If my old tower hadn't given up the ghost last summer I'd've used it more than 8 years (I think it was the motherboard that was going). Heck, with 2 extra gigs of RAM that I never bothered to get I could still be using it for programming, one VM, and probably even Minecraft with the draw distance set on 'medium' (ha ha).
Of course I don't run any serious gaming software more recent than Civ IV, though.
Now I've got a new one with 8 gigs of RAM or more and a newer processor, and I hardly notice a difference. I kind of bought it at the idea time shortly after Vista came out where the hardware was actually decent enough to run newer software for awhile. A few years before that, how much RAM did they ship XP machines with?
Even if you could do it all yourself, you'd have to "steal" bandwidth on some cell network, wouldn't you? Because obviously no cell provider would ever actually sell you service on some Frankenstein device you built yourself.
And that's after you figure out the software stack and how to make it compatible with the network and other services like voicemail and stuff that is generally handled for you behind the scenes.
Adding an extra repo to your package manager once and getting the update the same day ever after...vs. manually going to their website and downloading it each time.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
It's not so much ego as conservation of effort. If mathematicians suddenly found out that 2 + 2 != 4 for basic algrebra, they'd have to tear down most of the existing framework and start rebuilding it all from scratch.
So when another guy claims to have proved perpetual motion, they tend to ignore him since the last 11,947 people who claimed it were investigated and found to be full of crap.
When it seems like virtually all the major browsers are busy becoming Chrome, it's not unreasonable to say that one of them should start making what *I* want--i.e. not-Chrome.
Ads alone won't cause somebody to install Chrome. Ads alone won't cause that person to then continue using Chrome
You're overestimating the average computer user. If they get tricked into installing Chrome somehow (bundled installers, etc., really not hard), and Chrome sets itself as the default browser, I'm sure there is a not insignificant number of people who don't notice the change, or can't figure out how to get back to what they were using before, and continue on.
This is Slashdot. We tend to know our shit around here, but we're a small minority of the population.
Here, I assert that I have standing despite not having purchased one of these products, because their violation of a group of people's rights also happens to be a violation of my rights, whether or not I'm directly involved, my rights are still at risk.
I am extremely skeptical of this explanation, but I'm not a lawyer, so feel free to give it a shot. I'd be interested to hear what happens.
In fact, after the acquisition was complete, Nest reiterated the commitment: "For existing customers, the service will continue to be available and we will continue to offer customer support." [archive.org]
So either
A) these Nest guys were just plain lying, or B) they were making a promise they should have known they couldn't keep if Google decided otherwise, or C) they used weasel wording and counted on customers to misinterpret their statement in their (Nest's) favor.
Some people care. It's just that they're usually called hackers and pirates, and tend not to buy overly-priced, orgasmic consumer goods that the market tends to target at people.
Or people who drop the last period in an initialism in the middle of a sentence. The heck is up with that?
The U.S.A has a long history of...
Or ellipses (ellipsises? ellilpsi?) that only have two periods. These things drive me crazy because they're impossible to google for to figure out if they're actually a thing!:P
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If my old tower hadn't given up the ghost last summer I'd've used it more than 8 years (I think it was the motherboard that was going). Heck, with 2 extra gigs of RAM that I never bothered to get I could still be using it for programming, one VM, and probably even Minecraft with the draw distance set on 'medium' (ha ha).
Of course I don't run any serious gaming software more recent than Civ IV, though.
Now I've got a new one with 8 gigs of RAM or more and a newer processor, and I hardly notice a difference. I kind of bought it at the idea time shortly after Vista came out where the hardware was actually decent enough to run newer software for awhile. A few years before that, how much RAM did they ship XP machines with?
(I'm not a hardware guy at all so YMMV)
Even if you could do it all yourself, you'd have to "steal" bandwidth on some cell network, wouldn't you? Because obviously no cell provider would ever actually sell you service on some Frankenstein device you built yourself.
