As an aside, it is interesting that the other time of cold temperatures (late 18th century) corresponds to lower sun spot activity.
I like how the one event we have record of is rejected by these guys as if it's a coincidence (maybe it is, maybe not). But yet they are sure that THIS reduction in sunspots will not produce a cool period. I suppose those go together, if you reject the sun as cause for the first cooling, you should conclude this one is not going to have an effect. The question then is how can anyone be certain there was no cause/effect relationship and won't be one this time? I hate when people talk about these things with unwarranted certainty.
So he argues that Linus "invented" some development model that is somehow different than Stallman had in GNU. He even quotes from the original GNU announcement where RMS ask for code contributions. Yes, GNU was managed in a top-down way, where Linux *could* be claimed as bottom-up with Linus having the last word. That's the only distinction he seems to make. Openness and public participation were present in both, but because FSF was hiring people and paying them to do work doesn't mean they didn't have the same model. When you're a completely public project, you can reject contributions and turn them into wasted effort. When you're paying people to do work, you tell them what those decisions are going to be from the start so you don't waste money.
I give Linus a lot of credit. Who wouldn't want to have his practical achievement under their belt? I give Stallman even more credit. Who wouldn't want to have his philosophical AND practical achievements under their belt? OK, that's a loaded question around here...
What do you expect to happen when you hire Systems Administrators for 6 month contracts to build your systems, and then let the contract expire after the servers are built? Servers don't usually patch themselves, nor do they remain compliant with your security standards once you give developers and DBA's root access.
I was going to say something about cost. As the hacking becomes more widespread, companies will notice it is a problem and start to DO something about it. Systems are more vulnerable now because the money has not been spent to secure them - because it hasn't been too much of a problem. We'll probably go through a phase of increased security breaches until people take it seriously and fix it. Now would be a good time for some data driven analysis comparing various OSes and their configurations from a security point of view. That's difficult, but we need to start looking at what works, doesn't work, and why.
Because there are a lot of fictional works and movie depictions of Rape, Murder, Robbery and other "violent and unlawful" stuff. Movie trailers and excerpts of books are often online at studio and store sites. I think they call it advertising.
.NET apps and Silverlight apps will run very well on ARM processors, unlike code compiled to x86 or x86-64..NET is used on Xbox 360 also, and it's PowerPC.
And Microsoft will be thrilled to have every app they can which they can claim actually works on ARM Windows as well as x86 Windows.
I think these guys are making incorrect assumptions.
Yes, and Office is still compiled for x86, x86_64, and now probably ARM. There is a reason for that - and it's not that they couldn't add the VM as a target.
And at the end of the day, the message from Microsoft was that Silverlight will be everywhere "in the future," so we hoped we could hit all platforms with a rich product without doing any porting.
And now this, the latest in a long steady stream of screw-overs.
That screw-over line made me laugh. I was already thinking "man these guys really drank the koolaid". Do you recall Plays-for-sure? I got stuck in the 90s when DDE was borked and they said just switch to OLE. There is a reason slashdot thinks Silverlight is a bad idea and you guys were wrong to choose it. There is even some great writing by Joel on the subject and that was written in 2002. It doesn't matter if it made sense at the time for a.net shop. It was a poor strategic decision. You don't get to come back a few years later and try to justify that with but but but... Many (most) people had better insight and avoided it. Next time, evaluate technology and make the right choice. Don't just do it because it's the "next big thing" from your current supplier. And lastly, I think you're a liar or just plain stupid when you said you believed a Microsoft technology would give you a cross-platform solution.
I'm still here. We're on the bleeding edge of vehicle electrification (hybrids electric cars etc...). Qualified engineers (and software people) are not that common. Then there are all the companies that tried to diversify out of automotive and are now becoming more established in other industries without leaving town. Also, witness a resurgence among the hacker/maker crowd in actually making things - you can make anything here and find companies to assemble/manufacture at any scale. BTW when they say "Detroit" they really mean the burbs which are very nice. Michigan is also a fantastic place to live for a lot of reasons.
This is all about protecting us from the last attack.
No, the cockpit doors are protecting us from the last successful attack. I suppose if you count would-be shoe-bombers then the passengers protected us from the last attempted attack. I'm not sure what this is protecting us from. Why do they need to do biometric scans after you've been scanned for explosives? That makes no sense. If you want to track people (legally or not) just use face (and clothing) recognition software and inconspicuous cameras so people don't notice and don't get upset about it.
