Yes; GP's attitude seems to be a massively popular one, as well as an absurd and irrational one. But we already knew people were stupid, and always want to force other people who aren't stupid to live with the results of that stupidity.
It doesn't matter how the software was intended to be used, only how the software will be used.
So all progress should cease because no one will use technology properly and any outlier who will use it properly should be penalized by not allowing its use. You don't believe it is possible to educate people to use technology properly and conduct their activities without putting innocent lives at risk. What a ray of sunshine you are.
The only valid study would evaluate the software being used as it is typically used, regardless of the manufacturers intent.
No, that is complete bullshit. The only test whose results are of any interest at all would be a test which evaluates using the function PROPERLY, not in any onviouslly highly dangerous wrong manner. You could test the safety of some bird brain trying to drive his cars with his knees while woking on a rubik's cube, too, but that would be STUPID.
Texting while driving by typing manually and/or using a screen to verify results is obviously INHERENTLY highly dangerous. On the other hand, using voice exclusively to do the job is no different than talking to somebody inside the car or hands-free talking to a voice on a phone.
Now, the matter of getting some nut behind the wheel to use the proper and safe function in a proper and safe manner is another matter altogether. You could try to remove all driving distractions one by one, by taking out the builtin radio, outlawing the use of any radios or navigation devices or phones by the driver, putting soundproof walls between the driver and all occupants, trying to find some scientific method to suppress sexual thoughts when the driver sees someone attractive outside, or someone in the passenger seat is adjusting their bra, etc, etc - endlessly. I personally favor education instead. I know showing people how to live safely and relying on them to take safety seriously doesn't appeal to all mindsets.
I LIKE your subject line. I wish your message reflected it.
I call bullshit on whatever it is that you heard. Sound quality on a mobile is ridiculously good unless/except-if it is actually breaking up due to marginal conditions. The head of NPR or the popular science magazine is up its ass.
Any distraction is caused by some degree of thinking about something other than driving due to the subject matter of the conversation, exactly the same whether it is a passenger or a voice on a phone.
OK, so to sum up, for about two thirds of North American users it's fine (they don't have more than a 22/5 pipe), and probably 99.9% of casual users would never notice the difference compared to the highest performance available wireless router. They most certainly would never notice the absence of a gigabit switch (although same is only $20 to add on).
Mind, I personally use a Sonicwall TZ 170 Unlimited with enhanced firmware, and I have four gigabit switches on my LAN, but I'm hardly a typical user.
Why should they be retired just because they are "ancient". They are still perfect serviceable, and still perfectly available. They also have a reputation for being more reliable and longer lasting, hardware-wise, than the consumer crap they chrun out nowadays.
Yes, you're absolutely right. I wrote that with 99.9% of linux users in mind and avoided making the post 10 times longer than it had to be, just to be rigourously pedantic.
The fact is, in RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, etc, etc, etc; all the distros the vast majority of linux users use, the kernel is a binary package.
Yes, FreeBSD has had "pkg_add -r" for a while to install binary packages, but it has been a poor relation to ports. They have not made available anywhere near as much in binary packages as there is in ports, they are not kept up to date as religiously, and there never was any pkg_update to give the ability to update all installed packages easily. Pkgng and an expanded binary package repo properly maintained will be fixing this.
You missed the entire point. In BSD the kernel is not itself a package. In linux the kernel is a package just like any other package. THAT's why he is informative.
Curiosity, excitement, and a sense of adventure. I should think, if our alien possesses these, it would make for much more common ground than "goals" which would likely be impossible for us to relate to.
I fancy you'd jump at the chance to go visit CERTAIN ATYPICAL Greeks like Aristotle, Plato and Socrates; maybe Leonidas, but probably not everyday Greeks. The latter were probably even more mind numbingly dreary, dumb and boring than typical people are today. And the same with the Romans, people of the Rennaissance, etc.
If you go back even further, to Ötzi the Iceman, I at least would be fascinated to ask him about his life and thoughts, but probably it would be a fairly short visit.
