OSS isn't supposed to cater to everybodys whims. It exists so that you can satisfy your own whims. Stop moaning and do it yourself. The whole market share thing is the bleating of sheeple who are conditioned to a top down consumer culture. The market share of open source will only go up as the number of people who have both enough intelligence and are prepared to get off their asses and do something, goes up. So the "pitiful" market share of OSS is a fairly accurate indicator of the number of mindless drones in the computing world. As far as I'm concerned, OSS has already won, simply by existing. Otherwise I would be stuck using proprietary software, instead of enjoying the freedom I have enjoyed for over a decade. I thank the OSS community, I don't bitch about things I have no interest in fixing myself - that would be rude and ungrateful. After all, it's not like I paid for anything.
It's almost like if I set up a free water stand in a park, and then get people complaining and calling my efforts useless because I don't offer gin and tonic.
No, I do not have a duty to my users. I write for myself, and if others find what I have written useful, they are welcome to keep using it, or modify it to better suit themselves. They do not have the right to bitch to me about feature X or missing gui element Z. I am not here to satisfy other peoples desires for free. The fact that so many people do bitch, yourself included, is indicative of the ridiculous entitlement culture we sadly live in today. The ironic part is that you are doing your bitching using a medium that is pretty much entirely open source - the internet. TCP/IP, DNS, Apache, Mozilla, SSL, the list goes on. So if you've got nothing good to say about OSS, keep your trap shut, or you will just reveal your own ignorance of what open source is. Oh wait you already did that. Linux is great for gaming, but the games creators wrote the games for windows only. How is that the fault of linux ? Your type always troll that OSS only ever plays catch up to windows, and yet here you complaining that linux isn't catching up in an area which it has absolutely no control over. Do you bitch that you can't read a CD in a 3.5" floppy drive too ?
Last time I checked, windows can't even see a linux filesystem. And yet linux can read and write to a windows filesystem just fine. Who is looking after their users interests better ?
Very big of you, but why do you think cars are a good place to be ? Your last sentence can be read from the other aspect too. Let's keep the poor people in their cars while the rich get better transport arrangements.
I have a hate thing with cars at the moment. It seems they are more addictive than heroin, and kill more people. Yet if you try talking to a car owner you rarely get any sense if it means restricting their rights to drive. I've heard arguments from people suggesting that the best thing for the city is to allow more cars in, and let them basically race around without regard for pedestrians. Parking should be a god given right, free of course, and if there isn't space, rip down a few buildings and build car parks. Shortly after a story about out of town supermarkets being forced to charge for parking in order to help the city centre traders (where everybody defended clogging the streets to get to these places), a new supermarket opened and people from the other side of town drove across to get their shopping. But then they claim the city centre is dead and suggest letting more cars in. I rarely see more than 1 person per car, they sit in queues for great lengths of time and pay through the nose for the privilege. Cars are an insidious menace. A guy was trying to jump off a bridge a few weeks ago. It's the bridge over the Severn to Wales. The N-S traffic tailback was 20 miles long while the police tried unsuccessfully to get him down. It blocked the entire N-S, and E-W motorway for 5 hours, and it isn't actually that near the N-S road. How can we keep doing this shit ? There must have been at least 30,000 people stuck in that jam - how efficient is that ? This country is having constant coronaries. Now one car manufacturing union is demanding half a billion quid to bail out the firm and keep it working. Let it go. The people are going to have to find a new job pretty soon anyway, may as well make a start. You can pay welfare for 40,000 people for less than 500 million. The South Island of New Zealand has about the right car density, any more and the point kind of goes away.
The problem with hardware raid is the hardware. If one card goes bad, you often must replace it with an identical card, same vendor, same model, same version etc. Or your raid stops working. How many spares do you buy to start with to be sure of having a replacement. That's why I prefer software based RAID.
If it's a dedicated COTS box then the vendor should be providing service. But for self build it's better to remain adaptable.
Even worse, you need to pay for the peak load on the servers, not the average...
Not true. Most places will charge for transfer on the 95th percentile, and you get a bundled transfer allowance anyway. If you know you're likely to regularly go over your allowance you get an unmetered connection which is only getting cheaper as far as I can see. You can get a dual core xeon server with 2.5 TB of transfer allowance for £99/month. Assuming a 6 GB filesize, your costs are 23 pence per download. Can you press, print, ship, store, package and document a DVD for that ? Even if you could, the start up costs are way more expensive than £99 and one copy of the software. I just googled for DVD pressing and printing prices and for 999 DVDs the price is around 85 pence each. That's just the product, now add distribution costs, packaging costs, storage costs, etc etc. Even a run of 20,000 DVDs only brings the price down to around 35 pence before adding those other costs.
