For email clients, Mozilla Thunderbird remains on top. That's a bit surprising given how Thunderbird's development has been stuck in neutral for some time now.
It's surprising that Linux users prefer to use a stable and mature program that does exactly what is required? Or is it just surprising because it lacks "stories"?
Red Hat worker and GNOME blogger Christian F.K. Schaller wrote why GNU/Linux failed to become a mainstream desktop OS...
The short answer to this bloggers question is: GNOME, but since he's one of those responsible, he can't see the obvious.
But that's also beside the point, that being that it doesn't matter at all whether a year is the "Linux on the Desktop Year". It's a perceived war that was never really fought and no one really cared about. Linux today runs on almost everything and is dominant in supercomputing, servers, embedded and mobile/phones. Those who want to use it on the desktop can and do.
Show me a car that refuses to run because you installed an off-brand window.
Expect to see this in the very near future. Batteries are the first to come to mind and you can easily extend it to everything electronic. Modular construction make it really easy to justify this. Take the late model BMW E39 5 Series for example. Say you have a malfunctioning center console display, the one you need to operate the onboard computer, radio, navigation and block heater. You can't fall back an older system or a third party device because they are not compatible. You need to buy the completely overpriced original part, if you're lucky refurbished costs you half price. Now let's say the navigation computer is broken too. You think, what the hell, you don't need it anyway since you have Google Maps or HereWeGo which are a lot better. Sadly, the navigation computer is necessary to give you the graphical interface. In short: The car industry has been working in this direction for a long time now and this will only increase.
The G5 is even cheaper (and smaller, but I seem to be in a minority, looking for a usable phone with a screen that's 5''), also runs a close to stock Android and if you wish, is easily rootable and has (unofficial) support for LineageOS.
With the device like the iPhone X which really packs a lot of expensive components together, with Apple still having mass production problems. It isn't too crazy to expect that replacement costs can be expensive. Apple Care insurance is probably worth it for such a new device.
Just to understand this, because their components are flawed and their manufacturing is less than impressive, it makes sense to buy additional insurance to protect from inflated repair costs for their overpriced devices? Yeah, that really makes sense... *facepalm*
Why do these idiots still bother? It doesn't make any sense, it costs money to develop and support those who actually try to work with DRM, and eventually it will be cracked and leads to press about how incompetent you are at this.
It's going to be great once insurance providers decline payments after break-ins and other mishaps that can be directly related to "smart" devices. And I am afraid that this is the only way, this kind of stupidity can be stopped. Consumers won't realise the madness they're engaging with until it hits their wallets and vendors will never understand the customer's security requirements until they are forced to pay for it, either directly or through lost sales.
There is no science to economics. It's all propaganda devised by the economic victors to ensure their continued success. People who enroll in a college to "learn" economics are being indoctrinated to think a certain rigid inflexible way that benefits a minority.
So you don't know what economics is and have neither sat a course at university nor opened a standard economics textbook, right? What you describe is politics, not economics.
* Healthcare: according to the free-market ideology, if you don't like what they are charging for medications or surgeries, you just don't buy it. This has resulted in the untimely death of sick people.
-- Odd that the portions of healthcare that are only free market are far cheaper than the government regulated side. (laser eye surgery) The notion that the free market can't work in healthcare is to be blind to how it actually does work.
This is an interesting point, how does it actually work? Who creates demand and supply in the healthcare "market"? How many demand side actors in this market are actually able to come to a reasonably informed decision regarding their needs or form an opinion regarding the quality of the products and services offered by suppliers? Have you ever noticed the difference between say cars or health, where in the former if you are not satisfied with supply or can't afford any of the offerings, you can decide to not buy a car, where in some instances of the latter you'll die if you can't afford what supply can offer or is simply crap? Furthermore, supply side actors can actually create demand, not in the marketing sense by advertising, by making you sick.
To make a long story short: Healthcare is nothing like other markets and shouldn't be a market at all.
It's a bit like Google, Facebook, et al., where you are the product. Only in this case you are the QA.
