Actually, given the X25-M's lack of TRIM support, using a log-structured filesystem, a write-anywhere filesystem, or a copy-on-write type system is actually a really bad use of the X25-M, since the X25-M will think the entire disk is in use. The X25-M is actually implemented to optimize for filesystems that reuse blocks as much as possible, since it is internally doing the equivalent of a log-structured filesystem to do wear leveling.
Interesting. My understanding is that HFS+ meets these requirements pretty well - would the X25-M be a good choice for a Macintosh system?
Yes, stringing them up would be a simplistic, brutal reversion to the dark ages. But maybe that is the point? These people undermined the law itself, and I believe that is as serious as treason. While I would not sentence them to death myself, I wouldn't shed a tear if their heads ended up on spikes outside the county court.
Yup, that is the point. To put it simply: fuck these people. They imprisoned children for profit. Hang 'em.
And that will undo everything, will it? All those kids will be A-OK again?
Nope. It won't undo anything. But it'll make me feel way better. And the next time a judge thinks about pulling some shit like this, maybe he'll recall this guy hanging from his neck until dead.
That answer does not address the question. The question asked for a specific "serious economist or capitalist", not a generic "school."
Is there a specific person representing this "Austrian school" who is quoted in a reliable source as saying that no action was a valid alternative?
Peter Schiff is an adherent to Austrian economics, the president of Euro Pacific Capital, and he says we should have let the banks go bankrupt. You know, like other unprofitable businesses.
He also predicted this entire crisis (with stunning accuracy) at least 2 years ago. You know, when the democrats were supposed to do something about it?
You don't know what you're fucking talking about, and I find you offensive.
Same to you, buddy.
I've had cops burst into my house at 2AM without a warrant claiming the back door was open (it wasn't). Wasn't charged with anything, just made to look like a criminal in front of my neighbors. Oh, sure, it's illegal, but I was 20 at the time and having a hard time making rent - do you think I had the cash to take them to court? I've seen a guy get the shit beaten out of him (in plain view of a bunch of civilians) and charged with assault for kissing his girlfriend before getting booked in. I've seen cops tase a homeless man RUTHLESSLY (5-10x) while he was SLEEPING. The kicker? When they stopped, the homeless guy got up and gave them a pretty severe beating.
Maybe you have some fantasy wherein the policeman is a humble, nice guy, but that's a damn lie and you know it. You want facts? How about some video?
I didn't link to the mentally challenged polish guy getting tased to death, because I don't really like watching it. I didn't link to the guy getting tased for asking John Kerry a question, either, because everyone has seen it 30 times.
These took me about 2 minutes to come up with. And this is just a tiny percentage of the stuff that is caught on tape! I could make this 20 pages long if you'd like to see some news items.
I guess since you were a cop, you're used to your anecdotes being taken at face value and modded to +5 insightful, but I still think you're full of shit. Maybe you'd like to show some evidence that police brutality ISN'T a widespread concern?
...that is, unless you don't know what you're fucking talking about.
I tend to agree with the other poster who mentioned Counterstrike.
I'll take it a step further, though, and say this: I believe game development by mom & pop shops is about to enter a golden age.
High quality open source engines like Cube 2 (as well as many others) and a greater emphasis on procedural content generation (I give it a year or two before high quality open source libraries for this are available) will enable small developers to take advantage of these (somewhat insane!) hardware capabilities. You don't need ridiculous poly counts to have great gameplay, the Wii has proved that beyond any doubt. The open source world is very well equipped to provide small developers with huge sets of textures and models under licenses (e.g., creative commons) that will enable awesome things that we can't even imagine yet. I believe we will end up with more open gaming platforms as a result of these developments.
In short, no offense, and maybe I'm just an optimist, but I think you're 100% wrong;)
If you need to stop and bounce an idea off of slashdot, you don't have what it takes for marketing. And you are a better person for it.
Man, I see this sorta sentiment a lot. Yeah, cheesy used car salesman style marketing is lame, but what is Google? A marketing company!
Marketing is (obviously) an area where there's still a *lot* of room for highly disruptive technology, and, imo, this means us Slashdotters shouldn't take it for granted as an interesting field. There is a great deal of very interesting stuff to learn about human nature and most of it can be applied very successfully in our personal and professional lives. It's a lucrative discipline that will never go out of style, and I think that any Comp. Sci. type would be well served by taking an interest in it.
