So you're saying you had a working version that was installed via automated process with no problems, but there was an update on "some old website" that you wanted but was not available in the repository. You've assigned blame where it isn't due. The repository exists as a curated and maintained set of software that is compatible with your current version of the OS. You're not supposed to download.deb files from random sites and have any expectation of them working. You're coming at the Linux OS the way a Windows OS user would, which is not a problem with Linux but with your experience and expectations.
In any case, you'd have no expectation of a random.exe from "some old website" working either. While Windows does maintain somewhat impressive backwards-compatibility, it's quite common for older and outdated software to fail to run on newer versions of the OS. I remember several transition points where it became almost impossible to transition Windows versions because the changes made all my software stop working. 98->2000, XP->Vista, 7->10. These transitions saw major kernel changes and very few complex programs successfully made the jump without being updated by their developers.
I think the point he's making is that phone numbers are actually just labels on a physical connection, and therefore have no power for identifying the connection used between you and whoever is on the other end. The company is able to bill you when you make calls because they know the physical location of your "station" (i.e. your house), and they've labelled this with your phone number. However, if the "station" resides in a location that the company has no control over, say China, then they have no means of knowing exactly what physical location the connection was made from. The phone number on that connection that you see is passed along from the foreign phone system so it may or may not represent a real physical location on that end, but your phone company would have no way to verify this.
Worse yet is IP calling in which voice data is sent via the Internet between hubs, then translated into the local phone company system to actually connect the call. There is no means of knowing where the IP call came from or if the phone number it is labelled with actually means anything.
So, if the caller is originating from the same phone company as you, there should be a way for the company to identify if they are a real customer. The problem, as usual, is the fact that everything is connected between competing systems across national and international boundaries that make it impossible to do anything if the other end doesn't cooperate.
I don't need a 5G Steam but they'll do it anyways I'm sure, and Kongregate is perfect for the smaller "streaming" style games I like to play. Not sure where Hatch is supposed to be positioned to compete tbh.
Are they also going to break up Huawei and Alibaba so that American companies aren't competing with massive foreign behemoths? How's that going to work?
No, their biggest scam is $600 "support" calls. We routinely call, get charged $600 then told we need another department...who charge us another $600. If they don't solve your problem, that's another $600 to escalate. They never solve the problem in one department or phone call.
Their licensing is the least of their scams.
Did you RTFA?
It says you can buy a Tesla, drive it 1000km and return it for free. That's considerably better than a "test drive", the only catch is that you have to be prepared to put down the cash on a downpayment. So, it's like a test drive except you have to give them your credit card for a deposit first. Honestly, seems like a perfectly fair requirement since you could just drive off and steal the car otherwise.
China has millions of Uyghur muslims in internment camps where they are routinely subjected to violent abuse. The only reason for this holocaust is because Uyghur's won't renounce their religion when told to. Do you really think this social credit score is going to be applied to them in anything other than an oppressive manner?
What Chinese authorities are setting up is a one-way street to a caste system in which the 'trouble makers' are blamed for all the failings of the authorities themselves. Rather than helping people to live happy lives as they see fit, the people will only be happy if they live their lives as the authorities see fit. See this applies to everyone, Uyghur, Han, and everything in between. No one is safe from the arbitrary accusation that they aren't being a good citizen. The authorities will be able to label anyone as a troublemaker, and they will do it to hide their own trouble making.
No, you don't need gas plants that can come online in minutes but you do need base-load gas plants. Co-Gen plants that get that fabled 60% efficiency but require a longer start up are in fact feasible as base-load today because of Tesla's battery systems, like the one they've installed in Australia. The battery back-up doesn't provide base-load, it simply fills in the gap while the efficient Co-Gen plant spins up.
You're overlooking the fact that China and India are not yet saturated with ICE vehicles. Your statements are true only for the Western nations. The study is considering the fact that China is focused heavily on promoting electric vehicles today and they will grow into that market more quickly than ICE will. India is also pushing electric vehicles, though not as hard as China.
The markets of China+India > North America, this is where the growth is happening to make 25% electric vehicles by 2040.
