I have 3 monitors, and when I last tried it (4.8.3, or rather kubuntu 12.04), my mouse pointer started jumping around like an idiot.
I didn't spend all that much time trying to figure it out, and the only information I could dig up was trying to tell me my mouse was broken or that my X config was bad. Great, except it works just fine with both XFCE and GNOME.
It didn't let me get far enough to form an opinion other than "nope".
Until someone figures out how to convince a person who claims the earth is 4000 years old that we need to do something about our carbon footprint, we're screwed.
They don't respond to _rational_ argumentation, so they are sure as hell not going to listen to a smart ass in a Prius claiming we're all DOOOOOOOOOOMED.
I sure don't know what the common ground is. Anyone?
I work for a hosting company that does a fair amount of in house development, and we never care (even a little) about education in the hiring process. We care a lot about if you're any good of course, but mainly we care if you're an enthusiast.
We've learned over the years that education and current skill set counts for pretty much nothing at all in the long run if you're not INTO your line of work. We had far too many seemingly skilled and highly educated new employees that just seem to stand still. Their idea of further education is that we should pay for courses, when we'd rather spend our money of sending our people to things like Google IO, OSCON, RailsConf and the like. It motivates the hell out of them instead of cramming knowledge down their throats.
I know of several other companies that do the exact opposite, and they claim it works.
Point is, YMMW. Go apply to a few jobs, and stress the fact that you LIKE what you do. It counts for a lot in some places, and even though I can only speak for myself, those places are way more fun and stimulating to work at.
I have to post anonymously and can't name my employer, and you posted anonymously too, so that's a bummer:(
I agree with that there's probably a reason to be a little paranoid about what they're doing, but I think you've got it absolutely backwards. They're leveraging G+ to improve their search engine. They earn their money from advertising, and the biggest driver for that is search. It's free labor, and it can greatly improve the quality of search results. That's pretty close to free money.
Think about it, they have had the browsing profiles of most people for a long time already, and they could (and most likely already do) link your profile with those of your contacts. It's not exactly a stretch to imagine ways they can link people together. They might email eachother regularily on Gmail, chat on Google Talk, comment on eachother's Blogger blogs, share access to a site on Google Analytics, participate in the same threads on Google Groups, the list just goes on..
Don't let the urge to fall for conspiracy theories cloud your judgement. I don't consider the scenario above any less scary than what you're suggesting, just a lot more plausible.
A/8 means that 24 bits are available for addressing, as in 16777216 (rougly 16 million) IP-addresses. 5 of those is 83886080 (or ~8 million).
If we indeed had 8 BILLION addresses left, the shortage of IP-addresses wouldn't be causing Betelguese to blow up the Interweb as we know if by 2012, as top scientists are leading us to believe.
People are people. These "professionals" could be bribed just as a juror. The only real difference is that they have a solid education to base their decisions on, and more to risk if they do take a bribe than a juror.
There's a very good reason why Microsoft spends a lot of time on hardware compatibility - it's what people want.
To imply that Linux developers don't spend "a lot of time" on hardware support is so pompous, pretentious and uninformed that I feel like I'm going to explode. Now, there are plenty of problems with hardware support in Linux, but developers that care, and the amount of time they put in certainly isn't one of them.
In theory, this kind of blackout is precisely the kind of problem the Internet was designed to withstand.
Yeah, it was designed so that when two parties don't want to exchange traffic anymore, magical InterWebGnomes charge in, armed to their teeth, to correct the problem and dicipline the offenders. In fact, the very ability to filter traffic at all means the network is broken! Oh, the horror!
I think this is a great idea. A subscription based model could work, and I don't think it has to be all that complicated.
1) Pilot(s) are aired, distributed as freely available torrents, whatever. Not all that different to what they're already doing these days, with shows like Firely not even getting a full season, for example.
2) Fans pledge money towards a full season of the show, one season at a time. This could easily(?) be accomplished, if Paypal (for example) were to implement a Pledge system. Stick your money in the fund, and if it doesn't happen, you get them back. That way, it is actual money talking, and not just empty promises.
While I have opinions on whether I'd rather get episodes on DVDs in the mail, or downloading them, I really don't care that much. The important thing is that I get the episodes.
