Let's face it, CO2 emissions will drop as soon as we run out of fossil fuel. And not a minute before that. There are no two ways about it. On the whole we are a greedy kind of breed and we will always rationalise reasons for doing the wrong things. So we'd better get used to this.
Viable alternatives to fossil fuel will emerge as soon economics allow this. Remember when oil prices boomed a couple of years ago? Suddenly all kinds of research boomed as well. But the oil price all of a sudden stabilised to a level we perceive as fine and dandy.
I don't believe in a well organised conspiracy of oil producing countries as that would require much more intelligence and cooperation than portrayed by any kind of existing governing body. Instead I believe that almost everyone in the energy market is acting in the best possible interest of their limited awareness. Oil prices rise, alternative research boosts, oil prices drop, alternative research slows down,... Repeat until oil is finished. Expect a fluctuation in oil price in the near years to come.
I don't see developments going in any other significant direction in the current way the world is governed. And I don't expect world government to change any time soon. Who or what would be powerful, charming and effective enough to change mankind's nature? It would require a disproportional amount of concentrated power to achieve such a thing, which after having saved our civilisation will inevitable start at exploiting it.
IBM'll support anything as long they can flog their overpriced CPUs together with the pitch that it eventually is cheaper considering rack space and personnel.
Analytical thinking is a good start. You know you will hire a lad that will cope with 1% of the work to be done.
Alas developing software requires a few more qualities. Simple things like being structural in proceedings, abide to coding standards and being a nice guy to work with. But sometimes also the capability to foresee the road map of an API and to avoid interfaces you will regret later on. But most of all probably, a developer should have the patience and ability to analyse and solve a problem structurally.
I wish Google no harm, but the way they hire people guarantees a bunch of bright lads that produce brilliant products but potentially cause unmaintainable software to be created. I wouldn't be surprised if systems are rewritten over and over again. I probably wouldn't be a happy camper over there as IMHO there is more to developing software than being on the edge all of the time in order to secure yourself a small but decent and others humongous ones.
Having said that, my view of development at Google is through hearsay and I hope to be proven very wrong in my assumptions.
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I use it on almost every Unix-Like system I work on.
Almost? What kind of a vim user are you!?
A Vim user that has worked on many available Unix-Like system types. When I'm a short staying guest and Vim isn't installed, I usually don't make a fuss.
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Daily user thanks Bram. Vim is my hammer, my screwdriver and my wrench. I use it on almost every Unix-Like system I work on.
Although I'd be able to kick the gong around using a simple Vi, I find several Vim features making me much more productive. History and colours do it for me.
Be prepared to seek employment should you decide to let the "CIO" read this story.
It's very likely that a CIO who knows the difference between CentOS and RH and can take a risk of skipping support reads Slashdot on his own.
No it isn't quite. On the *IO level the financial rumours kitchen is more influential than techies reading/. My take is that the CIO merely heard through the grapevine that Centos was free RedHat. Cheapskate.
Who will be responsible to do the updates and upgrades? Who will administer the systems? Who will be doing housekeeping? Who will train the admins? Who will add new nodes? Who will decommission old nodes?
If to most of the above questions you are the applicable and sole answer then you have a severe problem. Otherwise you should be able to convince the CIO.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if your IT depts. combined amount to a rather small number of workers. And that the title CIO is an euphemism for "the guy that knows the owner and is responsible for IT". Starting from 20+ workers you really shouldn't have this argument and support fees should be a given.
One last tip: Be prepared to seek employment should you decide to let the "CIO" read this story.
Would this be inspirational to my SO?
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I'm right now toying with the idea to show RMS' list to my SO.
Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly how to butter her parsnips? Knowing the right door to her boudoir? The precise combination to her highly sophisticated lock?
My love, stroke my left under arm (and not anything else.) Then proceed with a dignifying Riverdance-like performance (But be certain to either stamp with your right heel or your left toe. The left heel and right toe make me loose my appetite, so to speak.) Perform then as a medieval minstrel a raunchy song (But avoid any references to the Can Can. Regardless how witty these may be, they always make me have goose bumps.) Then you may proceed with the first part of undressing me and take off my left shoe while kissing me and cupping my right breast (indeed, refrain from anything else.) Etc... etc...
