The Olympic games in Atlanta are generally cited as some of the worst in all history.
The over commercialism, failure of public transport (including athletes and officials being delayed for their competitions) and plain going around IOC's commercial interests left the IOC very hurt (and Samaranch, the IOC's President at the time, was in Copenhagen to remind everybody of that when promoting Nadrid's bid).
As for Salt Lake City winter Olympics, there was a corruption scandal, that led to a wide reform in the IOC.
Add to that the asinine US immigration policies, a very capable bid from Rio de Janeiro (including Brazil's President spending lots of time promoting Brazil's bid) and the result is not so surprising.
What baffles me is how meretricious so many people in the US are in regards to President Obama trying to help with Chicago's bid, all the other countries sent their heads of government (and in the case of Spain, also the head of state) to help with the bid, 4 years ago Tony Blair, former UK's Prime Minister, was widely credited with having helped with London's bid. That so many US people are blaming President Obama for Chicago's failure just show how pathological politics have become in the US....
It is all great and dandy that you quote Montreal (as all the Olympic gemse haters do) conveniently forgetting to mention that most cities have benefitted enormously since then.
The Olympic games in London will take place mostly in East London, an area famous for its gangsters and low lifes of all kinds.
The idea is that by hosting the games in that area they will be an incentive to regenerate it, creating new jobs and businesses and replacing ugly industrial areas with liveable areas and sporting facilities.
This has worked, with varied degrees of success in other venues, for example the are around the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona is now a tourist attraction, before the Olympics it was a very ugly neighbourhood that you wanted to avoid by all means.
You sound like one of those people living in abusive relationships, which after being badly beaten by their abusive partner will be the first one to defend him.
"Businesses really hate that viral open source thing in the GPL"
You meant to say
"Unscrupulous lechers, that wont pay for commercial software neither will contribute to community developed software, hate that viral open source thing in the GPL"
As for serious companies, you know, like multinational banks, oil companies, software developers, IT consultancies and the like, they all have embraced the GPL with open arms. (unless the Linux licence changed in the last 10 minutes).
You have no seen the science?
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Can you use Google?
People don't have different metabolisms.
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That is a vulgar lie spread to make lazy people feel better.
100 years ago obesity was not a problem, because people were doing jobs that required to use the calories they were eating (or they needed to eat so much because they needed it for the hard work they were doing, whatever way you prefer).
Lack of exercise is the one of the greatest scourges of our modern lifestyle, not our different metabolisms....
It is the UK government, scared shitless by the right wing press, who refuse permission to work to people that are requesting to stay in the UK.
Asylum seekers have said in many instances that they would be happy to earn their own sustenance while their case is reviewed and adjudicated. If they are a burden (minimally small one btw) it is not a situation of their choosing.
Don't blame economic migrants and asylum seekers for the ineptitude of the UK authorities, the UK should have a fair and expedite system to deal with asylum claimants and a clear program to deal with illegal immigrants (which BTW are not the same group of people, the UK has international legal obligations regarding asylum seekers, it is irrelevant if asylum seekers don't apply for asylum in other countries through which their transit, if the UK was more engaged with the EU then perhaps an EU wide agreement about sharing the burden of receiving asylum seekers could be agreed, but again, it is not the fault of migrants if the UK can't make up their bloody mind regarding the relationship with the rest of Europe).
As long as you group together thousands or millions of people in a homogeneous group, assigning the same behaviours to all of them for the simple fact that they share some ancestry, nationality or physical characteristics, then the only definition you deserve is that of racist.
Each person who needs or desires to migrate should be judged on his own, personal circumstances. Anything less than that is lazy racism, of which you are clearly guilty as you were fearing.
Given your fascist enthusiasm for the deportation of people en mass, I am sure you will agree that the large ghettos of British people that live in France and Spain, who refuse to assimilate into French or Spanish society, should also be deported, since they are so many that are wrecking their host societies, in accordance to your own shameful theories.
How do you know how many Linux desktop users are there? Most people don't buy Linux, they don't show up in any statistics.
I have a method to know who is who in desktop computing: magazines.
Here in the UK we have a pletora of Windows oriented magazines (as could be expected), but now we have at least 3 regular Linux ones (Linux Magazine, Linux Format, Linux User) as well as the venerable Linux Journal in some places.
How many OSX magazines do we have? One I think.
The important tidbit is this: publishers have an ear in the ground regarding readers' needs. to me it seems like they have identified Linux a more mainstream than OSX, this can mean only one thing: more people using Linux in a regular fashion...
People like Stallman complement people like Shuttleworth.
