Unices are being deployed across more and more diverse kinds of systems, and dependencies on python and d-bus, both of which projects I support in themselves, are not going to be welcome in the init of the majority of unix systems today, especially in servers or embedded systems.
This still won't stop the GNU folks from fucking it up, though, because more dependencies ensure GPL-lock-in (you didn't think it could happen to us, too, did you?). This isn't a troll, but a very serious issue, where lots of software is becoming very GNU-specific rather than UNIX-specific (I hope everyone can see this distinction).
The bottleneck is all the processes that most init-scripts start at bootup, as well as stuff like hardware detection, waiting for DHCP leases, etc.
This is very true. Even Solaris will boot in well under a minute when its rc?.d directories are trimmed to a desktop-suitable state. On my seven-year-old Sun workstation, it really seems the POST phase is longer than the actual boot. Seriously, booting is my last concern with Solaris/Linux/BSD/whatever. Especially since my UPS allows very significant uptime even on a crappy home power connection.
When you combine that with WiFi/sattellite access the infrastructure advantages of cities become far less pronounced.
If you ignore the noise, trash, and congestion, a city offers these advantages:
1) Cultural diversity (real restaurants, a symphony, interesting festivals, etc.) 2) Ambulance service
Aside from those, cities really do suck pretty hard, especially mid-sized American sprawls, where it takes 30 minutes to go seven miles. Seriously, it's better to live in downtown if you can afford it than live in some hokey suburb...otherwise go out to the boonies.
go to an Al-Anon meeting and survey some of the damage those non-victims have been put through.
The victimization directly due to the war on drugs makes these "Al-Anon" meetings look like an episode of the Care Bears. Organized drug crime in cities results in murder, theft, and fear. The victimization you speak of is just the teary-eyed garbage the Democrats use to forward their agendas.
Enlighten me on how the drug industry, addiction, and kids messing up their life is a victimless crime...
One, harming one's self is not (or should not be) a crime. Any victimization due to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. is generally that of other people affected. For example, if a drunk driver kills himself by hitting a tree, that is good (very good), but if a drunk driver kills someone else, that is murder.
Two, prohibition leads directly to organized crime and all the pain and suffereing caused by it. Extortion, racketeering, blackmail, murder, you name it. The inner cities of the USA are the victims of drug prohibition.
Of course, drugs that are insanely dangerous and can kill in one dose should be considered for banning. But banning marijuana is just stupid, for example.
So, legalizing most drugs would:
- drop the prices of drugs immensely, freeing some people from lives where crime is the only way to pay for their fix. An addict could at least get a shitty job to pay for their addiction or take money otherwise wasted on drugs and seek therapy. - suprisingly to most people, crime rates would drop everywhere as organized crime evaporates and drug-related theft and murder vanishes.
The war on drugs is a good example of how bad the "we must think of the children" philosophy of lawmaking can get. It is naive, short-sighted, and ultimately very harmful to our society.
The small, independent, one and two man ecommerce sites are the ones that will be hit the hardest with a new tax system. They really won't have the resources to figure out the tax system.
Actually, services like Yahoo! Store will probably skyrocket in popularity, where, for a monthly hosting fee, all the taxes and CC infrastructure is taken care of. So, even if taxes are forced down our throats, small businesses can eek out of the pain for $60/month.
All the mandator social BS is driving companies out of the area left and right with minimum wage hikes and outrageous workers comp/unemployment insurance requirements.
It is highly ironic that what was one of the fastest growing economies in the world elected Democrated leadership. Did they shoot themeselves in their feet just out of curiousity? Now that they are bleeding and in pain, did they learn their lesson?
If you want to be protectionist by making it harder to off-shore work, shouldn't you also be trying to limit OSS?
No, because protectionism is stupid. Also, it is pretty stupid to try to earn a living creating products that are available free elsewhere. Why invent a whole new line of wood screws, when everyone will just go to Home Depot and buy them for a penny a piece there instead of from you?
