Union workers work for a wage, and are expected to forgo wages while protesting. People try to cut the picket line to work anyway, which is frowned upon by the protesters; the point is it's illegal to prevent them from doing so. Restraint of a person from a legal act is considered not peaceful.
Actually the earth is the center of the universe. Kind of.
More correctly: everywhere is the center of the universe. If you analyze the expansion of the universe from any point in the universe, you find everything moving away from everything else at the exact same rate. It is impossible to use this data to pinpoint the center, because you don't have a doppler effect: things don't move away from each other less as you near the supposed center, and more as you move away.
You are still talking about "Hybrid Drive". I'm not talking about driving the wheels with the diesel. The diesel does not attach to the drive.
Diesel has a narrow efficient operating band. That means while a petrol may run at peak efficiency between 2500 and 5500RPM, a typical automobile diesel will run at peak efficiency between 1500 and 2000RPM. Keeping that diesel in the 1500-2000RPM range requires a dozen or so gears if you're on the drive train; or you can hook it up to a dynamo and generate electricity, running it at peak efficiency all the time. A petrol with 6 gears will do just fine.
You're talking about car engines applying crankshaft output to the wheels. I'm talking about car engines that have no mechanical connection to the wheels AT ALL.
I thought "where they work" was "the public roadway", meaning it's impossible for people to drive on those roadways to go from their house to their place of work, their place of shopping, a restaurant, and so on.
In the US, you are allowed to have a voice; you are not allowed to restrict the movement of others. You can picket in the streets or in front of businesses or in town square in front of city hall all you want; but when someone wants to pass, you move out of the way. You can raise signs and call them bad names, but you can't impede them.
This stems largely from the concept of a peaceful protest being peaceful, rather than forceful. Unions engage in peaceful protest all the time; you're allowed to cut a picket line, and they have to let you through. In some cases, the protesters refused to move, while a wage-worker who depended on the income from actually working their job wanted to pass. Abusive language coupled with a desperate need to collect paychecks to feed families eventually transitions to fists and broken faces, which is suddenly not peaceful; we like to interpret the forceful barring of entry to the place of work as passive-aggressive, and prohibit that sort of thing.
The opposite behavior is completely separate, but also comes up here: sometimes people throw buckets of animal blood at other people, both at abortion clinics and fur shops. That's direct aggression, rather than passive aggression, and, I would assume, is universally illegal.
The article tells me it's bullshit. Applications aren't written to wait for the memory bus; they're written to ask the kernel for resources, and handle that by waiting or operating asynchronously. If they wait, then they just block until the kernel returns--they don't go, "Oh, it's going to be a while, so I'll execute getSomeTea()..." There's nothing in applications to deal with timing.
From an OS perspective, execute-in-place has been a thing for years. Linux run from NAND uses XIP, hence why some JFFS2 configurations compress and some don't. Many implementations don't compress in small-RAM embedded systems, using MMIO to map the JFFS2 file system as a physical memory address and jump to it accordingly. That means Linux loads an mmap()ed binary into VMA by creating a page table entry that points to the MMIO page associated physically with the NAND, and not with any real RAM.
Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine.
So if I come to your house, stand on the sidewalk, and refuse to let you reach your car so that you can go to work because you work for a disgusting coal power plant that spews radioactive mercury waste into the sky, that's legal?
Some of us are into politics. I'm more into economics, but I can't implement economic policy without getting into politics. Likewise, there's some blending; but I like to hard-line economics: tearing down Social Security is a social contract issue and thus political, but it also has real economic implications--even if you replace it with something better in the end, since current and near-future collectors are hedged on collecting Social Security as-is and would be severely impacted. The politics and social aspects only weigh in when I have to convince people to let me do something; I've already considered their needs and made plans to address them safely.
