As a vector to spread systemd. It doesn't add anything that couldn't have been done with the earlier project. The club politics bullshit at RedHat and Gnome is just spilling over into the real world.
Systemd is a collection of small executables each with a precise goal
To put Lennart's name on things that have not had his name on it before:) Apart from a tiny portion of the project devoted to starting things in parallel instead of sequentially (and done by people who didn't not seem to take race conditions seriously hence their shiny new binary logs getting corrupted into unreadability), it's a "solution" to a non-problem. I've had a machine this week not boot and lock up hard for hours because systemd hung the entire system trying to work out what a wireless mouse dongle was - it's nowhere near ready for serious use.
while GPL'ed code doesn't get used, for commercial purposes
Complete rubbish but I don't blame you since it's commonly believed rubbish. As early as 2003 I was getting software sold by Halliburton, about as commercial as anyone on the planet, which contained the binary of EMACS among the other files. So long as they kept to the terms of the licence (which was really just supplying a text file with little more than the licence in it) they were legally entitled to do it. Their user interface had an EMACS back-end but that didn't stop them for selling their software for many thousands per year per seat.
Fast forward to now and "busybox" is in just about every little device with a CPU you can think of. It's GPL licenced software.
It's far more interesting to write "scientists have been stumped for 17 years" instead of writing "someone has finally put in the time to do some signal analysis on that microwave oven thing at a radio telescope". I certainly heard the story of the microwave oven showing up on the sensors more than a decade ago and I've passed it on - the popular retelling has it happen over three nights at exactly the same time. I've heard it on radio some years ago and I think it even showed up on Slashdot at one point as a SETI story.
They relayed it, so "broadcast" isn't a million miles off the mark. Reality was far less exciting than the movie but the more mundane stuff was real. One amusing thing is the director wanted an old computer on the set, and the one available from Melbourne turned out to be the PDP-11 that had come from Parkes. How's that for realism?
The story has circulated for well over a decade (I think I've read it even on Slashdot before), I suspect this is someone quantifying it from the data instead of just ignoring it.
that requires a field component (paleo, anthro, geo, archeo) that have trouble actually operating in the field
News just in - people doing something they haven't done much of before are crap at it. Who would have guessed?
However the article is crap anyway because the microwave at Parkes story has been an amusing anecdote circulating around for well over a decade and I think I've even read it on this site. The radio version I heard about fifteen years ago had the source being detected on the third night - but it was structured like a joke so reality may have even been the first signal.
This has even been on Slashdot before - probably more than ten years ago. I think I remember hearing about it on the radio (Australia's ABC Radio National Science Show) around fifteen years ago.
The item is an amusing filler dragged up out of the archives.
So I can get a 64 core machine with 512GB or memory for $8k instead of $80k. At the low end good enough and dirt cheap pushes towards AMD. In the middle there are niches where braindead developers still don't have a fucking clue in 2015 how to write multi-threaded code so a fast i7 with hardly any cores is the best tool for the job, but that's a diminishing niche as developers start to learn what they should have in 1995.
I was going to say doctor but they typically wouldn't know a telenet port
Amusing misspelling but it highlights that hardly anyone has heard of telnet, however anyone that wants to exploit these things could learn enough in less than half an hour. I also think the developers could have learnt better than to use it in half an hour but maybe it was cut and pasted code. The original Nintendo DS had enough grunt to run full ssh with a far less impressive CPU than these devices have so there is no excuse.
Sounds as insecure as some phone systems - but much more of a worry. Sounds like development on the cheap and pocket the profits for selling the niche product for a fortune.
AC are you really arguing that high school girls should be exposed to porn in CS class while surrounded by giggling boys so that they can "toughen up"? That's so wrong on so many levels.
There's still a lot of the software that people are using that's either happily running on the "old bus", (eg. current MS Office even running on XP) and still some software that's not working properly on the "new bus" yet (eg. GIS, geophysical, engineering and other "workstation" level software). Sure, it's going to get harder over time to but Win7, but unless Win10 shows some major improvements (eg. Win7 giving properly supported 64bit so access to a bit more memory encouraged people off XP) I think there are still a few people that are going to be buying Win7 instead of Win10 for new systems in addition to others not upgrading to Win10. Not much point in getting it if the software the computer was bought to run isn't working on it yet due to slow vendor development - not the fault of MS but still provides a lag of a year or many more (some stuff skipped Vista). While Win7 does piss me off from time to time it's still far more usable than any non-server version of the MS environment I've seen.
it is unseemly to send the boss up as a space tourist
If the boss has proved previously that they can do the work, and then actually does some work on the trip then they are not a tourist are they? There were less than a dozen other people on the planet that could even be considered for the project at the time. Would you still be making a big deal of it if Dr Aldrin went instead?
