If you want to make a horrible movie of your shitty band and send a DVD to grandma, you know which platform to use. Obviously if you need to do REAL work, you pick up the other one.
Hey! Some of us poor saps are forced to use a PC for "real work" too, as much as we wish our jobs let us use a Mac.
Not all PCs are owned by mindless Kazaa who click on every attachment they recieve, fill the drives with spyware, share fake naked photos of britney spears, and spam our grandmothers with trojan infested email.
I didn't read the parent post that way. He seemed to be attacking a certain viewpoint as supported only by "half lies and deceptions." Then, he provided a link to little more than a few bullet points with little context.
What's going on in Iraq is a lot more complicated than his link indicates, but he's attacking any facts that would give him a fuller picture.
Some facts support one conclusion, some facts support a different conclusion. Everyone, including reporters, politicians, bloggers, you, and I, picks and chooses the facts he wants to believe, often to support a predetermined conclusion.
If you say you pick and choose facts to support your beliefs, then there's a pretty good chance that you're not qualified to judge your own self awareness. (That comment, by the way, is a filter that I will overlay over any facts that you present that contradict my assertion.)
Just because two sets of facts can support two different conclusions doesn't mean either set of facts wrong. It means the world is a hell of a lot more complex than a couple of bullet points on a web page.
I find it hard to believe this is actually brighter than the sun. I have on very good authority that the Sun is very, very bright. For some reason, many of the almost incomprehensibly huge balls of plasma in the universe are that way, though.
I suspect they mean "brighter than the sun appears on the earth", but I'm not even entirely sure what means.
I wonder how many libraries of congress full of these things would be required to illuminate a football field?
Can someone who understands the Kernel numbering scheme explain it to me?
Is 2.4.x the stable branch and 2.6.x the development branch? Or is 2.6 stable, and there's already a 2.7.x development branch? Or how does that work?
And are all kernel modules guaranteed to maintain strict binary compatibility across all 2.4 releases, or alternatively across all 2.6 releases? Or is it source compatibility only? Or, is it even that?
I know a bunch of people that would love to run OSX on a PC. Hell I'd love to dual boot it.
OS X on x68 would be as successful as BeOS, NeXTStep, and OS2.
Most people use an OS because it runs the programs they already have, or the programs they think they can easily get. Windows software for the x86 is common. Mac software for the PPC is less common, but no-one who owns a Mac has any real trouble finding it.
Finding Microsoft Word for OS X on x86 might post some trouble.
I'll repeat what I said, though. People who buy servers from Digital, Compaq, HP, IBM, Dell, and Sun expect that they will be able to get exact duplicate replacement parts two, three, four years later (or even longer). When they can't get them, they have a legitimate gripe.
People who buy off-the-shelf components do not have the same expectation.
So a quick call to Adaptec, and boom! you've got yourself a new duplicate.
Adaptec probably isn't going to have an exact duplicate of controller some controller model XK-888 they made four years ago lying around. Dell and Sun are going to have an exact duplicate of the Adaptec controller they put in server model SM-444.
That's (part of) the reason Dell and Sun have a markup.
You're not going to work at this job forever. The person who replaces you is going to curse at the dozen or so file/print servers running a hybrid linux distro. But, that's your manager's problem, not yours. If he or she has decided to save the money now and deal with the headaches later, then let it go.
And no, you don't want to switch PSU's every year. The failure rate on most reasonably made parts probably goes down over time. Give me twenty brand new, untested power supplies, and I'll bet cold hard cash one of them will have a defect and fail within a month.
Last, don't worry too much about RAID. In some situations, it's a good idea. In some situations, it's not a good idea. If you can't point at a specific problem you're trying to solve by using RAID, then don't use it.
I second this. I bought an Apple keyboard because I wanted a reasonable quality full size keyboard and was trying to save a couple of inches of desk space. I'm very happy with it.
My next keyboard is probably going to be a tactile pro or a Unicomp Type M, but that really doesn't answer your question.
Mod the parent up. If you have a dozen machines working as servers, you're just going to create major headaches for yourself when you discover four years from now that you have six different motherboards, four types of memory, eight video cards, and three different hard drive busses.
Every time something breaks, you'll spend an hour trying to figure out the specs on the broken part in the broken machine. Every time you upgrade, you'll spend a whole day just trying to figure out what parts you have in all the machines now, and how you're going to upgrade them all at the same time.
On the other hand, there are certainly a lot of "servers" out there being sold by companies that sure as hell won't have any spare parts for you five years from now. I'm guessing that if you bought a VA Linux box, you're going to have a hard time calling someone up, reading them your serial number, and getting a duplicate RAID controller FED EX'd to you.
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The haven't even added the half dozen extra spoilers. The complete DRM can be boiled down to eight lines of very, very simple HTML, including the CSS you've hinted at above:
Actually, they haven't even tossed in a half dozen extra spoliers. All they've done is the CSS you've described, and then displayed the book image as a background image:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-Length:... Date:...
binary data follows...