Taking it one step higher, your elected officials are the gateway to policy change. If you want a policy implemented, you need the right officials elected. That means I need officials like Ron Paul or Gary Johnson in place if I want to make a move--they'll be easier to open a dialogue with, as they'll understand the things I'm saying and will sympathize with many of the goals (better income security, more power in the hands of individuals, more individual responsibility, a stronger economy, and the boundaries placed on implementation). Other candidates will have other goals and biases which conflict--Democrats want to make any tax top-heavy, and Republicans are afraid of all taxes, entitlements, and socialized services.
People who are non-active will simply not like the policies of one candidate, but favor those of another. These align with individual philosophies, understandings of economics, and impact on their job situation. There are many reasons to track politics.
There should be a colon after "one of his latest projects." The following clause specifies the preceding clause: it explains what "one of his latest projects" is. Because it's a restrictive clause, it's followed by a colon rather than a comma. Notice the preceding clause was non-restrictive: many things may be followed by a colon rather than a comma, so a comma is used to show the relationship between the two clauses. If we omit "because" from the sentence, we have an independent clause; either a semicolon without a conjunction or a comma followed by a conjunction (e.g., and, so) would be correct.
Ubuntu has a 'backports' and 'updates-proposed' repository. RHEL forces that risk on you. That's something I often forget about.
Notably, there is no such thing as RHEL 6.4 and 6.5. They slap the versions on a release note, and dump them right into the RHEL-6 repository: it's impossible to get a RHEL 6.0 DVD and install RHEL 6.4 with all 6.4 updates; you can get a full RHEL 6.4 DVD and install your system as it was at RHEL 6.4 release, with no security updates, and no way to get to RHEL 6.4 plus all updates released prior to 6.5.
This is why I don't talk about point releases: they're imaginary. Ubuntu 12.04.1 isn't Ubuntu 12.04.1; it's Ubuntu 12.04 re-rolled with all current updates later in the release, so you can install right from the CD without having to download 80% of the software again immediately. If you installed 12.04 and ran updates, you'd get the same result.
That's why the Black Cab Mafia is extorting protection from the government. Wouldn't it be a shame if your nice London streets got all clogged and your nice London shop owners went out of business?
Some of the other problems are nonsense, too. Background checks are social: if your cabbie is a rapist, you can report that; if you disappear in transit, there are records of where your phone was and what cab drive you had. Service is, likewise rated rather than a company promise; and they use GPS to track distance. Most of these mechanisms are satisfactory to the average user, and out of the control of the driver and passenger alike.
Round One had a bunch of people talking about some highly-arrogant sense of self-importance black cab drivers derive from a specialized certification. They have full knowledge of the area's history, sports, current events, and the best route through the city in their head, so they can chat you up while they drive and can find the shortest path. A lot of folks weighed heavily on this idea that you get the shortest path and thus the best deal; but, if Uber is cheaper, a less-optimal path may come out at a lower dollar cost. Likewise, GPS navigation with real-time traffic largely handles this; and many people don't want an enforced premium just so they can ride with a cab driver who knows everything about everything.
The reaction is an illegal impedance of traffic, disrupting economic activity and costing millions of dollars. In the United States, peaceful protests are protected speech; physically impeding the movement of any person is not peaceful protest, and you can be arrested if your protest does not part and allow safe passage to all who don't care for your shenanigans. Clogging the streets in protest is, thus, a criminal act; I would be surprised if the UK considered such things legal, rather than an organized protectionist racket.
Really, there's a whole lot of weirdness going on in the IPCC. They come out and claim increasing certainty in global warming, while supporting scientists ask how there can be increasing certainty when their own experiments have lower confidence. The viewpoint from the United States is distorted due to inferior technology and medieval scientific procedures; the modern world has advanced far beyond the primitive tribes of the far west.
European government bodies are currently trying to address the threat of the cooling trend on the earth, and what global cooling will mean to the global economy.
Efficiency of a car isn't engine efficiency. Car efficiency involves driving habits, aerodynamics, mechanical systems, weight, and so on. Engine efficiency involves engine speed and fuel.
