Thanks for a clear explanation which helped me understand both the mechanism and side effects of chemotherapy and their relationship. Somehow years of medical and science articles failed to do this for me.
Interesting you should pick on Germany - in recent history the West had to absorb the economic responsibility for the basketcase East, all the while bankrolling the rest of Europe and paying for the same social safetynet other social democracies enjoy. Despite this they STILL manage to have similar poverty numbers to the USA, and I'd much rather be a poor German than a poor American. What is this mania about "socialism"? Even ancient civilizations could afford universal healthcare - the Romans had it, although public hospitals didn't come until the Byzantines.
...and it's interesting you picked on Germany - not long ago they were East and West, with the east being a bankrupt basketcase with a population trying to adjust to a new way of doing things. Germany has managed to get the east up to speed (OK, not entirely), bankroll the rest of Europe AND go neck and neck with the US on that poverty metric you picked out... all the while maintaining universal health care and other social benefits western social democracies enjoy. Hell, even ancient civilizations managed it - Romans and Byzantines had health care for the masses, athough actual hospitals didn't really come along til the Byzantines.
I'm no European (though I am racially). I'm an Australian... another "social democracy" that's kicking your arse on all kinds of metrics. Your countries fall is actually making our foreign relations difficult. Change management sucks. Stability is better. Still, we have to lean more and more towards China because, well, lets be frank - they literally own you these days. Anyway, after Bush II the rest of the world had a rude awakening when they learned a unipolar world with the USA as the only superpower was far from benign. I guess thinking that was nieve. The USA in second place to China (as is projected) isn't so bad - a bipolar world means second tier powers like my own country have a say in world affairs as our allegiences matter.
Norway and Luxembourg kick your arse my flag waving friend, as does a significant portion of the western Europe. You can't judge a country by its richest members or else Mexico would be #1. A significant percentage of your country live in grinding generational poverty. That just doesn't happen as much in other developed nations, although we're catching that flu more than we used to.
That's like saying BSD had 95% of the market because Microsoft adopted the BSD network stack. Permissively licensed projects get forked and f***ed, or embraced and extended if you prefer. Congratulations.
...or closed source LAN drivers and non-free qt? Oh, that's right... those aren't problems anymore. Contemplate the short term inconvenience and long term gains required to bring about that state of affairs. If you accept "kinda good enough today" that's all you'll ever have.
Part of my work is of the PC-monkey variety and in my experience motherboards are the second most likely-to-fail component in a system. I've NEVER seen a CPU die. I purchased two boxes of cheap and obsolete HP motherboards once and thought I'd made a huge mistake - I didn't realise HP mobos only support a narrow range of CPUs. I never thought I'd get rid of many, but now almost all the motherboards are gone, and I STILL haven't seen a failed CPU.
It would also be nice if the radioactive material was uniformly distributed, which it isn't. As one of the Japanese physicists said (when speaking in a government session) fluid dynamics problems are some of the most difficult in physics. There'll be hot spots forming out there on the sea bed all the time more or less unpredictably.
What are you smoking? People develop inhouse code all the time... I've worked for two, no three organisations that have done this, and these weren't tech companies either. Closed ex-BSD software is useless in that context. You might enjoy playing "prisoners delema", but if people want my code it's GPLed.
You seem to be getting methods mixed up with aims. Sometimes you burn a field and sometimes you flood it if you want a good crop - nothing weird there. If you have a hammer doesn't mean you use it to solve all problems either - you hit nails and you ignore china. Free Markets? You seem to be advocating a subset of free markets towards the "Laissez-faire" minimal intervention end of the spectrum. I see this as an extreme position - for example during the potato famine a lot of people starved in destitute Ireland because it was more economically sound to sell grain in England.
If you thought from a kernel developers perspective you'd see things differently. Development is HARD, and bug reports become pointless when binary blobs are involved. It's a colossal waste of time, and a crying shame. Linux has enough trouble making headway with out this bullsh*t, and the latest Intel solutions are becoming good enough (finally) for casual gamers. It's time nVidia was cut off from the Linux desktop... perhaps the other makers can gain an extra gulp of oxygen as a result.