You jumped into this thread putting some utter bullshit that didn't come from me into my mouth:
By saying that they shouldn't have done what they did, you are blaming the victim. Thus, you are defending the actions of the gunmen, by placing blame on the victims.
So since you don't need me at all to rant about what your imaginary friend is saying why are you bothering me?
With that you've moved the goal posts a very long way from what I've written and painted me as writing something I did not come close to writing. I hope you are proud of yourself because nobody else will be.
Don't worry, our "good friends" the Saudis have manipulated to oil price to drive the frackers out of business so it won't be a problem for long. Oh wait, only the ones that cut corners will be able to afford to survive so it will be a problem. Go tell your congressman to get off the Saudi teat and work for his own country and maybe we won't see so much of these problems.
The make perfect sense - it's the seagull ownership thing of shitting all over everything then leaving. He's "asserted his vision" by breaking a lot of things so that if anyone later tries to do another Trek movie without pretending his never happened they'll have to stick with his major changes to the setting. The Khan one is especially bad since the plot can't be followed if you haven't seen the previous Khan - yet it destroys much of the continuity that it depends on to work at all.
Anyway, there's been some good stories about the implications of teleporters leaving extra bodies around - "The Resurrected Man" by Sean Williams is one.
Yes my point is you did go way beyond ridiculous. Obvious deliberate incitement with clear results is very different to your silly writing it off as "blaming the victim". It's like stepping onto a highway and relying on someone to rescue you from a deliberately dangerous position. Do you even know who you are standing up for? Do you know what he thinks of your racial purity and choice of religeon? He may not be a murderer but he's convinced people to try to become murderers.
How about "does it matter - it was taken personally as if it was"? Not sure why I'm replying to an AC that hasn't managed to follow things that much despite the article being clear.
Sexual comments unrelated to and not directed at her will be the least of the terrible things the real world has in store
School is not supposed to be "John Browns Schooldays" anymore. We're not supposed to break the kids before they go out into society.
You want people who believe in free speech to run and hide in the desert, what do you know of bravery?
"Brave" Dutchman putting Texan cops in danger? No he's taking advantage of the bravery of others. He's gone and stirred up a couple of American kids that may not have considered murder otherwise, and they've gone and done something stupid enough to get killed as a consequence. I suggest you think about that before trying to wrap things up in a flag.
It's standing up for what you believe in, and you don't think people should do that.
Yet you are telling me to go away instead of expressing things myself - make up your mind.
Really? I've still got people that won't let go of XP, and even the keenest MS users in the place are planning to wait a bit to see if it's going to be another Vista or Win8. That's only one place but it may represent a trend.
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As a vector to spread systemd. It doesn't add anything that couldn't have been done with the earlier project.
The club politics bullshit at RedHat and Gnome is just spilling over into the real world.
To put Lennart's name on things that have not had his name on it before :)
Apart from a tiny portion of the project devoted to starting things in parallel instead of sequentially (and done by people who didn't not seem to take race conditions seriously hence their shiny new binary logs getting corrupted into unreadability), it's a "solution" to a non-problem.
I've had a machine this week not boot and lock up hard for hours because systemd hung the entire system trying to work out what a wireless mouse dongle was - it's nowhere near ready for serious use.
Complete rubbish but I don't blame you since it's commonly believed rubbish. As early as 2003 I was getting software sold by Halliburton, about as commercial as anyone on the planet, which contained the binary of EMACS among the other files. So long as they kept to the terms of the licence (which was really just supplying a text file with little more than the licence in it) they were legally entitled to do it.
Their user interface had an EMACS back-end but that didn't stop them for selling their software for many thousands per year per seat.
Fast forward to now and "busybox" is in just about every little device with a CPU you can think of. It's GPL licenced software.
It's far more interesting to write "scientists have been stumped for 17 years" instead of writing "someone has finally put in the time to do some signal analysis on that microwave oven thing at a radio telescope".
I certainly heard the story of the microwave oven showing up on the sensors more than a decade ago and I've passed it on - the popular retelling has it happen over three nights at exactly the same time. I've heard it on radio some years ago and I think it even showed up on Slashdot at one point as a SETI story.
They relayed it, so "broadcast" isn't a million miles off the mark.
Reality was far less exciting than the movie but the more mundane stuff was real. One amusing thing is the director wanted an old computer on the set, and the one available from Melbourne turned out to be the PDP-11 that had come from Parkes. How's that for realism?
The story has circulated for well over a decade (I think I've read it even on Slashdot before), I suspect this is someone quantifying it from the data instead of just ignoring it.
News just in - people doing something they haven't done much of before are crap at it. Who would have guessed?
