I first tried out RedHat 4.0, but didn't use it much.
Then RedHat5.2 upgraded to RedHat6.0. I think I tried Caldera in there for a while, but didn't use it much, also Mandrake, but again, only to try it out. I pretty much stayed with RedHat until I discovered Gentoo. Even after I started using Gentoo as a desktop I mainly used RedHat on servers until I discovered Debian.
Gentoo is still my favored distro for my main personal workstation. My servers are mainly Debian, although I use CentOS and Scientific Linux when I have to do something ugly (like Oracle.)
I used Ubuntu for a while for secondary personal workstations (like my media center at home) and for the workstations in the labs at work, but abandoned it when Unity came along, in favor of LinuxMint. I put LinuxMint Debian Edition on my work laptop, since I didn't want to beat the SSD to death with compiles.
I've tried some others, but never stuck with them.
>If you teach them Office Libre and anything at all changes their notes will be useless. This applies to Office 2007 or 2013 as well but it'll probably be at least a little closer.
You got that backwards. MS Office is the one that changes file formats pretty much every time the program updates. Open Document was largely designed to address that issue.
Or did you mean that the interface will change and nothing they learned will be any good? Again you're barking up the wrong tree. Microsoft has a history of *radically* changing interfaces underneath people. OpenOffice (and now LibreOffice) have stuck with the same general interface since they wrote out all the Star Division code around 1999 or 2000.
You may be right. I seem to remember it being a problem in the past (even for a wired connection) but I've avoided dealing with Network Manager for several years, and maybe it's been improved.
The last time I messed with it, I had trouble getting it to establish a static address on a wired connection even after logging in. I pretty much gave up after that.
Networking starts up only after someone logs in? Really?
It's fixable -- just uninstall network manager (and resolvconf) and configure the standard Debian config files and you're good to go, but network manager is just silly on a server. It's silly on any machine that isn't a laptop, but it's really silly on a server.
Verizon does not charge separately for 3G and 4G. They don't really have a mechanism for treating them separately.
If you use the tethering capaibility that comes with the OS, it will pop up a dialog that will sign you up for their tethering plan at $20 a month. It won't work if you don't sign up.
However, there are free apps in the Market (excuse me, Google Play) that will allow free tethering. The one I installed just checks to make sure it has internet connectivity before firing up its hotspot. No evidence that it cares whether it's 3G or 4G.
Previously those apps had been withdrawn from the Market at Verizon's request. Of course that was just a mistake, and the Verizon employee that made that request has been reprimanded, since of course Verizon would never have considered restricting them...
Well logging sources are very well encapsulated -- they have two layers of pressure vessel around them, and they're pretty tough. Nothing's invulnerable, but anyone trying to break one open would really have to be *trying*.
The real danger is exposure to the radiation itself, not so much chemical contamination.
A well logging source will be contained in a double pressure vessel that's really pretty tough. A neutron source like this is pretty big as downhole sources go -- the pressure vessel is maybe a bit less than two inches in diameter and 8 or 9 inches long. The ones I used years ago when I was logging wells were 16Ci sources, so fairly significant strength.
If it were inside the shield it wouldn't be lost -- it's a large cylinder a couple of feet in diameter and a couple of feet tall, filled with some kind of hydrocarbon (parafin or plastic or something.) Also painted bright yellow. The best shield for neutrons is something with a lot of hydrogen.
They asked him about the t-shirt, he explained, and they said, Cool, you can go now. They didn't pull him aside, by the way -- he elected to not to go through the scanner for medical reasons, so he accepted the pat-down.
Then the Delta gate supervisor saw the shirt and freaked.
I'm no fan of the TSA, but they behaved in a professional, even rational fashion. Not so, Delta.
You're missing the part where the TSA didn't give him a particularly bad time. They passed him through, said he was OK to board.
Then a Delta employee at the gate freaked out and called for more questioning and made a big hullabaloo about it, resulting in a big delay for the flight and ultimately causing the pilot to refuse him boarding privileges. The TSA was never very upset at him, nor he with them. That wasn't the case for the local transit cops, but they aren't the TSA.
If your method incrorporates the previously patented method, then you are subject to that patent. If you truely added something new, you can patent your innovation. But that doesn't mean you can *build* it. You might have to get the permission of the original patent holder before you can do that.
