Proper education should be completely neutral about the matter.
Proper education should present all the options available with pros and cons and then people will make their own choices.
Education taking sides on social or moral debates is not education, is indoctrination, which is why religious educations should be segregated from public rational one.
Viruses and bacteria are not magical being that can cross walls.
If you use a condom and itis in one piece you will not get STIs Period really.
You saying it is not so is frankly pointless since you are claiming something extraordinary and against common sense without citing a single shred of evidence.
Oracle has made clear that Solaris has an important place in their integrated vertical offerings (why should they use anything else? the capabilities of Solaris+ZFS+dtrace are way above anything else in offer in the industry, Sun put several storage servers that show the potential of the integrated offering, Oracle I am sure is not oblivious to that, the day they had their talk about cloud computing in London they made a point of showing Sun hardware and of giving a slot to a Sun guy).
How curious. Other companies are using it as the back end of fully automated enterprise wide backup solutions (and where I work all new machines have been using it for the root file system for some months now).
So if the lost of data is well documented, why didn't you provide a plethora of links?
I have an E450 now that has not been rebooted in, lemme check, several months.
As for ZFS causing crashes when it was new, you were using ZFS in a test system, right? RIGHT?
Once we were confident ZFS was ready for deployment (and I would be damned to take a new technology without through assessment) it has worked perfectly fine.
It is funny that companies that have built a successful business around cheap hardware do so by the implicit assumption that the hardware is not reliable: Google for example knows that machine will break and then provision for the whole replacement of a machine as the smallest unit that is serviceable, you would not need to do that with highly reliable hardware (Sun does this kind of stuff at the CPU core level, that is how confident they always were about the reliability of their hardware).
You are also forgetting escalation: Sun hardware scales transparently from 1 to hundreds of processors and cores. With Linux you simply can't do that.
Not that I made my profile private my friends will stop talking about me and publishing those pictures where I am making an ass of myself (in a party in my own private time).
You are the same kind of employer/manager that will also demand from their employees to work long hours and weekends.
I know the type, it sounds like you.
But then it is not called stealing, because somehow companies abusing people in this way is never bad and there are even legal provisions that allow it in some localities.
It is an objective measure about how much an individual is contributing to the release of CO2 in the atmosphere, and CO2 is proven to cause green house effect, which leads to global warming and global climate change.
Deriding people that can't articulate solutions to the current ecological debacle we are facing will not make the problem go away.
One begins to say stupid things keeping a straight face.
Democracy is by no means the most popular form of government. Just for starters China is not a democracy, carry on adding countries with no functioning democracies, with autocracies, theocracies and outright dictatorships and you will find out that the truly democratic world shrinks to a few enlightened pockets, and even there its hold is at times dubious.
It can be proven objectively that the standards of living, the ecology, educational achievements, respect for property and human rights, amongst many other desirable outcomes are better served by a democratic system. Democracy is better in any way that matters to individuals, minorities and big populations in general. We had several decades of leftist dictatorships in several countries, pretty much all failed, theocracies? look at Iran or Saudi Arabia, countries no fit for decen civilized living, dictatorships? Yeah, Venezuelans are having a great time.
Honestly, how a properly educated and curious person can claim such idiocy is beyond contemptible.
... yet again an Salshdotter refusing the advice of people that actually know what they are talking about.
What a surprising trend...
First computing scientists use prefixes with long established meanings to signify something different, then people that know about these things (the "bunch of academics", how telling that academic is used as a term of abuse) try to disambiguate the terms (because, as the poster above shows, the self absorbed geeks and nerds could not be bothered to do this themselves, after all everything that they do is correct) but accoring to many people around here, they are wrong and the confusion is their fault!
Really, people defending the idiotic use of prefixes for powers of 2 numbers should go over the facts and admit that the IT industry cocked up this particular issue.
So computer scientists fuck up by using prefixes with specific meanings, but it is the other people, reminding them that prefixes are used in a different way, who are introducing the ambiguity?
What an egregious example of revisionism.
The only problem perhaps was that many of the early computing scientists were not conversant with the IS, which is why they fucked up. I am sure no scientist conversant with the IS would have used the prefixes so loosely because he would have been aware of their original meaning.
