A method that would allow us to choose between more than two players would, of course, be too complicated for us wielders of Ultimate Democratic Power to comprehend
Well the two party system has always been a failure, but surely you can still vote on candidates in terms of the issues. I'm not saying that happen's, merely that the scope still exists for it to happen as perhaps a day will come when candidates platforms are not analysed by the media but instead by internet scrutiny.
I know, I know - and then we can all hold hands and sing "kom by yaah"
Do you think it has got to that point yet? The US hasn't completely dismantled democracy yet, although it's been happening incrementally. Because if that is the case dark times are ahead, and we won't be talking about a civil war in Iraq anymore. As far as I can tell the risk to Americans is reading about alternative presidential candidates on the net that the mainstream parties don't put forward, unlikely, but still a possibility. Apathy is the more likely culprit.
It couldn't be any more true than today the saying (YABFQ?) "Eternal vigalance is the price of liberty", I don't think "vigalance" is a word that describes the modern electorate.
The devil is in the detail, I agree with your sentiment though totally appropriate today.
* Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
o This statement was used as a motto on the title page of An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania. (1759) which was attributed to Franklin in the edition of 1812, but in a letter of September 27, 1760 to David Hume, he states that he published this book and denies that he wrote it, other than a few remarks that were credited to the Pennsylvania Assembly, in which he served. The phrase itself was first used in a letter from that Assembly dated November 11, 1755 to the Governor of Pennsylvania. An article on the origins of this statement here includes a scan that indicates the original typography of the 1759 document, which uses an archaic form of "s": "Thofe who would give up Essential Liberty to purchafe a little Temporary Safety, deferve neither Liberty nor Safety." Researchers now believe that a fellow diplomat by the name of Richard Jackson is the primary author of the book. With the information thus far available the issue of authorship of the statement is not yet definitely resolved, but the evidence indicates it was very likely Franklin, who in the Poor Richard's Almanack of 1738 is known to have written a similar proverb: "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
But just as relevant and far more recent is something John.F.Kennedy said
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
He knew back then how afraid governments and the power elite are of a population properly educated and motivated, which is why both are being disassembled today.
Not as Orwell predicted by an over bearing state but rather as Huxley predicted because the citizens do not care about anything except being entertained. The collapse of Rome will be nothing compared to the implosion of the United States.
Especially with China patiently waiting for it to happen.
Yet Another Benjamin Franklin Quote (YABFQ)...
"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, -- if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
The corporatisation of America has played a big part, the question is, Is there a way back? What will make the average person decide to stand up for their freedom when all they have to do is vote, not die or fight, just understand the issues and vote. War used to be a thing the entire nation had to make a sacrifice for, now it's a distraction funded by other countries in the form of loans.
Clearly your comments illustrate that you are a rational person, with the ability to sense reality for what it is. That is why you will be one of the first sentenced to sedition and shot. Of course that reminds me of YABFQ...
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
There are other values besides just turning the drive power management off. Ok, if it's set too agressively and cycling the heads, maybe it would be a good idea to establish what your drive is capable of. From the hdparm man page
-B Set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low value means aggressive power manage-
ment and a high value means better performance. A value of 255 will disable apm on the drive.
but there is more, power mode status
-C Check the current IDE power mode status, which will always be one of unknown (drive does not support this
command), active/idle (normal operation), standby (low power mode, drive has spun down), or sleeping (low-
est power mode, drive is completely shut down). The -S, -y, -Y, and -Z flags can be used to manipulate the
IDE power modes.
and of course spindown timer
-S Set the standby (spindown) timeout for the drive. This value is used by the drive to determine how long to
wait (with no disk activity) before turning off the spindle motor to save power. Under such circumstances,
the drive may take as long as 30 seconds to respond to a subsequent disk access, though most drives are
much quicker. The encoding of the timeout value is somewhat peculiar. A value of zero means "timeouts are
disabled": the device will not automatically enter standby mode. Values from 1 to 240 specify multiples of
5 seconds, yielding timeouts from 5 seconds to 20 minutes. Values from 241 to 251 specify from 1 to 11
units of 30 minutes, yielding timeouts from 30 minutes to 5.5 hours. A value of 252 signifies a timeout of
21 minutes. A value of 253 sets a vendor-defined timeout period between 8 and 12 hours, and the value 254
is reserved. 255 is interpreted as 21 minutes plus 15 seconds. Note that some older drives may have very
different interpretations of these values.
