``With JPEG you get horrible colour blocks and banding artefacts. It ruins most pictures.''
Maybe... but only if you choose the lower quality image settings on your digital camera. Do you really do that? I know of nobody who does that. Nobody. If you were worried about "artifacts" you'd be selecting the highest quality image settings on the camera. Or, even better, you be shooting RAW images.
I strongly suspect that the majority -- maybe the vast majority -- of the data that is being retrieved by my web browser is not related to viewable content at all but is devoted to snazzy menu functions and, well, crap that I might not even choose to view. It like having the entire set of encyclopedias delivered to your door when you want to look up one simple thing. (Yeah... I remember encyclopedias.)
I would welcome eliminating the glitz and dancing bologna that litters most web pages today.
Do a little profiling during the daily commute. If I see a "young person" behind the wheel of a Nissan, give them a wide berth as they're likely to be causing an accident any moment.
(WTF was Nissan's design team thinking? Were they even?)
``The only difference is that if the US company get's in too much trouble, the company just heads to bankruptcy court and reorganizes.''
Bring back the corporate death penalty. If memory serves, no state has used that option since the '50s. Used to be that corporations were were required to act in the public interest in return for their being allowed to form in the first place. Nowadays, when you listen to some people, their only obligation (widely parroted by the major media outlets) is to make money for the shareholders. I say it's time -- heck, way past time -- to bring back the requirement that corporations be accountable to the public that granted their charter. Can't live up to that as a corporation? Goodbye charter.
(Corporate apologist? Go ahead and flame away. I'm outta here.)
``The cover up that (maybe) happened later might be worthy of charges depending on whether it was deliberate or not.''
How does one ``accidently'' engage in a cover up?
I seem to recall that GM was/is in hot water because there was some internal communication that pointed out the cause of the problem but that management chose to `downplay' (nice way of saying `cover up') the problem. Recalls cost money, ya know.
... isn't it just a little more appropriate to post, you know, an actual comment expressing your condolences? I realize that we're all pressed for time and have dozens of cute cat pictures to "like" while on FB but if clicking on a button is the extent of your response to someone's loss, illness, etc.... That's pretty pathetic.
So now teaching students how to use MS Office 365 counts as computer science? Really? I'm sure that'll let them bypass the first-year CS classes when they go to college and learn real computer science. This seems like nothing more than a scheme to get the schools to buy MS products with taxpayer money. Besides, what evidence is there that this will actually benefit the education these students are going to receive? There was another article mentioned a day or two ago (maybe here; can't recall) that putting more computer equipment in schools was not improving the students' learning but was actually harming it.
As I understand it, Mars has virtually no magnetic field so it receives the full brunt of the solar wind without much resistance. I recall reading (somewhere) that was theory as to why Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere any more. If you release all/most of the CO2 in the polar ice caps, what's to stop the solar wind from stripping that away, too? Plus, what little atmosphere is left on the planet -- still enough to produce the occasional dust storm -- would then producing storms with an exciting new ingredient: radioactive debris created by the nukes. Great.
``Other than Linux failing to suspend and resume correctly on a laptop.''
Both "Sleep" and "Hibernate" options work like a charm once I upgraded from openSUSE 12.2 to 13.2. Granted, it was hit or (mostly) miss prior to the upgrade but it hasn't failed once since I took the time to update the OS. I have nothing to tie my personal computer use to Windows. Left that atrocity of an OS behind ten years ago.
``A good command-line SSH program that fits into the command-prompt like the telnet program does.''
What about Cygwin and the software package/subset that includes ssh/sftp? (AFAIR, it's not installed by a basic installation and, sorry, I've forgotten which one you need.) I'd much rather have that on a Windows box than Putty.
Cygwin runs fine on the missus's Win7 laptop. Not sure about anything newer.
``I believe GIMP introduced the single-window mode in version 2.4 or 2.6; the multi-window mode was just a PITA.''
Yes. GIMP began offering the single window interface a couple of point releases ago. As for the multi-window PITAness you mentioned... having a single honkin' window must be be something you like about Photoshop. I've been using GIMP for years in multi-window mode and find the single window interface is just not my cup-o-tea. We all has our druthers.
I'm not sure just what you needed to do to hundreds of icons but the first tool I would have looked at to perform a batch operation like that would have been ImageMagick and a simple shell script.
``I currently use PaleMoon fork of Firefox as my main browser, but there doesn't seem to be a Linux variant.''
Huh? There's a PaleMoon executable for Linux. At least there was a copy on my systems when I was running openSUSE 12.2. I don't see it as available via the software manager in YaST but it's definitely downloadable off the 'Net.
