How true.
Without even resting on the fact that these people make a far too simple argument, it just gets tiresome. How many lunch conversations I remember, according to which the days where everything was programmed in C were so much better because people needed to know what they were doing. Yeah right... I only remember core dumps and buffer overflows. Even in supposedly quality software like CDE.
The only time when I thought it was sort of interesting was when Sun used it as a marketing tool to push DTrace... kind of unexpected.
I did laugh though when Slack was mentioned. That is so true. How did they even manage to get it so slow. It's the worst performing app on my iPhone and the desktop version is not much better. Just scrolling up a couple of pages in the history seems to bring a modern PC to its limits!
Who is "we"? A bunch of noise making 20 something hippies?
must be. I'm German and I don't have anything against nuclear power. BTW I have to confirm that part of the upbringing of little children here in the past three decades has involved a lot of anti-nuclear resentments being fed to them not by their science teachers, but, funnily enough, by all the rest of the faculty who like to comment on issues they don't know anything about. One vivid memory from my own time in school was our (catholic) religious education teacher not willing to believe that the steam exiting the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant is not actually a radioactive smoke plume coming from some sort of fuel rod camp fire at the bottom of the tower! Until we managed to convince her she had probably already taught generations of children before us that kind of hogwash.
What is really helping Germany at the moment is that solar ties up with peak demand nicely. Unfortunately for energy companies peak demand was where they made a lot of their profit, but for Germany as a whole it means they have lots of high value electricity to sell to other countries
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. When the renewables are at full peak, German energy is sold for negative prices, precisely because there is little buffering capacity. This was frequently the case in 2013 and 2014 (only one example here). This has been criticized a lot here in Germany because the resulting loss is passed on to consumers, not to producers which were guaranteed fixed prices as part of a federal effort to ramp up energy production from renewable sources.
I do not know that many Germans that are seriously pissed off about that spying. Most of them do not even understand what the hell is going on - you can try to explain what metadata is or what it can be used for and see how far you get with that.
The whole NSA/Snowden affair was regarded as an important topic in the 2013 election by a mere 17% of the population (pre-election ARD poll).
The Pirate Party and FDP have since not stopped making a huge fuss about it, but the truth is that most Germans don't care. They probably think it'll only hit the terrorists. Same thing with CCTV in public areas, actually. If it only ever saves one pensioner from being robbed, the majority of voters are fine with it (and demand more!).
I understood it that way from day one, and couldn't believe my ears as everyone around me kept extolling what great achievement in privacy they thought it was. Really, have they all forgotten to what extent people have been busy doctoring around with their Wikipedia articles basically since the existence of the platform (or have had their secretary do so)? Does a Wikipedia article turn you into a person of public interest? And when is a piece of information "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive for the purposes of the data processing" as stated in the ruling? All of this is just not going to work. Thank God we can still use US sites.
Even the original case with the guy objecting to an auction notice didn't convince me at all, I mean come on, you screwed up (rather mildly in this case, I might add), so deal with it.
Very true, at least on my Azure VMs there is no working IPv6 route. I couldn't believe this at first but it was confirmed by MS customer service. So even if some customers wanted it, they wouldn't get it.
It's got nothing to do with "socialism". Quite far from it. What it has to do with is completely fucked up tax and tax money politics in Germany. There is a very easy fix for it: Stop bailing out banks, stop pumping money into bailout funds for high risk investment banks
Whatever there may be to like or dislike about the educational system in Germany and its cost, I doubt it has changed much since any "bailing out" began (well, some local governments have removed tuition fees in recent years) , so I doubt rewinding that would have any middle-class-saving qualities. An unmarried engineer starts off with 50% tax/social contribution ratio after college; it's been like that for at least a decade.
(actually, tax the fuckers 'til it's no longer profitable to leech the industry to death), stop destroying the middle class and instead tax capital gains more and you're set.
As it stands now, taxing capital gains means taxing the middle class, as they are usually invested in capital market backed retail products.
