Hmmm, he suggested that people be stopped from teaching children that they need to go to war to defend a 'holy land', and you suggest genocide. What would we do without you anonymous cowards to bring us reason.
If the answer is affirmative to all of the above, then you've got yourself a winner. It's very cool how Ubuntu has essentially forced every other distro to get up to speed on these seemingly basic features. Otherwise, the distros are just flavored differently. It's all the same under the hood.
Which is a good thing, really. This trend finally seems to be accelerating, which is great. But some are clearly better than others.
My favorite right now is Ubuntu+ (also known as Mint), because it does that extra bit of A/V and connectivity hand-holding for those who just want a solution and not the "fun" of manually tweaking everything. I can. I just don't want to any more. But you're right - work like this is forcing all of them to finally start making Linux and BSD work as actual modern operating systems and not as some hobbyist's toy.
The comments to date seem to ignore the fact that Childs was being fired, and THEN refused to hand over the passwords. Suppose a police officer refuses to hand over his gun and badge, and keys to the jail when fired, but decides to hold the whole town hostage to his physical control over the gun and jail? We would pretty quickly label that (former) police officer a terrorist, and pretty quickly get state and federal aid to retake control of the town. Similarly, Childs has held the City hostage by refusing to turn over the passwords. I'd call that cyber-terrorism. I wouldn't feel too sorry for him if they put him in Guantanamo. I've been in this industry for 20+ years, and its just crazy to think that one can prevent being fired (and force firing the supervisor instead) by refusing to turn over the passwords. That nonsense about the "Mayor" is just nonsense: Child's supervisor is the authorized, delegated representative of the Mayor. This dispute wasn't about getting an audience with the Mayor. My view is that Childs was trying to force them to fire the supervisor and to employ him. The City's only mistake was to allow the situation that only one person has the passwords. One person is just not that trustworthy.
Stealing $5 from you isn't so much an annoyance as it is downright illegal. That's a different matter entirely.
First, they don't have to outright steal it. Then can easily bury somewhere in the contract in a 3pt font that for instance you get to check your voicemail for free once per day, and a second check is going to cost you $5.
If you agree to the contract then you only have yourself to blame. Are you saying that you agree to a contract you don't understand? That you assume they'll do the right thing? The responsibility to be aware of what you agree to is yours.
Or something else of that sort.
Second, how is that not regulation? I don't see how "It's illegal to take $5 unlawfully" is not regulation, but "It's illegal to make ads annoyingly loud" is.
Theft is against the law - it's the forced removal of property from someone. Having ads (which you voluntary watch) loud is not removing any of your freedoms. It is not illegal.
But again, way to miss the point. Even if stealing $5 is illegal, how many people are going to get into a lawsuit or to switch provider over that? Even getting into small claims court is going to cost you considerably more than $5. Switching provider, if it costs even $1/month more is going to be more expensive as well.
Then we, the apathetic masses are letting these companies get away with it. The solution is an uproar - make everyone aware of how dodgy the company is. If you willingly let people rip you off and do nothing, then your acceptance is letting them get away with it. Only by standing up and saying "NO" will they ever stop.
Just plain dealing with the cancellations department will probably take enough time that you could earn more than what you lost by doing that amount of overtime.
Yeah, maybe you and a few people will do it on principle. Congrats, you have your $5 back. But the company still earns enough from the people that ignored it even with having to ocassionally give the money back and losing a few customers. It still makes financial sense for them to keep doing it. So from their point of view there's little downside. And there's no reason why every other company wouldn't take note and do the same thing, since it makes money overall.
It's an overly regulated system that has turned us into apathetic "let them get away with it" consumers. Regulation says "she'll be right, the state will look after you". That's the wrong way of solving problems like this. The solution should always come from the bottom up. By the people, for the people. Regulation (and socialism in general) are both systems that see us abdicate our personal responsibilities in favour of the state, and the end result is not only apathy, but also the state now has way more power and perceived responsibility than it should ever had had. All because "it's too difficult to stand up for myself".
I would kill to have Time Warner again.
Okay; just don't tell the University of Minnesota mortuary department...
and your post is an opinion too, i'm curious what makes it more worthwhile than the others? or maybe you agree it isn't. then i'd ask why you bother posting. after all, it doesn't matter.
people are reading HER blog entry. how is that a hunch or a personal prejudice? it's a first hand account of the event. it doesn't get much better than that, unless you are there
i'll be monitoring your posts closely. i expect all of them to read "i wasn't there / this didn't happen to me directly, no comment."
yeah i really don't think people make that distinction. this isn't a court of law and she isn't being charged with a crime. like most institutions i am sure this university has a clause that your attendance is not a right, it's a privilege and they reserve the right to dismiss you for their own reasons.
i agree they overreacted, but like i said, never a good plan. i suspect whatever release she felt writing her thoughts wasn't worth getting banned from campus.
It's all part of the Political Correctness movement. It started by convincing people certain words (gay, fagot, indian, handicapped, etc.) were at their very core evil (they use the word hateful because the word evil is also evil). It so happens I read the best definition of PC I have ever heard today. It was the winning submission to an annual contest (2007 if sources are accurate) Texas A&M holds to define popular terminology. It defines Political Correctness as:
"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional,
illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream
media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible
to pick up a turd by the clean end."
This story is kinda like getting arrested for yelling FIRE in a crowded parking lot full of empty cars next to a movie theater full of people.
1) unsubstantiated abstract factoid - check
2) pander to
3) car analogy - check
Profit!
Russinovich is talking about design from a purely architectural standpoint, which is something you can do when your average machine will be 4GB of RAM and a quad core processor with 1TB of hard disk (which is about the average machine in about 2 or 3 years).
If you read other parts of the article, it talks about the fact that api's were included in DLL's for performance reason, not architectural ones.
And no, it wasn't bad design, because it achieved the goals it was trying to accomplish at the time. It's only "bad design" from an architectural purist standpoint. That's the point of view where architecture trumps performance, as in most Microkernel OS's.
His comments about not understanding the dependancies doesn't mean nobody understands them, just that they aren't logical because of the performance optimizations necessary for 386 computers with 4MB of memory.
This is all about modernizing the OS because we now have hardware that can run modern designs.
You will have that when you occupy someone else's land, use collective punishment and basically have an apartheid state. The Palestinians are not blameless, but the Israelis are fools if they think their own actions do not lead to more terrorism rather than less.
True. When you end up at the bottom of the list for service, reliability, and satisfaction, it's probably time to evaluate if you've oversold
To my knowledge (I've been using Fedora since its inception), Fedora has always required root credentials, or the user be in the sudoers list to install software packages. Only in Fedora 12 was that not the default behavior, and there was a BIG uproar over that change (see the VERY lengthy discussion on this issue on the RedHat Bugzilla report - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047), which has since change the default behavior BACK to requiring root credentials to install software.
I was standing on top of a mountain and could get 4 networks.
That is not necessarily a meaningful metric. Mountains tend to be the highest point in the area so you get bonus distance due to a clear line of sight.
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell
