And illiterate people are disenfranchised by books with words. Blind people are disenfranchised so don't go to movies...
No, not all advances will suit all people. Don't cripple the rest to make it accessible to those who can't. Let's not tear down the mountains because they can't be climbed by fat people.
Okay, so I'm only sort of guessing where you were going with that. However, no... No you shouldn't slow down progress because some can't keep up. For some reason my 'touch' doesn't seem to work well on most every touch screen. I accept that.
I still don't know what she looks like or who she is or what she does. I'm sort of proud of this and won't be following any links to find out more information. I've concluded she's moderately good looking (perhaps a blond), has a big ass, has a following - some reality show or something, and I think someone mentioned she had a bunch of children at once. To the best of my knowledge, I've not seen a picture. Someone also mentioned that she had something to do with the OJ trial - child of a lawyer or something?
I'm okay with that. I do find the conversations perplexing at times when it comes to these sorts of things. I know who Paris Hilton is. I've seen her. I've seen B. Spears. My daughter was a fan. She grew out of it.
I get a little confused with a lot of these current events and I'm not sure how they end up here. But, I do have some nommy Chinese food. So, there's that. Who'd have thought you'd get good Chinese in Buffalo? (I figure that's about as on topic as the person mentioned.)
I don't think Gartner is usually correct. It may be my search terms but I've not been able to find out how often their predictions actually come true or anything like that. I think that might actually make an interesting study. It doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult to compile the data though I'm not sure how well the companies would go along with this and to what extent they'd be helpful.
I open and hold the door open for everyone.:/ It has been a bitch before - I'll end up sitting there and holding the door open because I just don't want to let it close when someone's approaching. I've resolved this by just holding it for a group of people and then letting it go. However, I've stood there for a while before as I was unsure of how to proceed. I typically will wait longer and hold the door longer for the elderly. Gender isn't the reason I do so. I do it because it's the polite thing to do.
It took me a while to come to grips with this. It's why I've since chosen to use the moniker "Classic Libertarian" instead. The party was usurped by morons and zealots. Now, everyone believes that those people represent the whole and I can't blame them. Instead, I blame us for letting them into the tent in the first place.
I am pretty sure that this is me NOT helping but...
I can assure you that the line, "... Wanna fuck?" or "... So, sex it is, then?" Or even, "... Yup. I'm hung like a wild studded gerbil! Want me to prove it?" Those actually do work in some certain circumstances.
The "trick" (stop thinking of it as a game, I guess) is to know where and when those are applicable. You'd be surprised at how often being up front and honest and open actually helps. It takes some balls to come out and ask it but alcohol helped with that. I no longer drink but I certainly have the courage to just ask. Sometimes, if done right, you can even use those types of lines with people you've barely met - if that's what your goal is.
Sometimes I think we're like animals with our mating rituals. There's some science done on this and I've chuckled at a few articles over the years. Quite literally, at this moment in time, I have a fairly attractive, many years my junior, female sitting on my hotel bed and she's pecking at a laptop and eating left over Chinese food from last night. I could sleep with her, in fact she's insinuated as much though not overtly stated such.
How to make this short? Hmm... A helpful Slashdotter suggested I go on a trip due to a conversation we had. A while back, I'd sold my business and retired. This put me into a very different class financially. It also has some complex issues associated with it, I'm not really able to judge the way people treat me or trust their motives. I also insist on being honest - no games. So, I've gone on a trip and avoided mentioning anything and I am, for all accounts pretty normal but just some dude out seeking to see what life has on offer. A late mid-life crisis, as it were.
How to make this short?
Now, in my travels, I've come across a young lady who's technically legally old enough. They had some major issues - her parents have been put in jail for the manufacturing of methamphetamines. Because she's still not graduated but is old enough she had been living off the graces of a few friends and a local (state or private? I've not asked) group who had put her up in the same hotel where I happened to be staying.
