I guess because it doesn't attract the glamour-seekers, nor does it consider itself elite.
I think that Debian suffers from a different form of elitism; the elitism that says "if we release something thats broken to stable we won't fix it because its *STABLE*"
The problem, as I've seen it over the last 10 years as a Debian sysadmin, is that Debian is not run as a business; it doesn't have customers, it has users.
If you want to use Debian in enterprise you NEED a really good engineering team; its really risky to use Debian in the small/medium business eg with sole-sysadmin because when Debian release something thats broken it STAYS broken and you need an internal engineering team to fix, patch and maintain the fixes.
This is why I am encouraging my employer to go with Redhat instead; because Redhat is run as a BUSINESS, they understand the needs of business. For Redhat you are not just a user, you are a CUSTOMER and that actually counts for something.
You get security updates, but no new versions and new configuration options that may break your working system
and any bugs that do make it into Debian 'stable' will remain unfixed no matter how bad they are unless they are security-related bugs.
Ie if the Debian package maintainers miss something critical (and, no shit, they *DO*) then they sit on their arses and do NOTHING to fix in that release.
Ie When Debian release to stable with bugs you are stuck with those bugs until the next stable, and even then the bugs aren't necessarily fixed.
Under the UN convention on human rights its not appropriate to punish children for the crimes of their parents.
And in this particular case, even if its 'payback' against New Zealanders of British descent, how about descendants of the newcomers who are of, say Chinese descent and who had nothing to do with the original colonisation? I guess they aren't even covered by the 'treaty of waitangi' and have no rights at all?
Much in New Zealand society appears to be premised on the notion that if your ancestors arrived during a particular wave of colonisation then they get different rights to someone else whose ancestors arrived in a different wave of colonisation.
All New Zealanders are either colonists or the descendants of colonists.
Eg; your bereavement leave entitlement depends on your race. If you are 'non-Maori' you get three days. If you are Maori you get 'as much time as you need to fulfil your cultural responsibilities'.
Personally, I abhor this kind of thing; the only time your parentage should be of interest to the government should be on matters of nationality, not bereavement leave.
Ok right at the top of this 'journalists' article:
Will his paywall work is the biggest story in the media business, and it would be quite a journalistic coup to document the progress, or lack thereof, that's being made in trying to convince a skeptical world to shell out 2£ ($3) a week for what's heretofore been free.
If this is the kind of crap that 'free' journalism produces I'd gladly pay for something written by someone who can actually construct readable sentences...
This guy is a blogger who likes to think he is a journalist. Ehm... like most of them I guess...
I know people who are still in the closet. The have several characters. The have the character they play with their gay friends, and a character they play with there older friends and family.
You could argue that should just 'come out', but that would show how little you know of those situations.
Yeah for example they might be a minister of religion or a politician with strong religious backing and wouldn't want anyone to know that they are actually gay and regularly hook up with young male prostitutes.
No, its never ok to live a double life (unless you do so in order to create problems rather than to escape from them).
"Using SSL to secure transactions between desktop browsers and web servers is like using armored cars to transport bags of money from one park bench to another."
Anything else is an abrogation of their responsibility to communicate science clearly and unambiguously to the public.
The only time theres a 'responsibility' to communicate science 'clearly and unambiguously to the public' is when a government administration is trying to justify public spending on science to the electorate.
And thats not a responsibility of the scientists.
The scientist has a responsibility to communicate science clearly and unambiguously to OTHER SCIENTISTS.
I really wonder if male sports fans don't have homoerotic fantasies.
Theres a King Missile song, suited to this kind of pondering.
Heres a few observations from the song:
Sports are gay, especially contact sports, unless you're the only guy on both teams, in which case it's straight.
Watching pornography alone is neutral, like eating a sandwich. It's neither straight nor gay. Watching pornos with one or more other guys in the room, no matter how many other women are also in the room, is gay. Watching porn, even gay porn, with one or more women ONLY is straight.
Like a guy calls me up and says, "A bunch of us guys are gonna sit around in our underwear and watch the football game and drink beer and eat chips and, you know, maybe wrestle with each other, just us guys. You wanna come over?" And I'm like, "No."
