Eh, that's their job, though. During litigation parties have the right not to produce documents that fall under various privileges. Otherwise you could just ask your opponent to turn over trade secrets, litigation strategies about your own lawsuit, etc..
One advantage they have as the OS creator is they can optimize their laptop quite well (Apple gets the same advantage on their often weak technical specs). I have a Surface Pro 4 and its performance approaches my higher-CPU 16 gig RAM desktop.
Sure:
Florida Stat. 501.204
"Unfair methods of competition, unconscionable acts or practices, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful." https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/...
The definitions section of the statute lists what practices "may" be considered violative of the law (and the ones listed are extremely broad), but it does not restrict them to the ones listed.
Most states have causes of action for unfair competition, precisely in order to capture behavior that's terrible but of which there's no specific law covering. Not sure if this would be covered, but it would be interesting to see.
I really wanted to like my chromebook but the Chrome OS is just too annoying. The filesystem is accessible -- sort of -- but if they could just go to the standard Win/Mac/Linux directory system and enable click-and-drag it would be so much more useful. I mean, you would still have the annoying everything-runs-in-the-browser part but the system would be significantly less annoying.
Interesting, I switched mostly to Edge because it seems faster and more efficient than Chrome (and I switched to Chrome in the first place because it seemed faster and more efficient than IE).
So emacs, one of the most successful pieces of software ever is the Cathedral method, while fetchmail, a notorious failure that didn't actually do the simple job it was supposed to (i.e., get people's emails without losing them), was the Bazaar method?
"While his software accomplishments may be looked down upon by some, it was his role as a free thinker and a spiritual leader of the open source movement that was his greatest accomplishment"
Well, the problem is he has spent a long time bragging about his software accomplishments, trying for decades to craft this image of himself as an effortless universal programming genius who understands it on a deep level, when his actual achievements don't merit that image in the slightest. Which wouldn't be so bad by itself if he wasn't just a nasty, arrogant, racist, misogynist, islamophobic guy as well who also tries to paint himself as this supermacho badass; some of his self-congratulatory writing is so over-the-top that it suggests a need for mental health professionals intervention.
"But the blog post also answers the inevitable question. What archetype is Eric S. Raymond?"
Uhhh, no, that just answers the question "what archetype does Eric S. Raymond THINK he is?" Come on, the man is a narcissistic self-promoter with vile political views and a very flimsy "hacker" resume.
"When I was on the Google IT help desk, I had to walk a Stanford CS graduate student through the process of turning on his workstation because the computer labs always had someone standing around to turn the workstations on."
Man, imagine how hard Google would have failed if it had been founded by Stanford CS students.
"An autodidact is almost always far more valuable than someone who followed a canned path"
And yet the people who really innovate these days almost always followed a "canned path" of formal education.
If you're experiencing a rural lifestyle, that's not the suburbs. I'm talking about the vast suburban wastelands where every house has ugly vinyl siding, the HOAs freak out if your grass isn't within a.1 inch tolerance of accepted standards, and the kids spend their nights hanging out in the 7-11 parking lot huffing paint because there's nothing else to do.
"You may be joking, but the reality is that open source projects often have some of the worst management around"
I find that hard to believe. I mean, just because open source programmers are overrepresented by the socially maladjusted loners with chips on their shoulders demographic, you think that translates to bad management?
Slashdot Mirror
According to the article, offending apps seem to be mostly from India and the Philippines. They list 5 "representative apps" with developers:
Application Name Developer Version Downloads
100000+ SMS Messages Moziberg 2.4 1,000,000 – 5,000,000
McDo Philippines Golden Arches Dev. Corp. 1.4.27 100,000 – 500,000
Krispy Kreme Philippines Mobext 1.9 100,000 – 500,000
Pinoy Henyo Jayson Tamayo 4.0 1,000,000 – 5,000,000
Civil Service Reviewer Free Jayson Tamayo 1.1 50,000 – 100,000
TABLE 2: Third-party applications with SilverPush functionality
Eh, that's their job, though. During litigation parties have the right not to produce documents that fall under various privileges. Otherwise you could just ask your opponent to turn over trade secrets, litigation strategies about your own lawsuit, etc..
