Because trying to make a student computer into a kiosk without changing the OS configuration *is* "doing it wrong".
There are the right tools for the job, there are the wrong tools that will work if the mechanic has enough skill and free time, and then there is trying to build a secure lock out of play-doh with chopsticks.
Do what ever will make you the most money. Corporations have no ethical obligations and neither should employees.
Your value is what you know. Don't share any more than you can avoid.
Ordinarily, yes. When you are the only one who knows how the accounts payable database works, charge them through the nose for every sheet of documentation. But there's a lot of energy in a polymerization unit, and one bad assumption about the flow rate of some side-product can let it all out in a spectacular fashion. I think our anonymous engineer has an ethical obligation to the guys who go out in the plant and turn the valves (really, to every living thing downwind) even if he doesn't have one to the corporation.
Fixed-frequency AC motors are inefficient unless the load is constant (and load isn't constant in those applications).
But the load for a refrigerator/freezer/AC should be constant, or close to it. You have a condenser that needs refrigerant delivered at a pressure where it's a gas at inlet temperature and liquid at outlet temperature. Pressure beyond what's required to keep the refrigerant flowing out of the condenser in the liquid phase would be wasted (or harmful because liquid would back up into the compressor). So you've got constant pressure in the condenser with a fixed-volume pump on one and and a fixed orifice on the other... optimum speed for the pump would be constant, right?
Unless you want to get fancy and use a valve to throttle refrigerant flow into the evaporator instead of using a fixed orifice...
Fact: The US government has the means to do something about it.
...but not the willpower.
Hearings and allegations that change nothing are cheap and easy. Unfucking public education would be slow, difficult and expensive. Guess which we'll get.
Most stocks are not down over the last decade. For Nov 2001 - Nov 2011 Microsoft is down 19% while the Dow is up 28%: (chart). Even if you cherry pick a start date in January 2003 at the bottom of Microsoft's drop in the dot-com bust, MSFT is only up 7% while the Dow is up 40%.
Property rights are a requisite to a functioning democracy.
True, it's important that the rights of property owners to hold a party (so long as it doesn't interfere with adjacent property owners' rights to peacefully enjoy their property) and of the guests at the party to freely perform their own musical compositions be protected from politically-connected rent seekers!
There are practical considerations. It means that instead of writing and maintaining an entire programming platform (and making users pay the storage/memory/startup time costs that using it entails) to watch a movie, they're only going to use a video codec.
There's no ideological considerations, a WMV + WMDRM plugin is just as proprietary and locked-down by itself as when it's bundled inside Silverlight.
But once you build the fab, you have a fab. It makes money. It's an asset.
Yeah, one that depreciates according to Moore's law: every 18 months the value of it's output drops 50%. Even banks that thought synthetic derivatives of bonds based on fraudulent McMansion mortgages were a good investment would balk at underwriting that.
So where's the line between "A Linux distro" and a platform that runs on top of a Linux kernel but is not a distro? Are you saying the requirements are having a package repo with joe and mtr, and the Debian package tools?
"If I had an annoying neighbor that harassed me about the length of my grass, the hours I mowed the lawn, how many cars I had parked in the drive way, etc..."
...and he came over to let you know someone was burgling your garage, you would tell him to fuck right off, because he's annoying?
Too many people do not know their times tables and can not do simple calculations in their head. In the real world, odds are you will not have a calculator handy when presented with a problem
Every time a discussion about calculators in class comes up, people repeat this like it's self-evidently true. It's not; it's flat-out wrong. Even the cheapest of mobile phones has a built-in calculator, and there are 4.6 billion phones in circulation among a human population of about 6.5 billion. Anywhere you go in the world, if there are people present, odds are there is a calculator. In this technology-saturated world, memorizing times tables is not learning; it's hazing: "My teachers made me memorize all this stuff, because their teachers made them memorize it, and now I'm going to make you do it!".
IME, getting accurate results from "real world" multiplication is hindered by lack of an accurate measuring stick to gauge the quantities to be multiplied more often than by not having a calculator anyway.
They're the mythical "other gender" of humans. Some laughably backward ancient societies believed that humans, like other mammals, reproduced sexually, often within a long-term pair mating of one male and one "fe-male" human.
