There's plenty of room for everyone in America to have a picket fence and a yard. The need for everyong to live close to one another is diminishing - we don't need to be close to the factory any more. As any environmental engineer will tell you, "the solution to pollution is dilution" - If people didn't live so bunched together in the first place, many of our environmental problems would vanish just on that basis.
That's complete bullshit, unsupportable, and backwards.
Living in tight cities, even if shelter wouldn't be needed, requires vast amounts of energy for food transport and waste transport. Tight cities are unsupportable for the long term without cheap energy, and two or three hundred years from now, unless society gets abundant cheap energy again, the mega-cities won't be faring well. Farmers from outlying areas won't be farming as efficiently not will they be sending their crops into the cities.
They won't require it. They'll just threaten to withhold interstate funding from any state that refuses to comply.
You know...at what point are the people and the states going to get pissed off and put a STOP to us giving so much $$ to the Feds only to allow them to used it to blackmail us?
You go first.
If GP is Scott Walker or Mitch Daniels, next year might be verrry interesting.
One big disadvantrage of USB 2 or 3 compared to eSata and maybe thunderbolt is that it cannot read SMART data to monitor the drives and spin them down to save wear and power.
Then how does my computer detect when an external drive with SMART errors has been plugged in via USB 2.0?
I'm not sure why the article mentions external drives so much; eSATA is still a fair bit faster than USB3 for that purpose.
Because almost anyone using an external drive (as opposed to internal or front-removable) is doing so for portability. So few people use eSATA, but it's an easy bet that the random computer that you use at your cousin's house has at least USB1.0, which, while slow, works better than going out and buying your cousin an eSATA card and convincing him that opening the computer won't void the warranty.
People in their 40s were not early adopters, they were one of the first generation of people to use a computer day in and day out without really knowing that computers on the desktop didn't exist prior to their being born.
No, that would be people in their late twenties; the kids that went through school and had computers in every classroom, enough for every child. The people in their thirties went to elementary school with no (or only one) computers in classrooms, even in college (but now college kids walk around campus with a laptop and a smartphone). Forty year-olds probably didn't see a computer until high school unless it was a calculator.
At the time people were saying they'd just stick with yellow dog linux.
Funny how times change
Yeah, hilarious. Xserves are dead now, and Mac OS X Server won't be far behind. Thankfully you can run CentOS on a 1U budget server and still use the yellow dog update manager.:)
Windows was still a competitor, and Google was still a search engine. These were halcyon days, when being a Mac user meant belonging to the second team
So mac users fancy themselves as belonging to the winning team now? And how exactly were the days when Microsoft propped up Apple to prevent Microsoft from becoming a noticeable monopoly halcyon? Apple's fire almost died, and they had to make heavy use of BSD licensed (free, wee!) software to rekindle the embers.
This was corrected in GPLv3, and control-freak assholes are having a problem with it.
Calling them "control freak assholes" is disingenuous. They decided on their values, formed the GPLv3, and stuck to those values. They believe their values have merit, and have requisite need to prevent what they feel is non-free use cases from slipping in.
GP was calling Apple "control freak assholes", not FSF or other GPL3 supporters.
Just a few days ago, a few companies were told to stop using recycled cardboard for their food products (possibly kellogs?). The reason was that the cardboard contained lots of nasty chemicals, encrusted burger sauce, poo
Trix cereal, now with realistic rabbit pellets! Silly Rabbit, poo is for flinging!
The difference, of course, lies where a lot of crimes get defined: intent. Does the seller of the FOO believe in the FOO? Then no crime. I'm sure some people selling EMF readers believe they detect ghosts. Some probably don't. But without proof of their beliefs, intent is unprovable.
Um, what? Maybe you mean "Food contaminated products are not reused", because aluminum cans, glass, newspaper, and cardboard are all recycled after food contamination. Heck, glass is even reused after food contamination.
Do you often fantasize about extreme environmentalists? Could you share more of what happens in those fantasies? I mean, get to the good stuff, this part's boring.
