Why would you worry about doing software development when filesystem journals and superblocks are likely to be written far more frequently (generally without ever relocating, which file blocks could do from time to time).
This is why write-leveling algorithms exist. If drives (and/or filesystems) didn't perform write-leveling, they would be largely impractical for R/W for this reason.
More taxes... I'm sure everyone feels a lot of sympathy for them with it being tax season and everything.
I'm sure it will be a lot of fun for small mom and pop retailers to deal with filing paperwork and collecting tax in 50 states just in order to sell trinkets off a small business website.
The quickest way to board the plane is with a giant blender and a pump. The only problem you face is having to refund part of the ticket if a toe gets stuck in the blade and doesn't make the flight!
Next week, MADD will release their latest study that confirms that even a BAC of 0.000000000001% could directly cause a fatality. If you use mouthwash and get behind the wheel of your car, expect a hasty trip to prison!
Two reasons. 1: the warranty disclaimer. Like it or not, "NO WARRANTY" is stamped on to the licenses of commercial software because software consumers don't want to pay the higher cost that would be demanded if a warranty were provided. SLAs do exist, but SLAs cover services. The market is willing to pay for SLA on services, and the whole system works, even if it's not quite as perfect as we might dream.
The other big reason is that a blue screen of death doesn't result in actual death. If you're building homes or highways, you have human life in your hands, and holding you accountable for negligence seems a bit more appropriate. If you're building door locks for the home and a burgular manages to pick it, holding you accountable for negligence is ridiculous because you never promised the lock couldn't be broken. If you're building the home's foundation and it cracks, you still aren't held liable unless you warranted that the foundation wouldn't break. And you wouldn't do that unless you could afford to fix it if it did.
Simple economics. The market has supplied what the consumer has demanded. But some people get these ridiculous ideas about licensing software developers or enacting liability laws when there is NO risk to human life. They try to draw comparisons to disciplines where there are, then gloss over the details. Under even the most brief analysis, the argument doesn't hold water.
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Congratulations on your criteria for picking a candidate. With a war raging out of control, soldiers and innocents dying, a national debt going through the roof, oil prices going out of control, the dollar dropping rapidly in value, the world becoming even more divisive and dangerous as the US throws its weight around, and civil liberties evaporating as fast as congress can pass bills they haven't read, you're concerned about a candidate's personal view on evolution? You might as well vote for Huckabee since he plays guitar.
I hope I'm not the only one who has said this, but PIRATE THE SHIT! I think we've reached a point where anyone who knowingly puts up with the industry's extensive and incredibly invasive DRM schemes is being silly. As bad as things have gotten, I think it's perfectly fair to toss aside any moral concerns about non-commercial illegal downloading. If you want something that will serve you BETTER than Netflix, try a binary USENET service. Totally anonymous, encrypted, super fast, and filled to the brim with HD content. MINUS THE DRM.
I'm sure I speak for every programmer on Earth when I scream, "STOP MESSING WITH TIME!" It's hard enough to deal with dates and times when going between TAI and UTC, and keeping around a leap seconds database, but the code out there works.
Nonsense! An EULA can be called an "Agreement" all day long and that doesn't make it hold water. There are two big things at play here - one, the need for a meeting of the minds, and two, the assumed rights of a consumer who buys something. EULAs don't have the force of binding contracts because you don't sign them before you fork over the money, and you don't sign them before the store hands you the box.
BSD license fanboys ranting about how their license is the real free software license because it allows totaly freedom, calling the GPL licensors zealots, then loudly whining when the GPL license users exercise their freedom to take the BSD-licensed code and do with it as they like.
What the GPL is really concerned with beyond the code is protecting the freedom of the code's user. BSD aims to give the initial recipient of BSD-licensed code the freedom to make copies and changes in virtually any way they want whereas GPL aims to give those same freedoms and enforce them in second and third and fourth order copies, etc.
