Really? I'd love for this to be true -- Yum is so dog-ass slow that it makes installing a new Fedora system from scratch a full-day's undertaking, because before it downloads any patches, it insists on separately downloading uncompressed headers for every fucking package in the release. And then it checks for new headers each and every time I tell it to install a new package. If they've fixed this behavior... Well, yum might actually start approaching the usability of apt.
Yes, that's a flame and a troll. But in all seriousness, can anyone point me to an explanation as to why yum was chosen as the update tool, over say something like apt-rpm? Are there any honest-to-goodness technical reasons why yum is the better choice? Or is it just inertia at this point?
OK, fair enough, I don't think it's flamebait either... But ask yourself this then: How much of *any* software company's profits "trickle" down to the people writing the code?
Two sets of people make money in a corporation, software or no: the executive officers, and the shareholders. Unless there's some kind of profit sharing going on (and they don't all do this), then the poor little code monkey makes his base salary and benefits, nothing else. No matter *how* good the software is, or how popular. But those CXOs are raking it in regardless.
So no, not much trickles down. But frankly, I don't think that's all that different than the closed-source commercial world anyway.
Basically, in order to provide the most effective suport services, you have to know the product really, really well. How do you do that? You hire someone who knows the product inside and out -- i.e. a developer. You pay that developer, who spends his time and company money tweaking, testing, and building upon that code, and presumably (GPL, right?) gives his/her improvments back to the community. So there's hardly zero cost to the big, bad service company -- assuming they want the highest level of support available. So that's how we've now got developers getting paid to work on Free Software. If you want to push the RedHat example, people like Havoc Pennington and Alan Cox come to mind.
And who's the biggest, baddest services company out there? I'd say none other than IBM. And since they *are* giving back (JFS, anyone?), they're paying for the development of Free Software. Zero costs? I don't think so. Or look at the products and contributions that come from SuSE, or Mandrake. Look at JBOSS -- whatever you might think of them otherwise, there's a group of devs supporting themselves selling services and support around this insanely complex product they've built (in all fairness, that's partially an editorial comment; I fucking hate all things J2EE currently -- but that's another rant...)
You're right, these are only the biggest examples. There are potentially an unlimited number of smaller examples who just provide the services and support, without hiring developers to give back to the community. But given my argument above, I think what follows is that they therefore can't know the software as well, and cannot offer the highest levels of support. And so a nice market structure emerges, wherein the customer has available a large range of quality and price point options. But not the developers' wasteland I think you're projecting.
If you like ideas about AI, and you're curious about the possibility of quantum effects in the brain, have a look at the novel "Spin State", by Chris Moriarty. Amazon link here.
Yes, the editorializing is inconsistent. But since they appear to have changed the frontpage, not an issue now, is it? (Shall we now start arguing about journalistic integrity?)
But they are ambulance chasers. Go read the article. They don't even have a lead plaintiff -- They just automatically filed the suit, and now they're saying "Look! We found a problem! Who wants to make money with us?"
Sturgeon's Law, anyone, with a special clause for Lawyers? "99% of lawyers are shit." C'mon folks, you know how the joke goes: What do you call 10000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!
I personally believe that if something is really that repugnant, that awful, then by all means, drag it out into the light where we can all see it. Where it can be properly (refuted|laughed at|buried in vomit).
There is NO need for the government to feed the trolls by letting them cloak themselves in martyrdom. You wanna say some ugly shit? Go ahead. Now I know you're an asshole, and I can deal with you appropriately. Remember that you cannot be a responsible adult unless you can make informed decisions. No information = No decisions = No responsibility. (Unless you're a coward who actually wants it that way?)
Meanwhile, we must also make sure that we don't ever suppress something that must be said. We must make sure that Truth can be spoken to Power. And we must make sure that Power isn't allowed to shoot the Messenger.
1) Unmaintained? Well, if it's feature complete (does what the author and its users need), and hasn't been shown to have any serious bugs or exploits, what's to maintain?
2) Doesn't compile out of the box on "modern" systems? Excuse me, but doesn't OpenBSD 3.4 count as modern? I sure didn't have to do anything special to get it working there. Got an example?
3) Non standard zone file format? Well, for me the tinydns format is a helluva lot more readable, and less error prone. No serial number incremeting, no missing closing braces, etc.
