It goes back to the same problem. Where does the value come from? If we say the entirety of physical assets of the United States back the United States Dollar, where do we see the numbers? Where do we even begin to calculate that? How do we relate it the untold trillions that the Federal Reserve issued to banks?
This is an accounting issue, and the government seems to do everything they can to prevent themselves from being accountable. I'm tiring of this thought exercise and wanting to get to the bread of it, where we're actually auditing the government ledger and making them accountable for it. Until then, there is no value, it's entirely eaten by the massive ballooning debt and all the abstraction layers to hide it.
One of the biggest problems in current systems is that devs need unfettered access to get their jobs done.
You can't put a developer on a locked down system and expect them to get anything done. People who work with development of software can't have their operating environment actively working against them. If the world had stuck more to UNIX norms, we'd probably be in a far more palatable situation with systems that are actually designed to allow multiple people to get work done using the same hardware without the access control causing no end of headaches.
But that's not the case.
Something as commonplace as web development, for example. If you're creating a single-page, static html document with inline CSS and JavaScript, you're probably good with the most basic editor and browser available on your platform, no matter what platform that is. But the moment you cross the line into something even slightly advanced using external scripts, you find yourself in a position where you require such things as an actual web server providing your web documents or the browser will securely pretend like your files are not a valid web document. You simply must modify your environment to progress.
This is the simplest example I can think of, if you do anything more complicated with development than the most basic and simple web page, noticeable access limitations means they aren't letting you do your job.
This is missing one critical point: the value.
1) The government has nothing, no money, no infrastructure, no military.
The government, in previous times, had a reserve of gold and various other assets which had value.
There was a time when United States Dollars could be traded in for an amount of gold. This was printed on the bills themselves.
You do not bootstrap an economy on the basis of nothing. You bootstrap it on the basis of something you have that has value.
Leaving out the value part is where the system broke down. That's why we have a massive balloon of debt.
Delusional governments doing delusional things. It's not how the economy works, the economy is not working.
He's talking probabilities because that's all they base anything on these days. When we have a presidential election, the results are announced the same day through statistics and probabilities then an awful lot of votes get lost in the noise. Our entire economy is debt, to the degree that there is no money which is not owed to someone else. There are no real attacks because the system is entirely predicated on the POSSIBILITY of attack. It's bullshit from the top down, at every level.
Absolutely a valid comparison. GameSpy provided cloud-hosted services to video game developers. They recently stopped providing those cloud-hosted services. The only way you could possibly think it has nothing to do with the cloud is by having no understanding of what makes a cloud.
Well, then it wouldn't be managing the mounts. It would be just executing mount -a, just like a sysV script. Citation Needed. Systemd would in no way be beholden to utilizing 'mount -a' as the manner in which to parse and execute the fstab file.
Systemd solves all of them.
I fear that many of the issues solved by systemd have done so by ignoring standard practice for defining some very basic aspects of the UNIX-like systems. If systemd were being engineered in a manner appropriate for UNIX-like systems, it could very easily parse these files and act on the data within them in a more intelligent manner than the standard methods. It should be able to identify an iscsi mount in fstab and delay the mounting of it until it has properly bootstrapped the network services. The fact that it obfuscates these things is very much a design flaw.
Your response is flawed.
These people are not solely running Windows XP machines that they bought in 2001. That's incredibly ridiculous, if that's an honest thought that might be where the perceptive issue we have here comes from. You could buy a new machine with Windows XP from OEMs in 2009. Many people, even up until the beginning of this year, were explicitly requesting Windows XP rather than Windows 7... which is still entirely possible to give them by putting compatible hardware from the same major vendors in a box. It's just not worth it from the support perspective anymore. XP isn't just some ancient relic, it's an actively deployed and mission critical system and the migration work is severe. The shops I'm talking about have Windows 7 machines because they expanded their network, not because they replaced perfectly functional hardware. They have Windows 8 machines, again, because they've EXPANDED their system, not replaced functional components. OH HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE WINDOWS 8 UPDATE FIASCO. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO TELL A CUSTOMER WHO INVESTED IN MICROSOFT IF THEY WERE HIT WITH THIS CRAP?
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair is a universal truth, it doesn't matter what system the user is using because the user WILL screw it up, but Microsoft's systems are houses of cards and they're starting to fall down around people. Hard. This can't last.
