That's what the bad guy in "Tron" did. As we learned from that movie, all you need to counter this is a printout of the original header with your name on it stating the bad guy stole it.
The hard part of course is being digitized, joining the program resistance movement, fighting the Master Control Program and opening the data ports to the User to get that printout. That part is a real bitch.
The worst person I've ever interviewed explained that in a systems administration role there should never be a reason why he'd be expected to stay after 5 pm. The second worst explained that he was no stranger to keeping a cot in his office to deal with routinely long hours. The former indicated a bad attitude combined with poor judgment: an unrealistic assessment of a system administrator's job. The latter indicated a fellow who worked harder when I wanted someone to work smarter... a quality sysadmin prevents more fires than he fights.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't really know what the first guy really said, but the way you put it sounds about right. If you're preventing the fires like a good sys-admin is supposed to, you won't have any to fight after 5pm. There should never be a reason for someone to come in after 5pm if he's doing his job right. That's not a bad attitude or poor judgment, that's what a sys-admin should be working towards -- a nicely running, fault tolerant machine that requires little maintenance or intervention. Isn't it?
Wow. I remember that same thing when I lived in New Orleans from 2002-2005. Every time there was a hurricane in the gulf people would be asked to evacuate and idiots like you would decide to stay, since its just the government crying wolf.
Wasn't that the moral of the story of the boy who cried wolf? You cry wolf enough and people stop listening and there is no one to save you when it really happens. If there is a history of overstating the danger, then is it really that idiotic to ignore the warnings? Maybe some of the blame can be levied at the government?
From what I understand, New Orleans actually faired the storm rather well. It was the failure of the levies that caused all the damage, levies that the government knew well ahead of time needed to be repaired or replaced.
Flu shots haven't been shown to be effective, bicycle helmets seem to increase injuries. You can't plan for random events, you can't even imagine how it's going to go down. Work in a tall building? What's the plan? Have a parachute at work and practice your base-jumping I guess.
The executable code is shared amongst all the processes. It isn't duplicated, it's cloned as copy on write pages which are more than likely never written to. That operation to clone the executable pages results in a miniscule amount of overhead and does not consume any additional memory. The only additional memory a process uses over a thread is cloning data sections, which are unique to the page you're viewing anyway and would have been created just the same by a thread.
This is also true in the example you give of opening multiple browsers verses tabs. Multiple version of the same program share the executable code as copy on write pages. The reason multiple browsers use more memory is that they each have to maintain their own screen with its elements and so on. More than likely that wouldn't be required with a browser that was designed to work with processes rather than threads.
So far as I can reason, the only real additional overhead that a full blown process would have over a thread in a browser would be in the IPC communications with the main process handler, which might make things a little slower than it would be with threads. I think the safety of processes outweight that issue though. Threading has it's uses, but processes are probably a much better idea for browsers.
Convince the uninformed, which is most people, not to vote. You've got an uphill battle though, since the media has spent years trying to convince these uninformed voters that they must vote or they are not patriotic. So we must now elect our representatives based purely on superficialities like party affiliation, appearance / personality or vapid populist rhetoric, which is all that the uninformed use to make their choices. It should be considered unpatriotic to make an uninformed vote.
If one sound card doesn't work, just add the driver to the blacklist (or disable in the BIOS if it's on the MB). If you wanted two cards to work and boot in a specific order, you can usually set certain modules to load on boot and in which order they are loaded. If the two cards are of the same kind you can, at last resort, setup udev rules to determine which card will be which based on their PCI ID or IRQ or somesuch. I know, not easy, but possible.
And yet precious metal based economies have existed for thousands of years. No fiat based currency has ever lasted much more than 100. Pretty much every time a fiat based currency has been tried (usually to pay for war) it's eventually resulted in economic ruin. The temptation to inflate the money supply for gain would seem to be too great.
I don't really get what you're saying about gold becoming more expensive if we were to switch to it. Right now it's at ~$950/oz. Just peg it there and stop printing more money. It might take a number of years before things settled down and you could pin things at an exact exchange rate however. If you want you can periodically print more money if you think you need more dollars in circulation, but that would require an act of congress to change the exchange rate, at least making it more difficult to inflate the money supply on a whim, or with no one watching. The point of a metal based economy is that, baring technological reasons, a set amount of money should always be able to buy a set amount of goods.
While your point about new technologies destroying a gold backed currency might have some merit, there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of a government destroying a fiat based currency, and history provides no example where they didn't eventually do just that.
Absolutely. We're mostly just high-tech janitors now. High-tech plumbers at best. We don't even usually get paid as well a plumber. It's hard to have a high profile in any organization where your job is essentially to be as useless as the Maytag repairman. Especially if you're good at it.
