I think you have your years a little bit off - the United States pulled itself together long before the war of 1812. Prior to 1789 I could accept part of your argument (the Articles of Confederation had such a weak federal government it was pretty powerless), but we had the Constitution was ratified in by 1789, we elected General Washington to the Presidency, and the First Congress was in session. Perhaps you should review early American history?
By then the employer can go "Work for slavery wage or don't work at all, there are ten other guys right outside who are hungrier than you."
If there are "10 other guys" willing to do the work for a given wage, it appears a natural price for labor has been set by the market. If the wage is too low, workers couldn't survive and wouldn't be able to work. If someone desires a higher wage, they must learn a skill that's in demand or move to a location where the skill they know is in demand.
It is not the job of the employer to ensure a given employee has obtained enough compensation through employment to survive, let alone live a comfortable life. That's the responsibility of each one of us in society.
Stop forcing your fellow citizen to pay gold prices for aluminum. It's not helping anyone, except Democrat politicians.
Considering their choice is often struggle to survive with some income vs no-income, that isn't much of a choice. Same reason that quite a bit of people on government assistance are employed workers. With a wrecked economy like we have had for the past eight years, the balance of power is disrupted - the employers have the power to force their positions right now. Get fired or layed off? You're tainted, good luck getting a decent position.
You can live in the DC area (on the MD side anyway) on less then 60K - I've done it. Just don't live in DC, Columbia, Silver Spring, or Rockville and spend wisely. Plus in the DC metro area getting hired without a degree is rather hard. HR cares that you have a degree, not what it's in or what your experience is.
Its not like we have 300TB SANs in our homes or schools.
Not yet, anyway, but in the next five to ten years that might not be a problem any longer. Plus I would hope the data is in a more manageable form then just one giant tarball (is there any file system that allows for an individual file that big anyway?)
I personally like Unity. It feels like a modernized WindowMaker/AfterStep. But if you didn't like it, that's fine - there are plenty of other DE/WM to choose from. I run TDE (KDE 3.x) on several systems, and currently toying around with CDE and MaXX on older machines (Pentium III and older) since they are super lightweight (and MaXX because it provides the fonts for remote IRIX programs to work right)
LOL - "no even Linux anymore." - how do you figure? It's Linux sure enough, and works just fine. I don't see what all the Ubuntu hate is about these days. The biggest difference between Ubuntu and say Fedora is the package management (and Ubuntu has the option for the Unity desktop, which I rather like. There are just a few small things that I wish were changed and it would be awesome).
I had a similar view when I bought my current MBP (mid-2012, with the replaceable parts). When I was in Microcenter, for about $100 more I could have bought a 2014 model, but the CPU and GPU were only one generation newer, plus I would have lost the ability to replace/upgrade parts, so the only real gain would have been the retina display. Sure, it's very nice, and if my display ever breaks I may look into a while to wire in a retina display (wouldn't be the first laptop that we've re-wired the display connector to put a much nicer LCD on...) onto what I have, but I decided instead to go with upgradable, and bought 16GB of RAM to upgrade the 2012 model before I left the store (the 2014 only had 8GB).
The other point that I decided on is that I would benefit more from built in Ethernet then having two thunderbolt ports, though having an HDMI port would have been nice...
Oh I loved my G4 - maxed out with OS X 10.4 (and I had Classic mode too! Plus at some point I had installed Ubuntu 10.04 on there, as a fourth (original install of 10.1 was saved on the original HDD) boot option), 1.5GB RAM, and mine sadly had its first real issue just two weeks ago - sounds like the PSU fan is quitting (it's rattling pretty bad when it runs). But for a 2001 model, that's a pretty nice run!
My 2006 MBP still works just fine from a hardware perspective - I replaced the HDD when I got it in 2010 with a hybrid drive (Seagate XT) and replaced the battery once. Unfortunately, it's usefulness is limited by what the hardware can do - 2GB of RAM gets eaten up pretty fast, and the video card (ATI Radeon X1600) cannot handle modern codecs, so modern video is out of the question. And the Intel Core Duo CPU feels pretty slow compared to its successors too I suppose, but there are still quite a lot of things the laptop is still fine with (outside of a browser the main place I find myself is at a terminal using SSH into a server or RDP into a Windows server. Plus with Steam's streaming service I can use my much more powerful desktop to do the heavy lifting for games if I so choose) I bought this January a refurbished 2012 MBP (the last one with replaceable parts) and expect it to be fairly usable for quite a while (having 16GB of RAM in a laptop is pretty nice, and I'll probably opt for an SSD one of these days).
