and i'm not sure of US law in this manner, but is it legal to deny someone a job opportunity based on an alleged crime for which they were completely pardoned?
Does it matter? I'm sure it's not illegal to decide that something you read in another applicant's CV is so totally awesome that it's not worth looking at that other guy any more.
Do other things that will get your name on search engines. Are you a programmer? Consider volunteering for an awesome open-source project (something people have heard of), so that "John UnfortunatelyUniqueMiddleName Doe added some cool features to AwesomeProject" appears first. They may still read the other stuff, but it will look a lot less like you've spent your whole life doing stupid things to computers, and mean that the advantages of hiring you are presented next to the information that may cause doubt.
OTHO [sic] the Linux kernel was written by coders from ALL walks of life with different views on how to write code. There is only a very loose coding standard for the kernel, if Linus can read it and understand it, it gets used as is.
[Citation needed], and/usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle would disagree with you. I'll reproduce the first paragraph here, in case you don't have the kernel source handy:
This is a short document describing the preferred coding style for the
linux kernel. Coding style is very personal, and I won't _force_ my
views on anybody, but this is what goes for anything that I have to be
able to maintain, and I'd prefer it for most other things too. Please
at least consider the points made here.
While it says nobody will be *forced* to obey it, "this is what goes for anything that I have to be able to maintain", implies that ignoring it would make it difficult to get code accepted into the kernel. Indeed, IIRC, one of the major reasons kernel developers didn't get on with Hans Reiser and wouldn't include Reiserfs4 in the kernel tree was Reiser's refusal to use kernel coding standards (he insisted his own style was superior, apparently missing the point that, in the absence of general consensus on style, the important thing was consistency).
It was not inevitable. It would've been possible for them to simply stop distributing it, or stop distributing that version, strip out some features of their own they were scared someone would copy, and start distributing (with source) that version.
The third picture on the second link clearly shows a vapour trail lit by the fading sunset. However I think physicists are going to have a hard time explaining a rotating spiral and a blue beam of light with ice crystals.
Dawn, not sunset. And the spirals (the blue thing is also a bit spiraly) could be two different leaks (or a leak and the exhaust) from a rocket which is spinning due to some failure of its guidance systems.
Sorry for the doublepost, but I should note that nvidia deserves credit for keeping their closed driver up-to-date, and fixing issues quickly when KDE4 turned up bottlenecks in some rarely-used features. However, the future does not lie in closed-source drivers.
That is true. But nevertheless, that will be only a fraction of traffic (albeit a significant one), and doesn't take account of the (probable majority of) people who think "my google isn't working" and turn the computer off because, as noted by many others, most of them can not possibly understand that only DNS is down.
How would dbus events help to identify required kernel modules? The reliable way would be to make the kernel able to notify some userspace thing when a module is loaded; the easy way would be to have a daemon run lsmod every few minutes.
And why the Ubuntu reference? Ubuntu people usually aren't people that build their own kernels anyway.
Of course, even if you can monitor usage perfectly, that doesn't cover keeping a module around that you might use very rarely (having it not use up RAM being a major advantage of the module system). For example, you might keep support for HFS+ (MacOS X's filesystem) in a module in case you ever want to grab files from a friend's Mac-formatted iPod, but not use that modules for months at a time.
You're missing the bit where Flash is closed-source and the people that want it to work properly can't make it happen, whereas the people who can make it work don't want it to happen.
That's sounds potentially very useful, but beware that if it works the way you're describing it, it could remove, for example, support for USB MSC if your USB stick wasn't plugged in when you did it.
Close but not the same. These are (mostly) ships traveling in international waters, some hundreds or a thousand miles away from the country in question.
Usually, such ships travel through international waters with the intention of reaching a port, where they will unload their cargo in exchange for money. Any reasonable way of extracting the armed guards before reaching the destination country (or its waters) would likely be prohibitively expensive.
Just shoot the fuckers already. Pretty soon there won't be any more of them.
From now on, whenever you think "lethal weapons on civilian ships would stop piracy", I want you to consider that this is the same as "lots of armed Chinese marines in Los Angeles Harbor would stop piracy". Then put yourself in the shoes of a President trying to push some kind of international convention permitting that.
Everybody needs to be able to type well now, the same way everybody needs to be able to write legibly. As with writing, you might as well start as soon as you're physically able to operate the pen/keyboard.
