I smell the stench of rabid gun nut about your post.
*sigh* so you are all for drastic overhauls in legislation from single events? Over time the rules are getting tighter and tighter. The anti-gun lobby are slowly winning, only a matter of how long until we are like the UK and cannot privately own firearms.
The one or two firearms I wouldn't mind owning, I cannot for various tiny reasons (barrel length 1cm too short etc etc) but never the less have found on the black market. I still don't have them entirely out of principle. To get one illegally is to give in to being made a criminal for enjoying a sport. Do you think less moral people would have the same issue? The only ones you punish are the honest ones.
I've had the qualifications to get my firearms license for more than a decade, yet I have not because after all is said and done it's just too limiting.
Thankfully I grew up liking the military and discipline and some years ago joined the army. As a side benefit I get to go target shooting on occasion without so much hassle.
People should not have to join the military to enjoy a sport. Personally I think half the problem is so much of the population has never handled one, all they see of it in movies is people shooting each other left right and centre.
The public's perception of firearms is what needs changing, but unfortunately, the media loves drama and 'omg lets save people from the dangerous criminals' gets more votes than just putting people in jail when they commit crimes, I hate it when people assume everyone is too stupid to handle freedom.
and those very few capable people with a strong sense of ethics tend to join a party with an ethical basis, such as the Greens,
I hate the greens with a passion, primarily because of their two-faced reactions to certain freedoms. Half of what they do is alright, but they want to get rid of recreational shooting, all forms of camping, fishing, etc. Even when fishing permits etc tend to cost for the hatching of more fish than what is caught with them.
What is the point of preserving nature, if people are not allowed to see it?
Architecturally, they are nothing like a standard SMP system.
Neither are typical multicore setups these days, long gone are the days when it was just a few processors sharing a front-side bus. Modern multicore setups can be thought of as a kind of mini-numa. With the various forms of local cache etc. Having multiple multicore chips in an smp setup kind of makes it like a hybrid I guess.
numa always wins when you scale things up enough, smp doesn't scale well above a certain point (4-8 processors) it could be argued that because of local caches that the current multi core cpu's are a kind of mini numa design themselves.
britain ignoring america's copyright was more or less a reaction to america instigating it first. You are forgetting this wasn't too long after north america said 'fuck you' to the brits, they saw no qualms about screwing them over where possible for a short period.
Your brother and wife simply can't be bothered to comprehend the notion (which is explained when the contract is signed) that there is a difference between using a handset to access the network (whose activity is 'unlimited' except in cases of abuse) and using their PC (whose activity is clearly defined as having a 5GB/mo cap)
Personally I fail to see the difference between using the web on the phone and using it on a laptop using the phone as a modem, it is still using the same data connection and delivering streams of data just the same.
I mean.. how could they even tell? Your isp typically can't tell if say your router itself is pinging something or if something behind it is. same deal. (I know phones use ppp connections not nat like most routers, but still, they don't know which device the ppp connection is being given to)
when the phone/service to beat is the iPhone and they don't have the tethering option?
Some of us have been using tethering on their phones long before the iphone was released, without any additional charges, it's a feature of the nokia N95 (don't think it was stocked in the US, carriers didn't like stuff like it's in built SIP voip, tethering etc etc)
Now where's the link to all the 3G carriers who allow tethering and how much they charge?
The idea of paying for tethering seems ludicrous to me, you are paying for data transmission, what do they care what device ultimately uses it? That being said, pretty much all Australian carriers treat it as that, if you have the data capabilities on your phone go nuts more or less.
regressions happen, they are pretty much unavoidable for a project of a large enough size. All you can do is learn to deal with them well and fix them at the next (hopefully soon) release
Ubuntu is not bleeding edge - Fedora is bleeding edge, hell they had ext4 functioning without issue six months before ubuntu introduced it.. with a few massive bugs
First distro with kde 4, first distro with ext4, etc. That ubuntu cannot get things going properly six months after everyone else is a little shameful.
Not only would it solve the overpopulation problem, it'd make great reality TV too ("Remember, you could be the next Real Survivor(tm)!").
For some reason I was reminded of smash TV, "BIG MONEY! BIG PRIZES! I LOVE IT" (if you don't get the reference, play that game, preferably snes version since it was the only one with proper controls besides the arcade one)
Your mileage may vary, and I'd bet breakages aren't common, but long ago circa 2000'ish after a severe breakage I swore never again, and while I'm sure it has improved why bother taking the risk no matter how small when a fresh install will always work no matter what?
someone born with a nerd body can't just say "Hell... I'll start doing sports too."
