I want to install VMWare on a Linux distro without having to need a compiler installed. I can do this on Windows, why not Linux?
Because Windows has a stable kernel ABI and Linux does not. If your distribution wants to package VMware for each release, they could do that -- Redhat does. Otherwise you get to compile the parts that are a constant moving target between linux patchlevel releases.
Dude, seriously, he's a dumbass pissant AC, trolling you with something slightly better tuned than GNAA and "one day at the library" stories. It's more sad that we have to filter out all this noise all the time, and sadder still that there's probably *some* people who actually believe this stuff, but it's even more regretful when anyone actually gets their blood pressure up over the very aptly-named Anonymous Cowards. Anonymous shitstain does have a nicer ring for this one though;)
Any good DBA does database design, but I also guarantee they don't go thinking about normalization and whatnot in terms of relational algebra. They may know about it, they may have studied it, but it's still largely a system optimization problem, not unlike engineering a server or a SAN.
I'm not saying theory is inimical to DBA work, but if you think on what the 'A' stands for, it's not a really theory-heavy job. That's the job for people who write DBMS's in the first place.
Zuma Deluxe has an achievement for finishing a level in 5 seconds. It's ludicrously hard to get (my best time is still 9 seconds, for level 1-1 of course).
He's not qualified to track down leaks, since he's run across so few of them. He is perhaps qualified to rewrite the whole steaming pile with modern C++ idioms and libraries that don't leak in the first place. Some problems you can't engineer out, you can only not engineer them in.
We need a way to tell the operating system that some memory is important and other segments can be dropped at any time (cached or precalculated data) provided the application is told so it can rebuild it when necessary.
Windows has this feature already. But memadvising (using the unix term here) doesn't help when you're wasting memory in the first place. A lot of it is heap fragmentation, which suggests to me that the allocation routines are basically crap.
Databases don't implement the relational algebra anyway, otherwise you'd be slinging around CREATE RELATION just for starters. No one uses ER diagrams with those separate boxes for entities and relations, those went out with System R. These days you're more likely to see schema diagrams, which look more like a stripped down UML, and they're perfectly sufficient to the task.
The book is most likely crap, but not for those reasons. DBAs incidentally are not theorists, they are sysadmins.
Actually cooling is ridiculously hard in a vacuum. There's a reason you need a fan with your heatsink, and fans don't work. The outside may be cold but there's nothing to carry it away.
That Wordpress uses unsalted MD5 sums to store passwords boggles my mind. It shows that the developers know even less about cryptography than I do. That's scary.
Oh it's even better than that. It stores your md5 password in a plain text cookie, and if it receives such a cookie, sets an $already_md5 flag to true that's then passed to wp_login() which then just compares it literally against the unsalted md5 entry.
> What relevant use cases are there for keeping your browser open for days?
What relevant use cases are there for closing any app you use constantly? I haven't rebooted my computer in two months, I only hibernate it. Apparently I am using the wrong tool, because I expected one I didn't have to follow behind and clean up after because it's incapable of doing so itself.
Acid2 doesn't even measure compliance, only error recovery for whatever advanced selectors the creator of Acid2 came up with. It's far from a CSS test compliance suite, but the folks at the W3C are so allergic to the idea of working reference implementations, let alone test suites, that you're never likely to see one.
Contrast to the IETF, which requires (or at least used to require) two working, different, and interoperable implementations before considering any protocol for a standard.
SNPO decides that all these third party service dependencies are just too much hassle and that even then they might not be in compliance and don't want to expose themselves to so much risk and decides to toss the whole damn shebang.
I guess no one needs to actually use AGPL. And I predict the eventual outcome will resemble exactly that.
It seems like none of the people who design ebook systems have ever been in a used book store or a library, or have ever lent a favorite book to a friend.
Sure they have. And their first thought about it was "this must be stopped".
I didn't think RMS's "Right to Read" was actually being interpreted as a business plan.
> Many people will do almost anything to avoid having to face an undesired truth.
On that, and pretty much your entire statement, we're in violent agreement. Strange how we come to opposite conclusions from the same premises. I guess it's all about the ones unstated.
"honest, intelligent people can unconsciously engage in muscular activity that is consistent with their expectations"
However the statement above does say that the phenomena is according to expectations. That would imply that sceptics to dowsing should not get any result.
Even a skeptic will have an expectation that they'll react differently based on the assumptions that they know what they're looking for. But if belief is an essential component, and it's an effect other than the one described, you get to work that into your competing explanation too.
Anyway, I did try it years ago, and I did get results, and I know why. If I were to test it under controlled conditions, I've little doubt about the actual results I'd get. I'll take the thousands of tests of dowsing that have achieved identical results attributable to the same mechanism (the ideomotor effect) as sufficient without the need for me to add myself to the tests. That's not very scientific of me, but it gets me through the day.
Fine. How? If you don't know, then how about testing individual theories? If it's electrical fields, don't guess, know. You can use instruments to test that sort of thing.
I know for sure there's a lot of things that aren't properly explained. Unlike some, I just leave them as unexplained, I don't assume some explanation is true by default.
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I want to install VMWare on a Linux distro without having to need a compiler installed. I can do this on Windows, why not Linux?
Because Windows has a stable kernel ABI and Linux does not. If your distribution wants to package VMware for each release, they could do that -- Redhat does. Otherwise you get to compile the parts that are a constant moving target between linux patchlevel releases.
Ooh, three squares on my ID bingo card.
Gravity is a theory, bible boy.