4) Can't really say anything about the length of the answers returned, so I have to defer to you on that. But can you show me which 3rd-party docs tell you to do something "that violates recommendations of TLD operators and most ISPs"? Are we talking about this site? Or someone else?
I'm not one of DJB acolytes here; I just was able to understand DJB's docs and examples a lot faster than any of the BIND howtos I saw, and it looked like there would be fewer pitfalls. And yes, on the license thing, I'd like to see him release it under something more permissive, but for now:
A) It does what I want, and
B) I can satisfy myself that the software's reasonably secure.
That's enough for me. I was just hoping you could clarify some of what you'd said... Thanks!
The lack of focus on user interface design causes users to prefer proprietary software's more intuitive interface.
Read: Microsoft? Anyway, bullshit. See GNOME. Remember also the comment that *no* interface past the nipple is intuitive -- it's all learned. Frankly, there's a lot of proprietary software out there whose interface sucks -- I personally can't stand Nero, Roxio's shit, or Windows XP's defaults, especially after all that time on 98 and 2000. Intuitive my ass.
Open Source software tends to lack the complete and accessible documentation that retains users.
Bullshit. See my Dad, or for that matter, most users WHO DON'T FUCKING READ DOCUMENTATION IN THE FIRST PLACE. Try working in tech support for a week. I do, our docs rock, and nobody fucking reads them. Admittedly, some docs do suck, but again, most users don't read them -- just like most users don't read their VCR or stereo manuals.
Developers focus on features in their software, rather than ensuring that they have a solid core.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!! Excuse me while I puke all over your fucking research. See, for example, Linux, *BSD (not dead!:), Apache, etc. No solid core? Or look at Sendmail: Security issues, yes, but enough stability to transport 90%+ of all the world's email, and more features than you can shake a stick at. Next!
Open Source programmers also tend to program with themselves as an intended audience, rather than the general public.
Well, yes, you actually are verging on having a point here. Most OSS starts as an exercise in itch-scratching. But usually, OSS is released with a notice like "Hey, try this out, tell me if you find it useful, or if you find bugs." Sure looks to me like these OSS programmers are looking for public input.
there is a widely known stubbornness by Open Source programmers in refusing to learn from what lessons proprietary software has to offer
Could you provide an example? Something more detailed than "you should copy Apple," since that comes right out of the earlier "proprietary software is more intuitive" fallacy, please.
What do I think of the issues raised by the article? Bullshit mostly; red herrings based on fallacies and faulty assumptions. Can we get someone who's prepared to write a rebuttal to TCATB instead, please?
I realize you probably have your own answer to that question, but for me, the answer seems simple:
Mind/Marketshare.
Like the other fellow said, for those people who don't know any better, AOL is the internet. When those brilliant souls start making the association "Microsoft == Internet", well... what a huge coup that'll be, eh?
Secondarily, I think MS would love the opportunity to squash Netscape a little more. AOL has toyed on and off with the idea of defaulting to Netscape browser tech; buying AOL would probably mean no further chance of that happening. Just another way to enforce vendor lock-in.
KDE 3.2.1 (Debian Sid) on my Athlon XP 1700 with 512M RAM is *perceptibly* faster, snappier, whatever than XP with all the "Fischer Price" (<grin>, I like that) eye candy turned *off* on my Athlon XP 2500 w/ 512MB RAM.
It's also worth pointing out that the video on the KDE system is not accelerated: it's an NVidia GF2 without NVidia's drivers setup, while the XP box runs on a 9700 Pro, using the latest Catalyst drivers.
Admittedly, system startup time is a different story, but at least when my KDE desktop comes up, it's actually up -- unlike XP, where the desktop isn't fully functional until several seconds *after* it appears.
I am *sold* on KDE 3.2.1. But that's just my experience. YMMV.
Jesus Fucking Christ. How many times are people going to trot this shit out?
/flame on
You haven't been using Linux or X very long, have you? Or if you have, how have you failed to notice how many times someone says "X is slow/boated/sux for 3d/etc"? If you did, did you ever follow the discussion after that point, or did you just say, "Yep, I agree with them, I can stop reading now"?
Because if you had, how did you miss the amazingly lucid explanations as to just why X does not suck; just how incredibly extensible it is; or how it does not suck at 3d, but that the real problem lies in the card manufacturers who won't release the necessary specs to allow open driver development? No, really. The fundamental problem with 3D driver development is that the card manufacturers have a limited pool of developers who can only acquire so much knowledge/expertise, and can only spend so much time developing drivers for each platform. How much better would things be if they would allow more experienced X devs to look at their code and suggest or write some improvements? We know the answer to this question; if you don't, what are you doing using Free Software?
