It is not a silly stance. The IBM Model M has no windows key. Such a great piece of hardware has lasted for decades already. It would be a shame if it became unusable because of a software incompatibility.
Once you get used to no configuration, no kludges, everything works to your satisfaction 95 percent of the time, it's really hard to imagine going back to tweaks, hacks, editing configuration files,
I'd rather put in a little configuration time up front, and get something that works to my satisfaction 100% of the time. It helps not using a desktop, but just a window manager. All you really need is a way to open and close and switch between apps. Everything else is better done on the CLI, no matter what platform you're on.
I've tried using Macs. I spent more time trying to figure out how to fix things than on Linux. Why? Because when you want to change something on Linux it's easy to do so. If you want to change something on a Mac, it might take half an hour of googling to find out you have to buy third party software to do a simple configuration change. If you're willing to just take whatever's handed to you, then sure a Mac is a good fit. If you actually have your own ideas on how you want to use your computer, it's intolerable.
Nobody can make a good desktop, because a good desktop is a contradiction in terms. Even the big commercial desktops Windows and OS X are much nicer to use from the command line (Cygwin for windows).
Being diverse for the sake of diversity is political correctness. If you're wanting to tell the story of a mixed race youth who happens to be a web slinger, that's not political correctness. If you're wanting to tell the story of a web slinger who just happens to be mixed race so you appeal to a broader audience, that's political correctness. It's too early to tell which way they'll go with this.
Does that actually happen? I'd wager that the top blocked domains include expertsexchange.com and ehow.com. They still show up in Google's results though.
I assume "open, but secure" means that anyone can join, but no one can see anyone else's traffic. Isn't this trivial to achieve by giving each connection a VPN back to the wifi router?
Then what's the point of teaching it in school? If it's only redeeming factor is that "eh, it's kinda fun for some people", then let them do it on their own time.
What really gets me is when English teachers say things like "there's no right answer", and then proceed to mark your paper off for not having the right answer. It's like the whole thing is some sort of trap or cruel joke.
I won't claim I have any understanding of poetry. But it's not for lack of trying. I was a really active participant in all my English classes from middle school through college, trying to figure out how this is supposed to work. Nobody has ever adequately explained to me why poets don't just come out and say what they mean, instead of hiding it behind layers of metaphor.
I ask questions like "what does this mean?" "how did you figure that out?" "how do you know that is right, and that it doesn't mean this other thing?" "how do you know that it means anything at all, and the author isn't just having a good laugh at your expense?" Never once have I received a satisfactory explanation.
At some point you just have to conclude that there's nothing to be found. It's all bullshit. The people who like poetry prefer the appearance of meaning to actual meaning. That's all there is to it.
Poetry, like all arts, functions in the realm of what Keats called "Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason."
This is what I'm talking about. It certainly sounds impressive, but communicates nothing.
The point is that technology today, even though it's exponentially faster than what we had in the past, is still bound by the same physical limits that we could have easily forseen 40 years ago.
We may get much better technology in the next hundred years or so. But we're not breaking the laws of thermodynamics. We know the physical limits of what is technologically feasible. Perpetual exponential growth is not in those limits.
Everyone misunderstands every poem because poetry has no fixed meaning. It means whatever you want it to mean.
If people wish to be plainly understood, they write in prose. If they wish to have their meaning debated while not actually communicating anything, they write poetry.
Isn't it impossible to determine a priori whether a given piece of software will halt? How can you then say that any software that doesn't halt isn't acting properly?
The US government plainly does not care whether their policies make sense, or help the people they ostensibly intend to. All that matters is that the right people get kickbacks and that politicians get reelected.
See the War on Drug Users. This has always been an absurd effort. There has never been an honest argument in favor of criminalizing drugs, and every effort to define a rational policy(from LaGuardia in 1939 to the present day) has recommended decriminalization. Still, the US has waged war on its own citizens for decades, refusing to even allow serious discussion on alternative policies.
You can expect to see the same here. There will be a war on patent infringers and a war on copyright infringers. They will be devastating to individual liberties, and they will be a drag on our economy. Still, the US will not consider alternatives, and will even put the full force of the US propaganda machine against those who do.
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It is not a silly stance. The IBM Model M has no windows key. Such a great piece of hardware has lasted for decades already. It would be a shame if it became unusable because of a software incompatibility.
Once you get used to no configuration, no kludges, everything works to your satisfaction 95 percent of the time, it's really hard to imagine going back to tweaks, hacks, editing configuration files,
I'd rather put in a little configuration time up front, and get something that works to my satisfaction 100% of the time. It helps not using a desktop, but just a window manager. All you really need is a way to open and close and switch between apps. Everything else is better done on the CLI, no matter what platform you're on.