The ground ploded by Stallman created the conditions for Shuttleworth's work.
To say we need more from one or another is a monumental disregard for the history and achievements of the people that have made possible computing infrastructure accessible to all.
It is highly dispiriting that after reading most comments on this thread, only one poster mentioned LTO tapes (or any tapes or long term archival means for this matter).
By copying your data to another machine (the underlying file system is irrelevant) you are only creating a set of data that is highly available, but not one that is properly backed up.
Back ups refer to archival and retention of data for long periods of time (months or years). Putting your data in another machine simply does not fulfil this requirement.
Disks were not designed as long term archival means, you will find this the hard way.
All the well intentioned comments on this thread are describing how to make your data more available, but the handling of backups implies much more than quick access to a recent set of data.
Although ZFS could be part of the chain of your backup strategy, if the data does not go ultimately to archival tape which is registered and stored safely, then you are deluding yourself if you think you have got the backup problem cracked.
The champagne denomination describes a kind of drink that can be only made in the Champagne region.
No other part of the world has the same micro climate and soil, both of which influence the quality of the drink heavily (anybody that has tasted any other sparkling wines like Cava, who actually follows very closely the Champagne region methods, knows that it makes a difference, and prices reflect this).
This is entirely objective: I have worked everywhere in the world only with companies whose names are easily recognizable globally, with responsibilities to match (my favourite was the cry of some users of mine that claimed we were losing $10000000 an hour if a system failed. They were correct).
My previous salaries say so as well as mountains of anecdotal evidence.
And have to say, the job market is dire.
If I wasn't top flight I would not have the money to wait for a better job market, for any run of the mill sys admins losing their job now would be a real nightmare scenario.
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You have a tree full of trademark violations.
Get your terms right before your apples fall rooten to the ground.
What is your next, off topic comment?
The Olympic games in Atlanta are generally cited as some of the worst in all history.
The over commercialism, failure of public transport (including athletes and officials being delayed for their competitions) and plain going around IOC's commercial interests left the IOC very hurt (and Samaranch, the IOC's President at the time, was in Copenhagen to remind everybody of that when promoting Nadrid's bid).
As for Salt Lake City winter Olympics, there was a corruption scandal, that led to a wide reform in the IOC.
Add to that the asinine US immigration policies, a very capable bid from Rio de Janeiro (including Brazil's President spending lots of time promoting Brazil's bid) and the result is not so surprising.
What baffles me is how meretricious so many people in the US are in regards to President Obama trying to help with Chicago's bid, all the other countries sent their heads of government (and in the case of Spain, also the head of state) to help with the bid, 4 years ago Tony Blair, former UK's Prime Minister, was widely credited with having helped with London's bid. That so many US people are blaming President Obama for Chicago's failure just show how pathological politics have become in the US....
It is all great and dandy that you quote Montreal (as all the Olympic gemse haters do) conveniently forgetting to mention that most cities have benefitted enormously since then.
The Olympic games in London will take place mostly in East London, an area famous for its gangsters and low lifes of all kinds.
The idea is that by hosting the games in that area they will be an incentive to regenerate it, creating new jobs and businesses and replacing ugly industrial areas with liveable areas and sporting facilities.
This has worked, with varied degrees of success in other venues, for example the are around the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona is now a tourist attraction, before the Olympics it was a very ugly neighbourhood that you wanted to avoid by all means.
Microsoft will release a version soon.
You sound like one of those people living in abusive relationships, which after being badly beaten by their abusive partner will be the first one to defend him.
Honestly, read your elegy again....
"Businesses really hate that viral open source thing in the GPL"
You meant to say
"Unscrupulous lechers, that wont pay for commercial software neither will contribute to community developed software, hate that viral open source thing in the GPL"
As for serious companies, you know, like multinational banks, oil companies, software developers, IT consultancies and the like, they all have embraced the GPL with open arms. (unless the Linux licence changed in the last 10 minutes).
Can you use Google?
That is a vulgar lie spread to make lazy people feel better.
100 years ago obesity was not a problem, because people were doing jobs that required to use the calories they were eating (or they needed to eat so much because they needed it for the hard work they were doing, whatever way you prefer).
Lack of exercise is the one of the greatest scourges of our modern lifestyle, not our different metabolisms....
It is the UK government, scared shitless by the right wing press, who refuse permission to work to people that are requesting to stay in the UK.
Asylum seekers have said in many instances that they would be happy to earn their own sustenance while their case is reviewed and adjudicated. If they are a burden (minimally small one btw) it is not a situation of their choosing.
