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When Sun releases Solaris as open-source software, will you take a peek?
Probably not. Not because of any animosity, but simply because I don't have the time or the interest. Linux has never been about "others," it's been about getting better than itself, so I don't really have any motivation to play around with Solaris. I'm sure that if it does something particularly well, people will be more than happy to tell me all about it.
Surely if you like the idea of standing on the shoulders of giants, there might be some handy ideas in Solaris. Why ignore it?
Because I personally don't think they have anything left worth taking after I've applied the general Unix principles. I really do think Linux is the better system by now, in all the ways that matter.
But more importantly, if I'm wrong, that's OK. People who know Solaris better than I do will tell me and other people about the great things they offer. To try to figure it out on my own would be a waste of time
How, exactly is this arrogant. He makes a judgment that Sun doesn't have anything new to offer, guess what, thousands of admins and companies are making that judgment every day, which is why Sun's stock price is below $5 a share and why they had 300,000 square feet of space for lease in their headquarters when I was last in Silicon Valley (my hotel was right down the street from them). But he qualifies the statement by saying that if Solaris does have something new and wonderful that those who know more about it than him will tell him, so he admits that he's not a Solaris expert and might be wrong. Wow, how is that arrogant? If you want to look at an arrogant prick in the computer industry look at Scott McNally. That bucktoothed fucktard sat there spouting gas and bile about how Solaris was the future even as everyone who could was swapping out Sun's lower end hardware for genetic PC's running Linux or Windows. And when Sun finally started to realize what was happening the desktop systems they came out with to combat this threat to their bottom line were utter pieces of shit.
I had to sit through a Sun presentation on grid computing last week. It was really interesting, unfortunately it wasn't what we were interested in purchasing, we want big boxes with lots of CPU and memory and a single OS image, but why should the customer have any say in what they purchase, but that didn't stop Sun from spending two hours on how Grid computing was better than a blowjob with ice cream and how it was going to be the future of all computing everywhere for everyone and would you please give us some money.
Meals Ready to Eat, the US Army's replacement for it's old rations, usually come with a similar contraption: a wafer of material which is massively exothermic when combined with water.
That's just for you 11 Bravo, leg infantry, gunbunnies. We heated our MREs by hanging them off the back of our M-1s and putting the engine on tac-idle for a few minutes. You can also heat coffee and dry clothes that way and the M-1's turbine exhaust is also a nice open air space heater.
Of course before heating your MREs you want to punch a hole in the package to let steam out, you'd be amazed at the explosive power of an over-heated MRE omelet (A.K.A, "abortion in a bag"). Fuckin thing sounded like an arty sim and blew chunks of crap everywhere.
The World Calendar you link to is a lot easier than the current system or this whacked out system that this nutjob proposes (Newton weeks every five or six years? Yeah, the HR and finance departments are just
going to love that). Now if the World Calendar could be changed so that Christmas always falls on a Sunday you'd get the Jesus freaks on board, an always valuable constituency due to their stupidly mindless fanaticism, and New Years day would fall on the following Saturday, which, with the World day and leap years day would give old farts like me an extra day to recover from our hangovers after New Year's Eve before having to go to work on that first cold monday in January.
if you shine a laser pointer at the camera? My experience with CCDs is that they are easily swamped by coherent light. If they have a light level sensor that just detects of someone is covering the lens this might work. I think I'll have to dig up my laser pointer and find out.
Nahhhh, you don't really have to start worrying about relativistic effects until you get up to about.9c. Time dilation at.1c is about.05 percent. There is a really cool calculator
that will compute various relativistic effects for you.
Of course as you point out the kinetic energy is a bit of a problem, but think of the great case mods you could do on a Lego computer!
IBM went multi-colored back in 1970-71 when the 370's came out. Before that they were blue only. They had pink, blue and what other colors I can't recall, but it was a big deal back then.
The other colors were probably harvest gold and avocado green.