Well, I do believe that is the idea of a "stable" release. The trend of rolling release that has become so popular these days is what you should be against. If I release software for RHEL 5, I can be pretty certain that the libraries will not change for the life of RHEL 5. However, Fedora changes the kernel version, and then we get Arch and Gentoo that are constantly updated, plus based on the Fedora Project's Google+ page more and more people are just running Rawhide claiming that traditional releases are too slow (and then they cry when a third party repo, like RPMFusion, breaks).
Looks fine using Firefox 45 on Windows (7, 64-bit) and Firefox 44 and 45 (updated the browser this morning) on OS X (10.6.8, 32-bit). It tells me the certificate was verified by Let's Encrypt. Hell, even Firefox 2 and 3 on IRIX (6.5.29, check your logs for a browser string along the lines of Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; IRIX64 IP30; en-us.... for the fun of it) works just fine. What configuration are you using?.
Sounds like a rather potent machine. My LUG in college had a couple of SGI Octanes (good ones too - one had 2x300MHz and the had 2x600MHz CPUs, both with 2GB of RAM) that I made it my mission to get functional - one of them I had up and running with Gentoo Linux, the other one I taught me to love IRIX once I got it working. Learned how to setup netboot and a netinstall server getting them running (the external SCSI CD-ROM Drive was super slow, and I never did get Linux to boot locally, only was able to get the kernel to netboot and then load everything else from local storage). Working with Sun equipment after that was super simple. But all of that was self taught or learned through help from IRC and senior LUG members, nothing from my classes.
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I think you have your years a little bit off - the United States pulled itself together long before the war of 1812. Prior to 1789 I could accept part of your argument (the Articles of Confederation had such a weak federal government it was pretty powerless), but we had the Constitution was ratified in by 1789, we elected General Washington to the Presidency, and the First Congress was in session. Perhaps you should review early American history?
Finally! Another XMMS user! That was a program that I always had running once upon a time, on my Pentium I with RH 6.2....
By then the employer can go "Work for slavery wage or don't work at all, there are ten other guys right outside who are hungrier than you."
If there are "10 other guys" willing to do the work for a given wage, it appears a natural price for labor has been set by the market. If the wage is too low, workers couldn't survive and wouldn't be able to work. If someone desires a higher wage, they must learn a skill that's in demand or move to a location where the skill they know is in demand.
It is not the job of the employer to ensure a given employee has obtained enough compensation through employment to survive, let alone live a comfortable life. That's the responsibility of each one of us in society.
Stop forcing your fellow citizen to pay gold prices for aluminum. It's not helping anyone, except Democrat politicians.
Considering their choice is often struggle to survive with some income vs no-income, that isn't much of a choice. Same reason that quite a bit of people on government assistance are employed workers. With a wrecked economy like we have had for the past eight years, the balance of power is disrupted - the employers have the power to force their positions right now. Get fired or layed off? You're tainted, good luck getting a decent position.
Speak for yourself - I pay almost $1000/month in medical expenses alone.
You can live in the DC area (on the MD side anyway) on less then 60K - I've done it. Just don't live in DC, Columbia, Silver Spring, or Rockville and spend wisely. Plus in the DC metro area getting hired without a degree is rather hard. HR cares that you have a degree, not what it's in or what your experience is.
Yes, that would be the correct Prime in this case - the Primary Contractor who then hires sub-contractors to do various parts of the work.
That sounds like one hell of a nice bonus.
Its not like we have 300TB SANs in our homes or schools.
Not yet, anyway, but in the next five to ten years that might not be a problem any longer. Plus I would hope the data is in a more manageable form then just one giant tarball (is there any file system that allows for an individual file that big anyway?)
Who said anything about him being a Microsoft Shill? Being anti-systemd has nothing to do with Microsoft.
I don't see AMD eating into the Chinese MIPS market (though I'd love to see more MIPS devices Stateside).
My tablet has an Intel Atom in it. I hardly use it though.
I personally like Unity. It feels like a modernized WindowMaker/AfterStep. But if you didn't like it, that's fine - there are plenty of other DE/WM to choose from. I run TDE (KDE 3.x) on several systems, and currently toying around with CDE and MaXX on older machines (Pentium III and older) since they are super lightweight (and MaXX because it provides the fonts for remote IRIX programs to work right)
I think they're keeping with having both systemd and upstart available (I'm running 15.10 here with upstart).
