There are few e-mail clients even capable of sending plain text e-mail, let alone clients that do so by default.
Those few being Outlook (including OWA which I am using right now to send pure text emails), Apple Mail (macOS and iOS), Thunderbird, K9, Pmail, the Bat!, mutt, pine, mailx, gmail... basically, well over 99% of the mail clients that anyone actually uses. Those are the only ones that can send plain text.
Amazon Echo and Siri and things like that are novelty items that soon wear off. No one wants to talk to a computer.
You're assuming nobody is handicapped in any way, and forgetting that people have strokes, aneurysms and car accidents.
A partially paralyzed auto accident survivor facing a grueling years-long recovery process is usually very willing to talk to a computer. Not least for streaming music - "Alexa, play 'Live from the Mars Hotel'" - while engaged in difficult or humiliating processes essential to therapy.
I wish these things had been available while my father was in the last stages of Parkinson's disease. Amazon Alexa would have enriched his life immeasurably.
It was broken for a day or two, and had UI issues for a couple days after that, but now I like it even better than I did before FF57's plugin apocalypse. Change was good for it.
Of course, I gave the author useful feedback and paypal'd him a donation to support the work, so I'm not surprised that the tool works fine for me.
Now you've added two extra steps that have to be performed with every instance of media. As well as significantly more cost.
I don't mind the extra steps, since it saves me more steps than that every time I use my networked players. When I originally ripped my hundreds of CDs and dozens of cassettes I just did a minimum of two CDs every night for a year and a half or so. DVDs took another six months.
Cost's not really an issue since my computers come from dumpsters. The only additional cost to build my tape ripper was a A/D converter and a yard sale cassette drive ($10 for a unit that originally cost over $400), and CD ripping doesn't even need that.
If you're pirating all your content, then Plex or Kodi are reasonable solutions. If you have some legal or moral hesitation over pirating, they aren't very useful.
I don't "pirate content" (which I presume has something to do with murder, forcible asset reallocation and eyepatches on the high seas.)
I also don't do any illegal or unethical copying of media, and I never have. I see no reason to do so; it just attracts unfavorable attention from morally challenged corporations and law enforcement without providing any compensatory benefits.
But I've been using Kodi/XBMC for well over a decade, and it's extremely useful to me in my one hundred percent legal activities. The only thing it doesn't do is play bluerays, so I have a cheap, linux-based, standalone Insignia-branded player for that.
If every car had by default some good way to mount a cell phone there would not be nearly so much distraction, since you could see the road and not have eyes diverted to the side for notifications or what have you.
Ha ha ha! Sorry! All cars are coming out with dashboard touchscreens now, with utterly pessimized UIs, so that the people who don't have phones can be distracted too.
The NHTSA traffic study that inspired this legislation and (also a related recommendation from an advocacy group for the blind) was unbelievably bad science.
They did not adjust their findings for the (well documented) geographic distribution of EVs and PZEVs. They compared national averages for gas cars with national averages for EVs - this is invalid methodology, because EVs are predominant in urban environments where pedestrian/car accidents are very much more common than rural environments where there isn't sufficient charging infrastructure to support EVs. When adjustments are applied, there is no difference between the rate of gas car and EV pedestrian/car accidents. Then, the study fantasizes an unsupported conclusion - having falsely concluded that EVs are more likely to run down pedestrians (they aren't) the NHTSA report authors then completely invent a rationale to explain this, with *no data to support that rationale*. It's just "EVs are quiet therefore the problem is EVs are quiet". Literally no falsing or experimentation whatsoever, just guesswork. Bad science.
As I understand this legislation, it purports to help the blind avoid quiet cars, but does not do that. It actually just penalizes the makers of EVs and PZEVs while allowing diesel and gasoline cars to be as silent as they wish, up to and including total silence.
However, there's nothing wrong with having noisemakers on EVs and PZEVs. It's just unfair to exempt pollutionmobiles from audio requirements, that's all. It's blatant market manipulation in favor of the Petroleum industry, targeted at Tesla, the only EV that doesn't already have a noisemaker.
Powershell exposes extremely complex internal Microsoft Windows-specific data structures to simple manipulation, and potentially preserves your scripts' ability to manipulate those structures across operating system patches and upgrades. For example, you can change the name of a user object without having to understand the underlying kerberized LDAP data transport of AD or the actual layout of the local user data block. It absolutely rocks for simplifying system programming on Windows.
