We run a mixed shop. Mainly MS and Linux. The MS server is a pig. Updates require regular (slow) reboots. Network chatter is high and unnecessary. I hate it.
On the desktop I have no problem. With a decent backup solution in place it provides pretty much what the user wants. Supporting it is routine (did you restart the application? did you restart the system?). But on the server side I find Linux/BDS/Solaris/etc to be far more agile. Their far better at what they do.
Vultures? Most of the comments are either wrong (like yours) or pointing out that the article is out-dated and id/Valve already corrected the issue. What vultures? Unless you mean the editors, but your number is low enough you should know they troll articles like the anyone else.
Who modded this? Aside from the post being more or less irrelevant (it's not about a multi-peered architecture) his comparison to his LAN using his parents system should have been a good reason to rule out ANY enterprise architecture expertise whatsoever.
That said, as a system admin who's business does not have any kind of secondary solution (no hot/hot, no hot/cold, etc) I'd still be leery of trusting my data or my lively hood to a peer and an admin team I didn't know. Maybe this works better in academia, but I don't see banks or mortgage companies dropping their secondary sites and teaming with competitors to provide this service.
Good quote (and comment). Linus is truly funny. Possibly a perfect character to be in such an odd position. He never fails to bring some common sense, levity and even a little humility. My hats been off to him for years (and yes, I did read the biography). (:
Fuck them. Good for you for speaking your mind. People seem to have forgot the whole reform idea. If you put someone into a place where the only protection they have is packs and violence then what will you get when they come out? And what about the people in prison for crimes they didn't commit? We all know it happens. Or for things like the drug laws where local and federal laws are misaligned?
There are some crimes I don't condone and people I personally wouldn't like to see re-integrated back into society (rapists, sociopaths who murder). But there are a lot of people who make mistakes and should be allowed to return to society after serving their time.
Of course it looks that way to him. But how long has it been since he had to hit the street? Promote himself? I'm sure it is terrible for the old guard. Hell, even confusing. Too bad they stick with their old habit instead of listening a little bit more. Not only is music more interesting today, it's more diverse with artists collaborating in ways Elton never could have. Bringing real people together and real bands. Tonight I listen to a collaberation between a singer from Sao Paola and a French musician/producer. It's wonderful, not stale fusion. On my way home it was German glitch pop and another French producer working with a Japanese singer.
I'm sure this globalism goes right over his head. But while our governments are making all these sleazy arraignments another type of globalization is happening. It's created an amazing music scene in Guadalajara and given them the opportunity to be heard the world over.
And I'm not talking about traditional music. Contemporary pop. Like hip-hop from Sweden. The amazing Icelandic music scene. Places you might never even think about. There are so many creative people.
And to think, he laments. Ironic.
I think it's really just sad that he's missing this. There's more energy out there right now probably then ever before. Every day I'm amazed. I work with artists and I tell them this. He needs to sit down with someone who can show him. The styles have changed. But that's always the case. It's the creativity. The emotion. The honesty and heartbreak that goes into it. Even the blemishes.
A day doesn't go by I don't think about this. Makes me laugh a little hearing such a thing. Doesn't surprise me. He's missing the world. Too bad, he has a kind of talent too.
I can see from your member number how you would have missed that discussion. I think everyone finally got tired of pointing it out. The editors and much of the newer members fit, lets say, a wider interpretation of the profile you might expect. Slashdot has gotten big. It's still fun, but don't expect it to be too rootsy. More like techsploitation. Like The Register, only without the witty write-ups but much funnier comments (trolls, idiots as well as the good ones).
Once the hormones kick in you're never too young to have sex. It's the foresight I think that can be telling. Some people live in the moment. You make decisions that will effect the rest of your life, but if you don't look that far out why wouldn't you skip the condom. Marry out of "love" in a new relationship. Have a baby in your early twenties.
Sex is the easy part. Those of us not too awkward will have it (likely). Some of us will handle it safely thinking of the impact our decision will or could have.