However the article is crap anyway because the microwave at Parkes story has been an amusing anecdote circulating around for well over a decade and I think I've even read it on this site. The radio version I heard about fifteen years ago had the source being detected on the third night - but it was structured like a joke so reality may have even been the first signal.
This has even been on Slashdot before - probably more than ten years ago. I think I remember hearing about it on the radio (Australia's ABC Radio National Science Show) around fifteen years ago.
The item is an amusing filler dragged up out of the archives.
So I can get a 64 core machine with 512GB or memory for $8k instead of $80k.
At the low end good enough and dirt cheap pushes towards AMD. In the middle there are niches where braindead developers still don't have a fucking clue in 2015 how to write multi-threaded code so a fast i7 with hardly any cores is the best tool for the job, but that's a diminishing niche as developers start to learn what they should have in 1995.
Amusing misspelling but it highlights that hardly anyone has heard of telnet, however anyone that wants to exploit these things could learn enough in less than half an hour.
I also think the developers could have learnt better than to use it in half an hour but maybe it was cut and pasted code. The original Nintendo DS had enough grunt to run full ssh with a far less impressive CPU than these devices have so there is no excuse.
Sounds as insecure as some phone systems - but much more of a worry.
Sounds like development on the cheap and pocket the profits for selling the niche product for a fortune.
AC are you really arguing that high school girls should be exposed to porn in CS class while surrounded by giggling boys so that they can "toughen up"? That's so wrong on so many levels.
There's still a lot of the software that people are using that's either happily running on the "old bus", (eg. current MS Office even running on XP) and still some software that's not working properly on the "new bus" yet (eg. GIS, geophysical, engineering and other "workstation" level software).
Sure, it's going to get harder over time to but Win7, but unless Win10 shows some major improvements (eg. Win7 giving properly supported 64bit so access to a bit more memory encouraged people off XP) I think there are still a few people that are going to be buying Win7 instead of Win10 for new systems in addition to others not upgrading to Win10. Not much point in getting it if the software the computer was bought to run isn't working on it yet due to slow vendor development - not the fault of MS but still provides a lag of a year or many more (some stuff skipped Vista).
While Win7 does piss me off from time to time it's still far more usable than any non-server version of the MS environment I've seen.
There you go with your imaginary friend again. It's a pity you two can't get along.
If the boss has proved previously that they can do the work, and then actually does some work on the trip then they are not a tourist are they? There were less than a dozen other people on the planet that could even be considered for the project at the time. Would you still be making a big deal of it if Dr Aldrin went instead?
So since you don't need me at all to rant about what your imaginary friend is saying why are you bothering me?
With that you've moved the goal posts a very long way from what I've written and painted me as writing something I did not come close to writing.
I hope you are proud of yourself because nobody else will be.
IMHO a lot of it is "here's one I prepared earlier". That can be vastly faster in bursts - sustainable though?
Don't worry, our "good friends" the Saudis have manipulated to oil price to drive the frackers out of business so it won't be a problem for long.
Oh wait, only the ones that cut corners will be able to afford to survive so it will be a problem.
Go tell your congressman to get off the Saudi teat and work for his own country and maybe we won't see so much of these problems.
"They" not "The"
The make perfect sense - it's the seagull ownership thing of shitting all over everything then leaving.
He's "asserted his vision" by breaking a lot of things so that if anyone later tries to do another Trek movie without pretending his never happened they'll have to stick with his major changes to the setting. The Khan one is especially bad since the plot can't be followed if you haven't seen the previous Khan - yet it destroys much of the continuity that it depends on to work at all.
Anyway, there's been some good stories about the implications of teleporters leaving extra bodies around - "The Resurrected Man" by Sean Williams is one.
Yes my point is you did go way beyond ridiculous. Obvious deliberate incitement with clear results is very different to your silly writing it off as "blaming the victim". It's like stepping onto a highway and relying on someone to rescue you from a deliberately dangerous position.
Do you even know who you are standing up for? Do you know what he thinks of your racial purity and choice of religeon? He may not be a murderer but he's convinced people to try to become murderers.
School is not supposed to be "John Browns Schooldays" anymore. We're not supposed to break the kids before they go out into society.
"Brave" Dutchman putting Texan cops in danger? No he's taking advantage of the bravery of others. He's gone and stirred up a couple of American kids that may not have considered murder otherwise, and they've gone and done something stupid enough to get killed as a consequence. I suggest you think about that before trying to wrap things up in a flag.
Yet you are telling me to go away instead of expressing things myself - make up your mind.
Really? I've still got people that won't let go of XP, and even the keenest MS users in the place are planning to wait a bit to see if it's going to be another Vista or Win8. That's only one place but it may represent a trend.