In Britain he is generally known as "Captain Scott" or "Scott of the errr is it the Artic or the other one?"

We deify people who try really hard but come second and Scott is no exception being beaten to the South Pole by the Norwegian Amundsen, but he cheated by knowing more about the environment and being properly equipped.

Bollocks.

MS famously invented the notion of "a best practice". Unfortunately they seem incapable of following good practice in many areas. The other vendors you mention also have similar foibles regarding what's best for you.

Now the FOSS community is just that - a community filled with opinions, advice and a fair old software output.

Each product stands on its own. You pays your money ...

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Jon

In Gentoo you get three versions of Chrome - stable, beta, unstable. My wife's Arch running laptop has Chrome although to be fair I did have to add it from the community package source which seems to be pretty obligatory anyway.

Pretty sure Ubuntu and Mint have it available. I doubt very much that Debian, with its legendarily large repo of stuff can't manage a major browser.

If you can install Linux there's a fair chance you can get Chrome to run on it.

Nearly any network tech should be faster than Ethernet in certain circumstances. Ethernet is generally good though and appears to be quite good a scaling.

I remember the good old days and the joys of beaconing 8)

Good grief: they appear to have invented a scheduler of some sort. I read the rather thin Network World article and that reveals little.

Nothing to see here - move on!

Have I stumbled into a new green themed version of LWN? The comments here are far too insightful and interesting for the usual /. fare. Can't even find the frist post.

God God, they've invented JIT.

All that farting around with Finite Capacity Planning, Sales Forecasting and stuff I did for a pie factory around 15 years ago was to be actually invented around now.

We would generate a forecast of sales, fax it to the customer (multiples in the UK) and then manufacture and ship product based on that forecast. Most of the time the forecast would come back with a signature on it (an order).

Pies (Pasties, sausage rolls, pork pies etc etc) have a short life span and have to be generally made before the order to ensure they arrive into depot (ie into the customer's depot) with enough "code" (shelf life) to be saleable. We weren't perfect but it generally worked.

So, I submit that huge swathes of manufacturing have been doing this sort of thing for decades. I used text books that my dad had lying around from his days at University for my forecasting models and details on how logistics works.

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Jon

PS OK, my case is not exactly in 1-1 with the patent but any sufficiently large logistical operation has done this and much more routinely for a very long time but probably used less buzz words.
   

When you have finished snorting the coffee through the (slightly modified) dildo and smoked the Pony whilst wearing the Ears, please ensure you fill in your reviews. I need to know ...

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Jon

-40F == -40C. Clearly a pedant had to bother putting in the name of the scale used.

Now what's that in Kelvin (K)? That's what this pedant uses.

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Jon

>> Gentoo can not be setup to use systemd too

Are you sure? My laptop begs to differ:
$uname -a
Linux jglaptop 3.12.6-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 28 11:22:53 GMT 2013 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

and spits out things like this:

gerdesj@jglaptop:~$ systemctl status apache2
apache2.service - Apache Web Server
      Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled)
      Active: active (running) since Sat 2013-12-28 12:18:03 GMT; 1 day 10h ago
    Process: 2719 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apache2 $APACHE2_OPTS -k start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Main PID: 2796 (/usr/sbin/apach)
      CGroup: /system.slice/apache2.service
                      2796 /usr/sbin/apache2 -D INFO -D MANUAL -D SSL -D SUEXEC -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5 -D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D SECURITY -D PERL -k start
                      2797 /usr/sbin/apache2 -D INFO -D MANUAL -D SSL -D SUEXEC -D LANGUAGE -D PHP5 -D DEFAULT_VHOST -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST -D

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Jon

Are you sure that a judge would not know how the no fly list works and the legislation behind it - given that knowing or at least how to research the law is his job?

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Jon

You feel happy to espouse views like that openly, using an account rather than AC.

The US really does not resemble either the DDR or USSR in any way. I'm from the UK but recently visited the US (again) for some time. I have also briefly visited the DDR via Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin in the '80s - that was an eye opener, as was the Corridor and the Wall.

There's no reason to dig up history for repression. You might like to note that women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia but some brave souls flout the rules. You may also think about what life in say Syria or large parts of Africa, let alone Afghanistan and other large parts of the world I've missed out, might be like.

Are you sure the world is such a bad place for the likes of you and I?

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Jon