/#
There also isn't any standard for how you can get video data off of a USB 3.0 port in On-the-Go mode. In theory you can do this, USB 3.0 has the bandwidth to to this, but converting that signal into something that you can connect to a monitor is going to require some sort of external adapter circuitry. Some of the whiny fucks who are bitching about this will shit themselves and wail and say "well Apple should have put an HDMI port on the phone". Really? Why? I have an HTC Evo, it has a micro USB port and a mini HDMI port for connecting to an external monitor. In the two years I've had this phone I've used that adapter exactly zero fucking times. Are there any other useless ports that you twats would like to see on the new iPhone 5? How about an RS-232 serial port, oh, and a Centronics parallel port in case I want to connect the phone to my old HP LaserWriter, and a pair of PS/2 ports would be nice too, you can never tell when you'll want to plug in an old Logitech keyboard and mouse.
There is, in case you didn't know, a thing called "market research". It's where you go out and try to figure out what people will want to buy so you can make stuff that they'll want to buy. Apple did some market research and said "hey, you know what, most people don't connect their phones to their TV sets and don't really want to, so let's do something other than put a useless mini HDMI connector on our phones. Apple is really good at this and always has been. In the 1970s Jobs and Wozniak said "Hey, we think people would like to buy an affordable computer that's easily programmable and expandable" and the Apple I was born. Which every other manufacturer then proceeded to copy with varying degrees of success. Then in the 1980s Apple looked at the Xerox Star and said "Hey, we think that people would like to buy a computer that's easier to use". They made a few fumbles along the way (the Lisa, the original 128k Mac) but eventually got it right with the Ma
Assuming of course that the Micro plug is correctly attached to the system. I have an HTC Evo and have seen a lot of reports by EVO users of the connector on the phone failing, thus making it impossible to sync the phone or charge it.
You can add VirtualBox to that list. You need to rebuild its kernel modules after an update. Supposedly it uses DKMS, but it seems like every time I upgrade my kernel I need to manually rebuild the Virtualbox drivers before it will work again.
I got linux on desktop. It works perfectly. Seriously, what's the problem?
Well it is annoying to have to rebuild things when the kernel is updated, vmware comes to mind.
Add VirtualBox to that list. In fact you can add almost anything that uses loadable kernel modules. DKMS provides some improvement here, but not much and it's hardly transparent to the end user.
Linux had failed on the desktop was because all of the desktop versions of Linux were utter shit, monstrous, bloated abortions that make even Microsoft Vista look good. KDE isn't too terrible but it sucks compared to Windows, it's user interface is inconsistent, features may or may not work depending upon what kind of hardware you have and even cut and paste doesn't work properly all the time. Then there's GNOME. Jesus Christ GNOME is a fucking load of shit, it is, if anything even more intrusive than Windows is. You can't install just GNOME and use it as a desktop. No, you have to install all of the shit that comes with GNOME such as the shitty browser / file manager, the shitty picture management software, the shitty video software, etc, etc, etc. In the end what you end up with is a system that is every bit as bloated, stupid and annoying as any Windows box is. More so, installing GNOME on a pristine Linux system is painting a beautiful picture, and then taking a big, wet, runny shit all over it. GNOME is shit. I've got news for all of the desktop Linux developers out there, especially the fucks at Canonical, the war is over and the bums lost. Do you hear me, the bums lost! Seriously, if I want a desktop I use a Macintosh or a Windows box. It has a browser and productivity apps (Oh, by the way, Open Office is every bit as much of a bloated piece of shit as Microsoft Office is, and it's ugly, I'll take Office any day of the week) and I can open up lots and lots of terminal windows and run ssh to connect to my Linux system where I do development and in general things just work. I wouldn't want to run mission critical apps on a Windows system or a Macintosh because they're not good for that sort of thing and I don't want to run a desktop on Linux because Linux desktops suck and the more heavily oriented a Linux distro is to desktop usage (Ubuntu) the more likely it is to suck as well. The GNOME developers are some of the most worthless motherfuckers alive, seriously. I work with Linux every day and it's damned impressive. Take XEN and KVM as examples. KVM isn't to the point where it's serious competition for VMware yet, but it's damned good and constantly getting better. XEN is impressive as well, Amazon runs EC2 on a modified version of XEN. The DataDomain DDR series of disk de-duplication appliances use a Linux back end with a shell developed by DataDomain and they're great. There's all sorts of incredible software out there that has been written for Linux that let you do incredible and crazy things with it, and then there's GNOME, which turns your Linux system into a piss-poor imitation of a Windows Vista box. Fuck GNOME. My life is better because Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux kernel, it's not any better because Miguel de Icaza created GNOME.