"So, are you trying to ban etrade.com and "flipping houses"? Or is risk taking in general ok, and you just want to impose your peculiar morality about playing cards on others?"
They are not the same, Equities are investments, I don't know of any gambling site that pays dividends, do you?
Talk to the people who bought Bank of America stock at $40+. See if they think there is any "gambling" (or more commonly called risk in this context) in equities. Might want to ask them how their wonderful dividends are doing too.
"Redhat Enterprise Linux 5" is essentially a massive kernel fork at 2.6.18.
Backporting a lot of patches is not the definition of fork, for any sane person. Esp. when that same group of people are actively working upstream on the latest releases.
Depending on who you ask, RHEL can be more risky than mainline.
Sure, if you ask stupid people questions they can often give you stupid answers. But I've yet to see anyone intelligent run a vanilla upstream kernel in a production environment. Google are probably the closest, and they basically have a mini-RHEL kernel team that they employ... I guess wasting huge amounts of money to do that isn't a big deal when you are Google.
I've definitely had RHEL panics take down production, only to later discover linux kernel bugs that had been fixed in mainline for a while, but that redhat hadn't backported to their ancient linux fork
Shocker, software having bugs. But here's a hint, if we play chess 30 times and you win 1 match... that doesn't mean we are both winners, "depending on who you ask". Maybe you really are trying to say that RHEL vs. vanilla are going to have roughly the same number of bugs (and the same time to get them fixed)... but you'd be a pretty small minority at that point.
By default vim will make a backup copy of the file you are about to edit, which is why your HD was on fire. You can turn that feature off with -n (or in the config. file, see man vim)... but then recovery after a crash is impossible.
As the original poster said, vim does not load the entire file into memory.
And how is this different from SUN? Oh, wait, SUNs OS is open-source, and, because the platform is open, it is easy enough to put Linux on.
Except Solaris isn't the same as OpenSolaris, in fact one of the biggest complaints I see from the few people still running Solaris is that they still can't get access to the source... just to see wtf is going on. And OpenSolaris only happened as a last ditch effort before Solaris died to Linux, being forced to do something before you die because you didn't is hardly "leading".
NFS, NIS, Solaris, JAVA, OpenOffice, VirtualBox, MySQL
NFS and NIS can only be classed as open source projects if you are delusional. Yes, they dumped some code to try and make a de-facto std.... but they were never an upstream. Solaris being open source is a lie. Java only because open source because Red Hat+IBM+etc. were going to create a real open source version, if they didn't. Open Office, you can have (although again, they were pretty much forced to open source it... and there is no real community, because Sun are clueless about open source). MySQL was bought, complete with community (and only a significant part of Sun if you take their inflated price at face value). I know nothing about Virtual box, so maybe you can have that... for what it's worth.
Yeh, I do that with my foot too. But I'm pretty sure a lot of that is instinctual, because although I've done it to great success with class cups etc.... I've also done it with knives and heavy metal objects (while not wearing shoes:).
Welcome to reality. The amount of electricity to your house is not limited
Not true, even ignoring the physical problems there's a main breaker (which you can't play with without the electric companies approval) which has a limit. But I've also never seen the electric company advertise "unlimited" electricity.
And I think network usage has to go the same way. The reason that's scary to a lot of people is because most "per-megabyte" rates are way, way too high.
That is a worry... but the biggest problem is still "we sold you unlimited, but have now realized we can't give it to you".
The thing is the only thing overseas sub-contracting has to offer are lower costs. So it makes sense that the overseas companies will "optimize" everything for cost, this implies the cheapest labour you can get. This probably works "acceptably" for a level 1 call centre, not so much for knowledge workers.
By the same token, I've never seen a small.us contracting company primarily optimize for cost (they may exist, and I just haven't worked with/for them).
As someone who makes his living selling content through the Internet, I want people to think several times before building a tool like AdBlock.
You are speaking to the wrong people, IMO. NoScript/AdBlock/etc. are there because users want them. So you are saying "please don't do what users want, because it'll make me more money". Well, sucks to be you then.