Also unclear is who was responsible for the server that was attacked, and why PIN codes, which are supposed to be transmitted only in encrypted form, were vulnerable. An FBI affidavit in the case blames a Citibank-owned server responsible for processing transactions from 7-Eleven convenience stores.
I've thought about this before. In rural areas, I've noticed that you can hear the ATMs dialing up to contact the bank servers... it seems like you could put a recording device on the line, then grab the device and decrypt it later at your leisure (linmodems seem like they could be useful for this, just pipe from/dev/dsp maybe?)
Given this break, it seems kinda obvious that there isn't *extremely* strong encryption on the line, and can't 128-bit SSL be broken in realtime by commercially available devices nowadays? Hmm, brb, bugging 7-11.
To sum my point, so-called "bad boys" that women like are skilled social manipulators that pull no punches. They probably are impressed by that, although this person has few desirable traits, people seem to like him, and also he gets what he wants by asserting social dominance through being well-liked.
This is *precisely* what's going on, and this has been well explored in the pickup artist community!
As it turns out, one of the most renowned pickup artists in the world is a pretty big geek, and likes to use evolutionary explanations to describe the process of attraction between males and females. He calls himself Mystery.
Value in the context of mating means survival and replication value. Men have survival value to women, and women have replication value to men. Appropriate hip to waist ratio, facial symmetry, etc -- we can't help what we're attracted to, it's just built in. Women are the same way. Here are the attributes they look for in a man:
Leader of men
Preselected by women
Functional emotional circuitry
Protector of loved ones
Successful risk taker
A tribal leader. Someone who leads their circle of friends (tribe) and has alignments that will help ensure survival. Someone who is either actually preselected by women or conveys that subtly via stories and mannerisms. Someone who is willing to display a range of emotion where applicable (i.e., when telling a story, emote along with it). Someone who conveys a willingness and ability to defend their loved ones. And someone who is able to take risks and win.
Once attraction is established, it's mostly a war of pavlovian conditioning between mates until the you achieve a mutually beneficial behavioral equilibrium -- or she gets wasted on Xanax and fucks your best friend in the back seat of your 1976 Ford LTD while you're parked at Shoe Carnival, causing you to go through a year-long bout of depression following their engagement and subsequent marriage.
To sum up my point, I'm now a huge fan of fuel efficient, short-wheelbase vehicles for a variety of economic and pragmatic reasons.
That is exactly what we did in World War 2. It is why it ended in only six years.
Who is this we? You got a mouse in your pocket? Are you an American? I hate to break it to you, but the Russians broke Germany. They saved Europe. They took Berlin. And do you think China couldn't have resisted Japan themselves? In a thousand years they'd never have taken control of mainland China. The Chinese outnumbered them to such a degree that they could have, in a pinch, engaged them with spears and assorted small arms and won. Don't kid yourself. The United States Army could have stayed at home, prepared a navy capable of engaging the rest of the world combined, developed the nuke, and saved many American lives.
Wars only end when one side loses the stomach to fight it. That is done by demoralizing the populace which supports it.
As an American, I know which side of this conflict this quote applies to most. It's us. My family has a history of military service going back to the civil war and probably further, and I've yet to see them more demoralized or disgusted by a conflict. I'm talking about the sort of people who, during Waco, were seriously prepared (and, I think, hoping) for a widespread armed rebellion. This community is absolutely livid, and I can't say that I blame them. Gas is $4/gallon, and I realize that this doesn't seem insane to people out on the west coast or other high income areas, but I'm in rural Kentucky. People are scrapping aluminum barbecue grills to put gas in their cars. It's not pretty, and I don't foresee it improving much any time soon. I don't think most people appreciate how quickly things could get very fucking ugly in rural America -- but we may find out pretty soon.
Are you suggesting the world ignore Iran's leadership constant threats to wipe Israel off the face of the earth all the while telling the UN to bugger off when it comes to their nuclear program?
YES. That is precisely what I'm suggesting. Fuck Israel. They can take care of themselves. If Iran engages them and instigates a conflict, we will have every right to escalate, and there's no doubt in my mind that they would cease to exist not in a figurative as-a-sovereign-entity sense, but rather in the literal radioactive desert wasteland devoid of life sense -- within hours, if not minutes. And it'd be their own fault.
Sheesh, how many people must die before it becomes okay to act. When will people realize that proactive actions will cost lives too but more likely less than in the long run. Why is it okay to suggest intervention in darfar or zimbabwe but not somewhere else? Who decides which is which? What about Burma. I guess its okay to let nearly a quarter million die because we need to mind our own goddamn business.
