Come on people (like MZ), admit it - you just want to be a brain in vat, and do everything by thought. Turn your fucking lights off with a switch, like everyone else. Go to the door and greet your fucking friends, if they're your friends, and you actually have any. Really, this is just ridiculous. It is hard to imagine anything more unimportant.
Actually, that's not what it does. If you glance at their site, what they do is select one package for each major function, but make alternatives available in their repos. Actually, I've noticed that it seems to have become something of a 'selling' point for distros these days - "Only one app installed for each funtion".
The same way Slashdot knows that I've been shopping for whole-house water filters, and presents me with ads for them on Slashdot pages. It starts to feel a bit creepy sometimes...
I think in the last 13 years, I've purchased maybe 3 albums and half a dozen individual songs from the iTunes store. Most of my music library is stuff that I ripped from my own CD collection, or digitized from my large vinyl collection.
Ditto. I use 10.7 on Windows, and it works fine. It takes a long time to load up, but other than that, it works. On Linux, I like Audacious a lot, and it accesses the iTunes music library just fine.
I am very careful to save a copy of the 10.7 installer - newer versions are pretty grotesque...
I'm personally looking forward to some paper company, in collaboration with Google, coming out with smart toilet paper that automatically wipes your a**.
Do people really want to become brains in a vat and have everything, no matter how trivial, automated?
"People use "free market" to mean "unregulated", but in fact a free market that operates the way people assume a free market should requires regulation, particularly of information. "
I'm having one of those 'where are my mod points when I need them' moments - this is such an important principle that gets lost in so many discussions of 'free markets' and such. How can customers 'vote with their dollars' (or their attention/market share) f they don't know what they're voting for? Food labeling is a big victim of this kind of non-transparency. E.g., you can't label a product as containing GMO anything, because customers might not want it! How in the bloody hell is that 'free market'? The whole point is to enable customers to buy from and reward the firms they like, and not to buy from and reward the firms they find, for lack of a better word, evil.
But no - the only metric any customer (did I say customer? I meant 'consumer' - barf!) is supposed to use to evaluate any and all transactions is the bottom line in dollars and cents (euros, rubles, renminbi, what have you). Other information is being stripped away from the transaction, and the result is crap products, slave labor, grotesque pollution, etc., usw.
That's what I've done, and I haven't had a trace of GWX stuff since. I have Update set to ask me before downloading and installing updates, so I can vet them. Is it really that hard? No. Should I have to do this? No. Is it a pain in the ass? Yes. But my Windows 7 is uncontaminated...
If you think that a static test exposes an airframe to the same stress as an actual launch and bringing it back down, you know nothing about rocketry. In fact, you are delusional.
... until we see what kind of percentage of successful landings they get. Doing it once doesn't automatically 'change everything'. Let's see how robust this really turns out to be...
I have had an Epson Stylus C86 for years. First, I buy ink cartridges at PrintPal for a fraction of the price of Epson carts, and I've never had a problem with them. Second, when the printer tells me a cart is empty, I pop it out, gently shake it to make sure it's not really empty, and if not, I just hit it with my handy-dandy cartridge zapper that I picked up for $5.99 on eBay. Voila! The cartridge appears full to the printer. Seriously, it's a little plastic gizmo with contacts that match up with those on the cart, and it resets the counter to zero in a matter of a second or two. I wonder how much money that little thing has saved me over the years...
... my first flight on a 747. It was 1973, on a nonstop flight from JFK to San Diego, as I jetted off to college. What a magnificent airplane! Definitely a room rather than a tube!
"Discharge of a firearm in most rural areas is still illegal where your life isn't in danger."
Where in the world did you ever pick up this notion? What about hunting - are those deer, as pesky as they can be, a threat to your life? In most rural areas, we discharge firearms for any number of reasons, least of which is 'life in danger'. Hunting, target practice, varmint control, whatever. You so utterly do not have clue one as to what you are talking about.
Slashdot Mirror
... except fuck Apple. Their whole business model seems to be planned obsolescence and non-repairability. Hey, just buy a new one!
Who. Fucking. Cares? What is a PewDiePie? This is news?
Come on people (like MZ), admit it - you just want to be a brain in vat, and do everything by thought. Turn your fucking lights off with a switch, like everyone else. Go to the door and greet your fucking friends, if they're your friends, and you actually have any. Really, this is just ridiculous. It is hard to imagine anything more unimportant.
