I find cheap run-of-the-mill coffee disgusting, but I do like good coffee. Interestingly, in the context of the subject, what I would call a good coffee is not bitter at all.
That said, caffeine is irrelevant. You only "need" caffeine if you've become used to it. If you just stop taking caffeine, whether as coffee or as pills, after a few days of withdrawal symptoms (headache) you'll be just as awake without caffeine as you used to be with it before.
So you think preliminary results shouldn't be published just because someone might exploit them for profit, using false pretenses? While publishing them might help or even be necessary to fund further reasearch on the subject?
In the economic system we live under, there will always be people trying to profit from anything, but should that really hamper science?
Funny how some just cannot help seeing a conspiracy at work only because a bully decides his bully ways were unprofessional, detrimental behaviour, which shouldn't be tolerated whereever people work together.
You're just giving an example of the massive deficiencies in elementary logic that the detractors of the new LKML CoC keep showing, and in a real boring stupid alt-right fashion to boot. Why should any male, white and heterosexual person not find the LKML a good place, just because everyone's now supposed to behave themselves in a civilized manner? It's only the small portion of that group that's either not able or not willing to who might find it not to be a good place, which is a good thing if it's good for everyone else. And no, it's not necessary to belong to that portion to be a good kernel developer, either.
Why should Linux even "dominate" anything? I'm satisfied as long as it works for me and I don't have to put up with the horrors of having to use and administer Windows machines at home. It's bad enough I have to use WIndows at work.
Although I've been a fan of MATE for a while, I see myself in the process of converting those machines to Budgie which are powerful enough, and moving to Xubuntu those which aren't. Unfortunately, MATE 18.04 seems to put much more demand on hardware than 16.04 used to – at least that's my impression so far.
I use DuckDuckGo for quite some time now, and in most cases it works well. Just like Google, though, in harder cases it tends to lists loads of results which have no relation whatsoever to the search terms, even if the terms were typed in double quotes – only that DuckDuckGo's result are even worse than Google's. Sometimes they just can't admit not having found anything useful, it seems.
The fundamental flaw is that in economics-as-we-know-it things are done purely for profit, not for getting things done. Which all too often leads to the wrong things being done, or the right things being done in a disastrously wrong way. For the economy, it's just as well as long as there is profit.
OSS economics now has the "problem" that OSS is about getting things done, not about profit. And it's about, if possible, getting the right things done the right way.
The clash between OSS and economics-as-we-know-it is indeed a good reason to think about what is really going wrong, and how it can be repaired. Hint: to bend and break OSS economics until it somehow fits into profit-based economics is probably not the answer.
Human drivers know that other road users make mistakes. As long as the majority of drivers is still human, the real question here is not whether a self-driving car accident has to be blamed on another driver or a pedestrian, but whether a human driver could and would have avoided the accident in question.
No, the real reason this is a problem is because for some reason people get offended by certain arbitrary strings of characters. That's the real root of the problem.
No, still wrong. It's because for some reason some "important" people, i.e. those in charge for what a company writes and what it let's people write on their digital premises, FEAR that people might get offended. While most people actually don't.
The two dictionaries I just checked say data is the plural of datum.
People who use it differently either knowingly choose to (which is fine with me) or they are ignorant.
Or they simply use language as it has become common to use, even though not all dictionaries have been updated yet to reflect it. Would have been quite strange if the usage had been in the dictionaries before it had become common:-)
... that only works, and even then only for a small percentage of its user base, as long as ridiculously stupid things keep happening like companies successfully trying to sell people new smartphones (new cars, new TV's, you name it) all the time, without the new item being better than the last one, without that person really needing a new item, possibly without needing any such item at all.
(Personally, by the way, I've just prolonged my aging Motorola phone's life by paying a local repair shop a very modest sum for a battery replacement which my aging self didn't volunteer to do himself.)
A wide majority of people – many economists included – seems to not understand that the real value of the money that goes around depends on the amount of work that is spent in producing wares which can be sold for more money than what was invested in producing them. So the less people have work, the less monetary value will be there to be distributed as either wages or basic income (or welfare, for that matter).
If the predicted loss of jobs comes, which I'm quite sure it will, and it won't just affect unskilled labor either, we need better ideas than just job guarentees or basic incomes for keeping up a modest prosperity even in those places where we have it right now.
I think so, too, for some time to come. But while impeding fees even for just using the JDK commercially can be prevented by using OpenJDK, as far as I can see there's no help against the "zero overlap" six-months free support policy for versions including the so-called LTS versions. Meaning, starting 2019, OpenJDK users, too, will need to upgrade the JDK every six months if they simply want to keep getting security updates, and risk breaking things each time.
Red Hat, by the way, has advised RHEL users against using non-LTS JDK versions in a production environment, people should stay with Java 8 (LTS) until Java 11 (LTS) is there, and so on. I'm no RHEL user, so I don't know for sure, but possibly RHEL will get Oracle's non-free security updates. Otherwise it wouldn't be safe to skip non-LTS versions after Java 11.
