I think the thread has been hijacked by the NSA to tell people how great Windows is, and make people switch to it. Windows has been a pile of crap since they introduced their "telemetry", which is in fact a "report all my activity to the governments please" feature. I have switched to CentOS for my main desktop, and even though there are actually some stability problems with KDE Plasma and some apps that I compiled and installed, the OS itself is pretty stable.
However, I would never put a Linux in the hands of my mom.
That being said, to get back to the main subject, it is a plain shame to see that bash has its.exe version. Disgusting.
You mean that's not how it already is?? Upon install, you have a Google Chrome option which is checked by default. And if you don't customize, you get tons of crap that automatically install, like "Auto-update", Shell extensions and background processes. And once in the UI, there's an "Upgrade" section that tries to sell you the "Pro version"...
The simple fact to have an "auto-update" feature is a guarantee that you will receive stuff you don't want at some point.
It's called the address bar, and it's right at the top of your browser window. Just type in http://facebook.com./ You'll see how it looks to have a big commercial with some posts in between.
Everything these days is bult in China. iPhone, Samsung phones, Google phones.
I don't see what's so better about Apple. Their walled garden that require you to buy their overpriced accessories? The requirement to use their shitty iTunes app to load your stuff into the phone?
I had to install iTunes for my girlfriend last week, the Windows binary is now over 250Mb. The last iPhone I had was a 4S (before the new connector required me to dump all the docking stations I had), and back then the iTunes install was around 50Mb.
iStuff is seriously overpriced and bloated. That's all.
I really Wonder how one can mod the OP as "redundant"?!? If so, we could say all the words in the world are "redundant", since they're all part of the dictionnary. And everything one could say has been said, so what's the point of having comments, if they're all redundant in advance, event when it's the first one?
Citing an old joke is not redundant, if you're the first one who thought about it in the comments section...
I would add that for the past 3 -4 months, the top banner is so invasive as to cover a third of the content, even when I scroll down. Ads on/. are getting annoying to the point that the site looks more like a giant advert than a geek site.
It's not fake news. It's called giving too much air time to a guy that has predicted completely cranky, scatty theories about the end of the world as we know it, yet nothing he has said has come any close to his predictions.
This story completely discredits the New York Times as a mainstream, supposedly serious media. Aren't these journalists supposed to do some very basic facts checking before publishing such a rubbish paper?
They're dead, so their lifetime is over. Isn't it how it works?
Anything that pretends to be "lifetime" should be looked at with circumscription. Garmin maps may be an exception, but I can't see how a one time purchase can pay for the salary of a concierge forever.
You think the human race will survive long enough for a Matrix-like future? If we are dumb enough to NOT have a kill-switch on those things, I think we deserve this future.
Humans are part of the ecosystem, have developed in a way that they are conscious of what they are doing (or not...), and know that they can have an impact (tiny or global) on the planet. Now if we REALLY cause a mass extinction because of our actions, it will still be a "natural" cause.
If this extinction was caused by another species on our planet, would it be more natural? Absolutely not. it would be the exact same shit. Now let's say it would be caused by an extraterrestrial species coming to annihilate us. Would it be natural? Absolutely. They have evolved in a way that they can rule the galaxy, and we haven't. Nature is not just trees, flowers and other animals. We are also part of it.
But if you think in the millions and billions of years (well not too many billions, or the sun will get too hot), anything could happen. We're not the most perfect thing that could exist. Maybe the most overall intelligent species right now, but certainly not perfect. I don't think mammals will be the dominant genus until Earth is engulfed into the Sun... Mammals have proven to have a hard time adapting to hot temps.
Earth will survive. If we are dumb enough to destroy everything, then maybe a more intelligent lifeform will thrive. Or if we do not get entirely extinct, Darwinism will be the rule once again. Only the best will survive. Only those who can adapt.
The notion of "harassment" has got very blurry lately...
Back in my days, I was the little big guy in the school yard. I had to deal with insults, punches in the belly and snowballs in the face. Guess what? The school director did absolutely nothing. I had to learn to defend myself. My grandfather taught me how to fight, and after a few lessons and practice, that's what I did.
Never did I complain to my mother, it would have been cowardice.
After a few good fights where I showed I would not let others make fun of me, they left me alone, and I made some good friends for the rest of high school. With all those millenials pouring in, defended by their parents and having never felt what it's like to be truly harassed, the notion of harassment has got down to almost considering unfriending someone on Facebook as harassment.
I am happy to be born in the early 80's, I may be part of the last generation of real men that had to physically defend themselves to be respected, just as the nature gave us in our genes. Not being defended by our parents or going to the police for a slight schoolyard fight.
I would add that the "view source" is not a way to learn to code the "under the hood" functionalities. It is a way to see how the site integration is done. Back in my days, I learn how to build proper TABLES, TR, TD. Now I have learned to work with DIVs to organize my containers.
