Why did the Ayatollah pronounce death to Salman Rushdie and the Danish cartoon guys, but not to the literally thousands of other blasphemous publications out there? Rushdie didn't just insult Mohamed, he insulted the Ayatollah Khomeini personally. The character in "Satanic Verses" known as The Imam was clearly based on Khomeini, and it ain't a flattering portrait. I'm surprised how few people noticed this.
Do you think that non-blocking IO really offers enough performance gains to compensate for the resulting spaghetti code? This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm really curious.
Censorship is when the government infringes on your free speech.
Bullshit. Censorship is censorship. The government doesn't necessarily have to be involved.
If a private organization doesn't want to sell you a particular item, that has nothing to do with the first amendment.
The first amendment is irrelevant here, and nobody even mentioned it, so I don't know why you brought it up. And just because something is legal, doesn't mean I have to approve of it.
It seems particularly ludicrous to complain about this at a time when there are so many real and horrible civil liberties problems in the U.S., e.g., the attorney general declaring that there is no right to habeas corpus in the constitution.
So in other words, until we get an AG that actually respects the Constitution, we can't complain about all the other petty bullshit that goes on around us? That might take a while.
Not a troll, this guy is just fucking NUTS:
the makers of Ad Block Plus as well as the filter subscriptions that accompany it refuse to allow website owners control over their own intellectual property
If you are offended by the Mozilla Corporation's endorsement of dishonesty please contact the Mozilla Foundation and ask them to stop empowering internet theft
1. Yes, I know that "Linux isn't Unix". My point was that nobody gives a fuck.
2. I never said that you should replace a working Solaris system just because Linux is faster to install. That would be silly. Disdain for Solaris supporters? Hell, I'm a Solaris supporter myself. What I was talking about is the Solaris fanatics: people who absolutely refuse to acknowledge any shortcoming in Solaris, no matter how glaringly obvious. Every user community has people like that, but for some reason Solaris seems to attract the most rabid ones - I don't know why. Fortunately, Sun is lately showing signs that it's not listening to the fanatics, and is working hard to bring Solaris up to date in those areas where it's lagging.
3. Re BSD jails: my understanding is that Zones provide many additional features, like the ability to set limits on the RAM usage, CPU usage and bandwidth for each zone. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
There are obviously areas of Solaris that are few years behind Linux but 10-15 years behind? No a chance. Concrete example, which I already mentioned: package management. The BSD ports system was first introduced in 1994, Debian APT in 1999. By 2002 or so, all the major Linux distros were using either APT or something that worked just like it. Solaris still doesn't have an equivalent tool. (OK, so it's more like 12 years behind.)
The installation problems are completely immaterial compared to update stability. For example all device drivers keep working after kernel update because they are both tested and binary compatible. Driver stability is probably more important than ease of installation, but it's a completely unrelated issue. How can you say that installation is 'completely immaterial'? You have to install the OS at some point, don't you?
ZFS is a nice addition, and so is DTrace, NFS, etc. I did say that Solaris has features that aren't available elsewhere (I was thinking specifically of ZFS, DTrace and Zones. NFS is a standard feature on every modern OS, so I'm not sure why you mentioned it.)
Adding additional software is now about as easy as in Linux Now that's just straight-up nonsense. The Solaris packaging system is abysmal. It doesn't even do automatic dependency resolution! What year is this, 1990? There's Blastwave, fortunately, but it's an add-on system, so it can't be used to install or update the packages that come from Sun.
Gotta love the Solaris fanatics. Next I suppose you'll be telling me that Linux isn't "real Unix".
Solaris is a fine OS, and it's got some features that nobody else has. But in some areas it's about 10-15 years behind Linux and BSD. Don't take my word for it - take a look at what Sun itself is saying. Here's a few excerpts:
Solaris installation is ugly, slow, and difficult. ... We use outdated networking technology (RARP and Bootparams) by default, rather than contemporary network protocols, and thus are often unable to automatically determine configuration attributes that are easily discovered by our competition. ... We don't include the right set of initial configuration tasks, such as an initial user account, that are commonly provided by competitors. This results in an installed system which boots, and can be logged into as root, but it's then up to the user to hunt around and find a tool (or, more likely, edit the configuration files directly due to our paucity of tools and poor integration of those that exist into the desktop) to create a usable account. ... One of the significant deficiencies in Solaris compared to our Linux competitors is our ability to easily install additional software after the initial installation.
