Cisco is coming out with wireless meth hardware? That'll really help out - I'll be able to set my lab up and run it by remote. That way I'll avoid getting killed when it blows up.
...but I don't take anything "Open Source Energy News" posts seriously anymore. It seems like every post that comes from them is a crackpot.
Gee, ya think? Next you'll tell me that the interesting newspapers in the supermarket checkout don't perform rigorous fact checking. And I was so hoping to meet Elvis and bigfoot.
(As it has everyone who has done so since Mills first floated ths idea way back in 1991, at which time he announced that commercial applications of his theory were, oddly enough, just a couple years off.)
Hell, I can tell you a better place to buy crap than Wally World... It's called Costco.
Except you have to pay $45 a year to belong, you have to have a warehouse to store all that bulk stuff, and there's a lot of stuff they just don't have. And you absolutely, positively, cannot go on a Saturday. A Costco trip won't last under 3 hrs then.
So there's still room for Wally in the grand scheme of things.
I think it definitely depends on two things: 1) Is the school a "real" school? and 2) why is the student interested in doing an online school? In your case, you went to a good school and did it online because you had a job. I don't think that's a hard sell to an admissions committee or potential employer.
If someone's talking about U Phoenix or the like, I don't care if it's online or not, it's nearly worthless.
With any online degree program, the one thing that will always be missing is the person-to-person interaction. I'd only recommend online college for people like you who are experienced and have been working in the "real world." For someone coming out of high school, it's a terrible idea - they need to learn how to interact with people.
Dell's business model inherently undercuts its financial stability. In order to stay competitive, they need to continue to cut costs. Pretty soon, cutting costs comes at the expense of things like customer service, R&D, and other things that are required to maintain a viable, growing business.
Yeah, that's working out terrible for both Dell and Walmart. There will always be a market for the cheapest major vendor for any product. Always has been.
In general, I'd say Dell's future is at least more stable because the market for computers is stable and certain. Apple's fortunes are completely tied to the iPod right now, and that's a market that's less certain. For Apple to maintain their fortunes, they need to either hit another home run, and/or keep up their 75% market share in the portable player market. Both are tough, though not impossible.
It continually blows me away how clueless and out of touch Big Media is. Look, here's what we want: movies, on demand, on a subscription basis. The revenue potential is immense. We want to watch our first run movies in the theatre, with the option of watching them at home a week or two later. We want them at full DVD quality or better, and we want to be able to save them to our hard drives for convenient watching at a later date.
I don't know how much of a contingency you have there - I don't want another damn subscription with another monthly bill. So it remains to be seen how out of touch they are - I don't think you speak for everyone here.
You have kids? It's not about giving them everything they want. Sometimes you really want to give a good kid something they would really like to have. No, not everything all the time.
In other words, if you don't have kids, really, you're basically an armchair quarterback.
The Slashdot editotial policy is pretty obviously slanted Libertarian. Go back and look at the accepted political threads, and you'll see Libertarian coverage in massive disproportion to that party's ability to actually do anything.
Partially - the Libertarian contingency on/. is higher than normal by far, but many/.ers also believe in the sort of pork social programs that are the Democrats' bread and butter.
Thanks for the assist there, exactly what I was driving at. Compare "Voltage relative to turn-on" in a transistor with "Height relative to shear line" in a tumbler and you'd think the analogy would be pretty clear, but oh well...
I think there's a good chance Google is starting weekly rumors just to watch Bill work himself into a lather and waste MS's time chasing what he thinks Google is going to "do next."
GOP had control of congress and they singularly instituted it, you know contract with america (rip-off america). Clinton was being (unethically) impeached and had as much control as wile e coyote after going over the cliff after 1994
Go check the voting records. Telecom Act was a Clinton push. Clinton slipped the noose and had a ton of power at the end of his run.
The GOP is responsible for most of the debacles of the last ten years. (enron, mci, ethical misconduct, current deficits, etc)
Enron was a "Republican probem?" That's hard to figure, unless you indiscriminately blame them for everything like you are. Please, lay that line of reasoning out. Defecits? Unless you're an economist, I'm not believing you. One could also blame the bubble bust, which is more likely the real culprit.
