Actually its not unless you don't believe that smart people could fix that problem. Whether its floating cities or space travel or better use of food resources or living under the oceans, there are potential future technological solutions that won't exist without the procreation of more smart people.
Modeling biology is complicated. Very very complicated. Sure, we may develop better algorithms at some point, but even proving that they're correct takes massive computing power. Do a little reading on the Folding@Home project for example.
Although I appreciate your frustration, anyone who's worked both with and without init.d structures has been through this before.
That said, most qmail installations don't need restarting for any reason for many moons, so unless you were fiddling with it, or it was improperly configured in the first place (both not a fault of daemontools or qmail itself), then it probably isn't even relevant.
Well it was brief compared to some good metaphysics papers I've read:-)
Lets say that I was trying to explain how metaphysics and philosophy contribute to how you see the world and help explain how you think and how you perceive reality perhaps also what is in fact real.
Science describes a way of studying the subset of what is real that can in fact be studied repeatedly of course. There is the question of things we describe as science that do not in fact use the scientific method, and the fringe sciences that deal with things most scientists dismiss out of hand. Nonetheless, anything studied scientifically can be thought to be science.
I've done quite a bit of thinking compared to some, and quite a bit less than others about what exactly we know about the world around us as individuals rather than as a collective. What do I know to be right an true and verifiable, and what do I have to take on faith (in science or otherwise) simply because I have better things to do with my mind than to ponder everything I think in any real depth (much as that may not appear to be the case after reading the above).
The result of the above is that as an individual I have no ability in 99% of cases to dismiss any thought of any other person as unproved silliness without myself indulging in the same as I have no personal provable expertise in whatever I'm dismissing. I choose to accept or dismiss it because of what I believe and how I think about things in general (read up on "worldviews"), not necessarily what I actually, provably know.
Just my $0.02 that could go on for hours and hours, and may in fact if I ever bother writing it up in more depth.
That's all there is left, isn't there? Honestly, I didn't buy into the PS2 thing until pretty late in the Playstation era (got mine for $200) just because I wanted to play some games that would never end up on the PC. That said, when I went shopping for my next video card, I realized I could spend the same money and get an HD capable gaming system instead.
The console is even more future proof, since game companies will continue making games to the limits of the hardware purchased instead of constantly pushing for newer hardware in the next few months, elongating the value of my investment.
I was about to respond eloquently to everything you wrote but realized it can be summed up thus: I said nothing of the sort.
Please re-read my post without reading into it every piece of stupid tripe you've heard from creationists over the years. I was talking about worldview and metaphysics and philosophy -- areas that have been left at the roadside in scientific circles of late.
He has a point inasmuch as adding complexity invariably adds security issues that need addressing. However, auditing the Xen code makes much more sense considering the possible security benefits in the long run than avoiding it altogether. Partitioning of the system's resources is a net win for me.
I hate to break it to you, and I know this is hard for people to get their heads around, but you don't prove most of the things you believe in your life, and I mean/you/ as a person.
Proofs are hard. You/believe/ most everything you/believe/ on faith at some level. Faith in your own senses, in others' senses, that others' minds work similarly to yours, that scientists and peer review work, etc.
A lot of this faith has testing involved, some of it does not, as there's too much pre-conceived thought to even document your lifetime assumptions much less prove them.
This is the area of philosophy and meta-physics of course, but ignoring it is to ignore the nature of reality at some level -- if you're not aware of how and why you think what you think, you've got no leg to stand on when you say science is based on proofs and faith in an omnipotent god is stupid or silly.
That is to say, most persons of faith believe they do have sufficient evidence or proof in their own lives and experiences to support their beliefs, whereas you believe the same about what you believe. Accepting each others' assumptions, proofs, experiences and beliefs is where the problem often actually lies.
I'm not saying you have to agree with anyone here, just do a little introspection rather than hand-wavingly writing off others' thought systems.
You know you still won't get to fit more than 9GiB on a game disc right? Microsoft won't upgrade to HD-DVDs for game discs because that would require replacing ALL the existing 360's on the market.