Supposedly girls still live in the Big Blue Room, but as far as modern geography knows the BBR is itself a myth or an allegory of some sort. Girls are sort of in the same category as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster; they probably don't exist, but it's impossible to prove a negative, so there's no swaying the believers...
Why would you want to buy this? I'll tell you why: Because that first week or so the sheep will cause the price to shoot like a rocket (because they have heard of FB and know it is big) before it crashes hard when reality sets in. Kinda like how you can make a mint on a "pump and dump" if you get in at the bottom and drop them right before it starts to freefall.
To be fair, a lot of slashdorers said the same thing about Google. Going public at $85/share was clearly a crass attempt by the insiders to cash out before the imminent crash, and everyone who bought at that price was hoping to resell quickly to the sheep because everyone knows there's no profit in ad-supported web sites.
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If you want bad design, consider the overhead of several hundred extra fopen() calls to read all the separate.config files for your DE between typing your password and seeing a usable desktop. I'll take "configuration dialog looks superficially like Windows" over "log in, go get coffee, come back, wait, wait some more, read email" any day!
Besides, Microsoft's abuse of UUIDs in the Windows registry doesn't mean everything that looks like a registry is a mess of stupidly-long numbers. Gconf uses human-readable names for everything...
I respectfully submit that you're looking at the incident the wrong way. You melted a $0.50 part, but the truck kept going. Operating in temperatures outside the normal range caused no downtime, just like with these servers.
The problem with that is there is no objective definition of software bloat. It's just slashdot shorthand for "spending time on stuff I personally don't find important".
Your "bloat" is another user's "better interface" or "better security" or "maintainable code".
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Because trying to make a student computer into a kiosk without changing the OS configuration *is* "doing it wrong".
There are the right tools for the job, there are the wrong tools that will work if the mechanic has enough skill and free time, and then there is trying to build a secure lock out of play-doh with chopsticks.
Do what ever will make you the most money. Corporations have no ethical obligations and neither should employees.
Your value is what you know. Don't share any more than you can avoid.
Ordinarily, yes. When you are the only one who knows how the accounts payable database works, charge them through the nose for every sheet of documentation. But there's a lot of energy in a polymerization unit, and one bad assumption about the flow rate of some side-product can let it all out in a spectacular fashion. I think our anonymous engineer has an ethical obligation to the guys who go out in the plant and turn the valves (really, to every living thing downwind) even if he doesn't have one to the corporation.
...film at 11.
Fixed-frequency AC motors are inefficient unless the load is constant (and load isn't constant in those applications).
But the load for a refrigerator/freezer/AC should be constant, or close to it. You have a condenser that needs refrigerant delivered at a pressure where it's a gas at inlet temperature and liquid at outlet temperature. Pressure beyond what's required to keep the refrigerant flowing out of the condenser in the liquid phase would be wasted (or harmful because liquid would back up into the compressor). So you've got constant pressure in the condenser with a fixed-volume pump on one and and a fixed orifice on the other... optimum speed for the pump would be constant, right?
Unless you want to get fancy and use a valve to throttle refrigerant flow into the evaporator instead of using a fixed orifice...
Fact: The US government has the means to do something about it.
...but not the willpower.
Hearings and allegations that change nothing are cheap and easy. Unfucking public education would be slow, difficult and expensive. Guess which we'll get.
I think the roofs really are painted that bright blue color.
Now look at the main road, it looks like they have a scale Eiffel tower over this intersection.
Most stocks are not down over the last decade. For Nov 2001 - Nov 2011 Microsoft is down 19% while the Dow is up 28%: (chart). Even if you cherry pick a start date in January 2003 at the bottom of Microsoft's drop in the dot-com bust, MSFT is only up 7% while the Dow is up 40%.
Property rights are a requisite to a functioning democracy.
True, it's important that the rights of property owners to hold a party (so long as it doesn't interfere with adjacent property owners' rights to peacefully enjoy their property) and of the guests at the party to freely perform their own musical compositions be protected from politically-connected rent seekers!
