> I don't have a degree. But seriously just what does having that piece of paper mean in an industry that can change many times a year.
I still can't get the scriptmonkeys around here to grasp the notion of structured programming, let alone OO or functional. The state of the art does not evolve as much as the industry likes to pretend it does. Just because they rev the apps every couple years does not mean the whole industry changes.
Ubuntu takes debian's "no patches except for security, EVER" as well, and then still expects to have a desktop system that end-users will want to use.
As long as you don't use firefox. The only way to get any extensions or themes with Ubuntu's version of Firefox is to go into about:config and manually edit the vendor_sub version string yourself. Ubuntu can't be bothered to do this because, well, it could constitute a patch. Their answer is to wait 4 months or so for Breezy, which will then have its own updated snapshot that will then never have anything upgraded that isn't strictly security-related.
I find this inflexible adherence to procedure simply mindless. I would prefer a distribution that's stable because maintainers actually exercise good judgement.
I poured thousands and thousands of dollars into your desktops, yet people still don't like me. I post about how superior I am for my purchasing choices on places mainly populated by Linux losers, yet they don't flock to me as their savior.
Also, it would be nice if Finder were faster and more functional. Can you please arrange that next time? Sometime in the next 10 years.
I'd also like scrollbars and buttons that aren't so shiny, because sometimes I want to look at my applications, usually when I'm not showing off my desktop. Please?
Please continue supporting PowerPC?
I know I don't have the power to move you, and you've told us mere consumers to just suck it up before, but maybe you can hear me this time? Please don't leave me.
Colors aren't unusual at all. T-Mobile "owns" their shade of pink, Cingular the orange, etc. It's called "trade dress". It doesn't mean you can't sell a shade of paint in those colors or paint whatever you want in those colors, but if you create a logo for a mobile phone that's similar, making it that exact color is infringing on the trade dress.
The guy in the article sounds like a vexatious litigant -- a legally recognized crank -- but probably knows enough about filing in different jurisdictions enough to avoid getting himself declared as such (that or he just files in one where it's impossible to get that label). I guess I could RTFA.
> How can you hope for another David Souter after his recent ruling on eminent domain???
How did you want him to rule? That the federal government has authority over the states use of eminent domain? If you think local government is unaccountable, you should see what happens when congress gets control of eminent domain.
I'm as incensed about the use of eminent domain as the jext guy, but Jesus Christ, it's like people forget that there even is a government other than federal.
Some of your right wing "buddies" don't feel the same way, and they are stepping over the line. People with the power to really affect the freedoms of others. Free market forces do not exist where markets are not free; I mentioned CHW because they're huge, and the only game in town in some markets. I specifically mentioned some of the interference with free markets going on, like refusing to release a prescription to another pharmacist. Hell, this is just an issue off the top of my head, it's hardly even a cause celebre for me.
But hey, feel free to fall back to name-calling if that makes you feel good. I guess I can't expect everybody to take the same issues seriously that I do.
No, but there are a number of people who believe the converse is true. In fact they legislated this particular belief for some time, until Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965. This was not idle "hand-wringing". This was reality. The belief that things cannot go backward is not well-founded, as there are a number of pharmacists who refuse to do their job and prescribe birth control to anyone. Or refer them to a different pharmacy or pharmacist, and in some cases actually holding their prescription hostage. What will SCOTUS's decision be if Catholic Healthcare West decided to make a similar decision?
FTP actually predates TCP/IP, back when connections were made on IMPs that didn't do things like multiplex streams. FTP as it is now is a port of the older protocol, when third-party FTP was more common. Mail was originally implemented with FTP.
> Might be because we realized that the IPV6 protocol was unnecessary.
In the USA it probably is. There's a huge chunk of ipv4 space allocated to US-based network providers. Other countries are sick of making do with their small IPv4 allocations and have rolled out IPv6 quite successfully. Japan, Korea, and France are all going to IP6.
As usual, the USA comes up with great technology, then fails to implement it.
MIT might acually make some use of their Class A for whatever they come up with. You want real misallocations, try the fact that Apple has a class A.
Just google for "kswapd". Every question is pretty much the same: "How do I keep kswapd from eating up 99% CPU on my machine?"
There's been patch after patch on it since 1998. There was just recently one in 2.6.11. I look forward to another patch in 2.6.12 and beyond. The changelogs in the kernel indicate they don't even know what causes the problem. It's sheer insanity, and I've thrown up my hands at this point and declared it beyond fixing.