I'd agree that as a home user you have little control over the implementation of such things. But there are reasons you should at least want it. The primary reason being that those devices you mention don't have fixed IP addresses (unless you pay extra for that). There is a whole world of possibilities that open up when every home can get a block of fixed IP addresses. At the highest level, it means you don't need 3rd party "services" to connect to other people, or even to connect to your own machines when you're away. The implications of that are game changing.
They claim violation of their IP. Is that copyright? probably not. Trademark? Nope. Patent? Hmmm do they have a patent in this area? I don't know, but probably not. That would leave trade secrets, which IIRC are not protected from reverse engineering in any way. IANAL but they really should say what is being violated, not just the nebulous "IP".
When they say "that not the intent", then modify the bill so that it's words match the intent. Nobody is going to give a shit what you meant to write, they're going to look at what you actually wrote down on paper.
Are motherboards and the PCI connectors going to like the vibration levels of having the drive on the card? I'm not saying it will fail, I just don't know. It's not the normal use case.
I'll take one just because it has the proper resolution for a 10 inch. I'm tired of these stupid 1024x600 netbook displays, and 16x9 for computers in general.
If QT gets a wrapper so it can handle GTK apps, then its future would be more certain than ever. With the crap that is Gnome 3, I'd happily switch to KDE so long as all my apps work there. Of course you can install GTK along with KDE so they'll work, but not needing the whole of GTK would be nice. Or I suppose I can just find KDE apps, but what about GIMP and Inkscape on KDE?
Not so sure about that. Storing electrical energy requires 2 energy conversions each with efficiency less than 100 percent. Storage of hot salt requires no conversion but will lose energy depending on how well insulated the storage area is. Also, if you put out twice the electrical power for half the time, the IR losses will be double what they are if you spread that usage out evenly (assuming the same line voltage). Not saying you're wrong, just that it's not clear without data.
It was of course the Iranian hostage crisis. Libya cause some other trouble in the 80s and got a couple air strikes from the US that a lot of people don't remember.
I can't speak for what it was like during the Carter or reagan admins, as I Wasn't born for the former and was too young for the latter; however, I am interested enough to ask those whom were around during that time why Carter was such a bad president and why Reagan is idolized.
I'll bite. I was too young to pay much attention, but Carter was widely associated with peanuts. His unpopularity was mostly due to the stagnant economy with high inflation (stagflation) of the time. Reagan had been a popular actor who voters all recognized. Then there was the Libyan hostage "crisis" where they were holding a bunch of Americans - they waited until just after Reagan took office to release them, so he gets credit where Carter did not (even thought the decision had to be made while Carter was still in). I've also heard that Carter (or the Fed during his tenure?) made some very tough (unpopular) choices on monetary policy that should have helped the economy, but that wouldn't yield results until the Reagan years. And lastly, Reagan popularized the cold war fighting those terrible Russians...
On another note, since you're young. Take notes (literally) of what's really happening 'cause this shit blows by in the blink of an eye. 30 years seems like a long time looking forward, but once you're there it seems like yesterday - except the details are all gone and all that remains is the collective "impression" and anything that stood out specifically in your mind. The Obama administration will be remembered for 3 or 4 sound bites. Truth and details (good or bad) will be forgotten. I suppose "bad economy", Killing Bin Laden, something about health care, and maybe debt will be the topics of the sound bites. I can't tell you how history will regard those things, but I bet they'll be the highlights.
gas cap is complex. track wheels you want a lathe. button I can't tell.
Computer - want a PC, Laptop, or even cell phone. What did people do in the early days? They bought an Apple, C64, or Atari ( I had an Interact). Mainframes existed at the time, better languages existed than BASIC. Think of these things as the early stages of a revolution. As people grow up with these inferior tools, they will be inspired to make better ones, and to learn about the good ones that already exist.
Yes they suck, but it's the fun of DOING stuff that counts. And you certainly don't need a real machine shop to make toys.
Yeah, and for me it was newsgroups. And for others it was IRC, email and even older things. What actually ruined the newsgroups was the influx of AOL users asking high-school homework questions on sci.math for example ( all the really smart guys then left ). Of course the first big wave of the masses think the tools they used at the time were the first.
I thought X10 put the control in the fixture and the command in the switch. I know people with X10 that has all the regular house switches, but also a panel next to the bed with zone-specific controls and an all-off button which also send commands (I think) to the fixtures. Computers with the appropriate add-in could also control things in parallel with the normal house controls. I suppose some devices may put the control in the switch, but that's because it's easier that putting it in the fixture.
