Because of Linux, Solaris is no longer #1 OS. Meanwhile, Linux still has filesystems out of 20. century
memory overcommit is not turned off by default, basic data safety is not guaranteed, and now with systemd it behaves like Windows more than ever before. What a piece of crap OS.
If one of the BSD's were this popular, I would be fine with that, but in IT, it seems like biggest piece of crap always becomes the latest fad. Good job guys, the whole lot of you. Good job. Pat yourselves on the backs, idiots.
Yes it does, useful if you want to read old disks, but it also has many 21st century ones.
memory overcommit is not turned off by default, basic data safety is not guaranteed,
That's a two edge sword. In practice when running out of virtual memory Windows (without overcommit) comes to a halt, so it takes maybe 10 minutes to just bring up a menu. Linux (with overcommit) starts killing things. You are more likely to do a clean shutdown of the linux bits that havent been killed than of a windows box when this happens.,
and now with systemd it behaves like Windows more than ever before.,
I haven't used it in anger enough to know. On a desktop it seems fine. I have a feeling that once I start serious server work it won't be nearly as flexible as init,
What a piece of crap OS.
If one of the BSD's were this popular, I would be fine with that, but in IT, it seems like biggest piece of crap always becomes the latest fad. Good job guys, the whole lot of you. Good job. Pat yourselves on the backs, idiots.
According to this most of the money comes from taxes goes to fund BBC World Service to Commonwealth and foreign nations so there is no cross funding with the Met.
According to the BBC's 2013/14 Annual Report, its total income was £5 billion (£5,066.0 million),[1] which can be broken down as follows:
£3,726.1 million in licence fees collected from householders;
£1,023.2 million from the BBC's Commercial Businesses;
£244.6 million from government grants, of which £238.5 million is from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the BBC World Service;
£72.1 million from other income, such as rental collections and royalties from overseas broadcasts of programming.
Ultimately the money for government grants and license fees comes from us (British citizens) though, as does funding to the met.
This could be one case where a tender doesn't make sense. The Met Office is obliged to give weather warnings, provide shipping weather information, etc. and if the BBC is cross-funding that then going elsewhere just means the government will have to give the Met Office more money directly. So now the public are funding the BBC to pay another company, and the Met Office too.
Not strictly true, things are often manufactured "under license" also known as brand leasing, where the trademark owner allows someone else to use a trademark in return for royalties. This is particularly common in the world of beers, where popular overseas brands are often brewed under license". When I buy a can of an American beer in the UK, the chances are that it will have been nowhere near america and the small print on the can will say "brewed under license in the UK".
Consider the following: Mugger beats the crap out of someone and robs them, later during his trial pictures of the victim are presented as evidence. Mugger then sues the police department and his victim for violation of his copyright to the art applied to the victims face.
... I would suggest that the police arrange a happening in the cells for the mugger afterwards, and keep full video and audio rights
Oracle is largely indifferent to consumer complaints because most of their consumers are big organizations that are often captive to their products.
But... if you're willing to eat the pain to get their attention, apparently you can get through to them that they're behaving like jackasses.
They have ways of leveraging the lock in. Once company I know of bought various products, one of which they found unsuitable and didn't use. When license renewal came up they asked nit to renew that product. Oracle's answer was "sure, but that was part of the negotiated package. If you don't take that you only get the standard discount, so it will cost you X $1,000s extra not to take that package". So the company carried on paying license and support for something it didn't use until the next round of purchasing when they could renegotiate.
Why would they sue in the first place? and miss out on free publicity
It's probably the pictures of their less attractive dishes they are worried about. The "look, this chicken was served to me at XXXX and it's still raw inside" posts you see on facebook.
So we can't take a picture in a restaurant if it shows the food because of the chef's copyright. There are already moves to say that you cannot take photographs in a street without the building's architect's permission. What next - photograps of people wearing clothes infringing the designer's permission? Soon we will only be able to take photographs of people in the nude in a wilderness (not farmland, the farmer's neatly trimmed hedgerows, fences, and dry-stone walls hold a copyright too).
I expect that the "hoarding money" is confined to the Ivy League Universities, and by the time you get to Texas A&M and the like they are desperately trying to get funds and have no spare money to hoard. It would be interesting to know the spread in funding.
... aren't good at dealing with shit just being anywhere in the house. They like things to be predictable. They're also really bad at identifying objects. I saw a thing in a lab where they had a robot that was doing a pretty good job of recognizing stuff. But are they going to be able to recognize the difference between a clean plate, a dirty plate, and a plate with food on it? And if they can't do that then they can't clear a table.
