I guess that's possible, although I wonder if you included the fact the company invested in knowledge they still have or that Oracle is a serious POS to setup properly (and really needs a dedicated DBA)... and the fact you'll be paying for the Oracle licenses forever, and that the cost of those licences will dictate what types of HW you can use (want to use a set of 16 "cheap" x86_64 boxes... sucks to be you).
And while that is possible, personally I find it much more common that a company is paying significant sums of money to Oracle when they could just type "yum install postgresql-server" on their RHEL box.
I can honestly say that the feel and smoothness of the Mac OS X GUI blows x.org out of the water
Here let me fix that for you:
I can honestly say that the feel and smoothness of the Mac OS X GUI with the Apple drivers for the Apple Hardware blows x.org with the OSS drivers, on undocumented hardware out of the water.
FYI I have yet to hear anyone knowledgeable say that X.org is slow for any reason other than driver quality. HTH. HAND.
You seem to be under the misconception that dynamic linking gets around the GPL. It doesn't. It can, in certain cases, make a difference for the LGPL.
You seem to be under the misconception that the above are facts, and not just the opinions of some lawyers. "The most widely repeated opinion, is that you can't dynamically link against GPL code" is probably the most truthful thing to say.
PolicyKit is an excellent way to handle permissions in a GUI - far better than GtkSudo, etc.
Or not. Try doing an install in PackageKit, and then removing the same thing... you get asked to authenticate twice (retarded), and if the removal is allowed there's no way to deny that same user from removing glibc as well (double plus retarded). Now it's possible this is all PackageKit is PolicyKit is awesome, but AFAICT that's not true and the usual answer seems to be along the lines of "PolicyKit is designed to let a normal local user change the time from the gnome-panel, and works as long as your problem domain is of a similar level of complexity.".
Also... please don't think about what happens when you have GUI applications that have arbitrary privilages, ptrace() doesn't exist etc. (actually the std. PolicyKit response is to disallow ptrace()/core/etc. on startup... and pretend that's clever, and actually works).
I think that's a little bit disingenuous. Try searching "reddit.com" of google and bing.
Google gives you a list of all results mentioning reddit.com, and a few common links into the site. That's it.
Err, what? The first link on google is the same as the only result you get on "bing". The wikipedia entry is link 3 on google, not anywhere on bing. Now try searching for "redit.com", first link on google is "maybe you meant reddit.com". All the result on bing look like spammy comercial credit card sites.
Crohn's & Colitis are linked for a reason, in fact the way to work out if you have Colitis is usually to test for Crohn's and if the test is negative you probably do (although you might still have Chrohn's).
Saying that, C&C are "infamous" for being undiagnosed/misdiagnosed.
However the references to that block, then have to be changed (and the references to them, all the way up the tree). But in the real world applications don't write one byte at a time.
By definition. If the OS can't schedule it immediately on 4 cores, but can on 3 cores then it can split into 3 threads. No OS I know of can do this or has an API to do this.
I would assume every OS has an API to do this, but it might not be as fast as you want. Certainly on a modern Linux you can look at columns 6 and 7 in/proc/schedstat for each CPU and get a pretty good idea on CPU idleness. But it's never going to be magic, just as it's never going to be as fast to create a thread as it is to call a function.
I'd also argue that threads are way overused, if you have a specific need and a defined interface... then create a new program and use shared memory (or whatever) to transfer data. Threads are mostly used due to a lack of design.
I like the new income tax brackets you guys are installing now.
[...]
So if you earn £150,000 a year
[...]
The VAT is such a tax on the poor, it's not even funny.
A couple of points: 1) £150,000 is $243,000 dollars atm.... you can't even see poor from this point. 2) If you include medical and retirement, and add Federal+state taxes, the US taxes are close to UK ones. 3) While I agree that all purchase taxes are regressive, in both the UK and US they at least tend to exempt basic necessities for instance most food if VAT free in the UK (although, again, at 240k+ a year you are probably spending most of your money on non-necessities).
The experience is similar as long as you have a lot of bandwidth and shorter content. But doing progressive download of a 2 hour 4 Mbps HD movie is not a good experience.
I'm not sure what bandwidth has to do with it, you still have to download everything you watch. Maybe you meant storage? And you are implying that it'll be significant that you'll need to store the entire HD movie with progressive download? I'd disagree 4Mb * 60 * 60 * 2 / 8 == 3.6GB, that's a couple of dollars in 2009 storage cost for a home user.
Also your network connection has to be much better than mine if you think you can watch a 4Mbps in streaming mode, without hitting nice "buffering" messages a lot.
Even without a Cert, you will know that you are at YOUR bank's website, because you will be able to walk up the tree with signed records.
No, you would know that you are at "yourbank.com" you wouldn't know that it's "YOUR bank's website"... which is the problem the new super certs. are trying to address.