Other than that, it's just a scripting language, nothing special. You might like the syntax more than an older, heavily accreted language like Bourne Shell, but that's just a matter of taste and familiarity really. Personally I have no trouble writing code in it, and I like Snover, he's a very bright guy who seems to have a good heart.
Having it available on non-Windows systems is of limited utility, since linux and Mac systems don't have the Windows internal guts that Powershell is so excellent for working with. But, remember future high performance windows servers are intended to be GUI-less, stripped down kernels like Nanoserver with all management performed by remote Powershell, so this will be great for systems integration in that environment.
From the original unscaleable unsecured NetBIOS implementation all the way to the currently supported kerberized sorta-NetBEUI over IP, Microsoft's networking stacks have always been *vastly* inefficient - both on the wire and in the node. It's a grotesquely bloated implementation of a horrific design.
However, Microsoft has *always* (well, since Win3.11 wolverine, anyway) provided good support and consistent implementation, keeping their security patches and OS upgrades from breaking connectivity pretty reliably. This contrasted so strongly with 3rd party stacks like Novell, Banyan, &etc. that most of the 3rd parties have gone out of business! It just wasn't worth the hassle of having Microsoft updates constantly break every PC's network connectivity and having to schlep around floppies of 3rd party network stack patches, so we all settled for the really bad MS networking stack that requires far less maintenance, and made up the difference with hardware.
It's not broken because of greed, it works because of greed, or more accurately because people behave in a way that is in their own self interest.
Ah, the Big Lie of the post-Reagan age.
Greed is when you want more than what self-interest demands. Greed is excessive desire that exceeds what is reasonable, healthy or meaningful.
Many, if not most, of the rich are greedy. They want more than what is best for themselves; they don't understand that impoverishing others also harms them.
As Adam Smith figured out a long time ago, a viable economic system has to work despite the existence of greed. This is not in any way the same thing as rewarding or encouraging or worshipping greed, as lassiez-faire capitalists want to do. In fact the principal function of government in a market economy is to provide regulation that will restrain the destructive effects of greed on social structures (such as the market itself).
As you say, a market should work best for those who behave in their own self interest. Greed is by definition excessive and thus not in one's one self interest; it is a character flaw and not the virtue that greedy folk wish you to believe it is.
The answer depends on whether you are the rider in the car or someone else is, writes Peter Dizikes at MIT News
Proving that Peter Dizikes is an amoral, selfish bastard, it seems to me.
I would have said "the answer depends on whether the crowd is composed of Westboro Baptist protestors and child-molesting Catholic clergy, or a bunch of pretty girls holding kittens" - thus proving what a moralizing, vindictive bastard I am.
If you only analyze and react to situations based on your personal gain, you can (and probably should be) replaced by an Ayn Rand ® brand robot. Humans are more complex than that, and will cheerfully give up their lives for ideals or even whims.
What's your alternative to NetworkManager? Manually configure every WiFi connection?
That's what I do. It's dead simple, and why would I want to connect to a WiFi AP without understanding it first? That only makes sense if you're a student with a laptop, or something like that. I'm a computer professional; wireless connections are not difficult magic for me, and I'm expected to maintain data security.
But now that Red Hat apparently wants to install Network Manager on hypervisors and servers, I don't even
Having seen the same exact thing happen on multiple versions of multiple distros across multiple hardware combinations, I can safely say that this can occur without the user fucking anything up.
Feel free to link your bug reports.
Oh, right, it's just not worth your time to report problems with free software. You're much too busy to help out other people who are willing to give you the products of their labor for free. What was I thinking.
The Irish Book of Invasions is a medieval manuscript that collects and bowdlerizes tales and poems by earlier Irish writers, which were themselves based on pre-christian oral traditions of unknown age.
It says Ireland was taken six times by six groups of people: the people of Cessair, the people of Partholon, the people of Nemed, the Fir Bolg, the Tuatha De Danann, and the Milesian Celts.
All these groups were heavily mythologized by the ancient Irish, and the later retro-fitting of Christian trappings makes these legends even more unreliable. It's pretty much impossible to tell whether the Fir Bolg are the same as the Formorians, for example.
