As I understand it yes but not this week. The Ubuntu team checks all software before they put it in the repository. The day that I got FF3RC2 in XP was the day I got FF3RC1 in Ubuntu. It's nice that they check but it makes me feel so behind.
BitTorrent actually saves overall bandwidth because the BitTorrent client gets a part of a file from the closest copy
Close. It saves bandwidth for the server. Pre-bit torrent downing loading something everyone wanted was a nightmare. A Linux CD was a week long download because everyone who was downloading was sharing the one server. For the internet in general it's about the same. I'm sure you have some connections that are near by and a few less hops but I bet most are not. Additionally you have a ton of overhead to keep the connection alive and search for more sources.
Funny thing is I haven't even used it yet. I just got very excited about it after hearing about the idea. If you haven't yet I would recommend the video I posted. Also this podcast http://www.twit.tv/floss19 talks about it. Everything I have learned came from those three links.
Linux uses a kind of centralized development methodology. The Linux Kernel we get is really Linus' branch. He does not write code anymore he only checks it and merges it in to his branch. The trick with git is you commit it to the person above you and not to a repository. This way your boss can pick and choose what fixes and updates from you and others at your level get pushed up to your bosses boss. In the end it all gos to one place. If you really wanted to every one could just use the same person as there boss so it would all just get lumped together and work just like SVN or CVS. As I understand it git was also designed to allow for you to do commits to an SVN or CVS repository.
Any programmer who does not know about git should look in to it. I get the feeling it's what people will be moving to.
In retrospect I worded that it a bit poorly. I'm not saying that the rich pay less taxes, in dollars or percentage. I'm saying that a poor person with a minimum wage job should not have to pay taxes that are at all comparable to a rich person.
To a poor person that extra money could be food in their mouth. To a rich person it's more likely to be just more crap they don't need or worse yet (for the economy) more money in the bank to be left there until it is inherited by the kids.
Is it their money? Fuck yes it is. Would it be the right thing to let them keep it all? Of course. But the question is can our country afford it? The govt has a lot of shit to pay for to keep running. If we could make some changes to get away from taxes (flat tax is bull shit and does not count) I am by all means for it. But I don't think we can. The govt not only makes laws but it enforces them. That alone costs TONS of money. Someone has to pay, I think it should be the people who can best afford it.
I have yet to file my taxes with out help. I am however aware of the basics of the tax system. The different brackets and the different types of income. I have been working for almost a year and received about $3000 back this year. I just feel like it's more of a $3000 loan that is going to have a LOT of interest when the country finally starts feeling the heat then money in my pocket.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/washington/08tax.html
The point is not that you payed less, it's that your bosses who make SOOOO much more payed SOOOO much less. That money could have been used to pay off the debts we are getting in to that I as a 23 year old have to worry about or it could have been used to keep watch over the banks so they would have not broken the broken laws and fucked over the economy with the housing market. Tax cuts and small govt are a good thing, but what Bush did was irresponsible and stupid. I expect that Obama will cut your taxes even more but raise the PERSONAL taxes of your bosses far higher then what they were.
You run in to religious crazies all over the place in the US. By many it's looked at as GOOD to be a religious crazy person. Atheists mostly don't care because they know about the importance of the crazy vote. But MANY people will not vote for Obama ONLY because he is pro-life. I know it's a stereo type but you really do find a lot the cowboy hat waring, gun loving, religious idiots in the US. It makes me sad in side....
Bingo. He should show her this as well. http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality
The video is a little over the top but she needs to understand this vision of a 1984 type future that geekdom thinks can happen. The laws they want can have many ill effects that they will not see coming but we do. If they resist then it'll just make things far harder for everyone in the future.
Henry Ford mass-produced the automobile because he thought he could get rich on it. Edison worked day and night inventing things because he thought he could get rich on it. Both were correct.
Yes but is that greed? As I see it there are two definitions of 'greed'.
Def 1)'I want money' Def 2)'Fuck everyone else I want MORE money then I need by any means.'
Def 1 is fine, everyone needs money to live. There is nothing wrong with getting a job so you can make money to survive. The second one is the problem. It's when greed hurts others.
I get the feeling that to most people greed means def 2 but when they try to describe greed they say def 1. So it's very easy to come along a convince someone that working for a living is evil because logically 'you work to make money', 'wanting money is greedy', and 'greed is evil'.
