This is forever. It's genetically inherited and it can NEVER be cured. There is no way to know how bad the effects will be (i.e. disease, immunity response, deformities, life span, etc) in the offspring for all generations. And all you can do is make jokes and actually excuse it!! Wow... Is something wrong with your brainwashed, apathetic, sorry excuse for minds? They used to say the same things about cigarettes except this can never be quit, and it effects all these victims' children and their children and on and on... Ya, it's real fucking funny. It's people like you that make this world shit.
How is this more permanent than taking a piss in the ocean?
Where do you get your notion of genetic permanence from anyway, how do you think those butterflies got whatever traits they have now?
So the fact that Apple was on the ropes and facing the threat of bankruptcy and nonexistence back in the 90s and early 2000s thanks to that aggregate statistic that "isn't really all that important" means nothing in your little world?
People wanted "a PC". They didn't want "a Mac". "A Mac" didn't run the programs "a PC" did, and was more expensive. People didn't care that what they bought was a Dell, or an HP, or a Vaio, or whatever. And it turned out the market didn't care, either. The aggregate sales of PCs beat the pants off of Macs in sales. Period. Apple knows this. They are terrified of what this means, because Steve won't come back to save their asses this time around.
What does the entire "Apple sells the most of a single specific model of phone, and depends on that one single model of phone to promote their phone infrastructure, without which they're left with nothing" statistic MEAN, anyway? Um... good for Apple? Meanwhile, 68% of the smartphone market are using Android phones?
You just keep saying the same thing over and over as if it makes it true. Profit matters, and how big a slice you take out of a given market.
If the roles were reversed and Apple had 68% of the smartphone market by volume, how much more profit would they then have? By that chart, only a teensy bit more, for a linear increase in expense of moving and supporting two or three times as many units.
The whole "Macs don't run the same software" crap smells as bad now as it did then. People are buying tablets for the first time, a new form factor with all new software and use cases. Game consoles change every couple years, new platforms come and go. Popular platforms get tons of software and games, then morons attribute the success to... lots of software and/or games.
Fun fact: the iPad and XBox launched with DICK for software. It's all about timing, not a magic software market going back in time to pick its leader.
I'm a user of MS, Apple and Android based products. I'm getting tired of Apple's sue happy policy and I will take that into serious consideration during any future purchases.
Apple is making MS look less douchebaggish by comparison.
Nothing is more douchebaggish than "I won't buy XYZ any more because of blah blah emotional decision" posts on the Internet.
Lets you use any SSD as a cache in front of another filesystem.
Solaris and Windows have been shipping with production ready L2 FS cache for years already, L2ARC/ReadyBoost. I'll give Apple a pass because their systems are mostly not designed for adding drives, and they were apparently betting on high capacity SSDs coming down in price by now. Desktops have less of a need for caches in the tens of GB anyway. Linux, as a server OS doesn't have much of a good excuse, why wasn't L2 cache worked out years ago when everyone was racing for TRIM support? Using smaller cheaper SSD drives as L2 cache almost makes too much sense. It covers up the short write cycle lifetime and poor sequential read performance. 60 some odd GB of cache starts to look pretty dang good for a lot of server workloads.
I feel I should point this out because these cheesy Linux +1 MeToo posts are _really_ aggravating to people who use it professionally. It's a tool. We're not in love with it.
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1114013 The developer apparently didn't even know what the ARC algorithm is... which is just bizarre, like developing a race car without knowing what variable valve timing is. Not saying it is needed, but what level of quality do you expect out of this?
How many of those Apple users lining up to buy the new Iphones are Apple employees or associates paid to stand in line? The amount of people in line is eerily similar with each product launch, how many of these people are the same and what is their association to Apple?
So destroying thousands of acres of public and private land, costing the state millions of dollars in firefighting costs, risking the lives of firefighters, and causing >9000 people to evacuate their homes and businesses doesn't really matter as long as nobody got killed and no homes were destroyed?
Even if the target shooters had the money to pay the firefighting costs (extremely unlikely), the burned lands, the threat to others' lives and property, and the loss of >9000 people's time would be worth a criminal conviction.
There have been around a dozen fires started by target shooters in Utah this year, and some were larger than this; this one gets the news because it was closer to homes.
Years ago the legislature seized power to keep counties and municipalities from enforcing anything related to shooting, and they've repealed any and all restrictions on gun use they could find. They too are responsible for the fires.
Then what are you going to do about cigarette butts, campfires, BBQs, trash burning, etc?
What the hell do guns have to do with being responsible for fire prevention? Should we ban outdoor grills?
