way more complicated than that man. It's about a lot more than just xenophobia. The purpose of the H1B is stated very specifically. More abstractly, the concept of a nation and it's purpose is called into question. What is the purpose of a nation if it is not to benefit its citizens? Actually I am anti-nationalist, but as long as I'm subject to the system then I believe it should be applied properly. If someone wants to come over from another nation and set themselves on a clear path to be a citizen, then bring them on. But if a greedy corp is gonna twist the purpose of a visa program to allow a temporary worker to take away jobs and send money home, then leave after a few years with no intention of staying in the US, then that is quite a different story.
Your emotional plea is quite effective, but not well thought out.
For an AMD advertisement... I cringe at the video editing and forced cheers throughout. Low temperature fluids have been used to do this before, big woop! When something qualitatively different happens, call me.
No one had the thought that "maybe we can make a lump of rare metal explode, even though it sounds unlikely". There were a series of discoveries that led to the fundamental theories and basic knowledge that indicated it WAS very likely that you could make a lump of rare metal explode if put through the right process.
Others in this thread will adequately cover the feature differences between 2.4 and 2.6, though it sounds like 2.4 already covers your needs when it comes to functionality. This makes your question more of a management one than an engineering one.
With these types of decisions you need to look at what your constraints and requirements are, whether they be time, developer resources, product lifetime, estimated lifetime of leveraged technology (kernel 2.4 in this case), cash, etc. It sounds like you'll be doing the development yourself, but otherwise I can't tell what the rest of cycle looks like, so you need to clarify these things before making a decision.
Those are major considerations, but it gets more subtle when you consider things like how much time you'll save with future updates due to better development tools and support with a new kernel, etc., so you need to estimate also whether the time you spend up front will be saved down the line.
Is it going to degrade after the person dies? I would assume it degrades because the LIVING person's body flushes it out of the system. If the person died while this was stuck in their artery, it probably wouldn't degrade.
You make a good point, and it's all about risk. Anyone who is wealthy can easily release music without DRM, but so do many very small unknown bands. The ones who would be surprising to see release DRM are the ones in the middle - on the verge of success or moderately popular. They may not get a lot of revenue but are somewhat comfortable. If a middle of the road band (monetarily) starts releasing DRM-free music, that would be news.
It matters because Slashdot figures in heavily into Apple's marketing strategy. But if this were obvious to the average Slashdot user then the strategy wouldn't work.
But Javascript or ECMAScript isn't a 'real' language, or at least not in practice
Bullshit. What you say is also true of python, ruby, perl, php, et al - every computer that is running a script might have a different version of Perl, and some scripts will not work, so if you want it to work everywhere you have to test the script with the interpreter versions you want to support. This goes for browsers as well.
All good software is tested, and IN PRACTICE, you test across the main interpreter versions or browser platforms you want to support, and in the end have a workable product.
Despite it's flaws, JavaScript is a powerful language. Your line drawn between 'real' and unreal languages is pretty arbitrary.
My company makes hotel concierge desk software. We could it in C++ using a native UI widget set, and it probably would be quicker and easier to develop. BUT, we have some problems:
1. Hotel IT staff don't want to install anything on their concierge desks.
2. The specs for front desk machines are widely variable
3. The platform of the various hotels' front desk machines are not all the same (though more than 90% of the time it's windows XP).
4. We don't have enough staff to go to every hotel to do support or upgrade the software.
Looking at all of these considerations, it makes a TON of sense to cram our functionality into a browser instead of writing it in C++, despite all the drawbacks of having to deal with AJAX/DOM bullshit.
Maybe I should read the article, but it seems to me that throughput is more important than how close peers are. Latency isn't really an issue with big downloads, so if you are getting 10 MB/s from China and 2 MB/s from your neighbor next door, why not go for the throughput instead of the neighbor? You could test all the peers for average throughput through a short test, then select the fastest ones...
I don't discount your logic, but the difference between now and then is that the massive internet infrastructure investment has already been made, and a massive economic downturn is in our face, causing everyone to cut spending for new infrastructure, thus stopping the growth in bandwidth while the growth in bittorrent traffic continuously grows.
To be honest I have no idea how this change will affect internet traffic or ISP policies. I don't know all the technical and business factors involved and won't pretend to know the future.
Free software is not monolithic entity with a single purpose in mind, and never will be. That is why there are so many licenses. Who are you to decide what free software's goal is? Seriously, what makes you think you can tell other people what their motivation for developing software is? If people want to write software to compete with Microsoft, that is their right. Every person involved has a different motivation from the next.
