Comment The WHO (Score 5, Insightful) 478
"hope I die before I get old".... until I get old, that is, and then I expect to scrap life along as much as humanly possible.
"hope I die before I get old".... until I get old, that is, and then I expect to scrap life along as much as humanly possible.
But the developers of X don't like X either, that's why Wayland has come about. Whether its been developed well is another matter, but X has reached its end of life. And you can still "remote desktop" with Wayland with just as much performance as X, because X nowadays sends bitmaps over the wire anyway thanks to the desktop compositors we all run now.
which works fine, until someone changes them in the kernel requiring systemd to be updated to use it. Strange how Linus thinks an ABI for drivers is a very bad thing but its ok for systemd to directly call many kernel features.
those users are also the ones ingrained with the 'boot up each morning and watch as a thousand bits of crappy pre-installed wares start up and pop messages saying ''X needs an update', or 'Y is protecting your system' or 'these hotties want to meet you'
Just because a couple of seconds shaved off the bootup time for a Windows laptop is advertised as a good thing doesn't mean it is - the time taken for all the other crap overwhelms it significantly.
You want faster boot up times, even with the latest and fastest boot system? Then buy a SSD.
you really think the shots of the sky won't already be changed in post-production? Or that a nice summer day sky scene with airplane contrails would fit nicely into a Tatooine sunset scene?
Its not the "individuals" that will be flying these - it'll be scumbags who want to tell you all the plot and characters and spoilers so by the time the movie comes out, you'll have seen it on various entertainment news websites.
So its not that its less valuable for the producers, but for the public who want to see this stuff as its intended.
I'm all for big business being brought down to size, but this is not the way to do it.
That ration might be valid overall, or with old statistics but when used for young people, its skewed quite dramatically in favour of males.
I saw a documentary about it on TV (so it must be true
I may have got the ratio wrong, more like 12:10, or
In the early 1980s there were 108 male births to every 100 female, only slightly above the natural rate; by 2000 that had soared to 120 males, and in some provinces, such as Anhui, Jiangxi and Shaanxi, to more than 130. The result is that more than 35 million women are "missing". Though China is not the only country affected â" India's situation is similar â" it has by far the widest gap; its one-child policy has exacerbated the problem.
Google will tell you all you need to know.
It was mainly due to the EUs agricultural subsidies. Farmers wee paid to grow all kinds of excess food, safe in the knowledge that the government would buy it, regardless of quality or quantity. So they did, and no-one could eat it all.
Net result: masses of unused foodstuffs. They distilled the wine into ethanol IIRC, much butter was sent to African famine reliefs.
http://www.ecpa.eu/information...
An increasingly complex system of quotas and support prices was set up, with further crops included as the European Community expanded. This basic system led to the infamous "butter mountains" and "wine lakes" of the 1980s, with farmers being paid to produce goods for which there was no market and which were then bought up for intervention storage and later sale at (lower) global market prices.
Additional instruments such as quotas for milk and other produce were introduced to limit production. "Set aside" was another innovation, with farmers being paid to keep a certain percentage of their land out of production
It got to the crazy state where you could be a farmer and get paid a lot for *not* growing crops. There was a joke at the time for an application form where the applicant promised not to buy any land and not to farm any pigs in return for a large subsidy.
Before the white man came with his ships....
those tribes were continually at war with each other, slavery and there was terror and violence all the time. Even in the times of Egypt and Rome it was so.
I think the people living happily in cities like Lagos would like to disagree with you. Its not a continent populated with mud huts or crazed dictators, its a lot more 'ordinary' than that. You might visit an African city and find its not much different to one of your own.
The best story on those lines is The Mote in Gods Eye by Larry Niven.
But we already have tried something like this : China's one child policy has reduced (and will reduce further) their population. Now we just need India and possibly Bangladesh, Indonesia and Brazil to do the same.
Sincerely - One of the tens of people who live in the Midwest.
TFTFY
especially given China's 1-child policy, and human nature.
the Chinese youth are divided 2:1 in favour of males, and the young females that survived the 1-child policy aren't too interested in being breeding machines, they're more interested in careers and independence. So the Chinese population will continue to grow, but at a slower rate, and then I imagine there will be a mass push for immigration to China when the old population dies off and there's no-one to replace them.
Africa.. they say the population there will grow a lot, and I imagine a fair bit of that will be true - some African countries are quite rich, so they can afford to import food from the rest of the world, including Europe that happily overproduced during the 80s (remember the butter mountains and wine lakes?) but also they might just get their act together and get a decent crop from the very fertile areas, Zimbabwe might be a basket case today but they were very productive when the "white man" owned and managed the farms. Once the nutters go, they could be productive again.
Most old philosophies do remain true - if they've managed to stand the test of time, then its usually because they're still relevant.
Most of human nature, physics and the "way things work" are philosophies that are still true, no matter how much some people want to reform them or reinvent every wheel.
In this case, a complicated mess of overly entangled components is pretty obviously not a good thing, regardless of what the unix philosophy says about doing complex systems right.
You want an example... if you want to build systemd, you must first build dbus without systemd dependencies, then build it again after building systemd with the dependencies in place. This is because systemd requires dbus, but also exposes it as a service managed by systemd.
Repent or be tormented forever by a Daemon
by the daemon called systemd....
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