Linux has avoided this by making its filesystem be refcounted. If a file is in use and you delete it, it stays there until the thing using it exits. So library updates just delete the old library and install a new one, while programs using the old library continue to until they're restarted. This works until you have something dynamically loading stuff, or when you have ipc between programs using the different versions of the library, or a million other modern techniques that unix designers didn't think of.
Holy CRAP, please don't paint it like Linux does what it does to "avoid a problem" - Linux does what old Unix systems always have done EXCEPT urge people to update from single user mode or reboot after any patch set - unless you read every patch's release notes and take redial action. Linux vendors just skipped that part, and shame on them.
Windows does what _it_ does to avoid the EXACT problem you go on to explain, the results of what Linux does is undefinable!
Good grief, the Stupid coming from Fedora and the GNOMEs is making my head hurt. We managed to update running systems with package management for how long? Leave it to the GNOMEs to fudge things up.... or just have Mac/Windows envy and convince themselves that this isn't a bug, it is a feature!
I'm sorry, but there is not one bit of POSIX or UNIX or Linux or Gnome or GNU or Open Source, etc. design that deals with explaining system behavior after replacing arbitrary parts of the library search path, or in general, any filesystem resources at runtime. There is nothing special happening in Linux in this regard, no magic, your emperor has no clothes.
You Linux guys have been burying your head in the sand this whole time. I sat through it while Windows locked files that were in use and you all made fun of it, Solaris recommended booting into single user mode to apply updates, and you mocked that. They improved greatly over the years, gaining convenience while maintaining system integrity at runtime. OS X, Windows, and Solaris either lock files in use, apply system updates from a special environment, snap shot a running system root, or some combination of those. Linux systems just skate by doing NOTHING, maybe an individual update will restart the service it is responsible for (MySQL RPM) maybe it wont (httpd RPM).
A god damned teenager with weeks of Unix experience can even come up with "If you only have to reboot to update your kernel, how do you patch your C runtime? Hey... what about other libraries?" It scares me that most people posting on this page have absolutely no clue how ghetto the operations behind a 'yum update' are, and many of you sadly, are professional Unix system admins. Some of you even taught yourselves not to apply system patches from a GUI tool, and you still just don't get it, you never stopped to think WHY, what was the problem, and how could that be FIXED.
It truly is scary, the lack of engineering discipline displayed by people who call themselves "geeks". Step one is admit you have a problem. Step three is do what these Fedora guys tell you to, they have a clue, you mentally lazy bastards.
What is this guy trying to accomplish other than ensuring eventual double scanning?
It's like driving through a DUI/DWI checkpoint drunk to make a point. More checkpoints.. yay? I mean these things are supposed to be deterrents.
You can't cry "naked body scanning" and at the same time say that is not acting as a deterrent, right? What is the logic, someone can see my naked body in high def and count my pubes, but I can try to bring a prohibited item through anyway? Well, duuuuuuuuh, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop you. How much confidence did this guy really have, what was the metal object anyway?
You can watch any prison show and learn a million different ways to make a shiv out of stuff on hand, it's not like specifically stopping small hunks of metal are really worth much. BUT, thanks to this guy they'll probably make you walk through the metal detector in the video TOO, just so some asshole doesn't get too confident.
I've never understood this concept, that moral rights only apply to American citizens. May be I am not smart enough to grasp the idea.
It seems to be Ok to kill any non-american without due process or self-defense. Even to kill anyone including (or around) his family/kids. It seems also fine to detain and torture foreigners for an undetermined amount of time as long it is done outside USA soil.
Can someone explain it to me? Does it mean, for example, that I can own a slave, as long is not American?
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution says
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
To your first point, do you know what the Fourteenth Amendment is? Why do you think we needed to add this text?
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
We had to add that explicitly to protect UNITED STATES CITIZENS residing in the UNITED STATES from state governments. Before that one of our own states could legally fuck you up the ass! So why would the Constitution apply to foreign nationals residing waaaaaaaay the hell out of our jurisdiction? If our laws applied everywhere, then ours laws apply everywhere... isn't that self evident? Do I need to explain why other parts of the world would not like that?
As far as I can tell buddy, you can even own an American slave as long as it's in a place that allows it and you have enough drone repellant. Good luck with that.
Well, Steve Jobs called MobileMe and the MobileMe team a massive failure himself.
"Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?" Having received a satisfactory answer, he continues, "So why the f*** doesn't it do that?" Steve Jobs summoned the entire MobileMe team for a meeting at the company's on-campus Town Hall, accusing everyone of "tarnishing Apple's reputation." He told the members of the team they "should hate each other for having let each other down", and went on to name new executives on the spot to run the MobileMe team.
