Im not sure its really possible to "steal" BSD code. Im no copyright lawyer, but if it were antithetical to the BSD philosophy, wouldnt the BSD license look a lot more like the GPL?
I think the BSD philosophy is essentially "heres some work we did, and anyone can do whatever they want with it."
Thats only partly true. Go on yelp, you will see oodles of people providing rave reviews for whatever category you want. You do have to keep in mind the "vocal minority" effect, but its not nearly as big an effect as you say.
Hand sanitizer is generally LESS than soap, its just alcohol (plus carrier), instead of the normal soap plus antimicrobial.
Im also pretty sure we would be better off with more alcohol sanitizers in lieu of antimicrobials, since I dont believe a bacteria can become resistant to alcohol. I kind of wonder why alcohol isnt used more instead of antibacterial agents in soaps, actually.
Any point you might have made later in your post was lost by the lack of perspective demonstrated by your use of the word "torture".
You really dont understand what torture is, and you really need to get a grip on reality. What the TSA does doesnt constitute torture by any remote stretch, and youre ignorant and sheltered if you think otherwise.
HyperV has a ton of useful features and its really hard to beat their licensing terms: free. Buy a copy of windows server and you get the host hypervisor for free.
I havent used it much (hence the desire to have it, for testing), but I also understand that with SCCM or whatever its called you can manage Xen, vSphere, and HyperV all from a single console.
Regardless, as has been expressed about a zillion times, my desire to use hyperV isnt because I think its better, its because I would like a lab where I can give it a runthrough and find out its strengths and weaknesses-- because it most certainly is used by businesses.
HyperV was a terrible solution 5 years ago when it came out. It has since been through 3 iterations and is now a full fledged solution.
That you would even place VirtualBox (which noone in their right mind would host production servers on) in the same league with HyperV is laughable. Virtualbox is proven to be unreliable; that an upgrade of it could wipe out VMs (which was a known issue from 3.20 ->3.30) kind of proves the point.
HyperV 3 is also "a game in town" as it is in use in a lot of places and has a lot of features that are close to or as good as the other two.
It can be debated until the end of time which is best (vSphere, HyperV, Xen) but you cant pretend that those arent the "big 3" in virtualization, and I believe by all measurements vSphere is currently the top dog (except on licensing).
I would love if they did that. My decreasing unhappiness is partly due to the performance improvements, and as I discover things I really dont like (the control panel crap you mentioned), theres other things I really like-- the new task manager, the new taskbar multimon support, and the improvements to caching.
as I discover another annoying and arbitrary design decision.
"Arbitrary" pretty much defines every single problem that Windows 8 has, actually. One wonders what sort of usability study ended up with this UI as the top pick on desktop.
Ubuntu doesnt do the things I need it to do. For instance, if I want to do virtualization in Hyper-V, thats simply not an option, and HyperV remains a fairly large player in the VM market.
Windows 8 is my new main OS at home. Im figuring it out, and less unhappy than I was when I first got it. But it is the least discoverable UI I have ever used; Ubuntu was oodles easier to use.
Hr isnt the one who is incompetent here. Let me sum up this guy's complaints:
1) They offered him the chance to give a time preference for his schedule in December, which I will note is one month away from November, and two months from October, not the 3 he mentioned. He is frustrated that he doesnt know his schedule in December, which to me means you say "i have no preference".
2) It turns out that his preference (which he gave despite not actually knowing what it was?) was ONLY a preference, not a mandate; and it turns out that hes not the only person who's schedule they have to work with. Possibly waiting a full month to respond with a schedule preference has something to do with why yours was ignored; Im gonna guess that all of their other candidates who responded sooner had better luck on this point
3) Skype had a technical malfunction! Must be the result of incompetent HR at Facebook. And then to top it off he had to use the phone and couldnt figure out how to set up hands-free so he could skype and talk. Heres a few suggestions: A) speakerphone B) Bluetooth C) Google Voice D) hold the phone with your shoulder
If the guy cant figure out how to use a normal phone in a hands-free manner, perhaps facebook is not the right location for him after all. Not a programmer, but it seems to me that "able to solve simple problems" is a basic qualification.
