If anything, I think you should stop focussing on getting Reiser4 into the kernel and instead start demonstrating the applications of your ideas on semantics. In other words - put what you've built to work outside the kernel and prove to people that they cannot live without a next-generation filing system. It may even mean doing things you have never done before, like creating a new distro derivative.
Agreed. AFAICT, reiser3 went into the kernel because people wanted a journaling filesystem, and that was the first available. It didn't go in because people wanted all the theoretical possibilities of the reiser filesystem. That's not going to change until there are some real killer apps that actually demonstrate that the concepts have more than theoretical value--and getting reiser4 into the kernel doesn't really have anything to do with that.
1. Because most "news sites" simply regurgitate (or flat-out copy) stories from other "news sites". The amount of real investigative journalism is approaching zero; rumor and hearsay become self-perpetuating.
That's an utterly useless generalization that in no way contradicts or otherwise addresses any of the points you're attempting to refute. It's merely an attempt to change the subject with a non-sequitor.
No, it isn't. It's a direct reply to your question, which was, "why do so many news sources report the theory". That's the question I replied to, not the question about the foam. The fact that something is written up in a news story doesn't make it true.
[snip further rant]
You obviously still haven't read the CAIB report. I didn't bother to respond to your original message because it would be a waste of time until you've read the authoritative source already linked in a previous post. The issue of whether changes to the foam composition somehow made worse foam is completely moot, as you'll see if you ever actually read the CAIB report, because the foam that fell off columbia's ET was attached prior to the reformulation. The question of bad foam is worth studying, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the Columbia disaster. Tying the two together is nothing but junk science.
Your post is a rant about the evil EPA that makes a lot of assertions utterly without regard to the facts of the case. You ask leading questions like "do we have to bow to the...incentives to never find that environmental controls...do have negative...effects" which are pointless (the answer is obviously no) but which are intended to cast doubt on any conclusion that the columbia tragedy simply doesn't fall into that category.
So why do so many News sites report exactly what I am saying?
1. Because most "news sites" simply regurgitate (or flat-out copy) stories from other "news sites". The amount of real investigative journalism is approaching zero; rumor and hearsay become self-perpetuating.
2. Because there is a major ideological incentive for environmental controls to be "the cause" of the Columbia disaster. There is a large consumer population that is eager to hear confirmation of what they already knew--that the big bad EPA causes more problems than it solves. Providing that population with the product they're looking for sells more papers and leads to a satisfied "told you so" and a happy consumer.
Right back at you. We tried out a Dell server at work (2650 iirc). It crashed 3 times during the install (kickstart), and then within an hour of putting any load on it. Needless to say, the server only stayed in the rack for about 2 days before we shipped it back.
Of course you should have shipped it back--you obviously got one that was damaged in shipping. Do you really believe that it's normal for dell servers to crash during an installation routine? I'm sure you can make some snippy response and get moderated +5 funny, but the reality is that dell obviously wouldn't be making money if it was normal for their servers to arrive doa. I've got racks full of 2650's, and I've only had to swap out some fans now and then. I've got some IBMs also, and they haven't been any more or less reliable than the dells. (Although, oddly, when IBM shipped us the dual opterons we had to install the second cpu's ourselves. You'd think IBM's price premium over dell would at least cover assembly.)
Sometimes, when the lights goes out, you can really hear what it is like to be in total silence. The refrigerator stops running, the air conditioners stop running. The computer fans and drives stop spinning, and suddenly you're thrust into this silence that is eerily uncomfortable.
Hmm. In my experience power failures are terribly noisy--all the UPS's kick in and alarms start wailing. Then the generators start to turn over--yikes!
The political advantages that could have been gained by a successful lunar orbit would have done a lot for the prestige of the former Soviet Union
Only if they had done it first. Once the US won the race the political calculation was that it was better to claim they didn't care and save the further expenditures than to try and get people excited about being second place.
are you implying that for-profit developers don't take pride in their code?
