"Despite having three leeches attached for the past two weeks, the patient has shown no signs of improvement and is, in fact, becoming weaker. Increasing to four..."
Umm, I sure remember OS/2 coming on some ridiculous number of floppies (19?), most of which failed with read errors at unfortunate times. AmigaDOS was one floppy, Workbench another, and there was a third for some utilities, if I recall correctly.
1. Road trip to Tijuana to collect fingerprints from greasy beer glasses. 2. Make them available for purchase in a variety of attractive flesh-tone digits. 3. Profit!
I'm telling you that more like one in several MILLION people has a bomb. If you run the numbers of travellers vs bombs detonated/discovered, that's what you get. (I don't really care about the people who, for whatever reason, owned a bomb and transported it peaceably and undetected.) Yes, it's unreasonable to search everybody.
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Sting rays can be big critters, and when they whip that tail the barb goes where it goes. Friend of the family took one through the knee decades ago - that's through the knee JOINT, from posterior lower to anterior upper leg. Three months in the hospital (infection) and never walked thereafter without a limp. People who work in/around the shallows are much more afraid of sting rays than shark attack - when you've got an eight-inch spike through you, it doesn't help much to say it was "inadvertent" rather than "intentional".
The DNA swab is likely required in all cases to make sure they know who they have (or who's kid they have) in custody. Likely because of a lawsuit from someone who was held improperly, or in case of mistaken identity.
And exactly how does the swab accomplish this, on someone with no previously authenticated DNA on file? All DNA tells you is that bits of John Doe were in two (or more) places. It doesn't tell you who they are, or where they were, or how the DNA got there.
What's your point? If the police were arresting someone, they are clearly identified on the report, which is already a public record available to anyone - as it should be. If the (original) arrestee or his buddies want to find them later, THATs the information they'll use. What difference does a blurry cell phone picture make?
"iTunes is fucking garbage and as soon as I find another player that does all the things that it does that I actually use, I'm going to can it. I actually use it on Windows because I really love the interface."
I think that "peer code review" advantage of OSS is overrated - or at least offset by hunks of code being copied/reused all over the place. Remember the serious SNMP vulnerability from a couple of years ago that affected damn near *everybody*? How many times had *that* code been reviewed over the last twenty years?
Forget being in a car. You don't have the same degree of concentration and focus when talking to someone sitting in your office, that you do when having the *same* conversation, with the *same* person, on a telephone. At least I don't, nor do many people I observe doing this. Don't know why - body language, visual cues, whatever... it's not the same for the large majority of people.
"Imposing burdens on the owners of a social network website because their users might be predators, liers, or unmonitored children is as retarted as requireing the shop-rite to keep records of everyone who shows an ID to buy alcohol or tobacco."
Already being done. Here in San Diego, the local 7-11 stores require that you *swipe* a CA license to purchase alcohol. I don't know about cigarettes, I don't smoke or drink, so I noticed in passing. Visual inspection is not adequate, the response from one store manager is that they are keeping the records to provide to the police if a question arises about sales to minors.
Really?! All of your hardware?? Firewire, any external video output, all the power modes including suspend and sleep, HD spindown? Low power management, CPU throttling, battery monitor? IR, trackpad (including tap) - all the screen resolutions? And sound? Internal wireless and ethernet? Docking station?
What model Asus and what version Ubuntu? I've been looking for a *fully* supported laptop for years. What I keep hearing is "it supports almost everything I use, kinda, except these three things don't work and you have to use an external wireless card".
That is simply not true, at least for OS X, which is the only Apple OS I've ever used (and the only one they've marketed for several years). The intermittent but fairly regular updates are just like patch releases for Linux, Solaris, or any other *nix system. Some of the *applications* are patched as monoliths: Mail, iTunes, etc., but that's not unexpected. Otherwise I see library updates and components like SSL. And if you're running a package management system like fink or darwinports for your own apps, you probably already have them.
"People just don't think that way until they've been conditioned to do so by Unix."