Don't blame economic migrants and asylum seekers for the ineptitude of the UK authorities, the UK should have a fair and expedite system to deal with asylum claimants and a clear program to deal with illegal immigrants (which BTW are not the same group of people, the UK has international legal obligations regarding asylum seekers, it is irrelevant if asylum seekers don't apply for asylum in other countries through which their transit, if the UK was more engaged with the EU then perhaps an EU wide agreement about sharing the burden of receiving asylum seekers could be agreed, but again, it is not the fault of migrants if the UK can't make up their bloody mind regarding the relationship with the rest of Europe).
"At this point, someone will cry, "racism"."
Well, yes, because you are one.
As long as you group together thousands or millions of people in a homogeneous group, assigning the same behaviours to all of them for the simple fact that they share some ancestry, nationality or physical characteristics, then the only definition you deserve is that of racist.
Each person who needs or desires to migrate should be judged on his own, personal circumstances. Anything less than that is lazy racism, of which you are clearly guilty as you were fearing.
Given your fascist enthusiasm for the deportation of people en mass, I am sure you will agree that the large ghettos of British people that live in France and Spain, who refuse to assimilate into French or Spanish society, should also be deported, since they are so many that are wrecking their host societies, in accordance to your own shameful theories.
If that is really their strategy they should hire good marketing people.
What is unforgivable is not to have a person checking continuity, it is part of the basics of making videos or film.
Oh, gee, it is so nice of them, to release an OS that supports their own, proprietary, non portable technology.
"It includes drivers for modern hardware...."
So yet again, people with older computers can go an f**k tehmselves...(what is the support threshold, hardware not older than 3 months?)
I have been a Sys Admin for many years, I enjoy a lot what I do, still I find this concept so utterly repulsive that I can barely contain my disdain.
But I wasn't good enough at it.
I can fix computing problems on my sleep.
It was a pretty straightforward decision.
How do you know how many Linux desktop users are there? Most people don't buy Linux, they don't show up in any statistics.
I have a method to know who is who in desktop computing: magazines.
Here in the UK we have a pletora of Windows oriented magazines (as could be expected), but now we have at least 3 regular Linux ones (Linux Magazine, Linux Format, Linux User) as well as the venerable Linux Journal in some places.
How many OSX magazines do we have? One I think.
The important tidbit is this: publishers have an ear in the ground regarding readers' needs. to me it seems like they have identified Linux a more mainstream than OSX, this can mean only one thing: more people using Linux in a regular fashion...
People like Stallman complement people like Shuttleworth.
The ground ploded by Stallman created the conditions for Shuttleworth's work.
To say we need more from one or another is a monumental disregard for the history and achievements of the people that have made possible computing infrastructure accessible to all.
She has been using Ubuntu for a couple of years now.
And why geeks are not users?
Any other idiotic anecdotal evidence or inane comment you have?
It is highly dispiriting that after reading most comments on this thread, only one poster mentioned LTO tapes (or any tapes or long term archival means for this matter).
By copying your data to another machine (the underlying file system is irrelevant) you are only creating a set of data that is highly available, but not one that is properly backed up.
Back ups refer to archival and retention of data for long periods of time (months or years). Putting your data in another machine simply does not fulfil this requirement.
Disks were not designed as long term archival means, you will find this the hard way.
All the well intentioned comments on this thread are describing how to make your data more available, but the handling of backups implies much more than quick access to a recent set of data.
Although ZFS could be part of the chain of your backup strategy, if the data does not go ultimately to archival tape which is registered and stored safely, then you are deluding yourself if you think you have got the backup problem cracked.
... for things like databases and other highly transactional applications.
The champagne denomination describes a kind of drink that can be only made in the Champagne region.
No other part of the world has the same micro climate and soil, both of which influence the quality of the drink heavily (anybody that has tasted any other sparkling wines like Cava, who actually follows very closely the Champagne region methods, knows that it makes a difference, and prices reflect this).
This is entirely objective: I have worked everywhere in the world only with companies whose names are easily recognizable globally, with responsibilities to match (my favourite was the cry of some users of mine that claimed we were losing $10000000 an hour if a system failed. They were correct).
My previous salaries say so as well as mountains of anecdotal evidence.
And have to say, the job market is dire.
If I wasn't top flight I would not have the money to wait for a better job market, for any run of the mill sys admins losing their job now would be a real nightmare scenario.
If you are landing contracting gigs in the current economic climate, you are either very good or very lucky (most likely the latter).
My contracting friends are struggling, big time, to find new positions, I myself am accepting contracting positions and the field is dry as a bone.