...how we are going to be able to find older, less popular music titles? Case in point: for some time (years), I was looking for Red Seven's self-titled album or CD. My local record stores told me it was out of press, so I couldn't order it. I couldn't find it any of the used record stores around town. Finally, after a lot of searching online, I found one song from that album through a gnutella client (Note to RIAA: I'd be glad to send $1 or whatever to the rights holder in exchange for a full-quality *.wav). Until the music industry gets off its hands and makes it easier for the public to find and *pay for* the music it wants, without all the nutty paranoia, the KaZaA's of this world are not going to disappear.
The classic defense of the P.Eng. (or applicant): The bogus attempt to portray it as a "higher level" that is only assaulted by those unworthy of its grand abilities.
The classic defense of the wannabe Engineer: The bogus attempt to portray his profession at a "higher level" than he has the training or experience for.
I find it especially laughable that the Professional Engineering associations have decided that they can coopt a basic english word (engineer or engineering), as you have masterfully demonstrated (how dare people think they are engineering if they haven't ponied up the dough!).
I find it laughable that the same people who deride the engineering associations and the government for enacting a standard of education and experience that people must attain in order to call themselves engineers are the same ones who want to put that word under their name on their business card. Kind of like chiropractors calling themselves doctors. They're not. And neither are you.
Ok, as a recent P.Eng. applicant here in BC, I have to take issue with a lot of what you said, mostly because it is the sort of drivel spouted by semi-trained clowns who want to call themselves "Engineer". In Canada, the terms "Engineer" and "Professional Engineer" are restricted to individuals accredited by the provincial associations and governed under various provincal legislation, such as The Engineers and Geoscientists Act of British Columbia. I think it's similiar in the Excited States as well.
In reality in many cases these licensing boards turn into self-protective entities that allow their members to get away with things that they would never get away with if not surrounding by the shroud of, err, "persona responsibility" (see some of the medical boards that act more like shields against personal responsibility).
Um, no. If anything, being a professional engineer exposes you to a higher level of liability than the layman. Putting your stamp on a set of plans makes you personally responsible, not only for the information the contained therein, but for ensuring that the Work in question is performed according to Accepted Practises based on Sound Engineering Principles (capitalized words have very specific meanings, according to the associations). A common story (probably apocryphal) is the one where the engineer who designed a lawn mower lost his shirt when his company was sued because there weren't warnings not to place your hand under the guard of a running mower. That's probably an extreme case, but it is not uncommon for engineers to be named defendants in suits involving work they've performed, many of which don't even claim malpractice. Are you aware of any cases where so-called "software engineers" were sued for malpractice?
Did you know that one of the P.Eng criteria, at least here in Ontario, is that you cannot discredit another P.Eng?
True (it's true in the Medical Profession as well...) That's so people don't go around saying, "Stay away from that guy, he sucks. I can do it better!", and debasing the profession in the eyes of the public. If an engineer believes a practising member is negligent, poorly trained, practising out of his area of expertise, a danger to the public, etc., it is his duty to report that member to his association for disciplinary action. The associations will also listen to complaints from individuals regarding their members, and take action where appropriate. Results of all disciplinary hearings are made public, usually in newspapers.
Most certifications are nothing more than an economic barrier to entry: A club, if you will, whose membership betrays zero information about the capabilities of their members, but rather excludes those who haven't signed up. P.Eng is a particularly notorious one because they've tried to get their grubby hands on virtually all aspects of society, while provably offering nothing in return.
*sigh* The requirements for becoming a P.Eng. are public. In general, you can be sure that the member has completed a degree at an accredited institution or has passed a set of qualifying exams, has a minimum of four years of supervised experience in his area of expertise, and has passed a law and ethics exam, so that he is at least aware of his responsibilities. How many people who call themselves "software engineers" can claim the same?
The professional designation, P.Eng. is there to provide the public with the peace of mind that engineering work will be performed to at least a minimum standard of quality as determined by other practitioners in the field. You spout off here saying such things aren't necessary, but I doubt you'de ever go to a doctor with a mail-order degree in holistic medicine. And seriously I doubt you'd trust yourself to drive over a bridge designed by some guy who's sole training was playing with erector sets as a kid.