Besides, some interesting things have been learned from the ISS. Just an example: ISS has been having to adjust its angular momentum far too often - the gyros were getting maxed out way more than expected.
You can learn some interesting things by whipping out your dick and pounding on it with a 16 oz framing hammer with a serrated head for five or ten minutes. You'll test your pain threshold, see how quickly you bleed, learn about the effects of morphine on your consciousness and get to meet lots of nice nurses and doctors at the trauma center. On the other hand a moment of sober reflection on the prospect of this activity is enough to convince most people that it's not a good idea. The "research" from ISS is a joke, ISS is a joke. ISS, by the time it hits its end of life sometime in the twenty teens it will have cost around $100 billion. Let's assume that funding someone for four years of college to a B.S., five years of graduate school to a PhD and then for five years of salary and research costs $1,000,000. This means that for the price of ISS we could have trained, developed and funded 100,000 scientists. So, the question that needs to be asked is if ISS has made a greater contribution to science than 100,000 funded PhDs would have?
Or we could have built, launched and funded ten replacements for the Hubble space telescope, this time designing ones that would work in high earth orbit and wouldn't need frequent shuttle servicing missions (given that we can build comsats that don't need shuttle servicing why couldn't we build orbital telescopes the same way?). Go ask any astronomer what they'd rather have, the ISS or a new space telescope. It's almost a rhetorical question. Or that money could have been spent for a whole new Apollo program (Apollo program costs in 1994 dollars, $100,000,000,000.) but instead it got pissed down the ISS rathole.
When you look at the "science per dollars" metric, which is always difficult to quantify, you see that ISS, while being an aerospace contractor's wetdream, is a disaster. If a terrorist group got a hold of a launcher of sufficient size and a nuclear weapon and nuked ISS out of orbit they'd be doing the US a huge favor.
And before people bash research that goes on in space at all, they should realize that A) about half of it is commercial research, and B) there have been some really impressive things that have come out of it.
You always seem to make the same false argument that anyone who is against the shuttle and ISS is against space research. Why is that? It's almost as annoying as having to listen to Republicans who assume that anyone who disagrees with G.W. Bush's policies is helping the terrorists win. Or RIAA lawyer arguments that anyone who thinks that DMCA is a bad law is in favor of massive content piracy and the destruction of the entertainment industry.
And where do I live? Burien, Washington, where it's going to be raining for the next five days, just as it was for the last five days, and the days before that. ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH. I have a new 10" Dobsonian and I still haven't gotten first light on it!
1. its not about rich white guys, its about working class families who have a right to unspoiled natural parks in their vacinity. most families can't afford the time or travel expenses to go to yellowstone or yosemite, so all they have access to is Nantucket Sound.
Yeah, it's all those working class families such as the Kennedys, the Kerrys, the Cronkites and the Romneys. yep. What exactly is your definition of "working class"? Last time I was in that area I didn't see any housing that working class families could afford that were along the shore. By your standards the massive air pollution is OK, but looking at some wind turbines is a bad thing. "Well lil' working class Billy, enjoy that view of the sound, unobstructed by wind turbines, while you hack your lungs out because of the ozone and particulate pollution".
2. the groups opposing this instalation are all in fact pro alternative energy, all they ask is that the new wind farm be placed a few miles offshore so as to not destroy the sound, the only reason the developer wont is because it would raise his oportunity costs
The groups opposing this are full of shit, they're only in favor of alternate sources of energy if they don't have to make any sacrifices. If this wind farm were being built in an area not inhabited by rich white fux they wouldn't be saying one fucking word, regardless of impact.
Einstein didn't dicsover photoelectric effect, he has EXPLAINED it (and earned a Nobel Prize for it).
Oh yeah, be really technical about things. I'll bet you're one of those people who says that Columbus didn't really discover America because there were already people living here. This is/., we have no use for your accuracy and erudition here.
sticking a massive commercial power generation facility in the middle of the last piece of pristine protected coastline in the area isnt a very good idea.
