Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I don't see where anyone - or anything - is guarunteed a right to free speech. All I'm seeing is that congress is prohibited from abridging it. It makes no distinction as to the source of the speech.
I'm guessing this bright idea was dreamed up by a bunch of enlightened progressive scientists who, of course, assume that any aliens who are intelligent enough to develop space travel must, of course, be enlightened progressive, too.
It's not clear which is more galling about these people. Their arrogance or their stupidity.
They'll probably be ok for a few years. Watch for the rebranding. When they start calling it IBM Enterprise Linux, you'll know they've been throughly assimilated. Then after about five years of steady market decline, it'll just quietly disappear.
Because a free market is established wherever willing buyers and sellers are prevented from completing transactions by middlemen with monopoly positions. Right. We get it.
If if was Red Hat the donated the money, I can understand why it was anonymous. After what they did to us with systemd, there would probably be riots in the gnome user community.
The original attraction of Linux was that it was a cheap and easy way to run a Unix-like system. If we no longer have need of cheap and easy Unix-like systems, why stop with just replacing some of the commands? Start from scratch and design a whole new os. There's plenty of Unix baggage I'd be glad to be rid of before I got around to init, route and ifconfig.
Not only not worth it, but a major pain in the ass if you're trying to build scripts that need to be deployed on multiple platforms. Yo, there's still plenty of Solaris, HPUX and AIX out there. And not infrequently, they're all deployed in the same shop.
This is reminiscent of Windows, "embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy. Linux (or more accurately, Linux distributions) seems to be acquiring all of the characteristics that drove people to abandon Windows for Linux in the first place.
Dude, I am a boomer. I can assure you transistors and microwaves were widely in use before I even started to shave. I was in 6th grade when the first moon landing occurred.
The laser and the transistor were invented in the 1950's. At the time of the moon landings, the oldest boomers were in their late teens and early 20s. Try again.
Given that at least Washington and Jefferson owned slaves (don't know about Franklin), I submit that they had a very different understanding of equal than you do
Alternatively, that sentence was inserted into the Declaration purely as political propaganda, and they knew perfectly well it was bullshit.
Here's the sticky part. What evidence would you need to conclude that the algorithm was sufficiently well designed that it had eliminated human bias? What's your test?
That might also explain why, if there is life on other planets, we haven't heard from it. We're lucky enough to have access to reasonably easy to obtain energy sources. If not for that, we wouldn't have the technology to be attempting to communicate with other planets. We'd still be stuck in the 18th century. While there was plenty of intelligent life on earth in the 18th century, it wasn't in any position to be broadcasting or receiving messages from other planets.
Just because a planet evolves intelligent life doesn't necessarily mean it will have access to plentiful energy sources. There might be any number of intelligent species who's technology has never evolved past 18th century equivelent technology, because they don't have the energy to power it.
Keep in mind music is recorded to sound best in the media it's going to be distributed in. The ambience of the media is factored into the production, whether intentionally or not.
If you play an old 78 from the 1920's on a modern turntable with modern amplification, it sounds like someone is frying an egg in the background, because modern equipment can pick up the defects in the media.
If you play it on 1920's Victrola, it'll actually sound pretty decent, because the acoustic reproduction equipment is incapable of picking up the noise generated by the media. It's the equipment the music was made to be played on.
I suspect the same thing is at work with modern media. If I listen to a piece of music recorded in the vinyl era reengineered for modern formats, it usually sounds like it's lost something. Music is recorded with the current limitations of reproduction technologies in mind, and when you change the reproduction parameters the result can frequently be sub-optimal. Modern formats may be "better" technically, but if it's presenting sounds that weren't intended to be heard when the original music was recorded, the ear isn't likely to interpret it as sounding better.
I don't have any problem with believing music originally produced for vinyl sounds better when reproduced on it. But I doubt it would do much for music produced with modern technologies if they were transferred to vinyl.
Of humanity being wiped out entirely and in so many different ways. No generation before us lived with that fear...
You must be young, given you believe that.
Either that, or he's in his 80s, in which case he really would be a member of the first generation that had to face the possibility of the planet getting wiped out.
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...as seeing a company full of SJWs getting the drubbing they deserve. Now do Google, Facebook and Twitter.
Between Aaron Swartz and this clown, it sounds like he knows exactly who needs to spend time behind bars. We need more like him.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I don't see where anyone - or anything - is guarunteed a right to free speech. All I'm seeing is that congress is prohibited from abridging it. It makes no distinction as to the source of the speech.
I'm guessing this bright idea was dreamed up by a bunch of enlightened progressive scientists who, of course, assume that any aliens who are intelligent enough to develop space travel must, of course, be enlightened progressive, too.
It's not clear which is more galling about these people. Their arrogance or their stupidity.
As in "management fads that will all be forgotten within the next 10 years"?
Yes. Yes they are!
First systemd.
Then a CoC.
