My last iteration of "building from a collection of parts" was buying a QNAP from Amazon and a laptop from System76.
Ripping the content may require a little bit of upfront legwork but I never have to worry about some gatekeeper going out of business or deciding to just give me the middle finger.
Most of my MP3s are older than any sanctioned MP3 vendor. Now the older parts of my video collection have seen iTunes rise up as a video monger and then go offline.
When people buy stuff from you that requires "phoning home", no one should let you off the hook for dropping "legacy support". People whine about things like "support" but this isn't a computing frame of reference here. This is consumer media.
The idea that your copy of the White Album suddenly stops working should not be tolerated.
No one whines in the news media "but think of the stupid kid with an egg allergy". It's always the kid that shouldn't even been anywhere near a school.
Some people are just in danger just by being exposed to lots of children and their germs. This kind of "medical excuse" is bogus. They shouldn't be in school to begin with. It doesn't matter if the whole rest of the school tries to cater to their condition or not.
As far as "allergies" go, that's a real judgement call. However, most alergies even aren't nearly as severe as diseases we vaccinate children for.
This is really one of those many situations where our own wealth puts us at a disadvantage. We're so used to not seeing some of these diseases that we are really out of touch with how bad they really are. The whole lot of us are terribly sheltered.
"establishment" and "restriction" are actually both very real issues with a good amount of caselaw behind them. The situation is neither simple nor trivial.
ANY ONE that needs an excuse of any sort to avoid a vaccination should not be in a public school. People spend a lot of time trying to eviscerate anti-vaxxers over this but this is an issue that impacts anyone that is immonosuppressed.
If you can't handle a Measles vaccine, you don't belong in school period. Just the other kids with normal things will be a deadly threat to you.
It sucks but that's the way it is. Doesn't matter if you are a kid recovering from blood cancer or a teacher also recovering from blood cancer.
It's just another situation with diminishing returns. Going from the spinning rust to an SSD achieves considerable and noticable gains whereas going to the next step does not. The transition to SSD probably already got rid of most of the perceptable bottleneck.
It's too bad that Intel hardware has such crappy performance. I am more interested in the base case. That's FAR more relevant to FAR more people. People bragging about how complicated they can make their parlour tricks are ridiculous and irrelevant.
That's total hogwash. There is nothing about how Linux works in practice that makes BLOB drivers any less reliable or any harder to deal with. What problems may have existed have been fixed already and fixed for a long time already.
You sound like some stupid Lemming working out of an outdated playbook.
Just take advantage of the fact that Unix is well suited for automation.
No. He's just more anal about rules than a German is.
The problem with liberty is when people start deciding to play favorites. Then what you have just devolves into the religious wars that early American settlers fled from.
If you are trying to play favorites in any way shape or form then liberty and equality have just been thrown out the window.
Some people have a hard time with this (especially Europeans).
Then you run through every use case. Confer with the actual users to see what those are.
Medicine is not the only field where you could have a highly complex system deployed that doesn't achieve anyone's requirements. I've seen that myself in banking (Fortune 500) and also in "startups".
You can whine mindlessly or you can point to an actual counterexample. Such an example might actually prove your point. Although you seem distinterested in that.
It doesn't matter. If you are waiting for a storage vendor to send you replacement gear then you're irresponsible and putting your company at unecessary risk. Even a good SLA that's actually successfully executed is still too much exposure.
No, it sounds like they have allowed a machine on their network to become a part of the Google botnet. It's like that brand of TV (LG I believe) that likes to snoop around. All it takes is installing the wrong app and then not fully understanding it.
Any software or hardware you allow on your network could be up to no good and reporting back to the mothership. This kind of nonsense isn't just for Microsoft or Sony anymore.
Unfortunately, most people are rubes and are actively encouraged to stay that way.
Neither should a competent contractor or adjuster.
This is something that seems deceptively useful but I suspect that it will be less effective than everyone thinks. Plus someone still has to operate it and do so competently to at least succeed in doing a poor job at it.
The degree to which Apple is a monopoly in any market is dependent entirely upon the point that a particular fanboy is trying to make that day. They can either be obscure and on the ropes or they can be nearly taking over the planet. It all depends on what that day's agenda is.
Nonsense. Both Apple and Microsoft are in the wrong here.
If it's a part of an "industry standard" then the patent should be FREE. Don't like that? Don't make your invention part of something that no one can avoid.
It's like recreating the DOS monopoly by committe.