Or, in the case of your typical business executive: one dashboard. Business executives sure love their dashboards. Every walk of life should have one. How does anyone know what's going on without a dashboard?
Just what we need: immensely complex software. So now it'll be easier than ever to roll out complex piles of spaghetti code like Windows. Will this software be less bug-free than today's? Will it have fewer potential security exploitations? I'm doubtin' it.
``No competent Linux SysAdmin will ever voluntarily run Windows.''
Sure they do. That keeps the Powers That Be from coming down on them like a ton of bricks for not running Windows. The competent Linux admin does, though, install Cygwin/Cygwin-X as soon as s/he possibly can and minimize the amount of screen real estate they allow Windows to use so they can get some actual work done. (I was fortunate enough, several years ago, to work for a company that mandated Linux on the desktop. Users "needing" Windows had to run it in under KVM.)
``rather than startup becoming faster and more deterministic as claimed, it's actually slower and randomly fails due to what looks like some race condition''
My first experience with the full systemd-flavored openSUSE (as opposed to earlier systemd-lite 12.x) was the weird error I got after upgrading where the startup was failing (I think) because of an arbitrary 90s time limit on fscks. I have a 2TB backup disk attached to the system via an external, swappable USB drive bay and, apparently, Lennart and crew saw fit to establish an upper limit on how long an fsck should take and tossing you into single user mode on reboot when the fsck takes a long time. I'm still trying to figure out how to alter that time limit. Luckily, I still have time before the next mount-count-mandated fsck occurs.
``They try to Apple-ize linux but it's half-baked and neither more user-friendly or more reliable than the stuff they replace.
I've had the same complaint about CUPS -- Apple's screwball replacement for simple lpd -- for years. (And it's not just the Linux version that, IMHO, sucks. I recently had to live through using CUPS in an Apple shop and getting hard copy of anything was a real time sink.) I have a hard time figuring out what problem CUPS was intended to solve. All I can come up with was that it was shiny and new whereas lpd was old (but reliable). For my trusty, rock-solid HP LaserJet, I keep an old Linux distribution running so I can set it up using LPRng. A couple of lines in a text file and -- Voila! -- I have a print queue. Time spent^Wwasted in CUPS' GUI never seemed to make anything work.
Systemd and well, just about anything Poettering touches is more obtuse than what it replaces, has commands that are difficult to remember, require more typing (making them prone to typos), and don't make much sense. Am I looking for the status of "servicename" or am I looking for the status of "servicename.target"? What's the difference? The guy's pushing me back to Slackware. Or, as someone above mentioned, BSD.
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Wow. Just. Wow. I can see why you chose to post this anonymously.
Maybe... but only if you choose the lower quality image settings on your digital camera. Do you really do that? I know of nobody who does that. Nobody. If you were worried about "artifacts" you'd be selecting the highest quality image settings on the camera. Or, even better, you be shooting RAW images.
I strongly suspect that the majority -- maybe the vast majority -- of the data that is being retrieved by my web browser is not related to viewable content at all but is devoted to snazzy menu functions and, well, crap that I might not even choose to view. It like having the entire set of encyclopedias delivered to your door when you want to look up one simple thing. (Yeah... I remember encyclopedias.)
I would welcome eliminating the glitz and dancing bologna that litters most web pages today.
Do a little profiling during the daily commute. If I see a "young person" behind the wheel of a Nissan, give them a wide berth as they're likely to be causing an accident any moment.
(WTF was Nissan's design team thinking? Were they even?)
... for the extras they include: the pots, proto board, case, etc. (Roughly what I recall paying for something like this from Amazon.)
One could always buy one of these kits and do the normal thing: "dd" a copy of a RPi-compatiible Linux distribution onto that SD card.
Bring back the corporate death penalty. If memory serves, no state has used that option since the '50s. Used to be that corporations were were required to act in the public interest in return for their being allowed to form in the first place. Nowadays, when you listen to some people, their only obligation (widely parroted by the major media outlets) is to make money for the shareholders. I say it's time -- heck, way past time -- to bring back the requirement that corporations be accountable to the public that granted their charter. Can't live up to that as a corporation? Goodbye charter.
(Corporate apologist? Go ahead and flame away. I'm outta here.)
How does one ``accidently'' engage in a cover up?
I seem to recall that GM was/is in hot water because there was some internal communication that pointed out the cause of the problem but that management chose to `downplay' (nice way of saying `cover up') the problem. Recalls cost money, ya know.
... to feed their pr0n collection into some experimental software?
... isn't it just a little more appropriate to post, you know, an actual comment expressing your condolences? I realize that we're all pressed for time and have dozens of cute cat pictures to "like" while on FB but if clicking on a button is the extent of your response to someone's loss, illness, etc. ... That's pretty pathetic.
