Most facebooks posts are the same as bumper stickers. Where if a bumper sticker can change your mind on a topic, it means you didn't give that topic any though. But those political posts are just annoying, the sad part is they really think they are doing something important to the political process, while all they are really doing is isolating people who have different beliefs. Because the arguments are so vague that you are really just insulting the person who thinks differently.
Let's put it an other way so that 90% doesn't look so good. They are about 365 days a year. There is 10% time an electric car won't work for you. So that is being 36.5 days a year (over a full month) of times your electric car will fail you. And most people will not have the luxury to buy a second car for those extra times.
In short that 90% number is saying that electric car technology and infrastructure isn't quite there yet. But packages in a way to fool people who do not want to dig into numbers.
They still need to work on longer range faster full charging. I would love to see the day where I can choose an electric car... However the technology and infrastructure isn't there yet.
A few seconds last you two days of driving? Do you only drive a mile a day? 10 miles? 30 miles? You are giving us an emotional answer to make you feel good about your car... Which none of us really cares about. We want to know how good is a charge that is about the same time as a gas fill will give us on an electric car.
But the point is for those people who do not live in an area that can't serve an overnight charging area. Street parking in particular. You will need to put a charging station at all street parking spots that serve residential areas. Vs a gas station every mile for a highly populated area or every 10 miles for a lower populated area.
Which is sad, the Torrent technology has a lot of promise, being that it was mostly used for pirated media gives it a bad name, where many ISP just will block it.
Well the spirit was to have all your code released under GPL as well. The dynamic linking rule was more targeted towards being able to link things because you can't have it GPL. vs VMWare where they won't have it GPL.
Many "Pro-Democracy" people have an agenda that is outside the mainstream, however blame the fact that their crazy ideas are not in play, is because the system isn't allowing the "Silent Majority" to vote for it.
There is also a risk to governments in a more Democratic system, as the general mass can be volatile to the fads of the time. Which is why the United States has a Democratic Republic design, vs a straight Democracy. It slows the system down as to prevent crazy ideas of the time to ruen a long term plan.
"Nobody really knows what GPL even means." The GPL is treated more like a religion. Where people get all up in arms, when it isn't used the way they wanted it to be used. The GPL is rather strict, however there are loopholes, some that the GPL 3 closed (for better or for worse) So VMWare may be following the letter of the GPL but not the Spirit.
Not necessarily. You will need to show the limitation in your mainline kernel that would require VMWare to write a change to it. VMware could just be using the standard kernel, and just made a customized distribution with their own priority code as the key running component.
The source for the kernel is widely available. But the VMWare product isn't.
To be fare. VMWare has its software designed to run on Different OS's and Linux Distributions so the ESXi version may just be a normal port with a boing LInux running in the backend.
The problem are moderators who decide to moderate on topics they feel strongly about. Good moderators make sure the messages stay on topic, and valid discussion is occurring. Because it is too easy for a vocal group to take over the discussion and spam it with like ideas or just poor arguments. But if the moderator has an emotional attachment to a side, a different view is often felt as a personal attack, thus can get censored.
However message trolls can be just a detriment to free speech by spamming a good conversation with hate and nonsense changing the tone of topic from an insightful expression of ideas a bunch of idiotic ranting.
Being politically active is more than just trying to get people elected. But trying to convince others that they should change their minds, and as a population to change the direction.
For example in just the past generation, the growth in LBGT rights wasn't because of protests, and the political officials, but because of a brave group of people willing to show that these were normal people with normal needs and wants in life, and not sexual deviants. It means humanizing the group, and putting there best foot forward. In terms of privacy, you need to convince people that privacy needs to be an issue. A protest even a large one shows just a loud minority. Lobbying your representative will only get limited appeal. But changing the culture it is hard work, but much more effective. And it is better than locking yourself away from the boogy man.
I expect the issue is more to the point, as we have recently found out that our own government had been spying on us, despite the laws that says they shouldn't would make us feel a bit nervous.
In America there is a good deal of history where we had tried to find the un-americans among us. McCarthyism, blacklisting supposably Communist, Japanese internment camps during WWII are a few examples.
The danger with this local spying is the fact that we may say something that will get us flagged as un-american then we are watched under a finer detail waiting for a slip up then we can get arrested. Remember Ignorance of a law isn't an excuse, so chances are if you are being monitored under a fine tooth comb chance are you will break some law unintentionally.
Then it brings up what would get us flagged? A liberal idea may be too radical for the government, a conservative idea may be blocking the direction the government may want to go. A speculation may actually uncover a top secret plan. Some sign of sympathy for the enemy, or not quite following the propaganda that is being shown.
