He's obviously already a heretic whose head should be put on a pike and bandied around the halls of the FSF, because, well, duh, BSD licensing is practically the same thing as throwing your code in a junkyard or landfill. It's a travesty.
Now everybody get your torches and pitchforks, and chant "G-P-L," repeatedly if you will.
The problem is that rather than do it the easy way with that alphabet soup of acronyms listed up there, they broke out their handy electron microscope to examine it.*
Actually, in Windows I can boot and login to my machine even if I unplug it. Network outages are common, due to the Ridiculous Number of Single Points of Failure model. Mesh networking and multipath and all those cool things notwithstanding, as they are rarely implemented in homes or small businesses.
The problem is your system setup and how easy it would be to mess it up if all I did was jiggle a network cable.
Please mod parent up, this is one of several ideas desperately needed in order to change public perception of Linux from "that toy/geek OS" (or worse, "what are you talking about?") and into "holy crap that's cool."
People care about stuff that's cool. That it works really well and helps them do stuff is a happy coincidence. On the other hand, there are a lot of cool things (most compiz plugins) that look cool and draw users and developers that have no productivity implications. Not dismissing their work as useless, it does bring users to Linux, but working on cool feaures that provide productivity (of which there are in compiz) should take precedent.
Or each service could be started immediately, and an internal broadcast/signalling system (hello IPC) could say "Hey, Service X is now online, if you need your Service X, get it while it's hot!"
And then Service A and N go online, because that's their only dependency. G notices those two, and goes online, which brings R online, etc. Each service just needs to have its own internal "what do I need to run" preflight checklist.
And it could be made safer a lot easier if people could just go to their pharmacist and ask nicely. Their pharmacist could tell them if there are any complications with any existing medications, etc.
You obviously never attended any of the classes I did. The homework was a joke, was identical to the tests, made you did identical problems dozens of times consecutively, and cannot possibly determine the intelligence of an individual student unless they're friendless. In fact, come to think of it, I was the only one who ever worked alone on assignments in any of my classes. Everyone, prep to goth, worked together with peers, worked on problems at lunch tables together, worked in study halls together, etc.
What a great system we have, that attempts to determine the intelligence of individual students, then mars that with homework (sometimes greater than 50% of the grade) being purely a measure of social ability to find someone who can more adequately teach you or help you with your assignments and share answers.
If you work alone, it genuinely does take 10 times the effort to go from a C/B to an A+.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP though have different kernel versions, your trend leaves out Windows 2003, which is mostly the same as Windows XP.
So: 95, 98, 98, ME were all Win9x. Windows NT was developed independently, obviously, and Win9x "died" after ME. Windows 2000 was the first year version of Windows NT. Windows XP was the first consumer NT. Windows Server 2003 was the first consumer NT to use the XP codebase. Windows Vista is the second consumer NT base. Windows Server 2008 was the first to use Vista as its base.
So Windows 7 would actually be NT7. You omitted 2003.
I don't mean to put words in your mouth, but it should be noted that the "nofollow" has its place with wikipedia. It would be a tremendous detriment to the site if any spammer or phisher or pondscum could have monetary gain by spamming wikipedia with links to their 'sources.'
It was an unfortunate decision that had to be made. For the sake of defending my argument, I'm not using a "false dilemma," any alternative between "anyone can post pagerank-giving links" and "no-one can post pagerank-giving links" delegates the responsibility to a group which could be pressured or swayed by the potential gain in posting links for a spammer, phisher, etc. Even admins aren't infallible and it's better to remove the temptation.
People make branches all the time, they just aren't branches of all of wikipedia (eegad, who wants to host that on their own?) but rather individual articles. It's not uncommon for someone to copy an article into a user space page to perform edits and refinements, get the page looking how they want it, and then push it back into the 'trunk' or main wikipedia space.
There is, unfortunately, no automated way for users to do this. "Copy page to ____ space," be that user space, wikipedia's main, or any other.
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Or everyone can just drive used POS cars and not care when they total another one.
Man, the whole world would be like a destruction derby. Isn't that a future you would hope for too?
Yeah but then they'd have to fight with Stargate Command for space.
I know you're making a joke (it was funny, honest) but I'd like to point out to all the folks who have been counting kernels...
Windows Vista is 6.1.
Windows 7 likely will be Kernel 7.0
What if you reverse the polarity?
It's GoogleApps/IceWeasel/X.org/GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod.
That's what they want you to think. It's really an elaborate cover to provide them with plausible deniability.
I mean, of course SG1 is a hyperbole on the real, much more mundane sounding "Joint Offworld Taskforce" (JOT) but I've already said too mu
He's obviously already a heretic whose head should be put on a pike and bandied around the halls of the FSF, because, well, duh, BSD licensing is practically the same thing as throwing your code in a junkyard or landfill. It's a travesty.
