I can actually see a point to not taking Chemistry but a basic Biology course and Physics course should be required. You have to have a basic understanding of how the world works (scientifically).
This is entirely untrue. A manifesto isn't for existing members it is for new and potential members. So they know up front what they are getting into, very similar to a mission statement.
Good point. That said, ATA hardware is really quite old. I don't know that it would hurt to say, you know what if you want to run 3.6 of Linux you aren't going to have an ATA drive. If they run to run ancient hardware, let them run older hardware (note I didn't say ancient hardware).
We shouldn't even be writing for ATA drives anymore. And any name brand manufacturer that you would trust (on a mediocre level) WD, Seagate etc... all support NCQ.
I have never had any problems with either, even running things like java applets, my web cam, music or... Yahoo Games when I want to play Cribbage with my sweety.
This is actually a very smart move. Microsoft has to pay DVD player manufacturers to allow you to play DVDs. Here is the thing.... in the next 18 months you won't see DVD players on most laptops. Heck mine doesn't even have a CDROM. Even my media center does't use DVDs, I just play an avi file or stream from netflix/amazon.
Further, you can always use VLC. This really isn't a big deal.
This is the most ridiculous post I have ever read (and that is saying a lot for slashdot).
> Wife alleges you hit her? Off to jail, guilty until proven innocent buddy.
Unless she has marks, you aren't going to jail. If she has marks, yes you are. Guess what, you probably hit her.
> Wife alleges you molested the kids? Say goodbye to your kids forever, pal. Maybe if you're lucky we'll let you see them for a few hours once a month with a supervisor present.
Uh no. Only if there is evidence of such abuse. Which you would likely create by your own juvenile response that you just posted. Stop reading the mass media.
> Wife wants child support? We don't care that she's spending all the money on her new ex-con boyfriend's meth lab, you'll pay it or it's jail for you, sparky!
Yep, and your point? Prove it is for the meth lab, and get custody of the kids and have her have to pay you child support. All it takes is pictures, and maybe 1000.00 to a private detective.
> Wife is a drug addict who neglects the kids? Tough luck pal, she's still getting full custody over you. That's what you get for showing up to court with a penis.
Uh, no. Prove she is a drug addict. File a motion to compel for a drug test, offer to take one yourself. Be clean, have her not be clean. You will get the kids.
> Wife won't let YOU have the kids during your court-appointed custody days? File this paperwork. We'll look into it in about a year, if you're lucky.
Uhh I have personal experience with this. The "Wife" will get in a whole heap of trouble for this and it doesn't take a year. You file for a one hour hearing... the states do not screw around with this stuff anymore.
> You won't let HER have the kids during her court-appointed custody days? Freeze, motherfucker! Get you're hands on your head NOW! ON THE GROUND, ASSHOLE! DON'T MAKE ME SHOOT YOU!
Now this... although exaggerated can happen but, seriously if you are doing that, you deserve it.
Linux fans are for Innovation. That is why the most innovating distros have the mind share of the community. What you are dealing with here are people who are not the majority. Remember the 2% always whine the loudest.
It is a license. Free Software and Open Source both are derived from a simple idea, the code is free to reuse and distribute. The religiousity of the community is derived only from the community itself. Would it be nice if those projects were more community driven? Sure. Does it make them any less "Open" or "Free", no.
At stewarding its own resources, preferring instead to buy resources from other countries that do not have the level of regulation we have. We have plenty of oil, gas, rate earth metals etc... we just don't go after it.
I am not rich but I do make more than 200k. You know why? I employ people and am an S-Corp. The current tax format in Washington is actually fair. I pay a % right off the top for the business. I don't pay off profit, I pay off GROSS!. An income tax on top of that would literally double my tax burden.
Anyone who has properly scaled an application knows the database isn't the problem. If it was, it wouldn't take 12 applications servers to bring the thing to its knees. That said, most of your gripes equate to:
I am not a DBA and therefore I do not understand DBA and therefore I must complain.
