Best Buy still sucks and so does Barnes and Noble.
Extracting an extra 10% from Amazon customers won't really change that. Even if Amazon were MORE expensive, they still have the benefit of a much wider selection and better availability of stock.
I can't buy what Best Buy doesn't even carry.
So all of this whining about unfairness from the dinosaurs is really stupid.
Grazing animals can exist in a semi-wild state with little or no support from a rancher. They can just live off the land without any extra resources being expended on them.
Meanwhile, industrial farming requires a great deal of energy input as well as petroleum derived materials like fertilizer.You don't get your soybeans for free. If anything, they've been engineered to tolerate an elevated level of herbicides.
The problem with a veggie diet is that you are not a cow. No matter how much you wish for it and how much you try, you will not become a cow.
That cow is actually adapted to living off of only vegetation. You are not.
Meat is a very effective dietary supplement. It's easy. It takes all of the guesswork out of finding protein. Provides vitamins too. The fat is also not bad if you are living in a marginal situation.
A vegetarian diet is fine as long as it is an actual food tradition and not just some clueless rich person in the west trying to be sanctimonious. Humans derive great benefit from being willing to eat whatever they can manage to get their hands on. That characteristic of humans is why you even exist.
There is nothing noble about vegetarianism. It's just a sign of poverty.
There are other brands of commercial software too. Microsoft isn't the only commercial software vendor in existence. Even their own payware applications suffer from severe UI churn.
Even if you have Microsoft blinders on and love them, fixating on a single release of a single brand of product is problematic.
The "hate anything Microsoft" approach does not require Free Software.
> A problem with Linux in general is there is simply too much choice and no apparent standardization.
Yet the thing you are screeching about right now is the very essence of "consistency" in terms of the principle that "computer interfaces should be consistent". This project is a response to others running off the rails and trying to follow the latest trend no matter how absurd it is.
MATE is what truly conforms to formal academic notions of proper UI design. So do the standard Unix shells.
MATE will be less of a shock to people used to the last 15 years of Windows interfaces. It will be less confusing than the flavor of the month from Ubuntu, Microsoft, or Apple.
Actually, Roku has a Plex client. So it can pretty much handle anything that any PC can.
On the other hand, the crapulence and DRM of Silverlight means that you need much more PC to deal with media that you would otherwise. The same goes for Adobe.
A Roku is cheaper and quieter than the extra horsepower you need from a PC to deal with these crappy web scripting languages.
Perhaps your employer shoves it down your throat or you have to be the unpaid support tech for friends and family.
Although the idea that we haven't touched WinDOS in 7 or so years is a nice testament to the suitability of Linux. If people can fully turn their back on Microsoft, then the alternatives can't really be so bad then.
Your attempt at misdirection doesn't alter the obvious facts here.
There's a clear chain of cause and effect here.
Chances are that Microsoft's willingness to turn it's OS for office work into a glorified TV with DRM up to the gills had some impact on a device specifically designed to do things that Hollywood might not approve of.
Silverlight will happily run in a VM. So you could always go that route if you really need to.
The headline is a function of the fact that Silverlight is pretty much irrelevant except for Netflix. Micrsosoft thought they were going to displace Adobe but it didn't quite work out that way.
Without the Netflix connection, the common man's reaction to this story would be: "Silverlight? What's that? Why should I care?"
Except from the point of view of system stability and change control, Mint polices are actually the ones that make sense. Dicking around with the kernel or Xorg SHOULD be treated like it's dangerous and that terminology should be exposed to the "poor frightened" end users.
"Crucial to Linux components working with one another. Do not install unless you are experiencing a problem which you believe the upgrade will solve"
A market driven by moron consumers has led to this problem. Stuff is generally crap and nothing is nearly as energy efficient as it could be. Even relatively cheap and simple things aren't done because the American Airlines approach to corporate accounting.
The first problem in a state like Arizona is that it is generally uninhabitable without either traditional native construction practices or power hungry brute force cooling systems.
In the local school district, they use some office application I have never heard of before. This doesn't seem to harm the kids in any way. They aren't unable to cope with other brands of spreadsheet or word processor afterwards (like the Lemmings will claim).
This is kind of the way it should be for school in general. Teaching concepts and whatnot.
If you can't handle different brands of word processor, you're going to be totally f*cked when your brand of choice makes a major UI change in the future.
> also almost all structural, architectural, and engineering applications on the planet. all of those require windows.
Like you've actually used any of them ever? You could probably count the relevant user population here on your fingers.
So that brings into question the qualifications for anyone to even comment on this issue as well as the general relevance.
It's like Photoshop but you don't even know what names to drop.
Plus this is a far more geeky than average population of users. Yet you seem unable to even name these mythical apps. These apps will seem even more obscure to the population at large.
PCs may have seemed like they were "the only platform" last year but it's not last year anymore.
It's not Windows. You don't have to be running the very latest version just to avoid being owned and infected. The same goes for any operating system that's not from Microsoft.
I still play my Loki games despite every clueless git trying to make pronouncements about things they don't have any experience with (game programming or app programming in general).
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Best Buy still sucks and so does Barnes and Noble.
Extracting an extra 10% from Amazon customers won't really change that. Even if Amazon were MORE expensive, they still have the benefit of a much wider selection and better availability of stock.
I can't buy what Best Buy doesn't even carry.
So all of this whining about unfairness from the dinosaurs is really stupid.
No. He rightfully doesn't consider an externality to be a subsidy.
All such a BLATANT LIE does is undermine whatever other valid points you might have had.
That sounds like poor people in India and Vietnam.
Sileage was only ever needed for open range farming until a 100 year winter occurred. Prior to that, cows fended for themselves even in winter.
Look at the butthurt vegetarian.
