Except that they look outdated for at least a decade, and that their paradigms also are outdated.
I wish someone would come up with something new, that combines all good ideas of all OSes into a new basic architecture, after understanding that, creates some new, modern paradigms, and then re-builds all those good ideas from scratch into those new main paradigms. Which should in itself already result in a load of new possibilities. But some new functions of top, and you have a certain winner.
The only problem is to get the resources to be able to pull something like that off. Because it is certainly possible. Hell I could do it, if I had the budget to hire the right people.
I quite like the performance boost due to compiling from source, no matter how small it might be.
While I generally agree... (I use Gentoo for years on multiple systems and love/hate it.) What if the boost is smaller than the resources it takes to compile it in the first place?
If you once compiled gcc, glibc, kdelibs (or all of gnome) java (se) and ghc (with vmem requirements up to 8GB!) in a row, just to go from x.x.x.2 to x.x.x.3, you know what I am talking about. Here that can take a good day. And the gain from not simply keeping the old version is next to nothing, but often still required because of a security hole.
Here, a weekly update can consist of over 50 packages wanting to be re-compiled. For shit like going from -rc1 to -rc2, or a changed use flag (compile option).
I wonder if it wouldn’t be simpler, to just compile every combination of configure setup / architecture once, and put the binaries on a giant (and I mean bigger-than-google-by-some-magnitudes giant) server.;) (At least if you have multiple similar servers, you can save time by using ccache and "binpkg"es.)
It’s really a joke. The teeny tiny industry of films, wants to put an ultimatum on the behavior of the whole ISP economy! Most people do not know how ridiculously small the film and music industry is compared to others. It’s not far from the toilet seat and brush industry.
You know what I’d do? I’d say they forced me to block everything that could be copyright infringement, and then go to its logical conclusion: Block every single video, image, text and just everything from them. Because as we all know, every time you look at one of those things, you made a copy on your computer. Even multiple ones. In the RAM, in the hard disk and CPU cache, in the VRAM, on the screen, etc.
I would also tell all my competitors to do it. And the TV and radio stations (as much as possible.)
The world wouldn’t even know they existed at all! Nobody would hear of their movies. And they would go bankrupt.
Then if someone came to me, telling me that that was anti-competitive / monopolistic behavior, I would take out the aggressively written threat letters from the movie studios, and tell him that they forced me to do it against my will. (If my lawyer team would recommend it, I’d provoke the studios to send me a court order.)
So go on, movie studios. Please do (literally) fuck yourselves. ^^
There’s this thing called “gloves”, you know. Just use the condom-like types, that don’t look as if you don’t want to touch the patient, and a bit of self-confidence to overcome stupid comments from stupid people, and you’re good.:)
Do you know even the definition of that word that you’re shouting so loudly? Because if you’re not simply lying, then you’re not.
Just to give you a perspective: You trust in your brain, your eyes, your screen, your cables, your graphics card, your data bus, your CPU, your network card, your drivers, your OS, your browser, your provider, every server, network device, cable and owner of that equipment between here and there, the government servers, the admins, the website builders, the authors of the content, the extractors of information from the data set, the collectors of the data set, the creators of the data set, the source of what was measured, and the physics to be equal where you are and where all those things are, just to get to the point where you are able to compare that input to your own inner model of the world.
And then, solely because it is consistent in itself, and with your inner model, you accept it as a “FACT” and scream it out loud. Which also screams “look at how defensive I am, because I thing else nobody will believe me”. (Cry me a river.) And of course, because you now accepted it, you will stand behind it until the bitter and ugly end. Because your inner “it” literally associates the breakdown of your inner model with real death, and therefore massively repress everything that conflicts with it. (Cry me an ocean.)
You passively live in a tiny teeny little box of your own simple world, acting in a walking daze, and you can’t even get out. It is so sad that I would cry. If I would care even the tiniest bit about you and your world.
If Google filtered out all spam blogs, their revenue would decline.
And this, children, happens when you sell your soul to the golden cow. There always comes the moment when you have to choose, if you will walk over dead bodies, for it.
As if there were no bigger ideals and goals to follow, than money, money, money...
Or just become a genius hacker and scroll to the bottom of the ee page, when you go to it! What an “impressive” way of “hiding” the solution from you, while allowing Google to index it, no? ^^
Protip: If Google shows it, it’s in the page! If it does not help to scroll, turn of the style(s| sheets) and JavaScript.
BOTH! And other options. With gray areas in-between And other dimensions. With different amounts of orthogonality! And with scales relative to the observer! And not a point, but a volume inside them.
