He's in training to work for Accenture (or Capgemini, Deloitte) where the chief product is useless graphs, presented in marathon PowerPoint sessions in which management try to impress each other by using the latest buzz-phrases.
They really do produce client-centric best practice inter departmental core competencies with a high return on investment and extremely low granularity event horizons. Just ask them !
...slowly loosing the will to live as my eyes became tired and I confused by the lack of any conclusions which could possibly be drawn from such an overwhelming variety of apparently useless graphical analysis of kernel ABI calls made by mostly arcane file systems, I couldn't help wondering..... . . . . . . . . .
Who gives a shit ?
Uh, you realize that one way to help with a diagnosis is to give the patient some drugs and look at the response, right?
Note to self: Don't EVER go to a doctor that thinks this way.
The trial and error school of medicine has been debunked more times than I have plucked nose hairs. If your doctor (if you're a doctor) think(s) this way, it's time to change doctors (or throw away your certificate).
When my daughter first started school - many years ago - she caught impetigo. Now, I had had impetigo as a child myself, but I had completely forgotten the symptoms. All I knew was that my daughter had acquired some kind of skin disease, and that it was spreading.
I took her to our local GP who actually admitted that he didn't know what it was, BUT STIIL PRESCRIBED a topical steroidal cream (which did absolutely nothing to cure the problem). A week later, with even more spreading, I returned to the same doctor, and he again admitted he didn't know what it was, and this time prescribed some kind of internal anti-biotic. At that point I asked him, If you don't know what it is, WTF are you doing prescribing medication, and why don't you recommend a specialist. At which point I took my daughter by the hand and walked out the door.
The next morning I was sitting in another GPs office, waiting for him to arrive, and as he walked in the door, he took one look at my daughter, whom he had never met before, and said, "Oh, you poor little girl, you've got impetigo, well, let's get you looked at, and we get that cleared up in a jiffy."
Moral of the story: most diseases are actually well known - if you find a competent doctor. Unfortunately, most doctors are incompetent. Impetigo is an amazingly common problem especially for children of primary school age. For any GP to not have recognized the symptoms is simply an indictment of the complete lack of competence.
As long as the medical community continues to hide the fact that 90% of their job is to memorize symptoms, and accept payola from pharma companies for generating prescriptions , and prescribe medication unnecessarily I will continue to treat them like scum sucking lawyers, used car salesman.
..BT (not for them, mind you, just with them on technical projects), all I can say is that if BT (and OpenReach) would spend more on their hardware and infrastructure and less on their asinine marketing and the outsourcing of their customer support (which is a hugely inefficient operation), and all the other stupid crap that they spend money on, this would be a none-issue.
Hey, BT, you still have a freaking monopoly, despite the creation of OpenReach. If you can't make money with a monopoly, you deserve to go under.
Please keep up. Granted the next C++ standard is seemingly mired in bureaucracy, but at least it has addressed threading for a decade. It would be great if the powers that be would finally call it quits and finalize what we have, then we could move on to the next issue, automatic failover.
My thinking exactly. I'd be interested in the odds of a meteor strike of sufficient magnitude to destroy (or sufficiently damage) what little evidence there is of our first few landings there occurring before any X-prize mission happens to land in the same location and do the equivalent damage.
You are wrong. A bunch of dead white men from several hundred years ago don't know what's best for 2009.
The OP probably can't be bothered to respond to your childish assertion, but I will.
Your thinking is amazingly naive. These were not "a bunch of old men", in fact most of them at the time were in the prime of their lives. You may wish to read a little more about their collective backgrounds HERE.
These were 'average' men in the sense that the diversity of their lives and experiences was wide, (I'll ignore the whole race issue, since it's actually completely insignificant, and impossible to understand anyway). What they did (almost) all have was a decent standard of education, and time to think, and thus apply their knowledge to very difficult problems. The fact that they came up with such a radical plan of self-governance which none-the-less presented a strong framework for the obvious success of the U.S. (when compared to most other governments in the word, past and present) indicates just how much they did know about 'the future' (which is now 2009), and the perils it held in store.
I'm not worshiping the them as deities, but I think you should give credit where it's due. I'm pretty certain that you would never be able to hold a candle to any of them in any intellectual pursuit, and the fact that you so easily dismiss them as old men out of touch with "the now" (and even included a racist slur, to boot) makes me realize that even this post is probably a waste of time. You're very likely a lost cause. But, at least you have the freedom to expose your ignorance for the rest of the world to see.
If you resemble this and the allusion offends you, good. You offend others (often deliberately) and need to feel what you inflict.