What so annoys me about the lack of a mouse/keyboard for consoles is that there is nothing stopping them from supporting those input methods. They used to sell mouse/keyboards for the PS2 and dreamcast, but you couldn't use them for games. I would think that by now FPS makers must know that a certain segment of their game players prefer the mouse/keyboard and offer up USB mouse/keyboard support for their games. They sell fake guitars and rock band sets, and people buy them. Why don't think they that hard core FPS fans wouldn't pay for a proper input system for FPS games?
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but assuming you're not, then have you ever heard of hyper-inflation? It happens -- usually when a government is heavily in debt and wishes to pay off its obligations by making lots of money. Not that that would ever happen here, after all, we're only something like 9 trillion in debt -- couch cushion change.
It's the standard MO of DA's these days. Pile on charge after charge until someone is looking down the barrel of 50 years for jay-walking, until they're very willing to take the plea-bargan slap on the wrist. Essentially torturing someone until they admit guilt. This way the DA doesn't have to actually work to convict someone while padding their resume with lots of convictions. Who wants to risk going before a capricious and tough on crime public, or worse, a tough on crime judge, to plead their innocence when they're looking at that much time? After all, if you were innocent you wouldn't have been arrested, right?
Or maybe we read history and understand that governments really are "intrinsically inept, corrupt and oppressive" and never more so than during the middle ages, where governments in cahoots with the church put a halt to all progress for centuries and didn't care that people starved, because it's not about helping people, it's about maintaining power and control. Some of us would like to avoid that happening again, which is why we're libertarians.
Considering, even for a moment, the ideals, principles, and thoughts of our founding fathers seems to be the quickest way to be labeled naive, ignorant or just plain stupid around here. Ad hominem attacks by the bucket-full.
Why do Fed-Ex and UPS deliver to "houses scattered across the prairie", or even small towns? Don't they know it's not profitable?
And no one would ever think to build their own roads, if we didn't have the government to tell us to do it.:-p Private roads do happen, but the government doesn't like them. They won't send a school bus into our sub-division until the builder hands over the roads to the county. I wouldn't be surprised if most roads started as private roads at one point in time.
Probably the biggest obstacles to networking rural areas is government regulation and rights of way, not cost. There was a time when people just did what they needed to get what they wanted, but now we wait for government or some business to give it to us. Uselessly complaining about how long it takes all the while.
Discounting the vast improvements to life we have due to mining, I have one word for you:
Salt.
Wars used to be waged for the stuff, until improvements in mining made it plentiful. And since salt is necessary to life, their claim may not be so unreasonable.
While you're fundamentally correct with your example jobs there, alas, the taxman will more than likely close the gap betwixt the two more than you might first imagine. Paradise tends to have higher tax rates and the federal government cares not that you live in California when it lays claim to a bigger slice of your pie than it does for Job A. And just what are property taxes like on a half million dollar house in CA anyway?
Of course you'll get some of that back when you retire -- maybe.
Thus, Microsoft's fine is equivalent to a $11970 (in one year) fine for an individual with an well above average income.
This is all well and good, but supposes that, like taxes, the corporation is the one that actually pays. This is not really the case, as corporations just pass the costs onto the consumer, who is the one who ultimately pays. Fines such as these represent nothing more than additional taxes or tariffs on consumers of certain goods. I imagine that stealth taxation like this will become more in vogue given the economically illiterates joy at seeing corporations getting their comeuppance.
It may be true that raising the prices of a corporations goods can have detrimental effects on their business by making the competition more price competitive, but that seems unlikely when you're microsoft. I really have little sympathy for Microsoft and their business practices, but this fine doesn't really hurt them, it just hurts their consumers. And really, aren't they hurt enough having bought a microsoft product already?
I have to say I agree completely, and in addition would note Marshall's involvment in the McCarthy trials. His brave stand against McCarthy and his acusations delt a serious blow to the Red Scare and sped an end to one of the darkest chapters in American history in this century.
Does this seem like the old bait-n-switch tatic to anyone else?
"We're sorry, but you can't buy into that fantastic too good to be true offer that we spammed your mailbox with, but now that you've gone to the trouble of setting up your account, you're free to invest in any of the other fine stocks we offer for sale here."
I am also curious about the assertation that they do this for your own good, when exactly how do they prevent you from losing your shirt on non-IPO transactions? Gambling is gambling, IPO's are just for higher-rollers?
I'm not going to blame Red Hat for this, but it is frustrating. I assume this will also put a end to community invites from future linux IPO's such as VA linux systems upcoming IPO.
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I'm still waiting for OLED rockets.
That's what the bad guy in "Tron" did. As we learned from that movie, all you need to counter this is a printout of the original header with your name on it stating the bad guy stole it.