I fit into both categories. I've lived rather...loosely. But no matter how out of control my situates seemed I *did* think about the long term consequences. Always. Many of the people I knew do have kids. Do fit your profile. A lot are missing or addicted to drugs (welcome to the 80's American city punk rock scene). Aside from an attempt at suicide (that counts as not thinking very clearly about my future) I always took the effect of these things into account. Drugs where avoided. While I was sexually active I knew children were out of the picture until at least my 30's and took appropriate steps. I don't drink regularly. I stopped smoking.
For me life is a balancing act. You see your actions. You project their consequences. If you fail to do that you live with the consequences, and you might not like them.
Circling back, there's nothing wrong with sex. It's understanding the importance of sex and the effect carelessness (in general) can and will have on the rest of your life. Abstinence is certainly an answer, but it doesn't exactly say anything specific about ones ability to grasp the big picture. Which really *is* the most important thing a young person can learn.
But I do think this is interesting. Mostly because I really like eMusic and this might be a selling point as I chose my next provider. Then there's that small bit of irony, and you know, Apple/iPhone is the new du-jour.
I think your post has me scrambled. But since I've been an emusic customer for...6? years now I'll just point out a few things and speculate. I read the article (on my own, I've been following smartphones a lot since I'm in the market, plus I'm an eMusic fan and *not* an AT&T fan). eMusic *is* 100% DRM free and has been since the start, even after their sale (GoodNoise, Vivendi Universal and finally JDS Capital Management, Inc.).
I think the point of the OA is that AT&T has teamed up with the #2 online music retailer making music available to subscribers (which is really great) but not using iTunes (which would have been expected since the iPhone launch).
Fanboi-ism aside I do hope that streaming iTunes integration happens. I'm all for choice. But I'm guessing while if iTunes does pick that up it will be tied to the iPhone, while eMusic (which provides a PC and Mac based client and can probably support other phone-based platforms) is a great option for the rest of the mobile users.
Anyway, long day here. If you were wondering if this was DRM in disguise the answer would be no. It's integration/convenience. The tracks are yours (and you can download tracks you've purchased with eMusic accounts again, which is nice and makes listening from multiple workstations much more convenient).
As someone who thinks AT&T is the devil incarnate for their sleazy backroom shenanigans this perks my interest (that and the rebadged HTC's they offer).
Lol. Dig their clown porn. Anyway, these sort of things worry me. I like my porn to be mutually consensual but I worry more about people who haven't managed to find ways to live comfortably or maybe even openly with their sexuality.
Granted, I'd have killed for one when I was a kid. (:
things. I love it and I tend to think idealistically about it, but I think when you cut right down to it that's what it is. We develop things to control more. It's inevitable that we'd start using technology to control ourselves, or the people we don't trust.
Or fire-safes? Minnesota is obviously confused about where to draw the line between a committed act of crime and personal protection. I for one welcome your new completely open society (I promise not to steal anything while I visit!).
Oh, what's that you say? This only applies to data stored digitally on my computer? Because it's somehow different then me locking up my financial records and other personal effects?
Idiots. Encryption is a locking system. Like a padlock, a dead-bolt, a keyed car door, ignition switch, safe. If they can't see that the poor fools should try living without locks for a few weeks to show they themselves don't have criminal intent.
Silly moderation system. Anyway, aside from using a non-authoritative source if you looked a little more you'd have come across:
Some sources such as NATO and the U.S. Department of Defense state that "flash blindness" can be temporary or permanent.
Of course you were trying to make a point, not research the subject, so who can blame you.
Personally I wonder why we have a Department of Homeland Security in the first place and I wonder if the Democrats will have the balls to dismantle it if and when they finally retake office. It's not that I'm totally anti-government but between the FBI and the CIA I just see this as a somewhat bizarre power play that will only further fracture these institutions. And what ever happened to the end of big government?
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We run a mixed shop. Mainly MS and Linux. The MS server is a pig. Updates require regular (slow) reboots. Network chatter is high and unnecessary. I hate it.
On the desktop I have no problem. With a decent backup solution in place it provides pretty much what the user wants. Supporting it is routine (did you restart the application? did you restart the system?). But on the server side I find Linux/BDS/Solaris/etc to be far more agile. Their far better at what they do.
