I think the problem is that people like yourself keep trying to pretend its not.
In every justice system the world over, 'justice' does equate to some form of revenge.
Its just the way nature works, you should probably accept it, it'll be a whole lot easier than trying to pretend that the instincts that have evolved into all life on Earth can be ignored.
People are animals. Animals will do as much as they can for themselves until something pushes back against them. Revenge or retribution is one of those things we do to self regulate our species... its instinct, its natural, its not going away no matter how much you try to pretend you're 'better' than that.
When some serious crime is committed against you, you will want revenge and theres nothing you can say or do that will stop that.
Because other citizens agreed that for what he did, this was a fair sentence.
How do you know what he deserved if you weren't there at the trial listening to the arguments and evidence.
Remember, there was a slashdotter on the jury... who thought he deserved it.
Does he deserve four years? I don't know, I wasn't there. Whats better, I dont' really care. He might have had my sympathy if it wasn't so crystal clear that he was a arrogant jackass trying to extort the city. He was on a power trip, so... if the punishment for him is a little over the top... well then it seems fitting considering his actions were most certainly way over the top and out of line.
Personally, I would have been happier if he was never allowed to take advantage of any device containing a microprocessor in it. No cars, electronics, medical help, voting... pretty much the only thing he could do would be to become a farmer on his own land with hand tools just to survive.
Hanging people in America who steal a loaf of bread would cut down on a lot of problems.
Theres no real reason in America to steal a loaf of bread, someone will give you won't without too much effort... like asking.
If you still feel the need to steal a loaf of bread then you probably aren't really that much benefit to society anyway, so I don't really see the point in keeping you around.
We should I have to carry the weight of people who are too lazy to carry themselves... and thats all you have in America. We're not talking about a country where people actually starve because there really isn't any place to get food.
I, as an American, am extremely intolerant of the 'homeless' because there is no reason in America to be 'homeless', even right now in this 'horrible' economy with 'high unemployment' there are STILL now hiring signs all over the place and it simply comes down being unwilling (not unable, we have help for those people too!) to do anything to make your place in the world better.
I happily welcome immigrants from other nations, especially the poor. We have millions of Mexicans who sneak into America to do work that is far 'lower' than our 'standards' for far less than our 'minimum wage'... because... we are SO MUCH BETTER than the how bad it can REALLY get when you're TRUELY POOR that even the shittiest illegal under the table job in America is STILL about a thousand times better than the alternatives they had going for them.
I used to get mad when I went to McDonalds and couldn't speak to the people that worked there because they couldn't speak a lick of English... pissed me off, till I realized that they are happy to do the jobs that Americans think they too good to do.
Now I'm very happy to see an immigrant steal 'an American' job... I'm hoping that we'll get back to the country we used to be, where people were happy to work to make their world better.
All we have now in America is a bunch of lazy fucks who think they are entitled to everything.
I welcome your tired, your weak, your sick and your poor... because at least the 'lower classes' of the rest of the world aren't that way by choice, America's lower class citizens are that way by choice.
All he would have had to do was what his boss and the policies in place asked him to do.
You aren't a 'scapegoat' when you can easily and legitimately end the entire situation before it starts.
You aren't the 'scapegoat' when the situation is one YOU started.
He could have simply told someone who cared, but instead he decided to take actions into his own hands. His actions were dangerous and illegal. He broke laws and policies that his community set.
He had several occasions to 'do the right thing' and get in no trouble as well as turn the passwords over to qualified people, but he didn't, he said no, he wasn't going to and tried to hold the systems hostage knowing that anything anyone could do to recover the passwords would result in the equipment losing its configuration, effectively making it worthless and potentially causing problems.
He set these machines up in this way, AGAINST CITY IT POLICY. He didn't put the configs in the city IT config management system. He didn't put the passwords in the city IT config management system. He broke policy in order to put himself in the situation he was in.
How the fuck can you call someone a scapegoat when they created the entire problem?
Oh, I know how... you have never bothered to read what he did, just assumed the city of SF is 'The EvilZors!@%!'
Before you start saying 'Mr Childs was trying to show people poor procedures' then I suggest you take a GOOD look at the procedures that where in place as a matter of city policy... AT LEAST 2 OF WHICH, had he ACTUALLY FOLLOWED PROCEDURE, would have resulted in the city having everything they needed without him.
