Comment Re:You idiot (Score 4, Funny) 107
Facebook will be down for weeks.
Fingers crossed. Is there anything I can do to help make it happen?
Facebook will be down for weeks.
Fingers crossed. Is there anything I can do to help make it happen?
So, 2x10^0=2x1=1.
You might want to check your math.
I predict a face palm in your near future.
I have exactly 2 feet.
of 2.00000000 x 10^0
kind of both mean the same thing
"Kind of" is correct.
They are not exactly the same thing.
Why they chose to present it like that, instead of scientific notation, I'll never know but there it is.
This is a discrete mathematics problem. There are exactly that many positions. Not one more, not one less, with no measurement error nor variance. And the question they set out to answer was what precisely was this exact number. To not report the result in full would be absurd.
the pilots would never be overcome by the smoke, they have an independent oxygen supply
And it can't malfunction? I'm not saying its likely that's what happened, but we can't really rule it out of hand.
Interesting eh?
Yes, the whole thing was a very strange and interesting and tragic event.
This will probably come across as a kneejerk response, but the submission makes it sound like Liu's themes are almost entirely derived from PRC propaganda.
An author's themes probing the questions and answers the culture he was raised in grappled with?
You hear this sort of stuff all the time if you pay any attention to Chinese state media
None of those are remotely settled questions; and all of them are frequently explored in SF.
If anything, these books demonstrate the poverty of a literary scene where everybody has to constantly watch what they say.
Are you high right now? Or just close minded? Or perhaps both?
What would aliens care about the form of government used on another planet?
For what its worth, a goodly number of Star Trek episodes revolve around what we think of the form of government used by aliens. And in some cases interfering to forcibly alter it.
Except there are procedures for clearing a cabin of smoke, even with an ongoing fire.
That's like saying no one could ever be trapped in a burning building because it has sprinklers, fire escapes, and an evacuation plan,
Even firefighters get trapped and killed -- and they're professionally trained to work around out of control fires, and to bring them under control.
Perhaps someone should to point out to the Indian Gov't that Barbara Streisand was a woman.
I'm seeing so many posts about how people "will never buy from Lenovo again because they can't be trusted" etc etc, and can't help shrug cynically.
I wonder how many of these same people buy Sony products despite not just one, but an entire string of blatantly anti-consumer decisions (of which the rootkit CDs were just one)
Or Microsoft, which has a very long history of not just anti-consumer, but crushing the PC industry and suberting entire standards bodies. But in the last couple years they've thrown a few open source bones... yeah that totally makes up for the last 20+ years of damage they have caused.
So yeah, I hope everyone gets to enjoy their collective outrage while it lasts, cause before you know it you'll find your comments will get modded troll by people who think you're just overreacting.
Poorly defined?
Yes.
It replaces sytsemd [I assume you mean init.d] and more besides
The "and more besides" is the vague poorly defined part.
and does a better job.
In many cases yes.
People are crying over it because of some misplaced loyalty to a shitty, broken, half assed system that might have passed muster in 1990 but should have been long replaced.
Their loyalty is to modularity of the existing system, not the existing system itself. If systemd was more modular, less tightly integrated and interdependent there would be no real objection to it.
If some whiners got over themselves they'll realise that systemd is vastly superior in every respective.
Except that once it's entrenched it can't be replaced with something even better in the future. It can't be improved one piece at a time, because its all or nothing and tightly integrated. A better event logging system can't arise independently because the rest of systemd won't work with it.
Its a golden cage... even if we agreed that it is nicer than where we live today (many do, many do not but that's beside the point): once your inside your stuck with it.
let's think about this for a moment... something that reflects photons... hmm...
I cannot think of a single thing.
What would happen if you fired a laser gun at a mirror?
Some energy would be reflected. Some would be absorbed.
Throw enough energy at it, it still burns up. Elementary physics.
And that's assuming you shoot a laser at a mirror. An orbiting laser weapon platform is NOT a mirror. Its not even slightly plausible that you could make the entire surface -- from the weapon itself to the communications antennae to the maneuvering thrusters all sufficiently reflective that you'd be immune from a ground based laser attack.
Worse the energy getting absorbed would heat, distort, discolor etc the relfective finish making it increasingly less effective.
Not to mention the reflective surface would degrade over time from micro-debris impacts.
Meanwhile ground based opponents wouldn't even be limited to one laser -- they could concentrate their entire arsenal at it.
Care to try again?
Imagine a satellite ( or something like the ISS ) based weapon that will fire an invisible high-kilowatt ( or even megawatt ) beam on any target it can see from orbit. Maybe combine a few of these satellites onto the same target for even more power output.
If any nation had one and started using it in the ways you suggest, how long before opposed nations would knock it down.
After all, what is its defense against a ground based laser shooting back at it?
Seconded, I switched to qBittorrent as well; even before utorrent got truly awful:
c++ so no dependency on Java; but does require python if you want to use its built in search.
Opensource / GPLv2+
So hopefully much less likely to end up the mess that utorrent became.
what exactly is systemd and why do we keep hearing so much about it?
Part of the problem is that its poorly defined. It's touted as a replacement for the init system. (The system that manages other services. So for a windows user it's core functions as the services host process -- its where you can start and stop services, determine which startup at system startup. Stop them. See which are running. Restart crashed services, etc. It does startup in parallel so it's faster than the traditional init system.
But doesn't just replace init, it relplaces cron (the task scheduling system -- "scheduled backups and such" not "cpu thread scheduling"; it replaces the event logging system, it replaces the login system...
The unix philospophy is for components to be small and do one thing well and to to let users build a system out of the different pieces they want. systemd is big and tightly integrated and more of an all-or-nothing and that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
And the main valid criticisms of are (IMHO)
1) Binary logging -- the advantages of the systemd logging system are apparent, but there are disadvantages too; users should have
2) It potentially creates a layer between kernel and the rest of the system that becomes entrenched and irreplaceable. As applications going forward will develop dependencies on the rich services of systemd it will become impossible to replace systemd with anything else, except maybe a fork of systemd. (This rubs a lot of people the wrong way.)
3) the rich service layer and tight integration stifles innovation; for example assuming systemd has traction someone can't make a "better cron" now, because that functionality is part of systemd. They can't make a better init-only system because applications will be relying on all the other services of systemd.
4) it gets between the rest of the system and the kernel, and in many cases you have to work through systemd and can't just go to the kernel. This has its good points, but also its problems and further entrenches systemd.
Perhaps GNU/Linux systems with systemd should properly be called GNU/systemd/Linux systems to emphasize the point.
I don't personally hate systemd; I recognize a lot of thing it does are good for large parts of the linux user base. But I do agree with the 'haters'; that its not modular enough and that leads to several valid complaints.
I doesn't help that the egos involved on all sides are large and uncompromising.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.