Good info, thanks. Was there a lack of testing that led to the instability? No offence, but poor coding practices or lack of skill among some contributors?
I won't argue against the superiority of the open model for a second, but many customers want a buck-stops-here solution. I'll readily grant that commercial distro support doesn't always get you that either (sometimes I pick up work filling in those gaps).
Who cares? The carbon sink of growing new biomass to replace it cancels it out! The only problem is if they're burning rainforests and replanting with monocrops, or something stupid like that.
Deforestation is a major problem in that part of the world.
The tax itself funds adaptation; that's where the revenue goes.
That's not in any of the proposed legislation I've seen in the US. Do you have a cite?
Because there wouldn't be as many loopholes and exceptions as there are with sales taxes. You're arguing not about "evenness" but rather about transparency, which is a completely different thing.
Evenness is the end problem - the poor wind up paying a quarter of their income to income taxes while the rich usually skate away with under 10%, often 0%. Transparency is only the means by which the injustice is perpetrated.
Being that humans have a certain base-level amount of need before they spend on luxury, the poor will similarly be the hardest hit with a carbon tax.
Pakistan will be able to find at least a few people or companies that will build local versions of social networking sites, search engines, etc. that comply with their censorship requests
The efficacy of this approach is proportional to the locality of the social graphs of Facebook's users in Pakistan. The Pakistani diaspora uses Facebook to keep in touch with their family and friends 'back home'. Conversely, Pakistani residents use Facebook to keep in touch with their family and friends abroad. Which their government has just cut off to placate a narrow religious sect.
It's not as big as cutting off the telephones, but don't underestimate the animus of a woman who just lost access to her grandkids' photos.
TFA:"The biggest thing is that, as a server operating system, we have to make sure that we run on the appropriate server chips," Rex said. "So the key decision factor for us was that we wanted to make sure we supported the newest hardware to the maximum capabilities."
To the maximum capabilities
That sounds suspiciously like, "we could backport to support all the hardware that RHEL supports, but that's hard, expensive work we can skip if we just drop in a newer kernel. Yeah, so we're passing on our costs to our users, but here's one optimization we can hang our hat on that's not in RHEL's kernel, so that's really why we're doing it. Wink wink, nudge nudge."
Look, I run Fedora on my personal machines, new kernels are great, but my clients want to have some known period of stable kernel ABI's so they can plan their business infrastructure.
Maybe what Novell really needs to do is become a downstream of CentOS and add its value-added technology on top of that. Then they can save costs and still target the 'enterprise' crowd. As is, they're effectively scaring away all those potential customers. Unless they want to define a new niche of just-in-time enterprise IT planning - stranger things have happened.
Red Hat never promised you that 2.6.18-192.el5 has any resemblance or compatibility with the original vanilla 2.6.18. That would make your kernel ancient and not fit for newer hardware.
Well, you get ABI compatibility, but the AC's poor little mind apparently can't handle the idea of branches.
Oh, hey, thanks for the Drupal book review, I was just thinking about figuring that out myself, this will help.
It's just that their message was corrupted [wikipedia.org] by evil Jews and Christians, hence the perceived divergence from Qu'ran.
Ah, interesting. It's a certainly it was corrupted, but to the extent of a complete reversal? To get from the 'golden rule', 'love thy neighbor', and 'turn the other cheek' stuff to 'execute the blasphemers' is pretty remarkable for the early Christians to have pulled off. Not that those calling themselves Christians proper haven't made similar interpretations...
But thanks for explaining the get-out-of-jail-free card.
I cited the 20 cent cost in the post you replied to. It's one use case of many, and a significant percent of margin. How many 20 cent licenses should they pay, just this one?
(1) A carbon tax will lower use of fossil fuels. More independence from the Middle East.
Probably, but there's some evidence that total CO2 output will go up, due mostly to third-world switch-over to biomass. We have the technology to go nearly carbon-free but the government interdicts it. Besides, China and India ain't playing ball.
(2) Better bite the bullet now than have our grandkids suffer.
So far all of our worst-case scenarios are based on computer models with speculative constants. Actually decreasing CO2 to goals involves effectively shutting down the world economy for 20 years or more. Check the math. Meanwhile, economic surplus that might otherwise fund adaptation is squandered.
(3) Costs will be spread out more evenly than a consumption tax on end products.