/flame off
X works. X works well. X, properly equipped with the right drivers, even does 3d well. If you can't configure it yourself (no shame there; I was scared as hell the first time *I* did it), there's all these nice distros from RedHat (oops, Fedora), SuSE, Mandrake, even Debian that have tools to do it for you.
Umm, if memory serves, the l0pht was, well, absorbed into @stake. That is, what was the l0pht became part of @stake, but @stake isn't just "the legitimate front for the [cr|h]ackers formerly known as the l0pht".
Remember their tagline? MS: "That vulnerability is completely theoretical." The l0pht: "Making the theoretical practical since (some year)." I'd be willing to bet that not all the people within @stake are very happy about this decision, just like there's probably a few VeriSign employees that aren't totally happy with SiteFinder.
I wonder when one of 'em will actually stand up and say it.
OK, fair enough; it looks to me like you and I have different ideas of what it means to earn a 'living wage'. I regard that term as referring to a minimal standard of living that doesn't necessarily include your own home. I apologize for being insulting; it's just that the way I read that comment initially seemed really out of whack. But again, my apologies.
Yeah, housing is out of hand. The nice, quiet, 'middle class' neighborhood I grew up in now has homes selling at or around $1 million. Odds are I'll never afford a home in my own childhood neighborhood. The people I know who are buying homes are either doing it 80+ miles away, and commuting (there's a guy here at work in Mountain View who commutes from Sacramento!), or else they're buy condos and just trying to build some equity before they go buy something larger.
So yeah, I see where you're coming from. No argument about the insanity of the housing market here.
$100K not a living wage here in the Valley? Excuse fscking me? If you can't deal in the Velley with that much, don't you think your crack habit has gotten a little out of hand?
Ahem. I live alone in a 750 square foot apartment. I feed myself decently, pay my bills, and that includes a $500 car payment (don't ask). And thats *after* saving %10 pretax in a 401k, and another 10% posttax in an ESPP.
I know a guy that makes that much, and he supports his wife and child on it. She ain't working; it's all his salary.
My ex-gf works for the CDF making little more than minimum wage. Granted she gets plenty of overtime from the state, but she doesn't seem to have a problem making ends meet living by herself, and being out of work for 3 to 4 months out of the year.
So I ask again, where the hell is your money going?
You know, you might have a point... in larger, lecture hall classes. In the smaller, seminar or discussion-oriented classes that were the hallmark of my upper-division classes, the clickety-clack of a keyboard would have been annoying as hell. I mean, c'mon man, some of those co-eds are distration enough:)
Not to imply that you are necessarily a rude person; it's just that I think typing would be acceptable in certain class environments, and not in others.
That information is out of date. As of PHP 4.3.0, PHP is usable w/ Apache2. Compilation is not a problem, most of the stuff works. I don't have the means to test it under load, so I dunno about production environments, but they do work together.
Can anybody out there in Slashdot land comment on or detail current performance and stability with this combo?
Depends on the school, and depends on the course, and depends on the actual instructor.
Take a look at DeAnza in the San Jose area. Good place, good facilities. Lotta good courses, and a lotta good stuff aimed at the IT night-school crowd.
Some of their teachers are good in their field. But some of their teachers are just there for the spare cash, and either aren't putting in the effort on their end, or just have no fucking idea how to teach.
I had one Unix scripting teacher there whose favorite phrase was "We'll talk about it later..." He sucked ass. Didn't learn a thing from him. But look again, and you'll see a guy like John Perry, who teaches Perl and C. John teaches well, works hard, wants his students to understand, explaining and exemplifying all the way, and John brooks no bullshit.
Anyway, my point is just that it can be a crapshoot even within a single organization. If you're going to be out of work for a while, and into training for the long haul (like a lot of us), then hang around if you can, talk to some students, find out who the good teachers are. My $0.02.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe NetSol still has a ICANN-sanctioned monopoly where.com and.net are concerned -- My understanding is that no matter who you get your domain from, if it's in.com or.net, Netsol gets a cut. Broken business model? I don't think so...
Umm, requiring ID for purchasing used CDs makes no sense at all. If there's a total lack of news coverage on this, I'd suspect it's because it ain't true, particularly coming from an AC. Can a non-AC from Chicago please speak up and present some evidence other than "I heard..."?
