This is wishful thinking. It may be true in very dense urban centers, but it is less and less likely to be true anytime soon out in suburbia, and even less likely in rural areas where farms operate and grow food that everyone in the urban centers is dependent on.
Personally I'd love to see a day when I can have a fully-electric, battery-operated tractor, combine, or semi truck that can operate at high power output ranges for 12 hours or more at a stretch (and recharge very quickly). But realistically I don't expect to see this in my lifetime.
AC is right. I am wrong about changing button placement, at least as of Fedora 26. So while I still don't like CSD, GTK+ apparently does allow changing of the order of the buttons, and putting them on the left. In Gnome this is done through dconf ord.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.button-layout. This setting will change both the window manager used for non-CSD apps, and GTK+ CSD apps that use the HeaderBar. I have no idea what dconf setting you would need to set for just GTK apps under other desktops.
Actually, no. With Gnome 3 and apps using client-side decorations and the HeaderBar where the window controls are mashed together with toolbar buttons, it's no longer possible to change window close, maximize, etc to the left side without serious hacking of GTK and possibly the apps themselves. Gtk dictates where the window buttons are going to be and what they look like (according to the GTK theme in use). So no more window manager themes in the long run.
You used to be able to disable client-side decorations which would let the window manager draw its controls still (in whatever order you configured it to), which looks a bit funny because apps will have a sort of double titlebar. However recent versions of GTK have no means for disabling CSD.
Trying to engage GTK devs over concerns about CSD won't get anyone anywhere as the devs are tired of hearing the complaints and consider the arguments tired and ignorant.
In my mind, this (client-side decorations) is a huge step backwards for usability, to say nothing of the power and flexibility that has made the Linux desktop so interesting and powerful. But hey, progress.
I am reminded of a fascinating interview I heard last year with two economists, and the interview was entitled, "It's the economists, stupid," a play on the classic phrase you quoted as your subject. Their point in the interview was that "the markets" have taken on an almost anthropomorphic character in our thought and economy. And economists have become the new oracles to tell us what the markets "say" and where the value lies, replacing the ancient ones that would tell people the moods of the gods so they could get better crops. Economics is certainly a branch of psychology not mathematics, though, as you say, they try to wrap it up in some mathematical rationalization and modeling. Can you mathematically model psychology? Yes to a degree. We can even make a formula that lets us value and trade debts themselves! It works because the math says it works!
Actually it has everything to do with the ttf files and the use thereof. Like I said, the font's actual, rendered shape cannot be copyrighted. The ttf file, being a computer program, can and is copyrighted, as you say. But can this copyright extend to the final rendering? No it can't. However the font company can still claim the use of the ttf file for this logo breached their contract with the user of the font.
So this is at best a licensing/contract dispute, not a copyright issue. At least in a perfect world.
Since font shapes cannot be copyrighted, they will have a tough time proving that their own ttf file (which can be copyrighted) was used unlawfully. If universal claimed the font was not the font maker's font, I suppose they could demand to see the ttf file, and probably a judge would go along with it. And who's to say that universal couldn't have asked a third party to make the logo who had access to the font ttf file.
Well odds are if a script has #!/usr/bin/python in it, it's a Python 2 script. If it's got #!/usr/bin/python3, it's a Python 3 script. I see no problem with this, even after Python 2 is retired. If Python 2 is retired and not installed, then running a python 2 script (with the default python link) will just result in an error. I think this is way safer than changing the default python link and having legacy scripts break mysteriously for the uninitiated. I don't believe PEP 294 will ever be changed, because it just doesn't need to be.
Why change/usr/bin/python when python 4 will come along? Maybe python needs to have some kind of simple version flag in the shebang line.
Personally I think Guido is actually quite amazed that Python has amassed the popularity that the python3/python2 split is even an issue!
Python developers themselves have stated in PEP 394 that/usr/bin/python should *not* be linked to python3. Instead scripts should just use #!env python3 explicitly in the shebang to requestion python 3.x Or python4, or python5, as those generations are some day released.
I think it's Arch linux that changed/usr/bin/python to point to python3, but this is not recommended by any Python developer and horribly breaks things unnecessarily and is incompatible with all other distros. Besides if/usr/bin/python pointed to python3, and if python4 comes along, we'd have to go through all this rubbish again. Explicit in this case is better than implicit.
Don't even say it! Pocket Casts is my most used phone app and the last think I'd want is for Google to buy it and ruin it like they seem to have done with most things they've acquired and really what they've done to most of their stuff people actually use. Please don't give them ideas!
