I like what you did there: when in reference to attacks on Christianity, they were academic and/or verbal in nature. Then you use the exact same word in reference to someone being strapped to a torture rack.
Okay, then let's talk about something with higher social prestige. Women make up only 15% of those who enlist in the army. That is a huge discrepency. Where's the push to get more women in? Where are the lengthy articles on what's wrong with military culture that's to blame for this?
Or is it just understood that while there's no actual red tape, that life is simply not appealing to most women.
Kjella's experience with comments on this story wasn't exactly a good one. As soon as he saw the second OT post, he called the OP on it. Slashdot was better back then (when it was pre web 2.0).
Reducing the counter-argument to petty, unoriginal insults does little for moving the conversation.
At any rate, the AC was correct given his qualifiers: it runs well today and nothing else matters. Those aforementioned freetards, however, have other concerns. What happens when they leave that market? Will it always work on this platform? Is this code doing anything I don't want it to? Do I have any recourse if code quality plummets? What if my setup deviates from their definition of the platform? All of those can be addressed by opening the code and/or releasing the documentation on the hardware.
I can't tell what part of that was more of an insult to the BSD license: the paranoia of Debian trying to undermine FreeBSD, giving a shit about what another project is doing with the code when they are following the license terms set by the author, or the insults thrown about at a lot of work that was far from trivial.
Most other FreeBSD users I've spoken to want to get (more) free of having to rely on FSF software, not less.
Great, but Debian has nothing to do with this. If you remember correctly, FreeBSD is the full OS. So if you and the other FreeBSD users that make up that brain trust are annoyed about FSF software in FreeBSD, then complain to the FreeBSD devs because they're the ones putting it in there.
Now what happens the day google makes a deal to get access to those databases?
Lets be real, no one's using 360 Search because it's better than a google search, it just has access to databases hidden behind paid subscriptions. And for searching individual databases, our university has access to about 50 of them. I don't care how they're segmented; that many search boxes is just plain absurd. And what's worse is the people who should be figuring out this is a non-sustainable model, the Librarians, instead look at that number like they're collecting pokemon. They just keep trashing on google, rather than noticing search engine companies have long surpassed them in ability and are currently making significant strides in access to content.
I realize our jobs are partially dependent that artificial barrier between google and the academic databases (I do IT work for a library), but for the greater good, I can't wait for that day to happen.
I don't have a link, but I remember when the p4 came out, Intel was certain they'd have a 10GHz netbust by the end of that microarchitecture. They ended up just shy of 4. While I won't say "therefore, they'll top out at X nm", it does show they have in the past put out numbers they cannot meet.
"There have always been flat screen televisions"
"Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister"
These statements are not a function of one's age, nor are they true as is. Is the author trying to say that we've got a group passing through that is so self-centered that they refuse to acknowledge any event prior to their birth? I was born in the 80s, but I know it's false to say "Winston Churchill has always been a former prime minister" or "CRT screens have always existed".
But why point out just the local generation gap? Why didn't the author include "The US has always been a country" or "There has always been written language"? How about "Earth has always had approximately 24 hour rotations" or "The atmosphere has always been about 20% oxygen"?
Then at the top are lines like "Members of the class of 2013 won't be surprised when they can charge a latte on their cell phone and curl up in the corner to read a textbook on an electronic screen.".... nor should anyone who has recently left the cave. Hell, the first guy I knew that got an eReader was in his 60s. You're not excused from observing your surroundings just because you've made it to (or past) middle-aged.
I'm writing this article off as a failed attempt at promoting ageism.
I just did a search, and I failed to confirm the OP's stupidity. The only western digital drives that I could find that were faster than the claimed rule of thumb were Velociraptor drives. And those can't break 1/3 of the theoretical. While the possibility remains that they could have made a massive breakthough in hard drive platter tech, I doubt it'll debut in a drive marketed for being a high-density mobile drive.
In short, the statement was not "clearly nonsense".
Define 'better' before this continues. Now it can't be SAT scores since Gore did got about 100 points more. So was it just raw grades from college you're counting? Because they went to different universities and majored in different topics. It'd sure make things easier if those were comparable figures, but if they were I know our chemical engineers here would look like complete dumbasses compared to our psych and business majors.
That is an inherent problem with having a police force. No matter how much training one has, a cop is still a person; and if put through enough shit situations, they'll inevitably snap and make some bad decisions.
Considering it's called a New Implementation of a Log File System, perhaps the people who think that this is a new concept aren't exactly the cream-of-the-crop of the userbase. Every group has that guy who'll say uninformed stuff; it's not exactly something worth getting a complex over.
*ahem* It's like a mechanic going up to an IT guy picking out a car and saying "What do you mean you don't care if it's the two or four door model?! You're a fucking idiot!"
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They solved their energy crisis and are now in process of cleaning up our goto problem.
I like what you did there: when in reference to attacks on Christianity, they were academic and/or verbal in nature. Then you use the exact same word in reference to someone being strapped to a torture rack.
Dishonest speech, it too loves religion.
Okay, then let's talk about something with higher social prestige. Women make up only 15% of those who enlist in the army. That is a huge discrepency. Where's the push to get more women in? Where are the lengthy articles on what's wrong with military culture that's to blame for this?