I've tried using Macs. I spent more time trying to figure out how to fix things than on Linux. Why? Because when you want to change something on Linux it's easy to do so. If you want to change something on a Mac, it might take half an hour of googling to find out you have to buy third party software to do a simple configuration change. If you're willing to just take whatever's handed to you, then sure a Mac is a good fit. If you actually have your own ideas on how you want to use your computer, it's intolerable.
Nobody can make a good desktop, because a good desktop is a contradiction in terms. Even the big commercial desktops Windows and OS X are much nicer to use from the command line (Cygwin for windows).
What's the point of a PPA when you have apt repositories? I don't get it.
This problem is easily solved. Don't recommend operating systems to people.
That's about business as usual at /. You did realize you're reading a tabloid right? Just a tabloid aimed at the nerd market.
Race isn't a cromulent concept to begin with, so nitpicking over who's in what race is pretty much pointless.
Political correctness is a form of marketing. That's a large part of why people find it objectionable.
Being diverse for the sake of diversity is political correctness. If you're wanting to tell the story of a mixed race youth who happens to be a web slinger, that's not political correctness. If you're wanting to tell the story of a web slinger who just happens to be mixed race so you appeal to a broader audience, that's political correctness. It's too early to tell which way they'll go with this.
Does that actually happen? I'd wager that the top blocked domains include expertsexchange.com and ehow.com. They still show up in Google's results though.
I assume "open, but secure" means that anyone can join, but no one can see anyone else's traffic. Isn't this trivial to achieve by giving each connection a VPN back to the wifi router?
How do I mount CIFS shares from the command line now? Does it work the same as with SAMBA?
Good point. Prose is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for intelligibility.
Don't bother. Dave 1.0 is an absolutist authoritarian. As far as he's concerned, the state is infallible.
Block florida.arrests.org" campaign on Google. If there are enough of them, the florida.arrests.org will sunk into the oblivion.
Just because you can't see it doesn't mean everyone else won't.
Then what's the point of teaching it in school? If it's only redeeming factor is that "eh, it's kinda fun for some people", then let them do it on their own time.
What really gets me is when English teachers say things like "there's no right answer", and then proceed to mark your paper off for not having the right answer. It's like the whole thing is some sort of trap or cruel joke.
I won't claim I have any understanding of poetry. But it's not for lack of trying. I was a really active participant in all my English classes from middle school through college, trying to figure out how this is supposed to work. Nobody has ever adequately explained to me why poets don't just come out and say what they mean, instead of hiding it behind layers of metaphor.
I ask questions like "what does this mean?" "how did you figure that out?" "how do you know that is right, and that it doesn't mean this other thing?" "how do you know that it means anything at all, and the author isn't just having a good laugh at your expense?" Never once have I received a satisfactory explanation.
At some point you just have to conclude that there's nothing to be found. It's all bullshit. The people who like poetry prefer the appearance of meaning to actual meaning. That's all there is to it.
Poetry, like all arts, functions in the realm of what Keats called "Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason."
This is what I'm talking about. It certainly sounds impressive, but communicates nothing.
The point is that technology today, even though it's exponentially faster than what we had in the past, is still bound by the same physical limits that we could have easily forseen 40 years ago.
We may get much better technology in the next hundred years or so. But we're not breaking the laws of thermodynamics. We know the physical limits of what is technologically feasible. Perpetual exponential growth is not in those limits.
That's the nature of all singularities (or in this case asymptotic curves in the approach to vertical lines),
No, we're talking about exponential growth here. There are no vertical asymptotes on an exponential curve.
Man, check out the other replies to this post. Dunning-Kreuger effect in action here.
Everyone misunderstands every poem because poetry has no fixed meaning. It means whatever you want it to mean.
If people wish to be plainly understood, they write in prose. If they wish to have their meaning debated while not actually communicating anything, they write poetry.
Isn't it impossible to determine a priori whether a given piece of software will halt? How can you then say that any software that doesn't halt isn't acting properly?
Abolish patents outright. It would be better than what we have today. If you discover something first, your reward is being first to market.
The US government plainly does not care whether their policies make sense, or help the people they ostensibly intend to. All that matters is that the right people get kickbacks and that politicians get reelected.
See the War on Drug Users. This has always been an absurd effort. There has never been an honest argument in favor of criminalizing drugs, and every effort to define a rational policy(from LaGuardia in 1939 to the present day) has recommended decriminalization. Still, the US has waged war on its own citizens for decades, refusing to even allow serious discussion on alternative policies.
You can expect to see the same here. There will be a war on patent infringers and a war on copyright infringers. They will be devastating to individual liberties, and they will be a drag on our economy. Still, the US will not consider alternatives, and will even put the full force of the US propaganda machine against those who do.
Sure, if someone donates it. My Goodwill sells all joysticks/gamepads for $3, although I did get a HOTAS setup that was $10.