If you're a hardware company, it makes sense to optimise your software for your own hardware, and cripple it for your competator's hardware. It's not ethical, but it makes sense.
Compare this to real estate where an agent might make $20,000+ on the sale of a single home. While there are exceptions, the financial draw does entice more intelligent, more motivated, more capable individuals. The same can be said for many other sales industries where representatives can actually make enough to earn a decent living, and to credibly call it a real career.
Well, the real estate agents that I know of (live next to one that i've known for about 15 years, my brother almost married one, several are in my family) are generally the dregs of humanity, who have failed at everything else. They go into real estate because it's easy money, just like any other middle-man career. It doesn't take much intelligence, motivation, or capability to hawk houses. In my mind, they're one notch below heroine addicts on the intelligence scale.
No. Before they slapped their stuff on it, it was Mach. Then they slapped their stuff on it. Then they slapped FreeBSD's stuff on it and a little bit more of their stuff, and called it NeXT. Then they slapped aqua and called it OS X.
1) You missed the joke.
2) It's the part that "competes" with the entire GNU/Linux OS and OSes like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, etc. What they don't give you is the part that competes with Windows.
3) You're a moron.
I'm going to have to agree with you on this one. This struck me as pure marketing disguised as a game review. How come we haven't seen as many PSP game review, eh? For what it's worth, i own neither and plan on continuing that trend into the forseeable future.
There's one problem, environmentally and socially, with GM crops: Monoculture. When you have thousands of individuals with the exact same genetic make up spread across several hundred acres, you have a population ripe for massive dissease spread. Viruses, insects, and especially microorganisms go through many generations in one crop cycle and can adapt and exploit the flaws genetic engineers may have missed or even inserted by mistake. I think it's ludicrous to assume that our research and development can, in the long run, stay abreast of these kinds of threats when there are systematic temporal constraints (funding, peer review, the iterative nature of it, etc) inherent in scientific research that don't exist in nature. The random variation that exists in "natural" breeding prevents a full-on plant pandemic, but when so many individual plants are so genetically similar, it only takes one fungus, virus, insect, etc to take out an entire kind of crop. Even if it is contained, massive economic loss could very conceivably occur.
Why would we want to set that kind of situation up? Oh, right. Because it makes monsanto rich, and secondarily makes congressmen rich. Gotcha.
Arch linux is gaining popularity with users sick of recompiling every day (like i was getting with gentoo, even after i got my opteron i started to get more involved with the outside world and having a hell of a lot more fun than typing "emerge -u world" ever provided me with). I'd recommend it, it's a very nice distro. It is starting to get some growing pains, though.
My problem with distros like debian (ubuntu included) is that they don't *Feel* elegant to me. Gentoo felt elegant, but required too much time to maintain. Arch Linux feels elegant to me, but at the same time is binary-based, so upkeep is orders of magnitude less time intensive than Gentoo.
Fedora isn't even the cutting edge or the bleeding edge. From my experience it's and unstable snapshop of gnome-based applications and the kernel two months before an official release is made. If you want cutting edge or bleeding edge, you're going to have to go to arch or ubuntu in the binary world, and gentoo in the source world.
Fedora exists to pacify rabbid followers of the great red hat religion who want some kind of evidence that their favorite distribution is something other than a corporate support package strapped onto a stable linux distribution that's a bit too out of date for your average power user.
RHEL has it's place and fills an important role. Fedora is just...crap.
You overestimate how controversial your statement is (or, really, isn't). Many people have said the same thing. You offer nothing original to this discussion.
Simple or not for a slashdotter, i know several users who can't even figure out the default password to their routers, despite it being plainly stated in their operating manuals (the particular case i'm thinking of is a relative of mine who called me asking what his linksys wireless router's password was. The manual clearly states that it is "admin" in several places).
Most users of routers these days have no idea what NTP means, nor what an NTP server is...nor even what firmware is. Do you really expect that him putting hours of work into researching which routers are and are not effected, then posting those on a website that a tiny percentage of users even know about will bring any measurable mitigative effect on the current problem? How will the majority of D-Link users even know about this issue? I can assure you that most of them do not read slashdot or even know who this dude is. Going directly to the source of the problem (ie, D-Link) really is the only way to get this corrected.
You can't pinpoint bias without analyzing the sampling technique. You have no idea how the poll was carried out or how individuals were chosen or the response rate, etc, thus you can not say whether bias does or does not exist.
