For trips less than 250 miles, it's just not worth the hassle of getting to a major rail hub, parking your car (or taking transit and transfering), waiting to board the train, arriving at your destination with no ground transport and having to rent a car, etc.. It's easier to just jump in your car and drive there. Cheaper, too.
As another reply to your post pointed out, it depends where you live - if I live close to a major rail hub, and my destination is also close the destination hub, then I don't need to rent a car. Compare that to traveling from inside a city to an airport. You have to figure about an hour and $100 on each side.
mod up insightful. America - future tech backwater where sweatshop labor makes knock-off crap..except with more religious fundamentalists and a worse transportation system.
You forget the valuable side effects that the Iraq war spending has had on the multi-billion dollar painkiller, at-home nursing, and prosthetic limb industries./just kidding
Another thing I though of is that the installer might be more likely to correctly configure your hardware according to whatever the latest and greatest drivers are - merely updating an existing distribution will perhaps be less likely to reconfigure the drivers. This is by design in the interest of stability. So if you're doing server installs, updates are fine, but if you have shiny new desktop hardware, I can see why you'd want to do a fresh install periodically in the interest of getting the best desktop experience.
Agreed, it makes no sense because any modern distro has a package maintenance system so you only have to fetch updates. In addition, even the freshest linux distros will have bugs that one could have seen fixes faster for by updating one's distribution using the package manager's update functionality.
Nothing except an unplugged box with the hard drive removed will ever be 100% secure.
Well, crap, and here I thought I was secured with my unplugged PC - now it looks like I'll be up late tonight removing the hard drive! Thanks for the security tip, though.
I guess that we're good unless the Al Qaeda guys were to get rifles...wait, they have some already? And so do the Sunni insurgents that are fighting them and also fighting the Shiite militias and army? Well, crap.
I agree entirely, which is why I'm against medicine and doctors. The human body is so hopelesly complex that most attempts to regulate or "fix" it will inevitably fail due to unforeseen and unintended consequences.
holy cow what's it feel like to be 93 years old? I wonder if I'll be posting on/. when I'm 93...doubt I'll make it as long as you, so hat's off and cheers for a healthy & long life.
You left out the part where he said "if it's a piece of shit that costs billions of dollars and is made by defense contractors, run up a huge deficit to pay for it."
Just another person piling on to say that I've use Reiser FS for at least the past 2 years, as far as I can remember, and have had no problems with it.
Lies! Everyone knows that Lincoln was assassinated by Sasquatch near a grassy knoll in a redwood forest. Also, Lincoln suffered from Asparagus's Syndrome, not Asperger's.
One root cause, in this area at least, is idiotic zoning policy that makes it illegal for most people to live close to where they work.
A good point; don't forget that the zoning policies are constantly being maintained by NIMBY homeowners who dread the consequences of higher density close to their neighborhoods, for example in Menlo Park recently, a plan to build high density housing near the Caltrain was shot down by the wealthy NIMBY homeowners who would like to preserve the suburban character of their neighborhoods.
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Sir Lawrence Olivier! Who could forget his timeless Hamlet? (Well I hear it was pretty good anyway.)
For trips less than 250 miles, it's just not worth the hassle of getting to a major rail hub, parking your car (or taking transit and transfering), waiting to board the train, arriving at your destination with no ground transport and having to rent a car, etc.. It's easier to just jump in your car and drive there. Cheaper, too. As another reply to your post pointed out, it depends where you live - if I live close to a major rail hub, and my destination is also close the destination hub, then I don't need to rent a car. Compare that to traveling from inside a city to an airport. You have to figure about an hour and $100 on each side.
Ugh! You mammals and your caves. CMS has stood for Cretaceous Mollusc Survival for the past 145 million years.
mod up insightful. America - future tech backwater where sweatshop labor makes knock-off crap..except with more religious fundamentalists and a worse transportation system.
You forget the valuable side effects that the Iraq war spending has had on the multi-billion dollar painkiller, at-home nursing, and prosthetic limb industries. /just kidding
Mod up +10000, Pedantic!
Another thing I though of is that the installer might be more likely to correctly configure your hardware according to whatever the latest and greatest drivers are - merely updating an existing distribution will perhaps be less likely to reconfigure the drivers. This is by design in the interest of stability. So if you're doing server installs, updates are fine, but if you have shiny new desktop hardware, I can see why you'd want to do a fresh install periodically in the interest of getting the best desktop experience.
Agreed, it makes no sense because any modern distro has a package maintenance system so you only have to fetch updates.
In addition, even the freshest linux distros will have bugs that one could have seen fixes faster for by updating one's distribution using the package manager's update functionality.
How am I supposed to run if I'm in a kayak? I think you meant ROW! ;)
Well, sure. It's a little known fact that one time Einstein and Chuck Norris met, and Chuck Norris got his ass handed to him.
Nothing except an unplugged box with the hard drive removed will ever be 100% secure.
Well, crap, and here I thought I was secured with my unplugged PC - now it looks like I'll be up late tonight removing the hard drive! Thanks for the security tip, though.
it's just a bunch of man-children whining about the RIAA after all
i lol'ed. kudos sir! hen hao.
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"fool me twice ...won't get fooled again."
-George W Bush
I guess that we're good unless the Al Qaeda guys were to get rifles...wait, they have some already? And so do the Sunni insurgents that are fighting them and also fighting the Shiite militias and army? Well, crap.
I agree entirely, which is why I'm against medicine and doctors. The human body is so hopelesly complex that most attempts to regulate or "fix" it will inevitably fail due to unforeseen and unintended consequences.
If you want student loans and health care, I recommend you look elsewhere than Libertarianism; 'cause none of that stuff is on offer from them. :)
Oh yeah, the good old "left" Washington Post? Is that the same Washington Post that backed the Iraq War and hosts der Kabbagemallet?
holy cow what's it feel like to be 93 years old? I wonder if I'll be posting on /. when I'm 93...doubt I'll make it as long as you, so hat's off and cheers for a healthy & long life.
You left out the part where he said "if it's a piece of shit that costs billions of dollars and is made by defense contractors, run up a huge deficit to pay for it."
Unlike 17 months with Americans who always smell like rose petals and potpurri!
Just another person piling on to say that I've use Reiser FS for at least the past 2 years, as far as I can remember, and have had no problems with it.
Lies! Everyone knows that Lincoln was assassinated by Sasquatch near a grassy knoll in a redwood forest. Also, Lincoln suffered from Asparagus's Syndrome, not Asperger's.
One root cause, in this area at least, is idiotic zoning policy that makes it illegal for most people to live close to where they work.
A good point; don't forget that the zoning policies are constantly being maintained by NIMBY homeowners who dread the consequences of higher density close to their neighborhoods, for example in Menlo Park recently, a plan to build high density housing near the Caltrain was shot down by the wealthy NIMBY homeowners who would like to preserve the suburban character of their neighborhoods.
oh, forgot about one; there is a camera status LED to the right of the camera.