I was going to post about the same thing. I can understand the odd typo, but the header seems like it was written by someone who (at best) doesn't speak English natively.
This is not a Politically Correct statement, so obviously you are a woman-hating exerciser of male privilege. As someone above noted, retroactive withdrawal of consent --- even decades later, apparently --- is now the Politically Correct position to support.
Hoboken used to be scary as hell. Now it's filled with hipsters.
Wait... I think I see your point now...
Haven't been to Hoboken since the 1960s, and it sounds like it hasn't improved. If indeed it's filled with hipsters, it's actually gotten worse, which I never would have thought possible. This is off-topic, but the whole idea of gentrification making neighborhoods become unaffordable to families who have been there for generations, is quite distasteful. And I'm not even a SJW.
I've got to ask if it's really worth it. I suppose, if you absolutely must run Windows or are forced to do so at work or somehow... but geez, isn't it time to ditch Windows completely if you can? Isn't it worth going to some extra trouble to get out of that ecosystem permanently?
I agree, it needs to be a joint decision so all factors can be considered.
But it seldom is. Management gets lobbied by sales execs, or reads an article in some airline magazine, or goes to lunch with someone, and there you have it.
Then when it goes wrong it's the fault of that incompetent tech staff who can't carry out a simple mandate.
The whole point of equality is to NOT worry about race, gender, orientation, etc. It should be invisible. It should not matter. It should not even generally enter into the discussion.
>For sure, if you are dead-set on using proprietary software that is not available on Linux (or at least on Windows), then you may be blocked. However, if there is a port of the application to at least Windows, you can run that application on Linux using PlayOnLinux/WINE.
Full disclosure: I am a Linux bigot. As to the first statement, yes, I do have to say, sometimes someone is genuinely 'blocked' as you put it --- stuck with Windows for some essential proprietary application. This is however, in my observation at least, much less often than people think, the primary driver being as someone mentioned in a post above, a management mandate to use Windows where you work. Other than that, the cases seem to be very specific and limited--- a hospital's MRI software or something like that.
As to the second statement, Wine/PlayOnLinux is viable for some things, but very definitely not all. Even a VM is not a solution for every application or game, so I don't go too far down that road when I recommend Linux. The real answer is finding Linux applications that do what you need to do, and I've been able to do that almost all the time.
Heck, my wife runs Linux and doesn't even know it, nor does she care. She does everything she needs and wants to do and I don't have to worry quite so much about malware.
Yes, it's a tech news site (of sorts) but which finger you use on the '6' key has got to be... well... kind of low on the priority list for stories, wouldn't you think?
I'm a pro-Linux bigot and don't buy any Apple products, but in all honesty --- Apple hardware is probably the best anything for anything, if you don't mind the price (and don't want to do your own mods/repairs). They make solid stuff that lasts and IMHO no one comes close.
If you had been paying attention you would realise that windows is not the same O/S you split up with in the 90's, it grew up when XP was released, you would be wise to follow its example, nothing says "bitter" as clearly as someone trying to belittle the people who learn to like/love their ex.
I started with Linux back in the very early 0.98 kernel days with a Soft Landing distro that installed from many floppies and needed nearly everything configured by hand. Things are much different now.
Windows too, indeed has evolved. XP wasn't all that bad, and that was the last Windows I used for many years until a month or so ago I finally upgraded hardware, and decided to leave Windows 8.1 on the machine alongside the Linux Mint installation I set up for dual boot. I learned that Windows had evolved into a steaming manure pile that is heavy on eye-popping color schemes and close to zero on usability. Now I'm told Windows 10 is better because it steps back, but on the other hand it's essential an advertising and personal data gathering vehicle.
Thank you, but I have actual work to do, so I'll stick with Linux, which today mostly works out of the box for me; and I'm willing to spend the time tuning the parts that don't work out of the box because the end result is an environment that allows me to be productive.
Thank you for your polite response, but you missed the point, and perhaps I did not express it well.
The point is this: With friends like Al Gore et al, who needs enemies? With Billy Clinton saying it's settled science, who is going to believe it?
Gore's clowning approach detracts from discussion and realization of the actual issue --- you see or listen to him and you say, "this can't be true" and move on, which is unfortunately not helpful, because even though he is a clown, he could actually be right about some things.
Science is supposed to be objective, not political. But the AGW issue has become about 99% about politics. That will not help recognize and resolve the issues. And people taking obviously extreme positions (either way) detract from the discussion by diverting the focus onto their ranting and raving, rather than remaining with looking for viable solutions.
I agree, but I have the choice to use a different distro, and I do.
Still Ubuntu is nothing--- absolutely nothing--- compared to the steaming pile on a machine I just got from HP, which came with windows 8.1 preloaded.
