I would agree except that I have been arguing since 3.X that they should support the ATA-2 standard for hard drives, and they still use a hack solution rather than respecting the LBA bit. (CYL=16383 is seems as indicating LBA, but LBA-bit=1 is not...) The argument is that a change would break pre ATA-2 disk drives. But, as ATA-2 was written in 1986, I think this is taking backwards compatability a bit far.
Other than that little rant, I have found bugs@ and current@ very responsive...
One area in which BSD's are definitely superior (not just to Linux, but to SunOs/Solaris too) is in the reaping of closed sockets. I had numerous test machines (hit very,very heavily with outside connections) where the Linux/Sun boxes would choke due to the slow pace with which they cleaned up old sockets. BSD on the other hand never suffered from that particular problem. It isn't a big issue in most cases, but there are certain real world situations in which Linux cannot be used for the same purposes as BSD.
And the trends tend to support this abuse of bandwidth. Two examples:
XML instead of fixed width or delimited data
Serialized Java objects instead of simple data structures
(Don't flame me about either XML or Java, as I know they have proper uses, but they are not the proper solution for every situation as the buzz-word worshippers would have one believe. Using a serialized object to carry a single string --which I have seen-- is a meaningless waste of bandwidth. So is replacing 4 lines of SQL with 120+ lines of XML, which one of my employers tried to do as well....)
So, production of goods for consumers somehow harms consumers? We would all be better off if nothing were produced? Or maybe onbly some nice hand woven clothes and other manually crafted goods? Yeah, the dark ages were SOOOO much better than now, what with all the hand crafting and personal touches, and without the horrible science and technology like medicine and such... God! Using the internet to press some neo-luddite message? How amusingly blind.
And, no I am not reading a different meaning into this. Anyone who argues "people before profits" is arguing against the modern world. Profits drive people to benefit other people. If you think otherwise just look at the Utopias created by "compassion", such as the former USSR, Cambodia, et al... Capitalism is far from perfect, but it's also closer to perfect than anything else anyone has suggested.
I have to agree. And in other contexts, slashdotters would probably be agreeing as well (if it weren't Jerry Falwell). Slashdot seems rabidly opposed to businesses registering gogle.com and yaho.com and so on, but this man was doing something quite similar (and a bit more blatant) in registering falwell.com to promote his own anti-Falwell work. How does that differ from grabbing gooogle.com to derrive traffic from internet typos?
Um, the general thread was "dumb end users need to be protected", your argument was "they aren't so dumb". I said "doesn't matter whether they are dumb or not". Seems a relatively straightforward progression.
OK, I didn't respond to every point in your post, just a general theme running from earlier posts through yours. But, since you want me to respond to each post fully, I will now give you my thoughts on jacking off raccoons...
Yeah, the good ol' dot-com neo-ponzi scheme. Site A tricks you into visiting somehow. Shows the traffic numbers to site B who buy ad time on site A because of good traffic volume. No one ever sells anything, but somehow site A turns a profit (for a while). I had a few employers go out of business using this interesting model.
Also a good example of a vague logical expression. Does it map one to one between the sets (a if X, B if y, C if Z) or is it a many to many mapping (A|B|C if X|Y|Z)?
Actually, it doesn't matter whether people or stupid or smart. Whatever the average intelligence of people, they don't get any smarter by being elected. So, no matter what you think of people, why would you think politicians (who are members of the group "people") would do any better than an individual woudl on their own?
Pound is a unit of weight, which is force. Slugs are units of mass. Well, ok... pound are often misused as mass, but they aren't. I can't say "he weights x pounds at this altitude", if it is MASS. Mass is constant (2d law of Thermodynamics). Pounds are units of mass time gravitational attraction, which is a unit of force.
Insightful? For quoting the plot from an episode of "Law And Order"? (Blood glucose meters read incorrectly for a subset of patients based on DoB, if I recall the plot.)
The greatest problem is that once your fingerprints have been duplicated by someone, you can't repudiate the prints and issue yourself new ones. The same holds for all biometrics.
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Or is this some sort of demonostration of the fact that size is transitive? A=B, B=C Thus A=C?