With Kids by the time they are old enough to really help with a task they don't want to do it. A three year old will happily help wash dishes by splashing and blowing foam around, but with a 12-year old its a case of "Oh no do I have to". I fully expect real effective household robots to be depressed and say "here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they want me to clean the bath tub"!
But google said that
that it "....replicates data three times for redundancy. It can afford to be cavalier about hardware failures. So a drive fails. Log it, switch queries on that data to a replica and move on. It's all pretty instant".
"hard statistical evidence that most likely terrorists are muslims"
Yeah........ when you ignore inconvenient cases such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the burning of churches in the south, dozens of mass shootings, etc. You have to have a pretty narrow view of "terrorism" and/or interpret "most likely" to be 51% or slightly higher to type that statement without without cringing at the hypocrisy.
They have hard statistical evidence that most likely terrorists are muslims. But because all the terrorist sympathisers and appeasers will start calling islamaphobia (like they did over the FBI most wanted list) they want to keep this secret.
The H1-b visa is government meddling in the free market because of lobbying by tech firms who wanted to increase the supply of workers to reduce wages.
No free market of labour would mean that anyone who could get a job offer in the USA could come in. Not many people would want this!
Yeah, I understand that problem. I guess it never seemed that difficult. Fun even, probably because we built the whole system. The interesting parts I thought were suspending and bringing back integrators. We had 3 states coming up from a cold boot to operating (from the application).
Reminded me of how much I dislike working on general systems.
Thanks!
I think the problem that Linux has is the multiple devices that it needs to support. I haven't had suspend issues for a while, but when I did it was with the network card. On resume the network would error, which could be fixed by suspending then resuming the network. Other PCs with different make network cards worked fine.
Badly needed road widening schemes taking decades, very few new roads being built and pot-holes are left for years in smaller roads. It is obvious that we don't spend enough on our current road system - sop what's the chance of this getting funding?
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mine will be: People with 2 legs more common than those with 1.
Disproved by Heather Mills ... who has one leg and is as common as they come.
My kid's school is full of invisible pink unicorns who breathe out harmful miasmas. I want compensation.
Because of Linux, Solaris is no longer #1 OS. Meanwhile, Linux still has filesystems out of 20. century
memory overcommit is not turned off by default, basic data safety is not guaranteed, and now with systemd it behaves like Windows more than ever before. What a piece of crap OS.
If one of the BSD's were this popular, I would be fine with that, but in IT, it seems like biggest piece of crap always becomes the latest fad. Good job guys, the whole lot of you. Good job. Pat yourselves on the backs, idiots.
Yes it does, useful if you want to read old disks, but it also has many 21st century ones.
memory overcommit is not turned off by default, basic data safety is not guaranteed,
That's a two edge sword. In practice when running out of virtual memory Windows (without overcommit) comes to a halt, so it takes maybe 10 minutes to just bring up a menu. Linux (with overcommit) starts killing things. You are more likely to do a clean shutdown of the linux bits that havent been killed than of a windows box when this happens.,
and now with systemd it behaves like Windows more than ever before. ,
I haven't used it in anger enough to know. On a desktop it seems fine. I have a feeling that once I start serious server work it won't be nearly as flexible as init,
What a piece of crap OS.
If one of the BSD's were this popular, I would be fine with that, but in IT, it seems like biggest piece of crap always becomes the latest fad. Good job guys, the whole lot of you. Good job. Pat yourselves on the backs, idiots.
According to this most of the money comes from taxes goes to fund BBC World Service to Commonwealth and foreign nations so there is no cross funding with the Met.
According to the BBC's 2013/14 Annual Report, its total income was £5 billion (£5,066.0 million),[1] which can be broken down as follows: £3,726.1 million in licence fees collected from householders; £1,023.2 million from the BBC's Commercial Businesses; £244.6 million from government grants, of which £238.5 million is from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the BBC World Service; £72.1 million from other income, such as rental collections and royalties from overseas broadcasts of programming.
Ultimately the money for government grants and license fees comes from us (British citizens) though, as does funding to the met.
This could be one case where a tender doesn't make sense. The Met Office is obliged to give weather warnings, provide shipping weather information, etc. and if the BBC is cross-funding that then going elsewhere just means the government will have to give the Met Office more money directly. So now the public are funding the BBC to pay another company, and the Met Office too.
There are no royalties for trademarks.
Not strictly true, things are often manufactured "under license" also known as brand leasing, where the trademark owner allows someone else to use a trademark in return for royalties. This is particularly common in the world of beers, where popular overseas brands are often brewed under license". When I buy a can of an American beer in the UK, the chances are that it will have been nowhere near america and the small print on the can will say "brewed under license in the UK".
No, in Germany they take it to the next level:
1. Film naked people shitting on other naked people
I though that was the US military
If you take a photo with the lens cap on, you're violating the copyright of the camera designer.
