we won't try to hinder their efforts, but we have no plans to help them.
Scumbags.
Probably just bad businessmen.
Let's say helping nouveau was 5FTE's at $100K each. So, half a million dollars a year to conceivably be the default vendor for the entire linux market segment. This seems like a no-brainer.
I don't really care which of the big three I buy from, I just want a hardware/software solution that works well, and with all of the problems with binary blobs I've had, I want an open driver.
P.S. if they want to know what percentage of linux users is using their hardware they can go look at the smolt statistics, not wonder about download logs.
Dual ethernet is pretty much a standard feature for a small office server, lets you set up firewalls, remote access and other public-side facing services.
Odds are most small offices can't max out their Internet connection with 802.11n.
We have custom built rack shelves for Mac Minis that neatly hold the power supplies and minis.
Have you looked at ditching the Apple PSU's and just going for a 3-mini backplane with its own PSU, so that you could just slide in a Mini and get power/KVM/net?
I'd probably get some even for running simple linux boxes.
This sort of thing once led to Illinois not having a Senator for two years before the Amendment was passed, for crying out loud. Is that what you want a return to as the normal process for picking Senators?
Why would I want to diminish my state's power because Illinois can't get its shit together? That's their problem, not mine.
The states were effectively neutered by the 17th amendment. The governors have close to zero influence on their state's senators, they're [nearly] all for sale to large national interests.
What you want to do, at every opportunity, is to push power away from centralization. That's the only way to fight corruption.
c. 2005 I ran some numbers on re-training for the new Office based on some rudimentary testing. I'm not sure if the numbers are still right, but the conversation is the same 4 years hence.
I'm still not sure this effect would occur if the overall light intensity changed-- it seems like an effect that depends on relative differences in light intensity.
Good question - as I recall the sunlight has an inhibitory effect (the plants still grow at night), but _all_ of this is from my freshman in high school bio class. I had a super good teacher, but I'm certainly no botanist.
Given that Lennart is in fact the Fedora PulseAudio packager, you could say it partly is.:)
I don't understand - isn't this a FESCO-level decision?
But see an earlier comment of mine for an explanation of why PA was made default at the point it was.
Yeah, I get that application developers need to be pushed along at some point, but the application-facing aspect of PA and the kernel/driver-facing aspect can be thought of as separate efforts. If basic things like sleep were working, then the users would be supportive and encourage the app developers to get on board. Instead, we have this Slashdot article and the general attitude that PA just needs to be uninstalled, which is a shame.
Most plants exhibit positive phototropism; i.e. they grow towards light.
Right, because the cells facing away from the light are the ones growing at the faster rate, so the net is that the plant as a whole grows towards the light (the faster-growing cells become the outside of the curve).
Seeing as how the issue of corporate rights in Santa Clara was decided by a law clerk and not a Supreme Court judge, it really shouldn't be any trouble to overturn that aspect of the case.
And arbiter dicta at that, IIRC. It's no so much finding that corporations are not people, but the 130 years of caselaw and statute that would unwind because of it.
I'm all in favor of dealing with those problems, but the judiciary chooses to be so weak and deferential to the legislature, that I doubt it could happen.
The measurement isn't wrong, it's the thing being measured. The elderly do much worse from complications of flu (few really die of flu, it's pneumonia developed from flu) and the recent Canada study has shown that 32-year old healthy first-nations women are the most at-risk in the population, on average.
I'm concerned about the idea of 'endless growth in a finite world' that cheap food and energy seem to sustain.
There's no need. 'Free' energy liberates the poor from survival, so they can focus on education. Education is the best method of birth control - western countries can't even replace their populations.
But because PulseAudio is visible, and because an old distribution once shipped with a CPU-eating PulseAudio, it makes the perfect scapegoat today.
I'm sure some people are scapegoating it, but there are still real problems. My netbook is a mess. If I wake from sleep I need to -k and --start pulseaudio. Then the sound works again, but now I have to restart my apps. Sometimes it drops into a stuck 2-second infinite loop, and when I -k --start, things come back. I've filed bugs, posted backtraces, etc. and so have many, but no fixes have emerged.
It's a necessary idea, but the project seems terribly under-resourced, so it's catching lots of heat. Fedora also made it default far before it was ready, which is not the developer's fault.
The big news here is that Verizon is clearly not going to carry the iPhone anytime soon. A few months ago, Verizon and Apple were "in talks". So, what happened? That's the most interesting part about this story. You guys are burying the lead.