"Those pesky physicists, chemists, and engineers have used a consistent system of measures for ages, but us programmers, computer "engineers" and computer "scientists" (oh the irony) can invent our own units and steal the original meaning of an established way of doing things. And after doing all that we are right and everybody else is wrong".
"And now I will present stupid examples of things that are just plain silly, just to show how right we are and to parade our ignorance".
The real problem is the incestuous relationship between the BBC and production companies.
Everybody knows everybody else, then when the BBC reaches a decision, the decision makers have an eye on future profits for their mates, former colleagues and themselves (many people that work or have worked for the BBC have production companies that do or will produce stuff for the BBC).
The default mentality is "we have to make money out of this", instead of looking after the interest of the licence payers, you know, the people that actually pay their wages and inflated bonuses.
The BBC havs enough weight to say to any producing company: "all content created for the BBC will not be encumbered by DRM".
Any company that didn't want to play ball could go elsewhere. Perhaps the cost of productions would raise substantially, but somehow I doubt it. The "creative industries" survived video and cassette tapes, CDs and poorly protected DVDs (which is the cash cow they are trying to protect by this DRM nonsense).
The BBC keeps giving this lame excuse about the poor production companies not being able to make money, reason for which the BBC is "forced" to accept their terms. Sorry, but the BBC is not paid by production companies, it is paid by the taxpayer (yes, the licence fee is a tax, lets not mince words about it), I think they need some reminding of that little oft ignored fact.
Why every time somebody does or says something monumentally stupid there is always somebody ready to invoke the cheap spectre of political correctness???
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Proper education should be completely neutral about the matter.
Proper education should present all the options available with pros and cons and then people will make their own choices.
Education taking sides on social or moral debates is not education, is indoctrination, which is why religious educations should be segregated from public rational one.
Viruses and bacteria are not magical being that can cross walls.
If you use a condom and itis in one piece you will not get STIs Period really.
You saying it is not so is frankly pointless since you are claiming something extraordinary and against common sense without citing a single shred of evidence.
Oracle has made clear that Solaris has an important place in their integrated vertical offerings (why should they use anything else? the capabilities of Solaris+ZFS+dtrace are way above anything else in offer in the industry, Sun put several storage servers that show the potential of the integrated offering, Oracle I am sure is not oblivious to that, the day they had their talk about cloud computing in London they made a point of showing Sun hardware and of giving a slot to a Sun guy).
How curious. Other companies are using it as the back end of fully automated enterprise wide backup solutions (and where I work all new machines have been using it for the root file system for some months now).
So if the lost of data is well documented, why didn't you provide a plethora of links?
I have an E450 now that has not been rebooted in, lemme check, several months.
As for ZFS causing crashes when it was new, you were using ZFS in a test system, right? RIGHT?
Once we were confident ZFS was ready for deployment (and I would be damned to take a new technology without through assessment) it has worked perfectly fine.
It is funny that companies that have built a successful business around cheap hardware do so by the implicit assumption that the hardware is not reliable: Google for example knows that machine will break and then provision for the whole replacement of a machine as the smallest unit that is serviceable, you would not need to do that with highly reliable hardware (Sun does this kind of stuff at the CPU core level, that is how confident they always were about the reliability of their hardware).
You are also forgetting escalation: Sun hardware scales transparently from 1 to hundreds of processors and cores. With Linux you simply can't do that.
Ironic smarty pants cynical bastard.
Archived.
I will write some guidelines to bar black people from working on my company.
And I will demand to sleep with the daughters of all my employees if they wish to continue to be employed by me.
It is so good to get such great advice from Slashdotters....
Not that I made my profile private my friends will stop talking about me and publishing those pictures where I am making an ass of myself (in a party in my own private time).
.... to stop other people saying things about me? I don't seem to find it.
You are the same kind of employer/manager that will also demand from their employees to work long hours and weekends.
I know the type, it sounds like you.
But then it is not called stealing, because somehow companies abusing people in this way is never bad and there are even legal provisions that allow it in some localities.
Nine, you are a true hero.
.. where is my cat? Mini Me? have you seen my cat?
It is an objective measure about how much an individual is contributing to the release of CO2 in the atmosphere, and CO2 is proven to cause green house effect, which leads to global warming and global climate change.
