Hey at least the user is able to fix it with just a short script. In Windows land you'd be SOL - chances are you wouldn't even have the chance to fix and re-compile the drivers yourself.
and my wireless card won't connect to any networks after returning from sleep, so I have to restart.
Some Atheros adapter have that problem. If that's the case you'll have to put a script in/etc/pm/sleep.d/ to disable wifi (using rfkill), unload kernel modules, reload them, and enable wifi on resume/thaw.
There are checks for stability (to go from development to testing to main) and malware isn't allowed, but that's all the scrutiny there is. Same with most other Linux repos. If you require more checking than that, maybe you're better off in Apple's walled garden.
Anyone can add an app to a repo for free. The purpose is to make it easy to install apps, any apps. Sometimes there are stability or license criteria, but that's it.
A curated app store is just a retail storefront, to make the store operator money by selling apps. Including it with the OS is bloatware, even if the OS maker put it in themselves.
Every time a Linux distro comes out it doesn't cost three digits to upgrade, the distro maintainers don't go out of their way to push me onto the new distro, and doing an in-place upgrade will work fine with just the occasional minor problem, whereas with Windows an in-place upgrade for anything greater than a service pack tends to leave the install totally fucked up.
So let's recap.
Linux upgrade: A few clicks in the Update Manager (or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade") and wait.
Windows upgrade: Spend at least a hundred bucks, back up all data, clean-install & activate OS, reinstall apps, put data back.
OSX is cheaper than Windows but with the higher upgrade frequency I don't know which one's cheaper overall.
When they rushed out Windows 7 after Vista flopped that was understandable, but now Win8 is coming out just as quickly behind Win7. It's like they're doing the famous trash-good-trash-good pattern on purpose. Rush out the next trash OS to get the next good one out sooner.
Not only that, it does freaky stuff between tall buildings. If you're walking down a street between tall buildings the GPS might even say you're going in the opposite direction that you actually are because the signal's bouncing off a tall building.
I follow the same rule with my Samurai. Heck the back is open almost all the time so you can just climb in and help yourself.
You can steal a pair of sunglasses, a rusty mud-encrusted lug tool, a quart of motor oil, a rusty screwdriver and a milk crate with some random junk in it.
True. I have a horrible memory and I've never forgotten at least the general area where I've parked any of my cars. And both of my cars are small and easily obscured.
Even if you're a billionaire driving a crapcan, the inconvenience of having to wait for Jeeves to bring the limo around should be enough motivation to remember where you parked.
Yep, unregulated capitalism allows for all the horrors of any other political system - while technically not using force. There's always the alternative of living like the Unabomber. See, no force!
But right now you don't have to live like the Unabomber to avoid this crap, the Unabomber lifestyle is the core of the alternative, and that alternative gets whittled a little closer to the core every time corporations trump the common man. If you feel like you have to go out of your way to maintain your privacy and freedom more and more with every passing year, you're on the Unabomber side of the divide, and corporations are going to eat away at your options until you will literally have to either give in and become a good little consumer or live in a shack in the woods, cut off from civilization.
Yes, because cameras don't sleep, blink, aren't limited to looking at one place at one time, and can be hooked up to facial/license plate recognition databases. Cameras DO make it a bigger problem.
A hexacopter will have plenty enough lift, but you'd have to hook up your own FPV system, you'll only have wifi control if you do it custom, and it'll cost more...
LCD smart glass license plate covers are only illegal if you get caught using them on public roads. Hook some up to your car and flip them on once you cross onto private property. Or a little before you do, if you're sure no cops are watching. Then, buy with cash and wear aviator shades inside the mall (to break facial recognition - that'll be the next thing). Then you're shopping anonymously.
Now imagine that instead of "responsible" human beings doing the trading and relaying information via old-timey stock tickers, it's supercomputers in a real-money hacking competition connected with InfiniBand. I pointed out what would happen in my comment on that journal.
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Hey at least the user is able to fix it with just a short script. In Windows land you'd be SOL - chances are you wouldn't even have the chance to fix and re-compile the drivers yourself.
and my wireless card won't connect to any networks after returning from sleep, so I have to restart.
Some Atheros adapter have that problem. If that's the case you'll have to put a script in /etc/pm/sleep.d/ to disable wifi (using rfkill), unload kernel modules, reload them, and enable wifi on resume/thaw.
There are checks for stability (to go from development to testing to main) and malware isn't allowed, but that's all the scrutiny there is. Same with most other Linux repos. If you require more checking than that, maybe you're better off in Apple's walled garden.
Lemme guess, you're an Apple user?