> And after the indiana legislation, several businesses have refused to do business in indiana. How is one boycott bigotry, and the other isnt?
Who wants to go where they aren't welcome? Other busineses have to consider that their employees or their customers will be abused and made to feel unwelcome by the climate in Indiana.
It doesn't even matter if you are really gay or not. Some ignorant hayseed might decide you are gay for whatever strange reason and then suddenly decide not to serve you. It's not just RuPaul that has to worry here.
Now you're trying to conflate an actual religious institution with a mere business. These are not things that are treated the same. They never have been treated the same in this country. An actual religious organization will actually get MORE slack because genuine religious oppression is a sacred cow here.
This "religious freedom" law is nothing more than a sham that allows any bigot to scream "but religion" any time they want to justify their bigotry. It doesn't have to have ANY thing to do with whatever religion they practice. It could even be CONTRARY to the stated doctrine of their own religion.
The actual governing body of what ever religion these bigots practice might want to chime in here and confirm or deny that their doctrine supports (or demands) discrimination against any person or group.
So what part of Xian doctrine implores a seller of Pizza to act like ISIS exactly?
That's one of the interesting things that has come of all of this. You have had even religious voices doing a WTF. What brand of Xian actually supports this kind of exclusionary behavior? Beyond the Amish, I can't really think of any.
You see this in the Muslim world as well. It's not so much that certain "traditions" are a matter of religion. They're a matter of culture and religion is trotted out as an excuse.
This is a tech forum. The idea of "pretty much identical" should offend the basic sensibilities of any one here. It's much like saying that two programs are "pretty much identical". They simply aren't equal. They can't be casually assumed to be equal.
The law is no less subject to the problems of imprecision as computer programs. Even a single bit of punctuaiton matters.
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> Just so you know, nothing lasts forever.
Why not? Parts of my media hoard date back to 1994.
Bits don't wear out. There's no reason for them not to last forever.
My last iteration of "building from a collection of parts" was buying a QNAP from Amazon and a laptop from System76.
Ripping the content may require a little bit of upfront legwork but I never have to worry about some gatekeeper going out of business or deciding to just give me the middle finger.
Most of my MP3s are older than any sanctioned MP3 vendor. Now the older parts of my video collection have seen iTunes rise up as a video monger and then go offline.
This article is an advertisement for XBMC.
That's a distinction without a difference.
When people buy stuff from you that requires "phoning home", no one should let you off the hook for dropping "legacy support". People whine about things like "support" but this isn't a computing frame of reference here. This is consumer media.
The idea that your copy of the White Album suddenly stops working should not be tolerated.
No. You clueless blithering idiots don't get it.
No one whines in the news media "but think of the stupid kid with an egg allergy". It's always the kid that shouldn't even been anywhere near a school.
Some people are just in danger just by being exposed to lots of children and their germs. This kind of "medical excuse" is bogus. They shouldn't be in school to begin with. It doesn't matter if the whole rest of the school tries to cater to their condition or not.
As far as "allergies" go, that's a real judgement call. However, most alergies even aren't nearly as severe as diseases we vaccinate children for.
This is really one of those many situations where our own wealth puts us at a disadvantage. We're so used to not seeing some of these diseases that we are really out of touch with how bad they really are. The whole lot of us are terribly sheltered.
"establishment" and "restriction" are actually both very real issues with a good amount of caselaw behind them. The situation is neither simple nor trivial.
ANY ONE that needs an excuse of any sort to avoid a vaccination should not be in a public school. People spend a lot of time trying to eviscerate anti-vaxxers over this but this is an issue that impacts anyone that is immonosuppressed.
If you can't handle a Measles vaccine, you don't belong in school period. Just the other kids with normal things will be a deadly threat to you.
It sucks but that's the way it is. Doesn't matter if you are a kid recovering from blood cancer or a teacher also recovering from blood cancer.
It's just another situation with diminishing returns. Going from the spinning rust to an SSD achieves considerable and noticable gains whereas going to the next step does not. The transition to SSD probably already got rid of most of the perceptable bottleneck.
It's too bad that Intel hardware has such crappy performance. I am more interested in the base case. That's FAR more relevant to FAR more people. People bragging about how complicated they can make their parlour tricks are ridiculous and irrelevant.
That's total hogwash. There is nothing about how Linux works in practice that makes BLOB drivers any less reliable or any harder to deal with. What problems may have existed have been fixed already and fixed for a long time already.
