Look, it's not like driving down the road is some act of privacy. You have a big metal idenfication number attached to your vechile at all times, and that's tied into a wonderful database containing your name, home address, past driving / conviction record which can be used by BOTH private AND police personnel.
I appreciate that your desire for privacy, but if you want real privacy, use the bus. No identification required, and the license plate doesn't single you out.
Do you really think that in the 45 extra minutes between 7 and 8 AM that you won't sit on a bus is the kind of time that someone will pay you for?
I mean, it's 11:12PM wherever you are, does that mean that the value of your post to slashdot was $8? (assuming that you took 5 minutes to write it) If so, please tell me where to send my invoice for this post.
If you need someone at 2 in the afternoon, that's premium time. It's light outside, and most people will be at work (so you can contact them). Shops will be open (should you need to buy something). Business can be done. And even more business can be done if you know that person isn't leaving at 2:45.
The metro rail in Houston runs every six minutes and moves more people around than the street could carry with an army of cars. Now, it's not a solution that works for those off the line or in rural areas, but consider this for a moment.
How much money has it cost you to run your car?
Seriously, consider the following components: 1. price of the vechile. 2. price of the vechile's maintenance. 3. price of the insurance. 4. gasoline over the life of the vechile. 5. your tax dollars that go into the construction and maintenence of the roads. 6. the extra money you will pay at all stores since they have to allocate more than 50% of their property to the temporary storage of your vechile. 7. the extra cost of maintaining a larger police force to regulate that you (and your friends) don't violate the laws meant to enforce sane driving. 8. the extra health insurance cost as vechiles are a leading cause of hospitializations. 9. the extra life insurance cost (same reason as above). 10. The extra land that you will have to buy to maintain a driveway and garage. (or extra rent for all the renters out there). 11. The costs associated with all of the traffic court proceedings, from stop sign running to messy lawyer-represented automovtive-involved personal injury cases.
And we haven't even touched on the "fun" topics like how oil has shaped US Foreign policy, involved our military, created cheap and plentiful pollution, etc.
Now cars are so tightly integrated within our society that even a minor interruption (say 3 months?) of our oil supply would mean that 80% of the U.S. couldn't show up to work. That's a very flimsy ladder to be standing on, no?
You my friend are not recalling the message of the dining philosphers. Resources which are shared and sufficent to do the job can still fail to get the job done.
As far as this system, I imagine that we will soon find that during peak hours, certain streets are severely overloaded while they remain overbuilt (in terms of number of lanes) for the remaining 20 hours in the day.
If you can do it, so can others. Others might not be as good intentioned as you are.
What you need to do is to communicate more effectively with your IT department. It may seem nearly impossible, but it is really the easiest path to building the trust necessary to get better permissions. Eventually, they'll get to a point that they trust you enough to feel that they don't have to be looking over your shoulder. Expect to instantly lose any accumulated trust if your software interrupts (or even is suspected of interrupting) business in any way.
The other route is to ask for a "junk" box to "play" with. Sometimes it's easier to get a box on the network with the understanding that it's "Not Their Problem". If you really meet a business need, they will soon purchase a "server class" replacement and you'll be the lead in setting it up.
Most of these features you wish to compare are not part of a Linux operating system. Most are applications that are installed on top of a Linux operating system.
So, among the Linux distributions, all of these features are roughly eqivalent, providing that you are using the same software to meet the need for the particular feature.
Now in comparison between Linux and something else, Solaris, Windows, whatever... the ability to compare becomes much more difficult; because, you are comparing different products. In some platforms (Windows for example) the product can be part of the operating system, while in others it may require the purchace of "3rd party" software. In a few cases (Oracle, et. al.) you get lucky, you are really comparing the same product on two different platforms.
When comparing different products, you are usually comparing different solutions, and such comparisons often break down to personal preference, familiarity, and comfort factor.
As far as the base Linux operating system, a company can't go far wrong with either RedHat or SuSE. I'd pick RedHat personally, but Novell's backing of SuSE is not to be discounted. Both products support many of the solutions businesses will need, but neither will perfectly act as a Microsoft server clone.