Sure, here's one of my favorites:
Mother Gaea is lounging by the pool, reading a smutty novel. The camera pans over a few mountains and valleys in slow-motion, then focuses on her face. The doorbell rings, and her eyes flash in alarm. She hurriedly dresses herself (oh, yeah, she was naked), and rushes to the door. It's the pizza guy.
"Extra Sausage, right?", the delivery boy said.
"It should be cheese."
"Well, yeah, it's cheese, but.."
"Here's a twenty, keep the change.", Mother Gaea said as she closed the door on a surprised pizza guy.
Cut to outside the door. "What kind of porno fantasy is this?"
Did I mention he was a robot? 'Cuz that's kinda important. Yeah, a robot ...awesome!
Rejoice: a new oxymoron is born.
(thin line - accidentally cross it because it takes no time, but very well defined. Fuzzy line - is non-trivial to cross but, being fuzzy, there is no way to tell the exact moment one actually crossed it) .
/. editors - they do get paid, while members don't, isn't it?
I think he was saying the/. editors' members were thin fuzzy lines.
They're just trying to show the public how much "lost revenues" "pirating" has cost them.
So, pirating has prevented them from owning literally all the money in the world (20 trillion more than world GDP)? If that is true, then I need to start pirating to help prevent economic collapse even though I don't listen to music.
and you pay for the privilege of using the product of that resource
No I don't. I go to the public library. My childrens' children will use the inter-cyber-future-web-net instead of a physical library. But the computers will have to read to them, because being my childrens' children, they'll be a little mentally challenged. Maybe I should make sure that I have only one gender of children.
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There's plenty of room for everyone in America to have a picket fence and a yard. The need for everyong to live close to one another is diminishing - we don't need to be close to the factory any more. As any environmental engineer will tell you, "the solution to pollution is dilution" - If people didn't live so bunched together in the first place, many of our environmental problems would vanish just on that basis.
That's complete bullshit, unsupportable, and backwards.
Living in tight cities, even if shelter wouldn't be needed, requires vast amounts of energy for food transport and waste transport. Tight cities are unsupportable for the long term without cheap energy, and two or three hundred years from now, unless society gets abundant cheap energy again, the mega-cities won't be faring well. Farmers from outlying areas won't be farming as efficiently not will they be sending their crops into the cities.
It took me several seconds to realize it was a Linux distro.
They won't require it. They'll just threaten to withhold interstate funding from any state that refuses to comply.
You know...at what point are the people and the states going to get pissed off and put a STOP to us giving so much $$ to the Feds only to allow them to used it to blackmail us?
You go first.
If GP is Scott Walker or Mitch Daniels, next year might be verrry interesting.
Putting this kind of administrative overhead on it just makes it more expensive *and* takes away the benefit.
But they're making jobs! Jobs! JOBS! Just in time for Election 2012. Is the honorable opponent against job creation?
One big disadvantrage of USB 2 or 3 compared to eSata and maybe thunderbolt is that it cannot read SMART data to monitor the drives and spin them down to save wear and power.
Then how does my computer detect when an external drive with SMART errors has been plugged in via USB 2.0?
I'm not sure why the article mentions external drives so much; eSATA is still a fair bit faster than USB3 for that purpose.
Because almost anyone using an external drive (as opposed to internal or front-removable) is doing so for portability. So few people use eSATA, but it's an easy bet that the random computer that you use at your cousin's house has at least USB1.0, which, while slow, works better than going out and buying your cousin an eSATA card and convincing him that opening the computer won't void the warranty.
I'd love to upgrade. Is anyone making a 16-bit ISA version?
Yeah, you read the subject right. Bigfoot.
People in their 40s were not early adopters, they were one of the first generation of people to use a computer day in and day out without really knowing that computers on the desktop didn't exist prior to their being born.
No, that would be people in their late twenties; the kids that went through school and had computers in every classroom, enough for every child. The people in their thirties went to elementary school with no (or only one) computers in classrooms, even in college (but now college kids walk around campus with a laptop and a smartphone). Forty year-olds probably didn't see a computer until high school unless it was a calculator.
