Surely the whole point of RAID1 is that if a sector on one disk fails so that there is a difference between the (corrupt) file on one disk and the (non-corrupt) file on the other disk the MD controller (whether hardware or software) will flag an error, not overwrite things in an inconsistent way.
In other news, SCO yesterday appointed Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf to head their PR division. In an early statement to the press he said: "Not only do SCO own IP rights to Linux, we also own the rights to all computer software ever created. Even now we are striking down IBM's lawyers in court; the devil will toast their stomachs in Hell." Asked about the legal decision that went against SCO Friday, he replied: "There is no such decision. We are beating back their lawyers and they will pay with a pound of flesh, taken from nearest the heart. SCO owns the rights to the US constitution since it contains the letters S, C and O."
Asking for consistency between desktop environments is unreasonable. For one thing, it imposes a burden on developers who are ultimately trying to scratch their own itch. For another thing, nobody asks for consistency between MacOS and Windows environments, yet KDE and gnome have no reason to be any more similar than those two. The fact that they both use the same server application (X) is irrelevant - the projects themselves are as different as chalk and cheese (one written in C, one in C++; one using bonobo for IPC, one using something else, one focussed towards strict HIG, one using different UI guidelines etc.) and it is quite remarkable that they coexist as well as they do. If you stick to one or the other then you get consistency, just as you want. If you mix and match, that's your lookout. Besides which, have you ever really considered the "consistency" of Windows apps? Internet Explorer has a different feel to Office apps, which in turn are different to apps made by third parties (nobody will convince me that Windows Explorer's CD-burning capability shares anything in terms of look or feel with Roxio CD Creator, or that Excel is consistent with Quattro Pro).
DR16 is stable, CVS is unstable, DR17 will be stable again. They gave up calling their releases 0.x long ago, when it turned out that so much of the codebase changed between releases. The stable nature of DR16 is well advertised on their website.
A growing number of apps these days seem to have arts support even if they weren't written specifically for kde. Another nice (well, evil really, but it works) trick is 'artsdsp esd', so you end up having esd running through artsd. I imagine the latency gets pretty bad, but since I mostly use KDE it's rare I need to use this trick. But it will get your esd and artsd applications coexisting - if you use gnome more than KDE it might be possible to pipe artsd's output through esd, I don't know because I haven't tried it. It would be nice to have One True Sound Daemon though, whether done via kernel-level mixing or via something like MAS. Just so long as everyone ends up using it.....
All it will take you to succeed with your inventive and novel product is to bring it to the world's attention. May I suggest a marketing campaign designed to target your audience rapidly and with discernment. I realise that commercial e-mail campaigns have had only limited success in the past, but feel that your product would make an ideal subject for such a campaign, blending the futuristic worlds of computer technology and biochemical research. Remember: 1 hundred million emails can't be wrong. If we send a billion, someone might even buy something! (It's funny. Laugh.)
I fail to see the problem. As the parent said, if you don't like the price Apple wants you to pay, get a different mp3 player. The fact that Apple are forcing you to pay their price through different resellers doesn't seem to me to matter: the iPod is not the only product that can do the job (playing mp3s), and if the price is too high people will buy something else and Apple (and, to some extent, its resellers) will be the losers. Now, if Apple had an agreement with all the other companies to keep the prices of all mp3 player high, that would be something to be concerned about. But at the end of the day it's Apple's product and they can should be able to charge whatever they like for it. If the product doesn't warrant the price, people won't buy it. If people don't buy it at the higher price, the market will force Apple to lower their prices. It all comes back to Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand.
The development is naturally going to take longer for a finished product - nobody's going to release alpha (or even beta) silicon. After all, you really don't want to have to submit a critical bug patch when the first mass run of chips is half-done... (Or the coder whose bug it fixes!)
It's easy to tell whether a number is prime or not (worst case: try dividing it by every number up to sqrt(n) or by every prime up to sqrt(n) if you're keeping records, and I'm sure there are better ways), but that's laborious. What (as I understand it) is hard is to find a quick way of determining the next prime number greater than n without bothering to test all the numbers in between.
As a recent convert I must say I agree with you (having used Red Hat-based distributions for years, with occasional forays into gentoo-land). Since installing debian (via a knoppix CD) I've been almost disturbed at how well it works, especially with regard to downgrading stuff. Recent RPM distributions seem to do okay, with the help of urpmi or whatever, but tend to be slow and sometimes leave unnecessary files hanging around. Debian just does it better. (IME, certainly.) Also, everyone mentions apt as a reason for debian's power, but make-kpkg is also incredibly powerful. Having a tool that, given a kernel tarball and a.config file, can quickly and easily generate packages that fit in with the rest of the system's package management, is incredibly useful and not something that any other distribution does particularly well (even gentoo, although at least new kernel ebuilds seem to appear fairly promptly).