I bumped into her abusing her laptop and helped her out with that (yay! Linux on a live USB) and we decided we were hungry. So we went to eat. The money was running out to keep her in housing so I've since just given the hotel a credit card and had them bill weekly for her stay. She's aware of this but unaware of much more. I've simply avoided discussing it. I refuse to lie. We've spent a great deal of time together since. I think she may have figured some of it out as I do drive a rather expensive car and haven't yet bitched about money.
Given the nature of our relationship, the differences in age, and my own personal beliefs you can bet your ass I'm going to get a clear and definitive affirmation before having sex with this person. This is not some sort of game. There is no game involved, nor should their be. Women aren't meant to be conquered. You aren't meant to master the art of woo. Try just being honest with yourself first and then learning to be honest with others.
Finally, yes... I know... I need to have that conversation with her. No, I have no idea how to nor do I know how to explain it. I think my best solution is to just set up a small trust that will enable her to go to college and whatnot. Then I can just move along. Picking flowers usually means you kill them. Even if you keep them alive for a while in a vase, they're still not the same. Transplanting is an option but, frankly, I can't do so objectively.
Before you ask, yes... I've tried:
man life man woman man advice
So I RTFM. No, it didn't help. You fuckers told me Linux solved everything too.;)
Actually, it goes both ways, I guess. I have someone whom I'm reasonably interested in and they've made a number of advances. For reasons of my own, I've yet to take them up on it. They're beautiful and all that but I am not yet comfortable and need to have a long discussion with them before going further. I've yet been able to figure out my own thoughts so that discussion hasn't happened.
It's not a game. It's caution. For such a normally cautious group you seem to throw reason to the wind when there's a vagina involved. Don't get me wrong, I understand. I've done my share of sexing the opposing gender for fun and profit. Well, no profit really.
I really need to do an Ask Slashdot.;) It'd be just way too long. I'm *still* in Buffalo. Only now I'm paying for two hotel rooms. It's a very long story.
Anyhow, patience is a good thing. I've had better luck, and experiences, with ladies who didn't put out on the first date. I've had much better luck with the ladies who I developed a relationship with. I've had terrible luck when it comes to sleeping with friends, though. Don't do that... Don't fuck your friends - don't fuck your friend's friends either. Don't - do not ever - sleep with your buddy's wife. Never ever, ever sleep with your buddy's daughter. Do not do! Trust me on those... *sighs*
Control your cock, don't let it control you. We geeks get irrational where a moist wet spot is concerned.
Don't ask. "I want to be able to go over this later, I've been finding my notes are inadequate so I'm going to record portions of this meeting to help me make sure I understand you properly."
Your two cents don't buy much. I'm guessing you've never been involved in the process. Changing your advisor and/or university is damned near impossible if you're even remotely specialized. It's not like there are infinite slots available in candidacy programs and the number dwindles ever smaller the more specialized you become.
This... I had a great advisor and my defense was "easy" and helpful. I had no major issues. However, there were a lot of people who claimed to have issues. The number of people complaining were high enough to reasonably conclude that there was, indeed, systemic issues of abusive behavior in academia. I'm not sure if it is of benefit to relegate this to a matter of gender so much as it would benefit to simply realize that there is a problem and fix that rather than make it an emotionally charged issue about gender.
In my experience, the number of people complaining seemed (I did not compile data from anecdotes) to be fairly equally split amongst the genders even with proportions taken into account. (There were fewer females and fewer female complaints about advisors lording power and being abusive.)
I'd hoped this would have resolved itself by now. It certainly appears that it has not. My opinion? Open it up to public scrutiny and avoid letting it be emotionally charged and limited to simply protecting one gender. The abuse obviously happens and it obviously needs to stop. This seems like the perfect time for making it about all people as opposed to a single gender. In short, there's no excuse.
I wonder if it is the magnitude that has changed or if it is the available communication, the ubiquity if you will, and that we're able to see it (and confirm it) more readily? I don't even begin to know what to look for if I wanted to compile data on the subject. An interesting aside is the history of yellow journalism. Anyhow, I've no solutions other than to suggest that people who are interested take the time and make the effort to run for office.
