What?
This is not replacing anything you already had. This is an incredibly easy and powerful way to include a diagnostics tool on the mobo itself. It does not limit you in any way. Other than you can't replace the diagnostics tool on the mobo itself, but nothing is stopping you from booting to a usb stick with $YOUR_PREFERED_DIAG_ENV. I'm completely baffled any negative response to this.
Of course I note the other uses of this (my grandfather would frankly love this as he only uses a webbrowser for email and hates all the waiting). But I doubt there's much interest for this as anything but a diag tool on Slashdot.
Server distro? Every standard distro has Apache. Every standard distro has every standard package. Why do people insist that Linux distro's make things difficult. Stick to the arguments about the software not running on Linux. That argument is at least a cop-out on the part of the developer and not the end-user. I will agree that many repository websites are difficult to navigate, but that's because few people access them that way. And by repository, I mean the equivalent of downloads.com (if that's still the standard way to get things for windows).
As for you not understanding what the GP was talking about, I'm going to assume you're more of a hands on learner then and that you have never had the hands on time. Its a different (read: better and easier) paradigm, but functionally its the same.
I currently work for a cable company that is setting up this same kind of system. The only people that know what ads are being replaced are the people controlling the ad server, which is not the ISP. We (the ISP) are being paid to set up a black box that we will route ALL port 80 traffic through. Unless you opt out, which I'm not even sure will work properly. So the ad people can be doing all kinds of things with that data. Granted, they can't link the IP Address to a customer since they have no access to our provisioning server (and I'm pretty certain every last one of us Systems Engineers would quit before allowing that to happen). But they can be doing whatever they want with that traffic and we are none the wiser. Its such a black box, the ad company does all the monitoring on the black box. We are apparently the only company that even requested that we be allowed to monitor up/down and traffic status.
The real problem is that we are setting up this extra router (it is another layer 3 hop) that also acts as a server and will delay any port 80 traffic. And we're pretty much allowing them full access to do as they will with the hostage packets. We're not checking. And if someone isn't happy with what their site looks like, we'll probably just route that one around the server, still pushing everything else through. I hope Google employees are checking their AdSense images to make sure that ads are actually from Google and that they are paying Google. As shady as this whole thing is, I expect that we will have legit ads removed, but leave the 'src' of the 'img' tag.
Don't be an apologist. It is not the right tool for that particular job. Windows is never the right tool for any server setting. Sometimes it is not the wrong tool though, which is most likely the case here.
I don't really know the situation of Indian society, but this does sound a lot like the people in this country (the US) that claim its a terrible thing to be a white male. Apparently we white males lead such a hard life because of all the advantages given to minorities, mostly equal opportunity. There are the things like affirmative action, but they are few and far in between and realistically tend to give only a slight advantage at the expense of us repressed white males. Don't look at the numbers so hard, look at who is actually attending the good schools and running the government and businesses. If its not the upper caste, you have a point. Otherwise you might want to think harder about the situation.
Crap, no one has said anything, but what you're trying to get at is known as "anarcho-communism". It is a well known and studied concept and is considered by many to be the only "true" communism, since it makes sure that no government entity gets in the way of communism. I'm worried that you don't fully appreciate what anarchy is (the Sex Pistols had the same problem).
Curious thing that heterosexual behavior also increases the risk of getting HIV (I pretty certain you meant the hiv, not AIDS). One might even go so far as to say that sexual behaviour increases the chances. Might even just drop the pretentiousness and say that having sex greatly increases the chances of getting HIV.
I'm pretty certain that the GP's, mine, and many others is that Med School is ridiculously expensive. Sure there's plenty of costs but real schools should not be playing the free market (nor allowed to thanks the gross amount of public support even "private" universities have).
We're kind of a one party state meets banana republic meets laissez faire capitalism. Just for clarification, isn't that roughly what fascism is?
This question is for educational purposes only.
Yes its obvious and common that soldiers will have PTSD. But please do not trivialize it. This is a major problem with our soldiers past and present. My best friend will never be the guy I knew in high school again. Which is not completely a bad thing. He gained a lot from the military. But he is not fitting back into society very easily. This is most certainly a very big problem for him and all soldiers of first world countries where social norms do not mess with battle-hardened minds.
How is this getting modded informative?!?! 9.6kbps definitely does not equal 9600 bps. It equals 9830.4 bps. The way it should be. Someone's sig has something to the effect that SI units were to be computationally convenient and not pretty looking. And that's exactly why kB = 8192 bits and will continue to mean that in both industry and academia. I don't get why this is somehow an issue... SI prefixes certainly were not meant as a religion.
