And more basically- if I want to bloody risk killing myself doing something risky shouldn't I be allowed to do so?
Only if you post a bond to pay for the cleanup of your messy mortal remains. Otherwise, you're imposing a burden, financial and/or physical, on someone else.
Also, many people drink alcohol and drive, which they think they can handle, but in reality, cannot. This is fun until they kill someone.
Your freedom ends where mine begins. You may not smoke in my presence, because it harms my lungs and those of my children.
So I guess I'm not really understanding your point.
That a Wired reporter could confuse ARPANET with the Internet is disappointing to say the least...
And: this part
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:27:07 -0500
To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com From: David Farber Subject: IP: yet again -- Inventing the Internet
It is nice to see confirmation of something I have said often and loudly coming from someone like Joe DJF
>Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:23:51 -0500 (EST) >From: Joseph Traub >To: farber@cis.upenn.edu >Subject: Inventing the Internet > >The media and politicians have had much fun about the Vice-President's >purported claim that "I invented the internet". It is the case that Al >Gore was perhaps the the first political leader to grasp the importance >of networking the country (and later the world). > >In 1986 I chaired the Computer science and Telecommunications Board and >Gore was our dinner speaker at the National Academy of Sciences. He spoke >about the importance of a National Information Infrastructure. At the >time he was a senator from a fairly small Southeastern state and I was >amazed at his national vision. He has continued to be a national leader in >promoting the importance of the internet for commerce and education. >Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits >about inventing the internet.
The "Al Gore Invented the Internet" thing was just another rabid conservative lie, brought to you by the very same fellows responsible for Lake New Orleans. Don't believe anything a wingnut tells you -- ever -- about anyone or anything. They know they're lying, and they don't care.
It has nothing to do with FS performance and everything to do with the fact that Apple's implementation of threading has considerably higher overhead than Linux.
This article certainly doesn't prove that, or anything, really. I don't know what the guy's thinking. He dismissed the fsync issue without looking into it at all, and without bothering to configure MySQL to work around it even just to see if he could possibly be wrong. No, it has to vindicate his pet theory: there must be something wrong with Mac OS X's threading architecture. He still can't be bothered to compare apples to apples.
It would be really useful to have real apples-to-apples benchmarks on performance and scalability on the same machine with different OSes. But this article is totally unprofessional and misleading, at best. Is this the usual standard at AnandTech?
If pool 'splash' alarms haven't been mandated, why would this be? The splash alarms have saved many lives (even if only by virtue of being around longer and deployed more widely) and are at least $117,800 cheaper. Of course, there are false alarms to contend with, but it's your 2-year-old's life on the line.
I know that there will soon be people chomping at the bit to mandate these things.
I, on the other hand saw this article, and I immediately thought "well, someone from Slashdot's rabid GOP wingnut contingent will inevitably come out of the weeds to provide statistics 'proving' that it's too much to spend to save lives." And then I saw the earlier +5 messages, and I briefly had hope for humanity.
Huh? Coke never challenged Pepsi "head on" until Pepsi made Coke executives nervous with the Pepsi Challenge. Coke came out with the infamous New Coke, and Pepsi gloated. But, by that time, Pepsi was already well-established.
Yes, this is offtopic, but really, mods, save "Insightful" for when you can actually validate the insight.
The grandparent question is either/or: "food or broadband?" This is wrong. We can do both.
Just as nuking NASA isn't going to feed the homeless, providing incentives for faster broadband isn't going to shelter the homeless.
Helping the homeless/poor is a separate issue and debate, and it shouldn't be trivialized by serving as a foil for those who would attack "government waste".
Uhm. The WSJ was never "the friend of the people". You're thinking of the New York Times, which is currently whining because their lead Bush cheerleader is in jail for contempt over what is probably aiding and abetting high treason.
The stupid part of all this is that this is why Sony bought Columbia Pictures in the first place so that they'd have control over the media side of things, so they'd have content to leverage for new technologies, so that no one would sue them over future Betamax-like products.
