No, women are interested in men that can provide for them, not men who live under bridges or in their parents' basements and are broke. A big goal of people who marry (esp. women who marry) is to raise a family, i.e. to have children... Part of being a real man is supporting your family, and if you can't do that, you're a failure and a waste of space, just like all those deadbeat dads out there who are either in jail or are fugitives from the child-support police. Criticizing women who ditch these losers just makes the situation worse, and glorifies deadbeats.
Your viewpoint is pretty sad. You've bought into sexist gender roles in a big way (TARZAN MAKE MONEY FOR JANE OR TARZAN IS DEADBEAT!) Who knew that prime time TV was so effective at propagating "Demanding righteous family woman, dumb oaf cheatin' man with MONAYS" as the social norm...
My wife and I made sure we were on the same page when we took the plunge. We agreed on an income floor that had to be achieved and sustained for a period of time before we even considered breeding.
We also agreed that in the event of financial trouble after starting a family, we'd stick together and work it out. There's no expectation that one person be the "provider" while the other person plays "homemaker", and no advantage to splitting our limited resources. It's OUR family; when external forces fight us, we fight back TOGETHER.
In practice, who knows how it would work out, but at least we've gone into things with our eyes open and good intentions. She's got my back and I've got hers.
If you're married, it doesn't sound like you can say as much; too bad for you. If you're not, you're talking out of your ass.
Instead of keeping code that works and improving it, we end up throwing it away and starting from scratch. That is what causes situations like the OSS/ALSA/PulseAudio mess. So far we have mostly managed to ignore the morons calling for the death of X, hopefully that will continue.
So far we have mostly managed to ignore the morons calling for the death of PulseAudio, hopefully that will continue as well.
Pulse is new code, not a rewrite of anything. Yes, ESD was a sound server too, but the similarity ends there.
Many of PulseAudio's problems are caused by "iffy" stuff in ALSA drivers, and the ALSA folks are working to fix the bugs Pulse exposes. Many more are caused by distro people making questionable decisions on how to set it up (see Ubuntu/rtkit).
I'm sure glad that PA isn't going anywhere, despite all the uninformed hate flying around.
Varying color depth, widescreen display ratios, scaling elements to varying resolutions, transparency and composite effects, GEM, KMS, DRI, hardware and software acceleration, modern font rendering, sub-pixel hinting, LCD displays, anti-aliasing, etc. On the input front you have mice that with 8 buttons, multiple mice, touchpads, joysticks, touchscreens, mice that poll at varying rates with varying "resolution", etc.
That's quite the list; many of the non-input related items aren't the job of the X server though. Multiple-cursor support went in this release, I believe.
So sure, the type of work the X server is being asked to do has changed, but development has been keeping up. Ever since the switch to Xorg things have been ticking along. The new modular build system has made working on the project easier, hardware autoconfiguration works very well, and the deprecation of old cruft is continuing quite aggressively - see http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/RELNOTES.html#AEN620 .
I would think this might be useful for distro maintainers who do not want to maintain separate packages across multiple architectures, although the benefits may not outweigh the costs.
If I were a maintainer, I'd rather have builds for different architectures nicely separated from each other. Probably easier to manage ("Support another arch? Clone the build system and patch away!"), users only download binaries for their architecture (saves me bandwidth)...
With central repositories like Debian's, users don't have to care. For one-off package downloads from vendor sites it's pretty trivial to check the browser user agent and offer the correct package (my browser broadcasts "Linux X86_64" to the world).
If there were a later need for 'universal' binaries, I'm pretty sure they could be built in a post-compilation step. Some kind of ELF stub that checks machine architecture, then jumps to the appropriate binary internally. Still can't really see a need for it though.
I'd much rather see debdelta repositories gain widespread use. Over debtorrent! Fap.
...that whizzing sound is my karma, flying out the window.
You've discovered the karmic equivalent to electricity!
The phenomenon, dubbed "karmicity", could be used in meta-moderation or in troll suppression. There were previously no known particles in existence which carried karmic charges. A net-positive karmic particle is known as a karmon; a net-negative particle, a moron.