The city did its job, Childs didn't. Get the facts next time, you won't look nearly as stupid as you do when you listen to the criminal as if he's not lying through his teeth.
The major (presumably a valid password agent) asked for the password over an open speakerphone while in the presence of a half dozen other people who were not valid password agents.
So fucking what? Several people well above him asked for it, period, end of story, he wasn't right, you can't justify it as being a good admin, he wasn't.
He was trying to become an extorsionist. This is not a good thing no matter how your fucked up view of the world tries to make him into some admin super hero. He's a dick, a shitty admin, a shitty person and all around a waste of planetary resources, I suspect you are too.
The boss did something similar (asking for the password to be given to him in an invalid manner).
Perhaps you and Mr Childs needs to get some fucking clue about what 'Boss' means.
Childs was screwed no matter what he did. Was he paranoid and did he overreact (probably).
Yes it was legal and yes it was entirely justified. Don't want to be made into an example? Don't try to extort the government in full public view, and then continue to do so even after thrown in jail.
He was screwed the instant he decided he was going to be a dick, he did it entirely too himself.
It's legal to give you a ticket for doing 66 in a 65. And to do so with cameras so you don't even know you got it. And to give you another ticket another mile down the road for the same crime-- every mile all the way home.
So let me get this straight... its okay to break the law and risk other peoples lives as long as no one sees you do it? Are you kidding me? And you're trying to argue that you only deserve one ticket even though you continued to break the law?
That has to be one of, if not THE, most retarded thing I have ever read.
'Its okay to continually break the law if you don't get caught and you shouldn't get punished more because you did it more often even though you didn't realize the cops knew it'
You don't want speeding tickets... don't break the speed limit, which your community has agreed on as appropriate for the area. You either play by the community rules or the community will 'take care of you'. Today that means fines for most things, but at a certain point the community realizes you're far more effort than you're worth and the punishment starts to become more severe. Eventually, the community just takes you to the center of town and stones you to make you an example. Congratulations Mr Childs, you pissed everyone off so much with your arrogance and douche baggery that you're not being pelted with rocks. Thats okay though... cause you still know in your heart that you were right... regardless of the fact that not one of your peers agrees with you.
Next time you get a speeding ticket, go out right after the cop lets you go and start speeding again, see how many times you get by with that.
There are lots of things that are legal but not right.
Yep, and this isn't one of them. Letting him go for legal reasons most certainly would have been legal and not right, but this was both legal AND RIGHT.
The lesson learned is... you don't want to work for the government without a strong union and clear policies backing you.
... The lesson learned is... don't be a complete fucking idiot and you'll be able to work in an easy, comfy, no real work, government job forever... but even the government at some point gets fed up with douche bags. The policies were in fact VERY VERY clear, perhaps you should actually learn what happened and you'd see this? No union would have saved him, he was wrong in every way. Any union that would have tried to 'defend' Childs is a union that shouldn't exist.
Okay, it wouldn't even be that hard. As long as you don't preclude using newer technology excluding electronics. Better engine designs and tighter tolerances and other advances in automobile tech will carry you most of the way to today without switching off the old points based ignition system and to EFI.
The electronics just make sure the car tweaks itself to optimum driving conditions for the time, and thats good, but it mean its doing something super special. I used to own a 1977 Chevy pickup with a v8 that I could get 15 mpg in the city out of it... 20 mpg city for a Camery is pretty shitty actually.
It also ways half as much. Has better bearings and lubes.
A properly tuned carbrated engine is just as efficient as all but the hottest of EFI engines, the EFI engine can just tune itself a little bit when the air changes.
Seriously, silicon CAN be stacked. Not in a single process but multiple dies in a single package is a good start. No, its not going to start out showing the same speed increases that we've got from shrinking the size of everything, but once you get so small you're done. Once you start getting every single drop of computational power out of a particular bit of matter, the only thing you can do is add matter.
Its just another way to add cores essentially. Given some time, someone will start figuring out WAY better ways to interconnect the stacked dies, or eventually make one die with layers of silicon in a truely 3d chip.
Its not going to advance until we start doing it and learning what works and what doesn't. Until we put some effort into 'work arounds' that almost achieve what we really want, we'll never likely jump directly to the end result.
Car Analogy:
Instead of trying to jump from cave man to Aston Martin, the wheel was invented first, and then various methods of attaching wheels to seats and animals, and finally to where we are today.
