In 1982, the data density was very low. We're using particles orders of magnitude smaller than your audio tapes or 5-1/4" floppies from then. Bitrot is real, and regular media refresh is the only reasonable approach to archival data you care about.
In the spirit of your post's level of snark, I'd like to point out that yes, archiving data is in fact easy. Restoring it, not always so much.
I've been saying this is Linux's biggest issue for years. I keep on asking when my mom can use Linux herself and keep getting fobbed off...
My folks migrated from windows about 5 years ago. Not much retraining needed. Don't give them root, give them a user account, and set up the tools where they want them.
When will terminal windows, compiling your own software, and configuration files disappear and in place get a consistent modern UI?
Terminal windows? Yes, you can use them, I choose to, you apparently never run "cmd" on a windows box? Some things are faster command line and scripted, some are better with a GUI. Whatever works for you. And compiling my own software? Sure, if I'm into that, I can do it, or I can download and install the.rpm or whatever, or use a graphical admin tool to install an app and all the dependencies automatically. You seem to have 10 or 15 year old information that you're working from.
Yes, Linux has been doing better in this regard but everyone seems to be going in a completely different direction with a lot of the supporters and developers scuffing at the idea of making Linux easier for the common man.
Not sure which supporters and developers you've been talking to, but, based on your wrong assumptions above, it seems that your point of view may be a bit skewed in relation to reality.
The real question is: Is Linux for developers and geeks, or is it for everyone? And that is something the Linux community needs to answer before it can move forward.
As someone else said, it's about the apps. Don't click on the blue E, click on this firefox icon. Same internet. The blue W is now this here, which is called openoffice, and can read and write Word files just fine. And so on. The lady in the article failed by not knowing what she was buying. Dell screwed up by not fixing the problem.
It's not for "everyone". Someone who wants to play the victim and whine about all the reasons she dropped out of school, most of which are her own fault, to be honest isn't a good target audience for Linux. If it had been set up for her with Openoffice and her NIC drivers (which probably worked without the install CD anyway), she would have been perfectly fine. A few minutes of training unless she was rock stupid.
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How realistic are they going to make the torture?
Well, let's see. The quest giver gives you the wand of zapping or whatever it's called. You go to the guy with the yellow question mark on his head, target the dude, click 4 times, and get the quest finished signal, then go back to quest giver for the next quest. So, yeah, not so realistic.
I've got an associate's degree (in a technical, but not IT, field). I lead a team of a dozen guys responsible for 2,000 Unix servers. The smartest guy on my team, possibly the smartest guy I've ever met, is "a bit shy" of his HS diploma, has some college I think.
The degree thing, like certifications, is more impressive, I think, to people who don't understand the field, than those in it. Hey, it's great that you have a BS in Computer Science - now tell me, how would you troubleshoot (scenario)? Because your degree doesn't enter into it. Same with certs (with the possible exception of RHCE). Your paper doesn't help at 2:00 AM when we have something critical, down. How do you think? What do you know? What have you done?
When I'm in the interview room, I don't ask about education, because it's not relevant. Mmmmmmmaybe, if I was hiring entry-level people, it would matter, maybe. But even then, I want to throw a scenario at you and see how you think, what your thought process is, what questions you ask in response to my scenario. I don't care if you learned it in comp-sci:232 or whatever, I'd prefer you learned it in the trenches.
Often I'll see jobs posted as "4 year degree or equivalent". If you don't have the 4-year degree, be able to explain to the HR droid how what you've done qualifies as "or equivalent" in the context of what you're going for. If they're good, they'll understand your point. Think of it as a test of dealing with non-technical people in order to get your project done - in this case, your project is to get hired.
Sorry kinda long and rambly, but I think you get the idea of what I'm trying to say.
You'd be amazed. Every dozen calls or so, I'll get behind someone who doesn't see the big farking firetruck or ambulance behind them, despite the lights & siren going full blast. Or they'll see you, and not do ANYTHING different; not move over, not speed up, nothing. A couple times people have just dead stopped, right in traffic, right in front of me. They go into dummy-mode.
The Sheriff's Department is more than happy to take vehicle and plate information and send out "interference with an emergency vehicle" tickets; no idea if it helps people not be so dumb next time, but it sure can't hurt.
Sure, OK, 5=1. You're right of course, how could I have been so mistaken. You can have the last word if you're compelled to respond, I suppose. You win or something.