Honestly, I don't want to be in office. I've got more interesting things to do with my time. I will not run for a second term. I will help someone follow me when that time comes. I won't even be keeping my salary. That will get donated to a local charity - in the district that I represent. The only good thing that I can think of is that I can intentionally be a little late for an open session and drive as fast as I want to get there and the cops are unable to stop me. (The movement to an open session by a legislator shall not be hindered or infringed. Something like that.) No, that's an attempt at a joke. I won't really go speeding to an open session.
Another thing is, there seem to be some very well informed voters. I've been talking to them - lots of them. Some of them are far more aware of the problems and have fine insights that I'd never have. Then there are others who simply vote the way they do because that's what they were taught. So, where does the blame lie and where can we find solutions?
Schools no longer teach critical thinking, they don't even teach civics but call a watered down version "Social Studies." Parents probably have the time, they just don't seem interested. They can stop watching a few hours of television every night and work with their children. They don't even help with homework all that much. It's kind of sad.
Now this is WILDLY off topic but this is a good place to put it... You (generic you) think you're smarter than those a generation or three ago. Theoretically this is possible but in reality is is unlikely. What? Well, a few generations ago you had to know how to do everything from welding to fixing your own automobile. Today we can get away with knowing less because we're large enough to support specialists. This is only true for a relatively short time frame. It was not that long ago that one needed to be adept with things like agriculture, hunting, animal husbandry, medicine, mechanics, engineering, and whatnot.
I was watching an interesting documentary that brought this up in a short manner and have since been pondering it. We're dumber than we've ever been in our history. I'm still processing the idea and the verbiage but it seems true. Our test metrics are bogus and make all sorts of assumptions. We're higher level animals but not nearly as good as we think. Let's see you walk around, without fire, and survive in a jungle. You don't have the skills or stamina. Yet a lowly sloth does it just fine.
Thank you for the insight. I really need to fire up MINIX in a VM and see what's going on. I'm a maths grad and not a CS grad so it will be fun for me to learn about the various ins and outs. One of the things I assume is that, in realistic use, today's hardware will cope with the added overhead with nary a problem - I'd imagine the processing rate to be only trivially slower if I'm understanding everything properly (and I may not be).
I kind of like the checks, or the idea - I'm not fluent enough to say that I like them in practice. With, say, Linux I need to enter my password for all sorts of things. I like that. I like having to give something permission to do what it wants to do. I can handle the added time and overhead - I don't mind. I dare say that I prefer it. Much of my earlier days were spent in Unix land. Then I poked and prodded Linux for a while. Then I went to Windows - I always kept Linux on a spare drive. Now I've just decided to return to Linux and remain there. I made that choice a couple of years ago and haven't touched my own Windows quite a while now.
Anyhow, I'm curious as to where MINIX goes. I'd like to get involved but I'm afraid I probably can't do much more than donate. I can code. I'd say that I'm "pretty good" but I'm really not. Not only are my skills rusty but I was never that good in the first place. Eventually, I hired professionals to do this for me and I stopped "helping" once I realized that I had, indeed, hired them for a reason.
As for the original argument, not so very long ago I read the exchange and a follow-up from what's his name (MINIX author). From what I could reason there was a complexity issue, stability issues, and security issues. What I did find amusing is that he remarked that he'd not have given Linus a very high grade for Linux if he'd taken his course. I can only imagine how he'd grade Windows. I like the idea of it, however. I really need to immerse myself in it for a while to actually give a qualified opinion.
Maybe it is time to start a new business? We can't call it Slashdot Inc. or anything... Hmm...
How about Graybeard International LTD?
They can specialize in contract crisis work where people who retain the talents of yesteryear are able to run in and solve emergency IT problems or crisis work in engineering new projects. We can even have a superhero logo. Someone draw up some plans. I'd consider investing in something like that. Kind of like a mature Geek Squad (only with talent/skills) for businesses.
I can steal the signature of one of our peers - Have GNU, will travel. Wearing a cape and mask is mandatory, however.