It is. We can't apply our morality subjectively to anyone's satisfaction, so we should do it objectively, and simply stay at home unless overtly attacked -- and even then, we shouldn't go to war unless there is a real and legitimate threat to our sovereignty. It's fine to have a strong national defense, and I advocate that, but as far as I'm concerned, a quarter million in Darfur isn't worth even one of my countrymen.
Well we are doing it and they are still dieing. You can't win, you can only make losing less painful. Minding our own goddamn business doomed hundreds of thousands to death during the Hutsi/Tutsi fighting, millions are starving in Darfar, and how many hundreds of thousand do we not know about in Burma.
If they don't have the will to organize and resist effectively, fuck 'em. As a thought experiment, put Kentucky or Tennessee in the middle of Darfur or Burma and imagine the contrast. Faced with the prospect of genocide, do you think American men would simply allow their families to be slaughtered wholesale by a bunch of podunk 'revolutionaries' with AK-47s? In
I agree that the types of experiences are different, and it's good that you point it out. Essentially, my beef with X11 style forwarding is that there's never been a killer app for it. XDMCP takes a backseat to the screen-esque experience of rdesktop, and I just don't know of any *nix applications that are seriously worth using over a network link, particularly when the possibility exists of me losing work when the link goes down.
This has been exacerbated by the comeuppance of genuinely usable web applications -- sure, they kinda suck now, but in terms of delivering applications over the network, that's the future, period. I really agree with the anonymous coward who got modded down. Other than novelty value and it being what most *nix folks are used to, I just don't see the point of X11 style forwarding nowadays, and XDMCP is relatively useless for the reasons outlined above.
I realize this is offtopic, but what do you feel is the 'killer app' that takes advantage of the X protocol? Why couldn't it be done as a simple client/server app?
Remote desktop is just better [EDIT: than X11]. Vastly more usable on low-bandwidth (or high latency) links and when your session drops out for some reason you can reconnect and not have lost everything you were working on.
It's this kind of simple, obvious, in-your-face observation that the OSS community seems to be constitutionally incapable of making. I can't understand it. I come here, and I see everyone talking about the inherent technological superiority of the Linux GUI system, and how great X11 is, but as far as I know, there's nothing that even approaches the functionality of Remote Desktop. It's like screen meets XDMCP, except it's actually usable over real internet connections and doesn't require a PhD to use.
And, seriously, resizing windows is just broken with AIGLX. It doesn't work at anywhere near acceptable speeds. If Windows or OSX shipped it, they'd be relentlessly attacked. I kid you not: with Firefox 3, you can get better resizing performance on OSX with acceleration completely turned off. You can talk all you'd like about how it's a toolkit issue and there's actually, blah blah blah. It's broken. Not to mention the horrific screen tearing, etc. It's just nowhere near production quality, sorry.
"Jaaksi admitted that concepts like these 'go against the open-source philosophy,' but said they were necessary components of the current mobile industry. 'Why do we need closed vehicles? We do,'
I read this, and interpret it as this:
"Jaaksi admitted that going 140mph in a 55mph zone 'goes against the public safety philosophy,' but said it was a necessary component of his fast-paced business lifestyle. 'Why do I need to do 140mph? I do,'
To paraphrase Neil Stephenson, back in high school, being a nerd was a horrible faux pas, but nowadays, it's something else entirely...
The root of most guys' frustration with the fairer sex is that they feel they have something to offer, but don't know how to convey that. Guess what? If you genuinely feel you have something to offer, you do.
All of the nerds I know, without exception, are articulate, sensitive, intelligent guys who'd not only make first-class providers but would also defend their loved ones to the death if that were what the situation called for -- and I bet most of the guys here fit that bill, too.
Gentlemen, if you show these qualities to women indirectly without being self-conscious, unconfident, or needy, women will consider it a privilege to be part of your life. I shit you not.
Our nerdy forebears were the ones who built this modern world! It was nerds who created the Constitution of the United States of America. It was nerds who unleashed the power of the atom. It was nerds who created our communications infrastructure. It was nerds who designed all of those amazing cars and engines. It was nerds who won the battle of Midway. I could go on, but I think you get the point.
If you examine the pickup artist community, you'll find that nearly all of the guys at the top are NERDS! They're talking about neuro-linguistic programming, straight out of Snow Crash! The same objective, rigorous analysis you apply elsewhere will work just as well on your sex life!
