You are completely off-base with that comment about the Tea Party. I (as a tea partier) have no problem with unions in general except for public position unions and the ridiculous demands and perks they get paid for by the taxpayers. Unions are unnecessary if they work for the government since it is the government that sets most of the workplace environment regulations to begin with which makes unions redundant.
Add to that the fact the union dues are used to support or lobby for political positions that all the members do not necessarily agree with but are forced to pay into and therefore support.
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Uuuh, what cash cow? Last week my wife could not get her full dose of 5FU because it is in short supply due to the fact only one or two pharm. companies make it since it is so unprofitable.
Is there anywhere in the OSS community where cutting the number of options in half would produce a monoculture?
Admittedly there is only one Linux kernel, heavily modified, but you could add the BSD Kernels and Hurd to make up for that.
With desktop environments, a dime a dozen would be highway robbery.
There are a few that stand out in any of the areas, but in general, a bit more cooperation probably would help more than hinder. Getting rid of the ideological and dick-waving flame wars of who's project is the best solution for a given problem, and seeing (and in some cases, combining) the strengths of the competition (or even, in some cases, merging products) moreso than is done now, would probably help.
Some of the issues is that there are too many choices, which most users don't want. They want what works, and on average case, does best, not three tools that do about the same thing, but only handle a small part of that "thing" the best.
I call BS on the bold statement. Nobody seems to have problems with the 1000's of choices in the Apple app store or Android market, so what makes you think lots of choices are bad for Linux?
Anyone who uses "real" info for their answers is a moron. I always answer these questions with a nonsensical answer and usually an answer completely unrelated to the question. The real purpose of these questions is to use an answer that only YOU know. I don't even try to remember the answers, I record them in a password safe like KeePass.
i.e. My favorite color might be something like ham&eggs.
But why carbon fiber? Isn't it very lightweight? I thought a flywheel needs to be HEAVY - the more mass, the more energy involved.
Why not some nonferrous (non-magnetic) metal or granite? There could be small magnetic areas for the levitation bearing though.
I can't imagine this really being practical on a large scale. There must be better energy storage techniques than this.
With all the money wasted on all these failed "green/renewable" technology experiments now, fusion could be a lot closer to reality.
So your CEO walks in with his new iPhone and wants to access his mobile reporting solution. The one containing all his sales information. You're telling him he can't?
Yes, esp. if there are certain laws/conditions you are required to follow (PCI, HIPPA, FISA, etc.). i.e. if you host govt. data even the ceo cannot break the security rules legally.
Sorry I don't buy that. There seems nothing simpler than FileZilla, Gftp of just plain ftp to me. If your that technically illiterate, why are you sharing valuable information in the first place?
I guess I'm not of the Internet age/mentality. The loss of control of my own data and privacy is much to great for me to "trust" it in the hands of some unknown company or entity. This is why I will never trust anything to the cloud and can't imagine why anyone else does either. There is news of a data breach somewhere almost daily, and from some sites that you would "think" might have enough professionals running them to keep data secure.
If all you want to share are worthless family photos maybe it is fine for that, but nothing more important.
And just how do you write a UNIX script that can automatically aggregate the desired data run it through R using Excel (without having to ship the data off your UNIX system via Samba or some other roundabout way)?
I'll bet most of the users of R are working on some sort of UNIX/Linux system as is common in the scientific community.
I see. So when I am doing disaster recovery of a system where nothing but/usr/sbin and bash is available, I can use perl how? All of the DR scripts I have seen are written in C shell or Bash.
Maybe because bash is installed by default on most Linux/UNIX systems and is portable across all yoru installed base. Or maybe your security requirements disallow python, or ruby or whatever to be installed. Or that running shell scripts using many built-ins run faster than the interpreted languages?
Bash scripting features seem to stay more stable over time vs. other scripting languages that are constantly changing. The app teams within your company may want to constantly upgrade the installed version that might break you scripts/programs.
And bash is dirt simple to learn and implement for non-programmers.
I, and many others, are perfectly willing to PAY good money for things that would otherwise be free.
But we don't want to watch advertisements while we do it.
Expecting people to pay for online content and ALSO see any advertisement (I mean ANYTHING, even simple words), is kind of like saying HBO wants to continue to charge their premium price for premium services but it is now going to show advertisements.
NO. You can't have it both ways,
You want ads? You can't charge. Period.
You want to charge? You can't have ads.
Also, NO tracking. No ads means you don't have to tracks us (You can still track how many people read which article, but not which article any individual reads.)
As long as the greedy morons try to charge HBO prices for TBS content, surprise surprise, no one will pay.
Strange. The cable companies seem to have it both ways.
You pay for cable TV and still have to watch commercials (seems like all channels are sync'd to be at a commercial at the same time so you can't surf to other channels during commercials).
You must pay dearly (how much $$ are HBO and other premium channels these days?) on top of the cable subscription just to get away from them. It's a poor value for the customer.
At my current employer (and my previous employer), Linux servers now outnumber Windows systems and is growing at MS expense. Things couldn't be running smoother.
I'd say there's plenty of interest, we're just waiting for more apps available to the platform.