Demonstrably not true. I've thought that way since I learned to read. In fact, I was confused the first time I dealt with an MS-DOS machine (before I ever heard of Unix), because the instructions showed commands in upper case and I thought I had to type them that way. Everything I do is based on identifying and classifying differences - "F" and "f" are patently not the same thing to me.
People, at least people familiar with written romance languages, use capitalization explicitly throughout their lives. You can argue that they don't think that way until they've been conditioned by literacy, but don't drag Unix into it.
Yes, please do tell. I've been looking for a Linux laptop for years. I've spent thousands of dollars buying various hardware that someone claimed worked, only to find that some feature they considered unimportant - didn't. My latest is an HP/Compaq Athlon laptop that, after much kernel hacking, I can get to sleep but not wake up, and that when awake burns with a fierce and intense glow that is actually hot enough to prevent the cat from sleeping on it.
CPU stepping works? Suspend works? ACPI works? Sleep works? CD writing works? The video actually works with 3d acceleration? If it has an S-video port, that works? IR?
Apply common sense. Does anyone actually believe that only 18 laptops were stolen in SF in 2004? Me neither. How about 48 last year? Didn't think so.
So, if I'm right, you have massively underreported data, from which the best conclusion that can be extracted is that the reporting is becoming somewhat less hideous.
If I'm wrong, you have a "crime wave" of one laptop a week being stolen in a city of 3/4 million people. Why can't the police deal with such an insurrection? "It's hard to do a stakeout,'' Capt. Ehrlich said, "because it's not happening with any regularity in time or place.''
"I've got a laptop from one of your competitors, any distribution will install on it, and the bulk of the devices (with the notable exception of the Broadcom WiFi (which there's a usable workaround, though I'd rather they didn't use that chipset...) and the silly on-board flash reader (which TI's preventing a version to be made- nifty device really, too bad TI's being stupid about it...), it all just went on and worked- with each and every distribution I put on it in 32-bit mode (64 bit modes work, but since the ATI chipset's...twitchy...it is more difficult to get 64-bit modes going. And it's nothing to do with the distributions per se, it's ATI's doing...)."
For me, trying to buy a laptop that I can run Linux on, what you say above translates into "doesn't work". Buying a 64-bit laptop that won't run stable in 64-bit mode, that all the internal devices aren't supported, that I have to plug an external wireless card into - it's not going to happen.
I have gone through a half dozen laptops trying to get one that works with Linux. Definition of works is: works. I want the processor stepdown to work, the battery save features to work, the Bluetooth to work, the FireWire to work, the wireless to work... do I have to list every component in the machine?
Not only have I been unsuccessful, but nobody can even POINT me to a machine I can buy. Everyone has their pet "my laptop works great" story, but they ALL sound like the poster above: "except for this, except for that". I've NEVER seen a response that showed all the hardware features were tested and certified supported. Even the commercial Linux laptop integrators have all these asterisks, footnotes, and disclaimers.
The value of having Dell or another vendor commit to a distro support would be that I would have the choice: I could have the distro I might prefer, and deal with the compatibility issues myself (just like now) OR, I could pick door number two and choose a laptop with a distro I might not prefer, but that at least all the hardware worked. That wouldn't be Nirvana, but it would be better than the situation today, where I have exactly one choice - buying a laptop with no guarantee as to what will or won't work, and spending huge amounts of time/effort trying to remediate the failed bits.
Given that situation, my response has been "none of the above". I use a PowerBook. I'm not a Mac zealot - it's just the only way I can get a Unix laptop that supports all the hardware. And no, I can't run Linux on it: wireless doesn't work, sleep doesn't work, etc. ad nauseum. That's on a fixed hardware target three years old.
That it was at least as integrated with AmigaDOS. It was the system-wide scripting language and all applications had hooks for it. It wasn't just a REXX implementation.
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"Despite having three leeches attached for the past two weeks, the patient has shown no signs of improvement and is, in fact, becoming weaker. Increasing to four ..."
KeS
Umm, I sure remember OS/2 coming on some ridiculous number of floppies (19?), most of which failed with read errors at unfortunate times. AmigaDOS was one floppy, Workbench another, and there was a third for some utilities, if I recall correctly.
KeS
I own fakefinger.com. And I have a business plan:
1. Road trip to Tijuana to collect fingerprints from greasy beer glasses.
2. Make them available for purchase in a variety of attractive flesh-tone digits.
3. Profit!
KeS
I'm telling you that more like one in several MILLION people has a bomb. If you run the numbers of travellers vs bombs detonated/discovered, that's what you get. (I don't really care about the people who, for whatever reason, owned a bomb and transported it peaceably and undetected.) Yes, it's unreasonable to search everybody.
KeS
Sting rays can be big critters, and when they whip that tail the barb goes where it goes. Friend of the family took one through the knee decades ago - that's through the knee JOINT, from posterior lower to anterior upper leg. Three months in the hospital (infection) and never walked thereafter without a limp. People who work in/around the shallows are much more afraid of sting rays than shark attack - when you've got an eight-inch spike through you, it doesn't help much to say it was "inadvertent" rather than "intentional".
;)
On the bright side, Terri's now available!
KeS
Any object maneuverable enough to dodge a bullet can't possibly be considered a planet.
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KeS
And climbing trees as a child "deviates sharply from the social norm"??
KeS
What's your point? If the police were arresting someone, they are clearly identified on the report, which is already a public record available to anyone - as it should be. If the (original) arrestee or his buddies want to find them later, THATs the information they'll use. What difference does a blurry cell phone picture make?
KeS
They should draw the line where people start making meth. You know, committing a crime.
KeS
"iTunes is fucking garbage and as soon as I find another player that does all the things that it does that I actually use, I'm going to can it. I actually use it on Windows because I really love the interface."
:)
That's good stuff right there.
KeS
I think that "peer code review" advantage of OSS is overrated - or at least offset by hunks of code being copied/reused all over the place. Remember the serious SNMP vulnerability from a couple of years ago that affected damn near *everybody*? How many times had *that* code been reviewed over the last twenty years?
KeS
Forget being in a car. You don't have the same degree of concentration and focus when talking to someone sitting in your office, that you do when having the *same* conversation, with the *same* person, on a telephone. At least I don't, nor do many people I observe doing this. Don't know why - body language, visual cues, whatever... it's not the same for the large majority of people.
KeS
"Imposing burdens on the owners of a social network website because their users might be predators, liers, or unmonitored children is as retarted as requireing the shop-rite to keep records of everyone who shows an ID to buy alcohol or tobacco."
Already being done. Here in San Diego, the local 7-11 stores require that you *swipe* a CA license to purchase alcohol. I don't know about cigarettes, I don't smoke or drink, so I noticed in passing. Visual inspection is not adequate, the response from one store manager is that they are keeping the records to provide to the police if a question arises about sales to minors.
KeS
Really?! All of your hardware?? Firewire, any external video output, all the power modes including suspend and sleep, HD spindown? Low power management, CPU throttling, battery monitor? IR, trackpad (including tap) - all the screen resolutions? And sound? Internal wireless and ethernet? Docking station?
What model Asus and what version Ubuntu? I've been looking for a *fully* supported laptop for years. What I keep hearing is "it supports almost everything I use, kinda, except these three things don't work and you have to use an external wireless card".
KeS
That is simply not true, at least for OS X, which is the only Apple OS I've ever used (and the only one they've marketed for several years). The intermittent but fairly regular updates are just like patch releases for Linux, Solaris, or any other *nix system. Some of the *applications* are patched as monoliths: Mail, iTunes, etc., but that's not unexpected. Otherwise I see library updates and components like SSL. And if you're running a package management system like fink or darwinports for your own apps, you probably already have them.
KeS
"People just don't think that way until they've been conditioned to do so by Unix."
