our major improvement on Rome seems to have been to establish a competitive market in the price of circus attendance so that the plebes think they're actually planning their lives. couple this with a noisy protest and discourse on the inclusiveness and diversity of circus characters and events, and they hardly bother anyone at all anymore.
Eh, it's not worth it for me to save $8, but it might be for some people. I know a few people from the old BBS scene who were still using dial-up well into 2010. I guess it was enough for them; who am I to judge?
apart from the appalling lack of features, the closest thing i've found to what i might want is the Apple office suite. again, it's like Apple are the only people around who even fucking bother to try having an idea of what users might want, instead of throwing in the kitchen sink. their word processor and spreadsheet are, unfortunately, too limited for me to recommend, but i'd rather claw my eyes out than use anything but Keynote for non-mathematical presentations, even if only for the fact that it has popup guides and snaps aligning elements. for math presentations, LaTeX+Beamer is still, of course, the only realistic option.
As it is, i'll just call you a thin-skinned fool. it's the Linux community's complete failure to move beyond the 70s (but still trying, in an adorably pathetic way) that drove me, and a large number of paid professionals, to OS X and even Windows. Linux is increasingly relegated to cloud and local development VMs. That's as close as Linux is ever going to get to the desktop market.
I am also posting an OPEN CALL for Linux developers to create a Linux platform which is 90% as usable as Mac OS X is, out of the box. I really do hate Apple and its philosophy, but stick to it mostly because my time isn't worthless. I am willing to put my money where my mouth is! Since so many Linux fanatics call Apple's work "trivial", you now have the opportunity to make $10,000 payable as $2,000 over five years (contingent on maintaining a stable platform) to perform this trivial task. I'm currently paying about $200/year amortized to Apple, in the form of their overpriced "hardware tax", in order to have a stable, usable POSIX-compliant experience. I am willing to pay at least ten times that much just to spite Apple. Any takers? Is anyone interested in my free money for doing a trivial task? Or am I just going to get insults for posting this?
I can follow up with details and specifications, if there is genuine interest. Basically: you are allowed to specialize your Linux distribution to specific hardware if you can take care of sourcing that hardware reliably (the cost of the hardware would be borne by me, in addition to the $10,000 for software, as long as it is close to the reasonable market price). I am not interested in an "App Store" (I don't use it anyway, and don't really like it). I just want a rock-solid build of basic applications (text editor, Chromium, music manager, etc.) with a half-way decent interface, and also painless availability of more specialized software from the usual repositories. I don't expect interfacing with iStuff since it's proprietary and that's not really your fault. I also don't expect stable, easy-to-use office software, since apparently that's impossible.
My cable yellowed and the length of the jacket started to crack and crumble within two years. This had nothing to do with the failure mode you mentioned, and it was not uncommon in my Ph.D. program, where MacBooks were used heavily for statistical analysis and other number crunching. I suspect that the heat of actually being used for long periods of intensive computing was enough to degrade the cable jacket. This is a failure, and probably a calculated trade-off based on the (arguably reasonable) assumption that most Apple users don't actually do real computing.
Apple replaced them quietly, except for mine because I was too lazy and didn't bring it in until the cable shielding was frayed. This set off the (totally arbitrary) biases of the Genius Bar, and they refused to replace it. When I pointed out that the cable jacket had cracked already anyway, and the fraying was just an inevitable side-effect, the guy got his supervisor. The supervisor came back and completely reversed the story, saying that they wouldn't replace the cable because the plug had a small, completely superficial, ding on it, which he counted as "abuse." The only abuse was from the Genius Bar, and directed at me. Assholes.
Apart from their weird small-minded bouts of vindictiveness, I still like Apple. But this was fucking ridiculous.
sounds like github is trying to become profitable (lol), so to distract people from a gigantic management shakeup/shakedown, they're trying to use the useful idiots on both sides of the "culture war" as an excuse/cause/strawman for massive failures. you know, kind of like they did with reddit and every other unprofitable wank site on the internet. and by unprofitable wank site, i mean any wank site apart from literal porn sites. those seem to make money somehow.
instead of rallying to the side of whomever most of our friends are rallying to and pretending to share principles with, here's a great idea: let's ignore it completely! the net effect of github crashing and burning would be approximately zero.
the detection is part of iOS 9. it detects the change once you install iOS 9. this could happen days or "weeks or months" or years after the repair, but that's a kind of silly and misleading way to describe it.
When I was very young I discovered some way to manipulate the computer opponent in Mail Order Monsters into making stupid decisions, so I trivially chalked up a 252-0 win-loss record, which was saved to floppy. At the time, my legitimate enjoyment of the game's aesthetics was confused with the thrill of making that number higher, and I was frustrated by the higher difficulty options in the game, so I kept beating the crap out of a training dummy. I kept doing this until my brother loaded up my game one afternoon and sabotaged my record by losing intentionally.