In my day job, that's where I already am, and I might not get out of it until I retire. That being said, there has been worse stuff where I come from;-)
So far, so good, and OpenJDK is what I've been using personally since I started migrating all my stuff to Linux last autumn. Until now I have stayed at version 8 for compatibility reasons. For commercial use, Oracle will end support for Java 8 come January 2019. I seem to not have fully understood the differences – will OpenJDK continue to be supported with security updates after that date, which can be used commercially, too?
... I'd say have a thorough look into Java, at least if you want to keep platform independence as an option, with the JDK offering forays into other and more modern languages too, like Kotlin, Scala, Groovy or many others, and being the next best thing in terms of performance after natively compiled code.
With Oracle's latest change in update policy, though, forcing commercial users to upgrade JVMs/JDKs to the next major version – possibly breaking things – every six months, at least if they want to keep getting security updates without paying heavy subscription fees, I'm not sure anymore what the future of Java and the JDK/JVM will be.
Because it's within the concepts of specific languages, which may not actually dictate *what* people can do with them, but which clearly specify *how* they have to do it. Which may very well imply different values for the average quality of code for different languages...
Funny! I have several persons in my circle of friends and acquaintances who still use 2G phones and don't want anything else. And why should they? Why should someone need to use the internet at all with their mobile phone? But then again telcos won't try to switch them off anytime soon in the country where I live, I guess.
It might have stopped me if it would've come earlier – as things are, I moved every remaining Windows machine in my jurisdiction to Linux during the past eight months.
Right, there's a difference indeed – one hurts someone, the other doesn't. Except perhaps posthumously self-declared advocates of the deceased, defending the desceased's misbehaviour against possibly legitimate criticism even after his death.
"capitalist states". I doubt that police abuse is confined to capitalist states.
Of course not, and it wasn't my intention to insinuate something like that. It's just my impression (and not just mine), that police forces in capitalist first-world states become more and more powerful, aggressive, fitted with more and more rights against the population, the less the capitalist economy is able to keep up widespread prosperity in those states.
Are you seriously claiming police in say Russia and China are more circumspect [...]
Surely not. Now, today Russia as well as China are capitalist states. But of course they weren't "more circumspect" earlier, either.
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I find cheap run-of-the-mill coffee disgusting, but I do like good coffee. Interestingly, in the context of the subject, what I would call a good coffee is not bitter at all.
That said, caffeine is irrelevant. You only "need" caffeine if you've become used to it. If you just stop taking caffeine, whether as coffee or as pills, after a few days of withdrawal symptoms (headache) you'll be just as awake without caffeine as you used to be with it before.
So you think preliminary results shouldn't be published just because someone might exploit them for profit, using false pretenses? While publishing them might help or even be necessary to fund further reasearch on the subject?
In the economic system we live under, there will always be people trying to profit from anything, but should that really hamper science?
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Funny how some just cannot help seeing a conspiracy at work only because a bully decides his bully ways were unprofessional, detrimental behaviour, which shouldn't be tolerated whereever people work together.
... that in the meantime I've completely moved to Linux, where one thing is surely not missing: decent audio player options.
You're just giving an example of the massive deficiencies in elementary logic that the detractors of the new LKML CoC keep showing, and in a real boring stupid alt-right fashion to boot. Why should any male, white and heterosexual person not find the LKML a good place, just because everyone's now supposed to behave themselves in a civilized manner? It's only the small portion of that group that's either not able or not willing to who might find it not to be a good place, which is a good thing if it's good for everyone else. And no, it's not necessary to belong to that portion to be a good kernel developer, either.
Why should Linux even "dominate" anything? I'm satisfied as long as it works for me and I don't have to put up with the horrors of having to use and administer Windows machines at home. It's bad enough I have to use WIndows at work.
Although I've been a fan of MATE for a while, I see myself in the process of converting those machines to Budgie which are powerful enough, and moving to Xubuntu those which aren't. Unfortunately, MATE 18.04 seems to put much more demand on hardware than 16.04 used to – at least that's my impression so far.
I use DuckDuckGo for quite some time now, and in most cases it works well. Just like Google, though, in harder cases it tends to lists loads of results which have no relation whatsoever to the search terms, even if the terms were typed in double quotes – only that DuckDuckGo's result are even worse than Google's. Sometimes they just can't admit not having found anything useful, it seems.
The fundamental flaw is that in economics-as-we-know-it things are done purely for profit, not for getting things done. Which all too often leads to the wrong things being done, or the right things being done in a disastrously wrong way. For the economy, it's just as well as long as there is profit.
OSS economics now has the "problem" that OSS is about getting things done, not about profit. And it's about, if possible, getting the right things done the right way.