Lack of a feature is not a defficency, when the feature itself creates more problems than it solves.
Comercial software isn't any better, as it too suffers from the same problems you are concerned about.
Just look at all the people who were audited after using "commercial" tax software... It's not as many as those who used a pencil and paper, but it's enough proof to know that the tax law is complex enough to make writing the software hard and error prone, commercial or open source. And no, you can't sue the software vendors, because only a CPA can personally vouch that a tax return is correctly prepared, not a software vendor.
Best bet is to hire a CPA. It's usually cheaper than tax software considering that a GOOD CPA can tweak you return enough to cover his expenses (and then some). Of course, finding a good CPA is no different than finding a good dentist or a good auto mechanic, it takes a bit of time and luck.
Actually, the article describes people asking for something along the lines of an API to allow programmers to use exsiting functionality in new ways, in this case to make wireless repeaters.
But the manufacturers are deciding that even the API is secret, and then claiming that it can't be opened up because it would violate federal law (by allowing people to broadcast out of proper power ranges and out of spectrum). By this line of thinking, the wireless manufactureres are doing a public service by keeping the API secret.
Unfortunately, the laws they reference have to do with computer controlled radio stations, not wireless networks.
Abuses of the wireless spectrum happen all the time, odds are that somewhere right now, someone is violating an aspect of the FCC guidelines. It's not the manufacturer's responsibility to enforce the laws, that's the exclusive domain of the government. The companies should expose their API until the government makes it illegal to do so.
Real world politics probably makes this impossibly simple, I'd bet the government wouldn't appreciate any company that made thier job harder.
9% is a statistically significant difference, even on populations where the total count is unknown.
That is, even if I don't know how much US currency exists in the world, I could easily notice if 9% of it went missing. (just an example).
Most statistical measures consider canges of 5% to be statistically significant, and in cases where the measurements are cheap, accurate, and plentiful, that number can drop to 2.5% or even 1%.
A pointer is a language construct. A reference is a language construct.
An address is a machine memory location.
Different languages have different constructs, and many languages share common constructs. For example, nearly all languages share the '+' character as an addition construct. Machine addresses are not part of a language, so they're not part of how the languages differ.
Java uses references. You cannot perform the same operations on a Java reference as you could on a C++ pointer. Most notably, you cannot increment a Java reference. So they ARE different, and by being different, you shouldn't even WANT to call them the same thing.
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If you really want to know if someone can perform a task, then ask them to perform it for you. It's called a "skills based exam".
Most of the IT exams are fact based exams. The CCIE is skills based as are some portions of the RHCE. Never have I even heard of a paper-CCIE or paper-RHCE, because it's not possible to pass unless you can peform the tasks within the exam.
Fact based exams are easy to write, easy to administer, and easy to design supplemental study guides / course schedules / etc. Skills based exams require you to use the technology until you gain some level of comfort and competency.
Well, there's been limited success study of the nitty-gritty details of memory and how it functions. Hopefully by observing Kim, some more information on memory (and more imporantly processing ability) can be found.
My favorite memory study deals with cannabilistic flatworms. They could teach naieve flatworms by feeding them pieces of educated flatworms. This behavior was observed in the 1960's by James V McConnell. It's so incredible that you should read his study, fortunately, it was completely repeatable.
It's lost on some people, but morality isn't a universal constant (like c) but is influenced by point of view.
The Chinese Government has constantly tolerated and even promoted the mass violation of most product protection laws. As a mainland Chinese why they are burning copies of MS Windows instead of buying it, and they'll look at you as if you've lost your mind. Only when the Government decides that it's no longer in their interest to promote this activity will the moral values of China shift.
But it's not just limited to China. Many Christians should remember that many of the Biblical characters were poligimists (Jacob, Leah, and Rachel, anyone?) and had less than perfect lives (Noah exposing himself in a drunken stupor). But today's moral values don't permit any of this behavior.
Blaming someone about their lack of your moral values makes little sense, especially across culture divides as great as those in the U.S.A. and China.
If you're more knowledgable, odds are you're going to be smarter.