If I click on one side, it does one thing. If I click on the other side, it does something different.
If I click on one side, it does one thing. If I click on the other side, it sometimes does the same thing, and sometimes does something else, depending on whether I remember that this is a Batfink mouse with its stupid capacitance sensor or not and lift my index finger from the mouse when I click the right side with my middle finger.
Meatware bug noted. Not sure how this changes how items are counted.
I have similar problems with the trackpad and its stupid two-finger right-mouse-button-emulation scheme, in this case it's in making sure I hit the pad with my fingers together.
If you're a hotshit gamer you don't have a problem with it. My fingers are almost half a century old by now and are no longer the ones that got me the world high score in "food fight", so it makes a huge bloody difference, kid.
I've already said I have no interest in defending the trackpad as I don't use it. I'm also not particularly interested in comparing resumes or birth dates. I'm merely pointing out that you claimed it's a one button mouse, and you're completely and utterly wrong in any meaningful OR factual OR functional way. Kid.
There's no functional difference. The number of physical switches doesn't enter into it.
Sure it does. A physical switch is activated by pressing. A capacitive sensor is activated by touching.
And yet, it's a left and a right button. If I click on one side, it does one thing. If I click on the other side, it does something different. The "what does it do" is what matters, you seem obsessed on the "how does it work" which is interesting only from an engineering perspective.
I notice you're ignoring the 2 side buttons and the scrollball.
What part of "The two buttons that matter for normal use are left-click and right-click." did you fail to see? You clearly disagree with me on the relative importance of these operations, but claiming I'm ignoring them is intellectual dishonesty.
Oh, get over yourself. You said there's one button. There's not. Saying, in effect, "there's one button because I don't count the others" just shows that you already know your point is invalid, not that it's right.
Or maybe you've got some problems with a preconceived notion that every button can only have one specific mechanism to make it work.
It doesn't matter whether a button uses a microswitch, or a buckling-spring mechanism, or a mercury tilt switch, or a dome contact, or a pair of leaf contacts, these can all provide the functionality of a button... some are more reliable or durable than others, but they all provide the same functionality. This is a different functionality than a capacitive sensor. One involves an active process (pressing the left or right side of the mouse) the other is passive (the mouse senses the location of fingers when the mouse is tilted forward).
Oh, it's ever so much more clear now. With a button, you have to push it to do something, whereas with a capacitive sensor, it's completely different because you have to push it to do something. Thanks ever so much for clearing up this critical difference. (rolls eyes) What's next, you gonna quibble over what the definition of the word "is", is?
Read the fine followups before posting more insinuendo.
The two buttons that matter for normal use are left-click and right-click. The rest of the buttons are lagniappes. The Mighty Mouse uses a single button plus a capacitance sensor to fake right-click by clicking without anything touching the left side of the mouse.
There's no functional difference. The number of physical switches doesn't enter into it. If you click on the left side it's a left click. If you click on the right side it's a right click. The fact that it's a capacitive whatsit with a micro-reed otherthat doesn't enter into it, it's a multi-button mouse for all practical purposes.
If you use the index finger for both left and right click that works fine, but if you normally rest both the index and middle fingers on the mouse and click one or the other it's completely useless.
I've had a "mighty mouse" and it drove me "batfink".
(shrug) so you didn't like it, or you couldn't get muscle memory to not put the booger-hooks where they didn't belong. Doesn't change the fact that it's not a single-button mouse. I notice you're ignoring the 2 side buttons and the scrollball.
Apple only ships single-button pointing devices, with a variety of subterfuges to simulate the right button. There is no ignorance or deception on my part, the only deception is the pretense that subsidiary buttons or stupid tricks with touch sensors are an adequate replacement for two standard buttons.
Works great, I use mine as a gaming mouse with each of the buttons mapped to a specific purpose. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong or something. Or maybe you've got some problems with a preconceived notion that every button can only have one specific mechanism to make it work. How it works, internally and invisibly to the user, doesn't change the fact that it does.
I personally am not interested in HDMI, but the backlit keyboard is one of my favorite features of my MBP.
Agreed on the keyboard backlight. I was completely unaware I'd be getting that, they don't go out of their way to talk about it in the marketing materials. Was a very pleasant surprise, and it's very nice for working or playing when the family is asleep and I don't want to a light on to see what keys I'm hitting.
And Apple's passive-aggressive refusal to just put two goddam buttons on their mice and trackpads is worth about a million points against them.