That and it's probably time to short Palm. Sorry guys, good try.
I'm not badmouthing capitalism in general here, just the utter lack of morals it encourages. Amoral behavior is not okay, and America will no longer accept it from our business leaders.
It's not capitalism, it's corporatism. The only reason these people get away with their behavior is that the government shields them from prosecution by the concept of a 'corporation', which is a creation of government. You're far less likely to get screwed over by a partnership or a small business.
There are some benefits to having corporations, but these things need to be weighed in the balance. It seems to me that we now have almost full regulatory capture of the federal government and that the system, as-is, has proven too dangerous and non-resistant to corruption. Un-winding Santa Clara is probably more than anybody in government could handle, yet isn't a re-tooling better than a revolution?
On the contrary, a popular song from the #1 selling album in the world, widely known and enjoyed in the target demographic, is very likely an excellent song to use to measure consumer audio compression and encoding preferences.
... for that type of song. Yes.
Billie Jean is already heavily pre-processed by the studio, so the results are valid, but limited.
That said, I had Thriller on cassette when I was a kid, and have a pretty good musical memory. I have the same stereo now that I did in high school. Having lost that tape, I bought the 256Kbps mp3 from Amazon and it's much better than cassette tape. There are definitely instruments and timbres that were masked by the cassette technology. I only really buy CD's now for well-recorded Jazz or if I really like all the songs on an album (hey, free backup).
The private sector is already doing something much more stupid - namely, failing to use this glass for the 99% of car windows for which it makes sense
I come out of work some days and it's fifteen below zero, but a nice 10 or so inside the car. You're going to mandate that my car be even colder? You do know people will just go idle their cars to warm them up, right?
What about market failures. The insurance industry is always rife with them, for instance flood insurance, or, as you point out, health insurance.
If there are market failures, the prices aren't properly set to account for the conditions that cause the failures. National Flood Insurance will insure people who build a mansion on the banks of the Mississippi in a flood plain. That's creating a moral hazard.
The FDIC (another insurance system) is even heralded by conservatives as the most successful government run program in existence.
For certain values of conservative. FDIC is bankrupt. Their existence allows patrons of banks to not diversify and not do due diligence on their banks. The banks feel OK taking large risks because if they don't pan out the FDIC will be there to bail out their customers. Moral hazard.
The USPS can take any random sheet of paper across the country to a specific person for less than the price of a coke, with door-to-door service.
They're bankrupt too. They're asking Congress for another $6B gift. Plus they have a monopoly grant from the government. Really, what's so bad about UPS using my mailbox?
The federal government also does well busting up trusts.
Usually after creating market conditions that created them in the first place. See the railroads, Standard Oil, etc.
Enjoy your cheap tainted meat!
Why wouldn't you pay 3 cents a pound more for tested meat?
Microsoft is clearly on it's last legs.
Yeah, that monopoly-busting worked out real well...
Recall the horrors of the "company store"? WalMart would love to pay it's employees in WalMart script.
Who's forced to work at WalMart?
Remember when a poorly regulated free market destroyed the US economy? It was last year. See also, 1987.
You mean the Federal Reserve Bank? Or the 40,000 new financial regulations passed during Bush's terms to prevent another collapse like Enron?
Government control is bad, unregulated markets are bad. I don't understand how anyone can believe that free-markets are always the answer any more than people believe government is always the answer.
Neither are perfect. One is subject to massive corruption and positive-feedback loops (e.g. Corporate control of Government), one is self-limiting.
The countries that are currently doing well have a mixture of capitalism and socialism, a little heavier on the socialism than the US. But obviously, we must push to one extreme!
If Freedom has no value, than all kinds of utilitarian arguments can be made. Few have been shown to work without massive amounts of murder. If murder is OK, then even more utility can be had.
Look, mate, when you sign a petition, what you're doing is saying to anyone who cares to listen in the world that you endorse the views of the petition. If you aren't willing to attach your name to what the petition says, don't sign it.
Maybe those who are so upset by this got some 'compensation' for signing. Things they'd rather their family not know about - and firmly sealing their fate by protesting.
One would have to be pretty wound up to not take, "I thought their issue deserved a fair up-or-down vote," as a principled stance.
Has a deadline based scheduler been done before? It seems like an excellent idea for time sensitive (real time) processing. I have worked with RT os's before, iRMX mostly, and always wondered how the scheduling worked.
