This problem isn't toxicity in the OSS community, it's toxic expectations of the corporate world. They wrongly (for almost all projects) expect OSS software to have the same support mechanisms and turnaround times in place as the proprietary systems they're used to, and think they can strongarm one or a few individuals into solving problems they could likely easily fix themselves and release a patch to the authors. Their main misunderstanding is that unlike expensive proprietary software, OSS is not supposed to be a one way street.
Chances are most of this would go away if the OSS software in question had an explicit disclaimer of warranty and fitness for purpose.
Is not an attribute to penalize. Thicker phones are sturdier (less prone to bending, among other things), easier to grip (more surface area on the edges, where you grip it while talking, and feel more substantial. Phone cases offer protection for the device and mitigate all these shortcomings.
Looking back, Zoolander only got one dimension right when it comes to phone size. The joke now would be a phone that is the size of a sheet of paper (and the 13.9" screen has 6204ppi).
Trident has been lagging behind on standards for more than a decade. Just because MS stripped a ton of cruft out of it and slapped a new "e" word on it doesn't make it more compliant.
Wasn't there an article the other day about the PC sales slump continuing because Win10 got pushed out as a free upgrade? Anything MS is doing with their own hardware isn't a market rejuvenation, it's a land grab. I predict within 2 years Redmond will outright buy an OEM, possibly with a Nokia-style Trojan executive scheme.
Corporations everywhere need a place to get cheap labor so they can keep profits up. Watch over the next decade as China starts building factories in Africa.
There is no "why" other than padding sales numbers and not losing ground to Linux in embedded deployments.
Win10 IoT is aimed at embedded systems vendors, not hobbyists or makers. It is specifically intended to replace all the old XP/CE deployments that still exist. They're tossing it out to end users (people who might buy a kit like this if it didn't involve Windows) as a bone. The OS itself is just a glorified bootloader for a Universal App: no shell (unless PowerShell counts), no desktop, and even some of the GPIOs are inaccessible. Plus, you need another full Win10 machine to load anything on it. Maintain vendor lock-in? Check.
MS wants to get to a BILLION Win10 devices, and IoT is a stunt to get there faster: that many forced upgrades and Surface/WinPhone slaes will never happen, but the embedded vendors will happily push them along so they can sell new ATMs and POS systems at outrageous markups.
IIRC, Weis & Hickman had a falling out with TSR around the time the Saga System was released because they didn't want Dragonlance to be D&D anymore, and the Saga System sucked. I'm pretty sure W&H own the DL IP, and only licensed it to TSR.
The thing about almost every D&D setting is that they are either a clone of something else (chiefly Tolkien), or don't represent what most people think of first about D&D (Dark Sun, Planescape, and Ravenloft aren't generic fantasy). I'm pretty sure Dragonlance is simply off the table, as it were.
Movie studios want a built-in audience, and as Marvel and DC know well, audience is attached to characters, not setting. What characters does D&D have with an audience big enough to pique a studio's interest? Without Dragonlance they both are in Forgotten Realms: Elminster and Drizzt. Elminster would be rightly seen as a Gandalf knock-off, but no one has put Dark Elves on the big screen before. You'd have to get Salvatore on board and convince a lot of people that a 25 year old AD&D 2nd Edition character can carry a franchise aimed at driving 5th Edition. I think it would be a hard sell all around... would people go to see a Drow movie, or three of them, and still remember that it's D&D?
Because D&D is generic (enough to simulate other properties) it has few unique and compelling character assets of its own. And Hasbro has fucked a lot of shit up with regard to how valuable any of those characters can be outside of game materials.
The only D&D book character a studio would want to adapt is Drizzt Do'Urden. Built-in audience is a huge studio requirement these days, and Dark Elves haven't been on the big screen before.
WoTC never understood D&D, and Hasbro only understands board games. This is part of why there have been 3.5 versions of D&D since WoTC bought out TSR. I'm not sure how D&D could be packaged as a movie franchise, or why any studio would want to back it.