So there is a middle ground, if your drive supports it, hdparm -I will also yeild some interesting information about what features the drive will support. Just turning the power management off seems like a bit of a knee jerk reaction, especially when adjusting the amount of power management applied to the drive should deliver both i.e hdparm -B 196 YMMV.
I would have thought that spindown timer would be more relevant to apply, one other thing I've never found hard drives tuned to thier maximum throughput in a linux installation (I mainly use Fedora) so an investigation of the udma modes your drive will support may be a worthwhile investment in time see hdparm -X _some_number_here_ (RTFM - first) considering just about everything goes better when you do tune it right.
I've seen alot of eucalyptus tress in California which are native to Australia, and it looks to me like Californian's are experiencing what Australian bushfires are like. They're great trees but when they get hot you can notice a blue like haze from their flamable sap, like a gas around the tree. They burn so that their seed pods can spread without competing flora, they also drop alot of dry leaves and branches and after a few years they turn whatever area they live in into what California is experiencing now, you'll be suprised at how quickly it grows back.
The Koori's (australian native aboriginal's), who used the characteristic's of the trees to hunt, used to burn these trees off on purpose. In Australia the Bushfire brigade also burn the bush off to reduce the intensity of the fires when they come. Californian's should do the same thing while you have ecalyptus trees, it's the only way to manage these trees. I've been evacuated from my house for exactly the same type of fire, even if the fire doesn't turn into a storm it is a truely awe inspiring and frightening experience.
Burn them just before winter, that's when the Koori's do it, and they know eucalypt best.
I'm not opposed to software patent reform, but I don't see it as related strongly to monopoly abuse.
In this case, I'm not talking patent reform, just M$ reform. Distributing M$ patent claims to the four winds might be a good way to encourage business to use an alternative OS distribution without FUD.
On the contrary,
You are right, I should have said "don't mean much to me anymore" except now that I web "coding" again it does mean alot to me. Perhaps Windows should bundle Firefox AND Opera as well and on installation the user is asked - Which browser would you like to default(today)?
Except that I think a large part of the problem is that the SOHO vendors press agree to all the EULA's on install in their shop, I wonder what that says for the legality of the EULA if you never got a chance to disagree with it in the first place?
Maybe that's the reason to have beamable power, cars on the downward run could recover energy and transmit it to either other cars or a collecting station.
Good call dood. Although in some industries patents are useful when it comes to Software I don't think it is.
Perhaps it's because Software patents stops software evolving, the market(s) stop evolving good product and everybody just gets litigous. After the dust settles it takes a while for the market to get the shit products it should have been expecting in beta when the lawsuits began.
That might actually be doing M$ a favour if this guy's allegations are true. What about a settlement that means something to competition and getting M$ to declare patent indemnity for all Linux Vendors or force them to publish the patents in question?
Seems to me the competition only needs a little leeway to be able to move forward and that browser wars don't mean much anymore.
By the time the gun had emptied its twin 250-round auto-loader magazines, nine soldiers were dead and 11 injured.
was it neccesary to fill both magazines in a test fire, or for that matter in a live test fire perhaps have some sort of abort system ready - even if it just cut the power to the control systems?
Maybe fill the magazines on the 5th live fire test???
Nope, I'm including most of them in the statement as well.
"or b) Unix people, which also makes them technically incompetent but also gives them an unjustified superiority complex."
Quite the elitist aren't you? Such a massive assumtion but I know who you are now. Professionally I've found most IT professionals good to work with if you are prepared to learn something. Even if I agree that it is the case, arrogance is not a professional quality that can be appreciated in the long term.
Stick to the topic at hand, we're not talking home users. Home users don't see any value in their computers, let alone their OS.
Yes that's true, but the same attitude propagates into the small to medium business market otherwise there wouldn't be a BSA.
I think you're confused. The last major change to the GUI occured in 1995.
That would be the users that are confused by the microsoft offering, because most of them haven't been using Linux as long as we have. I'm not saying Linux is any better in this regard, only that the right value proposition is yet to be reached. Due to the fact that the code based is secured outside any single proprietary entity, the development work can continue until the right combination is achieved. What you forget is that Linux is not being marketed into the desktop space in the same way windows is. You cite the many differences of Linux distributions as a weakness like it's similar to the old Unix days where compatibility across platforms didn't exist. The main difference I see is that compatibility across Linux distributions and CPU platforms is not particularly difficult due to the availability of development tools, if you are competant enough to use them.
Hardly. As a Linux user since 1993, I'm certain I've got tons more personal AND professional experience with the product than you.
An incorrect asumption.
On a day there's an announcement that OSI has accepted two MS licenses you're going to pull out that old chestnut? Beyond that, though, citations and references to back that up?
