* The distribution continues to get smaller; it is now down to about 250MB uncompressed (from 400MB last week). (With JFFS2 compression, we can expect this to go down another 50%!) There is still low-hanging fruit left to pull out of the image, including bitmap fonts we don't use (7MB), the X font server (1MB) and Perl (30MB). Removing the fat out of other system resources will require more effort. We'll continue to report on the ever-shrinking distribution in the coming weeks.
note that 250mb compressed to 125mb is still a quarter of the 512mb Flash storage (is it wrong to assume that the OS is on that same store?). on a side note, i can't believe that we're passing up on this chance to introduce the children of the world to Perl. it's like a lost opportunity to bring people together in a shared global "are you sure this line of code does that?"
can we at least all agree that the total tax liability of a telecommuter should not be double that of someone that works in an office? the total tax bill should be about the same as someone that isn't telecommuting. when you see it from that perspective and start to think about what proportion of that total would go to where they live and what proportion should go to where they work, the vanishingly small amount of services provided by the city that they're telecommuting into make the act of even paying that portion of their taxes in a separate filing a huge waste. if 99.9% of the services i receive are from my home city and.1% are from my work city, the overhead of actually paying/collecting/tracking/enforcing that.1% probably approaches the actual amount they're collecting.
i agree that they should use common sense and possibly not publish it, but here are two issues:
1. my common sense is not your common sense, sometimes something that seems obvious to me isn't to you (and vice versa). it's difficult to gauge common sense about an issue that's classified without revealing the information. when you're talking about pieces of classified material, it's even harder to judge because sometimes they can only see a part of the whole picture (and often the person that gave them the material wants them to only see part of the picture for their own reasons)
2. showing it to "an expert in the field of national security" is an act of revealing classified materials too, but quite often journalists do ask for confirmation on stories. at a certain point it becomes he-said-she-said though, and they have to choose to go with their source or the people who probably don't want it printed for reasons other than national security.
This includes things like "we are investigating a known terrorist, and since you just published his face in the paper he went so far underground he won't even be able to find his asshole to wipe it after he takes a dump"...
well, there doesn't even seem to be universal agreement about protecting the classification of thatkindofdata, so how are we supposed to agree on more mundane things? when this administration is buryinginformation left and right, it's tough to judge the seriousness when someone comes upon yet another piece of classified information.
CompUSA did this to me as well when i purchased a 12" PowerMac and an extra RAM stick as. they insisted that they had to install it if i wanted to maintain the warranty. when i asked them how long it would take the salesperson went and asked the tech people, and they told him that they were closing shop in 20 minutes so i should just do it myself rather than waiting overnight. overzealous salespeople at CompUSA will tell you just about anything to get you to spend more money there, i think it's the reason that store will never, ever win the sales race.
And that's not even bringing up the problems me and my friends experienced with first generation PS2s and their ability (or lack thereof) to play DVDs. I haven't played a DVD in a PS2 for years
that's interesting, as i'm on the other end of the scale. i don't own a stand-alone DVD player at all, as i have a PS2 doing that duty in my family room and an XBOX doing that duty in the bedroom (as well as several PCs with DVD drives). maybe i'm missing out on some fantastic functionality that a stand-alone DVD player provides, but it seems to me like i saved a couple hundred dollars this way.
Dynamic disks, shadow copy, etc. are all Veritas (now Symantec) products that MS licensed.
from TFA :
"These claims are unfounded because Microsoft actually purchased intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004," the company said.
see now, when i go and BUY a copy of windows for my PC, MS tells me that i have no rights to use that on a new PC when i replace that one because i've only licensed their software. now it sounds like they're trying to tell Symantec that they bought the rights to their technology and Symantec is telling them that they can't use it in a new version of windows because they've only licensed it. i wish we could all stick to the same definition of a sale, it'd make things a lot clearer
assuming that he gets 30mpg in that Volkswagen (tough to do at 110mph) and gas prices along the way are at the average California price of $3.33, he can make that entire trip for $26,100,382,032,505.10. that doesn't even include the price of Big Gulps and snacks for that 244M VWYear trip
Why doesn't diebold just use the same security system it uses on its ATMs?