They effectively control the three branches of government
Not the judicial, that's for sure.
You'd have more credibility if you didn't shoehorn misplaced blame onto Republicans.
As an aside not I am a capitalist and I support the work that google is doing...but lets get real on the honest living....no one making a billion dollars while people are starving is making an honest living. If you believe otherwise you should have a long hard look at yourself tommorrow in the Mirror.
And if you think that throwing money at a problem solves it, you're a fool.
Tell me again when the DMCA was passed? Oh, right, 1998. Telecommunications act, which resulted in massive cosolidations and generally screwed users? Oh, right, 1996.
If you're going to troll, at least know what you're talking about, because the gross injustices we now have to deal with were instituted during the Clinton administration. I'm not specifically blaming Clinton, and I'm not defending Bush. However, when you blame everything under the sun on Bush, then it kind of raises the nose floor and no one listens when people talk about things Bush really *has* done.
You're probably hitting the same bug[s] repeatedly. I rarely see it crash and I use it daily. I had a neighbour who saw it crash when she attempted to print certain calendar entries on her printer; maybe you have a printer driver problem?
It crashes when I hit "reply," so I don't think so. It has something to do with the exchange connector. Not sure what exactly.
There are a lot of other advantages, but they weren't the one the GP was referring to. Rewriting Sector 0 like lilo does is like playing Russian Roulette with a hundred (or more) chamber pistol with one bullet.
With a popgun, since quick use of a bootdisk gets you out of trouble. I have YET to see a way to permanantly screw a system with LILO.
No, it is an advantage.
Grub does not overwrite sector 0, EVERY TIME ONE CHANGES THE CONFIG. An operation which can fail for a number of reasons. (In other words, everytime lilo is run.) Grub instead writes the sector once, then relies on a text (and other files) which live in another sector. Even if grub's configuration file is messed up, grub will still come up, and likely be able to boot your old/new kernel. (There are ways of screwing this up, but all but one I can think of would result in lilo also failing, without even coming up.)
That is a DISADVANTAGE, as if the HD that Grub is on goes down, you can't boot anything (as I recall) without reinstalling Grub on another partition, or a different boot loader. This happened to me.
Running LILO is probably the most dangerous part, because if your config file isn't right you can leave your system unbootable.
Others have debunked most of your post, but I'll go for some more - you won't leave your system unbootable if you have a boot CD handy. Even to go back to Windows, you boot from the CD and do a format/MBR, and boot like normal. With linux, boot from CD, un-trash your lilo, and away you go.
There are advantages of Grub vs. LILO, but the ones you mentioned ain't it.
We here at MIT find it quite humorous when someone suggests that this reflects badly on the Institute, given that the person in question was educated at Harvard and Caltech.
He was educated at Caltech by David Baltimore, a long-time MIT professor. So we might also suggest that MIT quit polluting the rest of academia?
Incidentally, this isn't the first time that Baltimore has been tied to academic fraud scandal. One would hope it's coincidence.
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Cisco is coming out with wireless meth hardware? That'll really help out - I'll be able to set my lab up and run it by remote. That way I'll avoid getting killed when it blows up.
Gee, ya think? Next you'll tell me that the interesting newspapers in the supermarket checkout don't perform rigorous fact checking. And I was so hoping to meet Elvis and bigfoot.
Wait...he's selling gallium arsenide semiconductor devices? *ducks*
Except you have to pay $45 a year to belong, you have to have a warehouse to store all that bulk stuff, and there's a lot of stuff they just don't have. And you absolutely, positively, cannot go on a Saturday. A Costco trip won't last under 3 hrs then.
So there's still room for Wally in the grand scheme of things.
If someone's talking about U Phoenix or the like, I don't care if it's online or not, it's nearly worthless.
With any online degree program, the one thing that will always be missing is the person-to-person interaction. I'd only recommend online college for people like you who are experienced and have been working in the "real world." For someone coming out of high school, it's a terrible idea - they need to learn how to interact with people.
Yeah, that's working out terrible for both Dell and Walmart. There will always be a market for the cheapest major vendor for any product. Always has been.