For years, the sole windows installation I had on any machine was XP SP3. I can't believe how much worse windows has become over the years. Incredible levels of protection to make it hard to uninstall the crapware. Nagging pop-ups. Malware susceptibility (the computer had McAfee pre-installed, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised).
And just as a simple example of why I prefer Linux --- try to find a way to switch the caps lock and left control keys, as I routinely do on Linux with just a couple of menu clicks. (Yes, it can be done on windows, but...)
Oh well, they say windows 10 is better, even though it's a purpose-built advertising platform.
Due process has a cost. The right to a fair trial has a cost. Sometimes, because of this, the guilty get away with things, but because these fundamental principles are so important, we bear that cost.
How is this any different? Yes, encryption has the potential cost of letting some people get away with some things. Is that a sufficient reason to trample on the rights of everyone?
I understand the argument about true terrorism, the sort of thing where someone has a nuke and you've got to stop them. But that is not 100% of the populace, either... and really serious criminals would use something that didn't have a backdoor in any case.
I don't argue the point that Uber drivers and/or Uber itself is breaking laws in many jurisdictions.
The point is that while some of those laws seem to serve a legitimate purpose (providing insurance protection for passengers, etc.) others are intended to protect the profits and often poor service of the taxi monopoly.
I don't believe Uber would succeed based on price alone; in fact at peak hours, Uber can cost as much as a taxi. Where Uber succeeds is in convenience and service. People ride Uber for a reason; if legal taxis were competitive Uber wouldn't have gotten traction in the market.
Politicians, of course, don't care about what the market wants, they care about who pays them off.
A linux hobbyist will probably be able to get the job done, just be prepared for it to take a little longer.
Maybe, maybe not (on the longer part). A lot of the Windows "experts" that I've known didn't have the thinking skills of a typical Linux hobbyist, not to mention the determination and drive. A self-taught Linux expert can solve problems and get things done.
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I was going to post about the same thing. I can understand the odd typo, but the header seems like it was written by someone who (at best) doesn't speak English natively.
It's a joke, son, but unfortunately some people actually think that way.
This is not a Politically Correct statement, so obviously you are a woman-hating exerciser of male privilege. As someone above noted, retroactive withdrawal of consent --- even decades later, apparently --- is now the Politically Correct position to support.
When's the last time you've been?
Hoboken used to be scary as hell. Now it's filled with hipsters.
Wait... I think I see your point now...
Haven't been to Hoboken since the 1960s, and it sounds like it hasn't improved. If indeed it's filled with hipsters, it's actually gotten worse, which I never would have thought possible. This is off-topic, but the whole idea of gentrification making neighborhoods become unaffordable to families who have been there for generations, is quite distasteful. And I'm not even a SJW.
I believe the correct French name for the condition is JSF --- "Je suis fou" or "Je suis folle" depending on your gender.
Well, I know what you're trying to say, but LaTeX is a markup/macro language, not an editor :)
Hoboken is worth keeping? Now that's something :)
I'm not radicalized in either direction on climate change, but there are very talented people at NASA. Maybe we should listen.
I've got to ask if it's really worth it. I suppose, if you absolutely must run Windows or are forced to do so at work or somehow ... but geez, isn't it time to ditch Windows completely if you can? Isn't it worth going to some extra trouble to get out of that ecosystem permanently?
Just run Linux, works every time.
I agree, it needs to be a joint decision so all factors can be considered.
But it seldom is. Management gets lobbied by sales execs, or reads an article in some airline magazine, or goes to lunch with someone, and there you have it.
Then when it goes wrong it's the fault of that incompetent tech staff who can't carry out a simple mandate.
This should be +5 insightful.
The whole point of equality is to NOT worry about race, gender, orientation, etc. It should be invisible. It should not matter. It should not even generally enter into the discussion.
>For sure, if you are dead-set on using proprietary software that is not available on Linux (or at least on Windows), then you may be blocked. However, if there is a port of the application to at least Windows, you can run that application on Linux using PlayOnLinux/WINE.
Full disclosure: I am a Linux bigot. As to the first statement, yes, I do have to say, sometimes someone is genuinely 'blocked' as you put it --- stuck with Windows for some essential proprietary application. This is however, in my observation at least, much less often than people think, the primary driver being as someone mentioned in a post above, a management mandate to use Windows where you work. Other than that, the cases seem to be very specific and limited--- a hospital's MRI software or something like that.
As to the second statement, Wine/PlayOnLinux is viable for some things, but very definitely not all. Even a VM is not a solution for every application or game, so I don't go too far down that road when I recommend Linux. The real answer is finding Linux applications that do what you need to do, and I've been able to do that almost all the time.
Heck, my wife runs Linux and doesn't even know it, nor does she care. She does everything she needs and wants to do and I don't have to worry quite so much about malware.
...would LOVE to have 'tabs' for several different categories, and be able to flip through those, rather than scroll down several pages in the Doc.