I am genuinly concerned that the project is grounded in what I consider to be ethically-suspect actions that potentially reflect an attitude to privacy, security, and mature discussion that I find distasteful.
There should be no expectation of privacy for any unencrypted communication ever.
It is ridiculous to send unencrypted information via the *inter*net and then get annoyed when your 'privacy' is invaded.
I fully support privacy but ONLY when the person who wants privacy takes reasonable precautions. Otherwise they are idiots and deserve neither support nor sympathy.
The thing is that the vocal minority calling for games to be harder are people who would identify themselves as 'Gamers'.
The next thing is that 'Gamers' are not a majority of the people who will buy games or subscribe to MMOs.
Once upon a time, it was different; the MMO genre is a great example. WoW an even better example. When WoW was released it was aimed squarely at gamers. As WoW has expanded and become more popular the majority of people who 'play' it are not people who would identify themselves as 'Gamers'. In fact, I don't think that the majority of people who 'play' WoW today are playing a game at all; its a social club. It has games in it but the 'game world' is not in and of itself 'a game'; its a shared environment where human beings can interact with one another and play games together.
If we watch the progression of WoW (and for you 'Gamers' out there I don't mean 'raid progression') we can see the Blizzard are not ignorant of this. In fact I'd hazard a guess that Blizzard are actively trying to deter 'Gamers' and attract 'Socialisers'.
The other observation I'd like to make is regarding 'difficulty'. There is a massive difference between 'challenging' and 'annoying'. Many game makers have a hard time with this one. Many players have a hard time seeing the difference as well. It is very easy to think you've made something challenging when all you have really done is make it irritating. It is true that it is challenging to get through irritating game play but to characterise that as truly challenging in a *game* would be missing the point. Although sometimes I wonder if thats a cultural thing.
Also, the app store is the best way for Apple users to obtain quality software that is free of errata, defects or security holes at a reasonable cost.
You can add to that; free of any offense to Steve Jobs and his vision of the future direction of Apple or his personal ideas on propriety. Free of any apps that might compete with something that Apple has secretly planned. Free of apps that have names that Steve Jobs believe infringe on his copyright (eg with the word 'pad' in them; that word belongs to Steve Jobs).
That's about as reassuring as saying "This 95% water and 5% deadly deadly poison solution will be completely safe to inject directly into your bloodstream, since it is made completely out of water!"
Yeah just like those Stimutacs I got from some guy who never gets out of his chair. He said they're safe because they are made from, like, 99% kelp. He works in a very advanced underwater research center called Sealab so he should know!
Or is it the fact that if he stepped in front of a bus, the city had no hope of being able to manage the network?
As a system administrator I consider it part of my duties to be redundant; that I must be easily replaceable, that my knowledge is shared and that there are other people in the company who can do my job.
When I tried to explain this to one of our 'manager' types they exclaimed 'but if you are redundant why are we hiring you?!?!?'. They were DEAD serious. I had no luck explaining this to them.
However they were not at the top of the chain of command and were not listened to.
I imagine that not all businesses can cope with the concept of having certain key employees being effectively 'redundant'.
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I guess because it doesn't attract the glamour-seekers, nor does it consider itself elite.
I think that Debian suffers from a different form of elitism; the elitism that says "if we release something thats broken to stable we won't fix it because its *STABLE*"
The problem, as I've seen it over the last 10 years as a Debian sysadmin, is that Debian is not run as a business; it doesn't have customers, it has users.
If you want to use Debian in enterprise you NEED a really good engineering team; its really risky to use Debian in the small/medium business eg with sole-sysadmin because when Debian release something thats broken it STAYS broken and you need an internal engineering team to fix, patch and maintain the fixes.
This is why I am encouraging my employer to go with Redhat instead; because Redhat is run as a BUSINESS, they understand the needs of business. For Redhat you are not just a user, you are a CUSTOMER and that actually counts for something.
You get security updates, but no new versions and new configuration options that may break your working system
and any bugs that do make it into Debian 'stable' will remain unfixed no matter how bad they are unless they are security-related bugs.