"Its syntax is very forgiving, and there are lots of ways to do most things"
That's probably why it's so commonly known as a write-only language. "Forgiving syntax" in particular usually leads to someone sitting around later trying to figure out WTF is going on.
It's possible to write bad unreadable code in anything, but it's just so much easier in Perl that I shudder anytime I get asked to look at someone elses Perl code. That has NEVER been a good experience.
And then there's the Perl subculture that discards you as incompetent when you sacrifice shortness in favour of maintainability.
For instance, I once produced a Perl module where every type was put in a separate file. Everything was documented cleanly with cross references, much like you would do in Java. I got sneered at for the amount of files and references. Then there's the name space which is used to spark discussions like "People's Front of Judea" vs. "Judean People's Front."
I stuck around for a while and then I left the CPAN scene with great relief. I like Larry a lot but the Perl subculture makes me shiver.
There's no plausible hypotheses let alone an answer in the summary. So we're asked to provide them?! A bunch of unwashed geeks that avoid fresh air like the plague? Gimme a break.
The wear and tear on the body is such that even if you can increase the lifespan to a theoretical 150 years you wouldnt be very healthy for the last 90 or so years. You also need something that adresses the wear on the body.
The whole point of extending life is to improve cell division. That is, the replacement of cells that died through wear and tear would be replaced with copies of better quality. Hence, if your life span doubles than the old age span is also likely to double instead of it being prolonged. All time spans will be prolonged. Even friendships.
Our hearts arent made for 150 years of use and we build up various plaques and toxins in our bodies as time goes by. Even if we all lived under controlled and ideal circumstances the last seven decades would be pretty much seven decades of being eighty.
Our hearts may reach 150 years if cell division really improves.
The question isn't weather our bodies will adapt to 150 years of life. But are our minds up to it? Relations we develop must last much longer.
Brain processes like making friends and building relations will not change. Imagine most of your friends having died and you survive the for a much longer time than now is usually the case. I know this is an essential problem. My wife nurses elderly people and most really old people simply don't have any friends left. Some people are really lonely for 10 or more years.
Think of almost all of your desires to have come true. And very little remaining to be discovered.
Navigation at sea isn't that straight forward. You have to take into account the magnetic declination, the magnetic deviation of the compass on the ship, corrections for wind and current. And then comes the different chart type you have to know. And the tides, yes, the tides. And that's about it...
I recently studied all of this and passed the theoretic exam. Hey, I want to be a seaman.
The practice is somewhat different. You take GPS for granted. You also take the plotter for granted. And the collision warning thingy that goes beeeeep.
I wouldn't be surprised if a disruption of GPS actually will kill people. And I don't blame GPS but the able navigators that probably aren't.
Committed civil servant at work here. The matter is as old as Methuselah, the astronaut is of respectable age, he was the product of an extremely tight selection procedure and the item wasn't reported stolen back then.
How many 16mm cameras does one government need nowadays?
The intrinsic value of the phone was in it's monetary. The value lies in the newsworthiness.
The circumstance is that Apple losses such devices much more often than I would deem "normal".
I myself would probably not have touched the phone. Most people would have remained honest. But that's beside he point.
The point is that it would be very possible that Apple, knowingly that a similar thing would happen, "planted" the device and that the convicted was just the idiot of the moment.
In most law systems providing the opportunity in itself is punishable. Did the DA sufficiently consider this possibility?
Is there maybe one minor difference in that Shakespeare, perhaps, didn't have the result already available before setting off, so that he could monitor his progress?
Why is this crap even discussed here? Next thing you know we'll get some marketing goon reselling us Google search through a flimsy add on and we'll be jeering for 2 consecutive weeks.
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Let's face it, CO2 emissions will drop as soon as we run out of fossil fuel. And not a minute before that. There are no two ways about it. On the whole we are a greedy kind of breed and we will always rationalise reasons for doing the wrong things. So we'd better get used to this.
... Repeat until oil is finished. Expect a fluctuation in oil price in the near years to come.
Viable alternatives to fossil fuel will emerge as soon economics allow this. Remember when oil prices boomed a couple of years ago? Suddenly all kinds of research boomed as well. But the oil price all of a sudden stabilised to a level we perceive as fine and dandy.
