When was the last time you heard of some big corporation going with gentoo? Never, because big corporations don't have that kind of time to waste.
I am not at liberty to say what the Gentoo system was doing... but Gentoo is in use by the DoD in a warzone (Iraq). Is that big/important enough for you?:)
1. In general people are lazy, complacent sheep who hear what they want to hear and don't take the trouble of getting involved until a problem directly impacts their lives. When that happens it is usually too late.
Don't take this personally as you are merely repeating a deeply rooted meme, but this line is bullshit. If so many people were so lazy, how does so much work get done?
Many people are not terribly smart. Many people have LOTS of problems at a personal level that they need to deal with on a daily basis (bills, kids, traffic, cooking, cleaning, interpersonal relationships, how to program the time on the fucking VCR, etc, etc, etc). Combine those two factors alone and you seemingly get validation for the meme that people are lazy, complacent sheep.
Many people are barely able to cope with their day to day lives. How the hell are they going to understand "net neutrality" which predicates an understanding of electricity, protocols, corporate law, etc.
Shit, wrong thread. Sorry, let me rephrase:
Many people are barely able to cope with their day to day lives. How the hell are they going to understand "Global Warming" which predicates an understanding of carbon sequestration (wtf is carbon?), ocean currents, ozone, land locked ice vs floating ice, etc etc.
Regardless, there are LOTS of things that people need to worry about right now and most people just do not have the mental capability to track all of these issues, much less actually do anything majorly useful.
For myself, all that I can do is limit my carbon emissions, vote out incumbents, and teach my own family to be as responsible as possible. I can not stop the NSA from listening to our phone calls. I can not stop SBC/ATT from raping the American public. I can not force Ford or GM to make fuel efficient, smog reducing vehicles.
Does all of that make me a lazy, complacent sheep?
I am on satellite right now. Latency is a minimum of 600 milliseconds so games like Counter Strike are completely unplayable. I do play Eve Online and it is not so bad, quite playable for the most part. I have friends here who play City of Heroes and World of Warcraft and they have no problems with either of those games.
In short, if response time is absolutely critical, the game will be unplayable. If response time is important, you will get frustrated. If response time is not important, satellite kicks ass.
Do not confuse latency and bandwidth. I can download (theoretically) at 4 megabits per second (bandwidth) but it takes a good second or so (latency) for the download to start. Clear?
Make it Progressive - Right now D2 simply gets all the comments in a discussion. This sucks. We need to write a task to retrieve only appropriate comments. So if you are at Score:4 threshold, we don't bother retrieving the full text of all comments at Score:-1. And even better, if someone moderates or posts a comment, we need to update the page you are reading to reflect those changes. Again, the goal here is that once you load a page, you don't need to close it until you are done with the discussion. This actually has MANY subtle problems, like how do you notify a user when a thread 10 pages up has been replied to.
I like having all of the comments ready to be viewed if necessary. For example, I was just reading the Defense Lawyer Q&A and there were many sub discussions that I wanted to read. With D2, I just had to click. Honestly, the D2 stuff is rather liked tabbed browsing for me: At first, I was like "WTF?" but as I use it, i am finding it indispensible.
My only "complaint" is that as long as that silly "popup" or whatever it is called is visible, scrolling is quite painful. Thankfully though, there is a close button on it, so once I have the comments set the way I like them, I just close it and everything is speedy again.
Tom carries incredible influence over everything around him, and is the only being to not only NOT be tempted by the ring, but to actually play with it and even, inversely, make the ring itself disappear (to which he laughs).
Hmmm. IIRC (which I doubt), the ring did not disappear. The wonder was that Tom himself did not become invisible when he put on the ring. Yes? Regardless, you wrote a thought provoking post.
A reasonable argument can be made that, for example, liquor stores have a duty to prevent children from buying alcohol in them. However, you must also consider that it is extremely easy and reliable to verify the age of store patrons. No analogy exists online -- it is impossible.
It is extremely easy to keep a 13 year old from buying liquor, but how about a 17 year old with a good fake ID?
We use Solar Winds and SNMPC together, however, What's up Gold is useful. Both Solar Winds and SNMPC are very powerful tools that can monitor large, widespread networks.
Although a PITA to set up, Netdisco http://www.netdisco.org/ is a pretty awesome Open Source solution.
I am going to quote the anonymous coward so that those who ignore anonymous postings can hear:
Right, all those targets of no military value whatsoever, like bridges and airports and buildings being used as arms depots in violation of the Geneva Convention: those were just destroyed on a wanton rampage. Heck, any military man will tell you that, when it comes to crossing rivers, bridges are more of a nuisance than anything else! And the arms stores? Heck, those were old guns - the IDF was doing Hezbola a favor getting rid of that stuff, since now the reinforcements swimming across the river would be carrying *new* guns in their teeth!