That's because you'll have (in some ways) memorized large portions of what others will have to deduce. Sure, you could re-deduce it each time you need it, but why?
Of course, this line of reasoning completely fails if you don't take care to stuff your head with an accurate representation of what you're studying. Considering that one of the topics is History, where interpertation and point of view play major roles, I'd gather that Kim isn't some sort of super-encyclopedia, but someone actually processing and incorporating ideas into his internal visualization of the world.
It's not USAOL, and the U.S. of A. hasn't registered the trademark for America (at least not yet).
How egocentric must a country be to confuse issues so badly that they refer to a couple of continents as themselves? It's so mind boggling at times to be a U.S. Citizen, especially in these days.
Here's the link which presents the abstract to her thesis. Having read and written a few of these, it sounded good until the latent logical fallacies became obvious.
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/ab st ract_80171.htm
Note that she talks about optimum temperature range of the bees, and then contrasts that with projected estimates of ambient temperature drop. Then her projected temperature drop OVERLAPPS the previously projected temperature drop. Also she does not provide evidence that these bees cannot survive in a temperate climate, but again directs us back to it's optimum living range.
Finally, she never attempts to resolve the first leap of faith in her hypothesis. That modern day relatives are metabolically identical to thier ancient ancestors.
Maybe the actual presentation fills in these missing gaps, but I believe that if she had something really earthshaking to say, she would present just enough hints of her evidence in the abstract to make people's eyes pop.
The woman is a GRAD STUDENT from a state with a REPUTATION for poor academics. I'm not stating that she doesn't have her stuff together, but how can we know when the article doesn't even present us with her DATA.
Remember, this is the state that's famous for admitting a dog and having the dog pass enough courses to become a Sophmore before the STUDENTS behind the stunt felt badly and exposed the hoax.
Her entire theory hinges around the dissappeance of flowers, but the article fails to mention how flowers reappear post-meteor. The article also fails to explore / discount possibilties like low-light loving flowers, bees eating other foods, or even stable non-freezing temperatures. The bee in the freezer isn't a valid comparison, but I guess we're supposed to take her theory based on faith, as there is no data to back it up.
So he's saying that flowering plants existed before the impact, were destroyed by the impact (via lack of sunlight), and then managed to re-establish themselves by genetic drift from the population of surviving conifirous plant life, thus re-creating the flowering mechanisim that was totally eradicated just a few years (even if it's a few 1000 years) before?
If other plants survived (with good documentation) why does he believe that flowering plants are incapable of surviving? I mean, the documentation is so old and full of holes that there's no likelyhood of knowing what everything looked like everywhere on the planet back then.
Palentology done by a grad student hosted on a physics site with no references to a published paper, no data, methods, or even mention of peer review. Think about it.
Ummm... Total darkness isn't kind to birds, plants, or other animals or insects. The darkness may not have been 100%, mabye it's just a 20% dip in available light. That's enough to drastically change plant life (and everything else).
We've let too many Hollywood producers "visualize" the meteor impact, I'm sure it was fantastic, but it's really hard to know exactly what happened such a long time ago. Surely it didn't flip cars like flapjacks on the streets of NY, and it definately didn't enflame the entire world like Armageddon's opening screen.
It could be that honey bees "went south for the winter" except in this case they used to live in the north, and moved south as the temperatures changed. It could be that honeybees have become genetically acclimated to our current temperatures, and can no longer accomodate temperature changes. It could be that some flowering plants could sustain them in the relative darkness. Mabye they can use alternative food sources in conditions of extreme hunger.
A lot of my guesses are certain to be wrong, and you may come up with much better possibilities than these, but from the quality of the information in this article, nobody can support a reason. It's a shame that so much science asks the populace to take it's findings on faith, instead of showing the evidence and how they came to the conclusion. Mabye it's the lack of good scientific journalisim, or mabye journalists don't trust the population to understand, just to accept. Remember there's not even a reference to the estimated sunlight blockage or temperature drop.
As I am astounded by the people who argue that since the votes would not likely sway these election results, we shouldn't fuss so much about the descrepancies.