Advantage Lenovo.
Seriously dude, this is a decade-old news here, but apple mice do have multiple buttons. The mightymouse I'm using now has 5 plus a scrollball. They've been out for years. Someone else answered the trackpad thing - I don't use it much if at all so I can't talk to how well it works. But pretending that Macs still have only one-button mice is ignorant and/or deceptive.
No, I was attempting to clue you in that your chosen communication method is ineffective, and why. You, obviously, are either clue-resistant and/or trolling me, and OK, you won, you got me, haha, you win or something. You are far more clever than I am and all that. (yawn).
Or maybe you want to reconsider how you come across. But I'm guessing you'll miss the point yet again, almost as if it is congenital and/or intentional.
"but without translation it comes across as (a) not helpful, and (b) somewhat pompous."
Yeah, well, whatever (by the way, try to get literal sense from the preceding sentence, will you need translation too?). I'm not citing some obscure text from Leon Codiceus but a very famous sentence from the 'Digesta Iustiniani' quite expected to be known by anyone with even the varnish of a culture. On this informal forum I wouldn't take the time to point out who said the famous "I have a dream..." or translate Terminator's "hasta luego, baby". If that means djh101010 will lose my point, well, shit happens.
Anyway, this is Slashdot, maybe I can't expect readers here to be versed on latin classics but I certainly can expect they know what Google is and Google returns about 381.000 references for "dura lex, sed lex" so (a) I don't think the meaning to be lost by the expected audience and (b) I point my finger on you for trying to be pompous by telling somebody to be pompous out of nothing.
Yup, like I said, you've got that whole pompous thing nailed. Well done if that matters and you're keeping score or something. YES I can google. YES, oddly enough, I even know what your phrase means, where it's from, what it implies, historical context, and all that. My point, which you arrogantly insist on missing, is that people like you who do things like that, are widely regarded as pompous asses. Just so you know.
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If you voted for a candidate you actually didn't want, well that's your problem. There ARE other candidates, it's not just the Two that the media and voters keep assuming.
Yes, and if you vote for anyone other than one of the two, you might as well stay home. Third parties and independents aren't going to have a meaningful national showing until and unless they start local, work towards state, and THEN go national. It just won't work. You are wasting your vote. Stay home and save the gas money.
At the rate the USA is going, it's not so different from China which has only One Party;). Just think of McCain and Obama as candidates of rival factions in the same Party that has ruled the country for decades.
There are deep fundamental differences between Obama and McCain. You seem to be dismissing that. This is a naiive oversimplification of the many life-changing issues that they disagree on. Sadly, for yet another election, I'm not voting for one guy, I'm voting against the other one. Pretending the're equivalent, seems to me to be justification to yourself so you can waste your vote on someone who is unelectable, just to make a statement. Problem is, the statement you're making, isn't the one you think you're making.
Remember the old roman saying: 'dura lex, sed lex'. Of course, our society is not a perfect one, and there are in fact deviations between the legal system and our ethics. But certainly this is not the case.
You know, that might be a valid saying, but without translation it comes across as (a) not helpful, and (b) somewhat pompous. As such, whatever point you're making with this might be remarkably insightful and appropriate, yet is lost to many (most?) of the people reading your post.
What they're saying is: this is a worthwhile OSS project, which some putz put under a BSD license.
It's just as immoral to screw over the community on a BSD project for one greedy bastard's financial gain as it is to do so on a GPL project.
The difference is a LEGAL one, not a moral one.
Bah. I've contributed to BSD-licensed projects, and I'm perfectly fine with the licensing that allows for-profit forks of my work. I'm probably stepping into the buzzsaw of "your license is better than mine" and I'm really not interested in that flamefest, but it's not accurate to say there's an ethical problem using a BSD license for exactly what the BSD license says it's for.
Is my work that I did for free, being sold on some proprietary fork? Yup. It is. Did I know that could happen when I got into it? Yup, sure did. Is it unethical of them to sell something I said they could? Nope. The only thing left, I think, is if you're saying I'm unethical for deciding how my work can be used?
What an arrogant, useless response. Tell me exactly how I'm using my laptop? Tell me how my servers are used? You don't know? Well then, I guess your assumptions are baseless. Free hint: hibernate doesn't require a reboot. And computers in datacenters, stay turned on.