LOL - "no even Linux anymore." - how do you figure? It's Linux sure enough, and works just fine. I don't see what all the Ubuntu hate is about these days. The biggest difference between Ubuntu and say Fedora is the package management (and Ubuntu has the option for the Unity desktop, which I rather like. There are just a few small things that I wish were changed and it would be awesome).
I had a similar view when I bought my current MBP (mid-2012, with the replaceable parts). When I was in Microcenter, for about $100 more I could have bought a 2014 model, but the CPU and GPU were only one generation newer, plus I would have lost the ability to replace/upgrade parts, so the only real gain would have been the retina display. Sure, it's very nice, and if my display ever breaks I may look into a while to wire in a retina display (wouldn't be the first laptop that we've re-wired the display connector to put a much nicer LCD on...) onto what I have, but I decided instead to go with upgradable, and bought 16GB of RAM to upgrade the 2012 model before I left the store (the 2014 only had 8GB).
The other point that I decided on is that I would benefit more from built in Ethernet then having two thunderbolt ports, though having an HDMI port would have been nice...
Oh I loved my G4 - maxed out with OS X 10.4 (and I had Classic mode too! Plus at some point I had installed Ubuntu 10.04 on there, as a fourth (original install of 10.1 was saved on the original HDD) boot option), 1.5GB RAM, and mine sadly had its first real issue just two weeks ago - sounds like the PSU fan is quitting (it's rattling pretty bad when it runs). But for a 2001 model, that's a pretty nice run!
My 2006 MBP still works just fine from a hardware perspective - I replaced the HDD when I got it in 2010 with a hybrid drive (Seagate XT) and replaced the battery once. Unfortunately, it's usefulness is limited by what the hardware can do - 2GB of RAM gets eaten up pretty fast, and the video card (ATI Radeon X1600) cannot handle modern codecs, so modern video is out of the question. And the Intel Core Duo CPU feels pretty slow compared to its successors too I suppose, but there are still quite a lot of things the laptop is still fine with (outside of a browser the main place I find myself is at a terminal using SSH into a server or RDP into a Windows server. Plus with Steam's streaming service I can use my much more powerful desktop to do the heavy lifting for games if I so choose) I bought this January a refurbished 2012 MBP (the last one with replaceable parts) and expect it to be fairly usable for quite a while (having 16GB of RAM in a laptop is pretty nice, and I'll probably opt for an SSD one of these days).
Personally, I think it is stupid that the courts and legislature waste so much time on that. What difference does it make if they have a beard or not?
That's the Fed, not the US Government, to my understanding.
Well, I do believe that is the idea of a "stable" release. The trend of rolling release that has become so popular these days is what you should be against. If I release software for RHEL 5, I can be pretty certain that the libraries will not change for the life of RHEL 5. However, Fedora changes the kernel version, and then we get Arch and Gentoo that are constantly updated, plus based on the Fedora Project's Google+ page more and more people are just running Rawhide claiming that traditional releases are too slow (and then they cry when a third party repo, like RPMFusion, breaks).
Looks fine using Firefox 45 on Windows (7, 64-bit) and Firefox 44 and 45 (updated the browser this morning) on OS X (10.6.8, 32-bit). It tells me the certificate was verified by Let's Encrypt. Hell, even Firefox 2 and 3 on IRIX (6.5.29, check your logs for a browser string along the lines of Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; IRIX64 IP30; en-us.... for the fun of it) works just fine. What configuration are you using?.
Given the lack of interest in the Apple Watch, there may not be a second edition.
It's not hyperbole, it's reality. You don't read US news much, do you?
GNU not needed.
Sounds like a rather potent machine. My LUG in college had a couple of SGI Octanes (good ones too - one had 2x300MHz and the had 2x600MHz CPUs, both with 2GB of RAM) that I made it my mission to get functional - one of them I had up and running with Gentoo Linux, the other one I taught me to love IRIX once I got it working. Learned how to setup netboot and a netinstall server getting them running (the external SCSI CD-ROM Drive was super slow, and I never did get Linux to boot locally, only was able to get the kernel to netboot and then load everything else from local storage). Working with Sun equipment after that was super simple. But all of that was self taught or learned through help from IRC and senior LUG members, nothing from my classes.