No, instead we should generate the electricity for Cape Cod with one of the dirtiest oil plants on the East Coast so that Cape Cod has higher pollution levels and more bad air days than Boston. God forbid that we ask the rich white guys who own property in that area to have to look a wind turbines from the ugly uebermansions they've built along the shore. This is G.W. Bush's America and rich white folks shouldn't have to make sacrifices, damnit!
XM satellite radio. I upgraded my car stereo to a system with XM and I'm a complete addict now being stuck in traffic is a hell of a lot more bearable when you can listen to BBC World Service, Sonic Theater or Discover Radio. Of course I'd also like a girlfriend, a pretty pony and a million dolllars (not necessarily in that order, because if I had a million bucks I could buy the pony, find a woman who would be willing to do the pony and who might even be willing to go out with me.)
NASA is a bunch of chairwarming hacks who want to sit around collecting government paychecks until they're able to retire and sit around collecting government pensions. There are exceptions such as the scientific part of NASA that directs unmanned missions but since so much of NASA's funding is commited to the Shuttle and ISS the agency is effectively paralyzed and sclerotic. The fact that no one lost their job over the Columbia disaster is prime evidence that the agency is terminally fucked.
In order to be effective a new administrator would have to make drastic changes, such as immediately cancelling the shuttle program and ISS and closing down some of NASA's research centers and redirecting the money thus freed up into innovative research programs to lower the cost of access to orbit. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen as it would piss off too many congresscritters and the aerospace contractors who fund them.
So, unless the new director has cojones grande a real mandate for real change from Congress and the Administration and carte blanche in managing operations this change is going to be about as significant as spray painting a turd.
No, the reason for low funding is that the US government is not focussed on anything beyond the next election. Let's look at the amount of money that the article claims has been spent on fusion research, 17 billion dollars total in 2002 (when the article was published) since 1951. So that's a total of 17 billion dollars over 51 years, that sounds like a lot of money, it really isn't. We're currently spending around six billion dollars a month over in Iraq so we can have a presence in the Middle East and better control over global oil supplies (anyone who still thinks that this war was about Al Qaeda or WMD can kindly go fuck themselves and should actually kindly go kill themselves). So in three months time we spend more money in Iraq than we have on nuclear fusion research in 50 years.
Fusion has been perpetually 30 years away because the funding has never been high enough to accomplish anything. A lot of people will say that this is because of our evil oil overlords, and certainly, with Bush and Cheney in the White House, that view gains a lot of credibility but things weren't any better under Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.
No American politician has been willing to spend the political capital necessary to help America achieve energy independence, such a project would necessitate spending a lot of tax dollars, and if you go to a member of Congress and say "OK, here's the deal, we can spend a bunch of money in your district to build the National Museum of Goat Fucking, which will provide jobs for your constituents and kickbacks to you from contractors or we can spend a bunch of money on a long term research project that might not pay off until after you're out of office." that member of Congress is probably going to vote for the National Museum of Goat Fucking.
We could have fusion, or something else as good, if we were willing to commit to it. There is talk about various Apollo or Manhattan style projects to achieve energy independence, unfortunately that's all there is, talk. If we were willing to spend as much on energy research as we are on killing Iraqis and making everyone in the Middle East hate our fucking guts we'd either have fusion in a few years or we'd know enough about it to know that it wasn't the source of energy we needed but would have an idea as to what that source of energy was and how to go about achieving it.
Unfortunately most Democrats don't want to spend money on research because they'd rather that it go to welfare programs or into useless government bureaucracies that employ a lot of people who vote Democratic (Department of Education anyone?). The Republicans don't want to spend the money on it because a lot of them think that Jesus is going to come down from heaven and rapture them away from Earth (if only this would happen!), and most of them are unwilling to spend any government money unless it's pumped into useless government bureaucracies that employ lots of people who vote Republican (Department of Defense anyone?) or spent on making sure that consenting adults don't do anything in their bedrooms that isn't approved by the Parents Television Council.