Lion Server kicking SMB
Actually, it's kicking SAMBA in favor of an Apple proprietary SMB/CIFS offering. It's like dropping apache for an in-house crafted web server.
At the time people were saying they'd just stick with yellow dog linux. Funny how times change
Yeah, hilarious. Xserves are dead now, and Mac OS X Server won't be far behind. Thankfully you can run CentOS on a 1U budget server and still use the yellow dog update manager. :)
Windows was still a competitor, and Google was still a search engine. These were halcyon days, when being a Mac user meant belonging to the second team
So mac users fancy themselves as belonging to the winning team now? And how exactly were the days when Microsoft propped up Apple to prevent Microsoft from becoming a noticeable monopoly halcyon? Apple's fire almost died, and they had to make heavy use of BSD licensed (free, wee!) software to rekindle the embers.
This was corrected in GPLv3, and control-freak assholes are having a problem with it.
Calling them "control freak assholes" is disingenuous. They decided on their values, formed the GPLv3, and stuck to those values. They believe their values have merit, and have requisite need to prevent what they feel is non-free use cases from slipping in.
GP was calling Apple "control freak assholes", not FSF or other GPL3 supporters.
Just a few days ago, a few companies were told to stop using recycled cardboard for their food products (possibly kellogs?). The reason was that the cardboard contained lots of nasty chemicals, encrusted burger sauce, poo
Trix cereal, now with realistic rabbit pellets! Silly Rabbit, poo is for flinging!
The difference, of course, lies where a lot of crimes get defined: intent. Does the seller of the FOO believe in the FOO? Then no crime. I'm sure some people selling EMF readers believe they detect ghosts. Some probably don't. But without proof of their beliefs, intent is unprovable.
1) Food contaminated products are not recycled
Um, what? Maybe you mean "Food contaminated products are not reused", because aluminum cans, glass, newspaper, and cardboard are all recycled after food contamination. Heck, glass is even reused after food contamination.
I was making a crude joke about their penises. But now I had to explain it. :(
Do you often fantasize about extreme environmentalists? Could you share more of what happens in those fantasies? I mean, get to the good stuff, this part's boring.
Sure, here's one of my favorites:
...awesome!
Mother Gaea is lounging by the pool, reading a smutty novel. The camera pans over a few mountains and valleys in slow-motion, then focuses on her face. The doorbell rings, and her eyes flash in alarm. She hurriedly dresses herself (oh, yeah, she was naked), and rushes to the door. It's the pizza guy.
"Extra Sausage, right?", the delivery boy said.
"It should be cheese."
"Well, yeah, it's cheese, but.."
"Here's a twenty, keep the change.", Mother Gaea said as she closed the door on a surprised pizza guy.
Cut to outside the door. "What kind of porno fantasy is this?"
Did I mention he was a robot? 'Cuz that's kinda important. Yeah, a robot
so maybe your friends cant play tekken on it now.
Member, editor. It's all such a thin fuzzy line.
Rejoice: a new oxymoron is born.
/. editors - they do get paid, while members don't, isn't it?
(thin line - accidentally cross it because it takes no time, but very well defined. Fuzzy line - is non-trivial to cross but, being fuzzy, there is no way to tell the exact moment one actually crossed it) .
I think he was saying the /. editors' members were thin fuzzy lines.
Who's everyone? While Windows market share...
Dude, I started reading "Who's everyone?" and immediately thought that the next sentence was the catch phrase of MichaelKristopeitXXX
Your English teacher is / was / will be disappoint.
No, Yoda were completely appoint.
They're just trying to show the public how much "lost revenues" "pirating" has cost them.
So, pirating has prevented them from owning literally all the money in the world (20 trillion more than world GDP)? If that is true, then I need to start pirating to help prevent economic collapse even though I don't listen to music.
and you pay for the privilege of using the product of that resource
No I don't. I go to the public library. My childrens' children will use the inter-cyber-future-web-net instead of a physical library. But the computers will have to read to them, because being my childrens' children, they'll be a little mentally challenged. Maybe I should make sure that I have only one gender of children.
No one bought Windows XP netbooks in early 2010?