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
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I can't count the times I've asked the business community I'm working with for clarification of a business rule or requirement, and then get a 'sigh' or other look that says - "I'm too busy to worry about this".
That's a management problem. If you're an independent contractor, tell someone with power why the situation is not acceptable, and why you can not deliver a useful product under the conditions. If the situation is not fixed, quit. If you're W-2, then it's time to start sending out resumes.
If you're being paid to code to a business process, and your attempts to learn that business process are rebuffed, then you can not code. It's like hiring an automobile mechanic and then refusing to let mechanic know what needs to be done on the cars he's hired to fix. It's a total broken work environment. You should not continue working there.
As I recall, the system in question has to be rebooted every thirty days, which is a software problem!
And it wasn't rebooted, which is a management problem.
Look, the system required a periodic maintenance task. That maintenance task wasn't being performed. Management had the option of spending resources to modify the system so that maintenance task was no longer nescessary, or of spending resources to make sure that maintenance task was performed.
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(By the same token, though, there are already a few cards I have removed from the box because they were erroneous. So, YMMV.)
You're kidding, right? Someone put out a Star Wars Trivial Pursuit game, and they didn't vet it past a geek first?
Could you explain it to me, too? Is there some odd CGI skit with guys named "Hans" and "Jaba?" Did it involve jeopardy? Sean Connery?
Help us out here... because, for joke that confuses Hans for Han, Jaba for Jabba, and Trivial Pursuit for Jeopardy, it's just not very damned funny.
Please do not twist the statements of Amnesty International. Here is what Amnesty International really says about Leonard Peltier.
If you want to make a horrible movie of your shitty band and send a DVD to grandma, you know which platform to use. Obviously if you need to do REAL work, you pick up the other one.
Hey! Some of us poor saps are forced to use a PC for "real work" too, as much as we wish our jobs let us use a Mac.
Not all PCs are owned by mindless Kazaa who click on every attachment they recieve, fill the drives with spyware, share fake naked photos of britney spears, and spam our grandmothers with trojan infested email.
I didn't read the parent post that way. He seemed to be attacking a certain viewpoint as supported only by "half lies and deceptions." Then, he provided a link to little more than a few bullet points with little context.
What's going on in Iraq is a lot more complicated than his link indicates, but he's attacking any facts that would give him a fuller picture.
Some facts support one conclusion, some facts support a different conclusion. Everyone, including reporters, politicians, bloggers, you, and I, picks and chooses the facts he wants to believe, often to support a predetermined conclusion.
If you say you pick and choose facts to support your beliefs, then there's a pretty good chance that you're not qualified to judge your own self awareness. (That comment, by the way, is a filter that I will overlay over any facts that you present that contradict my assertion.)
Just because two sets of facts can support two different conclusions doesn't mean either set of facts wrong. It means the world is a hell of a lot more complex than a couple of bullet points on a web page.
However I doubt they really want someone that calls them the evil-doers in the White House. Please don't tell me you actually fell for this.
I don't think they're scared of talk.
George Bush speaks big and carries a soft stick.
I find it hard to believe this is actually brighter than the sun. I have on very good authority that the Sun is very, very bright. For some reason, many of the almost incomprehensibly huge balls of plasma in the universe are that way, though.
I suspect they mean "brighter than the sun appears on the earth", but I'm not even entirely sure what means.
I wonder how many libraries of congress full of these things would be required to illuminate a football field?
Can someone who understands the Kernel numbering scheme explain it to me?
Is 2.4.x the stable branch and 2.6.x the development branch? Or is 2.6 stable, and there's already a 2.7.x development branch? Or how does that work?
And are all kernel modules guaranteed to maintain strict binary compatibility across all 2.4 releases, or alternatively across all 2.6 releases? Or is it source compatibility only? Or, is it even that?
The original poster said HTML 4 is deprecated, the standard will not be updated.
It is a recommendation, not a standard. There is a difference.
It is not deprecated.
And, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has ever formally stated that it will not be updated.
There may be reasons to use XML and CSS in the application. The original poster was 100% incorrect about HTML 4, though.
Presumably a PPC clone wouldn't be cheaper, particularly in the peripheral selection department.
Of course not. The peripherals would be exactly the same price.
if I'm not mistaken they are a fair bit cheaper.
You're mistaken.
One poorly trained operator or one inopportune crash could invalidate an entire state's election. Again.
This scares me.
Well, to his credit it is an absolutely brilliant troll.
I know a bunch of people that would love to run OSX on a PC. Hell I'd love to dual boot it.
OS X on x68 would be as successful as BeOS, NeXTStep, and OS2.
Most people use an OS because it runs the programs they already have, or the programs they think they can easily get. Windows software for the x86 is common. Mac software for the PPC is less common, but no-one who owns a Mac has any real trouble finding it.
Finding Microsoft Word for OS X on x86 might post some trouble.
On second thought, I take back what I said about server support from Dell.
I'll repeat what I said, though. People who buy servers from Digital, Compaq, HP, IBM, Dell, and Sun expect that they will be able to get exact duplicate replacement parts two, three, four years later (or even longer). When they can't get them, they have a legitimate gripe.