If you really want to make a difference and see Ads be viable on the web. N years from now... you need to speak to "most" of the large content providers. For instance my wife is pretty clueful and had happily not been using NoScript/etc.... until recently when she hit usatoday and a giant popup came up and refused to go away (so she couldn't read the content). Now she has NoScript installed and only approved sites can run any JS.
It's the same with TV, 5 minutes of commercials every 10 minutes (33%) is just way too much and their real customers fought back... so now they get 0% ads from a growing percentage of people. Yeh, that implies bad things for the future of TV, but then in many ways nothing really is better than what was there before.
They recently stopped buying third party maps, and are now reportedly paying mobile providers to put their google maps app. on the phones (which they can only do because they aren't locked into the map provider duopoly). Which speaks to, a least, a significant amount of forward planning on their side.
But, yeh, brilliance is hard to measure. Some of the DNS tricks they just released, and more, I've wanted some Linux DNS software to do for at least 10 years... so it's not "genius". But the number of useful things they've actual got out implies they are way above average (as a company), IMO.
However, even the most jaded, cynical atheist cannot deny that organized religions have also done some amazing things for the societies in which they existed.
Yeh, I'm sure Scientology has done some good. So what? Are you suggesting we try and keep some kind of score card, we can put "imprison children and malke them slaves" on one side and "feed homeless" on the other? Not sure what we do when they "convert" a follower with those "selfless acts" though.
Of course Atheists never do any charitable works on their own, so as long as the nutjobs "help" roughly as many as they screw over, it's all good.
is every bit as ignorant and superficial as claiming that someone cannot drive because their plumbing is different than mine...
That's right, I forgot that most "organised" religions fought so hard for equal rights and civil rights, oh wait...
Depends, I don't see many people using wordpad/gedit instead of MS-word/OO-writer. Features always matter, and they often matter more than speed/security/usability (all of which have their fans who ask "why can't all apps. consider X, and stop being bloated")... but sometimes, if you do _really_ well on one of those three and you are "close enough" feature wise, then people can live without the features you don't have. But it's a big gamble, much bigger than just adding features as fast as possible.
That's why the minimum recommendation for updates like that is to "write to tempfile, close, check that close is happy and then rename". Unless you can deal with someone pulling the power at any point as you update.
According to that page on that site, _minimum_ pay for a pilot is 67k (which I would put a lot of money on being BS). Of course a different page (http://www.avjobs.com/salaries-wages-pay/historical-aviation-wages.asp) says 16k-60k or 23k-250k (depending on if you are "regional" or "national"). And I assume for "average" they are using mean and not median which, from all I've heard of the industry, will make the numbers higher.
People want free, anytime they can get it. Not a good business model.
I think the PS3 "video rental" is a good counter example, I'm a happy netflix subscriber... and would be happy to give money to sony instead, for a comparable product. But the product is significantly worse and a lot more expensive. I assume they think the fact I can have it "instantly" should make up for that, but it doesn't.
If you then look at "buying" instead of renting, the product is a little cheaper but a lot worse -- and there are even weirdos with the price (like their "sales" which are much more arbitrary than any real shop could get away with). Plus the "instant download" feature isn't as big a hook.
I use the Amazon mp3 store all the time, I hear iTunes is doing great... I'll likely never use the PS3 store again though. So just saying "people want free" is outright ignoring reality.
When it was launched, the DS was an experimental console, Nintendo's so-called "3rd leg". Nintendo had no significant faith in it, but threw it out there anyhow as an experiment while working on a proper Game Boy.
One consequence of this is that the components of the DS weren't necessarily picked as they would have been for a handheld designed to match the long life of a Game Boy.
It was an "experiment" sure, they didn't know it would succeed and likely had some backup plans. But to pretend it wasn't meant to succeed is just insanity. Nintendo haven't made a "top of the current gen. specs." console since the N64, so the fact they do that for the DS means nothing.