Well, the good news is that Sun is actually working hard to fix these problems.
There's an article at the Register about this. It says that Sun may be looking to port Solaris to Power, but doesn't go into any detail.
There's already a sub-project in OpenSolaris to port it to PPC, but from what I've seen, Sun isn't putting too much weight behind it. This deal might change that.
This is a good point, and more kids need to hear it. Taking career advice from a guidance counselor is almost as bad as taking sex advice from a priest.
If they wanted to put coded messages on Wikipedia, they probably wouldn't do it from an address that's known to belong to the CIA. The guys at the Diebold voting machine division are stupid enough to make that mistake, but I don't think professional spies would do it.
Nobody believed them anyway. There's a sucker born every minute. And right this very moment, some of those suckers are sitting in their offices, making decisions on purchasing software.
Give credit where it's due - don't try to pass off dead comedians' material as your own. Wouldn't dream of it. I certainly don't want Bill's ghost riding my ass. I would have given credit, but I honestly couldn't remember where I heard that one.
Why does anyone ever make these "US is huge!" types of arguments?
This is a political issue. They refuse to admit that there are countries out there that have done a better job of building their comm infrastructure, because then they'd have to admit that a centrally-planned solution can sometimes work better than a "free market" solution, and that would be blasphemy. And the "density" argument is really the only plausible line they have, so they work it to death.
The idea of knowledge for knowledge's sake is disappearing. No, it's not. This idea was never very popular to begin with.
Most people today go to college because it's expected of them, or because they see it as a way to move up in the world. It was like that when I started college 19 years ago, and I'm pretty sure it was like that 50 years ago or 200 years ago.
Java is slow, compared to many lower level languages, and even a small performance hit is a big deal when you're talking about this sort of application...This is one of those places where C really shines. So let's assume that Freenet would run 15% faster if it was re-written in C (which is probably an excessively optimistic number). So what? It'd still be a godawful slug. Java is not the problem here.
I've given up on Freenet long ago. If those guys still haven't managed to put out a usable product, then they never will. It was a worthwhile experiment, but it failed.
Does PHP have some strong points that make it particularly suitable for Web development vs. Python? PHP is an absolutely horrible language. (I won't reiterate all the ways in which it's a horrible language, because I'm pressed for time, and you've probably heard it all anyway.) But its one killer feature is convenience - and that's why it's become so popular. The basic features of PHP can be quickly learned by anybody with half a brain, and deploying PHP apps is usually just a matter of putting the files into Apache's web doc directory. I've never worked with Python, so I don't know what it's like... but ever tried deploying a Ruby-on-Rails app? It's a total clusterfuck. Java is better (especially since most modern IDEs will do all the gruntwork for you) but it still doesn't quite reach that level.
This situation is a damn shame. Most programmers who get into PHP don't realize the awful truth until it's much too late, and they have several thousand lines of code to feed and care for. Remember kids, it's not worth it!
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I hope Stephen Chow reads Slashdot.
He just did it better...
Interesting.
Do you think that non-blocking IO really offers enough performance gains to compensate for the resulting spaghetti code? This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm really curious.
Censorship is when the government infringes on your free speech.
Bullshit. Censorship is censorship. The government doesn't necessarily have to be involved.
If a private organization doesn't want to sell you a particular item, that has nothing to do with the first amendment.
The first amendment is irrelevant here, and nobody even mentioned it, so I don't know why you brought it up. And just because something is legal, doesn't mean I have to approve of it.
It seems particularly ludicrous to complain about this at a time when there are so many real and horrible civil liberties problems in the U.S., e.g., the attorney general declaring that there is no right to habeas corpus in the constitution.
