If the computer is under the employer's control, then it should be the employer's problem.
If I can't start work because of a piece of faulty or unready equipment, that is not my problem. If the making ready of that piece of equipment is my responsibility, then you'd fucking well better be paying me for the time I spend doing so.
It's to your own phone number. E.g. if your number is 518-555-1234, then voice mail, from your phone, is a call to 518-555-1234. They used to charge for this.
From the end of the fourth season of the revived Doctor Who . . . The Osterhagen keys, when enough are presented at disparate sites, unlock the detonator to a set of nuclear devices implanted in the Earth's crust. Its purpose is to terminate the entire planet if the suffering of humankind is a fate worse than death.
What carriers don't charge you to listen to your voicemail?
Sprint, for one. Except on the gut-rate, rock-bottom, you-cheap-bastard plans, they don't charge for any in-network calls, and voicemail is an in-network call.
If the news media have a liberal bias, then I would propose that it is more than overwhelmed by the hate-mongering, hard-nosed right-wing spew that comprises the bulk of AM talk radio.
Why do I say overwhelmed? Because there is a substantial population that listen to that crap at work, and use it as their sole or primary source of information.
As I posted further down in this topic, I did. Over the decade or so that I have been a Linux-only user, Slackware has always been the one I go back to when I get sick of $other_distro. As such, I currently run Slackware 12.1.
That said, I have the following points to make:
The question was: is Ubuntu getting slower. The answer is yes. "Switch to FreeDOS" is a bullshit non-answer. I see no reason why ease of use and acceptable performance cannot coexist as they did in earlier Ubuntus.
I have, for my own systems, taken an action that was appropriate to me and moved back to Slackware. Already done. Don't need help. Thanks anyway.
In my side-line as a computer consultant, I have converted a number of customers from Windows to Linux. My pitch has been based on a triangular approach consisting of security, ease-of-use and better performance than Windows. Ubuntu has been key to the first part of that pitch. For Ubuntu's performance to go to hell is a big concern for me.
Now, in fairness, I have found that the 64-bit version of Ubuntu does not seem to have gotten trashed, and still performs well. It is just the 32-bit version that sucks.
Performance may not be the raison d'etre, but performance must still be adequate. Linux in general has, as one of its "selling points", the fact that it runs well on older hardware. With Ubuntu 8.04, that point went to hell.
Chip Salzenberg got his ass burned back in 2005 by grumbling about his employer's ethics regarding screen scraping. I heard him speak at YAPC::NA in Toronto that year, and from what he was saying, they were able to take his every legitimate action (e.g. logging in remotely to work from home) and twist it in court into something less than legit (e.g. unauthorized access). It's their word against his, and they hold the access logs. Your best bet, if you want to make a stand about the morals, is get the hell away from there first.
Yes, Ubuntu is getting slower, absolutely, without question on my part.
My single biggest complaint against 8.04 was that it could not get out of its own way to play an MP3 on my somewhat modest hardware (Via MII-12000). It runs fine on my wife's machine, however (AMD Sempron on Via MoBo).
Now, it is possible that the slowdown is only with 32-bit versions. My wife's machine is running the 64-bit version, and seems to run pretty well. In the mean time, I have reverted to Slackware, which has always been my refuge.
In the spirit of open source, if something is making you itch, you have the opportunity to scratch it.
I used to host a tech-oriented radio show on a local community radio station. I also syndicated the show using radio4all.net.
Television is a little harder to do, but thanks to sites like YouTube, it is possible to do on the cheap, because Google will absorb the bandwidth costs if your show is a success (and reap the ad revenue).
You can also do what Kevin Rose did in the early days of the Broken: Encourage your show to be distributed far and wide by whatever means are available.
Granted, none of these are likely to produce a result with as much production value as Revision3 shows (there's nothing like geeking out in HD), but it can get you started.
. . . if you want to go that route. If not, that's okay, too
I think it a fair comparison to say that USB is to Firewire as IDE is to SCSI. SCSI is a clearly superior interface, using its resources far more efficiently, while IDE's strength is in being cheap. The same is true of Firewire vs. USB.
That said, unfortunately, sets up USB FTW (in the consumer market, at least), despite the fact that many of us (myself included) actively use Firewire.
Oh, and I'm not an Apple user. I was, however, using SCSI for many years until the price differential between SCSI and IDE just became too big to blow off.
