What was the margin of the winner in the votes that were counted? If the margin was greater than the number of ballots uncounted anyway, then those votes need not be counted because either way they went, it wouldn't change the total outcome. According to the official results, 3,311,630 votes were counted in WA. If 7% of ballots were uncounted, that's 249262 votes. That's less than the margin between Clinton and Trump. Ignoring the spread among districts for the moment, that's not nearly enough votes to change the outcome. Hence they were counted without having to be counted.
This is the way mail-in and absentee ballots have always been dealt with. It's completely fair and your vote did "count" as much as any other vote. Of course in your state 4 electors defected, so Trump got votes out of the state which helped him win.
Just a slight quibble with the language that's commonly used when it comes to discussing weed resistance to herbicides. Weeds don't "develop" resistance to chemicals. Rather there are certain individuals in the plant population which, due to genetic variations, have natural resistance to herbicides (any specific herbicide, even ones not invented yet). As herbicides kill non-resistant weeds, the ones left behind are the ones that can tolerate and metabolize the chemical. And those are the plants that put down seeds into the soil. The non-resistant plants never put down any seed. So it's chemical use that selects for these plants and seeds for future generation. It's not like the plants are smart, or are being mutated by chemicals, nor are they being genetically modified, like the corn and soybeans are.
I saw research the other day that showed that after four seasons in a row of applying a Group 2 wild oat herbicide, you can see your wild oat population go from 0.5% naturally resistant to over 95% resistant, all because of the selection pressure. Resistant plants put down the seeds which grow the next year.
And it's not just chemicals that select in this manner. Hand weeding has the same effect. In China hand weeding of a particular weed in rice paddies has selected for weeds that look identical to rice seedlings. It's become quite a problem! I imagine in the future if a robot placed all the seeds and knew the location precisely, it could mechanically remove all plants not growing in that exact spot. That is probably the only sustainable way to control weeds in the long term. All other methods lead to this selection for resistance, or selection for confusing the weeder (person or robot).
ZFS fuse is not ZFS on Linux. Not sure why you'd pass judgement on ZFS having only used it years ago with the fuse version. If you want a real test, try the latest ZFS on Linux releases. They are kernel modules not fuse drivers.
I have run BtrFS for about 5 years now, and I must say it works well on my Laptop with SSD. However on my desktop with spinning disk, it completely falls over. It started out pretty fast for the first few years, but now it's horrible. The slightest disk I/O can freeze my system for long periods of time. I've done a lot of research but haven't found any suggestions for fixing this. I've tried recent kernels, rebalancing, defraging, etc. Nothing had any effect on the I/O load problem. The drive itself is fine. No smart errors, no bad sector relocations, etc. I know the on-disk structure has changed over the years; I'm reasonably certain the on-disk format is the latest. Anyway, I'm tired of waiting for BtrFS. I'm guessing BtrFS has had a lot of issues for others as RedHat has officially abandoned support for it. It's a shame because on paper BtrFS truly rocks.
I've talked to a couple of other BtrFS users and they have also had horrible experiences with spinning disks. I'm going to re-install my system here this winter, and it won't be going back to BtrFS. I'll miss write-able snapshots. But Ext4 is much much faster on my spinning disks. I might try ZFS and see how it runs with just 8 GB of RAM.
I used ZFS for years in the enterprise and it rocked there. I used snaphots heavily for backup and archival purposes. Was awesome, though I hated working with Solaris.
Clearly you haven't thought this out too well. Have you ever taken a train, road a bus, or was a passenger in a car? I'm pretty sure most people would need their devices to remain functional in those situations.
Probably the most annoying thing about built-in navigation on cars these days is that a lot of features for selecting a destination are locked out when the car is in motion, even though my passenger/navigator is perfectly capable of running the system for me while I drive.
In general the move away from buttons and knobs that I can feel and use without looking at them is itself a huge increase in distraction levels. It's getting worse as they move more and more things like windshield wipers to the touch screen. Ooh! Shiny.
Here in Canada that was changed a long time ago. Retailers can charge extra fees for credit cards. Also, except for 9 states, the same is true of most parts of the United States.
So when you say 14 KWh battery, that's enough power to run a 14 KW load for one hour right? In other words for your home you'd need say 12 of these to handle 12 hours worth of battery run time. Correct? Probably more to make the discharge more shallow, and to handle longer nights in the winter.
The price starts to get a bit more steep at industrial scales. For example I have a 45 KW pump (much more than that during starting), which would cost about $270k-378k ($500-$700/KWh) for batteries to run it for about 12 hours. Again this isn't realistic because you'd need much more battery than that to keep the discharges shallow. With current exorbitant transmissions charges here in Alberta, I'm still ahead with the electrical grid for about 10 years. Well that could change as the monopoly transmission company continues to raise the rates without any check.
I'd love to see battery and solar get competitive with traditional generation and distribution (Fortis could use competition), but it's going to take a while yet. And of course if transmission companies would use battery packs it might make solar generation and grid storage actually viable, as currently solar is a bit of a scam. Home owners are scammed into buying and installing them and then demanding that the generation company buy back the electricity when generation company doesn't have any place for it to go (low demand during peak solar), and home owners think they should be paid retail rates for their electricity. They don't understand that the margin between wholesale and retail rates is what helps fund the maintenance of the generation and distribution systems.
As the articles said, these government entities very well could just refuse a request for some reason (such as one of the reasons you suggest). But they aren't doing that; they are filing lawsuits against the requester. That's where the problem is and that's what this whole article is about. This is what is absurd, malicious, and pernicious. And it's getting worse.
It's interesting to see how American institutions, politics, and bureaucracy, are steadily on the decline, both from within and without.
That's true. I agree completely. I've seen first hand the results of privatizing government-owned monopoly services like transportation, electricity, gas, etc, and it's not pretty. As citizens we end up paying for things twice. Of course once privatization happens, re-nationalizing isn't pretty either. Then you pay for it all a third time.
In other words, they need a lot of money from investors and governments, with few strings attached. And mostly from governments.
I don't think government investment is bad inherently; I think government contracts with companies making known good technologies is a good thing. For example government contracts with SpaceX.
I remain highly skeptical, especially when wheeled high speed trains are here right now. I can't possibly imagine that hyperloop would be cheaper than high speed rail to build, nor do I see how it solves any of the problems preventing high speed rail from being built in North America.
I guess it all depends on your audience. To most slashdotters of my generation (I must be old), the desktop as it was in Gnome or Windows 20 years ago was indeed completely usable as it was what we were used to (they *learned* it, regardless of how unintuitive it was). Gnome devs seem to be chasing some mythical new user, but I'm not convinced this new user exists. So instead of catering to their actual base--you know the people who actually use Linux--they are alienating their base in a hopes of appealing to, well I'm not sure who exactly. It's very demoralizing, honestly.
To me, I don't think those animated transitions they are so excited about add much to my experience. Most of them I would disable if given a chance. Not saying they are a complete waste but rather I just don't think they are that important to me personally as a user. They may indeed be useful for new users if they really exist. After watching that video I'm not at all sure what to feel. Is it exciting new stuff or is it a harbinger of even more disfunction to come? I have no idea. Android has seemed to use animations to good effect (and iOS) so maybe it's the future. Not because it's awesome but because it's what people have learned.
Mate is now pretty much been ported to GTK+ 3, and they've managed to keep much of the look and feel that it had with GTK+ 2. So apparently most of what you dislike about Gnome 3's behavior must be tweakable in GTK+ already.
GTK+ 3 themes can now be made much simpler than the old engine days. You can now do it with CSS to good effect. And there are GTK+ 3 versions of older themes like Clearlooks that look pretty good.