So, there is some kind of unfair scheme being pursued by women in which they achieve an unmatchable degree of perceived physical attractiveness (hence the sexual power and the fawning), and expect equal pay on top of it?
(1) If there is, they have been failing rather badly at it over the past few decades, unless you take these 111% mentioned in TFA for granted, but I'm really not that sure about it.
(2) Your view of what's physically attractive is always biased by your own gender; meaning if you're a (hetero) man, you'll likely find an unfair advantage in attractiveness in the female; a good part of it might not have anything to do with any intent on their side. In fact, the assumption that they're guilty of making you feel attracted to them, give them presents etc. (i. e. bewitching you) is a pretty problematic line of thought. For any observable incident involving dollar-spending on the male part, an equally justifiable explanation is always that of a naive, romanticized idea of chivalry on behalf of the spender.
(3) Wouldn't any agenda that aimed at getting better treatment by physically appealing to the other gender cancel itself out once 50% of all management positions were held by females? So all we have to do is sit down and wait...
Nothing is stopping you running your init scripts in parallel if you need it.
Quite true, actually I think in Debian this is already supported for the system boot sequence at least since Squeeze.
Together with dash being the default/bin/sh now, it already boots pretty fast, I don't see the startup time being a major factor in this decision.
It's probably more because of the fact that systemd now reaches into areas beyond pure service control that forces Debian to either follow that move or switch to another alternative that has enough manpower behind it.
(And you would be surprised how many girls like the smell of a man who smells like a man and not like a pool of aftershave, deo and soap)
Even assuming this was true despite it sounding like a Gene Hunt quote, on/. it's not the most striking argument...
For my part, I'm not a girl and I currently have a bunch of bike-riders sitting a few meters down the hall from my office, and on some days I smell the sweat coming out of their offices whenever I have to go past them. OK maybe it's not them but the colorful mountainwear they hang over their chairs, but it's pretty bothersome. When 2000 people are packed in one building there ought to be some standards. (This also means no offensive fragrances, of course.)
Being one of those liberal hippies you seem to be attempting to blame for "Republican Military-Industrial Complex Elitism As Usual" let me speak on our behalf:
No. Mr. O does not speak for me. Mr. O is just another "Republican Moderate" in allegedly liberal clothing [if he had been a *real* liberal he would have gotten us the "Single Provider" [aka Socialist} version of healthcare like all reasonable western countries have rather than the Capitalist "bend over, here's the bill" Romney-care.
I think that a government that is likely to give you socialist healthcare is also not likely one that is going to disband an agency like the NSA, mainly because it's not one to disband any agency. (If the situation here in Europe can be any indicator.) The "perfect" laissez-faire society would be the one without an NSA. Now granted there is no such thing in the real world and it would just mean going over that civil vs. economic liberty thing again. But still. Hiding away talented mathematicians and engineers like that is just a waste of taxpayer money.
I mean, other than for a midnight premiere, does anyone actually go to the movies anymore?
I rarely go to the theater to see a single movie, but I very often visit themed (e. g. Japanese / splatter / Japanese splatter / etc.) film festivals where you can watch five or six movies a day, over a period of one or two weeks. These offer value that I don't find elsewhere. The movies are not going to run in town later. They often wouldn't even be released on DVD in my area, meaning I would have to import them, which could mean $50 each. Some of them later run on subscription TV but you can't be sure of that in advance. Streaming might be an option someday, but my country really has a lot of catching up to do there.
That said, people using their phone is pretty much a non-issue there. The more common nuisance are glass beer bottles tipping over, which is unfortunate if your bag was standing next to them on the floor. But really this can happen to anybody, you can't be mad at them.
But yeah, I'm not sure about the future of the mainstream movie theater industry either. 3D might be its swan song.
Last time I checked, there were a number of BSD-derived files in the glibc source. Not that many, but still. Which were then made public, to use your wording, under license terms of GNU's choosing.
A good question which I've asked myself a number of times. As for Android, its libc is BSD based, but the kernel isn't.