+0, pedantic. Everybody knows all that. Still, the FACT is that with the C compiler used for most open source compiling, 64 bit code is bigger in size, because some of the variables are bigger and none of them are smaller. Are or are not long and pointer both twice as big in 64 bit? Never mind "well it doesn't have to be" and "it's just a chocie" and "has nothing to do with number of bits in the CPU".
You could both, I don't know, ACTUALLY FIND OUT the answer and present it. The truth is somewhere in between. Some sizes are the same, and some are larger. The first column is 32 bit gcc in current Arch; the second is 64 bit gcc in RHEL 6.4; both with default options.
The title of the summary is STUPID and most of the commenters have absolutely no clue whatsoever what this is. It's not an "internet sales tax", guys. It is simply legilation which would ALLOW the states to collect state sales tax on purchases made via the web, just as they do on other purchases. It doesn't mandate that any state has to do it. It just removes a barrier that currently exists, whereby no state may enlist and compel the services of internet sellers to collect that state's sales tax for them. It doesn't give the FEDS any additional power to collect any new federal tax whatsoever.
Most or all states already require their own taxpayers to volunteer purchases they made out of state, by WHATEVER means, and cough up the sales tax for same on their tax return. Of course only about one millionth of taxpayers are sucker enough to so volunteer. All this does is make payment unavoidable by burdening the red tape and collection on the sellers.
I am entirely against the measure, on various grounds, but come on, let's at least realize what this is.
But with systemd you STILL don't know why it hangs.
Yes, but there's nothing that says a distro HAS to use systemd. Maybe GNOME is getting too intertwined with it to allow kicking systemd to the shitter, but there are far batter DEs than GNOME 3 which couldn't care less HOW the system gets booted. Init scripts work as well as ever. The same goes for pulseaudio.
If Poettering and his ilk turns linux into a piece of shit, the community at large has nobody to blame except their collective selves.
But 'pretty' is important when trying not to scare new users (aka 'non-professional' users) away.
Bullshit. Yoiu probably think owners want their cars to play chords, massage their shoulders and emit perfume when they are started. Newsflash: they DON'T CARE.
I don't give a shit what it looks like, and short of extremes I don't care how long it takes, but I care how informative it is. I have the kernel options set to a text mode boot display anyway, which is actually (gasp) useful.
Let's have a dose of reality here. The root cause is PRESUMED to have been manufacturing defects. Nobody at Boeing or the FAA seems to have genuinely evaluated the likelihood that the lithium ion technology has BUILT-IN liability in the basic concept.
The only real question here is whether the protective redesign is adequate to contain the inevitable battery failures which will come, without setting the plane on fire or releasing poisonous fumes into the cabin.
The Hitachi 3.5" hard drive line ended up with Toshiba. I believe the consolidation of all worldwide hard drive business down to just two sources, WD and Seagate, was a bit too much for regulators to swallow.
These are excellent performing high quality drives and currently a rocking good buy. The drives still ID themselves electronically as Hitachi Global Storage with the old model numbers, though of course Toshiba has relabeled them on the outside and in the packaging.
err... i know there are lots of people who are new to debian, but from your tone it seems like you should be aware that debian has a number of repositories with different versions
Actually I am entirely familiar with that. My objection is based on the the point that a BRAND NEW stable release is coming out imminently, yet it doesn't have the current STABLE version of Xfce which has been in production and perfectly reliable for a FULL YEAR. It is a sign there is something sub-optimal either in the process or the decision making. I don't say horrifically bad; just sub-optimal.
If all that was needed had been that Wheezy had been delayed for a month or two[*] for that to happen, why was that not done? You have to remember that at the time the Wheezy process started, there was every chance that it was going to show up with Xfce as the default desktop.
[*] I don't know why even that was necessary, and I can't imagine any more than that would have been necessary.
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Yes; GP's attitude seems to be a massively popular one, as well as an absurd and irrational one. But we already knew people were stupid, and always want to force other people who aren't stupid to live with the results of that stupidity.