There are far more pressing issues that I worry about on behalf of others. If you're in a position to help then, by all means, help. I don't really have much that I can do to help - I already don't judge based on innate qualities or even quite a few choices. If you have two equally qualified candidates for employment and one is male and the other female then the socially responsible thing to do might be to hire the female. If she's more qualified then the business choice should clearly be to hire her. If the male is more qualified then, by all means, it's not a bad thing to hire him.
I sit, most of the time - I'm not in the area currently, on the board at my local credit union. The board makes decisions on certain large loans (we're all share holders - it's very different from a bank). I've never seen the board (and we're in a closed session) make a decision based on gender, skin color, sexuality, etc... In fact, I can't say it's certain, but I think we may have made some riskier loans because the applicant was female. I'd consider that sexist behavior.
I'm really not in a position where I can have any impact in a manner that I'd be comfortable with - assuming that it is a problem. If you are and see it as a problem then, as said, it's good if you can change it even just a little. I have other concerns (like malaria is an example) that I donate to.
Unfortunately, we can't outlaw lying. Politicians, for the most part, seem keen on lying. To be honest, I have no idea why. I don't find it endearing nor do I think others do. I can't assume they, the average voter, believe them. I can't assume they like them. I'm not sure why they vote for them or don't actually run to take their place. I've had people crawling out of the woodwork to get my to take their money since saying that I'd run for the State Senate. I imagine others would find the same to be true.
I don't take the money, by the way. I don't want to be beholden to anyone. I also have no need for it. I can afford it on my own, thanks. They can use that money to put up signs, to buy commercials on my behalf (something I have no choice but to accept), or just use give it to a charity. I'm already beholden to my (potential) constituents. I'll not be more obligated to one over the other.
There is so much that I still do not understand. I get how Obama won the first election - he had a good message and is charismatic and all that. I have no idea how he won the second time. I don't assume momentum works like it does in physics but it seems like there's a potential "law" there. I don't understand why we vote for people who are going to harm us - we can vote for a third party (and I do 99.999% of the time).
It is for me. It does everything I need, quickly and while being stable and secure. It's light, fast, and easy. I really think it's better - at least for me.
You can't win. They'll just stop responding. Then they'll find the next story and go on about it some more. Me? I don't have the expertise to opine so I read and try to find those who do. I welcome rational discourse and long for good fact and data-based debate simply so I can learn from it. With the highly emotionally charged subjects this doesn't seem like one of those times where I'll get what I want.
So, back to poo flinging, screeching, monkey behavior for everyone!!!
I don't know... What about them? Do they cause premature births? Do we have evidence that this is the cause without making broad assumptions?
Let's have that discussion and let's get the data. I'm all for reasoned discussions based on facts. So far, I've mostly seen bias and hyperbole from both sides of the fence.
A remarkably beautiful young lady revealed something to me just the other day. This is from a pop song in 1982 - I'd never noticed it when it was popular and getting radio play.
Back at base, bugs in the software Flash the message "Something's out there"
Yup... Ah well, we'll always have bugs. Anyhow, isn't the idea of a microkernel meant to minimize such? IIRC that was the guy from MINIX (I forget his name) big complaint about Linux. Stability and security come at a cost of performance but the price might be worth paying now that we have hardware that is so speedy.
Oh, the song is 99 Red Balloons. Yeah, I'd never realized that. And, the good (maybe) news is that I'm still here with her. The oddity is that it was a live Linux disk that was our introduction but that's a story for another time unless, for some odd reason, someone really wants me to type all that out. They won't read it so I'll skip the effort, I guess. 'Tis an interesting story, however.
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What's this? I don't even...
And illiterate people are disenfranchised by books with words. Blind people are disenfranchised so don't go to movies...
No, not all advances will suit all people. Don't cripple the rest to make it accessible to those who can't. Let's not tear down the mountains because they can't be climbed by fat people.
Okay, so I'm only sort of guessing where you were going with that. However, no... No you shouldn't slow down progress because some can't keep up. For some reason my 'touch' doesn't seem to work well on most every touch screen. I accept that.
