try looking at opendns.com - just set your internet connection to use their DNS servers and you get pretty much what you're describing. you also get a much faster DNS lookup due to their purportedly massive caches.
i think he's talking about the fact you cant download software without an internet connection or with a very slow one. so that kind of craps on apt-get. the remedy is to have a linux distro that includes everything on CD like debian or whatever.
linux can do both though - it can have a nice GUI layer running on top of the text config files and commandline centric system.
it has the flexibility to be the best of both worlds - that's what Ubuntu is about - they're taking debian and putting nice layer of icing on top of it to make it a doddle to use. but it doesnt deactiviate the flexible complexity underneath.
imagine a car with a starter motor AND a hand crank. everybody's happy.
the answer to capitalism is to not have an economy at all. then recession doesn't need to be feared. now that we live in an age where anything anyone could possibly need can be mass manufactured with very little human labour involved it's no wonder that an artificial and ephemeral economy based on scarcity of goods and human labour is in such utter conflict with the reality of the world's resources and ecosystem.
read the FAQ at technocracy.org for some interesting insights.
it isnt some political party vying for people's support. its just a balanced and scientific analysis of what is required for human soceity to run at it's most effiecient.
i own my own small retail business, and i have to say irritating chancers who come in tutting at the prices of things (more than reasonable and never more than RRP) then ask for a couple quid off of two items that come to a total of about 7 quid can piss right off. I always happy to do a deal for genuinely valuable customers (which is the vast majority), and often spontaneously offer discounts to people making really nice purchases, just to make sure they are as happy as i am, but people who come in looking for things that have minor package damage just so they can get them cheap are met with indifference. Also, the "I've only got 5 quid" trick is painfully obvious and an outright insult to my intelligence and "customers" get a very direct response to that line of transparent manipulation.
Someone coming in cold looking for discounts is a red flag to me, because it just makes me feel that this particular customer is going to be really hard work, and every pissy little sale is going to be herculean battle of haggling and bluffery.
this would only matter if they plan to sell their processors to the public. if it's an inhouse supply chain they are developing then its not an issue. but it could be they have a need for something new and unique, rather than an x86 clone, since they have ready supply of those anyway. and if they do build something new and unique that other people have a use for, then perhaps they could market it externally.
and the other cool thing is, the next gen of media is usually 10x more capacious than the current one, so the number of individual media units decreases each time. i don't imagine your atari floppies occupy much of the capacity of a DVD:)
The most sensible solution to all these problems is to copy all you backups onto new media every year or two. That way you dont have to worry about media degradation, and also it gives your data every opportunity to migrate from potentially obsolete media to more current stuff.
How about an advert that shows someone's company being fined out of existance, or their home being raided, then says "Can't afford to pay for Microsoft Office? If Microsoft catch you with an unlicensed copy, it won't matter what you can afford."
Then have some Ubuntu-esque happy smiling people handing each other CDs or some schmaltzy crap like that, and say "OpenOffice.org will never cost a penny, and is free to download and share with whoever you want"
Then "Have a copy on us". then a download URL or whatever.
i really dont know the specifics, but perhaps sendfile performs other operations if you give it other parameters. or perhaps it is purely just about naming.
is there a winelib reimplementation of this that python could use? or could python use GCC or something (i dont know what im talking about so that might all be bollocks)
because this way, no one who was calling sendfile(2) has to change their code to call splice() instead. It just happens automatically, since any calls to sendfile(2) are forwarded to splice(). anyone wanting the benefit of splice() without the overhead of calling it through sendfile(2) can simply change their code to call splice() directly.
this way allows people to update their code to use the new faster routine, but also automatically picks up any stragglers that dont bother to update their code.
you assume slashdot is a hive mind. that post was made by an individual who may very well beleive what they spout, and it certainly doesnt infer any disingenuity to anyone who has voiced an opposing opinion on slashdot at any time in the past.
I think you must get modded down all the time because you dont really understand what you're on about. Evolution is an assumption, not a "belief". It is an assumption backed up by a hell of a lot of hard evidence. If a load of evidence showed up tomorrow that disproved evolution, it would be abandoned.
perhaps you want your private data located in your pocket, rather than outer mongolia. maybe you want to access this data on a PC that doesnt have bluetooth, or on which you arent allowed access to the USB or bluetooth ports. or perhaps you want to access it on a linux or Mac PC that wont interface with your phone for some reason. or maybe you dont want to access it on a PC at all, maybe you want to access it on something else that runs a web browser. or maybe someone at a pc somewhere out of range of your bluetooth wants to see your data.
the thing is you can have your data stored securely in your pocket, and allow anyone anywhere in the world to access it whenever you choose. the other way of doing this is to have a standard webserver whereever (outer mongolia) and use your phone to upload anything you want to share to the webserver then point people at that, but if you havent got access to a webserver, having one run on your phone seems pretty convenient.
you can store personal info and files on your phone, then when you go somewhere and want access to them on a random PC, all the PC needs is a net connection. you just connect your phone to the net, start your webserver, and surf to your phone's IP on the PC and presto, you can look at or copy off your stuff.
also with a little CGI interface util, you could make it so you can configure your phone via a web interface.
obviously you wouldnt leave your phone on 24/7 hosting a public website, that would be stupidly impratical on EVERY level.