I don't know whether the decision to use a Linux kernel for Android was made at Android, Inc or later at Google, but it's pretty clear that Google wanted Linux.
I suppose at the time, the whole Linux mobile thing had already generated a sufficient amount of traction so that a lot of the necessary infrastructure was already there.
I was working for a mobile phone manufacturer at the time (that was later acquired and shut down by BenQ) and for us, the successor to Symbian would have been Linux, too, built along the Opie and Qtopia userlands on Texas Instruments OMAP hardware. Both Google and Trolltech had offices in the city (Munich). At that time, Google was still developing its products as J2ME software though.
I recall frequent kernel panics while booting that were related to the Intel Ethernet chipset on a SuperMicro H8SGL-F board (not exactly the least common hardware) in a released version (I think it was 8.2 or 8.3), which was probably this. Rather annoying.
There have been other problems, too (off the top of my head), like
the mediocre PAE support,
and the in my eyes rather ungracefully handled transition to Xorg 7.2 in the 6.x releases, which for me didn't work at all like the documentation said, although this was not a problem of the base system, but the ports collection.
Then there's stuff like some guys arbitrarily deciding to reimplement the system installer and on top of that, to remove the old one in the time window between 9.0 RC 3 and 9.0-RELEASE, see (along with some elitist Linux bashing going on:) here and here
or the transition to Clang at a time when it wasn't even ready for the non-x86 architectures!
So sometimes I ask myself whether this OS is really ready for prime time
But enough of the rant. I've been sticking to it since 2000 and for most of the time it just runs and does its job. It's got some nice coherent documentation too.
To continue in the pedantic mode, Minix was not microkernel in versions 1 & 2, but is now, in version 3.
Well I mean Minix was already microkernel at the point of the Tanenbaum/Torvalds discussion. (Kind of funny actually how the later replies to that thread talk about how legendary that same thread is.) Don't know what version it was though.
An absolute necessity for performance reasons. They tried doing it in userspace in NT4 and it just couldn't keep up.
Actually NT4 was already the first version to move GDI into the kernel, because of (as you and others have already mentioned) the high cost of context switches and marshalling/unmarshalling in NT 3.5's microkernel-style display server architecture. See this TechNet article.
So, anyway, not ALL drivers are part of the kernel, more and more are moving out of it as time goes by. But yes, many drivers still are. Our Minix legacy.
I'm being a bit pedantic here, but Minix was Tanenbaum's microkernel system, so kernel-mode drivers are more like Linus' legacy...
Second that. Larger cities generally have ones that open till midnight.
Hostels are not ideal, the ones I've been to (Germany, UK) aren't quiet at all.
If you already know what you'll be working on, that's good, I think finding projects locally could be a real challenge.
this happens in Summer too, like 2010/2011, when hm, surprisingly high temperatures knocked out a number of trains' AC systems ('Schienensauna').
Bottom line is it shouldn't be too hot nor too cold, nor too wet/windy, then the system works well enough. Except sleeper trains, that often accumulate 30+ min delays regardless of environmental conditions.
I still use them often enough though because short-distance flights can suck, too (like sitting on the runway for one hour until you get the slot from the destination airport...)
I don't think there are many applications that refuse to work if the MIT-SHM, SMT, or DRI extensions are not present. They've never been guarantees, after all. The apps will just run slower, but still work over the net.
Apart from that, client-side text through Xft/XRENDER, or videos using XV or GLX are unaffected and in my experience work very well over a 100 MBit/s LAN, in this case RDP and VNC don't really work better.
That's true, there is even an example that moves windows between displays in the gtk-demo program that comes with GTK. GNU Emacs supports it as well I think.
That's exactly what I thought. At my university we were equipped with a bunch of Ultra60s that were upgraded from Solaris 7 to 8, from 8 to 9, and finally from 9 to 10. None of these upgrades slowed them down in any way, at least not that I noticed (they did get memory upgrades however).
Now I could understand if Oracle dropped support for the Ultra60 with Solaris 11, but for a Blade2000 or Ultra45, which may be just a couple of years old? That's a surprise. I have an Ultra45 myself and I'm not at all happy with this, especially since Solaris 11 Express looked quite promising on the machine.