I'm pretty sure that (even) RMS has said that code produced by GCC does not/have/ to be GPLed. Therefore it seems you need a bit more than dependence on headers to transmit the so-called "GPL virus".
So you're saying that it's okay for (say) nVidia to distribute a binary driver module (because it is new to the kernel rather than modifying it) but the bits that may require kernel modification or that hook directly into the kernel (their wrapper) do need to be open? Sounds fair enough to me.
Whatever your arguments, ultimately the population will require the same level of services, whether they are provided by the government in exhange for tax or by companies in exchange for payment. The balance of payment is altered slightly (and I would argue in an unfavourable direction) but that is all.
So the argument all boils down to that you believe private enterprise works more efficiently than public services. Having worked in both sectors, I have seen no evidence that this is the case. As for corruption, I would have thought that the last three or four years have amply shown that private industry is in no way exempt from corruption.
People who want these features can use one of various patchsets floating around. (Con Kolivas for desktop responsiveness, various others for grsecurity, xfs etc.) It was ever thus (I remember when 2.2.x-acy had a following approaching that of vanilla 2.2.x. Besides which, most users will get their kernel upgrades from their distribution's updates package system, and except for debian which sticks closely to Linus' kernels most distros include well-tested versions of most of the patches that have been backported anyway. Certainly they almost all have xfs. This is a lame story - 'new' features have very rarely gone into stable branches; occasionally drivers get merged when they touch very little else in the kernel (i2o in 2.2, Cyclades in 2.4) but no really new big chunks.
People will surely only assume you always carry your phone if this is, in fact, true. Leave it at home sometimes, let the batteries die for a day or two. Ignore a few calls. Sure, there might be some griping at first, but once people realise that you regard your phone as a convenience for you to be able to call other people rather than as a guaranteed method of reaching you, they will accept it. Remember, you bought the phone. You control it.
I so wish this technology would become mainstream in cinemas. Either that, or it be legal (and mandatory) to kick the living crap out of anyone whose phone goes off mid-film.
I'm sure I'll be modded into oblivion for this, but what else is excellent karma for?
Why, whenever some political problem comes up, do the hordes on slashdot (and k5) automatically praise libertarianism? Its achievements are even less successful than those of idealist Marxism (which really isn't saying much). You never hear these people trumpeting their success in New Hampshire, or whatever state it was they were going to take over; the system isn't a basis for working together with other people even in an experimental trial situation. The only way you're ever going to be able to live in a libertarian way is if you buy a remote island somewhere and never have to come into contact with others. As soon as you have to start sharing limited resources (like those found in a country) with other people you have to abandon some of your precious freedom, that's just life. (If you don't like it Messrs Smith and Wesson will happily show you the way out.) The idea that government should restrict itself to "safeguarding life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"[0] ranks up there with Santa Claus, the fairies at the bottom of the garden and Heaven - all these concepts are for children and the hard-of-thinking. The problems America needs to overcome are not to do with the extent of its government's action, rather the accountability of its government to the people.
[0] Now there's a woolly concept. Does 'safeguarding life' mean government should run a universal healthcare system? Publically funded sewers? I doubt many libertarians would agree - the whole movement is just an excuse for well-off old white men to whinge about taxation. Grow up!
Hopefully I'll get one of these for christmas, it'll probably be useful now and then. Pretty much all my file transfer is across a network (or onto my iPod:)) these days though; my machine hasn't had a floppy for the last 6 months, and I don't miss it. If you go to Dell's website and put together a custom order I think the default is for a USB key rather than a floppy now.
I'm not quite sure why this has been modded funny. Insightful, more like... Some dogs [bulldogs, for example] have been bred to the extent they're so deformed they can barely breathe. I think they're beginning to tighten up laws on this now, but it's a huge area of cruelty that no-one ever mentions much.
Me, I'm waiting for normally-invisible tattoos that glow when you drink a luciferase solution:-) Ideal for the wild partygoer with a job where you're not allowed visible tattoos.
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Surely the whole point of RAID1 is that if a sector on one disk fails so that there is a difference between the (corrupt) file on one disk and the (non-corrupt) file on the other disk the MD controller (whether hardware or software) will flag an error, not overwrite things in an inconsistent way.
