Interesting to see that someone is stupid enough to entertain differences between the USMC and say, GSA/PBS.
I highly doubt that the USMC is the epitome of frugality, but it's hard not to see the DHS (or any number of other places) bleeding money out of their assholes.
It seems to me that the way a civilization treats their doomed population is _very much_ a defining attribute of that civilization. Assuming they'd like to live, I can't imagine it any other way. What would you propose, concentration camps? Rifle squads? Shooting them into space?
Or maybe it was uncharted space, but what was ostensibly a convenient path to a popular destination which will likely because a hot issue for intergalactic politics soon. Eventually, they'll vote on building an intergalactic highway which will inevitably require destroying the earth for such a route. They'll post a notice about earth's future doom with plenty of advanced warning, but we'll never see for one reason or another.
There are, at least from what I can tell, four underlying factors to the health care issue in the U.S.:
#1. Doctors/AMA #2. Health Insurance #3. Malpractice Insurance, Tort, etc. #4. Prescription drugs
Fixing #2 without balancing the equation in the remaining will result in nothing but a failed attempt. The government has a heavy hand in all 4 already, it's just never been reconciled so all 4 of them play nicely together - each has evolved independently. The worst part is, due to current conditions, they have no tendency, if you will, to change under free market conditions.
Since when does exercising regularly make someone a vain masochistic nut? I exercise too, but I like to think it's so I can, say, be in shape to play basketball with my kid or have a swim at a lake without tiring in 10 minutes or haul some groceries up 3 flights of stairs without taking a break.
Those are some excellent reasoning skills you have there.
solaris 8 is the netscape navigator 4 of the install world. every utility mentioned above is broke is some many odd and mysterious ways (generally sun-only ways) that it generally requires totally separate scripts.
i'd be surprised if very many companies support solaris 8 with their newer products anymore.
Count me in on this. I couldn't figure out where this "Discussion2" checkbox was.
Same with UMT, I shut it off almost immediately due to massive overhead it imposed on loading pages. I can't figure out how someone found that to be acceptable.
Just for some perspective, it appears this area is on about the 60th parallel. If this were north america, this would be about where Canadian Manitoba/SK end on the north end, and Yukon/Northwest Territories begin. This isn't like a vacation to Vancouver.
Chalk me up for being interested in the topic as well.
While evolution (and fundamentally all of science) has yet to be proven, it can make some hard/soft and fast/slow predictions. Such as how the moons gravity helps the earth take the shape of an oblate spheroid, and the prediction and later observance of the J/psi particle. It can even tell you what time the sun is going to come up tomorrow.
Should we stick with the churches, we'd still be praying for rain, praying for cures to the plagues, praying for cancer to get cured, sacrificing people for the appeasement of gods, killing people from other religions of simply not believing in ours(jihads/crusades, spanish inq.), and so on.
I ask you, which do you think should be taught in schools? Doesn't school imply learning? Doesn't learning imply questioning? Is catechism learning?
To give my 2 cents on ID being ruled inadmissable as science, I say it's about damn time.
To give my 2 cents on the evolution and ultimately science, I say at least we (scientists) are fucking trying unlike some of our brethren. It is inevitable that science will continue to get better, and for this I am glad because based on our current situation, we're not a lot better of than our ancestors - the ones who let the church deal the cards.
Well then you should purchase a console from a vendor who allows you to do what you want with the hardware. Until then, I don't see you (or I, for that matter), having much choice.
The universe could be caught in an infinite big bang/big crunch loop. The big bang could happen when enough of the black hole formed by the big crunch had evaporated away (hawking radiation) and could no longer sustain itself (explode, big time). As the debris flew outwards the relentless force of gravity would eventually win (assuming the correct cosmological constant) and cause the big crunch.
Hey, just a thought. I expect that there are an innumerable amount of holes in it. Even if there were not, it's not like anyone's every going to get around to proving it.
If you read the adobe penguin blog, you'll see there's no 64bit support because flash itself is kludged 7 ways from sunday with hardcodes in every orifice.