Recognize that OSS is the free market as it should be, where some software just isn't profitable, anymore, and no legislated fantasy will change that.
Actually, OSS is doing a great service, where people don't need to waste time trying to market office suites, for example. There are bigger and better things to go on to, even if we haven't imagined them, yet. I believe that's what innovation really is, no matter how much Microsoft tries to destroy that word for their own ends.
There's also the issue that under some compilers there are different things that occur when you compile in debug mode and when you compile in "release" mode.
Ahh, bugs that appear only with optimization...that brings back some not-so-fond memories. Bugs like this really are compiler bugs, because the compiler is no longer deterministic from the programmer's point of view. Actually, things like not initializing pointers because of performance is pretty dumb, where there should be a flag forcing the programmer to consciencously disable it. I'd take a segfault due to a null pointer over randomly overwriting data structures any day.
Good bit there, but wouldn't/shouldn't the 1.1.0 version have the debugging stripped out to lean it up a bit?
I've been bitten by leaving debugging symbols out of open-source software I've compiled. On the occasions that something crashes a program, being able to get something other than gibberish out of a core file is very helpful. It also allows people to e-mail a stack trace along with bug reports. Even though debugging symbols add bloat, I'm almost in favor of distributions leaving them in by default to aid the more-eyes-make-bugs-shallow theory.
none of those things are subject to a simple "incorporation" contract drawn up between a couple.
Why not? A contract is a contract. This is why I don't understand all the government's distinctions between gay, straight, polygamy, etc. If I have three gay lovers, seven straight ones, and two pigs for good measure, as long as they all agree to be beneficiaries (by default for the pigs, of course) why should the insurance companies care?
I have yet to be convinced that abandoning a paper-based financial contract for critical things like power and water is a good idea. I will absolutely never give any company access to automatically withdrawl money from my accounts, that's for sure.
One big gripe I have is that my company no longer sends paper pay stubs. Employees have to actively log into the companies internal website to print out "official" stubs. I don't see how an 8x11" print-out from Netscape can be considered "official." However, the non-itemized deposit on my bank statement is probably sufficient, I guess.
Expanding legal rights to gay couples does not constitute "legislating lifestyles," whatever that means.
Yes it does, because it implies they didn't have those rights before. Marriage should not be a legal entity, period, except when any two or more people agree to share property and money (for estate planning purposes).
You advocate both dropping the bottom out on the working poor while cutting all the funding that pays for our welfare programs, our health and social security programs, as well as all the other important law and safety enforcement programs in the federal government.
No I don't. The only way to get rid of the minimum wage successfully is to do so gradually. Over thirty years or more. I wasn't clear about this earlier. For every week's worth of damage done by the Dems and the Repubs it'll take a decade to fix it.
The federal government does not provide subsidies to states.
Then explain all the grants regarding public schooling and housing subsidies, for example.
The biggest example of this is transportation funding.
The interstate highway system has military significance for national defense (a post-WWII strategy). Aside from that, most public transportation systems are failing (city busses, Amtrack, etc.).
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So I skimmed through the D-BUS spec and, as I expected, they are simply reinventing CORBA.
What are the problems with a slightly souped-up syslog?
Unices are being deployed across more and more diverse kinds of systems, and dependencies on python and d-bus, both of which projects I support in themselves, are not going to be welcome in the init of the majority of unix systems today, especially in servers or embedded systems.
This still won't stop the GNU folks from fucking it up, though, because more dependencies ensure GPL-lock-in (you didn't think it could happen to us, too, did you?). This isn't a troll, but a very serious issue, where lots of software is becoming very GNU-specific rather than UNIX-specific (I hope everyone can see this distinction).
The bottleneck is all the processes that most init-scripts start at bootup, as well as stuff like hardware detection, waiting for DHCP leases, etc.