AGC? All older TV's & stereos had automatic gain control to keep the volumes level. It doesn't seen like it'd be too hard to implement for commercials.
I will concur since I grew up with "old" Coke as well. I have recently been hooked on drinking the Mexican Coke that can be found at Costco & local grocery stores. Of course it's almost $1 a bottle but worth it, and when you've finished the bottle you actually feel satisfied and not wanting another bottle immediately.
I don't know how close to the original formula it is since it's been so long ago, but it is a very familiar taste. I really miss the returnable 12oz. 8 packs and glass is much more recyclable than plastic and I hate the taste of canned soda (It doesn't seen to matter that cans are supposed to be coated inside, but soda from a glass container does taste better).
This doesn't make any sense at all. The dictionary defines interstate as:
Main Entry: interstate
Pronunciation: \in-tr-stt\
Function: adjective
Date: 1844
: of, connecting, or existing between two or more states especially of the United States
What Cali wants to do would be intrastate wouldn't it?
intrastate (ntr-stt)
adj.
Relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state
How can any govt. entity claim they can control what amounts to intrastate commerce?
People keep posting that FF is unstable, but I don't get it? FF itself has almost NEVER crashed on me and I let it run 24x7x365. All of my instability problems have been due to plugins.
And I don't understand the performance complaints either, FF is maybe.5 - 1 second behind other browsers loading pages/apps. Is our society really that impatient that we can't be bothered to wait 500ms longer for something to happen?
I dumped all other browsers since Mozilla came out and I haven't looked back and I absolutely HATE Chrome (and Google - I think they strayed too far from their roots and are too powerful), so whats so damn great about Chrome other than being a little faster?
On my Linux system, Firefox starts up in less 1/2 to 1 second, surely that's fast enough for anyone.
The time it takes for a page to load is still limited more by my internet connection speed and the speed of the server than anything. I notice little difference between other browsers and Firefox even on our corporate network speed.
Is our society so caught up on "more, faster, now" that no one can wait a couple extra milliseconds for something to happen?
How fast is fast enough? No one can read that fast.
I just went to the MS site and simply downloaded the MSSE from a Linux system. Is there something in the installer that will not let it install on a non-WGA system?
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You are completely off-base with that comment about the Tea Party. I (as a tea partier) have no problem with unions in general except for public position unions and the ridiculous demands and perks they get paid for by the taxpayers. Unions are unnecessary if they work for the government since it is the government that sets most of the workplace environment regulations to begin with which makes unions redundant.
Add to that the fact the union dues are used to support or lobby for political positions that all the members do not necessarily agree with but are forced to pay into and therefore support.
Uuuh, what cash cow? Last week my wife could not get her full dose of 5FU because it is in short supply due to the fact only one or two pharm. companies make it since it is so unprofitable.
Is there anywhere in the OSS community where cutting the number of options in half would produce a monoculture?
Admittedly there is only one Linux kernel, heavily modified, but you could add the BSD Kernels and Hurd to make up for that.
With desktop environments, a dime a dozen would be highway robbery.
There are a few that stand out in any of the areas, but in general, a bit more cooperation probably would help more than hinder. Getting rid of the ideological and dick-waving flame wars of who's project is the best solution for a given problem, and seeing (and in some cases, combining) the strengths of the competition (or even, in some cases, merging products) moreso than is done now, would probably help.
Some of the issues is that there are too many choices, which most users don't want. They want what works, and on average case, does best, not three tools that do about the same thing, but only handle a small part of that "thing" the best.
I call BS on the bold statement. Nobody seems to have problems with the 1000's of choices in the Apple app store or Android market, so what makes you think lots of choices are bad for Linux?
Anyone who uses "real" info for their answers is a moron. I always answer these questions with a nonsensical answer and usually an answer completely unrelated to the question. The real purpose of these questions is to use an answer that only YOU know. I don't even try to remember the answers, I record them in a password safe like KeePass. i.e. My favorite color might be something like ham&eggs.
But why carbon fiber? Isn't it very lightweight? I thought a flywheel needs to be HEAVY - the more mass, the more energy involved. Why not some nonferrous (non-magnetic) metal or granite? There could be small magnetic areas for the levitation bearing though. I can't imagine this really being practical on a large scale. There must be better energy storage techniques than this. With all the money wasted on all these failed "green/renewable" technology experiments now, fusion could be a lot closer to reality.
Another useless feature to add more cost to already un-affordable tuition fees. Is Obama behind this so that tuition can "necessarily skyrocket"?
So your CEO walks in with his new iPhone and wants to access his mobile reporting solution. The one containing all his sales information. You're telling him he can't?
Yes, esp. if there are certain laws/conditions you are required to follow (PCI, HIPPA, FISA, etc.). i.e. if you host govt. data even the ceo cannot break the security rules legally.
Sorry I don't buy that. There seems nothing simpler than FileZilla, Gftp of just plain ftp to me. If your that technically illiterate, why are you sharing valuable information in the first place?