Sorry but your claims about the "staged Muslim protest" are unsubstantiated claims, with no evidence. The CNN side of the story is a heck of lot more believable than yours (I say yours because you're the one promoting these tweats). Sorry. You weren't there; you don't know what was going on. Talk to someone that was involved in the protest as the reporter did. All you can do is make allegations based on your own feelings and beliefs. That's not news. To perpetuate these unsubstantiated claims as if they were facts is, well, a lie. Fake news. And it promotes the very kind of hatred that people at that protest were trying to protest against. You are part of the problem. Maybe you should stop following extremists on Twitter and make friends with Muslims, blacks, hispanic immigrants, refugees that live near you, and find out what things are really like in their families and neighborhoods.
Muslims in many places feel they want to speak up, protest against those who commit atrocities in the name of Islam, and tell us what the vast majority of Muslims think and feel about peace. I'm glad those protesters talked to the reporter and showed her their signs, and posed for pictures. It's a very important thing!
No I don't think so. The modern age of coffee-fueled offices is entirely a product of Maxwell House's 1950s advertising with the slogan, "Take a coffee break." I kid you not. The modern "coffee break" is the result of an ad campaign. It was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
Before that time, coffee was only consumed in the home, probably at breakfast and after supper. And if you go back even farther, coffee wasn't really a part of American households until after World War I when returning veterans bought back a taste for it, having had it in their rations.
Are you serious? Oh how the mighty have fallen. This kind of maker thing used to epitomize slashdot.
Sure it's of no practical value, but the experience and sheer geek joy he got from the project are priceless. This is slashdot where we used to glory in cool hacks like this. Have you hacked a board together from breadboard prototype all the way through to finished, miniature circuit board? Pretty neat stuff. This modern age of makers and youtube blows me out of the water. There's something about making something that is satisfying and always educational.
I thoroughly enjoyed the video and it was neat to see how manufacturing of those circuit boards works.
Except that they did give me a Bentley and it could rive on water, so I started relying on rivers and lakes to get to work. Now all of a sudden they are taking the Bentley away and giving me a new Bentley that has no steering wheel and can't drive on water anymore. So yes I'm going to complain.
Firefox lives and dies on ad revenue from users *using* firefox. So if they make it less useful, they'll lose users and lose money. So if they want to bring in money to continue their existence, they need to listen to the complaints of their users. It's that simple.
Ahh but see you're mistaken. What the NSA really wants is the original bitcoin(s) which are now worth millions. Other than the theoretical wealth of his original bitcoins, you're absolutely correct. There's no reason the NSA would ever need to know the identity of the original author as he's broken no laws and done nothing wrong and everything he wrote in software is available for scrutiny. He's just fabulously rich, albeit on paper only. And furthermore bitcoin is not anonymous at all, so the moment he tried to use his original bitcoins and trade them for real money he'd be identified immediately. So either it's all about wealth or the NSA is just on a power trip and decided to test their illegal tools identifying a prolific but elusive person.
Except that his objections and analysis are incredibly sane and valid. Instead of resorting to ad hominem fallacy, why not dispute the analysis? Or are you simply discounting his analysis because this is outside his field of expertise without examining it at all?
Even without a lot of physics knowledge, we have to acknowledge the tremendous engineering difficulty of maintaining large stretches of vacuum. And the dangers of decompression. Or extreme difficulties of safety. Doesn't take a lot of physics knowledge to understand these problems. Maybe they could be solved, but I am not hopeful.
We can't even build regular high-speed rail trains in the US and those are well understood and the engineering has already been done. Running a vacuum tube on pylons is not going to solve it.
The email is unclear, but will we also lose the ability to back up peer to peer? It seems so. Might be time to investigate a bittorrent solution to push my backup to several friends' computers and vice versa.
Pretty much everywhere, honestly. Except for DJI, nearly all drones are flown with open-source controllers. ArduPilot was one of the earlier successful ones. There are dozens of drone platforms to choose from, some of which are very capable.
None of them are as slick and polished as DJI's project, though.
Yes there are still some technical, under-the-hood things that Firefox is not cloning Chrome in doing. But I don't understand at all why Firefox is a clone of Chrome in all other ways.
