I didn't vote for either Trump or Hillary --- but if you look at what actually happened, you don't need conspiracy theories to explain it.
Hillary won the east and west coasts, very much as you might have expected. She won them big and that's the main reason for her overall popular vote win.
She lost in conservative states where you would expect that.
The pollsters and pundits misread the situation on the ground in states like Michigan, which they thought Hillary would win, but instead went over to Trump by fairly narrow margins. This appears to be more to do with the economy, jobs, etc., than leaked emails and the like.
Of course, all of this can be debated endlessly, but what is there about the election that really leads to a credible theory of manipulation, fraud, and hacking? The fact that Hillary lost is not exactly evidence.
You may or may not be disappointed with the outcome. You may or may not be happy that Trump will be president. But there certainly seems to be a fairly simple and fairly logical explanation for the outcome. That seems a lot stronger than conspiracy theories.
hehe Dumped Windows totally... Nothing but Linux... Its like what computing *should* be.
I've done the same... I still have a Win 8.1 partition but almost never boot it. There are a few games on it but mostly I can't be bothered and it's too distasteful.
Windows fans and/or anti-Linuxers make a point that a Linux system requires a lot of manual set up and tweaking. While not as bad as they make it out to be, there is admittedly some and it does take me a couple of days to get a brand new installation set up completely as I want it (I'm especially particular).
But the point that's missed is that from then on, installing updates is easy and done when you want to, not when you're forced to. And in years and years I've never had a Linux update cause the kind of problems we've seen with Windows 10 updates. The number of update related problems and their lack of severity has been so minimal I'm hard pressed to think of one offhand. (I've run Mint for a long time and other distros before that, such as Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian... all the way back to SoftLanding or whatever it was called).
Page-up/page-down are subject to the same problem. I know not everyone scrolls in this manner, but if you do (as I do) it's extremely annoying on the type of site mentioned in TFS.
But it's a symptom of a larger problem, alluded to in the "list of historical problems" post above. Web designers care about pushing their products and their adverts and little else. If the site isn't especially usable or even downright annoying, they could care less. And people keep coming back to such sites, which in the designer's mind proves their design is "good."
Is anyone else old enough to remember way back when, the then FCC director Newton Minnow referring to radio as a vast wasteland? The Web is getting to be the same thing.
The other problem with modern mastering practice is that the engineers know the listening environment is likely to be really bad earbuds connected to something that plays MP3s. Switch to high-end headsets or good speakers and the mix sounds terrible, because it is.
As for vinyl, hipster audiophiles say they like the "warm" sound. Yes, it sounds "warm" because the low end is largely absent, the high end is constrained, and most of all, the dynamic range is quite compressed.
(Ex audio engineer here, though I come from an earlier era.)
I've noticed a trend, not only on Slashdot but elsewhere, that in trying to get people to use desktop Linux distros a lot of the advocacy is based on what Windows (specifically Windows 10) is doing in terms of telemetry, reduction of control over the operating system and what not, and basically elements of Windows, and NOT about how Linux is better in specific ways.
That's an interesting point, and much of the anti-Linux pro-Windows marketing targets that very point, by emphasizing what Windows can do which Linux cannot. (It will inevitably be vertical apps, high-end gaming, high-end features in things like PhotoShop, etc.)
Of course, the real draw (for many of us) with Linux is the concept free as in beer and especially free as in freedom. And with Windows 10 becoming the spyware of the millenium, there are people looking for alternatives. So a certain amount of what is, as you state, negative marketing, seems justified.
But you're right, it's not sufficient in and of itself. Users have to be able to do whatever it is they need to do. Linux has come a very long way in that regard, to the point at which in my own work I need Windows for ---- absolutely nothing at all. Those of us who are Linux fans need to promote that angle.
For instance, I always cite the use case of my wife, who uses the Linux installation I set up for her, and neither knows nor cares what OS she's using --- she can do email, Facebook, photos, documents, on-line games, etc. and that's all that matters to her. I suppose I should be more forward in promoting my own use case, namely writing and publishing and doing related analysis.
