Virtualization only works well for configurations that no sane person would put into a production use in the first place.
That is:
1. Sandboxes for development and testing (because they are SUPPOSED to be constantly created, destroyed, reproduced and reconfigured). 2. Anything that runs on Microsoft Windows (because it's an OS that runs BETTER when hypervisor is used as a crutch for everything its crappy kernel can't do properly, and Virtual Machine management has to do everything Virtual Memory or filesystem does not).
Anything that is not a throwaway development environment or Windows box, can be configured on a general-purpose Unix-like server with half-decent package management -- sometimes with chroot jail or other compartmentalized environment.
When the parent process exits, init becomes the new parent of a running child process -- this does not make the child process a zombie because it is still alive. When child process exits, init, being a new parent, reaps it, so the process only remains a zombie for a time of few context switches, just like any other process.
On the other hand, if the parent is still running when the child exits (and if the parent does not ignore SIGCHLD signal), the child process remains a zombie until the parent either dies or returns from corresponding wait().
Do you have some mental disease that reduces your reading comprehension to the level one should expect from a three years old, or are you intentionally distorting the point that I have expressed in the most unambiguous form possible?
Everything would work just fine if they installed a distribution specifically designed for this purpose -- Ubuntu.
Writing an interpreter for BASIC is 70's equivalent of writing a phonebook application in PHP. It may sound difficult because modern geeks are unfamiliar with assembly and interpreters, however this is merely the result of the area being too far outside of the current range of practically useful problems.
Not that I would ever recommend against studying assembly, languages and compiler theory (the latter two still beyond what Gates knew as all BASIC implementations are mostly ad-hoc) -- this knowledge is always useful, just does not automatically translate into an immediately useful project.
My point with that sentence was that a legal document, once written, may contain flaws. These flaws, if they exist, are there whether or not we choose to acknowledge them. The whole point of the programmer analogy there was just to illustrate the point that flaws are possible, and that it's not productive to ignore them... Sooner or later, the flaw will be exploited.
And if it does not contain flaws, flaws will be claimed to exist anyway.
When there is a conflict, intended purpose and understanding of the document is supposed to trump language, and the original purpose of legal language is to make it easier to determine the intent and support a reasonable interpretation of such intent by all parties involved, not to plug all loopholes that may be imagined by creative interpretation.
"Productivity application" means a general-purpose application commonly used in an office environment. Cubase is a specialized application (and so is AutoCAD).
It's like a coder talking about a bug in a C program. You can say to yourself "Oh, that coder's just causing trouble. There's no real bug" - but that doesn't change the reality that the compiled program will do just what the C instructions tell it to do - nothing more, nothing less.
Programs don't run by coders arguing about them. Legal documents mean whatever a the last lawyer convincingly pretended they mean as long as that lawyer didn't get get caught by another lawyer.
At least a bureaucrat can't pocket the money you paid him by denying you the healthcare. Insurance executive can -- actually this is the only way for him to get paid in the first place.
I read that essay, and I can't see what would a better examle for removing the essay requirement than that essay itself.
Full of artificial, decorative use of language, presenting trivial details as meaningful by using way too many words to describe them, expressing unoriginal, standardized opinions in a supposedly creative way. It's bad enough when a journalist pads his writing with such nonsense, I certainly don't want to work with another engineer whose primary outstanding skill is writing of such garbage.
If I was asked to write an essay on such a topic, my answer would be:
I was a nigger.
Fortunately where I studied the school has a proper admission procedure -- that is, a sequence of tests with complex problems in varios areas of Math and Physics, interview, and if I remember correctly, minimal essay designed to test applicant's ability to express things. That was, of course, not in US.
A large percentage of ethnic Jews can relate to the non-religious aspects of Jewish culture, what in its turn makes us more likely to value education, intellect, art and cultural tolerance. In religious Jews those traits are balanced or negated by bigotry and anti-intellectualism inherent in all Abrahamic religions.
The ones where some members of congress needed armed escorts, and ran like scorched cats when they were over?
You mean, the ones organized by insurance companies, the very entities whose back would be permanently broken if taxpayer-supported healthcare ever happened?
Considering that none of them ever tried to sell records of their music, they would be surprised to know that music industry in its current state is even possible.
Only if you base your self-esteem on your job. I got out of that rat-trap a long time ago. Work is work; it's not life nor your identity. Work is a lot more enjoyable now, and the challenges and assholes easier to surmount when my whole sense of self-worth does not hinge on the outcome.
Congratulations -- now you are a part of the problem for all of us.
Actually most of the failed market were run by robots. Programmed by humans with irrational expectations.
I have a better idea -- make markets less "free". I have no problem with keeping freedom to human activities that do not involve scamming and harming each others in expectation of an unreasonable and obviously undeserved payoff -- after all, we don't have "free brawl" on the streets, either.
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Virtualization only works well for configurations that no sane person would put into a production use in the first place.
That is:
1. Sandboxes for development and testing (because they are SUPPOSED to be constantly created, destroyed, reproduced and reconfigured).
2. Anything that runs on Microsoft Windows (because it's an OS that runs BETTER when hypervisor is used as a crutch for everything its crappy kernel can't do properly, and Virtual Machine management has to do everything Virtual Memory or filesystem does not).
Anything that is not a throwaway development environment or Windows box, can be configured on a general-purpose Unix-like server with half-decent package management -- sometimes with chroot jail or other compartmentalized environment.
