Apart from the outrageous examples you mention, it's really because you don't have proportional representation but a "first past the post" electoral system. When only one candidate from a constituency gets elected smaller parties have no real chance.
The BIGIP does load balancing, active-active clustering, routing, packet manipulation using scripts etc. It's extortionately priced but is very powerful and very user friendly.
Please tell me really specifically, who is "they" that are at fault here? The kernel developers, ATI, the distro vendor, your buddies? None of the listed are resonsible for the display driver, and those who are have limited resources to accomplish their goals. Do they have the incentive and capability to develop and test for your specific hardware/software combination?
You fall into the same trap as the original author, thinking of Linux as a monolithic entity. Apple and Microsoft can afford to spend money and effort to give you a consistent user experience. Hardware vendors must make sure their product works for the monopoly OS. The only place in Linuxland where you can expect things to be guaranteed to work on given hardware is in the enterprise, where IBM/HP/Sun/Qlogic/EMC/Oracle etc. certify their hardware and software for a given distribution (RedHat and SuSe). And voila, it's because there's money to pay for the developer and TESTER effort.
I guess people get excited by Linux (I do) but expectations rise too high, so disappointments are doubly hard.
How do you remove testes recursively? Are cat testes like Russian dolls? If so, is this somehow related to them having nine lives? Perhaps it makes sense. To kill a cat with any certainty you'd have to do something like
which - as we know - is an arcane Unixish incantation to kill the cat by putting it in a bag and cutting somewhere between the tail and head with an axe nine times.
Or maybe you meant rm -f
P.S. I take no responsibility if you're stupid enough to run that command. Anything or nothing could happen.
I suggest you start writing all variable names and comments in Dutch immediately. The English and French will learn a new language and the likelihood of your jobs being outsourced to China or India will be smaller. In the event it happens anyway, you just smile and shrug when they ask for help.
You may think that's funny, but I do wish I'd have done exactly that if only to spite my former employer.
This is one of the interesting things you constantly hear about Desktop Linux: vendors must provide support.
Have you EVER heard of an end user calling Microsoft for support? I'm sure people do, but I've never heard of such a thing.
People just assume they should know, else they ask me or other geeks for help. Corporation hire experts who are trained or self taught. Even THEY don't call Microsoft for help.
"gubberment bad, people good", guaranteed positive mod points. Sure it's good to be sceptical but where is the insight in the parent post?
How about:
people> We want no taxes but good services. people> We want more efficiency but no layoffs. people> We want to drive big fat cars, cheap petrol, clean air and an end to funding nasty regimes people> We want conspicuous consumption and a clean environment people> We want total safety, zero risk, absolute liberty, no personal responsibility and no nannying from the state govm't> *explodes*
The cardboard boxes were replaced by DVD size boxes here in Europe (at least where I am) some years ago. IIRC the difference occurred to me when a US friend sent me Red Alert 2 as a present, must have been about 2001.
I have no idea why there is a difference, however.
Poor Economics, so wants to be a hard science. Mathematical models of human behaviour can get you prizes and money, but every now and then the fact that it's really a social science comes back to bite you in the ass, Big Time. Let loose mathematicians without insight into social behaviour and that is what you get.
Major tangent: Economics, capitalism, libertarianism - Adam Smith, the rational economic man, the invisible hand, the free market, the virtue of self-interest - all promise the greater benefit. So why the fuck have we not seen these jokers apologize publicly when it's obvious that the self-interested, rational actions of homeowners and lenders in the US have led to a global bloody recession where people from Stockholm to Brisbane are being laid off? There should be much hat-eating, but I haven't seen any.
Hahaha, as a European I find it amusing how your half-baked, badly implemented safety nets are taken as evidence that there shouldn't be any at all. And we always get flak for being wasteful socialist commies.
I had to visit a welfare office, too, at one stage. It was embarrasing but helped me get through that bad period. It's not like our system is perfect but I'm grateful and now happily pay my taxes to help others in the same position. It also helps to know that only the absolute minimum is spent on non-productive stuff like defence.
Re. Christianity, how does your assertion sit with Jesus' teachings? If are you just commenting on how fundamentalists somehow manage to ignore the core principles, I couldn't agree more. So many self-righteous "Christians" are a bit too keen to cast the first stone.
This was one of Jesus' pet peeves and earned the wrath of religious learned for pointing out the hypocrisy in such a legalistic approach.
I'm not sure where this "group that the religion claims to protect" comes from, but mainstream Christianity interprets the prime directive "love thy neighbor" to mean all people.
The same applies to pretty much any former colony. I remember my history teacher giving some interesting examples, something like building regulations that stipulate roofs having to be strong enough to support the weight of x inches of snow... useful in the tropics.
... not real time. So at least 37 people posted before you and that's as far as the moderators had got since publication. Sometimes I have to wait overnight to see how others have responded.
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Apart from the outrageous examples you mention, it's really because you don't have proportional representation but a "first past the post" electoral system. When only one candidate from a constituency gets elected smaller parties have no real chance.
The BIGIP does load balancing, active-active clustering, routing, packet manipulation using scripts etc. It's extortionately priced but is very powerful and very user friendly.
Please tell me really specifically, who is "they" that are at fault here? The kernel developers, ATI, the distro vendor, your buddies? None of the listed are resonsible for the display driver, and those who are have limited resources to accomplish their goals. Do they have the incentive and capability to develop and test for your specific hardware/software combination?
You fall into the same trap as the original author, thinking of Linux as a monolithic entity. Apple and Microsoft can afford to spend money and effort to give you a consistent user experience. Hardware vendors must make sure their product works for the monopoly OS. The only place in Linuxland where you can expect things to be guaranteed to work on given hardware is in the enterprise, where IBM/HP/Sun/Qlogic/EMC/Oracle etc. certify their hardware and software for a given distribution (RedHat and SuSe). And voila, it's because there's money to pay for the developer and TESTER effort.