Linux has a strong case: a lot of functionality, end-user ease of use easily on a par with Windows, and the aforemention Very Big Deal: free as in freedom and beer.
Well, at least it still is a representative democracy in theory. Look at the US, the "demos" (i.e. the population or at least its majority) doesn't get to pick the leader, so it is not a "democracy" under most reasonable definitions.
In Great Britain, the Prime Minister is not directly elected either.
It's actually an article of faith among some here that having your content available to download for free doesn't in any way affect your sales negatively, an argument frequently used as a justification for mass copyright infringement.
So sales are affected negatively by free legal streaming, though under 10%. No surprise; I actually might have thought the lost sales would be substantially higher.
But the illegal download argument is different (note that I don't claim that copyright infringement is acceptable). Illegal downloaders likely wouldn't buy the content anyhow, so the lost sales would seemingly be small or even negligible.
Indeed, from TFS: "having been linked to the Arab Spring, the war in Syria and the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency."
No matter where you stand on climate change, linking it to the above is more than a bit of a stretch.
Which brings up a point. If you're serious about doing something about AGW/climate change, articles such as this one move the cause backward, not forward, by giving ammunition to AGM/cc opponents.
Actually, I thought Obama was still the President. This happened on Obama's watch. It will be Trump's problem when he is sworn in, but right now it's in Obama's lap.
Seems like a lot of/. stories lately have "Trump" in the title for little or no reason.
The problem is that people want magic solutions, and they keep chasing the latest fad in the hopes of finding the secret alchemy that will make average developers turn into gold stars, produce perfect systems in a tenth the time, and meet all requirements without the bother of knowing them.
Anyone who's ever done any system of significance that actually worked will know that the "best" tools and methods are situational. Need a bash script to list a few files? The approach is different than it would be if you're hired to redo everything used by the IRS.
We can go all the way back to the "shelf full of binders" methodologies. In their day, they were supposed to be the magic cure-all. Today, it's Agile, or it's XYZZY or whatever is the latest and greatest. Still haven't found that secret sauce.
One size doesn't fit all. There is no magic. Successful development projects require skill, experience, good judgment, hard work, and competent leadership.
>The only way Apple or any company makes a big profit is if people like what they are getting for the price.
What a naive way of thinking. Either that or Apple uses predatory tactics to trap people and trick them into using their products.
Monopolies or near monopolies can easily be predatory, but that requires very limited consumer choice. I can't see how smartphones fall in that category.
In my view Apple charges a lot for what they deliver. But I don't have to buy Apple and I don't. Others feel Apple is a value, whether based on quality, functionality, or simply perceived prestige. They buy Apple. That's how the market works.
I suppose there is some lock-in, in that if you've spent a fair amount on Apple apps, you can't switch and take them to Android, whereas on Android, you can take your apps to a different brand of phone or tablet. But that doesn't seem like a predatory practice on Apple's part.
Face it: Apple is expensive but many people are willing to pay Apple's prices. Apple makes a lot of money that way. What's the problem?
And who is going to teach this supposed ethics? Sites like Breitbarts?
Certainly not Breitbarts nor Fox News. But certainly not the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and on and on the list goes.
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I didn't vote for either Trump or Hillary --- but if you look at what actually happened, you don't need conspiracy theories to explain it.
Hillary won the east and west coasts, very much as you might have expected. She won them big and that's the main reason for her overall popular vote win.
She lost in conservative states where you would expect that.
The pollsters and pundits misread the situation on the ground in states like Michigan, which they thought Hillary would win, but instead went over to Trump by fairly narrow margins. This appears to be more to do with the economy, jobs, etc., than leaked emails and the like.
Of course, all of this can be debated endlessly, but what is there about the election that really leads to a credible theory of manipulation, fraud, and hacking? The fact that Hillary lost is not exactly evidence.
