Looks pretty good, but all the links on the big promotion window are broken. I'll admit, I would hope that the DX8 and the VisionAire labels would actually just change tabs on that promotion window, but right all of them take you to a "discontinued item" page.
I'll admit that it looks "ok" on my phone. Not great, but most of the overarchitectured sites look WORSE on the phone instead of better, so that's a point in favor of the static site.
Thanks for the example. Weather.gov looks great on my phone (not). It's a perfect example of what curmudgeons would want. If web development just stopped around 2004.
Hmm. Maybe web sites looked better and operated a hell of a lot faster in 2004 than the overloaded sites we have today.
Outdated information for dynamic values (as in something that often changes, like a sports score, or stocks)
"When I want up-to-date information, I'll request it myself. My F5 key isn't broken, you know."
But then you'll have used far more bandwidth and time and processing power reloading the whole page than would have been taken up by hours of a reloading counter.
What I -really- want is a browser feature where any only the tab that the mouse is hovering over will have running javascript. Everything, everything else gets "frozen." If the browser doesn't have current focus, then no scripts run at all. I'm sure that will break a little functionality, but a user like me would appreciate an advanced feature like that.
True, but marriage as a religious and government institution, totally linked, is traditional in the US. That will be a huge cultural sea-change to break that link. Unconstitutional or not, followers of the religions of Abraham are used to having their religious norms protected by US law. We already know that you can't just recognize "civil unions" as a marriage alternative, separate but equal only ever gets the separate part right.
But anyway, I think the only way to real change is to let it come about naturally. Usually forcing the issues 'my way or the highway' involves a lot of backlash. If the Supreme Court had settled the issue of gay marriage in 2006, I think we'd still be fighting over it and the culture wars would have been nastier. By this point, the majority of people think it's really not that huge a deal.
No you don't have the power you think you do. Russia installed your orange con man, seeing as Hillary won the vote by more than 3 million over Trumplethinskin.
The popular vote is meaningless. Neither candidate ran on the strategy of capturing the popular vote, they ran with the strategy of capturing the electoral vote. If the popular vote decided the election instead, then maybe both Hillary's and Trump's strategies would have changed. Maybe the result would have changed, and maybe not. But it's disingenuous to have a system where you seek electoral votes, and then complain afterwards that you won the tallying system that doesn't count for much and that you weren't campaigning for in the first place.
The United States was supposed to look like the European Union, a confederation of independent states.
United States under the Articles of Confederation were supposed to look like the European Union. This didn't work terribly well, and Shays's Rebellion exposed the weakness of the central government. The Constitutional Congress shifted more power to the executive as a result.
Does the Internet REALLY imply Interstate commerce?
There are plenty of destinations within a state.
Yes, but the traditional overbroad definition of the Interstate Commerce Clause has been that if something CAN affect interstate commerce, then the federal government can regulate it.
People would not need to buy "garbage" insurance policies if the government hadn't mandated they everyone is required to purchase insurance simply because they are living
But everyone NEEDS insurance if they're living, because no one has the choice about whether they get sick or get into an accident. If people without insurance have something catastrophic happen, they're not going to be able to pay for it. Everyone else pay for it.
So at that point, we have some options: 1) Only people who can pay out of pocket get help if they get into a car accident, or get shot on the street. Everyone else gets to die. As a society, we already decided that this is unacceptable. 2) Everyone is required to purchase insurance that actually covers these possibilities. 3) People have insurance, but people who don't want to pay still get health care. Pretty fucking unfair at that point. 4) Government cuts out the middleman and pays for all health care ("single payer"), because that's basically what they were doing already.
Which of these four options sounds good? #1 is already out. #2 is what we get post-ACA. #3 is what we had pre-ACA. #4 is the liberal wet dream.
Are you trying to claim that other people have some kind of right to dictate what you can and can't do in your personal life?
Most arguments against gay marriage fall under one of two camps: 1) It's sin, and the government should not endorse sin. 2) Gay marriage, by its established acceptance, devalues 'traditional' marriage. IE, their marriage is an attack on my marriage and all marriages.
Until your company standardizes on Google Mail. No, not username @ gmail.com, it's user @ company.com pulled from imap.google.com. I have get to find a real, decent client that actually handles the crazy oath2 security scheme that this requires. Under Linux, Thunderbird can handle it, but fetchmail and mutt cannot. I miss fetchmail and mutt.
That they are now widely regarded as enemies of freedom. That people see their despicable surveillance-based business model and recoil in disgust.
Yeah, uhh.. nerds like myself on Slashdot may feel that way, but most people are totally fine with Google.