Look guys and gals, I know this is going against the grain here on Slashdot, but maybe, just maybe, hang on here until I'm finished.. Maybe Steve Jobs wasn't always right? Or at least he came across as a little too anal retentive sometimes? It could just be me.
He didn't say it was a massive failure for one thing. I mean shit, are you telling me that was his body double at the iCloud launch or something? You could play the exact same scenario out with it, s/MobileMe/iCloud/g.
By the same supposed Steve Jobs reasoning you can conclude that iCloud was a massive failure right out the gate. I mean FFS, it has CLOUD in the name! THE most nebulous word in all of IT! Now are you SURE you didn't take him a little out of context?/stopsdrinkingcoffee
This is the same man who came up with "MobileMe" and Ping. Remember those massive failures? No? That's because the media ignores them in portraying Apple as a company that never makes a mistake.
Where do you get off calling MobileMe a massive failure? There's a bunch of different services that existed before MobileMe, and exist under iCloud now. Some services have changed quite a bit, like Gallery to Photo Stream, iDisk is going away, and new services like Match are available for a price, while the synchronization stuff is now free.
Who says Apple doesn't make mistakes and what makes you think the media doesn't give them coverage??
You don't even know what MobileMe is, and I'm starting to think you don't know the difference between a mistake and a failure.
Why is it that a person who did something wrong has his record tainted for the rest of his life, but somehow a corporation should be scott-free after it pays its fines?
Was Microsoft convicted of a felony? Prove it. If they were, why would that prevent them from selling a tablet computer?
So what is your question, why does society punish people with felonies longer than corporations with felonies? I wonder. Stop looking at them as 'tainted' and do your little part to help.
What are the actual implications of a person having a felony conviction? Would they make any sense applied to a corporation?
People with felony convictions have some protections, but you can stop buying Microsoft for any reason you desire.
The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces Title VII, has decided that disqualifying people who have criminal records from jobs is discriminatory because the practice disproportionately affects African American and Hispanic men. (Those two groups have much higher criminal conviction rates than do Caucasian men.)
The EEOC has ruled repeatedly that covered employers cannot simply bar felons from consideration, but must show that a conviction-based disqualification is justified by âoebusiness necessity.â The legal test requires employers to examine the (1) nature and gravity of the offense or offenses, (2) length of time since the conviction or completion of sentence, and (3) nature of the job held or sought. Under this test, employers must consider the job-relatedness of a conviction, the circumstances of the offense, and the number of offenses (EEOC Compliance Manual, Â 604 Appendices).
It's nice to talk about having one SSD for caching and then platters for big storage of everything else, but the point of the hybrid drives is that you don't have to split up your partitions and manually allocate data between the two. A device-mapper target could theoretically do the same thing, but I'm only aware of one quite new third-party driver for Windows that attempts this sort of mapping
In Windows, your L2 page caching is done with ReadyBoost. I'm almost certain Win 7 lets you use a SATA SSD with it, I'm not sure why it didn't do that originally. ReadyBoost was designed for USB flash drives so it has some logic to detect sequential IO and go direct to spinning disk for that. That might not make as much sense for decent SSDs.
For a fileserver, you could use Solaris and ZFS. It has an L2ARC for SSDs and ARC is a really interesting algorithm that prevents your cache from being flushed by really big one time reads.
Linux... I'm sure has a ghetto "me too" L2 page cache in the works somewhere, who knows.
Any proper system would have the end user hold the root key for the system and they could choose (or not) to bless certs from various vendors (or just directly sign the bootloader). Of course, MS doesn't want a proper system, they want lock-in.
I'm Steve Jobs and the rules don't apply to me, and besides, the sanctity of my Mercedes is more important than their legal right to a parking spot near the front doors.
How do you know he didn't have extra handicap spots painted in front of each of his buildings? I think a CEO can walk up to a facilities maintenance guy on his payroll and ask for whatever the hell he wants.
Regardless, I don't see it as a huge display of ego like some of you do, he may have been entirely pragmatic about it. You'd bitch as much about ego if there was a spot in front of every Apple building labeled "Steve Jobs", "CEO", or "Executive" I suppose.
He didn't give us Windows, he forced windows on us by having an exclusive contract with the PC vendors.
So.... he forced PCs on you too? You don't suppose PCs became so successful because of.. I don't know.. in part because of the software they shipped with?
I'm on the fence about corporate tax, because I consider it triple dipping.
Help me understand what is bad about that taxes coming from multiple sources.