If you narrowly miss another vechile in a would-be auto accident because your brakes are spotty, do you say, "Well, the end result was the same as if my brakes worked. I shouldn't complain about them or try to get them fixed."
Far too many people confuse results with improvement. We need to improve our voting system, even when it doesn't provide different results.
If you can spare the time, Fedora is a great distrobution. If you can spare the money, RedHat has great support.
WhiteBoxLinux is just a RHEL knockoff. That doesn't mean that it's quality is better / equal / worse than RHEL, but it's like getting RHEL without the RedHat support (the main reason to go RHEL).
Other major distros include SuSE, Mandrake, and Debian. In these cases, these systems will have a different feel, as they aren't as closely connected to the RedHat family tree. SuSE has excellent documentation, but sometimes the documentation is best read in German, and some love (or hate) it's configuration tool, yast. Mandrake isn't really concerned with supporting a setup like yours, they are targeting the "easy to use desktop" crowd, so it's not recommended for your needs. Debian is loved by those who use it, and tolerated by those who don't:) Consider it the "as free as possible" distribution, which has good and bad points.
I know that my views are opinions, everyone should discover the distros for themselves. For those who feel differently, please be rational and not turn this thread into a flame-fest.
Sure there's better ways to do it, but when I need that latest-and-greatest version of package XYZ, I fiddle with comments in my/etc/yum.conf file and pull in an unstable, bleeding-edge, package from my friendly Fedora repository.
Everyone else is free to keep pointing at stable forever, but don't advocate making a stable tree unstable, or worse yet, not exposing the development work to others who might desprately need it RIGHT NOW!
And as far as apt-get goes... how do you use your GM Vortec enging to move your BMW Mini along? Very poorly if at all is the answer, and if you do ask, then you shouldn't be doing it anyway. Use the right tool for the distro and life will be easier.
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Look, it's not like driving down the road is some act of privacy. You have a big metal idenfication number attached to your vechile at all times, and that's tied into a wonderful database containing your name, home address, past driving / conviction record which can be used by BOTH private AND police personnel.
I appreciate that your desire for privacy, but if you want real privacy, use the bus. No identification required, and the license plate doesn't single you out.
Do you really think that in the 45 extra minutes between 7 and 8 AM that you won't sit on a bus is the kind of time that someone will pay you for?
I mean, it's 11:12PM wherever you are, does that mean that the value of your post to slashdot was $8? (assuming that you took 5 minutes to write it) If so, please tell me where to send my invoice for this post.
If you need someone at 2 in the afternoon, that's premium time. It's light outside, and most people will be at work (so you can contact them). Shops will be open (should you need to buy something). Business can be done. And even more business can be done if you know that person isn't leaving at 2:45.
The metro rail in Houston runs every six minutes and moves more people around than the street could carry with an army of cars. Now, it's not a solution that works for those off the line or in rural areas, but consider this for a moment.
How much money has it cost you to run your car?
Seriously, consider the following components:
1. price of the vechile.
2. price of the vechile's maintenance.
3. price of the insurance.
4. gasoline over the life of the vechile.
5. your tax dollars that go into the construction and maintenence of the roads.
6. the extra money you will pay at all stores since they have to allocate more than 50% of their property to the temporary storage of your vechile.
7. the extra cost of maintaining a larger police force to regulate that you (and your friends) don't violate the laws meant to enforce sane driving.
8. the extra health insurance cost as vechiles are a leading cause of hospitializations.
9. the extra life insurance cost (same reason as above).
10. The extra land that you will have to buy to maintain a driveway and garage. (or extra rent for all the renters out there).
11. The costs associated with all of the traffic court proceedings, from stop sign running to messy lawyer-represented automovtive-involved personal injury cases.
And we haven't even touched on the "fun" topics like how oil has shaped US Foreign policy, involved our military, created cheap and plentiful pollution, etc.
Now cars are so tightly integrated within our society that even a minor interruption (say 3 months?) of our oil supply would mean that 80% of the U.S. couldn't show up to work. That's a very flimsy ladder to be standing on, no?