That Google's obsession with constantly snooping and spying positively reeks of oppressive state surveillance, and people can no longer ignore the smell
Most people don't care. They find things like their search history being discoverable and targeted ads and such as the new normal. As just the way the world works. Again: most people don't care about their privacy. Maybe they don't want the wife to find out about an affair, but it's not Google they blame when she does. They don't want their identity stolen, and while they might blame Equifax, they don't really blame a general system that makes it possible. Because convenience trumps security. Over the long run, it always has. People are HAPPY to give up their privacy if they think there are rewards to be reaped from it.
The chairman of one major presidential campaign colluded with a brother of the *other* major presidential campaign to enrich themselves by secretly advancing the interests of a foreign adversary. That happened. That's "the swamp" everyone is saying needs to be drained.
So we're not getting "drain the swamp" after all. We elected a primary collaborator with The Swamp. Fantastic.
CNN hasn't been news for a long, long time. It's all editorial punditry about the news, which seems to be the only way they can find to fill a 24 hour channel. (same with Fox and MSNBC, and most others).
This is the problem with a 24-hour news channel. They don't want people to tune in, get the news, and tune out. They want people to tune in and watch for HOURS. To do that they need hours of content, content that has to be different so people don't just see the same thing for hours. Journalism, including investigative journalism, gets expensive, so they fill time with opinion. It doesn't cost a lot to have some guy give his opinion on the news, or have several people sitting around on couches or around a table and chat about current events. All these cable news channels SUCK. They're not a good place to go to get the news.
30+ years ago, news organizations mostly stuck with *objectively reporting the news* rather than subtly leaving out certain parts of the story again and again and again to advance a chosen agenda, or constantly running rabid "opinion" pieces bordering on batshit-crazy levels of outrage.
I feel there WAS a golden age of journalism where total objectivity was a prized goal, but the time period is far more narrow than people assume. IE, it was never a "journalism used to be great, and just recently it fell off the rails," journalism was as bad 100 years ago as it was today.
Hey, if it could be made for yet *another* reason to get rid of DST....it might be good news!!
;)
Good God I hate jumping back and forth...just pick one and lets all stick with it!!!
The correct one to pick is full DST, all the time. The second place option, which no one really likes, is the current DST / Standard switcheroo twice a year. The worst of all the options, a distant, distant third place, is switching to Standard Time year round.
Those of us who don't like the idea of getting rid of the switchover don't like it because we're worried that the choice will just be all Standard Time, all the time. Fuck that, that's horrible. I'm willing to put up with a switchover twice a year to get a nice 8 months of DST.
That seems like kindof a dumb thing to write in the first place. I mean, what would the programmer have actually been trying to do? It sounds like it would involve implicit type conversion of complex structures, something that is often bad. But the result, string conversation, sounds like a natural reaction of starting with a string -- I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that everything else would be converted into string form if you start with a string. But of course, I would have hoped it would just bail with a "What are you DOING??" message.
Most of those other languages tend to either enforce some form of readability or you have to have been trying hard to make it unreadable. The problem is that half of perl's core features encourage you to write code that is difficult or impossible to maintain, and code maintenance is one of the most important phases of actually coding.
Alsa was really only good if you were trying to do the basic, bare-bones configuration and you had an audio card with proper hardware and properly-supported hardware. As soon as you got into things like a sound card that didn't do hardware stream mixing and then you had to try to configure also to do dmix and a bunch of other things, you were in for a world of hurt, and pulseaudio was a breath of fresh air.
The person who said "pulseaudio is awful" and the one who said "pulseaudio is far better than what we had before" are both right. For a number of years, pulseaudio was absolutely awful, and these awful versions made it into a number of 'stable' distributions. Somewhere around version 0.9.21, it started to stabilize and become reliable, and it seems pretty good now. But of course, that early reputation lingers, because it was pretty bad.
The extinguish comes next because systemd introduces a nasty -- encrypted log files.
I... buh. Of all the charges against systemd, this is one of the weirdest. There's nothing stopping you from having journald also write logs to text files as well.
"No, it really isn't. Since the 1990s, we've heavily moved to hotpluggable hardware thanks to USB,"
Who the fuck has hotpluggable USB devices in their server room?
Here is the assumption that the only RHEL use is for the server room, and that if the rest of the world needs a more full-featured boot environment, that the server room should have some separate for. There are quite a few RHEL desktops for those who don't like the instability of Fedora/Ubuntu/etc and need the commercially-supported OS for the commercial end-user software that runs on top of it.
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Looks pretty good, but all the links on the big promotion window are broken. I'll admit, I would hope that the DX8 and the VisionAire labels would actually just change tabs on that promotion window, but right all of them take you to a "discontinued item" page.
I'll admit that it looks "ok" on my phone. Not great, but most of the overarchitectured sites look WORSE on the phone instead of better, so that's a point in favor of the static site.
Thanks for the example. Weather.gov looks great on my phone (not). It's a perfect example of what curmudgeons would want. If web development just stopped around 2004.
Hmm. Maybe web sites looked better and operated a hell of a lot faster in 2004 than the overloaded sites we have today.
Outdated information for dynamic values (as in something that often changes, like a sports score, or stocks)
"When I want up-to-date information, I'll request it myself. My F5 key isn't broken, you know."
But then you'll have used far more bandwidth and time and processing power reloading the whole page than would have been taken up by hours of a reloading counter.
What I -really- want is a browser feature where any only the tab that the mouse is hovering over will have running javascript. Everything, everything else gets "frozen." If the browser doesn't have current focus, then no scripts run at all. I'm sure that will break a little functionality, but a user like me would appreciate an advanced feature like that.
True, but marriage as a religious and government institution, totally linked, is traditional in the US. That will be a huge cultural sea-change to break that link. Unconstitutional or not, followers of the religions of Abraham are used to having their religious norms protected by US law. We already know that you can't just recognize "civil unions" as a marriage alternative, separate but equal only ever gets the separate part right.
But anyway, I think the only way to real change is to let it come about naturally. Usually forcing the issues 'my way or the highway' involves a lot of backlash. If the Supreme Court had settled the issue of gay marriage in 2006, I think we'd still be fighting over it and the culture wars would have been nastier. By this point, the majority of people think it's really not that huge a deal.
yet California has many train regulations enforced by the Caliifornia Public Utilities Commission.
As long as they don't contradict federal train regulations. If those clash, I'm sure you know which side wins.
No you don't have the power you think you do. Russia installed your orange con man, seeing as Hillary won the vote by more than 3 million over Trumplethinskin.
The popular vote is meaningless. Neither candidate ran on the strategy of capturing the popular vote, they ran with the strategy of capturing the electoral vote. If the popular vote decided the election instead, then maybe both Hillary's and Trump's strategies would have changed. Maybe the result would have changed, and maybe not. But it's disingenuous to have a system where you seek electoral votes, and then complain afterwards that you won the tallying system that doesn't count for much and that you weren't campaigning for in the first place.
The United States was supposed to look like the European Union, a confederation of independent states.
United States under the Articles of Confederation were supposed to look like the European Union. This didn't work terribly well, and Shays's Rebellion exposed the weakness of the central government. The Constitutional Congress shifted more power to the executive as a result.
Does the Internet REALLY imply Interstate commerce?
There are plenty of destinations within a state.
Yes, but the traditional overbroad definition of the Interstate Commerce Clause has been that if something CAN affect interstate commerce, then the federal government can regulate it.
People would not need to buy "garbage" insurance policies if the government hadn't mandated they everyone is required to purchase insurance simply because they are living
But everyone NEEDS insurance if they're living, because no one has the choice about whether they get sick or get into an accident. If people without insurance have something catastrophic happen, they're not going to be able to pay for it. Everyone else pay for it.
So at that point, we have some options:
1) Only people who can pay out of pocket get help if they get into a car accident, or get shot on the street. Everyone else gets to die. As a society, we already decided that this is unacceptable.
2) Everyone is required to purchase insurance that actually covers these possibilities.
3) People have insurance, but people who don't want to pay still get health care. Pretty fucking unfair at that point.
4) Government cuts out the middleman and pays for all health care ("single payer"), because that's basically what they were doing already.
Which of these four options sounds good? #1 is already out. #2 is what we get post-ACA. #3 is what we had pre-ACA. #4 is the liberal wet dream.
Are you trying to claim that other people have some kind of right to dictate what you can and can't do in your personal life?
Most arguments against gay marriage fall under one of two camps:
1) It's sin, and the government should not endorse sin.
2) Gay marriage, by its established acceptance, devalues 'traditional' marriage. IE, their marriage is an attack on my marriage and all marriages.
Until your company standardizes on Google Mail. No, not username @ gmail.com, it's user @ company.com pulled from imap.google.com. I have get to find a real, decent client that actually handles the crazy oath2 security scheme that this requires. Under Linux, Thunderbird can handle it, but fetchmail and mutt cannot. I miss fetchmail and mutt.
That they are now widely regarded as enemies of freedom. That people see their despicable surveillance-based business model and recoil in disgust.
Yeah, uhh.. nerds like myself on Slashdot may feel that way, but most people are totally fine with Google.