So now teaching students how to use MS Office 365 counts as computer science? Really? I'm sure that'll let them bypass the first-year CS classes when they go to college and learn real computer science. This seems like nothing more than a scheme to get the schools to buy MS products with taxpayer money. Besides, what evidence is there that this will actually benefit the education these students are going to receive? There was another article mentioned a day or two ago (maybe here; can't recall) that putting more computer equipment in schools was not improving the students' learning but was actually harming it.
Pendant?
As I understand it, Mars has virtually no magnetic field so it receives the full brunt of the solar wind without much resistance. I recall reading (somewhere) that was theory as to why Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere any more. If you release all/most of the CO2 in the polar ice caps, what's to stop the solar wind from stripping that away, too? Plus, what little atmosphere is left on the planet -- still enough to produce the occasional dust storm -- would then producing storms with an exciting new ingredient: radioactive debris created by the nukes. Great.
Both "Sleep" and "Hibernate" options work like a charm once I upgraded from openSUSE 12.2 to 13.2. Granted, it was hit or (mostly) miss prior to the upgrade but it hasn't failed once since I took the time to update the OS. I have nothing to tie my personal computer use to Windows. Left that atrocity of an OS behind ten years ago.
What about Cygwin and the software package/subset that includes ssh/sftp? (AFAIR, it's not installed by a basic installation and, sorry, I've forgotten which one you need.) I'd much rather have that on a Windows box than Putty.
Cygwin runs fine on the missus's Win7 laptop. Not sure about anything newer.
Yes. GIMP began offering the single window interface a couple of point releases ago. As for the multi-window PITAness you mentioned... having a single honkin' window must be be something you like about Photoshop. I've been using GIMP for years in multi-window mode and find the single window interface is just not my cup-o-tea. We all has our druthers.
I'm not sure just what you needed to do to hundreds of icons but the first tool I would have looked at to perform a batch operation like that would have been ImageMagick and a simple shell script.
Huh? There's a PaleMoon executable for Linux. At least there was a copy on my systems when I was running openSUSE 12.2. I don't see it as available via the software manager in YaST but it's definitely downloadable off the 'Net.
Or, in the case of your typical business executive: one dashboard. Business executives sure love their dashboards. Every walk of life should have one. How does anyone know what's going on without a dashboard?
Just what we need: immensely complex software. So now it'll be easier than ever to roll out complex piles of spaghetti code like Windows. Will this software be less bug-free than today's? Will it have fewer potential security exploitations? I'm doubtin' it.
Sure they do. That keeps the Powers That Be from coming down on them like a ton of bricks for not running Windows. The competent Linux admin does, though, install Cygwin/Cygwin-X as soon as s/he possibly can and minimize the amount of screen real estate they allow Windows to use so they can get some actual work done. (I was fortunate enough, several years ago, to work for a company that mandated Linux on the desktop. Users "needing" Windows had to run it in under KVM.)
My first experience with the full systemd-flavored openSUSE (as opposed to earlier systemd-lite 12.x) was the weird error I got after upgrading where the startup was failing (I think) because of an arbitrary 90s time limit on fscks. I have a 2TB backup disk attached to the system via an external, swappable USB drive bay and, apparently, Lennart and crew saw fit to establish an upper limit on how long an fsck should take and tossing you into single user mode on reboot when the fsck takes a long time. I'm still trying to figure out how to alter that time limit. Luckily, I still have time before the next mount-count-mandated fsck occurs.
I've had the same complaint about CUPS -- Apple's screwball replacement for simple lpd -- for years. (And it's not just the Linux version that, IMHO, sucks. I recently had to live through using CUPS in an Apple shop and getting hard copy of anything was a real time sink.) I have a hard time figuring out what problem CUPS was intended to solve. All I can come up with was that it was shiny and new whereas lpd was old (but reliable). For my trusty, rock-solid HP LaserJet, I keep an old Linux distribution running so I can set it up using LPRng. A couple of lines in a text file and -- Voila! -- I have a print queue. Time spent^Wwasted in CUPS' GUI never seemed to make anything work.
Systemd and well, just about anything Poettering touches is more obtuse than what it replaces, has commands that are difficult to remember, require more typing (making them prone to typos), and don't make much sense. Am I looking for the status of "servicename" or am I looking for the status of "servicename.target"? What's the difference? The guy's pushing me back to Slackware. Or, as someone above mentioned, BSD.
Well... walking is a bit slower but you're healthier, less obese, and the environment's better off, less urban sprawl. So what's so bad about walking?
... over a touchpad does not give me that Model M experience.
Us old-timers always called HTML a markup language. Just what did the author think the "ML" stood for?