You're right, apart from the fact that being the QA is nothing like being the product of course. And you've figured out the QA part in FOSS now? Impressive since it almost says so in the definition...
What does it say about a programm or rather its manufacturer, that it only becomes halfway decent and usable with a ton of plugins that address either changes to it incorporated by the developer or functionality not added to it on purpose?
A 10 billion dollar ship can be sunk with a missile or a torpedo that costs 1000 times less.
Yes, absolutely. But why? This ship is in all likelihood only going to be a threat for other ships at ramming speed in the near future. Problems range from staff shortages to planes not being available/operational. The UK carrier program is a fantastic exercise in public planning and spending.:-)
straight from the German car manufacturers' playbook. "Dear customer, we fucked you over with the last model and recognize that we have to do something about it. Instead of fixing the faults for free, we'll give you X Euros off with your next purchase, which won't have any of the cheats previous models had. Promise!"
"Ideally we're looking for people who are experienced in identifying (and fixing) theme issues, CSS experts and GNOME Shell / GTK themers."
So they're not specifically looking for input from actual users, the people who have to change all the idiotic defaults designers and themers chose in their endless wisdom? And all this is going to happen over the course of two days? I expect great things and will stick with Xubuntu.:-)
"They don't trust him and think he's disgusting but they trusted Hillary even less and for the most part even though they still don't trust him, they mostly approve of what he's doing. [...] I would say 75% of the people I know who voted for Trump approve of what he's doing..."
This is interesting. What do the people you describe like about what Trump is doing? What do they think he is actually doing? So far, this government hasn't achieved all that much, or is that the point?
It's a little a different for companies who proclaim to foster diversity and and culture that encourages employees to speak up. If people then actually do give an honest opinion, and you as a company, instead of confronting the statements and engaging in discussion, turn around and sack them because the statements may contradict its belief system, I call it hypocritical, bad marketing and incredibly stupid people management.
You've got some nice language there and painting a "Them or Us" picture is always helpful to further discussion, right? Does one have to be a conservative to disagree with gender politics or the conclusions of what is sometimes called gender "science"? In many European countries there are bankers arguing for social democratic values (what is known in the English speaking world as socialism, never having experienced real existing socialism of course) and creating business models around their arguments.
I don't agree with the pamphlet but I take it diversity is fine as long as you follow the arbitrary rules (aka code of coduct) that are set and don't argue anything that might actually lead to a real discussion.
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Alternatively, design cars with windows large enough to see anything.
Another great show I managed to kill off... When I really like a show, you can pretty much guarantee it's not going to last.
You mean like I did with Bakersfield PD? It's depressing when you realize that you're the jinx of TV shows. :-(
No, he can't. Microsoft doesn't let you download with OEM keys.
It's surprising that Linux users prefer to use a stable and mature program that does exactly what is required? Or is it just surprising because it lacks "stories"?
Yes, we called them Stasi and they had to employ almost half the nation to achieve the surveillance capability available to modern governments.
Red Hat worker and GNOME blogger Christian F.K. Schaller wrote why GNU/Linux failed to become a mainstream desktop OS...
The short answer to this bloggers question is: GNOME, but since he's one of those responsible, he can't see the obvious.
But that's also beside the point, that being that it doesn't matter at all whether a year is the "Linux on the Desktop Year". It's a perceived war that was never really fought and no one really cared about. Linux today runs on almost everything and is dominant in supercomputing, servers, embedded and mobile/phones. Those who want to use it on the desktop can and do.
Are there still people out there who give a shit, instead of just happily using one?
Show me a car that refuses to run because you installed an off-brand window.
Expect to see this in the very near future. Batteries are the first to come to mind and you can easily extend it to everything electronic. Modular construction make it really easy to justify this. Take the late model BMW E39 5 Series for example. Say you have a malfunctioning center console display, the one you need to operate the onboard computer, radio, navigation and block heater. You can't fall back an older system or a third party device because they are not compatible. You need to buy the completely overpriced original part, if you're lucky refurbished costs you half price. Now let's say the navigation computer is broken too. You think, what the hell, you don't need it anyway since you have Google Maps or HereWeGo which are a lot better. Sadly, the navigation computer is necessary to give you the graphical interface. In short: The car industry has been working in this direction for a long time now and this will only increase.