I wasn't trying to provide a useful answer, I wasn't responding to someone asking a question. I was _asking_ the question of why something I do on servers once a year or so, and on my home machine every few weeks, matters that much? I'd rather get a 2% improvement in something that goes on all the time, than a 90% improvement on something I rarely do. Maybe others reboot linux machines more often than I do so this matters but, seems to me, there's better places to optimize.
I can see optimizing this for the sake of the geeky goodness of it and all that but, really, how often does someone reboot a Linux box, that this even enters into it? Maybe I'm unusual but mine usually stay up until there's a new version of my distro of choice to upgrade to. Time to boot just doesn't impact me very much.
It's HEPA. It's an acronym. High-Efficiency Particulate Air.
Yeah, because the guy not knowing the acronym makes the point he's making completely useless, right? (sheesh). Only thing worse than a speeling flame is a speeling flame with attitude, dude. You might consider chilling out a bit.
"Could it be that the cars today have tighter emissions and safety regulations, which cost efficiency and weight, respectively?"
So...let's drop some of the emissions and safety standards then. They are obviously too stringent since they are preventing tech like this to flourish. At least...leave it up to the states. If CA wants to keep things high, ok....but, why should the rest of the 49 have to suffer?
Um, if that's the point you think I was making, I wasn't. If it's your own point, then it's a lousy one. California has its own problems so lets leave them out of this for the moment - but, my question was, or was supposed to be, would that car even be street legal here from an emissions and safety standpoint? Is it _just_ Ford being dickheads in not selling it here, or would it not be roadworthy by USA'n standards?
Also, there's probably some kind of collusion going on. We could make a 45mpg car that has decent numbers back in the 80's, but we can't make anything comparable now? Bullshit. There's something behind the scenes.
Could it be that the cars today have tighter emissions and safety regulations, which cost efficiency and weight, respectively?
You're being pedantic. Yes, he made an error in speech but his point was still valid - JFK's decision to put a man on the moon in ten years pretty much bailed out California, despite the fact that NASA existed prior to his Presidency..
I don't see him making that point in the grandparent quote. Maybe I missed it. I figured it was just someone giving credit to Kennedy for something done during a different President's administration.
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In 1982, the data density was very low. We're using particles orders of magnitude smaller than your audio tapes or 5-1/4" floppies from then. Bitrot is real, and regular media refresh is the only reasonable approach to archival data you care about.
In the spirit of your post's level of snark, I'd like to point out that yes, archiving data is in fact easy. Restoring it, not always so much.
I've been saying this is Linux's biggest issue for years. I keep on asking when my mom can use Linux herself and keep getting fobbed off...
My folks migrated from windows about 5 years ago. Not much retraining needed. Don't give them root, give them a user account, and set up the tools where they want them.
When will terminal windows, compiling your own software, and configuration files disappear and in place get a consistent modern UI?
Terminal windows? Yes, you can use them, I choose to, you apparently never run "cmd" on a windows box? Some things are faster command line and scripted, some are better with a GUI. Whatever works for you. And compiling my own software? Sure, if I'm into that, I can do it, or I can download and install the .rpm or whatever, or use a graphical admin tool to install an app and all the dependencies automatically. You seem to have 10 or 15 year old information that you're working from.
Yes, Linux has been doing better in this regard but everyone seems to be going in a completely different direction with a lot of the supporters and developers scuffing at the idea of making Linux easier for the common man.
Not sure which supporters and developers you've been talking to, but, based on your wrong assumptions above, it seems that your point of view may be a bit skewed in relation to reality.
The real question is: Is Linux for developers and geeks, or is it for everyone? And that is something the Linux community needs to answer before it can move forward.
As someone else said, it's about the apps. Don't click on the blue E, click on this firefox icon. Same internet. The blue W is now this here, which is called openoffice, and can read and write Word files just fine. And so on. The lady in the article failed by not knowing what she was buying. Dell screwed up by not fixing the problem.
It's not for "everyone". Someone who wants to play the victim and whine about all the reasons she dropped out of school, most of which are her own fault, to be honest isn't a good target audience for Linux. If it had been set up for her with Openoffice and her NIC drivers (which probably worked without the install CD anyway), she would have been perfectly fine. A few minutes of training unless she was rock stupid.
How realistic are they going to make the torture?
Well, let's see. The quest giver gives you the wand of zapping or whatever it's called. You go to the guy with the yellow question mark on his head, target the dude, click 4 times, and get the quest finished signal, then go back to quest giver for the next quest. So, yeah, not so realistic.
