Incorrect. Evolution is sick, twisted, and blind. We deserve better. I believe we still have time to take control and become a better, post-human species.
So it's safe to say that the summary is botched, however, that does not mean that the article is not still interesting enough to be deserving. What we have is an unexpected outcome to an experiment. They created a known structure using a new method, where the method of creation may make the shape promising to engineering applications.
Linux does not have a monopoly on Open Source. Open Source spans several platforms. Nowhere is it written that all of this money will be spent on Linux or limited software designed specifically Linux. I doubt that the likes of Free and OpenBSD will be left out in the cold - it simply wouldn't make sense. Even if that were the case, any Open Source software of the very particular nature we are talking about here (low level infrustructure), is by default software that gets builds for those operating systems anyway, and if that were not the case, by the very nature of Open Source we will still have better software sooner can then be ported and that would otherwise simply not exist.
Nothing is wrong with this picture. Like pretty much every tech company, the future of Microsoft relies on a vibrant, healthy, and growing internet - and there is still lot of room grow. Helping to fine tune the world of Open Source results in expanding needs and infrastructure, which invariably means that Microsoft software will find a way to be involved. Helping Open Source is a fast-track to expanding profits, fighting Open Source is a task for Sisyphus and they know it. There is no reason that Open and closed source cannot coexist in this world.
Disclaimer: When I talk about Microsoft's technology, I am not talking about their current consumer OS debacle. I used to be a ZOMG! M$ SUX!!! type, but Microsoft is now an embattled company well aware that they fucked up a lot these last few years. I am curious to see what direction that will take them. I suppose this is part of that. Also, their back end products: Windows Server/Active Directory/Sql server, etc... really are pretty nice. Although I do prefer Linux, FreeBSD and their associated Open Source server solutions.
If they want this service to reach full potential, they are going to have to lift their 120 gigabyte per month data cap for their DSL customers. My girlfriend and I routinely go over that data cap with the likes of Netflix and Hulu, etc... Unfortunately, Time Warner is slow, routinely goes down, and is still more expensive than paying the penalty.
I realize the data cap has other services in mind, but if they are going to show up on my Roku, they need to understand that they are joining an ecosystem.
To get it out of the way, I am not an Apple hater but I am not a fanboy either. I have a MacBook, but Linux based OS' run my main systems. My thoughts:
There was once a time where every release of OS X was gutted relative to the previous version, sometimes eliminating upwards of 10 or more gigabytes of code. OS X only got faster with each release. I am not sure where that came to an end, but the last few release have been steadily slowing down my MacBook.
I have also sadly watched the interface become more bogged down and convoluted over the last few years. It used to be the height of simplicity. I wonder what decisions led things astray. I dual boot elementary OS on my MacBook, and am always astonished by how much faster it is. I rarely boot into OS X anymore, and am no longer excited about the next release. For the record my main production distro is Bodhi, and my servers run Debian and FreeBSD on extremely thin hardware - yet run extremely well, albeit they are headless.
I know all that is only partially on topic, but they are still good talking points.
As someone who has done a lot of contracting but has also done long stretches as a full-time employee, I would take less pay for a full-time position any day. As a contractor, insurance generally costs more and covers less. You also miss out on a lot of corporate perks. Further, contracts are usually defined as 3-months, 6-months, one-year with an unknown possibility of being hired on at the end of your contract. So as soon as you get cozy, poof! Then, if the contract does not specify a time limit, you never know when the ax will fall. There are misc. other downsides as well. So yes, I always made a lot more money as a contractor, but being a real employee is always better.
It looks pretty cramped, but looks can be deceiving. I friend of mine got a Hyundai Veloster. It's a tiny little car, but once inside it's a remarkable vehicle. My friend is also nearly seven-feet tall. The car handles very nicely, and handling is important. It uses gas, but easily gets fifty-miles to the gallon. That's almost as good as electric for me. Not to mention it handles itself very well in the snow which is important where I live. With options he paid ~$30,000. It worked out so well his wife got one.
Would it really be such a bad thing for the Soviet Union to come back? The offered a balance of power. With the exception of a couple proxy wars (not that they weren't bad) we kept each other in check, but never checkmate. Compared to now, the world did its own thing. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we immediately elevated ourselves to the status of, "United States of America: Full-Time World Cop." That has not gone well. I sometimes miss the sanity of mutually assured destruction.
Communism is a term referring to an evil form of government that really really really evil governments incorrectly call themselves in order to only sound a little evil.
Has there ever been a truly, absolutely qualifiable communist government?
Instead, they should use one of the old oil rigs that are out there. Clean it up, land it on the rig, and then offload with a crane to a barge and take it back for launc.
That is actually rather brilliant. Even if they had to invest in modifying a rig or building their own platform, it eliminates the potential hazard to humans. Maybe if they could demonstrate successfully landing a dozen or so, then they could land them at a spaceport.
