Linux the kernel isn't much use without a distribution around it. The OP is right, Linux distributions are falling into the same trap as their proprietary brethren before them. Sometimes too much choice is a bad thing. At some point vendors have to draw a line in the sand and say this is it, we aren't supporting 100's of Linux distributions, we are supporting N Linux distributions.
"Good luck calling EMC or Hitachi and saying your CentOS has problems accessing your 20TB disk array with a given HBA and switch."
I do this all the time, I run CentOS in development and most of the test environment. When I see a problem on CentOS, I verify that the problem exists on one of my RHEL test boxes, and call them up. When they fix the problem on RHEL, it is either automatically fixed on CentOS, or I replicate whatever they did on RHEL on CentOS and the problem is fixed. You just have to learn how to play their game, if they say they only support "expensive X", then have as few of "expensive X" around to satisfy that requirement.
"it isn't 100% the same"
It's enough the same that I have never run into anything that broke on one that didn't break exactly the same way on the other. CentOS is so good that I have started to move some of my production systems to it, but I will always keep a fair number of RHEL boxes around, since third parties need someone to point a finger at when they determine that it isn't their stuff.
What about the "preps" and the "jocks", who largely don't get bullied, and actually may be the bullies. These groups often go on to careers in business and management, in fact probably more so than the bullied, who largely end up in science and engineering, where they continue to get "bullied" by management.;)
I do like your job interview analogy though, but to expand on it, school is a preparation for life, in more ways than most people realize. Like it or not, life has a social order, and many people find out their place in that order in school.
One of the arguments used against home schooling is you loose the social aspect of school. One response to this is that the social aspect of school, in many ways, is a negative. Of course life, as an adult, often mirrors a lot of these negative aspects, and lacking this "experience" could prove to be a detriment. Then one needs to ask, is adult society just replicating everything we learned in school?
Either way you pay for them. At least paying to try and make them a productive member of society has the potential benefit of them giving back to society in some beneficial way.
Most of the bullies I knew where small time criminals as well, but most of them were that way because they had no influence in the lives showing them a different direction. It usually wasn't hard to figure out how they got they way they were, once you meet their parents...
Did you go to high school in the US? Bullying has been going on in high schools forever, "cyberbullying" is just adaption for modern times. Unfortunately most school districts have largely ignored it for decades. BTW, bringing knives to school is not a new problem, bullies have always brought knives (and other weapons, bats/2x4's were a favorite at my HS) to school.
While I agree no one should be subjected to verbal or physical abuse, sending the bully to prison won't work. Removing the bully from the learning environment is not the right solution, that just creates more criminals.
The problem is huge, and had school districts not ignored the problem for so long and developed effective ways of dealing with it, we wouldn't have this problem. Bullies are not getting their needs meet in some way, either the school is not challenging them enough and they are bored or they find it too challenging and are attacking kids that are "smarter" then they are. I don't believe most bullies are actually criminally psychotic and deserve to be locked up. The schools need to do a better job of meeting the needs of all students and give up on the "all size fits all model".
Sorry can't help you out there, no one has ever died (or even been seriously hurt) at our 4th parties, we can try harder this year though, if it's really important to you.
It's all about choices and personal responsibility...
People don't have to work at Wal-Mart, if they find their polices unacceptable, they can choose to go somewhere else. It's not Wal-Mart's problem that you made choices and have responsibilities, Wal-Mart has to run a business and have dependable, responsible employees.
Of course we have had to scramble to find somewhere for the children to go at the last minute, but that is the responsibility we took on when we chose to be parents. Fortunately we also chose to live in a neighborhood that had a couple of stay at home moms, so it always worked out.
Maybe this is the motivation I need to put the engine, that is suspended from the tree, back in the car that is on blocks in my front yard. Wouldn't want to give the world the impression that the US is a back water, uncivilized country...
Both ways have their downsides. I don't see public/alternative transportation ever getting funded in this country as long as driving is a more convenient alternative. Companies will find ways for their employees to work, if that means working remote or providing alternative transportation in the interim, the work still has to get done. Companies adapt to changing political realities all the time, without it causing "global economic repercussions".
