Can you explain to me how else we'd go about hiring competent people away from other fields -- where their dedication and hard work pay them far more than that?
See, you're coming at it from the wrong direction. The problem isn't that the President, et al, are underpaid in comparison to, say, sports and movie starts, it's that sports and movies stars are ludicrously *over*-paid.
The proper response is punishingly high (90%+) tax rates on super-high incomes (certainly anything over $1m/year, probably more like $500k/yr given the USA's very low cost of living). That's clearly the only way all that money is going to get funneled into productive tasks like raising the average working slob's income level and improving their life opportunities.
Of course, that means there has to be some way to reduce the load. Perhaps if we had some way to identify sick patients before they desperately need a hospital, they could get care at smaller clinics...
Like, say, a universal healthcare system that doesn't force people to put off preventative care because they can't afford it ?
Since WW2, most nations have consistently slid to the left side of the political spectrum, embracing various degrees of socialism.
Er, that would put them in the centre. A little bit of left-wing "socialism" and a little bit of right-wing "free market economy" puts you in the middle, not on one side.
No-one outside of America (and, I suspect, a whole lot of people inside America) would consider the Democrats to be Left-wing. They're Right-wing, just not so crazy Right-wing as the alternatives.
Can you turn off a VMware server and have it failover without dropping a ping or skipping a beat?
Yes, though such a capability is just an ugly kludge for broken applications without native fault tolerance.
A better solution is to (re-) design the software so it can handle failures on its own. That way you can be protected from software errors as well as hardware ones.
I know another guy who used to say that. I showed him VB (free) and he was amazed by it. Maybe you should check it out.
I assume you mean VirtualBox. Virtualbox is an OS-hosted end user virtualisation application. It's not even playing the same game as bare metal hypervisors like and Xen and VMware ESX.
A consumer operating system must have first class support for removable media, something ZFS lacks.
This doesn't really make sense. There's no reason an OS must use the same filesystem on fixed and removable media.
The vast majority of customers run a computer with a single drive and would gain very little from the overhead imposed by ZFS. Simply put, it is not worth it for most people.
Some glaringly obvious places ZFS benefits every kind of user:
* Snapshotting
* SSDs for caching (vastly more effective than the user manually splitting data between an SSD and regular drive)
* Compression and encryption
* Deduplication
* Copy-on-write
There is too much genetic diversity and geographic separation of human populations for a virus to wipe them all out.
It doesn't need to wipe us all out to be effectively game over. Kill enough people that the remaining groups are longer self-sustaining, or kill enough that operating the machinery that makes modern life possible is no longer feasible (say, throwing us all back to pre-industrial revolution levels), and for all practical purposes humanity is dead.
With that said I don't think such a pandemic could occur naturally. Weaponised viruses, on the other hand, are a different story.
Doesn't matter where Windows should be putting user data, what matters is where users put data - and I don't think I've seen a single person who put data there. They usually start from the root of the drive. No-one (and I mean no-one) wants to drop data into that Windows directory black hole.
Most people IME put stuff either on their Desktop, or in "My Documents", because those are the locations that the system and any remotely recent app will select by default. This has been true since Windows 95 (though per-user directories for those didn't appear until 98).
The only people I see putting stuff outside these locations are the stubborn old-schoolers who have been around since Windows 3.1 or earlier, and people who have multiple drives - which typically means they have enough knowledge to know what they're doing.
On macs at least people generally put stuff in the home directory because the system pushes you there.
So does Windows, in exactly the same way (and has for longer - earlier versions of OS X still had the system disk straight on the desktop, encouraging people to use that).
Someone erroneously posted below that homosexuality is a preference. Its not.
(This is in no way an ad hominem.)
Even if it were , it's irrelevant. A person (and that includes faux persons like corporations) has no more right to discriminate against you because of your choice of bedmate(s) as they do because of your choice of cheese, or beer.
Whether or not sexuality is choice is utterly irrelevant to anything. It has no meaningful impact on someone's ability to live their life, unless their purpose is discriminatory to start with.
When someone says 'we can improve security by adding this layer of complexity,' what they mean is 'I am an idiot, disregard everything that I say.'
I think your brush might be a little broad, there. File permissions (even simple UNIX ones) are an additional layer of complexity, but clearly improve security. Similarly for privilege escalation facilities like sudo or UAC. A firewall (or even/etc/hosts.[allow|deny]) is more complexity, but also delivers clear security benefits. Etc.
MS did when they required card vendors to add tilt bits and other DRM into the hardware. Windows doesn't allow direct access to gfx or
sound hardware in case you try to pirate stuff. Protected pathways and all that crap.
The protected path is only active when you are playing DRM-encumbered media with a DRM-capable player.
Microsoft failed to deliver - suddenly when the OS was shipped, it was no longer a priority to keep drivers up to date - this now became the responsibility of the hardware OEM.
It's always been the responsibility of the hardware OEM. Outside of the Linux world, OSes have stable kernel ABIs that allow hardware vendors to write drivers without having to worry about next week's minor kernel patch breaking them.
Do not project the unusual and disadvantageous situation with Linux onto every other platform.
Obama is only "right of center" if you are left of Marx!