That Google's obsession with constantly snooping and spying positively reeks of oppressive state surveillance, and people can no longer ignore the smell
Most people don't care. They find things like their search history being discoverable and targeted ads and such as the new normal. As just the way the world works. Again: most people don't care about their privacy. Maybe they don't want the wife to find out about an affair, but it's not Google they blame when she does. They don't want their identity stolen, and while they might blame Equifax, they don't really blame a general system that makes it possible. Because convenience trumps security. Over the long run, it always has. People are HAPPY to give up their privacy if they think there are rewards to be reaped from it.
Like... every franchise owner?
I'm not sure what news sources you use, but they don't seem to be serving you very well.
Using torture?
No, threats of jail time usually suffice.
The chairman of one major presidential campaign colluded with a brother of the *other* major presidential campaign to enrich themselves by secretly advancing the interests of a foreign adversary. That happened. That's "the swamp" everyone is saying needs to be drained.
So we're not getting "drain the swamp" after all. We elected a primary collaborator with The Swamp. Fantastic.
CNN hasn't been news for a long, long time. It's all editorial punditry about the news, which seems to be the only way they can find to fill a 24 hour channel. (same with Fox and MSNBC, and most others).
This is the problem with a 24-hour news channel. They don't want people to tune in, get the news, and tune out. They want people to tune in and watch for HOURS. To do that they need hours of content, content that has to be different so people don't just see the same thing for hours. Journalism, including investigative journalism, gets expensive, so they fill time with opinion. It doesn't cost a lot to have some guy give his opinion on the news, or have several people sitting around on couches or around a table and chat about current events. All these cable news channels SUCK. They're not a good place to go to get the news.
30+ years ago, news organizations mostly stuck with *objectively reporting the news* rather than subtly leaving out certain parts of the story again and again and again to advance a chosen agenda, or constantly running rabid "opinion" pieces bordering on batshit-crazy levels of outrage.
See Yellow Journalism to understand that's not true at all. In particular, William Randolph Hearst is widely credited with helping to start a war to sell papers.
I feel there WAS a golden age of journalism where total objectivity was a prized goal, but the time period is far more narrow than people assume. IE, it was never a "journalism used to be great, and just recently it fell off the rails," journalism was as bad 100 years ago as it was today.
Hey, if it could be made for yet *another* reason to get rid of DST....it might be good news!!
Good God I hate jumping back and forth...just pick one and lets all stick with it!!!
The correct one to pick is full DST, all the time. The second place option, which no one really likes, is the current DST / Standard switcheroo twice a year. The worst of all the options, a distant, distant third place, is switching to Standard Time year round.
Those of us who don't like the idea of getting rid of the switchover don't like it because we're worried that the choice will just be all Standard Time, all the time. Fuck that, that's horrible. I'm willing to put up with a switchover twice a year to get a nice 8 months of DST.
"" + [1,2] + [3,4];
That seems like kindof a dumb thing to write in the first place. I mean, what would the programmer have actually been trying to do? It sounds like it would involve implicit type conversion of complex structures, something that is often bad. But the result, string conversation, sounds like a natural reaction of starting with a string -- I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that everything else would be converted into string form if you start with a string. But of course, I would have hoped it would just bail with a "What are you DOING??" message.
Most of those other languages tend to either enforce some form of readability or you have to have been trying hard to make it unreadable. The problem is that half of perl's core features encourage you to write code that is difficult or impossible to maintain, and code maintenance is one of the most important phases of actually coding.
But python did replace Perl, completely. I'm not sure why this would be controversial.
Alsa was really only good if you were trying to do the basic, bare-bones configuration and you had an audio card with proper hardware and properly-supported hardware. As soon as you got into things like a sound card that didn't do hardware stream mixing and then you had to try to configure also to do dmix and a bunch of other things, you were in for a world of hurt, and pulseaudio was a breath of fresh air.
The person who said "pulseaudio is awful" and the one who said "pulseaudio is far better than what we had before" are both right. For a number of years, pulseaudio was absolutely awful, and these awful versions made it into a number of 'stable' distributions. Somewhere around version 0.9.21, it started to stabilize and become reliable, and it seems pretty good now. But of course, that early reputation lingers, because it was pretty bad.
The extinguish comes next because systemd introduces a nasty -- encrypted log files.
I... buh. Of all the charges against systemd, this is one of the weirdest. There's nothing stopping you from having journald also write logs to text files as well.
"No, it really isn't. Since the 1990s, we've heavily moved to hotpluggable hardware thanks to USB,"
Who the fuck has hotpluggable USB devices in their server room?
Here is the assumption that the only RHEL use is for the server room, and that if the rest of the world needs a more full-featured boot environment, that the server room should have some separate for. There are quite a few RHEL desktops for those who don't like the instability of Fedora/Ubuntu/etc and need the commercially-supported OS for the commercial end-user software that runs on top of it.