And redhat has paid for the development of exactly how much of what it puts into RHEL?
Don't get me wrong, redhat are a fantastic driver of FOSS software and do put a lot in, but your point about CentOS isn't really valid. Redhat build on a whole heap of stuff they get for free (Linux Kernel, GNU tools etc) and then make money selling them and their support services.
Due to the stuff apple has done with the hashing of files (what this project was trying to break), Amarok now eats your music collection on the latest generation of iPods.
Or rather, after any interaction with amarok the iPod refuses to recognise the contents of its own disc.
I recommend the linksys NSLU2 and debian. No noise at all when you use a USB flash drive as your main disk.
Runs web, email, ssh tunnel, the occasional programming exercise. I have another that has a big hard drive and runs torentflux-b4rt. Given that that is AJAX, MySQL and Lighttpd, with a torrent client too, that sort of low powered box should be fine for a dev environment.
Yes, until such time as they want to move their music to another machine, or put it on an external drive, or anything else that goes outside the "I organise everything" model that iTunes runs.
And getting it to play nicely in non-standard settings is something I've had to try and help non-techies with several times now. And it nearly had me stumped.
Not if your music software handles these things, and your player can use the files it generates. There are already such combinations, though a standard would be good.
Indeed. My friend plugged his brand new nano into my eeepc to charge.
Amarok fired up automatically, overwrote one of the hashed files and ate all his music. Amarok could still see it, but the iPod complained it was full and had no songs.
Thank god for that, really, it gave me a blessed few days of Australian road trip without having to listen to his godawful music collection.
But shame on apple for doing this, and shame on Amarok for overwriting files when reading the iPod contents.
Ah, but the western governments would soon institute a ministry of fun, and that would quickly come to the realisation that it would be best for the children if fun were banned entirely.
I read an interesting article on the standby issue a while back, can't remember who by. Basically it came down to this -
Switching off, rather than going to standby saves a tiny bit of power and is a good thing. Howvere, when looking at energy efficiency as a whole it's almost entirely insignificant compared to use of hot water or other modern day conveniences. Can't be bother to turn your devices of standby but want to make the same cut in energy use? Take one less shower every six months. Or run the washing machine one less time, maybe by wearing a pair of trousers for a day longer once in a while.
If we *really* want to cut energy usage, we need to look at the things people take for granted, not "make sure to unplug your playstation at night".
I agree on the war thing - resisting wars of opportunity or adventure is very different from wars of defence of yourselves or of clearly, obviously imperilled others.
I don't feel I owe anyone a debt though. I feel thankful that those people did come before me, but I also feel despair that seemingly everyone keeps getting the whole "free society" thing completely wrong, that we're scaring ourselves back in time and out of our own liberties, where we should be strengthening them.
Not that anywhere I go is going to be better, I just think there will be some lag time before I catch up with all the badness. And I can probably put up with a lot more if I live somewhere that isn't so damn cold and miserable most of the time.
Oh I am thankful I get the chance, and it's one of the reasons I'm leaving. As a (relatively) privileged westerner I think it would be wrong not to try and live in other places for a while.
But loyalty? Don't really know what it means in relation to a country.
Please don't misunderstand me -- I'm not being accusatory or trying to insult you."
As long as it's a fair question then here's a fair answer - I'm working on it, I anticipate emigrating in 6-12 months.
I still don't get this loyalty thing though. What's it supposed to count for? I mean, if the government goes to war am I supposed to join in, not because I agree but because of loyalty? I need some help with the concept, if it's not just tribalism and it's not supporting the government, and it's not just agreeing with what the people decide?
Ah, the invisible hand of the market, that will naturally sort all these things out.
Sorry bub, doesn't work that way, we have consumer protections for a reason - without them people would try to screw the consumer out of everything they own, and get away with it due to unfair terms and conditions.
In a capitalist nation, where money is "value", hell yes, if that toilet seat sells for a tidy profit then yes, he's more "valuable" and is going to get paid more.
In the wider sense, no, the carers are more valuable, but because there are many people willing to do it they aren't valued highly in monetary terms.
Supply and demand (and profitability) sets wage levels, not moral-value levels.
I think you'd find a hell of a lot of people disagree with you in less nationalist places outside the US.
Why do I owe any loyalty to the UK?
I was born here, great, I disagree with pretty much everythiung the government does, I find the people short-sighted, generally ignorant, scared and celebrity obsessed.
"It is not a matter of IF a woman can reach a level that determines if there is a glass ceiling, but rather if the effort needed in reaching that level is proportional to what men have to put in."