Polished diamonds, such as you find in jewellery do have C and H. The carbon makes up the body of the diamond, and the unlinked edges of the carbon molecules are capped with hydrogen atoms. So when you touch a diamond, you are actually touching hydrogen. To get rid of the hydrogen, you must heat the diamond to over 1000 C.
Firstly, recycling plastics is not the same as releasing the hydrocarbons. Similar to glass, in that you don't want lots of green mixed in with clear, you don't want different types of plastic mixed up because you don't get a single type out, just a mixture with none of the specific properties of any of the originals. If all you want is the base hydrocarbons to burn, it doesn't matter.
Secondly, while there is methane, metal and plastic contained in landfill, they are usually all mixed together in one big heap. So you can't just dive in and get at all of them. You would have to extract the gas before any digging takes place, and as the methane production is ongoing, you would basically either release most of the potential gas to the atmosphere, or have to wait a very long time for production to cease. Not to mention the dangers of mechanically mining metals from a methane laden environment - spark = boom. Many landfills have deep fires in them that have been burning for decades.
I think that any future landfills should have heat exchangers run through them as they are filled, as decomposition is a highly exothermic process, and does not need the dismantling of the landfill to get at the energy. I have worked on capping a finished landfill, and there are a lot of nasty things buried in there, medical waste for one example. The methane production is hardly cost efficient for the cost of the infrastructure, most of it gets burnt through on site flares. Of course with future landfills, we wouldn't be putting metal and plastics in there in the first place.
You can sue anybody for anything. It's not as if the CPS are bringing charges. Why should defamation be free of the fear of retribution ? And why does the summary mention presumption of innocence, it has nothing to do with libel, defamation or slander. Total flamebait, again. If Singh had a case he should have sued them, instead he spreads defamatory comments and acts surprised when they react.
Well you are an asshat then. Did you forget that copyright applies to open source too ? The authors of a work hold the legal copyright. Or should we allow anybody to reproduce a legal document, edit it willy nilly, then pass it off as the original ? Christ, it's only $25. If you want it free, are you prepared for your taxes to go up ? Somebody has to pay for it. Even your own data when requested under freedom of information attracts a processing fee.
The BBC does not expect anything from you. Freeview is just the trading name for DTV Services, which is owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and transmitter operator Arqiva. Most of the channels are produced by independent companies. Also, most of it isn't SD, unless SD means 15 Mbps @ 1024*768. I rate SD as 800*600 or lower. Old shows are low quality, but that's because they're old. You're just a troll. What we actually have is higher quality video, and more choice. What did we have before, 5 channels ? Now I have 18 programmed in and about another 70 I ignore. All for the same price licence. I did have reservations before the switchover because I had a lot of interference from traffic, but now the analogue has gone, my power levels have gone right up as has the signal quality. The BER is hardly registering a tick. I have 2 cards that together can record 2 multiplexes simultaneously. That can be up to 8 separate channels all at once. I can then view the recording and change channel within it. Did analogue have that capability ? I can also separate out individual programs from those recorded multiplexes and save them as standalone files.
As for DAB you are probably quite wrong there too. It's main problem is the up front costs, and as things are tight, nobody wants to run a station and nobody wants to retrofit their cars with new radios for only a few stations. The technology is way better than FM. The BBC didn't invent it, they just thought it would be good, so they helped push it out.
Which doesn't help with recording. The EPG is in synch so you actually get the program you wanted. Besides which, DVB-T isn't broadcast in HD yet anyway. It uses a different standard (DVB-T2 mpeg4) and obsoletes most current equipment. DVB-S has some HD, but that is also a different standard to the original. Good luck stopping my linux box from copying a file.
It's only really americans who give directions in points of the compass like east and west. You would have to tell me which way was west if I was in a city. On the open road is different, especially if you have ever looked at a map or atlas, but in enclosed areas compass points are generally useless. I can miss a turn and take an unknown later one that heads in the same direction, and still know roughly how far off course I am, and how to get back on track. None of that is to do with maps or compass directions. Its called having a sense of direction. Most women would turn around and go back to the first turning because their mental "map" is inflexible. And of course, navigating by landmarks is useless unless you already know the landmarks, and if you miss one you're lost.