The magazine's first couple of pages state that the copyright is owned by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. There's no mention of individual author's copyright. It's quite likely that if the authors did not sell their entire copyright to the magazine, they likely signed to allow galaxy the right to publish their work how they see fit, which is pretty standard for publishing articles in magazines. So there's no need to get permission from the individual authors.
Presumably either the magazine's own copyright has expired, or the current owners granted archive.org permission. I don't see a problem with this archive. Archive.org is well aware of copyright law and its implications.
Same with the words, "Liberal Democracy," which is the description of what most western democracies are, in the true sense. But a lot of people get hung up on the word, "Liberal" and have a fit. Which is ironic because "Liberal" is based on the same root word and concept as "Liberty:" free, as in freedom.
That's why I also run ghostery (no I don't have it log in to their cloud). Slashdot has on average about 8 unnecessary javascript trackers on any given page.
In my experiences, sites that do that don't really have anything of value for me to see anyway, so I just go away. If I think I really want to see the page, I'll disable javascript and 90% of the time the content loads fine. Often when I do that I wouldn't have missed much if I'd just closed the tab and gone on my way.
Who told you surcharges are illegal (assuming in the US)? I certainly know of no federal law about that. Perhaps your state has a law concerning it?
In Canada, a law was passed expressly allowing retailers to charge extra for credit card transaction. A lot of people don't realize that those premium credit cards with high rewards charge the retailers a lot more, upwards of 3%, nearly double the rate for "normal" credit cards. If retailers are unable to add a surcharge, then those premium card holders' rewards are really being paid for by everyone else through overall higher prices. It's quite a racket.
And how many Pis and other SOCs are lying unused in drawers? Well over half I'd guess. I have several that I always meant to use in projects but never did.
Bash (/bin/bash) is the default user shell in Ubuntu. It's the default system shell (/bin/sh) that is dash on Ubuntu, whereas all other distros use bash in bourne shell mode.
I think Ubuntu chose to use dash to increase the performance of their upstart init system which relied on many shell scripts and dozens of shell invocations.
But as you say using dash when everyone else uses bash's bourne shell mode can lead to the occasional subtle issue with shell scripts between distros. Also if I recall it led to a security issue with Ubuntu some years ago.
I play around with Mint on my laptop and it works fine there. On my desktop, though, I always prefer CentOS or Fedora. Running CentOS 7 right now, but like your issue with Debian stable, the software availability is not so great, so I'm going to move back to Fedora and just bite the bullet and upgrade every year. Running Mate desktop of course.
Apple's TrueType won the day, even converting Microsoft. Now all OS's use OpenType which is a successor to TrueType. All modern Linux apps can use either TrueType or OpenType fonts.
We have the HTC Vive and to us it's actually a very useful tool, and it's already paid for itself in my opinion. Doing my kitchen renovation and could only determine so much with tape on the floor to try to figure out if there was enough practical space between the counter, the island, and where the table would go. Even tried mocking it with cardboard boxes. I just don't have a good enough imagination.
With VR we took a model of the design, done in Sketchup, and placed ourselves right in the model and in just a few minutes we could determine it would be a great layout and the spacing was just right. VR showed us the design with the right proportions, scale, and everything (actual size). Given that materials cost many thousands of dollars, the cost of the HTC was more than justified, and even in a way paid for with this one job. Anyone designing a house themselves should think about VR as a tool. It's cheap compared to what you'll sink into a house.
I'm not a gamer so all I use VR for is walking through house designs and other forms of architecture, a bit of flight simulation, and for fun once in a blue moon, Google Earth.
Gaming in VR isn't really that exciting, but the immersion offered by Oculus Rift and Vive is real, I assure you. It's very striking. It may indeed be an expensive toy, but it's actually not useless, and it works much better than you make it out to be.
My brother owns the HTC Vive. He didn't buy it for the games, though they can be kind of fun. Rather he bought it to visualize in full immersion home renovations and let him play with house plans. Even using a simple tool like Sketchup, the results in VR are very good. I'm in the process of remodeling my living room and kitchen, and so far it's turning out exactly as it did in the VR model. No surprises and everything is proportioned as I want. To me this is the killer app for VR. To design in 3D (just using Sketchup at the moment) and visualize it in 3D VR and walk through it, look around. Not sure if the bathroom is going to be big enough? Just walk into it and take a look. Not sure if it's going to be easy to reach a wrench around a corner to access a part on a machine? Go into VR and check it. Being able to move around, change perspective, look over, under and around things is very powerful.