All of them? No. Some of them? Definitely. If you don't know any coders who work 9-5 and don't care what they're writing as long as they get paid, you must not know many coders. OTOH, you won't find many of those working on open-source projects in their spare time.
Truly good CEO's are probably far and few between, and if a CEO is making a company billions of dollars, they probably will get a good payoff. Not fair you say? I would love to do a job where I could make lots of money too. On the other hand, am I good enough where I could actually take the reigns, stress, and responsibility of a big company like that and make it profitable? Probably not.
That's a nice theory, but the reality is that these days you could get a job as a CEO, get millions of dollars in compensation, do a bad job, get fired, and still get another job as a CEO. (Hi Carly!) CEO's and the boards who set their salaries (and whose salaries are set in a reciprocal fashion) love to claim that the pay is related to responsibility & performance, but that's demonstrably false. I'd love to have the opportunity to be a bad CEO at a major corporation for a year or two, so I could retire early on the golden parachute.
That sounds like complete and utter bull to me. I've never heard of such a fine -- and I work on gensets for a caterpillar dealer.
Ah, the "I'm ignorant, so it must not exist" premise--what a classic.
Try googling for keywords like "PTE" (potential to emit), "EPA", and "Title V". The regulations depend on your location, the size of the generator, the quantity of pollutants, etc. In some cases you're small enough to not have to worry, in some cases you'll need to do paperwork, and in some cases you'll need a permit. The "number of hours per year for an emergency generator" rule is covered by an EPA memo which permitted sites to use a small per-year runtime to calculate their PTE, making it easier to duck under the minimums--but in return you couldn't run your generator too much or you wouldn't be able to call it an emergency generator and you'd have to file more paperwork. Failing to file the paperwork makes you liable to a fine.
Assuming you're buying in bulk (Meaning you need large storage capacity too) you can get the price to within a few percentage of buying electricity. The additional cost of running on generator power when needed will be offset by the fact that you don't need cooling. When the grid is up and running, you'll be pocketing that money.
Right up to the point where you get the big honkin' EPA fine for running an inefficient, polluting generator. We have huge diesel capacity here, but we never run the things except in a (real, not convenience) emergency because you get fined for running an emergency generator more than N days/year. If you want to avoid that you need to run a clean generator, probably off of natural gas rather than diesel and it will cost you a lot more than grid power in any reasonable locality in a first-world country.
Don't try and snow me, man, I'm not making a dramatic or surprising announcement here, this is a totally conservative prediction.
It's shipping at 1.67 now. That would already be faster than a 3 GHz P4 except for the damn 166 MHz bus.
So what? Intel is already shipping processors faster than 3GHz. Your argument boils down to "the G5 would be faster than intel's previous top-of-the line if apple would just rearchitect sometime in the future." Whoopie.
Intel has precisely two architectures right now. The P4 core, and the old P6 core. Everything they're shipping is a variant of one or the other of these.
Well, no. They're also still making itaniums and xscales (old arm) and 186, 286, 386, 486, i960, etc. They've got a lot of people working on a lot of different things.
Only one point I'd like to add though, is that unlike hitler and other fascists in history, I do believe Bush is not so much after the allure and power in and of itself, but rather by a dubious sense of 'higher purpose' by his beliefs and his insistance that everyone share them. From his point of view it's his 'duty' to bring democracy and stability to the world
I think you must forget the state of germany in the years following WWI. The economy was in a shambles, leading to high unemployment and hyperinflation. The country was struggling under the demands of the versailles treaty, which many in germany considered unjustified and frankly illegal. From his (and his supporters) point of view, Hitler did bring a return of stability and the rule of law. They just glossed over the bad parts. The thing is, most tyrants come to power believing that their rule will be beneficial and that are helping their people. Very few tyrants go in with the goal of being evil.
