With individual driver issues like this, you're better off tracking the changes in the module than the changes in the kernel. Individual driver module versions (or at least diffs) will be released more quickly than kernel versions, IOW, if you're going to use drivers undergoing heavy development, don't rely on each successive kernel version to fix the problem; instead be prepared to patch what you've got for a few releases.
Because one filesystem isn't optimal for all cases?
Exactly. You wouldn't use a journaling filesystem (ext3, JFS, XFS) on an SD card. In networked environments, some filesystems are optimized for general use (CIFS, NFS) while others are optimized for a clustered environment (GFS, VMFS), while others are optmized for a distributed environment (Andrew Filesystem, CODA Filesystem). Log-structured filesystems are a new technology that maximizes write throughput, something that is key to optimizing speed in write-heavy environments: this is as opposed to conventional filesystems which are optimized for randomly reading and writing files in-place.
You wouldn't necessarily want a log-structured filesystem in a database environment, for example, because the performance hit from incurring more seeks that are necessarily a part of a log-structured filesystem would be prohibitive for queries.
Not always. I had a USB WiFi adapter that I attempted to install on a Windows laptop and after several attempts at uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, I took it back to the store and got a different model. Probably that WiFi adapter just sucked, but still, just because something "Just Works(tm)" for one OS and one piece of hardware doesn't mean that is always the case.
That's right. I still use my Vic-20 with 300baud modem to dial up the magicians tower BBS. I'm too old to get into all those tubes and interwebs on the google.
YOU HAVE A VIC 20? WOW. I ENVY YOU, SITTING HERE TYPING AWAY ON MY COMMODORE PET.
The longevity of a paper textbook. You can pass this down for at least a decade. A $100 textbook amortized out 10 years essentially becomes a $10 textbook.
Yeah, that's part of the current problem. For example, some kids are going to school with 10, 20, or even 30 year-old science textbooks. Science has changed a lot in the last decade.
You can't pass down electronic textbooks, unless the state has some really great dealbrokers. There's just NO WAY any of the publishers I know will allow this-- in fact, they're all drooling at the idea of e-books (while simultaneously dreading it-- go figure) because it eliminates the used book market.
Yet, it should be allowed. What needs to happen is legislation to enforce both fair use and the first sale doctrine. I expect it may happen sooner or later, at least as far as eBooks are concerned. The public is starting to push back HARD against DRM, and its only a matter of time before Congress realizes that they will have to follow the wishes of their constituencies or fail to be re-elected.
.... Who buys the e-readers for the students? If you expect everyone to have one, you need to expect the state to buy it. Is this REALLY cheaper? I'd like to see some real figures, because I am extremely doubtful.
The rest of your post between the last quote and this one: you can negotiate anything. Maybe the state of California will broker a deal where the eBook companies will pay for the the readers and get cheaper site-licensing, etc. All I know is that these questions can leave the textbook publishers looking like the bad guys, and if that's the case....well, never underestimate public backlash. Public backlash is what ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war.
In related news, Jetta Company, Ltd., will be changing its name to Cyberdyne Systems. And, in other news, Congress has passed the Skynet Funding Bill, which is set to remove human decisions from strategic defense. Details at 11.
Not so fast... understand the full implication of "published on the day before the Swedish election". Could be members of The Pirate Party, the folks that run The Pirate Bay. These guys have real candidates running for real public offices.
I don't know whether it is or not, but it's clear that you have misconceptions about the Chinese system of government. Not all companies in China are, in fact, run by the Chinese government.
Now you are correct in saying that Xinhua is a mouthpiece of the government of the People's Republic of China. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the article is lying about the Green Dam software, which you seem to imply. Xinhua journalists are indoctrinated to give the official view of the Chinese Communist Party, but that doesn't mean they have to lie about the particulars of a piece of software. They might, but really I don't have any reason to suspect that they would be in this case.