When the parent process exits, init becomes the new parent of a running child process -- this does not make the child process a zombie because it is still alive. When child process exits, init, being a new parent, reaps it, so the process only remains a zombie for a time of few context switches, just like any other process.
On the other hand, if the parent is still running when the child exits (and if the parent does not ignore SIGCHLD signal), the child process remains a zombie until the parent either dies or returns from corresponding wait().
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if leaded gas were still legal (and it is in many countries), this would basically be pumping lead into your food.
Except, of course, those engines run on diesel fuel, not gasoline.
Do you have some mental disease that reduces your reading comprehension to the level one should expect from a three years old, or are you intentionally distorting the point that I have expressed in the most unambiguous form possible?
Everything would work just fine if they installed a distribution specifically designed for this purpose -- Ubuntu.
Writing an interpreter for BASIC is 70's equivalent of writing a phonebook application in PHP. It may sound difficult because modern geeks are unfamiliar with assembly and interpreters, however this is merely the result of the area being too far outside of the current range of practically useful problems.
Not that I would ever recommend against studying assembly, languages and compiler theory (the latter two still beyond what Gates knew as all BASIC implementations are mostly ad-hoc) -- this knowledge is always useful, just does not automatically translate into an immediately useful project.
...a Windows PC company tarnishes Linux reputation by pre-installing something that is not Ubuntu on a consumer device.
My point with that sentence was that a legal document, once written, may contain flaws. These flaws, if they exist, are there whether or not we choose to acknowledge them. The whole point of the programmer analogy there was just to illustrate the point that flaws are possible, and that it's not productive to ignore them... Sooner or later, the flaw will be exploited.
And if it does not contain flaws, flaws will be claimed to exist anyway.
When there is a conflict, intended purpose and understanding of the document is supposed to trump language, and the original purpose of legal language is to make it easier to determine the intent and support a reasonable interpretation of such intent by all parties involved, not to plug all loopholes that may be imagined by creative interpretation.
"Productivity application" means a general-purpose application commonly used in an office environment. Cubase is a specialized application (and so is AutoCAD).
It's like a coder talking about a bug in a C program. You can say to yourself "Oh, that coder's just causing trouble. There's no real bug" - but that doesn't change the reality that the compiled program will do just what the C instructions tell it to do - nothing more, nothing less.
Programs don't run by coders arguing about them. Legal documents mean whatever a the last lawyer convincingly pretended they mean as long as that lawyer didn't get get caught by another lawyer.
At least a bureaucrat can't pocket the money you paid him by denying you the healthcare. Insurance executive can -- actually this is the only way for him to get paid in the first place.
Productivity isn't just office. None of the major "productivity" apps I use have equivalents in linux.
Name three.
(hint: first is Office, there are no others, you fail).
I find that OO crashes a lot
I have never seen it crashing on Linux, and apparently no one else seen it, either. Maybe you are lying.
65537-factor authentication won't help you if established and authenticated session is hijacked by malware.
I read that essay, and I can't see what would a better examle for removing the essay requirement than that essay itself.
Full of artificial, decorative use of language, presenting trivial details as meaningful by using way too many words to describe them, expressing unoriginal, standardized opinions in a supposedly creative way. It's bad enough when a journalist pads his writing with such nonsense, I certainly don't want to work with another engineer whose primary outstanding skill is writing of such garbage.
If I was asked to write an essay on such a topic, my answer would be:
I was a nigger.
Fortunately where I studied the school has a proper admission procedure -- that is, a sequence of tests with complex problems in varios areas of Math and Physics, interview, and if I remember correctly, minimal essay designed to test applicant's ability to express things. That was, of course, not in US.
He was supposed to complain about Anonymous, not Anonymous Coward.
Well, at least he didn't redirect his wrath toward Ebaum's World.
A large percentage of ethnic Jews can relate to the non-religious aspects of Jewish culture, what in its turn makes us more likely to value education, intellect, art and cultural tolerance. In religious Jews those traits are balanced or negated by bigotry and anti-intellectualism inherent in all Abrahamic religions.
Yes.
I am ethnic Jew, yet I have absolutely nothing to do with Judaism.
The ones where some members of congress needed armed escorts, and ran like scorched cats when they were over?
You mean, the ones organized by insurance companies, the very entities whose back would be permanently broken if taxpayer-supported healthcare ever happened?
Considering that none of them ever tried to sell records of their music, they would be surprised to know that music industry in its current state is even possible.
Only if you base your self-esteem on your job. I got out of that rat-trap a long time ago. Work is work; it's not life nor your identity. Work is a lot more enjoyable now, and the challenges and assholes easier to surmount when my whole sense of self-worth does not hinge on the outcome.
Congratulations -- now you are a part of the problem for all of us.
Stannum, Stannum, Stannum, Stannum,
Stannum, Stannum, Stannum, Stannum,
Stannum, Stannum, Stannum, Stannum,
Plumbum, Plumbum!
(Stannum, Stannum...)
ARRGH, cracked joint, oh, it's a cracked joint!
No, it was /b/'s favorite Australian, Josef Fritzl.
Actually most of the failed market were run by robots. Programmed by humans with irrational expectations.
I have a better idea -- make markets less "free". I have no problem with keeping freedom to human activities that do not involve scamming and harming each others in expectation of an unreasonable and obviously undeserved payoff -- after all, we don't have "free brawl" on the streets, either.