The real question is why are they closing those Sears Auto Repair shops? A lot of folks still use them. Are they going to get into a market that they're just trying out, becuase it's IN!!!, and dropping one that works?
Y'know, like having a niche market, and then pissing off that niche by trying to appeal to a different niche which ain't interested, like the skiffy, er, sci-fi, um, syfy channel?
I have issues with the whole report. If the Universe is 13.xG years old, and it's been expanding...
1. How is 31 bursters over 10G ly a "structure"?
2. How big was the Universe 10G years ago? If it was then 10G ly wide, then the expansion is
clearly slowing down, only growing another 3G ly in 10G yrs, after doing 10G ly in 3.xG yrs.
mark "or maybe the Universe burst through an extradimensional wall, which resulted in
a number of bursters as they ripped through the wall for the rest"
I actually read the first paragraph or two of the original article (I know, that's *so* unslashdot), and that's rather clever: seawater over a grid to evaporate and cool, increasing the humidity.. and cooler seawater to cause some of it to condense... providing desalinated seawater.
I literally just went to the site on seeing this article. It took, as the Computerworld article yesterday said on the benchmarking it had done, about 3-4 sec to get to the home page. Once I told noscript to allow it, I then went to "look at options before signing up" (or whatever it was), and it responded at least as fast as slashdot loads.
So, what is this "still a disaster"? Is the headline writer/OP right up there with Ron Paul, who let a senior campaign staffer *die* last year during the campaign, because he apparently couldn't be bothered to provide healthcare to even his senior staff, nor pay them enough to buy their own...?
You *certainly* don't want to live in any kind of society. People who sell things that break, badly, and don't admit it, can, if someone gets hurt enough, wind up in jail for fraud and criminal negligence.
And you... you're probably a libertarian, meaning you have the ethics and morals of a spoiled two-year-old.
I've had some dealings with systemd on Fedora. Oh, it's *so* much easier to find the magical names of services (as opposed to, say, ls/etc/init.d/), and start and stop them. Oh, it's all so much easier. And configurable? Just like grub2....
In the mid-nineties, I worked for Ameritech, one of the Baby Bells (now swallowed by SBC, er, now ATT). When the deregulation bill came up in Congress, our Division President sent orders down to all that he wanted us to contact our Rep and Sen, and ask them to support the deregulation. AND HE DEMANDED COPIES OF OUR LETTERS. And if you don't think that was a threat to our continuted employment, you're amazingly naive. And, right after starting, they brought us into a meeting where they were trying hard sell to get us to contribute, from our salary, to their PAC.
In the late fifties, well-known essayist CP Snow gave a speech, which he rewrote into an essay, called "On the Two Cultures". The two he was speaking about were the liberal arts and the sciences. One point he made was that he knew a good number of scientists/engineers who could quote Shakespeare chapter and verse... but not a single liberal arts major who could even give the simplified version of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics.
It's only gotten worse. The folks in charge have, overwhelmingly, never taken a hard course in their lives, esp. in science or math. They think handwaving overrides the laws of the universe... and they look at anyone who actually *knows* something, or even is interested in something that's not Approved As Cool by some PR hack, is to be looked down on. They are, of course, the ones who were the "popular kids" in class... and haven't grown at all. The rest of us... four eyes? geeks? wonks? nurds? How many denigrating names have they come up with, and I, for one, am heartily sick of it.
You might notice what the popular kids have done to our economy.....
Oh, and for those who have "reclaimed" geek, sorry, I know where the word comes from: carnival slang, for the usually retarded guy who made his living in the freak show, usually billed as the Wild Man of Borneo or some such, and bit the heads off live chickens (for real). Now, Newt Gingrich, who served his first wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital for chemo, or Ron Paul, who couldn't be bothered to pay his senior campaign staff last year enough, or provide healthcare for them, who let one of his senior staffers *die* because he had no healthcare... they're geeks.
Someone falling into a black hole would die as they approached the event horizon by being ripped apart by tidal forces (for those of you who skipped science, those are the forces that created Saturn's rings).
Medicare for all would have been *much* simpler... and you could sign up the way you do now.