At what point does GRUB become more of an OS than a bootloader? Adding multiple file system support seems odd. I understand the reason, but in principle you want the boot loader to be small, not constantly incorporating operating system features. Is there some problem with having a small boot partition that can only be formatted one way? The same issue happened with X.org where it gained memory management, font handling, etc - lots of stuff beyond just being a window system. The same also happened with MESA when it started getting hardware acceleration (for a soft implementation of OpenGL). The same feature creep is also happening with BIOS. Some of these projects need to define what they are and stick to that IMHO. Otherwise, we can just merge GRUB into the kernel and put the whole thing into the flash normally used for BIOS;-) Maybe not a bad thing ( I think it's bad ) but certainly not 3 distinct software components.
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I like how the one event we have record of is rejected by these guys as if it's a coincidence (maybe it is, maybe not). But yet they are sure that THIS reduction in sunspots will not produce a cool period. I suppose those go together, if you reject the sun as cause for the first cooling, you should conclude this one is not going to have an effect. The question then is how can anyone be certain there was no cause/effect relationship and won't be one this time? I hate when people talk about these things with unwarranted certainty.
So he argues that Linus "invented" some development model that is somehow different than Stallman had in GNU. He even quotes from the original GNU announcement where RMS ask for code contributions. Yes, GNU was managed in a top-down way, where Linux *could* be claimed as bottom-up with Linus having the last word. That's the only distinction he seems to make. Openness and public participation were present in both, but because FSF was hiring people and paying them to do work doesn't mean they didn't have the same model. When you're a completely public project, you can reject contributions and turn them into wasted effort. When you're paying people to do work, you tell them what those decisions are going to be from the start so you don't waste money. I give Linus a lot of credit. Who wouldn't want to have his practical achievement under their belt? I give Stallman even more credit. Who wouldn't want to have his philosophical AND practical achievements under their belt? OK, that's a loaded question around here...
Now you won't be able to post American Idol clips - the whole show is lip synced.
I was going to say something about cost. As the hacking becomes more widespread, companies will notice it is a problem and start to DO something about it. Systems are more vulnerable now because the money has not been spent to secure them - because it hasn't been too much of a problem. We'll probably go through a phase of increased security breaches until people take it seriously and fix it. Now would be a good time for some data driven analysis comparing various OSes and their configurations from a security point of view. That's difficult, but we need to start looking at what works, doesn't work, and why.
Because there are a lot of fictional works and movie depictions of Rape, Murder, Robbery and other "violent and unlawful" stuff. Movie trailers and excerpts of books are often online at studio and store sites. I think they call it advertising.
And just in case, make your lemonade stand app a web app so it doesn't require passing through a phone app store for people to use it.
Yes, and Office is still compiled for x86, x86_64, and now probably ARM. There is a reason for that - and it's not that they couldn't add the VM as a target.
That screw-over line made me laugh. I was already thinking "man these guys really drank the koolaid". Do you recall Plays-for-sure? I got stuck in the 90s when DDE was borked and they said just switch to OLE. There is a reason slashdot thinks Silverlight is a bad idea and you guys were wrong to choose it. There is even some great writing by Joel on the subject and that was written in 2002. It doesn't matter if it made sense at the time for a .net shop. It was a poor strategic decision. You don't get to come back a few years later and try to justify that with but but but... Many (most) people had better insight and avoided it. Next time, evaluate technology and make the right choice. Don't just do it because it's the "next big thing" from your current supplier. And lastly, I think you're a liar or just plain stupid when you said you believed a Microsoft technology would give you a cross-platform solution.
I'm still here. We're on the bleeding edge of vehicle electrification (hybrids electric cars etc...). Qualified engineers (and software people) are not that common. Then there are all the companies that tried to diversify out of automotive and are now becoming more established in other industries without leaving town. Also, witness a resurgence among the hacker/maker crowd in actually making things - you can make anything here and find companies to assemble/manufacture at any scale. BTW when they say "Detroit" they really mean the burbs which are very nice. Michigan is also a fantastic place to live for a lot of reasons.
No, the cockpit doors are protecting us from the last successful attack. I suppose if you count would-be shoe-bombers then the passengers protected us from the last attempted attack. I'm not sure what this is protecting us from. Why do they need to do biometric scans after you've been scanned for explosives? That makes no sense. If you want to track people (legally or not) just use face (and clothing) recognition software and inconspicuous cameras so people don't notice and don't get upset about it.
I'd agree that as a home user you have little control over the implementation of such things. But there are reasons you should at least want it. The primary reason being that those devices you mention don't have fixed IP addresses (unless you pay extra for that). There is a whole world of possibilities that open up when every home can get a block of fixed IP addresses. At the highest level, it means you don't need 3rd party "services" to connect to other people, or even to connect to your own machines when you're away. The implications of that are game changing.