Q: If a burglar climbs through an open window that would cost the homeowner $700,000 to close, does he owe the homeowner $700,000?
A: Of course not.
How much would the US Government have had to spend to discover the security holes Mr. McKinnon exploited? While he shouldn't be paid that money, that theoretical number should count against any "damages" he caused.
It's probable that most of the "damages" being pinned on the guy are inflated government-contractor consulting rates, which (in this taxpayer's opinion) might be worthy of an extortion trial. The jokers probably closed a few firewall ports and went to the Riviera for a few months.
I'm exaggerating a little bit. I envy you, government contractors, in a dirty sort of way.
MS is tying up traffic in Seattle today to bring all of their people together in one of the city's sports stadiums. Anybody know if that is the usual monkey-boy chair toss or is something up?
The stage is dark. Suddenly, a catchy theme pours from the speakers. It's... could it be... YES! Rick Astley! The crowd groans uncomfortably.
One of the screens showing the Microsoft logo goes blue. "Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL".
Steve Ballmer appears through a fine mist of perspiration twisted into delicate symmetrical whorls by an army of desperate interns, hair dryers in hand, all aiming at his armpits from just offstage. The humidity in the room increases by an order of magnitude.
"Seven, Seven, Seven! GIVE IT UP FOR ME!"
The stage erupts in blue flame. Mystical symbols are traced on the faces of aghast onlookers as Crawzogorium, the Infernal Keeper Of Ring 0 materializes above the podium.
"WHO DARES SUMMON THE MASTER OF THE HIERARCHICAL PROTECTION DOMAINS?"
Crawzogorium notices the bluescreen. "TAINT! WHO HAS DISREGARDED MY LAW OF KERNEL PROCESS ACCESS? I WILL PUNISH YOU NOW!"
The light in the rooms fades to a dark brown, and a tortured scream is heard. It's Ballmer. His interns have dropped their hair dryers and fled the scene. He's fallen to his knees and is scrubbing at his underarm area with the tatters of his shirt.
Things look bleak for our hero and his audience? How will it all end? Tune in next post!
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Personally I'm down with Java as a language, I just don't see the point of running everything through a VM on a pocket machine.
If we were talking about running a huge J2SE-compliant VM on a phone, your outlook might be justified.
Java the Language and Java the Platform are not the same thing.
The Android virtual machine, Dalvik, does NOT have a Just-In-Time compiler and does NOT understand Java bytecode (no.class files here!). It's register based, which means it uses fewer VM instructions to execute the same application code as a standard JVM. It's actually quite efficient to run multiple Dalvik instances on a single device! This is not your father's JVM.
Java is not bound to heavy VM implementations. You can compile it to native code (gcj); you can compile it with the Mono stack; or you can use any number of JVM implementations, from Kaffe to IBM Java to OpenJDK to whatever else.
VM advantages for mobile devices: security (VM sandboxing), system updates (update the VM software, not the actual phone OS), deal with hardware differences (port the VM to your device, hello instant app ecosystem, no ARM build vs. Intel build vs. MIPS build problems), crash protection (whoops the VM crashed, but the phone can just start another).
Everyone has their language preferences, and that's fine - but chiming in with an ambiguous opinion because you recognize a keyword in a discussion is not particularly helpful.
Personally I don't care for Android because it's so Javafied. I really truly detest Java.
People who "detest" programming languages are posers. Go back to writing the Next Big Rails App on your aluminium Unibody Macbook (if you can distract yourself from admiring the reflection in the glossy screen) and spare us the ego.
I really thought we had moved beyond this class warfare nonsense a long time ago.
You must be new here.
Jealousy is at least as basic and powerful a human trait as greed. The only way to "move beyond" either trait would be to impose hard societal limits on both wealth and poverty that could not be circumvented by anyone, thus eliminating "class" as it exists now.
Companies that actively thwart interoperability and promote lock-in are incompatible with the best interests of their own customers.
I don't care how pretty Apple's products are. If you own an iPhone, a Mac, or use iTunes, you are supporting this kind of corporate behaviour. Either you care enough to modify your behaviour, or you don't.
Give your dollars to companies that are demonstrably "less bad" whenever possible. Accept that you'll have to go without some of the bling until the market catches up.
