Any opinions why one should prefer Mint over Ubuntu or Cinnamon over Mate?
Not that I'd want to start a flamewar or some such, just to add something to talk about here, regarding which I'm not yet convinced I've made up my mind myself.
Giving low-pressure weather systems girls' names and high pressure systems boys' names, as it used to be tradition until only a few years ago, was obviously sexist, while I can't really see the sexism here, except maybe for a tiniest portion of sexism in the photo shown in TFA – but if there was any, wouldn't it be sensible to stay away from it because it's sexist, not because of fear of a lawsuit?
..., timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. And no, I don't mean the Greek, and in case of Google or any such entity, it actually shouldn't be "even when they bear gifts", but "especially when they bear gifts".
... and 2018 will be another year of Linux, on both the server and the desktop, after finally moving away from OS/2 aka eComStation (even though a new, refreshed version named ArcaOS has just been released) which still ran on one server and after the final decision that I'll refuse to move to any Windows version higher than 7 on my desktop.
Yes, I'm keeping a few Windows applications installed in Wine (e.g. Adobe Digital Editions and Amazon Kindle so I can still buy and read DRM-protected e-books, now that my library has smoothly moved to Linux thanks to Calibre) and on a Windows 7 in a virtual machine (two or three photography-related apps which don't run with Wine), but that'll be about it.
We'll have to see whether I'll be staying with the Linux flavor I chose (Ubuntu Mate on most desktops, Ubuntu Server on the servers) in the long run, but so far I'm quite happy with everything.
By the way, I find it funny that, contrary to the preconception that Linux was only for nerds, more and more non-nerds in my vicinity turn to Linux and get along with it quite well. The change is, of course, easiest for people who already had been using applications on Windows which are available on Linux, too.
... goods wouldn't be produced for profit, but for satisfying the needs of consumers, in cooperation, not competition. In such a world, we wouldn't even have a story. In the world as it is, no matter how just or how effective in their justice the reactions ever will be, such stories will continue to be the normality they are and have always been since the invention of money.
... I could find some useful information here about things I could do with my Xperia X1!
Which reminds me of the fact that there are no slider smartphones anymore. And no, the Blackberry Priv (which I own, for lack of other options) with its keyboard on the narrow side is no real substitute...
There are two bombs, and TFA confuses them a bit. There's a 500 kg bomb in Koblenz, and a 1,800 kg aerial mine in Frankfurt. Which, obviously, is the one with 1.4 tonnes of explosives.
More hard, goal-driven work even on the weekend! That's what we need!
No. For a person who's already got a somewhat strenuous full-time job, I'd say that would be the best method to accelerate becoming burnt out. (And I've met burnout cases who'd fit that pattern, with therapists rather suggesting to subscribe to less strenuous, goal-directed activities at the weekends, too...)
I can confirm a tendency for headaches after getting more than eight hours of sleep, but then again the occasions when I sleep that long mostly are after having had too much to drink!
Indeed. If there is a market for COBOL programmers (and it's clear there is), then the obvious solution is for unis and colleges to spit out more COBOL-literate CS graduates. Honestly, if I was ten years younger, I'd probably delve into it myself. It is, after all, just a programming language, and hardly on the same level of trying to learn Sanskrit.
As long as you have a real fall-back so your career doesn't dead end. What can easily happen is that you do X then more of X because it's the only place you get a salary/career development until you've done X so long nobody will really hire you for anything else
Well, I guess it still depends a bit on whether you present yourself as a Java/C#/whatever programmer who's recently done some COBOL work, too, or as a COBOL programmer with a Java/etc background...
BTW, I started my career programming COBOL in an era when PCs began to replace mainframes (while the place where I was working was already a bit late there), and at first they used COBOL for writing PC applications, too, simply because most of their programmers didn't know anything else.
What Chinese clothing companies have been doing for ages, making 'fleece' clothing out of shredded plastic bottles because they're so cheap a raw material that it even pays to ship thousands of tons of them from Europe to China before processing them, now will be part of an environmentalist image that will help get the Adidas owners even more stupidly rich. Of course, cargo ship exhaust gases won't show up in the ads...
An at the time "high-end" Apple ][ compatible Basis 108, parents-funded, when I still went to school. I really missed the excellent keyboard when I moved on to an IBM compatible PC two or three years later.