It's a game.
I've got an associate's degree (in a technical, but not IT, field). I lead a team of a dozen guys responsible for 2,000 Unix servers. The smartest guy on my team, possibly the smartest guy I've ever met, is "a bit shy" of his HS diploma, has some college I think.
The degree thing, like certifications, is more impressive, I think, to people who don't understand the field, than those in it. Hey, it's great that you have a BS in Computer Science - now tell me, how would you troubleshoot (scenario)? Because your degree doesn't enter into it. Same with certs (with the possible exception of RHCE). Your paper doesn't help at 2:00 AM when we have something critical, down. How do you think? What do you know? What have you done?
When I'm in the interview room, I don't ask about education, because it's not relevant. Mmmmmmmaybe, if I was hiring entry-level people, it would matter, maybe. But even then, I want to throw a scenario at you and see how you think, what your thought process is, what questions you ask in response to my scenario. I don't care if you learned it in comp-sci:232 or whatever, I'd prefer you learned it in the trenches.
Often I'll see jobs posted as "4 year degree or equivalent". If you don't have the 4-year degree, be able to explain to the HR droid how what you've done qualifies as "or equivalent" in the context of what you're going for. If they're good, they'll understand your point. Think of it as a test of dealing with non-technical people in order to get your project done - in this case, your project is to get hired.
Sorry kinda long and rambly, but I think you get the idea of what I'm trying to say.
I bet you're a real blast at parties. Overanalysis kills humor, you know that right?
You'd be amazed. Every dozen calls or so, I'll get behind someone who doesn't see the big farking firetruck or ambulance behind them, despite the lights & siren going full blast. Or they'll see you, and not do ANYTHING different; not move over, not speed up, nothing. A couple times people have just dead stopped, right in traffic, right in front of me. They go into dummy-mode. The Sheriff's Department is more than happy to take vehicle and plate information and send out "interference with an emergency vehicle" tickets; no idea if it helps people not be so dumb next time, but it sure can't hurt.
Sure, OK, 5=1. You're right of course, how could I have been so mistaken. You can have the last word if you're compelled to respond, I suppose. You win or something.
If I click on one side, it does one thing. If I click on the other side, it does something different.
If I click on one side, it does one thing. If I click on the other side, it sometimes does the same thing, and sometimes does something else, depending on whether I remember that this is a Batfink mouse with its stupid capacitance sensor or not and lift my index finger from the mouse when I click the right side with my middle finger.
Meatware bug noted. Not sure how this changes how items are counted.
I have similar problems with the trackpad and its stupid two-finger right-mouse-button-emulation scheme, in this case it's in making sure I hit the pad with my fingers together.
If you're a hotshit gamer you don't have a problem with it. My fingers are almost half a century old by now and are no longer the ones that got me the world high score in "food fight", so it makes a huge bloody difference, kid.
I've already said I have no interest in defending the trackpad as I don't use it. I'm also not particularly interested in comparing resumes or birth dates. I'm merely pointing out that you claimed it's a one button mouse, and you're completely and utterly wrong in any meaningful OR factual OR functional way. Kid.
There's no functional difference. The number of physical switches doesn't enter into it.
Sure it does. A physical switch is activated by pressing. A capacitive sensor is activated by touching.
And yet, it's a left and a right button. If I click on one side, it does one thing. If I click on the other side, it does something different. The "what does it do" is what matters, you seem obsessed on the "how does it work" which is interesting only from an engineering perspective.
I notice you're ignoring the 2 side buttons and the scrollball.
What part of "The two buttons that matter for normal use are left-click and right-click." did you fail to see? You clearly disagree with me on the relative importance of these operations, but claiming I'm ignoring them is intellectual dishonesty.
Oh, get over yourself. You said there's one button. There's not. Saying, in effect, "there's one button because I don't count the others" just shows that you already know your point is invalid, not that it's right.
Or maybe you've got some problems with a preconceived notion that every button can only have one specific mechanism to make it work.
It doesn't matter whether a button uses a microswitch, or a buckling-spring mechanism, or a mercury tilt switch, or a dome contact, or a pair of leaf contacts, these can all provide the functionality of a button... some are more reliable or durable than others, but they all provide the same functionality. This is a different functionality than a capacitive sensor. One involves an active process (pressing the left or right side of the mouse) the other is passive (the mouse senses the location of fingers when the mouse is tilted forward).
