He said Con wasn't following up on bug reports wheras Ingo did. In commercial terms he sacked Con and moved hi responsibilities to Ingo who he trusts.
However, what Linus said about Con not following up on bug reports is disputed as falseby some people.
Quoting Grzegorz Kulewski from the above link:
"I don't really want to keep all that -ck flamewar going but this sum-up is
a little strange for me:
If Con was thinking SD was "perfect" why he released 30+ versions of it?
And who knows how many versions of his previous scheduler?
Besides Con always tried to help people and improve his code if some bugs
or problems were reported. Archives of this list prove that. I reported
several problems (on list and privately) and all were fixed very fast and
with very kind responses."
He's not shut down any TV station, the concession simply expired and the government didn't renew it. There's still plenty of other opposition TV stations and RCTV (the TV station you're talking about) is still able to transmit via cable and satellite.
Shall I remind you that RCTV had a big, the biggest role of all in the 2002 coup d'état, by spreading false information about the president? A coup d'état behind which, allegedly, there's the CIA, by the way.
Actually, if you look carefully, you can see through that alleged "sand", therefore it cannot be sand. It looks like a liquid to me, whether it's water or not.
There has to be some use for it, and the output would be in a small contained area with a low output, perfect for capturing in tanks for some use. Any ideas?
Just use it to generate fresh, clean, sparkling water. D'oh!
You know, we need O2 to live. Burying it into the ground doesn't sound like such a great idea, does it?
The best way to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere still is and always will be to not emit it in the first place. Any other ways will just lead to the global reduction of Oxygen.
That's cute, you think the current British government gives a flying fuck about protests, or indeed, what "the people" think.
They should care about losing their votes, therefore if tens of thousand, rather a few tens, of people got in the street and made a scandal about it, the government would be forced to take notice, the press would be forced to take notice, the international press would be forced to take notice.
Your attitude is exactly what makes them continue what they are doing: you shrug and they happily abuse of you.
How come only 200 people protested about it? There should have been a mass revolt, an international scandal... and instead I only hear about it now, and I read only 200 people have protested.
First off, this was all just a scam, now the page links to the wikipedia entry about Radix Sort, whilst it still contains a lot of Google ads. We're making the guy rich.:-)
Then, you can both apply quick and merge sort to a linked list, no need to have random access. Yes, it'll be slower than if you had random access to the lists item, but the complexity would be just the same on both cases.
If your list is doubly linked, however, you can apply merge sort to ot without any drawbacks and without requiring random access: you basically first split the list of n items in n circular lists, then you go power-of-two lists at time merging them together, till you only are left with one list, which will be the sorted one.
You use the "next" pointer of the last item in the list in order to keep a reference to the next list, whilst you use the "prev" pointer of the first item in the list to point at the first item of the list.
Here is an implementation of both quick and merge sort on doubly linked lists.
But why would you want to have only one energy source anyway? Obviously the "one-spot-on-earth" example was just that, an example, but in a real situation it would make far more sense for each country to have its own solar cells to draw energy from, or at least have them more evenly spread across the globe, both for politica, economical and logistic reasons.
That doesn't mean He "can do everything", it means He can do anything every other being can, and perhaps a lot more (like creating a universe with an embedded existance, which I personally believe to be bogus).
You have no way to prove it's bogus, just like they have no way to prove it's not. You both are on the same ground and think very much alike. The conclusions you might come to might be opposit, but the method you use to get there is exactly the same.
With the advancement of technology, we might one day be able to simulate one entire universe inside a computer. Doesn't even matter whether it would take one of our years to simulate one second of the so created universe, because the time of the universe we created would exist in a reference frame independent from ours. What would matter, is the question: since you created that universe, who are you, if not the God of that universe?
Therefore, why and how we're here, ultimately, is irrelevant. There will always be the question "who or what originated it all". Call it God, if you wish.
I highly doubt any city is going to pay 30% more though. The cities and counties out here bid to the cheapest contractor and the cheapest contractor is probably going to get the cheapest concrete.
How much a solution is going to cost versus another one isn't (or shouldn't be) calculated only on the basis of the concrete's cost, but also on the other costs or savings that a certain solution is going to induce.
In the case of this special concrete, the city would probably see a net saving by not having to spend money to counter pollution in other ways and, since there would be a net decrease of health expenses as well, countries where health services are paid by the state (with people's taxes) would greatly benefit too. Add to that that the less money you spend for health issues, the more you have left to spend for other things, the more you drive the economy.
No, genetic mutation will occur even in the absense of natural selection.
But they won't be guided, for the absence of natural selection, essentially leading to an increase of genetically transmissible illnesses, certainly not to "evolution".
""Ahead of its time" might be one take on this as well. It'll be interesting to see when the time is right.
Hopefully, that day will never come. Don't call me luddite yet, I'm certainly not, but there are uses, and there are abuses of a technology. It's already kind of hateful now, to walk around and see everyone with their earphones plugged in and their sight lost in the void.
I wonder, what is the social awareness of these CCTV cameras? I mean, what do UK citizens know about them? Are they fine with them? If not, why don't they step ahead and call for them to be removed? Isn't there any way to make a referendum in the UK?
Face it guys, when something becomes habitual, natural, for millions of people, rights and wrongs get swapped.
People are finally starting to realize that information wants to be free, they are literally enjoying the pleasure of creating their own content, even if based upon the creation of others, and someone can't just come along and tell them they're not allowed to do it.
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So, USA citizens, when will you wake up and revolt?
Genesis 2:7 - "The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being."