My point? Just because someone wants to make money does not make them evil greedy. I am aware that Ford, Edison and many others did some nasty things, But this does not mean that ALL progress is motivated by greed(def 2). Just look at GNU software and just about anything that came out of university research. Nearly all of it was started by people who had no plans of becoming rich off of it.
Greed led to the telegraph, telephone, electric light, automobile, airplane, and integrated circuit.
That's debatable. Several of those are 'one guy in a lab' things. So saying it was motivated by greed is pushing it. The modern versions were motivated by greed. More so with the phone then anything else. The shit my Verizon phone has on it is just a joke.
Most likely because is was in TFA but not in the/. story. A lot of people (my self included, sorry) just read the comments and not the story. It's clear karma whoring but still helpful and relevant.
30 years from now....
"Dude! Some of my friends and I found like these things in my attic. You can use them to make sounds and stuff. It's like video games but real! We were able to like play a song but it was like not a song from a game or the internet! It was like new!"
Very true but this is the foot in the door people have been waiting for. The problem I have always had was not opening up DOC docs but not being able to trust the ones I send from OO. Now that I know MS office can read ODF I can safely make and send them out with out worrying. Making ODF common is step one. Making DOC and XLS uncommon is step two. Making DOC and XLS so uncommon that people go through the hassle of converting them is step three.
Your points, while valid, are based on misunderstandings.
Not really. Generating energy from wind in a cost effective manner is damn hard.
I'm not trying to say doing it right is easy. I'm just saying that you would have an easier time hiding random costs (AKA money you can call a loss but secretly pocket) as an oil giant then a wind giant. If you don't agree then think about how many people are petroleum engineers vs mechanical engineers. Mech is more well known, the simple way for me to say that is to say "Wind is too easy"
Wind in sufficient force to be used for generating energy is not everywhere. In fact, it's rather rare, discounting seasonal weather.
Again, I'm comparing wind to oil. I don't have any numbers but I would think that the average Joe would have an easier time starting a wind power company then starting an oil company. Wind is not literally everywhere, but when you compare it to oil saying "Wind is everywhere" gets the availability difference across.
No it isn't.
It is to them. It's damn hard to add a new area to a company of the size of the oil companies. Plus it would take them several years and several billion dollars to just start replacing their use of oil to pay the bills. I know the idea of using wind has been around for a long time but as you said "Generating energy from wind in a cost effective manner is damn hard."
Also these are things I think the oil companies MIGHT be thinking. I'm not saying these things are true just that they might be what they think.
Well if you like conspiracies...
1) Wind is too easy. With oil they could hide fake costs and over inflate real ones.
2) Wind is everywhere. By getting exclusive drilling rights they can squeeze out the little guy so they have no new competition.
3) It's new. Big corporations HATE new. New is work and new is learning. CEO people hate work and learning.
Personally reason 3 makes the most sense, But the others are possible. The fact that this guy is trying to move to wind shows that he's at least trying to move foward. Good for him
Shit happens and when it does you can't just call Tivo to fix it.
the first month or so involved some tweaking (I actually stepped on some bugs in XFS when using LVM-over-RAID)
That's mostly what I'm referring to. The setup, while not hard, is work that many people would rather not do.
And why would you need to keep up on "whats what in recording hardware" if you have a working system already built?
I am referring to before you have the system built. Every time a build a new computer I spend like a week figuring out where the market went while I was gone. I would not even know what to look for in a TV tuner. So first I would have to figure that out.
I know this is all fun geek work. I do not think it's too hard or too much work. My point is that many people have OTHER fun geek work they would rather do so just throwing some money at a Tivo is a better option for them. Personally I plan on building a MythTV box my self, I just have not gotten around to it.
I can't find the story but I remember hearing that passive is actually good for naming stories on the internet. People tend to search with passive words so your stuff is more likely to come up.
Yes but you picked out a remote and learned how to set it up. You picked out a TV tuner and learned how to set that up. The list gos on. Many geeks are too preoccupied with other projects that they find more fun to sit down and put together a MythTV box. It's not that assembling it and installing it takes so long or is too hard it's that you need to figure out what parts to use and you need to configure it just how you like it. In my experience THAT is where the time gos. For most all of this would be a good week to a month working on it in your free time. So for someone who would rather use this free time for something else Tivo is a nice bit of tech that is not very expensive. If your lucky you only have to mess with it once but as the saying gos, shit happens. Many people would be happier that they can have someone fix for them if something does go wrong and not have to sit down on work on it.
