Sometimes I wonder if people writing things like the OP are just trolling, or if there really are people THAT moronic.
The only piece of information you need to resolve this conundrum is the realization that these states of being are not in opposition to each other, and in fact often both are true at once, to varying degrees.
You're the literal representation of what happens to someone who gets all their information from Fox News but thinks they're not a fantasy-focused nimrod.
Luckily enough, a shockingly large amount of these services are hosted in California, so it actually stands to make a good dent in the amount of professional-grade bulk lying happening on social media.
At some point this will become a valid argument, but I assure you that the technology is not present to create a soul or consciousness of any sort in an artificial body, and anyone who has told you otherwise is selling something.
I think in general with this type of thing, the fear is that their attempt to explain existing unexplained phenomena by disproving existing proven physical laws will become a giant boondoggle when the money could be better spent chasing more plausible but less obvious explanations that don't defy the entire groundwork of modern science.
Nintendo stopped shipping printed manuals with most their games. They cited reducing unnecessary waste as the primary cause. They don't omit the manual though. Every product comes with a built-in e-manual now, and this allows them to specifically design and format the manual content for built-in software readers. In an era of mobile gaming, nobody wants the manuals to take up physical space.
They've made their product packaging much smaller too, but so have most the other game publishers in recent years.
The best information I can gather from 3rd parties on this suggests gambling that China's backdoors are only interested in spying on the Chineese, and if you swap in reverse-engineered firmware it is unlikely to work on you and their profit margins on the devices are too slim to justify expanding the scope of their existing surveillance capabilities by trying to remotely re-enable any such features in rooted devices.
That is pretty much all they do, but selecting hardware that is known to work in Linux (even if it requires proprietary drivers/firmware to accomplish) is the one thing that escapes the majority of entry level Linux users. It is literally the single biggest cause of people failing to adopt Linux. So, it may not seem like a lot, but it is something that few people can do, apparently.
I've been waiting for them to make this announcement since I first heard of them several years ago. As an anonymous coward who has come forth with no proof whatsoever of how long you've even been paying attention, how is your opinion on the hype surrounding this credible?
...even if few of these purchases are conspicuous high-budget laptops.
And it is probably important to note here that these aren't people who are opposed to spending a lot of money, or having nice things. They're opposed to spending $5,000 on a computer that can't even run Linux and the manufacturer will obsolete prematurely after only 1.5 to 2 years.
Then again, no one ever accused Linux users as cheap, did they?
Sarcasm detected. But the adage is generally wrong, except for in the case of beginning Linux users still living with their parents and learning Linux for the first time with the only hardware they have available. Generally speaking, people who continue to use it into adulthood instead of going screaming back to Microsoft or Apple, soon join a demographic of people who spend the most total on computer hardware, even if few of these purchases are conspicuous high-budget laptops.
I think for the purposes of marketing, System76 is re-defining the meaning of "open-source computer" here to mean merely a computer that does't have any components which require closed-source/proprietary drivers or firmware.
If they can even succeed at that much without muddying the waters further with lies and half-truths I will commend them and perhaps buy one. As a US citizen however, the thing here that gives me the biggest cause for suspicion is the claim that these computers will be manufactured in the US.
Sure, printf is your friend but I have been telling people that for decades now. Nobody ever listened to me when they decided to blame their own naivety on the language or the development suite, or me personally, instead.
Yea, we all know that the real story here is the horrifying lack of diligence surrounding monitoring of cosmic ray impacts on our planet and atmosphere, but I really like the romantic notion of some sort of exotic matter having laid unnoticed for centuries under the ice pack until one day it melted a bit too much.
Yea that's sortof my take on this, too. It's got a lot less to do with Python's practical usefulness and a lot more to do with how trends get set in script kiddie communities.
1) Originating from within the Earth's crust. 2) Bouncing off something in the Earth's crust. 3) Leaking through the Earth from an undetected particle beam impact on the other side, originating deep in space.
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I'm going to hold you to that promise.
Sometimes I wonder if people writing things like the OP are just trolling, or if there really are people THAT moronic.
The only piece of information you need to resolve this conundrum is the realization that these states of being are not in opposition to each other, and in fact often both are true at once, to varying degrees.
Please cite the last time you experienced a bot respecting the rights of others.