Money moves around like water. Why does sucking it from one spot sound like such a great idea to some folks? [play jeopardy theme]
The total amount of water being sucked out is a different issue. Even then, some people pretend that water just gets sucked out and ejected to outer space as if the Boeings, LHM's, Raytheons, General Dynamics, etc etc etc of the world don't pay high salaries back into the system.
You ask why do people ignore all the other points? Honestly? Why would a non-technical person give a damn, and why should they? Expanding the scope more, why would most technical people care, they are not all software developers, don't all have the skills to utilize a project's code, or consciously choose not to have the responsibility of inspecting and modifying a free project's code because that has dick to do with operations.
The OSI's definition of Open Source, at least the _bottom_ half of their wishlist _tries_ to appear sincerely altruistic - "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups/Fields of Endeavor" etc. The Free Software Def. fairly clearly says "do what I want and give it away".
Neither mention anything about quality, or improving the state of the art, things people DO care about and will PAY FOR.
However, I personally am more interested in the ability of organise my desktop in such a way that maximises my ease of use
How software functions has _NOTHING_ to do with this. Write your own software that does what you want. I can say that _fully_ within the spirit of free open software, so you can't complain. Or are you really telling me you wrote a custom patch for complex desktop software, and maintain it or fight with the original authors to accept it, just to organize your desktop... for your "ease of use"? Why would other people care?
If we have to wait for "proper" OS support, they'll never come - the OS support won't be fully fixed until there is a demand for it.
Except for all those cases a company named after a fruit managed to show the way to something better? Maybe YOUR OS vendor should "Think Different"? Just saying...
Joking aside, Microsoft can and has lead the way on a great deal of things too, and they still might. One of Apple or Microsoft will move on to push high DPI way before it comes to people jumping up and down screaming with bigass monitors in hand.
Most people don't even know why they want a kick ass new display yet because they haven't been told.
A "just works" version of Windows, that MS sold support for, marketed toward businesses, that just stayed the same forever. As it is, MS makes its money on new versions. That's fine for MS, but bad for businesses that don't want to upgrade every four - six years. If MS made money selling a business copy of windows and then got a fair amount for support and updates on it perpetually, it would be win/win for businesses, developers, and MS.
Where I work at, we installed new systems in police stations in the last two years that were brand new and had Windows XP on them, because the software at the time didn't have Windows 7 drivers.
I think it would end up with the same backlash Solaris suffered as Linux systems started pushing it out. People would poo all over it because their shell wasn't BASH or it didn't have the latest gadgets. I'm not saying you are wrong, I do agree with you.
The problem will be the same though, there are too many geeks out there who love tech but employ no engineering discipline. I'm not accusing geeks of being fiscally conservative, it's just that I think nobody will argue when they suggest the cheapest or free solutions, so those bubble up. Stuff they play with at home sounds like an awesome idea for work...
You're dealing with the same forces that pushed every new generation of cheap shiny stuff into datacenters, x86, Windows, Linux, etc.. Nothing wrong in and of themselves, but they carry a lot of baggage for what most people need. Things should be _simpler_, and racing to the bottom doesn't lead there - look at Apple vs. "PC" industry for example... Simple or cheap, pick one I guess:\
I think I would be satisfied if VMware made an OS, not just the hypervisor. Speaking from IT Operations perspective I would love to not ever have to ssh or rdesktop again, and just bolt the whole thing to a configuration management interface and be done.
If you can sell a thousand copies for $100 each, or a million copies for $10 each, and choose the former, the only thing to do
So you are saying everyone is entitled to cheap entertainment, cheap being whatever you dictate.
How about a billion copies for a penny each? Where do we stop playing this silly game of assuming twice as many people are always willing to pay half as much.
Or at the very least, not complain when people copy your shit.
I don't think there is a good excuse for unlicensed viewing of recorded entertainment other than "because we can." These aren't presidential debates, it's just entertainment! Enough with the retarded financial and moral arguments.
Everyone wants more for less, and to tell others how to run their business. o_O
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This is forever. It's genetically inherited and it can NEVER be cured. There is no way to know how bad the effects will be (i.e. disease, immunity response, deformities, life span, etc) in the offspring for all generations. And all you can do is make jokes and actually excuse it!! Wow... Is something wrong with your brainwashed, apathetic, sorry excuse for minds? They used to say the same things about cigarettes except this can never be quit, and it effects all these victims' children and their children and on and on... Ya, it's real fucking funny. It's people like you that make this world shit.
How is this more permanent than taking a piss in the ocean?
Where do you get your notion of genetic permanence from anyway, how do you think those butterflies got whatever traits they have now?