Actually, that's not what it does. If you glance at their site, what they do is select one package for each major function, but make alternatives available in their repos. Actually, I've noticed that it seems to have become something of a 'selling' point for distros these days - "Only one app installed for each funtion".
The same way Slashdot knows that I've been shopping for whole-house water filters, and presents me with ads for them on Slashdot pages. It starts to feel a bit creepy sometimes...
"Musk and all his blather would be considered the disorderly ramblings of a mental patient if he weren't rich."
Rich or not, I still consider many of his ramblings to be insane.
"Earlier this year, at Code Conference, Elon Musk said there's "one in billions" chance we're not living in a computer simulation."
Elon Musk said it, I believe it, and that settles it. (rolls eyes)
Paul Thurrott, is that you?
Except no one was 'selling' anything - it was a free service, offered as-is.
Have we heard anything from Google about this yet?
I wonder if all the stuff he claims to have lost ever really existed...
No, we must immediately lock down the internet, and/or monitor every word that passes on it. Think of the children!
Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.
I think in the last 13 years, I've purchased maybe 3 albums and half a dozen individual songs from the iTunes store. Most of my music library is stuff that I ripped from my own CD collection, or digitized from my large vinyl collection.
Ditto. I use 10.7 on Windows, and it works fine. It takes a long time to load up, but other than that, it works. On Linux, I like Audacious a lot, and it accesses the iTunes music library just fine.
I am very careful to save a copy of the 10.7 installer - newer versions are pretty grotesque...
OK Donald.
I'm personally looking forward to some paper company, in collaboration with Google, coming out with smart toilet paper that automatically wipes your a**.
Do people really want to become brains in a vat and have everything, no matter how trivial, automated?
"People use "free market" to mean "unregulated", but in fact a free market that operates the way people assume a free market should requires regulation, particularly of information. "
I'm having one of those 'where are my mod points when I need them' moments - this is such an important principle that gets lost in so many discussions of 'free markets' and such. How can customers 'vote with their dollars' (or their attention/market share) f they don't know what they're voting for? Food labeling is a big victim of this kind of non-transparency. E.g., you can't label a product as containing GMO anything, because customers might not want it! How in the bloody hell is that 'free market'? The whole point is to enable customers to buy from and reward the firms they like, and not to buy from and reward the firms they find, for lack of a better word, evil.
But no - the only metric any customer (did I say customer? I meant 'consumer' - barf!) is supposed to use to evaluate any and all transactions is the bottom line in dollars and cents (euros, rubles, renminbi, what have you). Other information is being stripped away from the transaction, and the result is crap products, slave labor, grotesque pollution, etc., usw.
That's what I've done, and I haven't had a trace of GWX stuff since. I have Update set to ask me before downloading and installing updates, so I can vet them. Is it really that hard? No. Should I have to do this? No. Is it a pain in the ass? Yes. But my Windows 7 is uncontaminated...
If you think that a static test exposes an airframe to the same stress as an actual launch and bringing it back down, you know nothing about rocketry. In fact, you are delusional.
... until we see what kind of percentage of successful landings they get. Doing it once doesn't automatically 'change everything'. Let's see how robust this really turns out to be...
... Only shotguns can keep drones out of do not fly zones.
I have had an Epson Stylus C86 for years. First, I buy ink cartridges at PrintPal for a fraction of the price of Epson carts, and I've never had a problem with them. Second, when the printer tells me a cart is empty, I pop it out, gently shake it to make sure it's not really empty, and if not, I just hit it with my handy-dandy cartridge zapper that I picked up for $5.99 on eBay. Voila! The cartridge appears full to the printer. Seriously, it's a little plastic gizmo with contacts that match up with those on the cart, and it resets the counter to zero in a matter of a second or two. I wonder how much money that little thing has saved me over the years...
... my first flight on a 747. It was 1973, on a nonstop flight from JFK to San Diego, as I jetted off to college. What a magnificent airplane! Definitely a room rather than a tube!
"Discharge of a firearm in most rural areas is still illegal where your life isn't in danger."
Where in the world did you ever pick up this notion? What about hunting - are those deer, as pesky as they can be, a threat to your life? In most rural areas, we discharge firearms for any number of reasons, least of which is 'life in danger'. Hunting, target practice, varmint control, whatever. You so utterly do not have clue one as to what you are talking about.