"by taking the money out of the rail system and putting it into the road system, we have created a condition in which property values near places to work rapidly rise out of control"
It just isn't that simple... I have friends that work in the Atlanta area, but commute an hour and a half, one way. They actually pay more for their house then they would near where they work, but because the crime and schools are so bad, they are forced to live farther out.
As far as driving being a right, IMO obtaining a drivers license should be harder and more expensive, and absolutely remain a privilege. Driving is already treated too much like a right. The reason public transportation is underfunded in the US is because driving is too easy, start making it harder to drive and watch how fast public/alternative transportation solutions spring up.
First of all there is nothing wrong with a company wanting to increase their bottom line, in fact that is EXACTLY what a private company is supposed to do.
Secondly, a company doesn't have to "care" about their employees, if they should or not is a totally different matter...
Thirdly, Wal-Mart absolutely has gotten the attention because they are the biggest. I know people that work at both Wal-Mart and other retailers and Wal-Mart is on par our slightly above the others. The fact is these are lower paid jobs, and these companies have a balancing act to do in treating their employees well, and ensuring that the company provides a good return for their investors.
I have three, and have never used them as an excuse for being late, to anything. Life is tough, and there are choices to make along the way, to have kids or not, which day care/school to send them to, etc. There have been day cares that didn't fit my schedule, so I did the "hard" work and looked for another that fit my schedule.
It is never acceptable to use your children as an excuse, shame on/. mods for marking you insightful!
Most Wal-Mart store employees are not white collar employees, so comparing them to what white collar employees may or may not expect isn't a fair comparison. Most blue collar employees are expected to be at their jobs at a certain time or they get docked pay, that's way it is, if you don't like it, find a job you can make it to on time or better yourself and move into a white collar job, where the expectations MAY be less.
As for the weather making them late, maybe they should plan better. I have never had snow tires (even though I could easily afford them) on my car, and I'm not involved in accidents or late for work when it snows, because I plan ahead and leave earlier. BTW, most of the accidents I see in the snow are caused by idiot SUV drivers that think they are invincible in the snow, but forget that ultimately you have to stop that beast. I would be surprised if a majority of Wal-Mart employees are driving $30K+ SUVs.
"There is no where in the constitution that says the federal goverment has this right, but the consitution does say that any right not enumerated to the federal government is reserved to the states. I would thus say that its for the states to descide when abortions are legal and when they are not."
I couldn't agree more with this. I lean pro-choice, but strongly feel Roe was a bad, precedent setting ruling, allowing the Feds to (further) usurp states rights.
"being an asshole (NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, even if 2 centuries of practice make most american think it is)"
Wrong, it's called the First Amendment. Organizations like: the KKK, PETA (or the ultra radical cousin the ALF), anti-abortion groups, MADD, etc have stood behind the First Amendment and been obnoxious assholes for a very long time.
Every American has the right to be an asshole, and I will use my Second Amendment rights to defend the right.
College tuition is not a tax, but in the US tax system there are tuition credits that above a certain level of income you no longer qualify for. So a raise in earnings may actually result in lower take home pay, since I now have to make up for those lost credits.
Outside of the tax system, there is need based assistance, which is usually based on your AGI from your tax returns, and also has income limits. Once you move above a certain income, you no longer qualify for these, and would have to make up the difference out of your raise.
Certainly college is voluntary (and a separate issue from above), but anybody that doesn't encourage their children to attend and try to support them anyway they can is setting them up for failure and disappointment.
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Linux the kernel isn't much use without a distribution around it. The OP is right, Linux distributions are falling into the same trap as their proprietary brethren before them. Sometimes too much choice is a bad thing. At some point vendors have to draw a line in the sand and say this is it, we aren't supporting 100's of Linux distributions, we are supporting N Linux distributions.
"Good luck calling EMC or Hitachi and saying your CentOS has problems accessing your 20TB disk array with a given HBA and switch."