It really shows, too, just look at all the bugs in every version of the flash player.
100% agreed. b&w and anything more have them printed. Walgreens lets you upload photos to their site for pickup in an hour and they cost like 20 cents a piece or something. For the number of pics I actually need of good quality, it's well in my favor to use walgreens and keep a p.o.s. b&w around for the every once in a while things.
The other day, I had them print 5 photos off and it cost me a buck - o - seven or so. They probably lost most of their margin on the visa I used to pay for it.
Read more about darwin's finches and how they had selective pressures to get better at seed extraction, both to overcome selective pressures of competition, but also about fruits developing more elaborate protection membranes. Depending on circumstances, beaks can and do vary in size over a matter of decades, depending on which fruits are available (i.e. more/less rain that year, new fruit from nearby island, etc).
Digging for seeds and pecking a tree might seem to be about the same thing, but they hardly are. Seeds are a vital supply of many creatures' vital nutrients. It might also seem trivial for us to extract seeds from an apple using our fingers and a teethed jaw. Now imagine it with just your teethed jaw and no fingers - suddenly beaks become a pretty darn good idea - especially when considering the seed is also hard to open, since it's developed a tough membrane due to its own selective pressures.
There are numerous articles and books detailing what we (think) we know about these finches, it'd be unfair for me to attempt a summary here, especially considering this is well outside my expertise.
Not true! I've seen it leave your apartment when you're gone. It likes to go on a stroll, sometimes even takes the dog out. I wouldn't worry until it starts answering the phone, though.
Fair enough. I'll give you that. It's arguably understandable, to some degree, why this happened. They did take one heck of a risk and hedged on the fact that they wouldn't sell many (initially, at least).
The thing is, if the plan didn't succeed, they would have been able to cut their losses early and possibly scramble to compensate for it. If their plan did succeed (Like it ostensibly has), the worst case would be that they would have to ramp up production and lose some potential business from casual buyers. In the long run, they'll still get a non-trivial portion of these buyers by popularity, word of mouth and genuine fun factor alone.
Now we just have to see if they can follow through with some exceptional games that can take the system to the next level.
I disagree completely that Nintendo did a better job at judging their market.
I see. Was it that Nintendo is making money hand over fist or the fact that Sony is desperately trying to sell these units that led you to the conclusion that Nintendo didn't do a better job at judging their market?
Have you tried to keep 20 or 30 enterprise RedHat servers in sync for patches? Especially if you can't patch them all at the same time?
Cfengine seems to handle mine just fine. My 150 debian servers also do quite well. If I stick to the standards, I never touch configs after the first time. Ever. My 35 Solaris boxes are a different matter. Single user mode. All the fucking time. Like we have time to waste for that bullshit. RH or debian at most need a reboot post-update. Some load balancing in place allows me to reboot them at my whim.
You don't think that every other OS replaces patches or backs them out once a better one comes along?
By no means is it my intention to imply Solaris is the only turd around, even Debian messes up sometimes. (Which is why CFengine deploys to lab first). A simple perusing at sunsolve yield mountains of articles detailing if/and/else situations for a clusterfuck of patches for any given particular combination of OS, OS minor, Patch level (which is very finely detailed, but the fact that I need to give a flying fuck about exactly all the patches on any box increases overhead, substantially. i.e. SUNW_INCOMPAT), hardware installed (i.e. $foo scsi controller), hardware installed revision (i.e. $foo 1.2 firmware scsi controller), major hardware (i.e. v210), minor hardware (i.e. v210 vs 15k). Guess what? Debian is "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade", and even if I was stupid enough to run sendmail, it would gracefully handle configs.
I've never seen a whitepaper suggesting not patching and throwing behind a firewall
Therefore, beyond ensuring that critical issues are addressed, Sun believes that you should apply patches only to address specific issues or needs. You should not apply patches merely to keep current. There is no benefit to applying the latest revisions of patches without understanding whether those patches provide any value.