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How true. Without even resting on the fact that these people make a far too simple argument, it just gets tiresome. How many lunch conversations I remember, according to which the days where everything was programmed in C were so much better because people needed to know what they were doing. Yeah right ... I only remember core dumps and buffer overflows. Even in supposedly quality software like CDE.
The only time when I thought it was sort of interesting was when Sun used it as a marketing tool to push DTrace ... kind of unexpected.
I did laugh though when Slack was mentioned. That is so true. How did they even manage to get it so slow. It's the worst performing app on my iPhone and the desktop version is not much better. Just scrolling up a couple of pages in the history seems to bring a modern PC to its limits!
"WE DON'T WANT NUCLEAR POWER!"
Who is "we"? A bunch of noise making 20 something hippies?
must be. I'm German and I don't have anything against nuclear power. BTW I have to confirm that part of the upbringing of little children here in the past three decades has involved a lot of anti-nuclear resentments being fed to them not by their science teachers, but, funnily enough, by all the rest of the faculty who like to comment on issues they don't know anything about. One vivid memory from my own time in school was our (catholic) religious education teacher not willing to believe that the steam exiting the cooling tower of a nuclear power plant is not actually a radioactive smoke plume coming from some sort of fuel rod camp fire at the bottom of the tower! Until we managed to convince her she had probably already taught generations of children before us that kind of hogwash.
What is really helping Germany at the moment is that solar ties up with peak demand nicely. Unfortunately for energy companies peak demand was where they made a lot of their profit, but for Germany as a whole it means they have lots of high value electricity to sell to other countries
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. When the renewables are at full peak, German energy is sold for negative prices, precisely because there is little buffering capacity. This was frequently the case in 2013 and 2014 (only one example here). This has been criticized a lot here in Germany because the resulting loss is passed on to consumers, not to producers which were guaranteed fixed prices as part of a federal effort to ramp up energy production from renewable sources.
A lot of us did.. she was pretty easy on the eyes.. then there's Paula Lieberman forever bitching about her.
What treasures there to be found in the Usenet archives. What's the .gif they're talking about?
I do not know that many Germans that are seriously pissed off about that spying. Most of them do not even understand what the hell is going on - you can try to explain what metadata is or what it can be used for and see how far you get with that.
The whole NSA/Snowden affair was regarded as an important topic in the 2013 election by a mere 17% of the population (pre-election ARD poll).
The Pirate Party and FDP have since not stopped making a huge fuss about it, but the truth is that most Germans don't care. They probably think it'll only hit the terrorists. Same thing with CCTV in public areas, actually. If it only ever saves one pensioner from being robbed, the majority of voters are fine with it (and demand more!).
I understood it that way from day one, and couldn't believe my ears as everyone around me kept extolling what great achievement in privacy they thought it was. Really, have they all forgotten to what extent people have been busy doctoring around with their Wikipedia articles basically since the existence of the platform (or have had their secretary do so)? Does a Wikipedia article turn you into a person of public interest? And when is a piece of information "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive for the purposes of the data processing" as stated in the ruling? All of this is just not going to work. Thank God we can still use US sites.
Even the original case with the guy objecting to an auction notice didn't convince me at all, I mean come on, you screwed up (rather mildly in this case, I might add), so deal with it.
Very true, at least on my Azure VMs there is no working IPv6 route. I couldn't believe this at first but it was confirmed by MS customer service. So even if some customers wanted it, they wouldn't get it.
I keep pestering them, maybe it helps someday.
It's got nothing to do with "socialism". Quite far from it. What it has to do with is completely fucked up tax and tax money politics in Germany. There is a very easy fix for it: Stop bailing out banks, stop pumping money into bailout funds for high risk investment banks
Whatever there may be to like or dislike about the educational system in Germany and its cost, I doubt it has changed much since any "bailing out" began (well, some local governments have removed tuition fees in recent years) , so I doubt rewinding that would have any middle-class-saving qualities. An unmarried engineer starts off with 50% tax/social contribution ratio after college; it's been like that for at least a decade.