I'm sorry check for citations here . But I got ahead of myself, Microsoft has never abused it's market position, it's never used it's monopoly against competition, it's never usurped ideas from companies such as netscape, there is no such thing as "embrace and extend", the Samba project will be given specifications of SMB v2 so that life between Linux and Vista is hunkey dorey, it never lobbied congress. As for the 200 or whatever innovation restricting patents that MS hold against Open Source Vendors even after MS let the OSS community what they were so they don't infringe, Microsoft won't use them because Microsoft is happy to see products compete in "their" marketplace without interference at the OEM level and they didn't really mean it when they said that Open Source is like a cancer in the industry. Sun should have accepted Microsofts intentions with Java were pure. Even if we deploy NGSCB, Paladium or DRM we won't use it, hhhonest!
What was I thinking to say that Microsoft has been anything but a shiney beacon of all that's good and proper in the world, but you know theres this thing called reality.
What the hell are you talking about? Change for change's sake? the growing need of business to do more with less.
So of your 14000 windows desktop deployments how many are Vista right now, will vista run on a 5 year old laptop?
This is where Linux and OSS typically falls down because the majority of OSS supporters are geeks who don't understand business needs.
Perhaps, but business continues to invest in Open Source Software and generate a return
Here's the problem: the vast majority of Slashdotters are either: a) technically incompetent or b) Unix people, which also makes them technically incompetent but also gives them an unjustified superiority complex.
That's quite a sweeping statement, is this how everyone feels in Microsoft land?
After all, their OS of choice has gotten to the point that they have to assemble it themselves and then give it away for free. And despite all of that, people still don't want it. Go fig.
Possibly because desktop users don't see any value in windows, they either pirate it or it's installed on the machine for them. Over time the everyday user experince has been confused by the amount of changes in the only gui they've been exposed too and consequently they think that switching to Linux brings about an uncertainty based on those experiences. Freedom isn't free, but the cost of entry is pretty low, so whilst you criticise people for not learning new things, your trapped in the same paradigm.
In all seriousness, they just don't get it. It's a shame, and it's just getting worse every day.
Open Source is growing up to be a business model, what's wrong with that? The only shame is that Microsoft don't want to play with anyone else in the sand pit. Can you honestly say, after Microsoft has been found guilty of criminal practises, that they won't do anything to own the market.
The industry's filled with old farts who refuse to learn anything new, and young'ins...
Who see the litany of broken software and change for change's sake as pointless. There are other things to do on a computer system than relearn functionality has been moved or the behaviour changed. It's just a waste of time, not learning anything new, just learning a new interface for something old with rounded corners.
When I tell them our team of 15 people manage 14,000 Windows desktops and 2000 Windows servers, they tell me it's impossible.
Not impossible, just not very interesting. I'd imagine life is a series of Reboots, Reloads of applications and Re-installs, if thats what you want in your career, cool. I guess your sig sums it up...
"Which is more painful? Going to work or gouging your eye out with a spoon? Find out! "
and with that many windows desktops and servers, can you really blame technology professionals for steering clear of Microsoft? What I would be interested in is the uptime statistics on your servers without rebooting them. Sometimes reboots aren't acceptable, look what one did to The ISS.
Trust me, just keep pissin' 'em off by showing them up in projects and eventually they start to dwindle away.
Just like a girlfriends period when you're both on holidays, you da man, spoonman.
Slashdot Mirror
I know, I know - and then we can all hold hands and sing "kom by yaah"
It couldn't be any more true than today the saying (YABFQ?) "Eternal vigalance is the price of liberty", I don't think "vigalance" is a word that describes the modern electorate.
Yet Another Benjamin Franklin Quote (YABFQ)...
"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, -- if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
The corporatisation of America has played a big part, the question is, Is there a way back? What will make the average person decide to stand up for their freedom when all they have to do is vote, not die or fight, just understand the issues and vote. War used to be a thing the entire nation had to make a sacrifice for, now it's a distraction funded by other countries in the form of loans.
Clearly your comments illustrate that you are a rational person, with the ability to sense reality for what it is. That is why you will be one of the first sentenced to sedition and shot. Of course that reminds me of YABFQ...
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
but there is more, power mode status
and of course spindown timer So there is a middle ground, if your drive supports it, hdparm -I will also yeild some interesting information about what features the drive will support. Just turning the power management off seems like a bit of a knee jerk reaction, especially when adjusting the amount of power management applied to the drive should deliver both i.e hdparm -B 196 YMMV.I would have thought that spindown timer would be more relevant to apply, one other thing I've never found hard drives tuned to thier maximum throughput in a linux installation (I mainly use Fedora) so an investigation of the udma modes your drive will support may be a worthwhile investment in time see hdparm -X _some_number_here_ (RTFM - first) considering just about everything goes better when you do tune it right.