No, the reason for low funding is that the US government is not focussed on anything beyond the next election. Let's look at the amount of money that the article claims has been spent on fusion research, 17 billion dollars total in 2002 (when the article was published) since 1951. So that's a total of 17 billion dollars over 51 years, that sounds like a lot of money, it really isn't. We're currently spending around six billion dollars a month over in Iraq so we can have a presence in the Middle East and better control over global oil supplies (anyone who still thinks that this war was about Al Qaeda or WMD can kindly go fuck themselves and should actually kindly go kill themselves). So in three months time we spend more money in Iraq than we have on nuclear fusion research in 50 years.
Latex allergies are pretty common, and from talking to the nurses I know can be developed in people who are not initially allergic but who are exposed to latex on a day to day basis (nurses, doctors, prostitutes, etc). So what's the replacement for latex gloves? Nitrile gloves. Unfortunately most of the ones I've seen aren't as flexible as latex so they don't fit as well and tend to tear.
that he still thinks that Slowlaris is in the running as a major OS. I know a lot of sysadmins who are either planning to, or already have, swapped out Sun systems for Linux systems. I can't think of anyone I know who is starting a new project and who is thinking of using Sun/Solaris for it. Just my.02.
and put an electric heating pad inside attached to one of the sides of the case? Most of the ATX tower cases I've seen have enough space between the motherboard tray and the side of the case for a heating pad.
I worked at Amazon.com when we had major, major problems with AdvFS filesystems shitting all over themselves in Digital Unix 4.0E and 4.0F in late 1999 and early 2000. Compaq's advice was to take the affected filesystems offline once a month and run AdvFS verify on them, which, since it took six to eight hours to run on a filesystem of any size, kind of fucked up our goal of hitting 5 nines uptime. Dealing with Compaq's technical support at the time was similarly painful. I recall calling them late one night in November of 1999 when a filesystem went bad and spending almost 2 hours in a phone tree from Hell before I finally got an engineer on the line who even knew what an AdvFS filesystem was. This was with a Compaq gold support contract.
When Amazon switched over to HP servers running HP/UX 11 in 2000 there were a lot of annoying things about the change in operating systems but as far as the filesystems went I thought that I had died and gone to heaven. LVM on HP was rock stable and simple compared to the insanely complex LSM on Digital Unix, and the HP's filesystem didn't shit itself the way that AdvFS, which we referred to as the "Adventure FileSystem" because using it was a real adventure in finding out whether or not your files would be available in a day's time, did. I for one won't miss AdvFS.
I'm a citizen of North Dakota. My state is in the black. 90% of the government services I enjoy come from the state. Federal money for state programs is more of a burden than a benefit, because of all the strings attached. Why should I be all that worried about whether folks in far-away Washington D.C. go bankrupt?
You're a citizen of North Dakota. Your state is a bunch of upper midwestern welfare sucking shitbags that would collapse into dust bowl without federal subsidies. In 2001 NoDak paid 3.288 billion dollars in taxes to the federal government and received 6.169 billion in federal spending. The facts and figures are
here. That's a 2.881 billion dollar deficit in your balance of payments with the federal government.
Now, I'd be perfectly happy to end some of the wasteful spending that we sent to states such as yours and use it for something else, as an example we could shitcan farm subsidies, which would save a lot of money, start charging market rates for water delivered from federal water projects, which would raise a lot of money, start charging market rates for ranchers who graze their cattle on federal lands, start charging market rates for oil, gas and mineral leases on federal lands, end rural telecommunications subsidies, which would save money on my phone bills, require that 95 percent of all federal gasoline tax revenues stay in the state they're raised in instead of the current 90 percent figure, which would be a good deal for the blue states and wouldn't really hurt you because you don't mind driving on gravel roads.
I'm a citizen of the United States who lives in Seattle, Washington, and I hate you fucking red state welfare parasites.
neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinsonism or Huntington's Chorea. I recall reading somewhere that one of the reasons these diseases are so damaging is that as they kill neurons chemicals are released which cause further neuronal apoptosis in a chain reaction.