Great. So now I should only apply *critical* updates, no moderate or low severity updates like say local exploits, etc?
T1 has crypto acceleration Indeed. Only if:
A. You like grabbing your ankles at Sun's whim on whether they're going to support the libraries/apis on the OS you choose to run. B. You like your calculations done behind the scenes, where not only do know whats going on in terms of math, you have no control. (hic sunt dragones)
Bullshit. Everything you've written stinks of shill and your "arguments" later on down speaks volumes for your irrational zealotry.
A T1 blows the doors of Linux based OSes when serving static web pages with apache, or even i/o dependent data in a db. Once you're doing something like FPU or compiling, the performance gets trashed. In fact, if general math (SSL, OpenSSH Keygen, Indexes in a db, etc.) were considered Niagra's worst performance (which it is), and many, many threads as x86's worst performance areas (which it IS NOT), the general x86 still does better at what it does poorly than the Niagra does at what it does poorly. Outside of, say, a p133, I haven't seen a cpu take several minutes to general an OpenSSH key in a long time.
Solaris 10 more stable? Yeah, if it's never patched. When it is, it's mandatory reboots weekly (if not daily), not to mention the few full time jobs and extra hardware for testing these patches and configurations. Sun's whitepapers on patching _RECOMMEND_ _NOT_ _PATHCHING_ solaris and just throwing a firewall in front of your solaris boxes. What about the patches that are specifically designed to patch regressions in other patches, on a regular basis? Or the kind of patches that break entire daemons or unilaterally overwrite configs? Stable, when unplugged from a network. In a production environment, it seems the stable argument doesn't hold.
Bigoted racists are the number one assholes, dimwit. You are among them...
Yes, apparently. It must be my "dim wits", as it were, that played off a joke setup by Borat, whom always says "Fuck you, assholes" after mentioning Uzbeks. Quit being so obtuse.
But the Bill of Rights says nothing about our right to a job -- any job
Of course it doesn't. This isn't socialism. So what point are you trying to make? That US citizens are all assholes for having better jobs than someone living in Thailand? I looked it up in my Favor Book, but I didn't see the world owing any favors to Thailand, so I don't know what you expect us to do except tell Thailand to get off their asses and work for some sort of government that better suites them. It's not like our jobs were handed to us on a silver platter. It could be argued that our jobs are being served to us on a blood-stained platter, that of which was spilled during one of our many wars/conflicts, but it certainly hasn't always been that way. Some of us had to "fight for the right".
What exactly is not well thought out about his comments? Incendiary? Which part? All I saw was caution and some speculation, no attacking. In addition, I saw several other high visibility maintainers agree with him.
I also think it goes without saying that they speak for Linux, the kernel, when they offer their opinions. It seems like they've made good decisions up to this point, so we have no reason to not trust them. Sun has promises, but not much else outside of some garbage apps, which isn't much reason to trust them.
While I see your point, I strongly disagree with your negative spin on the U.S. WRT other countries.
What IS NOT appalling is generally what we're able to accomplish here in terms of class, wealth and opportunity. What IS appalling is the fact that the Mexicans, Thais or Uzbeks (Fuck you, Assholes!) haven't woken up and seen this, and done the change themselves.
Indeed, it is true we have birth rights, and they're called the Bill of Rights. They're (mostly) irrevocable and specifically designed to be that way. Hell, I can't even _sign_ them away, willingly! An innumerable of my ancestors died for these 10 rights, and I'm sure more will continue to die for those rights, but they're there, and as long as I have a breath in my body I'll make damned sure they remain. Many other rights lay the foundations for these rights, however, and said countries must recognize them first (habeas corpus, magna carta, etc.).
January, 2009 can't come soon enough for the erosion of the BoR to be halted and even reversed, for great justice!
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Interesting to see that someone is stupid enough to entertain differences between the USMC and say, GSA/PBS.
I highly doubt that the USMC is the epitome of frugality, but it's hard not to see the DHS (or any number of other places) bleeding money out of their assholes.