The approach in Linux has been to launch a thin RT kernel, and then have it scedule linux. Or, at least that was the approach a big RT vendor has been selling. It seemed to work nicely from the demos I've seen, and had nice instrumentation, since people who care about RT need to measure it. Like Xen will eventually give way to KVM (or something like it), Linux will eventually be good at RT.
Well, it would, but your user number has too many digits.
Eh, you can't really blame him - some of us held out for a long time, thinking the Internet would always be anonymous. But then they made it so you didn't have to preview if you were logged in...
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we won't try to hinder their efforts, but we have no plans to help them.
Scumbags.
Probably just bad businessmen.
Let's say helping nouveau was 5FTE's at $100K each. So, half a million dollars a year to conceivably be the default vendor for the entire linux market segment. This seems like a no-brainer.
I don't really care which of the big three I buy from, I just want a hardware/software solution that works well, and with all of the problems with binary blobs I've had, I want an open driver.
P.S. if they want to know what percentage of linux users is using their hardware they can go look at the smolt statistics, not wonder about download logs.
Dual ethernet is pretty much a standard feature for a small office server, lets you set up firewalls, remote access and other public-side facing services.
Odds are most small offices can't max out their Internet connection with 802.11n.
We have custom built rack shelves for Mac Minis that neatly hold the power supplies and minis.
Have you looked at ditching the Apple PSU's and just going for a 3-mini backplane with its own PSU, so that you could just slide in a Mini and get power/KVM/net?
I'd probably get some even for running simple linux boxes.
This sort of thing once led to Illinois not having a Senator for two years before the Amendment was passed, for crying out loud. Is that what you want a return to as the normal process for picking Senators?
Why would I want to diminish my state's power because Illinois can't get its shit together? That's their problem, not mine.
The states were effectively neutered by the 17th amendment. The governors have close to zero influence on their state's senators, they're [nearly] all for sale to large national interests.
What you want to do, at every opportunity, is to push power away from centralization. That's the only way to fight corruption.
c. 2005 I ran some numbers on re-training for the new Office based on some rudimentary testing. I'm not sure if the numbers are still right, but the conversation is the same 4 years hence.
I'm still not sure this effect would occur if the overall light intensity changed-- it seems like an effect that depends on relative differences in light intensity.
Good question - as I recall the sunlight has an inhibitory effect (the plants still grow at night), but _all_ of this is from my freshman in high school bio class. I had a super good teacher, but I'm certainly no botanist.
Given that Lennart is in fact the Fedora PulseAudio packager, you could say it partly is. :)
I don't understand - isn't this a FESCO-level decision?
But see an earlier comment of mine for an explanation of why PA was made default at the point it was.
Yeah, I get that application developers need to be pushed along at some point, but the application-facing aspect of PA and the kernel/driver-facing aspect can be thought of as separate efforts. If basic things like sleep were working, then the users would be supportive and encourage the app developers to get on board. Instead, we have this Slashdot article and the general attitude that PA just needs to be uninstalled, which is a shame.
Most plants exhibit positive phototropism; i.e. they grow towards light.
Right, because the cells facing away from the light are the ones growing at the faster rate, so the net is that the plant as a whole grows towards the light (the faster-growing cells become the outside of the curve).
Seeing as how the issue of corporate rights in Santa Clara was decided by a law clerk and not a Supreme Court judge, it really shouldn't be any trouble to overturn that aspect of the case.
And arbiter dicta at that, IIRC. It's no so much finding that corporations are not people, but the 130 years of caselaw and statute that would unwind because of it.
I'm all in favor of dealing with those problems, but the judiciary chooses to be so weak and deferential to the legislature, that I doubt it could happen.
The measurement isn't wrong, it's the thing being measured. The elderly do much worse from complications of flu (few really die of flu, it's pneumonia developed from flu) and the recent Canada study has shown that 32-year old healthy first-nations women are the most at-risk in the population, on average.
This story appears to be misdirection.
There's no need. 'Free' energy liberates the poor from survival, so they can focus on education. Education is the best method of birth control - western countries can't even replace their populations.
I'm sure some people are scapegoating it, but there are still real problems. My netbook is a mess. If I wake from sleep I need to -k and --start pulseaudio. Then the sound works again, but now I have to restart my apps. Sometimes it drops into a stuck 2-second infinite loop, and when I -k --start, things come back. I've filed bugs, posted backtraces, etc. and so have many, but no fixes have emerged.
It's a necessary idea, but the project seems terribly under-resourced, so it's catching lots of heat. Fedora also made it default far before it was ready, which is not the developer's fault.