So can we put to death this notion that nerds will never succeed with women? It's just completely untrue. The things we all find interesting ARE interesting! Forget high school. Nerds don't just have power, they create it from nothing. Nerds put all of the knowledge of humanity at the fingertips of the world, and they didn't even charge for it. Nerds don't just change the world, they turn the fucking thing upside down and get rich while doing it.
Nerds are the inheritors of the greatest legacy of our species.
It's not much more difficult than configuring SSH and using X, and it allows you to use the full feature set of skype (it seems pointless to use it given that as described there's no way you can use voice), plus learning how to configure this will enable you to bypass firewalls for other applications in the future. Wins all around.
I'll give you a real-world example: I want to run skype, and am behind a firewall
SSH tunnel. NEXT!
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Ahhh, because Windows' display manager is truly amazing.
It is. The amazing thing about it is that even with a technologically subpar product (on paper), they still kick the living shit out of Linux in terms of responsiveness and usefulness. Here's a quick test: turn on 3D acceleration and use AIGLX on any card that supports 3D acceleration (we can limit ourselves to directX 10 cards to compare evenly with Vista). Open up firefox. Resize it. Watch in dismay as your much vaunted technological superiority falls flat on it's face.
You know what's really sad about Vista? The biggest flop that Microsoft has made in the past decade is still objectively better than any Linux distribution at this simple task. Go ahead, try it.
Now, let me just open an application on another machine, and show it on this one's X server... hmmm... what's that - I need to be running Windows 2008 Server, and have a terminal server license?
Network transparency is essentially useless. Why is it useless? Because there aren't any applications worth running remotely to get the benefit of increased processing power that would be usable over a network connection. Those you would run (heh, xeyes) would be best served if developed as as a client/server app. My laptop has a 2.3ghz dual core processor. Thin client computing sucks. It sucked in the 80s, it sucked in the 90s, and it sucks now.
Why don't you give me a REAL WORLD example of a showstopping application that you run that takes advantage of X's "network transparency" so I can laugh and point at 10 better ways to solve your problems on both Linux and OS X?
How about running multiple display managers, so that I can have more then one person using the machine with seperate monitors and input... no. Thought not.
How about justifying the need to do this when dual core multi-ghz laptops cost $500 new with a warranty? This is, for lack of a better word, retarded.
It's not 1990, and even if it were, X sucked then.
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I'd say all the old, device-dependent xfree86 code is to blame for most of the needless complexity
I agree 100%. I'm not an Xorg developer, but recently I put together a hackintosh and started playing with developing a framebuffer driver for my old Radeon X1400 Mobility. Comparing IOPCIDevice and IOFramebuffer with libpciaccess is night and day.
Firstly, and I don't really mean to be insulting here, but libpciaccess just sucks. It's a step in the right direction, but comparing this with IOPCIDevice is... well, it just doesn't speak well for the open source world. The API documentation tells the story pretty well. This is a stable API that hasn't changed in a good, long while. And why should it? It does everything you need to do to speak with a PCI device, it's easy to understand, and it works.
Secondly, IOFramebuffer. Again, an API that hasn't changed in a good, long while. It's simple, it publishes a framebuffer and lets everyone go on with their business. It completely separates modesetting and the publishing of a framebuffer from acceleration. This is a huge win.
The IOAccelerator header docs aren't published, but given what we've seen so far, we can infer that it's clean, it hasn't changed in a while, and it works. Why can't we have this sort of fundamental cleanliness accepted in the open source world? I feel like this stuff is about a decade ahead of Linux.
And the X protocol itself? Well, it sucks. I have an 802.11g network here at home, and X sessions are completely unusable over it. This is failure. It is abject, complete, utter failure. We're not talking long distances, we're talking both machines and the router all within 20 feet of each other. With compression, without compression, over ssh, not over ssh: FAIL. This is a common modern use case, gentlemen. If the X protocol fails it on a wireless home network, what the fuck is the point of it? Xlib is an anachronism. It is the single shittiest piece of the GUI development stack on Linux, and there's plenty of fail to go around. Ditch this bullshit, I beg you.
Follow the Apple model, provide a simple VESA modesetting driver and a software renderer and ship the fucking thing. Why has no one looked at the preeminent operating system for graphics professionals an said "hey, maybe these guys know what the hell they're doing? and omg, some of this stuff seems to be open source!" - I'll tell you why, not invented here syndrome. Those macfaggots created it and fuck them, we'll show 'em good with our 1980s network protocol and 600 pages of completely unreadable API documentation (joke's on you, it's out of date anyways!). How's that working out?
This unholy mess needs to be fixed if Linux is going to stand any real chance on the desktop.