It reminds me of working on a car. I've needed to change the oil in mine for a while now. I'm not gonna have someone else do it but I still find it a pain in the ass. I have other things i would rather do with my time then lay out in the dirt for an hour. But some people LOVE working on their car.
So yes, MythTV is awesome and simple but some people would rather just pay for a Tivo. For the record I plan on making one my self but I have just not gotten around to it yet. Why? For one I have to change my damn oil first. Come to think of it I think my breaks need changing too...
As I understand it these things work but turning the code in to a state diagram. It maps out the code by stepping through it and replacing variables that have a values with sets of possible values. So if the code has the user enter a value for the int X then the sate of X is now what ever the user was permitted to enter. Then when the code hits an "if(X > 10)" statement the map branches so that on one branch it the state is like the IF executed and on the other it is like it did not.
The problem is that to do a full map of this would take far more processor time then any group would be willing to give so programs that do this need to take clever little short cuts. This cause the user that the parent is talking about.
It's not worth it for some. Keeping up on whats what in recording hardware and maintaining a MythTV box are less fun then working on some other geek hobby. Tivo is reasonably priced and works well. Also with Tivo you can get several, one for each member of the family, for less then additional MythTV boxes.
MOD PARENT UP! I do use firebug. This makes perfect sense. I did not think that they would release FF if it had an issue like this and several people said they did not have this issue. I've seen it on all computers (Ubuntu and XP) running FF3b5 but they all also have firebug (I do web dev stuff for work). Thanks for the tip
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As I understand it yes but not this week. The Ubuntu team checks all software before they put it in the repository. The day that I got FF3RC2 in XP was the day I got FF3RC1 in Ubuntu. It's nice that they check but it makes me feel so behind.
Linux uses a kind of centralized development methodology. The Linux Kernel we get is really Linus' branch. He does not write code anymore he only checks it and merges it in to his branch. The trick with git is you commit it to the person above you and not to a repository. This way your boss can pick and choose what fixes and updates from you and others at your level get pushed up to your bosses boss. In the end it all gos to one place. If you really wanted to every one could just use the same person as there boss so it would all just get lumped together and work just like SVN or CVS. As I understand it git was also designed to allow for you to do commits to an SVN or CVS repository.
Any programmer who does not know about git should look in to it. I get the feeling it's what people will be moving to.
In retrospect I worded that it a bit poorly. I'm not saying that the rich pay less taxes, in dollars or percentage. I'm saying that a poor person with a minimum wage job should not have to pay taxes that are at all comparable to a rich person.
To a poor person that extra money could be food in their mouth. To a rich person it's more likely to be just more crap they don't need or worse yet (for the economy) more money in the bank to be left there until it is inherited by the kids.
Is it their money?
Fuck yes it is.
Would it be the right thing to let them keep it all?
Of course.
But the question is can our country afford it? The govt has a lot of shit to pay for to keep running. If we could make some changes to get away from taxes (flat tax is bull shit and does not count) I am by all means for it. But I don't think we can. The govt not only makes laws but it enforces them. That alone costs TONS of money. Someone has to pay, I think it should be the people who can best afford it.
I have yet to file my taxes with out help. I am however aware of the basics of the tax system. The different brackets and the different types of income. I have been working for almost a year and received about $3000 back this year. I just feel like it's more of a $3000 loan that is going to have a LOT of interest when the country finally starts feeling the heat then money in my pocket.
Git. It's Linus Torvalds fix for his own software management nightmare with the Linux Kernel.
A talk he did on it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/washington/08tax.html The point is not that you payed less, it's that your bosses who make SOOOO much more payed SOOOO much less. That money could have been used to pay off the debts we are getting in to that I as a 23 year old have to worry about or it could have been used to keep watch over the banks so they would have not broken the broken laws and fucked over the economy with the housing market. Tax cuts and small govt are a good thing, but what Bush did was irresponsible and stupid. I expect that Obama will cut your taxes even more but raise the PERSONAL taxes of your bosses far higher then what they were.
Bingo. He should show her this as well. http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality The video is a little over the top but she needs to understand this vision of a 1984 type future that geekdom thinks can happen. The laws they want can have many ill effects that they will not see coming but we do. If they resist then it'll just make things far harder for everyone in the future.
Does any programming language do that out of the box? Many people have said it's an issue but no one has said that any language has solved it.
Def 1)'I want money'
Def 2)'Fuck everyone else I want MORE money then I need by any means.'
Def 1 is fine, everyone needs money to live. There is nothing wrong with getting a job so you can make money to survive. The second one is the problem. It's when greed hurts others.