I also don't understand the appeal of current UI trends, including the tablet-ification of desktop apps. I understand why I might want tabs integrated into the title bar on a tablet, but not on desktop. Will be interesting to see what happens when all the hipsters currently designing user interfaces find themselves 20 years older down the road complaining about the decisions of the next generation of hipster UI designers. Who knows, maybe we'll come full circle and return to many of the principles that have been abandoned lately.
You must not have used Linux back in the early days. Sure Linux was simpler back then, but it definitely struggled mightily to "just work." Hardware support had to start at zero, essentially, so devices only worked in Linux as developers and Linus had time to add them. And hardware specs were quite fluid back then. Anyone remember having to deal with IRQ and port assignments? The mess that was ISAPNP? Having to use SCSI-emulation to use a CDROM drive? The mess that was the sound system on Linux that PulseAudio largely corrected?
Sorry but the "good old days" thing is a myth. Linux today, with systemd, is far more plug and play and "just works" than ever before. It's a more complex beast now because computers are more complex. So there is lots of room for bugs. But it's certainly better now than it was in the old Redhat 5 days when I really started using Linux.
Welfare? Now I think I've heard everything. So taxing people to raise revenue to give to companies through tax breaks and incentives is actually helping us by not giving us free money that was already ours to begin with? Because incentives to companies are the same as subsidies, and they have to be paid for from tax revenue.
To rephrase the original poster, why not just cut taxes and allow citizens to spend their hard-earned money the way they want?
And as far as real welfare or charity goes, conventional wisdom, such as what you describe, may in fact be not the case. Poverty is a cycle and often money with no strings attached is enough of a trigger to get people out of that cycle. There are several long-term experiments going on with charities giving people money, rather than clothes or wells or goats, and so far the results are looking very promising indeed. People are lifting themselves out of poverty, establishing habits of setting aside and saving money, and planning for the future. Something they never could do before. It's quite remarkable. It seems like those who say "give a man a fish and he's fed for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for life" might be the ones who already have the money to buy the fish.
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What was the margin of the winner in the votes that were counted? If the margin was greater than the number of ballots uncounted anyway, then those votes need not be counted because either way they went, it wouldn't change the total outcome. According to the official results, 3,311,630 votes were counted in WA. If 7% of ballots were uncounted, that's 249262 votes. That's less than the margin between Clinton and Trump. Ignoring the spread among districts for the moment, that's not nearly enough votes to change the outcome. Hence they were counted without having to be counted.
This is the way mail-in and absentee ballots have always been dealt with. It's completely fair and your vote did "count" as much as any other vote. Of course in your state 4 electors defected, so Trump got votes out of the state which helped him win.
Just a slight quibble with the language that's commonly used when it comes to discussing weed resistance to herbicides. Weeds don't "develop" resistance to chemicals. Rather there are certain individuals in the plant population which, due to genetic variations, have natural resistance to herbicides (any specific herbicide, even ones not invented yet). As herbicides kill non-resistant weeds, the ones left behind are the ones that can tolerate and metabolize the chemical. And those are the plants that put down seeds into the soil. The non-resistant plants never put down any seed. So it's chemical use that selects for these plants and seeds for future generation. It's not like the plants are smart, or are being mutated by chemicals, nor are they being genetically modified, like the corn and soybeans are.
I saw research the other day that showed that after four seasons in a row of applying a Group 2 wild oat herbicide, you can see your wild oat population go from 0.5% naturally resistant to over 95% resistant, all because of the selection pressure. Resistant plants put down the seeds which grow the next year.
And it's not just chemicals that select in this manner. Hand weeding has the same effect. In China hand weeding of a particular weed in rice paddies has selected for weeds that look identical to rice seedlings. It's become quite a problem! I imagine in the future if a robot placed all the seeds and knew the location precisely, it could mechanically remove all plants not growing in that exact spot. That is probably the only sustainable way to control weeds in the long term. All other methods lead to this selection for resistance, or selection for confusing the weeder (person or robot).
Oh you had me excited there for a second. But no, alas, quotas and qgroups are not enabled, as near as I can tell.