There was an experiment recently conducted in Sweden, with many workplaces in different sectors taking part, I think it was a whole city. They switched to a 30-hour week, retaining full pay. The bottom line, as far as I remember, was that productivity was, if anything, increased.
Given how decision makers think, I have no hopes for things to change because of that, though. It's already telling how little publicity the study got.
3. Higher civilization standards correlate with lower birth rates. To increase civilization standards is the best way to lower birth rates.
The second part of this statement is not supported by the first. Even if we assume that higher civilization standards cause lower birth rates, this would still not mean that increasing civilization standards is the best way to lower birth rates; merely a way.
Yes, I know that, which is why I didn't make such a claim in the first place. Just because one sentence follows another it doesn't mean that it's supposed to be an implication of the first. Most importantly, though, it doesn't become wrong just because it isn't one.
"Birth control instead of money" is just racist hogwash.
Okay, now you're just making stuff up. Arbitrary use of "racist" to mean "stuff I don't like" is an ad hominem argument.
The claim, a specific usage of "racist" was "arbitrary", while actually there was a good reason for it, is an old immunization tactics of racists, and it is real easy, too, because it never seems to need any substantiation... But perhaps you just didn't see the reason? Let me help you, then: The thread starter's comment necessarily contains the implied assumption that poor Africans would use the money only to proliferate, which clearly is a racist assumption.
1. Lowering birth rates doesn't make anyone of those who are already born less poor. 2. Kenya's birthrate is still significantly above average, but steadily decreasing since the nineteen-seventies. 3. Higher civilization standards correlate with lower birth rates. To increase civilization standards is the best way to lower birth rates. 3. Enabling more people to do other things than just struggling to get their food for the day is the best way, in the long run, to help increasing civilization standards, together with education and infrastructure, to which to contribute is one of the things more people will be enabled to through a basic income, too.
"Birth control instead of money" is just racist hogwash. "More money leads to more births, so give them even less money" may seem logical for some, but is a completely unsubstantiated assumption. In the long run, the facts give much reason to assume the exact opposite.
... as my preferred privacy-centric OS. It's not as if there weren't alternatives. And 32-bit machines will be good enough to access the internet for many years to come. I'm allergic to software producers forcing me to upgrade hardware for no reason, and seeing what the audience for systems like Tails is, the decision is even more despicable, and I'd expect there to be a lot of people who'll be much less inclined, if even able, to upgrade their hardware on a whim than I am.
I don't think so. While color indeed does make the image more realistic, 3D video doesn't. Yes, it gives the image some depth which would otherwise be flat, but a depth that's more like a special effect than reality. The 3D video I've seen so far (which I admit isn't much) never looked natural, it looked gimmicky. My major reason beside having to wear 3D glasses to choose 2D wherever I have the option.
Couldn't the 4.6 billion years old stuff just have come from a 4.6 billion years old original source (say, Earth), while the moon still came into existence only, say, several hundred million years ago, having been formed out of something which perchance included that stuff?
Which had no commercial impact, though, as soon as your monopoly was big enough, which came pretty quick (and not only by legal means, as we know today). Since then, you can stuff everything you want down users' throats who have nowhere else to go because the applications they need don't run on other platforms.
I still haven't completely given up hope, though, that this will change one day.
Too bad UI designers seem to have completely forgotten that "UI" shouldn't be primarily about looking cool, but about increasing both functionality and productivity with usability. Looks only come after that. Which is why IBM's Workplace Shell IMHO is still the best "desktop"-metaphor UI implementation there was, so far.
There are four Windows machines in active use in the household, all running Windows 7, none being upgraded (one isn't up to it anyway). When MS will stop servicing Windows 7 with security updates, I'll check my options again, independently for each machine. If Microsoft hasn't completely changed its course until then, the top options to be thoroughly checked will be Linux and OS X. Only if it cannot avoided at all for a machine, I'll make the update then. Even a small chance of never having to do it is worth it for me to accept having to pay for it later should all else fail.
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Any opinions why one should prefer Mint over Ubuntu or Cinnamon over Mate?
Not that I'd want to start a flamewar or some such, just to add something to talk about here, regarding which I'm not yet convinced I've made up my mind myself.