The market cap of Red Hat is 6.06B The market cap of Oracle is 119.57B
Oracle doesn't need "a community" in any way. Communities are great if the bottom line isn't the priority. RHAT makes the bottom like "a" priority but they are certainly not making it "the" priority. They can't because they are an Open Source company and without the community they are hosed. Oracle needs a community like Bill Gates needs a loan.
We (the U.S.) is a great deal larger and more spread out than *any* of those other countries. However, it is ridiculous that I can't easily get 100Mbs (compared to other countries) in cities like Portland or Seattle. I would expect to only be able to get 25Mbs where I live (and I can and do), as I am 45 from a major metro.
No, to be clear. Dollar for dollar I can find competent open source staff offshore in a much easier fashion than in the states. The key is to balance to two.
I see your point with something like Linux engineers but that isn't the part of open source I am in.
It is actually not tough to find offshore open source qualified expertise. You just have to be willing to dig a little deeper than freelance.com:)
I run a small company. The reality is, off shoring especially with the Open Source market makes entirely too much sense from a business perspective. I can have 4 United States based people, and another 12 strategically located throughout the world. The cost of the 4 is the same as the 12. It is better for my customers, and frankly my pocket book. Also, to be honest Open Source expertise is easier to obtain off american shores.
The downside to the largest economy in the world is that it is also ridiculously expensive. Of course not as bad as western Europe but still...
The closest you can get in your argument is that GCC is GPL but even that falls down because the fact that GCC is GPL is irrelevant. It is glibc that matters and it is LGPL.
The Internet was built on a foundation of interoperability. Which means open and closed source.
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I can actually see a point to not taking Chemistry but a basic Biology course and Physics course should be required. You have to have a basic understanding of how the world works (scientifically).
Joshua D. Drake
This is entirely untrue. A manifesto isn't for existing members it is for new and potential members. So they know up front what they are getting into, very similar to a mission statement.
9.0 was the first version with replication, not 9.1 and we have had things like warm standby since 8.1.
Good point. That said, ATA hardware is really quite old. I don't know that it would hurt to say, you know what if you want to run 3.6 of Linux you aren't going to have an ATA drive. If they run to run ancient hardware, let them run older hardware (note I didn't say ancient hardware).
We shouldn't even be writing for ATA drives anymore. And any name brand manufacturer that you would trust (on a mediocre level) WD, Seagate etc... all support NCQ.
People complain about this all the time.
Just don't use the site.
Not to be picky, but Jack is NOT Bourbon. Yes, you really can tell the difference. You can even smell the difference.
Good lord.. since when... oh the 90s.... which were.... over a decade ago.
Wow...
I am not even sure where to start here except:
Linux Mint just works for me.
Ubuntu just works for me.
I have never had any problems with either, even running things like java applets, my web cam, music or... Yahoo Games when I want to play Cribbage with my sweety.
This is actually a very smart move. Microsoft has to pay DVD player manufacturers to allow you to play DVDs. Here is the thing.... in the next 18 months you won't see DVD players on most laptops. Heck mine doesn't even have a CDROM. Even my media center does't use DVDs, I just play an avi file or stream from netflix/amazon.
Further, you can always use VLC. This really isn't a big deal.
This is the most ridiculous post I have ever read (and that is saying a lot for slashdot).
> Wife alleges you hit her? Off to jail, guilty until proven innocent buddy.
Unless she has marks, you aren't going to jail. If she has marks, yes you are. Guess what, you probably hit her.
> Wife alleges you molested the kids? Say goodbye to your kids forever, pal. Maybe if you're lucky we'll let you see them for a few hours once a month with a supervisor present.
Uh no. Only if there is evidence of such abuse. Which you would likely create by your own juvenile response that you just posted. Stop reading the mass media.
> Wife wants child support? We don't care that she's spending all the money on her new ex-con boyfriend's meth lab, you'll pay it or it's jail for you, sparky!
Yep, and your point? Prove it is for the meth lab, and get custody of the kids and have her have to pay you child support. All it takes is pictures, and maybe 1000.00 to a private detective.
> Wife is a drug addict who neglects the kids? Tough luck pal, she's still getting full custody over you. That's what you get for showing up to court with a penis.