> She voted against the broadening of eminent domain! That is enough for me to respect her more than any of the other judges who voted for taking peoples property away.
SCOTUS ruled that they had no authority to intervene in a state's use of eminent domain, either for or against it. In short, they refused to expand federal power.
Now congress is looking to grab the power of eminent domain for itself. Yeah, sure they give a shit about you. Some of them are just up for reelection soon.
> But, for your own good, he's going to pick someone who will interpret the constitution, not try to rewrite it.
He is absolutely going to pick someone who will agree with him on:
1) Abortion. Outlawed that is. (Do note that Roe v. Wade was a 7-2 decision)
2) Flag burning. Ditto. (probably has a ways to go, tho a few more C. Thomases might do it)
3) Guantanamo. What's that?
Just to name three. You think Bush is a constitutionalist? Maybe his father was. Bush Jr will look for endorsements from the Flat Earth Society before even considering a candidate.
> Oh right. Sorry. She's a Republican, which makes her a deluded tool of the system.
Of course her color makes it impossible for her to actually be a tool of the system. In no way do I think she's deluded, no sir. This strong, accomplished, and intelligent black woman from Alabama quite knowingly lied to Congress in the runup to Iraq. She of course is above criticism, especially when backed by such bigoted racist source material like actual facts.
It's people like you that make this country great. I salute you sir. By the way, I stoned your wife -- I could see the harlot's ankle, she had it coming! I'm sure you don't mind.
> And if he decides to be the angry child he normally is, I have no doubts the government will cease to function in Washington over this next nomination.
One can only hope. You forget that the same corrupt party controls two branches of government, and is gunning for the third. And frankly, they're a lot better at pandering to ignorance and fear, so they'll get the vast majority of the public behind them.
I can hope we get another David Souter. I think we're going to get one that makes Thomas look like Ginsburg. Maybe even two.
> It's not even the kernel. A few years back, the BSD was superior in many ways, but Linux still outstripped it.
I have one word for you. kswapd
Pick a BSD, any one. Their virtual memory subsystem far outstrips the unstable mess that Linux's has been since at least 1998. VM ain't just swap, it's virtually every every single memory access you make in protected mode. And Linux, across kernel versions and distributions, has consistently made a dogs breakfast of it.
I am dealing with the kswapd issues on three different machines running three different distros, some with 2.4, some with 2.6, some with RHEL (which is practically a version unto its own). I am sick to death of it. If I had any say in the matter, I'd be running FreeBSD.
I suppose if it read "Anym joeore" that would be pretty, uh, interesting. One might wonder what sort of medication Linus was on. I swear, my new keyboard is possessed (it is a microsoft keyboard after all)
See, this might have carried a little weight if the headline had read
Linus: We Don't Need the GPL Anym joeore
As it is, it's just ESR talking smack to RMS. I swear it's going to devolve into "yo momma" insults any day now. God, we need more Bruce Perens and less Eric Raymonds doing the talking.
You know, I'm not a big fan of the way lawyers are insinuating themselves into every crevice of modern life... but this would have been good advice 50 years ago. Threatening legal action before you consult a lawyer is equivalent to going into battle unarmed. Your anti-lawyer rhetoric is really gratuitous here.
Lawyers are expensive. Doing the right thing often is. What Chip is now having to defend against is much more expensive.
> However, don't you think it would raise the level of debate if the politicians, knowing how bad it looks to have voted against "Feed the Orphans Act of 2003" would actually have to explain, on air/in print, why exactly they did so?
Hopefully they'd do better with their explanations than Kerry did. I must admit, "I voted for that bill before I voted against it" was amazingly succinct. He even went on to say why he, uh, flip-flopped. But he hopped in the coffin and handed Karl Rove a nailgun.
So frankly, it doesn't really matter what you say, why you say it, or who you say it to. It's about how well you can rally vast masses of functional illiterates to your cause of... whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
> I don't have a degree. But seriously just what does having that piece of paper mean in an industry that can change many times a year.
I still can't get the scriptmonkeys around here to grasp the notion of structured programming, let alone OO or functional. The state of the art does not evolve as much as the industry likes to pretend it does. Just because they rev the apps every couple years does not mean the whole industry changes.
Ubuntu takes debian's "no patches except for security, EVER" as well, and then still expects to have a desktop system that end-users will want to use.