It seems to me that the way a civilization treats their doomed population is _very much_ a defining attribute of that civilization. Assuming they'd like to live, I can't imagine it any other way. What would you propose, concentration camps? Rifle squads? Shooting them into space?
"He didn't go to school for 8 years to be called a bullshit artist."
As if any amount of schooling guarantees any sort of credibility. What sort of reasoning is that?
Or maybe it was uncharted space, but what was ostensibly a convenient path to a popular destination which will likely because a hot issue for intergalactic politics soon. Eventually, they'll vote on building an intergalactic highway which will inevitably require destroying the earth for such a route. They'll post a notice about earth's future doom with plenty of advanced warning, but we'll never see for one reason or another.
There are, at least from what I can tell, four underlying factors to the health care issue in the U.S.:
#1. Doctors/AMA
#2. Health Insurance
#3. Malpractice Insurance, Tort, etc.
#4. Prescription drugs
Fixing #2 without balancing the equation in the remaining will result in nothing but a failed attempt. The government has a heavy hand in all 4 already, it's just never been reconciled so all 4 of them play nicely together - each has evolved independently. The worst part is, due to current conditions, they have no tendency, if you will, to change under free market conditions.
So there's a middle ground between the two? What do you suppose it is?
In MM's movies, I can look up and confirm/deny the facts/stats he uses. Do you by chance have links for your assertions?
Since when does exercising regularly make someone a vain masochistic nut? I exercise too, but I like to think it's so I can, say, be in shape to play basketball with my kid or have a swim at a lake without tiring in 10 minutes or haul some groceries up 3 flights of stairs without taking a break.
Those are some excellent reasoning skills you have there.
solaris 8 is the netscape navigator 4 of the install world. every utility mentioned above is broke is some many odd and mysterious ways (generally sun-only ways) that it generally requires totally separate scripts.
i'd be surprised if very many companies support solaris 8 with their newer products anymore.
Count me in on this. I couldn't figure out where this "Discussion2" checkbox was.
Same with UMT, I shut it off almost immediately due to massive overhead it imposed on loading pages. I can't figure out how someone found that to be acceptable.
Just for some perspective, it appears this area is on about the 60th parallel. If this were north america, this would be about where Canadian Manitoba/SK end on the north end, and Yukon/Northwest Territories begin. This isn't like a vacation to Vancouver.
Chalk me up for being interested in the topic as well.
While evolution (and fundamentally all of science) has yet to be proven, it can make some hard/soft and fast/slow predictions. Such as how the moons gravity helps the earth take the shape of an oblate spheroid, and the prediction and later observance of the J/psi particle. It can even tell you what time the sun is going to come up tomorrow.
Should we stick with the churches, we'd still be praying for rain, praying for cures to the plagues, praying for cancer to get cured, sacrificing people for the appeasement of gods, killing people from other religions of simply not believing in ours(jihads/crusades, spanish inq.), and so on.
I ask you, which do you think should be taught in schools? Doesn't school imply learning? Doesn't learning imply questioning? Is catechism learning?
To give my 2 cents on ID being ruled inadmissable as science, I say it's about damn time.
To give my 2 cents on the evolution and ultimately science, I say at least we (scientists) are fucking trying unlike some of our brethren. It is inevitable that science will continue to get better, and for this I am glad because based on our current situation, we're not a lot better of than our ancestors - the ones who let the church deal the cards.
Well then you should purchase a console from a vendor who allows you to do what you want with the hardware. Until then, I don't see you (or I, for that matter), having much choice.
The universe could be caught in an infinite big bang/big crunch loop. The big bang could happen when enough of the black hole formed by the big crunch had evaporated away (hawking radiation) and could no longer sustain itself (explode, big time). As the debris flew outwards the relentless force of gravity would eventually win (assuming the correct cosmological constant) and cause the big crunch.
Hey, just a thought. I expect that there are an innumerable amount of holes in it. Even if there were not, it's not like anyone's every going to get around to proving it.