Disagree wholeheartedly, hell the military almost didn't let me in because I was 'underweight' but over the last couple years I've done boxing, weights, etc and the only problem you will find is you're at a severe disadvantage
people with small frames can become buff too, it's all about effort and looking after your body. These things take time. Haven't managed to even hit 60kg yet, but at my peak I could lift over double my weight.
For the longest time I thought everyone knew that nvidia were the only real option so far as linux 3d is concerned (intel is good now I know, but it used to be shite also)
Three words, Third party repositories. Your upgrade should go fine and dandy when you've only used official repos, but when extra repos are in the mix it's best to not even try it.
Same deal with custom installed things, while they are usually cleanly in a different prefix like/usr/local it's always good to blow away all of your custom bits and configs to either leave it if no longer in use, or try again with the latest version to make sure it all still works.
My/home has been consistent for about five years now without issue, last time it was blown away was a new drive ago. I agree that if you don't screw with things too much upgrades should be fine.
But fact of the matter is, we are linux users, we do strange things like bake our own binutils/gcc for different platforms from scratch, compile kernel modules that haven't went mainline yet for some specific piece of hardware and other such nonsense. This is why I keep/home seperately:).
If up to date is what you're after, fedora seems to be the only extreme bleeding edge distro out there atm, I mean ubuntu is just doing ext4 now, fedora has done it since april.
Ubuntu makes computers possible for the bottom-of-the-barrel folks and keeps it flexible and powerful for experienced users.
The bottom-of-the-barrel influence is strong though, long since to the point where it inconveniences advanced users even of other distributions by them convincing maintainers to do silly things
Prime example, the X11 zap command.. is now completely disable by default, you have to manually enable it in the config, now, considering you'd mainly want to use it when x11 has shit itself and you have no control (or just want to kill it real quick for some reason) it's pretty useless to have to enable it AFTER you want this quick access to it.
Why was this well established command removed? some silly laptop user using ubuntu bitched about accidentally managing to hit ctrl-alt-backspace.. well now they know not to hit that combo don't they.
People are entitled to run what they want to run, I just hate it when noobs screw up something that's functional and has worked well for decades.
Otherwise, you may fall victim to old config files that no longer work with the new applications, etc (I've had that happen with Gnome on more than one occasion).
I've had a persistent/home partition for the last five years, and have never encountered this, but I typically use kde so your mileage may vary
The new VW engine that replaces the 3 litre V6 is a 2-litre inline 4 that generates more power, is lighter and has 20% better fuel consumption.
And in order to achieve this, they would have had to done at least one of a few things.. higher revlimit or possibly turbo'd, both of which drastically lower the life of the engine.
My last car (friend wrote it off.. lesson don't let friends borrow car) was a 4L v6 (use motorbike to get places when economy is concern) it only had 170k kms on it, which is nothing for an engine that size since it rarely goes over 2k rpm unless accelerating hard even though it redlines at 6. My previous car beforehand though, a little daihatsu mira with it's 3 cylinder 600cc engine, did about 140k km's before it started to really have some problems.
In the end, there is no replacement for displacement... it's just a matter of physics of the moving parts.
Most all of the great programmers I know are also musicians, or heavily involved in the arts.
When it comes down to it, good music can be very cold and mathematical, it's all about knowing the sort of stimuli that others will like, pattern recognition, etc.
Unless you can come up with a better way to do the job that trains do
Depending on your metric, newspapers can be considered superior to online sources in a few ways. First of all no electricity is required at all to read said paper, second of all if I want to show many other people the same thing at once, I can easily buy many papers for a few dollars, as opposed to needing a projector of some sort or many computers to distribute. While it's rare these days, it's still quite possible to get stuck without internet for periods, etc.
By your argument, hardcover books are inferior to ebooks because they are cumbersome and expensive to print. But by other metrics (eye strain etc) they are better.. thus why people still buy them.
Right tool for the right usage, newspapers will never be completely obsolete, just like books aren't.
I somehow magically get no ads without being a subscriber.. not sure how it happened, but one day slashdot told me.. 'you are awesome, want us to disable ads for you?'
As I type this post, on the main page I still have a small box that says "Ads disabled (tick) - thanks for helping make slashdot great"
haven't heard anyone else talk about this feature.. so I don't know how common it is, or if it's one of those unspoken things, but yeah
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I smell the stench of rabid gun nut about your post.
*sigh* so you are all for drastic overhauls in legislation from single events? Over time the rules are getting tighter and tighter. The anti-gun lobby are slowly winning, only a matter of how long until we are like the UK and cannot privately own firearms.