This is very true. Even Solaris will boot in well under a minute when its rc?.d directories are trimmed to a desktop-suitable state. On my seven-year-old Sun workstation, it really seems the POST phase is longer than the actual boot. Seriously, booting is my last concern with Solaris/Linux/BSD/whatever. Especially since my UPS allows very significant uptime even on a crappy home power connection.
Don't worry, someone will have to raise taxes in the future to pay for lower taxes today.
Cutting spending is better.
When you combine that with WiFi/sattellite access the infrastructure advantages of cities become far less pronounced.
If you ignore the noise, trash, and congestion, a city offers these advantages:
1) Cultural diversity (real restaurants, a symphony, interesting festivals, etc.)
2) Ambulance service
Aside from those, cities really do suck pretty hard, especially mid-sized American sprawls, where it takes 30 minutes to go seven miles. Seriously, it's better to live in downtown if you can afford it than live in some hokey suburb...otherwise go out to the boonies.
Even when a government program fails miserably, government still profits. I'll cite the "war on drugs" as an obvious example.
If the country reacts irrationally to today's economy, you can cite national healthcare, too, in a few years.
"And, now, from the makers of the IRS, the USPTO, and your beloved local DMV and coming to a hospital near you...UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!"
Sigh. Why is the voting public so naive?
we can determine the exponential rate at which the number of bugs in open source software decreases.
go to an Al-Anon meeting and survey some of the damage those non-victims have been put through.
The victimization directly due to the war on drugs makes these "Al-Anon" meetings look like an episode of the Care Bears. Organized drug crime in cities results in murder, theft, and fear. The victimization you speak of is just the teary-eyed garbage the Democrats use to forward their agendas.
Enlighten me on how the drug industry, addiction, and kids messing up their life is a victimless crime...
One, harming one's self is not (or should not be) a crime. Any victimization due to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. is generally that of other people affected. For example, if a drunk driver kills himself by hitting a tree, that is good (very good), but if a drunk driver kills someone else, that is murder.
Two, prohibition leads directly to organized crime and all the pain and suffereing caused by it. Extortion, racketeering, blackmail, murder, you name it. The inner cities of the USA are the victims of drug prohibition.
Of course, drugs that are insanely dangerous and can kill in one dose should be considered for banning. But banning marijuana is just stupid, for example.
So, legalizing most drugs would:
- drop the prices of drugs immensely, freeing some people from lives where crime is the only way to pay for their fix. An addict could at least get a shitty job to pay for their addiction or take money otherwise wasted on drugs and seek therapy.
- suprisingly to most people, crime rates would drop everywhere as organized crime evaporates and drug-related theft and murder vanishes.
The war on drugs is a good example of how bad the "we must think of the children" philosophy of lawmaking can get. It is naive, short-sighted, and ultimately very harmful to our society.
The small, independent, one and two man ecommerce sites are the ones that will be hit the hardest with a new tax system. They really won't have the resources to figure out the tax system.
Actually, services like Yahoo! Store will probably skyrocket in popularity, where, for a monthly hosting fee, all the taxes and CC infrastructure is taken care of. So, even if taxes are forced down our throats, small businesses can eek out of the pain for $60/month.
All the mandator social BS is driving companies out of the area left and right with minimum wage hikes and outrageous workers comp/unemployment insurance requirements.
It is highly ironic that what was one of the fastest growing economies in the world elected Democrated leadership. Did they shoot themeselves in their feet just out of curiousity? Now that they are bleeding and in pain, did they learn their lesson?
If you want to be protectionist by making it harder to off-shore work, shouldn't you also be trying to limit OSS?
No, because protectionism is stupid. Also, it is pretty stupid to try to earn a living creating products that are available free elsewhere. Why invent a whole new line of wood screws, when everyone will just go to Home Depot and buy them for a penny a piece there instead of from you?
Recognize that OSS is the free market as it should be, where some software just isn't profitable, anymore, and no legislated fantasy will change that.
