The buffalo that cuts itself out of the stampede is the only one the feeds the wolves.
If stampeding was such a bad survival tactic, why has it persisted? And by "survival tactic", I mean at the level of the individual organism, as well as the group and species level. As long as Billy Buffalo keeps his head down, his mouth shut, and his feet churning in the same direction as the entire rest of the herd, he'll be fine.
Which is, quite possibly, why human socialization also strongly encourages conformal and consensus-seeking behavior.
Let's face it. Windows doesn't have a monopoly in OSs with a non-transparent non-intuitive hard-to-access system configuration repository. AIX is one of the biggest commercial Unix variants out there, and will make any sysadmin raised in a sane SunOS/Linux environment pull out every hair in his/her head.
I've always had good luck with "man -k". That's the one I learned first, really; "apropos" always struck me as redundant (and too much typing). I guess "apropos" is historically older, but whatever.
So if we stipulate that you remember "man", you might conceivably "man man" which documents the "-k" switch. I don't know if that'd be enough to set your feet on the path, but frankly, administrative tasks in any operating system are always a matter of "what tool, used in what way"... and if you don't know it, good luck finding it.
Which is why admins are generally made by tribal absorption and received wisdom (i.e., OJT), or by much experimentation. Or maybe "go to a class, get your cert, don't lose your training books".
I'm pretty sure that there are Christmas exterior displays in my neighborhood which have been continuously up longer than most Internet sites. By simple longevity, they probably deserve static persistent network addressing more than, for instance, Zynga.
Sure, but the public face of the government response doesn't really hint of "someone else's screwup". I'm sure that in private, both Sony and government robots are muttering under their breaths about incompetent gaijin... but publicly, the gov is jumping on Sony's Japan operations.
Discovering Microsoft wants YOU to be its virtualized Linux would be like discovering the hulking mouthbreathing neighborhood bully wants to be your boyfriend, and no, you don't have any say in the matter.
This is certainly not something I would have expected of the Japanese government, although I'll admit I hadn't thought very much about it since the business-friendly era of the "bend-over-backwards and kiss business' butt" MITI. Of course, that was international trade, and this is about domestic business.
I have the beginnings of a theory, though. The recent revelations about the government's virtually non-existent oversight over the nuclear power industry, and TEPCO in particular, may have sensitized the entire Japanese cabinet and bureaucracy to public perceptions of being asleep at the switch... hence, the surprising and almost-literal leaping to the defense of the public interest against a danger to network and financial security. (Yeah, comparing Fukushima to the PSN hack is ridiculous, except for the change in behavior of the government between the two events. Correlation != causation and all..)
As a theory, it strains my credibility, and I just thought it up, but who knows?
Yeah. The achievement became considerably less impressive when they relocated the source city to the destination country. They just flew the solar-powered airplane out of city limits.
The real achievement wasn't the airplane. It was solving the cultural/political tension in Brussels by physically relocating it to a new country (nearly 700 km distant and 400 meters in elevation). (Yes, I'm American, but I figured I'd show a little respect to the continent involved and use metric distances.)
Really, folks, congratulations on relocating a city of over a million people to Switzerland.
Interesting thought: What are NATO and the European Union going to do, since Brussels was a major "capital" for both and Switzerland isn't a member of either?
The only way Joe Sixpack would even recognize the word "fragmentation" is his stint in the National Guard, where he learned that you wanna throw the grenade really, really hard, or you'd be picking fragmentation out of your butt.
So the phrase "platform fragmentation" is a fine piece of marketing disinformation, even if it has no factual basis. "Your shiny fruit-themed entertainment electronics friend will never explode in your pocket, unlike that evil man-killing robot bomb maker."
Actually, that's not entirely true. I find bitter, begrudging old curmudgeons uproariously funny. Coming across a particularly dried up old prune and mocking him mercilessly can turn my whole day around.
If my kid throws a rock that breaks your window, I probably won't get away with "Yeah, I'm a part of his founding body, but that rock didn't originate with me". It's technically true but effectively worthless as a disclaimer.
Well, that's the difference between a lab prototype and a production model, innit? Unless you're one of those people who (A) don't believe in prototyping, or (B) think you can stick a case on your prototype, box it up, and sell it as the production model.