Now at 252-1, I was furious for a while and then realized how silly the record was in the first place. I don't think this realization is inevitable for everyone, nor that you only need to realize it once.
yeah, i don't see how that contradicts my point. it just means that nvidia's product is so desirable (for whatever reasons) that linux users are willing to deal with the proprietary drivers. AMD, in second place, wants to up their numbers by "opening" their stuff and offloading the work onto the community. there's nothing wrong with that, of course, but that's what it seems like.
and apropos of nothing, i don't own a car. i have an nvidia card in a linux box though.:)
Linux is to the hardware market as BET is to the cable TV market. If you're having trouble selling your product, you can just deal with the free software crowd to up your sales for as long as you can stand it. Sure, it's not nearly as profitable, and yes, they will occasionally whine about their "rights" and inevitably accuse you of betraying some kind of confidence, but at least in the short-term they'll be so grateful for the recognition that they'll put up with your shit and do a lot of promotional work for you.
Many of my colleagues from former Soviet bloc countries have asked me, at some point, what in the hell Americans mean when they pejoratively call something "communist", because as far as they could tell it had very little to do with actual communism as they experienced it.
yeah, they don't really care about whether you watch the ad. they care about convincing the person hiring them that they're making a "good effort" to show the ad and that their viewership statistics are at least approximately correct.
so why disable rewind? because there are people (and semi-organized companies) who will intentionally re-watch ads, both manually and automatically, to inflate the view counts. disabling rewind doesn't do a whole lot about this, but some clueless manager will check it off on their list. the online ad industry is a total fucking joke, and a great example of how capitalism can also build Potemkin villages when the margins of return are slim and market information is sparse.
I'm not saying that it is a hatchet job. I'm saying that the article literally says nothing, except maybe if you're a follower of @bbaskin. I wouldn't know, since I am not.
Maybe we should stop reading shrill fact-free articles which somehow make it to slashdot.
Interesting claims. Visitors were "immediately served with pop-under malware", although there is only one citation given, which is a link to a picture (presumably a screenshot) on @bbaskin's private Twitter account, which can only be seen by a "confirmed follower". Uh, okay. Nonetheless, this malware was "primed" to infect their computers and "likely" to do a lot of horrible stuff. Having run out of conjectures (let alone facts) about Forbes by the third paragraph, the rest of the article is padded out by a list of past incidents involving DailyMotion and MSN, followed by some bloviating which even Bennett Haselton might be ashamed of.
I'm totally sure that this isn't just attention-whoring from a litigious sex columnist who, after publishing The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex and her second edition of The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus, apparently ran out of ideas and re-styled herself a computer security journalist.
Yes, I know malware is served through advertising, but this article is about a specific claim of Forbes being used as an injection vector with literally nothing backing it up. Also, let me note that there's nothing wrong with being a sex columnist. I just don't think that automatically means you should write about computer security.
The sad thing is, I even liked the midichlorians in principle (assuming that they were symptomatic of Force concentration, and not the cause of it). They illustrated that before the fall of the Republic, the Force had been almost reduced to a scientific principle: something that was studied and analyzed formally, even too formally, by the ivory tower Jedi who lost touch with gritty reality and thus brought tragedy upon themselves and the entire galaxy.
It's a shame that this potentially elegant expository device was wielded by a windbag imbecile like Lucas, but on the other hand, he did everything wrong and created a series of movies with more inconsistencies than the average piece of fan fiction. The midichlorians could have been done well by a competent writer. Instead, rather than try to redeem the idea, Lucas ran like a coward and dropped the concept like a hot potato after the damage had already been done.
Even "advanced" high school CS courses have practically no math or natural science content. Sure, there are a few math topics involved, such as linear algebra and trigonometry, but typically just to provide something to implement. I didn't even write down a formal recurrence relation in a CS class until college.
My opinion about this is that high school CS courses are laughably inadequate. However, given that they are, why not have non-specialists teach them? No one gives much of a shit about learning in America, anyway, and we'd rather have the CS specialists working on "disruption" and shiny toys to prop up the semblance of opportunity.
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Hey, this 375mL bottle of wine only has 12.680 fluid ounces of wine in it! They're ripping me off!
our major improvement on Rome seems to have been to establish a competitive market in the price of circus attendance so that the plebes think they're actually planning their lives. couple this with a noisy protest and discourse on the inclusiveness and diversity of circus characters and events, and they hardly bother anyone at all anymore.
so hype up the dangers and sell the "titaniumShield security appliance" for $300. it doesn't even have to work very well. who cares?