I am a truck driver, so I do this navigating thing a lot. Strangely, 95% of truck drivers are men, probably because we actually have to get there on time.
Just for a laugh, can you imagine America being discovered by women ? Yes, head out on that blue stuff, keep an eye out for a really big wave then turn right until you see a whale. After that just go straight on until you get really hungry.
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OSS isn't supposed to cater to everybodys whims. It exists so that you can satisfy your own whims. Stop moaning and do it yourself. The whole market share thing is the bleating of sheeple who are conditioned to a top down consumer culture. The market share of open source will only go up as the number of people who have both enough intelligence and are prepared to get off their asses and do something, goes up. So the "pitiful" market share of OSS is a fairly accurate indicator of the number of mindless drones in the computing world. As far as I'm concerned, OSS has already won, simply by existing. Otherwise I would be stuck using proprietary software, instead of enjoying the freedom I have enjoyed for over a decade. I thank the OSS community, I don't bitch about things I have no interest in fixing myself - that would be rude and ungrateful. After all, it's not like I paid for anything.
It's almost like if I set up a free water stand in a park, and then get people complaining and calling my efforts useless because I don't offer gin and tonic.
No, I do not have a duty to my users. I write for myself, and if others find what I have written useful, they are welcome to keep using it, or modify it to better suit themselves. They do not have the right to bitch to me about feature X or missing gui element Z. I am not here to satisfy other peoples desires for free. The fact that so many people do bitch, yourself included, is indicative of the ridiculous entitlement culture we sadly live in today. The ironic part is that you are doing your bitching using a medium that is pretty much entirely open source - the internet. TCP/IP, DNS, Apache, Mozilla, SSL, the list goes on. So if you've got nothing good to say about OSS, keep your trap shut, or you will just reveal your own ignorance of what open source is. Oh wait you already did that. Linux is great for gaming, but the games creators wrote the games for windows only. How is that the fault of linux ? Your type always troll that OSS only ever plays catch up to windows, and yet here you complaining that linux isn't catching up in an area which it has absolutely no control over. Do you bitch that you can't read a CD in a 3.5" floppy drive too ?
Last time I checked, windows can't even see a linux filesystem. And yet linux can read and write to a windows filesystem just fine. Who is looking after their users interests better ?
So where are the trolls who slagged Obama off after he didn't vote against the immunity bill ?
Nothing to say ?
So you didn't even read TFS. Good job.
Do the words "alternating magnetic field" mean anything to you ? or "to keep the atom in constant motion" ?
I have a hate thing with cars at the moment. It seems they are more addictive than heroin, and kill more people. Yet if you try talking to a car owner you rarely get any sense if it means restricting their rights to drive. I've heard arguments from people suggesting that the best thing for the city is to allow more cars in, and let them basically race around without regard for pedestrians. Parking should be a god given right, free of course, and if there isn't space, rip down a few buildings and build car parks. Shortly after a story about out of town supermarkets being forced to charge for parking in order to help the city centre traders (where everybody defended clogging the streets to get to these places), a new supermarket opened and people from the other side of town drove across to get their shopping. But then they claim the city centre is dead and suggest letting more cars in. I rarely see more than 1 person per car, they sit in queues for great lengths of time and pay through the nose for the privilege. Cars are an insidious menace.
A guy was trying to jump off a bridge a few weeks ago. It's the bridge over the Severn to Wales. The N-S traffic tailback was 20 miles long while the police tried unsuccessfully to get him down. It blocked the entire N-S, and E-W motorway for 5 hours, and it isn't actually that near the N-S road. How can we keep doing this shit ? There must have been at least 30,000 people stuck in that jam - how efficient is that ? This country is having constant coronaries.
Now one car manufacturing union is demanding half a billion quid to bail out the firm and keep it working. Let it go. The people are going to have to find a new job pretty soon anyway, may as well make a start. You can pay welfare for 40,000 people for less than 500 million. The South Island of New Zealand has about the right car density, any more and the point kind of goes away.
Come on mods, that was worth more than +3 funny.
I suddenly had a vision of a load of lab coated techs getting their knees up.
Considering TFS quotes it as gigabits, I'd say this was moot.
How is he a "would be burglar" ? If he took goods from the house he is a burglar, no "would be" about it.
Yeah I run a web server off my browsing machine. But I lock the screen when I go out.
gulf ball ? is that where the Arab Cinderella lost her slipper ?
The cheapest pane of glass I can find is someone elses.
Is your .sig ironic ?
Because it implies the opposite to your post.
Anything good on the winelist ?
