I don't care very much what Microsoft does as long as they leave me alone. I don't care who runs Windows, who thinks Windows is objectively better, etc. To each his own.
I run Linux and I'm happy with that, and for me, end of story. If you run Linux too, cool. If you run Windows or Mac, go for it. Whatever.
However, I do care when Microsoft starts to threaten Linux in the name of "cooperation." Yes, they are a for-profit company, I get that. But if they become completely dominant (and UEFI was a step in that direction) we will have lost all computing freedom and all computing privacy (or at least whatever is still left).
It will be like the old-old days when IBM rented their computers and completely dictated terms.
I live in Honolulu and I walk all the time. I am careful about obeying crosswalk laws and I pay attention when crossing because my life depends on it.
Certainly I agree pedestrians shouldn't be texting, etc., while crossing, and Honolulu has a terrible problem with pedestrian fatalities (highest in the nation for senior citizen pedestrians).
But the city consistently fails to do anything about cars running lights. At any major intersection, when the 'walk' light comes on, I don't dare start to cross right away because there are always one or more cars racing through the intersection, running the red light. And the walk light stays on for exactly seven seconds at most intersections; it's illegal to start crossing once the white light goes off and the red countdown light starts.
The city considered red light cameras but rejected the idea. Of course, they bring in a host of other problems and abuses, but pedestrians won't be safe as long as drivers run lights and ignore crosswalks. Texting while crossing is just one part of the problem. But in a city that favors cars over every other mode of transportation, legislating against pedestrians will be what you see happen.
I would think, given the typical Apple user profile, that they would demand Progressive web apps! Except Apple, by nature, is non-PC, so there is already a problem.
... I prefer to take the best ideas of the political right and the best ideas of the political left...
Altogether too reasonable. I predict you will be viciously attacked.
Seriously, reason seems to have dropped out of politics and political discussion. Notice how votes in Congress now are on pretty strict party lines? (A few Republicans bail sometimes, but virtually no Dems.)
What happened to civil discourse? What happened to working together for the common good?
The other important point to note is that the vulnerability has already been patched. Not security by obscurity, not denial, not "we'll fix it on Patch April Fool's Day" --- it's done.
No surprise that the Santa Fe Opera did it well. They do everything well. Even the parking lot is well run (and if you've ever been there you know what I'm talking about.)
I just wonder a bit at their choice for this year's avant-garde production.
I've been to the Santa Fe Opera many times. They put on great productions in an awesome setting. It might be the greatest summer opera company anywhere. Each summer they do four operas from the (more or less) usual repertoire and one new or innovative production. One great example maybe 15 years back was "L'amour de loin" with Dawn Upshaw singing the principal role.
But an opera about Steve Jobs? Have the hipsters taken over even the southwest?
Granted, there was once an opera about Richard Nixon ("Nixon in China"). Maybe some day there will be an opera about Donald Trump; who knows?
You're right and I missed the point about TV rights. However it just seems absurd for any mainland team to claim that Hawaii is in their broadcast market.
I did look into this a little more. Some California teams can be seen here if you buy expensive cable packages, but not the SF Giants. You can't watch them, period. And Hawaiian residents have complained to MLB for years about it with no success.
About those mlb.tv blackouts... I'm in Hawai`i and MLB blacks out all California teams as being "local market." Right, I'm going to travel 2,400 miles to see a "local" game.
I've heard this before; I suspect it is for "power" users where LibreOffice lacks some of the really high-end stuff. I do want to put forward the idea, though, is that much of this "use" may be "abuse" --- pushing spreadsheets to do things that ought to be done another way that is less susceptible to error and easier to check and audit. Overly-complex spreadsheets are rather hard to error check.
Exchange has no real replacement if you are heavily into collaboration.
Someone else should respond here, but it seems there are many, many collaboration options out there.
The online cloud apps are pretty much a joke and in the case of google a bad joke.
Perhaps true for power users but for typical users? I'm not so sure. Google Docs is fine for many things, maybe not a 600 page novel or a complex legal filing, but for memos, letters, reports? Seems to work. Same with Google Sheets and even the presentation program.
Where I used to live, back in the 1990s radiologists were charging $250 for a quick look at a simple chest x-ray. Who knows what they are charging now. I would love to see those people replaced with something less greedy.
I can see that I have a negative prejudice towards black people. i can see myself thinking women are incapable of things just because they are women..
I hope you are really enjoying your feelings of guilt and that you have finally come to understand that because you are a white male, you are inherently trash (at best).
The religious right has been trying to ram the bible down everyone's throats for decades.
True enough and it just proves that there are crazies on both sides. But it's ironic how in the 60s the right tried to suppress free speech of the left and now it's turned around completely.
I recently took a university-level French class which was mostly quite good, but the prof spent a whole class period making sure everyone knew all the LBGT terminology in French. Now, nothing wrong with that per se, knowing more things is always good, but it seemed a little odd until you realized that the prof was ultra-liberal, ultra-feminist, and viewed such knowledge as essential. She went as far as to toss out one male student who disagreed (rather politely, in fact).
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The adults are trying to have a conversation.
The "adults" are not ACs.
I don't care very much what Microsoft does as long as they leave me alone. I don't care who runs Windows, who thinks Windows is objectively better, etc. To each his own.
I run Linux and I'm happy with that, and for me, end of story. If you run Linux too, cool. If you run Windows or Mac, go for it. Whatever.
However, I do care when Microsoft starts to threaten Linux in the name of "cooperation." Yes, they are a for-profit company, I get that. But if they become completely dominant (and UEFI was a step in that direction) we will have lost all computing freedom and all computing privacy (or at least whatever is still left).