Eh, it's not worth it for me to save $8, but it might be for some people. I know a few people from the old BBS scene who were still using dial-up well into 2010. I guess it was enough for them; who am I to judge?
amen. what a goddam travesty.
apart from the appalling lack of features, the closest thing i've found to what i might want is the Apple office suite. again, it's like Apple are the only people around who even fucking bother to try having an idea of what users might want, instead of throwing in the kitchen sink. their word processor and spreadsheet are, unfortunately, too limited for me to recommend, but i'd rather claw my eyes out than use anything but Keynote for non-mathematical presentations, even if only for the fact that it has popup guides and snaps aligning elements. for math presentations, LaTeX+Beamer is still, of course, the only realistic option.
I would be modding it up if I had points.
As it is, i'll just call you a thin-skinned fool. it's the Linux community's complete failure to move beyond the 70s (but still trying, in an adorably pathetic way) that drove me, and a large number of paid professionals, to OS X and even Windows. Linux is increasingly relegated to cloud and local development VMs. That's as close as Linux is ever going to get to the desktop market.
I am also posting an OPEN CALL for Linux developers to create a Linux platform which is 90% as usable as Mac OS X is, out of the box. I really do hate Apple and its philosophy, but stick to it mostly because my time isn't worthless. I am willing to put my money where my mouth is! Since so many Linux fanatics call Apple's work "trivial", you now have the opportunity to make $10,000 payable as $2,000 over five years (contingent on maintaining a stable platform) to perform this trivial task. I'm currently paying about $200/year amortized to Apple, in the form of their overpriced "hardware tax", in order to have a stable, usable POSIX-compliant experience. I am willing to pay at least ten times that much just to spite Apple. Any takers? Is anyone interested in my free money for doing a trivial task? Or am I just going to get insults for posting this?
I can follow up with details and specifications, if there is genuine interest. Basically: you are allowed to specialize your Linux distribution to specific hardware if you can take care of sourcing that hardware reliably (the cost of the hardware would be borne by me, in addition to the $10,000 for software, as long as it is close to the reasonable market price). I am not interested in an "App Store" (I don't use it anyway, and don't really like it). I just want a rock-solid build of basic applications (text editor, Chromium, music manager, etc.) with a half-way decent interface, and also painless availability of more specialized software from the usual repositories. I don't expect interfacing with iStuff since it's proprietary and that's not really your fault. I also don't expect stable, easy-to-use office software, since apparently that's impossible.
Rubbish.
My cable yellowed and the length of the jacket started to crack and crumble within two years. This had nothing to do with the failure mode you mentioned, and it was not uncommon in my Ph.D. program, where MacBooks were used heavily for statistical analysis and other number crunching. I suspect that the heat of actually being used for long periods of intensive computing was enough to degrade the cable jacket. This is a failure, and probably a calculated trade-off based on the (arguably reasonable) assumption that most Apple users don't actually do real computing.
Apple replaced them quietly, except for mine because I was too lazy and didn't bring it in until the cable shielding was frayed. This set off the (totally arbitrary) biases of the Genius Bar, and they refused to replace it. When I pointed out that the cable jacket had cracked already anyway, and the fraying was just an inevitable side-effect, the guy got his supervisor. The supervisor came back and completely reversed the story, saying that they wouldn't replace the cable because the plug had a small, completely superficial, ding on it, which he counted as "abuse." The only abuse was from the Genius Bar, and directed at me. Assholes.
Apart from their weird small-minded bouts of vindictiveness, I still like Apple. But this was fucking ridiculous.
this is apropos of nothing, but i read that as "how you plan on ruining your new acquisitions" and literally laughed out loud.
sounds like github is trying to become profitable (lol), so to distract people from a gigantic management shakeup/shakedown, they're trying to use the useful idiots on both sides of the "culture war" as an excuse/cause/strawman for massive failures. you know, kind of like they did with reddit and every other unprofitable wank site on the internet. and by unprofitable wank site, i mean any wank site apart from literal porn sites. those seem to make money somehow.
instead of rallying to the side of whomever most of our friends are rallying to and pretending to share principles with, here's a great idea: let's ignore it completely! the net effect of github crashing and burning would be approximately zero.
the detection is part of iOS 9. it detects the change once you install iOS 9. this could happen days or "weeks or months" or years after the repair, but that's a kind of silly and misleading way to describe it.
When I was very young I discovered some way to manipulate the computer opponent in Mail Order Monsters into making stupid decisions, so I trivially chalked up a 252-0 win-loss record, which was saved to floppy. At the time, my legitimate enjoyment of the game's aesthetics was confused with the thrill of making that number higher, and I was frustrated by the higher difficulty options in the game, so I kept beating the crap out of a training dummy. I kept doing this until my brother loaded up my game one afternoon and sabotaged my record by losing intentionally.
