My friend, for less than HALF that price, I'll sell you a mosquito-repelling rock! Shoots ultrasound waves. Humans can't hear 'em. This netting acts as an antenna. And it WORKS! There are no mosquitoes in here, right?
... And anyone who promises you that there is, does not understand the problem space.
CMS work is all about fit-to-purpose. Best for $0? Best at serving to HTML, docx and PDF from a single source? Best at delivering atomic content? Best at personalization? Best content author experience? WCM or ECM?
Suggest you start to read CMSWire, look at the material from Real Story Group (and consider buying one of their reports or request an engagement), read up on Karen McGrane's thoughts on API-delivered content, and the approach NPR used (VERY good, but no vendor does it this way).
There's no substitute for learning about the domain, and no other way to do it, other than hire a consultant who knows the domain and praying you got the right consultant. If you did get the right one, she'll make you answer many of the questions I ask above and more, and you'll probably have to learn about the domain anyway.
YouTube chokes less for me (Core2Duo, OS X), but it's still astonishingly difficult to get it to pause, switch back from full screen (takes 30 seconds or so), or return control of the browser.
Why is this so hard for Firefox? Seems like Chrome gets it right...
Been using and maintaining Debian systems at home and work since potato.
Using apt.
You're apparently not running the same packages as I am. Things that are breaking are coming from the third-party Debian multimedia repo, generally, or have had functionality I was using turned off in Jessie.
Dude, jumping right to the "moron", "lying troll" and "incompetent" bit says a lot more about you than about me. TTYL
It's an inadequate replacement in that it's part of the core OS, wants to emulate running legacy SysV init scripts, interprets them incompletely, and gives you no choice but to let it run said scripts and mess up their execution.
That's poor, and inadequate, whatever else you may think are its merits.
Oh wait, there IS another choice! Instead of being a Dad who just wants to get his kids the TV shows they had an hour ago back, I can put on the software developer hat, spend countless hours developing systemd scripts for software I didn't write, beating my head against the desk and trolling message boards for why this "superior" systemd won't just start the software like SysV did before I "upgraded". Cuz don't I love doing that?
If systemd couldn't be coded well enough to do the SysV emulation right, there should've been an option to fall back to something that can do the job as designed.
BTW, I made no claim about Debian as "solid" (though I might've, had I thought to do so - it's really good). You must've read that someplace else.
I guess we're going down the systemd well here, but in my case, I _decided_ to use Debian, which I don't consider "garbage software", and had no meaningful choice on whether to use systemd.
systemd has wrecked my home server for the apps for which I run it: DAAP music server, MythTV backend, and upnp photo server. Nothing starts properly. Nothing restarts itself. Have to continually intervene by hand, and in some cases I have to do without things that just plain worked before moving to Jessie/systemd.
Systemd isn't an adequate replacement for SysV init, (never mind the other well-reasoned critiques on other grounds), and doesn't inherit the functionality of legacy SysV init scripts well at all. There's no guarantee it won't break stuff, and no hand-holding.
And yeah, though I'm not engaged in the religious war over it (just: "how does it work at my house?"), it got rammed down my throat, unbidden.
"I have what.. three choices of 'theme' now? White, 'light grey' and 'dark grey' - none of which are much use in allowing me to distinguish between parts of the interface.."
Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2011 (Mac) let you see what is happening. The stupid 2013 themes should be called "blinding white", "white on white", and "white on extremely light taupe". Somebody ought to get fired over that design.
While they're at it, they could make an Android mail app that doesn't threaten me that "IF YOU DO NOT COMPLY I WILL DELETE ALL YOUR EMAIL AND MAYBE YOUR KIDS, TOO FOR GOOD MEASURE."
So you'd like the entire electorate to vote on laws and the like (something completely contrary to the system of representative government the US has (and I'm going to guess you're American), but let's roll with it for a sec...).
What's to prevent people from voting en-masse for lunatic ideas that might be proposed after an event like 9-11, without any check on their power, with little debate?
What's to prevent populist strongmen from grabbing the reins of power - through a legitimate vote, of course - and wrecking the democracy? I think you can find an current example of the risk without breaking a sweat.
It's slow and a little hard for a reason: the founding fathers thought the rubes should have a voice, but not so much of one that they'd be able to suddenly overrun the government on a whim.
Of course, having just escaped English rule, they made a number of provisions for checks on government power, but built the government to respond to long-term trends, not to short-term feverish issues.
Using "UI" and "UX" in the same sentence (or worse, as "UI/UX", as in some of the comments) showcases ignorance of the problems, solutions, and disciplines involved in making satisfying software.
Most Linux projects could use a Costco-size box of UX helper, regardless of whether the UI works well or not.
They're not orthogonal to each other, but fixing one doesn't necessarily fix the other.
What's more, just like coders and EEs, UXers come in all shades of good, bad, heroic and abominable.
Find a good one and work together. Her job is not to fuck up your favorite program.
More to the Virginia story than that - the "Golden Crescent" - an arc sweeping from Northern Virginia's tech corridor through Richmond to Hampton Roads - is facing an influx of job-seekers who will urbanize and suburbanize the area, and who largely trend Democratic. It's night-and-day different from rural Virginia. Old Dominion politics are indeed changing right now.
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This is really it.
In what way is ISIS an "existential threat" to the USA, if toddlers with guns kill roughly three times as many citizens?
Try not to get any of that on you. It doesn't wipe off.
It's Kafkaesque...
My friend, for less than HALF that price, I'll sell you a mosquito-repelling rock! Shoots ultrasound waves. Humans can't hear 'em. This netting acts as an antenna. And it WORKS! There are no mosquitoes in here, right?
I mean, he's already behind on child support, and he's selling blood plasma just to make ends meet!
That's Bill through and through - just a lot of big talk.
... And anyone who promises you that there is, does not understand the problem space.
CMS work is all about fit-to-purpose. Best for $0? Best at serving to HTML, docx and PDF from a single source? Best at delivering atomic content? Best at personalization? Best content author experience? WCM or ECM?
Suggest you start to read CMSWire, look at the material from Real Story Group (and consider buying one of their reports or request an engagement), read up on Karen McGrane's thoughts on API-delivered content, and the approach NPR used (VERY good, but no vendor does it this way).
There's no substitute for learning about the domain, and no other way to do it, other than hire a consultant who knows the domain and praying you got the right consultant. If you did get the right one, she'll make you answer many of the questions I ask above and more, and you'll probably have to learn about the domain anyway.
YouTube chokes less for me (Core2Duo, OS X), but it's still astonishingly difficult to get it to pause, switch back from full screen (takes 30 seconds or so), or return control of the browser.
Why is this so hard for Firefox? Seems like Chrome gets it right...
The app so nice, they had to name it twice?
Or maybe it's an Application Application because of two-factor?
Nice of the FBI to be concerned about our privacy. They're always so thoughtful.
I'm tired of being distracted every minute of the day, and tracked endlessly by everyone.
I'd think about one. And take the battery out when I don't want to be tracked at all.
I wonder if this will put open source DVRs at patent risk.
Just sayin'...
You can grow ANYTHING in a dish!
Interesting, and useful information, thanks.
From 12/24/2015, my firmware flash gives:
Linux XXXXXXXXXXRouter 3.10.94 #10909 Thu Dec 24 11:05:12 CET 2015 mips DD-WRT
Is it the mips/Broadcom architecture that's holding it back? Where do I find a 4.N? I only ever see 2.6 and 3 being offered.
The much-vaunted router firmware is at kernel 3.Something. Can it truly be said to be a Linux variant? If so, how can it be so far behind?
NASA's collection of vintage Gong, Steve Hillage, Kit Watkins and Hawkwind rivals the Vatican Porn Archives!
Been using and maintaining Debian systems at home and work since potato.
Using apt.
You're apparently not running the same packages as I am. Things that are breaking are coming from the third-party Debian multimedia repo, generally, or have had functionality I was using turned off in Jessie.
Dude, jumping right to the "moron", "lying troll" and "incompetent" bit says a lot more about you than about me. TTYL
It's an inadequate replacement in that it's part of the core OS, wants to emulate running legacy SysV init scripts, interprets them incompletely, and gives you no choice but to let it run said scripts and mess up their execution.
That's poor, and inadequate, whatever else you may think are its merits.
Oh wait, there IS another choice! Instead of being a Dad who just wants to get his kids the TV shows they had an hour ago back, I can put on the software developer hat, spend countless hours developing systemd scripts for software I didn't write, beating my head against the desk and trolling message boards for why this "superior" systemd won't just start the software like SysV did before I "upgraded". Cuz don't I love doing that?
If systemd couldn't be coded well enough to do the SysV emulation right, there should've been an option to fall back to something that can do the job as designed.
BTW, I made no claim about Debian as "solid" (though I might've, had I thought to do so - it's really good). You must've read that someplace else.
I guess we're going down the systemd well here, but in my case, I _decided_ to use Debian, which I don't consider "garbage software", and had no meaningful choice on whether to use systemd.
systemd has wrecked my home server for the apps for which I run it: DAAP music server, MythTV backend, and upnp photo server. Nothing starts properly. Nothing restarts itself. Have to continually intervene by hand, and in some cases I have to do without things that just plain worked before moving to Jessie/systemd.
Systemd isn't an adequate replacement for SysV init, (never mind the other well-reasoned critiques on other grounds), and doesn't inherit the functionality of legacy SysV init scripts well at all. There's no guarantee it won't break stuff, and no hand-holding.
And yeah, though I'm not engaged in the religious war over it (just: "how does it work at my house?"), it got rammed down my throat, unbidden.
"I have what.. three choices of 'theme' now? White, 'light grey' and 'dark grey' - none of which are much use in allowing me to distinguish between parts of the interface.."
Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2011 (Mac) let you see what is happening. The stupid 2013 themes should be called "blinding white", "white on white", and "white on extremely light taupe". Somebody ought to get fired over that design.
While they're at it, they could make an Android mail app that doesn't threaten me that "IF YOU DO NOT COMPLY I WILL DELETE ALL YOUR EMAIL AND MAYBE YOUR KIDS, TOO FOR GOOD MEASURE."
It's a misspelling. Should be "Noz-El", just like Kal-El or Jar-El.
... Will such a voice interface be able to understand or pronounce "Api.ai CEO Ilya Gelfenbeyn"
So you'd like the entire electorate to vote on laws and the like (something completely contrary to the system of representative government the US has (and I'm going to guess you're American), but let's roll with it for a sec...).
What's to prevent people from voting en-masse for lunatic ideas that might be proposed after an event like 9-11, without any check on their power, with little debate?
What's to prevent populist strongmen from grabbing the reins of power - through a legitimate vote, of course - and wrecking the democracy? I think you can find an current example of the risk without breaking a sweat.
It's slow and a little hard for a reason: the founding fathers thought the rubes should have a voice, but not so much of one that they'd be able to suddenly overrun the government on a whim.
Of course, having just escaped English rule, they made a number of provisions for checks on government power, but built the government to respond to long-term trends, not to short-term feverish issues.
Using "UI" and "UX" in the same sentence (or worse, as "UI/UX", as in some of the comments) showcases ignorance of the problems, solutions, and disciplines involved in making satisfying software.
Most Linux projects could use a Costco-size box of UX helper, regardless of whether the UI works well or not.
They're not orthogonal to each other, but fixing one doesn't necessarily fix the other.
What's more, just like coders and EEs, UXers come in all shades of good, bad, heroic and abominable.
Find a good one and work together. Her job is not to fuck up your favorite program.
More to the Virginia story than that - the "Golden Crescent" - an arc sweeping from Northern Virginia's tech corridor through Richmond to Hampton Roads - is facing an influx of job-seekers who will urbanize and suburbanize the area, and who largely trend Democratic. It's night-and-day different from rural Virginia. Old Dominion politics are indeed changing right now.