I'd like to see Spielberg do a remake of Temple of Doom like Lucas did with the first Star Wars trilogy. He could end the movie with Indy hooking back up with Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen from Raiders of the Lost Ark), selling Kate Capshaw off to white slavers and putting Short Round into a sweatshop where he'd make women's clothing for a large multinational conglomerate).
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From the Fucking Article:
When Sun releases Solaris as open-source software, will you take a peek?
Probably not. Not because of any animosity, but simply because I don't have the time or the interest. Linux has never been about "others," it's been about getting better than itself, so I don't really have any motivation to play around with Solaris. I'm sure that if it does something particularly well, people will be more than happy to tell me all about it.
Surely if you like the idea of standing on the shoulders of giants, there might be some handy ideas in Solaris. Why ignore it?
Because I personally don't think they have anything left worth taking after I've applied the general Unix principles. I really do think Linux is the better system by now, in all the ways that matter.
But more importantly, if I'm wrong, that's OK. People who know Solaris better than I do will tell me and other people about the great things they offer. To try to figure it out on my own would be a waste of time
How, exactly is this arrogant. He makes a judgment that Sun doesn't have anything new to offer, guess what, thousands of admins and companies are making that judgment every day, which is why Sun's stock price is below $5 a share and why they had 300,000 square feet of space for lease in their headquarters when I was last in Silicon Valley (my hotel was right down the street from them). But he qualifies the statement by saying that if Solaris does have something new and wonderful that those who know more about it than him will tell him, so he admits that he's not a Solaris expert and might be wrong. Wow, how is that arrogant? If you want to look at an arrogant prick in the computer industry look at Scott McNally. That bucktoothed fucktard sat there spouting gas and bile about how Solaris was the future even as everyone who could was swapping out Sun's lower end hardware for genetic PC's running Linux or Windows. And when Sun finally started to realize what was happening the desktop systems they came out with to combat this threat to their bottom line were utter pieces of shit.
I had to sit through a Sun presentation on grid computing last week. It was really interesting, unfortunately it wasn't what we were interested in purchasing, we want big boxes with lots of CPU and memory and a single OS image, but why should the customer have any say in what they purchase, but that didn't stop Sun from spending two hours on how Grid computing was better than a blowjob with ice cream and how it was going to be the future of all computing everywhere for everyone and would you please give us some money.
That's just for you 11 Bravo, leg infantry, gunbunnies. We heated our MREs by hanging them off the back of our M-1s and putting the engine on tac-idle for a few minutes. You can also heat coffee and dry clothes that way and the M-1's turbine exhaust is also a nice open air space heater.
Of course before heating your MREs you want to punch a hole in the package to let steam out, you'd be amazed at the explosive power of an over-heated MRE omelet (A.K.A, "abortion in a bag"). Fuckin thing sounded like an arty sim and blew chunks of crap everywhere.
Of course as you point out the kinetic energy is a bit of a problem, but think of the great case mods you could do on a Lego computer!
The other colors were probably harvest gold and avocado green.
You can learn some interesting things by whipping out your dick and pounding on it with a 16 oz framing hammer with a serrated head for five or ten minutes. You'll test your pain threshold, see how quickly you bleed, learn about the effects of morphine on your consciousness and get to meet lots of nice nurses and doctors at the trauma center. On the other hand a moment of sober reflection on the prospect of this activity is enough to convince most people that it's not a good idea. The "research" from ISS is a joke, ISS is a joke. ISS, by the time it hits its end of life sometime in the twenty teens it will have cost around $100 billion. Let's assume that funding someone for four years of college to a B.S., five years of graduate school to a PhD and then for five years of salary and research costs $1,000,000. This means that for the price of ISS we could have trained, developed and funded 100,000 scientists. So, the question that needs to be asked is if ISS has made a greater contribution to science than 100,000 funded PhDs would have?