Over the past month or so I've run into a number of cases of "slow internet" which turned out to be compromised XP machines. Not just a simple case of malware or botnet action, but cases where people have went so far as to replace their ISPs to mitigate their "slow internet" when the reality is that the malware is just hammering it THAT hard. This is just not cool, some of these people have spent more money on Microsoft than I care to think about, and I can't in good conscience ever honestly recommend a Microsoft solution again after seeing how bad some of these cases are. The great thing is that for the portion of my customers who went with the upgrade cycle, they're getting the full glory of Windows 8 and my god how many just want 7 back. It really is XP/Vista all over again...
Until you fracked the ground. Then all bets are off, because you have hydraulically fracked the goddamn ground. The structures that kept the wall between these things can no longer be trusted, because you fracked the goddamn earth.
These days losing your phone can be hell. Sure, flip phones were cheap and easily replaceable, but smartphones are personal information management devices that many people honestly rely on in their daily lives at this point. Police officers refuse to deal with the situation because their job is.. what IS their job? The hell are they excusing crime for? Goddammit.
I don't consider this a special case. As you've just said, people have been trying to replace GCC for ages. There are a lot of motivations for that, many of which coming down to a distaste for the GPL. There have been hard criticisms for a long time. I've personally run into some of the stranger code malformation issues affecting certain versions while compiling my own code. I think they may have been bit by the same hubris that affects the rest of the software organizations, which leads us to crap like Metro and Unity. I'm really pleased with LLVM shaking up this particular tree - it REALLY needed it, monopolies are bad for EVERYONE and GCC had been the free compiler monopoly for how long?
You're wrong.
Windows 7 will SCREAM on anything that was Vista Capable - 2006 or later.
You can even run it on Intel Macs that don't support Mavericks.
If the machine has a Core CPU, it's more than fine.
Kinda sick of people STILL pretending like the operating system needs fantastical hardware. Those kind of people are idiots.
That is EXACTLY what he is saying given his comments regarding LLVM.
Referring to this post in particular.
His stance is a demonization of liberally licensed code, to a very unfortunate degree.
I am absolutely not trolling when I say that man has given up freedom for ideology.
There's a little bit of header, a little bit of license, BSD...
It's the silent protagonist in the technological world - they build and refine the technology that seeps into all other operating systems.
The code is licensed so liberally that Stallman's arguments literally boil down to "everyone can use it so it's not free".
If you dig into the credits portion of almost any software, it's there.
We all use BSD.
Deflation is the only option at this point. You can't just endlessly inflate the economy and act like it's working. The federal reserve secretly issued trillions of dollars to banks. Economists are delusional to the degree that they'll argue tooth and nail against deflation, I think that's an economist refusing to do his job. The economy has cycles like everything else, trying to brush it under the rug is why we ended up in this mess in the first place.
The debt cycle has allowed us to spend more resources than could ever exist, the only option left will be to eliminate all the debt because it was just an accounting trick in the first place. The financial system is burning itself down and it'll do whatever it can to not admit it.
Government: meet your deadlines.
Populace: Don't be held to deadlines by a government that refuses to meet theirs.
When we were supposed to have registered and become insured again? With the key, critical, central piece of the equation critically broken? It won't stop them from trying to fine people for it, though.
Dictating law to people doesn't work. Levying fines for their own incompetence, it's all this is going to come down to.
Those changes to copyright were made without the consent of the public. It's one of those things where the letter of the law has become completely disconnected from the public at large. Now I couldn't tell you where the governments got this idea, but they seem to think that you can dictate law to a people and expect them to follow it, to the degree of having law enforcement officers take action to enforce laws that no one honestly believes in. That creates a situation where the people are just plain ignoring the laws because the laws don't honestly have anything to do with them. That creates a situation where the government is literally making shit up and locking people away for it. Which is exactly what kind of activity the copyright cartels are banking on. Oy.
I know, right? That was exactly what I thought when I found it. Slashdot is inserting it, not I.
Curious. I use monospaced fonts to render essentially all web content, which is why I see no difference in the font of my posts and yours.
Okay, so among the changes you've made to your terminal is the automatic insertion of a tag to make your slashdot posts monospace to others. But it's 'their browser settings'. Got it.
Sounds like... well... every government program and everything the president says. I thought we had covered that material by now. What are you on about again?
We hit a level of computing power in 2006 that makes it so computers that old are still very likely to run most things just fine. Throw Windows 7 on anything that was honestly Vista Capable and you're good to go. Hey, that ought to include those Macs...
I'm finding your response to my inquiry of why Snowden should have sacrificed his life rather lacking. He had that choice to kill himself, why do you believe he should have made it?