That IS interesting. But even so, all that the trademark can ensure is that others will not use the Mickey Mouse character/image/name as an identifier for their business. The movies (starting with "Steamboat Willie"), cartoons, books, and the image of the character itself will enter the public domain, and be freely distributable when their copyright expires. Imagine the horror when all those daycare centres can paint Mickey's face on the wall without getting a letter from the Ghost of Walt.
Seriously. Look at every time the copyright term has been extended, and look at which vital piece of Disney's 'intellectual property' was about to enter the public domain. It's rather sad. You can learn more about this depressing trend in our shockingly greedy erahere.
If you want a landmark experiment in nuclear physics that lead directly to the atomic bomb, then you should be talking about Enrico Fermi's Chicago experiment. He built a pile which on December 2, 1942, produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. He then went on to be one of the leading members of the Manhattan Project team.
Um, since when is [Ctrl][Alt][+]/[-] difficult?. With RedHat all you have to do is make sure you select more than one screen mode during installation, or you may have to (gasp) edit a text file and add a few characters afterwards... not terribly difficult, either.
Just for your information, Gibson Research has done some work evaluating personal firewalls and Black Ice is on its list of 'leaky' or 'unsafe' firewalls. And in contrast to the earlier poster's comments, ZoneAlarm gets quite a good rating (as does Tiny Personal).
I disagree with this. Currently, it seems that only a few folk are really aware of what is being threatened. Once the rest of the public realizes that they are being affected by these idiotic measures, then they'll speak up.
Really? Who's going to tell them about it when the people behind the RIAA are essentially the same people providing the news? They certainly aren't going to be spinning these laws as actions infringing on people's rights. And despite what we may like (or hope) to believe, the proportion of people that get a signicant portion of their knowledge of current events from news sites and forums like these is vanishingly small.
I've converted over to ext3fs, and am curious about one thing: resizing the ext3fs partitions. I know Partition Magic can resize ext2fs partitions with no difficulty, and Linux won't miss a beat. If the file systems are cleanly unmounted, as during a shutdown, and the ext3fs partitions are resized using Partition Magic, will there be problems? Is there anything in the journal that would make the kernel panic and puke on the newly changed partitions? I have no plans to do this; I'm just curious what would happen if I did.
This is a company that makes its money by transporting other people's property. How do they respond to their customers' choice to ship with them and not FedEx or the local Post Office, thus providing them with their income? They attempt to smash that property to bits. That makes a whole lot of sense. A previous poster who works for UPS wrote that he had seen his fellow employees jumping up and down on computer and monitor boxes shipped by Dell and Gateway. Another guy posted how the delivery guy rolled an iMac box end over end to get it off of the truck! How on earth you can go on and blame the customer for not getting insurance when the employees of the company deliberately go out of their way to damage their meal tickets' property is beyond me. I for one am glad this guy posted the heads up. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever use UPS to ship so much as a paperclip for me or my company.
Actually, you don't. This is just the usual "make the swap twice as big as the physical memory" methodology.
Hrm. The install program during the upgrade all but insisted I increase the swap, so I agreed to let it add a/SWAP file to supplement the 128MB swap partition I already had configured. I'll try it without it for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip.
Point is, the kernel did not gradually evolve to 2.4.9, but only to 2.4.5.
Rik's VM has problems, but in the current ac tree it is doing quite well. Maybe as well or better then Andrea's VM.
Maybe, but I don't see why I have to assign 512MB of swap space (reccommended in Red Hat's 7.2 install) on a desktop system with 256MB of memory. With that much memory, and simple application usage, the system should operate fine without swap, or at most an equal amount to main memory. If the two systems are performing within 5% of each other, I'll take the one that doesn't want to sack away my hard drive space.
Is their anybody else out there who thinks that the Baltimore football team should get the 'Colts' name back? Maybe they could convince the Indiana owners to trade names...
It also serves as a warning for us: if one sees a picture of one's co-worker stripped to the waist, painted with obscure symbols and numbers, wearing a ridiculous head-piece, one knows that he can hardly be taken seriously.
This is the only amusing thing in this otherwise vitriolic post. Reminded of the 'facepainter' episode in Seinfeld, I LMAO.
Well, a heavier bike would probably increase the rolling resistance as well, thus reducing top speed. As in most things excepting beer and skin, it's better to be light.
