Have you actually tried that? half of Gnome depends on it indirectly. You won’t be left with something that you could call a Gnome system by removing it. (But I think that’s a good thing. To remove Gnome, that is. ^^)
Who would make such a contract in the first place? I do work under a contract that gives me money for the work done, NO MATTER WHAT! Just like when you buy no-name stuff, you still have to pay for it! (Normal price for no-name, premium price for getting the right to put my name on it... if I allow it at all.)
The above rule makes as stating in the contract, that for every time your client blinks while reading it, the costs go up by 20%. Completely retarded.
...how they know it’s lensing, and that the stars aren’t just positioned like that?
Sounds to me like you could never prove, which one it really is, until you fly behind that “dark matter”. (To me still a imaginary excuse, based on the arrogance of not being able to admit that the math is wrong, but instead calling the universe wrong! ^^ [But a good {and compact!} explanation will of course change my mind.])
Thing is, when Windows gets a corrupted OS... it BSODs and we move on.
How do you move on from a BSOD in your car?? No, you won’t be dragged away in a bag. You will be dragged away in several bags!
There is only one way to make bit-flips completely go away: Design every processing component with triple simultaneous execution, so a bit-flip can be detected properly. Also do mirroring on all data storages, and use checksums on them and on all data streams. Then do constant scrubbing (like in ZFS) on all storage systems.
If you leave out even one of those things, the whole effort becomes pointless for writable or constantly processed data.
Yes, they’re not all on the road at the same time. (Only virtually.) But that’s a good thing with those roads. And you get the only point of watching that stuff: Cool drifts, flights, indoor action, and crashes with parts flying off.:)
Man, I have to reinstall Richard Burns Rally! Never sweated so much (like a pig) from the tension/stress as when getting trough a whole race alive. (Yes, it’s that hard. That’s why it’s so much fun when you actually get it right.) [btw: don’t even try without a proper steering wheel!]
Bullshit. They will care, as soon as someone switches the DRM server off. Which already happened more than once, and created massive anger, especially among Joe Sixpack types, who sued. As soon as (tabloid) newspapers notice these events, they will warn about the DRM fraud schemes. Which the Joes will read. Resulting in mass-avoidance.
The normal guy on the street luckily still thinks that he owns what he buys. Even if it’s information (e.g. movies). So if that what he thinks he owns, goes away in any way, he will sue for fraud/theft/etc, avoid them, and tell his friends to avoid them. Simple as that.
It’s the natural rule of maximum efficiency. As soon as buying DRMed stuff becomes negative compared to the other choices, it dies. Period. (The trick is to offer better choices. But that’s already in the works, as artists leave their publishers droves, as soon as they can get out. To then do their own thing, and get a multiple of the money they got before.)
We here in the countries of Europe don’t get what you Americans like about singing in movies and shows. Always the pointless singing. While we all here just collectively cringe. It ruins the whole movie for us. Not judging here. Do whatever makes you happy.:) But we don’t get it, and can’t stand such movies.
Cost of seeing data center employee's face when they realise they're on call 24/7 for no extra cash - Priceless.
Well, if he agreed to give away work for free, because he thinks he’s worth that little, then that’s his own damn fault. People who don’t learn to say no, will obviously be walked all over. Your boss is only a client of yours. You can always get another client. Either he offers a good deal, or he can GTFO.
Actually, I can”t stand the “retardedness” that went into designing databases, file systems, XML, class hierarchies, etc, as trees, instead of proper graphs in a proper ontology. In fact a graph is the only structure you’ll ever need. Everything else can be represented as a graph. So there is no point in separate list, table and tree data structures. Not even for optimization, since the graph algorithms can be designed in a way that makes them exactly as efficient. (Been there, done it, and in fact designing a system based on it.)