The hard part of course is being digitized, joining the program resistance movement, fighting the Master Control Program and opening the data ports to the User to get that printout. That part is a real bitch.
The worst person I've ever interviewed explained that in a systems administration role there should never be a reason why he'd be expected to stay after 5 pm. The second worst explained that he was no stranger to keeping a cot in his office to deal with routinely long hours. The former indicated a bad attitude combined with poor judgment: an unrealistic assessment of a system administrator's job. The latter indicated a fellow who worked harder when I wanted someone to work smarter... a quality sysadmin prevents more fires than he fights.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't really know what the first guy really said, but the way you put it sounds about right. If you're preventing the fires like a good sys-admin is supposed to, you won't have any to fight after 5pm. There should never be a reason for someone to come in after 5pm if he's doing his job right. That's not a bad attitude or poor judgment, that's what a sys-admin should be working towards -- a nicely running, fault tolerant machine that requires little maintenance or intervention. Isn't it?
Wow. I remember that same thing when I lived in New Orleans from 2002-2005. Every time there was a hurricane in the gulf people would be asked to evacuate and idiots like you would decide to stay, since its just the government crying wolf.
Wasn't that the moral of the story of the boy who cried wolf? You cry wolf enough and people stop listening and there is no one to save you when it really happens. If there is a history of overstating the danger, then is it really that idiotic to ignore the warnings? Maybe some of the blame can be levied at the government?
From what I understand, New Orleans actually faired the storm rather well. It was the failure of the levies that caused all the damage, levies that the government knew well ahead of time needed to be repaired or replaced.
Flu shots haven't been shown to be effective, bicycle helmets seem to increase injuries. You can't plan for random events, you can't even imagine how it's going to go down. Work in a tall building? What's the plan? Have a parachute at work and practice your base-jumping I guess.
Excellent point. Why was this modded funny?
The executable code is shared amongst all the processes. It isn't duplicated, it's cloned as copy on write pages which are more than likely never written to. That operation to clone the executable pages results in a miniscule amount of overhead and does not consume any additional memory. The only additional memory a process uses over a thread is cloning data sections, which are unique to the page you're viewing anyway and would have been created just the same by a thread.
This is also true in the example you give of opening multiple browsers verses tabs. Multiple version of the same program share the executable code as copy on write pages. The reason multiple browsers use more memory is that they each have to maintain their own screen with its elements and so on. More than likely that wouldn't be required with a browser that was designed to work with processes rather than threads.
So far as I can reason, the only real additional overhead that a full blown process would have over a thread in a browser would be in the IPC communications with the main process handler, which might make things a little slower than it would be with threads. I think the safety of processes outweight that issue though. Threading has it's uses, but processes are probably a much better idea for browsers.
Convince the uninformed, which is most people, not to vote. You've got an uphill battle though, since the media has spent years trying to convince these uninformed voters that they must vote or they are not patriotic. So we must now elect our representatives based purely on superficialities like party affiliation, appearance / personality or vapid populist rhetoric, which is all that the uninformed use to make their choices. It should be considered unpatriotic to make an uninformed vote.
How much do I have to spend to get a good game?
I cannot wait until in a few years we have a $12 Amiga, and I can brag about my 4096 color display and 4MB of memory.
If one sound card doesn't work, just add the driver to the blacklist (or disable in the BIOS if it's on the MB). If you wanted two cards to work and boot in a specific order, you can usually set certain modules to load on boot and in which order they are loaded. If the two cards are of the same kind you can, at last resort, setup udev rules to determine which card will be which based on their PCI ID or IRQ or somesuch. I know, not easy, but possible.
And yet precious metal based economies have existed for thousands of years. No fiat based currency has ever lasted much more than 100. Pretty much every time a fiat based currency has been tried (usually to pay for war) it's eventually resulted in economic ruin. The temptation to inflate the money supply for gain would seem to be too great.
I don't really get what you're saying about gold becoming more expensive if we were to switch to it. Right now it's at ~$950/oz. Just peg it there and stop printing more money. It might take a number of years before things settled down and you could pin things at an exact exchange rate however. If you want you can periodically print more money if you think you need more dollars in circulation, but that would require an act of congress to change the exchange rate, at least making it more difficult to inflate the money supply on a whim, or with no one watching. The point of a metal based economy is that, baring technological reasons, a set amount of money should always be able to buy a set amount of goods.
While your point about new technologies destroying a gold backed currency might have some merit, there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of a government destroying a fiat based currency, and history provides no example where they didn't eventually do just that.
Absolutely. We're mostly just high-tech janitors now. High-tech plumbers at best. We don't even usually get paid as well a plumber. It's hard to have a high profile in any organization where your job is essentially to be as useless as the Maytag repairman. Especially if you're good at it.
Stop the hatin. This movie is for the kids. Of course it's going to suck.