Why oh why isn't this already being done? Someone make Mutant Enemy do this? Pretty please?
Yes, most people would benefit greatly from having their system administration done by someone else. They don't know how to secure their boxes, or how to fix them when something goes wrong, and yet they insist on hosting their applications locally. Confounding, isn't it?
Comparing this to corporate IT is silly. A company is quite likely -not- to trust users to do the right thing, nor to keep their data safe, so they have one hell of an incentive to outsource. Individually however, it's all about privacy, even if said privacy is an illusion. People need to be able to go to bed at night, thinking their skeletons are safely tucked away in the closet. A cracker might very well have access to their data, but they don't know that, and stupid as it may be, most people would rather close their eyes to uncomfortable facts than to face them.
Why is it that people are dead set of driving around in huge wasteful individual vehicles, for example? It'd make so much more sense on the grand scale of things if everyone that could just used public transportation, wouldn't it?
IMHO, it has very little to do with the state of the PC or bandwidth, and a whole lot to do with human nature.
The day we don't get heated feedback I'll be concerned.
Funnny, I thought having the Department Of Homeland Security recommending other browsers because of the abysmal security was plenty of reason for concern.
Forget fees and filters. Shoot the relays!
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Filters are -very- expensive (both for the computer, you and me), and a fee-per-email system is silly, and does nothing to actually control spam.
The only really effective way I can think of is another fscking registry. ISPs and companies large enough to really need external relays pay the fee to register their mail-server there, and the new implementation of the SMTP-protocol only accepts external mail from other listed servers.
The downside? A fee comparable to the price of a domain name for ISPs, companies and stubborn individuals. Don't give me the old crap about "having to run your own relay", because you still could, by in turn having it relay through your ISPs server. Your ISP doesn't provide you with a relay? After this, they would have to.
The upside? It would be a lot easier to blacklist spammers. No more hijacked boxes on broadband-connections flooding us with spam.
Oh, I know, it will be shot down because there's a fee involved, but keep in mind that I would be one of the people that would have to pay that fee, and it would be a very small price to pay to protect myself and my users from spam.
Only really applies to information gathering
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The law doesn't apply to cookies used to supply the user with a service she asked for.
That is certainly open to interpretation, but at the very least it means that sites that really need cookies can relax. Shopping online, logging in to a news site, or any form of web-based mail are all services the user explicitly asks for, after all.
However, silent information gathering becomes illegal. Is that a bad thing? Hell no.
"I hadn't been there in a long time, but was pleasantly surprised to find that they have finally made all(?) of their animated shorts available for download."
Uhm, yeah. You found them, decided no one else could have them, so you submit it to Slashdot knowing that it's the best way of ensuring that their servers will die and that they will remove them again?:)
Hosting a movie clip of any size and having it posted on Slashdot must be like the ultimate punishment.
A separate study by the British government's Home Office indicated that those who regularly play computer games when they are young are more likely than non-gamers to go to college and get a high-paying job.
Ah.. And that's not because kids whos parents can not afford to buy a computer/console and games also have trouble paying for a good education? A child on the lower end of the social ladder is likely to end up with a poor education, that's not all that new.
Seems a lot like the studies where eating lots of butter is proven to be really bad for you. Oh, it is, but the study does not take into account that the people that do eat lots of butter more often than not stuff themselves with other health degrading junk food whenever they get the chance.
I can't help but to squeeze this in.. I have enjoyed Slashdot for a long time now, and still do.. But please, go easy on the self-glorifying content. Yeah, growing up and being a computer nerd wasn't all that socially accepted, and it did not make you the coolest dude in school. Does that mean we have to pretend like we're all-knowing just because computers happened to go mainstream? I for one am not a bit cooler than when I was in school. I'm still just as shy and my social skills aren't any better either.
Don't bother commenting on my grammar or spelling. English is not my first language.
And I suppose only having room for one fully loaded 1gbit ethernet card is way enough for smaller servers with a few raid-channels on the bus in the future? I think not.
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I have 3 monitors, and when I last tried it (4.8.3, or rather kubuntu 12.04), my mouse pointer started jumping around like an idiot.
I didn't spend all that much time trying to figure it out, and the only information I could dig up was trying to tell me my mouse was broken or that my X config was bad. Great, except it works just fine with both XFCE and GNOME.