I was really sad to hear that Eben Moglen was leaving the FSF. I knew about SFLC, but always wondered if they would do much. On the contrary, it seems like SFLC has actually been active and done some great things in its short time as an organization. The conservancy is a great idea too!
Um, this flaw doesn't allow you to take over the process context of the BIND server. Instead, it allows you to poison the BIND DNS cache with phony records of your choosing.
In a 2001 interview with Texas Monthly magazine, Paul acknowledged that the comments were printed in his newsletter under his name, but explained that they did not represent his views and that they were written by a ghostwriter. He further stated that he felt some moral responsibility for the words that had been attributed to him, despite the fact that they did not represent his way of thinking:
The american obsession with "low taxes" is a root cause behind much of the problems this country faces today. By avoiding our responsibilities to society, we propagate selfishness and authoritarianism.
Our problem isn't "low taxes", it's high spending. We're borrowing 3 billion dollars a day right now. Make you feel good about your country's future?
Blanket statements like this make this guy look like a loon. How is the ICC a threat to US sovereignty? Pushing fear mongering bullshit like "the ICC wants to try our soldiers" is one of the reasons it is hard to take right wingers seriously. Like it or not folks, we are an important part of the world and we have to deal with it.
In the United States, the Constitution is the highest law in the land - not any international body.
This is true, but he proposes no alternatives. It is VERY easy to talk about the war, but not easy to come up with suggestions. He needs to work on this. Knee-jerk opposition to the UN is a simple minded and ineffective foreign policy.
Ron Paul has stated that if we can march right in, we can turn around and march right back out. I agree completely.
Ahh yes, and overnight put thousands of small businesses out of business. Again, like it or not, illegal immigrants do the work americans refuse to do. We cannot on one hand decry cheap labour and on the other hand demand huge pay increases for janitorial work. And how does he propose to secure our borders without TAXES? Yet another inconsistency.
Ron Paul proposes that we *transition* into a system of less entitlement over time. Raising the minimum wage would allow American workers to receive fair(er) pay for their labor. The current welfare system is *hard* to get off of for a single mother, because she quite possibly could make *less* money working than being on welfare.
WRONG. The biggest threat to privacy are multinational corporations. Who do you think actually do the work of collecting, storing and profiting off our personal matters?
Multinational corporations are a big threat, but have you read the Patriot act lately?
This is all well and good, but how is he going to protect families when the corporations come knocking? Corporate ownership of traditional family farms is rampant, and FAR WORSE of a problem than any government interventions, and yet he says NOTHING about this.
Don't know enough about this to respond.
All told, Ron Paul just sounds like yet another pro-corporate shill, if he gets elected, you should fully expect far worse corporate interventionism in our government than we have with RIAA, MPAA, Blackwater, or Halliburton.
I can't possibly imagine how you could come to such an absurd conclusion. Nothing is further from the truth.
After months of careful consideration, Ron Paul is the only politician I can truly stand behind in this race. I will not vote for another Republican who will just continue the War in Iraq. The Democrats have been predictably, but sadly, spineless in stopping the war despite a practical mandate from the voters that returned them to Congressional power. Most Republicans and Democrats are going to increase the size and scope of government. Giuliani and many of the Democrats seem like they'd love to repeal the second amendment.
If Al Gore was actually running, I might consider voting for him, but only if Ron Paul were not running. I don't even agree with Ron Paul completely, but his honesty is glowing and his strong belief about personal liberties and national security are simply too important to pass up. I hope that even if Ron Paul doesn't have a chance of winning that there is an outpouring of support for him both in and out of the voting booth, because we need our other politicians (and citizens!) to WAKE UP.
Brief Overview of Congressman Pauls Record
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch. He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
> the sights and sounds of a bunch of geeks getting all morally outraged over the thought of someone stealing an election after watching a stolen > video is buttery thick with irony
That's because you're an idiot. Influencing an election is a fraud on our entire system of government. Making an unauthorized copy of a video that exposes it is not stealing, no matter how much the content industry wants you to think so.