... after all, friends don't let friends use Microsoft :-)
In other news, SCO yesterday appointed Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf to head their PR division. In an early statement to the press he said: "Not only do SCO own IP rights to Linux, we also own the rights to all computer software ever created. Even now we are striking down IBM's lawyers in court; the devil will toast their stomachs in Hell."
Asked about the legal decision that went against SCO Friday, he replied: "There is no such decision. We are beating back their lawyers and they will pay with a pound of flesh, taken from nearest the heart. SCO owns the rights to the US constitution since it contains the letters S, C and O."
Their concern is probably more like they get a cut from the companies who sell these images, and want to get rid of any free competition.
Asking for consistency between desktop environments is unreasonable. For one thing, it imposes a burden on developers who are ultimately trying to scratch their own itch. For another thing, nobody asks for consistency between MacOS and Windows environments, yet KDE and gnome have no reason to be any more similar than those two. The fact that they both use the same server application (X) is irrelevant - the projects themselves are as different as chalk and cheese (one written in C, one in C++; one using bonobo for IPC, one using something else, one focussed towards strict HIG, one using different UI guidelines etc.) and it is quite remarkable that they coexist as well as they do. If you stick to one or the other then you get consistency, just as you want. If you mix and match, that's your lookout.
Besides which, have you ever really considered the "consistency" of Windows apps? Internet Explorer has a different feel to Office apps, which in turn are different to apps made by third parties (nobody will convince me that Windows Explorer's CD-burning capability shares anything in terms of look or feel with Roxio CD Creator, or that Excel is consistent with Quattro Pro).
DR16 is stable, CVS is unstable, DR17 will be stable again. They gave up calling their releases 0.x long ago, when it turned out that so much of the codebase changed between releases. The stable nature of DR16 is well advertised on their website.
Evas will also do this, but claims to be faster. If gdk won't do what you want you might look at that project. Homepage
A growing number of apps these days seem to have arts support even if they weren't written specifically for kde.
Another nice (well, evil really, but it works) trick is 'artsdsp esd', so you end up having esd running through artsd. I imagine the latency gets pretty bad, but since I mostly use KDE it's rare I need to use this trick. But it will get your esd and artsd applications coexisting - if you use gnome more than KDE it might be possible to pipe artsd's output through esd, I don't know because I haven't tried it.
It would be nice to have One True Sound Daemon though, whether done via kernel-level mixing or via something like MAS. Just so long as everyone ends up using it.....
All it will take you to succeed with your inventive and novel product is to bring it to the world's attention. May I suggest a marketing campaign designed to target your audience rapidly and with discernment. I realise that commercial e-mail campaigns have had only limited success in the past, but feel that your product would make an ideal subject for such a campaign, blending the futuristic worlds of computer technology and biochemical research.
Remember: 1 hundred million emails can't be wrong. If we send a billion, someone might even buy something!
(It's funny. Laugh.)
I fail to see the problem. As the parent said, if you don't like the price Apple wants you to pay, get a different mp3 player. The fact that Apple are forcing you to pay their price through different resellers doesn't seem to me to matter: the iPod is not the only product that can do the job (playing mp3s), and if the price is too high people will buy something else and Apple (and, to some extent, its resellers) will be the losers.
Now, if Apple had an agreement with all the other companies to keep the prices of all mp3 player high, that would be something to be concerned about. But at the end of the day it's Apple's product and they can should be able to charge whatever they like for it. If the product doesn't warrant the price, people won't buy it. If people don't buy it at the higher price, the market will force Apple to lower their prices. It all comes back to Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand.
The development is naturally going to take longer for a finished product - nobody's going to release alpha (or even beta) silicon.
After all, you really don't want to have to submit a critical bug patch when the first mass run of chips is half-done... (Or the coder whose bug it fixes!)
It's easy to tell whether a number is prime or not (worst case: try dividing it by every number up to sqrt(n) or by every prime up to sqrt(n) if you're keeping records, and I'm sure there are better ways), but that's laborious. What (as I understand it) is hard is to find a quick way of determining the next prime number greater than n without bothering to test all the numbers in between.
As a recent convert I must say I agree with you (having used Red Hat-based distributions for years, with occasional forays into gentoo-land). Since installing debian (via a knoppix CD) I've been almost disturbed at how well it works, especially with regard to downgrading stuff. Recent RPM distributions seem to do okay, with the help of urpmi or whatever, but tend to be slow and sometimes leave unnecessary files hanging around. Debian just does it better. (IME, certainly.) .config file, can quickly and easily generate packages that fit in with the rest of the system's package management, is incredibly useful and not something that any other distribution does particularly well (even gentoo, although at least new kernel ebuilds seem to appear fairly promptly).