That might make their predictions a little more accurate. Just plot the spots of blood and run with it.
I still don't know what she looks like or who she is or what she does. I'm sort of proud of this and won't be following any links to find out more information. I've concluded she's moderately good looking (perhaps a blond), has a big ass, has a following - some reality show or something, and I think someone mentioned she had a bunch of children at once. To the best of my knowledge, I've not seen a picture. Someone also mentioned that she had something to do with the OJ trial - child of a lawyer or something?
I'm okay with that. I do find the conversations perplexing at times when it comes to these sorts of things. I know who Paris Hilton is. I've seen her. I've seen B. Spears. My daughter was a fan. She grew out of it.
I get a little confused with a lot of these current events and I'm not sure how they end up here. But, I do have some nommy Chinese food. So, there's that. Who'd have thought you'd get good Chinese in Buffalo? (I figure that's about as on topic as the person mentioned.)
I don't think Gartner is usually correct. It may be my search terms but I've not been able to find out how often their predictions actually come true or anything like that. I think that might actually make an interesting study. It doesn't seem like it would be all that difficult to compile the data though I'm not sure how well the companies would go along with this and to what extent they'd be helpful.
I open and hold the door open for everyone. :/ It has been a bitch before - I'll end up sitting there and holding the door open because I just don't want to let it close when someone's approaching. I've resolved this by just holding it for a group of people and then letting it go. However, I've stood there for a while before as I was unsure of how to proceed. I typically will wait longer and hold the door longer for the elderly. Gender isn't the reason I do so. I do it because it's the polite thing to do.
Oh sure, you're a life apologist. How about us specterkin? I lack height, width, and breadth. I find your privilege distasteful and demand an apology!
#heartbeatgate2015
Seriously, can't we just admit people suck and work to change that instead of making it about one gender or the other?
You can only judge a movement by it's followers.
It took me a while to come to grips with this. It's why I've since chosen to use the moniker "Classic Libertarian" instead. The party was usurped by morons and zealots. Now, everyone believes that those people represent the whole and I can't blame them. Instead, I blame us for letting them into the tent in the first place.
I am pretty sure that this is me NOT helping but...
I can assure you that the line, "... Wanna fuck?" or "... So, sex it is, then?" Or even, "... Yup. I'm hung like a wild studded gerbil! Want me to prove it?" Those actually do work in some certain circumstances.
The "trick" (stop thinking of it as a game, I guess) is to know where and when those are applicable. You'd be surprised at how often being up front and honest and open actually helps. It takes some balls to come out and ask it but alcohol helped with that. I no longer drink but I certainly have the courage to just ask. Sometimes, if done right, you can even use those types of lines with people you've barely met - if that's what your goal is.
Sometimes I think we're like animals with our mating rituals. There's some science done on this and I've chuckled at a few articles over the years. Quite literally, at this moment in time, I have a fairly attractive, many years my junior, female sitting on my hotel bed and she's pecking at a laptop and eating left over Chinese food from last night. I could sleep with her, in fact she's insinuated as much though not overtly stated such.
How to make this short? Hmm... A helpful Slashdotter suggested I go on a trip due to a conversation we had. A while back, I'd sold my business and retired. This put me into a very different class financially. It also has some complex issues associated with it, I'm not really able to judge the way people treat me or trust their motives. I also insist on being honest - no games. So, I've gone on a trip and avoided mentioning anything and I am, for all accounts pretty normal but just some dude out seeking to see what life has on offer. A late mid-life crisis, as it were.
How to make this short?
Now, in my travels, I've come across a young lady who's technically legally old enough. They had some major issues - her parents have been put in jail for the manufacturing of methamphetamines. Because she's still not graduated but is old enough she had been living off the graces of a few friends and a local (state or private? I've not asked) group who had put her up in the same hotel where I happened to be staying.