Are any of these suggestions worth bothering with? who knows, but now someone has the choice if they want to.
Bespoke software is the best way to get software of a specific quality. Enter into a contract with a developer to produce a certain spec with certain quality and support requirements, for a specific price.
then you never know, both parties could agree to have it GPL'd and enjoy the benefits of OSS community input.
(3) The game, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors."
Who gets to decide if a game has sufficient artistic value? Surely this is entirely subjective? According to this cretinous rule kids arent allowed to buy a game if it isnt artistic enough.
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try looking at opendns.com - just set your internet connection to use their DNS servers and you get pretty much what you're describing. you also get a much faster DNS lookup due to their purportedly massive caches.
i think he's talking about the fact you cant download software without an internet connection or with a very slow one. so that kind of craps on apt-get. the remedy is to have a linux distro that includes everything on CD like debian or whatever.
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it has the flexibility to be the best of both worlds - that's what Ubuntu is about - they're taking debian and putting nice layer of icing on top of it to make it a doddle to use. but it doesnt deactiviate the flexible complexity underneath.
imagine a car with a starter motor AND a hand crank. everybody's happy.
read the FAQ at technocracy.org for some interesting insights.
it isnt some political party vying for people's support. its just a balanced and scientific analysis of what is required for human soceity to run at it's most effiecient.
Someone coming in cold looking for discounts is a red flag to me, because it just makes me feel that this particular customer is going to be really hard work, and every pissy little sale is going to be herculean battle of haggling and bluffery.
this would only matter if they plan to sell their processors to the public. if it's an inhouse supply chain they are developing then its not an issue. but it could be they have a need for something new and unique, rather than an x86 clone, since they have ready supply of those anyway. and if they do build something new and unique that other people have a use for, then perhaps they could market it externally.
and the other cool thing is, the next gen of media is usually 10x more capacious than the current one, so the number of individual media units decreases each time. i don't imagine your atari floppies occupy much of the capacity of a DVD :)
can you post a link to that thread, cos i cant find it on ubuntuforums
i never realised americans don't use the word treacle.
The most sensible solution to all these problems is to copy all you backups onto new media every year or two. That way you dont have to worry about media degradation, and also it gives your data every opportunity to migrate from potentially obsolete media to more current stuff.
Then have some Ubuntu-esque happy smiling people handing each other CDs or some schmaltzy crap like that, and say "OpenOffice.org will never cost a penny, and is free to download and share with whoever you want"
Then "Have a copy on us". then a download URL or whatever.
it's be ironic if he ended up working the counter at mcdonalds, because mcdonalds cash registers run SCO Unix.
i really dont know the specifics, but perhaps sendfile performs other operations if you give it other parameters. or perhaps it is purely just about naming.
is there a winelib reimplementation of this that python could use? or could python use GCC or something (i dont know what im talking about so that might all be bollocks)
this way allows people to update their code to use the new faster routine, but also automatically picks up any stragglers that dont bother to update their code.
you assume slashdot is a hive mind. that post was made by an individual who may very well beleive what they spout, and it certainly doesnt infer any disingenuity to anyone who has voiced an opposing opinion on slashdot at any time in the past.
I think you must get modded down all the time because you dont really understand what you're on about. Evolution is an assumption, not a "belief". It is an assumption backed up by a hell of a lot of hard evidence. If a load of evidence showed up tomorrow that disproved evolution, it would be abandoned.
that's an inspired username
the thing is you can have your data stored securely in your pocket, and allow anyone anywhere in the world to access it whenever you choose. the other way of doing this is to have a standard webserver whereever (outer mongolia) and use your phone to upload anything you want to share to the webserver then point people at that, but if you havent got access to a webserver, having one run on your phone seems pretty convenient.
also with a little CGI interface util, you could make it so you can configure your phone via a web interface.
obviously you wouldnt leave your phone on 24/7 hosting a public website, that would be stupidly impratical on EVERY level.
Are any of these suggestions worth bothering with? who knows, but now someone has the choice if they want to.
bah
what is with NASA? it must have occured to them - perhaps the article is just pointing out some obvious issues with the general problem.
then you never know, both parties could agree to have it GPL'd and enjoy the benefits of OSS community input.
Everybody wins.
Who gets to decide if a game has sufficient artistic value? Surely this is entirely subjective? According to this cretinous rule kids arent allowed to buy a game if it isnt artistic enough.