Of course, he can't add your patented innovation into what he's building without your permission. That's where a lot of cross-licensing agreements come from.
Now maybe his invention inpired you to do something completely different, in which case these restrictions wouldn't apply, but adding to or transforming a previous invention still leaves you subject to its patent.
You're using a different definition of "public company" than the rest of the world. When a company "goes public" it makes its shares available to anyone who can pony up the cost on a public stock exchange, subject to the rules of the SEC.
A private company is generally "closely held" and you canNOT buy stock on a public exchange.
Your meaning might make some sense, but it's not how the rest of the world uses the term.
Good to know. My DVD player will remember multiple DVDs -- I'm not sure how many since it's not a huge issue for me, but I've replaced a disc in the middle of play with another one, and the next time I put that first disc in, it started where it had left off.
What I've seen of the Netflix streaming selection, however, is that it's pretty poor. I was one of the few that welcomed the "price hike" because it cut my prices. DVD alone was cheaper than DVD with the "free" streaming, and I was glad to cut that extra cost off, since I never really saw much in the streaming list I really wanted to see. Perhaps 10% of the titles I chose also had a streaming version.
And I'd have to deal with the logistics of getting streaming to my TV. (Nope, sorry, don't have any interest in watching movies on my phone or computer.) The TV's not close to an ethernet jack. It's certainly do-able (Roku or something over WiFi) but ultimately it's not *important* enough to put much effort into.
If DVD by mail were to end, I'd just stop watching. I often don't have time to watch an entire movie (or TV show, but I don't watch many of those) at one sitting, and it might be a week or more before I get a chance to finish one I've started. My DVD player will remember where I am over that time. Does the streaming service?
If it goes away, it does. I've got other things to do anyway.
What rich man will be giving you that job? Did you miss the part about all the jobs being automated away? That rich man doesn't need your labor.
What that rich man *does* need is you to buy his goods (or services) or he won't be rich any more. But you don't have a job, because unless you can figure out how to start a company and become rich yourself, you don't have any income.
Those rich people cannot sustain *their* income selling only to other rich people. (Or trading -- the terminology is irrelevant.) There aren't enough of them. They need the 99% as customers or they're going to be out of luck.
We're not at this point yet, but as automation improves (and it will) it will become better and *cheaper* than human labor. This will include "skilled" and "unskilled" jobs. It will include most "knowledge workers."
There will still be room for a small number of innovators to create new things -- but without consumers, what will be the point?
- you think you are telling me something that I don't know? Something that I didn't say dozens of times here? Eventually these programs will all go away, and it's a great thing, people will have to work again and will be free of gov't again.
Doing what? Did you miss the part about most jobs being automated away?
Do you think we want JOBS? NO!
We want productivity, we want THINGS. We want LEISURE.
You're absolutely right. If business gets efficient enough, the prices of all these things will plummet. All these shiny things will be incredibly cheap.
But since most of us will have zero income (since none of these efficient businesses *need* our labor) these incredibly cheap things will be too expensive for anyone except the very rich who own these wonderfully efficient businesses.
Which will soon collapse because they won't have anyone to sell to.
Depending on what sort of economic religion you believe in, driving wages down might actually work out if you drive prices down faster. Driving wages to zero (which is what looks like we may be headed for) is not just an extreme version of this, it is qualitatively different. Even if you worship at the alter of the Free Market (as you evidently do) driving income to zero removes the market part -- you have to have someone to sell to.
Not by a lot. I frequently get emails and letters and phone calls for someone else with my name. And not just one particular someone else. My last name is in the top 10 last names in the US, and my first name is in the top 20.
I like Android just fine. I'm just not convinced that I have any great need for a tablet. I have a laptop or a desktop if I need to get work done. I have a phone if I need to check something quickly, and a bookreader for long form reading. I don't see where a tablet fits in there.
I'd head to the store just to look if there were a store somewhere close that actually had one, but since they seem to be sold out at all physical outlets, that doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon.
If I were in the market for a tablet, this looks like a great one. The part of me that likes shiny objects sorta wants one. The rest of me is saying, "Eh, why?"
My real name is probably more anonymous than my Google gmail address. I use the gmail username in a number of places, but it's relatively unique -- I don't think I've ever seen anyone else use it.