The best health care and education systems in the world no doubt. And a good thing only 5% of the population value either since they're the only ones that can afford them! Otherwise we might lose a bit of quality due to all those plebiscites demanding their equal and earned share.
In what way is this liberal taxation?
This is corporate greed taxation, something that transcends political ideology.
As an avowed liberal I'd want nothing to do with this.
Luckily I live in Monatana where Disney doesn't really care about buying out my politicians.
Except that its no longer insurance. So don't worry about it, let the laws pass, and let the rest of us live with guaranteed health care, which you apparently aren't interested in allowing us.
I'd argue that the world "went with" the x86 before it went with Windows. The thing that made Windows so cool was the open nature of the hardware it ran on. The openness made things cheap and accessible. The world doesn't tend towards the best engineering, but rather the best bang for their dollars. And in the absence of a clear winner, they'll always choose the cheapest solution (x86).
I imagine we'll need some management types to oversee the robots' mining efforts and the terraforming work. That'll require engineers and technicians to be in close proximity when the managers screw everything up. Plus we'll need some satellite guys in case communications goes down. And then there'll be all the tourists (I can only imagine that your sightseeing remark is incredibly insightful.)
Of course then Mars will see the colonists coming en masse. Any geek worth his salt will want a low Martian UID.
Why should I worry about a lawsuit for reverse engineering software?
What exactly has someone else lost by my converting machine readable code into human readable code?
The fact that you think someone can own on idea is disturbing on a whole other level.
Or even that you think copyright and patents assign ownership...
I'm glad I replied to the GP so I could reply to this.
I'm of the "Clapton is God" camp that hails his pre-Cream straight blues guitar work as something straight from heaven.
Being only 23 I missed that whole period by a few decades, but the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton album is simply one of the greatest (Still trying to find the actual studio album they put out together).
Then he started doing your standard 60's drugs and made Cream and Blind Faith awesome.
Once he started on his amazingly expensive cocaine habit(or was it heroin?), no he wasn't so good....
But ever since quiting he has only had a couple respectable albums (my personal favorite being Robert Johnson and Me, more of that sweet Clapton Blues).
I wanted to mark you insightful, but only because you said exactly what I think about Metallica.
So instead I post.
First 4 Metallica albums == amazing.
Everything after...And Justice For All is crap.
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What?
This is not replacing anything you already had. This is an incredibly easy and powerful way to include a diagnostics tool on the mobo itself. It does not limit you in any way. Other than you can't replace the diagnostics tool on the mobo itself, but nothing is stopping you from booting to a usb stick with $YOUR_PREFERED_DIAG_ENV. I'm completely baffled any negative response to this.
Of course I note the other uses of this (my grandfather would frankly love this as he only uses a webbrowser for email and hates all the waiting). But I doubt there's much interest for this as anything but a diag tool on Slashdot.
Server distro? Every standard distro has Apache. Every standard distro has every standard package. Why do people insist that Linux distro's make things difficult. Stick to the arguments about the software not running on Linux. That argument is at least a cop-out on the part of the developer and not the end-user. I will agree that many repository websites are difficult to navigate, but that's because few people access them that way. And by repository, I mean the equivalent of downloads.com (if that's still the standard way to get things for windows). As for you not understanding what the GP was talking about, I'm going to assume you're more of a hands on learner then and that you have never had the hands on time. Its a different (read: better and easier) paradigm, but functionally its the same.
I currently work for a cable company that is setting up this same kind of system. The only people that know what ads are being replaced are the people controlling the ad server, which is not the ISP. We (the ISP) are being paid to set up a black box that we will route ALL port 80 traffic through. Unless you opt out, which I'm not even sure will work properly. So the ad people can be doing all kinds of things with that data. Granted, they can't link the IP Address to a customer since they have no access to our provisioning server (and I'm pretty certain every last one of us Systems Engineers would quit before allowing that to happen). But they can be doing whatever they want with that traffic and we are none the wiser. Its such a black box, the ad company does all the monitoring on the black box. We are apparently the only company that even requested that we be allowed to monitor up/down and traffic status. The real problem is that we are setting up this extra router (it is another layer 3 hop) that also acts as a server and will delay any port 80 traffic. And we're pretty much allowing them full access to do as they will with the hostage packets. We're not checking. And if someone isn't happy with what their site looks like, we'll probably just route that one around the server, still pushing everything else through. I hope Google employees are checking their AdSense images to make sure that ads are actually from Google and that they are paying Google. As shady as this whole thing is, I expect that we will have legit ads removed, but leave the 'src' of the 'img' tag.
As for as I'm concerned, VI and Emacs ARE IDEs.
Don't be an apologist. It is not the right tool for that particular job. Windows is never the right tool for any server setting. Sometimes it is not the wrong tool though, which is most likely the case here.