It makes no military sense at all!
I conveniently left out the snide remark at the end... but you should consider well the meaning. Not everyone is blind or partisan. We can see through some of the crap. Can you give a good reason for Hezbollah to go invade another country and kidnap its soldiers? I am sure someone believes that there is a good reason but a rational person would say that the agressor is the side that first (remember, Israel was respecting the cease-fire/truce) went into the territory of the other side.
Personally, I would just nuke the whole region just to shut them all up. I do not care if they are Arabs, Israelis, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, kikes, wops, whores, etc. The craziness just has to stop or be contained strictly within that region.
Your job is to inform management in a clear and concise manner. The only time any action is to be taken outside of management's approval is when a law is being broken. If it was your job to decide which risks are worth taking, then you would be management. Understand?
*shrug* If I were lying, why would I provide my real login name for verification? It is not my fault nor my concern that Wikipedia has failed to keep track of my changes. Mayhaps the record of changes is not kept forever?
I have found that compressing a feature length movie to anything less than 1.5 gigabytes results in very noticable video compression artifacts. I keep the audio as AC3 to avoid audio compression artifacts as happens with even 320kbps MP3 compression.
My login name at wikipedia is, amazingly, strikethree. I stopped editing a year or two ago for the exact same reason as the previous poster mentioned. I do not have any diffs as I do not care enough to fight that particular system. To help you focus your disbelieving mind, I fixed grammatical and spelling areas mostly in the astronomy section.
My guess is that the author/s had scripts running to check for changes and to revert the changes to prevent vandalism. *shrug* I really do not care why my fixes were erased. I tried to help and was rebuffed. I guess the vandals have won.
Some people like to use words that are not ordinary. I like using them myself because I actually feel my mind going numb when I continuously use the same two thousands words over and over and over. When I do it, it is not to impress anyone but rather to exercise my brain. Maybe you are being too unkind to this gentleman (pretentious snob?).
Let's not force everyone into monosyllabic commentary by attacking erudite prose.:P
That is a very interesting analysis of the two world wars... I find myself wondering if you wrote it yourself on the spot or if you had pre-written it at some other time and used it here where it was appropriate.
First, the frog boiling thing is NOT true. Second, some of us only travel with carry-on luggage and therefore require toothpaste to be in our travel bag. I do not trust my expensive laptop and other gear to be handled with care by the underpaid and overworked baggage handlers. Besides, what if they lose my laptop? The data that it has on it is very valuable to me and while I may have backups, I do not have them with me.
A good reason to not allow too many planets is that as children, we are taught the planets names. It helps us orient ourselves and learn our location/place/relation in/to the "universe". Nine planets were pretty tough to remember way back then since there was not much else to grasp on to as to their relevance. Having a large number of planets would reduce the value of knowing the names of the planets. *shrug*
I was about to mod your comment as flamebait due to the attacks you levied against the parent poster. I am, however, choosing to respond.
The parent's question is valid. I have voted for over 20 years now... and every time the results come out, nothing I have voted for has come about. Nothing. Not one thing.
Are you going to attack me now and assume that I am voting for allowing murderers to go free? To allow kidnapping? Your evil attacks on the parent were completely unwarranted. You assume that he/she doesn't vote, is lazy, and is fat (from being lazy?). You deserve a "fuck you" for heaping such abuse on someone who is pointing out something quite valid:
Voting appears to make no difference at all since the sheep all follow the shephard.
Of course, I won't assume that you are an ass. I will politely assume that you are someone who is upset that nobody who agrees with you seems to vote.
Look, I do not care WHAT you call it. De-evolution, evolution, none of the above, etc. Our behaviours are killing off large sections of the life on earth. This is unacceptable to me. I do not want to swim in acidic slime. I don't want to eat cows filled with mercury. I don't want to have to wear a gas mask and a rubber suit to keep my eyes/skin from "corroding".
Being pedantic in this situation is not terribly productive. It distracts from the problem.
With 95, I bought the upgrade, installed it without trouble, and ran it without rebooting for *29* days! Woot! Then the first service pack came out. Never ran that long without rebooting again.
There were no "Service Packs" for non-NT based systems. Furthermore, I challenge your assertion that you could go 29 entire days without rebooting. Even if you let the machine just sit there, it would crash before 2 weeks passed.
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When was the last time you heard of some big corporation going with gentoo? Never, because big corporations don't have that kind of time to waste.
:)
I am not at liberty to say what the Gentoo system was doing... but Gentoo is in use by the DoD in a warzone (Iraq). Is that big/important enough for you?
strike
1. In general people are lazy, complacent sheep who hear what they want to hear and don't take the trouble of getting involved until a problem directly impacts their lives. When that happens it is usually too late.