Exactly. Node is a solution looking for a problem, the problem being that people who only know JS only want to know JS. In their near total lack of wisdom they see everything as a nail, being armed with a Fisher-Price hammer. JS should stay quarantined in the browser.
I really prefer zero with a dot instead of a slash, but I don't like the oval this zero has in it. It's not vertically centered in the regular variant, and gets reduced to an incongruously thin sliver in bold.
Drupal is just as free as WP, so is Cake, CodeIgniter, Laravel, and dozens of others. WP brings less to the table than any of those, but it does bring being an easy target.
At this point why doesn't Mozilla just throw in the towel and slap the Firefox logo on a Chromium build? It would save them a lot of time and effort. That's basically what their strategy has been for the past several years: make Firefox a clone of Chrome.
The extension APIs aren't the problem, it's the constant churn that makes it a chore to maintain extensions.
Yes, WP is a security problem, but the problem isn't the end users, or even the site owners. It's the general low quality of development skill that the WP ecosystem thrives on. The WP codebase is laughable crap, but makes it easy for entry-level, self-described developers to get something done, although without understanding the ramifications of the sloppy way they did it. They learn such sloppiness from the WP core itself, plugins, or the plethora of half-assed tutorials written by people who have only a fraction more clue about code and security than they do. WP culture is a feeding frenzy of ineptitude. The core was lousy when it was first released, and the dev team's adamant refusal to break backwards compatibility keeps a surprising portion of the internet at risk.
PHP4 is long gone, but WP core still has over 2000 instances of the global keyword. Only a language as poorly designed as PHP (but which has made tremendous improvements in recent years) could allow garbage like WP to thrive.
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This problem isn't toxicity in the OSS community, it's toxic expectations of the corporate world. They wrongly (for almost all projects) expect OSS software to have the same support mechanisms and turnaround times in place as the proprietary systems they're used to, and think they can strongarm one or a few individuals into solving problems they could likely easily fix themselves and release a patch to the authors. Their main misunderstanding is that unlike expensive proprietary software, OSS is not supposed to be a one way street.
Chances are most of this would go away if the OSS software in question had an explicit disclaimer of warranty and fitness for purpose.
I think the abuse claim is cover for scaling issues. Why else would they reduce all the plans?
What the fuck, right?
I just want to get the drivers installed on my Mint system that will allow me to use my R280X for rendering in Blender. No games, just Blender.
Is not an attribute to penalize. Thicker phones are sturdier (less prone to bending, among other things), easier to grip (more surface area on the edges, where you grip it while talking, and feel more substantial. Phone cases offer protection for the device and mitigate all these shortcomings.
Looking back, Zoolander only got one dimension right when it comes to phone size. The joke now would be a phone that is the size of a sheet of paper (and the 13.9" screen has 6204ppi).
Trident has been lagging behind on standards for more than a decade. Just because MS stripped a ton of cruft out of it and slapped a new "e" word on it doesn't make it more compliant.
Lessig is being kept out for the same reason the DNC is vehemently resisting having more debates: nothing shall put Hillary's candidacy at risk.
Wasn't there an article the other day about the PC sales slump continuing because Win10 got pushed out as a free upgrade? Anything MS is doing with their own hardware isn't a market rejuvenation, it's a land grab. I predict within 2 years Redmond will outright buy an OEM, possibly with a Nokia-style Trojan executive scheme.
Corporations everywhere need a place to get cheap labor so they can keep profits up. Watch over the next decade as China starts building factories in Africa.
Is October Fool's Day a thing now? This has to be a joke. No lawyer or investor with any sense would get anywhere near this.
This idea is worse than MeowMeowBeenz.
Then why not use hosts on some Microsoft-owned (test) domain?
It only runs Universal Apps. Win10 IoT is a glorified bootloader.
There is no "why" other than padding sales numbers and not losing ground to Linux in embedded deployments.
Win10 IoT is aimed at embedded systems vendors, not hobbyists or makers. It is specifically intended to replace all the old XP/CE deployments that still exist. They're tossing it out to end users (people who might buy a kit like this if it didn't involve Windows) as a bone. The OS itself is just a glorified bootloader for a Universal App: no shell (unless PowerShell counts), no desktop, and even some of the GPIOs are inaccessible. Plus, you need another full Win10 machine to load anything on it. Maintain vendor lock-in? Check.