HA! Stupid box can’t keep me from thinking freely!
I wonder why nobody came up with the idea of selling proper bacterial cultures to apply to the skin after killing everything there. or to eat after antibiotics. That would be a gigantic business!!
Perhaps because it already exists, and is called yogurt (with living cultures), or a proper and fresh sour-dough starter culture (as opposed to the cultures/starters that have gone bad for years, but still are used by bakeries).:)
But hmm... if I just search around for really nice starter cultures, and let a microbiologist check them for the proper combination. That could heal many diseases caused by the inability to get rid of bad cultures. (E.g. because every time you apply antibiotics, the bad ones get there first.)
Also: Why use such a high-tech device, wen you can just apply a iodine solution to your skin? Kills everything. bacterial, viruses, funguses, parasites. Of course you can never put it in your mouth or something, because it can just as well kill you (or at least make you very sick). But for the skin, what reasons are there not to use it?
Exactly. I can remember the explanation, that our whole skin in 100% covered is a layer of bacteria. And that those good bacteria prevent the settling of bad bacterial. Which is an important part of what keeps us healthy.
It’s the same thing as in the stomach. No bacteria, no digestion! I once had a bad settlement of a very dominating helicobacter. Man, you’re fucked, if something bad comes along. That little shithead (not even an insult in this case ^^) not only wrecked my whole digestion, but created a massive amount of heartburn (is that the proper English word?) and loads of pain, which was so bad, that it ran into my lungs, and caused me to wake up at night with the inability to breathe, because of the acid in my bronchial tube! I had to breathe veeery calm and slowly, while I was literally already suffocating to begin with. (That’s why I woke up.) I thought I’d die! It even wrecked my mood because of sleep deprivation, the pain, and because it’s known to tweak your mood.
I don’t know what can happen to your skin, if you wreck your protective perimeter, but I bet it’s something pretty nasty like putrescent moldy skin and rashes, or something like that. Yeah, very “clean”. ^^
You have heard of the term privacy have you? There is a difference between “secrecy” and privacy!
But hey, because of a novel on some imaginary things, you now think that there must be evil hiding there, and so all privacy must be eliminated. Way to go...
I got news for you. My government friends and I had a chat, and we think that your brain and your bowel are covered in way too much secrecy! And as “secrecy hides evil”, we asked our American friends here, to stake you onto our new inner-body-surveillance system (model 2, only 12 cm in diameter!) and put a chip in your head that will read all your thoughts and check them for evilness to eliminate (trough electrical brain-zaps), before you can execute the evil thought.
I had more than one banking professional tell me, that if you want to have your money well handled, you should avoid using banks at all.
Every time you put money on one of their accounts, they can lend out ten times that amount (yes, that’s it fact imaginary money) to other people at a interest. If you use one of their funds or something like that, it’s even worse, since they take most of it, but if it goes bad, you pay for most of it.
And when you lend money... well the method goes like this: Take an example economy 100 people. Now lend all 100 people 100 dollar at 1% interest. Then they have to pay it back at the end. But they still will only have 100 times 100 dollar. So for 99 to pay the 101 dollar back, one of them has to go bankrupt. Because where would the money come from? All money you earn always comes from someone else in the economy. And he either also earned it from someone else in the same (global) economy, or he had to lend the above mentioned imaginary money from a bank. It’s futile. There is no way around one of them being fucked at the end.
But then, what is the point of a bank, if there is nothing left? Well... exactly.
The only idea that now may be left, is the easy transfer of money. Put it on an account, so another one can instantly draw it out again. This is what I’m doing right now. And for lending money: Well, I go the old-fashioned way: I save up money that I get from earning more from working harder. It’s harder (and it should be hard), but at the end, whatever I get out from it, will be mine, mind and mine!
Now for the even worse part: On top of all that... what is that green bill in your wallet? What is that “money”? Well, if you look at it, it is the debt of someone else. You are literally holding a piece of debt in your hands. It is not bound to any real thing with a real value. Like being a paper that says that you get X real physical gold pieces when turning it in at a bank. In the EU it’s even worse. The “money” in not associated with anything anymore. Only the belief of people is giving that paper and worth.
Well, that can all be good and well, as you might say. But now imagine, if that belief... or that credit... breaks down... Then your one hundred trillion dollars can suddenly become worth just about one cent.
And funnily, this still can work. But in reality, there is a nice scheme if you yourself are the one printing the money: Just keep all your own money in gold. And then twist the value of the paper money at will, depending on who has more of it: If all the money is in their hands, let the money crash to worthlessness. And if it is in your hands, let it rise. In essence this gets you work for free! If it costs twice as much work as the money was worth when they got it, to earn the money to pay you back, you got the work difference for free. Rinse and repeat.