Now this stuff may not be part of a grand conspiracy. But the government is big, and there are often over ambitious zealots who are in a position to cause trouble. Combined with the fact each group of the government has a narrow focus which may not be inline with the rest of the government's goal.
Besides there is so much damage of getting falsely accused that even if you are all on the up and up. Getting falsely accused is a major detriment to your life.
The real answer is to be politically active. If you are willing to put your life at such a disadvantage to live off the grid, you might as well put your effort in being politically active with the goal of creating safeguards in the system to insure our privacies are met and convince the general public that their privacy is more important than losing it for getting a marginal benefit of safety from the government enemies.
The issue that I have with this hypothesis of the article. Is making a guess that places us many standard deviation out from the median just because there is no data. With the lack of data we should assume that we are average in every way at least within 1sd.
WebOS was made under a big set of shady dealing. With it designed to trick iTunes to think it was a different model iPod. Causing Apple to fix their iTunes which caused a back and forth fight between the two companies causing WebOS users to be the real victims. A big company like Palm advertising iTunes support makes people figure they got some sort of license with Apple. No they just hacked Apple thinking that Apple wouldn't do anything about it.
I have to agree The OS market has got really boring. Back in the old days we had a bunch of OS Dos/Windows for the PC MacOS (No X) for Apple UNIX/Linux for servers (each one designed for different platforms) VMS for digital systems servers. Z/OS for IBM mainframes PrimeOS for prime mainframes...
Now in 2016 almost all of our OS are based in 1970's or 1980's technology.
I evaluated Rust about a year ago... And it really wasn't there for a modern language, however the biggest stumbling block for me to work with it more was the lack of a good set core libraries. Even the sites online help had you using cargo to download a third party library.
A modern language should have a solid default library that you can fall back on as a trusted source.
Nearly 100% of the drugs that are smuggled are going over the public motorways. Unlike the popular Slashdot opinion I am all for Intellectual Property rights, however the ISP should focus their work on moving the data not being the judge of it.
The US Legal system has a few issues. 1. Most of the law makers are also lawyers. Just as I am a Computer Scientist and I think things can get better if you just fix the process, a trained Lawyer will think to just adding new laws or changing a law will fix all of the problems.
2. Many fines are a source of revenue for the government. While they may give an impassioned speech on how such laws are protecting people. While they are just filling the point of bringing in additional revenue.
3. Laws to help the poor are so complex that only the rich can take advantage of them. Lets put being PC aside for a bit. Often the reason why Poor people are poor is because their actions are not ideal. Such as taking drugs, getting into trouble, or just being lazy. So many of these laws are written for the mythical angle who just seemed to not be able to make it. And when social services are given to people don't seem to deserve it, it gets a lot of heat. So they put a lot of hooks in these laws to prevent abuse that it is nearly impossible for people to take advantage of them.
Having been a Landlord. They also need to take the ethical concerns on what service they are offering. And like many highly regulated areas, it is because there had been historical abuse in such field. As a landlord you are offering a key part of a person's survival and well being. Now the landlord had cases where they evict people for a bunch of stupid reasons. And without such legal reasons the person will get kicked out and the apartment will get replaced well before any legal action can happen. So the ex-tenant has already loss, even before they can go to court, so why bother.
The "fair and competitive" bidding process is actually a rather corrupt system. You put a bid in, you force the bidders to jump thru a bunch of hoops. If they don't get the bidder they want they stop bidding, and try again.
True if you are in the mindset that you are trying to keep your job. However the issue, is if you are particularly smart you get bored easy so you will try to do something to fill the boredom.
That analogy is like saying my cat is smarter than a chimpanzee. Because the cat knows enough to sit there and sleep all day and not cause trouble thus making it easy to care for and getting a steady supply of food and shelter. While a Chimpanzee if left alone will wreck the place over an extended period of time, thus making sure its life is much harder because it will need to be placed in the wild.
There is a burden of being smart. It means you more self reliant and that means you have less support backing you up. In a society like in the USA it may be a hinderance.
There is a good portion of the W3C that is well supported by the major browsers and if if you follow those your app tends to function correctly in all of them. I tend to stick to xhtml standard while the most picky, tends to render rather identically across all modern browsers.
So you are on Windows now. That is all good and fine. However the majority of your Applications should be Web Standards Based developed in a easy OS portable language. With a database system available in multiple OS.
Because time and time again, The next generation of Computer/OS breaks a lot of compatibility and moving over to a new platform is a big headache. Vs that web application developed in PHP back in 2003 while may not be pretty will still work on Windows 10 or the Bosses new iPad. Without having to rework the entire thing.
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Most facebooks posts are the same as bumper stickers.
Where if a bumper sticker can change your mind on a topic, it means you didn't give that topic any though.