That and it's probably time to short Palm. Sorry guys, good try.
No, that's a shell, this is a ribbon.
Isn't this obvious? We finally have proof of His Noodly Appendage.
so, it's like a 40-mile test-drive before the guy took off.
It's not capitalism, it's corporatism. The only reason these people get away with their behavior is that the government shields them from prosecution by the concept of a 'corporation', which is a creation of government. You're far less likely to get screwed over by a partnership or a small business.
There are some benefits to having corporations, but these things need to be weighed in the balance. It seems to me that we now have almost full regulatory capture of the federal government and that the system, as-is, has proven too dangerous and non-resistant to corruption. Un-winding Santa Clara is probably more than anybody in government could handle, yet isn't a re-tooling better than a revolution?
Billie Jean is already heavily pre-processed by the studio, so the results are valid, but limited.
That said, I had Thriller on cassette when I was a kid, and have a pretty good musical memory. I have the same stereo now that I did in high school. Having lost that tape, I bought the 256Kbps mp3 from Amazon and it's much better than cassette tape. There are definitely instruments and timbres that were masked by the cassette technology. I only really buy CD's now for well-recorded Jazz or if I really like all the songs on an album (hey, free backup).
what about people in severe pain with terminal disease?
mine worked very well for about 3 years and then died. YMMV. I'm hoping I can accomplish it in software if I ever get MythTV really running.
I come out of work some days and it's fifteen below zero, but a nice 10 or so inside the car. You're going to mandate that my car be even colder? You do know people will just go idle their cars to warm them up, right?
What about market failures. The insurance industry is always rife with them, for instance flood insurance, or, as you point out, health insurance.
If there are market failures, the prices aren't properly set to account for the conditions that cause the failures. National Flood Insurance will insure people who build a mansion on the banks of the Mississippi in a flood plain. That's creating a moral hazard.
The FDIC (another insurance system) is even heralded by conservatives as the most successful government run program in existence.
For certain values of conservative. FDIC is bankrupt. Their existence allows patrons of banks to not diversify and not do due diligence on their banks. The banks feel OK taking large risks because if they don't pan out the FDIC will be there to bail out their customers. Moral hazard.
The USPS can take any random sheet of paper across the country to a specific person for less than the price of a coke, with door-to-door service.
They're bankrupt too. They're asking Congress for another $6B gift. Plus they have a monopoly grant from the government. Really, what's so bad about UPS using my mailbox?
The federal government also does well busting up trusts.
Usually after creating market conditions that created them in the first place. See the railroads, Standard Oil, etc.
Enjoy your cheap tainted meat!
Why wouldn't you pay 3 cents a pound more for tested meat?
Microsoft is clearly on it's last legs.
Yeah, that monopoly-busting worked out real well...
Recall the horrors of the "company store"? WalMart would love to pay it's employees in WalMart script.
Who's forced to work at WalMart?
Remember when a poorly regulated free market destroyed the US economy? It was last year. See also, 1987.
You mean the Federal Reserve Bank? Or the 40,000 new financial regulations passed during Bush's terms to prevent another collapse like Enron?
Government control is bad, unregulated markets are bad. I don't understand how anyone can believe that free-markets are always the answer any more than people believe government is always the answer.
Neither are perfect. One is subject to massive corruption and positive-feedback loops (e.g. Corporate control of Government), one is self-limiting.
The countries that are currently doing well have a mixture of capitalism and socialism, a little heavier on the socialism than the US. But obviously, we must push to one extreme!
If Freedom has no value, than all kinds of utilitarian arguments can be made. Few have been shown to work without massive amounts of murder. If murder is OK, then even more utility can be had.
Didn't we learn from Intro to Biology that plants grow on the side facing away from the sun? That direct sunlight inhibits growth?
Maybe those who are so upset by this got some 'compensation' for signing. Things they'd rather their family not know about - and firmly sealing their fate by protesting.
One would have to be pretty wound up to not take, "I thought their issue deserved a fair up-or-down vote," as a principled stance.
The approach in Linux has been to launch a thin RT kernel, and then have it scedule linux. Or, at least that was the approach a big RT vendor has been selling. It seemed to work nicely from the demos I've seen, and had nice instrumentation, since people who care about RT need to measure it. Like Xen will eventually give way to KVM (or something like it), Linux will eventually be good at RT.
Eh, you can't really blame him - some of us held out for a long time, thinking the Internet would always be anonymous. But then they made it so you didn't have to preview if you were logged in...