Bug bounties don't always involve bugs. A lot of times it is paying someone to back port software. For example software x version 1.5 is available for and popular on... lets say an Ubuntu 12.04 based system. Version 2.0 comes out with a host of cool new features, except that it is only available for Ubuntu 13.10 based systems and the maintainers are not going to port it to 12.04. So, within the same frame work of a bug bounty, community members pool money and pay someone $300 to back port the software. I see this sort of thing happen all the time and have personally benefited from it. I also see distro maintainers offer bounties to fix bugs for their own projects or bounties to back port features of their latest system to their previous version. Or is he only talking closed source style bounties? Overall the article is hard to follow logically and seems to have a very narrow view of the world of software in general and I admittedly did not finish it because of that.
As much as I appreciate your advice, I do not run Windows. I'm all Linux and FreeBSD. However, I will file this away in my notes if I ever need to set it up for someone else. Thanks.
I have a 120 gig Sandisk Extreme 2 SSD and as a performance upgrade, you really can't do better than an SSD, assuming a minimum of 4 GB of ram. I was a little skeptical of claims when I bought it, but I can vouch that people aren't messing around when they talk about instant boot and zero-second loads times for applications. Mileage may vary depending on the brand and model, research and watch the specs closely. A paltry 120 gigs by itself is not enough for me or most people these days so I balance things out by installing the OS and applications on the SSD, while most files go onto a hard drive. This means a slight change in workflow, but it is entirely worth it.
No worries. The G in Gimp stand for GNU not Gnome. The Gimp predates Gnome by quite a lot. The only tie that binds them is that Gimp donations are handled by the Gnome foundation, which is easily changed. Read this page here:
Clearly you weren't here in those dark days before moderation. Natalie Portman, hot grits, goatse links, etc, etc, etc... Don't like what you see in the comments? Get an account, stop whining as an AC, earn some mod points, and help eradicate the less flattering posts. I do.
And they get to offset that cost by running a more efficient operation thanks to higher density disks. Ultimately that also means less hard drives than if they were all using 6.4 GB driver, and less staff to chase them down when they flake out. Not to mention what they save on their power bill. Also, sometime in the last year cloud storage and services stopped being a buzzword and entered reality.
Simple. If we and the Universe were as overwhelmingly made of anti-matter as it is instead matter, we would call anti-matter matter and matter anti-matter. It's just semantics. You reading into it way too much.
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Incorrect. Evolution is sick, twisted, and blind. We deserve better. I believe we still have time to take control and become a better, post-human species.
So it's safe to say that the summary is botched, however, that does not mean that the article is not still interesting enough to be deserving. What we have is an unexpected outcome to an experiment. They created a known structure using a new method, where the method of creation may make the shape promising to engineering applications.
Linux does not have a monopoly on Open Source. Open Source spans several platforms. Nowhere is it written that all of this money will be spent on Linux or limited software designed specifically Linux. I doubt that the likes of Free and OpenBSD will be left out in the cold - it simply wouldn't make sense. Even if that were the case, any Open Source software of the very particular nature we are talking about here (low level infrustructure), is by default software that gets builds for those operating systems anyway, and if that were not the case, by the very nature of Open Source we will still have better software sooner can then be ported and that would otherwise simply not exist.
Nothing is wrong with this picture. Like pretty much every tech company, the future of Microsoft relies on a vibrant, healthy, and growing internet - and there is still lot of room grow. Helping to fine tune the world of Open Source results in expanding needs and infrastructure, which invariably means that Microsoft software will find a way to be involved. Helping Open Source is a fast-track to expanding profits, fighting Open Source is a task for Sisyphus and they know it. There is no reason that Open and closed source cannot coexist in this world.
Disclaimer: When I talk about Microsoft's technology, I am not talking about their current consumer OS debacle. I used to be a ZOMG! M$ SUX!!! type, but Microsoft is now an embattled company well aware that they fucked up a lot these last few years. I am curious to see what direction that will take them. I suppose this is part of that. Also, their back end products: Windows Server/Active Directory/Sql server, etc... really are pretty nice. Although I do prefer Linux, FreeBSD and their associated Open Source server solutions.
If they want this service to reach full potential, they are going to have to lift their 120 gigabyte per month data cap for their DSL customers. My girlfriend and I routinely go over that data cap with the likes of Netflix and Hulu, etc... Unfortunately, Time Warner is slow, routinely goes down, and is still more expensive than paying the penalty.
I realize the data cap has other services in mind, but if they are going to show up on my Roku, they need to understand that they are joining an ecosystem.
To get it out of the way, I am not an Apple hater but I am not a fanboy either. I have a MacBook, but Linux based OS' run my main systems. My thoughts:
There was once a time where every release of OS X was gutted relative to the previous version, sometimes eliminating upwards of 10 or more gigabytes of code. OS X only got faster with each release. I am not sure where that came to an end, but the last few release have been steadily slowing down my MacBook.