It will be like the old-old days when IBM rented their computers and completely dictated terms.
I live in Honolulu and I walk all the time. I am careful about obeying crosswalk laws and I pay attention when crossing because my life depends on it.
Certainly I agree pedestrians shouldn't be texting, etc., while crossing, and Honolulu has a terrible problem with pedestrian fatalities (highest in the nation for senior citizen pedestrians).
But the city consistently fails to do anything about cars running lights. At any major intersection, when the 'walk' light comes on, I don't dare start to cross right away because there are always one or more cars racing through the intersection, running the red light. And the walk light stays on for exactly seven seconds at most intersections; it's illegal to start crossing once the white light goes off and the red countdown light starts.
The city considered red light cameras but rejected the idea. Of course, they bring in a host of other problems and abuses, but pedestrians won't be safe as long as drivers run lights and ignore crosswalks. Texting while crossing is just one part of the problem. But in a city that favors cars over every other mode of transportation, legislating against pedestrians will be what you see happen.
posted in wrong place sorry. /. does not always put stuff where I want it
Here's an idea ... stop posting as an AC.
Are liberals incapable of reporting good news?
Good news is politically incorrect.
I would think, given the typical Apple user profile, that they would demand Progressive web apps! Except Apple, by nature, is non-PC, so there is already a problem.
... I prefer to take the best ideas of the political right and the best ideas of the political left ...
Altogether too reasonable. I predict you will be viciously attacked.
Seriously, reason seems to have dropped out of politics and political discussion. Notice how votes in Congress now are on pretty strict party lines? (A few Republicans bail sometimes, but virtually no Dems.)
What happened to civil discourse? What happened to working together for the common good?
This is another ./ story that the "editors" think is relevant to tech nerds?
Free: you just got what you paid for.
Unfortunately you can't necessarily trust non-free products either. Not even expensive ones.
The other important point to note is that the vulnerability has already been patched. Not security by obscurity, not denial, not "we'll fix it on Patch April Fool's Day" --- it's done.
No surprise that the Santa Fe Opera did it well. They do everything well. Even the parking lot is well run (and if you've ever been there you know what I'm talking about.)
I just wonder a bit at their choice for this year's avant-garde production.
I've been to the Santa Fe Opera many times. They put on great productions in an awesome setting. It might be the greatest summer opera company anywhere. Each summer they do four operas from the (more or less) usual repertoire and one new or innovative production. One great example maybe 15 years back was "L'amour de loin" with Dawn Upshaw singing the principal role.
But an opera about Steve Jobs? Have the hipsters taken over even the southwest?
Granted, there was once an opera about Richard Nixon ("Nixon in China"). Maybe some day there will be an opera about Donald Trump; who knows?
But I think I'd skip the Steve Jobs opera.
You're right and I missed the point about TV rights. However it just seems absurd for any mainland team to claim that Hawaii is in their broadcast market.
I did look into this a little more. Some California teams can be seen here if you buy expensive cable packages, but not the SF Giants. You can't watch them, period. And Hawaiian residents have complained to MLB for years about it with no success.
This is the sort of thing that /. thinks is essential news nowadays.
About those mlb.tv blackouts ... I'm in Hawai`i and MLB blacks out all California teams as being "local market." Right, I'm going to travel 2,400 miles to see a "local" game.
ASUS routers don't hide passwords.
My ASUS router certainly does hide passwords.
The key phrase in the above summary is:
"those studies can't say those problems are caused by the sweeteners"
meaning the studies are pretty useless, and the /. headline:
"Artificial Sweeteners Associated With Weight Gain, Heart Problems In Analysis of Data From 37 Studies"
is completely misleading.
Undoubtedly as many other posters have suggested the problem is behavioral, which will surprise no one and doesn't require 37 studies to demonstrate.
Excel has no real replacement
I've heard this before; I suspect it is for "power" users where LibreOffice lacks some of the really high-end stuff. I do want to put forward the idea, though, is that much of this "use" may be "abuse" --- pushing spreadsheets to do things that ought to be done another way that is less susceptible to error and easier to check and audit. Overly-complex spreadsheets are rather hard to error check.
Exchange has no real replacement if you are heavily into collaboration.
Someone else should respond here, but it seems there are many, many collaboration options out there.
The online cloud apps are pretty much a joke and in the case of google a bad joke.
Perhaps true for power users but for typical users? I'm not so sure. Google Docs is fine for many things, maybe not a 600 page novel or a complex legal filing, but for memos, letters, reports? Seems to work. Same with Google Sheets and even the presentation program.
Gnus!
This is not misinformation. I don't know what the radiologist got paid, but $250 is what I was billed.
Where I used to live, back in the 1990s radiologists were charging $250 for a quick look at a simple chest x-ray. Who knows what they are charging now. I would love to see those people replaced with something less greedy.
I can see that I have a negative prejudice towards black people. i can see myself thinking women are incapable of things just because they are women..
I hope you are really enjoying your feelings of guilt and that you have finally come to understand that because you are a white male, you are inherently trash (at best).
The religious right has been trying to ram the bible down everyone's throats for decades.
True enough and it just proves that there are crazies on both sides. But it's ironic how in the 60s the right tried to suppress free speech of the left and now it's turned around completely.
I recently took a university-level French class which was mostly quite good, but the prof spent a whole class period making sure everyone knew all the LBGT terminology in French. Now, nothing wrong with that per se, knowing more things is always good, but it seemed a little odd until you realized that the prof was ultra-liberal, ultra-feminist, and viewed such knowledge as essential. She went as far as to toss out one male student who disagreed (rather politely, in fact).