I do this all the time, I run CentOS in development and most of the test environment. When I see a problem on CentOS, I verify that the problem exists on one of my RHEL test boxes, and call them up. When they fix the problem on RHEL, it is either automatically fixed on CentOS, or I replicate whatever they did on RHEL on CentOS and the problem is fixed. You just have to learn how to play their game, if they say they only support "expensive X", then have as few of "expensive X" around to satisfy that requirement.
"it isn't 100% the same"
It's enough the same that I have never run into anything that broke on one that didn't break exactly the same way on the other. CentOS is so good that I have started to move some of my production systems to it, but I will always keep a fair number of RHEL boxes around, since third parties need someone to point a finger at when they determine that it isn't their stuff.
What about the "preps" and the "jocks", who largely don't get bullied, and actually may be the bullies. These groups often go on to careers in business and management, in fact probably more so than the bullied, who largely end up in science and engineering, where they continue to get "bullied" by management. ;)
I do like your job interview analogy though, but to expand on it, school is a preparation for life, in more ways than most people realize. Like it or not, life has a social order, and many people find out their place in that order in school.
One of the arguments used against home schooling is you loose the social aspect of school. One response to this is that the social aspect of school, in many ways, is a negative. Of course life, as an adult, often mirrors a lot of these negative aspects, and lacking this "experience" could prove to be a detriment. Then one needs to ask, is adult society just replicating everything we learned in school?
Either way you pay for them. At least paying to try and make them a productive member of society has the potential benefit of them giving back to society in some beneficial way.
Most of the bullies I knew where small time criminals as well, but most of them were that way because they had no influence in the lives showing them a different direction. It usually wasn't hard to figure out how they got they way they were, once you meet their parents...
Did you go to high school in the US? Bullying has been going on in high schools forever, "cyberbullying" is just adaption for modern times. Unfortunately most school districts have largely ignored it for decades. BTW, bringing knives to school is not a new problem, bullies have always brought knives (and other weapons, bats/2x4's were a favorite at my HS) to school.
While I agree no one should be subjected to verbal or physical abuse, sending the bully to prison won't work. Removing the bully from the learning environment is not the right solution, that just creates more criminals.
The problem is huge, and had school districts not ignored the problem for so long and developed effective ways of dealing with it, we wouldn't have this problem. Bullies are not getting their needs meet in some way, either the school is not challenging them enough and they are bored or they find it too challenging and are attacking kids that are "smarter" then they are. I don't believe most bullies are actually criminally psychotic and deserve to be locked up. The schools need to do a better job of meeting the needs of all students and give up on the "all size fits all model".
Exactly! This is simply a "branding" program by MS, pay them money, run their tests, pass their tests, and you can put their logo on your product.
Must be a slow news day...
No, the article was referring to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, not The Ohio State University in Columbus.
Anyone who knows OU's reputation would not find this surprising at all. You have to have good music for all of those parties.
Wrong school. The Ohio State University is in Columbus. Ohio University is in Athens (southern Ohio)
Sorry can't help you out there, no one has ever died (or even been seriously hurt) at our 4th parties, we can try harder this year though, if it's really important to you.
Sure do, I wasn't commenting on that, I was commenting on the GP's post about LP tanks exploding.
"You probably have an LP tank sitting there under your back yard BBQ grill. When was the last time you heard of one of these blowing up?"
Last 4th of July, but that did involve alcohol (consumption) and a rifle...
Not yet, give it a week.
Of course it is a quantum computer, so maybe it's done already and we just don't know it, because every time we look at it, it changes.
On the other hand it can only play Sodoku so far, so maybe not.
It's all about choices and personal responsibility...
People don't have to work at Wal-Mart, if they find their polices unacceptable, they can choose to go somewhere else. It's not Wal-Mart's problem that you made choices and have responsibilities, Wal-Mart has to run a business and have dependable, responsible employees.
Of course we have had to scramble to find somewhere for the children to go at the last minute, but that is the responsibility we took on when we chose to be parents. Fortunately we also chose to live in a neighborhood that had a couple of stay at home moms, so it always worked out.
Maybe this is the motivation I need to put the engine, that is suspended from the tree, back in the car that is on blocks in my front yard. Wouldn't want to give the world the impression that the US is a back water, uncivilized country...