Ie if the Debian package maintainers miss something critical (and, no shit, they *DO*) then they sit on their arses and do NOTHING to fix in that release.
Ie When Debian release to stable with bugs you are stuck with those bugs until the next stable, and even then the bugs aren't necessarily fixed.
Under the UN convention on human rights its not appropriate to punish children for the crimes of their parents.
And in this particular case, even if its 'payback' against New Zealanders of British descent, how about descendants of the newcomers who are of, say Chinese descent and who had nothing to do with the original colonisation? I guess they aren't even covered by the 'treaty of waitangi' and have no rights at all?
Much in New Zealand society appears to be premised on the notion that if your ancestors arrived during a particular wave of colonisation then they get different rights to someone else whose ancestors arrived in a different wave of colonisation.
All New Zealanders are either colonists or the descendants of colonists.
If you can stomach the institutionalised racism.
Eg; your bereavement leave entitlement depends on your race. If you are 'non-Maori' you get three days. If you are Maori you get 'as much time as you need to fulfil your cultural responsibilities'.
Personally, I abhor this kind of thing; the only time your parentage should be of interest to the government should be on matters of nationality, not bereavement leave.
I'm disgusted with New Zealand.
A washer mysteriously disappearing because God wills a plane full of evil people to crash is an Act of God.
Or for that matter God willing a plane full of good people to crash because he wants to meet them sooner rather than later.
Ok right at the top of this 'journalists' article:
Will his paywall work is the biggest story in the media business, and it would be quite a journalistic coup to document the progress, or lack thereof, that's being made in trying to convince a skeptical world to shell out 2£ ($3) a week for what's heretofore been free.
If this is the kind of crap that 'free' journalism produces I'd gladly pay for something written by someone who can actually construct readable sentences...
This guy is a blogger who likes to think he is a journalist. Ehm... like most of them I guess...
I know people who are still in the closet. The have several characters. The have the character they play with their gay friends, and a character they play with there older friends and family.
You could argue that should just 'come out', but that would show how little you know of those situations.
Yeah for example they might be a minister of religion or a politician with strong religious backing and wouldn't want anyone to know that they are actually gay and regularly hook up with young male prostitutes.
No, its never ok to live a double life (unless you do so in order to create problems rather than to escape from them).
I come from Wisconsin.
I work in a lumber yard there...
Oh, well. You're a lumberjack and your ok.
I remember reading a comment to the effect that:
"Using SSL to secure transactions between desktop browsers and web servers is like using armored cars to transport bags of money from one park bench to another."
Anything else is an abrogation of their responsibility to communicate science clearly and unambiguously to the public.
The only time theres a 'responsibility' to communicate science 'clearly and unambiguously to the public' is when a government administration is trying to justify public spending on science to the electorate.
And thats not a responsibility of the scientists.
The scientist has a responsibility to communicate science clearly and unambiguously to OTHER SCIENTISTS.
I really wonder if male sports fans don't have homoerotic fantasies.
Theres a King Missile song, suited to this kind of pondering.
Heres a few observations from the song:
Sports are gay, especially contact sports, unless you're the only guy on both teams, in which case it's straight.
Watching pornography alone is neutral, like eating a sandwich. It's neither straight nor gay.
Watching pornos with one or more other guys in the room, no matter how many other women are also in the room, is gay.
Watching porn, even gay porn, with one or more women ONLY is straight.
Like a guy calls me up and says, "A bunch of us guys are gonna sit around in our underwear and watch the football game and drink beer and eat chips and, you know, maybe wrestle with each other, just us guys. You wanna come over?" And I'm like, "No."
I am genuinly concerned that the project is grounded in what I consider to be ethically-suspect actions that potentially reflect an attitude to privacy, security, and mature discussion that I find distasteful.
There should be no expectation of privacy for any unencrypted communication ever.
It is ridiculous to send unencrypted information via the *inter*net and then get annoyed when your 'privacy' is invaded.
I fully support privacy but ONLY when the person who wants privacy takes reasonable precautions. Otherwise they are idiots and deserve neither support nor sympathy.
Amish prefer mobile phones to landlines.