But those political posts are just annoying, the sad part is they really think they are doing something important to the political process, while all they are really doing is isolating people who have different beliefs. Because the arguments are so vague that you are really just insulting the person who thinks differently.
Let's put it an other way so that 90% doesn't look so good.
They are about 365 days a year. There is 10% time an electric car won't work for you.
So that is being 36.5 days a year (over a full month) of times your electric car will fail you.
And most people will not have the luxury to buy a second car for those extra times.
In short that 90% number is saying that electric car technology and infrastructure isn't quite there yet. But packages in a way to fool people who do not want to dig into numbers.
They still need to work on longer range faster full charging. I would love to see the day where I can choose an electric car... However the technology and infrastructure isn't there yet.
(Sarcasm) Very mathematical (/sarcasm)
A few seconds last you two days of driving? Do you only drive a mile a day? 10 miles? 30 miles?
You are giving us an emotional answer to make you feel good about your car... Which none of us really cares about. We want to know how good is a charge that is about the same time as a gas fill will give us on an electric car.
But the point is for those people who do not live in an area that can't serve an overnight charging area. Street parking in particular. You will need to put a charging station at all street parking spots that serve residential areas. Vs a gas station every mile for a highly populated area or every 10 miles for a lower populated area.
Which is sad, the Torrent technology has a lot of promise, being that it was mostly used for pirated media gives it a bad name, where many ISP just will block it.
Well the spirit was to have all your code released under GPL as well. The dynamic linking rule was more targeted towards being able to link things because you can't have it GPL. vs VMWare where they won't have it GPL.
Many "Pro-Democracy" people have an agenda that is outside the mainstream, however blame the fact that their crazy ideas are not in play, is because the system isn't allowing the "Silent Majority" to vote for it.
There is also a risk to governments in a more Democratic system, as the general mass can be volatile to the fads of the time. Which is why the United States has a Democratic Republic design, vs a straight Democracy. It slows the system down as to prevent crazy ideas of the time to ruen a long term plan.
"Nobody really knows what GPL even means." The GPL is treated more like a religion. Where people get all up in arms, when it isn't used the way they wanted it to be used.
The GPL is rather strict, however there are loopholes, some that the GPL 3 closed (for better or for worse) So VMWare may be following the letter of the GPL but not the Spirit.
Not necessarily. You will need to show the limitation in your mainline kernel that would require VMWare to write a change to it.
VMware could just be using the standard kernel, and just made a customized distribution with their own priority code as the key running component.
The source for the kernel is widely available. But the VMWare product isn't.
To be fare. VMWare has its software designed to run on Different OS's and Linux Distributions so the ESXi version may just be a normal port with a boing LInux running in the backend.
The problem are moderators who decide to moderate on topics they feel strongly about. Good moderators make sure the messages stay on topic, and valid discussion is occurring. Because it is too easy for a vocal group to take over the discussion and spam it with like ideas or just poor arguments. But if the moderator has an emotional attachment to a side, a different view is often felt as a personal attack, thus can get censored.
However message trolls can be just a detriment to free speech by spamming a good conversation with hate and nonsense changing the tone of topic from an insightful expression of ideas a bunch of idiotic ranting.
Being politically active is more than just trying to get people elected. But trying to convince others that they should change their minds, and as a population to change the direction.
For example in just the past generation, the growth in LBGT rights wasn't because of protests, and the political officials, but because of a brave group of people willing to show that these were normal people with normal needs and wants in life, and not sexual deviants.
It means humanizing the group, and putting there best foot forward. In terms of privacy, you need to convince people that privacy needs to be an issue. A protest even a large one shows just a loud minority. Lobbying your representative will only get limited appeal. But changing the culture it is hard work, but much more effective. And it is better than locking yourself away from the boogy man.
I expect the issue is more to the point, as we have recently found out that our own government had been spying on us, despite the laws that says they shouldn't would make us feel a bit nervous.
In America there is a good deal of history where we had tried to find the un-americans among us. McCarthyism, blacklisting supposably Communist, Japanese internment camps during WWII are a few examples.
The danger with this local spying is the fact that we may say something that will get us flagged as un-american then we are watched under a finer detail waiting for a slip up then we can get arrested. Remember Ignorance of a law isn't an excuse, so chances are if you are being monitored under a fine tooth comb chance are you will break some law unintentionally.
Then it brings up what would get us flagged? A liberal idea may be too radical for the government, a conservative idea may be blocking the direction the government may want to go. A speculation may actually uncover a top secret plan. Some sign of sympathy for the enemy, or not quite following the propaganda that is being shown.
