Denier trolls will spam this article with fallacious arguments against climate change.
And supporter trolls with spam this article with fallacious arguments for climate change.
Sorry, but both sides are guilty here.
The problem, in fact, is that there are "sides" in the first place. We need to let honest, non-politicized, non-agenda-driven science speak for itself.
people who have real work to do and real money to make are laughing at you pathetic freetards.
I have real work to do, and have been doing real work for many years --- with Linux. It doesn't get in the way, doesn't spy on me, and gives me the tools I need to work efficiently. Windows doesn't even come close to competing with Linux when there is real work to do. (Please note, first person shooters are cool but don't count as real work.)
I'll address the "long term support" component of your comment, as your remarks about usability and features are clearly just trolling.
"Long term support" seems to mean different things in different circumstances.
While Win XP certainly had long-term support, at least for security patches, take a look at Windows 10.
Are the frequent mega-updates really long-term support, or effectively a new OS under the old name? After a couple of mega-updates, can we really say that it's the same OS? Especially in light of some massive breakage.
I do agree that 2 years isn't my idea of "long term" --- the Mint/Ubuntu LTS releases are 5 years, but even they have kernel updates from time to time.
Come on, this isn't about being "PC" or "everyone must be able to do everything." It just seems to me that if a game can be made more accessible, why not extend that courtesy? Of course it isn't possible for "everyone to do everything." But extending a helping hand where feasible? What can be wrong with that?
I have some vision issues myself, and in some games, just having the option to make the text larger is really useful and greatly appreciated.
Give me the text config files any day. Easy to edit, easy to do version control, easy to diff, etc. Easy to add comments, for that matter. No mouse needed, just the keyboard. Fast and accurate.
GUIs are nice for casual administration (if there is such a thing) but to do any sort of heavy lifting, text files are efficient and manageable.
What is bad is not upgrading the security of a protocol that is ON by default for 30 years.
Let us take something equally ancient on the unix side, like the Xwindows. Is it on by default in linux? Does it suck as much as SMBv1 in terms of security? What kind of security enhancements have gone into each protocol over these three decades?
I don't know which one is better, but that will give us a sense of how much blame to heap on Microsoft.
No. It will give us a sense of how much blame to heap on Xwindows. The fact that there are potentially bad practices going on elsewhere doesn't excuse them.
TFA is paywalled but the summary is incoherent. Pirating is costing them advertising dollars? They have an "onerous" deal with with the Hollywood studio?
I tend not to sympathize much with big media, but could we please have a summary that at least is reasonably easy to follow and describes what's going on in coherent terms?
(Yes I know, this is up to the Slashdot "editors"...)
You can choose to shout "SJWs" or "hate of anything microsoft related" or everything else we expect to see on slashdot threads like this. But this is a good thing.
Unarguably so, and I'm glad they're doing something good with some of their money. I'm generally anti-MS but we need to be fair. And we can still be anti-MS: if a truly evil murderous dictator gave money to build an orphanage, that's a good thing, but it doesn't make up for everything else. But I'd rather they did the one good thing than nothing at all.
Of course, you have to buy a new laptop after the 10 hour battery life is up.
I think they can and will do better than that with a new MacBook Air. It comes in an empty box. Actually it's just the empty box, because it's Air. Now that's courage.
I'd been using Vivaldi but ran into odd compatibility problems (unexpected as it's closely enough related to Chrome), and so went back to Chrome. Chinese-owned Opera has never been an option and unfortunately Firefox is going down the drain.
A good manager's job is to remove obstacles to productivity, enable the staff, and then get out of the way.
Someone who I consider my management mentor told me long ago when I first had a management position, "Your job is to sit in your office and wait for someone to bring you a problem." And while that was something of a simplification, the basics of it were true then and are true now.
As it turns out, employees monitored permanently are under more significantly stress, perform worse, make more mistakes, have more sick days and have about zero loyalty to their employer.