Easily. Traffic shaping wasn't in widespread use until about 5 years ago and so it wasn't an issue. Even now, most ISPs "promise" not to throttle abusively and so start-ups are generally still safe. However, the trend has been towards more and more throttling for more and more selfish reasons. E.g. the ISPs don't want to have to build better infrastructure, they would rather throttle more (reduce service quality) and start charging premiums on certain types of content (coerce users towards low-bandwidth or self-owned, services) while continuing to charge the same outrageous fees. In general , they can get away with this because there are so few of them and competition is almost non-existent in many parts of North America.
I can't say I'm the most knowledgeable here, but I do recall during the last election that some of the more salients facts us liberals discovered included that even if all the oil surrounding the American continent could be drilled, it would only satisfy the current demand (7.5 Bn Barrels / year) for 2 years (14 Bn barrels of recoverable crude). In fact, it's estimated that the oil extraction would add no more than a few hundred thousand barrels of oil to the yearly tally for roughly over a decade. So, while the amount of oil seems incredible (say 1 MB/year), the American demand is more than exponentially larger (7.5BnB/year). The addition of these barrels would have little or no discernible impact on prices at all and would hardly be a drop in the bucket unless oil consumption is decreased. Thus, the idea that we are extending our 'energy lifespan' is complete bumpkis.
Now, contrast that with both the real and the potential ecological damage drilling in such sensitive areas will cause, it's hard not to come down on the side of extreme caution.
Sounds awesome to me. This should have been made law in every state/country a long time ago. Now if they would just make it law that all companies must provide an easy and thorough means for any individual to expunge their details from company records (I'm looking at you Facebook) then I might finally be able to stop that little bit of throwing up in my throat I get every time a company asks for my email address.
You're problem with moving windows in low resolution is FUD as well as plain ignorant. For someone who claims to have used many OS's you might want to at least show some proficiency with something other than Windows to back up your claims.
Windows XP loses windows off the screen all the time, and there is no way to get them back because the only draggable handle is the title bar. I can't even express the frustration this has caused me over the years due to buggy video games and such causing resolution problems.
However, it is a standard feature of most Linux desktop managers (gnome/kde/etc) that any window can be grabbed at any location using ALT + LEFT MOUSE. So, with even the slightest proficiency you would have had no problems at all.
"Our approach, however, reflects the original intent of copyright protection, which was conceived not as a welfare program for authors but to encourage the creation of new works."
If Linux became another Windows it would not be better, but rather worse. As another poster put it, Windows has been designed for the lowest common denominator. It is 'good' by design in the same sense that Britney Spears is 'cool' by design. Why would we do that to Linux?
The whole article was an advert for Google. The W|A search engine has nothing to do with the kind of problems solved by the Google algorithm so why does every article about it seem to bring up Google on every other line??
What's with all the "the industry is evil and stoopid and I'm just gonna ignore copyright" comments? Are you really that dumb? You want to go to prison?
Look, people, the CC exists for this exact reason. You want to enjoy socially beneficial creative works? Then stop download or buying commercial works, stop creating and distributing commercial works, and get it through your head that the CC is the right and legal way to circumvent this whole fiasco.
The problem with your argument is that intelligence has little to do with being 'good'.
Isaac Asimov has written many novels exploring the pitfalls of 'logic' vs. 'feeling'. Suffice to say, the dumbest thing you could ever do is give anyone or anything unchecked power over you.
3 out of 10 Windows 'friends' tell you to fuck off
3 out of 10 Windows 'friends' are incompetent jerks that tell you they know what they're doing but really don't.
2 out of 10 Windows 'friends' are just looking for an excuse to rummage through your private files.
1 out of 10 Windows 'friends' is actually the guy behind the desk at the electronics store, and he just deleted your hard-drive.
1 out of 10 Windows 'friends' is competent, cares, and actually helps you.
Meanwhile, in Linux land that 1 in a hundred friends is almost always ready, willing and capable of helping you. The times when she can't, you go to the forums and get 10,000 friends jumping over each other to answer your question.
Just so long as the music industry doesn't come back in 10 years with new lawsuits targeting little-old-lady-X because 10 mil. people somehow ended up with 'pirated' copies of music with her name in it.
Since this watermark must be fairly easy to modify, I can't really see how useful it would be in tracking piracy. It could probably have some uses for marketing research. Though, honestly, I can't think of any myself...
Wow, that sounds exactly like me. However, I don't consider my PC to be my games machine. I still use my PS2 for that, though I'm getting close to giving in to the hype surrounding the Wii.