I say we nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
P.S., I know this seems critical but I hope it's interpreted as constructive. In case it isn't, props to the Xegl crew, David Airlied, and the whole RadeonHD team. You guys made a driver for a wide range of modern hardware that basically anyone (if I can, you can) can read through and get an understanding of pretty easily. No simple feat. A lot of truy extraordinary developers have contributed a lot to X, and I salute their efforts and could never hope to be half the programmer that they are, but I recognize that there's only so much lipstick you can put on this pig.
Pretty funny to drive past Chevy Suburbans in the ditch during blizzards
Yes, there is a certain irony there -- the beauty of it is that the very same things that make the SUV so appealing also make it horrible in low traction conditions.
Horrible weight distribution
Wide tires (225+mm) are NOT what you want on snow/ice.
Tons of low end torque encourages wheel slip
High center of gravity encourages the thing to roll when you get loose (and you will)
Center differential is typically not limited slip and almost always chain-driven, meaning
that power often won't be transferred to the appropriate set of wheels when stuck, and if you DO
suddenly hook up, the chain will probably snap (because you're making 300+ft-lbs!).
OP is 100% correct. A Subaru with those un-manly 195mm tires, near-perfect 50-50 weight distribution, linear torque curve (i.e., the opposite of your typical V8 flat delivery, 80% of peak before 2000rpm ), low COG, and limited slip center differential is a much, much safer vehicle for low-traction conditions, and requires a lot less skill and attention to drive.
And if you ARE a good driver, most SUVs don't come with manual transmissions (even optionally), which are well suited for low traction conditions (again, in skilled hands). Personally, I want to completely control the amount of power going to the ground via the clutch and throttle, and that control is something I wouldn't be without when entrusted with the safety of my family and friends in bad weather.
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Interesting. My understanding is that HFS+ meets these requirements pretty well - would the X25-M be a good choice for a Macintosh system?
Yup, that is the point. To put it simply: fuck these people. They imprisoned children for profit . Hang 'em.
Nope. It won't undo anything. But it'll make me feel way better. And the next time a judge thinks about pulling some shit like this, maybe he'll recall this guy hanging from his neck until dead.
Peter Schiff is an adherent to Austrian economics, the president of Euro Pacific Capital, and he says we should have let the banks go bankrupt. You know, like other unprofitable businesses.
He also predicted this entire crisis (with stunning accuracy) at least 2 years ago. You know, when the democrats were supposed to do something about it?
Same to you, buddy.
I've had cops burst into my house at 2AM without a warrant claiming the back door was open (it wasn't). Wasn't charged with anything, just made to look like a criminal in front of my neighbors. Oh, sure, it's illegal, but I was 20 at the time and having a hard time making rent - do you think I had the cash to take them to court? I've seen a guy get the shit beaten out of him (in plain view of a bunch of civilians) and charged with assault for kissing his girlfriend before getting booked in. I've seen cops tase a homeless man RUTHLESSLY (5-10x) while he was SLEEPING. The kicker? When they stopped, the homeless guy got up and gave them a pretty severe beating.
Maybe you have some fantasy wherein the policeman is a humble, nice guy, but that's a damn lie and you know it. You want facts? How about some video?
I didn't link to the mentally challenged polish guy getting tased to death, because I don't really like watching it. I didn't link to the guy getting tased for asking John Kerry a question, either, because everyone has seen it 30 times.
These took me about 2 minutes to come up with. And this is just a tiny percentage of the stuff that is caught on tape! I could make this 20 pages long if you'd like to see some news items.
I guess since you were a cop, you're used to your anecdotes being taken at face value and modded to +5 insightful, but I still think you're full of shit. Maybe you'd like to show some evidence that police brutality ISN'T a widespread concern?
...that is, unless you don't know what you're fucking talking about.
It appears that you are advocating a common sense approach to solving a legitimate problem.
Why do you hate America?
I tend to agree with the other poster who mentioned Counterstrike.
I'll take it a step further, though, and say this: I believe game development by mom & pop shops is about to enter a golden age.
High quality open source engines like Cube 2 (as well as many others) and a greater emphasis on procedural content generation (I give it a year or two before high quality open source libraries for this are available) will enable small developers to take advantage of these (somewhat insane!) hardware capabilities. You don't need ridiculous poly counts to have great gameplay, the Wii has proved that beyond any doubt. The open source world is very well equipped to provide small developers with huge sets of textures and models under licenses (e.g., creative commons) that will enable awesome things that we can't even imagine yet. I believe we will end up with more open gaming platforms as a result of these developments.