And you wondered why after the trillion dollar “bailout” flowing to the banks, the value of money suddenly rose, and why when the economy and life went upwards in the Clinton era, suddenly an election fraud brought people into power that created a big war for which they had to lend as much money as possible...?!?
The nice thing is: Banks and the federal reserve can only fuck with you, if you use their money!! This is a bit hard in the real world, of course. ^^ But look at what the banks do. Do it, and do it better! Learn your stuff! If they can profit from it, so can you!
One trick is to just always have as little “active”/paper money as possible. Always put it straight into real goods, gold/silver/$otherValueGainingOrStableResource or (if you are wealthy) houses, and similar stuff that can make you more money.
The customers concerned are 'suspected' of illegally file sharing (P2P) approximately 291 movie titles, they now face threatening demands for money (settlement) or risk the prospect of court action.
The emphasized part is bullshit fearmongering to get them to pay. Expect the “charges” to be dropped as soon as you refuse and tell them to go fuck themselves. I’ve already seen it twice. You don’t pay, and nothing happens.
Which is obvious, since they have no proof, no legal anything, and were it not for the changes they pressed into law, they would not even be listened to by the courts.
If you got such a letter, tell them to go fuck themselves, because they don’t even know what “proof” is in computers, because they know shit about how computers work.
Slashdot Mirror
Except that they look outdated for at least a decade, and that their paradigms also are outdated.
I wish someone would come up with something new, that combines all good ideas of all OSes into a new basic architecture, after understanding that, creates some new, modern paradigms, and then re-builds all those good ideas from scratch into those new main paradigms.
Which should in itself already result in a load of new possibilities. But some new functions of top, and you have a certain winner.
The only problem is to get the resources to be able to pull something like that off. Because it is certainly possible. Hell I could do it, if I had the budget to hire the right people.
I quite like the performance boost due to compiling from source, no matter how small it might be.
While I generally agree... (I use Gentoo for years on multiple systems and love/hate it.)
What if the boost is smaller than the resources it takes to compile it in the first place?
If you once compiled gcc, glibc, kdelibs (or all of gnome) java (se) and ghc (with vmem requirements up to 8GB!) in a row, just to go from x.x.x.2 to x.x.x.3, you know what I am talking about. Here that can take a good day. And the gain from not simply keeping the old version is next to nothing, but often still required because of a security hole.
Here, a weekly update can consist of over 50 packages wanting to be re-compiled. For shit like going from -rc1 to -rc2, or a changed use flag (compile option).
I wonder if it wouldn’t be simpler, to just compile every combination of configure setup / architecture once, and put the binaries on a giant (and I mean bigger-than-google-by-some-magnitudes giant) server. ;)
(At least if you have multiple similar servers, you can save time by using ccache and "binpkg"es.)
Altitude of Saturn's aurora and its implications for the characteristic energy of precipitated electrons
That’s the first time I looked at the title of something and went: tl;dr. ^^
And pay more than the ISPs payed to destroy them. ^^
I just founded the NRLA, you insensitive clod!
We plan to merge with the GaBJeKTaU.
Next: Castrate all men. To remove their “facility” to rape women.
(Oh boy, I know that there are “battle tank butch” lesbians out there, who think I’m completely serious. ^^)
It’s really a joke. The teeny tiny industry of films, wants to put an ultimatum on the behavior of the whole ISP economy!
Most people do not know how ridiculously small the film and music industry is compared to others. It’s not far from the toilet seat and brush industry.
You know what I’d do? I’d say they forced me to block everything that could be copyright infringement, and then go to its logical conclusion:
Block every single video, image, text and just everything from them. Because as we all know, every time you look at one of those things, you made a copy on your computer. Even multiple ones. In the RAM, in the hard disk and CPU cache, in the VRAM, on the screen, etc.
I would also tell all my competitors to do it. And the TV and radio stations (as much as possible.)
The world wouldn’t even know they existed at all! Nobody would hear of their movies. And they would go bankrupt.
Then if someone came to me, telling me that that was anti-competitive / monopolistic behavior, I would take out the aggressively written threat letters from the movie studios, and tell him that they forced me to do it against my will.
(If my lawyer team would recommend it, I’d provoke the studios to send me a court order.)
So go on, movie studios. Please do (literally) fuck yourselves. ^^
There in an error in that logic: Where do they get that bucket of money from, when they are losing so much money?
educated by CNN or Fox New
Does not parse. (And doubly so. Plus a whole extra dimension of non-parseability [because there is no such thing as right/left].)