You lost me there. Somehow blowing up poor families seems a bit extreme.
Welcome to America. Sorry about your mother and the rest of your family. Uh...our bad.
Vultures? Most of the comments are either wrong (like yours) or pointing out that the article is out-dated and id/Valve already corrected the issue. What vultures? Unless you mean the editors, but your number is low enough you should know they troll articles like the anyone else.
Who modded this? Aside from the post being more or less irrelevant (it's not about a multi-peered architecture) his comparison to his LAN using his parents system should have been a good reason to rule out ANY enterprise architecture expertise whatsoever.
That said, as a system admin who's business does not have any kind of secondary solution (no hot/hot, no hot/cold, etc) I'd still be leery of trusting my data or my lively hood to a peer and an admin team I didn't know. Maybe this works better in academia, but I don't see banks or mortgage companies dropping their secondary sites and teaming with competitors to provide this service.
Good quote (and comment). Linus is truly funny. Possibly a perfect character to be in such an odd position. He never fails to bring some common sense, levity and even a little humility. My hats been off to him for years (and yes, I did read the biography). (:
No problem. Sometimes it seems the sheep mentality is more predominant and reading posts like yours always cheer me up.
but only so long as they use Clippy to present the ads. It would be like life in hell in a great cuddly way.
Fuck them. Good for you for speaking your mind. People seem to have forgot the whole reform idea. If you put someone into a place where the only protection they have is packs and violence then what will you get when they come out? And what about the people in prison for crimes they didn't commit? We all know it happens. Or for things like the drug laws where local and federal laws are misaligned?
There are some crimes I don't condone and people I personally wouldn't like to see re-integrated back into society (rapists, sociopaths who murder). But there are a lot of people who make mistakes and should be allowed to return to society after serving their time.
Of course it looks that way to him. But how long has it been since he had to hit the street? Promote himself? I'm sure it is terrible for the old guard. Hell, even confusing. Too bad they stick with their old habit instead of listening a little bit more. Not only is music more interesting today, it's more diverse with artists collaborating in ways Elton never could have. Bringing real people together and real bands. Tonight I listen to a collaberation between a singer from Sao Paola and a French musician/producer. It's wonderful, not stale fusion. On my way home it was German glitch pop and another French producer working with a Japanese singer.
I'm sure this globalism goes right over his head. But while our governments are making all these sleazy arraignments another type of globalization is happening. It's created an amazing music scene in Guadalajara and given them the opportunity to be heard the world over.
And I'm not talking about traditional music. Contemporary pop. Like hip-hop from Sweden. The amazing Icelandic music scene. Places you might never even think about. There are so many creative people.
And to think, he laments. Ironic.
I think it's really just sad that he's missing this. There's more energy out there right now probably then ever before. Every day I'm amazed. I work with artists and I tell them this. He needs to sit down with someone who can show him. The styles have changed. But that's always the case. It's the creativity. The emotion. The honesty and heartbreak that goes into it. Even the blemishes.
A day doesn't go by I don't think about this. Makes me laugh a little hearing such a thing. Doesn't surprise me. He's missing the world. Too bad, he has a kind of talent too.
I can see from your member number how you would have missed that discussion. I think everyone finally got tired of pointing it out. The editors and much of the newer members fit, lets say, a wider interpretation of the profile you might expect. Slashdot has gotten big. It's still fun, but don't expect it to be too rootsy. More like techsploitation. Like The Register, only without the witty write-ups but much funnier comments (trolls, idiots as well as the good ones).
Still, usually a good laugh to be found.
Not effective (er...in games anyway) but entirely disconcerting.
Once the hormones kick in you're never too young to have sex. It's the foresight I think that can be telling. Some people live in the moment. You make decisions that will effect the rest of your life, but if you don't look that far out why wouldn't you skip the condom. Marry out of "love" in a new relationship. Have a baby in your early twenties.
Sex is the easy part. Those of us not too awkward will have it (likely). Some of us will handle it safely thinking of the impact our decision will or could have.