Female doctors in training now outnumber men in dermatology, family medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, and OB/GYN
Women tend to cluster in specialties that are more accommodating of women and part-time work, notably pediatrics and obstetrics
Currently, fewer than 10 percent of thoracic and orthopedic surgery residents are women.
And then younger physicians of both genders -- but particularly women -- shy away from demanding specialties like surgery.
So it doesn't surprise me that I've mostly met male Doctors, as most of the ones I've seen over the last 5 years have been surgeons. It's nice to see stats. that the profession as a whole doesn't just represent my experience though. Although it looks like parts of it are heavily split, it looks like it's doing better than most everything else.
when the second claim is disproven, that maybe a few women can, but a majority lack the ability or the inclination. And every single time, as the residual sexism fades, the third claim is shown to be false as well. Business, politics, medicine: it's a familiar pattern. Now math is next on the list.
While I personally agree with your overall point, that the gender divide is mostly a social problem, I don't think the above is proven yet.
We aren't anywhere close to 50% women in politics (and when Hilary was running, her gender seemed to be a much bigger issue for "was she qualified" than being non-white was for Obama).
Women are still generally paid less in business, don't rise as high and I don't see a lot of Women doctors (esp. if you discount paediatrics and OBGYNs).
Also IMO there seem to still be a huge number of women who think having a child is a huge achievement. So in general I think you are being a bit optimistic about the current state of the world:).
Incidentally, a static webserver is several hundred lines of C. It's an extremely simple task.
No, and no. It takes more than that to parse real HTTP messages, and that's assumeing you are using a sane string API (string.h, does not count IMNSHO).
But then nginx, lighttpd, thttpd and even and-httpd should all be competitive if not outright beat YAWS (depending on what you test, the CPU and network speed). Then there's Tux aka. Red Hat Content Accelerator, and it just doesn't get faster than that... for obvious reasons (but even then, both Tux and YAWS might hit the same wire speed wall... IIRC you needed jumbo frames and 10Ge to start hitting Tux limits, a few years ago).
Riiight. A farmer grows a surplus amount of wheat in the great depression, where wheat growth has been regulated due to over supply (and hugely falling prices), shows huge expansion of regulation. Or not.
The 2.6.18 kernel we have in our RHEL5 version [...] doesn't have the module, I need 1.3.6. I figure, no problem I'll just grab the newer RPM from somewhere on the net.
Let me convert that for you: "I tried fooBSD-2, and it didn't have the right version of pf/libc/whatever... so I figure, no problem I'll just grab some newer versions of whatever files from barBSD-8 from some random place on the 'net, and stick them in my cvs checkout and do a build. Too my shock it didn't work perfectly, this BSD crack is terrible.".
The sad thing is if someone did say that, they'd probably instantly get -666 Troll karma, but obviously not for you because of course Linux is magic and RHEL-5 is obviously completely compatible with random versions of everything else that uses rpms.
I don't see how insurance companies will like this, they basically get a huge amount of free money as soon as some asshole traffic cop waits at the bottom of a hill on the highway. No way they'd want to disturb. that income.
I also find it hard to believe the insurance companies want to insure Magoo.
As for reducing "per. cost" pay outs, I don't see that being true... it doesn't take much speed for a modern car to become a writeoff, and is easily possible within the speed limits. I would also think that all those people driving way to close to the person in front, turning 1-2 car accidents into 10-20 car pileups would be a significant "per. cost" problem (but, I see almost no moves to reduce that problem in current laws).
But then, when I read 'excessive speed is one of the primary ways that people are killed while driving.' my first reaction is "citation needed".
Does society collapse when a hooker gets beaten up by a weirdo?
prostitution != GBH/ABH
Does society collapse when a bunch of Chinese girls get brought over in a shipping crate to work in a brothel?
prostitution != human trafficking
Does society collapse when a college girl's boyfriend tells her that if she wants to keep the coke coming she needs to turn a few tricks, and it will only be just once or twice?
Does society collapse when a college girl's boyfriend tells her that if she wants to keep the coke coming she needs to go work at Wall Mart for 60 hours a week?
Actually he did mention "kevents", which even with a name noone uses is probably still worth +1/2 a clue. Saying that I didn't see any mention of epoll/sendfile/splice/tee/TCP_CORK/TCP_CONGESTION/TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT/aio... so I think it's just the usual uninformed crap from ACM, from someone who has glanced at the FreeBSD kernel.
My personal opinion is that console only owners nowadays are pretty stupid. A decent PC graphics card which can do the latest games is around 100$ and the games usually are 20-30% cheaper.
I had a friend tell me the exact same thing... 10 years ago.
Yeah, most of the was still using the older style dialing, but touch-tone was becoming the norm in the US by the time 911 was rolled out, so it wasn't as much of a concern.