So all progress should cease because no one will use technology properly and any outlier who will use it properly should be penalized by not allowing its use. You don't believe it is possible to educate people to use technology properly and conduct their activities without putting innocent lives at risk. What a ray of sunshine you are.
No, that is complete bullshit. The only test whose results are of any interest at all would be a test which evaluates using the function PROPERLY, not in any onviouslly highly dangerous wrong manner. You could test the safety of some bird brain trying to drive his cars with his knees while woking on a rubik's cube, too, but that would be STUPID.
Texting while driving by typing manually and/or using a screen to verify results is obviously INHERENTLY highly dangerous. On the other hand, using voice exclusively to do the job is no different than talking to somebody inside the car or hands-free talking to a voice on a phone.
Now, the matter of getting some nut behind the wheel to use the proper and safe function in a proper and safe manner is another matter altogether. You could try to remove all driving distractions one by one, by taking out the builtin radio, outlawing the use of any radios or navigation devices or phones by the driver, putting soundproof walls between the driver and all occupants, trying to find some scientific method to suppress sexual thoughts when the driver sees someone attractive outside, or someone in the passenger seat is adjusting their bra, etc, etc - endlessly. I personally favor education instead. I know showing people how to live safely and relying on them to take safety seriously doesn't appeal to all mindsets.
I LIKE your subject line. I wish your message reflected it.
I call bullshit on whatever it is that you heard. Sound quality on a mobile is ridiculously good unless/except-if it is actually breaking up due to marginal conditions. The head of NPR or the popular science magazine is up its ass.
Any distraction is caused by some degree of thinking about something other than driving due to the subject matter of the conversation, exactly the same whether it is a passenger or a voice on a phone.
OK, so to sum up, for about two thirds of North American users it's fine (they don't have more than a 22/5 pipe), and probably 99.9% of casual users would never notice the difference compared to the highest performance available wireless router. They most certainly would never notice the absence of a gigabit switch (although same is only $20 to add on).
Mind, I personally use a Sonicwall TZ 170 Unlimited with enhanced firmware, and I have four gigabit switches on my LAN, but I'm hardly a typical user.
Why should they be retired just because they are "ancient". They are still perfect serviceable, and still perfectly available. They also have a reputation for being more reliable and longer lasting, hardware-wise, than the consumer crap they chrun out nowadays.
Yes, and interestingly, "GCC 4.4 remains on the system and still has an important role as the primary DPorts compiler."
Yes, you're absolutely right. I wrote that with 99.9% of linux users in mind and avoided making the post 10 times longer than it had to be, just to be rigourously pedantic.
The fact is, in RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, etc, etc, etc; all the distros the vast majority of linux users use, the kernel is a binary package.
Gcc 4.8 has been totally stable for a while now, so I'm just a bit underwhelmed.
Yes, FreeBSD has had "pkg_add -r" for a while to install binary packages, but it has been a poor relation to ports. They have not made available anywhere near as much in binary packages as there is in ports, they are not kept up to date as religiously, and there never was any pkg_update to give the ability to update all installed packages easily. Pkgng and an expanded binary package repo properly maintained will be fixing this.
You missed the entire point. In BSD the kernel is not itself a package. In linux the kernel is a package just like any other package. THAT's why he is informative.
Pssst. The secret is he doesn't post as a COWARD, you foul mouthed loser pimple on the ass of humanity. Get a clue. Sheesh.
Europeans were VERY interested in Africans as slaves.
Curiosity, excitement, and a sense of adventure. I should think, if our alien possesses these, it would make for much more common ground than "goals" which would likely be impossible for us to relate to.
I fancy you'd jump at the chance to go visit CERTAIN ATYPICAL Greeks like Aristotle, Plato and Socrates; maybe Leonidas, but probably not everyday Greeks. The latter were probably even more mind numbingly dreary, dumb and boring than typical people are today. And the same with the Romans, people of the Rennaissance, etc.
If you go back even further, to Ötzi the Iceman, I at least would be fascinated to ask him about his life and thoughts, but probably it would be a fairly short visit.
I don't know who this "we" is, and I don't know who you are quoting, but plenty of people have reached 1000 miles in diesel Passats.