On the other hand, I've had to present ID at the shops that carry used CDs in my area (Rasputin's & Streetlight in San Jose/Campbell, CA; and Logo's in Santa Cruz) when I want to sell used CDs back to the store -- I believe that this is on the rationale that the discs might be stolen property, and they need to account for the seller if they *do* turn out to be stolen.
Uhh, in all seriousness, there's virtually no chance of an explosion.
Fuel cells do generate heat, but if that heat gets anywhere near ignition, the membrane'll burn out long before there's a spark (note: that's PEM fuel cells; I'll admit I didn't read the article, so I dunno what kind of cell they're using)
As to the hydrogen supply, well, H2 tanks are incredibly strongly build things, and rigorously checked for leaks. Number two, leaking H2 shoots up through the atmosphere way too fast to provide a boom. That said, if you're dumb enough to smoke around one of these tanks, you deserve what you get....
Pops and clicks, to my knowledge, are the result of poor ripping generally. Could be the ripper software, a cheap or dying CD drive, or just a really scratched-up source CD.
If you have the original CDs, re-rip them with a quality ripper/encoder pair. On Windows, I'd personally recommend Exact Audio Copy (postcardware, IIRC, that does a really nice job of error correction) and LAME (check r3mix.net for dl URLs). If you're on Linux, CDParanoia (also maintained by Xiph, apparently) is a great ripper that does a lot of error checking, and LAME is also available for encoding.
By all appearances and specs, this case is either the Shuttle SS51G, or the recently released SB51G. According to most of the reviews I've seen of Shuttle's "XPC" line that these fall in, they're all fairly quiet and well cooled.
No, I don't own one, but the reviews have convinced me, and it's gonna be my next case. Take a look at the Tom's Hardware review for an example, or the more recent one from Extreme Hardware. Check 'em out, they're cool -- literally and figuratively:)
Slashdot Mirror
I figured it might be a case of NIH, but anyway, question asked, question answered. Thank you, Pros_n_Cons.
freaking sweet, 10 minutes in and I'm pulling 195kB/s
C'mon people, jump on the DVD torrent, pretty please? <grin>
Yes, that's a flame and a troll. But in all seriousness, can anyone point me to an explanation as to why yum was chosen as the update tool, over say something like apt-rpm? Are there any honest-to-goodness technical reasons why yum is the better choice? Or is it just inertia at this point?
OK, fair enough, I don't think it's flamebait either... But ask yourself this then: How much of *any* software company's profits "trickle" down to the people writing the code?
Two sets of people make money in a corporation, software or no: the executive officers, and the shareholders. Unless there's some kind of profit sharing going on (and they don't all do this), then the poor little code monkey makes his base salary and benefits, nothing else. No matter *how* good the software is, or how popular. But those CXOs are raking it in regardless.
So no, not much trickles down. But frankly, I don't think that's all that different than the closed-source commercial world anyway.
I'd respectfully disagree with that assessment.
Basically, in order to provide the most effective suport services, you have to know the product really, really well. How do you do that? You hire someone who knows the product inside and out -- i.e. a developer. You pay that developer, who spends his time and company money tweaking, testing, and building upon that code, and presumably (GPL, right?) gives his/her improvments back to the community. So there's hardly zero cost to the big, bad service company -- assuming they want the highest level of support available. So that's how we've now got developers getting paid to work on Free Software. If you want to push the RedHat example, people like Havoc Pennington and Alan Cox come to mind.
And who's the biggest, baddest services company out there? I'd say none other than IBM. And since they *are* giving back (JFS, anyone?), they're paying for the development of Free Software. Zero costs? I don't think so. Or look at the products and contributions that come from SuSE, or Mandrake. Look at JBOSS -- whatever you might think of them otherwise, there's a group of devs supporting themselves selling services and support around this insanely complex product they've built (in all fairness, that's partially an editorial comment; I fucking hate all things J2EE currently -- but that's another rant...)
You're right, these are only the biggest examples. There are potentially an unlimited number of smaller examples who just provide the services and support, without hiring developers to give back to the community. But given my argument above, I think what follows is that they therefore can't know the software as well, and cannot offer the highest levels of support. And so a nice market structure emerges, wherein the customer has available a large range of quality and price point options. But not the developers' wasteland I think you're projecting.
Anyway, just my $0.02.