We may even find out that our current thoughts about building chips in layers is just a bad idea anyway and we go an entirely different and far more useful direction, and then all the buggy whip makers will be freaking pissed but society will be better off for it.
The translation isn't going away until everyone starts writing in microcode directly for the specific core its running on.
There will always be translation somewhere along the way, that is after all, what a compiler does, its just a single pass that doesnt' change from run to run.
They developed an x64 chip (they have a license for anything AMD makes for x86 just as AMD has a license for anything they make) should things go that way.
Actaully, no they don't.
There are certain things they share licenses for, but thats mostly related to Intel wanting to be able to fill government contracts that require multiple vendor sources.
It does not cover everything that is x86, which is why the two companies regularly sue each other over silly shit.
OpenSolaris distributions were a joke. They would have been fine back in the 90s when it was acceptable for a free UNIX to feel unpolished, incomplete and buggy because even the commercial ones were that way.
Now with other free (as in cost) clones feeling polished and professional, and OSX being user friendly and pretty, theres absolutely no execuse for a company to allow someething like OpenSolaris to exist.
All OpenSolaris ever did was make me feel like Solaris was going backwards rather than forwards, I'm pretty sure I never had an install that 'worked' properly, there was ALWAYS something wrong. Same hardware runs Linux and FreeBSD fine, so its not the hardwares fault. My fault... maybe, but considering I used to admin solaris boxes a few years back its not like I was completely clueless.
If Solaris Express feels like it used to feel in relation to everything it had around it, then it'll be a great improvement.
The only reasons I would use Solaris at this point are:
I want to use high end Sun hardware, meh, probably unlikely at this point.
I want a UNIX that doesn't feel like it was thrown together by a bunch of people on the Internet, a coherent experience.
I would run Solaris for the same reason I run Mac OSX, I want a professional feeling polished OS. I want to get things done, not play UNIX admin to accomplish what should be trivial tasks. The only time I should see a commandline is when I need to do something completely out of the ordinary.
Sadly, it seems that Linux's popularity killed Solaris, not because one was better or worse than the other, but because Solaris tried to act like it was Linux and just failed completely because Linux's real advantage is the surprising number of people that treat it like a god, they are a useful resource as we all know. No one will probably ever feel that way about Solaris so its just never going to get the support Linux gets from people without it having SOMETHING Linux doesn't have.
You're not an admin, at least not what qualifies as an admin where I work. Here you have to know what you're talking about to be called a sysadmin.
The vSphere Client bug you are talking breaks due to a patch that is unrelated to.NET. Its an MSXML problem, not.NET. You can install every released version of the.NET frame work on the same machine and they do not collide with each other, each app will use the one its designed to use for. if vSphere needs the.NET 2.0 frame work it will either find it and use it, or it won't start. It WILL NOT use the 3.0 framework instead.
Some programs don't install it because at this point... how could you not have it? Its the new VB runtime, its on Windows update and has been so long that I barely remember that it went public after XP. Do you want the 8 or nine tiny utilities I distribute that are between 75k and 200k each to turn into 21 meg downloads because I included the.NET framework with them? No, that would be stupid.
Don't call yourself an admin. You aren't. 8 years after a tech is released that is used in all sorts of apps and you have no clue how it works.
Just because you can point and click in the Windows GUIs doesn't make you an admin, my dog can use the Windows GUIs to do 'admin' work. Christopher Reaves could use the Windows GUIs to 'admin'. But... none of you are actually admins just because you can point and click.
Yes, stupid windows point and click fucktards that call themselves admins freaking piss me off, most of my day consists of having to figure out how tards like yourself screwed up your own machine or didn't follow directions so now I have to fix it.
So let me get this straight... an open standard that lost of people like to use... the biggest provider of such software, and the only one that actually works properly says 'we're backing off'...
And apparently this means the open source version of it suddenly disappears too? What was RMS right about? Did he say something like 'If we can't copy MS than our software will die too!?!?!'
What the hell is your logic in this one, its freaking OSS, it can go on without MS.
Thats the whole point of OSS, so you aren't screwed by someone quitting.
I don't know but I think you guys need to get together and figure out how to talk about GPL, OSS and RMS without sounding like one big continual contradiction.
My first suggestion is to stop listening to RMS completely.