Meanwhile in Sony-land, manufacturing technology has finally caught up with the ridiculously overbuilt PSP, which was an absolute brick when launched. The Go has some pricing/design issues
hahaha... you mean like the "issue" that it isn't backwards compatible AT ALL. So you can't buy any cheap used games, and PSP owners are basically forced to not upgrade. And combine that with the fact that it's digital only, so your gamefly subscription is useless and you need to buy two games if you have a spouse/brother/roommate/friend who likes to play occasionally (compared to the DS which not only let you share disks but often let you play limited multiplayer on one disk) and they are the same price as original PSP games (which have none of those restrictions).
I was interested in the PSP Go, when I first heard about it 3-6 months ago (mainly due to the size), but there's no way I'm getting one atm.
By that definition Golf is a negative sum game. I hear people still like to play Golf though (hell, I bet most people think you would be insane if you said you gambled away the average amount spent on green fees -- and your loss would be tax deductible!).
I've always liked that idea (which I've seen before) because it treats subdomains in the same way it treats subdirectories under the document root
This seems like a really bad idea, to me, for that reason. Given the above, the client now has to do 4 DNS lookups (org, slashdot.org, tech.slashdot.org, story.tech.slashdot.org... instead of one). Then depending on the rules, they'll have to see if tech.slashdot.org/story exists, before falling back to slashdotr.org/tech/story. Saying if DNS exists use that host would be terrible, saying if DNS exists and a webserver is there might be doable but would be really annoying as you'd have to migrate the entire sub-dir. On the other side testing what is there is much more expensive on the client side, and is bound to get screwed up with things like "oh someone put a global 301 mod_rewrite on tech.slashdot.org so now nothing works"
It's also well-known that if I had invested in the market back in last summer (2008), I would have lost about half the value of my investment.
No, not even if you were insanely unlucky. Even if you were stupid enough to put all your money into the market around the beginning of May 2008: the S&P is about 76% of what it was (not including the dividends you would have got) and the DJIA is about 75% of what it was (again, not including dividends you would have got) -- note that the worst day to invest was different in both cases, by a week or two.
And, again, a professional financial advisor would likely have told you to use Dollar Cost Averaging... and you'd have to have been really unlucky to suddenly get a lump of cash to invest just as the market went down as it did. But, hey, set fire to your money for all I care (but I wouldn't recommend it to any lurkers reading this).
You mean those persons that worked for Lehman and other bankrupt firms?
Personally I use Edward Jones, but I'm sure there were plenty of good and honest people working for some of the companies that went bankrupt... and I think it's very likely that people going to them have made more than people putting everything in a savings account and trying to guess the market.
The stats. used to backup these plans were from smolt data, and download stats.... IIRC the data was released on fedora-devel (as the data on those pages doesn't show that info.
The other point that was made (maybe on fedora-devel, maybe on IRC) was that the smolt arch. data is misleading as to usage of i?86, as that has been on a steady decline... and there would come a time within the next few releases where only x86_64 would have any significant % usage (esp. if you remove machines which could be x86_64 but are i?86 atm.).
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"The plan" is a misnomer though, I currently have a Nexus One on a $10 a month plan.
Talk to the people who bought Bank of America stock at $40+. See if they think there is any "gambling" (or more commonly called risk in this context) in equities. Might want to ask them how their wonderful dividends are doing too.
Backporting a lot of patches is not the definition of fork, for any sane person. Esp. when that same group of people are actively working upstream on the latest releases.
Sure, if you ask stupid people questions they can often give you stupid answers. But I've yet to see anyone intelligent run a vanilla upstream kernel in a production environment. Google are probably the closest, and they basically have a mini-RHEL kernel team that they employ ... I guess wasting huge amounts of money to do that isn't a big deal when you are Google.
Shocker, software having bugs. But here's a hint, if we play chess 30 times and you win 1 match ... that doesn't mean we are both winners, "depending on who you ask". Maybe you really are trying to say that RHEL vs. vanilla are going to have roughly the same number of bugs (and the same time to get them fixed) ... but you'd be a pretty small minority at that point.
By default vim will make a backup copy of the file you are about to edit, which is why your HD was on fire. You can turn that feature off with -n (or in the config. file, see man vim) ... but then recovery after a crash is impossible.
As the original poster said, vim does not load the entire file into memory.