Also, everyone mentions apt as a reason for debian's power, but make-kpkg is also incredibly powerful. Having a tool that, given a kernel tarball and a
I'm pretty sure that (even) RMS has said that code produced by GCC does not /have/ to be GPLed. Therefore it seems you need a bit more than dependence on headers to transmit the so-called "GPL virus".
So you're saying that it's okay for (say) nVidia to distribute a binary driver module (because it is new to the kernel rather than modifying it) but the bits that may require kernel modification or that hook directly into the kernel (their wrapper) do need to be open?
Sounds fair enough to me.
Whatever your arguments, ultimately the population will require the same level of services, whether they are provided by the government in exhange for tax or by companies in exchange for payment. The balance of payment is altered slightly (and I would argue in an unfavourable direction) but that is all.
So the argument all boils down to that you believe private enterprise works more efficiently than public services. Having worked in both sectors, I have seen no evidence that this is the case. As for corruption, I would have thought that the last three or four years have amply shown that private industry is in no way exempt from corruption.
People who want these features can use one of various patchsets floating around. (Con Kolivas for desktop responsiveness, various others for grsecurity, xfs etc.) It was ever thus (I remember when 2.2.x-acy had a following approaching that of vanilla 2.2.x.
Besides which, most users will get their kernel upgrades from their distribution's updates package system, and except for debian which sticks closely to Linus' kernels most distros include well-tested versions of most of the patches that have been backported anyway. Certainly they almost all have xfs.
This is a lame story - 'new' features have very rarely gone into stable branches; occasionally drivers get merged when they touch very little else in the kernel (i2o in 2.2, Cyclades in 2.4) but no really new big chunks.
People will surely only assume you always carry your phone if this is, in fact, true. Leave it at home sometimes, let the batteries die for a day or two. Ignore a few calls. Sure, there might be some griping at first, but once people realise that you regard your phone as a convenience for you to be able to call other people rather than as a guaranteed method of reaching you, they will accept it. Remember, you bought the phone. You control it.
I so wish this technology would become mainstream in cinemas. Either that, or it be legal (and mandatory) to kick the living crap out of anyone whose phone goes off mid-film.
I'm sure I'll be modded into oblivion for this, but what else is excellent karma for?
Why, whenever some political problem comes up, do the hordes on slashdot (and k5) automatically praise libertarianism? Its achievements are even less successful than those of idealist Marxism (which really isn't saying much). You never hear these people trumpeting their success in New Hampshire, or whatever state it was they were going to take over; the system isn't a basis for working together with other people even in an experimental trial situation. The only way you're ever going to be able to live in a libertarian way is if you buy a remote island somewhere and never have to come into contact with others. As soon as you have to start sharing limited resources (like those found in a country) with other people you have to abandon some of your precious freedom, that's just life. (If you don't like it Messrs Smith and Wesson will happily show you the way out.)
The idea that government should restrict itself to "safeguarding life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"[0] ranks up there with Santa Claus, the fairies at the bottom of the garden and Heaven - all these concepts are for children and the hard-of-thinking.
The problems America needs to overcome are not to do with the extent of its government's action, rather the accountability of its government to the people.
[0] Now there's a woolly concept. Does 'safeguarding life' mean government should run a universal healthcare system? Publically funded sewers? I doubt many libertarians would agree - the whole movement is just an excuse for well-off old white men to whinge about taxation. Grow up!
Hopefully I'll get one of these for christmas, it'll probably be useful now and then. Pretty much all my file transfer is across a network (or onto my iPod :)) these days though; my machine hasn't had a floppy for the last 6 months, and I don't miss it. If you go to Dell's website and put together a custom order I think the default is for a USB key rather than a floppy now.
In the latter case, because the Argentinian toothfish is under threat from severe overfishing. Don't eat it!
I'm not quite sure why this has been modded funny. Insightful, more like... Some dogs [bulldogs, for example] have been bred to the extent they're so deformed they can barely breathe. I think they're beginning to tighten up laws on this now, but it's a huge area of cruelty that no-one ever mentions much.
You can always try 8-}
:-) Ideal for the wild partygoer with a job where you're not allowed visible tattoos.
Me, I'm waiting for normally-invisible tattoos that glow when you drink a luciferase solution
1) Install gambling machines to record votes.
2) ???
3) Profit!!!!