Of course, you also need to learn how to read in general since there is absolutely no indication that '.NET is gonna stop'. They are just talking about dropping certain languages from their stable, this isn't the first time they've done it and it won't be the last. If not enough people use them, why keep paying to develop them?
Oracle wouldn't have bothered to sue them as they'd go out of business when all their backend systems that use Java suddenly started running like crap and brokeing in new weird joyous ways.
Shrug, you're going to have trade offs if you want 'private mode' to be private. You really shouldn't be interacting with much of the 'not private' files on the system anyway.
If private mode could have all the features of normal browsing and all the privacy of private browsing... we'd just combine the two and call it a day, but they are two different modes for a reason.
There should be no copy on write files involved because you're leaking data from one mode to the other and breaking the notion of privacy.
As far as a ram disk... fine... the fopen hook redirects to a ramdisk rather than just a special directory it cleans. Doesn't even need to direct to a real ram disk, if you hook the other IO related functions you can have it read/write to anything anywhere, ram, network, whatever.
First off, you could easily add a warning when opening files in private mode, and you'd almost certainly want a warning since its very likely that unless you hook the external app as well, which would be practically impossible since you'd have to know about however app worked... the external opener would leave traces... so you popup warning before the launching of the external program... you know, kind of like already happens.
Second, code can only do so much to fix what your stupid ass does.
I'm not dangerous, your ignorance is and no one can fix stupid so you're fucked. No computer will likely ever meet your requirement to prevent you from doing something stupid.
The suit is for bootlegging things like festival tshirts, not the music at the festival.
It is possible actually that the bootlegging has actually already occurred, but they have not yet been sold. They may have come across some festival tshirts somewhere and said 'What the fuck!? Where the hell did these come from?'
Probably because there simply isn't a law against it.
I really have no clue if there is or isn't, but it seems unlikely to me that anyone would think they would need a law to prevent you from being charged with a crime you haven't yet committed.
I would say that I judge would probably let it continue simply because he probably has to, since there isn't anything preventing it yet (again, guessing there isn't a law or something against it).
I suspect there will be some sort of a push for a law preventing this sort of shit in the future if this actually goes anywhere.
For future reference, the instant you make it about a 'political team' then you've pretty much show how ignorant and out of touch with the world you are, especially when it comes to politics.
If you have to use the word 'liberal' or 'conservative' to proof your point, you don't have a point to proof, just stupidity and ignorance to spew.
There are PLENTY of energy source in the universe that provide the required energy that we currently know about, forgetting about the fact that we WILL discover more sources and we WILL get better at manipulating and managing them.
It might be hard (impossible) for you and I to do it, our eventual descendants on the other hand, may not think its any more impressive than setting off a nuke is today.
No, neither nuclear nor chemical reactions destroy matter, it simply changes forms. Instead your measuring potential energy and calling it mass because your measuring instruments can't tell the difference.
If new particles could not result, how can we make new types of quarks and antimatter?
Uhm, because you just cause the existing matter to change forms. Let me simplify it to something that you can probably understand...
You can make water from hydrogen and oxygen gas... does that mean matter is being created? No, its changing form. Not EXACTLY the same thing, but just because you misunderstand how it happens doesn't mean it doesn't happen in a particular way.
Until you can explain to me how the universe was created, why it exists and what exists outside of the universe then you clearly don't understand the way it works so trying to claim you know how individual bits work is... ignorant at best. Before someone trys to explain it like they know how the universe works, just stop, you really don't.
a few years from now when they figure out a neat trick to sidestep the problem.
Seriously, we need to stop saying 'it won't happen' and 'it can't be done' because that just means the guy talking isn't capable of doing it and someone else is going to figure it out in a few years anyway. Probably some kid who got bored and realized the 'laws' his teacher was feeding him weren't nearly as clear nore carved in stone like they are made out to be.
The won't create a super powerful laser doing it the way these guys did... someone else using an entirely different method probably will eventually.
Their lasers won't ever be super powerful death rays like Star Wars... someone elses might be though.
Funny thing about physics, the people who REALLY know what they are talking about also know that the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know. The ones who REALLY know physics don't talk in absolutes because there are no absolutes.
Really, all this does is shows us how much of a loser the guy is. Just because he thinks its better his way doesn't make him right or it true. He's a criminal fucking with other peoples property without consent. Hopefully he'll get some real jail time somewhere in the near future to get it through his thick, retarded head that his behavior is unacceptable.