People who buy off-the-shelf components do not have the same expectation.
So a quick call to Adaptec, and boom! you've got yourself a new duplicate.
Adaptec probably isn't going to have an exact duplicate of controller some controller model XK-888 they made four years ago lying around. Dell and Sun are going to have an exact duplicate of the Adaptec controller they put in server model SM-444.
That's (part of) the reason Dell and Sun have a markup.
You're not going to work at this job forever. The person who replaces you is going to curse at the dozen or so file/print servers running a hybrid linux distro. But, that's your manager's problem, not yours. If he or she has decided to save the money now and deal with the headaches later, then let it go.
And no, you don't want to switch PSU's every year. The failure rate on most reasonably made parts probably goes down over time. Give me twenty brand new, untested power supplies, and I'll bet cold hard cash one of them will have a defect and fail within a month.
Last, don't worry too much about RAID. In some situations, it's a good idea. In some situations, it's not a good idea. If you can't point at a specific problem you're trying to solve by using RAID, then don't use it.
I second this. I bought an Apple keyboard because I wanted a reasonable quality full size keyboard and was trying to save a couple of inches of desk space. I'm very happy with it.
My next keyboard is probably going to be a tactile pro or a Unicomp Type M, but that really doesn't answer your question.
Mod the parent up. If you have a dozen machines working as servers, you're just going to create major headaches for yourself when you discover four years from now that you have six different motherboards, four types of memory, eight video cards, and three different hard drive busses.
Every time something breaks, you'll spend an hour trying to figure out the specs on the broken part in the broken machine. Every time you upgrade, you'll spend a whole day just trying to figure out what parts you have in all the machines now, and how you're going to upgrade them all at the same time.
On the other hand, there are certainly a lot of "servers" out there being sold by companies that sure as hell won't have any spare parts for you five years from now. I'm guessing that if you bought a VA Linux box, you're going to have a hard time calling someone up, reading them your serial number, and getting a duplicate RAID controller FED EX'd to you.
The haven't even added the half dozen extra spoilers. The complete DRM can be boiled down to eight lines of very, very simple HTML, including the CSS you've hinted at above:
.hidden { display:none; }c om/pageimage.gif")'>
<style type="text/css" media="print">
</style>
<div class="hidden">
<div style='background-image:url("http://print.google.
<img src="clear.gif" width=575 height=752>
</div>
</div>
It's a cool technique. But I can'timagine how hundreds of people on slashdot can look at this without more than half a dozen knowing how it's done.
Actually, they haven't even tossed in a half dozen extra spoliers. All they've done is the CSS you've described, and then displayed the book image as a background image:
A full exploration of the html obfuscation and DRM employed by Google would be very interesting
/print?id=ULQSG0Zs7vcC&lpg=3&pg=3&sig=QD6xDOsosnwh 8uXQuXRJL5old88 HTTP/1.1
... ...
.browse { display:none; } .theimg {n t?id=ULQSG0Zs7vcC&pg=3&img=1&sig=gv2nFptEf0dj7Gzb8 eZ4U8UdtUo");
/print?id=ULQSG0Zs7vcC&pg=3&img=1&sig=gv2nFptEf0dj 7Gzb8eZ4U8UdtUo HTTP/1.1
... ...
Here it is, in full. They've also shut off right-click javascript, but that has absolutely nothing to do with what they've done here.
$ telnet print.google.com 80
> GET
> Host: print.google.com
>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Imagetoolbar: no
Content-Length:
Date:
<html>
<head>
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">
<title>Google Print: Mastering Digital Photography</title>
<style type=text/css media=print>
</style>
</head>
<body>
<style type=text/css>
background-image:url("http://print.google.com/pri
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:top left;
}
</style>
<div class=browse>
<div class=theimg>
<img src=http://print.google.com/images/cleardot.gif width=575 height=752>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
$ telnet print.google.com 80
> GET
> Host: print.google.com
>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Content-Length:
Date:
binary data follows...
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
Please try to keep posts on topic.
Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads.
Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said.
Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about.
Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page)
I can't count the times I've asked the business community I'm working with for clarification of a business rule or requirement, and then get a 'sigh' or other look that says - "I'm too busy to worry about this".
That's a management problem. If you're an independent contractor, tell someone with power why the situation is not acceptable, and why you can not deliver a useful product under the conditions. If the situation is not fixed, quit. If you're W-2, then it's time to start sending out resumes.
If you're being paid to code to a business process, and your attempts to learn that business process are rebuffed, then you can not code. It's like hiring an automobile mechanic and then refusing to let mechanic know what needs to be done on the cars he's hired to fix. It's a total broken work environment. You should not continue working there.
As I recall, the system in question has to be rebooted every thirty days, which is a software problem!
And it wasn't rebooted, which is a management problem.
Look, the system required a periodic maintenance task. That maintenance task wasn't being performed. Management had the option of spending resources to modify the system so that maintenance task was no longer nescessary, or of spending resources to make sure that maintenance task was performed.
They did neither. That's not a software problem.