ZFS fuse is not ZFS on Linux. Not sure why you'd pass judgement on ZFS having only used it years ago with the fuse version. If you want a real test, try the latest ZFS on Linux releases. They are kernel modules not fuse drivers.
I have run BtrFS for about 5 years now, and I must say it works well on my Laptop with SSD. However on my desktop with spinning disk, it completely falls over. It started out pretty fast for the first few years, but now it's horrible. The slightest disk I/O can freeze my system for long periods of time. I've done a lot of research but haven't found any suggestions for fixing this. I've tried recent kernels, rebalancing, defraging, etc. Nothing had any effect on the I/O load problem. The drive itself is fine. No smart errors, no bad sector relocations, etc. I know the on-disk structure has changed over the years; I'm reasonably certain the on-disk format is the latest. Anyway, I'm tired of waiting for BtrFS. I'm guessing BtrFS has had a lot of issues for others as RedHat has officially abandoned support for it. It's a shame because on paper BtrFS truly rocks.
I've talked to a couple of other BtrFS users and they have also had horrible experiences with spinning disks. I'm going to re-install my system here this winter, and it won't be going back to BtrFS. I'll miss write-able snapshots. But Ext4 is much much faster on my spinning disks. I might try ZFS and see how it runs with just 8 GB of RAM.
I used ZFS for years in the enterprise and it rocked there. I used snaphots heavily for backup and archival purposes. Was awesome, though I hated working with Solaris.
Clearly you haven't thought this out too well. Have you ever taken a train, road a bus, or was a passenger in a car? I'm pretty sure most people would need their devices to remain functional in those situations.
Probably the most annoying thing about built-in navigation on cars these days is that a lot of features for selecting a destination are locked out when the car is in motion, even though my passenger/navigator is perfectly capable of running the system for me while I drive.
In general the move away from buttons and knobs that I can feel and use without looking at them is itself a huge increase in distraction levels. It's getting worse as they move more and more things like windshield wipers to the touch screen. Ooh! Shiny.
Here in Canada that was changed a long time ago. Retailers can charge extra fees for credit cards. Also, except for 9 states, the same is true of most parts of the United States.
So when you say 14 KWh battery, that's enough power to run a 14 KW load for one hour right? In other words for your home you'd need say 12 of these to handle 12 hours worth of battery run time. Correct? Probably more to make the discharge more shallow, and to handle longer nights in the winter.
The price starts to get a bit more steep at industrial scales. For example I have a 45 KW pump (much more than that during starting), which would cost about $270k-378k ($500-$700 /KWh) for batteries to run it for about 12 hours. Again this isn't realistic because you'd need much more battery than that to keep the discharges shallow. With current exorbitant transmissions charges here in Alberta, I'm still ahead with the electrical grid for about 10 years. Well that could change as the monopoly transmission company continues to raise the rates without any check.
I'd love to see battery and solar get competitive with traditional generation and distribution (Fortis could use competition), but it's going to take a while yet. And of course if transmission companies would use battery packs it might make solar generation and grid storage actually viable, as currently solar is a bit of a scam. Home owners are scammed into buying and installing them and then demanding that the generation company buy back the electricity when generation company doesn't have any place for it to go (low demand during peak solar), and home owners think they should be paid retail rates for their electricity. They don't understand that the margin between wholesale and retail rates is what helps fund the maintenance of the generation and distribution systems.
As the articles said, these government entities very well could just refuse a request for some reason (such as one of the reasons you suggest). But they aren't doing that; they are filing lawsuits against the requester. That's where the problem is and that's what this whole article is about. This is what is absurd, malicious, and pernicious. And it's getting worse.
It's interesting to see how American institutions, politics, and bureaucracy, are steadily on the decline, both from within and without.
That's true. I agree completely. I've seen first hand the results of privatizing government-owned monopoly services like transportation, electricity, gas, etc, and it's not pretty. As citizens we end up paying for things twice. Of course once privatization happens, re-nationalizing isn't pretty either. Then you pay for it all a third time.
In other words, they need a lot of money from investors and governments, with few strings attached. And mostly from governments.
