If Windows is running rootless, then all the annoying spyware popups will also be running rootless.
Personally, I'd rather have Windows running in a window, so that I know for sure that the malware annoyances are limited to Windows, and are not new blights on OS X.
"This system has worked well for Indian people and still has a major role in modern India."
Yeah, too bad the Indian Steve Jobs was probably born into a lower caste and is stuck cleaning toilets so the castes can have better self-esteem based on mythology.
The author of the article you link to wrote: "Clearly it is time to sit up and see reality as it is before we complete the task the British began- the atomisation of Indian society and annihilation of Indian civilisation."
So apparently he thinks the Indian society and civilisation *is* the Brahmin caste. Which means the vast majority of Indians contribute *nothing* to Indian society and culture.
Forgive me for thinking it sounds a bit like a white South African in the 1980s arguing against the end of apartheid.
"Yes, because you're evincing pride in achievements you haven't made, by people you had no way of influencing. "
That isn't really what causes problems.
The problems start when you start believing that people with other backgrounds are inherently less capable than people with your ancestry. And when this becomes ingrained into societal rules so that groups that are full of themselves can keep other people down and retain power.
I'm sure India's caste system has cost it many, many geniuses who could have done wonders for its development had they not been baselessly treated as being of low value simply because of their ancestry.
It's really a tragedy. Especially when you consider that some fraction of upper-caste people are losers and idiots showing no benefit at all from all their illustrious ancestry. The economic resources spent keeping them relatively fat and happy (compared to the lower castes who muck out the sewers) would no doubt have been better spent on lower-castes with talent or genius.
Also, I'm inclined to think a DNA study would show that those illustrious ancestors really aren't the ancestors of most high-caste people. And would certainly show that the barriers between caste are an illusion and that the DNA of the castes have been mixing for as long as there *have* been castes.
And if the DNA is mixed, then that "oldest surviving line of philosophers, mystics and poets" is likely to include modern-day Indians from all the castes.
For the (admittedly large) minority of the population that lives in the urban centers.
Meanwhile, in the rest of China there is increasing unrest, including a 2004 uprising of 100,000 farmers that was put down by paramilitary troops.
Rural unrest is a serious problem in China, with tens of thousands of protests last year, many violent.
Farmers in villages whose land was seized by developers for construction projects often directed their anger at corrupt local officials who skimmed off the profits of the sale.
In the meantime, the difference in incomes between those who live in the country and those who live in urban areas is growing.
On average, rural workers earn less than a third of those in the cities.
"Having said all that, OS X does offer the standard *nix directory structures such as/etc,/bin,/sbin,/usr/bin,/usr/sbin and so on but it is not recommended that third party software install files into those directories but rather that it be placed in other directories."
Other directories such as/usr/local/bin,/usr/local/etc, etc.
For the most part,/Library and the corresponding ~/Library are meant for Mac-oriented stuff, as opposed to Unix-oriented stuff.
There are some exceptions - the site_perl stuff you mention, for example. I would say those aren't a quirk of the filesystem layout, but rather a quirk of the way Apple has configured their bundled apache dictated by the default configuration of OS X such that/Library is visible in the Finder, but the Unix directories are not.
Granted, if you configure your Mac so that you can see all the directories, then it seems weird, but there is some logic behind it.
More importantly, there is nothing that requires the use of/Library or ~/Library instead of/usr. So for the most part you'll have a few quirkily-configured programs using/Library, but everything else will be installed in typical Unix directories.
"1. I think they're overstating the openness problems on the Mac, and overstating the advantages of open source when it comes to data retention."
Yeah, their arguments pretty much boil down to "Apple got the peas in the mashed potatoes, now I won't eat any of it. I demand pure open-source mashed potatoes uncontaminated by peas."
"ope, I want the Chinese people to get pissed enough at all the restrictions that they have to live under to set them over the boiling point to overthrow their government. I"
How will they know the full extent of the restrictions they are under if they only get the information the government allows them to have?
1. I tried a kneeling chair, but it really kills the skin on my knees after a while. The fabric on the kneepad, as well as whatever you're wearing on your legs, will start to impress on your knees. Also, your pant legs will probably crease.
2. I suspect that desk height is the major problem, and an adjustable chair may not help. If you desk is the wrong height, you may be able to adjust your chair so your arms are in the right position, but your legs won't be.
3. Along with desk height, desk thickness is a problem. The ideal ergonomic desk would probably be a zero-thickness geometric plane (that can be adjusted to different heights). The worst are desks with wide frames or supports under the desktop, or drawers, which effectively increase the thickness of the desktop by several inches. (Hotel rooms are especially bad about having desks like this - traditional desks made for writing by hand.)
4. Aeron chairs are okay, but not great. For one thing, they don't all have the complete range of adjustments. A hotel chain advertises that it has Aerons in the rooms, but I found that the chair had only the height adjustment. On the other hand, the mesh is really great, especially if, well, your rear end tends to sweat when the room gets too warm...
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Arbitrary file attributes are actually implemented in HFS+ as of Tiger, but it isn't exposed in the UI, and at this point Spotlight isn't indexing them.
