We all know that good people dont get very far in politics, a successfull politician has to be
- superficial (no explenation needed)
- ignorant
Just look at the big picture, little details such as practicallity dont matter, it just has to look good on paper.
- corrupt
Elected to represent the people in their area (if they even live there), but really they only represent the party view.
- Arrogant
How long would a politician last if they want around making selfless acts ? They never accept responsibility for their mistakes..... they think they are more important than the rest of us.
(im sure the list could go on and on)
If democracy worked, politicians would be amoungst the most respected members of society, after all we want them to be our leaders.
7a. Its different than windows so end user would have to use their brain for a short period of time.
7b. Linux may make it difficult to be compatable with windows _users_
7c. Philisophy, some people (capitalist pigs) think that money is required to enable people to work. (windows must be better than linux because nothing good can be free)
"In the common law theft is usually defined as the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use."
By posting the artile here, we arent depriving the copyright owner of its possession or use.
If i make a noise am i stealing someones silence ?
Copyright infringment isnt stealing, its copyright infringment.
I can see why the buisness world look upto him, but i can also see why consumers and government would revile him for the penny pinching monopolistic practices he uses whilst providing a poor quality product that ignores consumer demands.
If you are "forced" to use Internet Exploiter by an employer then go explain to them how IE is a seurity threat.
By "force" do you mean the sysadmin put a gun to your head or threatened your family ? Or are you simply not smart aenough to bypass their "security" ?
"Level 1 -- RAID level 1, or "mirroring," has been used longer than any other form of RAID. Level 1 provides redundancy by writing identical data to each member disk of the array, leaving a "mirrored" copy on each disk. Mirroring remains popular due to its simplicity and high level of data availability. Level 1 operates with two or more disks that may use parallel access for high data-transfer rates when reading but more commonly operate independently to provide high I/O transaction rates. Level 1 provides very good data reliability and improves performance for read-intensive applications but at a relatively high cost. [1] The storage capacity of the level 1 array is equal to the capacity of one of the mirrored hard disks in a Hardware RAID or one of the mirrored partitions in a Software RAID." http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/R HL-7.3-M anual/custom-guide/s1-raid-levels.html
NOTE: it says 2 or more, 3 is more than 2.
"I've not seen seen any setups of "3 equal drives" in Linux (I have in HP-UX)" http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2002-0 2/msg0077 2.html
What is so difficult about a 3 way mirror, just becasue you havent seen it doesnt mean its impossible.
In the "real world" speed isnt the only important factor, if it was will would all use solid state drives.
~$150 for 40GB IDE setup $700 for 9GB SCSI setup
You could have the 3 or 4 IDE drives running in a raid1 setup which would improve read time, have better data security and you would still have 4 times the capacity of the SCSI setup of the same price.
SCSI is for dumb rich people, and people who assume you get what you pay for.
If people dont want features then let them use a pen and paper.
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You talk about intelligence, and being as smart as humans.
When you talk about intelligence, you are really refering to _human_ intellegence.
Do you not understand that what is considered to be intelligent behaviour is relative to your environment.
Do you understard that it would be very stupid for
- a cow in its native environment to behave as if its a hippopotamus.
- a human in its native environment to behave as if it were a bird.
- a computer in its native environment to behave as if it were a human.
Why would a computer think like a human, its not a human. It doesnt have a human body, or a human mind, neither does a cow, a bird or a monkey, but it doesnt mean they dont possess intellegence.
We shouldnt be so arrogant to only percieve inteligence as behaviour that mimicks ours.
If we fully understood the human brain, if we could predict behaviour based on the brains current knowledge and its environmental stimulus then would you still consider humans to be inteligent ?
Any technology sufficiently advanced appears like magic, thats what our brain is. Just because we are masters of our computers doesnt mean computers are incapable of intellegence. Just because we dont understand our brain doesnt mean it has a magic quality, a soul.
There are problems with stupid patents being granted, the way to fix that is to allow legal action to be taken against the patent office when they fail to do their job. The US patent office is clearly negligent, they award obvious patents which they arent supposed to do, if the US government (their boss) lets them keep doing the wrong thing then why will they ever change ?
The biggest objection i have to Patents is the amount of time that "inventors" get granted monoply use of "their" idea.
A better system would be one where the amount of time granted for exclusive ownership of the idea is based on how much developement goes on in that area.
e.g. If someone builds a better moustrap then its probably a very innovative idea, people have been trying to build a better moustrap for centuries. Mouse trap design is very mature.
If someone comes up with a better way to sequence DNA (or some such) then its less likely to be innovative as the area of expertese is very young and the area of work is only accessable to limited numbers of people.