If you like ideas about AI, and you're curious about the possibility of quantum effects in the brain, have a look at the novel "Spin State", by Chris Moriarty. Amazon link here.
Well then, let's be clear here:
Yes, the editorializing is inconsistent. But since they appear to have changed the frontpage, not an issue now, is it? (Shall we now start arguing about journalistic integrity?)
But they are ambulance chasers. Go read the article. They don't even have a lead plaintiff -- They just automatically filed the suit, and now they're saying "Look! We found a problem! Who wants to make money with us?"
Sturgeon's Law, anyone, with a special clause for Lawyers? "99% of lawyers are shit." C'mon folks, you know how the joke goes: What do you call 10000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!
Well, for what it's worth, not me.
I personally believe that if something is really that repugnant, that awful, then by all means, drag it out into the light where we can all see it. Where it can be properly (refuted|laughed at|buried in vomit).
There is NO need for the government to feed the trolls by letting them cloak themselves in martyrdom. You wanna say some ugly shit? Go ahead. Now I know you're an asshole, and I can deal with you appropriately. Remember that you cannot be a responsible adult unless you can make informed decisions. No information = No decisions = No responsibility. (Unless you're a coward who actually wants it that way?)
Meanwhile, we must also make sure that we don't ever suppress something that must be said. We must make sure that Truth can be spoken to Power. And we must make sure that Power isn't allowed to shoot the Messenger.
Umm, Florian, couple of questions here:
1) Unmaintained? Well, if it's feature complete (does what the author and its users need), and hasn't been shown to have any serious bugs or exploits, what's to maintain?
2) Doesn't compile out of the box on "modern" systems? Excuse me, but doesn't OpenBSD 3.4 count as modern? I sure didn't have to do anything special to get it working there. Got an example?
3) Non standard zone file format? Well, for me the tinydns format is a helluva lot more readable, and less error prone. No serial number incremeting, no missing closing braces, etc.
4) Can't really say anything about the length of the answers returned, so I have to defer to you on that. But can you show me which 3rd-party docs tell you to do something "that violates recommendations of TLD operators and most ISPs"? Are we talking about this site? Or someone else?
I'm not one of DJB acolytes here; I just was able to understand DJB's docs and examples a lot faster than any of the BIND howtos I saw, and it looked like there would be fewer pitfalls. And yes, on the license thing, I'd like to see him release it under something more permissive, but for now:
A) It does what I want, and
B) I can satisfy myself that the software's reasonably secure.
That's enough for me. I was just hoping you could clarify some of what you'd said... Thanks!
The lack of focus on user interface design causes users to prefer proprietary software's more intuitive interface.
:), Apache, etc. No solid core? Or look at Sendmail: Security issues, yes, but enough stability to transport 90%+ of all the world's email, and more features than you can shake a stick at. Next!
Read: Microsoft? Anyway, bullshit. See GNOME. Remember also the comment that *no* interface past the nipple is intuitive -- it's all learned. Frankly, there's a lot of proprietary software out there whose interface sucks -- I personally can't stand Nero, Roxio's shit, or Windows XP's defaults, especially after all that time on 98 and 2000. Intuitive my ass.
Open Source software tends to lack the complete and accessible documentation that retains users.
Bullshit. See my Dad, or for that matter, most users WHO DON'T FUCKING READ DOCUMENTATION IN THE FIRST PLACE. Try working in tech support for a week. I do, our docs rock, and nobody fucking reads them. Admittedly, some docs do suck, but again, most users don't read them -- just like most users don't read their VCR or stereo manuals.
Developers focus on features in their software, rather than ensuring that they have a solid core.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!! Excuse me while I puke all over your fucking research. See, for example, Linux, *BSD (not dead!
Open Source programmers also tend to program with themselves as an intended audience, rather than the general public.
Well, yes, you actually are verging on having a point here. Most OSS starts as an exercise in itch-scratching. But usually, OSS is released with a notice like "Hey, try this out, tell me if you find it useful, or if you find bugs." Sure looks to me like these OSS programmers are looking for public input.
there is a widely known stubbornness by Open Source programmers in refusing to learn from what lessons proprietary software has to offer
Could you provide an example? Something more detailed than "you should copy Apple," since that comes right out of the earlier "proprietary software is more intuitive" fallacy, please.
What do I think of the issues raised by the article? Bullshit mostly; red herrings based on fallacies and faulty assumptions. Can we get someone who's prepared to write a rebuttal to TCATB instead, please?