But anyway, the Milesian Celts came from Spain, the De Danaan from central Europe.
Only an idiot thinks this is viable on today's internet.
I'm curious about why you say this.
I'm a computer professional and I've been working full time on the Internet since before it went commercial. I spend eight or more hours a day with a web browser open, and I make enough money to own a home and an acre of productive land, four vehicles, have two children in college, and donate a significant portion of my income to social causes I support. I hope to have a comfortable retirement on my savings, assuming Washington doesn't permanently break the economy before then.
What, exactly, am I missing out on by not bothering with javascript? How is my life and work "not viable" to use your expression?
Incidentally, I made this post without any javascript turned on. I see five script sources, and there would probably be more if I ran those, but I haven't run any of them.
Not the original naysayer, but I can answer those questions. I'll do half so others can prove their own inside info.
1) Charlie Murphy, self-taught electronics genius, designed nearly all the DIDACS hardware that plugged into the NEFF. So mostly likely him, working with Mark Momcilovich on the software side.
2) Doug Sprout, because it was on the PDP and not on Leonard's SEL system - but I don't know which PDP, probably Ernest?
If you were there, you'll know who I am by my slashdot username.:)
Idiot Xians believe the Bible is infallible in detail, when the majority merely believes that it is a powerful, meaningful book that can lead to insight regarding both moral behavior and the history of the Jewish people and the Judeo-Christian faiths.
Idiot Buddhists worship Buddha as a deity, and idiot Jains don't understand the nature of atheistic religion, and idiot Jews think that all Xians are alike in their beliefs, and idiot atheists think that atheism is fundamentally incompatible with all religion. Idiot agnostics don't know what "agnostic" means (but they still come out the least idiotic in the idiot sweepstakes).
If you want the minimum number of idiots around you, join a Unitarian Universalist church. But sadly you'll find that "minimum number" does not actually equate to "zero."
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Nonpartisan reality checks don't get the "insightful" mod around here any more. You need to be more loudly in favor of nuclear railguns.
Those few being Outlook (including OWA which I am using right now to send pure text emails), Apple Mail (macOS and iOS), Thunderbird, K9, Pmail, the Bat!, mutt, pine, mailx, gmail... basically, well over 99% of the mail clients that anyone actually uses. Those are the only ones that can send plain text.
You're assuming nobody is handicapped in any way, and forgetting that people have strokes, aneurysms and car accidents.
A partially paralyzed auto accident survivor facing a grueling years-long recovery process is usually very willing to talk to a computer. Not least for streaming music - "Alexa, play 'Live from the Mars Hotel'" - while engaged in difficult or humiliating processes essential to therapy.
I wish these things had been available while my father was in the last stages of Parkinson's disease. Amazon Alexa would have enriched his life immeasurably.
I've got NoScript running in Firefox right now.
It was broken for a day or two, and had UI issues for a couple days after that, but now I like it even better than I did before FF57's plugin apocalypse. Change was good for it.
Of course, I gave the author useful feedback and paypal'd him a donation to support the work, so I'm not surprised that the tool works fine for me.
Wait, what? "anti-tech Montessori schools?" You guys have those?
Here on the East coast we only have the regular kind of Montessori schools, that give kids an early jump on techie stuff like physics and numbers.
I don't mind the extra steps, since it saves me more steps than that every time I use my networked players. When I originally ripped my hundreds of CDs and dozens of cassettes I just did a minimum of two CDs every night for a year and a half or so. DVDs took another six months.
Cost's not really an issue since my computers come from dumpsters. The only additional cost to build my tape ripper was a A/D converter and a yard sale cassette drive ($10 for a unit that originally cost over $400), and CD ripping doesn't even need that.
I don't "pirate content" (which I presume has something to do with murder, forcible asset reallocation and eyepatches on the high seas.)
I also don't do any illegal or unethical copying of media, and I never have. I see no reason to do so; it just attracts unfavorable attention from morally challenged corporations and law enforcement without providing any compensatory benefits.
But I've been using Kodi/XBMC for well over a decade, and it's extremely useful to me in my one hundred percent legal activities. The only thing it doesn't do is play bluerays, so I have a cheap, linux-based, standalone Insignia-branded player for that.