Deriding people that can't articulate solutions to the current ecological debacle we are facing will not make the problem go away.
Plato's opinion is not historical precedent.
Historical precedent would be an historical record about how Democracy is worst for human development and how other systems are better.
This is not the case, any way you want to slice it.
A republic can be a democracy. They are non exclusive terms.
It seems like in the US somebody is disseminating this nonsense since very often people in this venerable website claim this fallacy.
One begins to say stupid things keeping a straight face.
Democracy is by no means the most popular form of government. Just for starters China is not a democracy, carry on adding countries with no functioning democracies, with autocracies, theocracies and outright dictatorships and you will find out that the truly democratic world shrinks to a few enlightened pockets, and even there its hold is at times dubious.
It can be proven objectively that the standards of living, the ecology, educational achievements, respect for property and human rights, amongst many other desirable outcomes are better served by a democratic system. Democracy is better in any way that matters to individuals, minorities and big populations in general. We had several decades of leftist dictatorships in several countries, pretty much all failed, theocracies? look at Iran or Saudi Arabia, countries no fit for decen civilized living, dictatorships? Yeah, Venezuelans are having a great time.
Honestly, how a properly educated and curious person can claim such idiocy is beyond contemptible.
... yet again an Salshdotter refusing the advice of people that actually know what they are talking about.
What a surprising trend ...
First computing scientists use prefixes with long established meanings to signify something different, then people that know about these things (the "bunch of academics", how telling that academic is used as a term of abuse) try to disambiguate the terms (because, as the poster above shows, the self absorbed geeks and nerds could not be bothered to do this themselves, after all everything that they do is correct) but accoring to many people around here, they are wrong and the confusion is their fault!
Really, people defending the idiotic use of prefixes for powers of 2 numbers should go over the facts and admit that the IT industry cocked up this particular issue.
People used to ask me if 64000 bytes of memory would be enough for certain tasks.
Only people "in the know" can claim such falsehood.
So computer scientists fuck up by using prefixes with specific meanings, but it is the other people, reminding them that prefixes are used in a different way, who are introducing the ambiguity?
What an egregious example of revisionism.
The only problem perhaps was that many of the early computing scientists were not conversant with the IS, which is why they fucked up. I am sure no scientist conversant with the IS would have used the prefixes so loosely because he would have been aware of their original meaning.
"Those pesky physicists, chemists, and engineers have used a consistent system of measures for ages, but us programmers, computer "engineers" and computer "scientists" (oh the irony) can invent our own units and steal the original meaning of an established way of doing things. And after doing all that we are right and everybody else is wrong".
"And now I will present stupid examples of things that are just plain silly, just to show how right we are and to parade our ignorance".
The real problem is the incestuous relationship between the BBC and production companies.
Everybody knows everybody else, then when the BBC reaches a decision, the decision makers have an eye on future profits for their mates, former colleagues and themselves (many people that work or have worked for the BBC have production companies that do or will produce stuff for the BBC).
The default mentality is "we have to make money out of this", instead of looking after the interest of the licence payers, you know, the people that actually pay their wages and inflated bonuses.
The BBC havs enough weight to say to any producing company: "all content created for the BBC will not be encumbered by DRM".
Any company that didn't want to play ball could go elsewhere. Perhaps the cost of productions would raise substantially, but somehow I doubt it. The "creative industries" survived video and cassette tapes, CDs and poorly protected DVDs (which is the cash cow they are trying to protect by this DRM nonsense).
The BBC keeps giving this lame excuse about the poor production companies not being able to make money, reason for which the BBC is "forced" to accept their terms. Sorry, but the BBC is not paid by production companies, it is paid by the taxpayer (yes, the licence fee is a tax, lets not mince words about it), I think they need some reminding of that little oft ignored fact.
You were reading Slashdot all these years.
All what you claim above becomes thusly highly implausible (wonderful woman? Married? Yeah sure, pull the other one).
Simple statistics and common sense should suffice to kill such stupid idea quicky.
If they were advantages they would have propagated amongst most people.
They haven't
End of discussion.
Why every time somebody does or says something monumentally stupid there is always somebody ready to invoke the cheap spectre of political correctness???
As the US uninsured, uninsurable or bankrupt due to health bills?
I am sure they are loving it.