I'd like to see him get caught doing it in Texas where far less questions are asked after you shoot him. (Police Officer) Was this douche bag commiting a crime against you sir when you shot him in the back? (Sign owner) yep, painting my sign without my ask'n (Police Officer) Good enough for me, have a nice evening, we'll clean it up for you.
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I think the problem is that people like yourself keep trying to pretend its not.
In every justice system the world over, 'justice' does equate to some form of revenge.
Its just the way nature works, you should probably accept it, it'll be a whole lot easier than trying to pretend that the instincts that have evolved into all life on Earth can be ignored.
People are animals. Animals will do as much as they can for themselves until something pushes back against them. Revenge or retribution is one of those things we do to self regulate our species ... its instinct, its natural, its not going away no matter how much you try to pretend you're 'better' than that.
When some serious crime is committed against you, you will want revenge and theres nothing you can say or do that will stop that.
Its always fun to pretend though.
Because other citizens agreed that for what he did, this was a fair sentence.
How do you know what he deserved if you weren't there at the trial listening to the arguments and evidence.
Remember, there was a slashdotter on the jury ... who thought he deserved it.
Does he deserve four years? I don't know, I wasn't there. Whats better, I dont' really care. He might have had my sympathy if it wasn't so crystal clear that he was a arrogant jackass trying to extort the city. He was on a power trip, so ... if the punishment for him is a little over the top ... well then it seems fitting considering his actions were most certainly way over the top and out of line.
Personally, I would have been happier if he was never allowed to take advantage of any device containing a microprocessor in it. No cars, electronics, medical help, voting ... pretty much the only thing he could do would be to become a farmer on his own land with hand tools just to survive.
Hanging people in America who steal a loaf of bread would cut down on a lot of problems.
Theres no real reason in America to steal a loaf of bread, someone will give you won't without too much effort ... like asking.
If you still feel the need to steal a loaf of bread then you probably aren't really that much benefit to society anyway, so I don't really see the point in keeping you around.
We should I have to carry the weight of people who are too lazy to carry themselves ... and thats all you have in America. We're not talking about a country where people actually starve because there really isn't any place to get food.
I, as an American, am extremely intolerant of the 'homeless' because there is no reason in America to be 'homeless', even right now in this 'horrible' economy with 'high unemployment' there are STILL now hiring signs all over the place and it simply comes down being unwilling (not unable, we have help for those people too!) to do anything to make your place in the world better.
I happily welcome immigrants from other nations, especially the poor. We have millions of Mexicans who sneak into America to do work that is far 'lower' than our 'standards' for far less than our 'minimum wage' ... because ... we are SO MUCH BETTER than the how bad it can REALLY get when you're TRUELY POOR that even the shittiest illegal under the table job in America is STILL about a thousand times better than the alternatives they had going for them.
I used to get mad when I went to McDonalds and couldn't speak to the people that worked there because they couldn't speak a lick of English ... pissed me off, till I realized that they are happy to do the jobs that Americans think they too good to do.
Now I'm very happy to see an immigrant steal 'an American' job ... I'm hoping that we'll get back to the country we used to be, where people were happy to work to make their world better.
All we have now in America is a bunch of lazy fucks who think they are entitled to everything.
I welcome your tired, your weak, your sick and your poor ... because at least the 'lower classes' of the rest of the world aren't that way by choice, America's lower class citizens are that way by choice.
All he would have had to do was what his boss and the policies in place asked him to do.
You aren't a 'scapegoat' when you can easily and legitimately end the entire situation before it starts.
You aren't the 'scapegoat' when the situation is one YOU started.
He could have simply told someone who cared, but instead he decided to take actions into his own hands. His actions were dangerous and illegal. He broke laws and policies that his community set.
He had several occasions to 'do the right thing' and get in no trouble as well as turn the passwords over to qualified people, but he didn't, he said no, he wasn't going to and tried to hold the systems hostage knowing that anything anyone could do to recover the passwords would result in the equipment losing its configuration, effectively making it worthless and potentially causing problems.
He set these machines up in this way, AGAINST CITY IT POLICY. He didn't put the configs in the city IT config management system. He didn't put the passwords in the city IT config management system. He broke policy in order to put himself in the situation he was in.
How the fuck can you call someone a scapegoat when they created the entire problem?