But the extreme-right Heritage Foundation designed this system - the one Romney let come in in Massachussetts when he was governor, and which was pushed by the huge inusrance industry lobbyists.
Then, of course, they outsourced everything, rather than hiring folks in-house to do it (horrors! bigger government (but paying consulting companies, and their layers of management, and giving them profits, that's ok, y'know).
And, of course, the Republicans and the right want to do the same outsourcing to Social Security (yep - you, too, can invest your retirement in tech (oops, sorry, that was *so* 2000), or real estate (whoops, sorry, so 2008), and they wind up with it all....
I lived in Philly til midway through my thirties. I rode a bike a *lot* - commuting, and, in fact, about 9 months as a bike messenger. No helmet.
I went down three times, and limped away all of them. Scraped hand. Once was due to a very bad seam in the street itself. Back then, *no* *one* wore a helmet.
Of course, back there, adults were supposed to ride in the street, not on the sidewalk, and in the street, you are suppsed to obey traffic laws like any other vehicle. If you ride your bike the way some self-proclaimed CotU (Centers of the Universe) drive their oversized, gas-guzzling SUVs, and think stopping for lights or stop signs is for weenies, well, there's a phrase for that:: think of it as evolution in action.
I'm on CentOS, so I'm running FF ESR 17.0.9. It displays the map, after I tell noscipt to do so. However... trying to see any given stream's info, putting the cursor over it, is a complete waste: it flashes, then vanishes. I move it upwards, and I can read part of it, but not the rest before it goes away. In effect, you can't read the captions on what you're seeing.
I'd give it somewhere between a D+ and a C-., with D for useability.
So, you can't tell, or can't log in, unless you own a smartphone (tm)? Quite so, mine citizen. Please show me your citizenship documents on your smartphone... you don't have one? Please accompany this fine officer to the station for violating community standards....
And for those of you texting while driving, no you are NOT that good a driver, and could you drive better if I took it away from you and gave it back to you as a suppository?
"Driving is a privilege, not a right" - in the first paragraph of every state and commonwealth and the District's driver training booklet... and texting while driving IS NOT either.
mark, who does drive better than you, as proven by the extreme sparsity of tickets and accidents
Who seems to have cheated, or gotten a "social promotion" out of junior high school science. Unless they're thinking of Voyager, which is in ->INTERSTELLAR- space, and will take a few million years to get out of the galaxy.....
Here's the issue that no one talks about:
1. An alleged deity created us with brains and logic.
2. The same alleged deity created evidence of evolution, going back billions of years.
The funnymentalists feel that we should ignore that evidence, and believe their definition of the literal truth of the Bible.
No one seems to notice that if we *ignore* evidence, and believe, based on a book, that the evidence was created to lay a false trail for us to follow, either a) all of that stuff was created by their-definition Satan (except that the Christian Satan is not supposed to have the power to create), or b) that given that was all created to lay a false trail, their alleged deity is lying and trying to mislead us.
Given the lemma in a), b) is the only other choice. This, of course, would lead to the question of the difference between their alleged deity and their mythical Satan. Or maybe it's just that the funnymentalist evangelicals are, as shown by their deeds, Christian Satanists, twisting the truth to mislead everyone else.
First there's a food shortage as the US converts corn to ethanol, and the price of corn and corn meal go through the roof. Now we're going to have to run our systems on wine, and the price of even cheap crap will go through the roof....
mark "I'll have the inexpensive 12 yr single malt, please, I can't afford the MD 2020"
From the nineties: it's the end of Wrath of Khan, Kirk alone is on the bridge, with smoke in the air, and Khan's ship is coming about on the viewscreen.
Just then a tall man in a white suit walks onto the bridge, taps Captain Kirk on the shoulder, and announces, "Lt. Hooker[1], your fantasy is over."[2]
Where's that guy in the white suit when we need him, to end Alexander's fantasy?
mark
1. Google the tv series, T.J. Hooker and Shatner 2. Fantasy Island reference.
A couple of years ago, I had a tech support call into Oracle for a Sun server. It took them almost a *month* to send out an FE, and that time included two weeks of emailing an engineer on another continent (S. America), and an "in country" engineer... who only worked third shift.
Oh, and after escalating it, three managers in three days "taking ownership".