The patent process blindingly grants the same amount of monoply rights in both cases, as if both ideas are equally inovative. That is just wrong.
If someone thinks of an original innovative idea that is just bloody usless (like the patent on swinging on a swing sideways) then give them their patent, but grant it only for an hour two.
Also if a patent isnt being used it should be taken away.
Slashdot Mirror
My slide rule uses even less power than your overfeatured 5 function calculator !
They have us all well and truely hooked, now its time to start reeling us in.
In a few years there will be flashy distracting images all over the place, just like yahoo.
"electing good people"
We all know that good people dont get very far in politics, a successfull politician has to be
- superficial (no explenation needed)
- ignorant
Just look at the big picture, little details such as practicallity dont matter, it just has to look good on paper.
- corrupt
Elected to represent the people in their area (if they even live there), but really they only represent the party view.
- Arrogant
How long would a politician last if they want around making selfless acts ? They never accept responsibility for their mistakes..... they think they are more important than the rest of us.
(im sure the list could go on and on)
If democracy worked, politicians would be amoungst the most respected members of society, after all we want them to be our leaders.
7a. Its different than windows so end user would have to use their brain for a short period of time.
7b. Linux may make it difficult to be compatable with windows _users_
7c. Philisophy, some people (capitalist pigs) think that money is required to enable people to work. (windows must be better than linux because nothing good can be free)
"that quote is not very supportive of your notion that re-printing a copyrighted article in a public forum is ok to do"
Where did he specify that reprinting copyrighted article in a public form is ok to do ?
It may or may not be ok to doso, depends on what permisions if any the license grants.
Expect whatever you want, demand nothing more than your entilment.
Nice troll, newbie.
The point im trying to make is that copyright infringment is NOT theft, its something different.
What point are you trying to make ?
Take you and your multi-national media corporatation inspired propoaganda elsewhere, or open your eyes.
Its purpose remains the same wether its succesfull or not.
Copyright infrement doesnt change the intent of the copyright owner.
courtesy of wikipedia,
"In the common law theft is usually defined as the unauthorised taking or use of someone else's property with the intent to deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use."
By posting the artile here, we arent depriving the copyright owner of its possession or use.
If i make a noise am i stealing someones silence ?
Copyright infringment isnt stealing, its copyright infringment.
Not that i know of.
The CIA doesnt run the camp in Guantanamo bay, its a different branch of your government that does that.
The US is an internation dictator.
Its not about credit, its about working as part of a community.
As the new licence is incompatable with the GPL you no longer have the right to use GPL'ed software that links to X.
Say goodby to anything based on QT, i.e. kde (the free edition is GPL) and a big chunk of GNOME.
Say goodbye to the graphical desktop, all becasue a few people have poor self esteem.
"Bill gates is probably a better man than you"
It all depends on whos values you judge him by.
I can see why the buisness world look upto him, but i can also see why consumers and government would revile him for the penny pinching monopolistic practices he uses whilst providing a poor quality product that ignores consumer demands.
The driver of this mac is pretty old
There is nothing inovative about distributing music online in 2003... ever heard of napster, or kazzaa ?
What is inovate is distributing music online without the RIAA (and their budies) chasing after you and your customers.
Apples music sharing is a great buisness and/or political innovation, its extremely ignorant to consider it a tech innovation.
Ive worked on busybox with Erik for over 3 years, your the first person ive heard criticise him like that. Your opinion of him certainly isnt common.
As someone who has done a lot of work on busybox, im glad Erik set up the "Hall of Shame", and does his best to defend the project.
Do you know what "Tall Poppy Syndrome" is ?
How bloated are the static binaries ICC produces ?
Code portability is important.
If you dont care about code portability and all you want speed write in assembler, not C or C++
ICC ay be usefull to a niche market, but it doesnt have a long term future.
If you are "forced" to use Internet Exploiter by an employer then go explain to them how IE is a seurity threat.
By "force" do you mean the sysadmin put a gun to your head or threatened your family ?
Or are you simply not smart aenough to bypass their "security" ?
One of the roles of a distribution is to provide cohesion between many thousands of seperately managed projects.
Distributions have policies that dictate how they achive this cohesion.
The only way to seamlessly mix debs and rpms (or other pkg format) is if they follow an identical policy.
If people turn to the LSB to provide a common policy then the LSB will effictively become a distribution.
If distributions have identical policies then they loose their individuality, and their reason to exist.
If you sacrifice the purity of a distribution you will always have to pay a price for it.
LSB isnt the answer, distributions need to be a bit different.