You my friend are not recalling the message of the dining philosphers. Resources which are shared and sufficent to do the job can still fail to get the job done.
As far as this system, I imagine that we will soon find that during peak hours, certain streets are severely overloaded while they remain overbuilt (in terms of number of lanes) for the remaining 20 hours in the day.
If you can do it, so can others. Others might not be as good intentioned as you are.
What you need to do is to communicate more effectively with your IT department. It may seem nearly impossible, but it is really the easiest path to building the trust necessary to get better permissions. Eventually, they'll get to a point that they trust you enough to feel that they don't have to be looking over your shoulder. Expect to instantly lose any accumulated trust if your software interrupts (or even is suspected of interrupting) business in any way.
The other route is to ask for a "junk" box to "play" with. Sometimes it's easier to get a box on the network with the understanding that it's "Not Their Problem". If you really meet a business need, they will soon purchase a "server class" replacement and you'll be the lead in setting it up.
Most of these features you wish to compare are not part of a Linux operating system. Most are applications that are installed on top of a Linux operating system.
So, among the Linux distributions, all of these features are roughly eqivalent, providing that you are using the same software to meet the need for the particular feature.
Now in comparison between Linux and something else, Solaris, Windows, whatever... the ability to compare becomes much more difficult; because, you are comparing different products. In some platforms (Windows for example) the product can be part of the operating system, while in others it may require the purchace of "3rd party" software. In a few cases (Oracle, et. al.) you get lucky, you are really comparing the same product on two different platforms.
When comparing different products, you are usually comparing different solutions, and such comparisons often break down to personal preference, familiarity, and comfort factor.
As far as the base Linux operating system, a company can't go far wrong with either RedHat or SuSE. I'd pick RedHat personally, but Novell's backing of SuSE is not to be discounted. Both products support many of the solutions businesses will need, but neither will perfectly act as a Microsoft server clone.
Lack of a feature is not a defficency, when the feature itself creates more problems than it solves.
Comercial software isn't any better, as it too suffers from the same problems you are concerned about.
Just look at all the people who were audited after using "commercial" tax software... It's not as many as those who used a pencil and paper, but it's enough proof to know that the tax law is complex enough to make writing the software hard and error prone, commercial or open source. And no, you can't sue the software vendors, because only a CPA can personally vouch that a tax return is correctly prepared, not a software vendor.
Best bet is to hire a CPA. It's usually cheaper than tax software considering that a GOOD CPA can tweak you return enough to cover his expenses (and then some). Of course, finding a good CPA is no different than finding a good dentist or a good auto mechanic, it takes a bit of time and luck.
If you claimed an income tax return too big to audit for accuracy, or better yet, too big to file.
Actually, the article describes people asking for something along the lines of an API to allow programmers to use exsiting functionality in new ways, in this case to make wireless repeaters.
But the manufacturers are deciding that even the API is secret, and then claiming that it can't be opened up because it would violate federal law (by allowing people to broadcast out of proper power ranges and out of spectrum). By this line of thinking, the wireless manufactureres are doing a public service by keeping the API secret.
Unfortunately, the laws they reference have to do with computer controlled radio stations, not wireless networks.
Abuses of the wireless spectrum happen all the time, odds are that somewhere right now, someone is violating an aspect of the FCC guidelines. It's not the manufacturer's responsibility to enforce the laws, that's the exclusive domain of the government. The companies should expose their API until the government makes it illegal to do so.
Real world politics probably makes this impossibly simple, I'd bet the government wouldn't appreciate any company that made thier job harder.
Errr...
9% is a statistically significant difference, even on populations where the total count is unknown.
That is, even if I don't know how much US currency exists in the world, I could easily notice if 9% of it went missing. (just an example).
Most statistical measures consider canges of 5% to be statistically significant, and in cases where the measurements are cheap, accurate, and plentiful, that number can drop to 2.5% or even 1%.
Err...
A pointer is a language construct.
A reference is a language construct.
An address is a machine memory location.