...and closed source drivers have helped keep Linux 3D second-class. Linux wireless is finally a first class citizen, and 3D is on it's way. Intel is there, and AMD is slowly breaking. nVidia will get there dispite the bitching and moaning.
I actually learned that I didn't need non-Intel 3D (I'm not a FPS gamer), and I admit I am a little sad about this. Still, Intel deserve the extra oxygen and nVidia don't.
...and that's despite the BSD's which are open source and would suit nVidia better. Why? GPLed code has more market share for exactly the reasons nVidia is bitching and moaning. nVidia can enjoy their userspace second-class citizenship - they really don't belong in the kernel and it's high time they were kicked out of desktop Linux too. The kernel guys really should have left the market open to anyone who actually wants to play ball (ie. Intel, and perhaps ATI back-in-the-day would have stayed open without the closed competition. Hell, perhaps even a niche player like Matrox could get a leg-up again.
It could be argued proprietary drivers are one of the few reasons Linux hasn't taken off on the desktop. It's one of the few areas that are still "hard" for the average user, and even Ubuntu didn't manage to fix all the issues. The last ten years of closed source drivers is a failed experiment and I can see why the driver coders are getting pissed with freeloaders like nVidia.
Sad but true - a desktop without nVidia would also be less fragile, but not much less functional. For me, and others doing actual work nVidia would be nice, but isn't essential. This is from someone who bought a Tecra back in the day because of the open source ATI graphics.
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X2Go... uses the FreeNX libraries and is more or less its spiritual successor.
Thanks for a clear explanation which helped me understand both the mechanism and side effects of chemotherapy and their relationship. Somehow years of medical and science articles failed to do this for me.
Interesting you should pick on Germany - in recent history the West had to absorb the economic responsibility for the basketcase East, all the while bankrolling the rest of Europe and paying for the same social safetynet other social democracies enjoy. Despite this they STILL manage to have similar poverty numbers to the USA, and I'd much rather be a poor German than a poor American. What is this mania about "socialism"? Even ancient civilizations could afford universal healthcare - the Romans had it, although public hospitals didn't come until the Byzantines.
...and it's interesting you picked on Germany - not long ago they were East and West, with the east being a bankrupt basketcase with a population trying to adjust to a new way of doing things. Germany has managed to get the east up to speed (OK, not entirely), bankroll the rest of Europe AND go neck and neck with the US on that poverty metric you picked out... all the while maintaining universal health care and other social benefits western social democracies enjoy. Hell, even ancient civilizations managed it - Romans and Byzantines had health care for the masses, athough actual hospitals didn't really come along til the Byzantines.
I'm no European (though I am racially). I'm an Australian... another "social democracy" that's kicking your arse on all kinds of metrics. Your countries fall is actually making our foreign relations difficult. Change management sucks. Stability is better. Still, we have to lean more and more towards China because, well, lets be frank - they literally own you these days. Anyway, after Bush II the rest of the world had a rude awakening when they learned a unipolar world with the USA as the only superpower was far from benign. I guess thinking that was nieve. The USA in second place to China (as is projected) isn't so bad - a bipolar world means second tier powers like my own country have a say in world affairs as our allegiences matter.
Norway and Luxembourg kick your arse my flag waving friend, as does a significant portion of the western Europe. You can't judge a country by its richest members or else Mexico would be #1. A significant percentage of your country live in grinding generational poverty. That just doesn't happen as much in other developed nations, although we're catching that flu more than we used to.
That's like saying BSD had 95% of the market because Microsoft adopted the BSD network stack. Permissively licensed projects get forked and f***ed, or embraced and extended if you prefer. Congratulations.