If you read the adobe penguin blog, you'll see there's no 64bit support because flash itself is kludged 7 ways from sunday with hardcodes in every orifice.
It really shows, too, just look at all the bugs in every version of the flash player.
100% agreed. b&w and anything more have them printed. Walgreens lets you upload photos to their site for pickup in an hour and they cost like 20 cents a piece or something. For the number of pics I actually need of good quality, it's well in my favor to use walgreens and keep a p.o.s. b&w around for the every once in a while things.
The other day, I had them print 5 photos off and it cost me a buck - o - seven or so. They probably lost most of their margin on the visa I used to pay for it.
Seed extraction.
Read more about darwin's finches and how they had selective pressures to get better at seed extraction, both to overcome selective pressures of competition, but also about fruits developing more elaborate protection membranes. Depending on circumstances, beaks can and do vary in size over a matter of decades, depending on which fruits are available (i.e. more/less rain that year, new fruit from nearby island, etc).
Digging for seeds and pecking a tree might seem to be about the same thing, but they hardly are. Seeds are a vital supply of many creatures' vital nutrients. It might also seem trivial for us to extract seeds from an apple using our fingers and a teethed jaw. Now imagine it with just your teethed jaw and no fingers - suddenly beaks become a pretty darn good idea - especially when considering the seed is also hard to open, since it's developed a tough membrane due to its own selective pressures.
There are numerous articles and books detailing what we (think) we know about these finches, it'd be unfair for me to attempt a summary here, especially considering this is well outside my expertise.
Not true! I've seen it leave your apartment when you're gone. It likes to go on a stroll, sometimes even takes the dog out. I wouldn't worry until it starts answering the phone, though.
Fair enough. I'll give you that. It's arguably understandable, to some degree, why this happened. They did take one heck of a risk and hedged on the fact that they wouldn't sell many (initially, at least).
The thing is, if the plan didn't succeed, they would have been able to cut their losses early and possibly scramble to compensate for it. If their plan did succeed (Like it ostensibly has), the worst case would be that they would have to ramp up production and lose some potential business from casual buyers. In the long run, they'll still get a non-trivial portion of these buyers by popularity, word of mouth and genuine fun factor alone.
Now we just have to see if they can follow through with some exceptional games that can take the system to the next level.
I disagree completely that Nintendo did a better job at judging their market.
I see. Was it that Nintendo is making money hand over fist or the fact that Sony is desperately trying to sell these units that led you to the conclusion that Nintendo didn't do a better job at judging their market?
Please, stop. You're outdoing yourself.
Have you tried to keep 20 or 30 enterprise RedHat servers in sync for patches? Especially if you can't patch them all at the same time?
Cfengine seems to handle mine just fine. My 150 debian servers also do quite well. If I stick to the standards, I never touch configs after the first time. Ever. My 35 Solaris boxes are a different matter. Single user mode. All the fucking time. Like we have time to waste for that bullshit. RH or debian at most need a reboot post-update. Some load balancing in place allows me to reboot them at my whim.
You don't think that every other OS replaces patches or backs them out once a better one comes along?
By no means is it my intention to imply Solaris is the only turd around, even Debian messes up sometimes. (Which is why CFengine deploys to lab first). A simple perusing at sunsolve yield mountains of articles detailing if/and/else situations for a clusterfuck of patches for any given particular combination of OS, OS minor, Patch level (which is very finely detailed, but the fact that I need to give a flying fuck about exactly all the patches on any box increases overhead, substantially. i.e. SUNW_INCOMPAT), hardware installed (i.e. $foo scsi controller), hardware installed revision (i.e. $foo 1.2 firmware scsi controller), major hardware (i.e. v210), minor hardware (i.e. v210 vs 15k). Guess what? Debian is "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade", and even if I was stupid enough to run sendmail, it would gracefully handle configs.
