I have no idea why this got modded insightful. Funny, more like. What thie poster, and everyone else who replied, failed to mention is that nearly all third party hardware/software vendors certify their products to work with Red Hat Advanced Server (Primarily because of the predictable release cycle). If your RAID controler goes belly up due to a bug in the driver and you call the help desk, what do you suppose they will say when you tell them that you run gentoo? What will Oracle say when you tell them that you run LFS? I mean, seriously. Come on. You don't actually work in an enterprise environment, do you?
Why does everyone think that they need to pay for Advanced Server? It costs the same as any other Linux distribution. That is, whatever it costs you for the bandwidth to download it. Anybody who doesn't understand this shouldn't be in charge of the decision of which to buy (enterprise with its high cost or standard with its short lifespan) because they don't have a fundamental grasp on the fact that they don't need to pay for either. If you need the _SUPPORT_, then great. Pay for it, but don't bicker about if you should shell out the cash for AS when you don't need it.
I know the conversation is basically over, but I just can't let this one go. My initial reaction to this statement was, and I quote for you now:.
"BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA".
Allow me to quote the Telegraph (one of many sources with this info):.
The dam will flood 137 cities and towns; 1,300 factories; 1,100 villages; 4,000 hospitals and clinics; 40,000 grave sites and at least 178 rubbish dumps containing 2.8 million tons of garbage..
The reformist Southern Weekend newspaper, quoting an official survey, recently disclosed that the waters will also cover "123 sources of radioactive debris"..
Another passage from the same article:.
An illicit tour of the reservoir site revealed the sham nature of much of the clean-up. The campaign officially began in the river town of Fengjie, with the demolition of an office building and power plant. State television carried the blasts live, hailing them as a "wonderful scene"..
Television did not show the mountain of garbage which has been collecting for more than a decade on the banks of the Yangtze, ready to be washed away by the reservoir. Officially, Fengjie built a new hilltop rubbish dump a few years ago.
But rubbish is still dumped on the riverside every day to be picked over by families of scavengers employed by the city to work and live on the dump. One scavenger, Mr Long, said his employers had no plans to remove the garbage before next year's flooding.
And yet another....
Mr Long's wife, who had a scabby-faced toddler playing in the rubbish at her feet, predicted that a hidden plague of rats will emerge next year. Outside the city, farmers were picking over the rubble of the Fengjie Construction Cement Works.
One of them, Mr Yu, said demolition contractors had removed only valuable scrap from the site. "They threw the polluted waste in there," he said, pointing to a blackened riverside gully.
The farmers, from nearby Guanmiao village, said the factory had been a major polluter. "The smoke and dust turned oranges black on the trees for miles around and killed all the small trees. "Oranges from round here are famous across China. But we couldn't sell ours," said Mr Yu.
Us? We? Speak for yourself. Very few of the hundreds of millions of people who live in this country drive to work in SUVs. Very few use, much less own computers with clock speeds in the 2+GHz range. Very very very few read/. Shame many who do are self-loathing twits who tend to project their own inferiority complexes onto the rest.
Besides that fact, if having all the bills the same size and color is the right thing to do, why not the same with the coins?
I would think that the answer to this would be obvious even to a *ahem* non-American. A coin was originally a commodity. It _WAS_ the money. The size of the coin and the material it was made of was the source of its value. Dollar bills were certificates for a commodity, not a commodity in and of themselves. As all certificates are equally useless untill you cash them in at which point the only important bit is the number in the corner, there's no ihnerent value in making them all different. Of course, they are anyway and anybody with half of one functional eye can tell the difference between the common bills at a glance. What makes you think that dying the money like easter eggs makes it more intuitive? Prices are not listed on items in any store in London as "One blue bill and two red ones" so why are different colors so much less inherently confusing? You still have to read the number if you're unfamiliar with the currency. Like another poster said, if you can't be bothered to look at the numbers that are printed on all eight corners, you shouldn't be in charge of the money anyway.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that your car can do a burnout that will rotate a manhole cover?
(potential flamebait removed for clarity) Um... I doubt it. Manhole covers are HEAVY! They have to be in order to avoid changing shape when force is applied to the broad dimension. (so your car don't fall in the hole). They are also slick on top as they are made out of metal (see above WRT your car not falling in.) With five hundred pounds of car sitting on top of one (A fourth of a very light car for being powerful enough to accomplish this feat) there would be a hell of a lot of static friction between the cover and the flange it sists on.
In order to get enough traction and apply enough force to turn one you'd have to have awfully wide tires. With tires that wide you'd overlap the center of the cover or the circumference of it in any but the freakest of circumstances. In order to do this even on purpose you'd have to have big old MT wrinkle-wall slicks and about 700'/lbs of torque on a manhole with a diameter of about five feet or more. Anybody with that kind of meats has some sort of posi/sure-grip/locker, etc... rear end that would launch the car before that one wheel started to spin.
Any car that could do this would sure get my attention because it wouldn't be street legal and would be poorly built as well. This absolutly can not have been a design concern.