I can say the same about whether or not you were in the right school, the right society at university, had the right parents.
"quick google of the definition of "glass ceiling" and I think we can both agree that it is alive and strong in the tech sector."
I strongly disagree. I think there are just less women in the tech sector, and that's largely because they don't care for it. In the main, clearly not all women, I work with some very talented female engineers.
"There is an abundance of labour because there is an abundance of people who need the money."
Yup. But none of what you've said there applies in any way differently to men then women
"let's look at high payed professions: Doctors, male..."
Really? I've had more female doctors than male over the years.
"layers, male.."
Only fully qualified and practicing lawyer I know is female.
"tech field across the board, male..."
The reasons for which we're debating
"academia, male..."
Dunno which academia you're looking at but (outside of CS) it was pretty evenly split in my experience. Even had a variety of female lecturers when I studied chemical engineering for a year.
"pretty much every fortune 500 executive staff, dominated by males."
Yeah, I'll let you know what it's like when I get my turn up there. That's not just closed to women you know.
"I challenge you to find a high paying profession (let's say $100k/year) that is dominated by women in the same proportions that the ones I just listed are dominated by men."
I'd also like to point out the laws of supply and demand. The employer can only pay peanuts if he can get workers for that money. Nobody is forcing people to work in these jobs, but there is an abundance of labour willing to do them, therefore they are cheap. Factor in competition from overseas and there's no margin to do any differently.
I still don't see any conspiracy here. You'll have to do better than "here are some low paid professions that women mostly do".
If you want to talk about the women and children that do these things in other countries then that's fine, the world is full of examples of abuses of men, women and children. But in the west these jobs are badly paid because they are easy to fill.
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My experience was with the brand-new nanos just released a month or so back.
Don't know if the same happens with classic or touch.
And redhat has paid for the development of exactly how much of what it puts into RHEL?
Don't get me wrong, redhat are a fantastic driver of FOSS software and do put a lot in, but your point about CentOS isn't really valid. Redhat build on a whole heap of stuff they get for free (Linux Kernel, GNU tools etc) and then make money selling them and their support services.
Due to the stuff apple has done with the hashing of files (what this project was trying to break), Amarok now eats your music collection on the latest generation of iPods.
Or rather, after any interaction with amarok the iPod refuses to recognise the contents of its own disc.
Apple suck.
I recommend the linksys NSLU2 and debian. No noise at all when you use a USB flash drive as your main disk.
Runs web, email, ssh tunnel, the occasional programming exercise. I have another that has a big hard drive and runs torentflux-b4rt. Given that that is AJAX, MySQL and Lighttpd, with a torrent client too, that sort of low powered box should be fine for a dev environment.
Or a ten year old pc works too.
Yeah, my first thought was "how long did it take them to work that one out?"
Yes, until such time as they want to move their music to another machine, or put it on an external drive, or anything else that goes outside the "I organise everything" model that iTunes runs.
And getting it to play nicely in non-standard settings is something I've had to try and help non-techies with several times now. And it nearly had me stumped.
Not if your music software handles these things, and your player can use the files it generates. There are already such combinations, though a standard would be good.
It's not that special.
What's a smart playlist and why the fuck should I care?
I put songs onto a media player.
Simple - install cdex, have it autorun on cd entry, set path to media player.
Here gran, plug in a cd, wait for the track list to appear, hit this button.
Job done.
Indeed. My friend plugged his brand new nano into my eeepc to charge.
Amarok fired up automatically, overwrote one of the hashed files and ate all his music. Amarok could still see it, but the iPod complained it was full and had no songs.
Thank god for that, really, it gave me a blessed few days of Australian road trip without having to listen to his godawful music collection.
But shame on apple for doing this, and shame on Amarok for overwriting files when reading the iPod contents.
Well, I wasn't talking about on, just that a lot of fuss is made over standby, when it's not *that* big of a win, all things considered.
Ah, but the western governments would soon institute a ministry of fun, and that would quickly come to the realisation that it would be best for the children if fun were banned entirely.
Oh dear god my spelling and grammar suck in that last post.
Do excuse me!
"Can't be bother to turn your devices of standby but want to make the same cut in energy use?"
Worst sentence EVAR.
"Can't be bothered to turn your devices fully off but want the same cut in energy use?"
