Pretty much what you describe. Depending on the actual tube design, there may be up to (usually) 3 or 4 different bias levels. As you noted, tube circuits are all voltages, much like classic FETs. Only real difference is that the voltage values are higher, and the amplification factors / transconductance tends to be lower. (I last designed tube stuff back in the 1980's.)
Free as in beer, or free as in Freedom? MS is offering (OK, Pushing really hard) its latest OS for free as in beer. Because thats the only kind of free that corporate America recognizes. Perhaps they are thinking they can circumvent the whole "free as in freedom" movement with "free as in beer". And here we are nearly two decades later and people are just NOW starting to undrstand why the whole GNU/FSF "Free as in Freedom" bit is important.
I've been doing it off and on for years, simply for the bugfixes most often. Distro kernels tend to lag quite a ways behind, and often pack stuff that I have no need for.
You forgot the business license... from the state. The property taxes. The various fire codes, electrical codes, water and sewer hookups, etc etc The permits form the housing authority
Ayn Rand much? Because no, you can *not* just do whatever the fuck you feel like. Businesses are a *legal* construct, deal with it. Society has no obligation to recognize you and your shit.
They are definitely playing to the large enterprise market nowdays. The corporate market if you will. Having used them since RH version 5, I can say that they've pulled a few stunts that have caused the traditional linux community some pain and aggravation. Systemd and Pulseaudio are the most notable examples aside from how they changed their kernel patch handling. I remember the days when they broke out all their kernel patches separately; you could download a tarball and pull out just the patches you wanted if you were going to customise your RH install. I finally said a sad goodbye to RH round about the time it became fedora. It simply became too much of a PITA to deal with. Sometimes I need a GUI desktop, (editing PDF's / Documentation) and GNOME didn't help matters any.
That's pretty much what I did a couple weeks ago. Then I realized "wow, this is so nice and clean running! It does exactly what I want, the way I want it!" And that is the whole reason I started with Slack way back in 1996.... The thing about systemd and pulseaudio is that they provide exactly *zero* new features that I needed, whilst severely screwing with the system. I went thru RH, SuSE, Debian, and now back to Slack... RH in particular lately has been pulling some bonehead moves WRT the traditional Linux base.
I'd require Tim Cook to come out in public, on a daily national morning TV show.
Just owning all the Abble products isn't enough to make one completely ghey; you have to actually use them as intended. Even if you DID jack off while wearing the iWatch, it wouldn't give them your pulse correctly since Abble has such a closed ecosystem, its not like GNU is gonna help them.
HOWEVER Abble users switching to teh lunis is *PROOF* that homosexuality is a *choice* and IT CAN BE CURED
The one time I went to the Abble store at the mall, the resident ghey Socialst came up to me in his Speedos and offered me a tiny cup of Froot Loops; he explained that sadly, they had to cut back on the portion size because they were running out of money. I politely turned them down because I wasn't sure what they were glazed with. And his iWatch had the wrong time.
UNIX Power Tools by O'Reilly is a great treatise on programming in general because it does concepts such as loops, conditionals, environment, I/O, formatting, etc etc.... all via shell scripting, no "hardcore" compiled languages. Just 1056 pages of the concepts of programming, with examples and loads of documentation. You can take the concepts into oher languages easily enough later on. I've been re-reading it over and over for almost 20 yrs now, its that good.
You know, its posssible to have interactive pages in HTML, right? (Now I wish I'd saved some of those books from the late 90's...) I've seen plenty of tutorials on how to do all the same stuff we do today, with the possible exception of the worst offenders, just like you want.
Ya know, we used to do all the same stuff we do today back in the 90's with straight html and maybe CSS. And yes it was easily do-able to have secure forms, video, chat, etc. I even saw people doing bash scripting on the server side, and it worked just fine. Makes you wonder how fast it would be on modern hardware. You could have built FB with the technology available back then, and it probably would have been faster/cleaner/better.
Basically the entire thread is borked, unless somebody feels like throwing away a ton of mod points on the crap flooders. So I posted some classical meme nonsense to point out the fact. FWIW I think the FB stunt is hilarious, and the elevator detail is a "WTF?" Maybe I'll stop by tomorrow and see if the thread's been cleaned up into something useful. RE the editors, I remember when timothy and soulskill actively waged war with the My Clean PC guy, he used to completely flood stuff off the front page.
We already have a useless class. Mostly politicians and business executives, with some overlap. Has CxO productivity gone up 300 %? What about congressional gridlock inspired by special interests vs voters?
THIS. x1000. The really shitty part is the reason why: back during ww2, Roosevelt and congress got a law passed against undue profiteering from war time contracts by large corporations.
Everything since then has been a "police action" or "in an advisory capacity". such as VietNam. This is so that large corporations can make whatever profits they want without being bound by the wartime law.
Youknow how it works, lobbyists, Red Scare, Blackwater and Haliburton, etc.... and meanwhile people die. Thats a big bloody pile of loot on a lot of people's hands.
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.... tasted pretty good, too.
+1 insightful (too bad I already commented) but this is spot on. When Waze pays the road maintenance taxes then they can bitch.
I think you mean "piqued"
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Pretty much what you describe. Depending on the actual tube design, there may be up to (usually) 3 or 4 different bias levels. As you noted, tube circuits are all voltages, much like classic FETs. Only real difference is that the voltage values are higher, and the amplification factors / transconductance tends to be lower. (I last designed tube stuff back in the 1980's.)