> Red Hat is really a distributor. What original products have they developed?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions
Except Solaris isn't the same as OpenSolaris, in fact one of the biggest complaints I see from the few people still running Solaris is that they still can't get access to the source ... just to see wtf is going on. And OpenSolaris only happened as a last ditch effort before Solaris died to Linux, being forced to do something before you die because you didn't is hardly "leading".
NFS and NIS can only be classed as open source projects if you are delusional. Yes, they dumped some code to try and make a de-facto std. ... but they were never an upstream. Solaris being open source is a lie. Java only because open source because Red Hat+IBM+etc. were going to create a real open source version, if they didn't. Open Office, you can have (although again, they were pretty much forced to open source it ... and there is no real community, because Sun are clueless about open source). MySQL was bought, complete with community (and only a significant part of Sun if you take their inflated price at face value). I know nothing about Virtual box, so maybe you can have that ... for what it's worth.
Yeh, I do that with my foot too. But I'm pretty sure a lot of that is instinctual, because although I've done it to great success with class cups etc. ... I've also done it with knives and heavy metal objects (while not wearing shoes :).
Be fair. They have a worse kernel too.
Not true, even ignoring the physical problems there's a main breaker (which you can't play with without the electric companies approval) which has a limit. But I've also never seen the electric company advertise "unlimited" electricity.
That is a worry ... but the biggest problem is still "we sold you unlimited, but have now realized we can't give it to you".
The thing is the only thing overseas sub-contracting has to offer are lower costs. So it makes sense that the overseas companies will "optimize" everything for cost, this implies the cheapest labour you can get. This probably works "acceptably" for a level 1 call centre, not so much for knowledge workers.
By the same token, I've never seen a small .us contracting company primarily optimize for cost (they may exist, and I just haven't worked with/for them).
You are speaking to the wrong people, IMO. NoScript/AdBlock/etc. are there because users want them. So you are saying "please don't do what users want, because it'll make me more money". Well, sucks to be you then.
If you really want to make a difference and see Ads be viable on the web. N years from now ... you need to speak to "most" of the large content providers. For instance my wife is pretty clueful and had happily not been using NoScript/etc. ... until recently when she hit usatoday and a giant popup came up and refused to go away (so she couldn't read the content). Now she has NoScript installed and only approved sites can run any JS.
It's the same with TV, 5 minutes of commercials every 10 minutes (33%) is just way too much and their real customers fought back ... so now they get 0% ads from a growing percentage of people. Yeh, that implies bad things for the future of TV, but then in many ways nothing really is better than what was there before.
They recently stopped buying third party maps, and are now reportedly paying mobile providers to put their google maps app. on the phones (which they can only do because they aren't locked into the map provider duopoly). Which speaks to, a least, a significant amount of forward planning on their side.
But, yeh, brilliance is hard to measure. Some of the DNS tricks they just released, and more, I've wanted some Linux DNS software to do for at least 10 years ... so it's not "genius". But the number of useful things they've actual got out implies they are way above average (as a company), IMO.
Yeh, I'm sure Scientology has done some good. So what? Are you suggesting we try and keep some kind of score card, we can put "imprison children and malke them slaves" on one side and "feed homeless" on the other? Not sure what we do when they "convert" a follower with those "selfless acts" though.
Of course Atheists never do any charitable works on their own, so as long as the nutjobs "help" roughly as many as they screw over, it's all good.
That's right, I forgot that most "organised" religions fought so hard for equal rights and civil rights, oh wait...
And for anyone else who is not an economist "negative income elasticity" means "prefer cheaper, lower quality, goods".
Depends, I don't see many people using wordpad/gedit instead of MS-word/OO-writer. Features always matter, and they often matter more than speed/security/usability (all of which have their fans who ask "why can't all apps. consider X, and stop being bloated") ... but sometimes, if you do _really_ well on one of those three and you are "close enough" feature wise, then people can live without the features you don't have. But it's a big gamble, much bigger than just adding features as fast as possible.
That's why the minimum recommendation for updates like that is to "write to tempfile, close, check that close is happy and then rename". Unless you can deal with someone pulling the power at any point as you update.
