Yes, but at least being Steve Jobs and pushing his over-achieving expectations on everyone else didn't cause anything negative, like oh deaths...

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Oh wait...

You're assuming, of course, that people would download and/or buy your material anyway.

No. I have not listened and/or used your material, but I can tell you based on your attitude right there I wouldn't do it even if it was the most remarkable piece of art in the world.

Anyone who uses an excuse of punishment to forward their own goals frankly doesn't deserve my business.

I'm waiting for someone to create the 5th element. And as soon as they dress her in that white strap cat-suit, I'll be available for the news broadcast :)

Slackware ('93) -> Yggdrasil ('93) -> Slackware ('94) -> Trustix -> YellowDog -> Debian -> SuSE -> CentOS -> Knoppix -> Red Hat/Fedora -> Slackware/Red Hat

Today I currently use Slackware at home, and Red Hat at work.

I use Knoppix for a quick and dirty recovery CD when I need it, otherwise I have my own system rescue USB pen I use (slackware based).

Whew. Ok, good, we're basically on the same page.

One of the reasons I brought up that disgusting child reference is that tends to be one of the hardest hitting ones in society, and tends to be one that triggers a physical response.

I don't agree with all the government filtering, especially since most of the time they do a half-ass effort and get it wrong anyway. However, I have to say I understand their point of view.

If someone says something horrible, all lies and speculation, but the majority of people accept this as 'true', whether because the person is powerful (rich, famous, other), or because they have a huge following (religious zealot leader, political enigma, etc), and the person they're accusing is some poor joe schmoe, it could have horrible consequences.

Let's assume Joe loses his job over it, and can't find another. He can't support his family, so child welfare is called in, and takes his children away. His wife leaves him because of his inability to keep the family together, and her own failure to keep the children. How many times do scenarios like this happen already, with the current filtered speech. How much worse would it be if it was utterly free?

I understand your viewpoint, and in a lot of ways, I wish for it to be government/political free as well, but as long as people physically react (as in pulling a gun and killing people who ruin their lives with just a few well put words, or other over-the-top reactions), I honestly can't see it happening. Free speech is only good if everyone is on an even playing field. Media and government has already weighted this system against the common individual, so it's an impossibility in the existing environment.

And if joe schmoe pulled the gun and killed the instigator, he would be held accountable for the murder, but based on the free speech idea, the person who pushed him there by public assassination of every moral foundation the person had, would get away scott free. This is also what I mean by consequences. Sometimes, the innocent needs some way to protect themselves, when freedom of speech has no answer for them.

Does that make any sense?

I have no problems as long as you accept the consequences to speech, especially if it includes libel or lies. When there are consequences to speech, it is no longer, in effect 'free'. Maybe free as in beer, but not free as in free.

What you were saying was that you wanted absolute free speech with no consequences. I can't agree with that as, by definition, that actually is sociopathic behavior. It would also lead to the unfortunate inclusion of physical reactions since people, as a whole, do not have a comfort zone on verbal alone. Our long history proves that.

As long as you acknowledge there's consequences to anything one may say, and accept them, I'm good.

Thanks for the religious and hitler comments, amusing, if not overly accurate.

I'll reiterate as well.

Freedom of speech ends the moment it involves lies, slander, and libel. To support otherwise makes you a closet sociopath.

We have no right to say and do anything that may directly affect others without any concern of consequences. Look up the definition of sociopath. How does that work for you?

Remind me to photoshop a picture of your daughter in revealing clothing, and post it to a porn site saying she's the latest prostitute and puts out for free then give your personal phone number as the contact, and list your wife as the Madam.

But hey, that's ok right? Freedom of speech, information, or data transmitted from anyone to anyone... right?

Oh wait, you mean this is libel and a criminal act especially as it involves a child? But you said it should all be free... I'm confused...

Freedom of speech ends the moment it involves lies, slander, and libel. To support otherwise makes you a closet sociopath.

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I can't doubt the battery life comment. While replacing the battery in the laptop is next to unreasonable, they do have long lasting batteries.

However, unless you're married to IOS and/or OSX, the VirtualBox solution would exist just as well on a Linux host or a Windows host.

I myself have a Sager laptop for work with 16G memory that I have multiple VM's on. The main distro is Red Hat 6, and I have a Win 7 VM for work, a Solaris I86 VM for Work-Testing, and a few Linux VM's for additional work testing. (Unix Engineer).

Just curious what the benefit of the Mac book is compared to a high-end Intel laptop (minus the afore mentioned battery life). Though with the extended battery in my Sager, it works pretty nicely. I can generally squeeze 5-8 hours out of it, depending on my load.

I'm not trying to argue your point of choosing Mac, I'm genuinely curious on what made you choose a Mac over a high-end Intel?

Sadly, the NAEP scores are dependant on the current curriculum of the standardized tests and material provided to public schools in the United States.

This material has gotten worse since the time I was in school, by a factor of a few grades at least.

Where I was taught algebra in grade school and calculus in junior/senior high school, now algebra is taken junior or senior of high school and calculus is rarely if ever taught at all.

The NAEP standardized scoring is dependant on the overall grades and performance of children on the current curriculum of the national schools of that time. When the curriculum gets easier, so does the weighted system of the NAEP scores.

So the 5% and 2% increase in the 10 years since NCLB was introduced looks great on paper, but when you consider the watering down of our materials in the average of 8-16% overall, that shows a different picture.

Basically put, a 200 point score of today, would likely equate to a 170 before 2000.

Funny how our education ranking has dropped considerably once the 'No Child Left Behind' bill went into service.

Enforcing everyone passes education at the detriment of our more intelligent children does us no good.

Before it gets out of hand, I'd look to set up four things.

1. Set up a proper split environment. Even if you don't have the hardware for it, set it up in such a way that when the hardware becomes available, you can move it appropriately. That being, a standard dev -> qa -> stress -> prod infrastructure.
2. Set up a good revision control. I've started to really enjoy using GIT for this, as there's other software like gitolite that can give you fine-grained access control to your repositories. However, feel free to use subversion or any other well contained revision control platform.
3. Set up a good method for deployment. My suggestion? Try puppet. It's free, and it's powerful, and if you get it configured, adding new systems to it is exceedingly easy to do.
4. Packaging for your deployment. If you are installing a bunch of software (scripts, job control, etc) package it and give it a revision, then it's easy to upgrade systems with the 'new package', or revert it to the 'previous package' instead of having to manually copy around files or (re)editing them.

Hope that helps.

So you're saying we should castrate Mafia lords and it'd solve our problem?

The problem is that the Mafia lords lick their balls right? Sorry, having trouble following the metaphor.

*grin*

Actually, #7 covered that since it would be considered global to the calling function ;)