Free as in beer, or free as in Freedom? MS is offering (OK, Pushing really hard) its latest OS for free as in beer. Because thats the only kind of free that corporate America recognizes. Perhaps they are thinking they can circumvent the whole "free as in freedom" movement with "free as in beer". And here we are nearly two decades later and people are just NOW starting to undrstand why the whole GNU/FSF "Free as in Freedom" bit is important.
I've been doing it off and on for years, simply for the bugfixes most often. Distro kernels tend to lag quite a ways behind, and often pack stuff that I have no need for.
You forgot the business license... from the state.
The property taxes.
The various fire codes, electrical codes, water and sewer hookups, etc etc The permits form the housing authority
Ayn Rand much? Because no, you can *not* just do whatever the fuck you feel like. Businesses are a *legal* construct, deal with it. Society has no obligation to recognize you and your shit.
I wonder what the power bill was for the proof.
They are definitely playing to the large enterprise market nowdays. The corporate market if you will. Having used them since RH version 5, I can say that they've pulled a few stunts that have caused the traditional linux community some pain and aggravation. Systemd and Pulseaudio are the most notable examples aside from how they changed their kernel patch handling. I remember the days when they broke out all their kernel patches separately; you could download a tarball and pull out just the patches you wanted if you were going to customise your RH install. I finally said a sad goodbye to RH round about the time it became fedora. It simply became too much of a PITA to deal with. Sometimes I need a GUI desktop, (editing PDF's / Documentation) and GNOME didn't help matters any.
That's pretty much what I did a couple weeks ago. Then I realized "wow, this is so nice and clean running! It does exactly what I want, the way I want it!" And that is the whole reason I started with Slack way back in 1996.... The thing about systemd and pulseaudio is that they provide exactly *zero* new features that I needed, whilst severely screwing with the system. I went thru RH, SuSE, Debian, and now back to Slack... RH in particular lately has been pulling some bonehead moves WRT the traditional Linux base.
I'd require Tim Cook to come out in public, on a daily national morning TV show.
Just owning all the Abble products isn't enough to make one completely ghey; you have to actually use them as intended. Even if you DID jack off while wearing the iWatch, it wouldn't give them your pulse correctly since Abble has such a closed ecosystem, its not like GNU is gonna help them.
HOWEVER Abble users switching to teh lunis is *PROOF* that homosexuality is a *choice* and IT CAN BE CURED
The one time I went to the Abble store at the mall, the resident ghey Socialst came up to me in his Speedos and offered me a tiny cup of Froot Loops; he explained that sadly, they had to cut back on the portion size because they were running out of money. I politely turned them down because I wasn't sure what they were glazed with. And his iWatch had the wrong time.
UNIX Power Tools by O'Reilly is a great treatise on programming in general because it does concepts such as loops, conditionals, environment, I/O, formatting, etc etc.... all via shell scripting, no "hardcore" compiled languages. Just 1056 pages of the concepts of programming, with examples and loads of documentation. You can take the concepts into oher languages easily enough later on. I've been re-reading it over and over for almost 20 yrs now, its that good.
I only read the National Enquirer for the articles.
You know, its posssible to have interactive pages in HTML, right? (Now I wish I'd saved some of those books from the late 90's...) I've seen plenty of tutorials on how to do all the same stuff we do today, with the possible exception of the worst offenders, just like you want.
"Because stealing myspace passwords is a victimless crime."
Yeah, like jacking off into a birdbath!
So, uh, how's that Free Market workin out for ya, M$... I've never seen you compete in one, and you sure aren't now!
STFU and go design an OS that's worthwhile bitch.
Ya know, we used to do all the same stuff we do today back in the 90's with straight html and maybe CSS. And yes it was easily do-able to have secure forms, video, chat, etc. I even saw people doing bash scripting on the server side, and it worked just fine. Makes you wonder how fast it would be on modern hardware. You could have built FB with the technology available back then, and it probably would have been faster/cleaner/better.
Basically the entire thread is borked, unless somebody feels like throwing away a ton of mod points on the crap flooders. So I posted some classical meme nonsense to point out the fact. FWIW I think the FB stunt is hilarious, and the elevator detail is a "WTF?" Maybe I'll stop by tomorrow and see if the thread's been cleaned up into something useful. RE the editors, I remember when timothy and soulskill actively waged war with the My Clean PC guy, he used to completely flood stuff off the front page.
RE the new editors and the current forum spammers, Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
An Apple store? Dunno.....
Yep. An AI would not have forgotten that....
We already have a useless class. Mostly politicians and business executives, with some overlap. Has CxO productivity gone up 300 %? What about congressional gridlock inspired by special interests vs voters?
Yeah, but OTOH they also have an article about AIDS, so it's all good.....
THIS. x1000. The really shitty part is the reason why: back during ww2, Roosevelt and congress got a law passed against undue profiteering from war time contracts by large corporations.
Everything since then has been a "police action" or "in an advisory capacity". such as VietNam. This is so that large corporations can make whatever profits they want without being bound by the wartime law.
Youknow how it works, lobbyists, Red Scare, Blackwater and Haliburton, etc.... and meanwhile people die. Thats a big bloody pile of loot on a lot of people's hands.