According to that page on that site, _minimum_ pay for a pilot is 67k (which I would put a lot of money on being BS). Of course a different page (http://www.avjobs.com/salaries-wages-pay/historical-aviation-wages.asp) says 16k-60k or 23k-250k (depending on if you are "regional" or "national"). And I assume for "average" they are using mean and not median which, from all I've heard of the industry, will make the numbers higher.
I think the PS3 "video rental" is a good counter example, I'm a happy netflix subscriber ... and would be happy to give money to sony instead, for a comparable product. But the product is significantly worse and a lot more expensive. I assume they think the fact I can have it "instantly" should make up for that, but it doesn't.
If you then look at "buying" instead of renting, the product is a little cheaper but a lot worse -- and there are even weirdos with the price (like their "sales" which are much more arbitrary than any real shop could get away with). Plus the "instant download" feature isn't as big a hook.
I use the Amazon mp3 store all the time, I hear iTunes is doing great ... I'll likely never use the PS3 store again though. So just saying "people want free" is outright ignoring reality.
It was an "experiment" sure, they didn't know it would succeed and likely had some backup plans. But to pretend it wasn't meant to succeed is just insanity. Nintendo haven't made a "top of the current gen. specs." console since the N64, so the fact they do that for the DS means nothing.
hahaha ... you mean like the "issue" that it isn't backwards compatible AT ALL. So you can't buy any cheap used games, and PSP owners are basically forced to not upgrade. And combine that with the fact that it's digital only, so your gamefly subscription is useless and you need to buy two games if you have a spouse/brother/roommate/friend who likes to play occasionally (compared to the DS which not only let you share disks but often let you play limited multiplayer on one disk) and they are the same price as original PSP games (which have none of those restrictions).
I was interested in the PSP Go, when I first heard about it 3-6 months ago (mainly due to the size), but there's no way I'm getting one atm.
SELinux has this capability: http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28545.html
Math FAIL.
By that definition Golf is a negative sum game. I hear people still like to play Golf though (hell, I bet most people think you would be insane if you said you gambled away the average amount spent on green fees -- and your loss would be tax deductible!).
This seems like a really bad idea, to me, for that reason. Given the above, the client now has to do 4 DNS lookups (org, slashdot.org, tech.slashdot.org, story.tech.slashdot.org ... instead of one). Then depending on the rules, they'll have to see if tech.slashdot.org/story exists, before falling back to slashdotr.org/tech/story. Saying if DNS exists use that host would be terrible, saying if DNS exists and a webserver is there might be doable but would be really annoying as you'd have to migrate the entire sub-dir. On the other side testing what is there is much more expensive on the client side, and is bound to get screwed up with things like "oh someone put a global 301 mod_rewrite on tech.slashdot.org so now nothing works"
No, not even if you were insanely unlucky. Even if you were stupid enough to put all your money into the market around the beginning of May 2008: the S&P is about 76% of what it was (not including the dividends you would have got) and the DJIA is about 75% of what it was (again, not including dividends you would have got) -- note that the worst day to invest was different in both cases, by a week or two.
And, again, a professional financial advisor would likely have told you to use Dollar Cost Averaging ... and you'd have to have been really unlucky to suddenly get a lump of cash to invest just as the market went down as it did. But, hey, set fire to your money for all I care (but I wouldn't recommend it to any lurkers reading this).
Personally I use Edward Jones, but I'm sure there were plenty of good and honest people working for some of the companies that went bankrupt ... and I think it's very likely that people going to them have made more than people putting everything in a savings account and trying to guess the market.
Well it's starting with the F11 (been and gone) and F12 changes to x86 support: F11 moves to i586+ and F12 moves to i686+
The stats. used to backup these plans were from smolt data, and download stats. ... IIRC the data was released on fedora-devel (as the data on those pages doesn't show that info.
The other point that was made (maybe on fedora-devel, maybe on IRC) was that the smolt arch. data is misleading as to usage of i?86, as that has been on a steady decline ... and there would come a time within the next few releases where only x86_64 would have any significant % usage (esp. if you remove machines which could be x86_64 but are i?86 atm.).