Your first point is moot, as so many other distributors do the exact same thing for FREE, with the same efficacy (and some times better...and some time worse). The second point is a good one, Red Hat, if anything, is a way to subsidize open source development using the free market (which is an interesting reversal of the usual model for subsidies). Red Hat DEFINITELY serves a purpose beyond ripping off the unknowledgeable and satiating the appetite of CTOs for support contracts.
It will just never touch one of my boxes. It's pretty much useless to me. Arch linux is a better desktop and FreeBSD is a better server for my purposes.
I, for one, like the ARB. We have the shittiest air in the nation here in california (See Here and here), so we need stricter rules than other states. I mean, it's not like they OUTLAW all after market modifications. I mean, hell, where I live there almost isn't a single truck without a modified exhaust or intake system. Cars are constantly modified up the shitter all over California. The CARB is just making the sure modifications don't fuck up the air even more. That, in my mind, is not a bad thing and is necessary when you cram so many people into such a small place.
It doesn't matter if he's counting linux as UNIX or not. The point is that a linux server can do the job of a UNIX server far more cheaply (including support from, say, redhat or novel). The way I see it is as UNIX servers (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX) get replaced by linux servers, the windows sales numbers are going to get artificually inflated.
I kept hearing that. Then i read the fucking manual, and have been ever since. Of course, that was FreeBSD, not linux, where the manual is actually readable and centralized.
At the same time, strong social pressures can overwhelm those "functional neural clusters" in certain situations. There's quite a bit of psychological evidence for this (see the Milgram experiments, Isen and Levin's phone booth experiment, Latane and Darley, Darley and Batson, the Zimbardo Prison experiment). It's fairly plausible that if you get four people together in a group suicide pact, where 3 are bent on killing themselves and one has second thoughts, that other one will probably still go through with it. If that one person were by themselves, however, they might not. It's definitely not murder, but there are group effects that come into play, no matter how well-functioning your neural clusters are.
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That is the worst grammar troll I've ever seen. Full of grammatical errors itself. Moron.
Nope. Wrong.
If you're a hardware company, it makes sense to optimise your software for your own hardware, and cripple it for your competator's hardware. It's not ethical, but it makes sense.
You're not very smart, are you?
Compare this to real estate where an agent might make $20,000+ on the sale of a single home. While there are exceptions, the financial draw does entice more intelligent, more motivated, more capable individuals. The same can be said for many other sales industries where representatives can actually make enough to earn a decent living, and to credibly call it a real career.
Well, the real estate agents that I know of (live next to one that i've known for about 15 years, my brother almost married one, several are in my family) are generally the dregs of humanity, who have failed at everything else. They go into real estate because it's easy money, just like any other middle-man career. It doesn't take much intelligence, motivation, or capability to hawk houses. In my mind, they're one notch below heroine addicts on the intelligence scale.
BAHAHAHAHHHAHA!!! NICE!
No. Before they slapped their stuff on it, it was Mach. Then they slapped their stuff on it. Then they slapped FreeBSD's stuff on it and a little bit more of their stuff, and called it NeXT. Then they slapped aqua and called it OS X.
At least get the order right.
1) You missed the joke.
2) It's the part that "competes" with the entire GNU/Linux OS and OSes like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, etc. What they don't give you is the part that competes with Windows.
3) You're a moron.
I'm going to have to agree with you on this one. This struck me as pure marketing disguised as a game review. How come we haven't seen as many PSP game review, eh? For what it's worth, i own neither and plan on continuing that trend into the forseeable future.
There's one problem, environmentally and socially, with GM crops: Monoculture. When you have thousands of individuals with the exact same genetic make up spread across several hundred acres, you have a population ripe for massive dissease spread. Viruses, insects, and especially microorganisms go through many generations in one crop cycle and can adapt and exploit the flaws genetic engineers may have missed or even inserted by mistake. I think it's ludicrous to assume that our research and development can, in the long run, stay abreast of these kinds of threats when there are systematic temporal constraints (funding, peer review, the iterative nature of it, etc) inherent in scientific research that don't exist in nature. The random variation that exists in "natural" breeding prevents a full-on plant pandemic, but when so many individual plants are so genetically similar, it only takes one fungus, virus, insect, etc to take out an entire kind of crop. Even if it is contained, massive economic loss could very conceivably occur.
Why would we want to set that kind of situation up? Oh, right. Because it makes monsanto rich, and secondarily makes congressmen rich. Gotcha.
No single upgrade will force it to "make the world". A single update will update a single package. A universal update (emerge -u world) will.
Try arch linux. It takes the gentoo/freebsd approach without compiling.