My real name, however is incredibly common -- no one would *ever* be able to tell it was *me* from the name. Which is one of the reasons I came up with the name I use for for gmail -- there's no way I could ever find a name relating to my real name to use on any service that has more than a few people on it. It's always taken. I got away with it on Slashdot, but that was on a much smaller Internet.
Some special reason you're citing a yearly income for programmers but an hourly one for engineers?
Disregarding the amounts, it's been my experience that programmers are much more likely to be paid on an hourly basis than engineers. The magnitude of the two may be what you suggest, but the time base is most likely to be reversed.
In non-IT related fields, it's certainly the case that a tech is more likely to be an hourly employee than an engineer is.
Even so Nouveau has gotten *much* better, and nVidia has gotten much worse. I've been using the proprietary drivers for years now and have been reasonably satisfied with them. At least until recently.
For a couple of months my work PC has had the graphics lock up several times a day as the graphics card has "fallen off the bus." I'd have to ssh in from another machine and reboot. Anything even that even slightly stressed the graphics could bring it on (like a Youtube video) or even just a fast scroll through a page.
I switched over to Nouveau and the problem has gone away. Uptime is currently 16 days, where I was lucky to make 4 hours using the nVidia drivers. Nouveau soes everything I want it to, other than a little tearing in some very old-school X programs like nedit.
So yes, it would be really nice if nVidia would make their specs available, but the Nouveau people have done a really good job, right now better than nVidia have. It would be really nice if I could use my Optimus graphics on my laptop as well.
My biggest problem with atheists is that they're too damned religious.:)
There may be a god. I haven't seen any good evidence for it, but I haven't seen any evidence against it either. Without evidence one way or the other I don't consider the question settled. Atheists *do* consider the question settled. So do "religous nutjobs." They both *believe* with insufficient evidence. That's religion.
And personally, I don't consider the question *interesting* either.
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I first tried out RedHat 4.0, but didn't use it much.
Then RedHat5.2 upgraded to RedHat6.0. I think I tried Caldera in there for a while, but didn't use it much, also Mandrake, but again, only to try it out. I pretty much stayed with RedHat until I discovered Gentoo. Even after I started using Gentoo as a desktop I mainly used RedHat on servers until I discovered Debian.
Gentoo is still my favored distro for my main personal workstation. My servers are mainly Debian, although I use CentOS and Scientific Linux when I have to do something ugly (like Oracle.)
I used Ubuntu for a while for secondary personal workstations (like my media center at home) and for the workstations in the labs at work, but abandoned it when Unity came along, in favor of LinuxMint. I put LinuxMint Debian Edition on my work laptop, since I didn't want to beat the SSD to death with compiles.
I've tried some others, but never stuck with them.
>If you teach them Office Libre and anything at all changes their notes will be useless. This applies to Office 2007 or 2013 as well but it'll probably be at least a little closer.
You got that backwards. MS Office is the one that changes file formats pretty much every time the program updates. Open Document was largely designed to address that issue.
Or did you mean that the interface will change and nothing they learned will be any good? Again you're barking up the wrong tree. Microsoft has a history of *radically* changing interfaces underneath people. OpenOffice (and now LibreOffice) have stuck with the same general interface since they wrote out all the Star Division code around 1999 or 2000.
You may be right. I seem to remember it being a problem in the past (even for a wired connection) but I've avoided dealing with Network Manager for several years, and maybe it's been improved.
The last time I messed with it, I had trouble getting it to establish a static address on a wired connection even after logging in. I pretty much gave up after that.
Server edition, he said.
Networking starts up only after someone logs in? Really?
It's fixable -- just uninstall network manager (and resolvconf) and configure the standard Debian config files and you're good to go, but network manager is just silly on a server. It's silly on any machine that isn't a laptop, but it's really silly on a server.
Verizon does not charge separately for 3G and 4G. They don't really have a mechanism for treating them separately.
If you use the tethering capaibility that comes with the OS, it will pop up a dialog that will sign you up for their tethering plan at $20 a month. It won't work if you don't sign up.
However, there are free apps in the Market (excuse me, Google Play) that will allow free tethering. The one I installed just checks to make sure it has internet connectivity before firing up its hotspot. No evidence that it cares whether it's 3G or 4G.