You may or may not be disappointed with the outcome. You may or may not be happy that Trump will be president. But there certainly seems to be a fairly simple and fairly logical explanation for the outcome. That seems a lot stronger than conspiracy theories.
Dream on.
hehe Dumped Windows totally... Nothing but Linux... Its like what computing *should* be.
I've done the same ... I still have a Win 8.1 partition but almost never boot it. There are a few games on it but mostly I can't be bothered and it's too distasteful.
Windows fans and/or anti-Linuxers make a point that a Linux system requires a lot of manual set up and tweaking. While not as bad as they make it out to be, there is admittedly some and it does take me a couple of days to get a brand new installation set up completely as I want it (I'm especially particular).
But the point that's missed is that from then on, installing updates is easy and done when you want to, not when you're forced to. And in years and years I've never had a Linux update cause the kind of problems we've seen with Windows 10 updates. The number of update related problems and their lack of severity has been so minimal I'm hard pressed to think of one offhand. (I've run Mint for a long time and other distros before that, such as Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Debian ... all the way back to SoftLanding or whatever it was called).
Good reason to keep a Linux boot disk/rescue disk or thumb drive handy.
Oops ... television, not radio :(
Page-up/page-down are subject to the same problem. I know not everyone scrolls in this manner, but if you do (as I do) it's extremely annoying on the type of site mentioned in TFS.
But it's a symptom of a larger problem, alluded to in the "list of historical problems" post above. Web designers care about pushing their products and their adverts and little else. If the site isn't especially usable or even downright annoying, they could care less. And people keep coming back to such sites, which in the designer's mind proves their design is "good."
Is anyone else old enough to remember way back when, the then FCC director Newton Minnow referring to radio as a vast wasteland? The Web is getting to be the same thing.
He was the meat in an automated tin can that went to the upper atmosphere. Some accomplishment.
John Glenn was a great man. You, on the other hand, are nothing.
The other problem with modern mastering practice is that the engineers know the listening environment is likely to be really bad earbuds connected to something that plays MP3s. Switch to high-end headsets or good speakers and the mix sounds terrible, because it is.
As for vinyl, hipster audiophiles say they like the "warm" sound. Yes, it sounds "warm" because the low end is largely absent, the high end is constrained, and most of all, the dynamic range is quite compressed.
(Ex audio engineer here, though I come from an earlier era.)
I've noticed a trend, not only on Slashdot but elsewhere, that in trying to get people to use desktop Linux distros a lot of the advocacy is based on what Windows (specifically Windows 10) is doing in terms of telemetry, reduction of control over the operating system and what not, and basically elements of Windows, and NOT about how Linux is better in specific ways.
That's an interesting point, and much of the anti-Linux pro-Windows marketing targets that very point, by emphasizing what Windows can do which Linux cannot. (It will inevitably be vertical apps, high-end gaming, high-end features in things like PhotoShop, etc.)
Of course, the real draw (for many of us) with Linux is the concept free as in beer and especially free as in freedom. And with Windows 10 becoming the spyware of the millenium, there are people looking for alternatives. So a certain amount of what is, as you state, negative marketing, seems justified.
But you're right, it's not sufficient in and of itself. Users have to be able to do whatever it is they need to do. Linux has come a very long way in that regard, to the point at which in my own work I need Windows for ---- absolutely nothing at all. Those of us who are Linux fans need to promote that angle.
For instance, I always cite the use case of my wife, who uses the Linux installation I set up for her, and neither knows nor cares what OS she's using --- she can do email, Facebook, photos, documents, on-line games, etc. and that's all that matters to her. I suppose I should be more forward in promoting my own use case, namely writing and publishing and doing related analysis.
Linux has a strong case: a lot of functionality, end-user ease of use easily on a par with Windows, and the aforemention Very Big Deal: free as in freedom and beer.