Oh, it's ever so much more clear now. With a button, you have to push it to do something, whereas with a capacitive sensor, it's completely different because you have to push it to do something. Thanks ever so much for clearing up this critical difference. (rolls eyes) What's next, you gonna quibble over what the definition of the word "is", is?
Read the fine followups before posting more insinuendo.
The two buttons that matter for normal use are left-click and right-click. The rest of the buttons are lagniappes. The Mighty Mouse uses a single button plus a capacitance sensor to fake right-click by clicking without anything touching the left side of the mouse.
There's no functional difference. The number of physical switches doesn't enter into it. If you click on the left side it's a left click. If you click on the right side it's a right click. The fact that it's a capacitive whatsit with a micro-reed otherthat doesn't enter into it, it's a multi-button mouse for all practical purposes.
If you use the index finger for both left and right click that works fine, but if you normally rest both the index and middle fingers on the mouse and click one or the other it's completely useless.
I've had a "mighty mouse" and it drove me "batfink".
(shrug) so you didn't like it, or you couldn't get muscle memory to not put the booger-hooks where they didn't belong. Doesn't change the fact that it's not a single-button mouse. I notice you're ignoring the 2 side buttons and the scrollball.
Apple only ships single-button pointing devices, with a variety of subterfuges to simulate the right button. There is no ignorance or deception on my part, the only deception is the pretense that subsidiary buttons or stupid tricks with touch sensors are an adequate replacement for two standard buttons.
Works great, I use mine as a gaming mouse with each of the buttons mapped to a specific purpose. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong or something. Or maybe you've got some problems with a preconceived notion that every button can only have one specific mechanism to make it work. How it works, internally and invisibly to the user, doesn't change the fact that it does.
I personally am not interested in HDMI, but the backlit keyboard is one of my favorite features of my MBP.
Agreed on the keyboard backlight. I was completely unaware I'd be getting that, they don't go out of their way to talk about it in the marketing materials. Was a very pleasant surprise, and it's very nice for working or playing when the family is asleep and I don't want to a light on to see what keys I'm hitting.
And Apple's passive-aggressive refusal to just put two goddam buttons on their mice and trackpads is worth about a million points against them.
Advantage Lenovo.
Seriously dude, this is a decade-old news here, but apple mice do have multiple buttons. The mightymouse I'm using now has 5 plus a scrollball. They've been out for years. Someone else answered the trackpad thing - I don't use it much if at all so I can't talk to how well it works. But pretending that Macs still have only one-button mice is ignorant and/or deceptive.
No, I was attempting to clue you in that your chosen communication method is ineffective, and why. You, obviously, are either clue-resistant and/or trolling me, and OK, you won, you got me, haha, you win or something. You are far more clever than I am and all that. (yawn).
Or maybe you want to reconsider how you come across. But I'm guessing you'll miss the point yet again, almost as if it is congenital and/or intentional.
"but without translation it comes across as (a) not helpful, and (b) somewhat pompous."
Yeah, well, whatever (by the way, try to get literal sense from the preceding sentence, will you need translation too?). I'm not citing some obscure text from Leon Codiceus but a very famous sentence from the 'Digesta Iustiniani' quite expected to be known by anyone with even the varnish of a culture. On this informal forum I wouldn't take the time to point out who said the famous "I have a dream..." or translate Terminator's "hasta luego, baby". If that means djh101010 will lose my point, well, shit happens.
Anyway, this is Slashdot, maybe I can't expect readers here to be versed on latin classics but I certainly can expect they know what Google is and Google returns about 381.000 references for "dura lex, sed lex" so (a) I don't think the meaning to be lost by the expected audience and (b) I point my finger on you for trying to be pompous by telling somebody to be pompous out of nothing.
Yup, like I said, you've got that whole pompous thing nailed. Well done if that matters and you're keeping score or something. YES I can google. YES, oddly enough, I even know what your phrase means, where it's from, what it implies, historical context, and all that. My point, which you arrogantly insist on missing, is that people like you who do things like that, are widely regarded as pompous asses. Just so you know.
" If you voted for a candidate you actually didn't want, well that's your problem. There ARE other candidates, it's not just the Two that the media and voters keep assuming.
Yes, and if you vote for anyone other than one of the two, you might as well stay home. Third parties and independents aren't going to have a meaningful national showing until and unless they start local, work towards state, and THEN go national. It just won't work. You are wasting your vote. Stay home and save the gas money.