In general, I'd say Dell's future is at least more stable because the market for computers is stable and certain. Apple's fortunes are completely tied to the iPod right now, and that's a market that's less certain. For Apple to maintain their fortunes, they need to either hit another home run, and/or keep up their 75% market share in the portable player market. Both are tough, though not impossible.
I don't know how much of a contingency you have there - I don't want another damn subscription with another monthly bill. So it remains to be seen how out of touch they are - I don't think you speak for everyone here.
In other words, if you don't have kids, really, you're basically an armchair quarterback.
Partially - the Libertarian contingency on /. is higher than normal by far, but many /.ers also believe in the sort of pork social programs that are the Democrats' bread and butter.
I do, they're called parents, Christmas shopping.
Thanks for the assist there, exactly what I was driving at. Compare "Voltage relative to turn-on" in a transistor with "Height relative to shear line" in a tumbler and you'd think the analogy would be pretty clear, but oh well...
I realize this is a joke, but if you think about it, a tumbler lock is most certainly a digital device, if not an electronic one.
I think there's a good chance Google is starting weekly rumors just to watch Bill work himself into a lather and waste MS's time chasing what he thinks Google is going to "do next."
Go check the voting records. Telecom Act was a Clinton push. Clinton slipped the noose and had a ton of power at the end of his run.
The GOP is responsible for most of the debacles of the last ten years. (enron, mci, ethical misconduct, current deficits, etc)
Enron was a "Republican probem?" That's hard to figure, unless you indiscriminately blame them for everything like you are. Please, lay that line of reasoning out. Defecits? Unless you're an economist, I'm not believing you. One could also blame the bubble bust, which is more likely the real culprit.
They effectively control the three branches of government
Not the judicial, that's for sure.
You'd have more credibility if you didn't shoehorn misplaced blame onto Republicans.
That's a good way of putting it. I'm stealing that.
And if you think that throwing money at a problem solves it, you're a fool.
If you're going to troll, at least know what you're talking about, because the gross injustices we now have to deal with were instituted during the Clinton administration. I'm not specifically blaming Clinton, and I'm not defending Bush. However, when you blame everything under the sun on Bush, then it kind of raises the nose floor and no one listens when people talk about things Bush really *has* done.
It crashes when I hit "reply," so I don't think so. It has something to do with the exchange connector. Not sure what exactly.
I like evolution, but it crashes more than a 90-year-old drunk Irishman on St. Patrick's day.
With a popgun, since quick use of a bootdisk gets you out of trouble. I have YET to see a way to permanantly screw a system with LILO.
No, it is an advantage.
Grub does not overwrite sector 0, EVERY TIME ONE CHANGES THE CONFIG. An operation which can fail for a number of reasons. (In other words, everytime lilo is run.) Grub instead writes the sector once, then relies on a text (and other files) which live in another sector. Even if grub's configuration file is messed up, grub will still come up, and likely be able to boot your old/new kernel. (There are ways of screwing this up, but all but one I can think of would result in lilo also failing, without even coming up.)
That is a DISADVANTAGE, as if the HD that Grub is on goes down, you can't boot anything (as I recall) without reinstalling Grub on another partition, or a different boot loader. This happened to me.
Speaking of which, where's my damned memo, Raymond? ;)
Others have debunked most of your post, but I'll go for some more - you won't leave your system unbootable if you have a boot CD handy. Even to go back to Windows, you boot from the CD and do a format /MBR, and boot like normal. With linux, boot from CD, un-trash your lilo, and away you go.
There are advantages of Grub vs. LILO, but the ones you mentioned ain't it.
He was educated at Caltech by David Baltimore, a long-time MIT professor. So we might also suggest that MIT quit polluting the rest of academia?
Incidentally, this isn't the first time that Baltimore has been tied to academic fraud scandal. One would hope it's coincidence.
Sure doesn't. But putting stuff back together after completely fucking it up, before your parents get home, is a pretty good sign. ;)
Don't know why not. A desire for stability and control isn't limited to servers. I'm writing this from a slack desktop, for what it's worth.