I’m sorry, but how is setting up a database not piss-easily scriptable? Install MySQL as a dependency in the package manager, and in your package, run a shell script that sets up MySQL-admin-settings and runs a SQL script for the database setup. In case there is already a MySQL database set up, tell the user in the post-install message to run the setup script with his own parameters. (Or even offer it right in the “first start” dialog.)
Still better than the unemployed basement dweller of an admin, who has the time to delete stuff he doesn’t like on Wikipedia, while in his underwear, all day long.;)
GODDAMMIT! There is no such thing!! Neutrality is a physical impossibility for a human-like life-form! Our minds process and twist hearsay from other minds all day long. By definition, every single of those things has a “bias”.
What is “neutral” anyway? Neurology will tell you that something completely neutral is something that the mind has no reaction or processing whatsoever to. What we really mean is “fits my world view, or that of my community”. So we should say that! It’s much better, if you can extract useful information from any source, by first applying a correction filter. A filter that you can only tune, by knowing the bias of the sources very well. Something that assuming something in “neutral” prohibits.
Well, at least in my case, you got the wrong impression of thinking that I would only call Wikipedia wrong. I call everything wrong, that acts as if it could present “the one true reality”(TM), when physically completely relying on hearsay, which itself relies on hearsay, and so on, until somewhere past a thousand layers of human mind and sense processing full of twisting and transforming, there comes physical reality. Which themselves are relative to the observer anyway.
One has to accept that we usually can not deduce our information back to physical reality. So even though there is one reality (relative to the observer), practical reality differs massively between humans. And nobody of them is wrong. (With the exception of things that can actually be proven wrong with simple logic. Like the circular reasoning of creationists and the like.)
So as a result, we should acknowledge this limitation, and model our knowledge base after it. I recommend that everyone has his own version/view of Wikipedia. Built on own edits, and the published versions/views of other sources, with their precedence/priority set by a self-defined trust(worthiness) value. (Hence making the concept of sources links inherent to the information structure itself.) Those sources can and will of course do the same. Which would result in a P2P system, and allow very easy initial editor finding. Also it would make it easy to keep loonies (aka. people who strongly disagree) and trolls (ditto, but angry and hence chaotic) off, because nobody would trust them in the first place. Or lower his trust on someone who does.
And that’s the thing: Just like the terms and conditions of a contract, nobody checks them. I bet a big part of them are complete bullshit, if properly analyzed.
The fact is, that credibility is completely unrelated to truth. Just ask your virtual Cesar about Brutus and trust. (Or anyone who got betrayed.) The arguments must be logically sound, and the paradigms must be accepted by both. And then it’s still only OK, if those paradigms can themselves be tracked back to basic quantum physics & co. Or pure math. But even then... where did the universe come from? How... where... you know, it’s something that baffles the mind.
If one really uses his brain and asks the tough questions, the answers are way more complex than you might think.
“Accurate” as in “fits MY own version of a twisted reality nicely”.
Sorry, but many Wikipedia admins don’t know what they are reign over, and only allow what fits their world view. Which is usually the mainstream bullshit view.
Exactly like in democracy or in a incomplete communism (conveniently no provisional government ever finished the “transition”), as long as there are people in power over other people, they will use that power for their gains. It’s the natural result of natural selection: If you can spread your genes and ideas better, you’ll do it. Or go extinct. Easy choice. (Watch the moderators do exactly that. ^^)
The great thing with Wikipedia is, that unlike landlocked state governments, it can be transformed a peer-to-peer cascading trust-relationship network. (Just like natural communication in human societies human.)
Slashdot Mirror
Then try Haskell. It’s the better F#, and THE functional language to learn and use. :)
Have you actually tried that? half of Gnome depends on it indirectly. You won’t be left with something that you could call a Gnome system by removing it. (But I think that’s a good thing. To remove Gnome, that is. ^^)
False dichotomy!
You know the concept of self-employment, do you? Every company started like this. And so can yours.
I chose this path, and am very, very happy with it!
