Thanks, I'm already aware of that and have tried them all. My industry's crappy software doesn't run on 64 bit windows and a single job can take 18 hours to run. Under a VM it of course takes longer.
I know I will like it just fine. I run a ZFS file server that all of my PCs use to store almost everything. All of my data is checksummed, every hour a snapshot is made of every changed file at almost zero cost in time and only the changed data takes up space, I have multiple drives RAID'ed together and because of the checksums the system can actually tell when a bit gets flipped not just when a sector goes bad or a drive crashes. It took me 15 minutes to set it up. I wrote up the install: http://petertheobald.blogspot.com/2010/09/zfs-powered-file-server-in-5-minutes.html
And every once in a while it ZFS SEND's a copy of the entire filesystem to a drive in my office.
Hard drive crash? Covered by the RAID. Cosmic ray or bad magnetic spot flips a bit? Covered by the checksums. Virus takes out files? Covered by the snapshots. Accidentally delete a file? Covered by the snapshots. House burns down? I'd be very upset but my data would be ok on the copy in my office.
Exactly. I want the expert to make the choices. Pick the best things that go well together. If I have a strong opinion on something else then it will be up to me to install that on top of my EASY INSTALL.
I wanted a drop dead simple distro for my wife and my mother to do their email and web browsing with no more virus headaches. I read up and found that Linux Mint was the friendliest experience out of the box. I went to Linux Mint's website to get it and was offered this choice:
Linux Mint Gnome 32 bit edition Linux Mint Gnome 64 bit edition Linux Mint KDE 32 bit edition Linux Mint KDE 64 bit edition Linux Mint Xfce 32 bit edition Linux Mint Xfce 64 bit edition Linux Mint LDXE edition Linux Mint Fluxbox edition Linux Mint Debian edition
WTF. Now maybe I'm out of the loop and haven't been going to my local Linux club meetings, and I certainly don't know the secret handshake, but seeing this choice with absolutely no explanation of what the hell the difference is does not inspire me about a distro famous for being "simple for newcomers".
Perhaps there is ONE MAIN DEFAULT edition with some alternate editions available, but that isn't how it appears on their webpage.
So now I will invent a little gadget that garbles your speech and a matching headphone that ungarbles it. Just sync your 'keys' before you head out and only the paired devices will be able to understand each other. I will sell the idea to Halliburton and they will implement it using ROT-13 encoding.
I'm not sure if it should look like the 'Cone Of Silence' from Get Smart, or like the speaking device used by Guild Navigators in Dune.
But I, like most Slashdotters, am so quick that I can just glance at a poorly written summary and instantly understand all that needs to be known about the topic. It's really a wonderful time-saver being so damn smart I don't even need to know the facts.
It occurs to me that if you store all 325 audio streams with accurate time-codes and the relative positions of the microphones you would be able to do this at any time later on the stored sound as well. You could probably get away with much fewer than 325 microphones at some cost in quality.
Well, then here's another great idea along the lines of what you are saying. Hire a team of thousands of out-of-work people to break every window they can find, and hire another team of thousands of out-of-work people to fix all of those windows. Employment will skyrocket! Not to mention the trickle down benefits for the window industry, the glass industry, etc. It will be great for our country! Now isn't the time for efficiency, with our economy in such deep trouble.
Sure... he is teaching his computer newbs how to WRITE a virus in a 'demystify computers' class. And next period in health they will be designing the DNA of a retrovirus.
Lawrence Lessig: "Whatever else one believes about the Supreme Court's decision striking down limits on corporate speech in the context of political campaigns, there's one thing no credible commentator could assert: That money bought this result. We can disagree with the Court's view of the Framers (and I do); we can criticize its application of stare decisis (as any honest lawyer should); and we can stand dumbfounded by its tone-deaf understanding of the nature of corruption (as anyone living in the real world of politics must). But we cannot say that somehow, the influence of money has produced this extraordinary result. "
Point 4 is exactly where Lawrence Lessig started 'Change Congress' to try to fix the underlying root of our corrupt congress. Lessig says you can't fix anything else until you fix this first. Anything else, like for example fixing the problems in our Healthcare, will be subverted by corporate lobbyists to just make more profit for the incumbent corporations.
I said I live near New York City. I didn't say the farm is in the city. The farm is over a hundred miles from the city in rural farmland. They don't use pesticides and there is no heavy industry next to the farm.
If you are trying to make the point that ANY farm is polluted by the pesticides and heavy metals that are endemic to all of our air and water at this point, then that is no point at all. I am certainly getting LESS of those from family farm raised food than you are getting from eating factory farm food that is sprayed with pesticides directly.
According to the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH, 2001), antibiotic growth promoters are used to "help growing animals digest their food more efficiently, get maximum benefit from it and allow them to develop into strong and healthy individuals". Although the mechanism underpinning their action is unclear, t is believed that the antibiotics suppress sensitive populations of bacteria in the intestines. It has been estimated that as much as 6 per cent of the net energy in the pig diet could be lost due to microbial fermentation in the intestine (Jensen, 1998). If the microbial population could be better controlled, it is possible that the lost energy could be diverted to growth.