During lawsuits parties can demand the other turn over relevant documents.
Can you install it on non-Apple hardware?
One advantage they have as the OS creator is they can optimize their laptop quite well (Apple gets the same advantage on their often weak technical specs). I have a Surface Pro 4 and its performance approaches my higher-CPU 16 gig RAM desktop.
Sure: Florida Stat. 501.204
"Unfair methods of competition, unconscionable acts or practices, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful."
https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/...
The definitions section of the statute lists what practices "may" be considered violative of the law (and the ones listed are extremely broad), but it does not restrict them to the ones listed.
Most states have causes of action for unfair competition, precisely in order to capture behavior that's terrible but of which there's no specific law covering. Not sure if this would be covered, but it would be interesting to see.
Because what you have is not a chromebook anymore.
I really wanted to like my chromebook but the Chrome OS is just too annoying. The filesystem is accessible -- sort of -- but if they could just go to the standard Win/Mac/Linux directory system and enable click-and-drag it would be so much more useful. I mean, you would still have the annoying everything-runs-in-the-browser part but the system would be significantly less annoying.
Yep, by Slashdot standards I am a pretty big Linux-basher but this is pretty clearly a troll.
Interesting, I switched mostly to Edge because it seems faster and more efficient than Chrome (and I switched to Chrome in the first place because it seemed faster and more efficient than IE).
So emacs, one of the most successful pieces of software ever is the Cathedral method, while fetchmail, a notorious failure that didn't actually do the simple job it was supposed to (i.e., get people's emails without losing them), was the Bazaar method?
So basically, the Cathedral method is better?
"While his software accomplishments may be looked down upon by some, it was his role as a free thinker and a spiritual leader of the open source movement that was his greatest accomplishment"
Well, the problem is he has spent a long time bragging about his software accomplishments, trying for decades to craft this image of himself as an effortless universal programming genius who understands it on a deep level, when his actual achievements don't merit that image in the slightest. Which wouldn't be so bad by itself if he wasn't just a nasty, arrogant, racist, misogynist, islamophobic guy as well who also tries to paint himself as this supermacho badass; some of his self-congratulatory writing is so over-the-top that it suggests a need for mental health professionals intervention.
"But the blog post also answers the inevitable question. What archetype is Eric S. Raymond?"
Uhhh, no, that just answers the question "what archetype does Eric S. Raymond THINK he is?" Come on, the man is a narcissistic self-promoter with vile political views and a very flimsy "hacker" resume.
You are honestly proposing that every college application is admitted? That's kind of an insane thing for you to say.
"When did this site become a cesspool of fucking assholes?"
Become?
"When I was on the Google IT help desk, I had to walk a Stanford CS graduate student through the process of turning on his workstation because the computer labs always had someone standing around to turn the workstations on."
Man, imagine how hard Google would have failed if it had been founded by Stanford CS students.
"An autodidact is almost always far more valuable than someone who followed a canned path" And yet the people who really innovate these days almost always followed a "canned path" of formal education.
"College graduates rarely have the skill sets someone who has actually been working in the field an equivalent amount of time has"
http://www.theonion.com/blogpo...
"experiencing a rural lifestyle"
.1 inch tolerance of accepted standards, and the kids spend their nights hanging out in the 7-11 parking lot huffing paint because there's nothing else to do.
If you're experiencing a rural lifestyle, that's not the suburbs. I'm talking about the vast suburban wastelands where every house has ugly vinyl siding, the HOAs freak out if your grass isn't within a
Agreed; rural or urban is the way to go.
Your kids would live a lot more interesting lives and be more interesting people if they grew up in the city.
"You may be joking, but the reality is that open source projects often have some of the worst management around"
I find that hard to believe. I mean, just because open source programmers are overrepresented by the socially maladjusted loners with chips on their shoulders demographic, you think that translates to bad management?
Linux makes an excellent desktop OS, as long as you don't need to run any useful programs.
Finally! I don't really trust system-modifying software unless it's linked to me by an anonymous forum user.