Those things were all already illegal under US law before this, and in other countries too. Your lame attempt at astroturfing has been nullified.
The bots are now also impersonating people you do know. That's a big problem.
Only if you're not counting frozen bodies sitting upright on park benches.
You're the literal representation of what happens to someone who gets all their information from Fox News but thinks they're not a fantasy-focused nimrod.
Ok you're right there about Illinois, but not Colorado.
Luckily enough, a shockingly large amount of these services are hosted in California, so it actually stands to make a good dent in the amount of professional-grade bulk lying happening on social media.
At some point this will become a valid argument, but I assure you that the technology is not present to create a soul or consciousness of any sort in an artificial body, and anyone who has told you otherwise is selling something.
I think in general with this type of thing, the fear is that their attempt to explain existing unexplained phenomena by disproving existing proven physical laws will become a giant boondoggle when the money could be better spent chasing more plausible but less obvious explanations that don't defy the entire groundwork of modern science.
Nintendo stopped shipping printed manuals with most their games. They cited reducing unnecessary waste as the primary cause. They don't omit the manual though. Every product comes with a built-in e-manual now, and this allows them to specifically design and format the manual content for built-in software readers. In an era of mobile gaming, nobody wants the manuals to take up physical space.
They've made their product packaging much smaller too, but so have most the other game publishers in recent years.
Does it though, does it really? Or are you just telling yourself that to feel better? Are you sure you would know the difference?
The best information I can gather from 3rd parties on this suggests gambling that China's backdoors are only interested in spying on the Chineese, and if you swap in reverse-engineered firmware it is unlikely to work on you and their profit margins on the devices are too slim to justify expanding the scope of their existing surveillance capabilities by trying to remotely re-enable any such features in rooted devices.
That is pretty much all they do, but selecting hardware that is known to work in Linux (even if it requires proprietary drivers/firmware to accomplish) is the one thing that escapes the majority of entry level Linux users. It is literally the single biggest cause of people failing to adopt Linux. So, it may not seem like a lot, but it is something that few people can do, apparently.
I've been waiting for them to make this announcement since I first heard of them several years ago. As an anonymous coward who has come forth with no proof whatsoever of how long you've even been paying attention, how is your opinion on the hype surrounding this credible?
Spoiler alert: It's just going to be a rebranded Thinkpad with a different audio and networking devices.
...even if few of these purchases are conspicuous high-budget laptops.
And it is probably important to note here that these aren't people who are opposed to spending a lot of money, or having nice things. They're opposed to spending $5,000 on a computer that can't even run Linux and the manufacturer will obsolete prematurely after only 1.5 to 2 years.
Then again, no one ever accused Linux users as cheap, did they?
Sarcasm detected. But the adage is generally wrong, except for in the case of beginning Linux users still living with their parents and learning Linux for the first time with the only hardware they have available. Generally speaking, people who continue to use it into adulthood instead of going screaming back to Microsoft or Apple, soon join a demographic of people who spend the most total on computer hardware, even if few of these purchases are conspicuous high-budget laptops.
I think for the purposes of marketing, System76 is re-defining the meaning of "open-source computer" here to mean merely a computer that does't have any components which require closed-source/proprietary drivers or firmware.
If they can even succeed at that much without muddying the waters further with lies and half-truths I will commend them and perhaps buy one. As a US citizen however, the thing here that gives me the biggest cause for suspicion is the claim that these computers will be manufactured in the US.
Sure, printf is your friend but I have been telling people that for decades now. Nobody ever listened to me when they decided to blame their own naivety on the language or the development suite, or me personally, instead.
Oh, I like this one because it's from Star Trek.
Yea, we all know that the real story here is the horrifying lack of diligence surrounding monitoring of cosmic ray impacts on our planet and atmosphere, but I really like the romantic notion of some sort of exotic matter having laid unnoticed for centuries under the ice pack until one day it melted a bit too much.
Yea that's sortof my take on this, too. It's got a lot less to do with Python's practical usefulness and a lot more to do with how trends get set in script kiddie communities.
1) Originating from within the Earth's crust.
2) Bouncing off something in the Earth's crust.
3) Leaking through the Earth from an undetected particle beam impact on the other side, originating deep in space.
Who wants to bet on one?