I agree completely. The days of having your goodwill abused while being expected to sit silently holding your tongue is coming to an end.
If your idea of freedom is to take personal advantage of every situation, regardless of the effects upon others, without contributing anything in return, you are an ignorant ass-hat. Be prepared to be 'learned'.
I just did a search for property sales in the Broughton area. I'd hardly call it affluent. It seems very middle-middle class to me. My neighbourhood is more expensive than all but the highest priced Broughton properties, and my neighbourhood is very, very middle class. My next door neighbour runs a local (1 shop only) carpet and tile shop, the neightbor in the other side is a senior manager (not a director) in a fruit distribution business. Down the road three or four houses, a neighbour is a builder. a few more houses down, the guy owns the local taxi business. No investment bankers, high court judges, consultant surgeons or cabinet level politicians == not affluent.
Actually, that is an argument I haven't considered before. (Momma always said I was a bit slow)
Suppose, rather than making an MP3 file available for download, I publish a web page which has the hex value of each byte of an MP3 file shown as text. How could that possibly be illegal ?
And if that's not illegal, why is making it available in binary form any different ?
In other words, you're lazy because writing such an app takes effort and requires making decisions that you are too lazy to make. I wish I could remember the 'rule' you've just broken about making an argument into a personal attack.
Take Samba as an example. There are several GUI configuration tools available. All of these output a text file which samba uses as the config. You can use a GUI if you want, edit the text directly, or script it until your heart's content. The only GUI based configuration tool for Samba that I'm aware of that covers anything but a tiny subset of Sambas functionality is SWAT, and it does not address every possibly configuration item (or combination)
Other operating systems and their application programs do it, handle it just fine, and have done so for decades. Nothing is preventing you from filling this gap in the Linux domain. Or perhaps you'd rahter pay for someone else to do it. Either way, this point is moot, Linux is built by (largely) unpaid contributors. They work on the bits they're interested in. Few developers have the broad base of skills to produce quality GUI based applications (which a config tool would be), as well as high performance server apps like apache (httpd), or Samba (smbd/nmbd).
Besides, aren't we conveniently skipping a huge range of apps such as OpenOffice, or VLC, or Gimp (end user apps) which do indeed contain GUI based configuration utilities ? It seems that the stuff you're really complaining about are the server based apps, which by their very nature have no GUI since they run as daemons. I just don't think it makes sense to insist that those apps have a GUI config utility, for the reasons I've already stated.
OK, for starters debugging a configuration gui (and associated parser) is simply adding to the pain of allowing configuration options. You know, what do you do when the configuration GUI itself requires options, write another GUI for that ?
It's also needlessly wasteful and slower to launch a UI app across a slow network, not to mention extraordinarily difficult to script GUI apps.
Let's see.....we then have to worry about which widget set you have installed in order to ensure that the GUI will display correctly, and of course, you need the entire X window infrastructure installed, just to do anything, when the app you're configuring is some tiny little daemon that will work in runlevel 3 (or lower).
I'm getting bored now, so I hope you'll accept the first batch of reasons as proof enough that your position is indefensible.
All my posts are worthless; just as are all of yours, and everyone elses.
Mine was intended to be slightly sarcastic, of course, but I can see that intent may have been lost on some readers; and for that I apologise.
I think I share the basic sentiment with many readers here however when I state that what the hyperactive disorder of the 1970s and 1980s (later to become ADHD in the 1990s and first years of the 21st century) has now morphed into autism in the latter part of the this decade. Autism is over-diagnosed by unscrupulous doctors, with encouragement from pharmaceutical comapnies and social workers. It's a mighty convenient excuse for a 'behaviourly challenged' child with lazy, stupid (or sometimes genuinely ignorant) parents who don't know how to raise them. Sure, some children are genuinely autistic, but from personal experience, I'd say less than 1/5th of those 'diagnosed' as autistic need anythign more than a swift kick in the arse when they run around screaming their heads off becuase they have to do something they don't like, such as sit at a desk in school.
How about
100% of children with autism have been found to breath a common colorless, odorless, tasteless gas comprised of
78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases.
Slashdot Mirror
He's in training to work for Accenture (or Capgemini, Deloitte) where the chief product is useless graphs, presented in marathon PowerPoint sessions in which management try to impress each other by using the latest buzz-phrases.
They really do produce client-centric best practice inter departmental core competencies with a high return on investment and extremely low granularity event horizons. Just ask them !
How is it possible to create a file system driver which does not call "register_filesystem" ?
...slowly loosing the will to live as my eyes became tired and I confused by the lack of any conclusions which could possibly be drawn from such an overwhelming variety of apparently useless graphical analysis of kernel ABI calls made by mostly arcane file systems, I couldn't help wondering .....