i wouldn't really assume that they aren't, which says something about the ATMs. but i'm guessing that banks that buy the ATMs are probably doing more testing on their own of the final product, which would force the vendor to be more careful designing it. banks care more about losing their money than the goverment has been caring about altered votes.
you're absolutely right! i was going to leave a tersely-worded posting on the discussion boards on congress.gov, but i discovered that there aren't any. either they anticipated that this bill would cause their site to be blacked out at schools, or they don't want our feedback
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somehow it won't seem the same moaning about the corruption among the executives of Big Owl
i would expect that once companies start putting the pay-to-use-my-pipe plans in action, that the amount that they charge a company like Vonage to run over their line is deliberately more than what you'd pay for a phone call on that same line. nearly everyone that offers you internet service also wants you to buy their phone service, so there really isn't a way to switch providers to someone that won't share the same agenda
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can we at least all agree that the total tax liability of a telecommuter should not be double that of someone that works in an office? the total tax bill should be about the same as someone that isn't telecommuting. when you see it from that perspective and start to think about what proportion of that total would go to where they live and what proportion should go to where they work, the vanishingly small amount of services provided by the city that they're telecommuting into make the act of even paying that portion of their taxes in a separate filing a huge waste. if 99.9% of the services i receive are from my home city and .1% are from my work city, the overhead of actually paying/collecting/tracking/enforcing that .1% probably approaches the actual amount they're collecting.
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i agree that they should use common sense and possibly not publish it, but here are two issues :
1. my common sense is not your common sense, sometimes something that seems obvious to me isn't to you (and vice versa). it's difficult to gauge common sense about an issue that's classified without revealing the information. when you're talking about pieces of classified material, it's even harder to judge because sometimes they can only see a part of the whole picture (and often the person that gave them the material wants them to only see part of the picture for their own reasons)
2. showing it to "an expert in the field of national security" is an act of revealing classified materials too, but quite often journalists do ask for confirmation on stories. at a certain point it becomes he-said-she-said though, and they have to choose to go with their source or the people who probably don't want it printed for reasons other than national security.
yes, that one
CompUSA did this to me as well when i purchased a 12" PowerMac and an extra RAM stick as. they insisted that they had to install it if i wanted to maintain the warranty. when i asked them how long it would take the salesperson went and asked the tech people, and they told him that they were closing shop in 20 minutes so i should just do it myself rather than waiting overnight. overzealous salespeople at CompUSA will tell you just about anything to get you to spend more money there, i think it's the reason that store will never, ever win the sales race.
Netcraft is using this software to see how BSD would sound
I'm more familiar with: "This will hurt me more than it hurts you..."
clearly the answer is to shutdown and reopen with a new terms of service that states that you understand that you're signing up for a war.
i'm trying to picture what Hawaiian jeans looks like and it's not pleasant
nice, but what does it say about local women when the men are scouring the web for international alternatives? :)
you're absolutely right! i was going to leave a tersely-worded posting on the discussion boards on congress.gov, but i discovered that there aren't any. either they anticipated that this bill would cause their site to be blacked out at schools, or they don't want our feedback
somehow it won't seem the same moaning about the corruption among the executives of Big Owl
your objections don't hold water, stop trying to rain on their parade
i would expect that once companies start putting the pay-to-use-my-pipe plans in action, that the amount that they charge a company like Vonage to run over their line is deliberately more than what you'd pay for a phone call on that same line. nearly everyone that offers you internet service also wants you to buy their phone service, so there really isn't a way to switch providers to someone that won't share the same agenda
i bet there's actually a parallel conversation inside Microsoft about whether they should switch to a nanokernel
guessing when Vista will actually be released is sort of a game, but i guess that's more in the gambling sense of the word