I bumped into her abusing her laptop and helped her out with that (yay! Linux on a live USB) and we decided we were hungry. So we went to eat. The money was running out to keep her in housing so I've since just given the hotel a credit card and had them bill weekly for her stay. She's aware of this but unaware of much more. I've simply avoided discussing it. I refuse to lie. We've spent a great deal of time together since. I think she may have figured some of it out as I do drive a rather expensive car and haven't yet bitched about money.
Given the nature of our relationship, the differences in age, and my own personal beliefs you can bet your ass I'm going to get a clear and definitive affirmation before having sex with this person. This is not some sort of game. There is no game involved, nor should their be. Women aren't meant to be conquered. You aren't meant to master the art of woo. Try just being honest with yourself first and then learning to be honest with others.
Finally, yes... I know... I need to have that conversation with her. No, I have no idea how to nor do I know how to explain it. I think my best solution is to just set up a small trust that will enable her to go to college and whatnot. Then I can just move along. Picking flowers usually means you kill them. Even if you keep them alive for a while in a vase, they're still not the same. Transplanting is an option but, frankly, I can't do so objectively.
Before you ask, yes... I've tried:
man life
man woman
man advice
So I RTFM. No, it didn't help. You fuckers told me Linux solved everything too. ;)
Actually, it goes both ways, I guess. I have someone whom I'm reasonably interested in and they've made a number of advances. For reasons of my own, I've yet to take them up on it. They're beautiful and all that but I am not yet comfortable and need to have a long discussion with them before going further. I've yet been able to figure out my own thoughts so that discussion hasn't happened.
It's not a game. It's caution. For such a normally cautious group you seem to throw reason to the wind when there's a vagina involved. Don't get me wrong, I understand. I've done my share of sexing the opposing gender for fun and profit. Well, no profit really.
I really need to do an Ask Slashdot. ;) It'd be just way too long. I'm *still* in Buffalo. Only now I'm paying for two hotel rooms. It's a very long story.
Anyhow, patience is a good thing. I've had better luck, and experiences, with ladies who didn't put out on the first date. I've had much better luck with the ladies who I developed a relationship with. I've had terrible luck when it comes to sleeping with friends, though. Don't do that... Don't fuck your friends - don't fuck your friend's friends either. Don't - do not ever - sleep with your buddy's wife. Never ever, ever sleep with your buddy's daughter. Do not do! Trust me on those... *sighs*
Control your cock, don't let it control you. We geeks get irrational where a moist wet spot is concerned.
Don't ask. "I want to be able to go over this later, I've been finding my notes are inadequate so I'm going to record portions of this meeting to help me make sure I understand you properly."
Your two cents don't buy much. I'm guessing you've never been involved in the process. Changing your advisor and/or university is damned near impossible if you're even remotely specialized. It's not like there are infinite slots available in candidacy programs and the number dwindles ever smaller the more specialized you become.
This... I had a great advisor and my defense was "easy" and helpful. I had no major issues. However, there were a lot of people who claimed to have issues. The number of people complaining were high enough to reasonably conclude that there was, indeed, systemic issues of abusive behavior in academia. I'm not sure if it is of benefit to relegate this to a matter of gender so much as it would benefit to simply realize that there is a problem and fix that rather than make it an emotionally charged issue about gender.
In my experience, the number of people complaining seemed (I did not compile data from anecdotes) to be fairly equally split amongst the genders even with proportions taken into account. (There were fewer females and fewer female complaints about advisors lording power and being abusive.)
I'd hoped this would have resolved itself by now. It certainly appears that it has not. My opinion? Open it up to public scrutiny and avoid letting it be emotionally charged and limited to simply protecting one gender. The abuse obviously happens and it obviously needs to stop. This seems like the perfect time for making it about all people as opposed to a single gender. In short, there's no excuse.
I wonder if it is the magnitude that has changed or if it is the available communication, the ubiquity if you will, and that we're able to see it (and confirm it) more readily? I don't even begin to know what to look for if I wanted to compile data on the subject. An interesting aside is the history of yellow journalism. Anyhow, I've no solutions other than to suggest that people who are interested take the time and make the effort to run for office.