There are no details (at least in the text) on what the vulnerability is, so I call shenanigans. In fact, I dare you to try it on me. My IP address is 127.0.0.1
Israel, China and Japan have not chosen to ally their governments into an overarching (although advisory) Asian Union in the manner that many European nations have chosen to do in the form of the European Union.
You don't necessarily need to have a flow chart, per se, but they can sometimes be helpful. Other times just an informal scrawling on a whiteboard will suffice.
What I do is this: First, I write pseudocode. I indent it properly. Next, I turn the pseudocode into comments. Finally, under each pseudocode-generated comment, I will write the actual code to support it. You might also consider these as a good place to break out a function/method from the main programming logic.
I repeat jd's point, and emphasize it: VERSION CONTROL EVERYTHING.
When you discover a bug (as surely you will), some developers like to take the approach of writing a test to look for the bug, then solving the bug. This prevents the bug from creeping back in in later versions.
The compression is done first on the master and then finally even further at the radio station.
While this is true, it is only relevant if you still listen to music on the radio.
That said, the point where I finally said enough is enough was a few years ago when I purchased a copy of OK Go's album, Oh No! The dynamic gating they used was masterful, but the compression level was pure, unadulterated torture. I actually had to run it through a 1:2 expander to make it listenable, and found that 1:3 worked better. It is still distorted from the process, but at least it doesn't make my teeth clench now.
I can only imagine how wretched it must sound on the radio.
I will second the vote for DirectNIC. I have been an email-only customer of theirs in the past. While $15/year is a bit higher than the going rate for domains, it's still not much, and they are very reliable on their mail hosting.
If you later decide to do more than that, they also provide various web hosting options, but only if you want it.
USB would actually be a good charger standard, for that matter. It works for some phones and cameras (though Moto perverted the spec for the RAZR -- this should be avoided as it is deliberate proprietariness and that's bullshit).
anyone who opposes the views expressed by a blog is at complete liberty to start a blog of their own. It doesn't even need to cost anything, so what is the big fucking deal?
As for individual blogs, if someone wants to oppose something on my blog, they can comment, they can trackback, and I promise, I won't delete a message for disagreement. I only delete spam and trolls
That said, though, this is a non-issue. One FCC commissioner brought it up because he wants to cloud the net neutrality issue.
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If the computer is under the employer's control, then it should be the employer's problem.
If I can't start work because of a piece of faulty or unready equipment, that is not my problem. If the making ready of that piece of equipment is my responsibility, then you'd fucking well better be paying me for the time I spend doing so.
It's to your own phone number. E.g. if your number is 518-555-1234, then voice mail, from your phone, is a call to 518-555-1234. They used to charge for this.
From the end of the fourth season of the revived Doctor Who . . . The Osterhagen keys, when enough are presented at disparate sites, unlock the detonator to a set of nuclear devices implanted in the Earth's crust. Its purpose is to terminate the entire planet if the suffering of humankind is a fate worse than death.
Sprint, for one. Except on the gut-rate, rock-bottom, you-cheap-bastard plans, they don't charge for any in-network calls, and voicemail is an in-network call.
How very droll.
If the news media have a liberal bias, then I would propose that it is more than overwhelmed by the hate-mongering, hard-nosed right-wing spew that comprises the bulk of AM talk radio.
Why do I say overwhelmed? Because there is a substantial population that listen to that crap at work, and use it as their sole or primary source of information.
Yeah, me too. I had wondered if there was some sort of cream you could put on it.
Well, I am planning to try it when it drops officially. I haven't given up hope yet.
As I posted further down in this topic, I did. Over the decade or so that I have been a Linux-only user, Slackware has always been the one I go back to when I get sick of $other_distro. As such, I currently run Slackware 12.1.
That said, I have the following points to make:
Now, in fairness, I have found that the 64-bit version of Ubuntu does not seem to have gotten trashed, and still performs well. It is just the 32-bit version that sucks.
Performance may not be the raison d'etre, but performance must still be adequate. Linux in general has, as one of its "selling points", the fact that it runs well on older hardware. With Ubuntu 8.04, that point went to hell.
Tread wicked carefully!
Chip Salzenberg got his ass burned back in 2005 by grumbling about his employer's ethics regarding screen scraping. I heard him speak at YAPC::NA in Toronto that year, and from what he was saying, they were able to take his every legitimate action (e.g. logging in remotely to work from home) and twist it in court into something less than legit (e.g. unauthorized access). It's their word against his, and they hold the access logs. Your best bet, if you want to make a stand about the morals, is get the hell away from there first.