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So what'd ya do?
Does it matter? I'm sure it's not illegal to decide that something you read in another applicant's CV is so totally awesome that it's not worth looking at that other guy any more.
Do other things that will get your name on search engines. Are you a programmer? Consider volunteering for an awesome open-source project (something people have heard of), so that "John UnfortunatelyUniqueMiddleName Doe added some cool features to AwesomeProject" appears first. They may still read the other stuff, but it will look a lot less like you've spent your whole life doing stupid things to computers, and mean that the advantages of hiring you are presented next to the information that may cause doubt.
[Citation needed], and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle would disagree with you. I'll reproduce the first paragraph here, in case you don't have the kernel source handy:
While it says nobody will be *forced* to obey it, "this is what goes for anything that I have to be able to maintain", implies that ignoring it would make it difficult to get code accepted into the kernel. Indeed, IIRC, one of the major reasons kernel developers didn't get on with Hans Reiser and wouldn't include Reiserfs4 in the kernel tree was Reiser's refusal to use kernel coding standards (he insisted his own style was superior, apparently missing the point that, in the absence of general consensus on style, the important thing was consistency).
It was not inevitable. It would've been possible for them to simply stop distributing it, or stop distributing that version, strip out some features of their own they were scared someone would copy, and start distributing (with source) that version.
Dawn, not sunset. And the spirals (the blue thing is also a bit spiraly) could be two different leaks (or a leak and the exhaust) from a rocket which is spinning due to some failure of its guidance systems.
(If I didn't have backups) I would rather you ran rm -r /etc/ than rm -r ~/ on my box.
Geeks don't use Ubuntu.
Sorry for the doublepost, but I should note that nvidia deserves credit for keeping their closed driver up-to-date, and fixing issues quickly when KDE4 turned up bottlenecks in some rarely-used features. However, the future does not lie in closed-source drivers.
AMD is now being helpful with open-source drivers, and they're progressing at a great rate. Would you switch back when open-source ATI drivers mature?
Thinking? We're talking about the TSA here!
That is true. But nevertheless, that will be only a fraction of traffic (albeit a significant one), and doesn't take account of the (probable majority of) people who think "my google isn't working" and turn the computer off because, as noted by many others, most of them can not possibly understand that only DNS is down.
Most people won't be able to find .torrent files without DNS.
How would dbus events help to identify required kernel modules? The reliable way would be to make the kernel able to notify some userspace thing when a module is loaded; the easy way would be to have a daemon run lsmod every few minutes.
And why the Ubuntu reference? Ubuntu people usually aren't people that build their own kernels anyway.
Of course, even if you can monitor usage perfectly, that doesn't cover keeping a module around that you might use very rarely (having it not use up RAM being a major advantage of the module system). For example, you might keep support for HFS+ (MacOS X's filesystem) in a module in case you ever want to grab files from a friend's Mac-formatted iPod, but not use that modules for months at a time.
To be honest, compositing is the bit of responsiveness and stability that I've tested most.
According to Gizmodo, this is actually a cost-effective way to reload an HP printer, even if you don't use your own blood.
You're missing the bit where Flash is closed-source and the people that want it to work properly can't make it happen, whereas the people who can make it work don't want it to happen.
That's sounds potentially very useful, but beware that if it works the way you're describing it, it could remove, for example, support for USB MSC if your USB stick wasn't plugged in when you did it.
I've been using the RCs of this kernel, and the Radeon r600 support is already much faster and more stable than fglrx.
Usually, such ships travel through international waters with the intention of reaching a port, where they will unload their cargo in exchange for money. Any reasonable way of extracting the armed guards before reaching the destination country (or its waters) would likely be prohibitively expensive.
From now on, whenever you think "lethal weapons on civilian ships would stop piracy", I want you to consider that this is the same as "lots of armed Chinese marines in Los Angeles Harbor would stop piracy". Then put yourself in the shoes of a President trying to push some kind of international convention permitting that.
Thank you.
Everybody complaining that they cost more than HDDs is missing an important point: they're better than HDDs.
Remember, backup tape still has a large bytes/cent advantage over HDDs. I take it your laptop keep everything on tape?
This is a local exploit. What about other daemons?
Everybody needs to be able to type well now, the same way everybody needs to be able to write legibly. As with writing, you might as well start as soon as you're physically able to operate the pen/keyboard.