Ha ha ha! Sorry! All cars are coming out with dashboard touchscreens now, with utterly pessimized UIs, so that the people who don't have phones can be distracted too.
The NHTSA traffic study that inspired this legislation and (also a related recommendation from an advocacy group for the blind) was unbelievably bad science.
They did not adjust their findings for the (well documented) geographic distribution of EVs and PZEVs. They compared national averages for gas cars with national averages for EVs - this is invalid methodology, because EVs are predominant in urban environments where pedestrian/car accidents are very much more common than rural environments where there isn't sufficient charging infrastructure to support EVs. When adjustments are applied, there is no difference between the rate of gas car and EV pedestrian/car accidents. Then, the study fantasizes an unsupported conclusion - having falsely concluded that EVs are more likely to run down pedestrians (they aren't) the NHTSA report authors then completely invent a rationale to explain this, with *no data to support that rationale*. It's just "EVs are quiet therefore the problem is EVs are quiet". Literally no falsing or experimentation whatsoever, just guesswork. Bad science.
As I understand this legislation, it purports to help the blind avoid quiet cars, but does not do that. It actually just penalizes the makers of EVs and PZEVs while allowing diesel and gasoline cars to be as silent as they wish, up to and including total silence.
However, there's nothing wrong with having noisemakers on EVs and PZEVs. It's just unfair to exempt pollutionmobiles from audio requirements, that's all. It's blatant market manipulation in favor of the Petroleum industry, targeted at Tesla, the only EV that doesn't already have a noisemaker.
Powershell exposes extremely complex internal Microsoft Windows-specific data structures to simple manipulation, and potentially preserves your scripts' ability to manipulate those structures across operating system patches and upgrades. For example, you can change the name of a user object without having to understand the underlying kerberized LDAP data transport of AD or the actual layout of the local user data block. It absolutely rocks for simplifying system programming on Windows.
Other than that, it's just a scripting language, nothing special. You might like the syntax more than an older, heavily accreted language like Bourne Shell, but that's just a matter of taste and familiarity really. Personally I have no trouble writing code in it, and I like Snover, he's a very bright guy who seems to have a good heart.
Having it available on non-Windows systems is of limited utility, since linux and Mac systems don't have the Windows internal guts that Powershell is so excellent for working with. But, remember future high performance windows servers are intended to be GUI-less, stripped down kernels like Nanoserver with all management performed by remote Powershell, so this will be great for systems integration in that environment.
From the original unscaleable unsecured NetBIOS implementation all the way to the currently supported kerberized sorta-NetBEUI over IP, Microsoft's networking stacks have always been *vastly* inefficient - both on the wire and in the node. It's a grotesquely bloated implementation of a horrific design.
However, Microsoft has *always* (well, since Win3.11 wolverine, anyway) provided good support and consistent implementation, keeping their security patches and OS upgrades from breaking connectivity pretty reliably. This contrasted so strongly with 3rd party stacks like Novell, Banyan, &etc. that most of the 3rd parties have gone out of business! It just wasn't worth the hassle of having Microsoft updates constantly break every PC's network connectivity and having to schlep around floppies of 3rd party network stack patches, so we all settled for the really bad MS networking stack that requires far less maintenance, and made up the difference with hardware.
Of course Google should never give their own money to filthy liberal Europeans; those savages probably aren't even circumcised!
Saints Reagan and Rand are rolling in their blessed graves.
MONEY IS ONLY FOR HURTING PEOPLE! SAVE THE MONIES!
President Trump will fix all this, you betcha.
Ah, the Big Lie of the post-Reagan age.
Greed is when you want more than what self-interest demands. Greed is excessive desire that exceeds what is reasonable, healthy or meaningful.
Many, if not most, of the rich are greedy. They want more than what is best for themselves; they don't understand that impoverishing others also harms them.
As Adam Smith figured out a long time ago, a viable economic system has to work despite the existence of greed. This is not in any way the same thing as rewarding or encouraging or worshipping greed, as lassiez-faire capitalists want to do. In fact the principal function of government in a market economy is to provide regulation that will restrain the destructive effects of greed on social structures (such as the market itself).
As you say, a market should work best for those who behave in their own self interest. Greed is by definition excessive and thus not in one's one self interest; it is a character flaw and not the virtue that greedy folk wish you to believe it is.
