Do you really expect that businesses won't be able to make good use of a 1Gbps connection within the next 10 years?
Yay, even more obnoxious Flash animations!!!!
Lots of businesses have no or minimal need for the internet.
(My family's business sells building materials to contractors, most of whom are dirty and smelly and work out of their pickup trucks. Pencil, paper, a calculator and a cell phone are their appropriate technology. A "camera" smartphone and email would be a useful step up for them, but nothing more. Same thing with auto mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, restaurants, etc, etc ad nauseum.)
I telecommute, so a "fast" 12Mbps pipe (work laptop with VPN, "my" PC, and wife's PC all connected via router and cable modem) is tres useful, much smoother than the 7Mbps I had before upgrading my ancient DOCCIS 1.0 modem to a new v2.0 modem. But we happily survived at 7Mbps, without any undue burdens.
If Cox (our ISP), suddenly doubled our bandwidth, I'd cheer, and think better of them than I do now, but there's no way that I need more speed, and no way that I'm paying for it.
For the same reason why not everyone should buy a 500,000 dollar house. It's not affordable to wire-up everyone, including some remote Wyoming farmer, with 1 gigabit connections.
Private individuals not being able to afford a half-million dollar house is radically different from a government-enforced policy of taxpayer-subsidized mansions for people in some states, and pay-your-own-way housing in the rest of the country.
And it's ridiculous to claim some people don't have internet. They have phones don't they? Then they can certainly access 50k dialup, same as I do when I'm traveling.
This statement highlights your total ignorance of
modem protocols (you have to be within a certain distance of the "server modems" to get the full 50kbps speed, and "country folk" just don't live that close...), and
rural telecom infrastructure (the gov't said the telecoms had to make have good voice-quality, and that's exactly the minimum that many rural phone companies did, since revenue-per-sq.-mile is so low they can't afford to do anything else).
Leader of the first world? Only in his fucking delusions.
Since WW2, the POTUS has always had the informal title, "leader of the free world".
Even Nixon and Carter.
a whole bunch of "first world" countries condemning your decisions
European (selling dual-use technology to Iraq and Iran, then wagging their fingers at us) and Canadian (they are letting their military wither into nothingness) hypocrites make me puke. Then I ignore them for the ass-hats they are.
He was the leader of the first world for 8 years. So, it "must" be his fault. After all, it couldn't be the fault of Omar al-Bashir or Robert Mugabe...
I would say, when studying math for the sake of math, it would certainly be useful to ban computers for much of the curriculum -- even calculators aren't needed. Then, when they start using them, they'll at least have a sense of when the computer is wrong.
Amen, brother.
For writing, however, I don't see a significant advantage to not providing a computer. All the pen does is make your hand cramp...
I found that manual note taking (even though I am left-handed, and so smeared ink) ingrained the information in my brain better than listening.
Word processors, though, are invaluable for drafting and writing "papers". Typewriters really suck!
And for science, I would say, you already have to do it by hand in math, a computer would be useful in science, if it means you get to cover more ground, faster. But I'm not sure.
All you need is a calculator. The manual act of plotting graphs (even when the point are generated by calculator) seemed to reinforce things for me.
is that women are biologically "designed" (note the quotes; I'm not a creationist or IDer) to have babies in their late teens thru late twenties, not when they're frickin' middle aged.
One thing that is great about science is that it does have a way of eventually finding errors and correcting them in the face of new evidence.
It's also what makes many educated lay people suspicious when scientists categorically assert that Global Warming Is Upon Us, and We're All Going To Die, so quick, lets over-regulate every facet of everyone's lives, because We Went To University, So We Know What's Good For You.
I love the Scientific Method, and I think it's the only way to discover Reality, but we have to remember that imperfect people are the ones doing (and sometimes abusing) the science.
Unless you need the proprietary ATI or nVidia drivers, one reboot at the end of installation and it's done. And, if you do need to download those drivers, that's only one more reboot. Two at most, and you're done.
Not true, even if you use [gxk]dm, you should be able to "activate" the new driver (after updating xorg.conf) by killing the dm. It'll auto-restart and thus load nvidia.ko.
Of course, God only Smiles on you if you use startx.
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Wow you missed the point. (whoosh).
Then you did a miserable job at sarcasm.
Do you really expect that businesses won't be able to make good use of a 1Gbps connection within the next 10 years?
(My family's business sells building materials to contractors, most of whom are dirty and smelly and work out of their pickup trucks. Pencil, paper, a calculator and a cell phone are their appropriate technology. A "camera" smartphone and email would be a useful step up for them, but nothing more. Same thing with auto mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, restaurants, etc, etc ad nauseum.)
I telecommute, so a "fast" 12Mbps pipe (work laptop with VPN, "my" PC, and wife's PC all connected via router and cable modem) is tres useful, much smoother than the 7Mbps I had before upgrading my ancient DOCCIS 1.0 modem to a new v2.0 modem. But we happily survived at 7Mbps, without any undue burdens.
If Cox (our ISP), suddenly doubled our bandwidth, I'd cheer, and think better of them than I do now, but there's no way that I need more speed, and no way that I'm paying for it.
Maybe I'm just getting old...
kind of nasty
But cheap and easy.
and in the United States comes with negative connotations.