Another very interesting application of VR is simulations such as flight simulators. Except for the low resolution of modern VR systems making it hard to read digital instrument panels in aircraft, VR does make flight simulation incredibly realistic, as far as an experience goes.
These are the killer apps for VR to me, but that's not a mass market appeal thing. If you're into architecture and design, take a look at VR.
As for the games, honestly the funnest game in the Vive comes with the Vive in the "The Lab" and it's just a simple game where you shoot arrows at little black stick figures attacking your gate. Great fun! The other more complicated games are, well, meh, once you see all the fancy graphics.
And Turbo Vision lives on in Unix as tvision (GPL) or an older BSD fork for C and C++, or Free Vision for FreePascal. Not sure if any of these projects has been actively developed for some years. But they are fairly mature projects.
Several IDEs have been built using these tools that look like Turbo C++ used to. Kind of neat, and still looks good and is useful on modern Unix systems today.
Actually a properly executed barrel roll would not even be felt by the passengers, standing or sitting. It's a constant G maneuver. Back in the day, a test pilot rolled a 707 airliner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He was reprimanded, even though it was a completely safe maneuver, as the spectators and potential customers were a bit rattled (they were on the ground watching) by the event.
There's a good chance that 4DOS would run, and maybe even Pollyshell. The FreeDOS kernel is fairly compatible with MS-DOS. You could download it into a VM and give it a try. I'm sure you can downlaod 4DOS or Pollyshell from some archive somewhere.
You're correct that the scale has changed over time. But you could look up the facts on it. Even Wikipedia does a passing job of explaining it. It certainly was not changed to "compete" with celsius. Rather Fahrenheit multiplied his earlier scale by 4. This was likely because he had started working with mercury to make more accurate thermometers and mercury has the property that one degree F increase in temperature expands the density by one part in 1000. So it's more probable that the final scale ended up the way it is because of the properties of mercury, not because of Celsius.
Doesn't matter, though. You'll still be paying fixed charges to the electrical company each month even if you use zero electricity. So this really doesn't make much sense to do.
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This is wishful thinking. It may be true in very dense urban centers, but it is less and less likely to be true anytime soon out in suburbia, and even less likely in rural areas where farms operate and grow food that everyone in the urban centers is dependent on.
Personally I'd love to see a day when I can have a fully-electric, battery-operated tractor, combine, or semi truck that can operate at high power output ranges for 12 hours or more at a stretch (and recharge very quickly). But realistically I don't expect to see this in my lifetime.
AC is right. I am wrong about changing button placement, at least as of Fedora 26. So while I still don't like CSD, GTK+ apparently does allow changing of the order of the buttons, and putting them on the left. In Gnome this is done through dconf ord.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.button-layout. This setting will change both the window manager used for non-CSD apps, and GTK+ CSD apps that use the HeaderBar. I have no idea what dconf setting you would need to set for just GTK apps under other desktops.
Which version? And are you using apps with CSD such gedit?
Actually, no. With Gnome 3 and apps using client-side decorations and the HeaderBar where the window controls are mashed together with toolbar buttons, it's no longer possible to change window close, maximize, etc to the left side without serious hacking of GTK and possibly the apps themselves. Gtk dictates where the window buttons are going to be and what they look like (according to the GTK theme in use). So no more window manager themes in the long run.
You used to be able to disable client-side decorations which would let the window manager draw its controls still (in whatever order you configured it to), which looks a bit funny because apps will have a sort of double titlebar. However recent versions of GTK have no means for disabling CSD.
Trying to engage GTK devs over concerns about CSD won't get anyone anywhere as the devs are tired of hearing the complaints and consider the arguments tired and ignorant.
In my mind, this (client-side decorations) is a huge step backwards for usability, to say nothing of the power and flexibility that has made the Linux desktop so interesting and powerful. But hey, progress.
I am reminded of a fascinating interview I heard last year with two economists, and the interview was entitled, "It's the economists, stupid," a play on the classic phrase you quoted as your subject. Their point in the interview was that "the markets" have taken on an almost anthropomorphic character in our thought and economy. And economists have become the new oracles to tell us what the markets "say" and where the value lies, replacing the ancient ones that would tell people the moods of the gods so they could get better crops. Economics is certainly a branch of psychology not mathematics, though, as you say, they try to wrap it up in some mathematical rationalization and modeling. Can you mathematically model psychology? Yes to a degree. We can even make a formula that lets us value and trade debts themselves! It works because the math says it works!