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Why would you worry about doing software development when filesystem journals and superblocks are likely to be written far more frequently (generally without ever relocating, which file blocks could do from time to time). This is why write-leveling algorithms exist. If drives (and/or filesystems) didn't perform write-leveling, they would be largely impractical for R/W for this reason.
The dog is to make sure no one sneaks in drugs and gets the router high.
When will people realize that voting for the "lesser of two evils" contributes excessively to the illness of our republic?
"Change we can believe in" No change at all...
Isn't GCC under the GPL as well? :p
More taxes... I'm sure everyone feels a lot of sympathy for them with it being tax season and everything. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun for small mom and pop retailers to deal with filing paperwork and collecting tax in 50 states just in order to sell trinkets off a small business website.
Looks like it didn't last for long:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/sysbench/
The quickest way to board the plane is with a giant blender and a pump. The only problem you face is having to refund part of the ticket if a toe gets stuck in the blade and doesn't make the flight!
Next week, MADD will release their latest study that confirms that even a BAC of 0.000000000001% could directly cause a fatality. If you use mouthwash and get behind the wheel of your car, expect a hasty trip to prison!
But software is different, for some reason.
Two reasons. 1: the warranty disclaimer. Like it or not, "NO WARRANTY" is stamped on to the licenses of commercial software because software consumers don't want to pay the higher cost that would be demanded if a warranty were provided. SLAs do exist, but SLAs cover services. The market is willing to pay for SLA on services, and the whole system works, even if it's not quite as perfect as we might dream.
The other big reason is that a blue screen of death doesn't result in actual death. If you're building homes or highways, you have human life in your hands, and holding you accountable for negligence seems a bit more appropriate. If you're building door locks for the home and a burgular manages to pick it, holding you accountable for negligence is ridiculous because you never promised the lock couldn't be broken. If you're building the home's foundation and it cracks, you still aren't held liable unless you warranted that the foundation wouldn't break. And you wouldn't do that unless you could afford to fix it if it did.
Simple economics. The market has supplied what the consumer has demanded. But some people get these ridiculous ideas about licensing software developers or enacting liability laws when there is NO risk to human life. They try to draw comparisons to disciplines where there are, then gloss over the details. Under even the most brief analysis, the argument doesn't hold water.
Here's another take that argues against liability laws: http://lwn.net/Articles/247933/
When the shopping cart starts to play an ad, does it artificially reduce the rolling speed of the shopping cart by 50%?
Congratulations on your criteria for picking a candidate. With a war raging out of control, soldiers and innocents dying, a national debt going through the roof, oil prices going out of control, the dollar dropping rapidly in value, the world becoming even more divisive and dangerous as the US throws its weight around, and civil liberties evaporating as fast as congress can pass bills they haven't read, you're concerned about a candidate's personal view on evolution? You might as well vote for Huckabee since he plays guitar.
I hope I'm not the only one who has said this, but PIRATE THE SHIT! I think we've reached a point where anyone who knowingly puts up with the industry's extensive and incredibly invasive DRM schemes is being silly. As bad as things have gotten, I think it's perfectly fair to toss aside any moral concerns about non-commercial illegal downloading. If you want something that will serve you BETTER than Netflix, try a binary USENET service. Totally anonymous, encrypted, super fast, and filled to the brim with HD content. MINUS THE DRM.
I'm sure I speak for every programmer on Earth when I scream, "STOP MESSING WITH TIME!" It's hard enough to deal with dates and times when going between TAI and UTC, and keeping around a leap seconds database, but the code out there works.
Nonsense! An EULA can be called an "Agreement" all day long and that doesn't make it hold water. There are two big things at play here - one, the need for a meeting of the minds, and two, the assumed rights of a consumer who buys something. EULAs don't have the force of binding contracts because you don't sign them before you fork over the money, and you don't sign them before the store hands you the box.
BSD license fanboys ranting about how their license is the real free software license because it allows totaly freedom, calling the GPL licensors zealots, then loudly whining when the GPL license users exercise their freedom to take the BSD-licensed code and do with it as they like.