And frankly, this does feel like a hobbyist toolset, but a lot of very influential system designs started out as some hobbyist's garage project.
You're saying Flash, running "inside" Chrome, is by definition outside of Chrome's sandbox? So it's not Chrome's fault, it's Flash's?
Wrong. Flash is running inside the browser, the browser is running inside the OS, and the OS is running on the hardware. Clean encapsulation, and any leakage from one layer to the other is per definitionem the responsibility of the leaking layer.* So Flash is leaking through Chrome to the OS. Deal with it and stop lying.
*BTW, GOOG, if you engineered it so that Flash runs "alongside" the browser, and not within the sandbox... you fail it. Your sandbox is worthless, your browser is worthless, and your word is less than worthless.
With most modern distros, if you're upgrading (CENTOS 5.5 to CENTOS 5.6, for instance, or Ubuntu Furry Frog to Gassy Goose) it's not even a re-install, just a "yum upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade".
If you're switching distros, yeah, that's probably a wipe-and-install. But that'd be just about the only circumstance.
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The buffalo that cuts itself out of the stampede is the only one the feeds the wolves.
If stampeding was such a bad survival tactic, why has it persisted? And by "survival tactic", I mean at the level of the individual organism, as well as the group and species level. As long as Billy Buffalo keeps his head down, his mouth shut, and his feet churning in the same direction as the entire rest of the herd, he'll be fine.
Which is, quite possibly, why human socialization also strongly encourages conformal and consensus-seeking behavior.
And so do girls. You make it sound that this is a bad thing.
This being slashdot, I suspect it's just fear of the unknown.
WAIT, WAT? When did this discussion switch over to talking about the AIX object data manager?
Let's face it. Windows doesn't have a monopoly in OSs with a non-transparent non-intuitive hard-to-access system configuration repository. AIX is one of the biggest commercial Unix variants out there, and will make any sysadmin raised in a sane SunOS/Linux environment pull out every hair in his/her head.
I think AIX is the reason that the informal motto of the system administration community is "Down, not across".
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I've always had good luck with "man -k". That's the one I learned first, really; "apropos" always struck me as redundant (and too much typing). I guess "apropos" is historically older, but whatever.
So if we stipulate that you remember "man", you might conceivably "man man" which documents the "-k" switch. I don't know if that'd be enough to set your feet on the path, but frankly, administrative tasks in any operating system are always a matter of "what tool, used in what way"... and if you don't know it, good luck finding it.
Which is why admins are generally made by tribal absorption and received wisdom (i.e., OJT), or by much experimentation. Or maybe "go to a class, get your cert, don't lose your training books".
trying extra-hard to prove that correlation is not causation.
"The last time these worms went up, the shuttle crashed. But we're gonna prove the two facts aren't related! LIFTOFF!"
no.
I'm pretty sure that there are Christmas exterior displays in my neighborhood which have been continuously up longer than most Internet sites. By simple longevity, they probably deserve static persistent network addressing more than, for instance, Zynga.
If I remember correctly, that uses a specialized bacterial colony
And so do we.
and is not very efficient, compared to its size. Probably even less than this turbine
Yeah, we do have a cell-level integration advantage. That's a common problem with add-on infrastructure.
You'll know for sure if beautiful women suddenly start throwing themselves at 4channers in public.
That's not a sign of a covert government action; that's a sign of the Apocalypse.
Sure, but the public face of the government response doesn't really hint of "someone else's screwup". I'm sure that in private, both Sony and government robots are muttering under their breaths about incompetent gaijin... but publicly, the gov is jumping on Sony's Japan operations.
Discovering Microsoft wants YOU to be its virtualized Linux would be like discovering the hulking mouthbreathing neighborhood bully wants to be your boyfriend, and no, you don't have any say in the matter.
This is certainly not something I would have expected of the Japanese government, although I'll admit I hadn't thought very much about it since the business-friendly era of the "bend-over-backwards and kiss business' butt" MITI. Of course, that was international trade, and this is about domestic business.