Thomke & Elwinger (1998) hypothesize that cytokines released during the immune response may also stimulate the release of catabolic hormones, which would reduce muscle mass. Therefore a reduction in gastrointestinal infections would result in the subsequent increase in muscle weight. Whatever the mechanism of action, the result of the use of growth promoters is an improvement in daily growth rates between 1 and 10 per cent resulting in meat of a better quality, with less fat and increased protein content. There can be no doubt that growth promoters are effective; Prescott & Baggot (1993), however, sho ed that the effects of growth promoters were much more noticeable in sick animals and those housed in cramped, unhygienic conditions.
Currently, there is controversy surrounding the use of growth promoters for animals destined for meat production, as overuse of any antibiotic over a period of time may lead to the local bacterial populations becoming resistant to the antibiotic. This is it not an invariable rule: Streptococcus pyogenes remains sensitive to penicillins after over sixty years of clinical use but such examples are, however, very rare. Undoubtedly, the medical exploitation of antimicrobial chemotherapy, particularly to treat human infections, has imposed an enormous selection pressure on formerly sensitive bacteria to acquire genetic elements that code for resistance to antibiotics.
I (we) buy all of our food directly from farms. We live in a suburb of New York City, and still we have found farms not too far away. We buy a 1/4 cow (we split it with three other families) and it feeds us for a year. All of our produce comes from farms as well. Our beef and chicken is raised walking around eating grass and bugs and whatever it would naturally eat.
The food tastes better and is better for us. A month doesn't go by that I don't hear of some horrible contamination-caused food recall that doesn't affect me or my family.
That is completely wrong. Read up on it. Antibiotics make cows grow faster. They aren't sure why but it is a real effect and has nothing to do with keeping them disease-free.
No, genetic programming works great, especially if you: 1) allow the expression mechanism ("programming language") itself to evolve to work better in a selection environment 2) have millions of years
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Thanks, I'm already aware of that and have tried them all.
My industry's crappy software doesn't run on 64 bit windows and a single job can take 18 hours to run. Under a VM it of course takes longer.
Because there is still software that doesn't run on 64 bit Windows of course.
I use such software daily in my work.
So it's not "dead, Jim."
I know I will like it just fine. I run a ZFS file server that all of my PCs use to store almost everything. All of my data is checksummed, every hour a snapshot is made of every changed file at almost zero cost in time and only the changed data takes up space, I have multiple drives RAID'ed together and because of the checksums the system can actually tell when a bit gets flipped not just when a sector goes bad or a drive crashes.
It took me 15 minutes to set it up. I wrote up the install: http://petertheobald.blogspot.com/2010/09/zfs-powered-file-server-in-5-minutes.html
And every once in a while it ZFS SEND's a copy of the entire filesystem to a drive in my office.
Hard drive crash? Covered by the RAID.
Cosmic ray or bad magnetic spot flips a bit? Covered by the checksums.
Virus takes out files? Covered by the snapshots.
Accidentally delete a file? Covered by the snapshots.
House burns down? I'd be very upset but my data would be ok on the copy in my office.
But the real question is does Windows 7-32 bit handle this drive? The summary stated Windows-7 64 bit...
>To have grandkids that means you have to have sex. I don't see this happening with anyone reading this page.
I'm reading this page and I am married.
Oh... yeah... I see your point...
Exactly. I want the expert to make the choices. Pick the best things that go well together. If I have a strong opinion on something else then it will be up to me to install that on top of my EASY INSTALL.
KDE vs. Gnome: Tell me about it!
I wanted a drop dead simple distro for my wife and my mother to do their email and web browsing with no more virus headaches. I read up and found that Linux Mint was the friendliest experience out of the box.
I went to Linux Mint's website to get it and was offered this choice:
Linux Mint Gnome 32 bit edition
Linux Mint Gnome 64 bit edition
Linux Mint KDE 32 bit edition
Linux Mint KDE 64 bit edition
Linux Mint Xfce 32 bit edition
Linux Mint Xfce 64 bit edition
Linux Mint LDXE edition
Linux Mint Fluxbox edition
Linux Mint Debian edition
WTF. Now maybe I'm out of the loop and haven't been going to my local Linux club meetings, and I certainly don't know the secret handshake, but seeing this choice with absolutely no explanation of what the hell the difference is does not inspire me about a distro famous for being "simple for newcomers".
Perhaps there is ONE MAIN DEFAULT edition with some alternate editions available, but that isn't how it appears on their webpage.
I think I'll get them Macs.
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
I am so sick of my mother's computer getting owned. Lay off the warez and porn sites ma.
What the hell can I do so she'll stop calling me for tech support when her computer starts acting like Robin Williams on crack every other week?
So now I will invent a little gadget that garbles your speech and a matching headphone that ungarbles it. Just sync your 'keys' before you head out and only the paired devices will be able to understand each other. I will sell the idea to Halliburton and they will implement it using ROT-13 encoding.
I'm not sure if it should look like the 'Cone Of Silence' from Get Smart, or like the speaking device used by Guild Navigators in Dune.
