If you're poor and were caught with some crack, it's jail time. If you were caught with more expensive cocaine they will be a lot more lenient, maybe only a probation sentence, even though cocaine and crack are the same thing. So ya, maybe not "innocent" but you're more likely to harsher sentence than someone rich for the same crime. (it also helps to be the star athlete and have the judge be from the same school as you)
Overall though, BSD (open/net/free) is a more stable than Linux. Linux changes the APIs a lot, different distributions do things in different ways, whereas the BSD today pretty much runs similar to how it did ten years ago. The BSD source code for utilities is also a lot easier to read and understand than the GNU alternatives, and simpler, and you can modify the code without sharing your changes which is vital for many companies. But Linux has the marketing, if the masses have heard of it they assume it's a synonym for "Unix", or think that BSD is just another Linux distro.
The history of computing has been a fight between centralized control versus user control. Mainframes with a priesthood (mortals are not allowed to touch the big blue iron box). Mortal users start buying minicomputers for their own department use. A local priesthood is set up to manage access to them. Company says that multiple department priesthoods is clumsy, so central priesthood is put in charge of all departmental minis. Mortal users start buying microcomputers for their own office or lab use. Interns are hired to maintain and dust them. Central priesthood sets up a standardized software licensing group, to verify that no one is using unapproved software. PCs become more ubiquitous, even in the offices of computer illiterates. Central priesthood demands that no one can connect to the internet unless the priesthood managers their computers. Users start getting email on their mobile phones Priesthood demands that monitoring services be put onto all of the phones. The big blue iron box is no longer present but the priesthood remains.
The original IBM was a trap too. The difference was that everyone knew it and IBM wasn't trying very hard to hide it, and there was no significant competition doing the same thing. With Microsoft they are constantly trying to hide their trap, and the competition does things better much of the time. The embrace and extend comes from seeing potential customers (that MS thinks are rightfully theirs) going off and doing their own thing, so Microsoft tries to get their foot in the door and then pull the customers back their way.
Like the unwanted guy showing up at the neighborhood game... MS: Hey guys, I wanna play your game too. See, I brought my own glove! Players: This is basketball, you don't need a glove. MS: Oh, that's good. Anyway, here are the rules of how we're going to play. Players: Sorry, we're using the standard rules. MS: I hate basketball anyway. Stupid game. anyway you should try my jBasket game, it uses gloves!
The funniest segment in Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (NPR) was when they were making Clippy jokes, then Paula Poundstone pipes up and say "um... who's Clippy?"
Because privacy is important. The more young people claim that privacy is useless the more that advertisers start putting pressure on everyone else to get rid of privacy. The reason a lot of young people don't want privacy is that they don't really understand it and have no experience with it. They may think theyre only sharing with their friends but then become angry if their parents discover what they're wriring. It's no one else's business what stores you go to, what your medical conditions are, who you're dating, the gender of the people you're dating, who you're voting for, and so forth. It's very helpful if this stuff is not on the internet or for sale to advertisers.
I'm not master race, just PC user. I make fun of those who feel that they must have the most expensive set ups with dual graphics cards, etc. Yes, I have noticed that sort of dumb games get ported to PC (only save a checkpoints, circular selection menus, etc). Some dumb features are just for a dumbing down of players overall I think (game is one gigantic cutscene with QTEs). I don't play shooters much so I missed some of this. But not all games on PC are dumbed down Assassin's Creed or GTA crap shoved out super fast to satisfy the teen console players sitting on a couch. Look at Pillars of Eternity or Wasteland 2.
And there are more changes than input device. Fallout 4 modding on PC is much better than on consoles because you're not locked into a walled garden. Bethesda didn't even allow modding on consoles before this. Because a console forces you into the walled garden, even if it's on the network; you can not easily backup or modify files, change input devices, pop up a browser while playing, use adblock, play games from eariler or competing consoles, send messages with your own message system without creating a specialize account from the console maker, and so forth.
Well anyone who looked at any app store would realize how stupid it was quickly. Just look at the "top" or "featured" apps and see how incredibly pointless most of them are. Evernote is an exception perhaps, it does something useful for some people, and something that makes sense on a handheld device that you're using remotely from your primary computer. Everything else is either a game, social media, or is chasing after evernote hoping to catch fire (a zillion productivity apps, all of which are variants on taking notes while showing you advertisements).
Then it should ask to use the camera when the user asks to do OCR, and *only* then. So have it refuse to display a document becuase the camera isn't allowed is a stupid design. I also see apps that refuse to start if I have location turned off even though they only use the location for some optional services (and probably ads).
Can it do noscript and adblock? If not, it's not worth looking at. Maybe Firefox is slow to some people, but with most javascript disabled it's feels pretty responsive to me. I don't know how you'd get a "superior brownsing experience".
Often the trolls just settle out of court. They make enough money this way that they can afford to lose a few cases on appeal. If you settle out of court then you'll never be able to claw that money back if new evidence turns up.