Demonstrably not true. I've thought that way since I learned to read. In fact, I was confused the first time I dealt with an MS-DOS machine (before I ever heard of Unix), because the instructions showed commands in upper case and I thought I had to type them that way. Everything I do is based on identifying and classifying differences - "F" and "f" are patently not the same thing to me.
People, at least people familiar with written romance languages, use capitalization explicitly throughout their lives. You can argue that they don't think that way until they've been conditioned by literacy, but don't drag Unix into it.
KeS
Yes, please do tell. I've been looking for a Linux laptop for years. I've spent thousands of dollars buying various hardware that someone claimed worked, only to find that some feature they considered unimportant - didn't. My latest is an HP/Compaq Athlon laptop that, after much kernel hacking, I can get to sleep but not wake up, and that when awake burns with a fierce and intense glow that is actually hot enough to prevent the cat from sleeping on it.
CPU stepping works? Suspend works? ACPI works? Sleep works? CD writing works? The video actually works with 3d acceleration? If it has an S-video port, that works? IR?
Point me at it.
KeS
Apply common sense. Does anyone actually believe that only 18 laptops were stolen in SF in 2004? Me neither. How about 48 last year? Didn't think so.
So, if I'm right, you have massively underreported data, from which the best conclusion that can be extracted is that the reporting is becoming somewhat less hideous.
If I'm wrong, you have a "crime wave" of one laptop a week being stolen in a city of 3/4 million people. Why can't the police deal with such an insurrection? "It's hard to do a stakeout,'' Capt. Ehrlich said, "because it's not happening with any regularity in time or place.''
Duh.
KeS
"I've got a laptop from one of your competitors, any distribution will install on it, and the bulk of the devices (with the notable exception of the Broadcom WiFi (which there's a usable workaround, though I'd rather they didn't use that chipset...) and the silly on-board flash reader (which TI's preventing a version to be made- nifty device really, too bad TI's being stupid about it...), it all just went on and worked- with each and every distribution I put on it in 32-bit mode (64 bit modes work, but since the ATI chipset's...twitchy...it is more difficult to get 64-bit modes going. And it's nothing to do with the distributions per se, it's ATI's doing...)."
For me, trying to buy a laptop that I can run Linux on, what you say above translates into "doesn't work". Buying a 64-bit laptop that won't run stable in 64-bit mode, that all the internal devices aren't supported, that I have to plug an external wireless card into - it's not going to happen.
I have gone through a half dozen laptops trying to get one that works with Linux. Definition of works is: works. I want the processor stepdown to work, the battery save features to work, the Bluetooth to work, the FireWire to work, the wireless to work... do I have to list every component in the machine?
Not only have I been unsuccessful, but nobody can even POINT me to a machine I can buy. Everyone has their pet "my laptop works great" story, but they ALL sound like the poster above: "except for this, except for that". I've NEVER seen a response that showed all the hardware features were tested and certified supported. Even the commercial Linux laptop integrators have all these asterisks, footnotes, and disclaimers.
The value of having Dell or another vendor commit to a distro support would be that I would have the choice: I could have the distro I might prefer, and deal with the compatibility issues myself (just like now) OR, I could pick door number two and choose a laptop with a distro I might not prefer, but that at least all the hardware worked. That wouldn't be Nirvana, but it would be better than the situation today, where I have exactly one choice - buying a laptop with no guarantee as to what will or won't work, and spending huge amounts of time/effort trying to remediate the failed bits.
Given that situation, my response has been "none of the above". I use a PowerBook. I'm not a Mac zealot - it's just the only way I can get a Unix laptop that supports all the hardware. And no, I can't run Linux on it: wireless doesn't work, sleep doesn't work, etc. ad nauseum. That's on a fixed hardware target three years old.
KeS
Oh, wait...
Empty a shotgun into the box and reduce the complexity of the scenario!
KeS
That it was at least as integrated with AmigaDOS. It was the system-wide scripting language and all applications had hooks for it. It wasn't just a REXX implementation.
KeS
Apple released 10.4.5 today. ;)
KeS