I don't think government investment is bad inherently; I think government contracts with companies making known good technologies is a good thing. For example government contracts with SpaceX.
I remain highly skeptical, especially when wheeled high speed trains are here right now. I can't possibly imagine that hyperloop would be cheaper than high speed rail to build, nor do I see how it solves any of the problems preventing high speed rail from being built in North America.
I guess it all depends on your audience. To most slashdotters of my generation (I must be old), the desktop as it was in Gnome or Windows 20 years ago was indeed completely usable as it was what we were used to (they *learned* it, regardless of how unintuitive it was). Gnome devs seem to be chasing some mythical new user, but I'm not convinced this new user exists. So instead of catering to their actual base--you know the people who actually use Linux--they are alienating their base in a hopes of appealing to, well I'm not sure who exactly. It's very demoralizing, honestly.
To me, I don't think those animated transitions they are so excited about add much to my experience. Most of them I would disable if given a chance. Not saying they are a complete waste but rather I just don't think they are that important to me personally as a user. They may indeed be useful for new users if they really exist. After watching that video I'm not at all sure what to feel. Is it exciting new stuff or is it a harbinger of even more disfunction to come? I have no idea. Android has seemed to use animations to good effect (and iOS) so maybe it's the future. Not because it's awesome but because it's what people have learned.
Mate is now pretty much been ported to GTK+ 3, and they've managed to keep much of the look and feel that it had with GTK+ 2. So apparently most of what you dislike about Gnome 3's behavior must be tweakable in GTK+ already.
GTK+ 3 themes can now be made much simpler than the old engine days. You can now do it with CSS to good effect. And there are GTK+ 3 versions of older themes like Clearlooks that look pretty good.
Sorry but your claims about the "staged Muslim protest" are unsubstantiated claims, with no evidence. The CNN side of the story is a heck of lot more believable than yours (I say yours because you're the one promoting these tweats). Sorry. You weren't there; you don't know what was going on. Talk to someone that was involved in the protest as the reporter did. All you can do is make allegations based on your own feelings and beliefs. That's not news. To perpetuate these unsubstantiated claims as if they were facts is, well, a lie. Fake news. And it promotes the very kind of hatred that people at that protest were trying to protest against. You are part of the problem. Maybe you should stop following extremists on Twitter and make friends with Muslims, blacks, hispanic immigrants, refugees that live near you, and find out what things are really like in their families and neighborhoods.
Muslims in many places feel they want to speak up, protest against those who commit atrocities in the name of Islam, and tell us what the vast majority of Muslims think and feel about peace. I'm glad those protesters talked to the reporter and showed her their signs, and posed for pictures. It's a very important thing!
No I don't think so. The modern age of coffee-fueled offices is entirely a product of Maxwell House's 1950s advertising with the slogan, "Take a coffee break." I kid you not. The modern "coffee break" is the result of an ad campaign. It was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
Before that time, coffee was only consumed in the home, probably at breakfast and after supper. And if you go back even farther, coffee wasn't really a part of American households until after World War I when returning veterans bought back a taste for it, having had it in their rations.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/undert...
Are you serious? Oh how the mighty have fallen. This kind of maker thing used to epitomize slashdot.
Sure it's of no practical value, but the experience and sheer geek joy he got from the project are priceless. This is slashdot where we used to glory in cool hacks like this. Have you hacked a board together from breadboard prototype all the way through to finished, miniature circuit board? Pretty neat stuff. This modern age of makers and youtube blows me out of the water. There's something about making something that is satisfying and always educational.
I thoroughly enjoyed the video and it was neat to see how manufacturing of those circuit boards works.
Except that they did give me a Bentley and it could rive on water, so I started relying on rivers and lakes to get to work. Now all of a sudden they are taking the Bentley away and giving me a new Bentley that has no steering wheel and can't drive on water anymore. So yes I'm going to complain.
Firefox lives and dies on ad revenue from users *using* firefox. So if they make it less useful, they'll lose users and lose money. So if they want to bring in money to continue their existence, they need to listen to the complaints of their users. It's that simple.