That's really the important point here. Draconian management may extract a little more productivity in the short run (maybe) but end up with malicious compliance, employees who do the bare minimum, and spend as much time figuring ways around the system as they do actually producing. And, as mentioned, zero loyalty. That type of management responds by cracking down even more, and productivity drops further.
Treating people decently actually works. But that isn't exactly what's taught in MBA programs.
Actually the WF CEO, John Stumpf, "retired" last October in the wake of the scandal. He was punished by having $41 million taken away from his retirement package, leaving him with a paltry $133 million. Such severe punishment will surely serve as a warning to others!
Isn't it interesting how it takes a multi-billion dollar closed-source development company to clean up the security messes left by open source software?
As opposed to closed-source security messes that NEVER get cleaned up?
Well, I use my computer mostly for working purposes, I run Linux, I'm no fan of MS, and I'm not a video/computer gamer, but I have to say you're making an unfair judgment.
There are people who enjoy computer games. There is nothing wrong with that. No doubt you, Mr. AC, enjoy some forms of recreation. What would make your choice better than someone else's?
If a person enjoys a video game, more power to them. If that person needs to run Windows to enjoy a particular game of choice, that's a valid decision. Yes, it comes with some downsides, but it's nonetheless valid and who are we to say it's not?
I don't and won't run Windows, but if someone else chooses to run an OS different from mine, or chooses a recreation different from mine, that's their business and their right.
Obviously MS wants total control, and they're going to get it.
It will matter to me at the point at which they force all PCs sold to be locked down at the bootloader level, to prevent installation of Linux or FreeBSD or some other alternative. That may fail an antitrust test, but it would takes years, even decades, to litigate that.
So, in the end, it's better for me if this new approach fails. But MS is very powerful, and even if this is the worst thing since Windows 8, they may be able to force acceptance. Even as a Linux fanboy, if I were to bet, I'd bet on MS winning this one.
I have personally seen a manager or owner stress to the point of depression when facing the task of laying off an employee.
Sounds like he wasn't the right person for the job. Not everyone should be a manager.
On the contrary I think this/was/ the right person for the job, namely, someone who actually cared about the well-being of the staff and regretted causing hurt and harm.
I know sometimes layoffs are necessary to keep a company afloat and save all the rest of the jobs, but being unmoved about it is no merit as a manager.
A LOT of people do not want to use, or learn how to use, the command line.
Until the Linux developers figure that out (Mark tried with Ubuntu) Linux is not going to replace windows. It's that simple.
Actually, even as a Linux fan, I have to take the other side and say Linux is NEVER going to replace Windows. And I don't even try to sell it to established Windows users. Linux attracts its own audience, which will stay a minority. I'm okay with that.
(This is not an elitist thing, by the way. To each his own. Linux appeals to me, Windows does not, end of story.)
In theory, you are right. In practice, the rate per page is microscopic. The idea, of course, is that more people will read the book. But I hear most authors report a drop in revenue. (I have no direct basis for comparison as my stuff was published after the new program started.
Perhaps so, if they're managing to find the total profit maximizing price point. I suppose in some genres and some authors, fans will pay $9.99 - $12.99 for an ebook.
What's funny is when indie authors try to follow suit and ask $9.99 for an ebook, despite no reputation at all, let alone star status.
I'm in the former category (no reputation indie author) but at $2.99 I do manage to make sales.
If ebook prices were in the 2-5 dollar range, I would probably never bother walking to the library again.
Maybe someday the industry will figure it out.
They won't. They have never been able to figure out that a large number times zero is still zero, while a small number (price) times a large number (sales) comes out nicely, especially since the incremental cost to produce each ebook copy is about zero.
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Denier trolls will spam this article with fallacious arguments against climate change.
And supporter trolls with spam this article with fallacious arguments for climate change.
Sorry, but both sides are guilty here.
The problem, in fact, is that there are "sides" in the first place. We need to let honest, non-politicized, non-agenda-driven science speak for itself.
people who have real work to do and real money to make are laughing at you pathetic freetards.