Who would make such a contract in the first place? I do work under a contract that gives me money for the work done, NO MATTER WHAT!
Just like when you buy no-name stuff, you still have to pay for it! (Normal price for no-name, premium price for getting the right to put my name on it... if I allow it at all.)
The above rule makes as stating in the contract, that for every time your client blinks while reading it, the costs go up by 20%. Completely retarded.
...how they know it’s lensing, and that the stars aren’t just positioned like that?
Sounds to me like you could never prove, which one it really is, until you fly behind that “dark matter”. (To me still a imaginary excuse, based on the arrogance of not being able to admit that the math is wrong, but instead calling the universe wrong! ^^ [But a good {and compact!} explanation will of course change my mind.])
Thing is, when Windows gets a corrupted OS... it BSODs and we move on.
How do you move on from a BSOD in your car?? No, you won’t be dragged away in a bag. You will be dragged away in several bags!
There is only one way to make bit-flips completely go away:
Design every processing component with triple simultaneous execution, so a bit-flip can be detected properly. Also do mirroring on all data storages, and use checksums on them and on all data streams. Then do constant scrubbing (like in ZFS) on all storage systems.
If you leave out even one of those things, the whole effort becomes pointless for writable or constantly processed data.
Don’t forget rally racing!
Yes, they’re not all on the road at the same time. (Only virtually.) But that’s a good thing with those roads. :)
And you get the only point of watching that stuff: Cool drifts, flights, indoor action, and crashes with parts flying off.
Man, I have to reinstall Richard Burns Rally! Never sweated so much (like a pig) from the tension/stress as when getting trough a whole race alive. (Yes, it’s that hard. That’s why it’s so much fun when you actually get it right.) [btw: don’t even try without a proper steering wheel!]
Bullshit. They will care, as soon as someone switches the DRM server off. Which already happened more than once, and created massive anger, especially among Joe Sixpack types, who sued. As soon as (tabloid) newspapers notice these events, they will warn about the DRM fraud schemes. Which the Joes will read. Resulting in mass-avoidance.
The normal guy on the street luckily still thinks that he owns what he buys. Even if it’s information (e.g. movies). So if that what he thinks he owns, goes away in any way, he will sue for fraud/theft/etc, avoid them, and tell his friends to avoid them. Simple as that.
It’s the natural rule of maximum efficiency. As soon as buying DRMed stuff becomes negative compared to the other choices, it dies. Period. (The trick is to offer better choices. But that’s already in the works, as artists leave their publishers droves, as soon as they can get out. To then do their own thing, and get a multiple of the money they got before.)
Did you spot any pointy hair?
We here in the countries of Europe don’t get what you Americans like about singing in movies and shows. Always the pointless singing. While we all here just collectively cringe. It ruins the whole movie for us. :)
Not judging here. Do whatever makes you happy.
But we don’t get it, and can’t stand such movies.
Cost of seeing data center employee's face when they realise they're on call 24/7 for no extra cash - Priceless.
Well, if he agreed to give away work for free, because he thinks he’s worth that little, then that’s his own damn fault.
People who don’t learn to say no, will obviously be walked all over. Your boss is only a client of yours. You can always get another client. Either he offers a good deal, or he can GTFO.
Actually, I can”t stand the “retardedness” that went into designing databases, file systems, XML, class hierarchies, etc, as trees, instead of proper graphs in a proper ontology. In fact a graph is the only structure you’ll ever need. Everything else can be represented as a graph. So there is no point in separate list, table and tree data structures. Not even for optimization, since the graph algorithms can be designed in a way that makes them exactly as efficient.
(Been there, done it, and in fact designing a system based on it.)
I’m sorry, but how is setting up a database not piss-easily scriptable?
Install MySQL as a dependency in the package manager, and in your package, run a shell script that sets up MySQL-admin-settings and runs a SQL script for the database setup. In case there is already a MySQL database set up, tell the user in the post-install message to run the setup script with his own parameters. (Or even offer it right in the “first start” dialog.)