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. Who gives a shit ?
Uh, you realize that one way to help with a diagnosis is to give the patient some drugs and look at the response, right?
Note to self: Don't EVER go to a doctor that thinks this way.
The trial and error school of medicine has been debunked more times than I have plucked nose hairs. If your doctor (if you're a doctor) think(s) this way, it's time to change doctors (or throw away your certificate).
When my daughter first started school - many years ago - she caught impetigo. Now, I had had impetigo as a child myself, but I had completely forgotten the symptoms. All I knew was that my daughter had acquired some kind of skin disease, and that it was spreading.
I took her to our local GP who actually admitted that he didn't know what it was, BUT STIIL PRESCRIBED a topical steroidal cream (which did absolutely nothing to cure the problem). A week later, with even more spreading, I returned to the same doctor, and he again admitted he didn't know what it was, and this time prescribed some kind of internal anti-biotic. At that point I asked him, If you don't know what it is, WTF are you doing prescribing medication, and why don't you recommend a specialist. At which point I took my daughter by the hand and walked out the door.
The next morning I was sitting in another GPs office, waiting for him to arrive, and as he walked in the door, he took one look at my daughter, whom he had never met before, and said, "Oh, you poor little girl, you've got impetigo, well, let's get you looked at, and we get that cleared up in a jiffy."
Moral of the story: most diseases are actually well known - if you find a competent doctor. Unfortunately, most doctors are incompetent. Impetigo is an amazingly common problem especially for children of primary school age. For any GP to not have recognized the symptoms is simply an indictment of the complete lack of competence.
As long as the medical community continues to hide the fact that 90% of their job is to memorize symptoms, and accept payola from pharma companies for generating prescriptions , and prescribe medication unnecessarily I will continue to treat them like scum sucking lawyers, used car salesman.
..BT (not for them, mind you, just with them on technical projects), all I can say is that if BT (and OpenReach) would spend more on their hardware and infrastructure and less on their asinine marketing and the outsourcing of their customer support (which is a hugely inefficient operation), and all the other stupid crap that they spend money on, this would be a none-issue.
Hey, BT, you still have a freaking monopoly, despite the creation of OpenReach. If you can't make money with a monopoly, you deserve to go under.
Humans can react instantaneously to complex information that a computer would have difficulty dealing with.
1.) Humans don't react instantaneously to anything.
2.) Not if the computer has been developed to deal with that information.
Please keep up. Granted the next C++ standard is seemingly mired in bureaucracy, but at least it has addressed threading for a decade. It would be great if the powers that be would finally call it quits and finalize what we have, then we could move on to the next issue, automatic failover.
Frink: Oh, I forgot to er, carry the one.
My thinking exactly. I'd be interested in the odds of a meteor strike of sufficient magnitude to destroy (or sufficiently damage) what little evidence there is of our first few landings there occurring before any X-prize mission happens to land in the same location and do the equivalent damage.
You are wrong. A bunch of dead white men from several hundred years ago don't know what's best for 2009.
The OP probably can't be bothered to respond to your childish assertion, but I will.
Your thinking is amazingly naive. These were not "a bunch of old men", in fact most of them at the time were in the prime of their lives. You may wish to read a little more about their collective backgrounds HERE.
These were 'average' men in the sense that the diversity of their lives and experiences was wide, (I'll ignore the whole race issue, since it's actually completely insignificant, and impossible to understand anyway). What they did (almost) all have was a decent standard of education, and time to think, and thus apply their knowledge to very difficult problems. The fact that they came up with such a radical plan of self-governance which none-the-less presented a strong framework for the obvious success of the U.S. (when compared to most other governments in the word, past and present) indicates just how much they did know about 'the future' (which is now 2009), and the perils it held in store.
I'm not worshiping the them as deities, but I think you should give credit where it's due. I'm pretty certain that you would never be able to hold a candle to any of them in any intellectual pursuit, and the fact that you so easily dismiss them as old men out of touch with "the now" (and even included a racist slur, to boot) makes me realize that even this post is probably a waste of time. You're very likely a lost cause. But, at least you have the freedom to expose your ignorance for the rest of the world to see.
If you resemble this and the allusion offends you, good. You offend others (often deliberately) and need to feel what you inflict.
I agree completely. The days of having your goodwill abused while being expected to sit silently holding your tongue is coming to an end. If your idea of freedom is to take personal advantage of every situation, regardless of the effects upon others, without contributing anything in return, you are an ignorant ass-hat. Be prepared to be 'learned'.