As long as you don't use firefox. The only way to get any extensions or themes with Ubuntu's version of Firefox is to go into about:config and manually edit the vendor_sub version string yourself. Ubuntu can't be bothered to do this because, well, it could constitute a patch. Their answer is to wait 4 months or so for Breezy, which will then have its own updated snapshot that will then never have anything upgraded that isn't strictly security-related.
I find this inflexible adherence to procedure simply mindless. I would prefer a distribution that's stable because maintainers actually exercise good judgement.
> I've seen faith healers do things M.D.s can't.
Prove it. Just once. You mentioned double blind studies. Cite them.
> I've met psychics who can vividly describe situations and people that later become part of my life
Google for "cold reading" sometime.
Dear Apple,
I poured thousands and thousands of dollars into your desktops, yet people still don't like me. I post about how superior I am for my purchasing choices on places mainly populated by Linux losers, yet they don't flock to me as their savior.
Also, it would be nice if Finder were faster and more functional. Can you please arrange that next time? Sometime in the next 10 years.
I'd also like scrollbars and buttons that aren't so shiny, because sometimes I want to look at my applications, usually when I'm not showing off my desktop. Please?
Please continue supporting PowerPC?
I know I don't have the power to move you, and you've told us mere consumers to just suck it up before, but maybe you can hear me this time? Please don't leave me.
Colors aren't unusual at all. T-Mobile "owns" their shade of pink, Cingular the orange, etc. It's called "trade dress". It doesn't mean you can't sell a shade of paint in those colors or paint whatever you want in those colors, but if you create a logo for a mobile phone that's similar, making it that exact color is infringing on the trade dress.
The guy in the article sounds like a vexatious litigant -- a legally recognized crank -- but probably knows enough about filing in different jurisdictions enough to avoid getting himself declared as such (that or he just files in one where it's impossible to get that label). I guess I could RTFA.
> On another site, (fark?) I saw this listed as left-wing liberals at work.
Holy crap, fark makes slashdot look like the fucking mensa society. I read it for the photoshop contests, and that is it.
> How can you hope for another David Souter after his recent ruling on eminent domain???
How did you want him to rule? That the federal government has authority over the states use of eminent domain? If you think local government is unaccountable, you should see what happens when congress gets control of eminent domain.
I'm as incensed about the use of eminent domain as the jext guy, but Jesus Christ, it's like people forget that there even is a government other than federal.
Some of your right wing "buddies" don't feel the same way, and they are stepping over the line. People with the power to really affect the freedoms of others. Free market forces do not exist where markets are not free; I mentioned CHW because they're huge, and the only game in town in some markets. I specifically mentioned some of the interference with free markets going on, like refusing to release a prescription to another pharmacist. Hell, this is just an issue off the top of my head, it's hardly even a cause celebre for me.
But hey, feel free to fall back to name-calling if that makes you feel good. I guess I can't expect everybody to take the same issues seriously that I do.
Is abortion birth control to you?
No, but there are a number of people who believe the converse is true. In fact they legislated this particular belief for some time, until Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965. This was not idle "hand-wringing". This was reality. The belief that things cannot go backward is not well-founded, as there are a number of pharmacists who refuse to do their job and prescribe birth control to anyone. Or refer them to a different pharmacy or pharmacist, and in some cases actually holding their prescription hostage. What will SCOTUS's decision be if Catholic Healthcare West decided to make a similar decision?
Real issues. Not hand-wringing.
FTP actually predates TCP/IP, back when connections were made on IMPs that didn't do things like multiplex streams. FTP as it is now is a port of the older protocol, when third-party FTP was more common. Mail was originally implemented with FTP.
> Might be because we realized that the IPV6 protocol was unnecessary.
In the USA it probably is. There's a huge chunk of ipv4 space allocated to US-based network providers. Other countries are sick of making do with their small IPv4 allocations and have rolled out IPv6 quite successfully. Japan, Korea, and France are all going to IP6.
As usual, the USA comes up with great technology, then fails to implement it.
MIT might acually make some use of their Class A for whatever they come up with. You want real misallocations, try the fact that Apple has a class A.
Ooh, gotcha on the hot button #3.
Hand-wringers like us are the reason women are allowed to purchase birth control.
Or for some areas of the country, "were" might be a better word.
Just google for "kswapd". Every question is pretty much the same: "How do I keep kswapd from eating up 99% CPU on my machine?"
There's been patch after patch on it since 1998. There was just recently one in 2.6.11. I look forward to another patch in 2.6.12 and beyond. The changelogs in the kernel indicate they don't even know what causes the problem. It's sheer insanity, and I've thrown up my hands at this point and declared it beyond fixing.
