I don't care much for OS religious wars - at the moment I use Mac OSX, linux, freebsd, solaris, window XP and have all the current game consoles. My hatred for Halo is pure and undiluted by dislike for MS as a company:)
Guess I'm a type 3 Halo-hater. I dislike Halo because it is a shitty game and the constant gushing about how wonderful it is irritates me. I got suckered the once, but I'll probably never bother to waste money on a console FPS again.
Because it is kind of creepy for adults to accept being treated like kindergartners for the sake of increased efficiency.
There is no argument that tracking fleet operations can result in greater efficiency and greater profit, but who cares. This kind of tracking is insulting and dehumanizing. Construction workers and garbage men and the like will use the fleet van to return movies and take an extra 30 minutes for lunch, this sort of tracking will only serve to make a job that is already low status and unpleasant even more so.
I don't even think it is France blowing smoke, I think it is a politician or faction trying to gather favor from the xenophobes that masquerade as conservatives in every nation.
America has quite a few long standing differences with France, some of them inherited from Britain, and some of them as a result of France attempting to recapture superpower status after WW2. Despite those differences American and French culture both spring from Frankish/Germanic stock and are fairly comprehensible to each other, because of this we are major trading partners - I refuse to believe that a modern and sane nation would open a trade war for something as trivial as the hostile acquisition of a video game company.
Not sure how my expressing that opinion was flamebait, but my guess is that someone found it ideologically disagreeable and therefore an incitement to flame.
I bet someone in the French government is just making noise to score some easy points off the eevul Americans. This is not an essential business (like aerospace, major textiles, etc) and not worth the grief justifying their action in light of their WTO agreements.
There may be some talk talk, but no real action from the French gov.
Why does everyone assume these kinds of decisions are just pulled out of someone's asshole?
We can't help it, thousands of hours in meeting rooms have taught us that decision makers do pull decisions out their asshole - it's almost like bobbing for apples for some of them.
Why is a high tech solution to a low tech problem a bad idea? Why is the language barrier a "low tech" problem anyway?
By having signs in a second language
And what should the second language be on those signs? English might be a reasonable 2nd language I suppose - I'm really not sure about the languages read by visitors to Japan, but what about the 3rd language to go on the signs. How many languages need to go on the signs to cover 2/3 of tourists or 3/4 of them - what percentage of tourists really need to be informed by sign.
You see this as a simple problem because you didn't bother to actually think about it.
It's just pathetic how the anti-Americanism just has to pop up when criticism of another country comes up. Is there no other line of line of defense here?
There may be other lines of defense, but they are complicated and might confuse people - mudslinging is easy and appeals to people without the authors or readers having to do any work or actual thinking.
Of course appeal to emotion and mudsling are not the sole providence of lefties, many times I've seen criticisms of the US answered with criticisms of Russia or China or the EU with a hard right slant. Quite a few of the political bloggers left and right are very good at these deflection and misdirection tactics.
Some of the ideas in this system were bad, but auth aggregation is an incredibly useful idea already in widespread use. There are two ways I can think of that this idea could be usefully designed with a fair number of fairly minor variations.
The real problem I see at this point is that of existing auth protocols RADIUS has already been extended beyond what it can do, diameter has turned into typical standards body masturbation that is so complex that complete working implementations are years away, and TACACS/TACACS+ are proprietary.
only academic and possibly government funded research will use this.
Since I'm not a scientist I may be talking out my ass here, but I've always had the notion that government and academic research is the larger part of the research done in the US.
The pharmaceutical and bio-tech companies will continue to do their own thing and make billions.
As they should. I dislike greedy and parasitic companies that have their lawyers lay exclusive claim to anything they can get their mitts on, but I don't see how anyone would have a problem with companies making a profit from actual research that they funded themselves.
Shared memory servers with defined behavior and controls for multiple readers/writer processes and threads.
Standard debugging and trace versions of system libraries.
Standardized time types for all commonly used timer tasks
Clean system header files and hierarchies that don't require every compiler vendor to do stupid and confusing things to meet various published standards.
Standarized interfaces for process read/write and trace
A very clear distinction between userland and kernel threads in standard system libraries
Tons more, mostly it is just a problem of cruft and people trying to deal with every standard org that ever decided to publish the One True Unix standard making their standard just different enough to be a PITA.
Other than the llama thing, people have done all that crap and more with Windows installation tools.
All those things have been done as well with solaris packages, with the same sorts of bad results.
People have all this pain and anguish about unix installs because so much software follows the old way of just mushing stuff into/usr/bin and/etc or wherever else seemed like a good idea at the time, better designed software tends to have have its own hierarchy in/usr/local/whatever (or/opt/whatever) with a service start/stop script for init and maybe a service uid as the only other modification to the system.
I get along with my younger siblings and most of the children of my friends, but the majority of random children I see in public places tend to piss me off.