From big over huge and colossal to gigantic?
Still better than the unemployed basement dweller of an admin, who has the time to delete stuff he doesn’t like on Wikipedia, while in his underwear, all day long. ;)
Have you tried 4chan? ^^
France? Left-wing? You must be in the “We in the US hate the French” reality distortion bubble.
The government there is full of right-wingers and even nationalists!
the "neutral point of view."
GODDAMMIT! There is no such thing!!
Neutrality is a physical impossibility for a human-like life-form! Our minds process and twist hearsay from other minds all day long. By definition, every single of those things has a “bias”.
What is “neutral” anyway? Neurology will tell you that something completely neutral is something that the mind has no reaction or processing whatsoever to.
What we really mean is “fits my world view, or that of my community”. So we should say that!
It’s much better, if you can extract useful information from any source, by first applying a correction filter. A filter that you can only tune, by knowing the bias of the sources very well. Something that assuming something in “neutral” prohibits.
You’re not a Wikipedia admin by any chance? ;)
and someone like me will come along and delete them years later. (Not notable, No credible sources, and doesn’t fit your views.)
Well, at least in my case, you got the wrong impression of thinking that I would only call Wikipedia wrong. I call everything wrong, that acts as if it could present “the one true reality”(TM), when physically completely relying on hearsay, which itself relies on hearsay, and so on, until somewhere past a thousand layers of human mind and sense processing full of twisting and transforming, there comes physical reality. Which themselves are relative to the observer anyway.
One has to accept that we usually can not deduce our information back to physical reality. So even though there is one reality (relative to the observer), practical reality differs massively between humans. And nobody of them is wrong. (With the exception of things that can actually be proven wrong with simple logic. Like the circular reasoning of creationists and the like.)
So as a result, we should acknowledge this limitation, and model our knowledge base after it. I recommend that everyone has his own version/view of Wikipedia. Built on own edits, and the published versions/views of other sources, with their precedence/priority set by a self-defined trust(worthiness) value. (Hence making the concept of sources links inherent to the information structure itself.) Those sources can and will of course do the same.
Which would result in a P2P system, and allow very easy initial editor finding.
Also it would make it easy to keep loonies (aka. people who strongly disagree) and trolls (ditto, but angry and hence chaotic) off, because nobody would trust them in the first place. Or lower his trust on someone who does.
And that’s the thing: Just like the terms and conditions of a contract, nobody checks them. I bet a big part of them are complete bullshit, if properly analyzed.
The fact is, that credibility is completely unrelated to truth. Just ask your virtual Cesar about Brutus and trust. (Or anyone who got betrayed.) The arguments must be logically sound, and the paradigms must be accepted by both. And then it’s still only OK, if those paradigms can themselves be tracked back to basic quantum physics & co. Or pure math. But even then... where did the universe come from? How... where... you know, it’s something that baffles the mind.
If one really uses his brain and asks the tough questions, the answers are way more complex than you might think.
“Accurate” as in “fits MY own version of a twisted reality nicely”.
Sorry, but many Wikipedia admins don’t know what they are reign over, and only allow what fits their world view. Which is usually the mainstream bullshit view.
Exactly like in democracy or in a incomplete communism (conveniently no provisional government ever finished the “transition”), as long as there are people in power over other people, they will use that power for their gains.
It’s the natural result of natural selection: If you can spread your genes and ideas better, you’ll do it. Or go extinct. Easy choice. (Watch the moderators do exactly that. ^^)
The great thing with Wikipedia is, that unlike landlocked state governments, it can be transformed a peer-to-peer cascading trust-relationship network. (Just like natural communication in human societies human.)
Apparently there isn't much money in DNSSEC.
Fixed. No need to thank me. :)
“Home-Built Time Machine”?
For a tiny moment there, my heart jumped. :/