Both ways have their downsides. I don't see public/alternative transportation ever getting funded in this country as long as driving is a more convenient alternative. Companies will find ways for their employees to work, if that means working remote or providing alternative transportation in the interim, the work still has to get done. Companies adapt to changing political realities all the time, without it causing "global economic repercussions".
"by taking the money out of the rail system and putting it into the road system, we have created a condition in which property values near places to work rapidly rise out of control"
It just isn't that simple... I have friends that work in the Atlanta area, but commute an hour and a half, one way. They actually pay more for their house then they would near where they work, but because the crime and schools are so bad, they are forced to live farther out.
As far as driving being a right, IMO obtaining a drivers license should be harder and more expensive, and absolutely remain a privilege. Driving is already treated too much like a right. The reason public transportation is underfunded in the US is because driving is too easy, start making it harder to drive and watch how fast public/alternative transportation solutions spring up.
First of all there is nothing wrong with a company wanting to increase their bottom line, in fact that is EXACTLY what a private company is supposed to do.
Secondly, a company doesn't have to "care" about their employees, if they should or not is a totally different matter...
Thirdly, Wal-Mart absolutely has gotten the attention because they are the biggest. I know people that work at both Wal-Mart and other retailers and Wal-Mart is on par our slightly above the others. The fact is these are lower paid jobs, and these companies have a balancing act to do in treating their employees well, and ensuring that the company provides a good return for their investors.
I have three, and have never used them as an excuse for being late, to anything. Life is tough, and there are choices to make along the way, to have kids or not, which day care/school to send them to, etc. There have been day cares that didn't fit my schedule, so I did the "hard" work and looked for another that fit my schedule.
/. mods for marking you insightful!
It is never acceptable to use your children as an excuse, shame on
Most Wal-Mart store employees are not white collar employees, so comparing them to what white collar employees may or may not expect isn't a fair comparison. Most blue collar employees are expected to be at their jobs at a certain time or they get docked pay, that's way it is, if you don't like it, find a job you can make it to on time or better yourself and move into a white collar job, where the expectations MAY be less.
As for the weather making them late, maybe they should plan better. I have never had snow tires (even though I could easily afford them) on my car, and I'm not involved in accidents or late for work when it snows, because I plan ahead and leave earlier. BTW, most of the accidents I see in the snow are caused by idiot SUV drivers that think they are invincible in the snow, but forget that ultimately you have to stop that beast. I would be surprised if a majority of Wal-Mart employees are driving $30K+ SUVs.
"Not because it is beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime will be commited"
Hum, that sounds very close to the plot of a Tom Cruise movie.
"There is no where in the constitution that says the federal goverment has this right, but the consitution does say that any right not enumerated to the federal government is reserved to the states. I would thus say that its for the states to descide when abortions are legal and when they are not."
I couldn't agree more with this. I lean pro-choice, but strongly feel Roe was a bad, precedent setting ruling, allowing the Feds to (further) usurp states rights.
"being an asshole (NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, even if 2 centuries of practice make most american think it is)"
Wrong, it's called the First Amendment. Organizations like: the KKK, PETA (or the ultra radical cousin the ALF), anti-abortion groups, MADD, etc have stood behind the First Amendment and been obnoxious assholes for a very long time.
Every American has the right to be an asshole, and I will use my Second Amendment rights to defend the right.
Another thumbs up here.
I have implemented Mantis at three different organizations and getting ready to deploy a fourth. It's easy to setup and easy to customize.
You missed the point...
College tuition is not a tax, but in the US tax system there are tuition credits that above a certain level of income you no longer qualify for. So a raise in earnings may actually result in lower take home pay, since I now have to make up for those lost credits.
Outside of the tax system, there is need based assistance, which is usually based on your AGI from your tax returns, and also has income limits. Once you move above a certain income, you no longer qualify for these, and would have to make up the difference out of your raise.
Certainly college is voluntary (and a separate issue from above), but anybody that doesn't encourage their children to attend and try to support them anyway they can is setting them up for failure and disappointment.