Different languages have different constructs, and many languages share common constructs. For example, nearly all languages share the '+' character as an addition construct. Machine addresses are not part of a language, so they're not part of how the languages differ.
Java uses references. You cannot perform the same operations on a Java reference as you could on a C++ pointer. Most notably, you cannot increment a Java reference. So they ARE different, and by being different, you shouldn't even WANT to call them the same thing.
If you really want to know if someone can perform a task, then ask them to perform it for you. It's called a "skills based exam".
Most of the IT exams are fact based exams. The CCIE is skills based as are some portions of the RHCE. Never have I even heard of a paper-CCIE or paper-RHCE, because it's not possible to pass unless you can peform the tasks within the exam.
Fact based exams are easy to write, easy to administer, and easy to design supplemental study guides / course schedules / etc. Skills based exams require you to use the technology until you gain some level of comfort and competency.
Dude....
NASA's the country's leading expert in PROBES....
Makes perfect sense to me.
Well, there's been limited success study of the nitty-gritty details of memory and how it functions. Hopefully by observing Kim, some more information on memory (and more imporantly processing ability) can be found.
My favorite memory study deals with cannabilistic flatworms. They could teach naieve flatworms by feeding them pieces of educated flatworms. This behavior was observed in the 1960's by James V McConnell. It's so incredible that you should read his study, fortunately, it was completely repeatable.
It's lost on some people, but morality isn't a universal constant (like c) but is influenced by point of view.
The Chinese Government has constantly tolerated and even promoted the mass violation of most product protection laws. As a mainland Chinese why they are burning copies of MS Windows instead of buying it, and they'll look at you as if you've lost your mind. Only when the Government decides that it's no longer in their interest to promote this activity will the moral values of China shift.
But it's not just limited to China. Many Christians should remember that many of the Biblical characters were poligimists (Jacob, Leah, and Rachel, anyone?) and had less than perfect lives (Noah exposing himself in a drunken stupor). But today's moral values don't permit any of this behavior.
Blaming someone about their lack of your moral values makes little sense, especially across culture divides as great as those in the U.S.A. and China.
If you're more knowledgable, odds are you're going to be smarter.
That's because you'll have (in some ways) memorized large portions of what others will have to deduce. Sure, you could re-deduce it each time you need it, but why?
Of course, this line of reasoning completely fails if you don't take care to stuff your head with an accurate representation of what you're studying. Considering that one of the topics is History, where interpertation and point of view play major roles, I'd gather that Kim isn't some sort of super-encyclopedia, but someone actually processing and incorporating ideas into his internal visualization of the world.
I know, I know, but AOL Canada makes sense.
It's not USAOL, and the U.S. of A. hasn't registered the trademark for America (at least not yet).
How egocentric must a country be to confuse issues so badly that they refer to a couple of continents as themselves? It's so mind boggling at times to be a U.S. Citizen, especially in these days.
Here's the link which presents the abstract to her thesis. Having read and written a few of these, it sounded good until the latent logical fallacies became obvious.
b st ract_80171.htm
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/a
Note that she talks about optimum temperature range of the bees, and then contrasts that with projected estimates of ambient temperature drop. Then her projected temperature drop OVERLAPPS the previously projected temperature drop. Also she does not provide evidence that these bees cannot survive in a temperate climate, but again directs us back to it's optimum living range.
Finally, she never attempts to resolve the first leap of faith in her hypothesis. That modern day relatives are metabolically identical to thier ancient ancestors.
Maybe the actual presentation fills in these missing gaps, but I believe that if she had something really earthshaking to say, she would present just enough hints of her evidence in the abstract to make people's eyes pop.
The woman is a GRAD STUDENT from a state with a REPUTATION for poor academics. I'm not stating that she doesn't have her stuff together, but how can we know when the article doesn't even present us with her DATA. Remember, this is the state that's famous for admitting a dog and having the dog pass enough courses to become a Sophmore before the STUDENTS behind the stunt felt badly and exposed the hoax. Her entire theory hinges around the dissappeance of flowers, but the article fails to mention how flowers reappear post-meteor. The article also fails to explore / discount possibilties like low-light loving flowers, bees eating other foods, or even stable non-freezing temperatures. The bee in the freezer isn't a valid comparison, but I guess we're supposed to take her theory based on faith, as there is no data to back it up.