In short, no offense, and maybe I'm just an optimist, but I think you're 100% wrong ;)
Wrong!
If they put a shock collar on me, I'd blow the damn plane up on general principle.
Man, I see this sorta sentiment a lot. Yeah, cheesy used car salesman style marketing is lame, but what is Google? A marketing company!
Marketing is (obviously) an area where there's still a *lot* of room for highly disruptive technology, and, imo, this means us Slashdotters shouldn't take it for granted as an interesting field. There is a great deal of very interesting stuff to learn about human nature and most of it can be applied very successfully in our personal and professional lives. It's a lucrative discipline that will never go out of style, and I think that any Comp. Sci. type would be well served by taking an interest in it.
I've thought about this before. In rural areas, I've noticed that you can hear the ATMs dialing up to contact the bank servers... it seems like you could put a recording device on the line, then grab the device and decrypt it later at your leisure (linmodems seem like they could be useful for this, just pipe from /dev/dsp maybe?)
Given this break, it seems kinda obvious that there isn't *extremely* strong encryption on the line, and can't 128-bit SSL be broken in realtime by commercially available devices nowadays? Hmm, brb, bugging 7-11.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned MegaSquirt yet.
Very functional, do-it-yourself fuel injection system that can be used on nearly any motor. Build your own go-kart, anyone?
This is *precisely* what's going on, and this has been well explored in the pickup artist community!
As it turns out, one of the most renowned pickup artists in the world is a pretty big geek, and likes to use evolutionary explanations to describe the process of attraction between males and females. He calls himself Mystery.
Value in the context of mating means survival and replication value. Men have survival value to women, and women have replication value to men. Appropriate hip to waist ratio, facial symmetry, etc -- we can't help what we're attracted to, it's just built in. Women are the same way. Here are the attributes they look for in a man:
A tribal leader. Someone who leads their circle of friends (tribe) and has alignments that will help ensure survival. Someone who is either actually preselected by women or conveys that subtly via stories and mannerisms. Someone who is willing to display a range of emotion where applicable (i.e., when telling a story, emote along with it). Someone who conveys a willingness and ability to defend their loved ones. And someone who is able to take risks and win.
Once attraction is established, it's mostly a war of pavlovian conditioning between mates until the you achieve a mutually beneficial behavioral equilibrium -- or she gets wasted on Xanax and fucks your best friend in the back seat of your 1976 Ford LTD while you're parked at Shoe Carnival, causing you to go through a year-long bout of depression following their engagement and subsequent marriage.
To sum up my point, I'm now a huge fan of fuel efficient, short-wheelbase vehicles for a variety of economic and pragmatic reasons.
Why do you hate America?
Who is this we? You got a mouse in your pocket? Are you an American? I hate to break it to you, but the Russians broke Germany. They saved Europe. They took Berlin. And do you think China couldn't have resisted Japan themselves? In a thousand years they'd never have taken control of mainland China. The Chinese outnumbered them to such a degree that they could have, in a pinch, engaged them with spears and assorted small arms and won. Don't kid yourself. The United States Army could have stayed at home, prepared a navy capable of engaging the rest of the world combined, developed the nuke, and saved many American lives.
As an American, I know which side of this conflict this quote applies to most. It's us. My family has a history of military service going back to the civil war and probably further, and I've yet to see them more demoralized or disgusted by a conflict. I'm talking about the sort of people who, during Waco, were seriously prepared (and, I think, hoping) for a widespread armed rebellion. This community is absolutely livid, and I can't say that I blame them. Gas is $4/gallon, and I realize that this doesn't seem insane to people out on the west coast or other high income areas, but I'm in rural Kentucky. People are scrapping aluminum barbecue grills to put gas in their cars. It's not pretty, and I don't foresee it improving much any time soon. I don't think most people appreciate how quickly things could get very fucking ugly in rural America -- but we may find out pretty soon.
YES. That is precisely what I'm suggesting. Fuck Israel. They can take care of themselves. If Iran engages them and instigates a conflict, we will have every right to escalate, and there's no doubt in my mind that they would cease to exist not in a figurative as-a-sovereign-entity sense, but rather in the literal radioactive desert wasteland devoid of life sense -- within hours, if not minutes. And it'd be their own fault.