I don't believe in a well organised conspiracy of oil producing countries as that would require much more intelligence and cooperation than portrayed by any kind of existing governing body. Instead I believe that almost everyone in the energy market is acting in the best possible interest of their limited awareness. Oil prices rise, alternative research boosts, oil prices drop, alternative research slows down,
I don't see developments going in any other significant direction in the current way the world is governed. And I don't expect world government to change any time soon. Who or what would be powerful, charming and effective enough to change mankind's nature? It would require a disproportional amount of concentrated power to achieve such a thing, which after having saved our civilisation will inevitable start at exploiting it.
I'd be amused to find out what would lie behind vaticano.xxx
IBM'll support anything as long they can flog their overpriced CPUs together with the pitch that it eventually is cheaper considering rack space and personnel.
They'd better build one one the Top Gear test track. Hammerhead is half way, isn't it?
Analytical thinking is a good start. You know you will hire a lad that will cope with 1% of the work to be done.
Alas developing software requires a few more qualities. Simple things like being structural in proceedings, abide to coding standards and being a nice guy to work with. But sometimes also the capability to foresee the road map of an API and to avoid interfaces you will regret later on. But most of all probably, a developer should have the patience and ability to analyse and solve a problem structurally.
I wish Google no harm, but the way they hire people guarantees a bunch of bright lads that produce brilliant products but potentially cause unmaintainable software to be created. I wouldn't be surprised if systems are rewritten over and over again. I probably wouldn't be a happy camper over there as IMHO there is more to developing software than being on the edge all of the time in order to secure yourself a small but decent and others humongous ones.
Having said that, my view of development at Google is through hearsay and I hope to be proven very wrong in my assumptions.
Google and Samsung saw and deemed "attaboy!".
I use it on almost every Unix-Like system I work on.
Almost? What kind of a vim user are you!?
A Vim user that has worked on many available Unix-Like system types. When I'm a short staying guest and Vim isn't installed, I usually don't make a fuss.
Daily user thanks Bram. Vim is my hammer, my screwdriver and my wrench. I use it on almost every Unix-Like system I work on.
Although I'd be able to kick the gong around using a simple Vi, I find several Vim features making me much more productive. History and colours do it for me.
Be prepared to seek employment should you decide to let the "CIO" read this story.
It's very likely that a CIO who knows the difference between CentOS and RH and can take a risk of skipping support reads Slashdot on his own.
No it isn't quite. On the *IO level the financial rumours kitchen is more influential than techies reading /. My take is that the CIO merely heard through the grapevine that Centos was free RedHat. Cheapskate.
How will your sysadmin organisation look like?
Who will be responsible to do the updates and upgrades? Who will administer the systems? Who will be doing housekeeping? Who will train the admins? Who will add new nodes? Who will decommission old nodes?
If to most of the above questions you are the applicable and sole answer then you have a severe problem. Otherwise you should be able to convince the CIO.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if your IT depts. combined amount to a rather small number of workers. And that the title CIO is an euphemism for "the guy that knows the owner and is responsible for IT". Starting from 20+ workers you really shouldn't have this argument and support fees should be a given.
One last tip: Be prepared to seek employment should you decide to let the "CIO" read this story.
YES! it does run linux.
Buddy, it runs on a treadmill.
I'm right now toying with the idea to show RMS' list to my SO.
Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly how to butter her parsnips? Knowing the right door to her boudoir? The precise combination to her highly sophisticated lock?
My love, stroke my left under arm (and not anything else.) Then proceed with a dignifying Riverdance-like performance (But be certain to either stamp with your right heel or your left toe. The left heel and right toe make me loose my appetite, so to speak.) Perform then as a medieval minstrel a raunchy song (But avoid any references to the Can Can. Regardless how witty these may be, they always make me have goose bumps.) Then you may proceed with the first part of undressing me and take off my left shoe while kissing me and cupping my right breast (indeed, refrain from anything else.) Etc... etc...
"Its syntax is very forgiving, and there are lots of ways to do most things"
That's probably why it's so commonly known as a write-only language. "Forgiving syntax" in particular usually leads to someone sitting around later trying to figure out WTF is going on.
It's possible to write bad unreadable code in anything, but it's just so much easier in Perl that I shudder anytime I get asked to look at someone elses Perl code. That has NEVER been a good experience.
And then there's the Perl subculture that discards you as incompetent when you sacrifice shortness in favour of maintainability.