What so annoys me about the lack of a mouse/keyboard for consoles is that there is nothing stopping them from supporting those input methods. They used to sell mouse/keyboards for the PS2 and dreamcast, but you couldn't use them for games. I would think that by now FPS makers must know that a certain segment of their game players prefer the mouse/keyboard and offer up USB mouse/keyboard support for their games. They sell fake guitars and rock band sets, and people buy them. Why don't think they that hard core FPS fans wouldn't pay for a proper input system for FPS games?
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but assuming you're not, then have you ever heard of hyper-inflation? It happens -- usually when a government is heavily in debt and wishes to pay off its obligations by making lots of money. Not that that would ever happen here, after all, we're only something like 9 trillion in debt -- couch cushion change.
It's the standard MO of DA's these days. Pile on charge after charge until someone is looking down the barrel of 50 years for jay-walking, until they're very willing to take the plea-bargan slap on the wrist. Essentially torturing someone until they admit guilt. This way the DA doesn't have to actually work to convict someone while padding their resume with lots of convictions. Who wants to risk going before a capricious and tough on crime public, or worse, a tough on crime judge, to plead their innocence when they're looking at that much time? After all, if you were innocent you wouldn't have been arrested, right?
Or maybe we read history and understand that governments really are "intrinsically inept, corrupt and oppressive" and never more so than during the middle ages, where governments in cahoots with the church put a halt to all progress for centuries and didn't care that people starved, because it's not about helping people, it's about maintaining power and control. Some of us would like to avoid that happening again, which is why we're libertarians.
Considering, even for a moment, the ideals, principles, and thoughts of our founding fathers seems to be the quickest way to be labeled naive, ignorant or just plain stupid around here. Ad hominem attacks by the bucket-full.
Why do Fed-Ex and UPS deliver to "houses scattered across the prairie", or even small towns? Don't they know it's not profitable?
:-p Private roads do happen, but the government doesn't like them. They won't send a school bus into our sub-division until the builder hands over the roads to the county. I wouldn't be surprised if most roads started as private roads at one point in time.
And no one would ever think to build their own roads, if we didn't have the government to tell us to do it.
Probably the biggest obstacles to networking rural areas is government regulation and rights of way, not cost. There was a time when people just did what they needed to get what they wanted, but now we wait for government or some business to give it to us. Uselessly complaining about how long it takes all the while.
Shit! That explains why I can't ever read anything I write to these fucking DVD-Rs!
Dammit!
Exactly, why would anyone want to put a computer on the internet? That's just stupid!
Discounting the vast improvements to life we have due to mining, I have one word for you:
Salt.
Wars used to be waged for the stuff, until improvements in mining made it plentiful. And since salt is necessary to life, their claim may not be so unreasonable.
While you're fundamentally correct with your example jobs there, alas, the taxman will more than likely close the gap betwixt the two more than you might first imagine. Paradise tends to have higher tax rates and the federal government cares not that you live in California when it lays claim to a bigger slice of your pie than it does for Job A. And just what are property taxes like on a half million dollar house in CA anyway?
Of course you'll get some of that back when you retire -- maybe.
Thus, Microsoft's fine is equivalent to a $11970 (in one year) fine for an individual with an well above average income.
This is all well and good, but supposes that, like taxes, the corporation is the one that actually pays. This is not really the case, as corporations just pass the costs onto the consumer, who is the one who ultimately pays. Fines such as these represent nothing more than additional taxes or tariffs on consumers of certain goods. I imagine that stealth taxation like this will become more in vogue given the economically illiterates joy at seeing corporations getting their comeuppance.
It may be true that raising the prices of a corporations goods can have detrimental effects on their business by making the competition more price competitive, but that seems unlikely when you're microsoft. I really have little sympathy for Microsoft and their business practices, but this fine doesn't really hurt them, it just hurts their consumers. And really, aren't they hurt enough having bought a microsoft product already?
I have to say I agree completely, and in addition would note Marshall's involvment in the McCarthy trials. His brave stand against McCarthy and his acusations delt a serious blow to the Red Scare and sped an end to one of the darkest chapters in American history in this century.
A true American and man of this world indeed.
Does this seem like the old bait-n-switch tatic to anyone else?
"We're sorry, but you can't buy into that fantastic too good to be true offer that we spammed your mailbox with, but now that you've gone to the trouble of setting up your account, you're free to invest in any of the other fine stocks we offer for sale here."
I am also curious about the assertation that they do this for your own good, when exactly how do they prevent you from losing your shirt on non-IPO transactions? Gambling is gambling, IPO's are just for higher-rollers?
I'm not going to blame Red Hat for this, but it is frustrating. I assume this will also put a end to community invites from future linux IPO's such as VA linux systems upcoming IPO.