Why is this tagged 'domyjobforme'? There's a negative connotation there.
This is an (awesome sounding) teacher looking for suggestions on how to expose kids to something worthwhile.
You aren't doing his job for him until you're working for his salary, on his budget, and care enough about your students to step outside the curriculum once in a while for education's sake.
What is this, the Hipster Olympics? Do we win by looking down our noses at people?
I think the blogger thought process goes something like this.
CNN has a BREAKING NEWS headline. Quick! I'll post it on my blog and the huddled masses on the Internet will look up to me for being so much better informed than they are!"
All they want is your respect! They want to stand out in a crowd! THEY HEARD IT FIRST! The proof is right there, in their wordpress history!
Both of those options give you the opportunity to keep learning new skills and applying them. Either way, you're going to have to keep up. In one case, you'll be starting something of a new career; in the other, you'll be honing your technical abilities and working on moving from Journeyman to Master.
Are you a people person first, or a technology person first? Is the team you work with the part of your day that matters most to you, or the challenge of the work itself?
Do what makes you happy. There's nothing wrong with a change. Just don't approach management as an easy way out. It's not, and the problems you'll encounter tend to be far more personal in nature than the average programmer/system admin type likes to think. You can't write a test suite and write the code to make it pass when you're dealing with people.
Life is short and you're about halfway through it. Choose wisely. It might not hurt to consider salary potential on either side of your decision as well.
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See http://adsweep.org/ - not nearly as flexible as AdBlock but does the job for the most part.
If you build it, they will read.
Mod parent +5 funny.
No, women are interested in men that can provide for them, not men who live under bridges or in their parents' basements and are broke. A big goal of people who marry (esp. women who marry) is to raise a family, i.e. to have children... Part of being a real man is supporting your family, and if you can't do that, you're a failure and a waste of space, just like all those deadbeat dads out there who are either in jail or are fugitives from the child-support police. Criticizing women who ditch these losers just makes the situation worse, and glorifies deadbeats.
Your viewpoint is pretty sad. You've bought into sexist gender roles in a big way (TARZAN MAKE MONEY FOR JANE OR TARZAN IS DEADBEAT!) Who knew that prime time TV was so effective at propagating "Demanding righteous family woman, dumb oaf cheatin' man with MONAYS" as the social norm...
My wife and I made sure we were on the same page when we took the plunge. We agreed on an income floor that had to be achieved and sustained for a period of time before we even considered breeding.
We also agreed that in the event of financial trouble after starting a family, we'd stick together and work it out. There's no expectation that one person be the "provider" while the other person plays "homemaker", and no advantage to splitting our limited resources. It's OUR family; when external forces fight us, we fight back TOGETHER.
In practice, who knows how it would work out, but at least we've gone into things with our eyes open and good intentions. She's got my back and I've got hers.
If you're married, it doesn't sound like you can say as much; too bad for you. If you're not, you're talking out of your ass.
Instead of keeping code that works and improving it, we end up throwing it away and starting from scratch. That is what causes situations like the OSS/ALSA/PulseAudio mess. So far we have mostly managed to ignore the morons calling for the death of X, hopefully that will continue.
So far we have mostly managed to ignore the morons calling for the death of PulseAudio, hopefully that will continue as well.
Pulse is new code, not a rewrite of anything. Yes, ESD was a sound server too, but the similarity ends there.
Many of PulseAudio's problems are caused by "iffy" stuff in ALSA drivers, and the ALSA folks are working to fix the bugs Pulse exposes. Many more are caused by distro people making questionable decisions on how to set it up (see Ubuntu/rtkit).
I'm sure glad that PA isn't going anywhere, despite all the uninformed hate flying around.
$ make me a patent
make: *** No rule to make target `me'. Stop.
$ sudo make me a patent
Okay!
$
Varying color depth, widescreen display ratios, scaling elements to varying resolutions, transparency and composite effects, GEM, KMS, DRI, hardware and software acceleration, modern font rendering, sub-pixel hinting, LCD displays, anti-aliasing, etc. On the input front you have mice that with 8 buttons, multiple mice, touchpads, joysticks, touchscreens, mice that poll at varying rates with varying "resolution", etc.