Slashdot Mirror
It goes back to the same problem. Where does the value come from? If we say the entirety of physical assets of the United States back the United States Dollar, where do we see the numbers? Where do we even begin to calculate that? How do we relate it the untold trillions that the Federal Reserve issued to banks?
This is an accounting issue, and the government seems to do everything they can to prevent themselves from being accountable. I'm tiring of this thought exercise and wanting to get to the bread of it, where we're actually auditing the government ledger and making them accountable for it. Until then, there is no value, it's entirely eaten by the massive ballooning debt and all the abstraction layers to hide it.
One of the biggest problems in current systems is that devs need unfettered access to get their jobs done.
You can't put a developer on a locked down system and expect them to get anything done. People who work with development of software can't have their operating environment actively working against them. If the world had stuck more to UNIX norms, we'd probably be in a far more palatable situation with systems that are actually designed to allow multiple people to get work done using the same hardware without the access control causing no end of headaches.
But that's not the case.
Something as commonplace as web development, for example. If you're creating a single-page, static html document with inline CSS and JavaScript, you're probably good with the most basic editor and browser available on your platform, no matter what platform that is. But the moment you cross the line into something even slightly advanced using external scripts, you find yourself in a position where you require such things as an actual web server providing your web documents or the browser will securely pretend like your files are not a valid web document. You simply must modify your environment to progress.
This is the simplest example I can think of, if you do anything more complicated with development than the most basic and simple web page, noticeable access limitations means they aren't letting you do your job.
This is missing one critical point: the value.
1) The government has nothing, no money, no infrastructure, no military.
The government, in previous times, had a reserve of gold and various other assets which had value.
There was a time when United States Dollars could be traded in for an amount of gold. This was printed on the bills themselves.
You do not bootstrap an economy on the basis of nothing. You bootstrap it on the basis of something you have that has value.
Leaving out the value part is where the system broke down. That's why we have a massive balloon of debt.
Delusional governments doing delusional things. It's not how the economy works, the economy is not working.
He's talking probabilities because that's all they base anything on these days. When we have a presidential election, the results are announced the same day through statistics and probabilities then an awful lot of votes get lost in the noise. Our entire economy is debt, to the degree that there is no money which is not owed to someone else. There are no real attacks because the system is entirely predicated on the POSSIBILITY of attack. It's bullshit from the top down, at every level.
Absolutely a valid comparison. GameSpy provided cloud-hosted services to video game developers. They recently stopped providing those cloud-hosted services. The only way you could possibly think it has nothing to do with the cloud is by having no understanding of what makes a cloud.
Well, then it wouldn't be managing the mounts. It would be just executing mount -a, just like a sysV script.
Citation Needed. Systemd would in no way be beholden to utilizing 'mount -a' as the manner in which to parse and execute the fstab file.
Systemd solves all of them.
I fear that many of the issues solved by systemd have done so by ignoring standard practice for defining some very basic aspects of the UNIX-like systems. If systemd were being engineered in a manner appropriate for UNIX-like systems, it could very easily parse these files and act on the data within them in a more intelligent manner than the standard methods. It should be able to identify an iscsi mount in fstab and delay the mounting of it until it has properly bootstrapped the network services. The fact that it obfuscates these things is very much a design flaw.
Your response is flawed.
These people are not solely running Windows XP machines that they bought in 2001. That's incredibly ridiculous, if that's an honest thought that might be where the perceptive issue we have here comes from. You could buy a new machine with Windows XP from OEMs in 2009. Many people, even up until the beginning of this year, were explicitly requesting Windows XP rather than Windows 7... which is still entirely possible to give them by putting compatible hardware from the same major vendors in a box. It's just not worth it from the support perspective anymore. XP isn't just some ancient relic, it's an actively deployed and mission critical system and the migration work is severe. The shops I'm talking about have Windows 7 machines because they expanded their network, not because they replaced perfectly functional hardware. They have Windows 8 machines, again, because they've EXPANDED their system, not replaced functional components. OH HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE WINDOWS 8 UPDATE FIASCO. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO TELL A CUSTOMER WHO INVESTED IN MICROSOFT IF THEY WERE HIT WITH THIS CRAP?
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair is a universal truth, it doesn't matter what system the user is using because the user WILL screw it up, but Microsoft's systems are houses of cards and they're starting to fall down around people. Hard. This can't last.
Over the past month or so I've run into a number of cases of "slow internet" which turned out to be compromised XP machines. Not just a simple case of malware or botnet action, but cases where people have went so far as to replace their ISPs to mitigate their "slow internet" when the reality is that the malware is just hammering it THAT hard. This is just not cool, some of these people have spent more money on Microsoft than I care to think about, and I can't in good conscience ever honestly recommend a Microsoft solution again after seeing how bad some of these cases are. The great thing is that for the portion of my customers who went with the upgrade cycle, they're getting the full glory of Windows 8 and my god how many just want 7 back. It really is XP/Vista all over again...