Now everybody get your torches and pitchforks, and chant "G-P-L," repeatedly if you will.
The problem is that rather than do it the easy way with that alphabet soup of acronyms listed up there, they broke out their handy electron microscope to examine it.*
* Yes, I'm jealous.
I'm adding to tepple's point (currently GP) point and replying to the GGP, arth1.
Actually, in Windows I can boot and login to my machine even if I unplug it. Network outages are common, due to the Ridiculous Number of Single Points of Failure model. Mesh networking and multipath and all those cool things notwithstanding, as they are rarely implemented in homes or small businesses.
The problem is your system setup and how easy it would be to mess it up if all I did was jiggle a network cable.
Ah, the old, "I have discovered a truly marvelous method to improve Linux which the margins of my free time are too narrow to allow me to code."
Still keep writing.
Please mod parent up, this is one of several ideas desperately needed in order to change public perception of Linux from "that toy/geek OS" (or worse, "what are you talking about?") and into "holy crap that's cool."
People care about stuff that's cool. That it works really well and helps them do stuff is a happy coincidence. On the other hand, there are a lot of cool things (most compiz plugins) that look cool and draw users and developers that have no productivity implications. Not dismissing their work as useless, it does bring users to Linux, but working on cool feaures that provide productivity (of which there are in compiz) should take precedent.
Or each service could be started immediately, and an internal broadcast/signalling system (hello IPC) could say "Hey, Service X is now online, if you need your Service X, get it while it's hot!"
And then Service A and N go online, because that's their only dependency. G notices those two, and goes online, which brings R online, etc. Each service just needs to have its own internal "what do I need to run" preflight checklist.
And it could be made safer a lot easier if people could just go to their pharmacist and ask nicely. Their pharmacist could tell them if there are any complications with any existing medications, etc.
I think you mean, just to be sure, we have to nuke it for orbit. It's the only way to be certain.
Actually, DRM remains perfectly secure only when you leave it turned off, and ideally locked away and never put under the spotlight.
Huh, that's funny, making DRM and general purpose PCs secure requires that you cut the network cable and bury them or lock them in a safe.
You obviously never attended any of the classes I did. The homework was a joke, was identical to the tests, made you did identical problems dozens of times consecutively, and cannot possibly determine the intelligence of an individual student unless they're friendless. In fact, come to think of it, I was the only one who ever worked alone on assignments in any of my classes. Everyone, prep to goth, worked together with peers, worked on problems at lunch tables together, worked in study halls together, etc.
What a great system we have, that attempts to determine the intelligence of individual students, then mars that with homework (sometimes greater than 50% of the grade) being purely a measure of social ability to find someone who can more adequately teach you or help you with your assignments and share answers.
If you work alone, it genuinely does take 10 times the effort to go from a C/B to an A+.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP though have different kernel versions, your trend leaves out Windows 2003, which is mostly the same as Windows XP.
So:
95, 98, 98, ME were all Win9x.
Windows NT was developed independently, obviously, and Win9x "died" after ME. Windows 2000 was the first year version of Windows NT.
Windows XP was the first consumer NT.
Windows Server 2003 was the first consumer NT to use the XP codebase.
Windows Vista is the second consumer NT base.
Windows Server 2008 was the first to use Vista as its base.
So Windows 7 would actually be NT7. You omitted 2003.
Because to get an A requires something like ten times the investment in effort and no one after you get your first college admission will give a hoot?
I don't mean to put words in your mouth, but it should be noted that the "nofollow" has its place with wikipedia. It would be a tremendous detriment to the site if any spammer or phisher or pondscum could have monetary gain by spamming wikipedia with links to their 'sources.'
It was an unfortunate decision that had to be made. For the sake of defending my argument, I'm not using a "false dilemma," any alternative between "anyone can post pagerank-giving links" and "no-one can post pagerank-giving links" delegates the responsibility to a group which could be pressured or swayed by the potential gain in posting links for a spammer, phisher, etc. Even admins aren't infallible and it's better to remove the temptation.
Hot air balloons are lightened by glorified candles.
I tried but all I could do was make the GP insightful.
Oops.
And when he does admin a major mail provider, I'd like to sign up.
You forgot to round up.
#define PI 9999999.1415926599999995
So, 9999999.14159266 is the correct rounding :)
People make branches all the time, they just aren't branches of all of wikipedia (eegad, who wants to host that on their own?) but rather individual articles. It's not uncommon for someone to copy an article into a user space page to perform edits and refinements, get the page looking how they want it, and then push it back into the 'trunk' or main wikipedia space.
There is, unfortunately, no automated way for users to do this. "Copy page to ____ space," be that user space, wikipedia's main, or any other.