I guess I'm not of the Internet age/mentality. The loss of control of my own data and privacy is much to great for me to "trust" it in the hands of some unknown company or entity. This is why I will never trust anything to the cloud and can't imagine why anyone else does either. There is news of a data breach somewhere almost daily, and from some sites that you would "think" might have enough professionals running them to keep data secure.
If all you want to share are worthless family photos maybe it is fine for that, but nothing more important.
I still don't get what the big deal is. What does dropbox do that can't be done with a simple sftp site (other than some free online storage)?
And just how do you write a UNIX script that can automatically aggregate the desired data run it through R using Excel (without having to ship the data off your UNIX system via Samba or some other roundabout way)?
I'll bet most of the users of R are working on some sort of UNIX/Linux system as is common in the scientific community.
I see. So when I am doing disaster recovery of a system where nothing but /usr/sbin and bash is available, I can use perl how? All of the DR scripts I have seen are written in C shell or Bash.
Maybe because bash is installed by default on most Linux/UNIX systems and is portable across all yoru installed base. Or maybe your security requirements disallow python, or ruby or whatever to be installed. Or that running shell scripts using many built-ins run faster than the interpreted languages? Bash scripting features seem to stay more stable over time vs. other scripting languages that are constantly changing. The app teams within your company may want to constantly upgrade the installed version that might break you scripts/programs. And bash is dirt simple to learn and implement for non-programmers.
I, and many others, are perfectly willing to PAY good money for things that would otherwise be free.
But we don't want to watch advertisements while we do it.
Expecting people to pay for online content and ALSO see any advertisement (I mean ANYTHING, even simple words), is kind of like saying HBO wants to continue to charge their premium price for premium services but it is now going to show advertisements.
NO. You can't have it both ways,
You want ads? You can't charge. Period.
You want to charge? You can't have ads. Also, NO tracking. No ads means you don't have to tracks us (You can still track how many people read which article, but not which article any individual reads.)
As long as the greedy morons try to charge HBO prices for TBS content, surprise surprise, no one will pay.
Strange. The cable companies seem to have it both ways.
You pay for cable TV and still have to watch commercials (seems like all channels are sync'd to be at a commercial at the same time so you can't surf to other channels during commercials). You must pay dearly (how much $$ are HBO and other premium channels these days?) on top of the cable subscription just to get away from them. It's a poor value for the customer.
Well, the government is suing Az. for trying to enforce federal law. What next? The govt. can't have it both ways (although it would like to).
Big business not interested in Linux??
At my current employer (and my previous employer), Linux servers now outnumber Windows systems and is growing at MS expense. Things couldn't be running smoother.
I'd say there's plenty of interest, we're just waiting for more apps available to the platform.
AGC? All older TV's & stereos had automatic gain control to keep the volumes level. It doesn't seen like it'd be too hard to implement for commercials.
I will concur since I grew up with "old" Coke as well. I have recently been hooked on drinking the Mexican Coke that can be found at Costco & local grocery stores. Of course it's almost $1 a bottle but worth it, and when you've finished the bottle you actually feel satisfied and not wanting another bottle immediately. I don't know how close to the original formula it is since it's been so long ago, but it is a very familiar taste. I really miss the returnable 12oz. 8 packs and glass is much more recyclable than plastic and I hate the taste of canned soda (It doesn't seen to matter that cans are supposed to be coated inside, but soda from a glass container does taste better).
Main Entry: interstate Pronunciation: \in-tr-stt\ Function: adjective Date: 1844 : of, connecting, or existing between two or more states especially of the United States
What Cali wants to do would be intrastate wouldn't it?
intrastate (ntr-stt) adj. Relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state
How can any govt. entity claim they can control what amounts to intrastate commerce?
And I don't understand the performance complaints either, FF is maybe .5 - 1 second behind other browsers loading pages/apps. Is our society really that impatient that we can't be bothered to wait 500ms longer for something to happen?
I dumped all other browsers since Mozilla came out and I haven't looked back and I absolutely HATE Chrome (and Google - I think they strayed too far from their roots and are too powerful), so whats so damn great about Chrome other than being a little faster?
On my Linux system, Firefox starts up in less 1/2 to 1 second, surely that's fast enough for anyone. The time it takes for a page to load is still limited more by my internet connection speed and the speed of the server than anything. I notice little difference between other browsers and Firefox even on our corporate network speed. Is our society so caught up on "more, faster, now" that no one can wait a couple extra milliseconds for something to happen? How fast is fast enough? No one can read that fast.
The solution is simple then; don't make/sell consoles at a loss. That is the same as dumping.
At least until they implement the Fairness Doctrine, broadcast flag, etc.
No. The DMCA reads "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title".
How does TI's signing system do that? ....
It effectively protects access to TI's protected circuitry.
I just went to the MS site and simply downloaded the MSSE from a Linux system. Is there something in the installer that will not let it install on a non-WGA system?
Yeah, I liked travelling to the US better when all I had to do was check the correct boxes on the amusing green form:
[x] I am not a terrorist [x] I am not planning a child abduction in the US
I visited the US before 9/11:
[x] I am not a communist
If you leave that last one unchecked it might now get you invited to become one of Obama's "advisors".