Proving that Peter Dizikes is an amoral, selfish bastard, it seems to me.
I would have said "the answer depends on whether the crowd is composed of Westboro Baptist protestors and child-molesting Catholic clergy, or a bunch of pretty girls holding kittens" - thus proving what a moralizing, vindictive bastard I am.
If you only analyze and react to situations based on your personal gain, you can (and probably should be) replaced by an Ayn Rand ® brand robot. Humans are more complex than that, and will cheerfully give up their lives for ideals or even whims.
As Dilbert long ago pointed out, the craziest person wins any debate where the only thing that matters is persistence.
Now maybe we know what happens to the second craziest person... they commit suicide?
Really? Half my children aren't even the same ethnic group or skin color I am. If you raise 'em, they're yours.
And I feel pretty proud of myself, thanks!
That's what I do. It's dead simple, and why would I want to connect to a WiFi AP without understanding it first? That only makes sense if you're a student with a laptop, or something like that. I'm a computer professional; wireless connections are not difficult magic for me, and I'm expected to maintain data security.
But now that Red Hat apparently wants to install Network Manager on hypervisors and servers, I don't even
<SERVER CONNECTION LOST>
Feel free to link your bug reports.
Oh, right, it's just not worth your time to report problems with free software. You're much too busy to help out other people who are willing to give you the products of their labor for free. What was I thinking.
Punctuation is, important people!
The Irish Book of Invasions is a medieval manuscript that collects and bowdlerizes tales and poems by earlier Irish writers, which were themselves based on pre-christian oral traditions of unknown age.
It says Ireland was taken six times by six groups of people: the people of Cessair, the people of Partholon, the people of Nemed, the Fir Bolg, the Tuatha De Danann, and the Milesian Celts.
All these groups were heavily mythologized by the ancient Irish, and the later retro-fitting of Christian trappings makes these legends even more unreliable. It's pretty much impossible to tell whether the Fir Bolg are the same as the Formorians, for example.
But anyway, the Milesian Celts came from Spain, the De Danaan from central Europe.
I'm curious about why you say this.
I'm a computer professional and I've been working full time on the Internet since before it went commercial. I spend eight or more hours a day with a web browser open, and I make enough money to own a home and an acre of productive land, four vehicles, have two children in college, and donate a significant portion of my income to social causes I support. I hope to have a comfortable retirement on my savings, assuming Washington doesn't permanently break the economy before then.
What, exactly, am I missing out on by not bothering with javascript? How is my life and work "not viable" to use your expression?
Incidentally, I made this post without any javascript turned on. I see five script sources, and there would probably be more if I ran those, but I haven't run any of them.
Yeah, but if we hadn't done that, it'd be SOCIALISM!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO BE VERY SCARED VERY VERY SCARED
(And if you aren't frightened enough to vote for Trump yet, let me just say TERRORISM!!! NINE_ELEVEN! NINE_ELEVEN! NINE_ELEVEN!!!)
Not the original naysayer, but I can answer those questions. I'll do half so others can prove their own inside info.
1) Charlie Murphy, self-taught electronics genius, designed nearly all the DIDACS hardware that plugged into the NEFF. So mostly likely him, working with Mark Momcilovich on the software side.
2) Doug Sprout, because it was on the PDP and not on Leonard's SEL system - but I don't know which PDP, probably Ernest?
If you were there, you'll know who I am by my slashdot username. :)
Idiot Xians believe the Bible is infallible in detail, when the majority merely believes that it is a powerful, meaningful book that can lead to insight regarding both moral behavior and the history of the Jewish people and the Judeo-Christian faiths.
Idiot Buddhists worship Buddha as a deity, and idiot Jains don't understand the nature of atheistic religion, and idiot Jews think that all Xians are alike in their beliefs, and idiot atheists think that atheism is fundamentally incompatible with all religion. Idiot agnostics don't know what "agnostic" means (but they still come out the least idiotic in the idiot sweepstakes).
If you want the minimum number of idiots around you, join a Unitarian Universalist church. But sadly you'll find that "minimum number" does not actually equate to "zero."
We used to say that when Morton Salt took over Thiokol, they stripped away our diversified holdings, our best upper management... and our reputation.
I left decades before the Alliant merger, though.