So in other words, until we get an AG that actually respects the Constitution, we can't complain about all the other petty bullshit that goes on around us? That might take a while.
I'm using adblock here, and the page is showing up fine (it just loads slowly).
1. Yes, I know that "Linux isn't Unix". My point was that nobody gives a fuck.
2. I never said that you should replace a working Solaris system just because Linux is faster to install. That would be silly. Disdain for Solaris supporters? Hell, I'm a Solaris supporter myself. What I was talking about is the Solaris fanatics: people who absolutely refuse to acknowledge any shortcoming in Solaris, no matter how glaringly obvious. Every user community has people like that, but for some reason Solaris seems to attract the most rabid ones - I don't know why. Fortunately, Sun is lately showing signs that it's not listening to the fanatics, and is working hard to bring Solaris up to date in those areas where it's lagging.
3. Re BSD jails: my understanding is that Zones provide many additional features, like the ability to set limits on the RAM usage, CPU usage and bandwidth for each zone. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
Gotta love the Solaris fanatics. Next I suppose you'll be telling me that Linux isn't "real Unix".
Solaris is a fine OS, and it's got some features that nobody else has. But in some areas it's about 10-15 years behind Linux and BSD. Don't take my word for it - take a look at what Sun itself is saying. Here's a few excerpts:
Solaris installation is ugly, slow, and difficult.
...
We use outdated networking technology (RARP and Bootparams) by default, rather than contemporary network protocols, and thus are often unable to automatically determine configuration attributes that are easily discovered by our competition.
...
We don't include the right set of initial configuration tasks, such as an initial user account, that are commonly provided by competitors. This results in an installed system which boots, and can be logged into as root, but it's then up to the user to hunt around and find a tool (or, more likely, edit the configuration files directly due to our paucity of tools and poor integration of those that exist into the desktop) to create a usable account.
...
One of the significant deficiencies in Solaris compared to our Linux competitors is our ability to easily install additional software after the initial installation.
Well, the good news is that Sun is actually working hard to fix these problems.
There's an article at the Register about this. It says that Sun may be looking to port Solaris to Power, but doesn't go into any detail.
There's already a sub-project in OpenSolaris to port it to PPC, but from what I've seen, Sun isn't putting too much weight behind it. This deal might change that.
My advice: download the music from p2p, and if you like it, just send the musicians fifteen bucks worth of drugs. Cut out the middlemen, so to speak.
This is a good point, and more kids need to hear it. Taking career advice from a guidance counselor is almost as bad as taking sex advice from a priest.
If they wanted to put coded messages on Wikipedia, they probably wouldn't do it from an address that's known to belong to the CIA. The guys at the Diebold voting machine division are stupid enough to make that mistake, but I don't think professional spies would do it.
Give credit where it's due - don't try to pass off dead comedians' material as your own. Wouldn't dream of it. I certainly don't want Bill's ghost riding my ass. I would have given credit, but I honestly couldn't remember where I heard that one.
If JC came back, the last thing he'd want to look at is a fucking cross.
Why does anyone ever make these "US is huge!" types of arguments?
This is a political issue. They refuse to admit that there are countries out there that have done a better job of building their comm infrastructure, because then they'd have to admit that a centrally-planned solution can sometimes work better than a "free market" solution, and that would be blasphemy. And the "density" argument is really the only plausible line they have, so they work it to death.
And somehow a single government controlled monopoly will be better than numerous independent monopolies?
Why not? Isn't that pretty much what they have in Sweden?
Most people today go to college because it's expected of them, or because they see it as a way to move up in the world. It was like that when I started college 19 years ago, and I'm pretty sure it was like that 50 years ago or 200 years ago.
I've given up on Freenet long ago. If those guys still haven't managed to put out a usable product, then they never will. It was a worthwhile experiment, but it failed.
This situation is a damn shame. Most programmers who get into PHP don't realize the awful truth until it's much too late, and they have several thousand lines of code to feed and care for. Remember kids, it's not worth it!
What now after General Failure
And his personal driver, Corporal Punishment.