Why would this be? It's like the Income Tax - ~22% of average product prices are embedded income taxes. When you raise costs, prices go up to compensate, that's a given. The single mother of three living on minimum wage is paying something like $3600/year in other people's income taxes through the purchase price of goods. When she buys a $2 loaf of bread, almost fifty cents goes to pay the income taxes of the grocery clerks, managers, owners, bakers, truck drivers, mill operators, farmers, etc. Hidden taxes are the most evil.
Well, Muhammad was supposed to be a Prophet, so if he said that something should be done that way, then it's dogma. And he specifically said that blasphemy should be punished by death, and was, indeed, recorded to order death penalty for this particular offense on several occasions.
Don't Muslims view Jesus as a prophet as well? So, if what he said was dogma...
Depending on your latitude, it may more more sense not to re-plant the trees, as snowpack reflects more IR back into space than the trees' CO2 sequestration offsets.
Assuming global temperature is the only concern, of course, but that seems to be the trendy thing to do.
"Once the DNA sample is sent in and tested, it will show the student's ability to tolerate alcohol, absorb folic acid and metabolize lactose."
And therefore _____________.
Students will drink less? They'll cut back on the ice cream? They'll take a pre-natal if they get pregnant?
My pessimistic prediction: none of the above behaviors will be improved, and the DNA samples will be used to collar somebody who engages in civil disobedience as an upperclassman.
And somebody will call this test racially-biased against asians.
Hum, I hate to say this, but thems the rules. if someone could get sick off of eating these undies (here come the raunchy jokes) then it's a valid concern.
No, it's not - these things are containerized. Yes, if the store were producing the fruit puree there, then there's a matter for concern. But your line of inquiry requires every gas station with a soda machine to have a food-service license, and that's not reasonable or useful.
It's more likely that the local bureaucrats dislike the store on religious reasons than it is that somebody could get sick from the undies themselves (what may come to be on those undies after packaging is certainly the greater risk).
Developers should be provided with detailed explanations why Google believes that no one adopting WebM will have to fear allegations of patent infringement.
Perhaps Google thinks in Re: Bilski will go the right way, and it can buy its way through any remaining problems.
I'm ready to buy my son an $85 ARM-based mini-laptop. There's effectively no room in that kind of price for MPEG-LA licenses - Google probably thinks it's wiser to be able to serve the 3/4 of the world that isn't going to play the software-patent game.
When we're talking about total product margins of $5 or so a 20 cent cost-item (4% of total margins) will be rejected, especially when good-enough alternatives are available and there's no guarantee that each customer will even use the feature. 'Regular' cell phones are another similar example. Computers with Windows and smartphones are in a different product category. There's also license management costs to consider.
This kind of low-cost computing is really good for educational opportunities for kids. My daughter's 3-year-old eeePC is plenty powerful for a kids' computer - the new ARM's should be fine as well. When netbooks are cheaper at the discount-store than bikes, more kids get educational opportunities - this is a good thing. Loading up these machines with patent licenses isn't the way forward.
It doesn't produce the same quality, or else produces the same quality but require 1.5 times higher bitrates.
It may be more correct to say that h.264 will be restricted to the markets where high-quality is a requirement, and will be impeded from spreading to other markets.
Sure, in the end, there's always one thread that's doing the actual pixel blitting and taking input. But various toolkits have more efficient delegation of the work required to provide the data-back for the blit work and consumers for event dispatch - the UI can be handled by many threads, even if in the end they all turn in their work to a single thread. Mozilla puts a ton of work into the UI thread, resulting in poor user responsiveness.
I don't have a problem with per-process, it's probably the right thing to do with untrusted code to avoid re-inventing an operating system, but they could have at a minimum done threads for each tab's UI render back in '04. It was talked about extensively at the time (and ever since).
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Excellent point. It feels like there's an obvious solution to the problem that I'm not seeing.
Good info, thanks. Was there a lack of testing that led to the instability? No offence, but poor coding practices or lack of skill among some contributors?
I won't argue against the superiority of the open model for a second, but many customers want a buck-stops-here solution. I'll readily grant that commercial distro support doesn't always get you that either (sometimes I pick up work filling in those gaps).
Who cares? The carbon sink of growing new biomass to replace it cancels it out! The only problem is if they're burning rainforests and replanting with monocrops, or something stupid like that.
Deforestation is a major problem in that part of the world.
The tax itself funds adaptation; that's where the revenue goes.