Giving low-pressure weather systems girls' names and high pressure systems boys' names, as it used to be tradition until only a few years ago, was obviously sexist, while I can't really see the sexism here, except maybe for a tiniest portion of sexism in the photo shown in TFA – but if there was any, wouldn't it be sensible to stay away from it because it's sexist, not because of fear of a lawsuit?
..., timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. And no, I don't mean the Greek, and in case of Google or any such entity, it actually shouldn't be "even when they bear gifts", but "especially when they bear gifts".
... and 2018 will be another year of Linux, on both the server and the desktop, after finally moving away from OS/2 aka eComStation (even though a new, refreshed version named ArcaOS has just been released) which still ran on one server and after the final decision that I'll refuse to move to any Windows version higher than 7 on my desktop.
Yes, I'm keeping a few Windows applications installed in Wine (e.g. Adobe Digital Editions and Amazon Kindle so I can still buy and read DRM-protected e-books, now that my library has smoothly moved to Linux thanks to Calibre) and on a Windows 7 in a virtual machine (two or three photography-related apps which don't run with Wine), but that'll be about it.
We'll have to see whether I'll be staying with the Linux flavor I chose (Ubuntu Mate on most desktops, Ubuntu Server on the servers) in the long run, but so far I'm quite happy with everything.
By the way, I find it funny that, contrary to the preconception that Linux was only for nerds, more and more non-nerds in my vicinity turn to Linux and get along with it quite well. The change is, of course, easiest for people who already had been using applications on Windows which are available on Linux, too.
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After all, it was just a very small transition from 'beverage' to 'leverage'.
Good thing, then, I suppose, that I didn't propose "government-run centralized manufacturing of goods" in any part whatsoever of what I wrote!
... goods wouldn't be produced for profit, but for satisfying the needs of consumers, in cooperation, not competition. In such a world, we wouldn't even have a story. In the world as it is, no matter how just or how effective in their justice the reactions ever will be, such stories will continue to be the normality they are and have always been since the invention of money.
... I could find some useful information here about things I could do with my Xperia X1!
Which reminds me of the fact that there are no slider smartphones anymore. And no, the Blackberry Priv (which I own, for lack of other options) with its keyboard on the narrow side is no real substitute...
...a second 1.4 ton bomb in Frankfurt.
Someone put a bomb in someone's hotdog?!
Yes. But PETA already filed charges against the animal abuser.
There are two bombs, and TFA confuses them a bit. There's a 500 kg bomb in Koblenz, and a 1,800 kg aerial mine in Frankfurt. Which, obviously, is the one with 1.4 tonnes of explosives.
More hard, goal-driven work even on the weekend! That's what we need!
No. For a person who's already got a somewhat strenuous full-time job, I'd say that would be the best method to accelerate becoming burnt out. (And I've met burnout cases who'd fit that pattern, with therapists rather suggesting to subscribe to less strenuous, goal-directed activities at the weekends, too...)
I can confirm a tendency for headaches after getting more than eight hours of sleep, but then again the occasions when I sleep that long mostly are after having had too much to drink!
Could sleeping less be one of the reasons for men dying earlier than women?
Indeed. If there is a market for COBOL programmers (and it's clear there is), then the obvious solution is for unis and colleges to spit out more COBOL-literate CS graduates. Honestly, if I was ten years younger, I'd probably delve into it myself. It is, after all, just a programming language, and hardly on the same level of trying to learn Sanskrit.
As long as you have a real fall-back so your career doesn't dead end. What can easily happen is that you do X then more of X because it's the only place you get a salary/career development until you've done X so long nobody will really hire you for anything else
Well, I guess it still depends a bit on whether you present yourself as a Java/C#/whatever programmer who's recently done some COBOL work, too, or as a COBOL programmer with a Java/etc background...
BTW, I started my career programming COBOL in an era when PCs began to replace mainframes (while the place where I was working was already a bit late there), and at first they used COBOL for writing PC applications, too, simply because most of their programmers didn't know anything else.
What Chinese clothing companies have been doing for ages, making 'fleece' clothing out of shredded plastic bottles because they're so cheap a raw material that it even pays to ship thousands of tons of them from Europe to China before processing them, now will be part of an environmentalist image that will help get the Adidas owners even more stupidly rich. Of course, cargo ship exhaust gases won't show up in the ads...