They are not complete Luddites.
The Labor party represents big cities, the industrial workforce and the public sector trade unions.
Yeah I think that the Labor party did represent these things.
However that party no longer exists.
Currently the UK does not have a 'Labor' party; it has a 'New Labor' party. I think its sufficiently different to be a whole new party, really.
When you sign up for this thing they send you an email with your username and your password (in plain text).
Nice!
The thing is that the vocal minority calling for games to be harder are people who would identify themselves as 'Gamers'.
The next thing is that 'Gamers' are not a majority of the people who will buy games or subscribe to MMOs.
Once upon a time, it was different; the MMO genre is a great example. WoW an even better example. When WoW was released it was aimed squarely at gamers. As WoW has expanded and become more popular the majority of people who 'play' it are not people who would identify themselves as 'Gamers'. In fact, I don't think that the majority of people who 'play' WoW today are playing a game at all; its a social club. It has games in it but the 'game world' is not in and of itself 'a game'; its a shared environment where human beings can interact with one another and play games together.
If we watch the progression of WoW (and for you 'Gamers' out there I don't mean 'raid progression') we can see the Blizzard are not ignorant of this. In fact I'd hazard a guess that Blizzard are actively trying to deter 'Gamers' and attract 'Socialisers'.
The other observation I'd like to make is regarding 'difficulty'. There is a massive difference between 'challenging' and 'annoying'. Many game makers have a hard time with this one. Many players have a hard time seeing the difference as well. It is very easy to think you've made something challenging when all you have really done is make it irritating. It is true that it is challenging to get through irritating game play but to characterise that as truly challenging in a *game* would be missing the point. Although sometimes I wonder if thats a cultural thing.
I think that Steve Jobs looks at what L Ron Hubbard achieved and wants to do better.
Also, the app store is the best way for Apple users to obtain quality software that is free of errata, defects or security holes at a reasonable cost.
You can add to that; free of any offense to Steve Jobs and his vision of the future direction of Apple or his personal ideas on propriety. Free of any apps that might compete with something that Apple has secretly planned. Free of apps that have names that Steve Jobs believe infringe on his copyright (eg with the word 'pad' in them; that word belongs to Steve Jobs).
Cool kind of freedom you have there.
That's about as reassuring as saying "This 95% water and 5% deadly deadly poison solution will be completely safe to inject directly into your bloodstream, since it is made completely out of water!"
Yeah just like those Stimutacs I got from some guy who never gets out of his chair. He said they're safe because they are made from, like, 99% kelp. He works in a very advanced underwater research center called Sealab so he should know!
Or is it the fact that if he stepped in front of a bus, the city had no hope of being able to manage the network?
As a system administrator I consider it part of my duties to be redundant; that I must be easily replaceable, that my knowledge is shared and that there are other people in the company who can do my job.
When I tried to explain this to one of our 'manager' types they exclaimed 'but if you are redundant why are we hiring you?!?!?'. They were DEAD serious. I had no luck explaining this to them.
However they were not at the top of the chain of command and were not listened to.
I imagine that not all businesses can cope with the concept of having certain key employees being effectively 'redundant'.
It's a minor case of US monopolization ;-)
A bit like how many US news outlets would *insist* on referring to the ISS as "The NASA Space Station Project".
If the Yanks could build a space station in a higher orbit (they can't cos the shuttle can't go very high) they'd piss on the ISS, I am sure.
I once accidentally breathed in a very small amount of chlorine gas.
I was coughing my lungs up for weeks.
This gave some very intimate appreciation of the horrors of the gas attacks in the trenches.
SUPPORT WILL END does not imply killing instances in production.
Indeed.
Its the kind of arrogance that I'd expect more from a Microsoft or an Apple than any opensource 'vendor'.
What are the effect of spiders on meth addicted sheep???
http://www.theonion.com/articles/meth-addicts-demand-government-address-nations-gro,2137/
Its only reasonable to test this, since it would prove once and for all whether spiders really are an invisible threat to the worlds meth addicts!
Locals repair roads!
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/04/07/vladivostok-road-repair-flashmob/
Go, Russia!