Now Borged by IBM.
They'll probably be ok for a few years. Watch for the rebranding. When they start calling it IBM Enterprise Linux, you'll know they've been throughly assimilated. Then after about five years of steady market decline, it'll just quietly disappear.
Indeed. Maybe they will even sack Poettering. If so, they will do a ton of good.
Surely you jest. Knowing IBM, as I do, they're more likely to make Poettering the head of the division.
A free market is when willing sellers and willing buyers are prevented from doing business by middlemen with a monopoly position?
Because a free market is established wherever willing buyers and sellers are prevented from completing transactions by middlemen with monopoly positions. Right. We get it.
Actually, it is protected in the United States. If it wasn't, people would be getting arrested for it.
Well, there is this little problem with your thesis, which is that if you refuse to play the game, your children starve to death.
And what happens to you and your family if you refuse to play the game in Communist countries?
Yeah, I'll take my chances with the capitalists.
At least they picked the right city to build it in. Toronto is half way there already.
If if was Red Hat the donated the money, I can understand why it was anonymous. After what they did to us with systemd, there would probably be riots in the gnome user community.
The original attraction of Linux was that it was a cheap and easy way to run a Unix-like system. If we no longer have need of cheap and easy Unix-like systems, why stop with just replacing some of the commands? Start from scratch and design a whole new os. There's plenty of Unix baggage I'd be glad to be rid of before I got around to init, route and ifconfig.
Not only not worth it, but a major pain in the ass if you're trying to build scripts that need to be deployed on multiple platforms. Yo, there's still plenty of Solaris, HPUX and AIX out there. And not infrequently, they're all deployed in the same shop.
This is reminiscent of Windows, "embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy. Linux (or more accurately, Linux distributions) seems to be acquiring all of the characteristics that drove people to abandon Windows for Linux in the first place.
Dude, I am a boomer. I can assure you transistors and microwaves were widely in use before I even started to shave. I was in 6th grade when the first moon landing occurred.
Baby boomers: The transistor. The laser. The internet. Manned moon landings. Manufacturer to the world.
Millennials: Facebook. Twitter. Selfies. Selfie sticks.
The laser and the transistor were invented in the 1950's. At the time of the moon landings, the oldest boomers were in their late teens and early 20s. Try again.
Given that at least Washington and Jefferson owned slaves (don't know about Franklin), I submit that they had a very different understanding of equal than you do
Alternatively, that sentence was inserted into the Declaration purely as political propaganda, and they knew perfectly well it was bullshit.
Here's the sticky part. What evidence would you need to conclude that the algorithm was sufficiently well designed that it had eliminated human bias? What's your test?
That might also explain why, if there is life on other planets, we haven't heard from it. We're lucky enough to have access to reasonably easy to obtain energy sources. If not for that, we wouldn't have the technology to be attempting to communicate with other planets. We'd still be stuck in the 18th century. While there was plenty of intelligent life on earth in the 18th century, it wasn't in any position to be broadcasting or receiving messages from other planets.
Just because a planet evolves intelligent life doesn't necessarily mean it will have access to plentiful energy sources. There might be any number of intelligent species who's technology has never evolved past 18th century equivelent technology, because they don't have the energy to power it.
If you're planning on committing a murder, the death penalty might be off-putting. Other than that, I wouldn't worry too much.
Keep in mind music is recorded to sound best in the media it's going to be distributed in. The ambience of the media is factored into the production, whether intentionally or not.
If you play an old 78 from the 1920's on a modern turntable with modern amplification, it sounds like someone is frying an egg in the background, because modern equipment can pick up the defects in the media.
If you play it on 1920's Victrola, it'll actually sound pretty decent, because the acoustic reproduction equipment is incapable of picking up the noise generated by the media. It's the equipment the music was made to be played on.
I suspect the same thing is at work with modern media. If I listen to a piece of music recorded in the vinyl era reengineered for modern formats, it usually sounds like it's lost something. Music is recorded with the current limitations of reproduction technologies in mind, and when you change the reproduction parameters the result can frequently be sub-optimal. Modern formats may be "better" technically, but if it's presenting sounds that weren't intended to be heard when the original music was recorded, the ear isn't likely to interpret it as sounding better.
I don't have any problem with believing music originally produced for vinyl sounds better when reproduced on it. But I doubt it would do much for music produced with modern technologies if they were transferred to vinyl.
So what becomes of orphaned technologies like Time Machine and AirPlay? Do they plan to finally license them out to other vendors?
Given that Twitter can't seem to make any money, what makes their CEO's views on economics noteworthy?
Listening to this guy's opinion on bitcoin is like buying stock based on tips from a homeless guy.
Of humanity being wiped out entirely and in so many different ways. No generation before us lived with that fear...
You must be young, given you believe that.
Either that, or he's in his 80s, in which case he really would be a member of the first generation that had to face the possibility of the planet getting wiped out.