Or we could have built, launched and funded ten replacements for the Hubble space telescope, this time designing ones that would work in high earth orbit and wouldn't need frequent shuttle servicing missions (given that we can build comsats that don't need shuttle servicing why couldn't we build orbital telescopes the same way?). Go ask any astronomer what they'd rather have, the ISS or a new space telescope. It's almost a rhetorical question. Or that money could have been spent for a whole new Apollo program (Apollo program costs in 1994 dollars, $100,000,000,000.) but instead it got pissed down the ISS rathole.
When you look at the "science per dollars" metric, which is always difficult to quantify, you see that ISS, while being an aerospace contractor's wetdream, is a disaster. If a terrorist group got a hold of a launcher of sufficient size and a nuclear weapon and nuked ISS out of orbit they'd be doing the US a huge favor.
And before people bash research that goes on in space at all, they should realize that A) about half of it is commercial research, and B) there have been some really impressive things that have come out of it.
You always seem to make the same false argument that anyone who is against the shuttle and ISS is against space research. Why is that? It's almost as annoying as having to listen to Republicans who assume that anyone who disagrees with G.W. Bush's policies is helping the terrorists win. Or RIAA lawyer arguments that anyone who thinks that DMCA is a bad law is in favor of massive content piracy and the destruction of the entertainment industry.
Yeah, it's all those working class families such as the Kennedys, the Kerrys, the Cronkites and the Romneys. yep. What exactly is your definition of "working class"? Last time I was in that area I didn't see any housing that working class families could afford that were along the shore. By your standards the massive air pollution is OK, but looking at some wind turbines is a bad thing. "Well lil' working class Billy, enjoy that view of the sound, unobstructed by wind turbines, while you hack your lungs out because of the ozone and particulate pollution".
2. the groups opposing this instalation are all in fact pro alternative energy, all they ask is that the new wind farm be placed a few miles offshore so as to not destroy the sound, the only reason the developer wont is because it would raise his oportunity costs
The groups opposing this are full of shit, they're only in favor of alternate sources of energy if they don't have to make any sacrifices. If this wind farm were being built in an area not inhabited by rich white fux they wouldn't be saying one fucking word, regardless of impact.
Oh yeah, be really technical about things. I'll bet you're one of those people who says that Columbus didn't really discover America because there were already people living here. This is /., we have no use for your accuracy and erudition here.
No, instead we should generate the electricity for Cape Cod with one of the dirtiest oil plants on the East Coast so that Cape Cod has higher pollution levels and more bad air days than Boston. God forbid that we ask the rich white guys who own property in that area to have to look a wind turbines from the ugly uebermansions they've built along the shore. This is G.W. Bush's America and rich white folks shouldn't have to make sacrifices, damnit!
NASA is a bunch of chairwarming hacks who want to sit around collecting government paychecks until they're able to retire and sit around collecting government pensions. There are exceptions such as the scientific part of NASA that directs unmanned missions but since so much of NASA's funding is commited to the Shuttle and ISS the agency is effectively paralyzed and sclerotic. The fact that no one lost their job over the Columbia disaster is prime evidence that the agency is terminally fucked.
In order to be effective a new administrator would have to make drastic changes, such as immediately cancelling the shuttle program and ISS and closing down some of NASA's research centers and redirecting the money thus freed up into innovative research programs to lower the cost of access to orbit. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen as it would piss off too many congresscritters and the aerospace contractors who fund them.
So, unless the new director has cojones grande a real mandate for real change from Congress and the Administration and carte blanche in managing operations this change is going to be about as significant as spray painting a turd.
Fusion has been perpetually 30 years away because the funding has never been high enough to accomplish anything. A lot of people will say that this is because of our evil oil overlords, and certainly, with Bush and Cheney in the White House, that view gains a lot of credibility but things weren't any better under Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.