Dude, seriously, he's a dumbass pissant AC, trolling you with something slightly better tuned than GNAA and "one day at the library" stories. It's more sad that we have to filter out all this noise all the time, and sadder still that there's probably *some* people who actually believe this stuff, but it's even more regretful when anyone actually gets their blood pressure up over the very aptly-named Anonymous Cowards. Anonymous shitstain does have a nicer ring for this one though ;)
Any good DBA does database design, but I also guarantee they don't go thinking about normalization and whatnot in terms of relational algebra. They may know about it, they may have studied it, but it's still largely a system optimization problem, not unlike engineering a server or a SAN.
I'm not saying theory is inimical to DBA work, but if you think on what the 'A' stands for, it's not a really theory-heavy job. That's the job for people who write DBMS's in the first place.
Zuma Deluxe has an achievement for finishing a level in 5 seconds. It's ludicrously hard to get (my best time is still 9 seconds, for level 1-1 of course).
He's not qualified to track down leaks, since he's run across so few of them. He is perhaps qualified to rewrite the whole steaming pile with modern C++ idioms and libraries that don't leak in the first place. Some problems you can't engineer out, you can only not engineer them in.
We need a way to tell the operating system that some memory is important and other segments can be dropped at any time (cached or precalculated data) provided the application is told so it can rebuild it when necessary.
Windows has this feature already. But memadvising (using the unix term here) doesn't help when you're wasting memory in the first place. A lot of it is heap fragmentation, which suggests to me that the allocation routines are basically crap.
Databases don't implement the relational algebra anyway, otherwise you'd be slinging around CREATE RELATION just for starters. No one uses ER diagrams with those separate boxes for entities and relations, those went out with System R. These days you're more likely to see schema diagrams, which look more like a stripped down UML, and they're perfectly sufficient to the task.
The book is most likely crap, but not for those reasons. DBAs incidentally are not theorists, they are sysadmins.
Wow, Angband, really brand new game there.
Portal had individual puzzles in individual rooms. Duh.
Next questions: Why do books still have chapters? Why do plays still have acts? Why do movies still have scenes?
> cooling would be easy
Actually cooling is ridiculously hard in a vacuum. There's a reason you need a fan with your heatsink, and fans don't work. The outside may be cold but there's nothing to carry it away.
I don't care what the official name of them is, I'm going to call 'em plasmids
That Wordpress uses unsalted MD5 sums to store passwords boggles my mind. It shows that the developers know even less about cryptography than I do. That's scary.
Oh it's even better than that. It stores your md5 password in a plain text cookie, and if it receives such a cookie, sets an $already_md5 flag to true that's then passed to wp_login() which then just compares it literally against the unsalted md5 entry.
<guinness>Brilliant!</guinness>
> What relevant use cases are there for keeping your browser open for days?
What relevant use cases are there for closing any app you use constantly? I haven't rebooted my computer in two months, I only hibernate it. Apparently I am using the wrong tool, because I expected one I didn't have to follow behind and clean up after because it's incapable of doing so itself.
Acid2 doesn't even measure compliance, only error recovery for whatever advanced selectors the creator of Acid2 came up with. It's far from a CSS test compliance suite, but the folks at the W3C are so allergic to the idea of working reference implementations, let alone test suites, that you're never likely to see one.
Contrast to the IETF, which requires (or at least used to require) two working, different, and interoperable implementations before considering any protocol for a standard.
> Pity there's not a similar lightweight native Firefox derivative for Windows.
K-Meleon (despite the name, it's got nothing to do with KDE).
I think you're confusing slashdot with Groklaw. Now there's an echo chamber if I've ever seen .. er, heard one.
SNPO decides that all these third party service dependencies are just too much hassle and that even then they might not be in compliance and don't want to expose themselves to so much risk and decides to toss the whole damn shebang.
I guess no one needs to actually use AGPL. And I predict the eventual outcome will resemble exactly that.
You forgot the all important isFileNotFound() method.
It seems like none of the people who design ebook systems have ever been in a used book store or a library, or have ever lent a favorite book to a friend.
Sure they have. And their first thought about it was "this must be stopped".
I didn't think RMS's "Right to Read" was actually being interpreted as a business plan.
> Many people will do almost anything to avoid having to face an undesired truth.
On that, and pretty much your entire statement, we're in violent agreement. Strange how we come to opposite conclusions from the same premises. I guess it's all about the ones unstated.
Even a skeptic will have an expectation that they'll react differently based on the assumptions that they know what they're looking for. But if belief is an essential component, and it's an effect other than the one described, you get to work that into your competing explanation too.
Anyway, I did try it years ago, and I did get results, and I know why. If I were to test it under controlled conditions, I've little doubt about the actual results I'd get. I'll take the thousands of tests of dowsing that have achieved identical results attributable to the same mechanism (the ideomotor effect) as sufficient without the need for me to add myself to the tests. That's not very scientific of me, but it gets me through the day.
> Don't bitch about my ellipses, they don't change your quote.
How about not fucking using them if you don't insert the word "innocence". It took more work to be basically dishonest than to cut and paste.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
It's a catchy phrase, but standards of evidence don't need to change. I'll settle for any proof at all.
> Dowsing can actually work!
Fine. How? If you don't know, then how about testing individual theories? If it's electrical fields, don't guess, know. You can use instruments to test that sort of thing.
Here's another theory you can test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect
I know for sure there's a lot of things that aren't properly explained. Unlike some, I just leave them as unexplained, I don't assume some explanation is true by default.
Sigh, that's to say "we aren't as good at thinking on our feet". Case in point, I can't even properly compose a reply when I'm flustered like this.