Honestly, I don't want to be in office. I've got more interesting things to do with my time. I will not run for a second term. I will help someone follow me when that time comes. I won't even be keeping my salary. That will get donated to a local charity - in the district that I represent. The only good thing that I can think of is that I can intentionally be a little late for an open session and drive as fast as I want to get there and the cops are unable to stop me. (The movement to an open session by a legislator shall not be hindered or infringed. Something like that.) No, that's an attempt at a joke. I won't really go speeding to an open session.
Another thing is, there seem to be some very well informed voters. I've been talking to them - lots of them. Some of them are far more aware of the problems and have fine insights that I'd never have. Then there are others who simply vote the way they do because that's what they were taught. So, where does the blame lie and where can we find solutions?
Schools no longer teach critical thinking, they don't even teach civics but call a watered down version "Social Studies." Parents probably have the time, they just don't seem interested. They can stop watching a few hours of television every night and work with their children. They don't even help with homework all that much. It's kind of sad.
Now this is WILDLY off topic but this is a good place to put it... You (generic you) think you're smarter than those a generation or three ago. Theoretically this is possible but in reality is is unlikely. What? Well, a few generations ago you had to know how to do everything from welding to fixing your own automobile. Today we can get away with knowing less because we're large enough to support specialists. This is only true for a relatively short time frame. It was not that long ago that one needed to be adept with things like agriculture, hunting, animal husbandry, medicine, mechanics, engineering, and whatnot.
I was watching an interesting documentary that brought this up in a short manner and have since been pondering it. We're dumber than we've ever been in our history. I'm still processing the idea and the verbiage but it seems true. Our test metrics are bogus and make all sorts of assumptions. We're higher level animals but not nearly as good as we think. Let's see you walk around, without fire, and survive in a jungle. You don't have the skills or stamina. Yet a lowly sloth does it just fine.
Thank you for the insight. I really need to fire up MINIX in a VM and see what's going on. I'm a maths grad and not a CS grad so it will be fun for me to learn about the various ins and outs. One of the things I assume is that, in realistic use, today's hardware will cope with the added overhead with nary a problem - I'd imagine the processing rate to be only trivially slower if I'm understanding everything properly (and I may not be).
I kind of like the checks, or the idea - I'm not fluent enough to say that I like them in practice. With, say, Linux I need to enter my password for all sorts of things. I like that. I like having to give something permission to do what it wants to do. I can handle the added time and overhead - I don't mind. I dare say that I prefer it. Much of my earlier days were spent in Unix land. Then I poked and prodded Linux for a while. Then I went to Windows - I always kept Linux on a spare drive. Now I've just decided to return to Linux and remain there. I made that choice a couple of years ago and haven't touched my own Windows quite a while now.
Anyhow, I'm curious as to where MINIX goes. I'd like to get involved but I'm afraid I probably can't do much more than donate. I can code. I'd say that I'm "pretty good" but I'm really not. Not only are my skills rusty but I was never that good in the first place. Eventually, I hired professionals to do this for me and I stopped "helping" once I realized that I had, indeed, hired them for a reason.
As for the original argument, not so very long ago I read the exchange and a follow-up from what's his name (MINIX author). From what I could reason there was a complexity issue, stability issues, and security issues. What I did find amusing is that he remarked that he'd not have given Linus a very high grade for Linux if he'd taken his course. I can only imagine how he'd grade Windows. I like the idea of it, however. I really need to immerse myself in it for a while to actually give a qualified opinion.
Maybe it is time to start a new business? We can't call it Slashdot Inc. or anything... Hmm...
How about Graybeard International LTD?
They can specialize in contract crisis work where people who retain the talents of yesteryear are able to run in and solve emergency IT problems or crisis work in engineering new projects. We can even have a superhero logo. Someone draw up some plans. I'd consider investing in something like that. Kind of like a mature Geek Squad (only with talent/skills) for businesses.
I can steal the signature of one of our peers - Have GNU, will travel. Wearing a cape and mask is mandatory, however.