(actually, tax the fuckers 'til it's no longer profitable to leech the industry to death), stop destroying the middle class and instead tax capital gains more and you're set.
As it stands now, taxing capital gains means taxing the middle class, as they are usually invested in capital market backed retail products.
So, there is some kind of unfair scheme being pursued by women in which they achieve an unmatchable degree of perceived physical attractiveness (hence the sexual power and the fawning), and expect equal pay on top of it?
(1) If there is, they have been failing rather badly at it over the past few decades, unless you take these 111% mentioned in TFA for granted, but I'm really not that sure about it.
(2) Your view of what's physically attractive is always biased by your own gender; meaning if you're a (hetero) man, you'll likely find an unfair advantage in attractiveness in the female; a good part of it might not have anything to do with any intent on their side. In fact, the assumption that they're guilty of making you feel attracted to them, give them presents etc. (i. e. bewitching you) is a pretty problematic line of thought. For any observable incident involving dollar-spending on the male part, an equally justifiable explanation is always that of a naive, romanticized idea of chivalry on behalf of the spender.
(3) Wouldn't any agenda that aimed at getting better treatment by physically appealing to the other gender cancel itself out once 50% of all management positions were held by females? So all we have to do is sit down and wait...
Nothing is stopping you running your init scripts in parallel if you need it.
Quite true, actually I think in Debian this is already supported for the system boot sequence at least since Squeeze.
Together with dash being the default /bin/sh now, it already boots pretty fast, I don't see the startup time being a major factor in this decision.
It's probably more because of the fact that systemd now reaches into areas beyond pure service control that forces Debian to either follow that move or switch to another alternative that has enough manpower behind it.
(And you would be surprised how many girls like the smell of a man who smells like a man and not like a pool of aftershave, deo and soap)
Even assuming this was true despite it sounding like a Gene Hunt quote, on /. it's not the most striking argument...
For my part, I'm not a girl and I currently have a bunch of bike-riders sitting a few meters down the hall from my office, and on some days I smell the sweat coming out of their offices whenever I have to go past them. OK maybe it's not them but the colorful mountainwear they hang over their chairs, but it's pretty bothersome. When 2000 people are packed in one building there ought to be some standards. (This also means no offensive fragrances, of course.)
Being one of those liberal hippies you seem to be attempting to blame for "Republican Military-Industrial Complex Elitism As Usual" let me speak on our behalf:
No. Mr. O does not speak for me. Mr. O is just another "Republican Moderate" in allegedly liberal clothing [if he had been a *real* liberal he would have gotten us the "Single Provider" [aka Socialist} version of healthcare like all reasonable western countries have rather than the Capitalist "bend over, here's the bill" Romney-care.
I think that a government that is likely to give you socialist healthcare is also not likely one that is going to disband an agency like the NSA, mainly because it's not one to disband any agency. (If the situation here in Europe can be any indicator.) The "perfect" laissez-faire society would be the one without an NSA. Now granted there is no such thing in the real world and it would just mean going over that civil vs. economic liberty thing again. But still. Hiding away talented mathematicians and engineers like that is just a waste of taxpayer money.
I mean, other than for a midnight premiere, does anyone actually go to the movies anymore?
I rarely go to the theater to see a single movie, but I very often visit themed (e. g. Japanese / splatter / Japanese splatter / etc.) film festivals where you can watch five or six movies a day, over a period of one or two weeks. These offer value that I don't find elsewhere. The movies are not going to run in town later. They often wouldn't even be released on DVD in my area, meaning I would have to import them, which could mean $50 each. Some of them later run on subscription TV but you can't be sure of that in advance. Streaming might be an option someday, but my country really has a lot of catching up to do there.
That said, people using their phone is pretty much a non-issue there. The more common nuisance are glass beer bottles tipping over, which is unfortunate if your bag was standing next to them on the floor. But really this can happen to anybody, you can't be mad at them.