They claim violation of their IP. Is that copyright? probably not. Trademark? Nope. Patent? Hmmm do they have a patent in this area? I don't know, but probably not. That would leave trade secrets, which IIRC are not protected from reverse engineering in any way. IANAL but they really should say what is being violated, not just the nebulous "IP".
When they say "that not the intent", then modify the bill so that it's words match the intent. Nobody is going to give a shit what you meant to write, they're going to look at what you actually wrote down on paper.
Freedom to deny others the same freedom you enjoy is not part of a free society.
Are motherboards and the PCI connectors going to like the vibration levels of having the drive on the card? I'm not saying it will fail, I just don't know. It's not the normal use case.
And CDs have been stamped since the 1980s.
I'll take one just because it has the proper resolution for a 10 inch. I'm tired of these stupid 1024x600 netbook displays, and 16x9 for computers in general.
If QT gets a wrapper so it can handle GTK apps, then its future would be more certain than ever. With the crap that is Gnome 3, I'd happily switch to KDE so long as all my apps work there. Of course you can install GTK along with KDE so they'll work, but not needing the whole of GTK would be nice. Or I suppose I can just find KDE apps, but what about GIMP and Inkscape on KDE?
Not so sure about that. Storing electrical energy requires 2 energy conversions each with efficiency less than 100 percent. Storage of hot salt requires no conversion but will lose energy depending on how well insulated the storage area is. Also, if you put out twice the electrical power for half the time, the IR losses will be double what they are if you spread that usage out evenly (assuming the same line voltage). Not saying you're wrong, just that it's not clear without data.
It was of course the Iranian hostage crisis. Libya cause some other trouble in the 80s and got a couple air strikes from the US that a lot of people don't remember.
I'll bite. I was too young to pay much attention, but Carter was widely associated with peanuts. His unpopularity was mostly due to the stagnant economy with high inflation (stagflation) of the time. Reagan had been a popular actor who voters all recognized. Then there was the Libyan hostage "crisis" where they were holding a bunch of Americans - they waited until just after Reagan took office to release them, so he gets credit where Carter did not (even thought the decision had to be made while Carter was still in). I've also heard that Carter (or the Fed during his tenure?) made some very tough (unpopular) choices on monetary policy that should have helped the economy, but that wouldn't yield results until the Reagan years. And lastly, Reagan popularized the cold war fighting those terrible Russians...
On another note, since you're young. Take notes (literally) of what's really happening 'cause this shit blows by in the blink of an eye. 30 years seems like a long time looking forward, but once you're there it seems like yesterday - except the details are all gone and all that remains is the collective "impression" and anything that stood out specifically in your mind. The Obama administration will be remembered for 3 or 4 sound bites. Truth and details (good or bad) will be forgotten. I suppose "bad economy", Killing Bin Laden, something about health care, and maybe debt will be the topics of the sound bites. I can't tell you how history will regard those things, but I bet they'll be the highlights.
Computer - want a PC, Laptop, or even cell phone. What did people do in the early days? They bought an Apple, C64, or Atari ( I had an Interact). Mainframes existed at the time, better languages existed than BASIC. Think of these things as the early stages of a revolution. As people grow up with these inferior tools, they will be inspired to make better ones, and to learn about the good ones that already exist.
Yes they suck, but it's the fun of DOING stuff that counts. And you certainly don't need a real machine shop to make toys.
Yeah, and for me it was newsgroups. And for others it was IRC, email and even older things. What actually ruined the newsgroups was the influx of AOL users asking high-school homework questions on sci.math for example ( all the really smart guys then left ). Of course the first big wave of the masses think the tools they used at the time were the first.
I thought X10 put the control in the fixture and the command in the switch. I know people with X10 that has all the regular house switches, but also a panel next to the bed with zone-specific controls and an all-off button which also send commands (I think) to the fixtures. Computers with the appropriate add-in could also control things in parallel with the normal house controls. I suppose some devices may put the control in the switch, but that's because it's easier that putting it in the fixture.
At what point does GRUB become more of an OS than a bootloader? Adding multiple file system support seems odd. I understand the reason, but in principle you want the boot loader to be small, not constantly incorporating operating system features. Is there some problem with having a small boot partition that can only be formatted one way? The same issue happened with X.org where it gained memory management, font handling, etc - lots of stuff beyond just being a window system. The same also happened with MESA when it started getting hardware acceleration (for a soft implementation of OpenGL). The same feature creep is also happening with BIOS. Some of these projects need to define what they are and stick to that IMHO. Otherwise, we can just merge GRUB into the kernel and put the whole thing into the flash normally used for BIOS ;-) Maybe not a bad thing ( I think it's bad ) but certainly not 3 distinct software components.