I read an interesting article on the standby issue a while back, can't remember who by. Basically it came down to this -
Switching off, rather than going to standby saves a tiny bit of power and is a good thing. Howvere, when looking at energy efficiency as a whole it's almost entirely insignificant compared to use of hot water or other modern day conveniences. Can't be bother to turn your devices of standby but want to make the same cut in energy use? Take one less shower every six months. Or run the washing machine one less time, maybe by wearing a pair of trousers for a day longer once in a while.
If we *really* want to cut energy usage, we need to look at the things people take for granted, not "make sure to unplug your playstation at night".
I agree on the war thing - resisting wars of opportunity or adventure is very different from wars of defence of yourselves or of clearly, obviously imperilled others.
I don't feel I owe anyone a debt though. I feel thankful that those people did come before me, but I also feel despair that seemingly everyone keeps getting the whole "free society" thing completely wrong, that we're scaring ourselves back in time and out of our own liberties, where we should be strengthening them.
Not that anywhere I go is going to be better, I just think there will be some lag time before I catch up with all the badness. And I can probably put up with a lot more if I live somewhere that isn't so damn cold and miserable most of the time.
Why are we talking about the past?
Oh I am thankful I get the chance, and it's one of the reasons I'm leaving. As a (relatively) privileged westerner I think it would be wrong not to try and live in other places for a while.
But loyalty? Don't really know what it means in relation to a country.
"Then why don't you leave?
Please don't misunderstand me -- I'm not being accusatory or trying to insult you."
As long as it's a fair question then here's a fair answer - I'm working on it, I anticipate emigrating in 6-12 months.
I still don't get this loyalty thing though. What's it supposed to count for? I mean, if the government goes to war am I supposed to join in, not because I agree but because of loyalty? I need some help with the concept, if it's not just tribalism and it's not supporting the government, and it's not just agreeing with what the people decide?
Ah, the invisible hand of the market, that will naturally sort all these things out.
Sorry bub, doesn't work that way, we have consumer protections for a reason - without them people would try to screw the consumer out of everything they own, and get away with it due to unfair terms and conditions.
In a capitalist nation, where money is "value", hell yes, if that toilet seat sells for a tidy profit then yes, he's more "valuable" and is going to get paid more.
In the wider sense, no, the carers are more valuable, but because there are many people willing to do it they aren't valued highly in monetary terms.
Supply and demand (and profitability) sets wage levels, not moral-value levels.
I think you'd find a hell of a lot of people disagree with you in less nationalist places outside the US.
Why do I owe any loyalty to the UK?
I was born here, great, I disagree with pretty much everythiung the government does, I find the people short-sighted, generally ignorant, scared and celebrity obsessed.
Do I owe loyalty to the rocks?
Please explain this further.
sales != marketing
"It is not a matter of IF a woman can reach a level that determines if there is a glass ceiling, but rather if the effort needed in reaching that level is proportional to what men have to put in."
I can say the same about whether or not you were in the right school, the right society at university, had the right parents.
"quick google of the definition of "glass ceiling" and I think we can both agree that it is alive and strong in the tech sector."
I strongly disagree. I think there are just less women in the tech sector, and that's largely because they don't care for it. In the main, clearly not all women, I work with some very talented female engineers.
examples of what?
"There is an abundance of labour because there is an abundance of people who need the money."
Yup. But none of what you've said there applies in any way differently to men then women
"let's look at high payed professions: Doctors, male..."
Really? I've had more female doctors than male over the years.
"layers, male.."
Only fully qualified and practicing lawyer I know is female.
"tech field across the board, male..."
The reasons for which we're debating
"academia, male..."
Dunno which academia you're looking at but (outside of CS) it was pretty evenly split in my experience. Even had a variety of female lecturers when I studied chemical engineering for a year.
"pretty much every fortune 500 executive staff, dominated by males."
Yeah, I'll let you know what it's like when I get my turn up there. That's not just closed to women you know.
"I challenge you to find a high paying profession (let's say $100k/year) that is dominated by women in the same proportions that the ones I just listed are dominated by men."
They aren't dominated by men. Not any more.
I'd also like to point out the laws of supply and demand. The employer can only pay peanuts if he can get workers for that money. Nobody is forcing people to work in these jobs, but there is an abundance of labour willing to do them, therefore they are cheap. Factor in competition from overseas and there's no margin to do any differently.
I still don't see any conspiracy here. You'll have to do better than "here are some low paid professions that women mostly do".
If you want to talk about the women and children that do these things in other countries then that's fine, the world is full of examples of abuses of men, women and children. But in the west these jobs are badly paid because they are easy to fill.