I expect *everything* that Larry buys to be supported that way.
mark "wouldn't want to waste money that could be spent on his fighter jet or Hawaian Island...."
Everyone's ignoring the fact that vitamin A, like D, are fat-soluble, not water soluble, and so if a large portion of the food intake was this vitamin A rice, there are medical consequences of too *much* of the vitamin.
I'm wondering if the reported strong disagreement between Obama and Putin at the G20 was after private talks where they decided to play bad cop/good cop....
... having spent decades fixing and enhancing code written by others, frequently no longer there.
"Teach" *may* be appropriate, if you're writing architectural documents, including the logic, but for system documenation for users, you don't teach: you write it so they can read it, and it MUST BE CORRECT and CURRENT, not some crap you threw together and fuggecaboutit.
If you want the right way to do it, I can offer one that was demonstrated to work when I developed it. My article on it, "Egoless Documentation", was published in the now-sadly-defunct SysAdmin magazine in '06: http://24.5-cent.us/egoless_docu.html
When did slashdot gain all the ignorant racist and fascist fools for readers? How did "news for nerds" turn into this mess, where some snot gets listed for "5: insightful" for babbling, satirically, about "we should help everyone here first"?
Does that fool even know what percentage of the US budget NASA gets? I mean, anyone who pays attention *knows*, and it's not 30%. (And actually, adjusted for inflation, it's about 1/6th what we were spending during the Moon race.)
How many folks here have actually sent emails, called, or even, at town halls, even *spoken* to their Congresscritter or Senator? (Oooh, cooties, talk to a politician! Eeek!)
How the mighty have fallen.
mark, who has contacted his legislators in all three ways
Slashdot Mirror
The real question is why are they closing those Sears Auto Repair shops? A lot of folks still use them. Are they going to get into a market that they're just trying out, becuase it's IN!!!, and dropping one that works?
Y'know, like having a niche market, and then pissing off that niche by trying to appeal to a different niche which ain't interested, like the skiffy, er, sci-fi, um, syfy channel?
mark "their B movies ain't even fun anymore"
I have issues with the whole report. If the Universe is 13.xG years old, and it's been expanding...
1. How is 31 bursters over 10G ly a "structure"?
2. How big was the Universe 10G years ago? If it was then 10G ly wide, then the expansion is
clearly slowing down, only growing another 3G ly in 10G yrs, after doing 10G ly in 3.xG yrs.
mark "or maybe the Universe burst through an extradimensional wall, which resulted in
a number of bursters as they ripped through the wall for the rest"
I actually read the first paragraph or two of the original article (I know, that's *so* unslashdot), and that's rather clever: seawater over a grid to evaporate and cool, increasing the humidity.. and cooler seawater to cause some of it to condense... providing desalinated seawater.
mark
I literally just went to the site on seeing this article. It took, as the Computerworld article yesterday said on the benchmarking it had done, about 3-4 sec to get to the home page. Once I told noscript to allow it, I then went to "look at options before signing up" (or whatever it was), and it responded at least as fast as slashdot loads.
So, what is this "still a disaster"? Is the headline writer/OP right up there with Ron Paul, who let a senior campaign staffer *die* last year during the campaign, because he apparently couldn't be bothered to provide healthcare to even his senior staff, nor pay them enough to buy their own...?
mark "enlightened self-interest my ass"
Are you a troll, or just that stupid?
You *certainly* don't want to live in any kind of society. People who sell things that break, badly, and don't admit it, can, if someone gets hurt enough, wind up in jail for fraud and criminal negligence.
And you... you're probably a libertarian, meaning you have the ethics and morals of a spoiled two-year-old.
mark
I've had some dealings with systemd on Fedora. Oh, it's *so* much easier to find the magical names of services (as opposed to, say, ls /etc/init.d/), and start and stop them. Oh, it's all so much easier. And configurable? Just like grub2....
mark
--
grub2 must DIE!
In the mid-nineties, I worked for Ameritech, one of the Baby Bells (now swallowed by SBC, er, now ATT). When the deregulation bill came up in Congress, our Division President sent orders down to all that he wanted us to contact our Rep and Sen, and ask them to support the deregulation. AND HE DEMANDED COPIES OF OUR LETTERS. And if you don't think that was a threat to our continuted employment, you're amazingly naive. And, right after starting, they brought us into a meeting where they were trying hard sell to get us to contribute, from our salary, to their PAC.