I have real work to do, and have been doing real work for many years --- with Linux. It doesn't get in the way, doesn't spy on me, and gives me the tools I need to work efficiently. Windows doesn't even come close to competing with Linux when there is real work to do. (Please note, first person shooters are cool but don't count as real work.)
I'll address the "long term support" component of your comment, as your remarks about usability and features are clearly just trolling.
"Long term support" seems to mean different things in different circumstances.
While Win XP certainly had long-term support, at least for security patches, take a look at Windows 10.
Are the frequent mega-updates really long-term support, or effectively a new OS under the old name? After a couple of mega-updates, can we really say that it's the same OS? Especially in light of some massive breakage.
I do agree that 2 years isn't my idea of "long term" --- the Mint/Ubuntu LTS releases are 5 years, but even they have kernel updates from time to time.
Come on, this isn't about being "PC" or "everyone must be able to do everything." It just seems to me that if a game can be made more accessible, why not extend that courtesy? Of course it isn't possible for "everyone to do everything." But extending a helping hand where feasible? What can be wrong with that?
I have some vision issues myself, and in some games, just having the option to make the text larger is really useful and greatly appreciated.
Give me the text config files any day. Easy to edit, easy to do version control, easy to diff, etc. Easy to add comments, for that matter. No mouse needed, just the keyboard. Fast and accurate.
GUIs are nice for casual administration (if there is such a thing) but to do any sort of heavy lifting, text files are efficient and manageable.
30 year old protocols are not ipso facto bad.
What is bad is not upgrading the security of a protocol that is ON by default for 30 years.
Let us take something equally ancient on the unix side, like the Xwindows. Is it on by default in linux? Does it suck as much as SMBv1 in terms of security? What kind of security enhancements have gone into each protocol over these three decades?
I don't know which one is better, but that will give us a sense of how much blame to heap on Microsoft.
No. It will give us a sense of how much blame to heap on Xwindows. The fact that there are potentially bad practices going on elsewhere doesn't excuse them.
TFA is paywalled but the summary is incoherent. Pirating is costing them advertising dollars? They have an "onerous" deal with with the Hollywood studio?
I tend not to sympathize much with big media, but could we please have a summary that at least is reasonably easy to follow and describes what's going on in coherent terms?
(Yes I know, this is up to the Slashdot "editors"...)
You can choose to shout "SJWs" or "hate of anything microsoft related" or everything else we expect to see on slashdot threads like this. But this is a good thing.
Unarguably so, and I'm glad they're doing something good with some of their money. I'm generally anti-MS but we need to be fair. And we can still be anti-MS: if a truly evil murderous dictator gave money to build an orphanage, that's a good thing, but it doesn't make up for everything else. But I'd rather they did the one good thing than nothing at all.
Of course, you have to buy a new laptop after the 10 hour battery life is up.
I think they can and will do better than that with a new MacBook Air. It comes in an empty box. Actually it's just the empty box, because it's Air. Now that's courage.
Turn off your phone completely and the battery will last quite a long time. Problem solved. And your life will be improved.
I'd been using Vivaldi but ran into odd compatibility problems (unexpected as it's closely enough related to Chrome), and so went back to Chrome. Chinese-owned Opera has never been an option and unfortunately Firefox is going down the drain.
Well there's always lynx or w3m :)
A good manager's job is to remove obstacles to productivity, enable the staff, and then get out of the way.
Someone who I consider my management mentor told me long ago when I first had a management position, "Your job is to sit in your office and wait for someone to bring you a problem." And while that was something of a simplification, the basics of it were true then and are true now.
As it turns out, employees monitored permanently are under more significantly stress, perform worse, make more mistakes, have more sick days and have about zero loyalty to their employer.
That's really the important point here. Draconian management may extract a little more productivity in the short run (maybe) but end up with malicious compliance, employees who do the bare minimum, and spend as much time figuring ways around the system as they do actually producing. And, as mentioned, zero loyalty. That type of management responds by cracking down even more, and productivity drops further.