So it's just like outsourcing then.
Get it? rectum, fire.
ha ha ha!
It amazes me what can be done with internet technology.
The Koori's (australian native aboriginal's), who used the characteristic's of the trees to hunt, used to burn these trees off on purpose. In Australia the Bushfire brigade also burn the bush off to reduce the intensity of the fires when they come. Californian's should do the same thing while you have ecalyptus trees, it's the only way to manage these trees. I've been evacuated from my house for exactly the same type of fire, even if the fire doesn't turn into a storm it is a truely awe inspiring and frightening experience.
Burn them just before winter, that's when the Koori's do it, and they know eucalypt best.
Except that I think a large part of the problem is that the SOHO vendors press agree to all the EULA's on install in their shop, I wonder what that says for the legality of the EULA if you never got a chance to disagree with it in the first place?
Like an electric counterweight.
Doctor Bradley C. Edwards did a study for NIAC who funded his research (when it was still around). This is a summary of his work.
Can't find a link to the original study atm, which has more detail.
Maybe that could be the 'express' elevator.
Although in some industries patents are useful, when it comes to the Software industry I don't think they are.
I've got tonsilitis, so sorry about not previewing properly. Is it known how many algorithm's have been discovered so far in computer science?
Perhaps it's because Software patents stops software evolving, the market(s) stop evolving good product and everybody just gets litigous. After the dust settles it takes a while for the market to get the shit products it should have been expecting in beta when the lawsuits began.
Because it does.
Ridicule us.
Seems to me the competition only needs a little leeway to be able to move forward and that browser wars don't mean much anymore.
Maybe fill the magazines on the 5th live fire test???
Just sayin, ya know.
I save in OO native, if I'm sending documents to other people I send them in doc (unless I know they use OO)
Gravity isn't as strong as it used to be?
Quite the elitist aren't you? Such a massive assumtion but I know who you are now. Professionally I've found most IT professionals good to work with if you are prepared to learn something. Even if I agree that it is the case, arrogance is not a professional quality that can be appreciated in the long term.
Funny that I thought the topic was control systems aboard the ISS.
Yes that's true, but the same attitude propagates into the small to medium business market otherwise there wouldn't be a BSA.
That would be the users that are confused by the microsoft offering, because most of them haven't been using Linux as long as we have. I'm not saying Linux is any better in this regard, only that the right value proposition is yet to be reached. Due to the fact that the code based is secured outside any single proprietary entity, the development work can continue until the right combination is achieved. What you forget is that Linux is not being marketed into the desktop space in the same way windows is. You cite the many differences of Linux distributions as a weakness like it's similar to the old Unix days where compatibility across platforms didn't exist. The main difference I see is that compatibility across Linux distributions and CPU platforms is not particularly difficult due to the availability of development tools, if you are competant enough to use them.
An incorrect asumption.
I'm sorry check for citations here . But I got ahead of myself, Microsoft has never abused it's market position, it's never used it's monopoly against competition, it's never usurped ideas from companies such as netscape, there is no such thing as "embrace and extend", the Samba project will be given specifications of SMB v2 so that life between Linux and Vista is hunkey dorey, it never lobbied congress. As for the 200 or whatever innovation restricting patents that MS hold against Open Source Vendors even after MS let the OSS community what they were so they don't infringe, Microsoft won't use them because Microsoft is happy to see products compete in "their" marketplace without interference at the OEM level and they didn't really mean it when they said that Open Source is like a cancer in the industry. Sun should have accepted Microsofts intentions with Java were pure. Even if we deploy NGSCB, Paladium or DRM we won't use it, hhhonest!
What was I thinking to say that Microsoft has been anything but a shiney beacon of all that's good and proper in the world, but you know theres this thing called reality.
So of your 14000 windows desktop deployments how many are Vista right now, will vista run on a 5 year old laptop?
Perhaps, but business continues to invest in Open Source Software and generate a return
"Which is more painful? Going to work or gouging your eye out with a spoon? Find out! "
and with that many windows desktops and servers, can you really blame technology professionals for steering clear of Microsoft? What I would be interested in is the uptime statistics on your servers without rebooting them. Sometimes reboots aren't acceptable, look what one did to The ISS.
Just like a girlfriends period when you're both on holidays, you da man, spoonman.