There’s this thing called “gloves”, you know. Just use the condom-like types, that don’t look as if you don’t want to touch the patient, and a bit of self-confidence to overcome stupid comments from stupid people, and you’re good. :)
Mercury - Here are some mercury FACTS from the department of energy... http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/pollutioncontrols/overview_mercurycontrols.html.
Do you know even the definition of that word that you’re shouting so loudly? Because if you’re not simply lying, then you’re not.
Just to give you a perspective: You trust in your brain, your eyes, your screen, your cables, your graphics card, your data bus, your CPU, your network card, your drivers, your OS, your browser, your provider, every server, network device, cable and owner of that equipment between here and there, the government servers, the admins, the website builders, the authors of the content, the extractors of information from the data set, the collectors of the data set, the creators of the data set, the source of what was measured, and the physics to be equal where you are and where all those things are, just to get to the point where you are able to compare that input to your own inner model of the world.
And then, solely because it is consistent in itself, and with your inner model, you accept it as a “FACT” and scream it out loud. Which also screams “look at how defensive I am, because I thing else nobody will believe me”. (Cry me a river.)
And of course, because you now accepted it, you will stand behind it until the bitter and ugly end. Because your inner “it” literally associates the breakdown of your inner model with real death, and therefore massively repress everything that conflicts with it. (Cry me an ocean.)
You passively live in a tiny teeny little box of your own simple world, acting in a walking daze, and you can’t even get out. It is so sad that I would cry. If I would care even the tiniest bit about you and your world.
If Google filtered out all spam blogs, their revenue would decline.
And this, children, happens when you sell your soul to the golden cow.
There always comes the moment when you have to choose, if you will walk over dead bodies, for it.
As if there were no bigger ideals and goals to follow, than money, money, money...
Or just become a genius hacker and scroll to the bottom of the ee page, when you go to it! What an “impressive” way of “hiding” the solution from you, while allowing Google to index it, no? ^^
Protip: If Google shows it, it’s in the page! If it does not help to scroll, turn of the style(s| sheets) and JavaScript.
...targeting my “long tail”?
Oh... with badware? Well then, no thanks. ^^
It’s OK. You will become “an hero” then. :) ;)
Facebook users will finally love you then!
BOTH!
And other options. With gray areas in-between
And other dimensions. With different amounts of orthogonality!
And with scales relative to the observer!
And not a point, but a volume inside them.
HA! Stupid box can’t keep me from thinking freely!
Boyfriend: Next please!
(Because there is no such thing as a “special one”. It’s only in your head. And the cure is FTAG [fuck ten other girls]. ^^)
...that the central switch that goes out of the net, and some other small devices, have no internal UPS... ^^
No use having all the servers still running, if the “glue” between them dies anyway.
I wonder why nobody came up with the idea of selling proper bacterial cultures to apply to the skin after killing everything there. or to eat after antibiotics. That would be a gigantic business!!
Perhaps because it already exists, and is called yogurt (with living cultures), or a proper and fresh sour-dough starter culture (as opposed to the cultures/starters that have gone bad for years, but still are used by bakeries). :)
But hmm... if I just search around for really nice starter cultures, and let a microbiologist check them for the proper combination.
That could heal many diseases caused by the inability to get rid of bad cultures. (E.g. because every time you apply antibiotics, the bad ones get there first.)
Also: Why use such a high-tech device, wen you can just apply a iodine solution to your skin? Kills everything. bacterial, viruses, funguses, parasites. Of course you can never put it in your mouth or something, because it can just as well kill you (or at least make you very sick). But for the skin, what reasons are there not to use it?
Exactly. I can remember the explanation, that our whole skin in 100% covered is a layer of bacteria. And that those good bacteria prevent the settling of bad bacterial. Which is an important part of what keeps us healthy.
It’s the same thing as in the stomach. No bacteria, no digestion! I once had a bad settlement of a very dominating helicobacter. Man, you’re fucked, if something bad comes along. That little shithead (not even an insult in this case ^^) not only wrecked my whole digestion, but created a massive amount of heartburn (is that the proper English word?) and loads of pain, which was so bad, that it ran into my lungs, and caused me to wake up at night with the inability to breathe, because of the acid in my bronchial tube! I had to breathe veeery calm and slowly, while I was literally already suffocating to begin with. (That’s why I woke up.) I thought I’d die!
It even wrecked my mood because of sleep deprivation, the pain, and because it’s known to tweak your mood.