I have the beginnings of a theory, though. The recent revelations about the government's virtually non-existent oversight over the nuclear power industry, and TEPCO in particular, may have sensitized the entire Japanese cabinet and bureaucracy to public perceptions of being asleep at the switch... hence, the surprising and almost-literal leaping to the defense of the public interest against a danger to network and financial security. (Yeah, comparing Fukushima to the PSN hack is ridiculous, except for the change in behavior of the government between the two events. Correlation != causation and all..)
As a theory, it strains my credibility, and I just thought it up, but who knows?
Yeah. The achievement became considerably less impressive when they relocated the source city to the destination country. They just flew the solar-powered airplane out of city limits.
The real achievement wasn't the airplane. It was solving the cultural/political tension in Brussels by physically relocating it to a new country (nearly 700 km distant and 400 meters in elevation). (Yes, I'm American, but I figured I'd show a little respect to the continent involved and use metric distances.)
Really, folks, congratulations on relocating a city of over a million people to Switzerland.
Interesting thought: What are NATO and the European Union going to do, since Brussels was a major "capital" for both and Switzerland isn't a member of either?
an unholy marriage between Microsoft Sync and Google Prediction API: Auto Navigation Clippy.
Clippy: "Hi! I see you're trying to drive to your drug dealer's place again. Would you like me to take over?"
Driver: "No! Heheh, I don't know why the computer would say that, Mom."
Mom: <glare>
The only way Joe Sixpack would even recognize the word "fragmentation" is his stint in the National Guard, where he learned that you wanna throw the grenade really, really hard, or you'd be picking fragmentation out of your butt.
So the phrase "platform fragmentation" is a fine piece of marketing disinformation, even if it has no factual basis. "Your shiny fruit-themed entertainment electronics friend will never explode in your pocket, unlike that evil man-killing robot bomb maker."
Actually, that's not entirely true. I find bitter, begrudging old curmudgeons uproariously funny. Coming across a particularly dried up old prune and mocking him mercilessly can turn my whole day around.
If my kid throws a rock that breaks your window, I probably won't get away with "Yeah, I'm a part of his founding body, but that rock didn't originate with me". It's technically true but effectively worthless as a disclaimer.
Well, that's the difference between a lab prototype and a production model, innit? Unless you're one of those people who (A) don't believe in prototyping, or (B) think you can stick a case on your prototype, box it up, and sell it as the production model.
And frankly, this does feel like a hobbyist toolset, but a lot of very influential system designs started out as some hobbyist's garage project.
They're just jelly they didn't patent their "business process".
The obvious joke, in classic Slashdot style, is:
1) Take legal possession of uploaded pictures
2) "Partner with organizations"
3) ????
4) PROFIT!
it forces everyone to re-evaluate and that is the best thing that can happen.
Disputable.
What, precisely, are we re-evaluating? Novelty for novelty's sake is a disease. Stability can be important, even overridingly so.
Please provide a concrete example of an actual problem that these "innovations" purport to solve.
Ubuntu is in danger of rendering itself irrelevant to any but the "Oooh, shiny" crowd, and Apple already has a lock on that.
Here's another italicized Latin phrase: ad hominem, as in "cheap, pointless ad hominem".
Get your mommy to stop playing with your "uncle" of the week, come down to the basement, and explain the harder words to you.
(That's another example of "cheap, pointless ad hominem", just less limp-wristed and pseudo-intellectual than yours.)
You're saying Flash, running "inside" Chrome, is by definition outside of Chrome's sandbox? So it's not Chrome's fault, it's Flash's?
Wrong. Flash is running inside the browser, the browser is running inside the OS, and the OS is running on the hardware. Clean encapsulation, and any leakage from one layer to the other is per definitionem the responsibility of the leaking layer.* So Flash is leaking through Chrome to the OS. Deal with it and stop lying.
*BTW, GOOG, if you engineered it so that Flash runs "alongside" the browser, and not within the sandbox... you fail it. Your sandbox is worthless, your browser is worthless, and your word is less than worthless.
With most modern distros, if you're upgrading (CENTOS 5.5 to CENTOS 5.6, for instance, or Ubuntu Furry Frog to Gassy Goose) it's not even a re-install, just a "yum upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade".
If you're switching distros, yeah, that's probably a wipe-and-install. But that'd be just about the only circumstance.
Oh, I do sincerely doubt that.