It didn't let me get far enough to form an opinion other than "nope".
Until someone figures out how to convince a person who claims the earth is 4000 years old that we need to do something about our carbon footprint, we're screwed.
They don't respond to _rational_ argumentation, so they are sure as hell not going to listen to a smart ass in a Prius claiming we're all DOOOOOOOOOOMED.
I sure don't know what the common ground is. Anyone?
Yeah, that was very anonymous.. Well done :p
I work for a hosting company that does a fair amount of in house development, and we never care (even a little) about education in the hiring process. We care a lot about if you're any good of course, but mainly we care if you're an enthusiast.
We've learned over the years that education and current skill set counts for pretty much nothing at all in the long run if you're not INTO your line of work. We had far too many seemingly skilled and highly educated new employees that just seem to stand still. Their idea of further education is that we should pay for courses, when we'd rather spend our money of sending our people to things like Google IO, OSCON, RailsConf and the like. It motivates the hell out of them instead of cramming knowledge down their throats.
I know of several other companies that do the exact opposite, and they claim it works.
Point is, YMMW. Go apply to a few jobs, and stress the fact that you LIKE what you do. It counts for a lot in some places, and even though I can only speak for myself, those places are way more fun and stimulating to work at.
I have to post anonymously and can't name my employer, and you posted anonymously too, so that's a bummer :(
I agree with that there's probably a reason to be a little paranoid about what they're doing, but I think you've got it absolutely backwards. They're leveraging G+ to improve their search engine. They earn their money from advertising, and the biggest driver for that is search. It's free labor, and it can greatly improve the quality of search results. That's pretty close to free money.
Think about it, they have had the browsing profiles of most people for a long time already, and they could (and most likely already do) link your profile with those of your contacts. It's not exactly a stretch to imagine ways they can link people together. They might email eachother regularily on Gmail, chat on Google Talk, comment on eachother's Blogger blogs, share access to a site on Google Analytics, participate in the same threads on Google Groups, the list just goes on..
Don't let the urge to fall for conspiracy theories cloud your judgement. I don't consider the scenario above any less scary than what you're suggesting, just a lot more plausible.
Thank you for providing us all with such a great source of news, enjoyment and discussion. You made the Internet a better place.
Your math is.. off.
A /8 means that 24 bits are available for addressing, as in 16777216 (rougly 16 million) IP-addresses. 5 of those is 83886080 (or ~8 million).
If we indeed had 8 BILLION addresses left, the shortage of IP-addresses wouldn't be causing Betelguese to blow up the Interweb as we know if by 2012, as top scientists are leading us to believe.
People are people. These "professionals" could be bribed just as a juror. The only real difference is that they have a solid education to base their decisions on, and more to risk if they do take a bribe than a juror.
No, no. Microsoft didn't invent SaaS, so they vehemently deny ever having heard of it.
Instead, they "invented" Software + Service (S+S).
Being a multi-billion-dollar megalomaniac seems positively funderful.
We don't want it to happen?
It already did.
Distribution compatibility and package management is a big problem for most, if not all developers, and has been for a very long time.
Yeah, it was designed so that when two parties don't want to exchange traffic anymore, magical InterWebGnomes charge in, armed to their teeth, to correct the problem and dicipline the offenders. In fact, the very ability to filter traffic at all means the network is broken! Oh, the horror!
I think this is a great idea. A subscription based model could work, and I don't think it has to be all that complicated.
1) Pilot(s) are aired, distributed as freely available torrents, whatever. Not all that different to what they're already doing these days, with shows like Firely not even getting a full season, for example.
2) Fans pledge money towards a full season of the show, one season at a time. This could easily(?) be accomplished, if Paypal (for example) were to implement a Pledge system. Stick your money in the fund, and if it doesn't happen, you get them back. That way, it is actual money talking, and not just empty promises.
While I have opinions on whether I'd rather get episodes on DVDs in the mail, or downloading them, I really don't care that much. The important thing is that I get the episodes.
Why oh why isn't this already being done? Someone make Mutant Enemy do this? Pretty please?
Yes, most people would benefit greatly from having their system administration done by someone else. They don't know how to secure their boxes, or how to fix them when something goes wrong, and yet they insist on hosting their applications locally. Confounding, isn't it?