Diversity is a strength, but you need to recognise it.
"Level 1 -- RAID level 1, or "mirroring," has been used longer than any other form of RAID. Level 1 provides redundancy by writing identical data to each member disk of the array, leaving a "mirrored" copy on each disk. Mirroring remains popular due to its simplicity and high level of data availability. Level 1 operates with two or more disks that may use parallel access for high data-transfer rates when reading but more commonly operate independently to provide high I/O transaction rates. Level 1 provides very good data reliability and improves performance for read-intensive applications but at a relatively high cost. [1] The storage capacity of the level 1 array is equal to the capacity of one of the mirrored hard disks in a Hardware RAID or one of the mirrored partitions in a Software RAID."R HL-7.3-M anual/custom-guide/s1-raid-levels.html
0 2/msg0077 2.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/
NOTE: it says 2 or more, 3 is more than 2.
"I've not seen seen any setups of "3 equal drives" in Linux (I have in HP-UX)"
http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2002-
What is so difficult about a 3 way mirror, just becasue you havent seen it doesnt mean its impossible.
"320 megabytes per second to internal bufer"
The internal buffer have to do with scsi, scsi is used to transfer data EXTERNALLY !
"516 megabytes per second SUSTAINED"
Dude, your speaking shit, give me a reference.
I will give you 1/2 a point because SCSI is usefull if you have more then 3 or 4 drives, and you are talking 6.
But your example of 6 drives is uncommon, a small minority, your not talking about the "real world"
Would you recommend a single SCSI drive for a desktop machine as per the artical ?
In the "real world" speed isnt the only important factor, if it was will would all use solid state drives.
~$150 for 40GB IDE setup
$700 for 9GB SCSI setup
You could have the 3 or 4 IDE drives running in a raid1 setup which would improve read time, have better data security and you would still have 4 times the capacity of the SCSI setup of the same price.
SCSI is for dumb rich people, and people who assume you get what you pay for.
"Less [Features] is More [Usability]"
If people dont want features then let them use a pen and paper.
You talk about intelligence, and being as smart as humans.
When you talk about intelligence, you are really refering to _human_ intellegence.
Do you not understand that what is considered to be intelligent behaviour is relative to your environment.
Do you understard that it would be very stupid for
- a cow in its native environment to behave as if its a hippopotamus.
- a human in its native environment to behave as if it were a bird.
- a computer in its native environment to behave as if it were a human.
Why would a computer think like a human, its not a human. It doesnt have a human body, or a human mind, neither does a cow, a bird or a monkey, but it doesnt mean they dont possess intellegence.
We shouldnt be so arrogant to only percieve inteligence as behaviour that mimicks ours.
If we fully understood the human brain, if we could predict behaviour based on the brains current knowledge and its environmental stimulus then would you still consider humans to be inteligent ?
Any technology sufficiently advanced appears like magic, thats what our brain is.
Just because we are masters of our computers doesnt mean computers are incapable of intellegence.
Just because we dont understand our brain doesnt mean it has a magic quality, a soul.
There are problems with stupid patents being granted, the way to fix that is to allow legal action to be taken against the patent office when they fail to do their job.
The US patent office is clearly negligent, they award obvious patents which they arent supposed to do, if the US government (their boss) lets them keep doing the wrong thing then why will they ever change ?
The biggest objection i have to Patents is the amount of time that "inventors" get granted monoply use of "their" idea.
A better system would be one where the amount of time granted for exclusive ownership of the idea is based on how much developement goes on in that area.
e.g. If someone builds a better moustrap then its probably a very innovative idea, people have been trying to build a better moustrap for centuries. Mouse trap design is very mature.
If someone comes up with a better way to sequence DNA (or some such) then its less likely to be innovative as the area of expertese is very young and the area of work is only accessable to limited numbers of people.
The patent process blindingly grants the same amount of monoply rights in both cases, as if both ideas are equally inovative. That is just wrong.
If someone thinks of an original innovative idea that is just bloody usless (like the patent on swinging on a swing sideways) then give them their patent, but grant it only for an hour two.
Also if a patent isnt being used it should be taken away.
Company directors are required to act in the best interest of the company.
The SCO company directors are lying through their teeth.
They are trying to convincing the public they own something they dont, to boost the share price.
At the same time dumping their stock at what they know are inflated prices (they know they lawasuit doesnt have a hope).
They could argue that they are stupid (most people would believe it), and they thought the lawsuit had a chance.
I did some tests a few moths ago, HTTP sends about 2% less bytes than FTP.
Its because FTP sends data in bigger packets.
Less packets means less TCP/IP overheads.