You sound like some stupid Lemming working out of an outdated playbook.
Just take advantage of the fact that Unix is well suited for automation.
> Churches don't harass people who leave
Are you kidding? If you really believe this then you need to seriously educate yourself. Take off the blinders and take a look around.
No. He's just more anal about rules than a German is.
The problem with liberty is when people start deciding to play favorites. Then what you have just devolves into the religious wars that early American settlers fled from.
If you are trying to play favorites in any way shape or form then liberty and equality have just been thrown out the window.
Some people have a hard time with this (especially Europeans).
Then you run through every use case. Confer with the actual users to see what those are.
Medicine is not the only field where you could have a highly complex system deployed that doesn't achieve anyone's requirements. I've seen that myself in banking (Fortune 500) and also in "startups".
You can whine mindlessly or you can point to an actual counterexample. Such an example might actually prove your point. Although you seem distinterested in that.
It doesn't matter. If you are waiting for a storage vendor to send you replacement gear then you're irresponsible and putting your company at unecessary risk. Even a good SLA that's actually successfully executed is still too much exposure.
No, it sounds like they have allowed a machine on their network to become a part of the Google botnet. It's like that brand of TV (LG I believe) that likes to snoop around. All it takes is installing the wrong app and then not fully understanding it.
Any software or hardware you allow on your network could be up to no good and reporting back to the mothership. This kind of nonsense isn't just for Microsoft or Sony anymore.
Unfortunately, most people are rubes and are actively encouraged to stay that way.
...or people that just think they are better and end up regretting their actions the next morning.
American workers are constantly encouraged to push themselves past sensible physical limits and to ignore genuine health and safety concerns.
Neither should a competent contractor or adjuster.
This is something that seems deceptively useful but I suspect that it will be less effective than everyone thinks. Plus someone still has to operate it and do so competently to at least succeed in doing a poor job at it.
The degree to which Apple is a monopoly in any market is dependent entirely upon the point that a particular fanboy is trying to make that day. They can either be obscure and on the ropes or they can be nearly taking over the planet. It all depends on what that day's agenda is.
Nonsense. Both Apple and Microsoft are in the wrong here.
If it's a part of an "industry standard" then the patent should be FREE. Don't like that? Don't make your invention part of something that no one can avoid.
It's like recreating the DOS monopoly by committe.
> And after the indiana legislation, several businesses have refused to do business in indiana. How is one boycott bigotry, and the other isnt?
Who wants to go where they aren't welcome? Other busineses have to consider that their employees or their customers will be abused and made to feel unwelcome by the climate in Indiana.
It doesn't even matter if you are really gay or not. Some ignorant hayseed might decide you are gay for whatever strange reason and then suddenly decide not to serve you. It's not just RuPaul that has to worry here.
Now you're trying to conflate an actual religious institution with a mere business. These are not things that are treated the same. They never have been treated the same in this country. An actual religious organization will actually get MORE slack because genuine religious oppression is a sacred cow here.
This "religious freedom" law is nothing more than a sham that allows any bigot to scream "but religion" any time they want to justify their bigotry. It doesn't have to have ANY thing to do with whatever religion they practice. It could even be CONTRARY to the stated doctrine of their own religion.
The actual governing body of what ever religion these bigots practice might want to chime in here and confirm or deny that their doctrine supports (or demands) discrimination against any person or group.
So what part of Xian doctrine implores a seller of Pizza to act like ISIS exactly?
That's one of the interesting things that has come of all of this. You have had even religious voices doing a WTF. What brand of Xian actually supports this kind of exclusionary behavior? Beyond the Amish, I can't really think of any.
You see this in the Muslim world as well. It's not so much that certain "traditions" are a matter of religion. They're a matter of culture and religion is trotted out as an excuse.
Your argument is so ignorant it beggars belief.
This is a tech forum. The idea of "pretty much identical" should offend the basic sensibilities of any one here. It's much like saying that two programs are "pretty much identical". They simply aren't equal. They can't be casually assumed to be equal.
The law is no less subject to the problems of imprecision as computer programs. Even a single bit of punctuaiton matters.
Are you kidding? They have been doing that for decades already.
Corprate boot lickers are so funny when it comes to the kinds of excuses they will come up with when their pet corporation acts badly.
Apple has trampled trademarks for years. They are very much like Microsoft in this respect. A little bit of "rule of law" is long overdue.