I realize you probably have your own answer to that question, but for me, the answer seems simple:
:P
Mind/Marketshare.
Like the other fellow said, for those people who don't know any better, AOL is the internet. When those brilliant souls start making the association "Microsoft == Internet", well... what a huge coup that'll be, eh?
Secondarily, I think MS would love the opportunity to squash Netscape a little more. AOL has toyed on and off with the idea of defaulting to Netscape browser tech; buying AOL would probably mean no further chance of that happening. Just another way to enforce vendor lock-in.
And Nullsoft? WinAmp is dead! Long live WMP!
Just my $0.02.
Hear, hear.
KDE 3.2.1 (Debian Sid) on my Athlon XP 1700 with 512M RAM is *perceptibly* faster, snappier, whatever than XP with all the "Fischer Price" (<grin>, I like that) eye candy turned *off* on my Athlon XP 2500 w/ 512MB RAM.
It's also worth pointing out that the video on the KDE system is not accelerated: it's an NVidia GF2 without NVidia's drivers setup, while the XP box runs on a 9700 Pro, using the latest Catalyst drivers.
Admittedly, system startup time is a different story, but at least when my KDE desktop comes up, it's actually up -- unlike XP, where the desktop isn't fully functional until several seconds *after* it appears.
I am *sold* on KDE 3.2.1. But that's just my experience. YMMV.
I realize this is probably not going to work too well, but I wonder how much mileage you'd get out of:
:)
rpm -qa|(some filter to get rid of version numbers)|dpkg --get-selections
Maybe nothing. But it'd beinteresting to try. Maybe when the script not slashdotted, I'll have a look at it, and point it at my Fedora box
Jesus Fucking Christ. How many times are people going to trot this shit out?
/flame on
/flame off
You haven't been using Linux or X very long, have you? Or if you have, how have you failed to notice how many times someone says "X is slow/boated/sux for 3d/etc"? If you did, did you ever follow the discussion after that point, or did you just say, "Yep, I agree with them, I can stop reading now"?
Because if you had, how did you miss the amazingly lucid explanations as to just why X does not suck; just how incredibly extensible it is; or how it does not suck at 3d, but that the real problem lies in the card manufacturers who won't release the necessary specs to allow open driver development? No, really. The fundamental problem with 3D driver development is that the card manufacturers have a limited pool of developers who can only acquire so much knowledge/expertise, and can only spend so much time developing drivers for each platform. How much better would things be if they would allow more experienced X devs to look at their code and suggest or write some improvements? We know the answer to this question; if you don't, what are you doing using Free Software?
X works. X works well. X, properly equipped with the right drivers, even does 3d well. If you can't configure it yourself (no shame there; I was scared as hell the first time *I* did it), there's all these nice distros from RedHat (oops, Fedora), SuSE, Mandrake, even Debian that have tools to do it for you.
Allright, I'm done. Back to browsing at +3...
Umm, if memory serves, the l0pht was, well, absorbed into @stake. That is, what was the l0pht became part of @stake, but @stake isn't just "the legitimate front for the [cr|h]ackers formerly known as the l0pht".
Remember their tagline? MS: "That vulnerability is completely theoretical." The l0pht: "Making the theoretical practical since (some year)." I'd be willing to bet that not all the people within @stake are very happy about this decision, just like there's probably a few VeriSign employees that aren't totally happy with SiteFinder.
I wonder when one of 'em will actually stand up and say it.
OK, fair enough; it looks to me like you and I have different ideas of what it means to earn a 'living wage'. I regard that term as referring to a minimal standard of living that doesn't necessarily include your own home. I apologize for being insulting; it's just that the way I read that comment initially seemed really out of whack. But again, my apologies.
Yeah, housing is out of hand. The nice, quiet, 'middle class' neighborhood I grew up in now has homes selling at or around $1 million. Odds are I'll never afford a home in my own childhood neighborhood. The people I know who are buying homes are either doing it 80+ miles away, and commuting (there's a guy here at work in Mountain View who commutes from Sacramento!), or else they're buy condos and just trying to build some equity before they go buy something larger.
So yeah, I see where you're coming from. No argument about the insanity of the housing market here.
$100K not a living wage here in the Valley? Excuse fscking me? If you can't deal in the Velley with that much, don't you think your crack habit has gotten a little out of hand?
