The free market is crap at funding expensive scientific research and when it does manage to do so it locks the results up in patents and copyrights and trademarks
I can't tell if you're being ironic or you truly don't realize that patents, copyright, and trademarks are government monopolies anathema to a free market.
inbreeding drastically increases the probability of recessive genes becoming expressed
Not just that, but copy errors, but the thing is that while the relative increase is drastic (> 5x) the absolute occurrence is still small enough (~ 1/20) that enough people "get over" the taboo and the results aren't terrible.
Anecdotally, I know that the renters across the street had a kid with "those problems" but I also don't know who the people are that I meet everyday who don't have them.
Anyway, the Neanderthals probably got by OK, if not ideally this way. Well enough to merge back into the mainline lineage anyway.
Yep, and they used to call this out. I've even got an iSight with a manual lens cover iris ring. Something[body] convinced Apple to stop protecting its users' privacy. I'd put a buck down on Bull Run and spin the wheel.
Unless you upgrade. This is actually one of the things that has prevented me from upgrading to a newer Roku box.
Somebody claimed that it was Google that dropped the ban hammer on Roku, it wasn't Roku's desire. Does the new app show ads (supposedly the bone of contention)?
"Supplementation of wild-type animals with L. johnsonii protected them against both airway allergen challenge or infection with respiratory syncytial virus."
'use software RAID' is a misleadingly vague statement of the problem
It's disingenuous of you to accuse me of being misleadingly vague when the very sentence [that you fail to quote] says " if you do something bizarre, like mirror your drives". It's clearly qualified - blame shifting is not becoming. The ironic 'bizarre' is there to indicate just how common this configuration is.
Yes,/boot is mirrored on mirrored drives, just like/,/home,/var, etc.. Every server I've ever seen with mirrored drives has/boot mirrored because if one drive fails you still need to boot (which is why one mirrors drives in the first place).
The Fedora Project empirically doesn't care about this incredibly common use case in the server world. I see from the release notes that most Fedora installs never even need an MTA, so I'm guessing desktops on SSD's are now the current focus.
Congress mandated technology that doesn't exist and it didn't magically materialize?
Full disclosure: I know people who own a large, politically-connected cellulosic ethanol company and am roughly familiar with the challenges of scaling the technology. It's coming, some day; these things are hard.
FWIW, I bought some of the $59 units NoMoreRack is selling (for video chat between grandparents and kids) and aside from a terrible viewing angle on the screen, they're no worse than my 3 year old phone. Wifi seems fine, boot time is reasonable, Hangouts works, Netflix is claimed to work.
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May I ask the Fedora people to offer a long term Fedora distro or maybe a rolling release or maybe switch from 6 Months to every 12 Months ?
If you install Fedora release n on Day 1, you don't need to install Fedora release n+2 until 13 or 14 months later (assuming you want updates).
Something like Arch's approach of continually rolling updates is actually starting to look like the better idea, since they have to pay attention to breakage and upgrade issues.
Not if you use software RAID, you're not - there has been no supported way to upgrade since Fedora 16 if you do something bizarre, like mirror your drives.
Unless this got fixed in 20 and the bz was never updated.
The traditional meaning of the phrase "begs the question" makes no logical sense when one looks at the actual meaning of the individual words.
When you beg for money, you wish to receive it without working for it, earning it, etc. When you beg a question, you assume the premise that is raised without working to prove it. The meanings are quite similar and related.
The trick may be that common usage of "beg" is almost always "beg for".
Doing something innovative, like magsafe, takes time and is the exact sort of things that patents should protect.
Apple took the power connector used on most countertop deep fat fryers, did it "on a computer", got a 20 year monopoly for that, and *this* is the sort of thing that patents should protect?
I remember being here when ext4 was released, and there were some major performance issues. People hated on him like he was burning orphanages.
I didn't use ext4 when it was first released, either, but I do now, regularly. And shortly after release, I had some e-mail exchanges with Ted about the structuring of user xattrs and he was totally generous and helpful.