Previously those apps had been withdrawn from the Market at Verizon's request. Of course that was just a mistake, and the Verizon employee that made that request has been reprimanded, since of course Verizon would never have considered restricting them...
Well logging sources are very well encapsulated -- they have two layers of pressure vessel around them, and they're pretty tough. Nothing's invulnerable, but anyone trying to break one open would really have to be *trying*.
The real danger is exposure to the radiation itself, not so much chemical contamination.
A well logging source will be contained in a double pressure vessel that's really pretty tough. A neutron source like this is pretty big as downhole sources go -- the pressure vessel is maybe a bit less than two inches in diameter and 8 or 9 inches long. The ones I used years ago when I was logging wells were 16Ci sources, so fairly significant strength.
If it were inside the shield it wouldn't be lost -- it's a large cylinder a couple of feet in diameter and a couple of feet tall, filled with some kind of hydrocarbon (parafin or plastic or something.) Also painted bright yellow. The best shield for neutrons is something with a lot of hydrogen.
How did the TSA initiate this?
They asked him about the t-shirt, he explained, and they said, Cool, you can go now. They didn't pull him aside, by the way -- he elected to not to go through the scanner for medical reasons, so he accepted the pat-down.
Then the Delta gate supervisor saw the shirt and freaked.
I'm no fan of the TSA, but they behaved in a professional, even rational fashion. Not so, Delta.
The TSA didn't overreact. They were fine with it.
Delta overreacted, *after* the TSA pronounced him ok to board.
You're missing the part where the TSA didn't give him a particularly bad time. They passed him through, said he was OK to board.
Then a Delta employee at the gate freaked out and called for more questioning and made a big hullabaloo about it, resulting in a big delay for the flight and ultimately causing the pilot to refuse him boarding privileges. The TSA was never very upset at him, nor he with them. That wasn't the case for the local transit cops, but they aren't the TSA.
No.
No it doesn't.
If your method incrorporates the previously patented method, then you are subject to that patent. If you truely added something new, you can patent your innovation. But that doesn't mean you can *build* it. You might have to get the permission of the original patent holder before you can do that.
Of course, he can't add your patented innovation into what he's building without your permission. That's where a lot of cross-licensing agreements come from.
Now maybe his invention inpired you to do something completely different, in which case these restrictions wouldn't apply, but adding to or transforming a previous invention still leaves you subject to its patent.
Um.
You're using a different definition of "public company" than the rest of the world. When a company "goes public" it makes its shares available to anyone who can pony up the cost on a public stock exchange, subject to the rules of the SEC.
A private company is generally "closely held" and you canNOT buy stock on a public exchange.
Your meaning might make some sense, but it's not how the rest of the world uses the term.
Good to know. My DVD player will remember multiple DVDs -- I'm not sure how many since it's not a huge issue for me, but I've replaced a disc in the middle of play with another one, and the next time I put that first disc in, it started where it had left off.
What I've seen of the Netflix streaming selection, however, is that it's pretty poor. I was one of the few that welcomed the "price hike" because it cut my prices. DVD alone was cheaper than DVD with the "free" streaming, and I was glad to cut that extra cost off, since I never really saw much in the streaming list I really wanted to see. Perhaps 10% of the titles I chose also had a streaming version.
And I'd have to deal with the logistics of getting streaming to my TV. (Nope, sorry, don't have any interest in watching movies on my phone or computer.) The TV's not close to an ethernet jack. It's certainly do-able (Roku or something over WiFi) but ultimately it's not *important* enough to put much effort into.
If DVD by mail were to end, I'd just stop watching. I often don't have time to watch an entire movie (or TV show, but I don't watch many of those) at one sitting, and it might be a week or more before I get a chance to finish one I've started. My DVD player will remember where I am over that time. Does the streaming service?
If it goes away, it does. I've got other things to do anyway.
What rich man will be giving you that job? Did you miss the part about all the jobs being automated away? That rich man doesn't need your labor.
What that rich man *does* need is you to buy his goods (or services) or he won't be rich any more. But you don't have a job, because unless you can figure out how to start a company and become rich yourself, you don't have any income.