Now this stuff may not be part of a grand conspiracy. But the government is big, and there are often over ambitious zealots who are in a position to cause trouble. Combined with the fact each group of the government has a narrow focus which may not be inline with the rest of the government's goal.
Besides there is so much damage of getting falsely accused that even if you are all on the up and up. Getting falsely accused is a major detriment to your life.
The real answer is to be politically active. If you are willing to put your life at such a disadvantage to live off the grid, you might as well put your effort in being politically active with the goal of creating safeguards in the system to insure our privacies are met and convince the general public that their privacy is more important than losing it for getting a marginal benefit of safety from the government enemies.
The issue that I have with this hypothesis of the article. Is making a guess that places us many standard deviation out from the median just because there is no data. With the lack of data we should assume that we are average in every way at least within 1sd.
WebOS was made under a big set of shady dealing. With it designed to trick iTunes to think it was a different model iPod. Causing Apple to fix their iTunes which caused a back and forth fight between the two companies causing WebOS users to be the real victims.
A big company like Palm advertising iTunes support makes people figure they got some sort of license with Apple. No they just hacked Apple thinking that Apple wouldn't do anything about it.
I have to agree The OS market has got really boring.
Back in the old days we had a bunch of OS
Dos/Windows for the PC
MacOS (No X) for Apple
UNIX/Linux for servers (each one designed for different platforms)
VMS for digital systems servers.
Z/OS for IBM mainframes
PrimeOS for prime mainframes...
Now in 2016 almost all of our OS are based in 1970's or 1980's technology.
I evaluated Rust about a year ago... And it really wasn't there for a modern language, however the biggest stumbling block for me to work with it more was the lack of a good set core libraries. Even the sites online help had you using cargo to download a third party library.
A modern language should have a solid default library that you can fall back on as a trusted source.
Nearly 100% of the drugs that are smuggled are going over the public motorways.
Unlike the popular Slashdot opinion I am all for Intellectual Property rights, however the ISP should focus their work on moving the data not being the judge of it.
The US Legal system has a few issues.
1. Most of the law makers are also lawyers. Just as I am a Computer Scientist and I think things can get better if you just fix the process, a trained Lawyer will think to just adding new laws or changing a law will fix all of the problems.
2. Many fines are a source of revenue for the government. While they may give an impassioned speech on how such laws are protecting people. While they are just filling the point of bringing in additional revenue.
3. Laws to help the poor are so complex that only the rich can take advantage of them. Lets put being PC aside for a bit. Often the reason why Poor people are poor is because their actions are not ideal. Such as taking drugs, getting into trouble, or just being lazy. So many of these laws are written for the mythical angle who just seemed to not be able to make it. And when social services are given to people don't seem to deserve it, it gets a lot of heat. So they put a lot of hooks in these laws to prevent abuse that it is nearly impossible for people to take advantage of them.
Having been a Landlord. They also need to take the ethical concerns on what service they are offering. And like many highly regulated areas, it is because there had been historical abuse in such field.
As a landlord you are offering a key part of a person's survival and well being. Now the landlord had cases where they evict people for a bunch of stupid reasons. And without such legal reasons the person will get kicked out and the apartment will get replaced well before any legal action can happen. So the ex-tenant has already loss, even before they can go to court, so why bother.
Go with us as a refreshing alternative. We are just as big nasty. But it is an alternative.
The "fair and competitive" bidding process is actually a rather corrupt system.
You put a bid in, you force the bidders to jump thru a bunch of hoops.
If they don't get the bidder they want they stop bidding, and try again.
True if you are in the mindset that you are trying to keep your job.
However the issue, is if you are particularly smart you get bored easy so you will try to do something to fill the boredom.
That analogy is like saying my cat is smarter than a chimpanzee. Because the cat knows enough to sit there and sleep all day and not cause trouble thus making it easy to care for and getting a steady supply of food and shelter. While a Chimpanzee if left alone will wreck the place over an extended period of time, thus making sure its life is much harder because it will need to be placed in the wild.
There is a burden of being smart. It means you more self reliant and that means you have less support backing you up. In a society like in the USA it may be a hinderance.
There is a good portion of the W3C that is well supported by the major browsers and if if you follow those your app tends to function correctly in all of them.
I tend to stick to xhtml standard while the most picky, tends to render rather identically across all modern browsers.
So you are on Windows now. That is all good and fine. However the majority of your Applications should be Web Standards Based developed in a easy OS portable language. With a database system available in multiple OS.
Because time and time again, The next generation of Computer/OS breaks a lot of compatibility and moving over to a new platform is a big headache.
Vs that web application developed in PHP back in 2003 while may not be pretty will still work on Windows 10 or the Bosses new iPad. Without having to rework the entire thing.