Actually it has everything to do with the ttf files and the use thereof. Like I said, the font's actual, rendered shape cannot be copyrighted. The ttf file, being a computer program, can and is copyrighted, as you say. But can this copyright extend to the final rendering? No it can't. However the font company can still claim the use of the ttf file for this logo breached their contract with the user of the font.
So this is at best a licensing/contract dispute, not a copyright issue. At least in a perfect world.
Since font shapes cannot be copyrighted, they will have a tough time proving that their own ttf file (which can be copyrighted) was used unlawfully. If universal claimed the font was not the font maker's font, I suppose they could demand to see the ttf file, and probably a judge would go along with it. And who's to say that universal couldn't have asked a third party to make the logo who had access to the font ttf file.
Well odds are if a script has #!/usr/bin/python in it, it's a Python 2 script. If it's got #!/usr/bin/python3, it's a Python 3 script. I see no problem with this, even after Python 2 is retired. If Python 2 is retired and not installed, then running a python 2 script (with the default python link) will just result in an error. I think this is way safer than changing the default python link and having legacy scripts break mysteriously for the uninitiated. I don't believe PEP 294 will ever be changed, because it just doesn't need to be.
Why change /usr/bin/python when python 4 will come along? Maybe python needs to have some kind of simple version flag in the shebang line.
Personally I think Guido is actually quite amazed that Python has amassed the popularity that the python3/python2 split is even an issue!
Python developers themselves have stated in PEP 394 that /usr/bin/python should *not* be linked to python3. Instead scripts should just use #!env python3 explicitly in the shebang to requestion python 3.x Or python4, or python5, as those generations are some day released.
I think it's Arch linux that changed /usr/bin/python to point to python3, but this is not recommended by any Python developer and horribly breaks things unnecessarily and is incompatible with all other distros. Besides if /usr/bin/python pointed to python3, and if python4 comes along, we'd have to go through all this rubbish again. Explicit in this case is better than implicit.
Don't even say it! Pocket Casts is my most used phone app and the last think I'd want is for Google to buy it and ruin it like they seem to have done with most things they've acquired and really what they've done to most of their stuff people actually use. Please don't give them ideas!
The magazine's first couple of pages state that the copyright is owned by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. There's no mention of individual author's copyright. It's quite likely that if the authors did not sell their entire copyright to the magazine, they likely signed to allow galaxy the right to publish their work how they see fit, which is pretty standard for publishing articles in magazines. So there's no need to get permission from the individual authors.
Presumably either the magazine's own copyright has expired, or the current owners granted archive.org permission. I don't see a problem with this archive. Archive.org is well aware of copyright law and its implications.
Same with the words, "Liberal Democracy," which is the description of what most western democracies are, in the true sense. But a lot of people get hung up on the word, "Liberal" and have a fit. Which is ironic because "Liberal" is based on the same root word and concept as "Liberty:" free, as in freedom.
That's why I also run ghostery (no I don't have it log in to their cloud). Slashdot has on average about 8 unnecessary javascript trackers on any given page.
In my experiences, sites that do that don't really have anything of value for me to see anyway, so I just go away. If I think I really want to see the page, I'll disable javascript and 90% of the time the content loads fine. Often when I do that I wouldn't have missed much if I'd just closed the tab and gone on my way.
Who told you surcharges are illegal (assuming in the US)? I certainly know of no federal law about that. Perhaps your state has a law concerning it?
In Canada, a law was passed expressly allowing retailers to charge extra for credit card transaction. A lot of people don't realize that those premium credit cards with high rewards charge the retailers a lot more, upwards of 3%, nearly double the rate for "normal" credit cards. If retailers are unable to add a surcharge, then those premium card holders' rewards are really being paid for by everyone else through overall higher prices. It's quite a racket.
And how many Pis and other SOCs are lying unused in drawers? Well over half I'd guess. I have several that I always meant to use in projects but never did.
Bash (/bin/bash) is the default user shell in Ubuntu. It's the default system shell (/bin/sh) that is dash on Ubuntu, whereas all other distros use bash in bourne shell mode.
I think Ubuntu chose to use dash to increase the performance of their upstart init system which relied on many shell scripts and dozens of shell invocations.
But as you say using dash when everyone else uses bash's bourne shell mode can lead to the occasional subtle issue with shell scripts between distros. Also if I recall it led to a security issue with Ubuntu some years ago.
