uh maybe he's going to expatriate to the US? kind of a risky move at this point, but it might still pay off in the long-run, at least if he doesn't look hispanic. US domestic policy is still not quite as nightmarish as US foreign policy.
"Remember a few years back DOD funding resulted in a process that let researchers extract an image someone had seen from their visual cortex?..."
uh, no? we're easily decades away from that, if it's possible at all, but it's pretty easy to cook up a "demo" that's convincing enough to part rubes from their money. of course, there are plenty of cash-flush rubes in DOD... good old financial incentives can get scientists and engineers to accomplish anything, even the impossible, as long as you don't look too close at the smoke and mirrors.
no, debian just makes it difficult to get the exact source and build environment used for compiling the stock kernel, which makes it difficult to use up-to-date proprietary nvidia drivers. i don't know why this is, but it can be worked around. i don't particularly enjoy working around it, but i can, slowly. with Apple, i increasing don't have that option.
and i'm currently using ubuntu which, apart from a few hiccups, works... mostly okay. strictly speaking, i can't use nvidia on Apple either (well, at least not without buying a brand-new overpriced computer with thunderbolt 3, and then buying an external graphics card).
i really don't understand why this post is "flamebait", btw. linux is not a stable operating system, and anyone who can't admit that is either ignorant or shell-shocked. this is completely obvious, and yet i still use it.
rather than troll me on slashdot, turn your technical wizardry into cold hard cash. i'm ready to pay not once, not twice, but thrice the Apple Tax for anyone willing to provide a stable linux environment for me (and by extension, everyone else who wants to use it under a permissive license). that's $2k/year; Apple is a bargain compared to that, but i'm willing to pay just to spite them. respond to this if you're interested.
having sound and wifi flake out every time you upgrade the kernel.
but more seriously, having a high-level scripting language which is deeply integrated with the GUI has been handy more than once (despite applescript having the worst syntax since cobol). also tools like mac os' "open" should just be standard, imho.
yes, this can all be replicated, but it'll be a bodgy hack which will break within a year because your distribution moves from one hacked-up framework to another one.
from my experience, some people will understand what i'm saying almost immediately, and some people just never will. i don't give much of a shit about which group you fall into. having some kind of stable environment matters much, much more to me on a desktop OS than, like, being able to run docker or use whatever hot new file system (which is like totally awesome and, honestly, it doesn't occasionally shred your entire disk anymore, not since 0.12, at least for me)!
i've been keeping my linux escape hatch available for the past 10 years of primarily MacOS-use, just in case. starting a few months ago i have begun finally using it; this shit has gotten ridiculous.
it's a miserable downgrade in many ways and i miss a lot of MacOS's clever features from before it was focused on being luxury spyware, but meh, it's worth it. now if i could magically find the right kernel options to compile a debian kernel that both boots and supports my video card, i'll be relatively happy. oh yeah, don't use Xfce if you use displayport and want to turn your monitor off and back on; you're welcome.
that's mostly just because unity supports linux almost by default. if it weren't for that, there'd be a much lower proportion of indie linux games. still a few, but not nearly as many.
who needs them? they should, however, get a compensation package consisting of a handgun and a single round. i'm pretty sure that, statistically, this would improve the country, whatever they decide to do.
it's not just copyright infringement, dude. the navy didn't go buy a copy of this software off-the-shelf at best buy. your arguments against prosecuting software piracy in the large are kinda silly when applied to a single organization with, presumably, a legitimate contractual relationship (not just a dumbass click-through EULA) with the vendor.
and, yes, paying someone to "make them whole" is wasting the money, unless you're the person being made whole. while i could have worded it better, your technical distinction is still meaningless.
yes, this is the us military, you're right about that, and they'll throw whomever they need to under the bus, and if they complain about being thrown under the bus, they'll get a courts-martial instead of a warm and fuzzy civil trial. roflmao
the parent wasn't referring so much to Trump, as to his cuck followers who'll hang on every word to the point of pirouetting to keep up with the "danger of the day" while Hillary still roams freely, the Wall festers, and, presumably, Comet Pizza is still rounding up innocent children to rape and sell. really, it's hilarious in a way; at least our representatives get a measly chunk of pocket change in exchange for their flexible interests, while the "capitalist" "Christian" plebs sell their birthright for a reality tv show. hahahahahahahahaha
the whole point of damages is that the money is "wasted" by the defendant. if they got to keep it (after possibly a stern lecture), there'd be no incentive to follow the law.
the german company is not, of course, going to get $number_of_installs*$cost_of_license in the end. they're just starting there because they can and they probably don't have any more information. we'll see how this goes; hopefully there's a semi-reasonable explanation and a settlement. maybe the sysadmin who thought this was a good idea will get fired, as would be appropriate.
wanting to stay with libreoffice just means you have Stockholm Syndrome. a bigger pile of steaming dogshit i have never seen. it's a poorly managed open source project trying, very badly, to imitate a moving target. utterly unusable.
running linux natively has always suffered, tbh. there's just an option now.
the truth hurts, but Microsoft will ultimately prove rms correct. for a home or work machine, i care about the unix-like (i.e. GNU) toolchain much more than i care about the linux kernel per se. the linux kernel is useful in server settings, but that's not what WSL is targeting anyway for the most part.
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uh maybe he's going to expatriate to the US? kind of a risky move at this point, but it might still pay off in the long-run, at least if he doesn't look hispanic. US domestic policy is still not quite as nightmarish as US foreign policy.
patch and recompile your browser like a real man.