MS wants to get to a BILLION Win10 devices, and IoT is a stunt to get there faster: that many forced upgrades and Surface/WinPhone slaes will never happen, but the embedded vendors will happily push them along so they can sell new ATMs and POS systems at outrageous markups.
IIRC, Weis & Hickman had a falling out with TSR around the time the Saga System was released because they didn't want Dragonlance to be D&D anymore, and the Saga System sucked. I'm pretty sure W&H own the DL IP, and only licensed it to TSR.
Because the book authors have severed all ties with the game.
Here's some news for you AC, I haven't played D&D in over a decade, and I was never a fan of that character.
The thing about almost every D&D setting is that they are either a clone of something else (chiefly Tolkien), or don't represent what most people think of first about D&D (Dark Sun, Planescape, and Ravenloft aren't generic fantasy). I'm pretty sure Dragonlance is simply off the table, as it were.
Movie studios want a built-in audience, and as Marvel and DC know well, audience is attached to characters, not setting. What characters does D&D have with an audience big enough to pique a studio's interest? Without Dragonlance they both are in Forgotten Realms: Elminster and Drizzt. Elminster would be rightly seen as a Gandalf knock-off, but no one has put Dark Elves on the big screen before. You'd have to get Salvatore on board and convince a lot of people that a 25 year old AD&D 2nd Edition character can carry a franchise aimed at driving 5th Edition. I think it would be a hard sell all around... would people go to see a Drow movie, or three of them, and still remember that it's D&D?
Because D&D is generic (enough to simulate other properties) it has few unique and compelling character assets of its own. And Hasbro has fucked a lot of shit up with regard to how valuable any of those characters can be outside of game materials.
The only D&D book character a studio would want to adapt is Drizzt Do'Urden. Built-in audience is a huge studio requirement these days, and Dark Elves haven't been on the big screen before.
WoTC never understood D&D, and Hasbro only understands board games. This is part of why there have been 3.5 versions of D&D since WoTC bought out TSR. I'm not sure how D&D could be packaged as a movie franchise, or why any studio would want to back it.
Oculus became completely irrelevant to me as soon as FB bought it. I'll wait to see what Valve comes up with.
Exactly. Node is a solution looking for a problem, the problem being that people who only know JS only want to know JS. In their near total lack of wisdom they see everything as a nail, being armed with a Fisher-Price hammer. JS should stay quarantined in the browser.
I really prefer zero with a dot instead of a slash, but I don't like the oval this zero has in it. It's not vertically centered in the regular variant, and gets reduced to an incongruously thin sliver in bold.
Exactly. We need to see the Weissman score.
Drupal is just as free as WP, so is Cake, CodeIgniter, Laravel, and dozens of others. WP brings less to the table than any of those, but it does bring being an easy target.
At this point why doesn't Mozilla just throw in the towel and slap the Firefox logo on a Chromium build? It would save them a lot of time and effort. That's basically what their strategy has been for the past several years: make Firefox a clone of Chrome.
The extension APIs aren't the problem, it's the constant churn that makes it a chore to maintain extensions.
Yes, WP is a security problem, but the problem isn't the end users, or even the site owners. It's the general low quality of development skill that the WP ecosystem thrives on. The WP codebase is laughable crap, but makes it easy for entry-level, self-described developers to get something done, although without understanding the ramifications of the sloppy way they did it. They learn such sloppiness from the WP core itself, plugins, or the plethora of half-assed tutorials written by people who have only a fraction more clue about code and security than they do. WP culture is a feeding frenzy of ineptitude. The core was lousy when it was first released, and the dev team's adamant refusal to break backwards compatibility keeps a surprising portion of the internet at risk.
PHP4 is long gone, but WP core still has over 2000 instances of the global keyword. Only a language as poorly designed as PHP (but which has made tremendous improvements in recent years) could allow garbage like WP to thrive.