- Don't raze *too* much. Keep in mind the refugees from suburbia who will require housing when they stream back into the cities where the resources and commerce are.
- TFA states the razed areas will be "returned to nature". I hope that doesn't mean useless parks and ornamental landscaping. Community vegetable gardens would be much better.
- BE VIGILANT of the wealthy using this turmoil as a vehicle for amassing even more wealth in the form of land acquired at fire-sale prices, or through government seizures. High concentration of wealth BAD.
Your responses to the OP are truly bizarre and, frankly, creepy. How do you put a happy face on his analysis which, in my opinion, is largely correct? *Why* would you want to put a happy face on it?
In the corporate context, a "positive mental attitude" is a convenient tool of denial that keeps you engaged toward a goal regardless of your circumstances. This seems to be your mindset.
In the real world, sometimes you're better off recognizing an unpleasant reality for what it is. Tarting it up with feel-good slogans and rank falseness may make it more palatable to genteel sensibilities, but it's counterproductive and does nothing to prevent the same mistakes in the future.
I fixed the markup for you: <movie-trailer-voice>In a land, where MS is out of the evil enemy country, that you like to hurt, and where priacy still means people on boats, capturing ships.</movie-trailer-voice>
hocking a lugie onto white sands would probably have a huge positive effect on the net amount of flora/fauna there.
and if you want to fertilize a large area, you could just fertilize it, instead of sucking out the lungs of every living creature near ground zero, and incinerating them along with everything else there.
I work in a shop that is transitioning to agile processes, and I am curious as to whether I can make a case for pair programming on this angle. The article doesn't mention this, but I am curious what views the group might have to offer on pair-programming in terms of reduced slack.
FWIW, we've recently started pair-programming (and group-analysing and group-designing), and simply having another brain involved makes it a *much* more focused, and pleasant, process. even during non-paired times, i feel more engaged, because i'm reflecting on the conversation i've just had with another person, instead of the insular internal conversation one can sometimes get caught up in when working alone.
that said, i *still* need periodic breaks from work, and usually i spend that time on the internet. if the internet weren't here, rest assured it would still be spent on a magazine, daydreaming, or just shutting down like a replicant on "pause" until i feel ready to continue.
mental breaks from work are not only an unavoidable cost of doing business - they're an investment in quality work. turn an activity into a relentless bataan death-march and you can expect your workers eventually to not care less about the quality of product.
While I agree that people at high risk (of anything) should be charged more for insurance, health has too many variables to be able to accurately measure risk.
i don't agree with this at all. the point of insurance is to *distribute risk* across a large pool of people. once you start penalizing on risk factors, you have people with pre-existing conditions, certain genetic markers, etc. becoming "uninsurable", which for many of them means "you go die now".
"uninsurable" is a ridiculous term, IMHO - everyone is "insurable" - you simply give them coverage from the pool. yes, that means your rates go up somewhat - too bad. the important thing is that people are getting covered.
the stunning intrusion into people's personal lives is another issue altogether.
Available on OpenSolaris and FreeBSD (and being ported at least to NetBSD, AFAIK). Those are free software operating systems.
Your problem is that not everything fits in your little GNU/Linux box.
why, yes, actually, that is my problem. that's why i posted it - in anticipation of the inevitable "does (will) it run on linux?" questions. apparently, as a result of patents and licensing, the answer is "No".
'Alan Cox [interview] suggested, "the real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but Solaris is what they do to license it - they've patented everything they can, and made the code available only under licenses incompatible with other OS products. Their intent is quite clear, and quite sad. Compare it to what the old Sun company did with NFS, which is now a standard used everywhere."'
http://kerneltrap.org/node/8066
i've just recently started looking at centralizing my data at home. i've set up NFS to share a 3ware RAID array over gigabit ethernet, but every time i try to copy some serious volume to the server, i end up with some corrupted files on the receiving end and a dead NFS connection.
currently the server is some older possibly substandard hardware - that could be it - but i'm asking the more general question about NFS.
what does it take to get bullet-proof file sharing for linux clients? is opensolaris the answer? is it more reliable?