Sony's board needs to make the decision: we're not putting any more DRM on our media.
The consumer electronics side will still incorporate DRM, but Sony Pictures/Records shouldn't use it. The media side will howl, but they're a bunch of hysterical fools anyway. Sony needs a way to differentiate themselves from Apple on the one side and from the Koreans on the other. This is a wedge they could use to great effect. They can't continue on their present course.
The issue of database-dependence is a real and important one, and should not be trivially dismissed as 'trolling'.
That part of your post wasn't FUD, it's opinion/hypothesis. But you followed it with troll FUD: Secondly, Ruby is slow. There may be future JIT systems that help deal with this, but they are not there yet.
Thirdly, Ruby is changing, and it is likely (from what I read) that the next version will not be fully compatible, so any major project developed now in Rails will have upgrading issues.
Seems like Sony and MS are both playing "Let's see who can screw up the next console generation more!" This game may backfire if Nintendo's hardware beats expectations.
If seven more astronauts die, that'll be the end of NASA. The anti-science wingnuts controlling Congress (and the Executive Branch) will gladly take that opportunity to shut it down.
More Jesus (you'd think Dubya's born-again buddies are censoring his Bibles, 'cause he clearly hasn't read this part):
Love your neighbor
You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous....
Do you see where it says "whereas rain is the exclusive provence of Dubya the Lord his servant"? Cause I sure don't.
Doesn't matter. If you're a Christian, you live by the teachings of the eponymous Christ, right? Christ was very clear on this point and no amount of "he gets away with it on a technicality" revisionist history is valid.
Murder You have heard that the ancients were told, "You shall not commit murder" and "Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court."
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, "You good-for-nothing," shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, "You fool," shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
Please. Hillary is, or was, what passed for a moderate in this country, not a liberal. Tipper? Who cares? She's not in power. The VP's wife washes dishes (and writes lesbian erotica).
No, they're not liberals. As a liberal ("open-minded") person, I think their stances on censorship are shameful, and no, I wouldn't vote for either of them. Actually, I'd vote for Hillary over Bill "Video Doctor" Frist or Jeb "pro-life when it's convenient to appease the fruitcake fundies" Bush.
Sooner another four years of that psuedoRepublican Bill Clinton than Kerry. Kerry broke only one campaign promise: that he would fight for us if there were apparent voting problems. He conceded long before there was time to figure out whether there were problems. For that, he'll burn in hell with Shrub and Cheney forever.
Kerry can suck my ass.
Yeah, I know this is offtopic. And I agree with the actual point of the parent post.
Where do you get that idea? I've had a cheap Canon inkjet (replaceable head, separate replaceable ink tanks for each primary color) for a year, never any trouble, with much better drivers and print quality than my previous low-end Lexmark.
I've had a low-end Canon scanner for several years, never any trouble with that either.
[re: file sharing being easier on Mac]
Completely a matter of familiarity, as I find the opposite to be true.
Really? I can help. Here's what you do:
1. Go to System Preferences (via the Apple menu, that symbol in the upper left hand corner of the screen).
2. Select 'Sharing'.
3. Click the checkbox next to 'Personal File Sharing' (or 'FTP Access').
4. Profit!!
So why do your Mac OS X screenshots on the front page appear to use Swing's Metal theme?
On reflection, every Qt app I've seen on OS X has looked like a bad port from Windows. Not one of them has the details correct. They all use custom code for progress bars, tabs, and menus, which are rather ugly and out of place. Most of them don't appear to use Metal, though.
Java actually wasn't designed for generic 'embedded systems', it was designed for set-top boxes, but it was apparently too expensive for the prospective customers.
So this was Gosling's original intent. I don't know whether it's good or bad that it's now fulfilling that intent. I'd rather see Ruby in the standard, it'd be a lot easier to work with (and cheaper to license).
cover what, cowboy? A day in Iraq? Almost certainly not.