OneNote.
Rank heresy. This is /. The correct answer is Emacs org-mode.
In fact, none of the world's religions actually espouse monogamy.
That's not quite true. They all espouse monogamy for women, but not necessarily for men.
Yes, it's a tech news site (of sorts) but which finger you use on the '6' key has got to be ... well ... kind of low on the priority list for stories, wouldn't you think?
The "one mouse button" thing is a design decision and has nothing to do with how well the hardware is made. You're getting things mixed together here.
It makes an Apple mouse useless with other systems, but that doesn't mean it isn't a quality product.
I'm a pro-Linux bigot and don't buy any Apple products, but in all honesty --- Apple hardware is probably the best anything for anything, if you don't mind the price (and don't want to do your own mods/repairs). They make solid stuff that lasts and IMHO no one comes close.
If you had been paying attention you would realise that windows is not the same O/S you split up with in the 90's, it grew up when XP was released, you would be wise to follow its example, nothing says "bitter" as clearly as someone trying to belittle the people who learn to like/love their ex.
I started with Linux back in the very early 0.98 kernel days with a Soft Landing distro that installed from many floppies and needed nearly everything configured by hand. Things are much different now.
Windows too, indeed has evolved. XP wasn't all that bad, and that was the last Windows I used for many years until a month or so ago I finally upgraded hardware, and decided to leave Windows 8.1 on the machine alongside the Linux Mint installation I set up for dual boot. I learned that Windows had evolved into a steaming manure pile that is heavy on eye-popping color schemes and close to zero on usability. Now I'm told Windows 10 is better because it steps back, but on the other hand it's essential an advertising and personal data gathering vehicle.
Thank you, but I have actual work to do, so I'll stick with Linux, which today mostly works out of the box for me; and I'm willing to spend the time tuning the parts that don't work out of the box because the end result is an environment that allows me to be productive.
Thank you for your polite response, but you missed the point, and perhaps I did not express it well.
The point is this: With friends like Al Gore et al, who needs enemies? With Billy Clinton saying it's settled science, who is going to believe it?
Gore's clowning approach detracts from discussion and realization of the actual issue --- you see or listen to him and you say, "this can't be true" and move on, which is unfortunately not helpful, because even though he is a clown, he could actually be right about some things.
Science is supposed to be objective, not political. But the AGW issue has become about 99% about politics. That will not help recognize and resolve the issues. And people taking obviously extreme positions (either way) detract from the discussion by diverting the focus onto their ranting and raving, rather than remaining with looking for viable solutions.
Well, I'm told by both Al Gore and Billy Clinton that it's settled science, and with the endorsement of such august experts, it's good enough for me.
I agree, but I have the choice to use a different distro, and I do.
Still Ubuntu is nothing--- absolutely nothing--- compared to the steaming pile on a machine I just got from HP, which came with windows 8.1 preloaded.
For years, the sole windows installation I had on any machine was XP SP3. I can't believe how much worse windows has become over the years. Incredible levels of protection to make it hard to uninstall the crapware. Nagging pop-ups. Malware susceptibility (the computer had McAfee pre-installed, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised).
And just as a simple example of why I prefer Linux --- try to find a way to switch the caps lock and left control keys, as I routinely do on Linux with just a couple of menu clicks. (Yes, it can be done on windows, but ...)
Oh well, they say windows 10 is better, even though it's a purpose-built advertising platform.
Due process has a cost. The right to a fair trial has a cost. Sometimes, because of this, the guilty get away with things, but because these fundamental principles are so important, we bear that cost.
How is this any different? Yes, encryption has the potential cost of letting some people get away with some things. Is that a sufficient reason to trample on the rights of everyone?
I understand the argument about true terrorism, the sort of thing where someone has a nuke and you've got to stop them. But that is not 100% of the populace, either ... and really serious criminals would use something that didn't have a backdoor in any case.
I don't argue the point that Uber drivers and/or Uber itself is breaking laws in many jurisdictions.
The point is that while some of those laws seem to serve a legitimate purpose (providing insurance protection for passengers, etc.) others are intended to protect the profits and often poor service of the taxi monopoly.
I don't believe Uber would succeed based on price alone; in fact at peak hours, Uber can cost as much as a taxi. Where Uber succeeds is in convenience and service. People ride Uber for a reason; if legal taxis were competitive Uber wouldn't have gotten traction in the market.
Politicians, of course, don't care about what the market wants, they care about who pays them off.
A linux hobbyist will probably be able to get the job done, just be prepared for it to take a little longer.
Maybe, maybe not (on the longer part). A lot of the Windows "experts" that I've known didn't have the thinking skills of a typical Linux hobbyist, not to mention the determination and drive. A self-taught Linux expert can solve problems and get things done.
No, this is how global warming is going to save the universe.