"I realise that the installer in question [YAST]is not a standard part of every Linux distribution..."
Well, not only is it not a standard part of every Linux distribution, it's not even open-source, so I don't see why the kernel gurus should bother testing against it. That's SuSE's job.
[The Athlon is] slower. It won't work for video capture.
It's got little surprises all over the instruction set, just like previous AMD parts.
Proof please?
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It looks like NVIDIA have addressed the performance shortfall by releasing new drivers, the "Detonator 4" Drivers, which, according to Toms Hardware, give about a 30% performance increase...
That should read "up to a 30% performance increase".   The large increases are only on the GF3 and only on particular benchmarks. On a couple of benchmarks (Giants, Dronez, Evolva) the new drivers can actually give a performance hit. The AnandTech review of the Detonator 4 drivers indicates that GF2 users can expect performance increases of about 5%.
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...how we are going to be able to find older, less popular music titles? Case in point: for some time (years), I was looking for Red Seven's self-titled album or CD. My local record stores told me it was out of press, so I couldn't order it. I couldn't find it any of the used record stores around town. Finally, after a lot of searching online, I found one song from that album through a gnutella client (Note to RIAA: I'd be glad to send $1 or whatever to the rights holder in exchange for a full-quality *.wav). Until the music industry gets off its hands and makes it easier for the public to find and *pay for* the music it wants, without all the nutty paranoia, the KaZaA's of this world are not going to disappear.
I scanned through your reply searching for any new arguments and found none.
Let's just agree to disagree and move on. You bore me.
The classic defense of the wannabe Engineer: The bogus attempt to portray his profession at a "higher level" than he has the training or experience for.
I find it laughable that the same people who deride the engineering associations and the government for enacting a standard of education and experience that people must attain in order to call themselves engineers are the same ones who want to put that word under their name on their business card. Kind of like chiropractors calling themselves doctors. They're not. And neither are you.
Um, no. If anything, being a professional engineer exposes you to a higher level of liability than the layman. Putting your stamp on a set of plans makes you personally responsible, not only for the information the contained therein, but for ensuring that the Work in question is performed according to Accepted Practises based on Sound Engineering Principles (capitalized words have very specific meanings, according to the associations). A common story (probably apocryphal) is the one where the engineer who designed a lawn mower lost his shirt when his company was sued because there weren't warnings not to place your hand under the guard of a running mower. That's probably an extreme case, but it is not uncommon for engineers to be named defendants in suits involving work they've performed, many of which don't even claim malpractice. Are you aware of any cases where so-called "software engineers" were sued for malpractice?
True (it's true in the Medical Profession as well...) That's so people don't go around saying, "Stay away from that guy, he sucks. I can do it better!", and debasing the profession in the eyes of the public. If an engineer believes a practising member is negligent, poorly trained, practising out of his area of expertise, a danger to the public, etc., it is his duty to report that member to his association for disciplinary action. The associations will also listen to complaints from individuals regarding their members, and take action where appropriate. Results of all disciplinary hearings are made public, usually in newspapers.
*sigh*
The requirements for becoming a P.Eng. are public. In general, you can be sure that the member has completed a degree at an accredited institution or has passed a set of qualifying exams, has a minimum of four years of supervised experience in his area of expertise, and has passed a law and ethics exam, so that he is at least aware of his responsibilities. How many people who call themselves "software engineers" can claim the same?
The professional designation, P.Eng. is there to provide the public with the peace of mind that engineering work will be performed to at least a minimum standard of quality as determined by other practitioners in the field. You spout off here saying such things aren't necessary, but I doubt you'de ever go to a doctor with a mail-order degree in holistic medicine. And seriously I doubt you'd trust yourself to drive over a bridge designed by some guy who's sole training was playing with erector sets as a kid.
That IS interesting. But even so, all that the trademark can ensure is that others will not use the Mickey Mouse character/image/name as an identifier for their business. The movies (starting with "Steamboat Willie"), cartoons, books, and the image of the character itself will enter the public domain, and be freely distributable when their copyright expires. Imagine the horror when all those daycare centres can paint Mickey's face on the wall without getting a letter from the Ghost of Walt.