I don't think so, a quick google produces how stuff works which says 911 service started in the late 1960s. I don't think the US had tone dial anywhere near that early.
Remember the fact that he refused to incorporate the safe string handling functions [...] like strlcat()/strlcpy()
-1, Fail at C. strl*() are not safe, they are safer than strn*() sure... but that isn't the same thing. Hell it's not even like they are efficient, which is the usual C hacks fallback for using 1980s interfaces today.
Also when he refused to add them, their defintion was different on both platforms that implemented them... not that it makes Drepper a nice person, but he wasn't all wrong about strl*().
Seriously, once the Boston Globe goes out of business, are all the people in Boston who are used to reading the newspaper every day going to stop reading the news?
Could be. I subscribe to a local paper and the NY times atm.... and in both cases I'd prefer to pay more for better quality. If there are only 4 "large" papers left, and so at least one raised their quality proportionally then I'd be more than happy to pay them. I wouldn't bet that way though (all current movement is to sacrifice quality in cost cutting)... and there's roughly a 0% chance of me paying for online access via. a web browser (maybe with a Kindle, but I'm not about to blow $500 on one).
I thought Murdock might have lost it when he bought MySpace, and I'm inclined to think the same way now.
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I guess that's possible, although I wonder if you included the fact the company invested in knowledge they still have or that Oracle is a serious POS to setup properly (and really needs a dedicated DBA) ... and the fact you'll be paying for the Oracle licenses forever, and that the cost of those licences will dictate what types of HW you can use (want to use a set of 16 "cheap" x86_64 boxes ... sucks to be you).
And while that is possible, personally I find it much more common that a company is paying significant sums of money to Oracle when they could just type "yum install postgresql-server" on their RHEL box.
Here let me fix that for you:
I can honestly say that the feel and smoothness of the Mac OS X GUI with the Apple drivers for the Apple Hardware blows x.org with the OSS drivers, on undocumented hardware out of the water.
FYI I have yet to hear anyone knowledgeable say that X.org is slow for any reason other than driver quality. HTH. HAND.
You seem to be under the misconception that the above are facts, and not just the opinions of some lawyers. "The most widely repeated opinion, is that you can't dynamically link against GPL code" is probably the most truthful thing to say.
Or not. Try doing an install in PackageKit, and then removing the same thing ... you get asked to authenticate twice (retarded), and if the removal is allowed there's no way to deny that same user from removing glibc as well (double plus retarded). Now it's possible this is all PackageKit is PolicyKit is awesome, but AFAICT that's not true and the usual answer seems to be along the lines of "PolicyKit is designed to let a normal local user change the time from the gnome-panel, and works as long as your problem domain is of a similar level of complexity.".
Also ... please don't think about what happens when you have GUI applications that have arbitrary privilages, ptrace() doesn't exist etc. (actually the std. PolicyKit response is to disallow ptrace()/core/etc. on startup ... and pretend that's clever, and actually works).
Err, what? The first link on google is the same as the only result you get on "bing". The wikipedia entry is link 3 on google, not anywhere on bing. Now try searching for "redit.com", first link on google is "maybe you meant reddit.com". All the result on bing look like spammy comercial credit card sites.
Crohn's & Colitis are linked for a reason, in fact the way to work out if you have Colitis is usually to test for Crohn's and if the test is negative you probably do (although you might still have Chrohn's).
Saying that, C&C are "infamous" for being undiagnosed/misdiagnosed.
However the references to that block, then have to be changed (and the references to them, all the way up the tree). But in the real world applications don't write one byte at a time.
I would assume every OS has an API to do this, but it might not be as fast as you want. Certainly on a modern Linux you can look at columns 6 and 7 in /proc/schedstat for each CPU and get a pretty good idea on CPU idleness. But it's never going to be magic, just as it's never going to be as fast to create a thread as it is to call a function.
I'd also argue that threads are way overused, if you have a specific need and a defined interface ... then create a new program and use shared memory (or whatever) to transfer data. Threads are mostly used due to a lack of design.
A couple of points: 1) £150,000 is $243,000 dollars atm. ... you can't even see poor from this point. 2) If you include medical and retirement, and add Federal+state taxes, the US taxes are close to UK ones. 3) While I agree that all purchase taxes are regressive, in both the UK and US they at least tend to exempt basic necessities for instance most food if VAT free in the UK (although, again, at 240k+ a year you are probably spending most of your money on non-necessities).
I'm not sure what bandwidth has to do with it, you still have to download everything you watch. Maybe you meant storage? And you are implying that it'll be significant that you'll need to store the entire HD movie with progressive download? I'd disagree 4Mb * 60 * 60 * 2 / 8 == 3.6GB, that's a couple of dollars in 2009 storage cost for a home user.
Also your network connection has to be much better than mine if you think you can watch a 4Mbps in streaming mode, without hitting nice "buffering" messages a lot.