Oh, I know how ... you have never bothered to read what he did, just assumed the city of SF is 'The EvilZors!@%!'
Before you start saying 'Mr Childs was trying to show people poor procedures' then I suggest you take a GOOD look at the procedures that where in place as a matter of city policy ... AT LEAST 2 OF WHICH, had he ACTUALLY FOLLOWED PROCEDURE, would have resulted in the city having everything they needed without him.
The city did its job, Childs didn't. Get the facts next time, you won't look nearly as stupid as you do when you listen to the criminal as if he's not lying through his teeth.
So fucking what? Several people well above him asked for it, period, end of story, he wasn't right, you can't justify it as being a good admin, he wasn't.
He was trying to become an extorsionist. This is not a good thing no matter how your fucked up view of the world tries to make him into some admin super hero. He's a dick, a shitty admin, a shitty person and all around a waste of planetary resources, I suspect you are too.
Perhaps you and Mr Childs needs to get some fucking clue about what 'Boss' means.
Yes it was legal and yes it was entirely justified. Don't want to be made into an example? Don't try to extort the government in full public view, and then continue to do so even after thrown in jail.
He was screwed the instant he decided he was going to be a dick, he did it entirely too himself.
So let me get this straight ... its okay to break the law and risk other peoples lives as long as no one sees you do it? Are you kidding me? And you're trying to argue that you only deserve one ticket even though you continued to break the law?
That has to be one of, if not THE, most retarded thing I have ever read.
'Its okay to continually break the law if you don't get caught and you shouldn't get punished more because you did it more often even though you didn't realize the cops knew it'
You don't want speeding tickets ... don't break the speed limit, which your community has agreed on as appropriate for the area. You either play by the community rules or the community will 'take care of you'. Today that means fines for most things, but at a certain point the community realizes you're far more effort than you're worth and the punishment starts to become more severe. Eventually, the community just takes you to the center of town and stones you to make you an example. Congratulations Mr Childs, you pissed everyone off so much with your arrogance and douche baggery that you're not being pelted with rocks. Thats okay though ... cause you still know in your heart that you were right ... regardless of the fact that not one of your peers agrees with you.
Next time you get a speeding ticket, go out right after the cop lets you go and start speeding again, see how many times you get by with that.
Yep, and this isn't one of them. Letting him go for legal reasons most certainly would have been legal and not right, but this was both legal AND RIGHT.
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And the reason it wouldn't be sold and would be so much different today ... ?
The seat belts its missing wouldn't make up that much of a MPG or reliability you seem to imply it didn't have.
Okay, it wouldn't even be that hard. As long as you don't preclude using newer technology excluding electronics. Better engine designs and tighter tolerances and other advances in automobile tech will carry you most of the way to today without switching off the old points based ignition system and to EFI.
The electronics just make sure the car tweaks itself to optimum driving conditions for the time, and thats good, but it mean its doing something super special. I used to own a 1977 Chevy pickup with a v8 that I could get 15 mpg in the city out of it ... 20 mpg city for a Camery is pretty shitty actually.
It also ways half as much. Has better bearings and lubes.
A properly tuned carbrated engine is just as efficient as all but the hottest of EFI engines, the EFI engine can just tune itself a little bit when the air changes.
Seriously, silicon CAN be stacked. Not in a single process but multiple dies in a single package is a good start. No, its not going to start out showing the same speed increases that we've got from shrinking the size of everything, but once you get so small you're done. Once you start getting every single drop of computational power out of a particular bit of matter, the only thing you can do is add matter.
Its just another way to add cores essentially. Given some time, someone will start figuring out WAY better ways to interconnect the stacked dies, or eventually make one die with layers of silicon in a truely 3d chip.
Its not going to advance until we start doing it and learning what works and what doesn't. Until we put some effort into 'work arounds' that almost achieve what we really want, we'll never likely jump directly to the end result.
Car Analogy:
Instead of trying to jump from cave man to Aston Martin, the wheel was invented first, and then various methods of attaching wheels to seats and animals, and finally to where we are today.
We may even find out that our current thoughts about building chips in layers is just a bad idea anyway and we go an entirely different and far more useful direction, and then all the buggy whip makers will be freaking pissed but society will be better off for it.
The translation isn't going away until everyone starts writing in microcode directly for the specific core its running on.