Somehow I don't think Microsoft is going to let India have *any* Windows product for free.
microsoft has show a peculiar interest in india over the last few years. they apparently view it as strategically important to maintaining their dominance, so i wouldn't be surprised if they "invested" some cash to reduce the likelihood that india will embrace free and open source software at the institutional level.
The way I see it you're pretty much boned either way. ATI/nVidia aren't going to give up the current approach, and Intel is only "freer" in the sense that it's undocumented, incomprehensible, vendor-supplied source code instead of an undocumented, incomprehensible, vensor-supplied binary.
i must say i think you see it wrong on both counts.
ATI/nVidia will ship open drivers if intel starts becoming Dell's favored graphics provider because it's more friendly with linux, as a result of intel's open drivers.
undocumented, incomprehensible vendor-supplied source code is infinitely preferable to a vendor-supplied binary, for obvious reasons.
In case you don't understand the difference between Debian and Ubuntu, allow me to explain it for you. Ubuntu is a project run by and for people who live above ground. As such, they don't foam at the mouth due to the idea of people using binary hardware drivers, and they also don't subscribe to a lot of Debian's other aberrant, regressive "philosophies" and attitudes, either. Shuttleworth has to pay official lip service to them occasionally, because as you say, unfortunately the development effort does consist of a few of the abovementioned troglodytes, and it's true that he does seem to care about not alienating them.
this is incredibly rude and uncalled for. the debian crew aren't "aberrant"; nor are their philosophies "regressive". if anything, they're *progressive*, and the ubuntu phenomenon is a welcome bridge between the realities of the present and the ideals of the future.
as for attitudes... ok, they have good days and bad days.:-)
fwiw, i use ubuntu on all my desktop/laptop machines, and debian on all my servers.
Yes. Except that there is no Free Market in Cuba. And that, even if there was, there is this little thing called U.S. mandated worldwide embargo on any Cuban export, so they couldn't benefit from it. Don't they teach those things there on history/geography classes?
don't get wise. if george washington didn't annex china during WWII, you'd all be speaking european right now.
His job is to say things like this. He's been saying this for over a decade. It's a lot of hot air.
his job is to continue to leverage his single stroke of phenomenal luck - being at the right place at the right time a few decades ago - to sustain the ongoing illusion to the unwashed masses that he is some kind of unparalleled genius, and by extension, that microsoft is the beginning and end of computing.
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- Don't raze *too* much. Keep in mind the refugees from suburbia who will require housing when they stream back into the cities where the resources and commerce are.
- TFA states the razed areas will be "returned to nature". I hope that doesn't mean useless parks and ornamental landscaping. Community vegetable gardens would be much better.
- BE VIGILANT of the wealthy using this turmoil as a vehicle for amassing even more wealth in the form of land acquired at fire-sale prices, or through government seizures. High concentration of wealth BAD.
Your responses to the OP are truly bizarre and, frankly, creepy. How do you put a happy face on his analysis which, in my opinion, is largely correct? *Why* would you want to put a happy face on it?
In the corporate context, a "positive mental attitude" is a convenient tool of denial that keeps you engaged toward a goal regardless of your circumstances. This seems to be your mindset.
In the real world, sometimes you're better off recognizing an unpleasant reality for what it is. Tarting it up with feel-good slogans and rank falseness may make it more palatable to genteel sensibilities, but it's counterproductive and does nothing to prevent the same mistakes in the future.
I fixed the markup for you:
<movie-trailer-voice>In a land, where MS is out of the evil enemy country, that you like to hurt, and where priacy still means people on boats, capturing ships.</movie-trailer-voice>
But not the typo. I don't do content.
http://www.geo.utexas.edu/courses/660/photo_gallery/99photos/Sacs/White_sands_trucks.jpg
hocking a lugie onto white sands would probably have a huge positive effect on the net amount of flora/fauna there.
and if you want to fertilize a large area, you could just fertilize it, instead of sucking out the lungs of every living creature near ground zero, and incinerating them along with everything else there.