This is the government taking something previously free (a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum) and charging for it. The FCC was created to keep the airwaves under civilized order; money corrupts and should have been kept out of it.
You really need to write *a lot* of code before you go criticizing random comments taken out of context. Were you a professional programmer, that comment would not strike you as worrisome.
A CS professor is not necessarily a professional programmer. They frequently don't have large scale programming experience. A Ph.D (Piled higher and Deeper) doesn't necessarily qualify you to pass judgement, as impressive as it sounds to journalist hacks.
Slashdot Mirror
And more basically- if I want to bloody risk killing myself doing something risky shouldn't I be allowed to do so?
Only if you post a bond to pay for the cleanup of your messy mortal remains. Otherwise, you're imposing a burden, financial and/or physical, on someone else.
Also, many people drink alcohol and drive, which they think they can handle, but in reality, cannot. This is fun until they kill someone.
Your freedom ends where mine begins. You may not smoke in my presence, because it harms my lungs and those of my children.
So I guess I'm not really understanding your point.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040104090503/http://
In particular, pay attention to this part:
That a Wired reporter could confuse ARPANET with the Internet is disappointing to say the least...
And: this part
The "Al Gore Invented the Internet" thing was just another rabid conservative lie, brought to you by the very same fellows responsible for Lake New Orleans. Don't believe anything a wingnut tells you -- ever -- about anyone or anything. They know they're lying, and they don't care.
It has nothing to do with FS performance and everything to do with the fact that Apple's implementation of threading has considerably higher overhead than Linux.
This article certainly doesn't prove that, or anything, really. I don't know what the guy's thinking. He dismissed the fsync issue without looking into it at all, and without bothering to configure MySQL to work around it even just to see if he could possibly be wrong. No, it has to vindicate his pet theory: there must be something wrong with Mac OS X's threading architecture. He still can't be bothered to compare apples to apples.
It would be really useful to have real apples-to-apples benchmarks on performance and scalability on the same machine with different OSes. But this article is totally unprofessional and misleading, at best. Is this the usual standard at AnandTech?
If pool 'splash' alarms haven't been mandated, why would this be? The splash alarms have saved many lives (even if only by virtue of being around longer and deployed more widely) and are at least $117,800 cheaper. Of course, there are false alarms to contend with, but it's your 2-year-old's life on the line.
I know that there will soon be people chomping at the bit to mandate these things.
I, on the other hand saw this article, and I immediately thought "well, someone from Slashdot's rabid GOP wingnut contingent will inevitably come out of the weeds to provide statistics 'proving' that it's too much to spend to save lives." And then I saw the earlier +5 messages, and I briefly had hope for humanity.
Oh well.
Huh? Coke never challenged Pepsi "head on" until Pepsi made Coke executives nervous with the Pepsi Challenge. Coke came out with the infamous New Coke, and Pepsi gloated. But, by that time, Pepsi was already well-established.
Yes, this is offtopic, but really, mods, save "Insightful" for when you can actually validate the insight.
The grandparent question is either/or: "food or broadband?" This is wrong. We can do both.
Just as nuking NASA isn't going to feed the homeless, providing incentives for faster broadband isn't going to shelter the homeless.
Helping the homeless/poor is a separate issue and debate, and it shouldn't be trivialized by serving as a foil for those who would attack "government waste".
The arrogance of youth is so [strike]charming[/strike] obnoxious sometimes.
Well said, sir. Wish I had mod points.
Uhm. The WSJ was never "the friend of the people". You're thinking of the New York Times, which is currently whining because their lead Bush cheerleader is in jail for contempt over what is probably aiding and abetting high treason.
The stupid part of all this is that this is why Sony bought Columbia Pictures in the first place so that they'd have control over the media side of things, so they'd have content to leverage for new technologies, so that no one would sue them over future Betamax-like products.