Now at 252-1, I was furious for a while and then realized how silly the record was in the first place. I don't think this realization is inevitable for everyone, nor that you only need to realize it once.
lol. "Score: 0, Flamebait" should be "Score: 0, Horrible Truth".
My hovercraft is full of eels!
Also, it's just hilariously appropriate that this thread is now full of Americans railing on about the horrors of [Cc]ommunism.
yes, that is the conclusion most of them came to after a few years. they must have been brainwashed by the fluoridated water.
yeah, i don't see how that contradicts my point. it just means that nvidia's product is so desirable (for whatever reasons) that linux users are willing to deal with the proprietary drivers. AMD, in second place, wants to up their numbers by "opening" their stuff and offloading the work onto the community. there's nothing wrong with that, of course, but that's what it seems like.
and apropos of nothing, i don't own a car. i have an nvidia card in a linux box though. :)
Linux is to the hardware market as BET is to the cable TV market. If you're having trouble selling your product, you can just deal with the free software crowd to up your sales for as long as you can stand it. Sure, it's not nearly as profitable, and yes, they will occasionally whine about their "rights" and inevitably accuse you of betraying some kind of confidence, but at least in the short-term they'll be so grateful for the recognition that they'll put up with your shit and do a lot of promotional work for you.
Okay; it had very little to do with the nominal communism which they experienced.
Many of my colleagues from former Soviet bloc countries have asked me, at some point, what in the hell Americans mean when they pejoratively call something "communist", because as far as they could tell it had very little to do with actual communism as they experienced it.
yeah, they don't really care about whether you watch the ad. they care about convincing the person hiring them that they're making a "good effort" to show the ad and that their viewership statistics are at least approximately correct.
so why disable rewind? because there are people (and semi-organized companies) who will intentionally re-watch ads, both manually and automatically, to inflate the view counts. disabling rewind doesn't do a whole lot about this, but some clueless manager will check it off on their list. the online ad industry is a total fucking joke, and a great example of how capitalism can also build Potemkin villages when the margins of return are slim and market information is sparse.
article ran with my initial tweet but did nothing to ask me for more
hard-hitting journalism in the twitter age.
I'm not saying that it is a hatchet job. I'm saying that the article literally says nothing, except maybe if you're a follower of @bbaskin. I wouldn't know, since I am not.
Maybe we should stop reading shrill fact-free articles which somehow make it to slashdot.
Interesting claims. Visitors were "immediately served with pop-under malware", although there is only one citation given, which is a link to a picture (presumably a screenshot) on @bbaskin's private Twitter account, which can only be seen by a "confirmed follower". Uh, okay. Nonetheless, this malware was "primed" to infect their computers and "likely" to do a lot of horrible stuff. Having run out of conjectures (let alone facts) about Forbes by the third paragraph, the rest of the article is padded out by a list of past incidents involving DailyMotion and MSN, followed by some bloviating which even Bennett Haselton might be ashamed of.
I'm totally sure that this isn't just attention-whoring from a litigious sex columnist who, after publishing The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex and her second edition of The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus, apparently ran out of ideas and re-styled herself a computer security journalist.
Yes, I know malware is served through advertising, but this article is about a specific claim of Forbes being used as an injection vector with literally nothing backing it up. Also, let me note that there's nothing wrong with being a sex columnist. I just don't think that automatically means you should write about computer security.
The sad thing is, I even liked the midichlorians in principle (assuming that they were symptomatic of Force concentration, and not the cause of it). They illustrated that before the fall of the Republic, the Force had been almost reduced to a scientific principle: something that was studied and analyzed formally, even too formally, by the ivory tower Jedi who lost touch with gritty reality and thus brought tragedy upon themselves and the entire galaxy.
It's a shame that this potentially elegant expository device was wielded by a windbag imbecile like Lucas, but on the other hand, he did everything wrong and created a series of movies with more inconsistencies than the average piece of fan fiction. The midichlorians could have been done well by a competent writer. Instead, rather than try to redeem the idea, Lucas ran like a coward and dropped the concept like a hot potato after the damage had already been done.
Even "advanced" high school CS courses have practically no math or natural science content. Sure, there are a few math topics involved, such as linear algebra and trigonometry, but typically just to provide something to implement. I didn't even write down a formal recurrence relation in a CS class until college.
My opinion about this is that high school CS courses are laughably inadequate. However, given that they are, why not have non-specialists teach them? No one gives much of a shit about learning in America, anyway, and we'd rather have the CS specialists working on "disruption" and shiny toys to prop up the semblance of opportunity.