The efficiency of a diesel engine isn't going to be affected by the weight of anything but the pistons and crank shaft. The car's efficiency will be affected by the total weight. In this case, we're talking about turning a pile of fuel into rotational output power, cranking a generator to supply electricity to power an electrical system for battery charging and motor operation. This is more efficient than direct-drive because the efficiency of an electric motor is not strongly affected by its operating speed, while the efficiency of any internal combustion engine is.
In other words: an electric drive train eliminates the complex inefficiencies of the internal combustion engine. If your engine is twice as efficient, your car is twice as efficient. A mechanical drive train will run a diesel engine outside its efficient operating range often (diesel has narrow efficiency and power bands), so much of the theoretical efficiency is unrealized.
I'm not talking about a Prius-style hybrid drive, where you attach both an electric and combustion motor onto the same drive shaft and apply power from both. I'm talking about taking a Tesla, hooking an alternator to an ICE, and running wires from the alternator to the charge port.
Ubuntu works pretty well with the 6 month release cycle on 18/60 month support. They only ever have 4 versions to support, and their absolute policy of not changing anything unless it's very broken makes this manageable.
RHEL's model is 20 year support cycles. With a 10 year release, there's usually only 2 releases to support; but they upgrade things, change the kernel around, mess with the base system, and break ABIs during that release, so they're more challenging to support. For the end user, these changes mean increased risk.
Ubuntu's 2 year released LTS distributions provide 3 years to transition in the worst case. The user can manage risk by beginning test transition across multiple versions. Rather than move from 10.04 to 12.04, the user can begin testing and preparation for 12.04 when released; when 14.04 becomes available, the user can also test on that. If moving to 14.04 takes too long, the user can deploy on 12.04 with 2 years remaining, and with transition work to 14.04 already begun; otherwise, they can move directly to 14.04.
Risk management is flexible in this structure. A particular user (corporation) may have historical data of 6-12 months transition, and so may delay migration until 14.04 beta is out. They may also see the upgrade path as lower risk, and so transition every 2 years. They may mix deployments, transitioning some systems or deploying new systems on the newer platform so as to generate organizational knowledge, lowering risk of upgrading.
RHEL doesn't allow for this. Instead, the organization accepts the risk of lag. That risk is very real: RHEL 6 is missing a lot of new stuff that technology companies are leveraging in production right now. It's been like that for more than half its life. That kind of risk is what causes some companies deploying Ubuntu to go to an STS release and upgrade 6 months later, until they land on an LTS release. Companies running long-term mainstays--PostgreSQL servers, Web servers, and such--with no use for the newer versions are at lower risk by taking a 20 year supported platform, although RHEL exposes them to the already-discussed risks from shoddy release policy.
I strongly favor Ubuntu's model. If RedHat followed Debian-style release discipline, I would find their distribution more acceptable. It would be old, but it would supply long-term risk.
Debian policy filters down to Ubuntu. Even on Ubuntu's 18 month releases, on their 5 year LTS releases, on anything labeled as release, the policy stands: there shall be no changes which make any action which produced a working result prior now produce a non-working result, unless such a change is absolutely unavoidable when removing a security vulnerability.
Even some predictable bugs may not get updates, for example, a bug in Perl 5.14 which produces consistent incorrect results would likely not get a fix backported if much software predicated its behavior on Perl 5.14 behavior. By contrast, a bug in Proftpd which completely ignores IdleTimeout would get a fix: IdleTimeout does nothing, is not working, and thus Proftpd is broken and nothing predicates on this unique lack of proper function.
RedHat is more likely to upgrade a kernel header, causing defined values in perl and C programs to become undefined or different, leading to arbitrary breakage. This has happened a few times.
Redhat routinely changes shit horrendously within release. They removed the crmsh configuration and replaced it with a completely different configuration tool in RHEL6, breaking a bunch of shit. They do this continuously: upgrade software, change some shit around, deprecate old tools for new tools, and tell you it's improved.
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Union workers work for a wage, and are expected to forgo wages while protesting. People try to cut the picket line to work anyway, which is frowned upon by the protesters; the point is it's illegal to prevent them from doing so. Restraint of a person from a legal act is considered not peaceful.