Arch linux is gaining popularity with users sick of recompiling every day (like i was getting with gentoo, even after i got my opteron i started to get more involved with the outside world and having a hell of a lot more fun than typing "emerge -u world" ever provided me with). I'd recommend it, it's a very nice distro. It is starting to get some growing pains, though.
My problem with distros like debian (ubuntu included) is that they don't *Feel* elegant to me. Gentoo felt elegant, but required too much time to maintain. Arch Linux feels elegant to me, but at the same time is binary-based, so upkeep is orders of magnitude less time intensive than Gentoo.
Fedora isn't even the cutting edge or the bleeding edge. From my experience it's and unstable snapshop of gnome-based applications and the kernel two months before an official release is made. If you want cutting edge or bleeding edge, you're going to have to go to arch or ubuntu in the binary world, and gentoo in the source world.
Fedora exists to pacify rabbid followers of the great red hat religion who want some kind of evidence that their favorite distribution is something other than a corporate support package strapped onto a stable linux distribution that's a bit too out of date for your average power user.
RHEL has it's place and fills an important role. Fedora is just...crap.
(let the flaming commense)
You overestimate how controversial your statement is (or, really, isn't). Many people have said the same thing. You offer nothing original to this discussion.
Boxes as in boxed OS product, not box as in computer.
Simple or not for a slashdotter, i know several users who can't even figure out the default password to their routers, despite it being plainly stated in their operating manuals (the particular case i'm thinking of is a relative of mine who called me asking what his linksys wireless router's password was. The manual clearly states that it is "admin" in several places).
Most users of routers these days have no idea what NTP means, nor what an NTP server is...nor even what firmware is. Do you really expect that him putting hours of work into researching which routers are and are not effected, then posting those on a website that a tiny percentage of users even know about will bring any measurable mitigative effect on the current problem? How will the majority of D-Link users even know about this issue? I can assure you that most of them do not read slashdot or even know who this dude is. Going directly to the source of the problem (ie, D-Link) really is the only way to get this corrected.
You can't pinpoint bias without analyzing the sampling technique. You have no idea how the poll was carried out or how individuals were chosen or the response rate, etc, thus you can not say whether bias does or does not exist.
Your first point is moot, as so many other distributors do the exact same thing for FREE, with the same efficacy (and some times better...and some time worse). The second point is a good one, Red Hat, if anything, is a way to subsidize open source development using the free market (which is an interesting reversal of the usual model for subsidies). Red Hat DEFINITELY serves a purpose beyond ripping off the unknowledgeable and satiating the appetite of CTOs for support contracts.
It will just never touch one of my boxes. It's pretty much useless to me. Arch linux is a better desktop and FreeBSD is a better server for my purposes.
Have you been down to Riverside? Now that's smog!
I, for one, like the ARB. We have the shittiest air in the nation here in california (See Here and here), so we need stricter rules than other states. I mean, it's not like they OUTLAW all after market modifications. I mean, hell, where I live there almost isn't a single truck without a modified exhaust or intake system. Cars are constantly modified up the shitter all over California. The CARB is just making the sure modifications don't fuck up the air even more. That, in my mind, is not a bad thing and is necessary when you cram so many people into such a small place.
It doesn't matter if he's counting linux as UNIX or not. The point is that a linux server can do the job of a UNIX server far more cheaply (including support from, say, redhat or novel). The way I see it is as UNIX servers (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX) get replaced by linux servers, the windows sales numbers are going to get artificually inflated.
just look at all the gtk+ apps that are still trying to port to gtk2.
Like what? The only major one i'm aware of is Gnucash. Any others you wish to point out?
Cripple? Nah. It streamlines everyday things, and allows you a nice terminal for advanced tasks. KDE cripples me by making my eyes hurt.
I kept hearing that. Then i read the fucking manual, and have been ever since. Of course, that was FreeBSD, not linux, where the manual is actually readable and centralized.
At the same time, strong social pressures can overwhelm those "functional neural clusters" in certain situations. There's quite a bit of psychological evidence for this (see the Milgram experiments, Isen and Levin's phone booth experiment, Latane and Darley, Darley and Batson, the Zimbardo Prison experiment). It's fairly plausible that if you get four people together in a group suicide pact, where 3 are bent on killing themselves and one has second thoughts, that other one will probably still go through with it. If that one person were by themselves, however, they might not. It's definitely not murder, but there are group effects that come into play, no matter how well-functioning your neural clusters are.
It comes with being a social animal.