...or closed source LAN drivers and non-free qt? Oh, that's right... those aren't problems anymore. Contemplate the short term inconvenience and long term gains required to bring about that state of affairs. If you accept "kinda good enough today" that's all you'll ever have.
Part of my work is of the PC-monkey variety and in my experience motherboards are the second most likely-to-fail component in a system. I've NEVER seen a CPU die. I purchased two boxes of cheap and obsolete HP motherboards once and thought I'd made a huge mistake - I didn't realise HP mobos only support a narrow range of CPUs. I never thought I'd get rid of many, but now almost all the motherboards are gone, and I STILL haven't seen a failed CPU.
It would also be nice if the radioactive material was uniformly distributed, which it isn't. As one of the Japanese physicists said (when speaking in a government session) fluid dynamics problems are some of the most difficult in physics. There'll be hot spots forming out there on the sea bed all the time more or less unpredictably.
What are you smoking? People develop inhouse code all the time... I've worked for two, no three organisations that have done this, and these weren't tech companies either. Closed ex-BSD software is useless in that context. You might enjoy playing "prisoners delema", but if people want my code it's GPLed.
The number of comments on Slashdot have died off pretty drastically on most stories. This one doesn't even get the shills interested.
You seem to be getting methods mixed up with aims. Sometimes you burn a field and sometimes you flood it if you want a good crop - nothing weird there. If you have a hammer doesn't mean you use it to solve all problems either - you hit nails and you ignore china. Free Markets? You seem to be advocating a subset of free markets towards the "Laissez-faire" minimal intervention end of the spectrum. I see this as an extreme position - for example during the potato famine a lot of people starved in destitute Ireland because it was more economically sound to sell grain in England.
There is and always has been an alternative BSD ecosystem, yet it doesn't have the goods you want. Contemplate why.
*blink* Yes, this... except it's actually YOU.
Which is why noone ever adopted this irrelevant nerd-toy... oh wait.
If you thought from a kernel developers perspective you'd see things differently. Development is HARD, and bug reports become pointless when binary blobs are involved. It's a colossal waste of time, and a crying shame. Linux has enough trouble making headway with out this bullsh*t, and the latest Intel solutions are becoming good enough (finally) for casual gamers. It's time nVidia was cut off from the Linux desktop... perhaps the other makers can gain an extra gulp of oxygen as a result.
...and closed source drivers have helped keep Linux 3D second-class. Linux wireless is finally a first class citizen, and 3D is on it's way. Intel is there, and AMD is slowly breaking. nVidia will get there dispite the bitching and moaning.
Because even though you would the average developer often doesn't - GPL is winning for a reason.
Awesome. That little gulp of oxygen really belongs to someone who isn't nVidia.
...and they're providing support for Linux out of the goodness of their hearts? What rot.
Some of us are already there.
I actually learned that I didn't need non-Intel 3D (I'm not a FPS gamer), and I admit I am a little sad about this. Still, Intel deserve the extra oxygen and nVidia don't.
For most other hardware it has.
...and that's despite the BSD's which are open source and would suit nVidia better. Why? GPLed code has more market share for exactly the reasons nVidia is bitching and moaning. nVidia can enjoy their userspace second-class citizenship - they really don't belong in the kernel and it's high time they were kicked out of desktop Linux too. The kernel guys really should have left the market open to anyone who actually wants to play ball (ie. Intel, and perhaps ATI back-in-the-day would have stayed open without the closed competition. Hell, perhaps even a niche player like Matrox could get a leg-up again.
It could be argued proprietary drivers are one of the few reasons Linux hasn't taken off on the desktop. It's one of the few areas that are still "hard" for the average user, and even Ubuntu didn't manage to fix all the issues. The last ten years of closed source drivers is a failed experiment and I can see why the driver coders are getting pissed with freeloaders like nVidia.
Sad but true - a desktop without nVidia would also be less fragile, but not much less functional. For me, and others doing actual work nVidia would be nice, but isn't essential. This is from someone who bought a Tecra back in the day because of the open source ATI graphics.