They try, but are incompetent. Their ego says that they're the best company in the world and can do anything, but their skill set is not up to the challenge. They don't innovate and haven't for a very long time, instead they copy other people after a new technology has been around awhile, showing up late to the game, and their ego says "we're Microsoft, we totally are going to own this market!" and then stumble.
The one thing they do know to do is to tie everything together. Every product must assist revenues in other Microsoft products (what's the point of having a a few monopolies if you can't leverage them?). Windows drives sales of phones, which drive sales on the app store, which generates advertising revenue, which helps sell Xbox, which helps sell Xbox subscriptions, which helps sell Windows, which drives sales of Office, which drives sales of certification classes, which drives sales of Windows. Microsoft does not make standalone products. Or at least that's the plan even if it breaks down a lot of places.
Then all the countries can form their own Europe with themselves in charge! The only problem is all those lesser countries who also want to be in charge. They just need to grow up and realize that nation $X is their superior in all ways.
Americans have been stuck in a two party system for so long that they can only think in single dimensions. A pro-gun-control person is assumed to automatically be on the left, and an anti-abortion person must be on the right, the concept that one person can be both is discounted as so rare that it can be ignored. So when they look at fascists in history they automatically assume they must be the opposite of what good people are; they rounded up guns so they must be on the left, they were pro military growth so they must be on the right, and so forth. The idea that they were neither left nor right isn't considered.
Sure... and the right has always been on the side of the pure and holy since the beginning of the universe. The Nazis were just a socialist plot to discredit the right, Mussolini was a commie stooge, and so forth I suppose. Modern proponents of the "right" are insistent that no fascist was ever conservative or on the right because they are trying to create the myth the the right is always good and all evil throughout history has only come from the "left". Left and right are all illusions anyway and it's a simplistic notion that you can plot politics in a single dimension. Fascists were strong on authoritarianism, militarism, and nationalism, but inconsistent and vague with regards to economic and social policies.
There are a lot more people joining the protests as a means to get drunk and cause disruption. They don't have real political views they just want to rumble. Same thing happened with the Occupy Oakland protests. If you accuse those people of being typical of leftists then why not accuse the violent Trump supporters as being typical Trump supporters?
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If you're poor and were caught with some crack, it's jail time. If you were caught with more expensive cocaine they will be a lot more lenient, maybe only a probation sentence, even though cocaine and crack are the same thing. So ya, maybe not "innocent" but you're more likely to harsher sentence than someone rich for the same crime. (it also helps to be the star athlete and have the judge be from the same school as you)
Overall though, BSD (open/net/free) is a more stable than Linux. Linux changes the APIs a lot, different distributions do things in different ways, whereas the BSD today pretty much runs similar to how it did ten years ago. The BSD source code for utilities is also a lot easier to read and understand than the GNU alternatives, and simpler, and you can modify the code without sharing your changes which is vital for many companies. But Linux has the marketing, if the masses have heard of it they assume it's a synonym for "Unix", or think that BSD is just another Linux distro.
The history of computing has been a fight between centralized control versus user control.
Mainframes with a priesthood (mortals are not allowed to touch the big blue iron box).
Mortal users start buying minicomputers for their own department use. A local priesthood is set up to manage access to them.
Company says that multiple department priesthoods is clumsy, so central priesthood is put in charge of all departmental minis.
Mortal users start buying microcomputers for their own office or lab use. Interns are hired to maintain and dust them.
Central priesthood sets up a standardized software licensing group, to verify that no one is using unapproved software.
PCs become more ubiquitous, even in the offices of computer illiterates.
Central priesthood demands that no one can connect to the internet unless the priesthood managers their computers.
Users start getting email on their mobile phones
Priesthood demands that monitoring services be put onto all of the phones.
The big blue iron box is no longer present but the priesthood remains.
The original IBM was a trap too. The difference was that everyone knew it and IBM wasn't trying very hard to hide it, and there was no significant competition doing the same thing. With Microsoft they are constantly trying to hide their trap, and the competition does things better much of the time. The embrace and extend comes from seeing potential customers (that MS thinks are rightfully theirs) going off and doing their own thing, so Microsoft tries to get their foot in the door and then pull the customers back their way.
Like the unwanted guy showing up at the neighborhood game...
MS: Hey guys, I wanna play your game too. See, I brought my own glove!
Players: This is basketball, you don't need a glove.
MS: Oh, that's good. Anyway, here are the rules of how we're going to play.
Players: Sorry, we're using the standard rules.
MS: I hate basketball anyway. Stupid game. anyway you should try my jBasket game, it uses gloves!
The funniest segment in Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (NPR) was when they were making Clippy jokes, then Paula Poundstone pipes up and say "um... who's Clippy?"
It's only GetFreeBSD until July, then it will be GetBSD.
Because privacy is important. The more young people claim that privacy is useless the more that advertisers start putting pressure on everyone else to get rid of privacy. The reason a lot of young people don't want privacy is that they don't really understand it and have no experience with it. They may think theyre only sharing with their friends but then become angry if their parents discover what they're wriring. It's no one else's business what stores you go to, what your medical conditions are, who you're dating, the gender of the people you're dating, who you're voting for, and so forth. It's very helpful if this stuff is not on the internet or for sale to advertisers.