American journalists are similarly "indoctrinated" in the U.S.; it's just done in a far more insidious manner. U.S. reporters do not lie or make up facts, but they are biased towards official points of the Democratic and Republican parties, which are not, in fact, very different. It's not very much different in China.
You understand what communism in any form is, right?
The state controls commerce and corporations.
You don't understand what communism is. What you describe is socialism.
Communism is where the means of production are owned by the state. In socialism, the means of production are controlled (regulated) by the state. What China has is not actually communism, it's socialism.
Capitalism is where the free market regulates itself, with limited controls by the government.
Most industrial societies, China, the U.S. and the E.U. included, are actually hybrids between capitalism and socialism, the main differences revolving around how much the system leans towards capitalism vs. socialism.
BTW, the U.S. hasn't had true capitalism since the 1930s.
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Whooooooosh.
I've been a Unix systems engineer for years. I once updated the OS on an AT&T 3B2/400 running SVR3.2. (No, that's not SVR4, that's SVR3.2!)
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Even in the late 60's teletypes would print the character you just typed in "real" time i.e. just after you pressed the key.
Which is the real reason why the most commonly used Unix commands are two characters, and the real reason why Unix command only print things when either A) requested, or B) when something surprising happens.
Well, then Ubuntu's default GNOME configuration must be different from Debian's, despite the former being based on the latter, because I can move a window so that the top of the window is past the the top of the screen.
Ditto for Red Hat/Fedora. All KDE and XFCE implementations I've used allow this as well.
Oh, God, I hope not! Searching for jokes, you'll wind up with completely humorless results. Completely irrelevant pages will end up getting to the top of search results because they were "insightful" or "informative", despite being completely offtopic. All anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple and anti-Linux pages will be completely buried in the search results. And searching for "Apple" or "Linux" will result and you'll wind up with in a bunch of fanboy pages....wait a minute (searches Google)....ARRRGGHHHH! The Slashdot Mods have TAKEN OVER!!!! Ummm....ahem....
I, for one, welcome our new humorless Apple, Linux and Microsoft fanboy overlords!
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Without UNIX we wouldn't have:
wonderful, cryptic commands like 'ls, cp, rm, mv, etc.
awk, sed and Perl ('nuff said)
C ('nuff said)
silly recursive acronyms like GNU == GNU's Not Unix
mv lawn/kids/dev/null
old stupid jokes like "unzip; strip; touch; finger; fsck; while do; more; yes; more; yes; more; done; zip"
known the answer to the existential question "who am i"?
On a more serious note, just how many employees do they think are going to pick up and leave Washington for Ireland? Was this their plan all along? I guess the climates are compatible...
IBM did it. They started laying a bunch of people off, and while they were on their way out the door, they 'suggested' that they apply to IBM India. Some employees took them up on it.
Remember that 'giant sucking sound' Ross Perot was talking about back in the 90s? Everyone was laughing at him them, but look who's laughing now.
With apologies to Bill Clinton: It's the business model, stupid! The business model was based on the fact that musicians needed to a cut a record deal to get promoted. THe power of the RIAA was all about the fact that they were the ones that got music distributed.
It's not needed anymore. Promoters should be hired by the artists. And since promotion can be done by the artists themselves, professional promoters should be consultants. And their fees should be comparatively a lot lower.
No, you don't know how to make your world spin with those rules.
Correct. What the Internet has wrought is extremely simple copying and distribution. What this does is make the RIAA and all their middlemen completely irrelevant. Hello, record companies: We don't need you. We don't want you. Go away.. Yes, there is room for promoters, but there is no reason why need record companies. We don't need records, hence we don't need record companies. It's just that simple. Record companies provide zero value add.
The only thing that's sickening is the weak analogy you presented that somehow Apple == Microsoft.
First off, when the Microsoft mantra "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run" was chanted in the halls of Microsoft, they were NOT a monopoly, and yes, they were being anti-competitive.
Nobody is accusing Apple of being a monopoly. But being anti-competitive is just as evil.
Your problem is that you are confusing "legality" with "morality". The two words are not synonymous.