You could have just as easily said "no bigger than a block of cheese the size of a pile of matchsticks the size of an asteroid the size of a VW".
Other than that little rant, I have found bugs@ and current@ very responsive...
One area in which BSD's are definitely superior (not just to Linux, but to SunOs/Solaris too) is in the reaping of closed sockets. I had numerous test machines (hit very,very heavily with outside connections) where the Linux/Sun boxes would choke due to the slow pace with which they cleaned up old sockets. BSD on the other hand never suffered from that particular problem. It isn't a big issue in most cases, but there are certain real world situations in which Linux cannot be used for the same purposes as BSD.
Very briefly:
Who is nominative
Whom is accusative
Whose is genative/possessive
Whoms (should probably be whom's, if it were a real word) does not exist
I know I'll get flamed for being a grammar nazi, but whoms is such a very, very bad neologism...
XML instead of fixed width or delimited data
Serialized Java objects instead of simple data structures
(Don't flame me about either XML or Java, as I know they have proper uses, but they are not the proper solution for every situation as the buzz-word worshippers would have one believe. Using a serialized object to carry a single string --which I have seen-- is a meaningless waste of bandwidth. So is replacing 4 lines of SQL with 120+ lines of XML, which one of my employers tried to do as well....)
I meant to say 4KB * 8, not 8KB * 8.
The 32Kb is correct though, as is the 0.8s.
4KB=8Kb*8=32Kb.
It would take 32/40 or 0.8 s
a) How much time to you actually spend on a plane that (b) is a major issue?
And, no I am not reading a different meaning into this. Anyone who argues "people before profits" is arguing against the modern world. Profits drive people to benefit other people. If you think otherwise just look at the Utopias created by "compassion", such as the former USSR, Cambodia, et al... Capitalism is far from perfect, but it's also closer to perfect than anything else anyone has suggested.
If you can empty a Klein bottle I am quite impressed...
I have to agree. And in other contexts, slashdotters would probably be agreeing as well (if it weren't Jerry Falwell). Slashdot seems rabidly opposed to businesses registering gogle.com and yaho.com and so on, but this man was doing something quite similar (and a bit more blatant) in registering falwell.com to promote his own anti-Falwell work. How does that differ from grabbing gooogle.com to derrive traffic from internet typos?
You're typing one handed while holding a rodent, and I'm the pervert?
OK, I didn't respond to every point in your post, just a general theme running from earlier posts through yours. But, since you want me to respond to each post fully, I will now give you my thoughts on jacking off raccoons...
Yeah, the good ol' dot-com neo-ponzi scheme. Site A tricks you into visiting somehow. Shows the traffic numbers to site B who buy ad time on site A because of good traffic volume. No one ever sells anything, but somehow site A turns a profit (for a while). I had a few employers go out of business using this interesting model.
Also a good example of a vague logical expression. Does it map one to one between the sets (a if X, B if y, C if Z) or is it a many to many mapping (A|B|C if X|Y|Z)?
Actually, it doesn't matter whether people or stupid or smart. Whatever the average intelligence of people, they don't get any smarter by being elected. So, no matter what you think of people, why would you think politicians (who are members of the group "people") would do any better than an individual woudl on their own?
This argues against the original post that lack of regulation makes this a problem. One can hardly say British ISPs are un- or under-regulated.
Good! Someone is more of a geek than I am!
Pound is a unit of weight, which is force. Slugs are units of mass. Well, ok... pound are often misused as mass, but they aren't. I can't say "he weights x pounds at this altitude", if it is MASS. Mass is constant (2d law of Thermodynamics). Pounds are units of mass time gravitational attraction, which is a unit of force.
Yes, which was why I questioned the "insightful" mod.
Insightful? For quoting the plot from an episode of "Law And Order"? (Blood glucose meters read incorrectly for a subset of patients based on DoB, if I recall the plot.)
God, makes me sound pretty pathetic
You dare to question a triple-buzz-word post????
Since when is VW Japanese?
The greatest problem is that once your fingerprints have been duplicated by someone, you can't repudiate the prints and issue yourself new ones. The same holds for all biometrics.