So the fact that Apple was on the ropes and facing the threat of bankruptcy and nonexistence back in the 90s and early 2000s thanks to that aggregate statistic that "isn't really all that important" means nothing in your little world?
People wanted "a PC". They didn't want "a Mac". "A Mac" didn't run the programs "a PC" did, and was more expensive. People didn't care that what they bought was a Dell, or an HP, or a Vaio, or whatever. And it turned out the market didn't care, either. The aggregate sales of PCs beat the pants off of Macs in sales. Period. Apple knows this. They are terrified of what this means, because Steve won't come back to save their asses this time around.
What does the entire "Apple sells the most of a single specific model of phone, and depends on that one single model of phone to promote their phone infrastructure, without which they're left with nothing" statistic MEAN, anyway? Um... good for Apple? Meanwhile, 68% of the smartphone market are using Android phones?
You just keep saying the same thing over and over as if it makes it true. Profit matters, and how big a slice you take out of a given market.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57427811-37/apple-samsung-put-hammerlock-on-smartphone-profits/
If the roles were reversed and Apple had 68% of the smartphone market by volume, how much more profit would they then have? By that chart, only a teensy bit more, for a linear increase in expense of moving and supporting two or three times as many units.
The whole "Macs don't run the same software" crap smells as bad now as it did then. People are buying tablets for the first time, a new form factor with all new software and use cases. Game consoles change every couple years, new platforms come and go. Popular platforms get tons of software and games, then morons attribute the success to... lots of software and/or games.
Fun fact: the iPad and XBox launched with DICK for software. It's all about timing, not a magic software market going back in time to pick its leader.
I'm a user of MS, Apple and Android based products. I'm getting tired of Apple's sue happy policy and I will take that into serious consideration during any future purchases.
Apple is making MS look less douchebaggish by comparison.
Nothing is more douchebaggish than "I won't buy XYZ any more because of blah blah emotional decision" posts on the Internet.
The eyes of the technology world are focused on the epic patent struggle between Apple and Samsung
No, but nice try.
For Linux users: http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/
Lets you use any SSD as a cache in front of another filesystem.
Solaris and Windows have been shipping with production ready L2 FS cache for years already, L2ARC/ReadyBoost. I'll give Apple a pass because their systems are mostly not designed for adding drives, and they were apparently betting on high capacity SSDs coming down in price by now. Desktops have less of a need for caches in the tens of GB anyway. Linux, as a server OS doesn't have much of a good excuse, why wasn't L2 cache worked out years ago when everyone was racing for TRIM support? Using smaller cheaper SSD drives as L2 cache almost makes too much sense. It covers up the short write cycle lifetime and poor sequential read performance. 60 some odd GB of cache starts to look pretty dang good for a lot of server workloads.
I feel I should point this out because these cheesy Linux +1 MeToo posts are _really_ aggravating to people who use it professionally. It's a tool. We're not in love with it.
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1114013
The developer apparently didn't even know what the ARC algorithm is... which is just bizarre, like developing a race car without knowing what variable valve timing is. Not saying it is needed, but what level of quality do you expect out of this?
How many of those Apple users lining up to buy the new Iphones are Apple employees or associates paid to stand in line? The amount of people in line is eerily similar with each product launch, how many of these people are the same and what is their association to Apple?
Undercover marketing is real. For all who don't know what it is, here is a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcZkbUH-lOc
The man in the video does not appear to be honest.
Why would you pay kids to walk around and eat popcorn and cotton candy when you could just hand out a few free ones?
Same with the "leaners", it sounds too contrived, a poster, coasters, or again, giving away free stuff would be cheaper.
A huge line doesn't make people want to go stand in it. Disney puts a lot of work into hiding long lines to make the wait appear to be shorter.
What is supposed point of secret marketing other than an explanation for the popularity of something you just don't like?
So destroying thousands of acres of public and private land, costing the state millions of dollars in firefighting costs, risking the lives of firefighters, and causing >9000 people to evacuate their homes and businesses doesn't really matter as long as nobody got killed and no homes were destroyed?
Even if the target shooters had the money to pay the firefighting costs (extremely unlikely), the burned lands, the threat to others' lives and property, and the loss of >9000 people's time would be worth a criminal conviction.
There have been around a dozen fires started by target shooters in Utah this year, and some were larger than this; this one gets the news because it was closer to homes.
Years ago the legislature seized power to keep counties and municipalities from enforcing anything related to shooting, and they've repealed any and all restrictions on gun use they could find. They too are responsible for the fires.
Then what are you going to do about cigarette butts, campfires, BBQs, trash burning, etc?