I find the "Developer tools" to be now way more useful than "view source". First it does not require a new page load, so you can see the markup after a POST for example. And you can just point at the element of interest, and it shows you where it is in the page's "source code" (Markup code)
Building dynamic, DB driven websites is not a thing of "view source", it is a game of tutorials. Make your first "Hello World!", then continue on. That's how I learned PHP. At first I learned procedural coding, and no I just began working with objects. But this has nothing to do with "View source".
[...]music is available on-tap and for pocket change.
You think this encourages musicians to make a living of music? If it is available for pocket change, only those with 100M+ views / listenings are profitable. I remember a local artist who had 800,000 listenings of his most popular song on an online music service got paid something like 700$. You think it's enough? Do you think this guy will still record his music and give it for pennies to online music services?
And I have a great way to circumvent SkyDrive's limitation.
Do not use it
This kind of walled garden doesn't work when Dropbox, Google Drive and others are giving away free space on any platform. Its just plain dumb from Microsoft to actually NOT develop a Linux or Mac client. (in fact, I don't know what clients any of these services provide, I use my own OwnCloud, I do not trust the big corps with my data...)
Anyway, just move your stuff to another service. You'll be better served.
And as when watching a ST movie, it's popcorn time. Reading the Apple lovers and haters. Even though the story is relevant (news for nerds), all we'll find in the comments is irrelevant bashing or praising.
You can disable targeted advertising in your Google account settings. This does not, however, change the fact that Google parses and categorizes your content. So to have Google backup all my computer data? No thanks. You're gonna pry my laptop from my cold, dead hands.
This post could well have been a comment on another Slashdot story that would have not even deserved a +5... Uninteresting, but there's a car reference, so let's make a "story" out of it!
I have owned a Mac Mini back in the days, and an iPhone 4S. After they've changed the 30pin connection for the smaller connection, I decided that I would never, ever buy another Apple product. At that time, I had bought a couple 30pin docking stations, a speaker, a desktop USB / 30pin station, and even a sectional equipped with a 30pin connector coupled with an integrated sound system.
Since I have switched to Android phones 6 years ago, they've never let me down. My micro-USB stations have been compatible with all the phone and tablets I've had (and even all those I've not had, except Apple ones). Oh and my 10 years old, 32bit Core Duo PC can run all 32bit Linux distros around with pretty good performance. Well maintained PCs can run for 10-15 years without a glitch and do their deeds...
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I think the thread has been hijacked by the NSA to tell people how great Windows is, and make people switch to it. Windows has been a pile of crap since they introduced their "telemetry", which is in fact a "report all my activity to the governments please" feature. I have switched to CentOS for my main desktop, and even though there are actually some stability problems with KDE Plasma and some apps that I compiled and installed, the OS itself is pretty stable.
.exe version. Disgusting.
However, I would never put a Linux in the hands of my mom.
That being said, to get back to the main subject, it is a plain shame to see that bash has its
You mean that's not how it already is?? Upon install, you have a Google Chrome option which is checked by default. And if you don't customize, you get tons of crap that automatically install, like "Auto-update", Shell extensions and background processes. And once in the UI, there's an "Upgrade" section that tries to sell you the "Pro version"...
The simple fact to have an "auto-update" feature is a guarantee that you will receive stuff you don't want at some point.
It's called the address bar, and it's right at the top of your browser window. Just type in http://facebook.com./ You'll see how it looks to have a big commercial with some posts in between.
Everything these days is bult in China. iPhone, Samsung phones, Google phones.
I don't see what's so better about Apple. Their walled garden that require you to buy their overpriced accessories? The requirement to use their shitty iTunes app to load your stuff into the phone?
I had to install iTunes for my girlfriend last week, the Windows binary is now over 250Mb. The last iPhone I had was a 4S (before the new connector required me to dump all the docking stations I had), and back then the iTunes install was around 50Mb.
iStuff is seriously overpriced and bloated. That's all.
I really Wonder how one can mod the OP as "redundant"?!? If so, we could say all the words in the world are "redundant", since they're all part of the dictionnary. And everything one could say has been said, so what's the point of having comments, if they're all redundant in advance, event when it's the first one?
Citing an old joke is not redundant, if you're the first one who thought about it in the comments section...
I would add that for the past 3 -4 months, the top banner is so invasive as to cover a third of the content, even when I scroll down. Ads on /. are getting annoying to the point that the site looks more like a giant advert than a geek site.
It's not fake news. It's called giving too much air time to a guy that has predicted completely cranky, scatty theories about the end of the world as we know it, yet nothing he has said has come any close to his predictions.
This story completely discredits the New York Times as a mainstream, supposedly serious media. Aren't these journalists supposed to do some very basic facts checking before publishing such a rubbish paper?
+5 funny if I had modpoints!
They're dead, so their lifetime is over. Isn't it how it works?
Anything that pretends to be "lifetime" should be looked at with circumscription. Garmin maps may be an exception, but I can't see how a one time purchase can pay for the salary of a concierge forever.
Douche bags are not rich, they only pretend to be so by showing off some false bling bling. This is why Vertu's shit didn't take off.
Real rich people tend to keep an eye on what they're spending money on. This is how they usually got rich. More revenue than expenses.