It implies it so long as you lunatics keep running around claiming it is evil and the dooming of humanity.
Pardon the short reply.
There are far more pressing issues that I worry about on behalf of others. If you're in a position to help then, by all means, help. I don't really have much that I can do to help - I already don't judge based on innate qualities or even quite a few choices. If you have two equally qualified candidates for employment and one is male and the other female then the socially responsible thing to do might be to hire the female. If she's more qualified then the business choice should clearly be to hire her. If the male is more qualified then, by all means, it's not a bad thing to hire him.
I sit, most of the time - I'm not in the area currently, on the board at my local credit union. The board makes decisions on certain large loans (we're all share holders - it's very different from a bank). I've never seen the board (and we're in a closed session) make a decision based on gender, skin color, sexuality, etc... In fact, I can't say it's certain, but I think we may have made some riskier loans because the applicant was female. I'd consider that sexist behavior.
I'm really not in a position where I can have any impact in a manner that I'd be comfortable with - assuming that it is a problem. If you are and see it as a problem then, as said, it's good if you can change it even just a little. I have other concerns (like malaria is an example) that I donate to.
Unfortunately, we can't outlaw lying. Politicians, for the most part, seem keen on lying. To be honest, I have no idea why. I don't find it endearing nor do I think others do. I can't assume they, the average voter, believe them. I can't assume they like them. I'm not sure why they vote for them or don't actually run to take their place. I've had people crawling out of the woodwork to get my to take their money since saying that I'd run for the State Senate. I imagine others would find the same to be true.
I don't take the money, by the way. I don't want to be beholden to anyone. I also have no need for it. I can afford it on my own, thanks. They can use that money to put up signs, to buy commercials on my behalf (something I have no choice but to accept), or just use give it to a charity. I'm already beholden to my (potential) constituents. I'll not be more obligated to one over the other.
There is so much that I still do not understand. I get how Obama won the first election - he had a good message and is charismatic and all that. I have no idea how he won the second time. I don't assume momentum works like it does in physics but it seems like there's a potential "law" there. I don't understand why we vote for people who are going to harm us - we can vote for a third party (and I do 99.999% of the time).
*shakes head sadly*
No.
20 isn't bad. 30 isn't too bad. 50 is starting to get crazy. Hundreds - and yes people claim they do - are moronic.
It is for me. It does everything I need, quickly and while being stable and secure. It's light, fast, and easy. I really think it's better - at least for me.
I've got your tuber right here, buddy!
No, I have nothing to contribute. I'm not even sure why I'm in this thread.
You can't win. They'll just stop responding. Then they'll find the next story and go on about it some more. Me? I don't have the expertise to opine so I read and try to find those who do. I welcome rational discourse and long for good fact and data-based debate simply so I can learn from it. With the highly emotionally charged subjects this doesn't seem like one of those times where I'll get what I want.
So, back to poo flinging, screeching, monkey behavior for everyone!!!
I'm not touching you!!!
I don't know... What about them? Do they cause premature births? Do we have evidence that this is the cause without making broad assumptions?
Let's have that discussion and let's get the data. I'm all for reasoned discussions based on facts. So far, I've mostly seen bias and hyperbole from both sides of the fence.
A remarkably beautiful young lady revealed something to me just the other day. This is from a pop song in 1982 - I'd never noticed it when it was popular and getting radio play.
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
Yup... Ah well, we'll always have bugs. Anyhow, isn't the idea of a microkernel meant to minimize such? IIRC that was the guy from MINIX (I forget his name) big complaint about Linux. Stability and security come at a cost of performance but the price might be worth paying now that we have hardware that is so speedy.
Oh, the song is 99 Red Balloons. Yeah, I'd never realized that. And, the good (maybe) news is that I'm still here with her. The oddity is that it was a live Linux disk that was our introduction but that's a story for another time unless, for some odd reason, someone really wants me to type all that out. They won't read it so I'll skip the effort, I guess. 'Tis an interesting story, however.