FWIW, we've recently started pair-programming (and group-analysing and group-designing), and simply having another brain involved makes it a *much* more focused, and pleasant, process. even during non-paired times, i feel more engaged, because i'm reflecting on the conversation i've just had with another person, instead of the insular internal conversation one can sometimes get caught up in when working alone.
that said, i *still* need periodic breaks from work, and usually i spend that time on the internet. if the internet weren't here, rest assured it would still be spent on a magazine, daydreaming, or just shutting down like a replicant on "pause" until i feel ready to continue.
mental breaks from work are not only an unavoidable cost of doing business - they're an investment in quality work. turn an activity into a relentless bataan death-march and you can expect your workers eventually to not care less about the quality of product.
there is a daft punk video on youtube. it's a cartoon that blurs the backgrounds in a way that i don't imagine was practical until digital technology.
oh yeah? well, for every chicken you eat, i'm going to NOT eat FIFTY chickens.
give up now. you cannot win.
i don't agree with this at all. the point of insurance is to *distribute risk* across a large pool of people. once you start penalizing on risk factors, you have people with pre-existing conditions, certain genetic markers, etc. becoming "uninsurable", which for many of them means "you go die now".
"uninsurable" is a ridiculous term, IMHO - everyone is "insurable" - you simply give them coverage from the pool. yes, that means your rates go up somewhat - too bad. the important thing is that people are getting covered.
the stunning intrusion into people's personal lives is another issue altogether.
how in the *hell* are employers able to get and use an employee's medical information in such a way? truly, this is evil.
why, system76 of course: http://www.system76.com/
Your problem is that not everything fits in your little GNU/Linux box.
why, yes, actually, that is my problem. that's why i posted it - in anticipation of the inevitable "does (will) it run on linux?" questions. apparently, as a result of patents and licensing, the answer is "No".
'Alan Cox [interview] suggested, "the real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but Solaris is what they do to license it - they've patented everything they can, and made the code available only under licenses incompatible with other OS products. Their intent is quite clear, and quite sad. Compare it to what the old Sun company did with NFS, which is now a standard used everywhere."' http://kerneltrap.org/node/8066
i've just recently started looking at centralizing my data at home. i've set up NFS to share a 3ware RAID array over gigabit ethernet, but every time i try to copy some serious volume to the server, i end up with some corrupted files on the receiving end and a dead NFS connection.
currently the server is some older possibly substandard hardware - that could be it - but i'm asking the more general question about NFS.
what does it take to get bullet-proof file sharing for linux clients? is opensolaris the answer? is it more reliable?
and the only thing even more depressing than that is one with chair-marks on his face.
...Free Software movement claims bill hilf is dead. say hello to nietzche for us.
and the gloves are off!
...that double-spacing has been patented?
when i posted this comment, the only tag associated with the article was "google". really? that's the only tag this story deserves?
microsoft has show a peculiar interest in india over the last few years. they apparently view it as strategically important to maintaining their dominance, so i wouldn't be surprised if they "invested" some cash to reduce the likelihood that india will embrace free and open source software at the institutional level.
i must say i think you see it wrong on both counts.
ATI/nVidia will ship open drivers if intel starts becoming Dell's favored graphics provider because it's more friendly with linux, as a result of intel's open drivers.
undocumented, incomprehensible vendor-supplied source code is infinitely preferable to a vendor-supplied binary, for obvious reasons.
this is incredibly rude and uncalled for. the debian crew aren't "aberrant"; nor are their philosophies "regressive". if anything, they're *progressive*, and the ubuntu phenomenon is a welcome bridge between the realities of the present and the ideals of the future.
as for attitudes... ok, they have good days and bad days. :-)
fwiw, i use ubuntu on all my desktop/laptop machines, and debian on all my servers.
don't get wise. if george washington didn't annex china during WWII, you'd all be speaking european right now.
the sleeper activates...
unless "services" address this, there will be resistance. maybe not if you're buying used stuff at estate sales and selling it on ebay, but...
his job is to continue to leverage his single stroke of phenomenal luck - being at the right place at the right time a few decades ago - to sustain the ongoing illusion to the unwashed masses that he is some kind of unparalleled genius, and by extension, that microsoft is the beginning and end of computing.