Actually the earth is the center of the universe. Kind of.
More correctly: everywhere is the center of the universe. If you analyze the expansion of the universe from any point in the universe, you find everything moving away from everything else at the exact same rate. It is impossible to use this data to pinpoint the center, because you don't have a doppler effect: things don't move away from each other less as you near the supposed center, and more as you move away.
You are still talking about "Hybrid Drive". I'm not talking about driving the wheels with the diesel. The diesel does not attach to the drive.
Diesel has a narrow efficient operating band. That means while a petrol may run at peak efficiency between 2500 and 5500RPM, a typical automobile diesel will run at peak efficiency between 1500 and 2000RPM. Keeping that diesel in the 1500-2000RPM range requires a dozen or so gears if you're on the drive train; or you can hook it up to a dynamo and generate electricity, running it at peak efficiency all the time. A petrol with 6 gears will do just fine.
You're talking about car engines applying crankshaft output to the wheels. I'm talking about car engines that have no mechanical connection to the wheels AT ALL.
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I thought "where they work" was "the public roadway", meaning it's impossible for people to drive on those roadways to go from their house to their place of work, their place of shopping, a restaurant, and so on.
In the US, you are allowed to have a voice; you are not allowed to restrict the movement of others. You can picket in the streets or in front of businesses or in town square in front of city hall all you want; but when someone wants to pass, you move out of the way. You can raise signs and call them bad names, but you can't impede them.
This stems largely from the concept of a peaceful protest being peaceful, rather than forceful. Unions engage in peaceful protest all the time; you're allowed to cut a picket line, and they have to let you through. In some cases, the protesters refused to move, while a wage-worker who depended on the income from actually working their job wanted to pass. Abusive language coupled with a desperate need to collect paychecks to feed families eventually transitions to fists and broken faces, which is suddenly not peaceful; we like to interpret the forceful barring of entry to the place of work as passive-aggressive, and prohibit that sort of thing.
The opposite behavior is completely separate, but also comes up here: sometimes people throw buckets of animal blood at other people, both at abortion clinics and fur shops. That's direct aggression, rather than passive aggression, and, I would assume, is universally illegal.
The article tells me it's bullshit. Applications aren't written to wait for the memory bus; they're written to ask the kernel for resources, and handle that by waiting or operating asynchronously. If they wait, then they just block until the kernel returns--they don't go, "Oh, it's going to be a while, so I'll execute getSomeTea()..." There's nothing in applications to deal with timing.
From an OS perspective, execute-in-place has been a thing for years. Linux run from NAND uses XIP, hence why some JFFS2 configurations compress and some don't. Many implementations don't compress in small-RAM embedded systems, using MMIO to map the JFFS2 file system as a physical memory address and jump to it accordingly. That means Linux loads an mmap()ed binary into VMA by creating a page table entry that points to the MMIO page associated physically with the NAND, and not with any real RAM.
Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine.
Obviously, it needs z/OS.
So if I come to your house, stand on the sidewalk, and refuse to let you reach your car so that you can go to work because you work for a disgusting coal power plant that spews radioactive mercury waste into the sky, that's legal?
Some of us are into politics. I'm more into economics, but I can't implement economic policy without getting into politics. Likewise, there's some blending; but I like to hard-line economics: tearing down Social Security is a social contract issue and thus political, but it also has real economic implications--even if you replace it with something better in the end, since current and near-future collectors are hedged on collecting Social Security as-is and would be severely impacted. The politics and social aspects only weigh in when I have to convince people to let me do something; I've already considered their needs and made plans to address them safely.
Taking it one step higher, your elected officials are the gateway to policy change. If you want a policy implemented, you need the right officials elected. That means I need officials like Ron Paul or Gary Johnson in place if I want to make a move--they'll be easier to open a dialogue with, as they'll understand the things I'm saying and will sympathize with many of the goals (better income security, more power in the hands of individuals, more individual responsibility, a stronger economy, and the boundaries placed on implementation). Other candidates will have other goals and biases which conflict--Democrats want to make any tax top-heavy, and Republicans are afraid of all taxes, entitlements, and socialized services.