That's not in any of the proposed legislation I've seen in the US. Do you have a cite?
Because there wouldn't be as many loopholes and exceptions as there are with sales taxes. You're arguing not about "evenness" but rather about transparency, which is a completely different thing.
Evenness is the end problem - the poor wind up paying a quarter of their income to income taxes while the rich usually skate away with under 10%, often 0%. Transparency is only the means by which the injustice is perpetrated.
Being that humans have a certain base-level amount of need before they spend on luxury, the poor will similarly be the hardest hit with a carbon tax.
'ABI' compatibility in the kernel is not preserved. The kernel header files changed so that not only did drivers need recompile, they needed recoding.
Among RHEL major-number releases? Sorry I lost the context.
Pakistan will be able to find at least a few people or companies that will build local versions of social networking sites, search engines, etc. that comply with their censorship requests
The efficacy of this approach is proportional to the locality of the social graphs of Facebook's users in Pakistan. The Pakistani diaspora uses Facebook to keep in touch with their family and friends 'back home'. Conversely, Pakistani residents use Facebook to keep in touch with their family and friends abroad. Which their government has just cut off to placate a narrow religious sect.
It's not as big as cutting off the telephones, but don't underestimate the animus of a woman who just lost access to her grandkids' photos.
Have you looked at North Korea lately?
Better get those looks in soon.
TFA:"The biggest thing is that, as a server operating system, we have to make sure that we run on the appropriate server chips," Rex said. "So the key decision factor for us was that we wanted to make sure we supported the newest hardware to the maximum capabilities."
That sounds suspiciously like, "we could backport to support all the hardware that RHEL supports, but that's hard, expensive work we can skip if we just drop in a newer kernel. Yeah, so we're passing on our costs to our users, but here's one optimization we can hang our hat on that's not in RHEL's kernel, so that's really why we're doing it. Wink wink, nudge nudge."
Look, I run Fedora on my personal machines, new kernels are great, but my clients want to have some known period of stable kernel ABI's so they can plan their business infrastructure.
Maybe what Novell really needs to do is become a downstream of CentOS and add its value-added technology on top of that. Then they can save costs and still target the 'enterprise' crowd. As is, they're effectively scaring away all those potential customers. Unless they want to define a new niche of just-in-time enterprise IT planning - stranger things have happened.
I think it's just a problem with the CSS on Idle.
Well, it's working as designed... the editors hated being told to make what became idle.
Red Hat never promised you that 2.6.18-192.el5 has any resemblance or compatibility with the original vanilla 2.6.18. That would make your kernel ancient and not fit for newer hardware.
Well, you get ABI compatibility, but the AC's poor little mind apparently can't handle the idea of branches.
Oh, hey, thanks for the Drupal book review, I was just thinking about figuring that out myself, this will help.
Was it generic in 1995?
OK, you turn in your geekcard too:
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=geekgirl&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1996&safe=off
Darn, the 'insightful' meter stops at 5.
Source for this information?
some article I read a couple years ago... try searching 'climate albedo trees snow'.
It's just that their message was corrupted [wikipedia.org] by evil Jews and Christians, hence the perceived divergence from Qu'ran.
Ah, interesting. It's a certainly it was corrupted, but to the extent of a complete reversal? To get from the 'golden rule', 'love thy neighbor', and 'turn the other cheek' stuff to 'execute the blasphemers' is pretty remarkable for the early Christians to have pulled off. Not that those calling themselves Christians proper haven't made similar interpretations...
But thanks for explaining the get-out-of-jail-free card.
I cited the 20 cent cost in the post you replied to. It's one use case of many, and a significant percent of margin. How many 20 cent licenses should they pay, just this one?
2) who do you think gets fucked over most from climate change? A) rich thieves or B) poor people? Case closed.
Doesn't food become much easier to grow in a high-CO2 environment?
(1) A carbon tax will lower use of fossil fuels. More independence from the Middle East.
Probably, but there's some evidence that total CO2 output will go up, due mostly to third-world switch-over to biomass. We have the technology to go nearly carbon-free but the government interdicts it. Besides, China and India ain't playing ball.
(2) Better bite the bullet now than have our grandkids suffer.
So far all of our worst-case scenarios are based on computer models with speculative constants. Actually decreasing CO2 to goals involves effectively shutting down the world economy for 20 years or more. Check the math. Meanwhile, economic surplus that might otherwise fund adaptation is squandered.