No American politician has been willing to spend the political capital necessary to help America achieve energy independence, such a project would necessitate spending a lot of tax dollars, and if you go to a member of Congress and say "OK, here's the deal, we can spend a bunch of money in your district to build the National Museum of Goat Fucking, which will provide jobs for your constituents and kickbacks to you from contractors or we can spend a bunch of money on a long term research project that might not pay off until after you're out of office." that member of Congress is probably going to vote for the National Museum of Goat Fucking.
We could have fusion, or something else as good, if we were willing to commit to it. There is talk about various Apollo or Manhattan style projects to achieve energy independence, unfortunately that's all there is, talk. If we were willing to spend as much on energy research as we are on killing Iraqis and making everyone in the Middle East hate our fucking guts we'd either have fusion in a few years or we'd know enough about it to know that it wasn't the source of energy we needed but would have an idea as to what that source of energy was and how to go about achieving it.
Unfortunately most Democrats don't want to spend money on research because they'd rather that it go to welfare programs or into useless government bureaucracies that employ a lot of people who vote Democratic (Department of Education anyone?). The Republicans don't want to spend the money on it because a lot of them think that Jesus is going to come down from heaven and rapture them away from Earth (if only this would happen!), and most of them are unwilling to spend any government money unless it's pumped into useless government bureaucracies that employ lots of people who vote Republican (Department of Defense anyone?) or spent on making sure that consenting adults don't do anything in their bedrooms that isn't approved by the Parents Television Council.
No, the reason for low funding is that the US government is not focussed on anything beyond the next election. Let's look at the amount of money that the article claims has been spent on fusion research, 17 billion dollars total in 2002 (when the article was published) since 1951. So that's a total of 17 billion dollars over 51 years, that sounds like a lot of money, it really isn't. We're currently spending around six billion dollars a month over in Iraq so we can have a presence in the Middle East and better control over global oil supplies (anyone who still thinks that this war was about Al Qaeda or WMD can kindly go fuck themselves and should actually kindly go kill themselves). So in three months time we spend more money in Iraq than we have on nuclear fusion research in 50 years.
What, my dear, is the point of a new born baby ?
Yeah, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Why Nerds are Unpopular" by Paul Graham.
When Amazon switched over to HP servers running HP/UX 11 in 2000 there were a lot of annoying things about the change in operating systems but as far as the filesystems went I thought that I had died and gone to heaven. LVM on HP was rock stable and simple compared to the insanely complex LSM on Digital Unix, and the HP's filesystem didn't shit itself the way that AdvFS, which we referred to as the "Adventure FileSystem" because using it was a real adventure in finding out whether or not your files would be available in a day's time, did. I for one won't miss AdvFS.
You're a citizen of North Dakota. Your state is a bunch of upper midwestern welfare sucking shitbags that would collapse into dust bowl without federal subsidies. In 2001 NoDak paid 3.288 billion dollars in taxes to the federal government and received 6.169 billion in federal spending. The facts and figures are here. That's a 2.881 billion dollar deficit in your balance of payments with the federal government.
Now, I'd be perfectly happy to end some of the wasteful spending that we sent to states such as yours and use it for something else, as an example we could shitcan farm subsidies, which would save a lot of money, start charging market rates for water delivered from federal water projects, which would raise a lot of money, start charging market rates for ranchers who graze their cattle on federal lands, start charging market rates for oil, gas and mineral leases on federal lands, end rural telecommunications subsidies, which would save money on my phone bills, require that 95 percent of all federal gasoline tax revenues stay in the state they're raised in instead of the current 90 percent figure, which would be a good deal for the blue states and wouldn't really hurt you because you don't mind driving on gravel roads.
I'm a citizen of the United States who lives in Seattle, Washington, and I hate you fucking red state welfare parasites.
you mean like short round?
I'd like to see Spielberg do a remake of Temple of Doom like Lucas did with the first Star Wars trilogy. He could end the movie with Indy hooking back up with Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen from Raiders of the Lost Ark), selling Kate Capshaw off to white slavers and putting Short Round into a sweatshop where he'd make women's clothing for a large multinational conglomerate).