The one or two firearms I wouldn't mind owning, I cannot for various tiny reasons (barrel length 1cm too short etc etc) but never the less have found on the black market. I still don't have them entirely out of principle. To get one illegally is to give in to being made a criminal for enjoying a sport. Do you think less moral people would have the same issue? The only ones you punish are the honest ones.
I've had the qualifications to get my firearms license for more than a decade, yet I have not because after all is said and done it's just too limiting.
Thankfully I grew up liking the military and discipline and some years ago joined the army. As a side benefit I get to go target shooting on occasion without so much hassle.
People should not have to join the military to enjoy a sport. Personally I think half the problem is so much of the population has never handled one, all they see of it in movies is people shooting each other left right and centre.
The public's perception of firearms is what needs changing, but unfortunately, the media loves drama and 'omg lets save people from the dangerous criminals' gets more votes than just putting people in jail when they commit crimes, I hate it when people assume everyone is too stupid to handle freedom.
and those very few capable people with a strong sense of ethics tend to join a party with an ethical basis, such as the Greens,
I hate the greens with a passion, primarily because of their two-faced reactions to certain freedoms. Half of what they do is alright, but they want to get rid of recreational shooting, all forms of camping, fishing, etc. Even when fishing permits etc tend to cost for the hatching of more fish than what is caught with them.
What is the point of preserving nature, if people are not allowed to see it?
Architecturally, they are nothing like a standard SMP system.
Neither are typical multicore setups these days, long gone are the days when it was just a few processors sharing a front-side bus. Modern multicore setups can be thought of as a kind of mini-numa. With the various forms of local cache etc. Having multiple multicore chips in an smp setup kind of makes it like a hybrid I guess.
numa always wins when you scale things up enough, smp doesn't scale well above a certain point (4-8 processors) it could be argued that because of local caches that the current multi core cpu's are a kind of mini numa design themselves.
britain ignoring america's copyright was more or less a reaction to america instigating it first. You are forgetting this wasn't too long after north america said 'fuck you' to the brits, they saw no qualms about screwing them over where possible for a short period.
Really? Please provide proof of this.
Here is one example, there are many if you would look to actually google it.
America ignored copyright until it was profitable for them not to. Here I thought this was common knowledge.
Your brother and wife simply can't be bothered to comprehend the notion (which is explained when the contract is signed) that there is a difference between using a handset to access the network (whose activity is 'unlimited' except in cases of abuse) and using their PC (whose activity is clearly defined as having a 5GB/mo cap)
Personally I fail to see the difference between using the web on the phone and using it on a laptop using the phone as a modem, it is still using the same data connection and delivering streams of data just the same.
I mean.. how could they even tell? Your isp typically can't tell if say your router itself is pinging something or if something behind it is. same deal. (I know phones use ppp connections not nat like most routers, but still, they don't know which device the ppp connection is being given to)
1) I don't know if it's NATing or bridging, but whatever. The computer is essentially on the cell phone data network.
It's making a ppp connection as a modem just like we did in the good old days, just as a somewhat faster modem
when the phone/service to beat is the iPhone and they don't have the tethering option?
Some of us have been using tethering on their phones long before the iphone was released, without any additional charges, it's a feature of the nokia N95 (don't think it was stocked in the US, carriers didn't like stuff like it's in built SIP voip, tethering etc etc)
Now where's the link to all the 3G carriers who allow tethering and how much they charge?
The idea of paying for tethering seems ludicrous to me, you are paying for data transmission, what do they care what device ultimately uses it? That being said, pretty much all Australian carriers treat it as that, if you have the data capabilities on your phone go nuts more or less.
Don't blame me, I voted for kodos!
Demand better and you'll get better.
For a given definition of better, most people want new features, new features are not conductive to no breakages and few bugs
If your definition of quality is no/few bugs, then just don't get any new features.. ever, maintain a bug fix release only.
here you want the best of both worlds, you just can't.
regressions happen, they are pretty much unavoidable for a project of a large enough size. All you can do is learn to deal with them well and fix them at the next (hopefully soon) release
Ubuntu is not bleeding edge - Fedora is bleeding edge, hell they had ext4 functioning without issue six months before ubuntu introduced it.. with a few massive bugs
First distro with kde 4, first distro with ext4, etc. That ubuntu cannot get things going properly six months after everyone else is a little shameful.
Not only would it solve the overpopulation problem, it'd make great reality TV too ("Remember, you could be the next Real Survivor(tm)!").