To be fair, at their current failure rate, that might not take so long after all.
PS you realize Sony already has distribution deals in Asia for HD TV content, and an HD-capable DVR device for Europe in the works right? Sony's ahead of the game in the technology world, not behind. Microsoft just got their product out first and has deeper pockets to lose cash on bad hardware.
Go look up how much Microsoft has lost on the XBox project so far (since the beginning), and tell me that they've done the right thing for their investors by continuing this charade.
The fact that everyone knows how to do something a certain way doesn't make it implicitly the right way, does it?
Personally I'd like to see a completely themeable UI for GIMP like XMMS or Mplayer, etc. Then you Photoshop lovers can have your UI and leave the rest of us alone.
More importantly, its American foreign policy to advise such actions be taken upon other sovereign states when the US administration sides with the terrorists^W, oops, freedom fighters.
The CIA distributed such pamphlets to various foreign countries' citizens on various occasions in the 20th century advising they overthrow their governments with terrorism. Why do you think they're so worried about it? They know it works.
The above is what I was trying to imply, thanks for the elaboration. Their monopoly in Windows results in them having an unfair advantage in other areas like office applications, game development or database servers as they can just call up OS development and ask for a feature they need, for example (and there's plenty of evidence this has happened -- for old examples, see Undocumented Windows and Undocumented DOS).
Of course, the problem is that this doesn't mean there is existing documentation, it could be in the form of random E-mails here and there or talks over the water cooler. Nothing necessarily sinister, just a little "hey Joe, can I get an API call that bypasses that driver check, its slowing me down" and you're off.
Documenting these APIs accurately for others is the resulting demand by the courts, as right it should be. People who disagree don't appear to be aware of the facts.
You like a number of people arguing that perspective forget that this ruling only applies to businesses in monopoly situations. This is not about what every business should do, or must do, its about how Microsoft must document interfaces to a piece of software considered a nearly required piece of equipment, Windows, on most computers.
Linux has no such requirement, nor does Apple for Mac OS X. If OS X became the de facto standard for interfacing with PCs, Apple would also be expected to document how its interfaces work to allow other developers to fairly compete with Apple's own bundled software.
To be honest the only reason I was ever remotely excited about the Revolution... I mean Wii... was the possibility of playing virtual console games. When all the ones I want are available, I might even pick one up.
This is completely untrue. You're mixing up non-free with illegal. RedHat doesn't distribute packages that may be illegal to distribute, not because they're not free, but because getting sued isn't fun.
RedHat has long distributed non-free but legal software, not the least of which being Netscape in the old days. Some Linux distros have political issues about distributing non-free software, and more power to to them, but that's not what you're dealing with here -- this is an issue of the legality of the software itself.
You're quite welcome. There's a reason those of us who love *nix command-lines love them -- they're immensely powerful.
Another personal favourite of mine (not that you asked):
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{size} %{name}\n" | sort -g... lists all installed packages on an RPM based system with the largest ones at the end, for when you're looking to do clean-up. I wrote a quick one-line automatic GPG/PGP key signature fetcher once too (download all signatures for a key to check web of trust).
find/autofs -iname "*.jpg" | cpio -pv/media/SEAGATE/... assuming you use autofs to auto-mount visible shares on the network and your firewire drive is mounted as/media/SEAGATE of course, you shouldn't have any problems, besides griding the network to a halt perhaps.
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The only aircraft I remember reading had never been shot down is the SR-71 Blackbird, and I may be wrong about that.
That's a very impressive piece of technology from a long time ago too.
No he just has a poorly calibrated scale.
Personally speaking my home electronic supposedly self-correcting scale show my weight as varying by as much as 10lbs a day.
I was going to say the Newton, but that's both cheating and dating me.
PS, I own two, they both still work more reliably than portable versions of Windows.
Actually its not unless you don't believe that smart people could fix that problem. Whether its floating cities or space travel or better use of food resources or living under the oceans, there are potential future technological solutions that won't exist without the procreation of more smart people.