It is. We can't apply our morality subjectively to anyone's satisfaction, so we should do it objectively, and simply stay at home unless overtly attacked -- and even then, we shouldn't go to war unless there is a real and legitimate threat to our sovereignty. It's fine to have a strong national defense, and I advocate that, but as far as I'm concerned, a quarter million in Darfur isn't worth even one of my countrymen.
If they don't have the will to organize and resist effectively, fuck 'em. As a thought experiment, put Kentucky or Tennessee in the middle of Darfur or Burma and imagine the contrast. Faced with the prospect of genocide, do you think American men would simply allow their families to be slaughtered wholesale by a bunch of podunk 'revolutionaries' with AK-47s? In
I agree that the types of experiences are different, and it's good that you point it out. Essentially, my beef with X11 style forwarding is that there's never been a killer app for it. XDMCP takes a backseat to the screen-esque experience of rdesktop, and I just don't know of any *nix applications that are seriously worth using over a network link, particularly when the possibility exists of me losing work when the link goes down.
This has been exacerbated by the comeuppance of genuinely usable web applications -- sure, they kinda suck now, but in terms of delivering applications over the network, that's the future, period. I really agree with the anonymous coward who got modded down. Other than novelty value and it being what most *nix folks are used to, I just don't see the point of X11 style forwarding nowadays, and XDMCP is relatively useless for the reasons outlined above.
I realize this is offtopic, but what do you feel is the 'killer app' that takes advantage of the X protocol? Why couldn't it be done as a simple client/server app?
It's this kind of simple, obvious, in-your-face observation that the OSS community seems to be constitutionally incapable of making. I can't understand it. I come here, and I see everyone talking about the inherent technological superiority of the Linux GUI system, and how great X11 is, but as far as I know, there's nothing that even approaches the functionality of Remote Desktop. It's like screen meets XDMCP, except it's actually usable over real internet connections and doesn't require a PhD to use.
And, seriously, resizing windows is just broken with AIGLX. It doesn't work at anywhere near acceptable speeds. If Windows or OSX shipped it, they'd be relentlessly attacked. I kid you not: with Firefox 3, you can get better resizing performance on OSX with acceleration completely turned off. You can talk all you'd like about how it's a toolkit issue and there's actually, blah blah blah. It's broken. Not to mention the horrific screen tearing, etc. It's just nowhere near production quality, sorry.
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How much is it?
Man, maybe I'm a terrible person, but I absolutely love these kinda scams.
Every time I see something like this, I really wish I'd thought of it.
I read this, and interpret it as this:
I love this guy.
To paraphrase Neil Stephenson, back in high school, being a nerd was a horrible faux pas, but nowadays, it's something else entirely...
The root of most guys' frustration with the fairer sex is that they feel they have something to offer, but don't know how to convey that. Guess what? If you genuinely feel you have something to offer, you do.
All of the nerds I know, without exception, are articulate, sensitive, intelligent guys who'd not only make first-class providers but would also defend their loved ones to the death if that were what the situation called for -- and I bet most of the guys here fit that bill, too.
Gentlemen, if you show these qualities to women indirectly without being self-conscious, unconfident, or needy, women will consider it a privilege to be part of your life. I shit you not.
Our nerdy forebears were the ones who built this modern world! It was nerds who created the Constitution of the United States of America. It was nerds who unleashed the power of the atom. It was nerds who created our communications infrastructure. It was nerds who designed all of those amazing cars and engines. It was nerds who won the battle of Midway. I could go on, but I think you get the point.
If you examine the pickup artist community, you'll find that nearly all of the guys at the top are NERDS! They're talking about neuro-linguistic programming, straight out of Snow Crash! The same objective, rigorous analysis you apply elsewhere will work just as well on your sex life!
So can we put to death this notion that nerds will never succeed with women? It's just completely untrue. The things we all find interesting ARE interesting! Forget high school. Nerds don't just have power, they create it from nothing. Nerds put all of the knowledge of humanity at the fingertips of the world, and they didn't even charge for it. Nerds don't just change the world, they turn the fucking thing upside down and get rich while doing it.
Nerds are the inheritors of the greatest legacy of our species.
So start acting like it!
The meek shall inherit the earth ;)
Uhm, the same way you figured out how to use X? Google?
3rd result for 'skype ssh tunnel' - Right here.
It's not much more difficult than configuring SSH and using X, and it allows you to use the full feature set of skype (it seems pointless to use it given that as described there's no way you can use voice), plus learning how to configure this will enable you to bypass firewalls for other applications in the future. Wins all around.