(3) Costs will be spread out more evenly than a consumption tax on end products.
Why would this be? It's like the Income Tax - ~22% of average product prices are embedded income taxes. When you raise costs, prices go up to compensate, that's a given. The single mother of three living on minimum wage is paying something like $3600/year in other people's income taxes through the purchase price of goods. When she buys a $2 loaf of bread, almost fifty cents goes to pay the income taxes of the grocery clerks, managers, owners, bakers, truck drivers, mill operators, farmers, etc. Hidden taxes are the most evil.
Such a right is needed in a free society.
Hold on, then, did GWB actually have a valid point? I must be misoveranalyzing the situation.
Well, Muhammad was supposed to be a Prophet, so if he said that something should be done that way, then it's dogma. And he specifically said that blasphemy should be punished by death, and was, indeed, recorded to order death penalty for this particular offense on several occasions.
Don't Muslims view Jesus as a prophet as well? So, if what he said was dogma...
Oh, hell, I'm looking for internal logical consistencies again, aren't I?
Depending on your latitude, it may more more sense not to re-plant the trees, as snowpack reflects more IR back into space than the trees' CO2 sequestration offsets.
Assuming global temperature is the only concern, of course, but that seems to be the trendy thing to do.
"Once the DNA sample is sent in and tested, it will show the student's ability to tolerate alcohol, absorb folic acid and metabolize lactose."
And therefore _____________.
Students will drink less? They'll cut back on the ice cream? They'll take a pre-natal if they get pregnant?
My pessimistic prediction: none of the above behaviors will be improved, and the DNA samples will be used to collar somebody who engages in civil disobedience as an upperclassman.
And somebody will call this test racially-biased against asians.
Hum, I hate to say this, but thems the rules. if someone could get sick off of eating these undies (here come the raunchy jokes) then it's a valid concern.
No, it's not - these things are containerized. Yes, if the store were producing the fruit puree there, then there's a matter for concern. But your line of inquiry requires every gas station with a soda machine to have a food-service license, and that's not reasonable or useful.
It's more likely that the local bureaucrats dislike the store on religious reasons than it is that somebody could get sick from the undies themselves (what may come to be on those undies after packaging is certainly the greater risk).
Developers should be provided with detailed explanations why Google believes that no one adopting WebM will have to fear allegations of patent infringement.
Perhaps Google thinks in Re: Bilski will go the right way, and it can buy its way through any remaining problems.
I'm ready to buy my son an $85 ARM-based mini-laptop. There's effectively no room in that kind of price for MPEG-LA licenses - Google probably thinks it's wiser to be able to serve the 3/4 of the world that isn't going to play the software-patent game.
When we're talking about total product margins of $5 or so a 20 cent cost-item (4% of total margins) will be rejected, especially when good-enough alternatives are available and there's no guarantee that each customer will even use the feature. 'Regular' cell phones are another similar example. Computers with Windows and smartphones are in a different product category. There's also license management costs to consider.
This kind of low-cost computing is really good for educational opportunities for kids. My daughter's 3-year-old eeePC is plenty powerful for a kids' computer - the new ARM's should be fine as well. When netbooks are cheaper at the discount-store than bikes, more kids get educational opportunities - this is a good thing. Loading up these machines with patent licenses isn't the way forward.
It doesn't produce the same quality, or else produces the same quality but require 1.5 times higher bitrates.
It may be more correct to say that h.264 will be restricted to the markets where high-quality is a requirement, and will be impeded from spreading to other markets.
Now, GOOD for the FTC, but where are the upstream / downstrem providers in this equasion?
Has anybody started a blacklist for blackholing bgp routes?
I'd use a reasonably-run list at my gateway (my choice, competing lists should exist).
If a certain percentage of announcements from a given upstream made it on the list, some people might use that information to influence the market.
Sure, in the end, there's always one thread that's doing the actual pixel blitting and taking input. But various toolkits have more efficient delegation of the work required to provide the data-back for the blit work and consumers for event dispatch - the UI can be handled by many threads, even if in the end they all turn in their work to a single thread. Mozilla puts a ton of work into the UI thread, resulting in poor user responsiveness.
I don't have a problem with per-process, it's probably the right thing to do with untrusted code to avoid re-inventing an operating system, but they could have at a minimum done threads for each tab's UI render back in '04. It was talked about extensively at the time (and ever since).