I get the feeling that to most people greed means def 2 but when they try to describe greed they say def 1. So it's very easy to come along a convince someone that working for a living is evil because logically 'you work to make money', 'wanting money is greedy', and 'greed is evil'.
My point? Just because someone wants to make money does not make them evil greedy. I am aware that Ford, Edison and many others did some nasty things, But this does not mean that ALL progress is motivated by greed(def 2). Just look at GNU software and just about anything that came out of university research. Nearly all of it was started by people who had no plans of becoming rich off of it.
Most likely because is was in TFA but not in the /. story. A lot of people (my self included, sorry) just read the comments and not the story. It's clear karma whoring but still helpful and relevant.
30 years from now.... "Dude! Some of my friends and I found like these things in my attic. You can use them to make sounds and stuff. It's like video games but real! We were able to like play a song but it was like not a song from a game or the internet! It was like new!"
Very true but this is the foot in the door people have been waiting for. The problem I have always had was not opening up DOC docs but not being able to trust the ones I send from OO. Now that I know MS office can read ODF I can safely make and send them out with out worrying. Making ODF common is step one. Making DOC and XLS uncommon is step two. Making DOC and XLS so uncommon that people go through the hassle of converting them is step three.
Also these are things I think the oil companies MIGHT be thinking. I'm not saying these things are true just that they might be what they think.
Well if you like conspiracies...
1) Wind is too easy. With oil they could hide fake costs and over inflate real ones.
2) Wind is everywhere. By getting exclusive drilling rights they can squeeze out the little guy so they have no new competition.
3) It's new. Big corporations HATE new. New is work and new is learning. CEO people hate work and learning.
Personally reason 3 makes the most sense, But the others are possible. The fact that this guy is trying to move to wind shows that he's at least trying to move foward. Good for him
I know this is all fun geek work. I do not think it's too hard or too much work. My point is that many people have OTHER fun geek work they would rather do so just throwing some money at a Tivo is a better option for them. Personally I plan on building a MythTV box my self, I just have not gotten around to it.
FYI: ATI (who was bought by AMD) just opened their drivers last year. http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/05/09/amd-will-deliver-open-graphics-drivers/ If you try again in about a year (after the open drivers get the major bugs out) it should all work with out an issue.
Yes but you picked out a remote and learned how to set it up. You picked out a TV tuner and learned how to set that up. The list gos on. Many geeks are too preoccupied with other projects that they find more fun to sit down and put together a MythTV box. It's not that assembling it and installing it takes so long or is too hard it's that you need to figure out what parts to use and you need to configure it just how you like it. In my experience THAT is where the time gos. For most all of this would be a good week to a month working on it in your free time. So for someone who would rather use this free time for something else Tivo is a nice bit of tech that is not very expensive. If your lucky you only have to mess with it once but as the saying gos, shit happens. Many people would be happier that they can have someone fix for them if something does go wrong and not have to sit down on work on it.
It reminds me of working on a car. I've needed to change the oil in mine for a while now. I'm not gonna have someone else do it but I still find it a pain in the ass. I have other things i would rather do with my time then lay out in the dirt for an hour. But some people LOVE working on their car.
So yes, MythTV is awesome and simple but some people would rather just pay for a Tivo. For the record I plan on making one my self but I have just not gotten around to it yet. Why? For one I have to change my damn oil first. Come to think of it I think my breaks need changing too...
As I understand it these things work but turning the code in to a state diagram. It maps out the code by stepping through it and replacing variables that have a values with sets of possible values. So if the code has the user enter a value for the int X then the sate of X is now what ever the user was permitted to enter. Then when the code hits an "if(X > 10)" statement the map branches so that on one branch it the state is like the IF executed and on the other it is like it did not.
The problem is that to do a full map of this would take far more processor time then any group would be willing to give so programs that do this need to take clever little short cuts. This cause the user that the parent is talking about.
Do I understand it correctly?
It's not worth it for some. Keeping up on whats what in recording hardware and maintaining a MythTV box are less fun then working on some other geek hobby. Tivo is reasonably priced and works well. Also with Tivo you can get several, one for each member of the family, for less then additional MythTV boxes.
MOD PARENT UP! I do use firebug. This makes perfect sense. I did not think that they would release FF if it had an issue like this and several people said they did not have this issue. I've seen it on all computers (Ubuntu and XP) running FF3b5 but they all also have firebug (I do web dev stuff for work). Thanks for the tip