Or is it just understood that while there's no actual red tape, that life is simply not appealing to most women.
Actually, studies have shown that the "facebook generation" are much more careful with their information than for what they are given credit. In many times, more than the old people. http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Teens-Privacy-and-Online-Social-Networks/5-Online-Privacy--What-Teens-Share-and-Restrict-in-an-Online-Environment.aspx?r=1
Kjella's experience with comments on this story wasn't exactly a good one. As soon as he saw the second OT post, he called the OP on it. Slashdot was better back then (when it was pre web 2.0).
Reducing the counter-argument to petty, unoriginal insults does little for moving the conversation.
At any rate, the AC was correct given his qualifiers: it runs well today and nothing else matters. Those aforementioned freetards, however, have other concerns. What happens when they leave that market? Will it always work on this platform? Is this code doing anything I don't want it to? Do I have any recourse if code quality plummets? What if my setup deviates from their definition of the platform? All of those can be addressed by opening the code and/or releasing the documentation on the hardware.
Probably not since the distros can't track the downloads either, considering getting stats from their many random mirrors could prove problematic.
The summary sounded like his work. Thanks for the heads up; not going to bother with TFA.
Most other FreeBSD users I've spoken to want to get (more) free of having to rely on FSF software, not less.
Great, but Debian has nothing to do with this. If you remember correctly, FreeBSD is the full OS. So if you and the other FreeBSD users that make up that brain trust are annoyed about FSF software in FreeBSD, then complain to the FreeBSD devs because they're the ones putting it in there.
Given the context, it was supposed to be taken as one.
Now what happens the day google makes a deal to get access to those databases?
Lets be real, no one's using 360 Search because it's better than a google search, it just has access to databases hidden behind paid subscriptions. And for searching individual databases, our university has access to about 50 of them. I don't care how they're segmented; that many search boxes is just plain absurd. And what's worse is the people who should be figuring out this is a non-sustainable model, the Librarians, instead look at that number like they're collecting pokemon. They just keep trashing on google, rather than noticing search engine companies have long surpassed them in ability and are currently making significant strides in access to content.
I realize our jobs are partially dependent that artificial barrier between google and the academic databases (I do IT work for a library), but for the greater good, I can't wait for that day to happen.
DVD Sales.
Or even further - make some paper.
I don't have a link, but I remember when the p4 came out, Intel was certain they'd have a 10GHz netbust by the end of that microarchitecture. They ended up just shy of 4. While I won't say "therefore, they'll top out at X nm", it does show they have in the past put out numbers they cannot meet.
"There have always been flat screen televisions"
"Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister"
These statements are not a function of one's age, nor are they true as is. Is the author trying to say that we've got a group passing through that is so self-centered that they refuse to acknowledge any event prior to their birth? I was born in the 80s, but I know it's false to say "Winston Churchill has always been a former prime minister" or "CRT screens have always existed".
But why point out just the local generation gap? Why didn't the author include "The US has always been a country" or "There has always been written language"? How about "Earth has always had approximately 24 hour rotations" or "The atmosphere has always been about 20% oxygen"?
Then at the top are lines like "Members of the class of 2013 won't be surprised when they can charge a latte on their cell phone and curl up in the corner to read a textbook on an electronic screen.".... nor should anyone who has recently left the cave. Hell, the first guy I knew that got an eReader was in his 60s. You're not excused from observing your surroundings just because you've made it to (or past) middle-aged.
I'm writing this article off as a failed attempt at promoting ageism.
It's worked on me as well, except I reacted by upping my obfuscation skills considerably. :D
I just did a search, and I failed to confirm the OP's stupidity. The only western digital drives that I could find that were faster than the claimed rule of thumb were Velociraptor drives. And those can't break 1/3 of the theoretical. While the possibility remains that they could have made a massive breakthough in hard drive platter tech, I doubt it'll debut in a drive marketed for being a high-density mobile drive.
In short, the statement was not "clearly nonsense".
If he manages to write down a single equation we can actually test within the next few generations, then maybe. :D
A well armed society is a polite society.
Exactly. I mean just look at Detroit. Talk about a city that just plain needs more artillery!
Define 'better' before this continues. Now it can't be SAT scores since Gore did got about 100 points more. So was it just raw grades from college you're counting? Because they went to different universities and majored in different topics. It'd sure make things easier if those were comparable figures, but if they were I know our chemical engineers here would look like complete dumbasses compared to our psych and business majors.
That is an inherent problem with having a police force. No matter how much training one has, a cop is still a person; and if put through enough shit situations, they'll inevitably snap and make some bad decisions.
Sure, here's a link that'll send you in the right direction.
MXM
Look at the average age of that party, relatively speaking that is modern for the RNC.
Considering it's called a New Implementation of a Log File System, perhaps the people who think that this is a new concept aren't exactly the cream-of-the-crop of the userbase. Every group has that guy who'll say uninformed stuff; it's not exactly something worth getting a complex over.
Good catch.
*ahem* It's like a mechanic going up to an IT guy picking out a car and saying "What do you mean you don't care if it's the two or four door model?! You're a fucking idiot!"