I've never seen a whitepaper suggesting not patching and throwing behind a firewall
Therefore, beyond ensuring that critical issues are addressed, Sun believes that
you should apply patches only to address specific issues or needs. You should not
apply patches merely to keep current. There is no benefit to applying the latest
revisions of patches without understanding whether those patches provide any
value.
src: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0574/
Great. So now I should only apply *critical* updates, no moderate or low severity updates like say local exploits, etc?
T1 has crypto acceleration Indeed. Only if:
A. You like grabbing your ankles at Sun's whim on whether they're going to support the libraries/apis on the OS you choose to run.
B. You like your calculations done behind the scenes, where not only do know whats going on in terms of math, you have no control. (hic sunt dragones)
Bullshit. Everything you've written stinks of shill and your "arguments" later on down speaks volumes for your irrational zealotry.
A T1 blows the doors of Linux based OSes when serving static web pages with apache, or even i/o dependent data in a db. Once you're doing something like FPU or compiling, the performance gets trashed. In fact, if general math (SSL, OpenSSH Keygen, Indexes in a db, etc.) were considered Niagra's worst performance (which it is), and many, many threads as x86's worst performance areas (which it IS NOT), the general x86 still does better at what it does poorly than the Niagra does at what it does poorly. Outside of, say, a p133, I haven't seen a cpu take several minutes to general an OpenSSH key in a long time.
Solaris 10 more stable? Yeah, if it's never patched. When it is, it's mandatory reboots weekly (if not daily), not to mention the few full time jobs and extra hardware for testing these patches and configurations. Sun's whitepapers on patching _RECOMMEND_ _NOT_ _PATHCHING_ solaris and just throwing a firewall in front of your solaris boxes. What about the patches that are specifically designed to patch regressions in other patches, on a regular basis? Or the kind of patches that break entire daemons or unilaterally overwrite configs? Stable, when unplugged from a network. In a production environment, it seems the stable argument doesn't hold.
Bigoted racists are the number one assholes, dimwit. You are among them...
Yes, apparently. It must be my "dim wits", as it were, that played off a joke setup by Borat, whom always says "Fuck you, assholes" after mentioning Uzbeks. Quit being so obtuse.
But the Bill of Rights says nothing about our right to a job -- any job
Of course it doesn't. This isn't socialism. So what point are you trying to make? That US citizens are all assholes for having better jobs than someone living in Thailand? I looked it up in my Favor Book, but I didn't see the world owing any favors to Thailand, so I don't know what you expect us to do except tell Thailand to get off their asses and work for some sort of government that better suites them. It's not like our jobs were handed to us on a silver platter. It could be argued that our jobs are being served to us on a blood-stained platter, that of which was spilled during one of our many wars/conflicts, but it certainly hasn't always been that way. Some of us had to "fight for the right".
What exactly is not well thought out about his comments? Incendiary? Which part? All I saw was caution and some speculation, no attacking. In addition, I saw several other high visibility maintainers agree with him.
I also think it goes without saying that they speak for Linux, the kernel, when they offer their opinions. It seems like they've made good decisions up to this point, so we have no reason to not trust them. Sun has promises, but not much else outside of some garbage apps, which isn't much reason to trust them.
While I see your point, I strongly disagree with your negative spin on the U.S. WRT other countries.
What IS NOT appalling is generally what we're able to accomplish here in terms of class, wealth and opportunity. What IS appalling is the fact that the Mexicans, Thais or Uzbeks (Fuck you, Assholes!) haven't woken up and seen this, and done the change themselves.
Indeed, it is true we have birth rights, and they're called the Bill of Rights. They're (mostly) irrevocable and specifically designed to be that way. Hell, I can't even _sign_ them away, willingly! An innumerable of my ancestors died for these 10 rights, and I'm sure more will continue to die for those rights, but they're there, and as long as I have a breath in my body I'll make damned sure they remain. Many other rights lay the foundations for these rights, however, and said countries must recognize them first (habeas corpus, magna carta, etc.).
January, 2009 can't come soon enough for the erosion of the BoR to be halted and even reversed, for great justice!