Not sure if youre aware but Windows since Vista I believe monitors SMART values and will actually pop up a message when your disk is in imminent danger of failure.
Not useless, just not a good indicator of a drive NOT being near death. Its a great indicator to confirm that the drive IS dying-- if you see for instance 500 bad sectors, you may want to prepare to replace that drive.
Mod post ignorant. If that were true, AMD wouldnt have been so far superior to Intel back in the P4 / Pentium D days.
Fact is it takes about 3-5 years for this tech to be fully realized, and Intel is currently (AFAIK) the only one with solid 22nm production simply because their R&D budget is huge. If you find that scary or whatever you can send your dollars to AMD to help them get up to speed.
This is why its such a problem when false predictions are trumpeted across news headlines. Credibility is a really important thing right now, and as an example maybe about 10% of the people on slashdot Ive seen have any left.
Every time someone makes a prediction that Global Warming will cause temps to rise 10 degrees next year or something absurd, it hurts the credibility of the entire "AGW" scientific community. And then people wonder why noone takes it seriously!
Because youre not facebook and you dont "deserve" anything from them.
Good gracious, why does everyone seem to think Facebook owes them something? Their half of the bargain was a social media site which doesnt suck, and if you dont think theyre meeting that criteria go use Google plus.
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Im not sure its really possible to "steal" BSD code. Im no copyright lawyer, but if it were antithetical to the BSD philosophy, wouldnt the BSD license look a lot more like the GPL?
I think the BSD philosophy is essentially "heres some work we did, and anyone can do whatever they want with it."
Thats only partly true. Go on yelp, you will see oodles of people providing rave reviews for whatever category you want. You do have to keep in mind the "vocal minority" effect, but its not nearly as big an effect as you say.
Does lying require falsehood, or merely an intent to deceive?
Hand sanitizer is generally LESS than soap, its just alcohol (plus carrier), instead of the normal soap plus antimicrobial.
Im also pretty sure we would be better off with more alcohol sanitizers in lieu of antimicrobials, since I dont believe a bacteria can become resistant to alcohol. I kind of wonder why alcohol isnt used more instead of antibacterial agents in soaps, actually.
Any point you might have made later in your post was lost by the lack of perspective demonstrated by your use of the word "torture".
You really dont understand what torture is, and you really need to get a grip on reality. What the TSA does doesnt constitute torture by any remote stretch, and youre ignorant and sheltered if you think otherwise.
Allowing KDE on windows would be a terrible move, since less than 0.1% of their user-base would have any desire to use it.
HyperV has a ton of useful features and its really hard to beat their licensing terms: free. Buy a copy of windows server and you get the host hypervisor for free.
I havent used it much (hence the desire to have it, for testing), but I also understand that with SCCM or whatever its called you can manage Xen, vSphere, and HyperV all from a single console.
Regardless, as has been expressed about a zillion times, my desire to use hyperV isnt because I think its better, its because I would like a lab where I can give it a runthrough and find out its strengths and weaknesses-- because it most certainly is used by businesses.
HyperV was a terrible solution 5 years ago when it came out. It has since been through 3 iterations and is now a full fledged solution.
That you would even place VirtualBox (which noone in their right mind would host production servers on) in the same league with HyperV is laughable. Virtualbox is proven to be unreliable; that an upgrade of it could wipe out VMs (which was a known issue from 3.20 ->3.30) kind of proves the point.
I fail to see how forcing a tablet UI on desktop users in a way that is clunky and hard to use somehow makes me want to use a MS tablet.
HyperV 3 is also "a game in town" as it is in use in a lot of places and has a lot of features that are close to or as good as the other two.