Until you fracked the ground. Then all bets are off, because you have hydraulically fracked the goddamn ground. The structures that kept the wall between these things can no longer be trusted, because you fracked the goddamn earth.
These days losing your phone can be hell. Sure, flip phones were cheap and easily replaceable, but smartphones are personal information management devices that many people honestly rely on in their daily lives at this point. Police officers refuse to deal with the situation because their job is .. what IS their job? The hell are they excusing crime for? Goddammit.
I don't consider this a special case. As you've just said, people have been trying to replace GCC for ages. There are a lot of motivations for that, many of which coming down to a distaste for the GPL. There have been hard criticisms for a long time. I've personally run into some of the stranger code malformation issues affecting certain versions while compiling my own code. I think they may have been bit by the same hubris that affects the rest of the software organizations, which leads us to crap like Metro and Unity. I'm really pleased with LLVM shaking up this particular tree - it REALLY needed it, monopolies are bad for EVERYONE and GCC had been the free compiler monopoly for how long?
You're wrong.
Windows 7 will SCREAM on anything that was Vista Capable - 2006 or later.
You can even run it on Intel Macs that don't support Mavericks.
If the machine has a Core CPU, it's more than fine.
Kinda sick of people STILL pretending like the operating system needs fantastical hardware. Those kind of people are idiots.
That is EXACTLY what he is saying given his comments regarding LLVM.
Referring to this post in particular.
His stance is a demonization of liberally licensed code, to a very unfortunate degree.
I am absolutely not trolling when I say that man has given up freedom for ideology.
There's a little bit of header, a little bit of license, BSD...
It's the silent protagonist in the technological world - they build and refine the technology that seeps into all other operating systems.
The code is licensed so liberally that Stallman's arguments literally boil down to "everyone can use it so it's not free".
If you dig into the credits portion of almost any software, it's there.
We all use BSD.
This attitude is only possible because of monopoly status. Remove their monopoly status and the market will self-correct.
Deflation is the only option at this point. You can't just endlessly inflate the economy and act like it's working. The federal reserve secretly issued trillions of dollars to banks. Economists are delusional to the degree that they'll argue tooth and nail against deflation, I think that's an economist refusing to do his job. The economy has cycles like everything else, trying to brush it under the rug is why we ended up in this mess in the first place.
The debt cycle has allowed us to spend more resources than could ever exist, the only option left will be to eliminate all the debt because it was just an accounting trick in the first place. The financial system is burning itself down and it'll do whatever it can to not admit it.
Better hope those armed guards are 1%.
Government: meet your deadlines.
Populace: Don't be held to deadlines by a government that refuses to meet theirs.
When we were supposed to have registered and become insured again? With the key, critical, central piece of the equation critically broken? It won't stop them from trying to fine people for it, though.
Dictating law to people doesn't work. Levying fines for their own incompetence, it's all this is going to come down to.
Those changes to copyright were made without the consent of the public. It's one of those things where the letter of the law has become completely disconnected from the public at large. Now I couldn't tell you where the governments got this idea, but they seem to think that you can dictate law to a people and expect them to follow it, to the degree of having law enforcement officers take action to enforce laws that no one honestly believes in. That creates a situation where the people are just plain ignoring the laws because the laws don't honestly have anything to do with them. That creates a situation where the government is literally making shit up and locking people away for it. Which is exactly what kind of activity the copyright cartels are banking on. Oy.
End of year financials? You mean the ever growing deficit? Tell me when they start being profitable again.
I know, right? That was exactly what I thought when I found it. Slashdot is inserting it, not I.
Curious.
I use monospaced fonts to render essentially all web content, which is why I see no difference in the font of my posts and yours.
Okay, so among the changes you've made to your terminal is the automatic insertion of a tag to make your slashdot posts monospace to others. But it's 'their browser settings'. Got it.
Sounds like ... well... every government program and everything the president says. I thought we had covered that material by now. What are you on about again?
We hit a level of computing power in 2006 that makes it so computers that old are still very likely to run most things just fine. Throw Windows 7 on anything that was honestly Vista Capable and you're good to go. Hey, that ought to include those Macs...
I'm finding your response to my inquiry of why Snowden should have sacrificed his life rather lacking. He had that choice to kill himself, why do you believe he should have made it?