Bah. The edsel was just ahead of it's time. It was a cool car. I know of a guy in my area who restores them.:) Heck. I even saw one at the WoW show with a 427 Cobra Jet;>
Most people who slag the edsel couldn't even pick one out of a lineup. I'm not accusing you of this, but I've found it to be true. A lot of people just think it's a crap car because that's what they've heard. They don't even know what it is or why it got it's reputation.
*shrug* I got 275K miles out of my motor (first-gen, not a 13b. I think it was an '83 car) with no rebuild. Only things I ever replaced were the starter and alternator. I wouldn't call the car fast, as such, because it had not torque whatsoever. Once you got it moving it was pretty jumpy, though and I would regularly bury the tach in races. Holding out longer between shifts then powershifting it bought it a little bit of an edge over just about anybody who didn't completely smoke you off the line.
One time I did try to start it with ether though. NEVER do that to a rotory. Heh. Siezed the engine in about two seconds and had to push start it to unlock it. Tore up the seals pretty good I think because after that it lost a bit of power and burned quite a bit more oil than it used to.
I was with you right up until you contradicted yourself. If you had said "A small change in the input _MIGHT_ have a drastic change on the output" then you would have made a good point but still the point would have been that in a chaotic system something _MIGHT_ happen and you can logically also say that something _MIGHT_NOT_ happen.
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Worse yet, they may mistake my volkswagen beetle for a meteor.:P
How I and DeputySpade interpret that is "the licence says Open Source but the project manager treats it like Share Source".
This is exactly right. The poster is either using a poorly managed OSS project as evidence that SS doesn't work (Not sure how one makes that logical connection, but whatever...) or he's saying that neither open source, nor shared source is better than closed.
I might add that obviously the word 'gonad' was a central component of the point I was making and therefore the entire post should be moderated accordingly.
/me mutters something profound about humorless slashdot mopes
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I have no idea why this got modded insightful. Funny, more like. What thie poster, and everyone else who replied, failed to mention is that nearly all third party hardware/software vendors certify their products to work with Red Hat Advanced Server (Primarily because of the predictable release cycle). If your RAID controler goes belly up due to a bug in the driver and you call the help desk, what do you suppose they will say when you tell them that you run gentoo? What will Oracle say when you tell them that you run LFS? I mean, seriously. Come on. You don't actually work in an enterprise environment, do you?
Why does everyone think that they need to pay for Advanced Server? It costs the same as any other Linux distribution. That is, whatever it costs you for the bandwidth to download it. Anybody who doesn't understand this shouldn't be in charge of the decision of which to buy (enterprise with its high cost or standard with its short lifespan) because they don't have a fundamental grasp on the fact that they don't need to pay for either. If you need the _SUPPORT_, then great. Pay for it, but don't bicker about if you should shell out the cash for AS when you don't need it.
Nobody really gets it for the articles, duh!
Sorry... Couldn't resist.
With all the tripe that got modded up as "informative" or "insightful" this didn't get one single mod? WTF?
Hahahahaha! You stupid Anonymous Coward,
:P
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How ironic.
I know the conversation is basically over, but I just can't let this one go. My initial reaction to this statement was, and I quote for you now:.
"BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA".
Allow me to quote the Telegraph (one of many sources with this info):.
The dam will flood 137 cities and towns; 1,300 factories; 1,100 villages; 4,000 hospitals and clinics; 40,000 grave sites and at least 178 rubbish dumps containing 2.8 million tons of garbage..
The reformist Southern Weekend newspaper, quoting an official survey, recently disclosed that the waters will also cover "123 sources of radioactive debris"..
Another passage from the same article:.
An illicit tour of the reservoir site revealed the sham nature of much of the clean-up. The campaign officially began in the river town of Fengjie, with the demolition of an office building and power plant. State television carried the blasts live, hailing them as a "wonderful scene"..
Television did not show the mountain of garbage which has been collecting for more than a decade on the banks of the Yangtze, ready to be washed away by the reservoir. Officially, Fengjie built a new hilltop rubbish dump a few years ago.
But rubbish is still dumped on the riverside every day to be picked over by families of scavengers employed by the city to work and live on the dump. One scavenger, Mr Long, said his employers had no plans to remove the garbage before next year's flooding.
And yet another....
Mr Long's wife, who had a scabby-faced toddler playing in the rubbish at her feet, predicted that a hidden plague of rats will emerge next year. Outside the city, farmers were picking over the rubble of the Fengjie Construction Cement Works.
One of them, Mr Yu, said demolition contractors had removed only valuable scrap from the site. "They threw the polluted waste in there," he said, pointing to a blackened riverside gully.
The farmers, from nearby Guanmiao village, said the factory had been a major polluter. "The smoke and dust turned oranges black on the trees for miles around and killed all the small trees. "Oranges from round here are famous across China. But we couldn't sell ours," said Mr Yu.
Us? We? Speak for yourself. Very few of the hundreds of millions of people who live in this country drive to work in SUVs. Very few use, much less own computers with clock speeds in the 2+GHz range. Very very very few read /. Shame many who do are self-loathing twits who tend to project their own inferiority complexes onto the rest.