You think the human race will survive long enough for a Matrix-like future? If we are dumb enough to NOT have a kill-switch on those things, I think we deserve this future.
What you don't agree? I think AC is 100% correct.
Humans are part of the ecosystem, have developed in a way that they are conscious of what they are doing (or not...), and know that they can have an impact (tiny or global) on the planet. Now if we REALLY cause a mass extinction because of our actions, it will still be a "natural" cause.
If this extinction was caused by another species on our planet, would it be more natural? Absolutely not. it would be the exact same shit. Now let's say it would be caused by an extraterrestrial species coming to annihilate us. Would it be natural? Absolutely. They have evolved in a way that they can rule the galaxy, and we haven't. Nature is not just trees, flowers and other animals. We are also part of it.
But if you think in the millions and billions of years (well not too many billions, or the sun will get too hot), anything could happen. We're not the most perfect thing that could exist. Maybe the most overall intelligent species right now, but certainly not perfect. I don't think mammals will be the dominant genus until Earth is engulfed into the Sun... Mammals have proven to have a hard time adapting to hot temps.
Earth will survive. If we are dumb enough to destroy everything, then maybe a more intelligent lifeform will thrive. Or if we do not get entirely extinct, Darwinism will be the rule once again. Only the best will survive. Only those who can adapt.
The notion of "harassment" has got very blurry lately...
Back in my days, I was the little big guy in the school yard. I had to deal with insults, punches in the belly and snowballs in the face. Guess what? The school director did absolutely nothing. I had to learn to defend myself. My grandfather taught me how to fight, and after a few lessons and practice, that's what I did.
Never did I complain to my mother, it would have been cowardice.
After a few good fights where I showed I would not let others make fun of me, they left me alone, and I made some good friends for the rest of high school. With all those millenials pouring in, defended by their parents and having never felt what it's like to be truly harassed, the notion of harassment has got down to almost considering unfriending someone on Facebook as harassment.
I am happy to be born in the early 80's, I may be part of the last generation of real men that had to physically defend themselves to be respected, just as the nature gave us in our genes. Not being defended by our parents or going to the police for a slight schoolyard fight.
I would add that the "view source" is not a way to learn to code the "under the hood" functionalities. It is a way to see how the site integration is done. Back in my days, I learn how to build proper TABLES, TR, TD. Now I have learned to work with DIVs to organize my containers.
I find the "Developer tools" to be now way more useful than "view source". First it does not require a new page load, so you can see the markup after a POST for example. And you can just point at the element of interest, and it shows you where it is in the page's "source code" (Markup code)
Building dynamic, DB driven websites is not a thing of "view source", it is a game of tutorials. Make your first "Hello World!", then continue on. That's how I learned PHP. At first I learned procedural coding, and no I just began working with objects. But this has nothing to do with "View source".
[...]music is available on-tap and for pocket change.
You think this encourages musicians to make a living of music? If it is available for pocket change, only those with 100M+ views / listenings are profitable. I remember a local artist who had 800,000 listenings of his most popular song on an online music service got paid something like 700$. You think it's enough? Do you think this guy will still record his music and give it for pennies to online music services?
And I have a great way to circumvent SkyDrive's limitation.
Do not use it
This kind of walled garden doesn't work when Dropbox, Google Drive and others are giving away free space on any platform. Its just plain dumb from Microsoft to actually NOT develop a Linux or Mac client. (in fact, I don't know what clients any of these services provide, I use my own OwnCloud, I do not trust the big corps with my data...)
Anyway, just move your stuff to another service. You'll be better served.
And as when watching a ST movie, it's popcorn time. Reading the Apple lovers and haters. Even though the story is relevant (news for nerds), all we'll find in the comments is irrelevant bashing or praising.
But marketing is king, and being able to make people believe your product is better has nothing to do with your product being actually better.
You can disable targeted advertising in your Google account settings. This does not, however, change the fact that Google parses and categorizes your content. So to have Google backup all my computer data? No thanks. You're gonna pry my laptop from my cold, dead hands.
This post could well have been a comment on another Slashdot story that would have not even deserved a +5... Uninteresting, but there's a car reference, so let's make a "story" out of it!
When you get stuff for free, you ARE the product. The stuff you get for free is the bait.
The Neuralyzer yet? This would save them the signature and legal shebang of non-compete agreements...
I have owned a Mac Mini back in the days, and an iPhone 4S. After they've changed the 30pin connection for the smaller connection, I decided that I would never, ever buy another Apple product. At that time, I had bought a couple 30pin docking stations, a speaker, a desktop USB / 30pin station, and even a sectional equipped with a 30pin connector coupled with an integrated sound system.
Since I have switched to Android phones 6 years ago, they've never let me down. My micro-USB stations have been compatible with all the phone and tablets I've had (and even all those I've not had, except Apple ones). Oh and my 10 years old, 32bit Core Duo PC can run all 32bit Linux distros around with pretty good performance. Well maintained PCs can run for 10-15 years without a glitch and do their deeds...