Only if the hangee has "a skin tan".
For the same reason why not everyone should buy a 500,000 dollar house. It's not affordable to wire-up everyone, including some remote Wyoming farmer, with 1 gigabit connections.
Private individuals not being able to afford a half-million dollar house is radically different from a government-enforced policy of taxpayer-subsidized mansions for people in some states, and pay-your-own-way housing in the rest of the country.
And it's ridiculous to claim some people don't have internet. They have phones don't they? Then they can certainly access 50k dialup, same as I do when I'm traveling.
This statement highlights your total ignorance of
I'm seriously confused as to why this is upsetting considering that the average Firefox user installs plugins ...
The point isn't that MSFT is creating FF plugins.
The point is that MSFT is silently forcing plugins without telling us what they do.
This whole thing would have been a non-issue if they had
But MSFT is too arrogantly stupid to do that.
What a novel idea.
Everything old is new again.
Leader of the first world? Only in his fucking delusions.
Since WW2, the POTUS has always had the informal title, "leader of the free world".
Even Nixon and Carter.
a whole bunch of "first world" countries condemning your decisions
European (selling dual-use technology to Iraq and Iran, then wagging their fingers at us) and Canadian (they are letting their military wither into nothingness) hypocrites make me puke. Then I ignore them for the ass-hats they are.
And who mentioned George W?
He was the leader of the first world for 8 years. So, it "must" be his fault. After all, it couldn't be the fault of Omar al-Bashir or Robert Mugabe...
it's just that 1st world countries don't care enough to.
Bullshit.
B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T bullshit, because it sure wasn't George W preventing the food trucks from rolling into Darfur.
I would say, when studying math for the sake of math, it would certainly be useful to ban computers for much of the curriculum -- even calculators aren't needed. Then, when they start using them, they'll at least have a sense of when the computer is wrong.
Amen, brother.
For writing, however, I don't see a significant advantage to not providing a computer. All the pen does is make your hand cramp...
I found that manual note taking (even though I am left-handed, and so smeared ink) ingrained the information in my brain better than listening.
Word processors, though, are invaluable for drafting and writing "papers". Typewriters really suck!
And for science, I would say, you already have to do it by hand in math, a computer would be useful in science, if it means you get to cover more ground, faster. But I'm not sure.
All you need is a calculator. The manual act of plotting graphs (even when the point are generated by calculator) seemed to reinforce things for me.
Ummmm... you missed my comment about random didn't you.
Must have.
The length output by the command is random. Run it 10 times and see what you get.
I got some short ones, just like you. Wiggling the mouse juiced up the entropy, though.
Nothing is random!
Except quantum mechanics. You know, Schrödinger's Cat...
The dd command generates 200 binary bytes of random data and the tr command strips out the valid password characters.
So you'd think. But it works for me...
Servers should do as much as possible via a RAM-based cache
Right. RAM is C-H-E-A-P
use a RAM disk for data that copies to the hard drive only when necessary.
Wrong. It means you know more about a dynamic system than the kernel.
the biological imperative to care for and nurture children never goes away.
That's what grandchildren and nieces/nephews are for.
is that women are biologically "designed" (note the quotes; I'm not a creationist or IDer) to have babies in their late teens thru late twenties, not when they're frickin' middle aged.
pooping in his hair.
How is it that the other Anglo-Saxon countries are all WORSE than the US when it comes to digital rights and freedoms?
And lots of other Big Brother and Nanny State idiocy, all from countries that think they are superior to the US.
You also didn't bother to mention whether or not FBSD 5.2 was also missing those features
Because the message I replied to referred to the greatness of FBSD 6 or 7, not v5.2.
One thing that is great about science is that it does have a way of eventually finding errors and correcting them in the face of new evidence.
It's also what makes many educated lay people suspicious when scientists categorically assert that Global Warming Is Upon Us, and We're All Going To Die, so quick, lets over-regulate every facet of everyone's lives, because We Went To University, So We Know What's Good For You.
I love the Scientific Method, and I think it's the only way to discover Reality, but we have to remember that imperfect people are the ones doing (and sometimes abusing) the science.
just as much as "more weight" does
No. It implies that you're near a much larger mass. Astronaut on Moon vs astronaut on Earth.
All of these work on FreeBSD 6 or 7
v6.0 was released 5 YEARS after Linux 2.4.1 was released, so OF COURSE it has more features. Linux 2.6.1 is contemporaneous with FBSD v5.2.
And they say Linux isn't ready for regular users.
You, of course, mean that Linux isn't ready to be administered by regular users.
To which I agree, and go further by stating that no computers should be administered by regular users. Especially those connected to the Intarweb.
Unless you need the proprietary ATI or nVidia drivers, one reboot at the end of installation and it's done. And, if you do need to download those drivers, that's only one more reboot. Two at most, and you're done.
Not true, even if you use [gxk]dm, you should be able to "activate" the new driver (after updating xorg.conf) by killing the dm. It'll auto-restart and thus load nvidia.ko.
Of course, God only Smiles on you if you use startx.
I'm a huge fan of tapes, but I've done some backup implementations that were better suited for a couple of hard drives in an off-site rotation.
Must have been small systems.