I resettle ever 6 months to a year (not entirely by choice) so I can hardly feel sorry for such people.
Maybe not, but I'm sure they feel sorry for you.
Where the hell are my mod points when I need them? With your permission, I'll be emailing a link to this post to most everyone I know.
Needless to say, I was appauled that we had to program these features into our claim system.
/., roll over in the real world. Rock on!
Yet I'm sure you went ahead and did it anyway. You go, girl. Bitch on
Besides that fact, if having all the bills the same size and color is the right thing to do, why not the same with the coins?
I would think that the answer to this would be obvious even to a *ahem* non-American. A coin was originally a commodity. It _WAS_ the money. The size of the coin and the material it was made of was the source of its value. Dollar bills were certificates for a commodity, not a commodity in and of themselves. As all certificates are equally useless untill you cash them in at which point the only important bit is the number in the corner, there's no ihnerent value in making them all different. Of course, they are anyway and anybody with half of one functional eye can tell the difference between the common bills at a glance. What makes you think that dying the money like easter eggs makes it more intuitive? Prices are not listed on items in any store in London as "One blue bill and two red ones" so why are different colors so much less inherently confusing? You still have to read the number if you're unfamiliar with the currency. Like another poster said, if you can't be bothered to look at the numbers that are printed on all eight corners, you shouldn't be in charge of the money anyway.
LOL!
"Read the article... Sheesh." is modded up as "informative"? That's awesome.
Oh, come on??? Not one moderator thought this was funny?
The internet keeps records?
Getting people to use the service would not be all that difficult.
Sending gobs of bulk mail to uninterested parties costs them money. This would be a valuable service for the bulk mailer to take advantage of.
I won't tell my '72 Dodge Charger that you said that.
Ah, yes, you're right. I've been out of the networking field long enough that the finer details are starting to slip... (no pun intended)
Wow. That was subtle. I almost missed it.
Why is there no mod option for -1 self-promoting?
Your sig just cracked me up. :D
Are you seriously trying to tell me that your car can do a burnout that will rotate a manhole cover?
(potential flamebait removed for clarity) Um... I doubt it. Manhole covers are HEAVY! They have to be in order to avoid changing shape when force is applied to the broad dimension. (so your car don't fall in the hole). They are also slick on top as they are made out of metal (see above WRT your car not falling in.) With five hundred pounds of car sitting on top of one (A fourth of a very light car for being powerful enough to accomplish this feat) there would be a hell of a lot of static friction between the cover and the flange it sists on.
In order to get enough traction and apply enough force to turn one you'd have to have awfully wide tires. With tires that wide you'd overlap the center of the cover or the circumference of it in any but the freakest of circumstances. In order to do this even on purpose you'd have to have big old MT wrinkle-wall slicks and about 700'/lbs of torque on a manhole with a diameter of about five feet or more. Anybody with that kind of meats has some sort of posi/sure-grip/locker, etc... rear end that would launch the car before that one wheel started to spin.
Any car that could do this would sure get my attention because it wouldn't be street legal and would be poorly built as well. This absolutly can not have been a design concern.
Bah. The edsel was just ahead of it's time. It was a cool car. I know of a guy in my area who restores them. :) Heck. I even saw one at the WoW show with a 427 Cobra Jet ;>
Most people who slag the edsel couldn't even pick one out of a lineup. I'm not accusing you of this, but I've found it to be true. A lot of people just think it's a crap car because that's what they've heard. They don't even know what it is or why it got it's reputation.
*shrug* I got 275K miles out of my motor (first-gen, not a 13b. I think it was an '83 car) with no rebuild. Only things I ever replaced were the starter and alternator. I wouldn't call the car fast, as such, because it had not torque whatsoever. Once you got it moving it was pretty jumpy, though and I would regularly bury the tach in races. Holding out longer between shifts then powershifting it bought it a little bit of an edge over just about anybody who didn't completely smoke you off the line.
One time I did try to start it with ether though. NEVER do that to a rotory. Heh. Siezed the engine in about two seconds and had to push start it to unlock it. Tore up the seals pretty good I think because after that it lost a bit of power and burned quite a bit more oil than it used to.
*sigh* I miss that car.
I was with you right up until you contradicted yourself. If you had said "A small change in the input _MIGHT_ have a drastic change on the output" then you would have made a good point but still the point would have been that in a chaotic system something _MIGHT_ happen and you can logically also say that something _MIGHT_NOT_ happen.
Worse yet, they may mistake my volkswagen beetle for a meteor. :P
How I and DeputySpade interpret that is "the licence says Open Source but the project manager treats it like Share Source".
/me mutters something profound about humorless slashdot mopes
This is exactly right. The poster is either using a poorly managed OSS project as evidence that SS doesn't work (Not sure how one makes that logical connection, but whatever...) or he's saying that neither open source, nor shared source is better than closed.
I might add that obviously the word 'gonad' was a central component of the point I was making and therefore the entire post should be moderated accordingly.