Blackboard makers would then claim prior art
Consider the following: Mugger beats the crap out of someone and robs them, later during his trial pictures of the victim are presented as evidence. Mugger then sues the police department and his victim for violation of his copyright to the art applied to the victims face.
... I would suggest that the police arrange a happening in the cells for the mugger afterwards, and keep full video and audio rights
Oracle is largely indifferent to consumer complaints because most of their consumers are big organizations that are often captive to their products.
But... if you're willing to eat the pain to get their attention, apparently you can get through to them that they're behaving like jackasses.
They have ways of leveraging the lock in. Once company I know of bought various products, one of which they found unsuitable and didn't use. When license renewal came up they asked nit to renew that product. Oracle's answer was "sure, but that was part of the negotiated package. If you don't take that you only get the standard discount, so it will cost you X $1,000s extra not to take that package". So the company carried on paying license and support for something it didn't use until the next round of purchasing when they could renegotiate.
...when I post a pic of my home-cooked dinner on Faceblog :)
No but a German chef could sue you if he cooked something that looked the same first.
Why would they sue in the first place? and miss out on free publicity
It's probably the pictures of their less attractive dishes they are worried about. The "look, this chicken was served to me at XXXX and it's still raw inside" posts you see on facebook.
So we can't take a picture in a restaurant if it shows the food because of the chef's copyright. There are already moves to say that you cannot take photographs in a street without the building's architect's permission. What next - photograps of people wearing clothes infringing the designer's permission? Soon we will only be able to take photographs of people in the nude in a wilderness (not farmland, the farmer's neatly trimmed hedgerows, fences, and dry-stone walls hold a copyright too).
I expect that the "hoarding money" is confined to the Ivy League Universities, and by the time you get to Texas A&M and the like they are desperately trying to get funds and have no spare money to hoard. It would be interesting to know the spread in funding.
You would think that anyone paid to spread propaganda would know that they are doing it and be a willing participant.
... aren't good at dealing with shit just being anywhere in the house. They like things to be predictable. They're also really bad at identifying objects. I saw a thing in a lab where they had a robot that was doing a pretty good job of recognizing stuff. But are they going to be able to recognize the difference between a clean plate, a dirty plate, and a plate with food on it? And if they can't do that then they can't clear a table.
With Kids by the time they are old enough to really help with a task they don't want to do it. A three year old will happily help wash dishes by splashing and blowing foam around, but with a 12-year old its a case of "Oh no do I have to". I fully expect real effective household robots to be depressed and say "here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they want me to clean the bath tub"!
But google said that that it "....replicates data three times for redundancy. It can afford to be cavalier about hardware failures. So a drive fails. Log it, switch queries on that data to a replica and move on. It's all pretty instant".
"hard statistical evidence that most likely terrorists are muslims"
Yeah........ when you ignore inconvenient cases such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the burning of churches in the south, dozens of mass shootings, etc. You have to have a pretty narrow view of "terrorism" and/or interpret "most likely" to be 51% or slightly higher to type that statement without without cringing at the hypocrisy.
Says the moron who thinks that the number of churches burned in the USA by white supremecists equals the 400 burned in Syria, 37 in Egypt, and over 400 in nigeria, all by Muslims. And that;s not even starting on Hindu temples and Buddhists shrines. Also are you comparing "dozens of mass shootings" to the tens of thousands killed by IS and the total number could be in millions.
We have been able to annotate media for ages.
They have hard statistical evidence that most likely terrorists are muslims. But because all the terrorist sympathisers and appeasers will start calling islamaphobia (like they did over the FBI most wanted list) they want to keep this secret.
The H1-b visa is government meddling in the free market because of lobbying by tech firms who wanted to increase the supply of workers to reduce wages.
No free market of labour would mean that anyone who could get a job offer in the USA could come in. Not many people would want this!
the bastards have hit Thailand now. so much for the religion of peace. Piss more like it
Yeah, I understand that problem. I guess it never seemed that difficult. Fun even, probably because we built the whole system. The interesting parts I thought were suspending and bringing back integrators. We had 3 states coming up from a cold boot to operating (from the application).
Reminded me of how much I dislike working on general systems. Thanks!
I think the problem that Linux has is the multiple devices that it needs to support. I haven't had suspend issues for a while, but when I did it was with the network card. On resume the network would error, which could be fixed by suspending then resuming the network. Other PCs with different make network cards worked fine.
It will all be better if Jeremy Corbyn is PM .... oh wait
Badly needed road widening schemes taking decades, very few new roads being built and pot-holes are left for years in smaller roads. It is obvious that we don't spend enough on our current road system - sop what's the chance of this getting funding?