Well, at least it still is a representative democracy in theory. Look at the US, the "demos" (i.e. the population or at least its majority) doesn't get to pick the leader, so it is not a "democracy" under most reasonable definitions.
In Great Britain, the Prime Minister is not directly elected either.
It's actually an article of faith among some here that having your content available to download for free doesn't in any way affect your sales negatively, an argument frequently used as a justification for mass copyright infringement.
So sales are affected negatively by free legal streaming, though under 10%. No surprise; I actually might have thought the lost sales would be substantially higher.
But the illegal download argument is different (note that I don't claim that copyright infringement is acceptable). Illegal downloaders likely wouldn't buy the content anyhow, so the lost sales would seemingly be small or even negligible.
Indeed, from TFS: "having been linked to the Arab Spring, the war in Syria and the Boko Haram terrorist insurgency."
No matter where you stand on climate change, linking it to the above is more than a bit of a stretch.
Which brings up a point. If you're serious about doing something about AGW/climate change, articles such as this one move the cause backward, not forward, by giving ammunition to AGM/cc opponents.
Actually, I thought Obama was still the President. This happened on Obama's watch. It will be Trump's problem when he is sworn in, but right now it's in Obama's lap.
Seems like a lot of /. stories lately have "Trump" in the title for little or no reason.
shear incompetence or shear malice
What a cutting remark.
Because Apple updated their iWork suite in September to include real-time collaboration features.
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
Yes, and Google Docs/Slides etc. has had it for how many years now?
The problem is that people want magic solutions, and they keep chasing the latest fad in the hopes of finding the secret alchemy that will make average developers turn into gold stars, produce perfect systems in a tenth the time, and meet all requirements without the bother of knowing them.
Anyone who's ever done any system of significance that actually worked will know that the "best" tools and methods are situational. Need a bash script to list a few files? The approach is different than it would be if you're hired to redo everything used by the IRS.
We can go all the way back to the "shelf full of binders" methodologies. In their day, they were supposed to be the magic cure-all. Today, it's Agile, or it's XYZZY or whatever is the latest and greatest. Still haven't found that secret sauce.
One size doesn't fit all. There is no magic. Successful development projects require skill, experience, good judgment, hard work, and competent leadership.
The riots are justified
Really?
To put on peaceful and lawful demonstrations is certainly the right of Americans. But to riot? Are you serious?
The rest of the nation wouldn't matter.
That's exactly the problem and one reason why we have the electoral system.
So? Sony is the only company producing Sony televisions.
The point is that there are other TVs. There are other smartphones.
>The only way Apple or any company makes a big profit is if people like what they are getting for the price.
What a naive way of thinking. Either that or Apple uses predatory tactics to trap people and trick them into using their products.
Monopolies or near monopolies can easily be predatory, but that requires very limited consumer choice. I can't see how smartphones fall in that category.
In my view Apple charges a lot for what they deliver. But I don't have to buy Apple and I don't. Others feel Apple is a value, whether based on quality, functionality, or simply perceived prestige. They buy Apple. That's how the market works.
I suppose there is some lock-in, in that if you've spent a fair amount on Apple apps, you can't switch and take them to Android, whereas on Android, you can take your apps to a different brand of phone or tablet. But that doesn't seem like a predatory practice on Apple's part.
Face it: Apple is expensive but many people are willing to pay Apple's prices. Apple makes a lot of money that way. What's the problem?
us white men are still doing just fine.
We are? If I believe what I hear from the left, we (white men) are a couple of grades lower than dirt.
And who is going to teach this supposed ethics? Sites like Breitbarts?
Certainly not Breitbarts nor Fox News. But certainly not the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and on and on the list goes.
Now you know why I installed Cygwin & mintty.
Now you know why, on every new computer I've had for years now, right out of the box I've wiped the hard drive and installed Linux.
Even more funny when I replace their computer with a box of crayons.
I have to remember this trick. I think it would make many users far more productive.
We, rather urgently, need to protect ourselves from your annexation.
What makes me think we even want you?