Comparing this to corporate IT is silly. A company is quite likely -not- to trust users to do the right thing, nor to keep their data safe, so they have one hell of an incentive to outsource. Individually however, it's all about privacy, even if said privacy is an illusion. People need to be able to go to bed at night, thinking their skeletons are safely tucked away in the closet. A cracker might very well have access to their data, but they don't know that, and stupid as it may be, most people would rather close their eyes to uncomfortable facts than to face them.
Why is it that people are dead set of driving around in huge wasteful individual vehicles, for example? It'd make so much more sense on the grand scale of things if everyone that could just used public transportation, wouldn't it?
IMHO, it has very little to do with the state of the PC or bandwidth, and a whole lot to do with human nature.
The day we don't get heated feedback I'll be concerned.
Funnny, I thought having the Department Of Homeland Security recommending other browsers because of the abysmal security was plenty of reason for concern.
Filters are -very- expensive (both for the computer, you and me), and a fee-per-email system is silly, and does nothing to actually control spam.
The only really effective way I can think of is another fscking registry. ISPs and companies large enough to really need external relays pay the fee to register their mail-server there, and the new implementation of the SMTP-protocol only accepts external mail from other listed servers.
The downside? A fee comparable to the price of a domain name for ISPs, companies and stubborn individuals. Don't give me the old crap about "having to run your own relay", because you still could, by in turn having it relay through your ISPs server. Your ISP doesn't provide you with a relay? After this, they would have to.
The upside? It would be a lot easier to blacklist spammers. No more hijacked boxes on broadband-connections flooding us with spam.
Oh, I know, it will be shot down because there's a fee involved, but keep in mind that I would be one of the people that would have to pay that fee, and it would be a very small price to pay to protect myself and my users from spam.
The law doesn't apply to cookies used to supply the user with a service she asked for.
That is certainly open to interpretation, but at the very least it means that sites that really need cookies can relax. Shopping online, logging in to a news site, or any form of web-based mail are all services the user explicitly asks for, after all.
However, silent information gathering becomes illegal. Is that a bad thing? Hell no.
After recent events, I pronounce it as "SUCK'O".
I guess the only thing to hope for is that the judge will simply throw the case out of court because of the huge fantasy sum.
I can't think of anything else that would send them the message that it is not okay to pull this kind of crap.
This isnt really a response to the question though :). Releasing one big RPM wouldnt prevent the release of everything as single packages.
Extra packaging work not being taken into account, of course.
I wish both of you a long, happy life together :)
How about that you can decide not to visit the bar, but would be forced to resign your citizenship to get away from the ID card privacy issues?
You're comparing a hamster to Darth Vader here.
"I hadn't been there in a long time, but was pleasantly surprised to find that they have finally made all(?) of their animated shorts available for download."
:)
Uhm, yeah. You found them, decided no one else could have them, so you submit it to Slashdot knowing that it's the best way of ensuring that their servers will die and that they will remove them again?
Hosting a movie clip of any size and having it posted on Slashdot must be like the ultimate punishment.
A separate study by the British government's Home Office indicated that those who regularly play computer games when they are young are more likely than non-gamers to go to college and get a high-paying job.
Ah.. And that's not because kids whos parents can not afford to buy a computer/console and games also have trouble paying for a good education? A child on the lower end of the social ladder is likely to end up with a poor education, that's not all that new.
Seems a lot like the studies where eating lots of butter is proven to be really bad for you. Oh, it is, but the study does not take into account that the people that do eat lots of butter more often than not stuff themselves with other health degrading junk food whenever they get the chance.
I can't help but to squeeze this in.. I have enjoyed Slashdot for a long time now, and still do.. But please, go easy on the self-glorifying content. Yeah, growing up and being a computer nerd wasn't all that socially accepted, and it did not make you the coolest dude in school. Does that mean we have to pretend like we're all-knowing just because computers happened to go mainstream? I for one am not a bit cooler than when I was in school. I'm still just as shy and my social skills aren't any better either.
Don't bother commenting on my grammar or spelling. English is not my first language.
And I suppose only having room for one fully loaded 1gbit ethernet card is way enough for smaller servers with a few raid-channels on the bus in the future? I think not.