Seriously. Look at every time the copyright term has been extended, and look at which vital piece of Disney's 'intellectual property' was about to enter the public domain. It's rather sad. You can learn more about this depressing trend in our shockingly greedy erahere.
If you want a landmark experiment in nuclear physics that lead directly to the atomic bomb, then you should be talking about Enrico Fermi's Chicago experiment. He built a pile which on December 2, 1942, produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. He then went on to be one of the leading members of the Manhattan Project team.
Regards,
Bun
...what?
Um, since when is [Ctrl][Alt][+]/[-] difficult?. With RedHat all you have to do is make sure you select more than one screen mode during installation, or you may have to (gasp) edit a text file and add a few characters afterwards... not terribly difficult, either.
Regards,
Bun
Someone should really mod the parent up.
Just for your information, Gibson Research has done some work evaluating personal firewalls and Black Ice is on its list of 'leaky' or 'unsafe' firewalls. And in contrast to the earlier poster's comments, ZoneAlarm gets quite a good rating (as does Tiny Personal).
Really? Who's going to tell them about it when the people behind the RIAA are essentially the same people providing the news? They certainly aren't going to be spinning these laws as actions infringing on people's rights. And despite what we may like (or hope) to believe, the proportion of people that get a signicant portion of their knowledge of current events from news sites and forums like these is vanishingly small.
In the market segment these guys are looking at, I should think most people would care about three things:
1. Price
2. Price
and
3. Price.
Actually, I keep Netscape 4 on my machine because Mozilla's javascript sucks. Can't check out my on-line hockey pools. ;-)
I've converted over to ext3fs, and am curious about one thing: resizing the ext3fs partitions. I know Partition Magic can resize ext2fs partitions with no difficulty, and Linux won't miss a beat. If the file systems are cleanly unmounted, as during a shutdown, and the ext3fs partitions are resized using Partition Magic, will there be problems? Is there anything in the journal that would make the kernel panic and puke on the newly changed partitions? I have no plans to do this; I'm just curious what would happen if I did.
Christ. Here goes.
This is a company that makes its money by transporting other people's property. How do they respond to their customers' choice to ship with them and not FedEx or the local Post Office, thus providing them with their income? They attempt to smash that property to bits. That makes a whole lot of sense. A previous poster who works for UPS wrote that he had seen his fellow employees jumping up and down on computer and monitor boxes shipped by Dell and Gateway. Another guy posted how the delivery guy rolled an iMac box end over end to get it off of the truck! How on earth you can go on and blame the customer for not getting insurance when the employees of the company deliberately go out of their way to damage their meal tickets' property is beyond me. I for one am glad this guy posted the heads up. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever use UPS to ship so much as a paperclip for me or my company.
Actually, you don't. This is just the usual "make the swap twice as big as the physical memory" methodology.
/SWAP file to supplement the 128MB swap partition I already had configured. I'll try it without it for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip.
Hrm. The install program during the upgrade all but insisted I increase the swap, so I agreed to let it add a
Who ever heard of a watch swapping?
...I kill me...
Haven't you ever heard of the SWATCH?
Maybe, but I don't see why I have to assign 512MB of swap space (reccommended in Red Hat's 7.2 install) on a desktop system with 256MB of memory. With that much memory, and simple application usage, the system should operate fine without swap, or at most an equal amount to main memory. If the two systems are performing within 5% of each other, I'll take the one that doesn't want to sack away my hard drive space.
Is their anybody else out there who thinks that the Baltimore football team should get the 'Colts' name back? Maybe they could convince the Indiana owners to trade names...
It also serves as a warning for us: if one sees a picture of one's co-worker stripped to the waist, painted with obscure symbols and numbers, wearing a ridiculous head-piece, one knows that he can hardly be taken seriously.
This is the only amusing thing in this otherwise vitriolic post. Reminded of the 'facepainter' episode in Seinfeld, I LMAO.
Well, a heavier bike would probably increase the rolling resistance as well, thus reducing top speed. As in most things excepting beer and skin, it's better to be light.
"I realise that the installer in question [YAST]is not a standard part of every Linux distribution..."
Well, not only is it not a standard part of every Linux distribution, it's not even open-source, so I don't see why the kernel gurus should bother testing against it. That's SuSE's job.
Proof please?