Sony's board needs to make the decision: we're not putting any more DRM on our media.
The consumer electronics side will still incorporate DRM, but Sony Pictures/Records shouldn't use it. The media side will howl, but they're a bunch of hysterical fools anyway. Sony needs a way to differentiate themselves from Apple on the one side and from the Koreans on the other. This is a wedge they could use to great effect. They can't continue on their present course.
The issue of database-dependence is a real and important one, and should not be trivially dismissed as 'trolling'.
That part of your post wasn't FUD, it's opinion/hypothesis. But you followed it with troll FUD:
Secondly, Ruby is slow. There may be future JIT systems that help deal with this, but they are not there yet.
Thirdly, Ruby is changing, and it is likely (from what I read) that the next version will not be fully compatible, so any major project developed now in Rails will have upgrading issues.
Rails isn't an MVC framework. Go watch the intro video and you'll understand -- http://www.rubyonrails.com/.
Thanks for the FUD, Guido!
-1, Troll. Please. There are people running real, large-scale web sites on Ruby-on-Rails. Tobias just named several.
Seems like Sony and MS are both playing "Let's see who can screw up the next console generation more!" This game may backfire if Nintendo's hardware beats expectations.
If seven more astronauts die, that'll be the end of NASA. The anti-science wingnuts controlling Congress (and the Executive Branch) will gladly take that opportunity to shut it down.
More Jesus (you'd think Dubya's born-again buddies are censoring his Bibles, 'cause he clearly hasn't read this part): Love your neighbor You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. ...
Do you see where it says "whereas rain is the exclusive provence of Dubya the Lord his servant"? Cause I sure don't.
Doesn't matter. If you're a Christian, you live by the teachings of the eponymous Christ, right? Christ was very clear on this point and no amount of "he gets away with it on a technicality" revisionist history is valid.
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Murder
You have heard that the ancients were told, "You shall not commit murder" and "Whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court."
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, "You good-for-nothing," shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, "You fool," shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
http://www.lifeofchrist.com/teachings/sermons/mou
No, they're not liberals. As a liberal ("open-minded") person, I think their stances on censorship are shameful, and no, I wouldn't vote for either of them. Actually, I'd vote for Hillary over Bill "Video Doctor" Frist or Jeb "pro-life when it's convenient to appease the fruitcake fundies" Bush.
Kerry can suck my ass.
Yeah, I know this is offtopic. And I agree with the actual point of the parent post.
Where do you get that idea? I've had a cheap Canon inkjet (replaceable head, separate replaceable ink tanks for each primary color) for a year, never any trouble, with much better drivers and print quality than my previous low-end Lexmark. I've had a low-end Canon scanner for several years, never any trouble with that either.
Really? I can help. Here's what you do:
1. Go to System Preferences (via the Apple menu, that symbol in the upper left hand corner of the screen).
2. Select 'Sharing'.
3. Click the checkbox next to 'Personal File Sharing' (or 'FTP Access').
4. Profit!!
On reflection, every Qt app I've seen on OS X has looked like a bad port from Windows. Not one of them has the details correct. They all use custom code for progress bars, tabs, and menus, which are rather ugly and out of place. Most of them don't appear to use Metal, though.
Firefox integrates better than Qt does...
Java actually wasn't designed for generic 'embedded systems', it was designed for set-top boxes, but it was apparently too expensive for the prospective customers.
So this was Gosling's original intent. I don't know whether it's good or bad that it's now fulfilling that intent. I'd rather see Ruby in the standard, it'd be a lot easier to work with (and cheaper to license).
This is the government taking something previously free (a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum) and charging for it. The FCC was created to keep the airwaves under civilized order; money corrupts and should have been kept out of it.
A CS professor is not necessarily a professional programmer. They frequently don't have large scale programming experience. A Ph.D (Piled higher and Deeper) doesn't necessarily qualify you to pass judgement, as impressive as it sounds to journalist hacks.