There are practical considerations. It means that instead of writing and maintaining an entire programming platform (and making users pay the storage/memory/startup time costs that using it entails) to watch a movie, they're only going to use a video codec.
There's no ideological considerations, a WMV + WMDRM plugin is just as proprietary and locked-down by itself as when it's bundled inside Silverlight.
But once you build the fab, you have a fab. It makes money. It's an asset.
Yeah, one that depreciates according to Moore's law: every 18 months the value of it's output drops 50%. Even banks that thought synthetic derivatives of bonds based on fraudulent McMansion mortgages were a good investment would balk at underwriting that.
Doubling the storage and number of CPU cores is "marketing"?
Oh right, it's an Apple product. Silly me...
...and thanks for all the posts.
So where's the line between "A Linux distro" and a platform that runs on top of a Linux kernel but is not a distro? Are you saying the requirements are having a package repo with joe and mtr, and the Debian package tools?
"If I had an annoying neighbor that harassed me about the length of my grass, the hours I mowed the lawn, how many cars I had parked in the drive way, etc..."
They're not looking for code, they're looking for documents.
Too many people do not know their times tables and can not do simple calculations in their head. In the real world, odds are you will not have a calculator handy when presented with a problem
Every time a discussion about calculators in class comes up, people repeat this like it's self-evidently true. It's not; it's flat-out wrong. Even the cheapest of mobile phones has a built-in calculator, and there are 4.6 billion phones in circulation among a human population of about 6.5 billion. Anywhere you go in the world, if there are people present, odds are there is a calculator. In this technology-saturated world, memorizing times tables is not learning; it's hazing: "My teachers made me memorize all this stuff, because their teachers made them memorize it, and now I'm going to make you do it!".
IME, getting accurate results from "real world" multiplication is hindered by lack of an accurate measuring stick to gauge the quantities to be multiplied more often than by not having a calculator anyway.
They're the mythical "other gender" of humans. Some laughably backward ancient societies believed that humans, like other mammals, reproduced sexually, often within a long-term pair mating of one male and one "fe-male" human.
Supposedly girls still live in the Big Blue Room, but as far as modern geography knows the BBR is itself a myth or an allegory of some sort. Girls are sort of in the same category as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster; they probably don't exist, but it's impossible to prove a negative, so there's no swaying the believers...
Why would you want to buy this? I'll tell you why: Because that first week or so the sheep will cause the price to shoot like a rocket (because they have heard of FB and know it is big) before it crashes hard when reality sets in. Kinda like how you can make a mint on a "pump and dump" if you get in at the bottom and drop them right before it starts to freefall.
To be fair, a lot of slashdorers said the same thing about Google. Going public at $85/share was clearly a crass attempt by the insiders to cash out before the imminent crash, and everyone who bought at that price was hoping to resell quickly to the sheep because everyone knows there's no profit in ad-supported web sites.
If you want bad design, consider the overhead of several hundred extra fopen() calls to read all the separate .config files for your DE between typing your password and seeing a usable desktop. I'll take "configuration dialog looks superficially like Windows" over "log in, go get coffee, come back, wait, wait some more, read email" any day!
Besides, Microsoft's abuse of UUIDs in the Windows registry doesn't mean everything that looks like a registry is a mess of stupidly-long numbers. Gconf uses human-readable names for everything...
It's a joke. Lighten up, Francis.
"Netcraft confirms it: *BSD is dying" is a long-running slashdot troll. You've just become its latest victim...
Or an example from the non-fiction section: The Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games in 1990.
I respectfully submit that you're looking at the incident the wrong way. You melted a $0.50 part, but the truck kept going. Operating in temperatures outside the normal range caused no downtime, just like with these servers.
Oh, you fool, you foolish fool.
You've opened a portal to the plane of elemental un-productivity. Thousands of "work" hours will be sucked in... never to be seen again.
Breaking news: sky blue, grass green, water wet, predictions of looming macpocalypse drive clicks, ad revenue. Details tonight at 10.
The problem with that is there is no objective definition of software bloat. It's just slashdot shorthand for "spending time on stuff I personally don't find important".
Your "bloat" is another user's "better interface" or "better security" or "maintainable code".