Laying this kind of idealistic thought process on people stresses them out.
If you really want to see the extreme of what procedural generation can do, check out this 3D demo of a tunnel fly-through written in 256 bytes (YES, THAT'S BYTES, not kilobytes)!!!
Wow, when did arguments for censorship start getting modded insightful?
The reason Americans are "prisoners of the moment, and we never understand - or even care about - the big picture" is precisely because we are constantly shielded from the big picture. Do you think that TV executives want you to know the "big picture"?
By constantly censoring a certain type of content, it becomes special and thus more lusted after. Other countries show nudity on TV without a problem, and even have it on their beaches. Once you get exposed to something enough, even sex, it becomes common place. You get your fill and move on, instead of leaving the potential to charge everything, including advertisements and jingoist calls for war, with sexual energy.
It appears that the editors are making a conscious effort to not post a story about the US election, probably because of past protests that such news items are not "News for Nerds". But then we have this story about Fossett, which really isn't news for nerds. He may have some association with activities that involve some tech, but this is about the recovery of his body, and is also a few days late in being reported. It's been all over the rest of the media for a while now.
But the presidency has a profound effect on the technical environment, from outsourcing and visa policy, to advocating alternative energy, etc. What's with the hold out editors? How about a story titled "How will Obama's election effect the landscape for geeks/nerds?"
Fuck Youtube - Unless they open up the site to ALL content, it's still a censored piece of shit. There are several types of content you can't post to youtube.
but all the shitty microsoft-based sites that were thrown up in a day that will be including jQuery UI elements. Users will begin to see jQuery elements and associate them with shitty websites and they will become considered tacky/cliche despite their quality and usefulness. This is what I fear.
Slashdot Mirror
these guys seem to have a decent piece of the slashvertisement market recently...
way more complicated than that man. It's about a lot more than just xenophobia. The purpose of the H1B is stated very specifically. More abstractly, the concept of a nation and it's purpose is called into question. What is the purpose of a nation if it is not to benefit its citizens? Actually I am anti-nationalist, but as long as I'm subject to the system then I believe it should be applied properly. If someone wants to come over from another nation and set themselves on a clear path to be a citizen, then bring them on. But if a greedy corp is gonna twist the purpose of a visa program to allow a temporary worker to take away jobs and send money home, then leave after a few years with no intention of staying in the US, then that is quite a different story.
Your emotional plea is quite effective, but not well thought out.
For an AMD advertisement... I cringe at the video editing and forced cheers throughout. Low temperature fluids have been used to do this before, big woop! When something qualitatively different happens, call me.
LS
No one had the thought that "maybe we can make a lump of rare metal explode, even though it sounds unlikely". There were a series of discoveries that led to the fundamental theories and basic knowledge that indicated it WAS very likely that you could make a lump of rare metal explode if put through the right process.
Nice way to play with words though...
Others in this thread will adequately cover the feature differences between 2.4 and 2.6, though it sounds like 2.4 already covers your needs when it comes to functionality. This makes your question more of a management one than an engineering one.
With these types of decisions you need to look at what your constraints and requirements are, whether they be time, developer resources, product lifetime, estimated lifetime of leveraged technology (kernel 2.4 in this case), cash, etc. It sounds like you'll be doing the development yourself, but otherwise I can't tell what the rest of cycle looks like, so you need to clarify these things before making a decision.
Those are major considerations, but it gets more subtle when you consider things like how much time you'll save with future updates due to better development tools and support with a new kernel, etc., so you need to estimate also whether the time you spend up front will be saved down the line.
LS
whaddya think the "S" in USB stands fer, huh?
She has also lost all sense of smell, which is a large component of food taste, so she doesn't notice the lack of salt at all
Salt doesn't have much, if any, of an aromatic component, so you can definitely taste it even without a sense of smell....
LS
Misleading Slashdot title
you're new around here, aren't you...
Is it going to degrade after the person dies? I would assume it degrades because the LIVING person's body flushes it out of the system. If the person died while this was stuck in their artery, it probably wouldn't degrade.
Depends on your definition of "smart".... There are actually smart people out there who aren't autistic and can actually get laid.
You make a good point, and it's all about risk. Anyone who is wealthy can easily release music without DRM, but so do many very small unknown bands. The ones who would be surprising to see release DRM are the ones in the middle - on the verge of success or moderately popular. They may not get a lot of revenue but are somewhat comfortable. If a middle of the road band (monetarily) starts releasing DRM-free music, that would be news.