It can be debated until the end of time which is best (vSphere, HyperV, Xen) but you cant pretend that those arent the "big 3" in virtualization, and I believe by all measurements vSphere is currently the top dog (except on licensing).
HyperV 3 is by all rights considered to be a worthy contender to vSphere and Xen.
Xen has its own pile of baggage to deal with, like a buggy interface.
Right. But thats not HyperV, and as I might need to do some testing in hyperv, i cant do that in Xen.
I would love if they did that. My decreasing unhappiness is partly due to the performance improvements, and as I discover things I really dont like (the control panel crap you mentioned), theres other things I really like-- the new task manager, the new taskbar multimon support, and the improvements to caching.
as I discover another annoying and arbitrary design decision.
"Arbitrary" pretty much defines every single problem that Windows 8 has, actually. One wonders what sort of usability study ended up with this UI as the top pick on desktop.
Ubuntu doesnt do the things I need it to do. For instance, if I want to do virtualization in Hyper-V, thats simply not an option, and HyperV remains a fairly large player in the VM market.
Windows 8 is my new main OS at home. Im figuring it out, and less unhappy than I was when I first got it. But it is the least discoverable UI I have ever used; Ubuntu was oodles easier to use.
Hr isnt the one who is incompetent here. Let me sum up this guy's complaints:
1) They offered him the chance to give a time preference for his schedule in December, which I will note is one month away from November, and two months from October, not the 3 he mentioned. He is frustrated that he doesnt know his schedule in December, which to me means you say "i have no preference".
2) It turns out that his preference (which he gave despite not actually knowing what it was?) was ONLY a preference, not a mandate; and it turns out that hes not the only person who's schedule they have to work with. Possibly waiting a full month to respond with a schedule preference has something to do with why yours was ignored; Im gonna guess that all of their other candidates who responded sooner had better luck on this point
3) Skype had a technical malfunction! Must be the result of incompetent HR at Facebook. And then to top it off he had to use the phone and couldnt figure out how to set up hands-free so he could skype and talk. Heres a few suggestions:
A) speakerphone
B) Bluetooth
C) Google Voice
D) hold the phone with your shoulder
If the guy cant figure out how to use a normal phone in a hands-free manner, perhaps facebook is not the right location for him after all. Not a programmer, but it seems to me that "able to solve simple problems" is a basic qualification.
Thats not the real issue. Ive heard that in the next few years, Guam is likely to tip over and capsize!
Not sure if youre aware but Windows since Vista I believe monitors SMART values and will actually pop up a message when your disk is in imminent danger of failure.
Not useless, just not a good indicator of a drive NOT being near death. Its a great indicator to confirm that the drive IS dying-- if you see for instance 500 bad sectors, you may want to prepare to replace that drive.
Mod post ignorant. If that were true, AMD wouldnt have been so far superior to Intel back in the P4 / Pentium D days.
Fact is it takes about 3-5 years for this tech to be fully realized, and Intel is currently (AFAIK) the only one with solid 22nm production simply because their R&D budget is huge. If you find that scary or whatever you can send your dollars to AMD to help them get up to speed.
Pride and contempt, the causes of basically every interpersonal problem that has ever existed.
AFAIK the dust bowl was in large part due to the farming practices, not pollution or a drought.
This is why its such a problem when false predictions are trumpeted across news headlines. Credibility is a really important thing right now, and as an example maybe about 10% of the people on slashdot Ive seen have any left.
Every time someone makes a prediction that Global Warming will cause temps to rise 10 degrees next year or something absurd, it hurts the credibility of the entire "AGW" scientific community. And then people wonder why noone takes it seriously!
Careful, your contempt of everyone else is showing.
Because youre not facebook and you dont "deserve" anything from them.
Good gracious, why does everyone seem to think Facebook owes them something? Their half of the bargain was a social media site which doesnt suck, and if you dont think theyre meeting that criteria go use Google plus.