What the hell do guns have to do with being responsible for fire prevention? Should we ban outdoor grills?
leaves fire prevention to the discretion of individuals
You can't change that, regardless.
Linux has avoided this by making its filesystem be refcounted. If a file is in use and you delete it, it stays there until the thing using it exits. So library updates just delete the old library and install a new one, while programs using the old library continue to until they're restarted. This works until you have something dynamically loading stuff, or when you have ipc between programs using the different versions of the library, or a million other modern techniques that unix designers didn't think of.
Holy CRAP, please don't paint it like Linux does what it does to "avoid a problem" - Linux does what old Unix systems always have done EXCEPT urge people to update from single user mode or reboot after any patch set - unless you read every patch's release notes and take redial action. Linux vendors just skipped that part, and shame on them.
Windows does what _it_ does to avoid the EXACT problem you go on to explain, the results of what Linux does is undefinable!
Good grief, the Stupid coming from Fedora and the GNOMEs is making my head hurt. We managed to update running systems with package management for how long? Leave it to the GNOMEs to fudge things up.... or just have Mac/Windows envy and convince themselves that this isn't a bug, it is a feature!
I'm sorry, but there is not one bit of POSIX or UNIX or Linux or Gnome or GNU or Open Source, etc. design that deals with explaining system behavior after replacing arbitrary parts of the library search path, or in general, any filesystem resources at runtime. There is nothing special happening in Linux in this regard, no magic, your emperor has no clothes.
You Linux guys have been burying your head in the sand this whole time. I sat through it while Windows locked files that were in use and you all made fun of it, Solaris recommended booting into single user mode to apply updates, and you mocked that. They improved greatly over the years, gaining convenience while maintaining system integrity at runtime. OS X, Windows, and Solaris either lock files in use, apply system updates from a special environment, snap shot a running system root, or some combination of those. Linux systems just skate by doing NOTHING, maybe an individual update will restart the service it is responsible for (MySQL RPM) maybe it wont (httpd RPM).
A god damned teenager with weeks of Unix experience can even come up with "If you only have to reboot to update your kernel, how do you patch your C runtime? Hey... what about other libraries?" It scares me that most people posting on this page have absolutely no clue how ghetto the operations behind a 'yum update' are, and many of you sadly, are professional Unix system admins. Some of you even taught yourselves not to apply system patches from a GUI tool, and you still just don't get it, you never stopped to think WHY, what was the problem, and how could that be FIXED.
It truly is scary, the lack of engineering discipline displayed by people who call themselves "geeks". Step one is admit you have a problem. Step three is do what these Fedora guys tell you to, they have a clue, you mentally lazy bastards.
- Angry in IT Ops
Every time the kernel changes, the video driver must be updated.
How does every other OS get by then?
I wish NVidia would just post some hardware specs and say have fun, I truly wish it.
What is this guy trying to accomplish other than ensuring eventual double scanning?
It's like driving through a DUI/DWI checkpoint drunk to make a point. More checkpoints.. yay? I mean these things are supposed to be deterrents.
You can't cry "naked body scanning" and at the same time say that is not acting as a deterrent, right? What is the logic, someone can see my naked body in high def and count my pubes, but I can try to bring a prohibited item through anyway? Well, duuuuuuuuh, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop you. How much confidence did this guy really have, what was the metal object anyway?
You can watch any prison show and learn a million different ways to make a shiv out of stuff on hand, it's not like specifically stopping small hunks of metal are really worth much. BUT, thanks to this guy they'll probably make you walk through the metal detector in the video TOO, just so some asshole doesn't get too confident.
I've never understood this concept, that moral rights only apply to American citizens. May be I am not smart enough to grasp the idea.
It seems to be Ok to kill any non-american without due process or self-defense. Even to kill anyone including (or around) his family/kids. It seems also fine to detain and torture foreigners for an undetermined amount of time as long it is done outside USA soil.
Can someone explain it to me? Does it mean, for example, that I can own a slave, as long is not American?
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution says
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
To your first point, do you know what the Fourteenth Amendment is?
Why do you think we needed to add this text?
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
We had to add that explicitly to protect UNITED STATES CITIZENS residing in the UNITED STATES from state governments. Before that one of our own states could legally fuck you up the ass! So why would the Constitution apply to foreign nationals residing waaaaaaaay the hell out of our jurisdiction? If our laws applied everywhere, then ours laws apply everywhere... isn't that self evident? Do I need to explain why other parts of the world would not like that?
As far as I can tell buddy, you can even own an American slave as long as it's in a place that allows it and you have enough drone repellant. Good luck with that.