For instance, I once produced a Perl module where every type was put in a separate file. Everything was documented cleanly with cross references, much like you would do in Java. I got sneered at for the amount of files and references. Then there's the name space which is used to spark discussions like "People's Front of Judea" vs. "Judean People's Front."
I stuck around for a while and then I left the CPAN scene with great relief. I like Larry a lot but the Perl subculture makes me shiver.
There's no plausible hypotheses let alone an answer in the summary. So we're asked to provide them?! A bunch of unwashed geeks that avoid fresh air like the plague? Gimme a break.
Anything else is just for pansies.
/. after all. Or are we?
We are on
The wear and tear on the body is such that even if you can increase the lifespan to a theoretical 150 years you wouldnt be very healthy for the last 90 or so years. You also need something that adresses the wear on the body.
The whole point of extending life is to improve cell division. That is, the replacement of cells that died through wear and tear would be replaced with copies of better quality. Hence, if your life span doubles than the old age span is also likely to double instead of it being prolonged. All time spans will be prolonged. Even friendships.
Our hearts arent made for 150 years of use and we build up various plaques and toxins in our bodies as time goes by. Even if we all lived under controlled and ideal circumstances the last seven decades would be pretty much seven decades of being eighty.
Our hearts may reach 150 years if cell division really improves.
The question isn't weather our bodies will adapt to 150 years of life. But are our minds up to it? Relations we develop must last much longer.
Brain processes like making friends and building relations will not change. Imagine most of your friends having died and you survive the for a much longer time than now is usually the case. I know this is an essential problem. My wife nurses elderly people and most really old people simply don't have any friends left. Some people are really lonely for 10 or more years.
Think of almost all of your desires to have come true. And very little remaining to be discovered.
Think of being married for 120 years.
I wonder just how many of us have come across such idiocies.
remote server had its root filesystem opened to the world via an NFS export
Ah, the good old days of SunOS 4 / Solaris 1.
If you find a vulnerability, don't tell the people at risk, sell it or use it.
Either that or move to a less stupid country.
I'd almost say: "Name the country and I'll be packing."
It can't be the land my mother and I left. It also can't be the country I found my SO. It surely isn't the state I'm living now.
Take it from me that the country should be improved and not simply discarded as if it were a modern day employee.
Absolutely cool. I like it and I would buy it.
I'd expect different types of balls. For instance one that's nearly unbreakable. Or a bigger one which you can roll down a slope.
Imagine tossing the ball from one cabrio to another. Or taking a birds eye picture of a sport your buddy is playing. Or a ball fixed on a helmet.
Navigation at sea isn't that straight forward. You have to take into account the magnetic declination, the magnetic deviation of the compass on the ship, corrections for wind and current. And then comes the different chart type you have to know. And the tides, yes, the tides. And that's about it...
I recently studied all of this and passed the theoretic exam. Hey, I want to be a seaman.
The practice is somewhat different. You take GPS for granted. You also take the plotter for granted. And the collision warning thingy that goes beeeeep.
I wouldn't be surprised if a disruption of GPS actually will kill people. And I don't blame GPS but the able navigators that probably aren't.
Committed civil servant at work here. The matter is as old as Methuselah, the astronaut is of respectable age, he was the product of an extremely tight selection procedure and the item wasn't reported stolen back then.
How many 16mm cameras does one government need nowadays?
Let the man be! Sheesh!
Only if seasoned with cloned salt and pepper..........
Like in "Push it REAL Good"?
The intrinsic value of the phone was in it's monetary. The value lies in the newsworthiness.
The circumstance is that Apple losses such devices much more often than I would deem "normal".
I myself would probably not have touched the phone. Most people would have remained honest. But that's beside he point.
The point is that it would be very possible that Apple, knowingly that a similar thing would happen, "planted" the device and that the convicted was just the idiot of the moment.
In most law systems providing the opportunity in itself is punishable. Did the DA sufficiently consider this possibility?
How do they prove successful? Do Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs simply taste better?
Is there maybe one minor difference in that Shakespeare, perhaps, didn't have the result already available before setting off, so that he could monitor his progress?
Why is this crap even discussed here? Next thing you know we'll get some marketing goon reselling us Google search through a flimsy add on and we'll be jeering for 2 consecutive weeks.