Ahh but see you're mistaken. What the NSA really wants is the original bitcoin(s) which are now worth millions. Other than the
theoretical wealth of his original bitcoins, you're absolutely correct. There's no reason the NSA would ever need to know the identity of the original author as he's broken no laws and done nothing wrong and everything he wrote in software is available for scrutiny. He's just fabulously rich, albeit on paper only. And furthermore bitcoin is not anonymous at all, so the moment he tried to use his original bitcoins and trade them for real money he'd be identified immediately. So either it's all about wealth or the NSA is just on a power trip and decided to test their illegal tools identifying a prolific but elusive person.
Except that his objections and analysis are incredibly sane and valid. Instead of resorting to ad hominem fallacy, why not dispute the analysis? Or are you simply discounting his analysis because this is outside his field of expertise without examining it at all?
Even without a lot of physics knowledge, we have to acknowledge the tremendous engineering difficulty of maintaining large stretches of vacuum. And the dangers of decompression. Or extreme difficulties of safety. Doesn't take a lot of physics knowledge to understand these problems. Maybe they could be solved, but I am not hopeful.
We can't even build regular high-speed rail trains in the US and those are well understood and the engineering has already been done. Running a vacuum tube on pylons is not going to solve it.
The email is unclear, but will we also lose the ability to back up peer to peer? It seems so. Might be time to investigate a bittorrent solution to push my backup to several friends' computers and vice versa.
Pretty much everywhere, honestly. Except for DJI, nearly all drones are flown with open-source controllers. ArduPilot was one of the earlier successful ones. There are dozens of drone platforms to choose from, some of which are very capable.
None of them are as slick and polished as DJI's project, though.
Yes there are still some technical, under-the-hood things that Firefox is not cloning Chrome in doing. But I don't understand at all why Firefox is a clone of Chrome in all other ways.
I also don't understand the appeal of current UI trends, including the tablet-ification of desktop apps. I understand why I might want tabs integrated into the title bar on a tablet, but not on desktop. Will be interesting to see what happens when all the hipsters currently designing user interfaces find themselves 20 years older down the road complaining about the decisions of the next generation of hipster UI designers. Who knows, maybe we'll come full circle and return to many of the principles that have been abandoned lately.
Did you see the screenshot? There's very little room at all for clicking.
So why should I use this over Chrome? It sure looks the same to me.
As for tabs in the title bar, how does one even move the window now? There's almost no real estate left to even click on.
You must not have used Linux back in the early days. Sure Linux was simpler back then, but it definitely struggled mightily to "just work." Hardware support had to start at zero, essentially, so devices only worked in Linux as developers and Linus had time to add them. And hardware specs were quite fluid back then. Anyone remember having to deal with IRQ and port assignments? The mess that was ISAPNP? Having to use SCSI-emulation to use a CDROM drive? The mess that was the sound system on Linux that PulseAudio largely corrected?
Sorry but the "good old days" thing is a myth. Linux today, with systemd, is far more plug and play and "just works" than ever before. It's a more complex beast now because computers are more complex. So there is lots of room for bugs. But it's certainly better now than it was in the old Redhat 5 days when I really started using Linux.
Welfare? Now I think I've heard everything. So taxing people to raise revenue to give to companies through tax breaks and incentives is actually helping us by not giving us free money that was already ours to begin with? Because incentives to companies are the same as subsidies, and they have to be paid for from tax revenue.
To rephrase the original poster, why not just cut taxes and allow citizens to spend their hard-earned money the way they want?
And as far as real welfare or charity goes, conventional wisdom, such as what you describe, may in fact be not the case. Poverty is a cycle and often money with no strings attached is enough of a trigger to get people out of that cycle. There are several long-term experiments going on with charities giving people money, rather than clothes or wells or goats, and so far the results are looking very promising indeed. People are lifting themselves out of poverty, establishing habits of setting aside and saving money, and planning for the future. Something they never could do before. It's quite remarkable. It seems like those who say "give a man a fish and he's fed for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for life" might be the ones who already have the money to buy the fish.