To which Nixon should have replied, "Perhaps, but at least they're aren't genocidal dictators"
I just did a search for property sales in the Broughton area. I'd hardly call it affluent. It seems very middle-middle class to me. My neighbourhood is more expensive than all but the highest priced Broughton properties, and my neighbourhood is very, very middle class. My next door neighbour runs a local (1 shop only) carpet and tile shop, the neightbor in the other side is a senior manager (not a director) in a fruit distribution business. Down the road three or four houses, a neighbour is a builder. a few more houses down, the guy owns the local taxi business. No investment bankers, high court judges, consultant surgeons or cabinet level politicians == not affluent.
These folks are Hyacinth Bucket's friends !
An mp3 is a number.
Actually, that is an argument I haven't considered before. (Momma always said I was a bit slow)
Suppose, rather than making an MP3 file available for download, I publish a web page which has the hex value of each byte of an MP3 file shown as text. How could that possibly be illegal ?
And if that's not illegal, why is making it available in binary form any different ?
In other words, you're lazy because writing such an app takes effort and requires making decisions that you are too lazy to make.
I wish I could remember the 'rule' you've just broken about making an argument into a personal attack.
Take Samba as an example. There are several GUI configuration tools available. All of these output a text file which samba uses as the config. You can use a GUI if you want, edit the text directly, or script it until your heart's content.
The only GUI based configuration tool for Samba that I'm aware of that covers anything but a tiny subset of Sambas functionality is SWAT, and it does not address every possibly configuration item (or combination)
Other operating systems and their application programs do it, handle it just fine, and have done so for decades.
Nothing is preventing you from filling this gap in the Linux domain. Or perhaps you'd rahter pay for someone else to do it. Either way, this point is moot, Linux is built by (largely) unpaid contributors. They work on the bits they're interested in. Few developers have the broad base of skills to produce quality GUI based applications (which a config tool would be), as well as high performance server apps like apache (httpd), or Samba (smbd/nmbd).
Besides, aren't we conveniently skipping a huge range of apps such as OpenOffice, or VLC, or Gimp (end user apps) which do indeed contain GUI based configuration utilities ? It seems that the stuff you're really complaining about are the server based apps, which by their very nature have no GUI since they run as daemons. I just don't think it makes sense to insist that those apps have a GUI config utility, for the reasons I've already stated.
OK, for starters debugging a configuration gui (and associated parser) is simply adding to the pain of allowing configuration options. You know, what do you do when the configuration GUI itself requires options, write another GUI for that ?
It's also needlessly wasteful and slower to launch a UI app across a slow network, not to mention extraordinarily difficult to script GUI apps.
Let's see.....we then have to worry about which widget set you have installed in order to ensure that the GUI will display correctly, and of course, you need the entire X window infrastructure installed, just to do anything, when the app you're configuring is some tiny little daemon that will work in runlevel 3 (or lower).
I'm getting bored now, so I hope you'll accept the first batch of reasons as proof enough that your position is indefensible.
If I have to tinker with it to make it work, it's crap and needs improvement.
OK, I'll give you that one.
If I have to edit a text file instead of using a configuration GUI, it's crap and needs improvement.
You are so wrong in so many ways it's not worth itemizing them.
Very insightful comments. If I hadn't already posted to this topic, I'd mod you up
... iPod One ?
... shallow, consumerist gifts.
Oh, never mind, I just re-read that and answered my own question.
Breath pure oxygen and die quickly. Drink too much pure water and die quickly.
Nothing is that simple.
.. to refer to Chaka Fattah as Arthur Davenport, it doesn't sound so pretentious.
All my posts are worthless; just as are all of yours, and everyone elses.
Mine was intended to be slightly sarcastic, of course, but I can see that intent may have been lost on some readers; and for that I apologise.
I think I share the basic sentiment with many readers here however when I state that what the hyperactive disorder of the 1970s and 1980s (later to become ADHD in the 1990s and first years of the 21st century) has now morphed into autism in the latter part of the this decade. Autism is over-diagnosed by unscrupulous doctors, with encouragement from pharmaceutical comapnies and social workers. It's a mighty convenient excuse for a 'behaviourly challenged' child with lazy, stupid (or sometimes genuinely ignorant) parents who don't know how to raise them. Sure, some children are genuinely autistic, but from personal experience, I'd say less than 1/5th of those 'diagnosed' as autistic need anythign more than a swift kick in the arse when they run around screaming their heads off becuase they have to do something they don't like, such as sit at a desk in school.
OK, sorry to annoy the crap out of you - not !
How about
100% of children with autism have been found to breath a common colorless, odorless, tasteless gas comprised of 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases.