"doesn't run needed apps doesn't run needed apps doesn't run needed apps"
Needed, or desired? If 'needed', there's usually a workaround. If no workaround or alternative, too bad, so sad. You're just gonna have to bend over and take it.
I'm coming to you from Devuan Linux - no systemd. And there are others. And BSD's, too. I will not have systemd railroaded onto my system, and thanks to some dedicated hardworking people, I don't have to.
One thing that infuriates me more than just about anything else is when the feedback mechanism for a keypress or mouse click is so decoupled from the acceptance of that keypress or mouse click that you get the feedback without the input being registered.
E.g., sometimes the visually presented region of a button will be larger than the region that registers the click. You click your mouse, the button blinks or whatever to give you feedback, and nothing happens. Because you didn't click right in the tiny region in the middle of the button that actually registers mouse clicks. But you got the feedback anyway. This is just criminally stupid.
Another example. Years ago I used a very expensive and complicated piece of equipment to do some field work. It was weatherproofed, and had a sealed membrane keyboard. There was not a lot of tactile feedback from the 'keys', so when you pressed a key it helpfully generated a 'peep' noise. Except the mechanism that made the peep noise was totally unrelated to the mechanism that recorded the keystroke. What good is 'feedback' if it is not connected to the event you want feedback on?
It was possible to blithely enter, say, plot ID codes and have every other character dropped, with the machine peeping away all the while. Ditto launching various functions: OK, I'm gonna start a sample run now. Press the button. 'PEEP'. Wait for the run to complete. Only to discover that it never began.
I wrote a fairly spicy email to the manufacturer of the device one day after being bitten by this bug and having some measurements rendered unusable. Fortunately, I showed it to a colleague before I sent it, and he suggested that I adopt a more, um, professional tone;-)
It requires people to just give up any notion of being a private person, and just becoming a sheep. It would also require trust - trust of corporations, and trust of government.
One of the routes that ol' Elon has mentioned repeatedly in his promotion of this thing is Bay Area to LA. Assuming you could even build the tunnel, what about the seismic activity of this region? Seems crazy to go undergound in CA.
I will make a prediction, of which I am very sure: I will never get into one of these contraptions. I'm just not in that much of a hurry;-)
I think it's about time for the Butlerian Jihad;-)
Seriously, every new technology just gives greed and hate more power. There seems to be nothing anyone can do about it, which baffles me. Why can't they catch ransomware assholes and throw them into jail for a long long time? They can do anything else but catch the bad guys. WTF - must be no MONEY in it. MONEY MONEY MONEY. That's the only arbiter of anything in our broken 'culture'.
"This was the whole point of open source. If something is wanted then it is usually developed. If it doesn't work for some reason, support the guys who are trying to make it work rather than bitching that someone moved your cheese."
Except it wasn't wanted, and many people feel like it was rammed down their throats. It's not that it does or doesn't work (sometimes it does, sometimes it causes trouble). It's that open source is not about 'supporting the guys' who are making something you don't want, and who are making it more and more difficult to opt out.
The reason for the syndrome that you describe is that people are broken, and need to make themselves feel powerful and important (and oh so cool) by being negative just about towards everything. This has been going on for years, and has just gotten worse and worse. It's become a reflex.
It's the whole state of the culture.The anonymity of the internet surely facilitates it. And no, people have not always been so emotionally immature/insecure/confused/broken. But it's been coming on for some time...
Why are you such an asshole? Were you born this way, or was it something you really had to work at?
I have been around this business for 35+ years, which is probably much longer than you have been alive, so don't be telling me to grow up. And don't go around calling calling people 'whiney bitches'. It's not clever, and it's not amusing.
If you have something constructive and informed to say, say it, but simply tearing things down and insulting people is not helpful. Someday when you're all grown up and get a job and such, and you will come to understand what I'm saying.
The original article was very poorly done. Ubuntu is not 'tainted'. The CEO had already had her tenure extended beyond the originally envisioned 5 years, and she and Mark had been talking about the transition for quite some time, deciding that now was the time. There is no 'controversy and chaos'.
Brian Fagioli is a tabloid hack, just trying to stir up drama that isn't there, which is what so much tech reporting is about these days. I am coming to really hate the 'tech press'....
Surely there will be an opt-out option for weatthy folk for an extra $500 a month. Remember, this is not a mandate that ISP's must sell your data, just that they can.
Right. If you don't like it, just sign a contract with another ISP. Oh wait! There is no other ISP!.
Yes, people should be left to do what they want, so long as we know exactly what they're doing at all times. Watch which websites you visti - it's going into your file.
You are a fool if you think the Republicans are some freedom-loving outfit. The Democrats certainly have their issues as well, but this is really beyond the pale...
Yes, well, why are steps 2, 3, and 4 even a thing? We don't have a society, we don't have a culture of honesty and dignity, and no amount of techno-crap will ever make up for that. And if you think that this 'product' is a 'solution' to some sort of 'problem', well, your head is somewhere awkward.
WTF. You were going to say that no matter whether it was relevant of not (which it isn't). I'll bet you have a function key programmed to spit that out at a touch of the key.
You are making shit up. If Russia wanted to take any Ukranian land, it would have been taken. What is it with Slashdot today - people just saying random shit without any grounding in reality.
You are just making shit up. Russian troops are not shelling Ukrainian towns and villages every day, Quite the opposite, it the Ukies shelling the Donbas.
Wow, what an MS sycophant you are! This is an artificial restriction to (try to) force people to Win10, nothing more. After 30 years as a MS customer (my first MS product was MSBASIC under CP/M) I am saying final good-byes. It's been a while coming, but they have lost me...
No, I do not have to move to W10, ever. From this day, I am locking MS out. I realize some people can not do this for various reasons, but I can, and I will. MS has completely lost it, and I don't think they have as much power as they think. We will see. But I will never run Windows 10 on any machine of mine. I was an original 'Insider' from 10/14, and gave it every benefit of the doubt for two years, but it was never going to work for me. No, as far as I'm concerned, MS has just lost it.
Why is fucking 'PewDiePie' even showing up on Slashdot? Again. There was an article about him just a couple of days ago. Nobody. Fucking. Cares about this asshole. Can we please give it a rest?
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"doesn't run needed apps
doesn't run needed apps
doesn't run needed apps"
Needed, or desired? If 'needed', there's usually a workaround. If no workaround or alternative, too bad, so sad. You're just gonna have to bend over and take it.
I'm coming to you from Devuan Linux - no systemd. And there are others. And BSD's, too. I will not have systemd railroaded onto my system, and thanks to some dedicated hardworking people, I don't have to.
One thing that infuriates me more than just about anything else is when the feedback mechanism for a keypress or mouse click is so decoupled from the acceptance of that keypress or mouse click that you get the feedback without the input being registered.
E.g., sometimes the visually presented region of a button will be larger than the region that registers the click. You click your mouse, the button blinks or whatever to give you feedback, and nothing happens. Because you didn't click right in the tiny region in the middle of the button that actually registers mouse clicks. But you got the feedback anyway. This is just criminally stupid.
Another example. Years ago I used a very expensive and complicated piece of equipment to do some field work. It was weatherproofed, and had a sealed membrane keyboard. There was not a lot of tactile feedback from the 'keys', so when you pressed a key it helpfully generated a 'peep' noise. Except the mechanism that made the peep noise was totally unrelated to the mechanism that recorded the keystroke. What good is 'feedback' if it is not connected to the event you want feedback on?
It was possible to blithely enter, say, plot ID codes and have every other character dropped, with the machine peeping away all the while. Ditto launching various functions: OK, I'm gonna start a sample run now. Press the button. 'PEEP'. Wait for the run to complete. Only to discover that it never began.
I wrote a fairly spicy email to the manufacturer of the device one day after being bitten by this bug and having some measurements rendered unusable. Fortunately, I showed it to a colleague before I sent it, and he suggested that I adopt a more, um, professional tone ;-)
It requires people to just give up any notion of being a private person, and just becoming a sheep. It would also require trust - trust of corporations, and trust of government.
Also, Star Trek is fiction.
One of the routes that ol' Elon has mentioned repeatedly in his promotion of this thing is Bay Area to LA. Assuming you could even build the tunnel, what about the seismic activity of this region? Seems crazy to go undergound in CA.
I will make a prediction, of which I am very sure: I will never get into one of these contraptions. I'm just not in that much of a hurry ;-)
My team gets around this whole issue by simply writing bug-free code from the get-go, and moving on. Saves a lot of hassle!
Does anyone know about the efficacy of Spybot Anti-Beacon? It purports to block all the telemetry, or whatever bits you specify.
I think it's about time for the Butlerian Jihad ;-)
Seriously, every new technology just gives greed and hate more power. There seems to be nothing anyone can do about it, which baffles me. Why can't they catch ransomware assholes and throw them into jail for a long long time? They can do anything else but catch the bad guys. WTF - must be no MONEY in it. MONEY MONEY MONEY. That's the only arbiter of anything in our broken 'culture'.
"This was the whole point of open source. If something is wanted then it is usually developed. If it doesn't work for some reason, support the guys who are trying to make it work rather than bitching that someone moved your cheese."
Except it wasn't wanted, and many people feel like it was rammed down their throats. It's not that it does or doesn't work (sometimes it does, sometimes it causes trouble). It's that open source is not about 'supporting the guys' who are making something you don't want, and who are making it more and more difficult to opt out.
The reason for the syndrome that you describe is that people are broken, and need to make themselves feel powerful and important (and oh so cool) by being negative just about towards everything. This has been going on for years, and has just gotten worse and worse. It's become a reflex.
It's the whole state of the culture.The anonymity of the internet surely facilitates it. And no, people have not always been so emotionally immature/insecure/confused/broken. But it's been coming on for some time...
rahvin-whatever your name is,
Why are you such an asshole? Were you born this way, or was it something you really had to work at?
I have been around this business for 35+ years, which is probably much longer than you have been alive, so don't be telling me to grow up. And don't go around calling calling people 'whiney bitches'. It's not clever, and it's not amusing.
If you have something constructive and informed to say, say it, but simply tearing things down and insulting people is not helpful. Someday when you're all grown up and get a job and such, and you will come to understand what I'm saying.
The original article was very poorly done. Ubuntu is not 'tainted'. The CEO had already had her tenure extended beyond the originally envisioned 5 years, and she and Mark had been talking about the transition for quite some time, deciding that now was the time. There is no 'controversy and chaos'.
Brian Fagioli is a tabloid hack, just trying to stir up drama that isn't there, which is what so much tech reporting is about these days. I am coming to really hate the 'tech press'. ...
What a thing! Corporations not being truthful about the capabilities of their products! I am shocked, shocked I tell you!
Jeez people, this is news? Corporations = deceit. Advertising = deceit. I can't believe this is news to people here...
Surely there will be an opt-out option for weatthy folk for an extra $500 a month. Remember, this is not a mandate that ISP's must sell your data, just that they can.
Right. If you don't like it, just sign a contract with another ISP. Oh wait! There is no other ISP!.
Yes, people should be left to do what they want, so long as we know exactly what they're doing at all times. Watch which websites you visti - it's going into your file.
You are a fool if you think the Republicans are some freedom-loving outfit. The Democrats certainly have their issues as well, but this is really beyond the pale...
Yes, well, why are steps 2, 3, and 4 even a thing? We don't have a society, we don't have a culture of honesty and dignity, and no amount of techno-crap will ever make up for that. And if you think that this 'product' is a 'solution' to some sort of 'problem', well, your head is somewhere awkward.
WTF. You were going to say that no matter whether it was relevant of not (which it isn't). I'll bet you have a function key programmed to spit that out at a touch of the key.
Meep meep - >>BOOM!
You are making shit up. If Russia wanted to take any Ukranian land, it would have been taken. What is it with Slashdot today - people just saying random shit without any grounding in reality.
You are just making shit up. Russian troops are not shelling Ukrainian towns and villages every day, Quite the opposite, it the Ukies shelling the Donbas.
Wow, what an MS sycophant you are! This is an artificial restriction to (try to) force people to Win10, nothing more. After 30 years as a MS customer (my first MS product was MSBASIC under CP/M) I am saying final good-byes. It's been a while coming, but they have lost me...
No, I do not have to move to W10, ever. From this day, I am locking MS out. I realize some people can not do this for various reasons, but I can, and I will. MS has completely lost it, and I don't think they have as much power as they think. We will see. But I will never run Windows 10 on any machine of mine. I was an original 'Insider' from 10/14, and gave it every benefit of the doubt for two years, but it was never going to work for me. No, as far as I'm concerned, MS has just lost it.
I think you are talking about the Pale Moon project. They claim to have no intention of dropping old-school NPAPI plugins and whatnot.
Why is fucking 'PewDiePie' even showing up on Slashdot? Again. There was an article about him just a couple of days ago. Nobody. Fucking. Cares about this asshole. Can we please give it a rest?