I don’t know what can happen to your skin, if you wreck your protective perimeter, but I bet it’s something pretty nasty like putrescent moldy skin and rashes, or something like that. Yeah, very “clean”. ^^
Plasma Device Kills ... Skin In Seconds
Sorry, but I always read it as this. And TFS is just a big bunch of white noise after this...
I think LHC is a pretty cool guy. eh kills hardons and doesn't afraid of anything...
You have heard of the term privacy have you?
There is a difference between “secrecy” and privacy!
But hey, because of a novel on some imaginary things, you now think that there must be evil hiding there, and so all privacy must be eliminated.
Way to go...
I got news for you. My government friends and I had a chat, and we think that your brain and your bowel are covered in way too much secrecy! And as “secrecy hides evil”, we asked our American friends here, to stake you onto our new inner-body-surveillance system (model 2, only 12 cm in diameter!) and put a chip in your head that will read all your thoughts and check them for evilness to eliminate (trough electrical brain-zaps), before you can execute the evil thought.
I’m sure you’ll love it! ^^
I had more than one banking professional tell me, that if you want to have your money well handled, you should avoid using banks at all.
Every time you put money on one of their accounts, they can lend out ten times that amount (yes, that’s it fact imaginary money) to other people at a interest. If you use one of their funds or something like that, it’s even worse, since they take most of it, but if it goes bad, you pay for most of it.
And when you lend money... well the method goes like this: Take an example economy 100 people. Now lend all 100 people 100 dollar at 1% interest. Then they have to pay it back at the end. But they still will only have 100 times 100 dollar. So for 99 to pay the 101 dollar back, one of them has to go bankrupt. Because where would the money come from? All money you earn always comes from someone else in the economy. And he either also earned it from someone else in the same (global) economy, or he had to lend the above mentioned imaginary money from a bank. It’s futile. There is no way around one of them being fucked at the end.
But then, what is the point of a bank, if there is nothing left? Well... exactly.
The only idea that now may be left, is the easy transfer of money. Put it on an account, so another one can instantly draw it out again. This is what I’m doing right now.
And for lending money: Well, I go the old-fashioned way: I save up money that I get from earning more from working harder. It’s harder (and it should be hard), but at the end, whatever I get out from it, will be mine, mind and mine!
Now for the even worse part:
On top of all that... what is that green bill in your wallet? What is that “money”?
Well, if you look at it, it is the debt of someone else. You are literally holding a piece of debt in your hands.
It is not bound to any real thing with a real value. Like being a paper that says that you get X real physical gold pieces when turning it in at a bank.
In the EU it’s even worse. The “money” in not associated with anything anymore. Only the belief of people is giving that paper and worth.
Well, that can all be good and well, as you might say.
But now imagine, if that belief... or that credit... breaks down...
Then your one hundred trillion dollars can suddenly become worth just about one cent.
And funnily, this still can work. But in reality, there is a nice scheme if you yourself are the one printing the money: Just keep all your own money in gold. And then twist the value of the paper money at will, depending on who has more of it: If all the money is in their hands, let the money crash to worthlessness. And if it is in your hands, let it rise.
In essence this gets you work for free! If it costs twice as much work as the money was worth when they got it, to earn the money to pay you back, you got the work difference for free.
Rinse and repeat.
And you wondered why after the trillion dollar “bailout” flowing to the banks, the value of money suddenly rose, and why when the economy and life went upwards in the Clinton era, suddenly an election fraud brought people into power that created a big war for which they had to lend as much money as possible...?!?
The nice thing is: Banks and the federal reserve can only fuck with you, if you use their money!!
This is a bit hard in the real world, of course. ^^
But look at what the banks do. Do it, and do it better! Learn your stuff!
If they can profit from it, so can you!
One trick is to just always have as little “active”/paper money as possible. Always put it straight into real goods, gold/silver/$otherValueGainingOrStableResource or (if you are wealthy) houses, and similar stuff that can make you more money.
The customers concerned are 'suspected' of illegally file sharing (P2P) approximately 291 movie titles, they now face threatening demands for money (settlement) or risk the prospect of court action.
The emphasized part is bullshit fearmongering to get them to pay. Expect the “charges” to be dropped as soon as you refuse and tell them to go fuck themselves. I’ve already seen it twice. You don’t pay, and nothing happens.
Which is obvious, since they have no proof, no legal anything, and were it not for the changes they pressed into law, they would not even be listened to by the courts.
If you got such a letter, tell them to go fuck themselves, because they don’t even know what “proof” is in computers, because they know shit about how computers work.