People who are non-active will simply not like the policies of one candidate, but favor those of another. These align with individual philosophies, understandings of economics, and impact on their job situation. There are many reasons to track politics.
And people still won't listen to me.
Republican wins election, replacing other Republican. Likely to upset the balance of power for a long time to come.
There should be a colon after "one of his latest projects." The following clause specifies the preceding clause: it explains what "one of his latest projects" is. Because it's a restrictive clause, it's followed by a colon rather than a comma. Notice the preceding clause was non-restrictive: many things may be followed by a colon rather than a comma, so a comma is used to show the relationship between the two clauses. If we omit "because" from the sentence, we have an independent clause; either a semicolon without a conjunction or a comma followed by a conjunction (e.g., and, so) would be correct.
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But the standard varies between $50,000 and $150,000 depending on municipal requirements.
Ubuntu has a 'backports' and 'updates-proposed' repository. RHEL forces that risk on you. That's something I often forget about.
Notably, there is no such thing as RHEL 6.4 and 6.5. They slap the versions on a release note, and dump them right into the RHEL-6 repository: it's impossible to get a RHEL 6.0 DVD and install RHEL 6.4 with all 6.4 updates; you can get a full RHEL 6.4 DVD and install your system as it was at RHEL 6.4 release, with no security updates, and no way to get to RHEL 6.4 plus all updates released prior to 6.5.
This is why I don't talk about point releases: they're imaginary. Ubuntu 12.04.1 isn't Ubuntu 12.04.1; it's Ubuntu 12.04 re-rolled with all current updates later in the release, so you can install right from the CD without having to download 80% of the software again immediately. If you installed 12.04 and ran updates, you'd get the same result.
That's why the Black Cab Mafia is extorting protection from the government. Wouldn't it be a shame if your nice London streets got all clogged and your nice London shop owners went out of business?
Some of the other problems are nonsense, too. Background checks are social: if your cabbie is a rapist, you can report that; if you disappear in transit, there are records of where your phone was and what cab drive you had. Service is, likewise rated rather than a company promise; and they use GPS to track distance. Most of these mechanisms are satisfactory to the average user, and out of the control of the driver and passenger alike.
Round One had a bunch of people talking about some highly-arrogant sense of self-importance black cab drivers derive from a specialized certification. They have full knowledge of the area's history, sports, current events, and the best route through the city in their head, so they can chat you up while they drive and can find the shortest path. A lot of folks weighed heavily on this idea that you get the shortest path and thus the best deal; but, if Uber is cheaper, a less-optimal path may come out at a lower dollar cost. Likewise, GPS navigation with real-time traffic largely handles this; and many people don't want an enforced premium just so they can ride with a cab driver who knows everything about everything.
The reaction is an illegal impedance of traffic, disrupting economic activity and costing millions of dollars. In the United States, peaceful protests are protected speech; physically impeding the movement of any person is not peaceful protest, and you can be arrested if your protest does not part and allow safe passage to all who don't care for your shenanigans. Clogging the streets in protest is, thus, a criminal act; I would be surprised if the UK considered such things legal, rather than an organized protectionist racket.
Uber supplies insurance protecting the passenger from loss and liability up to $1 million.
It's what the scientists believe.
Really, there's a whole lot of weirdness going on in the IPCC. They come out and claim increasing certainty in global warming, while supporting scientists ask how there can be increasing certainty when their own experiments have lower confidence. The viewpoint from the United States is distorted due to inferior technology and medieval scientific procedures; the modern world has advanced far beyond the primitive tribes of the far west.
European government bodies are currently trying to address the threat of the cooling trend on the earth, and what global cooling will mean to the global economy.
Efficiency of a car isn't engine efficiency. Car efficiency involves driving habits, aerodynamics, mechanical systems, weight, and so on. Engine efficiency involves engine speed and fuel.