Don't take this personally as you are merely repeating a deeply rooted meme, but this line is bullshit. If so many people were so lazy, how does so much work get done?
Many people are not terribly smart. Many people have LOTS of problems at a personal level that they need to deal with on a daily basis (bills, kids, traffic, cooking, cleaning, interpersonal relationships, how to program the time on the fucking VCR, etc, etc, etc). Combine those two factors alone and you seemingly get validation for the meme that people are lazy, complacent sheep.
Many people are barely able to cope with their day to day lives. How the hell are they going to understand "net neutrality" which predicates an understanding of electricity, protocols, corporate law, etc.
Shit, wrong thread. Sorry, let me rephrase:
Many people are barely able to cope with their day to day lives. How the hell are they going to understand "Global Warming" which predicates an understanding of carbon sequestration (wtf is carbon?), ocean currents, ozone, land locked ice vs floating ice, etc etc.
Regardless, there are LOTS of things that people need to worry about right now and most people just do not have the mental capability to track all of these issues, much less actually do anything majorly useful.
For myself, all that I can do is limit my carbon emissions, vote out incumbents, and teach my own family to be as responsible as possible. I can not stop the NSA from listening to our phone calls. I can not stop SBC/ATT from raping the American public. I can not force Ford or GM to make fuel efficient, smog reducing vehicles.
Does all of that make me a lazy, complacent sheep?
strike
Bullshit.
strike
I am on satellite right now. Latency is a minimum of 600 milliseconds so games like Counter Strike are completely unplayable. I do play Eve Online and it is not so bad, quite playable for the most part. I have friends here who play City of Heroes and World of Warcraft and they have no problems with either of those games.
In short, if response time is absolutely critical, the game will be unplayable. If response time is important, you will get frustrated. If response time is not important, satellite kicks ass.
Do not confuse latency and bandwidth. I can download (theoretically) at 4 megabits per second (bandwidth) but it takes a good second or so (latency) for the download to start. Clear?
strike
Make it Progressive - Right now D2 simply gets all the comments in a discussion. This sucks. We need to write a task to retrieve only appropriate comments. So if you are at Score:4 threshold, we don't bother retrieving the full text of all comments at Score:-1. And even better, if someone moderates or posts a comment, we need to update the page you are reading to reflect those changes. Again, the goal here is that once you load a page, you don't need to close it until you are done with the discussion. This actually has MANY subtle problems, like how do you notify a user when a thread 10 pages up has been replied to.
I like having all of the comments ready to be viewed if necessary. For example, I was just reading the Defense Lawyer Q&A and there were many sub discussions that I wanted to read. With D2, I just had to click. Honestly, the D2 stuff is rather liked tabbed browsing for me: At first, I was like "WTF?" but as I use it, i am finding it indispensible.
My only "complaint" is that as long as that silly "popup" or whatever it is called is visible, scrolling is quite painful. Thankfully though, there is a close button on it, so once I have the comments set the way I like them, I just close it and everything is speedy again.
Regardless, thank you for you efforts.
Dave
Tom carries incredible influence over everything around him, and is the only being to not only NOT be tempted by the ring, but to actually play with it and even, inversely, make the ring itself disappear (to which he laughs).
Hmmm. IIRC (which I doubt), the ring did not disappear. The wonder was that Tom himself did not become invisible when he put on the ring. Yes? Regardless, you wrote a thought provoking post.
strike
A reasonable argument can be made that, for example, liquor stores have a duty to prevent children from buying alcohol in them. However, you must also consider that it is extremely easy and reliable to verify the age of store patrons. No analogy exists online -- it is impossible.
It is extremely easy to keep a 13 year old from buying liquor, but how about a 17 year old with a good fake ID?
strike
We use Solar Winds and SNMPC together, however, What's up Gold is useful. Both Solar Winds and SNMPC are very powerful tools that can monitor large, widespread networks.
Although a PITA to set up, Netdisco http://www.netdisco.org/ is a pretty awesome Open Source solution.
strike
I have always wondered if the increased CO2 is because there were fewer plants during an Ice Age and not necessarily the cause of it. *shrug*
strike
I am going to quote the anonymous coward so that those who ignore anonymous postings can hear:
Right, all those targets of no military value whatsoever, like bridges and airports and buildings being used as arms depots in violation of the Geneva Convention: those were just destroyed on a wanton rampage. Heck, any military man will tell you that, when it comes to crossing rivers, bridges are more of a nuisance than anything else! And the arms stores? Heck, those were old guns - the IDF was doing Hezbola a favor getting rid of that stuff, since now the reinforcements swimming across the river would be carrying *new* guns in their teeth!
It makes no military sense at all!