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With individual driver issues like this, you're better off tracking the changes in the module than the changes in the kernel. Individual driver module versions (or at least diffs) will be released more quickly than kernel versions, IOW, if you're going to use drivers undergoing heavy development, don't rely on each successive kernel version to fix the problem; instead be prepared to patch what you've got for a few releases.
Because one filesystem isn't optimal for all cases?
Exactly. You wouldn't use a journaling filesystem (ext3, JFS, XFS) on an SD card. In networked environments, some filesystems are optimized for general use (CIFS, NFS) while others are optimized for a clustered environment (GFS, VMFS), while others are optmized for a distributed environment (Andrew Filesystem, CODA Filesystem). Log-structured filesystems are a new technology that maximizes write throughput, something that is key to optimizing speed in write-heavy environments: this is as opposed to conventional filesystems which are optimized for randomly reading and writing files in-place.
You wouldn't necessarily want a log-structured filesystem in a database environment, for example, because the performance hit from incurring more seeks that are necessarily a part of a log-structured filesystem would be prohibitive for queries.
In Windows, something like this Just Works(tm).
Not always. I had a USB WiFi adapter that I attempted to install on a Windows laptop and after several attempts at uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, I took it back to the store and got a different model. Probably that WiFi adapter just sucked, but still, just because something "Just Works(tm)" for one OS and one piece of hardware doesn't mean that is always the case.
upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart
Hmmmmm..didn't work.
That's right. I still use my Vic-20 with 300baud modem to dial up the magicians tower BBS. I'm too old to get into all those tubes and interwebs on the google.
YOU HAVE A VIC 20? WOW. I ENVY YOU,
SITTING HERE TYPING AWAY ON MY
COMMODORE PET.
The longevity of a paper textbook. You can pass this down for at least a decade. A $100 textbook amortized out 10 years essentially becomes a $10 textbook.
Yeah, that's part of the current problem. For example, some kids are going to school with 10, 20, or even 30 year-old science textbooks. Science has changed a lot in the last decade.
You can't pass down electronic textbooks, unless the state has some really great dealbrokers. There's just NO WAY any of the publishers I know will allow this-- in fact, they're all drooling at the idea of e-books (while simultaneously dreading it-- go figure) because it eliminates the used book market.
Yet, it should be allowed. What needs to happen is legislation to enforce both fair use and the first sale doctrine. I expect it may happen sooner or later, at least as far as eBooks are concerned. The public is starting to push back HARD against DRM, and its only a matter of time before Congress realizes that they will have to follow the wishes of their constituencies or fail to be re-elected.
The rest of your post between the last quote and this one: you can negotiate anything. Maybe the state of California will broker a deal where the eBook companies will pay for the the readers and get cheaper site-licensing, etc. All I know is that these questions can leave the textbook publishers looking like the bad guys, and if that's the case....well, never underestimate public backlash. Public backlash is what ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war.
In related news, Jetta Company, Ltd., will be changing its name to Cyberdyne Systems. And, in other news, Congress has passed the Skynet Funding Bill, which is set to remove human decisions from strategic defense. Details at 11.
Poor choice of wording. Should have been "The folks that run Pirate Bay could be members of the Pirate Party; they could have done it."
Ummmm...BBN?
Not so fast ... understand the full implication of "published on the day before the Swedish election". Could be members of The Pirate Party, the folks that run The Pirate Bay. These guys have real candidates running for real public offices.
Just a thought, but you might want to actually cast to uint instead....
I don't know whether it is or not, but it's clear that you have misconceptions about the Chinese system of government. Not all companies in China are, in fact, run by the Chinese government.
Now you are correct in saying that Xinhua is a mouthpiece of the government of the People's Republic of China. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the article is lying about the Green Dam software, which you seem to imply. Xinhua journalists are indoctrinated to give the official view of the Chinese Communist Party, but that doesn't mean they have to lie about the particulars of a piece of software. They might, but really I don't have any reason to suspect that they would be in this case.