And that's after you figure out the software stack and how to make it compatible with the network and other services like voicemail and stuff that is generally handled for you behind the scenes.
Sometimes people go for the low-hanging fruit instead of starting a philosophical debate.
Try out Pale Moon :) They've even got a Linux version.
"Listen, doll. That's 'cause they're all about where people come from. The only thing that's important is where someone's going."
Sometimes we look for sense where it isn't there to be found.
Because this is such an important issue we have to argue it from a formal logic standpoint? Geez.
White southerners forgave themselves for that a long time ago.
Forgave themselves for something that they didn't think was wrong and had in fact built most of their regional economy on?
Adding an extra repo to your package manager once and getting the update the same day ever after...vs. manually going to their website and downloading it each time.
Hmm.
The constant usage of "zero-day" is annoying enough already without taking it and applying it to something completely different.
Unless literally Mozilla is going to release builds of Firefox to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in Ubuntu...
Shoot self directly in foot
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
It's not so much ego as conservation of effort. If mathematicians suddenly found out that 2 + 2 != 4 for basic algrebra, they'd have to tear down most of the existing framework and start rebuilding it all from scratch.
So when another guy claims to have proved perpetual motion, they tend to ignore him since the last 11,947 people who claimed it were investigated and found to be full of crap.
And then if it actually does work, they promptly patent the damn thing and it's another 20+ years before we can do anything useful with it :P
Watch out or he'll give you THE CLAMPS!
If they didn't update the summary at some point, there's a lot of people sarcastically quoting lines out of the summary going on.
Now it explains everything except how comets can generate a radio signal.
Just because you haven't doesn't mean you wouldn't like the ability to at some point in the future.
Oh, and Firefox is open source. So no, not holding Vivaldi to a higher standard.
Oh wait, and Chromium is open source, too. Oops.
When it seems like virtually all the major browsers are busy becoming Chrome, it's not unreasonable to say that one of them should start making what *I* want--i.e. not-Chrome.
Ads alone won't cause somebody to install Chrome. Ads alone won't cause that person to then continue using Chrome
You're overestimating the average computer user. If they get tricked into installing Chrome somehow (bundled installers, etc., really not hard), and Chrome sets itself as the default browser, I'm sure there is a not insignificant number of people who don't notice the change, or can't figure out how to get back to what they were using before, and continue on.
This is Slashdot. We tend to know our shit around here, but we're a small minority of the population.
Here, I assert that I have standing despite not having purchased one of these products, because their violation of a group of people's rights also happens to be a violation of my rights, whether or not I'm directly involved, my rights are still at risk.
I am extremely skeptical of this explanation, but I'm not a lawyer, so feel free to give it a shot. I'd be interested to hear what happens.
In fact, after the acquisition was complete, Nest reiterated the commitment: "For existing customers, the service will continue to be available and we will continue to offer customer support." [archive.org]
So either
A) these Nest guys were just plain lying, or
B) they were making a promise they should have known they couldn't keep if Google decided otherwise, or
C) they used weasel wording and counted on customers to misinterpret their statement in their (Nest's) favor.
Some people care. It's just that they're usually called hackers and pirates, and tend not to buy overly-priced, orgasmic consumer goods that the market tends to target at people.
Now the window manager?
Depends which license we're talking about. With the GPL, no you may not modify the source and then keep your changes secret.
"Must reveal the source of your modifications": "I changed this. But you can't see it." That's not how it works.
GPL doesn't deal in direct and indirect, unless you go LGPL. The GPL itself is quite consistent.
Or people who drop the last period in an initialism in the middle of a sentence. The heck is up with that?
The U.S.A has a long history of...
Or ellipses (ellipsises? ellilpsi?) that only have two periods. These things drive me crazy because they're impossible to google for to figure out if they're actually a thing! :P
I work with a guy who's had a career in programming for a couple decades at least, and his spelling is atrocious,* which is kind of weird.
* Cf. how much software has spell-checking. Do we really have an excuse?