Think about it more.
I love how intelligent people complain about others breeding and effectively unbreed themselves out of the population.
Thanks a lot for not thinking ahead.
If you want lots of smart people working on future solutions, then breed. Jeez. Stop letting the un-smart people overpopulate you.
Modeling biology is complicated. Very very complicated. Sure, we may develop better algorithms at some point, but even proving that they're correct takes massive computing power. Do a little reading on the Folding@Home project for example.
Although I appreciate your frustration, anyone who's worked both with and without init.d structures has been through this before.
That said, most qmail installations don't need restarting for any reason for many moons, so unless you were fiddling with it, or it was improperly configured in the first place (both not a fault of daemontools or qmail itself), then it probably isn't even relevant.
Well it was brief compared to some good metaphysics papers I've read :-)
Lets say that I was trying to explain how metaphysics and philosophy contribute to how you see the world and help explain how you think and how you perceive reality perhaps also what is in fact real.
Science describes a way of studying the subset of what is real that can in fact be studied repeatedly of course. There is the question of things we describe as science that do not in fact use the scientific method, and the fringe sciences that deal with things most scientists dismiss out of hand. Nonetheless, anything studied scientifically can be thought to be science.
I've done quite a bit of thinking compared to some, and quite a bit less than others about what exactly we know about the world around us as individuals rather than as a collective. What do I know to be right an true and verifiable, and what do I have to take on faith (in science or otherwise) simply because I have better things to do with my mind than to ponder everything I think in any real depth (much as that may not appear to be the case after reading the above).
The result of the above is that as an individual I have no ability in 99% of cases to dismiss any thought of any other person as unproved silliness without myself indulging in the same as I have no personal provable expertise in whatever I'm dismissing. I choose to accept or dismiss it because of what I believe and how I think about things in general (read up on "worldviews"), not necessarily what I actually, provably know.
Just my $0.02 that could go on for hours and hours, and may in fact if I ever bother writing it up in more depth.
*thinks for a moment* ... you mean the mouse?
That's all there is left, isn't there? Honestly, I didn't buy into the PS2 thing until pretty late in the Playstation era (got mine for $200) just because I wanted to play some games that would never end up on the PC. That said, when I went shopping for my next video card, I realized I could spend the same money and get an HD capable gaming system instead.
The console is even more future proof, since game companies will continue making games to the limits of the hardware purchased instead of constantly pushing for newer hardware in the next few months, elongating the value of my investment.
But yes, in-game mouse support would be nice.
For that matter, if you're going to buy a $600 high end PC video card, why not buy a PS3 for less money instead.
I was about to respond eloquently to everything you wrote but realized it can be summed up thus: I said nothing of the sort.
Please re-read my post without reading into it every piece of stupid tripe you've heard from creationists over the years. I was talking about worldview and metaphysics and philosophy -- areas that have been left at the roadside in scientific circles of late.
He has a point inasmuch as adding complexity invariably adds security issues that need addressing. However, auditing the Xen code makes much more sense considering the possible security benefits in the long run than avoiding it altogether. Partitioning of the system's resources is a net win for me.
I hate to break it to you, and I know this is hard for people to get their heads around, but you don't prove most of the things you believe in your life, and I mean /you/ as a person.
/believe/ most everything you /believe/ on faith at some level. Faith in your own senses, in others' senses, that others' minds work similarly to yours, that scientists and peer review work, etc.
Proofs are hard. You
A lot of this faith has testing involved, some of it does not, as there's too much pre-conceived thought to even document your lifetime assumptions much less prove them.
This is the area of philosophy and meta-physics of course, but ignoring it is to ignore the nature of reality at some level -- if you're not aware of how and why you think what you think, you've got no leg to stand on when you say science is based on proofs and faith in an omnipotent god is stupid or silly.
That is to say, most persons of faith believe they do have sufficient evidence or proof in their own lives and experiences to support their beliefs, whereas you believe the same about what you believe. Accepting each others' assumptions, proofs, experiences and beliefs is where the problem often actually lies.