Just on a macro scale, ext4 had performance problems that were a blip compared with fs's like xfs and btrfs, which dragged on their performance issues for years. None of those are _bad_ filesystems, of course - it's just a hard job.
More stable? Reliable? Secure? In all cases, anecdotes are not useful. Where's the evidence? Is it the license that matters?
The license, pf, and a reputation for networking speed.
Anecdotes do matter, though - Netflix works and is profitable, so if your use case is like Netflix's then FreeBSD probably will work for you.
Speaking of anecdotes, a trend that I've noticed is that linux fans will tend to use FreeBSD when it makes sense in a particular application, and FreeBSD fans will tend to use linux when hell freezes over.
So the complaint wasn't about credit for who was first, just about how FreeBSD got a bunch of Snowden related media coverage for something practically everyone else did ages ago as if it was something new to worry about.
FreeBSD may have a better marketing department than OpenBSD, but not as good as Ted Tso's, because Ted Tso is just awesome.
Their space technology is in the 1950s, and early 1960s.
China has over one million people working on their space program. They have so much cash that they've been buying US Treasury Bills despite their dubious value and have recently stopped being so silly. They're building a moon base in the next decade and will be landing men on Mars in the 2030's.
Buy lots of cheap stuff at Walmart - it's fueling humanity's journey to the starts.
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The free market is crap at funding expensive scientific research and when it does manage to do so it locks the results up in patents and copyrights and trademarks
I can't tell if you're being ironic or you truly don't realize that patents, copyright, and trademarks are government monopolies anathema to a free market.
inbreeding drastically increases the probability of recessive genes becoming expressed
Not just that, but copy errors, but the thing is that while the relative increase is drastic (> 5x) the absolute occurrence is still small enough (~ 1/20) that enough people "get over" the taboo and the results aren't terrible.
Anecdotally, I know that the renters across the street had a kid with "those problems" but I also don't know who the people are that I meet everyday who don't have them.
Anyway, the Neanderthals probably got by OK, if not ideally this way. Well enough to merge back into the mainline lineage anyway.
Yep, and they used to call this out. I've even got an iSight with a manual lens cover iris ring. Something[body] convinced Apple to stop protecting its users' privacy. I'd put a buck down on Bull Run and spin the wheel.
To be fair, starting 12 years ago, two cities in the northeast of the U.S. have had some pretty heinous mass-destructions.
Were those called in? The MO is completely different, unless you're only trying to justify the fear, not the reaction.
Unless you upgrade. This is actually one of the things that has prevented me from upgrading to a newer Roku box.
Somebody claimed that it was Google that dropped the ban hammer on Roku, it wasn't Roku's desire. Does the new app show ads (supposedly the bone of contention)?
the money quote:
"Supplementation of wild-type animals with L. johnsonii protected them against both airway allergen challenge or infection with respiratory syncytial virus."
'use software RAID' is a misleadingly vague statement of the problem
It's disingenuous of you to accuse me of being misleadingly vague when the very sentence [that you fail to quote] says " if you do something bizarre, like mirror your drives". It's clearly qualified - blame shifting is not becoming. The ironic 'bizarre' is there to indicate just how common this configuration is.
Yes, /boot is mirrored on mirrored drives, just like /, /home, /var, etc.. Every server I've ever seen with mirrored drives has /boot mirrored because if one drive fails you still need to boot (which is why one mirrors drives in the first place).
The Fedora Project empirically doesn't care about this incredibly common use case in the server world. I see from the release notes that most Fedora installs never even need an MTA, so I'm guessing desktops on SSD's are now the current focus.
So, FreeBSD fans refuse to use Linux for no logical reason. Ok, now I understand.
I wouldn't read too much into a hyperbolic anecdotal stereotype if I were you.
results from a mistranslation of the Latin term (petitio principii)
Yeah, there was one guy who mistranslated and everybody else copied him? Cite?
Congress mandated technology that doesn't exist and it didn't magically materialize?
Full disclosure: I know people who own a large, politically-connected cellulosic ethanol company and am roughly familiar with the challenges of scaling the technology. It's coming, some day; these things are hard.