No, you would know that you are at "yourbank.com" you wouldn't know that it's "YOUR bank's website" ... which is the problem the new super certs. are trying to address.
From your first link:
So it doesn't surprise me that I've mostly met male Doctors, as most of the ones I've seen over the last 5 years have been surgeons. It's nice to see stats. that the profession as a whole doesn't just represent my experience though. Although it looks like parts of it are heavily split, it looks like it's doing better than most everything else.
While I personally agree with your overall point, that the gender divide is mostly a social problem, I don't think the above is proven yet.
We aren't anywhere close to 50% women in politics (and when Hilary was running, her gender seemed to be a much bigger issue for "was she qualified" than being non-white was for Obama).
Women are still generally paid less in business, don't rise as high and I don't see a lot of Women doctors (esp. if you discount paediatrics and OBGYNs).
Also IMO there seem to still be a huge number of women who think having a child is a huge achievement. So in general I think you are being a bit optimistic about the current state of the world :).
No, and no. It takes more than that to parse real HTTP messages, and that's assumeing you are using a sane string API (string.h, does not count IMNSHO).
But then nginx, lighttpd, thttpd and even and-httpd should all be competitive if not outright beat YAWS (depending on what you test, the CPU and network speed). Then there's Tux aka. Red Hat Content Accelerator, and it just doesn't get faster than that ... for obvious reasons (but even then, both Tux and YAWS might hit the same wire speed wall ... IIRC you needed jumbo frames and 10Ge to start hitting Tux limits, a few years ago).
Riiight. A farmer grows a surplus amount of wheat in the great depression, where wheat growth has been regulated due to over supply (and hugely falling prices), shows huge expansion of regulation. Or not.
Let me convert that for you: "I tried fooBSD-2, and it didn't have the right version of pf/libc/whatever ... so I figure, no problem I'll just grab some newer versions of whatever files from barBSD-8 from some random place on the 'net, and stick them in my cvs checkout and do a build. Too my shock it didn't work perfectly, this BSD crack is terrible.".
The sad thing is if someone did say that, they'd probably instantly get -666 Troll karma, but obviously not for you because of course Linux is magic and RHEL-5 is obviously completely compatible with random versions of everything else that uses rpms.
I don't see how insurance companies will like this, they basically get a huge amount of free money as soon as some asshole traffic cop waits at the bottom of a hill on the highway. No way they'd want to disturb. that income.
I also find it hard to believe the insurance companies want to insure Magoo.
As for reducing "per. cost" pay outs, I don't see that being true ... it doesn't take much speed for a modern car to become a writeoff, and is easily possible within the speed limits. I would also think that all those people driving way to close to the person in front, turning 1-2 car accidents into 10-20 car pileups would be a significant "per. cost" problem (but, I see almost no moves to reduce that problem in current laws).
But then, when I read 'excessive speed is one of the primary ways that people are killed while driving.' my first reaction is "citation needed".
You need to read the last gospel
I would bet that, if it came up, pleading "Your evidence is crap, because if true I would be dead" would get you off.
prostitution != GBH/ABH
prostitution != human trafficking
Does society collapse when a college girl's boyfriend tells her that if she wants to keep the coke coming she needs to go work at Wall Mart for 60 hours a week?
Actually he did mention "kevents", which even with a name noone uses is probably still worth +1/2 a clue. Saying that I didn't see any mention of epoll/sendfile/splice/tee/TCP_CORK/TCP_CONGESTION/TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT/aio ... so I think it's just the usual uninformed crap from ACM, from someone who has glanced at the FreeBSD kernel.
I had a friend tell me the exact same thing ... 10 years ago.
I don't think so, a quick google produces how stuff works which says 911 service started in the late 1960s. I don't think the US had tone dial anywhere near that early.
-1, Fail at C. strl*() are not safe, they are safer than strn*() sure ... but that isn't the same thing. Hell it's not even like they are efficient, which is the usual C hacks fallback for using 1980s interfaces today.
If you want a small, faster, easy to use and safe C string API go use one, or any number of others that are designed for other criteria. With this new fangled shared library technology, we can now put shared functions in more than one file call libc.
Also when he refused to add them, their defintion was different on both platforms that implemented them ... not that it makes Drepper a nice person, but he wasn't all wrong about strl*().
Could be. I subscribe to a local paper and the NY times atm. ... and in both cases I'd prefer to pay more for better quality. If there are only 4 "large" papers left, and so at least one raised their quality proportionally then I'd be more than happy to pay them. I wouldn't bet that way though (all current movement is to sacrifice quality in cost cutting) ... and there's roughly a 0% chance of me paying for online access via. a web browser (maybe with a Kindle, but I'm not about to blow $500 on one).
I thought Murdock might have lost it when he bought MySpace, and I'm inclined to think the same way now.