The efficiency of a diesel engine isn't going to be affected by the weight of anything but the pistons and crank shaft. The car's efficiency will be affected by the total weight. In this case, we're talking about turning a pile of fuel into rotational output power, cranking a generator to supply electricity to power an electrical system for battery charging and motor operation. This is more efficient than direct-drive because the efficiency of an electric motor is not strongly affected by its operating speed, while the efficiency of any internal combustion engine is.
In other words: an electric drive train eliminates the complex inefficiencies of the internal combustion engine. If your engine is twice as efficient, your car is twice as efficient. A mechanical drive train will run a diesel engine outside its efficient operating range often (diesel has narrow efficiency and power bands), so much of the theoretical efficiency is unrealized.
I'm not talking about a Prius-style hybrid drive, where you attach both an electric and combustion motor onto the same drive shaft and apply power from both. I'm talking about taking a Tesla, hooking an alternator to an ICE, and running wires from the alternator to the charge port.
Ubuntu works pretty well with the 6 month release cycle on 18/60 month support. They only ever have 4 versions to support, and their absolute policy of not changing anything unless it's very broken makes this manageable.
RHEL's model is 20 year support cycles. With a 10 year release, there's usually only 2 releases to support; but they upgrade things, change the kernel around, mess with the base system, and break ABIs during that release, so they're more challenging to support. For the end user, these changes mean increased risk.
Ubuntu's 2 year released LTS distributions provide 3 years to transition in the worst case. The user can manage risk by beginning test transition across multiple versions. Rather than move from 10.04 to 12.04, the user can begin testing and preparation for 12.04 when released; when 14.04 becomes available, the user can also test on that. If moving to 14.04 takes too long, the user can deploy on 12.04 with 2 years remaining, and with transition work to 14.04 already begun; otherwise, they can move directly to 14.04.
Risk management is flexible in this structure. A particular user (corporation) may have historical data of 6-12 months transition, and so may delay migration until 14.04 beta is out. They may also see the upgrade path as lower risk, and so transition every 2 years. They may mix deployments, transitioning some systems or deploying new systems on the newer platform so as to generate organizational knowledge, lowering risk of upgrading.
RHEL doesn't allow for this. Instead, the organization accepts the risk of lag. That risk is very real: RHEL 6 is missing a lot of new stuff that technology companies are leveraging in production right now. It's been like that for more than half its life. That kind of risk is what causes some companies deploying Ubuntu to go to an STS release and upgrade 6 months later, until they land on an LTS release. Companies running long-term mainstays--PostgreSQL servers, Web servers, and such--with no use for the newer versions are at lower risk by taking a 20 year supported platform, although RHEL exposes them to the already-discussed risks from shoddy release policy.
I strongly favor Ubuntu's model. If RedHat followed Debian-style release discipline, I would find their distribution more acceptable. It would be old, but it would supply long-term risk.
Debian policy filters down to Ubuntu. Even on Ubuntu's 18 month releases, on their 5 year LTS releases, on anything labeled as release, the policy stands: there shall be no changes which make any action which produced a working result prior now produce a non-working result, unless such a change is absolutely unavoidable when removing a security vulnerability.
Even some predictable bugs may not get updates, for example, a bug in Perl 5.14 which produces consistent incorrect results would likely not get a fix backported if much software predicated its behavior on Perl 5.14 behavior. By contrast, a bug in Proftpd which completely ignores IdleTimeout would get a fix: IdleTimeout does nothing, is not working, and thus Proftpd is broken and nothing predicates on this unique lack of proper function.
RedHat is more likely to upgrade a kernel header, causing defined values in perl and C programs to become undefined or different, leading to arbitrary breakage. This has happened a few times.
systemd is nice since it can keep your services running, alert you to problems, and tell you why they failed when there's no logs coming out.
BULL SHIT.
Redhat routinely changes shit horrendously within release. They removed the crmsh configuration and replaced it with a completely different configuration tool in RHEL6, breaking a bunch of shit. They do this continuously: upgrade software, change some shit around, deprecate old tools for new tools, and tell you it's improved.