You know, I don't pay anything for my Media Center program guide. It's just there, and just works.
This is why monopolists should be restricted in how they compete in other markets. MS uses their guaranteed monopoly revenue stream to underwrite the costs of their media pc, thereby making their system artificially attractive and hurting competition with other offerings. If a monopolist overcharges you and then kicks back a token couple of bucks, why on earth would you be happy about the situation?
The Honda Accord Hybrid does not exist to be a fuel-efficent car; it's for performance.
Yup, it's another scheme foisted off on american taxpayers by the automakers. They get political credit for being seen to "do something" and we get stuck financing their marketing to the tune of $2500/car.
I have a 1978 British Mini (the old ones) and the gas mileage is anywhere between 50 and 60 mpg. Here we are almost 30 years later and we are getting- lower gas mileage?
How are the emissions? There were a lot of old cars that got great fuel economy, but spit some really noxious stuff out the tailpipe.
You misspelled "also" as "only". Having a featureful editor than groks every single config file on my system, supports context-sensitive help for each possible option, and shows me what values are legal for all of them sounds like a Good Thing.
It sounds to me like Something That XML Isn't Going To Magically Give You. See, for example, the XML format in question--it doesn't have a structure that lends itself to autocompleting anything useful. Just because something is in XML doesn't make it better--it just makes it XML. I've found it much more common for XML config files to be of the type <item>
<key>foo</key>
<attribute>fooatt</attribute>
<key>bar</key>
<attribute>baratt</attribute> </item> (which is definitely harder to read than foo: fooatt bar: baratt with no added value) than something useful like <item>
<foo>fooatt</foo>
<bar>baratt</bar> </item> which might actually be useful, but would also be way more work than most companies are going to put into things once they've got the "XML" checkbox filled in.
You're looking at this from the perspective of someone who understands and remembers the differences in a dozen config file formats. Most people don't.
Do comments in my.whateverrc start with a hash mark? A semicolon? A double slash? C-style/*... */ delimiters? XML-style ? Are you even allowed to have comments?
If you're not starting the config file from scratch (which is the common case) you can generally figure this out pretty quick by looking at the bloody file...
You can ensure that the file is a valid property list XML file, but you can't make sure that it contains launchd configuration info
Of course you can. A launchd configuration property list de-serializes to a CFDictionary. If the CFDictionary doesn't include the required key-value pairs, it's not a valid launchd configuration file.
Syntactic and semantic structure happen in two different places. One happens as the file is de-serialized in Core Foundation. The other happens inside the launchd code itself.
If the XML needs a second processing step in order to be validated there's no advantage whatsoever in maintaining the config file in XML; there are far more readable formats that can do the same job. This is just an example of a company chasing a buzzword.
I'm a professional Photographer, and I recently purchased a D2H, and wheter or not nikons raw format.NEF, is fully supported, I would still Buy Nikon. Because All of my lenses are Nikon.
If you're a professional you should know that you can get some nice digital cameras from fuji that use nikon f-mount lenses.
When we told Sun about it they dropped their price
I'd be more willing to buy sun if they stopped propping up their reseller channels and just made their real prices available on a web page. Dell (for example) lets me pick the machine I want by choosing parts from a web page and then tells me the price. If I don't like the price I go on to the next vendor. With sun I have to invest time and money just to find out what sun feels like charging, then I have to go back and ask them if they want to change the price. I'm just not interested in wasting time playing games with sun or their resellers.
To be fair, the same schedule-mangling bullshit happens in the US. Shows are preempted all the time for baseball games and such, or moved around so that the networks can put their most popular shows in a head-to-head deathmatch.
Working accross virtual desktops would be a nice toggle. But the main problem is that if I alt-tab from window 1 to window 2, do some work, and alt-tab again, I should be back to window 1--not window 3.