I guess people get excited by Linux (I do) but expectations rise too high, so disappointments are doubly hard.
the IPv6 global address of the router loopback will be a /64 prefix (such as 2001:db8:face:b00c::/64) followed by the SNA identification
Well I know where it's not:
-bash-3.2$ which pussy /usr/bin/which: no pussy in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin)
And then ofcourse there's
-bash-3.2$ man 8 pussy
No entry for pussy in section 8 of the manual
And by "you" I mean the reader, not the parent poster. ;)
How do you remove testes recursively? Are cat testes like Russian dolls? If so, is this somehow related to them having nine lives? Perhaps it makes sense. To kill a cat with any certainty you'd have to do something like
kill -9 $(ps axe | cut -d" " -f1 | tail -1 | head | cat)
which - as we know - is an arcane Unixish incantation to kill the cat by putting it in a bag and cutting somewhere between the tail and head with an axe nine times.
Or maybe you meant rm -f
P.S. I take no responsibility if you're stupid enough to run that command. Anything or nothing could happen.
I suggest you start writing all variable names and comments in Dutch immediately. The English and French will learn a new language and the likelihood of your jobs being outsourced to China or India will be smaller. In the event it happens anyway, you just smile and shrug when they ask for help.
You may think that's funny, but I do wish I'd have done exactly that if only to spite my former employer.
I am worried. RedHat has embarked on a patenting strategy and the company may be bought by someone with less scruples.
Because your anecdotes clearly extrapolate to the entire world, right?
The point I was making was clearly that it never happens? *rolleyes* Lemme guess, you work at Microsoft support.
This is one of the interesting things you constantly hear about Desktop Linux: vendors must provide support.
Have you EVER heard of an end user calling Microsoft for support? I'm sure people do, but I've never heard of such a thing.
People just assume they should know, else they ask me or other geeks for help. Corporation hire experts who are trained or self taught. Even THEY don't call Microsoft for help.
Making a profit and being relevant are two different things.
I use Linux for desktop both at work (RHEL/PC) and home (Ubuntu/netbook).
Just LAST NIGHT I spent an hour trying to play TF2 but kept getting a "Steam servers busy" error message? The server was not empty.
I eventually gave up and went to bed; just as well, I needed the sleep.
I don't care about the remote possibility of Valve going under if crashing or overloaded servers are preventing me from playing now.
"gubberment bad, people good", guaranteed positive mod points. Sure it's good to be sceptical but where is the insight in the parent post?
How about:
people> We want no taxes but good services.
people> We want more efficiency but no layoffs.
people> We want to drive big fat cars, cheap petrol, clean air and an end to funding nasty regimes
people> We want conspicuous consumption and a clean environment
people> We want total safety, zero risk, absolute liberty, no personal responsibility and no nannying from the state
govm't> *explodes*
The cardboard boxes were replaced by DVD size boxes here in Europe (at least where I am) some years ago. IIRC the difference occurred to me when a US friend sent me Red Alert 2 as a present, must have been about 2001.
I have no idea why there is a difference, however.
US vs. UK
Poor Economics, so wants to be a hard science. Mathematical models of human behaviour can get you prizes and money, but every now and then the fact that it's really a social science comes back to bite you in the ass, Big Time. Let loose mathematicians without insight into social behaviour and that is what you get.
One word: reflexivity
If your theory cannot explain itself, you lose.
Major tangent: Economics, capitalism, libertarianism - Adam Smith, the rational economic man, the invisible hand, the free market, the virtue of self-interest - all promise the greater benefit. So why the fuck have we not seen these jokers apologize publicly when it's obvious that the self-interested, rational actions of homeowners and lenders in the US have led to a global bloody recession where people from Stockholm to Brisbane are being laid off? There should be much hat-eating, but I haven't seen any.
It's obviously a constrictor snake.
Hahaha, as a European I find it amusing how your half-baked, badly implemented safety nets are taken as evidence that there shouldn't be any at all. And we always get flak for being wasteful socialist commies.
I had to visit a welfare office, too, at one stage. It was embarrasing but helped me get through that bad period. It's not like our system is perfect but I'm grateful and now happily pay my taxes to help others in the same position. It also helps to know that only the absolute minimum is spent on non-productive stuff like defence.
This had me roffling on the floor lolling out loud.
Or something.
Minor generalization, much?
Re. Christianity, how does your assertion sit with Jesus' teachings? If are you just commenting on how fundamentalists somehow manage to ignore the core principles, I couldn't agree more. So many self-righteous "Christians" are a bit too keen to cast the first stone.
This was one of Jesus' pet peeves and earned the wrath of religious learned for pointing out the hypocrisy in such a legalistic approach.
I'm not sure where this "group that the religion claims to protect" comes from, but mainstream Christianity interprets the prime directive "love thy neighbor" to mean all people.
The same applies to pretty much any former colony. I remember my history teacher giving some interesting examples, something like building regulations that stipulate roofs having to be strong enough to support the weight of x inches of snow ... useful in the tropics.
Looking at what we've done to this planet, I'm not so sure the survival of our species is in anyone else's interest.
OTOH making some lifeless planets flourish could be the greatest thing our species has done.
Ah. Yes. That one. Once I got over it I dropped Perl almost completely. Perl was my big love, once.
... not real time. So at least 37 people posted before you and that's as far as the moderators had got since publication. Sometimes I have to wait overnight to see how others have responded.
We're talking about the last mile(s) in this case. No point snooping there when you can do it more efficiently at a nexus.
Anyway, between data retention laws and the snooping equipment already placed at ISPs and interchanges this point is moot.