I play around with Mint on my laptop and it works fine there. On my desktop, though, I always prefer CentOS or Fedora. Running CentOS 7 right now, but like your issue with Debian stable, the software availability is not so great, so I'm going to move back to Fedora and just bite the bullet and upgrade every year. Running Mate desktop of course.
Apple's TrueType won the day, even converting Microsoft. Now all OS's use OpenType which is a successor to TrueType. All modern Linux apps can use either TrueType or OpenType fonts.
We have the HTC Vive and to us it's actually a very useful tool, and it's already paid for itself in my opinion. Doing my kitchen renovation and could only determine so much with tape on the floor to try to figure out if there was enough practical space between the counter, the island, and where the table would go. Even tried mocking it with cardboard boxes. I just don't have a good enough imagination.
With VR we took a model of the design, done in Sketchup, and placed ourselves right in the model and in just a few minutes we could determine it would be a great layout and the spacing was just right. VR showed us the design with the right proportions, scale, and everything (actual size). Given that materials cost many thousands of dollars, the cost of the HTC was more than justified, and even in a way paid for with this one job. Anyone designing a house themselves should think about VR as a tool. It's cheap compared to what you'll sink into a house.
I'm not a gamer so all I use VR for is walking through house designs and other forms of architecture, a bit of flight simulation, and for fun once in a blue moon, Google Earth.
Gaming in VR isn't really that exciting, but the immersion offered by Oculus Rift and Vive is real, I assure you. It's very striking. It may indeed be an expensive toy, but it's actually not useless, and it works much better than you make it out to be.
My brother owns the HTC Vive. He didn't buy it for the games, though they can be kind of fun. Rather he bought it to visualize in full immersion home renovations and let him play with house plans. Even using a simple tool like Sketchup, the results in VR are very good. I'm in the process of remodeling my living room and kitchen, and so far it's turning out exactly as it did in the VR model. No surprises and everything is proportioned as I want. To me this is the killer app for VR. To design in 3D (just using Sketchup at the moment) and visualize it in 3D VR and walk through it, look around. Not sure if the bathroom is going to be big enough? Just walk into it and take a look. Not sure if it's going to be easy to reach a wrench around a corner to access a part on a machine? Go into VR and check it. Being able to move around, change perspective, look over, under and around things is very powerful.
Another very interesting application of VR is simulations such as flight simulators. Except for the low resolution of modern VR systems making it hard to read digital instrument panels in aircraft, VR does make flight simulation incredibly realistic, as far as an experience goes.
These are the killer apps for VR to me, but that's not a mass market appeal thing. If you're into architecture and design, take a look at VR.
As for the games, honestly the funnest game in the Vive comes with the Vive in the "The Lab" and it's just a simple game where you shoot arrows at little black stick figures attacking your gate. Great fun! The other more complicated games are, well, meh, once you see all the fancy graphics.
And Turbo Vision lives on in Unix as tvision (GPL) or an older BSD fork for C and C++, or Free Vision for FreePascal. Not sure if any of these projects has been actively developed for some years. But they are fairly mature projects.
Several IDEs have been built using these tools that look like Turbo C++ used to. Kind of neat, and still looks good and is useful on modern Unix systems today.
Actually a properly executed barrel roll would not even be felt by the passengers, standing or sitting. It's a constant G maneuver. Back in the day, a test pilot rolled a 707 airliner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He was reprimanded, even though it was a completely safe maneuver, as the spectators and potential customers were a bit rattled (they were on the ground watching) by the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... shows Bob Hoover rolling an ordinary twin-engine prop plane while pouring a glass of iced tea.
There's a good chance that 4DOS would run, and maybe even Pollyshell. The FreeDOS kernel is fairly compatible with MS-DOS. You could download it into a VM and give it a try. I'm sure you can downlaod 4DOS or Pollyshell from some archive somewhere.
You're correct that the scale has changed over time. But you could look up the facts on it. Even Wikipedia does a passing job of explaining it. It certainly was not changed to "compete" with celsius. Rather Fahrenheit multiplied his earlier scale by 4. This was likely because he had started working with mercury to make more accurate thermometers and mercury has the property that one degree F increase in temperature expands the density by one part in 1000. So it's more probable that the final scale ended up the way it is because of the properties of mercury, not because of Celsius.
Doesn't matter, though. You'll still be paying fixed charges to the electrical company each month even if you use zero electricity. So this really doesn't make much sense to do.