But yeah, I'm not sure about the future of the mainstream movie theater industry either. 3D might be its swan song.
(except Sony. or Apple. etc).
...or GNU.
Last time I checked, there were a number of BSD-derived files in the glibc source. Not that many, but still. Which were then made public, to use your wording, under license terms of GNU's choosing.
Which is fine of course.
I don't know whether the decision to use a Linux kernel for Android was made at Android, Inc or later at Google, but it's pretty clear that Google wanted Linux.
I suppose at the time, the whole Linux mobile thing had already generated a sufficient amount of traction so that a lot of the necessary infrastructure was already there.
I was working for a mobile phone manufacturer at the time (that was later acquired and shut down by BenQ) and for us, the successor to Symbian would have been Linux, too, built along the Opie and Qtopia userlands on Texas Instruments OMAP hardware. Both Google and Trolltech had offices in the city (Munich). At that time, Google was still developing its products as J2ME software though.
I recall frequent kernel panics while booting that were related to the Intel Ethernet chipset on a SuperMicro H8SGL-F board (not exactly the least common hardware) in a released version (I think it was 8.2 or 8.3), which was probably this. Rather annoying.
There have been other problems, too (off the top of my head), like
So sometimes I ask myself whether this OS is really ready for prime time
But enough of the rant. I've been sticking to it since 2000 and for most of the time it just runs and does its job. It's got some nice coherent documentation too.
To continue in the pedantic mode, Minix was not microkernel in versions 1 & 2, but is now, in version 3.
Well I mean Minix was already microkernel at the point of the Tanenbaum/Torvalds discussion. (Kind of funny actually how the later replies to that thread talk about how legendary that same thread is.) Don't know what version it was though.
An absolute necessity for performance reasons. They tried doing it in userspace in NT4 and it just couldn't keep up.
Actually NT4 was already the first version to move GDI into the kernel, because of (as you and others have already mentioned) the high cost of context switches and marshalling/unmarshalling in NT 3.5's microkernel-style display server architecture. See this TechNet article.
So, anyway, not ALL drivers are part of the kernel, more and more are moving out of it as time goes by. But yes, many drivers still are. Our Minix legacy.
I'm being a bit pedantic here, but Minix was Tanenbaum's microkernel system, so kernel-mode drivers are more like Linus' legacy...
Second that. Larger cities generally have ones that open till midnight. Hostels are not ideal, the ones I've been to (Germany, UK) aren't quiet at all. If you already know what you'll be working on, that's good, I think finding projects locally could be a real challenge.
this happens in Summer too, like 2010/2011, when hm, surprisingly high temperatures knocked out a number of trains' AC systems ('Schienensauna'). Bottom line is it shouldn't be too hot nor too cold, nor too wet/windy, then the system works well enough. Except sleeper trains, that often accumulate 30+ min delays regardless of environmental conditions. I still use them often enough though because short-distance flights can suck, too (like sitting on the runway for one hour until you get the slot from the destination airport...)
I don't think there are many applications that refuse to work if the MIT-SHM, SMT, or DRI extensions are not present. They've never been guarantees, after all. The apps will just run slower, but still work over the net. Apart from that, client-side text through Xft/XRENDER, or videos using XV or GLX are unaffected and in my experience work very well over a 100 MBit/s LAN, in this case RDP and VNC don't really work better.
That's true, there is even an example that moves windows between displays in the gtk-demo program that comes with GTK. GNU Emacs supports it as well I think.
That's exactly what I thought. At my university we were equipped with a bunch of Ultra60s that were upgraded from Solaris 7 to 8, from 8 to 9, and finally from 9 to 10. None of these upgrades slowed them down in any way, at least not that I noticed (they did get memory upgrades however). Now I could understand if Oracle dropped support for the Ultra60 with Solaris 11, but for a Blade2000 or Ultra45, which may be just a couple of years old? That's a surprise. I have an Ultra45 myself and I'm not at all happy with this, especially since Solaris 11 Express looked quite promising on the machine.