An at the time "high-end" Apple ][ compatible Basis 108, parents-funded, when I still went to school. I really missed the excellent keyboard when I moved on to an IBM compatible PC two or three years later.
There was an experiment recently conducted in Sweden, with many workplaces in different sectors taking part, I think it was a whole city. They switched to a 30-hour week, retaining full pay. The bottom line, as far as I remember, was that productivity was, if anything, increased.
Given how decision makers think, I have no hopes for things to change because of that, though. It's already telling how little publicity the study got.
3. Higher civilization standards correlate with lower birth rates. To increase civilization standards is the best way to lower birth rates.
The second part of this statement is not supported by the first. Even if we assume that higher civilization standards cause lower birth rates, this would still not mean that increasing civilization standards is the best way to lower birth rates; merely a way.
Yes, I know that, which is why I didn't make such a claim in the first place. Just because one sentence follows another it doesn't mean that it's supposed to be an implication of the first. Most importantly, though, it doesn't become wrong just because it isn't one.
"Birth control instead of money" is just racist hogwash.
Okay, now you're just making stuff up. Arbitrary use of "racist" to mean "stuff I don't like" is an ad hominem argument.
The claim, a specific usage of "racist" was "arbitrary", while actually there was a good reason for it, is an old immunization tactics of racists, and it is real easy, too, because it never seems to need any substantiation... But perhaps you just didn't see the reason? Let me help you, then: The thread starter's comment necessarily contains the implied assumption that poor Africans would use the money only to proliferate, which clearly is a racist assumption.
1. Lowering birth rates doesn't make anyone of those who are already born less poor.
2. Kenya's birthrate is still significantly above average, but steadily decreasing since the nineteen-seventies.
3. Higher civilization standards correlate with lower birth rates. To increase civilization standards is the best way to lower birth rates.
3. Enabling more people to do other things than just struggling to get their food for the day is the best way, in the long run, to help increasing civilization standards, together with education and infrastructure, to which to contribute is one of the things more people will be enabled to through a basic income, too.
"Birth control instead of money" is just racist hogwash. "More money leads to more births, so give them even less money" may seem logical for some, but is a completely unsubstantiated assumption. In the long run, the facts give much reason to assume the exact opposite.
... as my preferred privacy-centric OS. It's not as if there weren't alternatives. And 32-bit machines will be good enough to access the internet for many years to come. I'm allergic to software producers forcing me to upgrade hardware for no reason, and seeing what the audience for systems like Tails is, the decision is even more despicable, and I'd expect there to be a lot of people who'll be much less inclined, if even able, to upgrade their hardware on a whim than I am.
I don't think so. While color indeed does make the image more realistic, 3D video doesn't. Yes, it gives the image some depth which would otherwise be flat, but a depth that's more like a special effect than reality. The 3D video I've seen so far (which I admit isn't much) never looked natural, it looked gimmicky. My major reason beside having to wear 3D glasses to choose 2D wherever I have the option.
That said, I don't agree with the parent, either.
Couldn't the 4.6 billion years old stuff just have come from a 4.6 billion years old original source (say, Earth), while the moon still came into existence only, say, several hundred million years ago, having been formed out of something which perchance included that stuff?
Which had no commercial impact, though, as soon as your monopoly was big enough, which came pretty quick (and not only by legal means, as we know today). Since then, you can stuff everything you want down users' throats who have nowhere else to go because the applications they need don't run on other platforms.
I still haven't completely given up hope, though, that this will change one day.
Too bad UI designers seem to have completely forgotten that "UI" shouldn't be primarily about looking cool, but about increasing both functionality and productivity with usability. Looks only come after that. Which is why IBM's Workplace Shell IMHO is still the best "desktop"-metaphor UI implementation there was, so far.
There are four Windows machines in active use in the household, all running Windows 7, none being upgraded (one isn't up to it anyway). When MS will stop servicing Windows 7 with security updates, I'll check my options again, independently for each machine. If Microsoft hasn't completely changed its course until then, the top options to be thoroughly checked will be Linux and OS X. Only if it cannot avoided at all for a machine, I'll make the update then. Even a small chance of never having to do it is worth it for me to accept having to pay for it later should all else fail.