I'm curious to know if that was home user, professional, or engineering support - in my experience the only support departments worth anything have been engineering support. Even engineering support is hit or miss, BSDI and Livingston had really excellent support that went drastically downhill after an acquisition, I've never been happy with cisco or Lucent support - but for a large enough customer they will get you an on site rep that will make things tolerable. But in my experience with PC manufacturers, ISP support, and corporate help desks the desire to spend as little as possible makes for a worthless service that angers any customer that comes in contact with it.
Apples and oranges. Lobbying for fundamental changes to basic property use rights by industry groups and worrying about the effect of removing our ability to compete are two very different things. There are quite a few hypocrites and fools on slashdot, but that does not invalidate every opinion or even those opinions that you happen to find hypocritical.
I can't believe it. 10s of 1000s of people are dead and all you're concerned about is how the USA will be perceived.
I doubt the fellow believes that the way in which the world perceives the US response to the tragedy is the most important thing, only a real scumbag could be cold enough to think like that. But world opinion regarding the US is important enough to be worth considering, events of the last decade have really brought home the knowledge that hostility and negative public opinion can be manipulated to create terrorism and justify brutality - being aware of that and trying to head off some of the vitriol is probably a good idea.
You're right, I didn't mean to disparage all support people as mindless drudges. A respected, well trained, and well staffed support center could be a good and enjoyable place to work.
There is a serious problem with the removal of low level tech jobs, as they often serve as a training and filtering ground for higher expertise jobs within a company and industry.
Grunt coding or tech support may be tedious, but such jobs are a good place for someone just out of college and with no practical experience. A tedious and low responsibility job gives junior employees a chance to learn how things actually work as opposed to how they are supposed to work. Internships and temporary hires can handle this apprenticeship role to a certain degree, but I don't think it is sufficient.
Like lots of 16 year olds I read a lot of Nietzsche. He is impressive in a way guaranteed to impress a 16 year old. Anyone who has lived more than a couple years in the real world
can spot that he is a BS artist. His philosophy is very agreeable to anyone susceptible to righteous anger at the fact that the world will not reward them merely for being smarter than average.
There is some actual substance to some of his work, but it is fairly thin and most of it is covered better by other philosophers. So have you read Nietzsche or just scanned him looking for things to agree with so you can sneer at everyone who does not recognize how great you are?
I could have done without that editorial line myself, but your comment about the FCC giving bandwidth back to the public is either naive or intentionally misleading. When it comes to making political hay and rewarding the appropriate cronies the policies of the FCC are very closely aligned with Bush. Bush is doing a reasonable job in protecting the nation against terrorism, but many people believe that Bush is a little too quick to apply the terrorist label to things for no reason other than to benefit himself or his supporters or raise public awareness of how much he is doing to protect us.
I doubt Nietzche could do any permanent harm. At worst exposure will lead to the program wearing lots of black and scowling at people while telling them "I will destroy you!", but it will get over it soon enough.
I don't think it is sour grapes, just the natural reaction of a female who sees a man or boy enjoying himself. Remember who was always tattling when you had fun as a kid - girls. Remember who was always putting a stop to your throwing your younger brother off the roof - moms. This was bound to happen the second we gave women the right to vote...
(And because the humorless gits that inhabit the real world have made their way to slashdot, I'm going to point out that the preceeding paragraph was a joke)
Unlike those arrogant French anachronisms we don't care about the purity and stability of our language, English is a mutt and we will gladly steal any word that isn't nailed down.
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I don't care much for OS religious wars - at the moment I use Mac OSX, linux, freebsd, solaris, window XP and have all the current game consoles. My hatred for Halo is pure and undiluted by dislike for MS as a company :)
Guess I'm a type 3 Halo-hater. I dislike Halo because it is a shitty game and the constant gushing about how wonderful it is irritates me. I got suckered the once, but I'll probably never bother to waste money on a console FPS again.
Because it is kind of creepy for adults to accept being treated like kindergartners for the sake of increased efficiency.
There is no argument that tracking fleet operations can result in greater efficiency and greater profit, but who cares. This kind of tracking is insulting and dehumanizing. Construction workers and garbage men and the like will use the fleet van to return movies and take an extra 30 minutes for lunch, this sort of tracking will only serve to make a job that is already low status and unpleasant even more so.
America has quite a few long standing differences with France, some of them inherited from Britain, and some of them as a result of France attempting to recapture superpower status after WW2. Despite those differences American and French culture both spring from Frankish/Germanic stock and are fairly comprehensible to each other, because of this we are major trading partners - I refuse to believe that a modern and sane nation would open a trade war for something as trivial as the hostile acquisition of a video game company.
Not sure how my expressing that opinion was flamebait, but my guess is that someone found it ideologically disagreeable and therefore an incitement to flame.
FreedomWine and FreedomWomen? Sounds like the 60s all over again.
I bet someone in the French government is just making noise to score some easy points off the eevul Americans. This is not an essential business (like aerospace, major textiles, etc) and not worth the grief justifying their action in light of their WTO agreements.
There may be some talk talk, but no real action from the French gov.
We can't help it, thousands of hours in meeting rooms have taught us that decision makers do pull decisions out their asshole - it's almost like bobbing for apples for some of them.