I'm not saying you have to agree with anyone here, just do a little introspection rather than hand-wavingly writing off others' thought systems.
Most important in my mind to gamers:
In terms of watching video, I prefer the BD Java support for extremely interactive content if desired as well.
You know you still won't get to fit more than 9GiB on a game disc right? Microsoft won't upgrade to HD-DVDs for game discs because that would require replacing ALL the existing 360's on the market.
To be fair, at their current failure rate, that might not take so long after all.
PS you realize Sony already has distribution deals in Asia for HD TV content, and an HD-capable DVR device for Europe in the works right? Sony's ahead of the game in the technology world, not behind. Microsoft just got their product out first and has deeper pockets to lose cash on bad hardware.
Go look up how much Microsoft has lost on the XBox project so far (since the beginning), and tell me that they've done the right thing for their investors by continuing this charade.
The fact that everyone knows how to do something a certain way doesn't make it implicitly the right way, does it?
Personally I'd like to see a completely themeable UI for GIMP like XMMS or Mplayer, etc. Then you Photoshop lovers can have your UI and leave the rest of us alone.
More importantly, its American foreign policy to advise such actions be taken upon other sovereign states when the US administration sides with the terrorists^W, oops, freedom fighters.
The CIA distributed such pamphlets to various foreign countries' citizens on various occasions in the 20th century advising they overthrow their governments with terrorism. Why do you think they're so worried about it? They know it works.
The above is what I was trying to imply, thanks for the elaboration. Their monopoly in Windows results in them having an unfair advantage in other areas like office applications, game development or database servers as they can just call up OS development and ask for a feature they need, for example (and there's plenty of evidence this has happened -- for old examples, see Undocumented Windows and Undocumented DOS).
Of course, the problem is that this doesn't mean there is existing documentation, it could be in the form of random E-mails here and there or talks over the water cooler. Nothing necessarily sinister, just a little "hey Joe, can I get an API call that bypasses that driver check, its slowing me down" and you're off.
Documenting these APIs accurately for others is the resulting demand by the courts, as right it should be. People who disagree don't appear to be aware of the facts.
You like a number of people arguing that perspective forget that this ruling only applies to businesses in monopoly situations. This is not about what every business should do, or must do, its about how Microsoft must document interfaces to a piece of software considered a nearly required piece of equipment, Windows, on most computers.
Linux has no such requirement, nor does Apple for Mac OS X. If OS X became the de facto standard for interfacing with PCs, Apple would also be expected to document how its interfaces work to allow other developers to fairly compete with Apple's own bundled software.
To be honest the only reason I was ever remotely excited about the Revolution ... I mean Wii ... was the possibility of playing virtual console games. When all the ones I want are available, I might even pick one up.
This is completely untrue. You're mixing up non-free with illegal. RedHat doesn't distribute packages that may be illegal to distribute, not because they're not free, but because getting sued isn't fun.
RedHat has long distributed non-free but legal software, not the least of which being Netscape in the old days. Some Linux distros have political issues about distributing non-free software, and more power to to them, but that's not what you're dealing with here -- this is an issue of the legality of the software itself.
You're quite welcome. There's a reason those of us who love *nix command-lines love them -- they're immensely powerful.
... lists all installed packages on an RPM based system with the largest ones at the end, for when you're looking to do clean-up. I wrote a quick one-line automatic GPG/PGP key signature fetcher once too (download all signatures for a key to check web of trust).
Another personal favourite of mine (not that you asked):
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{size} %{name}\n" | sort -g
Use Linux
/autofs -iname "*.jpg" | cpio -pv /media/SEAGATE/ ... assuming you use autofs to auto-mount visible shares on the network and your firewire drive is mounted as /media/SEAGATE of course, you shouldn't have any problems, besides griding the network to a halt perhaps.
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Dumping a few billion dollars on a country is hardly ever good for its local economy, no matter what you may believe.