I conveniently left out the snide remark at the end... but you should consider well the meaning. Not everyone is blind or partisan. We can see through some of the crap. Can you give a good reason for Hezbollah to go invade another country and kidnap its soldiers? I am sure someone believes that there is a good reason but a rational person would say that the agressor is the side that first (remember, Israel was respecting the cease-fire/truce) went into the territory of the other side.
Personally, I would just nuke the whole region just to shut them all up. I do not care if they are Arabs, Israelis, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, kikes, wops, whores, etc. The craziness just has to stop or be contained strictly within that region.
strike
Your job is to inform management in a clear and concise manner. The only time any action is to be taken outside of management's approval is when a law is being broken. If it was your job to decide which risks are worth taking, then you would be management. Understand?
strike
*shrug* If I were lying, why would I provide my real login name for verification? It is not my fault nor my concern that Wikipedia has failed to keep track of my changes. Mayhaps the record of changes is not kept forever?
strike
I have found that compressing a feature length movie to anything less than 1.5 gigabytes results in very noticable video compression artifacts. I keep the audio as AC3 to avoid audio compression artifacts as happens with even 320kbps MP3 compression.
strike
My login name at wikipedia is, amazingly, strikethree. I stopped editing a year or two ago for the exact same reason as the previous poster mentioned. I do not have any diffs as I do not care enough to fight that particular system. To help you focus your disbelieving mind, I fixed grammatical and spelling areas mostly in the astronomy section.
My guess is that the author/s had scripts running to check for changes and to revert the changes to prevent vandalism. *shrug* I really do not care why my fixes were erased. I tried to help and was rebuffed. I guess the vandals have won.
strike
Some people like to use words that are not ordinary. I like using them myself because I actually feel my mind going numb when I continuously use the same two thousands words over and over and over. When I do it, it is not to impress anyone but rather to exercise my brain. Maybe you are being too unkind to this gentleman (pretentious snob?).
:P
Let's not force everyone into monosyllabic commentary by attacking erudite prose.
strike
All systems of classification are ultimately arbitrary. *shrug* Things are what they are regardless of our monkey-brain methods of understanding.
strike
That is a very interesting analysis of the two world wars... I find myself wondering if you wrote it yourself on the spot or if you had pre-written it at some other time and used it here where it was appropriate.
strike
I generated a CD full of random data, which anyone is willing to have if they want it.
:P
640 megabytes is a little much for my connection to handle right now. Could you compress it and send it to me please?
strike
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't their hardware divisions produce vastly more cash than their media division/s?
strike
hm. gives new meaning to the term "explosive diahrea". :/
strike
First, the frog boiling thing is NOT true. Second, some of us only travel with carry-on luggage and therefore require toothpaste to be in our travel bag. I do not trust my expensive laptop and other gear to be handled with care by the underpaid and overworked baggage handlers. Besides, what if they lose my laptop? The data that it has on it is very valuable to me and while I may have backups, I do not have them with me.
strike
A good reason to not allow too many planets is that as children, we are taught the planets names. It helps us orient ourselves and learn our location/place/relation in/to the "universe". Nine planets were pretty tough to remember way back then since there was not much else to grasp on to as to their relevance. Having a large number of planets would reduce the value of knowing the names of the planets. *shrug*
strike
I was about to mod your comment as flamebait due to the attacks you levied against the parent poster. I am, however, choosing to respond.
The parent's question is valid. I have voted for over 20 years now... and every time the results come out, nothing I have voted for has come about. Nothing. Not one thing.
Are you going to attack me now and assume that I am voting for allowing murderers to go free? To allow kidnapping? Your evil attacks on the parent were completely unwarranted. You assume that he/she doesn't vote, is lazy, and is fat (from being lazy?). You deserve a "fuck you" for heaping such abuse on someone who is pointing out something quite valid:
Voting appears to make no difference at all since the sheep all follow the shephard.
Of course, I won't assume that you are an ass. I will politely assume that you are someone who is upset that nobody who agrees with you seems to vote.
strike
Look, I do not care WHAT you call it. De-evolution, evolution, none of the above, etc. Our behaviours are killing off large sections of the life on earth. This is unacceptable to me. I do not want to swim in acidic slime. I don't want to eat cows filled with mercury. I don't want to have to wear a gas mask and a rubber suit to keep my eyes/skin from "corroding".
Being pedantic in this situation is not terribly productive. It distracts from the problem.
strike
With 95, I bought the upgrade, installed it without trouble, and ran it without rebooting for *29* days! Woot! Then the first service pack came out. Never ran that long without rebooting again.
There were no "Service Packs" for non-NT based systems. Furthermore, I challenge your assertion that you could go 29 entire days without rebooting. Even if you let the machine just sit there, it would crash before 2 weeks passed.
strike