Yeah, our representatives, right.....
mark
In the late fifties, well-known essayist CP Snow gave a speech, which he rewrote into an essay, called "On the Two Cultures". The two he was speaking about were the liberal arts and the sciences. One point he made was that he knew a good number of scientists/engineers who could quote Shakespeare chapter and verse... but not a single liberal arts major who could even give the simplified version of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics.
It's only gotten worse. The folks in charge have, overwhelmingly, never taken a hard course in their lives, esp. in science or math. They think handwaving overrides the laws of the universe... and they look at anyone who actually *knows* something, or even is interested in something that's not Approved As Cool by some PR hack, is to be looked down on. They are, of course, the ones who were the "popular kids" in class... and haven't grown at all. The rest of us... four eyes? geeks? wonks? nurds? How many denigrating names have they come up with, and I, for one, am heartily sick of it.
You might notice what the popular kids have done to our economy.....
Oh, and for those who have "reclaimed" geek, sorry, I know where the word comes from: carnival slang, for the usually retarded guy who made his living in the freak show, usually billed as the Wild Man of Borneo or some such, and bit the heads off live chickens (for real). Now, Newt Gingrich, who served his first wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital for chemo, or Ron Paul, who couldn't be bothered to pay his senior campaign staff last year enough, or provide healthcare for them, who let one of his senior staffers *die* because he had no healthcare... they're geeks.
mark
Someone falling into a black hole would die as they approached the event horizon by being ripped apart by tidal forces (for those of you who skipped science, those are the forces that created Saturn's rings).
mark
Medicare for all would have been *much* simpler... and you could sign up the way you do now.
But the extreme-right Heritage Foundation designed this system - the one Romney let come in in Massachussetts when he was governor, and which was pushed by the huge inusrance industry lobbyists.
Then, of course, they outsourced everything, rather than hiring folks in-house to do it (horrors! bigger government (but paying consulting companies, and their layers of management, and giving them profits, that's ok, y'know).
And, of course, the Republicans and the right want to do the same outsourcing to Social Security (yep - you, too, can invest your retirement in tech (oops, sorry, that was *so* 2000), or real estate (whoops, sorry, so 2008), and they wind up with it all....
mark
I lived in Philly til midway through my thirties. I rode a bike a *lot* - commuting, and, in fact, about 9 months as a bike messenger. No helmet.
I went down three times, and limped away all of them. Scraped hand. Once was due to a very bad seam in the street itself. Back then, *no* *one* wore a helmet.
Of course, back there, adults were supposed to ride in the street, not on the sidewalk, and in the street, you are suppsed to obey traffic laws like any other vehicle. If you ride your bike the way some self-proclaimed CotU (Centers of the Universe) drive their oversized, gas-guzzling SUVs, and think stopping for lights or stop signs is for weenies, well, there's a phrase for that:: think of it as evolution in action.
mark
I'm on CentOS, so I'm running FF ESR 17.0.9. It displays the map, after I tell noscipt to do so. However... trying to see any given stream's info, putting the cursor over it, is a complete waste: it flashes, then vanishes. I move it upwards, and I can read part of it, but not the rest before it goes away. In effect, you can't read the captions on what you're seeing.
I'd give it somewhere between a D+ and a C-., with D for useability.
mark
So, you can't tell, or can't log in, unless you own a smartphone (tm)? Quite so, mine citizen. Please show me your citizenship documents on your smartphone... you don't have one? Please accompany this fine officer to the station for violating community standards....
mark "fsck smartphones"
ROTFLMAO!
Lessee, so, is flow-based programming like /programming/ ) { print length($0) " " $0;}} myfile | sort -u > myreport_on_the_use_of_the_word_programming
awk '{$0 ~
?
mark "*Nix, the object-oriented operating system"
And what else will they share?
Come on, everyone: tell me how this is *not* fascism, outright?
mark
"Fascism is more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power" - Benito Mussolini
And for those of you texting while driving, no you are NOT that good a driver, and could you drive better if I took it away from you and gave it back to you as a suppository?