Yes, Ubuntu is getting slower, absolutely, without question on my part.
My single biggest complaint against 8.04 was that it could not get out of its own way to play an MP3 on my somewhat modest hardware (Via MII-12000). It runs fine on my wife's machine, however (AMD Sempron on Via MoBo).
Now, it is possible that the slowdown is only with 32-bit versions. My wife's machine is running the 64-bit version, and seems to run pretty well. In the mean time, I have reverted to Slackware, which has always been my refuge.
Would you care to elaborate?
In the spirit of open source, if something is making you itch, you have the opportunity to scratch it.
I used to host a tech-oriented radio show on a local community radio station. I also syndicated the show using radio4all.net.
Television is a little harder to do, but thanks to sites like YouTube, it is possible to do on the cheap, because Google will absorb the bandwidth costs if your show is a success (and reap the ad revenue).
You can also do what Kevin Rose did in the early days of the Broken: Encourage your show to be distributed far and wide by whatever means are available.
Granted, none of these are likely to produce a result with as much production value as Revision3 shows (there's nothing like geeking out in HD), but it can get you started.
. . . if you want to go that route. If not, that's okay, too
I think it a fair comparison to say that USB is to Firewire as IDE is to SCSI. SCSI is a clearly superior interface, using its resources far more efficiently, while IDE's strength is in being cheap. The same is true of Firewire vs. USB.
That said, unfortunately, sets up USB FTW (in the consumer market, at least), despite the fact that many of us (myself included) actively use Firewire.
Oh, and I'm not an Apple user. I was, however, using SCSI for many years until the price differential between SCSI and IDE just became too big to blow off.
Dish Network is a product. Echostar Satellite LLC is the company. There is no former, only formal.
There are no details (at least in the text) on what the vulnerability is, so I call shenanigans. In fact, I dare you to try it on me. My IP address is 127.0.0.1
Israel, China and Japan have not chosen to ally their governments into an overarching (although advisory) Asian Union in the manner that many European nations have chosen to do in the form of the European Union.
Draw lots of pictures.
You don't necessarily need to have a flow chart, per se, but they can sometimes be helpful. Other times just an informal scrawling on a whiteboard will suffice.
What I do is this: First, I write pseudocode. I indent it properly. Next, I turn the pseudocode into comments. Finally, under each pseudocode-generated comment, I will write the actual code to support it. You might also consider these as a good place to break out a function/method from the main programming logic.
I repeat jd's point, and emphasize it: VERSION CONTROL EVERYTHING .
When you discover a bug (as surely you will), some developers like to take the approach of writing a test to look for the bug, then solving the bug. This prevents the bug from creeping back in in later versions.
I think that's all I've got for the moment.
While this is true, it is only relevant if you still listen to music on the radio.
That said, the point where I finally said enough is enough was a few years ago when I purchased a copy of OK Go's album, Oh No! The dynamic gating they used was masterful, but the compression level was pure, unadulterated torture. I actually had to run it through a 1:2 expander to make it listenable, and found that 1:3 worked better. It is still distorted from the process, but at least it doesn't make my teeth clench now.
I can only imagine how wretched it must sound on the radio.
I will second the vote for DirectNIC. I have been an email-only customer of theirs in the past. While $15/year is a bit higher than the going rate for domains, it's still not much, and they are very reliable on their mail hosting. If you later decide to do more than that, they also provide various web hosting options, but only if you want it.
USB would actually be a good charger standard, for that matter. It works for some phones and cameras (though Moto perverted the spec for the RAZR -- this should be avoided as it is deliberate proprietariness and that's bullshit).
Anyway, how about some answers? Over at the Gawker Media site Lifehacker, there have been a few suggestions.
anyone who opposes the views expressed by a blog is at complete liberty to start a blog of their own. It doesn't even need to cost anything, so what is the big fucking deal?
As for individual blogs, if someone wants to oppose something on my blog, they can comment, they can trackback, and I promise, I won't delete a message for disagreement. I only delete spam and trolls
That said, though, this is a non-issue. One FCC commissioner brought it up because he wants to cloud the net neutrality issue.
I call it a car.
You aren't that much younger, pipsqueak. I'm 37.