+0, pedantic. Everybody knows all that. Still, the FACT is that with the C compiler used for most open source compiling, 64 bit code is bigger in size, because some of the variables are bigger and none of them are smaller. Are or are not long and pointer both twice as big in 64 bit? Never mind "well it doesn't have to be" and "it's just a chocie" and "has nothing to do with number of bits in the CPU".
You could both, I don't know, ACTUALLY FIND OUT the answer and present it. The truth is somewhere in between. Some sizes are the same, and some are larger. The first column is 32 bit gcc in current Arch; the second is 64 bit gcc in RHEL 6.4; both with default options.
sizeof (char) 1 1
sizeof (short) 2 2
sizeof (int) 4 4
sizeof (long) 4 8
sizeof (long long) 8 8
sizeof (void *) 4 8
sizeof (size_t) 4 8
sizeof (float) 4 4
sizeof (double) 8 8
sizeof (long double) 12 16
Given that there are quite a few long's, size_t's and pointers in typical C code, the 64 bit code is indeed substantially larger.
The title of the summary is STUPID and most of the commenters have absolutely no clue whatsoever what this is. It's not an "internet sales tax", guys. It is simply legilation which would ALLOW the states to collect state sales tax on purchases made via the web, just as they do on other purchases. It doesn't mandate that any state has to do it. It just removes a barrier that currently exists, whereby no state may enlist and compel the services of internet sellers to collect that state's sales tax for them. It doesn't give the FEDS any additional power to collect any new federal tax whatsoever.
Most or all states already require their own taxpayers to volunteer purchases they made out of state, by WHATEVER means, and cough up the sales tax for same on their tax return. Of course only about one millionth of taxpayers are sucker enough to so volunteer. All this does is make payment unavoidable by burdening the red tape and collection on the sellers.
I am entirely against the measure, on various grounds, but come on, let's at least realize what this is.
Yes, but there's nothing that says a distro HAS to use systemd. Maybe GNOME is getting too intertwined with it to allow kicking systemd to the shitter, but there are far batter DEs than GNOME 3 which couldn't care less HOW the system gets booted. Init scripts work as well as ever. The same goes for pulseaudio.
If Poettering and his ilk turns linux into a piece of shit, the community at large has nobody to blame except their collective selves.
Bullshit. Yoiu probably think owners want their cars to play chords, massage their shoulders and emit perfume when they are started. Newsflash: they DON'T CARE.
I don't give a shit what it looks like, and short of extremes I don't care how long it takes, but I care how informative it is. I have the kernel options set to a text mode boot display anyway, which is actually (gasp) useful.
Let's have a dose of reality here. The root cause is PRESUMED to have been manufacturing defects. Nobody at Boeing or the FAA seems to have genuinely evaluated the likelihood that the lithium ion technology has BUILT-IN liability in the basic concept.
The only real question here is whether the protective redesign is adequate to contain the inevitable battery failures which will come, without setting the plane on fire or releasing poisonous fumes into the cabin.
The Hitachi 3.5" hard drive line ended up with Toshiba. I believe the consolidation of all worldwide hard drive business down to just two sources, WD and Seagate, was a bit too much for regulators to swallow.
These are excellent performing high quality drives and currently a rocking good buy. The drives still ID themselves electronically as Hitachi Global Storage with the old model numbers, though of course Toshiba has relabeled them on the outside and in the packaging.
Actually I am entirely familiar with that. My objection is based on the the point that a BRAND NEW stable release is coming out imminently, yet it doesn't have the current STABLE version of Xfce which has been in production and perfectly reliable for a FULL YEAR. It is a sign there is something sub-optimal either in the process or the decision making. I don't say horrifically bad; just sub-optimal.
If all that was needed had been that Wheezy had been delayed for a month or two[*] for that to happen, why was that not done? You have to remember that at the time the Wheezy process started, there was every chance that it was going to show up with Xfce as the default desktop.
[*] I don't know why even that was necessary, and I can't imagine any more than that would have been necessary.