Ahem. I live alone in a 750 square foot apartment. I feed myself decently, pay my bills, and that includes a $500 car payment (don't ask). And thats *after* saving %10 pretax in a 401k, and another 10% posttax in an ESPP.
I know a guy that makes that much, and he supports his wife and child on it. She ain't working; it's all his salary.
My ex-gf works for the CDF making little more than minimum wage. Granted she gets plenty of overtime from the state, but she doesn't seem to have a problem making ends meet living by herself, and being out of work for 3 to 4 months out of the year.
So I ask again, where the hell is your money going?
You know, you might have a point... in larger, lecture hall classes. In the smaller, seminar or discussion-oriented classes that were the hallmark of my upper-division classes, the clickety-clack of a keyboard would have been annoying as hell. I mean, c'mon man, some of those co-eds are distration enough :)
Not to imply that you are necessarily a rude person; it's just that I think typing would be acceptable in certain class environments, and not in others.
That information is out of date. As of PHP 4.3.0, PHP is usable w/ Apache2. Compilation is not a problem, most of the stuff works. I don't have the means to test it under load, so I dunno about production environments, but they do work together.
Can anybody out there in Slashdot land comment on or detail current performance and stability with this combo?
Depends on the school, and depends on the course, and depends on the actual instructor.
Take a look at DeAnza in the San Jose area. Good place, good facilities. Lotta good courses, and a lotta good stuff aimed at the IT night-school crowd.
Some of their teachers are good in their field. But some of their teachers are just there for the spare cash, and either aren't putting in the effort on their end, or just have no fucking idea how to teach.
I had one Unix scripting teacher there whose favorite phrase was "We'll talk about it later..." He sucked ass. Didn't learn a thing from him. But look again, and you'll see a guy like John Perry, who teaches Perl and C. John teaches well, works hard, wants his students to understand, explaining and exemplifying all the way, and John brooks no bullshit.
Anyway, my point is just that it can be a crapshoot even within a single organization. If you're going to be out of work for a while, and into training for the long haul (like a lot of us), then hang around if you can, talk to some students, find out who the good teachers are. My $0.02.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe NetSol still has a ICANN-sanctioned monopoly where .com and .net are concerned -- My understanding is that no matter who you get your domain from, if it's in .com or .net, Netsol gets a cut. Broken business model? I don't think so...
Umm, requiring ID for purchasing used CDs makes no sense at all. If there's a total lack of news coverage on this, I'd suspect it's because it ain't true, particularly coming from an AC. Can a non-AC from Chicago please speak up and present some evidence other than "I heard..."?
On the other hand, I've had to present ID at the shops that carry used CDs in my area (Rasputin's & Streetlight in San Jose/Campbell, CA; and Logo's in Santa Cruz) when I want to sell used CDs back to the store -- I believe that this is on the rationale that the discs might be stolen property, and they need to account for the seller if they *do* turn out to be stolen.
Uhh, in all seriousness, there's virtually no chance of an explosion.
Fuel cells do generate heat, but if that heat gets anywhere near ignition, the membrane'll burn out long before there's a spark (note: that's PEM fuel cells; I'll admit I didn't read the article, so I dunno what kind of cell they're using)
As to the hydrogen supply, well, H2 tanks are incredibly strongly build things, and rigorously checked for leaks. Number two, leaking H2 shoots up through the atmosphere way too fast to provide a boom. That said, if you're dumb enough to smoke around one of these tanks, you deserve what you get....
Pops and clicks, to my knowledge, are the result of poor ripping generally. Could be the ripper software, a cheap or dying CD drive, or just a really scratched-up source CD.
:)
If you have the original CDs, re-rip them with a quality ripper/encoder pair. On Windows, I'd personally recommend Exact Audio Copy (postcardware, IIRC, that does a really nice job of error correction) and LAME (check r3mix.net for dl URLs). If you're on Linux, CDParanoia (also maintained by Xiph, apparently) is a great ripper that does a lot of error checking, and LAME is also available for encoding.
(You do have the original CDs, right?
By all appearances and specs, this case is either the Shuttle SS51G, or the recently released SB51G. According to most of the reviews I've seen of Shuttle's "XPC" line that these fall in, they're all fairly quiet and well cooled.
:)
No, I don't own one, but the reviews have convinced me, and it's gonna be my next case. Take a look at the Tom's Hardware review for an example, or the more recent one from Extreme Hardware. Check 'em out, they're cool -- literally and figuratively