Those rich people cannot sustain *their* income selling only to other rich people. (Or trading -- the terminology is irrelevant.) There aren't enough of them. They need the 99% as customers or they're going to be out of luck.
We're not at this point yet, but as automation improves (and it will) it will become better and *cheaper* than human labor. This will include "skilled" and "unskilled" jobs. It will include most "knowledge workers."
There will still be room for a small number of innovators to create new things -- but without consumers, what will be the point?
Yup. So try to track me down from that. :)
- you think you are telling me something that I don't know? Something that I didn't say dozens of times here? Eventually these programs will all go away, and it's a great thing, people will have to work again and will be free of gov't again.
Doing what? Did you miss the part about most jobs being automated away?
Do you think we want JOBS? NO!
We want productivity, we want THINGS. We want LEISURE.
You're absolutely right. If business gets efficient enough, the prices of all these things will plummet. All these shiny things will be incredibly cheap.
But since most of us will have zero income (since none of these efficient businesses *need* our labor) these incredibly cheap things will be too expensive for anyone except the very rich who own these wonderfully efficient businesses.
Which will soon collapse because they won't have anyone to sell to.
Depending on what sort of economic religion you believe in, driving wages down might actually work out if you drive prices down faster. Driving wages to zero (which is what looks like we may be headed for) is not just an extreme version of this, it is qualitatively different. Even if you worship at the alter of the Free Market (as you evidently do) driving income to zero removes the market part -- you have to have someone to sell to.
Not by a lot. I frequently get emails and letters and phone calls for someone else with my name. And not just one particular someone else. My last name is in the top 10 last names in the US, and my first name is in the top 20.
I like Android just fine. I'm just not convinced that I have any great need for a tablet. I have a laptop or a desktop if I need to get work done. I have a phone if I need to check something quickly, and a bookreader for long form reading. I don't see where a tablet fits in there.
I'd head to the store just to look if there were a store somewhere close that actually had one, but since they seem to be sold out at all physical outlets, that doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon.
If I were in the market for a tablet, this looks like a great one. The part of me that likes shiny objects sorta wants one. The rest of me is saying, "Eh, why?"
My real name is probably more anonymous than my Google gmail address. I use the gmail username in a number of places, but it's relatively unique -- I don't think I've ever seen anyone else use it.
My real name, however is incredibly common -- no one would *ever* be able to tell it was *me* from the name. Which is one of the reasons I came up with the name I use for for gmail -- there's no way I could ever find a name relating to my real name to use on any service that has more than a few people on it. It's always taken. I got away with it on Slashdot, but that was on a much smaller Internet.
Some special reason you're citing a yearly income for programmers but an hourly one for engineers?
Disregarding the amounts, it's been my experience that programmers are much more likely to be paid on an hourly basis than engineers. The magnitude of the two may be what you suggest, but the time base is most likely to be reversed.
In non-IT related fields, it's certainly the case that a tech is more likely to be an hourly employee than an engineer is.
Even so Nouveau has gotten *much* better, and nVidia has gotten much worse. I've been using the proprietary drivers for years now and have been reasonably satisfied with them. At least until recently.
For a couple of months my work PC has had the graphics lock up several times a day as the graphics card has "fallen off the bus." I'd have to ssh in from another machine and reboot. Anything even that even slightly stressed the graphics could bring it on (like a Youtube video) or even just a fast scroll through a page.
I switched over to Nouveau and the problem has gone away. Uptime is currently 16 days, where I was lucky to make 4 hours using the nVidia drivers. Nouveau soes everything I want it to, other than a little tearing in some very old-school X programs like nedit.
So yes, it would be really nice if nVidia would make their specs available, but the Nouveau people have done a really good job, right now better than nVidia have. It would be really nice if I could use my Optimus graphics on my laptop as well.
I wear glasses. Glasses over glasses is a recipe for a headache.
Nope.
I consider both extremely unlikely, but I don't *care* enough about the question to have a belief about it.
Those aren't interesting questions either.
My biggest problem with atheists is that they're too damned religious. :)
There may be a god. I haven't seen any good evidence for it, but I haven't seen any evidence against it either. Without evidence one way or the other I don't consider the question settled. Atheists *do* consider the question settled. So do "religous nutjobs." They both *believe* with insufficient evidence. That's religion.
And personally, I don't consider the question *interesting* either.