Uh, no. Prove she is a drug addict. File a motion to compel for a drug test, offer to take one yourself. Be clean, have her not be clean. You will get the kids.
> Wife won't let YOU have the kids during your court-appointed custody days? File this paperwork. We'll look into it in about a year, if you're lucky.
Uhh I have personal experience with this. The "Wife" will get in a whole heap of trouble for this and it doesn't take a year. You file for a one hour hearing... the states do not screw around with this stuff anymore.
> You won't let HER have the kids during her court-appointed custody days? Freeze, motherfucker! Get you're hands on your head NOW! ON THE GROUND, ASSHOLE! DON'T MAKE ME SHOOT YOU!
Now this... although exaggerated can happen but, seriously if you are doing that, you deserve it.
Don't we want all of our code lean?
Yes,
Linux fans are for Innovation. That is why the most innovating distros have the mind share of the community. What you are dealing with here are people who are not the majority. Remember the 2% always whine the loudest.
It is a license. Free Software and Open Source both are derived from a simple idea, the code is free to reuse and distribute. The religiousity of the community is derived only from the community itself. Would it be nice if those projects were more community driven? Sure. Does it make them any less "Open" or "Free", no.
At stewarding its own resources, preferring instead to buy resources from other countries that do not have the level of regulation we have. We have plenty of oil, gas, rate earth metals etc... we just don't go after it.
Of course they picked it over yours. Yours is intelligently written and has an expectation that people will understand what you are talking about.
Unfortunately, this is Slashdot.
I am not rich but I do make more than 200k. You know why? I employ people and am an S-Corp. The current tax format in Washington is actually fair. I pay a % right off the top for the business. I don't pay off profit, I pay off GROSS!. An income tax on top of that would literally double my tax burden.
That is ridiculous.
Spoken with proud ignorance.
Anyone who has properly scaled an application knows the database isn't the problem. If it was, it wouldn't take 12 applications servers to bring the thing to its knees. That said, most of your gripes equate to:
I am not a DBA and therefore I do not understand DBA and therefore I must complain.
Further SQL has nothing to do with ACID. AT ALL!
Although I agree, kinda. We are wrong.
The market cap of Red Hat is 6.06B
The market cap of Oracle is 119.57B
Oracle doesn't need "a community" in any way. Communities are great if the bottom line isn't the priority. RHAT makes the bottom like "a" priority but they are certainly not making it "the" priority. They can't because they are an Open Source company and without the community they are hosed. Oracle needs a community like Bill Gates needs a loan.
We (the U.S.) is a great deal larger and more spread out than *any* of those other countries. However, it is ridiculous that I can't easily get 100Mbs (compared to other countries) in cities like Portland or Seattle. I would expect to only be able to get 25Mbs where I live (and I can and do), as I am 45 from a major metro.
To bite America's shiny metal ass?
No, to be clear. Dollar for dollar I can find competent open source staff offshore in a much easier fashion than in the states. The key is to balance to two.
I see your point with something like Linux engineers but that isn't the part of open source I am in.
It is actually not tough to find offshore open source qualified expertise. You just have to be willing to dig a little deeper than freelance.com :)
I run a small company. The reality is, off shoring especially with the Open Source market makes entirely too much sense from a business perspective. I can have 4 United States based people, and another 12 strategically located throughout the world. The cost of the 4 is the same as the 12. It is better for my customers, and frankly my pocket book. Also, to be honest Open Source expertise is easier to obtain off american shores.
The downside to the largest economy in the world is that it is also ridiculously expensive. Of course not as bad as western Europe but still...
Actually you are wrong.
The foundation of the populist Internet is:
NCSA/Apache.
Perl
Sendmail
Which has morphed into:
Apache
PHP
Java
Perl
Python
Postfix
None of which are PHP.
The closest you can get in your argument is that GCC is GPL but even that falls down because the fact that GCC is GPL is irrelevant. It is glibc that matters and it is LGPL.
The Internet was built on a foundation of interoperability. Which means open and closed source.
PostgreSQL has had Windows support for 5 years (4 years?). It has been what I would call reasonable for 3 of those and good for 18 months.