The clash between OSS and economics-as-we-know-it is indeed a good reason to think about what is really going wrong, and how it can be repaired. Hint: to bend and break OSS economics until it somehow fits into profit-based economics is probably not the answer.
Human drivers know that other road users make mistakes. As long as the majority of drivers is still human, the real question here is not whether a self-driving car accident has to be blamed on another driver or a pedestrian, but whether a human driver could and would have avoided the accident in question.
No, the real reason this is a problem is because for some reason people get offended by certain arbitrary strings of characters. That's the real root of the problem.
No, still wrong. It's because for some reason some "important" people, i.e. those in charge for what a company writes and what it let's people write on their digital premises, FEAR that people might get offended. While most people actually don't.
The two dictionaries I just checked say data is the plural of datum.
People who use it differently either knowingly choose to (which is fine with me) or they are ignorant.
Or they simply use language as it has become common to use, even though not all dictionaries have been updated yet to reflect it. Would have been quite strange if the usage had been in the dictionaries before it had become common :-)
... that only works, and even then only for a small percentage of its user base, as long as ridiculously stupid things keep happening like companies successfully trying to sell people new smartphones (new cars, new TV's, you name it) all the time, without the new item being better than the last one, without that person really needing a new item, possibly without needing any such item at all.
(Personally, by the way, I've just prolonged my aging Motorola phone's life by paying a local repair shop a very modest sum for a battery replacement which my aging self didn't volunteer to do himself.)
A wide majority of people – many economists included – seems to not understand that the real value of the money that goes around depends on the amount of work that is spent in producing wares which can be sold for more money than what was invested in producing them. So the less people have work, the less monetary value will be there to be distributed as either wages or basic income (or welfare, for that matter).
If the predicted loss of jobs comes, which I'm quite sure it will, and it won't just affect unskilled labor either, we need better ideas than just job guarentees or basic incomes for keeping up a modest prosperity even in those places where we have it right now.
You make it sound like overtime was a thing everyone should be asking for.
I think so, too, for some time to come. But while impeding fees even for just using the JDK commercially can be prevented by using OpenJDK, as far as I can see there's no help against the "zero overlap" six-months free support policy for versions including the so-called LTS versions. Meaning, starting 2019, OpenJDK users, too, will need to upgrade the JDK every six months if they simply want to keep getting security updates, and risk breaking things each time.
Red Hat, by the way, has advised RHEL users against using non-LTS JDK versions in a production environment, people should stay with Java 8 (LTS) until Java 11 (LTS) is there, and so on. I'm no RHEL user, so I don't know for sure, but possibly RHEL will get Oracle's non-free security updates. Otherwise it wouldn't be safe to skip non-LTS versions after Java 11.
In my day job, that's where I already am, and I might not get out of it until I retire. That being said, there has been worse stuff where I come from ;-)
So far, so good, and OpenJDK is what I've been using personally since I started migrating all my stuff to Linux last autumn. Until now I have stayed at version 8 for compatibility reasons. For commercial use, Oracle will end support for Java 8 come January 2019. I seem to not have fully understood the differences – will OpenJDK continue to be supported with security updates after that date, which can be used commercially, too?
... I'd say have a thorough look into Java, at least if you want to keep platform independence as an option, with the JDK offering forays into other and more modern languages too, like Kotlin, Scala, Groovy or many others, and being the next best thing in terms of performance after natively compiled code.
With Oracle's latest change in update policy, though, forcing commercial users to upgrade JVMs/JDKs to the next major version – possibly breaking things – every six months, at least if they want to keep getting security updates without paying heavy subscription fees, I'm not sure anymore what the future of Java and the JDK/JVM will be.
Because it's within the concepts of specific languages, which may not actually dictate *what* people can do with them, but which clearly specify *how* they have to do it. Which may very well imply different values for the average quality of code for different languages...
Funny! I have several persons in my circle of friends and acquaintances who still use 2G phones and don't want anything else. And why should they? Why should someone need to use the internet at all with their mobile phone? But then again telcos won't try to switch them off anytime soon in the country where I live, I guess.
It might have stopped me if it would've come earlier – as things are, I moved every remaining Windows machine in my jurisdiction to Linux during the past eight months.
Right, there's a difference indeed – one hurts someone, the other doesn't. Except perhaps posthumously self-declared advocates of the deceased, defending the desceased's misbehaviour against possibly legitimate criticism even after his death.
"capitalist states". I doubt that police abuse is confined to capitalist states.
Of course not, and it wasn't my intention to insinuate something like that. It's just my impression (and not just mine), that police forces in capitalist first-world states become more and more powerful, aggressive, fitted with more and more rights against the population, the less the capitalist economy is able to keep up widespread prosperity in those states.
Are you seriously claiming police in say Russia and China are more circumspect [...]
Surely not. Now, today Russia as well as China are capitalist states. But of course they weren't "more circumspect" earlier, either.