Maybe I should've read it then.
But I, like most Slashdotters, am so quick that I can just glance at a poorly written summary and instantly understand all that needs to be known about the topic. It's really a wonderful time-saver being so damn smart I don't even need to know the facts.
It occurs to me that if you store all 325 audio streams with accurate time-codes and the relative positions of the microphones you would be able to do this at any time later on the stored sound as well. You could probably get away with much fewer than 325 microphones at some cost in quality.
Google really needs to stop fucking with the time space continuum.
Or at least get me that jet-pack I was promised by Omni magazine when I was 12.
Me, is that you?
That sounds so much like myself that I had to think twice to make sure I didn't submit that and forget.
Well, then here's another great idea along the lines of what you are saying. Hire a team of thousands of out-of-work people to break every window they can find, and hire another team of thousands of out-of-work people to fix all of those windows. Employment will skyrocket! Not to mention the trickle down benefits for the window industry, the glass industry, etc. It will be great for our country! Now isn't the time for efficiency, with our economy in such deep trouble.
Sure... he is teaching his computer newbs how to WRITE a virus in a 'demystify computers' class. And next period in health they will be designing the DNA of a retrovirus.
> no one will ever know, so its moot.
Oh Christ don't bring 4chan into this!
Lawrence Lessig:
"Whatever else one believes about the Supreme Court's decision striking down limits on corporate speech in the context of political campaigns, there's one thing no credible commentator could assert: That money bought this result. We can disagree with the Court's view of the Framers (and I do); we can criticize its application of stare decisis (as any honest lawyer should); and we can stand dumbfounded by its tone-deaf understanding of the nature of corruption (as anyone living in the real world of politics must). But we cannot say that somehow, the influence of money has produced this extraordinary result. "
Doesn't sound like "caving" to me.
Citation please. This would upset me very much.
Point 4 is exactly where Lawrence Lessig started 'Change Congress' to try to fix the underlying root of our corrupt congress. Lessig says you can't fix anything else until you fix this first. Anything else, like for example fixing the problems in our Healthcare, will be subverted by corporate lobbyists to just make more profit for the incumbent corporations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_Congress
I said I live near New York City. I didn't say the farm is in the city. The farm is over a hundred miles from the city in rural farmland. They don't use pesticides and there is no heavy industry next to the farm.
If you are trying to make the point that ANY farm is polluted by the pesticides and heavy metals that are endemic to all of our air and water at this point, then that is no point at all. I am certainly getting LESS of those from family farm raised food than you are getting from eating factory farm food that is sprayed with pesticides directly.
We are both partially right. From http://www.fao.org/docrep/article/agrippa/555_en.htm
According to the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH, 2001), antibiotic growth promoters are used to "help growing animals digest their food more efficiently, get maximum benefit from it and allow them to develop into strong and healthy individuals". Although the mechanism underpinning their action is unclear, t is believed that the antibiotics suppress sensitive populations of bacteria in the intestines. It has been estimated that as much as 6 per cent of the net energy in the pig diet could be lost due to microbial fermentation in the intestine (Jensen, 1998). If the microbial population could be better controlled, it is possible that the lost energy could be diverted to growth.
Thomke & Elwinger (1998) hypothesize that cytokines released during the immune response may also stimulate the release of catabolic hormones, which would reduce muscle mass. Therefore a reduction in gastrointestinal infections would result in the subsequent increase in muscle weight. Whatever the mechanism of action, the result of the use of growth promoters is an improvement in daily growth rates between 1 and 10 per cent resulting in meat of a better quality, with less fat and increased protein content. There can be no doubt that growth promoters are effective; Prescott & Baggot (1993), however, sho ed that the effects of growth promoters were much more noticeable in sick animals and those housed in cramped, unhygienic conditions.
Currently, there is controversy surrounding the use of growth promoters for animals destined for meat production, as overuse of any antibiotic over a period of time may lead to the local bacterial populations becoming resistant to the antibiotic. This is it not an invariable rule: Streptococcus pyogenes remains sensitive to penicillins after over sixty years of clinical use but such examples are, however, very rare. Undoubtedly, the medical exploitation of antimicrobial chemotherapy, particularly to treat human infections, has imposed an enormous selection pressure on formerly sensitive bacteria to acquire genetic elements that code for resistance to antibiotics.
THIS!
I (we) buy all of our food directly from farms. We live in a suburb of New York City, and still we have found farms not too far away.
We buy a 1/4 cow (we split it with three other families) and it feeds us for a year. All of our produce comes from farms as well.
Our beef and chicken is raised walking around eating grass and bugs and whatever it would naturally eat.
The food tastes better and is better for us.
A month doesn't go by that I don't hear of some horrible contamination-caused food recall that doesn't affect me or my family.
That is completely wrong.
Read up on it.
Antibiotics make cows grow faster. They aren't sure why but it is a real effect and has nothing to do with keeping them disease-free.
No, genetic programming works great, especially if you:
1) allow the expression mechanism ("programming language") itself to evolve to work better in a selection environment
2) have millions of years