There will always be translation somewhere along the way, that is after all, what a compiler does, its just a single pass that doesnt' change from run to run.
Actaully, no they don't.
There are certain things they share licenses for, but thats mostly related to Intel wanting to be able to fill government contracts that require multiple vendor sources.
It does not cover everything that is x86, which is why the two companies regularly sue each other over silly shit.
OpenSolaris distributions were a joke. They would have been fine back in the 90s when it was acceptable for a free UNIX to feel unpolished, incomplete and buggy because even the commercial ones were that way.
Now with other free (as in cost) clones feeling polished and professional, and OSX being user friendly and pretty, theres absolutely no execuse for a company to allow someething like OpenSolaris to exist.
All OpenSolaris ever did was make me feel like Solaris was going backwards rather than forwards, I'm pretty sure I never had an install that 'worked' properly, there was ALWAYS something wrong. Same hardware runs Linux and FreeBSD fine, so its not the hardwares fault. My fault ... maybe, but considering I used to admin solaris boxes a few years back its not like I was completely clueless.
If Solaris Express feels like it used to feel in relation to everything it had around it, then it'll be a great improvement.
The only reasons I would use Solaris at this point are:
I want to use high end Sun hardware, meh, probably unlikely at this point.
I want a UNIX that doesn't feel like it was thrown together by a bunch of people on the Internet, a coherent experience.
I would run Solaris for the same reason I run Mac OSX, I want a professional feeling polished OS. I want to get things done, not play UNIX admin to accomplish what should be trivial tasks. The only time I should see a commandline is when I need to do something completely out of the ordinary.
Sadly, it seems that Linux's popularity killed Solaris, not because one was better or worse than the other, but because Solaris tried to act like it was Linux and just failed completely because Linux's real advantage is the surprising number of people that treat it like a god, they are a useful resource as we all know. No one will probably ever feel that way about Solaris so its just never going to get the support Linux gets from people without it having SOMETHING Linux doesn't have.
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You're not an admin, at least not what qualifies as an admin where I work. Here you have to know what you're talking about to be called a sysadmin.
The vSphere Client bug you are talking breaks due to a patch that is unrelated to .NET. Its an MSXML problem, not .NET. You can install every released version of the .NET frame work on the same machine and they do not collide with each other, each app will use the one its designed to use for. if vSphere needs the .NET 2.0 frame work it will either find it and use it, or it won't start. It WILL NOT use the 3.0 framework instead.
Some programs don't install it because at this point ... how could you not have it? Its the new VB runtime, its on Windows update and has been so long that I barely remember that it went public after XP. Do you want the 8 or nine tiny utilities I distribute that are between 75k and 200k each to turn into 21 meg downloads because I included the .NET framework with them? No, that would be stupid.
Don't call yourself an admin. You aren't. 8 years after a tech is released that is used in all sorts of apps and you have no clue how it works.
Just because you can point and click in the Windows GUIs doesn't make you an admin, my dog can use the Windows GUIs to do 'admin' work. Christopher Reaves could use the Windows GUIs to 'admin'. But ... none of you are actually admins just because you can point and click.
Yes, stupid windows point and click fucktards that call themselves admins freaking piss me off, most of my day consists of having to figure out how tards like yourself screwed up your own machine or didn't follow directions so now I have to fix it.
So let me get this straight ... an open standard that lost of people like to use ... the biggest provider of such software, and the only one that actually works properly says 'we're backing off' ...
And apparently this means the open source version of it suddenly disappears too? What was RMS right about? Did he say something like 'If we can't copy MS than our software will die too!?!?!'
What the hell is your logic in this one, its freaking OSS, it can go on without MS.
Thats the whole point of OSS, so you aren't screwed by someone quitting.
I don't know but I think you guys need to get together and figure out how to talk about GPL, OSS and RMS without sounding like one big continual contradiction.
My first suggestion is to stop listening to RMS completely.
Of course, you also need to learn how to read in general since there is absolutely no indication that '.NET is gonna stop'. They are just talking about dropping certain languages from their stable, this isn't the first time they've done it and it won't be the last. If not enough people use them, why keep paying to develop them?
Oracle wouldn't have bothered to sue them as they'd go out of business when all their backend systems that use Java suddenly started running like crap and brokeing in new weird joyous ways.
Thats what I call direct interface!
Wonder if anyone knows the comic I'm referencing ...