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So you're saying you had a working version that was installed via automated process with no problems, but there was an update on "some old website" that you wanted but was not available in the repository. You've assigned blame where it isn't due. The repository exists as a curated and maintained set of software that is compatible with your current version of the OS. You're not supposed to download .deb files from random sites and have any expectation of them working. You're coming at the Linux OS the way a Windows OS user would, which is not a problem with Linux but with your experience and expectations.
In any case, you'd have no expectation of a random .exe from "some old website" working either. While Windows does maintain somewhat impressive backwards-compatibility, it's quite common for older and outdated software to fail to run on newer versions of the OS. I remember several transition points where it became almost impossible to transition Windows versions because the changes made all my software stop working. 98->2000, XP->Vista, 7->10. These transitions saw major kernel changes and very few complex programs successfully made the jump without being updated by their developers.
I think the point he's making is that phone numbers are actually just labels on a physical connection, and therefore have no power for identifying the connection used between you and whoever is on the other end. The company is able to bill you when you make calls because they know the physical location of your "station" (i.e. your house), and they've labelled this with your phone number. However, if the "station" resides in a location that the company has no control over, say China, then they have no means of knowing exactly what physical location the connection was made from. The phone number on that connection that you see is passed along from the foreign phone system so it may or may not represent a real physical location on that end, but your phone company would have no way to verify this. Worse yet is IP calling in which voice data is sent via the Internet between hubs, then translated into the local phone company system to actually connect the call. There is no means of knowing where the IP call came from or if the phone number it is labelled with actually means anything. So, if the caller is originating from the same phone company as you, there should be a way for the company to identify if they are a real customer. The problem, as usual, is the fact that everything is connected between competing systems across national and international boundaries that make it impossible to do anything if the other end doesn't cooperate.
We should just switch to base-10 computers, it might be easier than getting computer science majors to agree on a naming convention.
I don't need a 5G Steam but they'll do it anyways I'm sure, and Kongregate is perfect for the smaller "streaming" style games I like to play. Not sure where Hatch is supposed to be positioned to compete tbh.
Are they also going to break up Huawei and Alibaba so that American companies aren't competing with massive foreign behemoths? How's that going to work?
You forgot all the banks. What happened to talk of breaking up the banks after the 2008 financial crisis?
No, their biggest scam is $600 "support" calls. We routinely call, get charged $600 then told we need another department...who charge us another $600. If they don't solve your problem, that's another $600 to escalate. They never solve the problem in one department or phone call. Their licensing is the least of their scams.
Did you RTFA? It says you can buy a Tesla, drive it 1000km and return it for free. That's considerably better than a "test drive", the only catch is that you have to be prepared to put down the cash on a downpayment. So, it's like a test drive except you have to give them your credit card for a deposit first. Honestly, seems like a perfectly fair requirement since you could just drive off and steal the car otherwise.
China has millions of Uyghur muslims in internment camps where they are routinely subjected to violent abuse. The only reason for this holocaust is because Uyghur's won't renounce their religion when told to. Do you really think this social credit score is going to be applied to them in anything other than an oppressive manner? What Chinese authorities are setting up is a one-way street to a caste system in which the 'trouble makers' are blamed for all the failings of the authorities themselves. Rather than helping people to live happy lives as they see fit, the people will only be happy if they live their lives as the authorities see fit. See this applies to everyone, Uyghur, Han, and everything in between. No one is safe from the arbitrary accusation that they aren't being a good citizen. The authorities will be able to label anyone as a troublemaker, and they will do it to hide their own trouble making.
I see what you did there ;)
No, you don't need gas plants that can come online in minutes but you do need base-load gas plants. Co-Gen plants that get that fabled 60% efficiency but require a longer start up are in fact feasible as base-load today because of Tesla's battery systems, like the one they've installed in Australia. The battery back-up doesn't provide base-load, it simply fills in the gap while the efficient Co-Gen plant spins up.
You're overlooking the fact that China and India are not yet saturated with ICE vehicles. Your statements are true only for the Western nations. The study is considering the fact that China is focused heavily on promoting electric vehicles today and they will grow into that market more quickly than ICE will. India is also pushing electric vehicles, though not as hard as China. The markets of China+India > North America, this is where the growth is happening to make 25% electric vehicles by 2040.