That's quite the list; many of the non-input related items aren't the job of the X server though. Multiple-cursor support went in this release, I believe.
So sure, the type of work the X server is being asked to do has changed, but development has been keeping up. Ever since the switch to Xorg things have been ticking along. The new modular build system has made working on the project easier, hardware autoconfiguration works very well, and the deprecation of old cruft is continuing quite aggressively - see http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/RELNOTES.html#AEN620 .
We've come a long way in the last 5 years.
The problem with transitioning of course is when they ask "how do I call my Skype buddies with SIP?"
It works for the calling-landlines case. For everyone else, there are SIP->Skype gateways like Gizmo5's OpenSky.
Hopefully this means that libpurple, telepathy et al will be able to make Skype calls.
Once you get users out of a proprietary client, it's that much easier to transition them to a more open equivalent.
"You mean I just get a SIP account and calls cost less than with Skype?" Sold!
Eh! Canada's not a joke!
You fail at Canadian colloquialism.
Eh != Hey.
Philistine.
But who cares about Canada anyway.
Hey! Canada's not a joke!
I would think this might be useful for distro maintainers who do not want to maintain separate packages across multiple architectures, although the benefits may not outweigh the costs.
If I were a maintainer, I'd rather have builds for different architectures nicely separated from each other. Probably easier to manage ("Support another arch? Clone the build system and patch away!"), users only download binaries for their architecture (saves me bandwidth)...
With central repositories like Debian's, users don't have to care. For one-off package downloads from vendor sites it's pretty trivial to check the browser user agent and offer the correct package (my browser broadcasts "Linux X86_64" to the world).
If there were a later need for 'universal' binaries, I'm pretty sure they could be built in a post-compilation step. Some kind of ELF stub that checks machine architecture, then jumps to the appropriate binary internally. Still can't really see a need for it though.
I'd much rather see debdelta repositories gain widespread use. Over debtorrent! Fap.
...that whizzing sound is my karma, flying out the window.
You've discovered the karmic equivalent to electricity!
The phenomenon, dubbed "karmicity", could be used in meta-moderation or in troll suppression. There were previously no known particles in existence which carried karmic charges. A net-positive karmic particle is known as a karmon; a net-negative particle, a moron.
LHC, eat my shorts.
Q: If a burglar climbs through an open window that would cost the homeowner $700,000 to close, does he owe the homeowner $700,000?
A: Of course not.
How much would the US Government have had to spend to discover the security holes Mr. McKinnon exploited? While he shouldn't be paid that money, that theoretical number should count against any "damages" he caused.
It's probable that most of the "damages" being pinned on the guy are inflated government-contractor consulting rates, which (in this taxpayer's opinion) might be worthy of an extortion trial. The jokers probably closed a few firewall ports and went to the Riviera for a few months.
I'm exaggerating a little bit. I envy you, government contractors, in a dirty sort of way.
I feel old.
Well, your UID makes you older than me.
I SAID, YOUR UID MAKES YOU OLDER THAN ME.
Also, my name is NOT "sonny boy", and this is my lawn, not yours. Where do you think you are, old timer?
Try one of these babies on for size. 67TB for about $8,000.
There's a full parts list and a Solidworks model so you can get your local sheet metal shop to build cases for you.
Talk to a mechanical engineering student on campus, they can probably help with that.
...or as the congnoscenti call it...
A new clique involving conga drums and Glade Plug-Ins?
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MS is tying up traffic in Seattle today to bring all of their people together in one of the city's sports stadiums. Anybody know if that is the usual monkey-boy chair toss or is something up?
The stage is dark. Suddenly, a catchy theme pours from the speakers. It's... could it be... YES! Rick Astley! The crowd groans uncomfortably.
One of the screens showing the Microsoft logo goes blue. "Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL".
Steve Ballmer appears through a fine mist of perspiration twisted into delicate symmetrical whorls by an army of desperate interns, hair dryers in hand, all aiming at his armpits from just offstage. The humidity in the room increases by an order of magnitude.
"Seven, Seven, Seven! GIVE IT UP FOR ME!"