For what it's worth, I found that my Mac Book Pro was running hot, and was consistently idling at 40% cpu activity, when there didn't seem to be anything consuming that much cpu as far as top was telling me.
It appears to have been caused by having Windows Sharing turned on. It was using that many cycles even when I was at home with no Windows machines on the network.
When I turned off Windows Sharing, the cpu usage dropped to single digits, and the laptop has been running much cooler.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but it might be something worth looking at if your laptop runs hot.
"The crime control model desires to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens by stressing efficient apprehension and punishment of criminals."
The due process model also protects the rights of law-abiding citizens. Even more than the crime-control model, when you consider that the state is far more powerful than any criminal, and of course the state itself can be represented by criminals.
"Hybrid car (gas/electric) on board is only efficient in the cities, and less efficient on highways."
I suspect that is mostly true only for the Platonic Ideal highway, always free of congestion, construction, and accidents.
If you commute takes you on a real world highway with those afflictions (95 near Stamford, Mass Pike near Boston, Schuykill near Philly, etc), I bet the efficiency comes out a lot better.
"Since most electricity is still generated by burning fossil fuels, an all-electric car would most likely be worse than one burning the fuel directly. I have never heard of a perfectly efficient method of transmitting electricty from where it was produced to where it was needed (e.g. charge up the car). Ergo, there would be a net increase in "environmental badness" to use the e-car vs what we have now."
The difference is that if the energy is ultimately generated outside the car, there is a great deal more flexibility in how you generate it because you're not constrained to powerplants that fit inside a car. You can take advantage of a new highly efficient process even if it requires a huge building.
Further, you can improve the greenhouse impact of many electric cars by improving a single generating facility, or adding green energy sources to the grid. To get a similar improvement in many gas-engine cars, you'd have to improve the engine and/or fuel of each of them, one by one, which probably isn't going to happen unless the improvement involves large subwoofers or glowing neon.
I was wondering if these people had been using those orangey fake-tan products. That'd get on their hands, and then perhaps when combined with sweat, discolor the palmrests.
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Just get in line behind the alpha centaurians.
If Windows is running rootless, then all the annoying spyware popups will also be running rootless.
Personally, I'd rather have Windows running in a window, so that I know for sure that the malware annoyances are limited to Windows, and are not new blights on OS X.
"This system has worked well for Indian people and still has a major role in modern India."
Yeah, too bad the Indian Steve Jobs was probably born into a lower caste and is stuck cleaning toilets so the castes can have better self-esteem based on mythology.
The author of the article you link to wrote: "Clearly it is time to sit up and see reality as it is before we complete the task the British began- the atomisation of Indian society and annihilation of Indian civilisation."
So apparently he thinks the Indian society and civilisation *is* the Brahmin caste. Which means the vast majority of Indians contribute *nothing* to Indian society and culture.
Forgive me for thinking it sounds a bit like a white South African in the 1980s arguing against the end of apartheid.
"Yes, because you're evincing pride in achievements you haven't made, by people you had no way of influencing. "
That isn't really what causes problems.
The problems start when you start believing that people with other backgrounds are inherently less capable than people with your ancestry. And when this becomes ingrained into societal rules so that groups that are full of themselves can keep other people down and retain power.
I'm sure India's caste system has cost it many, many geniuses who could have done wonders for its development had they not been baselessly treated as being of low value simply because of their ancestry.
It's really a tragedy. Especially when you consider that some fraction of upper-caste people are losers and idiots showing no benefit at all from all their illustrious ancestry. The economic resources spent keeping them relatively fat and happy (compared to the lower castes who muck out the sewers) would no doubt have been better spent on lower-castes with talent or genius.
Also, I'm inclined to think a DNA study would show that those illustrious ancestors really aren't the ancestors of most high-caste people. And would certainly show that the barriers between caste are an illusion and that the DNA of the castes have been mixing for as long as there *have* been castes.
And if the DNA is mixed, then that "oldest surviving line of philosophers, mystics and poets" is likely to include modern-day Indians from all the castes.
"and having an economic explosion today"
For the (admittedly large) minority of the population that lives in the urban centers.
Meanwhile, in the rest of China there is increasing unrest, including a 2004 uprising of 100,000 farmers that was put down by paramilitary troops.
Rural unrest is a serious problem in China, with tens of thousands of protests last year, many violent.
Farmers in villages whose land was seized by developers for construction projects often directed their anger at corrupt local officials who skimmed off the profits of the sale.
In the meantime, the difference in incomes between those who live in the country and those who live in urban areas is growing.
On average, rural workers earn less than a third of those in the cities.
"In which case the SBC technician should be commended by all for putting a halt to another Uwe Boll atrocity."
Let's not be hasty. I'd pay good money to watch "Uwe Boll's Burgertime" with Tara Reid as the intrepid chef.
Was it by chance Uwe Boll?
"I wanted one but Apple refused to finance me one because I was a college student. "
Did you try going through the Apple Store for Education?
"Having said all that, OS X does offer the standard *nix directory structures such as /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and so on but it is not recommended that third party software install files into those directories but rather that it be placed in other directories."