"Remember a few years back DOD funding resulted in a process that let researchers extract an image someone had seen from their visual cortex?..."
uh, no? we're easily decades away from that, if it's possible at all, but it's pretty easy to cook up a "demo" that's convincing enough to part rubes from their money. of course, there are plenty of cash-flush rubes in DOD... good old financial incentives can get scientists and engineers to accomplish anything, even the impossible, as long as you don't look too close at the smoke and mirrors.
That just doesn't have the right ring to it, I'm afraid.
hey, any cloaca will do in a pinch.
no, debian just makes it difficult to get the exact source and build environment used for compiling the stock kernel, which makes it difficult to use up-to-date proprietary nvidia drivers. i don't know why this is, but it can be worked around. i don't particularly enjoy working around it, but i can, slowly. with Apple, i increasing don't have that option.
and i'm currently using ubuntu which, apart from a few hiccups, works... mostly okay. strictly speaking, i can't use nvidia on Apple either (well, at least not without buying a brand-new overpriced computer with thunderbolt 3, and then buying an external graphics card).
not really. i'm not happy with either option now, thanks a lot. go jam another fat one in your mouth, Cookie.
i really don't understand why this post is "flamebait", btw. linux is not a stable operating system, and anyone who can't admit that is either ignorant or shell-shocked. this is completely obvious, and yet i still use it.
rather than troll me on slashdot, turn your technical wizardry into cold hard cash. i'm ready to pay not once, not twice, but thrice the Apple Tax for anyone willing to provide a stable linux environment for me (and by extension, everyone else who wants to use it under a permissive license). that's $2k/year; Apple is a bargain compared to that, but i'm willing to pay just to spite them. respond to this if you're interested.
having sound and wifi flake out every time you upgrade the kernel.
but more seriously, having a high-level scripting language which is deeply integrated with the GUI has been handy more than once (despite applescript having the worst syntax since cobol). also tools like mac os' "open" should just be standard, imho.
yes, this can all be replicated, but it'll be a bodgy hack which will break within a year because your distribution moves from one hacked-up framework to another one.
from my experience, some people will understand what i'm saying almost immediately, and some people just never will. i don't give much of a shit about which group you fall into. having some kind of stable environment matters much, much more to me on a desktop OS than, like, being able to run docker or use whatever hot new file system (which is like totally awesome and, honestly, it doesn't occasionally shred your entire disk anymore, not since 0.12, at least for me)!
i've been keeping my linux escape hatch available for the past 10 years of primarily MacOS-use, just in case. starting a few months ago i have begun finally using it; this shit has gotten ridiculous.
it's a miserable downgrade in many ways and i miss a lot of MacOS's clever features from before it was focused on being luxury spyware, but meh, it's worth it. now if i could magically find the right kernel options to compile a debian kernel that both boots and supports my video card, i'll be relatively happy. oh yeah, don't use Xfce if you use displayport and want to turn your monitor off and back on; you're welcome.
and a lexical sort of your type would just lead to your competitor releasing the "zzzzzzzzzoom processor".
other fields?
the name "pentium" was invented mostly because Intel couldn't trademark "586" since it was merely a series number.
that's mostly just because unity supports linux almost by default. if it weren't for that, there'd be a much lower proportion of indie linux games. still a few, but not nearly as many.
"perfect them"
hahahahahaha, you've got to be kidding. it might seem that way, but it's only because any negative criticism is censored. rofl
first they came for the domain squatters...
looks like some mods can't handle a little disruption. hahahahahaha, plebs.
who needs them? they should, however, get a compensation package consisting of a handgun and a single round. i'm pretty sure that, statistically, this would improve the country, whatever they decide to do.
it's not just copyright infringement, dude. the navy didn't go buy a copy of this software off-the-shelf at best buy. your arguments against prosecuting software piracy in the large are kinda silly when applied to a single organization with, presumably, a legitimate contractual relationship (not just a dumbass click-through EULA) with the vendor.
and, yes, paying someone to "make them whole" is wasting the money, unless you're the person being made whole. while i could have worded it better, your technical distinction is still meaningless.
but they really complement my rear window decal of Calvin pissing on a Chevy logo!
yes, this is the us military, you're right about that, and they'll throw whomever they need to under the bus, and if they complain about being thrown under the bus, they'll get a courts-martial instead of a warm and fuzzy civil trial. roflmao
the parent wasn't referring so much to Trump, as to his cuck followers who'll hang on every word to the point of pirouetting to keep up with the "danger of the day" while Hillary still roams freely, the Wall festers, and, presumably, Comet Pizza is still rounding up innocent children to rape and sell. really, it's hilarious in a way; at least our representatives get a measly chunk of pocket change in exchange for their flexible interests, while the "capitalist" "Christian" plebs sell their birthright for a reality tv show. hahahahahahahahaha
the whole point of damages is that the money is "wasted" by the defendant. if they got to keep it (after possibly a stern lecture), there'd be no incentive to follow the law.
the german company is not, of course, going to get $number_of_installs*$cost_of_license in the end. they're just starting there because they can and they probably don't have any more information. we'll see how this goes; hopefully there's a semi-reasonable explanation and a settlement. maybe the sysadmin who thought this was a good idea will get fired, as would be appropriate.
the only thing i can infer from your post is that you're not really into making coherent, logical arguments.
wanting to stay with libreoffice just means you have Stockholm Syndrome. a bigger pile of steaming dogshit i have never seen. it's a poorly managed open source project trying, very badly, to imitate a moving target. utterly unusable.
uh, yeah, the anonymous coward just made that shit up. ignore him.
running linux natively has always suffered, tbh. there's just an option now.
the truth hurts, but Microsoft will ultimately prove rms correct. for a home or work machine, i care about the unix-like (i.e. GNU) toolchain much more than i care about the linux kernel per se. the linux kernel is useful in server settings, but that's not what WSL is targeting anyway for the most part.