Anyone can add an app to a repo for free. The purpose is to make it easy to install apps, any apps. Sometimes there are stability or license criteria, but that's it.
A curated app store is just a retail storefront, to make the store operator money by selling apps. Including it with the OS is bloatware, even if the OS maker put it in themselves.
Nice, I'll have to try that.
Even now, the hardware requirements are ridiculous, Vista is noticeably slower than XP or 7.
Ubuntu has an app store? It has repos with a graphical interface.
Every time a Linux distro comes out it doesn't cost three digits to upgrade, the distro maintainers don't go out of their way to push me onto the new distro, and doing an in-place upgrade will work fine with just the occasional minor problem, whereas with Windows an in-place upgrade for anything greater than a service pack tends to leave the install totally fucked up.
So let's recap.
Linux upgrade: A few clicks in the Update Manager (or "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade") and wait.
Windows upgrade: Spend at least a hundred bucks, back up all data, clean-install & activate OS, reinstall apps, put data back.
OSX is cheaper than Windows but with the higher upgrade frequency I don't know which one's cheaper overall.
XP and 7 are the good ones. Vista and 8 are the trash OSes (an app store, the ribbon disease spread over the whole OS and a tablet UI? Trash.)
When they rushed out Windows 7 after Vista flopped that was understandable, but now Win8 is coming out just as quickly behind Win7. It's like they're doing the famous trash-good-trash-good pattern on purpose. Rush out the next trash OS to get the next good one out sooner.
Shop online using a traceable credit card on a web site that tracks users? Oh yeah that's way better for privacy.
Not only that, it does freaky stuff between tall buildings. If you're walking down a street between tall buildings the GPS might even say you're going in the opposite direction that you actually are because the signal's bouncing off a tall building.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. If you don't want at least a gigabit Internet connection and a 10gig LAN, you're probably a grandma reading this on an iPad.
I follow the same rule with my Samurai. Heck the back is open almost all the time so you can just climb in and help yourself.
You can steal a pair of sunglasses, a rusty mud-encrusted lug tool, a quart of motor oil, a rusty screwdriver and a milk crate with some random junk in it.
True. I have a horrible memory and I've never forgotten at least the general area where I've parked any of my cars. And both of my cars are small and easily obscured.
Even if you're a billionaire driving a crapcan, the inconvenience of having to wait for Jeeves to bring the limo around should be enough motivation to remember where you parked.
Let me put this into middle-class language for you: If you can't afford a $1000 fine, how can you afford $1700 in rent?*
*You might not get this if you don't live paycheck to paycheck, as many people do. But, I tried.
Yep, unregulated capitalism allows for all the horrors of any other political system - while technically not using force. There's always the alternative of living like the Unabomber. See, no force!
But right now you don't have to live like the Unabomber to avoid this crap, the Unabomber lifestyle is the core of the alternative, and that alternative gets whittled a little closer to the core every time corporations trump the common man. If you feel like you have to go out of your way to maintain your privacy and freedom more and more with every passing year, you're on the Unabomber side of the divide, and corporations are going to eat away at your options until you will literally have to either give in and become a good little consumer or live in a shack in the woods, cut off from civilization.
Yes, because cameras don't sleep, blink, aren't limited to looking at one place at one time, and can be hooked up to facial/license plate recognition databases. Cameras DO make it a bigger problem.
Now, I would be quite upset to learn they're giving this information to the police without a subpoena
They'll probably have a handy web interface set up for the cops like the cell providers do.
Bad news: The guy was wearing shades and a baseball cap, so the cameras can't see his face.
Camera advantage nullified.
A hexacopter will have plenty enough lift, but you'd have to hook up your own FPV system, you'll only have wifi control if you do it custom, and it'll cost more...
Parking lots are private property
I was just going to get to that point.
LCD smart glass license plate covers are only illegal if you get caught using them on public roads.
Hook some up to your car and flip them on once you cross onto private property. Or a little before you do, if you're sure no cops are watching. Then, buy with cash and wear aviator shades inside the mall (to break facial recognition - that'll be the next thing). Then you're shopping anonymously.
A cost study done in 2009 states that Indianapolis would have saved half a billion if it bought every rider a car and 5 years of gasoline.
[citation needed] Can't find what you're talking about
You propose good socialist vorker bugs on a stinking bus. Europe uses force to achieve this.
LOL
Exxactly, I thought the building seemed like a perfect fit for the company.
Give this a read:
http://slashdot.org/~mcgrew/journal/269468
Now imagine that instead of "responsible" human beings doing the trading and relaying information via old-timey stock tickers, it's supercomputers in a real-money hacking competition connected with InfiniBand. I pointed out what would happen in my comment on that journal.