It is. The amazing thing about it is that even with a technologically subpar product (on paper), they still kick the living shit out of Linux in terms of responsiveness and usefulness. Here's a quick test: turn on 3D acceleration and use AIGLX on any card that supports 3D acceleration (we can limit ourselves to directX 10 cards to compare evenly with Vista). Open up firefox. Resize it. Watch in dismay as your much vaunted technological superiority falls flat on it's face.
You know what's really sad about Vista? The biggest flop that Microsoft has made in the past decade is still objectively better than any Linux distribution at this simple task. Go ahead, try it.
Network transparency is essentially useless. Why is it useless? Because there aren't any applications worth running remotely to get the benefit of increased processing power that would be usable over a network connection. Those you would run (heh, xeyes) would be best served if developed as as a client/server app. My laptop has a 2.3ghz dual core processor. Thin client computing sucks. It sucked in the 80s, it sucked in the 90s, and it sucks now.
Why don't you give me a REAL WORLD example of a showstopping application that you run that takes advantage of X's "network transparency" so I can laugh and point at 10 better ways to solve your problems on both Linux and OS X?
I agree 100%. I'm not an Xorg developer, but recently I put together a hackintosh and started playing with developing a framebuffer driver for my old Radeon X1400 Mobility. Comparing IOPCIDevice and IOFramebuffer with libpciaccess is night and day.
Firstly, and I don't really mean to be insulting here, but libpciaccess just sucks. It's a step in the right direction, but comparing this with IOPCIDevice is... well, it just doesn't speak well for the open source world. The API documentation tells the story pretty well. This is a stable API that hasn't changed in a good, long while. And why should it? It does everything you need to do to speak with a PCI device, it's easy to understand, and it works.
Secondly, IOFramebuffer. Again, an API that hasn't changed in a good, long while. It's simple, it publishes a framebuffer and lets everyone go on with their business. It completely separates modesetting and the publishing of a framebuffer from acceleration. This is a huge win.
The IOAccelerator header docs aren't published, but given what we've seen so far, we can infer that it's clean, it hasn't changed in a while, and it works. Why can't we have this sort of fundamental cleanliness accepted in the open source world? I feel like this stuff is about a decade ahead of Linux.
And the X protocol itself? Well, it sucks. I have an 802.11g network here at home, and X sessions are completely unusable over it. This is failure. It is abject, complete, utter failure. We're not talking long distances, we're talking both machines and the router all within 20 feet of each other. With compression, without compression, over ssh, not over ssh: FAIL. This is a common modern use case, gentlemen. If the X protocol fails it on a wireless home network, what the fuck is the point of it? Xlib is an anachronism. It is the single shittiest piece of the GUI development stack on Linux, and there's plenty of fail to go around. Ditch this bullshit, I beg you.
Follow the Apple model, provide a simple VESA modesetting driver and a software renderer and ship the fucking thing. Why has no one looked at the preeminent operating system for graphics professionals an said "hey, maybe these guys know what the hell they're doing? and omg, some of this stuff seems to be open source!" - I'll tell you why, not invented here syndrome. Those macfaggots created it and fuck them, we'll show 'em good with our 1980s network protocol and 600 pages of completely unreadable API documentation (joke's on you, it's out of date anyways!). How's that working out?
This unholy mess needs to be fixed if Linux is going to stand any real chance on the desktop.
I say we nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
P.S., I know this seems critical but I hope it's interpreted as constructive. In case it isn't, props to the Xegl crew, David Airlied, and the whole RadeonHD team. You guys made a driver for a wide range of modern hardware that basically anyone (if I can, you can) can read through and get an understanding of pretty easily. No simple feat. A lot of truy extraordinary developers have contributed a lot to X, and I salute their efforts and could never hope to be half the programmer that they are, but I recognize that there's only so much lipstick you can put on this pig.
Yes, there is a certain irony there -- the beauty of it is that the very same things that make the SUV so appealing also make it horrible in low traction conditions.
OP is 100% correct. A Subaru with those un-manly 195mm tires, near-perfect 50-50 weight distribution, linear torque curve (i.e., the opposite of your typical V8 flat delivery, 80% of peak before 2000rpm ), low COG, and limited slip center differential is a much, much safer vehicle for low-traction conditions, and requires a lot less skill and attention to drive.
And if you ARE a good driver, most SUVs don't come with manual transmissions (even optionally), which are well suited for low traction conditions (again, in skilled hands). Personally, I want to completely control the amount of power going to the ground via the clutch and throttle, and that control is something I wouldn't be without when entrusted with the safety of my family and friends in bad weather.