Go on Henry, step on it !
(oblig. Larson quote)
The problem with hardware raid is the hardware. If one card goes bad, you often must replace it with an identical card, same vendor, same model, same version etc. Or your raid stops working. How many spares do you buy to start with to be sure of having a replacement. That's why I prefer software based RAID.
If it's a dedicated COTS box then the vendor should be providing service. But for self build it's better to remain adaptable.
I have ebuyer in my hosts file to redirect me to a warning on my system.
They're tracking writing implements now ?
Not true. Most places will charge for transfer on the 95th percentile, and you get a bundled transfer allowance anyway. If you know you're likely to regularly go over your allowance you get an unmetered connection which is only getting cheaper as far as I can see. You can get a dual core xeon server with 2.5 TB of transfer allowance for £99/month. Assuming a 6 GB filesize, your costs are 23 pence per download. Can you press, print, ship, store, package and document a DVD for that ? Even if you could, the start up costs are way more expensive than £99 and one copy of the software. I just googled for DVD pressing and printing prices and for 999 DVDs the price is around 85 pence each. That's just the product, now add distribution costs, packaging costs, storage costs, etc etc. Even a run of 20,000 DVDs only brings the price down to around 35 pence before adding those other costs.
Polished diamonds, such as you find in jewellery do have C and H. The carbon makes up the body of the diamond, and the unlinked edges of the carbon molecules are capped with hydrogen atoms. So when you touch a diamond, you are actually touching hydrogen. To get rid of the hydrogen, you must heat the diamond to over 1000 C.
Firstly, recycling plastics is not the same as releasing the hydrocarbons. Similar to glass, in that you don't want lots of green mixed in with clear, you don't want different types of plastic mixed up because you don't get a single type out, just a mixture with none of the specific properties of any of the originals. If all you want is the base hydrocarbons to burn, it doesn't matter.
Secondly, while there is methane, metal and plastic contained in landfill, they are usually all mixed together in one big heap. So you can't just dive in and get at all of them. You would have to extract the gas before any digging takes place, and as the methane production is ongoing, you would basically either release most of the potential gas to the atmosphere, or have to wait a very long time for production to cease. Not to mention the dangers of mechanically mining metals from a methane laden environment - spark = boom. Many landfills have deep fires in them that have been burning for decades.
I think that any future landfills should have heat exchangers run through them as they are filled, as decomposition is a highly exothermic process, and does not need the dismantling of the landfill to get at the energy. I have worked on capping a finished landfill, and there are a lot of nasty things buried in there, medical waste for one example. The methane production is hardly cost efficient for the cost of the infrastructure, most of it gets burnt through on site flares. Of course with future landfills, we wouldn't be putting metal and plastics in there in the first place.
Which part of "in a vacuum" didn't you understand ? Do you even read TFS, or just dive in to the comments ?
You can sue anybody for anything. It's not as if the CPS are bringing charges. Why should defamation be free of the fear of retribution ? And why does the summary mention presumption of innocence, it has nothing to do with libel, defamation or slander. Total flamebait, again. If Singh had a case he should have sued them, instead he spreads defamatory comments and acts surprised when they react.
Well you are an asshat then. Did you forget that copyright applies to open source too ? The authors of a work hold the legal copyright. Or should we allow anybody to reproduce a legal document, edit it willy nilly, then pass it off as the original ? Christ, it's only $25. If you want it free, are you prepared for your taxes to go up ? Somebody has to pay for it. Even your own data when requested under freedom of information attracts a processing fee.
They did, in the UK at least. I now get a text when my bill is available online.
As for DAB you are probably quite wrong there too. It's main problem is the up front costs, and as things are tight, nobody wants to run a station and nobody wants to retrofit their cars with new radios for only a few stations. The technology is way better than FM. The BBC didn't invent it, they just thought it would be good, so they helped push it out.
Which doesn't help with recording. The EPG is in synch so you actually get the program you wanted. Besides which, DVB-T isn't broadcast in HD yet anyway. It uses a different standard (DVB-T2 mpeg4) and obsoletes most current equipment. DVB-S has some HD, but that is also a different standard to the original. Good luck stopping my linux box from copying a file.
I am a truck driver, so I do this navigating thing a lot. Strangely, 95% of truck drivers are men, probably because we actually have to get there on time.
Just for a laugh, can you imagine America being discovered by women ? Yes, head out on that blue stuff, keep an eye out for a really big wave then turn right until you see a whale. After that just go straight on until you get really hungry.