American journalists are similarly "indoctrinated" in the U.S.; it's just done in a far more insidious manner. U.S. reporters do not lie or make up facts, but they are biased towards official points of the Democratic and Republican parties, which are not, in fact, very different. It's not very much different in China.
You understand what communism in any form is, right?
The state controls commerce and corporations.
You don't understand what communism is. What you describe is socialism.
Communism is where the means of production are owned by the state. In socialism, the means of production are controlled (regulated) by the state. What China has is not actually communism, it's socialism.
Capitalism is where the free market regulates itself, with limited controls by the government.
Most industrial societies, China, the U.S. and the E.U. included, are actually hybrids between capitalism and socialism, the main differences revolving around how much the system leans towards capitalism vs. socialism.
BTW, the U.S. hasn't had true capitalism since the 1930s.
Whooooooosh.
I've been a Unix systems engineer for years. I once updated the OS on an AT&T 3B2/400 running SVR3.2. (No, that's not SVR4, that's SVR3.2!)
Even in the late 60's teletypes would print the character you just typed in "real" time i.e. just after you pressed the key.
Which is the real reason why the most commonly used Unix commands are two characters, and the real reason why Unix command only print things when either A) requested, or B) when something surprising happens.
Well, then Ubuntu's default GNOME configuration must be different from Debian's, despite the former being based on the latter, because I can move a window so that the top of the window is past the the top of the screen.
Ditto for Red Hat/Fedora. All KDE and XFCE implementations I've used allow this as well.
It's a lot like Slashdot's mod system.
Oh, God, I hope not! Searching for jokes, you'll wind up with completely humorless results. Completely irrelevant pages will end up getting to the top of search results because they were "insightful" or "informative", despite being completely offtopic. All anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple and anti-Linux pages will be completely buried in the search results. And searching for "Apple" or "Linux" will result and you'll wind up with in a bunch of fanboy pages....wait a minute (searches Google)....ARRRGGHHHH! The Slashdot Mods have TAKEN OVER!!!! Ummm....ahem....
I, for one, welcome our new humorless Apple, Linux and Microsoft fanboy overlords!
Without UNIX we wouldn't have:
On a more serious note, just how many employees do they think are going to pick up and leave Washington for Ireland? Was this their plan all along? I guess the climates are compatible...
IBM did it. They started laying a bunch of people off, and while they were on their way out the door, they 'suggested' that they apply to IBM India. Some employees took them up on it.
Remember that 'giant sucking sound' Ross Perot was talking about back in the 90s? Everyone was laughing at him them, but look who's laughing now.
With apologies to Bill Clinton: It's the business model, stupid! The business model was based on the fact that musicians needed to a cut a record deal to get promoted. THe power of the RIAA was all about the fact that they were the ones that got music distributed.
It's not needed anymore. Promoters should be hired by the artists. And since promotion can be done by the artists themselves, professional promoters should be consultants. And their fees should be comparatively a lot lower.
Corporations don't pay tax. Not really. They pass on that tax to their customers. Ultimately, it is the consumer that pays the tax.
No, you don't know how to make your world spin with those rules.
Correct. What the Internet has wrought is extremely simple copying and distribution. What this does is make the RIAA and all their middlemen completely irrelevant. Hello, record companies: We don't need you. We don't want you. Go away.. Yes, there is room for promoters, but there is no reason why need record companies. We don't need records, hence we don't need record companies. It's just that simple. Record companies provide zero value add.
No shit. Eerrrmmm...yes shit?
The only thing that's sickening is the weak analogy you presented that somehow Apple == Microsoft.
First off, when the Microsoft mantra "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run" was chanted in the halls of Microsoft, they were NOT a monopoly, and yes, they were being anti-competitive.
Nobody is accusing Apple of being a monopoly. But being anti-competitive is just as evil.
Your problem is that you are confusing "legality" with "morality". The two words are not synonymous.
The FCC has no jurisdiction to "add" or "remove" anything from the DMCA.