What the GPL is really concerned with beyond the code is protecting the freedom of the code's user. BSD aims to give the initial recipient of BSD-licensed code the freedom to make copies and changes in virtually any way they want whereas GPL aims to give those same freedoms and enforce them in second and third and fourth order copies, etc.
I was really sad to hear that Eben Moglen was leaving the FSF. I knew about SFLC, but always wondered if they would do much. On the contrary, it seems like SFLC has actually been active and done some great things in its short time as an organization. The conservancy is a great idea too!
Um, this flaw doesn't allow you to take over the process context of the BIND server. Instead, it allows you to poison the BIND DNS cache with phony records of your choosing.
The american obsession with "low taxes" is a root cause behind much of the problems this country faces today. By avoiding our responsibilities to society, we propagate selfishness and authoritarianism.
Our problem isn't "low taxes", it's high spending. We're borrowing 3 billion dollars a day right now. Make you feel good about your country's future?
Blanket statements like this make this guy look like a loon. How is the ICC a threat to US sovereignty? Pushing fear mongering bullshit like "the ICC wants to try our soldiers" is one of the reasons it is hard to take right wingers seriously. Like it or not folks, we are an important part of the world and we have to deal with it.
In the United States, the Constitution is the highest law in the land - not any international body.
This is true, but he proposes no alternatives. It is VERY easy to talk about the war, but not easy to come up with suggestions. He needs to work on this. Knee-jerk opposition to the UN is a simple minded and ineffective foreign policy.
Ron Paul has stated that if we can march right in, we can turn around and march right back out. I agree completely.
Ahh yes, and overnight put thousands of small businesses out of business. Again, like it or not, illegal immigrants do the work americans refuse to do. We cannot on one hand decry cheap labour and on the other hand demand huge pay increases for janitorial work. And how does he propose to secure our borders without TAXES? Yet another inconsistency.
Ron Paul proposes that we *transition* into a system of less entitlement over time. Raising the minimum wage would allow American workers to receive fair(er) pay for their labor. The current welfare system is *hard* to get off of for a single mother, because she quite possibly could make *less* money working than being on welfare.
WRONG. The biggest threat to privacy are multinational corporations. Who do you think actually do the work of collecting, storing and profiting off our personal matters?
Multinational corporations are a big threat, but have you read the Patriot act lately?
This is all well and good, but how is he going to protect families when the corporations come knocking? Corporate ownership of traditional family farms is rampant, and FAR WORSE of a problem than any government interventions, and yet he says NOTHING about this.
Don't know enough about this to respond.
All told, Ron Paul just sounds like yet another pro-corporate shill, if he gets elected, you should fully expect far worse corporate interventionism in our government than we have with RIAA, MPAA, Blackwater, or Halliburton.
I can't possibly imagine how you could come to such an absurd conclusion. Nothing is further from the truth.
After months of careful consideration, Ron Paul is the only politician I can truly stand behind in this race. I will not vote for another Republican who will just continue the War in Iraq. The Democrats have been predictably, but sadly, spineless in stopping the war despite a practical mandate from the voters that returned them to Congressional power. Most Republicans and Democrats are going to increase the size and scope of government. Giuliani and many of the Democrats seem like they'd love to repeal the second amendment.
If Al Gore was actually running, I might consider voting for him, but only if Ron Paul were not running. I don't even agree with Ron Paul completely, but his honesty is glowing and his strong belief about personal liberties and national security are simply too important to pass up. I hope that even if Ron Paul doesn't have a chance of winning that there is an outpouring of support for him both in and out of the voting booth, because we need our other politicians (and citizens!) to WAKE UP.
Brief Overview of Congressman Pauls Record
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
> the sights and sounds of a bunch of geeks getting all morally outraged over the thought of someone stealing an election after watching a stolen
> video is buttery thick with irony
That's because you're an idiot. Influencing an election is a fraud on our entire system of government. Making an unauthorized copy of a video that exposes it is not stealing, no matter how much the content industry wants you to think so.