Treating people decently actually works. But that isn't exactly what's taught in MBA programs.
Actually the WF CEO, John Stumpf, "retired" last October in the wake of the scandal. He was punished by having $41 million taken away from his retirement package, leaving him with a paltry $133 million. Such severe punishment will surely serve as a warning to others!
http://fortune.com/2016/10/13/wells-fargo-ceo-john-stumpfs-career-ends-with-133-million-payday/
Isn't it interesting how it takes a multi-billion dollar closed-source development company to clean up the security messes left by open source software?
As opposed to closed-source security messes that NEVER get cleaned up?
Well, I use my computer mostly for working purposes, I run Linux, I'm no fan of MS, and I'm not a video/computer gamer, but I have to say you're making an unfair judgment.
There are people who enjoy computer games. There is nothing wrong with that. No doubt you, Mr. AC, enjoy some forms of recreation. What would make your choice better than someone else's?
If a person enjoys a video game, more power to them. If that person needs to run Windows to enjoy a particular game of choice, that's a valid decision. Yes, it comes with some downsides, but it's nonetheless valid and who are we to say it's not?
I don't and won't run Windows, but if someone else chooses to run an OS different from mine, or chooses a recreation different from mine, that's their business and their right.
Obviously MS wants total control, and they're going to get it.
It will matter to me at the point at which they force all PCs sold to be locked down at the bootloader level, to prevent installation of Linux or FreeBSD or some other alternative. That may fail an antitrust test, but it would takes years, even decades, to litigate that.
So, in the end, it's better for me if this new approach fails. But MS is very powerful, and even if this is the worst thing since Windows 8, they may be able to force acceptance. Even as a Linux fanboy, if I were to bet, I'd bet on MS winning this one.
I have personally seen a manager or owner stress to the point of depression when facing the task of laying off an employee.
Sounds like he wasn't the right person for the job. Not everyone should be a manager.
On the contrary I think this /was/ the right person for the job, namely, someone who actually cared about the well-being of the staff and regretted causing hurt and harm.
I know sometimes layoffs are necessary to keep a company afloat and save all the rest of the jobs, but being unmoved about it is no merit as a manager.
But the real question is will it run Linux?
legal is a binary property. Something cannot be highly illegal. It's just legal or illegal.
Wrong, it can also be "undocumented."
A LOT of people do not want to use, or learn how to use, the command line.
Until the Linux developers figure that out (Mark tried with Ubuntu) Linux is not going to replace windows. It's that simple.
Actually, even as a Linux fan, I have to take the other side and say Linux is NEVER going to replace Windows. And I don't even try to sell it to established Windows users. Linux attracts its own audience, which will stay a minority. I'm okay with that.
(This is not an elitist thing, by the way. To each his own. Linux appeals to me, Windows does not, end of story.)
In theory, you are right. In practice, the rate per page is microscopic. The idea, of course, is that more people will read the book. But I hear most authors report a drop in revenue. (I have no direct basis for comparison as my stuff was published after the new program started.
Perhaps so, if they're managing to find the total profit maximizing price point. I suppose in some genres and some authors, fans will pay $9.99 - $12.99 for an ebook.
What's funny is when indie authors try to follow suit and ask $9.99 for an ebook, despite no reputation at all, let alone star status.
I'm in the former category (no reputation indie author) but at $2.99 I do manage to make sales.
You're right, of course. And the same situation holds for musicians and other artists. Unless you're a star, you get pennies on a sale.
When Amazon introduced Kindle Unlimited and pay-for-pages-read, that seemed like the ultimate in ensuring that indie authors got even less than ever.
But until you reach rock star status, there is no leverage.
If ebook prices were in the 2-5 dollar range, I would probably never bother walking to the library again.
Maybe someday the industry will figure it out.
They won't. They have never been able to figure out that a large number times zero is still zero, while a small number (price) times a large number (sales) comes out nicely, especially since the incremental cost to produce each ebook copy is about zero.