The stage erupts in blue flame. Mystical symbols are traced on the faces of aghast onlookers as Crawzogorium, the Infernal Keeper Of Ring 0 materializes above the podium.
"WHO DARES SUMMON THE MASTER OF THE HIERARCHICAL PROTECTION DOMAINS?"
Crawzogorium notices the bluescreen. "TAINT! WHO HAS DISREGARDED MY LAW OF KERNEL PROCESS ACCESS? I WILL PUNISH YOU NOW!"
The light in the rooms fades to a dark brown, and a tortured scream is heard. It's Ballmer. His interns have dropped their hair dryers and fled the scene. He's fallen to his knees and is scrubbing at his underarm area with the tatters of his shirt.
Things look bleak for our hero and his audience? How will it all end? Tune in next post!
This post brought to you by AXE - It's how dirty guys get clean.
Personally I'm down with Java as a language, I just don't see the point of running everything through a VM on a pocket machine.
If we were talking about running a huge J2SE-compliant VM on a phone, your outlook might be justified.
Java the Language and Java the Platform are not the same thing.
The Android virtual machine, Dalvik, does NOT have a Just-In-Time compiler and does NOT understand Java bytecode (no .class files here!). It's register based, which means it uses fewer VM instructions to execute the same application code as a standard JVM. It's actually quite efficient to run multiple Dalvik instances on a single device! This is not your father's JVM.
Java is not bound to heavy VM implementations. You can compile it to native code (gcj); you can compile it with the Mono stack; or you can use any number of JVM implementations, from Kaffe to IBM Java to OpenJDK to whatever else.
VM advantages for mobile devices: security (VM sandboxing), system updates (update the VM software, not the actual phone OS), deal with hardware differences (port the VM to your device, hello instant app ecosystem, no ARM build vs. Intel build vs. MIPS build problems), crash protection (whoops the VM crashed, but the phone can just start another).
Everyone has their language preferences, and that's fine - but chiming in with an ambiguous opinion because you recognize a keyword in a discussion is not particularly helpful.
Personally I don't care for Android because it's so Javafied. I really truly detest Java.
People who "detest" programming languages are posers. Go back to writing the Next Big Rails App on your aluminium Unibody Macbook (if you can distract yourself from admiring the reflection in the glossy screen) and spare us the ego.
I'm asking too much, aren't I.
I really thought we had moved beyond this class warfare nonsense a long time ago.
You must be new here.
Jealousy is at least as basic and powerful a human trait as greed. The only way to "move beyond" either trait would be to impose hard societal limits on both wealth and poverty that could not be circumvented by anyone, thus eliminating "class" as it exists now.
Good freaking luck with that.
Companies that actively thwart interoperability and promote lock-in are incompatible with the best interests of their own customers.
I don't care how pretty Apple's products are. If you own an iPhone, a Mac, or use iTunes, you are supporting this kind of corporate behaviour. Either you care enough to modify your behaviour, or you don't.
Give your dollars to companies that are demonstrably "less bad" whenever possible. Accept that you'll have to go without some of the bling until the market catches up.
Why is this tagged 'domyjobforme'? There's a negative connotation there.
This is an (awesome sounding) teacher looking for suggestions on how to expose kids to something worthwhile.
You aren't doing his job for him until you're working for his salary, on his budget, and care enough about your students to step outside the curriculum once in a while for education's sake.
What is this, the Hipster Olympics? Do we win by looking down our noses at people?
All they want is your respect! They want to stand out in a crowd! THEY HEARD IT FIRST! The proof is right there, in their wordpress history!
Are you a people person first, or a technology person first? Is the team you work with the part of your day that matters most to you, or the challenge of the work itself?
Do what makes you happy. There's nothing wrong with a change. Just don't approach management as an easy way out. It's not, and the problems you'll encounter tend to be far more personal in nature than the average programmer/system admin type likes to think. You can't write a test suite and write the code to make it pass when you're dealing with people.
Life is short and you're about halfway through it. Choose wisely. It might not hurt to consider salary potential on either side of your decision as well.
For instance:
http://www92.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=iss+rise+vancouver ...gives you the next ISS flyover for Vancouver, BC.