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Agreed. AFAICT, reiser3 went into the kernel because people wanted a journaling filesystem, and that was the first available. It didn't go in because people wanted all the theoretical possibilities of the reiser filesystem. That's not going to change until there are some real killer apps that actually demonstrate that the concepts have more than theoretical value--and getting reiser4 into the kernel doesn't really have anything to do with that.
No, it isn't. It's a direct reply to your question, which was, "why do so many news sources report the theory". That's the question I replied to, not the question about the foam. The fact that something is written up in a news story doesn't make it true.
[snip further rant]
You obviously still haven't read the CAIB report. I didn't bother to respond to your original message because it would be a waste of time until you've read the authoritative source already linked in a previous post. The issue of whether changes to the foam composition somehow made worse foam is completely moot, as you'll see if you ever actually read the CAIB report, because the foam that fell off columbia's ET was attached prior to the reformulation. The question of bad foam is worth studying, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the Columbia disaster. Tying the two together is nothing but junk science.
Your post is a rant about the evil EPA that makes a lot of assertions utterly without regard to the facts of the case. You ask leading questions like "do we have to bow to the...incentives to never find that environmental controls...do have negative...effects" which are pointless (the answer is obviously no) but which are intended to cast doubt on any conclusion that the columbia tragedy simply doesn't fall into that category.
1. Because most "news sites" simply regurgitate (or flat-out copy) stories from other "news sites". The amount of real investigative journalism is approaching zero; rumor and hearsay become self-perpetuating.
2. Because there is a major ideological incentive for environmental controls to be "the cause" of the Columbia disaster. There is a large consumer population that is eager to hear confirmation of what they already knew--that the big bad EPA causes more problems than it solves. Providing that population with the product they're looking for sells more papers and leads to a satisfied "told you so" and a happy consumer.
Of course you should have shipped it back--you obviously got one that was damaged in shipping. Do you really believe that it's normal for dell servers to crash during an installation routine? I'm sure you can make some snippy response and get moderated +5 funny, but the reality is that dell obviously wouldn't be making money if it was normal for their servers to arrive doa. I've got racks full of 2650's, and I've only had to swap out some fans now and then. I've got some IBMs also, and they haven't been any more or less reliable than the dells. (Although, oddly, when IBM shipped us the dual opterons we had to install the second cpu's ourselves. You'd think IBM's price premium over dell would at least cover assembly.)
Hmm. In my experience power failures are terribly noisy--all the UPS's kick in and alarms start wailing. Then the generators start to turn over--yikes!
Only if they had done it first. Once the US won the race the political calculation was that it was better to claim they didn't care and save the further expenditures than to try and get people excited about being second place.
All of them? No. Some of them? Definitely. If you don't know any coders who work 9-5 and don't care what they're writing as long as they get paid, you must not know many coders. OTOH, you won't find many of those working on open-source projects in their spare time.
That's a nice theory, but the reality is that these days you could get a job as a CEO, get millions of dollars in compensation, do a bad job, get fired, and still get another job as a CEO. (Hi Carly!) CEO's and the boards who set their salaries (and whose salaries are set in a reciprocal fashion) love to claim that the pay is related to responsibility & performance, but that's demonstrably false. I'd love to have the opportunity to be a bad CEO at a major corporation for a year or two, so I could retire early on the golden parachute.
shutter? like on a window? (Warning: if you're going to be a language nazi you need to proofread...)
Ah, the "I'm ignorant, so it must not exist" premise--what a classic.
Try googling for keywords like "PTE" (potential to emit), "EPA", and "Title V". The regulations depend on your location, the size of the generator, the quantity of pollutants, etc. In some cases you're small enough to not have to worry, in some cases you'll need to do paperwork, and in some cases you'll need a permit. The "number of hours per year for an emergency generator" rule is covered by an EPA memo which permitted sites to use a small per-year runtime to calculate their PTE, making it easier to duck under the minimums--but in return you couldn't run your generator too much or you wouldn't be able to call it an emergency generator and you'd have to file more paperwork. Failing to file the paperwork makes you liable to a fine.