> She voted against the broadening of eminent domain! That is enough for me to respect her more than any of the other judges who voted for taking peoples property away.
SCOTUS ruled that they had no authority to intervene in a state's use of eminent domain, either for or against it. In short, they refused to expand federal power.
Now congress is looking to grab the power of eminent domain for itself. Yeah, sure they give a shit about you. Some of them are just up for reelection soon.
> But, for your own good, he's going to pick someone who will interpret the constitution, not try to rewrite it.
He is absolutely going to pick someone who will agree with him on:
1) Abortion. Outlawed that is. (Do note that Roe v. Wade was a 7-2 decision)
2) Flag burning. Ditto. (probably has a ways to go, tho a few more C. Thomases might do it)
3) Guantanamo. What's that?
Just to name three. You think Bush is a constitutionalist? Maybe his father was. Bush Jr will look for endorsements from the Flat Earth Society before even considering a candidate.
> Oh right. Sorry. She's a Republican, which makes her a deluded tool of the system.
Of course her color makes it impossible for her to actually be a tool of the system. In no way do I think she's deluded, no sir. This strong, accomplished, and intelligent black woman from Alabama quite knowingly lied to Congress in the runup to Iraq. She of course is above criticism, especially when backed by such bigoted racist source material like actual facts.
God bless America, land of opportunity.
It's people like you that make this country great. I salute you sir. By the way, I stoned your wife -- I could see the harlot's ankle, she had it coming! I'm sure you don't mind.
> And if he decides to be the angry child he normally is, I have no doubts the government will cease to function in Washington over this next nomination.
One can only hope. You forget that the same corrupt party controls two branches of government, and is gunning for the third. And frankly, they're a lot better at pandering to ignorance and fear, so they'll get the vast majority of the public behind them.
I can hope we get another David Souter. I think we're going to get one that makes Thomas look like Ginsburg. Maybe even two.
The next 20 years look grim.
> Thanks to that, its relatively safe from its actual competitors such as Discreet(AutoDesk), Alias etc.
Don't count on it. The moment Alias or SoftImage or Discreet sees Blender as a threat, they will throw a fusillade of patent lawsuits against it.
Count on it.
> It's not even the kernel. A few years back, the BSD was superior in many ways, but Linux still outstripped it.
I have one word for you. kswapd
Pick a BSD, any one. Their virtual memory subsystem far outstrips the unstable mess that Linux's has been since at least 1998. VM ain't just swap, it's virtually every every single memory access you make in protected mode. And Linux, across kernel versions and distributions, has consistently made a dogs breakfast of it.
I am dealing with the kswapd issues on three different machines running three different distros, some with 2.4, some with 2.6, some with RHEL (which is practically a version unto its own). I am sick to death of it. If I had any say in the matter, I'd be running FreeBSD.
I suppose if it read "Anym joeore" that would be pretty, uh, interesting. One might wonder what sort of medication Linus was on. I swear, my new keyboard is possessed (it is a microsoft keyboard after all)
See, this might have carried a little weight if the headline had read
Linus: We Don't Need the GPL Anym joeore
As it is, it's just ESR talking smack to RMS. I swear it's going to devolve into "yo momma" insults any day now. God, we need more Bruce Perens and less Eric Raymonds doing the talking.
You know, I'm not a big fan of the way lawyers are insinuating themselves into every crevice of modern life ... but this would have been good advice 50 years ago. Threatening legal action before you consult a lawyer is equivalent to going into battle unarmed. Your anti-lawyer rhetoric is really gratuitous here.
Lawyers are expensive. Doing the right thing often is. What Chip is now having to defend against is much more expensive.
> However, don't you think it would raise the level of debate if the politicians, knowing how bad it looks to have voted against "Feed the Orphans Act of 2003" would actually have to explain, on air/in print, why exactly they did so?
... whatever.
Hopefully they'd do better with their explanations than Kerry did. I must admit, "I voted for that bill before I voted against it" was amazingly succinct. He even went on to say why he, uh, flip-flopped. But he hopped in the coffin and handed Karl Rove a nailgun.
So frankly, it doesn't really matter what you say, why you say it, or who you say it to. It's about how well you can rally vast masses of functional illiterates to your cause of
Actually, I meant "agencies", not "companies". Sort of a freudian slip. You're right though, companies have more power to act.