Well, Steve Jobs called MobileMe and the MobileMe team a massive failure himself.
"Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?" Having received a satisfactory answer, he continues, "So why the f*** doesn't it do that?"
Steve Jobs summoned the entire MobileMe team for a meeting at the company's on-campus Town Hall, accusing everyone of "tarnishing Apple's reputation." He told the members of the team they "should hate each other for having let each other down", and went on to name new executives on the spot to run the MobileMe team.
Look guys and gals, I know this is going against the grain here on Slashdot, but maybe, just maybe, hang on here until I'm finished..
Maybe Steve Jobs wasn't always right? Or at least he came across as a little too anal retentive sometimes?
It could just be me.
He didn't say it was a massive failure for one thing. I mean shit, are you telling me that was his body double at the iCloud launch or something? You could play the exact same scenario out with it, s/MobileMe/iCloud/g.
By the same supposed Steve Jobs reasoning you can conclude that iCloud was a massive failure right out the gate. /stopsdrinkingcoffee
I mean FFS, it has CLOUD in the name! THE most nebulous word in all of IT! Now are you SURE you didn't take him a little out of context?
This is the same man who came up with "MobileMe" and Ping. Remember those massive failures? No? That's because the media ignores them in portraying Apple as a company that never makes a mistake.
Where do you get off calling MobileMe a massive failure? There's a bunch of different services that existed before MobileMe, and exist under iCloud now. Some services have changed quite a bit, like Gallery to Photo Stream, iDisk is going away, and new services like Match are available for a price, while the synchronization stuff is now free.
Who says Apple doesn't make mistakes and what makes you think the media doesn't give them coverage??
You don't even know what MobileMe is, and I'm starting to think you don't know the difference between a mistake and a failure.
+5 Said something bad about Apple, LOL.
Why is it that a person who did something wrong has his record tainted for the rest of his life, but somehow a corporation should be scott-free after it pays its fines?
Was Microsoft convicted of a felony? Prove it.
If they were, why would that prevent them from selling a tablet computer?
So what is your question, why does society punish people with felonies longer than corporations with felonies? I wonder. Stop looking at them as 'tainted' and do your little part to help.
What are the actual implications of a person having a felony conviction? Would they make any sense applied to a corporation?
People with felony convictions have some protections, but you can stop buying Microsoft for any reason you desire.
The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces Title VII, has decided that disqualifying people who have criminal records from jobs is discriminatory because the practice disproportionately affects African American and Hispanic men. (Those two groups have much higher criminal conviction rates than do Caucasian men.)
The EEOC has ruled repeatedly that covered employers cannot simply bar felons from consideration, but must show that a conviction-based disqualification is justified by âoebusiness necessity.â The legal test requires employers to examine the (1) nature and gravity of the offense or offenses, (2) length of time since the conviction or completion of sentence, and (3) nature of the job held or sought. Under this test, employers must consider the job-relatedness of a conviction, the circumstances of the offense, and the number of offenses (EEOC Compliance Manual, Â 604 Appendices).
It's nice to talk about having one SSD for caching and then platters for big storage of everything else, but the point of the hybrid drives is that you don't have to split up your partitions and manually allocate data between the two. A device-mapper target could theoretically do the same thing, but I'm only aware of one quite new third-party driver for Windows that attempts this sort of mapping
In Windows, your L2 page caching is done with ReadyBoost. I'm almost certain Win 7 lets you use a SATA SSD with it, I'm not sure why it didn't do that originally. ReadyBoost was designed for USB flash drives so it has some logic to detect sequential IO and go direct to spinning disk for that. That might not make as much sense for decent SSDs.
For a fileserver, you could use Solaris and ZFS. It has an L2ARC for SSDs and ARC is a really interesting algorithm that prevents your cache from being flushed by really big one time reads.
Linux... I'm sure has a ghetto "me too" L2 page cache in the works somewhere, who knows.
Any proper system would have the end user hold the root key for the system and they could choose (or not) to bless certs from various vendors (or just directly sign the bootloader). Of course, MS doesn't want a proper system, they want lock-in.
Which UEFI systems don't do this?
I'm Steve Jobs and the rules don't apply to me, and besides, the sanctity of my Mercedes is more important than their legal right to a parking spot near the front doors.
How do you know he didn't have extra handicap spots painted in front of each of his buildings?
I think a CEO can walk up to a facilities maintenance guy on his payroll and ask for whatever the hell he wants.
Regardless, I don't see it as a huge display of ego like some of you do, he may have been entirely pragmatic about it. You'd bitch as much about ego if there was a spot in front of every Apple building labeled "Steve Jobs", "CEO", or "Executive" I suppose.