I don't really know the situation of Indian society, but this does sound a lot like the people in this country (the US) that claim its a terrible thing to be a white male. Apparently we white males lead such a hard life because of all the advantages given to minorities, mostly equal opportunity. There are the things like affirmative action, but they are few and far in between and realistically tend to give only a slight advantage at the expense of us repressed white males. Don't look at the numbers so hard, look at who is actually attending the good schools and running the government and businesses. If its not the upper caste, you have a point. Otherwise you might want to think harder about the situation.
Crap, no one has said anything, but what you're trying to get at is known as "anarcho-communism". It is a well known and studied concept and is considered by many to be the only "true" communism, since it makes sure that no government entity gets in the way of communism. I'm worried that you don't fully appreciate what anarchy is (the Sex Pistols had the same problem).
Curious thing that heterosexual behavior also increases the risk of getting HIV (I pretty certain you meant the hiv, not AIDS). One might even go so far as to say that sexual behaviour increases the chances. Might even just drop the pretentiousness and say that having sex greatly increases the chances of getting HIV.
I'm pretty certain that the GP's, mine, and many others is that Med School is ridiculously expensive. Sure there's plenty of costs but real schools should not be playing the free market (nor allowed to thanks the gross amount of public support even "private" universities have).
Now come on mods. That was damn funny!
Yes its obvious and common that soldiers will have PTSD. But please do not trivialize it. This is a major problem with our soldiers past and present. My best friend will never be the guy I knew in high school again. Which is not completely a bad thing. He gained a lot from the military. But he is not fitting back into society very easily. This is most certainly a very big problem for him and all soldiers of first world countries where social norms do not mess with battle-hardened minds.
How is this getting modded informative?!?! 9.6kbps definitely does not equal 9600 bps. It equals 9830.4 bps. The way it should be. Someone's sig has something to the effect that SI units were to be computationally convenient and not pretty looking. And that's exactly why kB = 8192 bits and will continue to mean that in both industry and academia. I don't get why this is somehow an issue... SI prefixes certainly were not meant as a religion.
The best health care and education systems in the world no doubt. And a good thing only 5% of the population value either since they're the only ones that can afford them! Otherwise we might lose a bit of quality due to all those plebiscites demanding their equal and earned share.
In what way is this liberal taxation? This is corporate greed taxation, something that transcends political ideology. As an avowed liberal I'd want nothing to do with this. Luckily I live in Monatana where Disney doesn't really care about buying out my politicians.
Only for your sister (or any one else you give the binary to), and then only if she asks.
Your comprehension of basic logic is so seriously flawed I don't think anyone knows where to begin with you.
Except that its no longer insurance. So don't worry about it, let the laws pass, and let the rest of us live with guaranteed health care, which you apparently aren't interested in allowing us.
I'd argue that the world "went with" the x86 before it went with Windows. The thing that made Windows so cool was the open nature of the hardware it ran on. The openness made things cheap and accessible. The world doesn't tend towards the best engineering, but rather the best bang for their dollars. And in the absence of a clear winner, they'll always choose the cheapest solution (x86).
I imagine we'll need some management types to oversee the robots' mining efforts and the terraforming work. That'll require engineers and technicians to be in close proximity when the managers screw everything up. Plus we'll need some satellite guys in case communications goes down. And then there'll be all the tourists (I can only imagine that your sightseeing remark is incredibly insightful.)
Of course then Mars will see the colonists coming en masse. Any geek worth his salt will want a low Martian UID.
Why should I worry about a lawsuit for reverse engineering software? What exactly has someone else lost by my converting machine readable code into human readable code? The fact that you think someone can own on idea is disturbing on a whole other level. Or even that you think copyright and patents assign ownership...
So you're saying I should not feel bad about rounding up Verizon executives and burning them?
I'm glad I replied to the GP so I could reply to this. I'm of the "Clapton is God" camp that hails his pre-Cream straight blues guitar work as something straight from heaven. Being only 23 I missed that whole period by a few decades, but the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton album is simply one of the greatest (Still trying to find the actual studio album they put out together). Then he started doing your standard 60's drugs and made Cream and Blind Faith awesome. Once he started on his amazingly expensive cocaine habit(or was it heroin?), no he wasn't so good.... But ever since quiting he has only had a couple respectable albums (my personal favorite being Robert Johnson and Me, more of that sweet Clapton Blues).
I wanted to mark you insightful, but only because you said exactly what I think about Metallica. So instead I post. First 4 Metallica albums == amazing. Everything after ...And Justice For All is crap.
Thanks for the rhetoric. Care to provide any real substance?