Grazing animals can exist in a semi-wild state with little or no support from a rancher. They can just live off the land without any extra resources being expended on them.
Meanwhile, industrial farming requires a great deal of energy input as well as petroleum derived materials like fertilizer.You don't get your soybeans for free. If anything, they've been engineered to tolerate an elevated level of herbicides.
It's not just hippies singing cum-bye-ah.
The problem with a veggie diet is that you are not a cow. No matter how much you wish for it and how much you try, you will not become a cow.
That cow is actually adapted to living off of only vegetation. You are not.
Meat is a very effective dietary supplement. It's easy. It takes all of the guesswork out of finding protein. Provides vitamins too. The fat is also not bad if you are living in a marginal situation.
A vegetarian diet is fine as long as it is an actual food tradition and not just some clueless rich person in the west trying to be sanctimonious. Humans derive great benefit from being willing to eat whatever they can manage to get their hands on. That characteristic of humans is why you even exist.
There is nothing noble about vegetarianism. It's just a sign of poverty.
Even in this case it is an "austerity measure".
Without man, the entire middle of America would be filled from one horizon to the next with a bunch of farting Buffalo.
This isn't just about Free Software.
There are other brands of commercial software too. Microsoft isn't the only commercial software vendor in existence. Even their own payware applications suffer from severe UI churn.
Even if you have Microsoft blinders on and love them, fixating on a single release of a single brand of product is problematic.
The "hate anything Microsoft" approach does not require Free Software.
> A problem with Linux in general is there is simply too much choice and no apparent standardization.
Yet the thing you are screeching about right now is the very essence of "consistency" in terms of the principle that "computer interfaces should be consistent". This project is a response to others running off the rails and trying to follow the latest trend no matter how absurd it is.
MATE is what truly conforms to formal academic notions of proper UI design. So do the standard Unix shells.
MATE will be less of a shock to people used to the last 15 years of Windows interfaces. It will be less confusing than the flavor of the month from Ubuntu, Microsoft, or Apple.
You must have missed the part where he got into MIT.
Actually, Roku has a Plex client. So it can pretty much handle anything that any PC can.
On the other hand, the crapulence and DRM of Silverlight means that you need much more PC to deal with media that you would otherwise. The same goes for Adobe.
A Roku is cheaper and quieter than the extra horsepower you need from a PC to deal with these crappy web scripting languages.
Windows is monopoly ware.
It's hard NOT to have some experience with it.
Perhaps your employer shoves it down your throat or you have to be the unpaid support tech for friends and family.
Although the idea that we haven't touched WinDOS in 7 or so years is a nice testament to the suitability of Linux. If people can fully turn their back on Microsoft, then the alternatives can't really be so bad then.
Your attempt at misdirection doesn't alter the obvious facts here.
There's a clear chain of cause and effect here.
Chances are that Microsoft's willingness to turn it's OS for office work into a glorified TV with DRM up to the gills had some impact on a device specifically designed to do things that Hollywood might not approve of.
Silverlight will happily run in a VM. So you could always go that route if you really need to.
The headline is a function of the fact that Silverlight is pretty much irrelevant except for Netflix. Micrsosoft thought they were going to displace Adobe but it didn't quite work out that way.
Without the Netflix connection, the common man's reaction to this story would be: "Silverlight? What's that? Why should I care?"
> Good thinking! My Linux box is so secure it won't even run Netflix!
Although it handles Hulu and Amazon Prime just tine.
> It's not netflix related at all, the OP is a douchebag sensationlist. This is known and patched Silverlight bug.
Netflix is probably the ONLY example of a Silverlight dependent website that any of us can think of.
If not for Netflix, this bug would be totally irrelevant to most people.
Except from the point of view of system stability and change control, Mint polices are actually the ones that make sense. Dicking around with the kernel or Xorg SHOULD be treated like it's dangerous and that terminology should be exposed to the "poor frightened" end users.
"Crucial to Linux components working with one another. Do not install unless you are experiencing a problem which you believe the upgrade will solve"
Sounds sensible actually.
A market driven by moron consumers has led to this problem. Stuff is generally crap and nothing is nearly as energy efficient as it could be. Even relatively cheap and simple things aren't done because the American Airlines approach to corporate accounting.
The first problem in a state like Arizona is that it is generally uninhabitable without either traditional native construction practices or power hungry brute force cooling systems.
> already switched to osx years ago.
Bought some Macs. Was not really impressed.
Glad I can buy a much wider range of PCs for far less money if I am not married to a single highly proprietary operating system.
The worst part about running MacOS is being stuck with Apple hardare.
In the local school district, they use some office application I have never heard of before. This doesn't seem to harm the kids in any way. They aren't unable to cope with other brands of spreadsheet or word processor afterwards (like the Lemmings will claim).
This is kind of the way it should be for school in general. Teaching concepts and whatnot.
If you can't handle different brands of word processor, you're going to be totally f*cked when your brand of choice makes a major UI change in the future.
> also almost all structural, architectural, and engineering applications on the planet. all of those require windows.
Like you've actually used any of them ever? You could probably count the relevant user population here on your fingers.
So that brings into question the qualifications for anyone to even comment on this issue as well as the general relevance.
It's like Photoshop but you don't even know what names to drop.
Plus this is a far more geeky than average population of users. Yet you seem unable to even name these mythical apps. These apps will seem even more obscure to the population at large.
PCs may have seemed like they were "the only platform" last year but it's not last year anymore.
...or you just wait awhile.
It's not Windows. You don't have to be running the very latest version just to avoid being owned and infected. The same goes for any operating system that's not from Microsoft.
I still play my Loki games despite every clueless git trying to make pronouncements about things they don't have any experience with (game programming or app programming in general).
...says the troll that's probably touched Direct3D never.
Putting the back catalog into the public domain is an interesting idea actually.