"Driving is a privilege, not a right" - in the first paragraph of every state and commonwealth and the District's driver training booklet... and texting while driving IS NOT either.
mark, who does drive better than you, as proven by the extreme sparsity of tickets and accidents
Correction:
Success: humans
Losers: noh8rz10
Who seems to have cheated, or gotten a "social promotion" out of junior high school science. Unless they're thinking of Voyager, which is in ->INTERSTELLAR- space, and will take a few million years to get out of the galaxy.....
mark
Here's the issue that no one talks about:
1. An alleged deity created us with brains and logic.
2. The same alleged deity created evidence of evolution, going back billions of years.
The funnymentalists feel that we should ignore that evidence, and believe their definition of the literal truth of the Bible.
No one seems to notice that if we *ignore* evidence, and believe, based on a book, that the evidence was created to lay a false trail for us to follow, either a) all of that stuff was created by their-definition Satan (except that the Christian Satan is not supposed to have the power to create), or b) that given that was all created to lay a false trail, their alleged deity is lying and trying to mislead us.
Given the lemma in a), b) is the only other choice. This, of course, would lead to the question of the difference between their alleged deity and their mythical Satan. Or maybe it's just that the funnymentalist evangelicals are, as shown by their deeds, Christian Satanists, twisting the truth to mislead everyone else.
mark
First there's a food shortage as the US converts corn to ethanol, and the price of corn and corn meal go through the roof. Now we're going to have to run our systems on wine, and the price of even cheap crap will go through the roof....
mark "I'll have the inexpensive 12 yr single malt, please, I can't afford the MD 2020"
From the nineties: it's the end of Wrath of Khan, Kirk alone is on the bridge, with smoke in the air, and Khan's ship is coming about on the viewscreen.
Just then a tall man in a white suit walks onto the bridge, taps Captain Kirk on the shoulder, and announces, "Lt. Hooker[1], your fantasy is over."[2]
Where's that guy in the white suit when we need him, to end Alexander's fantasy?
mark
1. Google the tv series, T.J. Hooker and Shatner
2. Fantasy Island reference.
A couple of years ago, I had a tech support call into Oracle for a Sun server. It took them almost a *month* to send out an FE, and that time included two weeks of emailing an engineer on another continent (S. America), and an "in country" engineer... who only worked third shift.
Oh, and after escalating it, three managers in three days "taking ownership".
I expect *everything* that Larry buys to be supported that way.
mark "wouldn't want to waste money that could be spent on his fighter jet or Hawaian Island...."
Everyone's ignoring the fact that vitamin A, like D, are fat-soluble, not water soluble, and so if a large portion of the food intake was this vitamin A rice, there are medical consequences of too *much* of the vitamin.
http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Bone/Bone_Health/Nutrition/vitamin_a.asp
mark
I'm wondering if the reported strong disagreement between Obama and Putin at the G20 was after private talks where they decided to play bad cop/good cop....
mark
... having spent decades fixing and enhancing code written by others, frequently no longer there.
"Teach" *may* be appropriate, if you're writing architectural documents, including the logic, but for system documenation for users, you don't teach: you write it so they can read it, and it MUST BE CORRECT and CURRENT, not some crap you threw together and fuggecaboutit.
If you want the right way to do it, I can offer one that was demonstrated to work when I developed it. My article on it, "Egoless Documentation", was published in the now-sadly-defunct SysAdmin magazine in '06: http://24.5-cent.us/egoless_docu.html
mark
When did slashdot gain all the ignorant racist and fascist fools for readers? How did "news for nerds" turn into this mess, where some snot gets listed for "5: insightful" for babbling, satirically, about "we should help everyone here first"?
Does that fool even know what percentage of the US budget NASA gets? I mean, anyone who pays attention *knows*, and it's not 30%. (And actually, adjusted for inflation, it's about 1/6th what we were spending during the Moon race.)
How many folks here have actually sent emails, called, or even, at town halls, even *spoken* to their Congresscritter or Senator? (Oooh, cooties, talk to a politician! Eeek!)
How the mighty have fallen.
mark, who has contacted his legislators in all three ways