For some reason I was reminded of smash TV, "BIG MONEY! BIG PRIZES! I LOVE IT" (if you don't get the reference, play that game, preferably snes version since it was the only one with proper controls besides the arcade one)
Your mileage may vary, and I'd bet breakages aren't common, but long ago circa 2000'ish after a severe breakage I swore never again, and while I'm sure it has improved why bother taking the risk no matter how small when a fresh install will always work no matter what?
someone born with a nerd body can't just say "Hell... I'll start doing sports too."
Disagree wholeheartedly, hell the military almost didn't let me in because I was 'underweight' but over the last couple years I've done boxing, weights, etc and the only problem you will find is you're at a severe disadvantage
people with small frames can become buff too, it's all about effort and looking after your body. These things take time. Haven't managed to even hit 60kg yet, but at my peak I could lift over double my weight.
For the longest time I thought everyone knew that nvidia were the only real option so far as linux 3d is concerned (intel is good now I know, but it used to be shite also)
There's no reason whatsoever to reinstall.
Three words, Third party repositories. Your upgrade should go fine and dandy when you've only used official repos, but when extra repos are in the mix it's best to not even try it.
Same deal with custom installed things, while they are usually cleanly in a different prefix like /usr/local it's always good to blow away all of your custom bits and configs to either leave it if no longer in use, or try again with the latest version to make sure it all still works.
My /home has been consistent for about five years now without issue, last time it was blown away was a new drive ago. I agree that if you don't screw with things too much upgrades should be fine.
But fact of the matter is, we are linux users, we do strange things like bake our own binutils/gcc for different platforms from scratch, compile kernel modules that haven't went mainline yet for some specific piece of hardware and other such nonsense. This is why I keep /home seperately :).
If up to date is what you're after, fedora seems to be the only extreme bleeding edge distro out there atm, I mean ubuntu is just doing ext4 now, fedora has done it since april.
Ubuntu makes computers possible for the bottom-of-the-barrel folks and keeps it flexible and powerful for experienced users.
The bottom-of-the-barrel influence is strong though, long since to the point where it inconveniences advanced users even of other distributions by them convincing maintainers to do silly things
Prime example, the X11 zap command.. is now completely disable by default, you have to manually enable it in the config, now, considering you'd mainly want to use it when x11 has shit itself and you have no control (or just want to kill it real quick for some reason) it's pretty useless to have to enable it AFTER you want this quick access to it.
Why was this well established command removed? some silly laptop user using ubuntu bitched about accidentally managing to hit ctrl-alt-backspace.. well now they know not to hit that combo don't they.
People are entitled to run what they want to run, I just hate it when noobs screw up something that's functional and has worked well for decades.
Otherwise, you may fall victim to old config files that no longer work with the new applications, etc (I've had that happen with Gnome on more than one occasion).
I've had a persistent /home partition for the last five years, and have never encountered this, but I typically use kde so your mileage may vary
The new VW engine that replaces the 3 litre V6 is a 2-litre inline 4 that generates more power, is lighter and has 20% better fuel consumption.
And in order to achieve this, they would have had to done at least one of a few things.. higher revlimit or possibly turbo'd, both of which drastically lower the life of the engine.
My last car (friend wrote it off.. lesson don't let friends borrow car) was a 4L v6 (use motorbike to get places when economy is concern) it only had 170k kms on it, which is nothing for an engine that size since it rarely goes over 2k rpm unless accelerating hard even though it redlines at 6. My previous car beforehand though, a little daihatsu mira with it's 3 cylinder 600cc engine, did about 140k km's before it started to really have some problems.
In the end, there is no replacement for displacement... it's just a matter of physics of the moving parts.
Most all of the great programmers I know are also musicians, or heavily involved in the arts.
When it comes down to it, good music can be very cold and mathematical, it's all about knowing the sort of stimuli that others will like, pattern recognition, etc.
Unless you can come up with a better way to do the job that trains do
Depending on your metric, newspapers can be considered superior to online sources in a few ways. First of all no electricity is required at all to read said paper, second of all if I want to show many other people the same thing at once, I can easily buy many papers for a few dollars, as opposed to needing a projector of some sort or many computers to distribute. While it's rare these days, it's still quite possible to get stuck without internet for periods, etc.
By your argument, hardcover books are inferior to ebooks because they are cumbersome and expensive to print. But by other metrics (eye strain etc) they are better.. thus why people still buy them.
Right tool for the right usage, newspapers will never be completely obsolete, just like books aren't.
I somehow magically get no ads without being a subscriber.. not sure how it happened, but one day slashdot told me.. 'you are awesome, want us to disable ads for you?'
As I type this post, on the main page I still have a small box that says "Ads disabled (tick) - thanks for helping make slashdot great"
haven't heard anyone else talk about this feature.. so I don't know how common it is, or if it's one of those unspoken things, but yeah