/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/etc, etc.
Other directories such as
Looks like Unix to me.
For the most part,
There are some exceptions - the site_perl stuff you mention, for example. I would say those aren't a quirk of the filesystem layout, but rather a quirk of the way Apple has configured their bundled apache dictated by the default configuration of OS X such that
Granted, if you configure your Mac so that you can see all the directories, then it seems weird, but there is some logic behind it.
More importantly, there is nothing that requires the use of
The Tim Bray punchline is that whatever he switches to, it most likely won't be his employer's OS.
"1. I think they're overstating the openness problems on the Mac, and overstating the advantages of open source when it comes to data retention."
Yeah, their arguments pretty much boil down to "Apple got the peas in the mashed potatoes, now I won't eat any of it. I demand pure open-source mashed potatoes uncontaminated by peas."
"Yes, I am a fanboy; however, this is one deserving individual. "
The only thing Cory Doctorow fights is the urge to buy every piece of cheap Disney crap that comes out.
He's a petulant little fanatic and authoritarian who demands that the world entertain him for free, and wants to force everyone to live by his rules.
"refusing to release source for a project they've touted for years as their open source jewel in the crown,"
For a small part of it.
Sheesh, you people are a bunch of spoiled brats. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. What makes you think you're *entitled* to constant instant satisfaction?
"ope, I want the Chinese people to get pissed enough at all the restrictions that they have to live under to set them over the boiling point to overthrow their government. I"
How will they know the full extent of the restrictions they are under if they only get the information the government allows them to have?
1. I tried a kneeling chair, but it really kills the skin on my knees after a while. The fabric on the kneepad, as well as whatever you're wearing on your legs, will start to impress on your knees. Also, your pant legs will probably crease.
2. I suspect that desk height is the major problem, and an adjustable chair may not help. If you desk is the wrong height, you may be able to adjust your chair so your arms are in the right position, but your legs won't be.
3. Along with desk height, desk thickness is a problem. The ideal ergonomic desk would probably be a zero-thickness geometric plane (that can be adjusted to different heights). The worst are desks with wide frames or supports under the desktop, or drawers, which effectively increase the thickness of the desktop by several inches. (Hotel rooms are especially bad about having desks like this - traditional desks made for writing by hand.)
4. Aeron chairs are okay, but not great. For one thing, they don't all have the complete range of adjustments. A hotel chain advertises that it has Aerons in the rooms, but I found that the chair had only the height adjustment. On the other hand, the mesh is really great, especially if, well, your rear end tends to sweat when the room gets too warm...
Arbitrary file attributes are actually implemented in HFS+ as of Tiger, but it isn't exposed in the UI, and at this point Spotlight isn't indexing them.
One route for you to take might be to build cool hacks, put them on a blog, and promote them via Make.com and similar sites.
Build a reputation and contacts that way, and it might turn into job offers.
For what it's worth, I found that my Mac Book Pro was running hot, and was consistently idling at 40% cpu activity, when there didn't seem to be anything consuming that much cpu as far as top was telling me.
It appears to have been caused by having Windows Sharing turned on. It was using that many cycles even when I was at home with no Windows machines on the network.
When I turned off Windows Sharing, the cpu usage dropped to single digits, and the laptop has been running much cooler.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but it might be something worth looking at if your laptop runs hot.
"The crime control model desires to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens by stressing efficient apprehension and punishment of criminals."
The due process model also protects the rights of law-abiding citizens. Even more than the crime-control model, when you consider that the state is far more powerful than any criminal, and of course the state itself can be represented by criminals.
"Hybrid car (gas/electric) on board is only efficient in the cities, and less efficient on highways."
I suspect that is mostly true only for the Platonic Ideal highway, always free of congestion, construction, and accidents.
If you commute takes you on a real world highway with those afflictions (95 near Stamford, Mass Pike near Boston, Schuykill near Philly, etc), I bet the efficiency comes out a lot better.
"Since most electricity is still generated by burning fossil fuels, an all-electric car would most likely be worse than one burning the fuel directly. I have never heard of a perfectly efficient method of transmitting electricty from where it was produced to where it was needed (e.g. charge up the car). Ergo, there would be a net increase in "environmental badness" to use the e-car vs what we have now."
The difference is that if the energy is ultimately generated outside the car, there is a great deal more flexibility in how you generate it because you're not constrained to powerplants that fit inside a car. You can take advantage of a new highly efficient process even if it requires a huge building.
Further, you can improve the greenhouse impact of many electric cars by improving a single generating facility, or adding green energy sources to the grid. To get a similar improvement in many gas-engine cars, you'd have to improve the engine and/or fuel of each of them, one by one, which probably isn't going to happen unless the improvement involves large subwoofers or glowing neon.
I was wondering if these people had been using those orangey fake-tan products. That'd get on their hands, and then perhaps when combined with sweat, discolor the palmrests.
My cynical take on it is that he makes less on downloads than on CDs because downloaders only buy a few tracks instead of paying for the whole CD.
However, others have quoted his statement in full, which suggests there may be more to it than that.