I'm not master race, just PC user. I make fun of those who feel that they must have the most expensive set ups with dual graphics cards, etc. Yes, I have noticed that sort of dumb games get ported to PC (only save a checkpoints, circular selection menus, etc). Some dumb features are just for a dumbing down of players overall I think (game is one gigantic cutscene with QTEs). I don't play shooters much so I missed some of this. But not all games on PC are dumbed down Assassin's Creed or GTA crap shoved out super fast to satisfy the teen console players sitting on a couch. Look at Pillars of Eternity or Wasteland 2.
And there are more changes than input device. Fallout 4 modding on PC is much better than on consoles because you're not locked into a walled garden. Bethesda didn't even allow modding on consoles before this. Because a console forces you into the walled garden, even if it's on the network; you can not easily backup or modify files, change input devices, pop up a browser while playing, use adblock, play games from eariler or competing consoles, send messages with your own message system without creating a specialize account from the console maker, and so forth.
With the large 2Wire vdsl modem? (3600hgv model I suspect, or something like that)
I was hoping for a good calculator, which seems like a natural fit for a handheld touchscreen, but so far haven't found any that I like.
Well anyone who looked at any app store would realize how stupid it was quickly. Just look at the "top" or "featured" apps and see how incredibly pointless most of them are. Evernote is an exception perhaps, it does something useful for some people, and something that makes sense on a handheld device that you're using remotely from your primary computer. Everything else is either a game, social media, or is chasing after evernote hoping to catch fire (a zillion productivity apps, all of which are variants on taking notes while showing you advertisements).
Wait, Android copying Apple? When I got my first smart phone, Android had a list of permissions for the apps and Apple was still all-or-nothing.
Then it should ask to use the camera when the user asks to do OCR, and *only* then. So have it refuse to display a document becuase the camera isn't allowed is a stupid design. I also see apps that refuse to start if I have location turned off even though they only use the location for some optional services (and probably ads).
I'd be willing to install apps (new or old) if any were useful.
Can it do noscript and adblock? If not, it's not worth looking at. Maybe Firefox is slow to some people, but with most javascript disabled it's feels pretty responsive to me. I don't know how you'd get a "superior brownsing experience".
Often the trolls just settle out of court. They make enough money this way that they can afford to lose a few cases on appeal. If you settle out of court then you'll never be able to claw that money back if new evidence turns up.
They try, but are incompetent. Their ego says that they're the best company in the world and can do anything, but their skill set is not up to the challenge. They don't innovate and haven't for a very long time, instead they copy other people after a new technology has been around awhile, showing up late to the game, and their ego says "we're Microsoft, we totally are going to own this market!" and then stumble.
The one thing they do know to do is to tie everything together. Every product must assist revenues in other Microsoft products (what's the point of having a a few monopolies if you can't leverage them?). Windows drives sales of phones, which drive sales on the app store, which generates advertising revenue, which helps sell Xbox, which helps sell Xbox subscriptions, which helps sell Windows, which drives sales of Office, which drives sales of certification classes, which drives sales of Windows. Microsoft does not make standalone products. Or at least that's the plan even if it breaks down a lot of places.
http://time.com/4254801/donald...
http://www.cnn.com/videos/poli...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
Then all the countries can form their own Europe with themselves in charge! The only problem is all those lesser countries who also want to be in charge. They just need to grow up and realize that nation $X is their superior in all ways.
Americans have been stuck in a two party system for so long that they can only think in single dimensions. A pro-gun-control person is assumed to automatically be on the left, and an anti-abortion person must be on the right, the concept that one person can be both is discounted as so rare that it can be ignored. So when they look at fascists in history they automatically assume they must be the opposite of what good people are; they rounded up guns so they must be on the left, they were pro military growth so they must be on the right, and so forth. The idea that they were neither left nor right isn't considered.
Sure... and the right has always been on the side of the pure and holy since the beginning of the universe. The Nazis were just a socialist plot to discredit the right, Mussolini was a commie stooge, and so forth I suppose. Modern proponents of the "right" are insistent that no fascist was ever conservative or on the right because they are trying to create the myth the the right is always good and all evil throughout history has only come from the "left". Left and right are all illusions anyway and it's a simplistic notion that you can plot politics in a single dimension. Fascists were strong on authoritarianism, militarism, and nationalism, but inconsistent and vague with regards to economic and social policies.
You haven't been watching the news then or it's been going through some sort of pro-Trump filter.
There are a lot more people joining the protests as a means to get drunk and cause disruption. They don't have real political views they just want to rumble. Same thing happened with the Occupy Oakland protests. If you accuse those people of being typical of leftists then why not accuse the violent Trump supporters as being typical Trump supporters?
In other news, the late Amazing Criswell filed suit against the Gartner Group, claiming "I've got the patent on making shit up for profit!"
Have you tried putting a hungry mongoose in the mailbox so that when it's opened the letter carrier backs away quickly?