However, what Linus said about Con not following up on bug reports is disputed as false by some people.
Quoting Grzegorz Kulewski from the above link:
"I don't really want to keep all that -ck flamewar going but this sum-up is a little strange for me:
If Con was thinking SD was "perfect" why he released 30+ versions of it? And who knows how many versions of his previous scheduler?
Besides Con always tried to help people and improve his code if some bugs or problems were reported. Archives of this list prove that. I reported several problems (on list and privately) and all were fixed very fast and with very kind responses."
He's not shut down any TV station, the concession simply expired and the government didn't renew it. There's still plenty of other opposition TV stations and RCTV (the TV station you're talking about) is still able to transmit via cable and satellite.
Shall I remind you that RCTV had a big, the biggest role of all in the 2002 coup d'état, by spreading false information about the president? A coup d'état behind which, allegedly, there's the CIA, by the way.
Just use it to generate fresh, clean, sparkling water. D'oh!
Modded up as funny - and it is - but I wonder whether it was meant to be?
The best way to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere still is and always will be to not emit it in the first place. Any other ways will just lead to the global reduction of Oxygen.
That hard to get?
Others have modded you up as funny, but this is serious as hell!
The more time passes, the more events happen, the more it looks like whatever one can possibly imagine one day will come true.
Looking forward to flying pigs now.
That's wrong, they are alternating magnetic AND electric fields, orthogonal to each other. That's what electromagnetic radiation means, indeed.
They should care about losing their votes, therefore if tens of thousand, rather a few tens, of people got in the street and made a scandal about it, the government would be forced to take notice, the press would be forced to take notice, the international press would be forced to take notice.
Your attitude is exactly what makes them continue what they are doing: you shrug and they happily abuse of you.
Well, that' sucks great. BUT.
How come only 200 people protested about it? There should have been a mass revolt, an international scandal... and instead I only hear about it now, and I read only 200 people have protested.
That's the issue.
If you UKers really cared about it, you'd go into the streets and protest.
You have the power, you elected those people.
First off, this was all just a scam, now the page links to the wikipedia entry about Radix Sort, whilst it still contains a lot of Google ads. We're making the guy rich. :-)
Then, you can both apply quick and merge sort to a linked list, no need to have random access. Yes, it'll be slower than if you had random access to the lists item, but the complexity would be just the same on both cases.
If your list is doubly linked, however, you can apply merge sort to ot without any drawbacks and without requiring random access: you basically first split the list of n items in n circular lists, then you go power-of-two lists at time merging them together, till you only are left with one list, which will be the sorted one.
You use the "next" pointer of the last item in the list in order to keep a reference to the next list, whilst you use the "prev" pointer of the first item in the list to point at the first item of the list.
Here is an implementation of both quick and merge sort on doubly linked lists.
But why would you want to have only one energy source anyway? Obviously the "one-spot-on-earth" example was just that, an example, but in a real situation it would make far more sense for each country to have its own solar cells to draw energy from, or at least have them more evenly spread across the globe, both for politica, economical and logistic reasons.
You have no way to prove it's bogus, just like they have no way to prove it's not. You both are on the same ground and think very much alike. The conclusions you might come to might be opposit, but the method you use to get there is exactly the same.
With the advancement of technology, we might one day be able to simulate one entire universe inside a computer. Doesn't even matter whether it would take one of our years to simulate one second of the so created universe, because the time of the universe we created would exist in a reference frame independent from ours. What would matter, is the question: since you created that universe, who are you, if not the God of that universe?
Therefore, why and how we're here, ultimately, is irrelevant. There will always be the question "who or what originated it all". Call it God, if you wish.
-- an agnostic.
Of course I was implying that the government should incentive the usage of this kind of concrete because, in the end, it will have a benefit from it.
How much a solution is going to cost versus another one isn't (or shouldn't be) calculated only on the basis of the concrete's cost, but also on the other costs or savings that a certain solution is going to induce.
In the case of this special concrete, the city would probably see a net saving by not having to spend money to counter pollution in other ways and, since there would be a net decrease of health expenses as well, countries where health services are paid by the state (with people's taxes) would greatly benefit too. Add to that that the less money you spend for health issues, the more you have left to spend for other things, the more you drive the economy.
But they won't be guided, for the absence of natural selection, essentially leading to an increase of genetically transmissible illnesses, certainly not to "evolution".
""Ahead of its time" might be one take on this as well. It'll be interesting to see when the time is right.
Hopefully, that day will never come. Don't call me luddite yet, I'm certainly not, but there are uses, and there are abuses of a technology. It's already kind of hateful now, to walk around and see everyone with their earphones plugged in and their sight lost in the void.
I know I would fight for it.
Never thought I'd say "I told you so!" this fast!
I wonder, what is the social awareness of these CCTV cameras? I mean, what do UK citizens know about them? Are they fine with them? If not, why don't they step ahead and call for them to be removed? Isn't there any way to make a referendum in the UK?
"Seriously, it is coming to the point that you can't even whistle your favorite song without being sued for copyright infringement."
Oh, that's been a reality[*] in Italy since the existence of the SIAE, the Italian equivalent of the RIAA.
[*]Automated English translation
... of Copyright Law as we know it.
Face it guys, when something becomes habitual, natural, for millions of people, rights and wrongs get swapped.
People are finally starting to realize that information wants to be free, they are literally enjoying the pleasure of creating their own content, even if based upon the creation of others, and someone can't just come along and tell them they're not allowed to do it.
I forecast a revolution of some sort.