Really? My bees said the same thing to me last week!
Probably just a coincidece though....
So he's saying that flowering plants existed before the impact, were destroyed by the impact (via lack of sunlight), and then managed to re-establish themselves by genetic drift from the population of surviving conifirous plant life, thus re-creating the flowering mechanisim that was totally eradicated just a few years (even if it's a few 1000 years) before?
If other plants survived (with good documentation) why does he believe that flowering plants are incapable of surviving? I mean, the documentation is so old and full of holes that there's no likelyhood of knowing what everything looked like everywhere on the planet back then.
Palentology done by a grad student hosted on a physics site with no references to a published paper, no data, methods, or even mention of peer review. Think about it.
Ummm... Total darkness isn't kind to birds, plants, or other animals or insects. The darkness may not have been 100%, mabye it's just a 20% dip in available light. That's enough to drastically change plant life (and everything else).
We've let too many Hollywood producers "visualize" the meteor impact, I'm sure it was fantastic, but it's really hard to know exactly what happened such a long time ago. Surely it didn't flip cars like flapjacks on the streets of NY, and it definately didn't enflame the entire world like Armageddon's opening screen.
It could be that honey bees "went south for the winter" except in this case they used to live in the north, and moved south as the temperatures changed. It could be that honeybees have become genetically acclimated to our current temperatures, and can no longer accomodate temperature changes. It could be that some flowering plants could sustain them in the relative darkness. Mabye they can use alternative food sources in conditions of extreme hunger.
A lot of my guesses are certain to be wrong, and you may come up with much better possibilities than these, but from the quality of the information in this article, nobody can support a reason. It's a shame that so much science asks the populace to take it's findings on faith, instead of showing the evidence and how they came to the conclusion. Mabye it's the lack of good scientific journalisim, or mabye journalists don't trust the population to understand, just to accept. Remember there's not even a reference to the estimated sunlight blockage or temperature drop.
As I am astounded by the people who argue that since the votes would not likely sway these election results, we shouldn't fuss so much about the descrepancies.
If you narrowly miss another vechile in a would-be auto accident because your brakes are spotty, do you say, "Well, the end result was the same as if my brakes worked. I shouldn't complain about them or try to get them fixed."
Far too many people confuse results with improvement. We need to improve our voting system, even when it doesn't provide different results.
If you can spare the time, Fedora is a great distrobution. If you can spare the money, RedHat has great support.
:) Consider it the "as free as possible" distribution, which has good and bad points.
WhiteBoxLinux is just a RHEL knockoff. That doesn't mean that it's quality is better / equal / worse than RHEL, but it's like getting RHEL without the RedHat support (the main reason to go RHEL).
Other major distros include SuSE, Mandrake, and Debian. In these cases, these systems will have a different feel, as they aren't as closely connected to the RedHat family tree. SuSE has excellent documentation, but sometimes the documentation is best read in German, and some love (or hate) it's configuration tool, yast. Mandrake isn't really concerned with supporting a setup like yours, they are targeting the "easy to use desktop" crowd, so it's not recommended for your needs. Debian is loved by those who use it, and tolerated by those who don't
I know that my views are opinions, everyone should discover the distros for themselves. For those who feel differently, please be rational and not turn this thread into a flame-fest.
Actually, I use the different package trees.
/etc/yum.conf file and pull in an unstable, bleeding-edge, package from my friendly Fedora repository.
Sure there's better ways to do it, but when I need that latest-and-greatest version of package XYZ, I fiddle with comments in my
Everyone else is free to keep pointing at stable forever, but don't advocate making a stable tree unstable, or worse yet, not exposing the development work to others who might desprately need it RIGHT NOW!
And as far as apt-get goes... how do you use your GM Vortec enging to move your BMW Mini along? Very poorly if at all is the answer, and if you do ask, then you shouldn't be doing it anyway. Use the right tool for the distro and life will be easier.