LS
It matters because Slashdot figures in heavily into Apple's marketing strategy. But if this were obvious to the average Slashdot user then the strategy wouldn't work.
But Javascript or ECMAScript isn't a 'real' language, or at least not in practice
Bullshit. What you say is also true of python, ruby, perl, php, et al - every computer that is running a script might have a different version of Perl, and some scripts will not work, so if you want it to work everywhere you have to test the script with the interpreter versions you want to support. This goes for browsers as well.
All good software is tested, and IN PRACTICE, you test across the main interpreter versions or browser platforms you want to support, and in the end have a workable product.
Despite it's flaws, JavaScript is a powerful language. Your line drawn between 'real' and unreal languages is pretty arbitrary.
LS
My company makes hotel concierge desk software. We could it in C++ using a native UI widget set, and it probably would be quicker and easier to develop. BUT, we have some problems:
1. Hotel IT staff don't want to install anything on their concierge desks.
2. The specs for front desk machines are widely variable
3. The platform of the various hotels' front desk machines are not all the same (though more than 90% of the time it's windows XP).
4. We don't have enough staff to go to every hotel to do support or upgrade the software.
Looking at all of these considerations, it makes a TON of sense to cram our functionality into a browser instead of writing it in C++, despite all the drawbacks of having to deal with AJAX/DOM bullshit.
LS
Maybe I should read the article, but it seems to me that throughput is more important than how close peers are. Latency isn't really an issue with big downloads, so if you are getting 10 MB/s from China and 2 MB/s from your neighbor next door, why not go for the throughput instead of the neighbor? You could test all the peers for average throughput through a short test, then select the fastest ones...
LS
I don't discount your logic, but the difference between now and then is that the massive internet infrastructure investment has already been made, and a massive economic downturn is in our face, causing everyone to cut spending for new infrastructure, thus stopping the growth in bandwidth while the growth in bittorrent traffic continuously grows.
To be honest I have no idea how this change will affect internet traffic or ISP policies. I don't know all the technical and business factors involved and won't pretend to know the future.
LS
Free software is not monolithic entity with a single purpose in mind, and never will be. That is why there are so many licenses. Who are you to decide what free software's goal is? Seriously, what makes you think you can tell other people what their motivation for developing software is? If people want to write software to compete with Microsoft, that is their right. Every person involved has a different motivation from the next.
Laying this kind of idealistic thought process on people stresses them out.
LS
Hmmm you and the grandparent are both HUGE assholes.
If you really want to see the extreme of what procedural generation can do, check out this 3D demo of a tunnel fly-through written in 256 bytes (YES, THAT'S BYTES, not kilobytes)!!!
LS
Wow, when did arguments for censorship start getting modded insightful?
The reason Americans are "prisoners of the moment, and we never understand - or even care about - the big picture" is precisely because we are constantly shielded from the big picture. Do you think that TV executives want you to know the "big picture"?
By constantly censoring a certain type of content, it becomes special and thus more lusted after. Other countries show nudity on TV without a problem, and even have it on their beaches. Once you get exposed to something enough, even sex, it becomes common place. You get your fill and move on, instead of leaving the potential to charge everything, including advertisements and jingoist calls for war, with sexual energy.
LS
It appears that the editors are making a conscious effort to not post a story about the US election, probably because of past protests that such news items are not "News for Nerds". But then we have this story about Fossett, which really isn't news for nerds. He may have some association with activities that involve some tech, but this is about the recovery of his body, and is also a few days late in being reported. It's been all over the rest of the media for a while now.
But the presidency has a profound effect on the technical environment, from outsourcing and visa policy, to advocating alternative energy, etc. What's with the hold out editors? How about a story titled "How will Obama's election effect the landscape for geeks/nerds?"
LS
Fuck Youtube - Unless they open up the site to ALL content, it's still a censored piece of shit. There are several types of content you can't post to youtube.
That is the most eloquent indictment of the US judicial system I have ever read.
Jaron Lanier is a douche. He'll be 75 years old and still be sporting his dreadlocks while talking about virtual reality to wired magazine 5.0.
but all the shitty microsoft-based sites that were thrown up in a day that will be including jQuery UI elements. Users will begin to see jQuery elements and associate them with shitty websites and they will become considered tacky/cliche despite their quality and usefulness. This is what I fear.
LS