FWIW, I bought some of the $59 units NoMoreRack is selling (for video chat between grandparents and kids) and aside from a terrible viewing angle on the screen, they're no worse than my 3 year old phone. Wifi seems fine, boot time is reasonable, Hangouts works, Netflix is claimed to work.
May I ask the Fedora people to offer a long term Fedora distro or maybe a rolling release or maybe switch from 6 Months to every 12 Months ?
If you install Fedora release n on Day 1, you don't need to install Fedora release n+2 until 13 or 14 months later (assuming you want updates).
Something like Arch's approach of continually rolling updates is actually starting to look like the better idea, since they have to pay attention to breakage and upgrade issues.
Not if you use software RAID, you're not - there has been no supported way to upgrade since Fedora 16 if you do something bizarre, like mirror your drives.
Unless this got fixed in 20 and the bz was never updated.
If XP works and the computer works for the task at hand, why upgrade?
What is 'working for the task' in this case? Is 'safe to use on the Internet' part of the criteria?
So you're saying Linux/GNU fans that use FreeBSD aren't capable of being FreeBSD fans. There's a flaw in your argument.
Remember, 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'. Logic isn't really part of it.
The traditional meaning of the phrase "begs the question" makes no logical sense when one looks at the actual meaning of the individual words.
When you beg for money, you wish to receive it without working for it, earning it, etc. When you beg a question, you assume the premise that is raised without working to prove it. The meanings are quite similar and related.
The trick may be that common usage of "beg" is almost always "beg for".
Doing something innovative, like magsafe, takes time and is the exact sort of things that patents should protect.
Apple took the power connector used on most countertop deep fat fryers, did it "on a computer", got a 20 year monopoly for that, and *this* is the sort of thing that patents should protect?
Yeah, let's throw away that perfectly good piece of kit because you don't like it.
If it were perfectly good, there wouldn't need to be any updates.
Welcome to encryption bloat.
We have fast CPU's, so the encryption itself is fast enough, but watch out for CryptoEndpointFactoryFactoryFactories.
And always use a popular shared library - you're no good at writing secure code.
Now if there isn't a more worthless job title, I'm not sure what it is.
It's an awesome job title - it means: "This guy is so froody we let him do whatever he wants with no expectations and we pay him for that."
I remember being here when ext4 was released, and there were some major performance issues. People hated on him like he was burning orphanages.
I didn't use ext4 when it was first released, either, but I do now, regularly. And shortly after release, I had some e-mail exchanges with Ted about the structuring of user xattrs and he was totally generous and helpful.
Just on a macro scale, ext4 had performance problems that were a blip compared with fs's like xfs and btrfs, which dragged on their performance issues for years. None of those are _bad_ filesystems, of course - it's just a hard job.
1. Please give the source for one million people working on their space program.
Check out Science Friday's podcast on the Jade Rabbit mission. You'll learn something.
All false yet marked insightful, this is why /. is crap these days.
No, it's the Dunning-Kruger effect that makes Slashdot comments lame at times.
More stable? Reliable? Secure? In all cases, anecdotes are not useful. Where's the evidence? Is it the license that matters?
The license, pf, and a reputation for networking speed.
Anecdotes do matter, though - Netflix works and is profitable, so if your use case is like Netflix's then FreeBSD probably will work for you.
Speaking of anecdotes, a trend that I've noticed is that linux fans will tend to use FreeBSD when it makes sense in a particular application, and FreeBSD fans will tend to use linux when hell freezes over.
So the complaint wasn't about credit for who was first, just about how FreeBSD got a bunch of Snowden related media coverage for something practically everyone else did ages ago as if it was something new to worry about.
FreeBSD may have a better marketing department than OpenBSD, but not as good as Ted Tso's, because Ted Tso is just awesome.
Their space technology is in the 1950s, and early 1960s.
China has over one million people working on their space program. They have so much cash that they've been buying US Treasury Bills despite their dubious value and have recently stopped being so silly. They're building a moon base in the next decade and will be landing men on Mars in the 2030's.
Buy lots of cheap stuff at Walmart - it's fueling humanity's journey to the starts.