Shrug, you're going to have trade offs if you want 'private mode' to be private. You really shouldn't be interacting with much of the 'not private' files on the system anyway.
If private mode could have all the features of normal browsing and all the privacy of private browsing ... we'd just combine the two and call it a day, but they are two different modes for a reason.
There should be no copy on write files involved because you're leaking data from one mode to the other and breaking the notion of privacy.
As far as a ram disk ... fine ... the fopen hook redirects to a ramdisk rather than just a special directory it cleans. Doesn't even need to direct to a real ram disk, if you hook the other IO related functions you can have it read/write to anything anywhere, ram, network, whatever.
First off, you could easily add a warning when opening files in private mode, and you'd almost certainly want a warning since its very likely that unless you hook the external app as well, which would be practically impossible since you'd have to know about however app worked ... the external opener would leave traces ... so you popup warning before the launching of the external program ... you know, kind of like already happens.
Second, code can only do so much to fix what your stupid ass does.
I'm not dangerous, your ignorance is and no one can fix stupid so you're fucked. No computer will likely ever meet your requirement to prevent you from doing something stupid.
The suit is for bootlegging things like festival tshirts, not the music at the festival.
It is possible actually that the bootlegging has actually already occurred, but they have not yet been sold. They may have come across some festival tshirts somewhere and said 'What the fuck!? Where the hell did these come from?'
Probably because there simply isn't a law against it.
I really have no clue if there is or isn't, but it seems unlikely to me that anyone would think they would need a law to prevent you from being charged with a crime you haven't yet committed.
I would say that I judge would probably let it continue simply because he probably has to, since there isn't anything preventing it yet (again, guessing there isn't a law or something against it).
I suspect there will be some sort of a push for a law preventing this sort of shit in the future if this actually goes anywhere.
For future reference, the instant you make it about a 'political team' then you've pretty much show how ignorant and out of touch with the world you are, especially when it comes to politics.
If you have to use the word 'liberal' or 'conservative' to proof your point, you don't have a point to proof, just stupidity and ignorance to spew.
There are PLENTY of energy source in the universe that provide the required energy that we currently know about, forgetting about the fact that we WILL discover more sources and we WILL get better at manipulating and managing them.
It might be hard (impossible) for you and I to do it, our eventual descendants on the other hand, may not think its any more impressive than setting off a nuke is today.
No, neither nuclear nor chemical reactions destroy matter, it simply changes forms. Instead your measuring potential energy and calling it mass because your measuring instruments can't tell the difference.
Uhm, because you just cause the existing matter to change forms. Let me simplify it to something that you can probably understand ...
You can make water from hydrogen and oxygen gas ... does that mean matter is being created? No, its changing form. Not EXACTLY the same thing, but just because you misunderstand how it happens doesn't mean it doesn't happen in a particular way.
Until you can explain to me how the universe was created, why it exists and what exists outside of the universe then you clearly don't understand the way it works so trying to claim you know how individual bits work is ... ignorant at best. Before someone trys to explain it like they know how the universe works, just stop, you really don't.
a few years from now when they figure out a neat trick to sidestep the problem.
Seriously, we need to stop saying 'it won't happen' and 'it can't be done' because that just means the guy talking isn't capable of doing it and someone else is going to figure it out in a few years anyway. Probably some kid who got bored and realized the 'laws' his teacher was feeding him weren't nearly as clear nore carved in stone like they are made out to be.
The won't create a super powerful laser doing it the way these guys did ... someone else using an entirely different method probably will eventually.
Their lasers won't ever be super powerful death rays like Star Wars ... someone elses might be though.
Funny thing about physics, the people who REALLY know what they are talking about also know that the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know. The ones who REALLY know physics don't talk in absolutes because there are no absolutes.
Really, all this does is shows us how much of a loser the guy is. Just because he thinks its better his way doesn't make him right or it true. He's a criminal fucking with other peoples property without consent. Hopefully he'll get some real jail time somewhere in the near future to get it through his thick, retarded head that his behavior is unacceptable.
I'd like to see him get caught doing it in Texas where far less questions are asked after you shoot him. (Police Officer) Was this douche bag commiting a crime against you sir when you shot him in the back? (Sign owner) yep, painting my sign without my ask'n (Police Officer) Good enough for me, have a nice evening, we'll clean it up for you.