The G5 is even cheaper (and smaller, but I seem to be in a minority, looking for a usable phone with a screen that's 5''), also runs a close to stock Android and if you wish, is easily rootable and has (unofficial) support for LineageOS.
With the device like the iPhone X which really packs a lot of expensive components together, with Apple still having mass production problems. It isn't too crazy to expect that replacement costs can be expensive. Apple Care insurance is probably worth it for such a new device.
Just to understand this, because their components are flawed and their manufacturing is less than impressive, it makes sense to buy additional insurance to protect from inflated repair costs for their overpriced devices? Yeah, that really makes sense... *facepalm*
Why do these idiots still bother? It doesn't make any sense, it costs money to develop and support those who actually try to work with DRM, and eventually it will be cracked and leads to press about how incompetent you are at this.
You're crazy!
It's going to be great once insurance providers decline payments after break-ins and other mishaps that can be directly related to "smart" devices. And I am afraid that this is the only way, this kind of stupidity can be stopped. Consumers won't realise the madness they're engaging with until it hits their wallets and vendors will never understand the customer's security requirements until they are forced to pay for it, either directly or through lost sales.
Good one!
So you don't know what economics is and have neither sat a course at university nor opened a standard economics textbook, right? What you describe is politics, not economics.
This is an interesting point, how does it actually work? Who creates demand and supply in the healthcare "market"? How many demand side actors in this market are actually able to come to a reasonably informed decision regarding their needs or form an opinion regarding the quality of the products and services offered by suppliers? Have you ever noticed the difference between say cars or health, where in the former if you are not satisfied with supply or can't afford any of the offerings, you can decide to not buy a car, where in some instances of the latter you'll die if you can't afford what supply can offer or is simply crap? Furthermore, supply side actors can actually create demand, not in the marketing sense by advertising, by making you sick.
To make a long story short: Healthcare is nothing like other markets and shouldn't be a market at all.
You're right, apart from the fact that being the QA is nothing like being the product of course. And you've figured out the QA part in FOSS now? Impressive since it almost says so in the definition...
What does it say about a programm or rather its manufacturer, that it only becomes halfway decent and usable with a ton of plugins that address either changes to it incorporated by the developer or functionality not added to it on purpose?
Yes, absolutely. But why? This ship is in all likelihood only going to be a threat for other ships at ramming speed in the near future. Problems range from staff shortages to planes not being available/operational. The UK carrier program is a fantastic exercise in public planning and spending. :-)
straight from the German car manufacturers' playbook. "Dear customer, we fucked you over with the last model and recognize that we have to do something about it. Instead of fixing the faults for free, we'll give you X Euros off with your next purchase, which won't have any of the cheats previous models had. Promise!"
So they're not specifically looking for input from actual users, the people who have to change all the idiotic defaults designers and themers chose in their endless wisdom? And all this is going to happen over the course of two days? I expect great things and will stick with Xubuntu. :-)
This is interesting. What do the people you describe like about what Trump is doing? What do they think he is actually doing? So far, this government hasn't achieved all that much, or is that the point?
It's a little a different for companies who proclaim to foster diversity and and culture that encourages employees to speak up. If people then actually do give an honest opinion, and you as a company, instead of confronting the statements and engaging in discussion, turn around and sack them because the statements may contradict its belief system, I call it hypocritical, bad marketing and incredibly stupid people management.
You've got some nice language there and painting a "Them or Us" picture is always helpful to further discussion, right? Does one have to be a conservative to disagree with gender politics or the conclusions of what is sometimes called gender "science"? In many European countries there are bankers arguing for social democratic values (what is known in the English speaking world as socialism, never having experienced real existing socialism of course) and creating business models around their arguments.
I don't agree with the pamphlet but I take it diversity is fine as long as you follow the arbitrary rules (aka code of coduct) that are set and don't argue anything that might actually lead to a real discussion.