I have also sadly watched the interface become more bogged down and convoluted over the last few years. It used to be the height of simplicity. I wonder what decisions led things astray. I dual boot elementary OS on my MacBook, and am always astonished by how much faster it is. I rarely boot into OS X anymore, and am no longer excited about the next release. For the record my main production distro is Bodhi, and my servers run Debian and FreeBSD on extremely thin hardware - yet run extremely well, albeit they are headless.
I know all that is only partially on topic, but they are still good talking points.
Was I just listening to streaming pirated music before the "server down" errors started?
As someone who has done a lot of contracting but has also done long stretches as a full-time employee, I would take less pay for a full-time position any day. As a contractor, insurance generally costs more and covers less. You also miss out on a lot of corporate perks. Further, contracts are usually defined as 3-months, 6-months, one-year with an unknown possibility of being hired on at the end of your contract. So as soon as you get cozy, poof! Then, if the contract does not specify a time limit, you never know when the ax will fall. There are misc. other downsides as well. So yes, I always made a lot more money as a contractor, but being a real employee is always better.
It looks pretty cramped, but looks can be deceiving. I friend of mine got a Hyundai Veloster. It's a tiny little car, but once inside it's a remarkable vehicle. My friend is also nearly seven-feet tall. The car handles very nicely, and handling is important. It uses gas, but easily gets fifty-miles to the gallon. That's almost as good as electric for me. Not to mention it handles itself very well in the snow which is important where I live. With options he paid ~$30,000. It worked out so well his wife got one.
Would it really be such a bad thing for the Soviet Union to come back? The offered a balance of power. With the exception of a couple proxy wars (not that they weren't bad) we kept each other in check, but never checkmate. Compared to now, the world did its own thing. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we immediately elevated ourselves to the status of, "United States of America: Full-Time World Cop." That has not gone well. I sometimes miss the sanity of mutually assured destruction.
Communism is a term referring to an evil form of government that really really really evil governments incorrectly call themselves in order to only sound a little evil.
Has there ever been a truly, absolutely qualifiable communist government?
Often part of being poor means having your hours cut on top of already low pay.
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That is actually rather brilliant. Even if they had to invest in modifying a rig or building their own platform, it eliminates the potential hazard to humans. Maybe if they could demonstrate successfully landing a dozen or so, then they could land them at a spaceport.
Bug bounties don't always involve bugs. A lot of times it is paying someone to back port software. For example software x version 1.5 is available for and popular on... lets say an Ubuntu 12.04 based system. Version 2.0 comes out with a host of cool new features, except that it is only available for Ubuntu 13.10 based systems and the maintainers are not going to port it to 12.04. So, within the same frame work of a bug bounty, community members pool money and pay someone $300 to back port the software. I see this sort of thing happen all the time and have personally benefited from it. I also see distro maintainers offer bounties to fix bugs for their own projects or bounties to back port features of their latest system to their previous version. Or is he only talking closed source style bounties? Overall the article is hard to follow logically and seems to have a very narrow view of the world of software in general and I admittedly did not finish it because of that.
Also, this should be modded up.
As much as I appreciate your advice, I do not run Windows. I'm all Linux and FreeBSD. However, I will file this away in my notes if I ever need to set it up for someone else. Thanks.
I have a 120 gig Sandisk Extreme 2 SSD and as a performance upgrade, you really can't do better than an SSD, assuming a minimum of 4 GB of ram. I was a little skeptical of claims when I bought it, but I can vouch that people aren't messing around when they talk about instant boot and zero-second loads times for applications. Mileage may vary depending on the brand and model, research and watch the specs closely. A paltry 120 gigs by itself is not enough for me or most people these days so I balance things out by installing the OS and applications on the SSD, while most files go onto a hard drive. This means a slight change in workflow, but it is entirely worth it.
So they are retiring robots to have humans do their jobs in order to one day build better robots with human modeled efficiency to replace the humans?
No worries. The G in Gimp stand for GNU not Gnome. The Gimp predates Gnome by quite a lot. The only tie that binds them is that Gimp donations are handled by the Gnome foundation, which is easily changed. Read this page here:
Donating to The Gimp
It's all in the transfer of kinetic energy from the projectile into the target. It's like being in a car accident at 5,000 MPH.
Clearly you weren't here in those dark days before moderation. Natalie Portman, hot grits, goatse links, etc, etc, etc... Don't like what you see in the comments? Get an account, stop whining as an AC, earn some mod points, and help eradicate the less flattering posts. I do.
And they get to offset that cost by running a more efficient operation thanks to higher density disks. Ultimately that also means less hard drives than if they were all using 6.4 GB driver, and less staff to chase them down when they flake out. Not to mention what they save on their power bill. Also, sometime in the last year cloud storage and services stopped being a buzzword and entered reality.
I trust Amazon comments on matters like these:
http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-H...
Simple. If we and the Universe were as overwhelmingly made of anti-matter as it is instead matter, we would call anti-matter matter and matter anti-matter. It's just semantics. You reading into it way too much.