He didn't give us Windows, he forced windows on us by having an exclusive contract with the PC vendors.
So.... he forced PCs on you too? You don't suppose PCs became so successful because of.. I don't know.. in part because of the software they shipped with?
I'm on the fence about corporate tax, because I consider it triple dipping.
Help me understand what is bad about that taxes coming from multiple sources.
Money moves around like water. Why does sucking it from one spot sound like such a great idea to some folks? [play jeopardy theme]
The total amount of water being sucked out is a different issue. Even then, some people pretend that water just gets sucked out and ejected to outer space as if the Boeings, LHM's, Raytheons, General Dynamics, etc etc etc of the world don't pay high salaries back into the system.
Why also, do people totally miss the point of FOSS and focus on price rather than freedom of choice?
Well, I don't know, but if it's not a big point why is it #1 on the list?
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
Depending on which flavor you drink, it's also third out of four here.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
You ask why do people ignore all the other points? Honestly? Why would a non-technical person give a damn, and why should they? Expanding the scope more, why would most technical people care, they are not all software developers, don't all have the skills to utilize a project's code, or consciously choose not to have the responsibility of inspecting and modifying a free project's code because that has dick to do with operations.
The OSI's definition of Open Source, at least the _bottom_ half of their wishlist _tries_ to appear sincerely altruistic - "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups/Fields of Endeavor" etc. The Free Software Def. fairly clearly says "do what I want and give it away".
Neither mention anything about quality, or improving the state of the art, things people DO care about and will PAY FOR.
However, I personally am more interested in the ability of organise my desktop in such a way that maximises my ease of use
How software functions has _NOTHING_ to do with this. Write your own software that does what you want. I can say that _fully_ within the spirit of free open software, so you can't complain. Or are you really telling me you wrote a custom patch for complex desktop software, and maintain it or fight with the original authors to accept it, just to organize your desktop... for your "ease of use"? Why would other people care?
If we have to wait for "proper" OS support, they'll never come - the OS support won't be fully fixed until there is a demand for it.
Except for all those cases a company named after a fruit managed to show the way to something better? Maybe YOUR OS vendor should "Think Different"? Just saying...
Joking aside, Microsoft can and has lead the way on a great deal of things too, and they still might. One of Apple or Microsoft will move on to push high DPI way before it comes to people jumping up and down screaming with bigass monitors in hand.
Most people don't even know why they want a kick ass new display yet because they haven't been told.
A "just works" version of Windows, that MS sold support for, marketed toward businesses, that just stayed the same forever. As it is, MS makes its money on new versions. That's fine for MS, but bad for businesses that don't want to upgrade every four - six years. If MS made money selling a business copy of windows and then got a fair amount for support and updates on it perpetually, it would be win/win for businesses, developers, and MS.
Where I work at, we installed new systems in police stations in the last two years that were brand new and had Windows XP on them, because the software at the time didn't have Windows 7 drivers.
I think it would end up with the same backlash Solaris suffered as Linux systems started pushing it out. People would poo all over it because their shell wasn't BASH or it didn't have the latest gadgets. I'm not saying you are wrong, I do agree with you.
The problem will be the same though, there are too many geeks out there who love tech but employ no engineering discipline. I'm not accusing geeks of being fiscally conservative, it's just that I think nobody will argue when they suggest the cheapest or free solutions, so those bubble up. Stuff they play with at home sounds like an awesome idea for work...
You're dealing with the same forces that pushed every new generation of cheap shiny stuff into datacenters, x86, Windows, Linux, etc.. Nothing wrong in and of themselves, but they carry a lot of baggage for what most people need. Things should be _simpler_, and racing to the bottom doesn't lead there - look at Apple vs. "PC" industry for example... Simple or cheap, pick one I guess :\
I think I would be satisfied if VMware made an OS, not just the hypervisor. Speaking from IT Operations perspective I would love to not ever have to ssh or rdesktop again, and just bolt the whole thing to a configuration management interface and be done.
If you can sell a thousand copies for $100 each, or a million copies for $10 each, and choose the former, the only thing to do
So you are saying everyone is entitled to cheap entertainment, cheap being whatever you dictate.
How about a billion copies for a penny each? Where do we stop playing this silly game of assuming twice as many people are always willing to pay half as much.
Or at the very least, not complain when people copy your shit.
I don't think there is a good excuse for unlicensed viewing of recorded entertainment other than "because we can." These aren't presidential debates, it's just entertainment! Enough with the retarded financial and moral arguments.
Everyone wants more for less, and to tell others how to run their business. o_O