Actually, OSS is doing a great service, where people don't need to waste time trying to market office suites, for example. There are bigger and better things to go on to, even if we haven't imagined them, yet. I believe that's what innovation really is, no matter how much Microsoft tries to destroy that word for their own ends.
There's also the issue that under some compilers there are different things that occur when you compile in debug mode and when you compile in "release" mode.
Ahh, bugs that appear only with optimization...that brings back some not-so-fond memories. Bugs like this really are compiler bugs, because the compiler is no longer deterministic from the programmer's point of view. Actually, things like not initializing pointers because of performance is pretty dumb, where there should be a flag forcing the programmer to consciencously disable it. I'd take a segfault due to a null pointer over randomly overwriting data structures any day.
Good bit there, but wouldn't/shouldn't the 1.1.0 version have the debugging stripped out to lean it up a bit?
I've been bitten by leaving debugging symbols out of open-source software I've compiled. On the occasions that something crashes a program, being able to get something other than gibberish out of a core file is very helpful. It also allows people to e-mail a stack trace along with bug reports. Even though debugging symbols add bloat, I'm almost in favor of distributions leaving them in by default to aid the more-eyes-make-bugs-shallow theory.
none of those things are subject to a simple "incorporation" contract drawn up between a couple.
Why not? A contract is a contract. This is why I don't understand all the government's distinctions between gay, straight, polygamy, etc. If I have three gay lovers, seven straight ones, and two pigs for good measure, as long as they all agree to be beneficiaries (by default for the pigs, of course) why should the insurance companies care?
The US charges a higher duty for import items classified as a TV.
Why? To prop up the already-defunct American TV industry?
Hey, they give recognition to straight couples, why not gay couples?
Exactly, what I'm saying is that the government shouldn't even be making these distinctions.
We never write checks and mail them to pay bills.
I have yet to be convinced that abandoning a paper-based financial contract for critical things like power and water is a good idea. I will absolutely never give any company access to automatically withdrawl money from my accounts, that's for sure.
One big gripe I have is that my company no longer sends paper pay stubs. Employees have to actively log into the companies internal website to print out "official" stubs. I don't see how an 8x11" print-out from Netscape can be considered "official." However, the non-itemized deposit on my bank statement is probably sufficient, I guess.
No, the Internet provides no knowledge for me.
(for the irony-impared, consider that I'm posting this to Slashdot, in response to an article posted to Slashdot)
Expanding legal rights to gay couples does not constitute "legislating lifestyles," whatever that means.
Yes it does, because it implies they didn't have those rights before. Marriage should not be a legal entity, period, except when any two or more people agree to share property and money (for estate planning purposes).
You advocate both dropping the bottom out on the working poor while cutting all the funding that pays for our welfare programs, our health and social security programs, as well as all the other important law and safety enforcement programs in the federal government.
No I don't. The only way to get rid of the minimum wage successfully is to do so gradually. Over thirty years or more. I wasn't clear about this earlier. For every week's worth of damage done by the Dems and the Repubs it'll take a decade to fix it.
The sad thing is, what happens there affects the whole country.
California is still the fifth largest economy in the world. The democrats screwing it up affects everyone.
granting illegal immigrants the right to driver's licenses
They don't need US driver's licenses, because a mutual agreement with Mexico would be sufficient.
enacting the nation's toughest financial-privacy and antispam measures
Making doing business in California harder than ever.
expanding the rights of gay domestic partners
The fact that the government has the gall to legislate lifestyles is appalling.
Politicians suck (okay, most politicians suck).
The federal government does not provide subsidies to states.
Then explain all the grants regarding public schooling and housing subsidies, for example.
The biggest example of this is transportation funding.
The interstate highway system has military significance for national defense (a post-WWII strategy). Aside from that, most public transportation systems are failing (city busses, Amtrack, etc.).