Right up to the point where you get the big honkin' EPA fine for running an inefficient, polluting generator. We have huge diesel capacity here, but we never run the things except in a (real, not convenience) emergency because you get fined for running an emergency generator more than N days/year. If you want to avoid that you need to run a clean generator, probably off of natural gas rather than diesel and it will cost you a lot more than grid power in any reasonable locality in a first-world country.
So what? Intel is already shipping processors faster than 3GHz. Your argument boils down to "the G5 would be faster than intel's previous top-of-the line if apple would just rearchitect sometime in the future." Whoopie.
Well, no. They're also still making itaniums and xscales (old arm) and 186, 286, 386, 486, i960, etc. They've got a lot of people working on a lot of different things.
I think you must forget the state of germany in the years following WWI. The economy was in a shambles, leading to high unemployment and hyperinflation. The country was struggling under the demands of the versailles treaty, which many in germany considered unjustified and frankly illegal. From his (and his supporters) point of view, Hitler did bring a return of stability and the rule of law. They just glossed over the bad parts. The thing is, most tyrants come to power believing that their rule will be beneficial and that are helping their people. Very few tyrants go in with the goal of being evil.
This is why monopolists should be restricted in how they compete in other markets. MS uses their guaranteed monopoly revenue stream to underwrite the costs of their media pc, thereby making their system artificially attractive and hurting competition with other offerings. If a monopolist overcharges you and then kicks back a token couple of bucks, why on earth would you be happy about the situation?
Yup, it's another scheme foisted off on american taxpayers by the automakers. They get political credit for being seen to "do something" and we get stuck financing their marketing to the tune of $2500/car.
How are the emissions? There were a lot of old cars that got great fuel economy, but spit some really noxious stuff out the tailpipe.
Man, you really can't take any criticism of your holy cow, can you?
It sounds to me like Something That XML Isn't Going To Magically Give You. See, for example, the XML format in question--it doesn't have a structure that lends itself to autocompleting anything useful. Just because something is in XML doesn't make it better--it just makes it XML. I've found it much more common for XML config files to be of the type
<item>
<key>foo</key>
<attribute>fooatt</attribute>
<key>bar</key>
<attribute>baratt</attribute>
</item>
(which is definitely harder to read than
foo: fooatt
bar: baratt
with no added value) than something useful like
<item>
<foo>fooatt</foo>
<bar>baratt</bar>
</item>
which might actually be useful, but would also be way more work than most companies are going to put into things once they've got the "XML" checkbox filled in.
If you're not starting the config file from scratch (which is the common case) you can generally figure this out pretty quick by looking at the bloody file...
If the XML needs a second processing step in order to be validated there's no advantage whatsoever in maintaining the config file in XML; there are far more readable formats that can do the same job. This is just an example of a company chasing a buzzword.
Yes. The S2 and S3 are based on an N80 body (mirror, AF, metering, etc.) with modifications for digital features (lcd, card slot) and electronics.
If you're a professional you should know that you can get some nice digital cameras from fuji that use nikon f-mount lenses.
I'd be more willing to buy sun if they stopped propping up their reseller channels and just made their real prices available on a web page. Dell (for example) lets me pick the machine I want by choosing parts from a web page and then tells me the price. If I don't like the price I go on to the next vendor. With sun I have to invest time and money just to find out what sun feels like charging, then I have to go back and ask them if they want to change the price. I'm just not interested in wasting time playing games with sun or their resellers.
To be fair, the same schedule-mangling bullshit happens in the US. Shows are preempted all the time for baseball games and such, or moved around so that the networks can put their most popular shows in a head-to-head deathmatch.
Working accross virtual desktops would be a nice toggle. But the main problem is that if I alt-tab from window 1 to window 2, do some work, and alt-tab again, I should be back to window 1--not window 3.