I fit into both categories. I've lived rather...loosely. But no matter how out of control my situates seemed I *did* think about the long term consequences. Always. Many of the people I knew do have kids. Do fit your profile. A lot are missing or addicted to drugs (welcome to the 80's American city punk rock scene). Aside from an attempt at suicide (that counts as not thinking very clearly about my future) I always took the effect of these things into account. Drugs where avoided. While I was sexually active I knew children were out of the picture until at least my 30's and took appropriate steps. I don't drink regularly. I stopped smoking.
For me life is a balancing act. You see your actions. You project their consequences. If you fail to do that you live with the consequences, and you might not like them.
Circling back, there's nothing wrong with sex. It's understanding the importance of sex and the effect carelessness (in general) can and will have on the rest of your life. Abstinence is certainly an answer, but it doesn't exactly say anything specific about ones ability to grasp the big picture. Which really *is* the most important thing a young person can learn.
But I do think this is interesting. Mostly because I really like eMusic and this might be a selling point as I chose my next provider. Then there's that small bit of irony, and you know, Apple/iPhone is the new du-jour.
I think your post has me scrambled. But since I've been an emusic customer for...6? years now I'll just point out a few things and speculate. I read the article (on my own, I've been following smartphones a lot since I'm in the market, plus I'm an eMusic fan and *not* an AT&T fan). eMusic *is* 100% DRM free and has been since the start, even after their sale (GoodNoise, Vivendi Universal and finally JDS Capital Management, Inc.).
I think the point of the OA is that AT&T has teamed up with the #2 online music retailer making music available to subscribers (which is really great) but not using iTunes (which would have been expected since the iPhone launch).
Fanboi-ism aside I do hope that streaming iTunes integration happens. I'm all for choice. But I'm guessing while if iTunes does pick that up it will be tied to the iPhone, while eMusic (which provides a PC and Mac based client and can probably support other phone-based platforms) is a great option for the rest of the mobile users.
Anyway, long day here. If you were wondering if this was DRM in disguise the answer would be no. It's integration/convenience. The tracks are yours (and you can download tracks you've purchased with eMusic accounts again, which is nice and makes listening from multiple workstations much more convenient).
As someone who thinks AT&T is the devil incarnate for their sleazy backroom shenanigans this perks my interest (that and the rebadged HTC's they offer).
Lol. Dig their clown porn. Anyway, these sort of things worry me. I like my porn to be mutually consensual but I worry more about people who haven't managed to find ways to live comfortably or maybe even openly with their sexuality.
Granted, I'd have killed for one when I was a kid. (:
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things. I love it and I tend to think idealistically about it, but I think when you cut right down to it that's what it is. We develop things to control more. It's inevitable that we'd start using technology to control ourselves, or the people we don't trust.
I *do* hope you're a girl (or gay and proud)...
Big or small tits? (I'm going to hell)
Or fire-safes? Minnesota is obviously confused about where to draw the line between a committed act of crime and personal protection. I for one welcome your new completely open society (I promise not to steal anything while I visit!).
Oh, what's that you say? This only applies to data stored digitally on my computer? Because it's somehow different then me locking up my financial records and other personal effects?
Idiots. Encryption is a locking system. Like a padlock, a dead-bolt, a keyed car door, ignition switch, safe. If they can't see that the poor fools should try living without locks for a few weeks to show they themselves don't have criminal intent.
You kids and you're fancy toys. In my day there was nothing like a good old fashioned flogging to set things right.
And we liked it that way!
It gives us a reason to laugh at ourselves. Oh! And read BOFH (I mean, weekly, but today more then most!).
And if your boss likes sushi nearly as much as mine...maybe lunch and a couple of Asahi's. Need I say more?
Personally I wonder why we have a Department of Homeland Security in the first place and I wonder if the Democrats will have the balls to dismantle it if and when they finally retake office. It's not that I'm totally anti-government but between the FBI and the CIA I just see this as a somewhat bizarre power play that will only further fracture these institutions. And what ever happened to the end of big government?
What ever happened to the Republicans?
The if the fear of the unlikely chance of voter key compromise is reason enough to put you off on voting freely we've already lost.