In pretty much every civilised country except America, Obama would be considered right-wing. Republicans would be far right wing, and the Tea Party would be crazy far right wing.
God forbid they don't extend credit to people unlikely to be able to repay it.
With all the problems I had getting credit cards and such (couldn't even get a car loan for half the value of the vehicle) after moving to the US, despite a very well paying job and no debt, it blows my mind that bad risks ever manage to get credit in the first place.
The only conclusion I could come to, was that once you were "in" the (utterly insane) US credit rating system, it was nearly impossible to get yourself thrown "out".
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See, you're coming at it from the wrong direction. The problem isn't that the President, et al, are underpaid in comparison to, say, sports and movie starts, it's that sports and movies stars are ludicrously *over*-paid.
The proper response is punishingly high (90%+) tax rates on super-high incomes (certainly anything over $1m/year, probably more like $500k/yr given the USA's very low cost of living). That's clearly the only way all that money is going to get funneled into productive tasks like raising the average working slob's income level and improving their life opportunities.
What did he steal ?
Like, say, a universal healthcare system that doesn't force people to put off preventative care because they can't afford it ?
Wow, who would have thought all those Wall Street bankers were lefties !
Er, that would put them in the centre. A little bit of left-wing "socialism" and a little bit of right-wing "free market economy" puts you in the middle, not on one side.
Is there any reason this article is different to the other zillion strawmen and caricatures put forth by right wingers ?
No-one outside of America (and, I suspect, a whole lot of people inside America) would consider the Democrats to be Left-wing. They're Right-wing, just not so crazy Right-wing as the alternatives.
Last time I tried it (and I admit it's been a while), Apple's drivers couldn't handle the equivalent of a right-button-drag.
No, it's not. eSATA carries no power. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Yes, though such a capability is just an ugly kludge for broken applications without native fault tolerance.
A better solution is to (re-) design the software so it can handle failures on its own. That way you can be protected from software errors as well as hardware ones.
I assume you mean VirtualBox. Virtualbox is an OS-hosted end user virtualisation application. It's not even playing the same game as bare metal hypervisors like and Xen and VMware ESX.
VMware. Nothing else comes close.
It *is* expensive if you want all the cool stuff, though.
I'd be willing to bet a non-trivial proportion of people driving Suburbans (/Hummers/Landrovers/etc) around would be just as well served by a Leaf.
Did you miss the "re" part of "reincarnation" ?
This doesn't really make sense. There's no reason an OS must use the same filesystem on fixed and removable media.
Some glaringly obvious places ZFS benefits every kind of user:
* Snapshotting
* SSDs for caching (vastly more effective than the user manually splitting data between an SSD and regular drive)
* Compression and encryption
* Deduplication
* Copy-on-write
Apple's success or failure had no bearing on Microsoft's monopoly status. They didn't compete in the same market.
It doesn't need to wipe us all out to be effectively game over. Kill enough people that the remaining groups are longer self-sustaining, or kill enough that operating the machinery that makes modern life possible is no longer feasible (say, throwing us all back to pre-industrial revolution levels), and for all practical purposes humanity is dead.
With that said I don't think such a pandemic could occur naturally. Weaponised viruses, on the other hand, are a different story.
Lack of any hypothetical mechanism for it to happen ? Lack of evidence ?
Most people IME put stuff either on their Desktop, or in "My Documents", because those are the locations that the system and any remotely recent app will select by default. This has been true since Windows 95 (though per-user directories for those didn't appear until 98).
The only people I see putting stuff outside these locations are the stubborn old-schoolers who have been around since Windows 3.1 or earlier, and people who have multiple drives - which typically means they have enough knowledge to know what they're doing.
So does Windows, in exactly the same way (and has for longer - earlier versions of OS X still had the system disk straight on the desktop, encouraging people to use that).
(This is in no way an ad hominem.)
Even if it were , it's irrelevant. A person (and that includes faux persons like corporations) has no more right to discriminate against you because of your choice of bedmate(s) as they do because of your choice of cheese, or beer.
Whether or not sexuality is choice is utterly irrelevant to anything. It has no meaningful impact on someone's ability to live their life, unless their purpose is discriminatory to start with.
I think your brush might be a little broad, there. File permissions (even simple UNIX ones) are an additional layer of complexity, but clearly improve security. Similarly for privilege escalation facilities like sudo or UAC. A firewall (or even /etc/hosts.[allow|deny]) is more complexity, but also delivers clear security benefits. Etc.
The protected path is only active when you are playing DRM-encumbered media with a DRM-capable player.
It's always been the responsibility of the hardware OEM. Outside of the Linux world, OSes have stable kernel ABIs that allow hardware vendors to write drivers without having to worry about next week's minor kernel patch breaking them.
Do not project the unusual and disadvantageous situation with Linux onto every other platform.
In pretty much every civilised country except America, Obama would be considered right-wing. Republicans would be far right wing, and the Tea Party would be crazy far right wing.
With all the problems I had getting credit cards and such (couldn't even get a car loan for half the value of the vehicle) after moving to the US, despite a very well paying job and no debt, it blows my mind that bad risks ever manage to get credit in the first place.
The only conclusion I could come to, was that once you were "in" the (utterly insane) US credit rating system, it was nearly impossible to get yourself thrown "out".