At the rate the USA is going, it's not so different from China which has only One Party ;). Just think of McCain and Obama as candidates of rival factions in the same Party that has ruled the country for decades.
There are deep fundamental differences between Obama and McCain. You seem to be dismissing that. This is a naiive oversimplification of the many life-changing issues that they disagree on. Sadly, for yet another election, I'm not voting for one guy, I'm voting against the other one. Pretending the're equivalent, seems to me to be justification to yourself so you can waste your vote on someone who is unelectable, just to make a statement. Problem is, the statement you're making, isn't the one you think you're making.
Remember the old roman saying: 'dura lex, sed lex'. Of course, our society is not a perfect one, and there are in fact deviations between the legal system and our ethics. But certainly this is not the case.
You know, that might be a valid saying, but without translation it comes across as (a) not helpful, and (b) somewhat pompous. As such, whatever point you're making with this might be remarkably insightful and appropriate, yet is lost to many (most?) of the people reading your post.
not really.
What they're saying is: this is a worthwhile OSS project, which some putz put under a BSD license.
It's just as immoral to screw over the community on a BSD project for one greedy bastard's financial gain as it is to do so on a GPL project.
The difference is a LEGAL one, not a moral one.
Bah. I've contributed to BSD-licensed projects, and I'm perfectly fine with the licensing that allows for-profit forks of my work. I'm probably stepping into the buzzsaw of "your license is better than mine" and I'm really not interested in that flamefest, but it's not accurate to say there's an ethical problem using a BSD license for exactly what the BSD license says it's for.
Is my work that I did for free, being sold on some proprietary fork? Yup. It is. Did I know that could happen when I got into it? Yup, sure did. Is it unethical of them to sell something I said they could? Nope. The only thing left, I think, is if you're saying I'm unethical for deciding how my work can be used?
What an arrogant, useless response. Tell me exactly how I'm using my laptop? Tell me how my servers are used? You don't know? Well then, I guess your assumptions are baseless. Free hint: hibernate doesn't require a reboot. And computers in datacenters, stay turned on.
I wasn't trying to provide a useful answer, I wasn't responding to someone asking a question. I was _asking_ the question of why something I do on servers once a year or so, and on my home machine every few weeks, matters that much? I'd rather get a 2% improvement in something that goes on all the time, than a 90% improvement on something I rarely do. Maybe others reboot linux machines more often than I do so this matters but, seems to me, there's better places to optimize.
Sorry, but if you're that bored with it, just give up - or consider that maybe you're doing it wrong.
I can see optimizing this for the sake of the geeky goodness of it and all that but, really, how often does someone reboot a Linux box, that this even enters into it? Maybe I'm unusual but mine usually stay up until there's a new version of my distro of choice to upgrade to. Time to boot just doesn't impact me very much.
What the fuck is heppa?
It's HEPA. It's an acronym. High-Efficiency Particulate Air.
Yeah, because the guy not knowing the acronym makes the point he's making completely useless, right? (sheesh). Only thing worse than a speeling flame is a speeling flame with attitude, dude. You might consider chilling out a bit.
"Could it be that the cars today have tighter emissions and safety regulations, which cost efficiency and weight, respectively?"
So...let's drop some of the emissions and safety standards then. They are obviously too stringent since they are preventing tech like this to flourish. At least...leave it up to the states. If CA wants to keep things high, ok....but, why should the rest of the 49 have to suffer?
Um, if that's the point you think I was making, I wasn't. If it's your own point, then it's a lousy one. California has its own problems so lets leave them out of this for the moment - but, my question was, or was supposed to be, would that car even be street legal here from an emissions and safety standpoint? Is it _just_ Ford being dickheads in not selling it here, or would it not be roadworthy by USA'n standards?
Also, there's probably some kind of collusion going on. We could make a 45mpg car that has decent numbers back in the 80's, but we can't make anything comparable now? Bullshit. There's something behind the scenes.
Could it be that the cars today have tighter emissions and safety regulations, which cost efficiency and weight, respectively?
You're being pedantic. Yes, he made an error in speech but his point was still valid - JFK's decision to put a man on the moon in ten years pretty much bailed out California, despite the fact that NASA existed prior to his Presidency..
I don't see him making that point in the grandparent quote. Maybe I missed it. I figured it was just someone giving credit to Kennedy for something done during a different President's administration.