Why is a high tech solution to a low tech problem a bad idea? Why is the language barrier a "low tech" problem anyway?
By having signs in a second language
And what should the second language be on those signs? English might be a reasonable 2nd language I suppose - I'm really not sure about the languages read by visitors to Japan, but what about the 3rd language to go on the signs. How many languages need to go on the signs to cover 2/3 of tourists or 3/4 of them - what percentage of tourists really need to be informed by sign.
You see this as a simple problem because you didn't bother to actually think about it.
There may be other lines of defense, but they are complicated and might confuse people - mudslinging is easy and appeals to people without the authors or readers having to do any work or actual thinking.
Of course appeal to emotion and mudsling are not the sole providence of lefties, many times I've seen criticisms of the US answered with criticisms of Russia or China or the EU with a hard right slant. Quite a few of the political bloggers left and right are very good at these deflection and misdirection tactics.
Some of the ideas in this system were bad, but auth aggregation is an incredibly useful idea already in widespread use. There are two ways I can think of that this idea could be usefully designed with a fair number of fairly minor variations.
The real problem I see at this point is that of existing auth protocols RADIUS has already been extended beyond what it can do, diameter has turned into typical standards body masturbation that is so complex that complete working implementations are years away, and TACACS/TACACS+ are proprietary.
Since I'm not a scientist I may be talking out my ass here, but I've always had the notion that government and academic research is the larger part of the research done in the US.
The pharmaceutical and bio-tech companies will continue to do their own thing and make billions.
As they should. I dislike greedy and parasitic companies that have their lawyers lay exclusive claim to anything they can get their mitts on, but I don't see how anyone would have a problem with companies making a profit from actual research that they funded themselves.
Tons more, mostly it is just a problem of cruft and people trying to deal with every standard org that ever decided to publish the One True Unix standard making their standard just different enough to be a PITA.
All those things have been done as well with solaris packages, with the same sorts of bad results.
People have all this pain and anguish about unix installs because so much software follows the old way of just mushing stuff into /usr/bin and /etc or wherever else seemed like a good idea at the time, better designed software tends to have have its own hierarchy in /usr/local/whatever (or /opt/whatever) with a service start/stop script for init and maybe a service uid as the only other modification to the system.
I get along with my younger siblings and most of the children of my friends, but the majority of random children I see in public places tend to piss me off.
Those of use who dislike children don't care how intelligent they are, we just think the little monsters are obnoxious.
I'm curious to know if that was home user, professional, or engineering support - in my experience the only support departments worth anything have been engineering support. Even engineering support is hit or miss, BSDI and Livingston had really excellent support that went drastically downhill after an acquisition, I've never been happy with cisco or Lucent support - but for a large enough customer they will get you an on site rep that will make things tolerable. But in my experience with PC manufacturers, ISP support, and corporate help desks the desire to spend as little as possible makes for a worthless service that angers any customer that comes in contact with it.
Apples and oranges. Lobbying for fundamental changes to basic property use rights by industry groups and worrying about the effect of removing our ability to compete are two very different things. There are quite a few hypocrites and fools on slashdot, but that does not invalidate every opinion or even those opinions that you happen to find hypocritical.
I doubt the fellow believes that the way in which the world perceives the US response to the tragedy is the most important thing, only a real scumbag could be cold enough to think like that. But world opinion regarding the US is important enough to be worth considering, events of the last decade have really brought home the knowledge that hostility and negative public opinion can be manipulated to create terrorism and justify brutality - being aware of that and trying to head off some of the vitriol is probably a good idea.
You're right, I didn't mean to disparage all support people as mindless drudges. A respected, well trained, and well staffed support center could be a good and enjoyable place to work.
Grunt coding or tech support may be tedious, but such jobs are a good place for someone just out of college and with no practical experience. A tedious and low responsibility job gives junior employees a chance to learn how things actually work as opposed to how they are supposed to work. Internships and temporary hires can handle this apprenticeship role to a certain degree, but I don't think it is sufficient.
There is some actual substance to some of his work, but it is fairly thin and most of it is covered better by other philosophers. So have you read Nietzsche or just scanned him looking for things to agree with so you can sneer at everyone who does not recognize how great you are?
I could have done without that editorial line myself, but your comment about the FCC giving bandwidth back to the public is either naive or intentionally misleading. When it comes to making political hay and rewarding the appropriate cronies the policies of the FCC are very closely aligned with Bush. Bush is doing a reasonable job in protecting the nation against terrorism, but many people believe that Bush is a little too quick to apply the terrorist label to things for no reason other than to benefit himself or his supporters or raise public awareness of how much he is doing to protect us.
I doubt Nietzche could do any permanent harm. At worst exposure will lead to the program wearing lots of black and scowling at people while telling them "I will destroy you!", but it will get over it soon enough.
(And because the humorless gits that inhabit the real world have made their way to slashdot, I'm going to point out that the preceeding paragraph was a joke)
Unlike those arrogant French anachronisms we don't care about the purity and stability of our language, English is a mutt and we will gladly steal any word that isn't nailed down.