Easily. Traffic shaping wasn't in widespread use until about 5 years ago and so it wasn't an issue. Even now, most ISPs "promise" not to throttle abusively and so start-ups are generally still safe. However, the trend has been towards more and more throttling for more and more selfish reasons. E.g. the ISPs don't want to have to build better infrastructure, they would rather throttle more (reduce service quality) and start charging premiums on certain types of content (coerce users towards low-bandwidth or self-owned, services) while continuing to charge the same outrageous fees. In general , they can get away with this because there are so few of them and competition is almost non-existent in many parts of North America.
I can't say I'm the most knowledgeable here, but I do recall during the last election that some of the more salients facts us liberals discovered included that even if all the oil surrounding the American continent could be drilled, it would only satisfy the current demand (7.5 Bn Barrels / year) for 2 years (14 Bn barrels of recoverable crude). In fact, it's estimated that the oil extraction would add no more than a few hundred thousand barrels of oil to the yearly tally for roughly over a decade. So, while the amount of oil seems incredible (say 1 MB/year), the American demand is more than exponentially larger (7.5BnB/year). The addition of these barrels would have little or no discernible impact on prices at all and would hardly be a drop in the bucket unless oil consumption is decreased. Thus, the idea that we are extending our 'energy lifespan' is complete bumpkis.
Now, contrast that with both the real and the potential ecological damage drilling in such sensitive areas will cause, it's hard not to come down on the side of extreme caution.
Sounds awesome to me. This should have been made law in every state/country a long time ago. Now if they would just make it law that all companies must provide an easy and thorough means for any individual to expunge their details from company records (I'm looking at you Facebook) then I might finally be able to stop that little bit of throwing up in my throat I get every time a company asks for my email address.
You're problem with moving windows in low resolution is FUD as well as plain ignorant. For someone who claims to have used many OS's you might want to at least show some proficiency with something other than Windows to back up your claims.
Windows XP loses windows off the screen all the time, and there is no way to get them back because the only draggable handle is the title bar. I can't even express the frustration this has caused me over the years due to buggy video games and such causing resolution problems.
However, it is a standard feature of most Linux desktop managers (gnome/kde/etc) that any window can be grabbed at any location using ALT + LEFT MOUSE. So, with even the slightest proficiency you would have had no problems at all.
from the article:
"Our approach, however, reflects the original intent of copyright protection, which was conceived not as a welfare program for authors but to encourage the creation of new works."
I'm in complete agreement with you.
If Linux became another Windows it would not be better, but rather worse. As another poster put it, Windows has been designed for the lowest common denominator. It is 'good' by design in the same sense that Britney Spears is 'cool' by design. Why would we do that to Linux?
The whole article was an advert for Google. The W|A search engine has nothing to do with the kind of problems solved by the Google algorithm so why does every article about it seem to bring up Google on every other line??
You aren't required to pay fees for electronic distribution (yet). Most CC works are distributed this way.
We just need someone to invent the 'streaming' radio for your car.
What's with all the "the industry is evil and stoopid and I'm just gonna ignore copyright" comments? Are you really that dumb? You want to go to prison?
Look, people, the CC exists for this exact reason. You want to enjoy socially beneficial creative works? Then stop download or buying commercial works, stop creating and distributing commercial works, and get it through your head that the CC is the right and legal way to circumvent this whole fiasco.
The problem with your argument is that intelligence has little to do with being 'good'.
Isaac Asimov has written many novels exploring the pitfalls of 'logic' vs. 'feeling'. Suffice to say, the dumbest thing you could ever do is give anyone or anything unchecked power over you.
Yes and no.
In my experience
Meanwhile, in Linux land that 1 in a hundred friends is almost always ready, willing and capable of helping you. The times when she can't, you go to the forums and get 10,000 friends jumping over each other to answer your question.
Just so long as the music industry doesn't come back in 10 years with new lawsuits targeting little-old-lady-X because 10 mil. people somehow ended up with 'pirated' copies of music with her name in it.
Since this watermark must be fairly easy to modify, I can't really see how useful it would be in tracking piracy. It could probably have some uses for marketing research. Though, honestly, I can't think of any myself...
Wow, that sounds exactly like me. However, I don't consider my PC to be my games machine. I still use my PS2 for that, though I'm getting close to giving in to the hype surrounding the Wii.